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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) -- Topeka law enforcement officials say they collected a record number of prescription drugs on Saturday, the event, part of National Drug Take Back Day.
Topeka Police say they collected nearly 760 pounds of expired or unused prescription drugs. They say average events in the past have yielded around 180 pounds.
Safely dispose of old or unwanted medications during Saturday's National Drug Take-Back Day.
The Drug Enforcement Administration is teaming up with state and local law enforcement agencies to take back unused or expired prescription medications.
In Topeka, you can drop off medicine from 10 A.M. to 2 P.M. at the Law Enforcement Center downtown. In Manhattan you will be able to drop them off at the Westloop Dillons and at the Lyon County Health Department in Emporia.
Unused or expired prescription medications are a public safety issue, leading to accidental poisoning, overdose and abuse. Participants may dispose of medication in it's original container or by removing the medication from is container and disposing of it into the disposal box. Intravenous solutions, injectables, and syringes will not be accepted.
After the drugs are collected, they will be turned over to the DEA for disposal. The service is free and anonymous.


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Evaluating Articles
Articles are a great source of information. There are many different types of articles, some of which may not be relevant for your particular research topic. This section will help you evaluate articles to find the best sources for your project.
Since much of your research may rely on articles, it is important to be aware of the distinctions made between articles that are considered scholarly or professional and those that are considered popular.
How these distinctions are defined varies depending on the context of the research and the discipline, but they usually reflect differences in purpose, audience, and physical appearance.
In general, scholarly or professional sources:
- Present primary accounts of original research or in-depth analysis of a topic.
- Are written by and for researchers, scholars, or practitioners who are considered experts in their field.
- Use specialized language and terminology related to the discipline or profession.
- Often include a bibliography of supporting or related research.
- Undergo a rigorous peer review process through an editorial board.
Popular sources:
- Provide general information on topics of interest to a wide audience.
- Are written by journalists or writers who may or may not have any expertise in the topic.
- Use language that is easily understood by the general public.
- Rarely provide citations to source materials.
- Undergo a limited editorial review.
Accuracy refers to whether the article provides verifiable and reliable factual information. Here are some tips to guide you as you investigate the accuracy of an article:
- Are there errors in the information presented? Minor mistakes might be acceptable, but too many errors could undermine the information offered.
- Are there theories that have since been disproven in the article? This is especially important to determine for scientific issues.
- Does the text generally agree with other sources for the same information?
- Is there documentation or evidence presented for the information provided? Look for in-text references and citations or a bibliography at the end of the article.
Most scholarly articles will have an argument or defend a position on a certain topic. Keep in mind that just because a source claims to be "fair" or "balanced" does not make it so -- use your critical thinking skills to evaluate the article for yourself. Here are a few things you might ask yourself to determine bias:
- Does the article contain basic information that contradicts generally accepted information found in many of your other sources?
- When was the article published? Could the time period in which it was written introduce bias?
- Who is the author? Does he or she have strong ties any organizations or corporations? Is the author an active political figure?
- Where does the article appear? A scholarly journal? A newspaper? A magazine strongly tied to an organization or group?
- Are there politics involved? If the article was published by an organization, look carefully for political affiliations, leanings, or any specific agenda it might have.
- What do the author and publisher have to gain from convincing readers their opinion is right?
When determining the credibility of an article, investigate the author's credentials. Ask yourself:
- Is the author an expert in this field? What else has he or she written?
- Where is the author employed? Is the institution reputable?
- Does the author or publisher stand to benefit from the research or argument presented in the publication? For instance, a scientific article touting the health benefits of tea may be less credible if the author works for Lipton, a major brand of tea.
The issue of currency is important when evaluating factual information, since new research and information are constantly emerging. You still need to look at currency with a critical eye, however. Ask yourself:
- Is currency an issue in this field? For some types of information, currency is not an issue. For example, an article on current medical research or case law is more time-sensitive than an essay on Aristotle.
- Does the date the article was published affect its accuracy or introduce bias? This should especially be noted when researching issues in the sciences. Although an article may be published in a very well-respected scholarly journal, if it was published in 1960, it may no longer be considered very accurate.

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I was wondering if the prime numbers defined for use with Diffie-Hellman in RFC 3526 are more trustworthy than generating one's own, especially considering the recent Arjen Lenstra paper (Ron was wrong, Whit is right) which criticized the similarities detected in public keys and prime numbers across the Internet. Am I better off generating my own safe primes, or am I better off using the ones defined in RFC 3526?
Generating your own group for Diffie-Hellman is not a tough issue; but it is somewhat expensive (it depends on the context, but a 25 MHz ARM device would not like to do it often) and it is not really needed: a good point of DH (and DSA) is that the group parameters can be shared between many users, with no ill effect on the confidentiality of their respective private keys.
For plain Diffie-Hellman, what you need is $p$, $q$ and $g$, such that:
The DSA standard (FIPS 186-3) includes a rather detailed procedure for generating adequate group parameters (see annex A), which would be fine for DH too.
There is another side to the issue. While randomly chosen $p$, $q$ and $g$ are good for DH with overwhelming probability, it is possible to specially craft $p$, $q$ and $g$ values such that breaking discrete logarithm modulo $p$ (with generator $g$) would be easy (or at least easier). This can be a problem if your application entails producing the DH group parameters and having other people use them for their own key pairs. If you generate the group parameters but do not tell how you generated them (in a verifiable way), then other people could suspect you of having purposely made them weak. For completely usable group parameters which are immune to such suspicions, you need "nothing up my sleeve" numbers. Annex A of FIPS 186-3 describes the generation process in full details precisely so that it can be verified to be random. RFC 3526 uses $\pi$ for the same reasons.
Therefore, reusing published group parameters is a good idea, both for performance (no need to do the generation yourself, you can save on CPU and also code size) and for trust that can be put into the results by other people.
For Diffie-Hellman or any variants like Elgamal or DSA, you're better off using the established primes. It doesn't matter what primes you use, really, as long as they're prime.
The standard primes have had someone nod at them. If you generate your own prime and there's a problem (e.g. it's not really prime), then you're on your own and we will all laugh at you. Non-primes for DH are bad news, as you'll end up with subgroups, and other issues that mean you're not secure.
But more to the point, most of the public primes are public, they are not a security parameter (i.e. a secret). That's an even better reason not to use your own primes.
The primality testing we do is probabilistic. There's no actual guarantee that the number is prime. However, if you found a number that the usual gang of primality tests said was prime and it wasn't, that would be worthy of a paper, if not an assistant professorship.
For RSA, however, it matters that the two number you generate are secret more than they're prime. There are even three-prime variants of RSA. The problem in that paper was that they weren't secret, not that they weren't prime.
The real lesson we learned in this paper is to let your RNG warm up before you use it. Ironically, if the people with the badly-seeded RNGs had thrown in something with very low entropy like time(0), we wouldn't have had this problem because there would have been no easy way to find their crap primes through a simple test like a GCD.
There's nothing wrong with generating your own primes for DH, as long as you know what you're doing.
On the other hand, if you are a bit weak on number theory (or just glad that someone else has done the work, and had it double-checked), there's also nothing wrong with the modulii and generators in RFC 3526.
As for the paper, well, it chiefly noted that when RSA keys are being generated in practice, a common implementation flaw is a lack of entropy. While bad for RSA (because the entire security of RSA assumes that the keys can't be guessed), that's rather irrelevent for DH, because we're going to tell everyone what DH group we're using.
In fact, the DH groups in RFC 3526 have no entropy at all; they all are of the form:
$p = 2^n - 2^{n-64} - 1 + 2^{64} \cdot ( \lfloor 2^{n-130} \pi \rfloor + i )$
where $n$ is the number of bits within the modulus (1436, 2048, etc), and $i$ is the smallest nonnegative integer that makes both $p$ and $(p-1)/2$ prime.
There was no entropy used to generate these primes, hence the observation that some implementations may not have great entropy is irrelevent when selecting the modulii. Of course, entropy is critical when actually performing the DH operation, but that's true no matter which group you pick.
Unlike the primes used in RSA the prime used in DH does not need to be a secret, so using a well-known prime is not a problem from that point of view.
On the other hand much of the work in breaking dh is per-prime not per dh session. That doesn't change the cost of breaking the first session but it does change the average cost of breaking a session. It is suspected that the NSA may have cracked one or more of the most common 1024 bit primes. https://weakdh.org/
So for a given prime length using your own prime is safer. On the other hand a shorter custom prime is generally worse than a longer well-known prime.


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Finally made the decision to buy a Canon 7D for my wife. Her photography is continually improving. Flying bird and distance photography with her existing canon EOS 450D and 70 -300 lens. Can someone help me make a decision please?
According to the respective lenstip reviews, the 50-500 is produces somewhat better image quality than the 150-500 counterpart. However, it is bigger, heavier and about $600 more expensive. The extra 100mm of range on the wide end is not likely to be a particular advantage to you, but I guess could possibly be useful.
In short, if weight and price are not concerns, go with the 50-500. Otherwise, you may wish to consider the smaller lens.
If weight is more important than focal range (and I note that you already have a 70-300), you might also want to consider the Canon EF 400 mm f5.6 L USM (1,250 g) with or without the Canon EF 1.4x III Extender (225 g). Even with tht extender (which will take it out to an equivalent of a 560mm f/8) it will weigh less than either of the Sigma zooms, although you will lose autofocus which is problematic.
Having used both, I'd say the 50-500 is the one you want from those two unless weight is an important factor.
I am a Nikon user and also looking for a high focal length lens, hopefully up to 500mm and have been talking to folks on the Nikonians web site about it. One fellow's opinion on the Sigmas is that he likes the 50-500 has thousands of images with it and has blown up prints with it and is very satisfied.
Regarding Canon, I can also tell you that -every member- of our camera club who uses Canon, actually has the 100-400 lens, which has the stabilizer and a wide f stop range of 4-5.6, which is better than both Sigmas. The lens is rated sharp and I have seem blow ups taken by these members and they are quite good.
Unfortunately for me, the Nikon 200-400 is very (too) expensive for consideration, unless I can win the next Megamillions.
Dennis -- I'm also a bird photographer who uses a 7d. I'd recommend the 100-400 over both Sigma lenses, but a few months ago, I sold mine and I now use a 300F4 + a 1.4x teleconverter for my bird photography. That is a cost effective setup, and I find that the 300+1.4 is sharper and a faster focus than the 100-400, and it's a LOT cheaper than the 400 MM lenses. Both of these are good values and will work well in bird photography. If you really feel you want to go to 500mm, the 50-500 is the one the bird photographers I know normally go for but most also say at 500mm it can be soft.
I would recommend looking at the 300mm F4 from Canon, and add the 1.4x teleconverter to it.
@Dennis you may want to check this post, for similar advice that I asked month ago ;)


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You start a job or worked as a consultant for a company and 'inherit' a poorly configured server(s). What is the worst configuration mistake that you have ever witnessesed?
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I am yet, in 15 years in the industry, to start a new consulting role at a company to find that they have a "good" infrastructure. That's usually the reason why I'm called in, to put them right.
The usual cause of this mess is non-technical decision makers making technical decisions.
I did a job a few years ago performing an "assessment" of a small manufacturing company's network infrastructure. During that work, I discovered that their ERP system had never been backed-up. Unbeknownst to them, their former IT contractor configured Backup Exec for daily full backups but never scripted any type of "dump" or stop / start of the database server used by their ERP system, so the database files were always in use and skipped by the backup. As such, for well over 3 years they were performing daily tape backups that had none of their ERP system's data on them. They dutifully changed the tape out, just like the contractor told them, but apparently no one (including the contractor) ever bothered to check to see what was actually on the tapes.
Once in the olden times, one of our senior admins left our organization and turned over responsibility for the "document imaging system" to me. I was low man on the team, inexperienced, and eager to jump into anything.
It was like the old Coke commercial with Mean Joe Green...I was totally stoked to become the primary (only) admin on a customer-facing Production system and on his way out the door, he was like, "hey kid, catch" expect he tossed me a wad of crumpled papers with some logins and a telephone number for support instead of a sweaty towel.
The euphoria quickly wore off...the system was comprised of 2 servers running a database, a share, about 6 workstations with scanners and processing applications, and a webserver and app users logged in to for referencing documents. It was an unholy mishmash of apache and java and at least two types of scripts running on Windows SQL Server. Oh yeah. We'd also paid for a series of "customizations" that often broke down and that their support folks were always blissfully unaware of.
Short list of The Good Times:
Little if anything was documented and I discovered each wrinkle when something broke. Like say...the reports were wrong or didn't print. Or Desktop pushed a new version of the JVM and nobody could scan. Or somebody kicked the dongle off the scanning workstation and the app crashed. Or the log file system got full. Or data from an OCR extraction crashed an app due to incorrectly capturing something and submitting it as something illegal. Or finding out that there were about 3 dozen tickets open with support for various departments and many had been open for months. Etc etc. I discovered new, important things at the rate of 4-5 a week and began to very quickly learn the ins and outs of that app and its needs as well as enough SQL Server to keep the db moderately healthy.
The best part was when I was invited to the internal User Group meeting to "welcome" me to my new role. I kid you not. 30 angry users in a circle and I got to sit in the middle.
It was a rough but I learned quite a bit very quickly. All the pain aside, it was a great opportunity. Part of me wishes it hadn't been so trial-by-fire but maybe I wouldn't have learned so fast.
Sorry that was so long...but ahh...it's like therapy ;)
about 12 years ago i started work as sysadmin at a medium-sized ISP, with about 30 staff working there. they'd never really had a real sysadmin before, just some people who thought they knew what they were doing (sometimes they were right, most often they weren't. overall, it's amazing the systems worked at all).
the icing on the cake, though, was that almost everyone in the place had the root passwords to the servers. i dunno about the receptionist but certainly all the managers, help desk staff, web developers and anyone else who interacted with the system had root - both current and past employees as they never changed it. and they'd ALL use it. at whim. for example, if a customer called the helpdesk with a complaint they'd login as root and mess around with the system until that particular customer's problem was solved or somehow magically stopped happening (which they regarded as "solved"). of course, this would cause numerous other problems....which other people on the help desk would be dealing with at the same time using the same 'login as root and butcher the system' method.
naturally, changing the root password and instituting change-management and other processes to control what got changed and when and how and by whom was one of the very first things i did. oh yeah...and backup and revision control for config files too.
(the very first thing i did was close their open relay mail server and implement some anti-spam filtering. in fact, i'm sure that i got the job because i mentioned in the interview that i'd done a fair bit of anti-spam work. unknown to me, they had a serious spam/open-relay problem that had been going on for months that they had no idea how to fix, so they were constantly getting blacklisted. not long after that i discovered the horrific news that just about everyone in the place had root access)
taking root privs away from them caused a lot of anger at first but, fortunately, my boss supported me and what i was trying to achieve, and they quickly came to realise that the servers were far more reliable than they'd ever been (not hard to achieve, considering what had been done to the poor things)
A small network that was completely standardized: Windows 95 and NT Server.
It was a couple of weeks ago. ;-/
Easy, first IS Manager job, walked in found a custom Order Entry app that had been written by the AP clerk's husband, in dBase, you could look at the screens and tell what order they had been coded, because he learned as he went, some screens were monocrome, others looked like a rainbox threw-up on them. Many pieces would lock the particular file exculsively, so only one Customer Service rep could edit the customer master at a time.
I inherited an IIS webserver once that someone gave the anonymous user, full and complete access to EVERYTHING on the server. Their excuse was that that was the only way they could get their web apps to work.
I kid you not.
Oh. That's how I started this job.
It was in 2000, at a small ISP. Most of the servers were Pentium 1 - class "server" hardware in tower cases. For DNS and RADIUS authentication, this was not a problem and they actually continued to serve for years to come, but the real sticking point was that everything was BSD/OS 4.2. While I was plenty familiar with it and FreeBSD (I had actually used that version of BSD at my first job), to say that it was quite archaic by that time is an understatement. What was a problem was the mail server and the web server. They were slightly faster machines but horribly overloaded. I don't think the hardware was quite as robust though. More like desktop machines that had been lucky (?) enough not to die. Nothing had been upgraded since the founding of the company in 1994. It was all stuffed into one corner of the office, which coincidentally did not have sufficient air conditioning. And when I say "office" I mean one room for everyone. There had been several cases of server failure due to heat in the past.
Okay, archaic architecture: check.
Previous system administrator: grossly incompetent, lasted only a few months, I think he had only begun to get the new billing database started (and converting from their old billing system: paper) before disappearing into thin air. Previous to that: it was the owner of the company, who knew enough to create accounts, apache websites, and start servers that had stopped. Maybe a little bit more than that. Occasionally he had help from a friend. Who actually worked as a realtor. Boss' attitude towards systems administrators: "who needs 'em? You're paying someone $40k to sit around and drink coffee while reading logs. I need tech support reps."
Security: none. No, really. A T1 provided the servers with the internet connection. And the office. Fixed public IPs on everything. Boss' attitude: "Oh, we're secure. We're running BSD/OS 4.2! Never had a break-in!" At least the passwords weren't completely retarded, but every default server was running on every machine. Unpatched, of course. Ancient versions of every server daemon too.
Fires: Everywhere! Everything! On!! Fire!!! The thing I did first, within a week of being hired (I might add, as tech support. Want to do system administration too? Do that when you're not busy - I was young enough and poor enough not to care) I had hammered together a shell script that would control how many times a customer could log into the dialup pool simultaneously. That cured the most pressing problem of the dialup pool being busy all the time - due to spammers using it as a way to aggregate bandwidth. Did I mention that the AAA RADIUS server did not have this functionality in that version? Nor that a new AAA RADIUS server could compile on this platform? Nor could FreeRADIUS? See section 1, Archaic Hardware. Later, I even did the same kind of thing to implement actual ah, accounting on dialup, so that people who signed up for 30 hours a month weren't using 300 hours a month. I seem to recall that the mail server was not an open relay, but it may have been. It was on the other hand, horribly overloaded due to the fact that sendmail, in whatever archaic version it used, still used mbox format that required the parsing of each message out of a flat file instead of Maildir-format mailboxes with one message per file. So if someone with a large mailbox ever checked their mail, the server ground to a standstill for everyone. And of course, outgoing SMTP and POP were on the same machine. There was no spam filtering, of course. On incoming or outgoing mail. I can't remember what was wrong with the web server, aside from the fact that each new site was added manually. That's bad enough as it is.
Backups: Backups? Ahahahaha! Aaaaaah!
The single most bewildering thing in this place however, was how there was no print server. Wanted to print a file? Get up from your desk, turn the dial on the switchbox to your computer, go back, print the file. I recall that it wasn't long before I fixed that, either.
My current Domino environment has to be the one. One of the previous long term incumbents was solely interested in doing quick and dirty development work, so there had been absolutely no basic housekeeping work for a period of 10 years. The two who followed him but preceded me - understandably enough - took one look at it and decided to just keep their heads down. So right now I have a total mess of no standardised naming conventions, user accounts all over the ACLs, old admins and developers who have long since moved on still with accounts (and still in sensitive groups), half of the users have the same password, another half of them have their passwords recorded in a spreadsheet, there's a beautiful critical line-of-business app with two custom internal security databases in addition to the standard ACL, over 1000 databases (including "Copy of Copy of Copy of" stuff) which have been through 4 or 5 quick and dirty upgrades before being frozen at version 6 level, and which go corrupt on an almost daily basis. He was also paranoid about Windows scalability so I have 8-CPU boxes, by the way.
Taking it outside and shooting it would be a mercy.
When I started at my current job, I inherited the position from a guy who was fired for gross incompetence after a few weeks. He didn't manage to do much while working here except destroying every bit of documentation he got from his predecessor, changing all admin passwords to something random even he didn't know and planting some "hidden" accounts into the machines to get in afterwards.
Passwords and backdoors wheren't a real issue, but going forward without knowing what was doing what and how was quite interesting. Still, no user ever suffered from this, but I was lucky this guy was even too stupid to do real damage.
this question makes my head hurt. I work for state gov't ... lowest bid wins!
When I took over my current position I spent 2 weeks working with the guy running away working mostly on coding a web app he had spent 6 months building with a contractor so I'd have a good idea of what was going on when the app was put into production. A month later, the app was scraped and they tossed money at the contractor to just go away. I am STILL dealing with vb6 apps with no documentation that sometimes call other apps that I don't even have the code for!
I'm not even going to go into all the bizarre server configs, off-site backup that's across the frigging street or that an entire other department "handles" our routers and switches (oh, they got that by saying they'd rewire the building at NO COST! Of course not, now they just charge port fees and block dual MACs! We use SIP phones for God's sake! And we have to justify cost to setup a test machine. Aaarrrrgggghhh!)
I have to stop, this is going to make me cry. I'm amazed, on a daily basis, that anything, ever, gets done in gov't.
Fileserver, serving 250GB of files to about 30 clients (laptops/desktops mix), each with their folders mapped to network shares. The bad part is that it was running Windows XP with the 10 client connections max limit. The first thing I did was format/install Server 2003.
The following day, my colleagues were extremely happy, as they were all able to work simultaneously.
When I started working at my current company they were using Small Business Server 2003, eventually we grew to a point where we had to switch from SBS2003 to an actual "real" server environment. Unfortunately the transition pack didn't work for us and MS through our recently purchased volume licensing helped me transition everything over. By helping, I mean giving me a list of things that need to be moved and changed but not exactly how.
Now, I'm pretty proficient within the bowels of Active Directory but one of the things they didn't tell me was how SBS does NOT like having one of the FSMO roles taken away, after 8 or 12 hours it reboots to show how pissed off it is.
It was a nightmare to get off SBS2003 and occasionally I see SBS references in AD or a reference to the old SBS server here and there and it's been about 2 years now.
Oh, btw, I HATE SBS! :)
A client who installed the Symantec Antivirus Server on every workstation.
A Windows 2003 server which is also a DC and runs Exchange 2003. Bad enough so far but wait, there's more... It was also the Terminal Server, SQL server, web and FTP server, WSUS server, Antivirus updates and central configuration server and it hosted users' roaming profiles. It was also the central backup server, using DAT tapes.
Not bad enough yet? The machine had a single CPU, 2GB RAM and a pair of 7,200 RPM SATA drives configured as RAID 1. The array was partitioned as 2 logical drives, with the system drive being 16GB, of which less than 2GB was free. The machine was assembled from second hand parts by a contractor who recommended the specs, no doubt based on what parts he had available, and charged nearly as much as a decent new server would have cost. He was also responsible for the configuration and commissioning of the machine. His advice was accepted because he had been dealing with the client for nearly a decade. I've made sure he no longer deals with them.
I managed a network audit of the European operations of a VERY large computer manufacturer (Ireland Ahem). It took weeks but we did discover that every single bit of data that was being squirted down to every single hard disk of every single PC/server they made was travelling across the same 4 threads of wire - they had single 1Gbps port doing ALL of their builds. When we told them they RAN to get more cable/SFPs and had it multipathed within 30 minutes but that was a shocker.
My first job involved planning a migration from a 18+ year old "Point 4" minicomputer. They were wanting to modernize their equipment "because the owner felt that the existing equipment was getting old". This olde tyme time-share minicomputer used a rebadged Televideo 955 terminal with a custom ROM, and there was a grand total of 1 terminal emulation program on the market that would allow you to hook up a computer to it to function as a dumb terminal. Of course, that program only ran on System 7.
The vendor had long since gone out of business. Parts were provided by a hardware support vendor with an annual contract, and they were out to visit once every few months as something else broke and needed to be replaced.
The biggest issue I've inhereted was physical, not software. The server closet also happened to be the electrical and telephone closet. So, it had climate control all right, in the form of a giant transformer heating the room. The closet was also off of a room that would get used for small meetings. I had to post signs telling people not to close the doors to the closet even if it was noisy. The main building AC was sufficient fortunately and no fault occurred from the temp. The wiring job was a bit of a mess too. Pretty much your standard rats nest going from the switches to the servers. The best part of this was one of the racks was apart from the other couple of racks so there was a small walkway between the racks. It only had one server, and the power cables for it were just going across the floor without a protector and also not laying flat. This made it easy to hook your foot on them. After you were falling forward and about to face plant, the neck high patch cable that was lazily strung across would catch you and try to snap your neck.
I didn't have the opportunity to run that patch up to the ceiling before we moved offices (to a server room with REAL AC!) but I went crazy with velcro straps all over that closet. You could actually walk through without killing yourself after that!
One company I worked for, when I first arrived, had an office server (two hard drives, one not even mounted much less mirrored) and a rented colocated server, one hard drive total. No tape backups in place at all.
The rest of the LAN had its challenges - but the sheer luck of the place operating like that for 3+ years is amazing. No mirroring, no redundancy, no tapes.
IIS 4 (or 3? can't remember) on NT 4 running the company intranet on a desktop-grade computer without any redundancy or backup for about 12 years was (took him out last month) the worst I've seen, I think. Nothing extraordinary, but still.
An Informix database whose busiest, most mission-critical table had 16k extents, was up to something like 38,000 extents on the tablespace (think fragmented disk) and was twice the supported level. (The vendor actually wrote a paper letter that said something like "Your database will crash at any time")
The previous DBA, SA and network person left and I was about 6 weeks out of school. I did lots of research and figured out how to fix the issue, which would require 6 hours of downtime. Boss refused to schedule an outage.
So on one of the busiest days of the year, the system freezes. 500 call center operators and a commerce website are down. Fixing it after failure was difficult because the vendor had never done it before on a table of that size and with anything like the "interesting" database schema that we were using. So we did exactly what I had planned to do initially, except the database integrity check took an additional 5 hours.
Granted this was back in the late '90s, but this is where I worked. We had our server software running in a debugger that was my boss' work machine as he did most of his work at home on another machine, but still who runs their production code in a debugger?
Server with two HDDs mirored by hardware chassis - one day one disk died and alarm started to sound, the guys in the office decided to turn off the alarm, three months later the second disk died and they called - cannot access their server
At one job, one of the previous admins thought it was a good idea to set almost all the Sun servers to not autoboot. He also wouldn't put init scripts into the proper runlevel directories because "I want to know if this computer crashed" I'm still at a loss to understand his reasoning there. Of course, the other admin was a little more level headed about such things which basically lead to the whole shop being inconsistent and really made things interesting during the first planned and unplanned outages.
I've been keeping a windows nt4 box running citrix alive..it was originally setup with software raid...That's right..Software raid, windows nt4..Last failure corrupted both drives and it took me ~8 hours to restore it..
For those curious, windows nt4 does not like to run as a virt machine on a Linux host :-D
Client had 5 employees. Their old IT person custom built, using low end gaming pc equipment, 2 servers. 1 was a domain controller running exchange as well. the other was a terminal server. Each employee used a thin client to connect and work off the server. Both were running Windows 2000 and built 5 years ago. Needless to say when the low end raid cards died on both servers within a couple days of each other, I replaced the servers with a standard hp server and got them using regular minitowers. I also put the servers onto their own UPS units instead of having them both running off the same one, not having a WAP and monitor batter backup'ed.
On top of this, they had 6 network printers in the office and 2 were using DHCP. The other 4 had assigned IPs but they were scattered across the delegated IP range with no documentation.
It was sad but after a month of adjusting (the old hags didn't take too well to the change in how they worked), they call very rarely now.
I was called in to fix a poorly performing MySQL system, only to discovery an incorrect header element in the
So, we had a system with a db of 7Gb on a server with 16Gb RAM, using the InnoDB database engine...
The faulty configuration was set to 12*Gb* RAM for InnoDB...
The system was only using 128*Mb* of RAM for InnoBD... so a /lot/ of disk activity for every query and update!
A quick fix of the header, restart of the MySQL service, and hey-presto, everything was cached and performed admirably :)
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I have a database Microsoft SQL Server 2008r2 I have some applications in different programming languages. Some of them are legacy and I would not like to modify. Is there a way to log at server level all query errors, regardless of the application causing it? I would like to know, for each error, the query causing it, the error type, and ideally loginame and hostname.
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If you are just looking to log this information, you can set up an Extended Events session and capture the
To test this out, here is a test error with
Then by looking at the XE log through the sys.fn_xe_file_target_read_file system function, you will be able to see all of the logged errors.
Yes. Monitor for Event Notifications in the Errors and Warnings Event Category. Specifically, the Exception event will be raised for each error. For example, based on the code in MS SQL Server third party transaction blocking monitor tools:
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Call two axioms equivalent if they imply the same set of theorems. I am interested in decidability of so defined equivalence. In this generality the problem is obviously undecidable since it can be used to decide Entscheidungsproblem. So I am interested in cases where Entscheidungsproblem is decidable, particularly in case of monadic axioms (i.e. axioms containing only monadic functional and predicate symbols).
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That wastes time. Huge time.
I also tried setting up mail notifications so that I don't have to keep on refreshing tabs, but in this case I get dragged to keep a parallel eye on the Gmail as if my life depended on it. This happens in all important as well as non important cases.
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Back in the day, I remember writing many a webpage without using / in the
tag. What changed? Also, is the space "required?"
Back in the day, I remember writing many a webpage without using / in the
I have great news for you! You don't need no steenking / any longer. Again, I mean.
Because ...
XHTML, an implementation HTML serialized as XML. XML has a very strict set of syntax requirements. One of those requirements is that you can't leave a tag open. The syntax
One of the more interesting things about XHTML is that it's kind of backwards compatible with HTML. You can throw a legal XHTML document at an HTML parser and it should be able to make sense out of it. However, not all HTML parsers can do so. Old, old, prehistoric, no-longer-used versions of Netscape and other browsers would see the self-closed
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That's kind of a show-stopper. XHTML served as XML never caught on because some browser vendors (like Microsoft) refused to add support due to the must-die-immediately nature of error handling.
XHTML still caught on because it was full of awesome best practices, even if the documents didn't end up being served as XML.
Now, earlier I said that you don't need it any longer. That is true for both HTML4 and the upcoming HTML5. They've gone through the effort of actually specifying how HTML5 should be parsed now, and that forward slash is going to be considered an error. Thankfully XHTML5 is a thing, and if you really want to use the XML syntax rules instead of the HTML5 syntax rules, you can go right ahead.
It's required for XHTML compliance:
Read the section under the heading: "Relationship to HTML" for more info.
In the case where there was no closing tag (like single tags as
As for the space: It is not required.
And when it comes to what changed. It is all about HTML itself. As HTML 5 gains more popularity every day people are using
In HTML 5
As has been said, the trailing slash is used to close empty elements (e.g. br, hr, img), and is required when writing pages using the XHTML doctype. The space is not required, but was commonly used since some older browsers (I think including Netscape 4) did not like empty elements having a trailing slash without the space. So the space became common use to accommodate the browsers that didn't fully understand XHTML. It's not required now.


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The Chanler family settled in Geneseo in the early 1900s and for more than 100 years has been a pillar in the community. Admiral Hubert W. Chanler was a leader in establishment of The Geneseo Foundation and served as its founding chairman. Gertrude Chanler also was a charter member of the foundation board and served as chair from 1981-84. Every year, the Hubert and Gertrude Chanler Endowed Scholarship benefits outstanding undergraduate majors in music, art, theater and dance.
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I am trying to make a decision regarding which Nodal Ninja to use. They have a great informative website but to a newbie like me it has created more questions. As always cost is a concern so if I understand correctly really the primary difference between the 3 and the 5 is size of camera and lenses with similar functionality.
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Giselle Question #1: Is Albrecht a cad?
Posted 15 April 2001 - 06:21 PM
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Posted 16 April 2001 - 12:46 AM
On the other hand, after Giselle dies, I guess he really is remorseful for his behavior and is willing to take responsibility for what he has done (he COULD have listened to Wilfred and have got away before the Wilis showed up. So he had a suicidal ideation at that time.
There used to be a version (Russian???) in which Giselle promoted a reconciliation between Bathilde and Albrecht. (" - And if you have a girl, name it after me"????)
Posted 16 April 2001 - 08:55 AM
Nureyev just bent down and touched the hem of her dress in a daze, no melodramatics, no "acting", just the most profound grief.
I think it takes an older dancer to carry off this approach, but I have seen others as well. Desmond Kelly, with the Royal Ballet in the early 70's, was wonderful at it. At the very beginning, when Wilfred is trying to convince him that he is wrong, Kelly just kissed his lips, as in "Oh, la, la". And I remember Robert Hill at ABT sort of automatically giving Giselle's friends the once over.
Though certainly naive Albrechts in love with Giselle but too heedless to think of the consequences work very well too. Malakhov gives it that approach, and so does Corella, which suits them very well.
Albrecht is such an interesting role. I suspect it had deepened over the history of the ballet.
Posted 16 April 2001 - 06:20 PM
The two performances I saw (Festival Ballet in D.C.) he did exit the stage at the end of act I with a kind of aristocratic flourish, but it was clear that he carried the weight of what he had done with him. (My recollection is that after the first terrible realization he went into a kind of rage and swept off stage with his cape waving behind him.) By the close of act II as he fell to his knees and the light of dawn struck his face, one felt an entire lifetime of knowledge, grief, and remorse had passed before one's eyes. Nureyev had the most extraordinary expression of wonder and realization (call it self-realization) on his face. An awe inspiring performance. Since seeing it, I have always found the more tender, loving Albrecht approach less interesting. I recognize, of course, that it suits certain dancers better, but the ballet itself becomes more complex if the Albrecht grows in self-knowledge -- if Giselle's forgiveness makes him into a different person. (Even that forgiveness itself becomes more meaningful -- because more difficult -- if Albrecht is something more than another victim of circumstance.)
Felursus: I thought the original production of Giselle (w. Grisi etc.) concluded with Albrecht returning to a forgiving Bathilde's arms.
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Posted 16 April 2001 - 06:57 PM
I just watched a videotape of Henning Kronstam coaching Lloyd Riggins and Heidi Ryom in the Royal Danish Ballet's production of Giselle. The coaching and acting is beautifully solid, but the filming can be unintentionally hilarious, as if the filmaker had watched one Bergman flick too many and couldn't decide if she wanted to make a documentary or Winter Light
That being said, watch the coaching (when the camera doesn't obligingly pan to the floor, feet or a bust of Bournonville at a crucial moment. The one that made Manhattnik and I fall out of our chairs happened as soon as Mette-Ida Kirk began her first solo as Myrtha. The camera panned to a meaningful and emotional shot of the back of an opaque flat and stayed there for 20 seconds.)
Anyway , the coaching. At one point Kronstam does the first scene with Ryom and it is fascinating to watch the older man versus the younger. Kronstam isn't a cad; you get the sense of his ardor for Giselle, but you also get the sense from his self-confidence and ease in navigating the courtship that he's running the show. Riggins couldn't do this if he tried, he's just too young and callow. Kronstam explains to both Riggins and Ryom the narrative, fleshing out the story with inner detail, and showing them exactly how he wanted to do it (you can see just how well this approach works with Ryom. Her mad scene is great theater, and she is dutifully doing every gesture he taught her.) Riggins is following Kronstam's lead as well, but there's a real noticeable change in how the same gestures and direction look on an older, weighted man or a younger man. Riggins had the physical bulk, but not the gravity Kronstam did. I think that's a function of age.
Posted 16 April 2001 - 07:24 PM
I am glad you guys got to see Mette-Ida's Myrthe, though
I've never been clear when the Albrecht-as-cad interpretation came in. In the original libretto, Albrecht loves her -- they don't delve very deeply into how Bathilde fits into that picture, but he does love her and Hilarion is the "vile knave" who ruins everything for Albrecht.
I'd love to know how Lifar and Youskevitch played it -- as two of the great mid-century Albrechts -- and how the character evolved in Russia, as well. Like Mary, I was very taken by Nureyev's cad, and thought it made Albrecht's redemption and repentance quite stark.
Kronstam always tried to find an interpretation for his character that used everything in a ballet, and work with those elements until he'd figured out how to do it so that there would be no dangling loose ends he'd have to ignore (friends of Bruhn's say that Bruhn did just the opposite, coming up with the interpretation that he believed right for the ballet and cutting anything that got in the way). Kronstam said that he thought Albrecht was sincerely in love, that Giselle was his way to "escape from all the insincerity of his life up there [the castle]" He described the first act as "a flirt that goes bad," meaning that Albrecht didn't mean to cause harm. I would imagine he played it as heedless and irresponsible when he was younger and taking a calculated risk when he was older. He said he never thought the cad version made sense for him.
Dowell and Baryshnikov also did the "really in love" approach. Baryshnikov added -- brought in? -- a nice touch, I thought, by going up to Giselle's door, stopping to think for a minute, then starting to knock -- obviously he's going to tell her -- when the hunting party starts to clomp in. A contemporary rather than Romantic touch, but it fits with his character.
One of the things I've always loved about Giselle is how porous it is. (To get all my Kronstam/Giselle stories in in one post, I asked him if he thought Albrecht could have ever returned to Bathilde at the end, as he did in the original version, and he said, "No, because I don't think he was a cold person.") It should be difficult to have both the sincere, naive lover and the contemptible cad both work, but different dancers have proven that it's possible.
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Posted 17 April 2001 - 12:38 AM
I think Albrecht COULD go back to Bathilde, not because he loves her, but because it's his royal duty to marry and have children. Bathilde isn't a bad person - she's quite generous in giving away a valuable necklace to Giselle. Most nobles wouldn't DREAM of giving something so valuable to a mere peasant girl. I think there was a moment of "sisterhood" between them - when they saw each other just as young women engaged to be married.
Nureyev's Albrecht-as-total-cad interpretation certainly grew over the years. His Albrecht was much more interested in and involved with Giselle when he danced with Fonteyn. He DID play him as someone who never for a moment forgot he was a royal, however. He was very autocratic with Wilfred and Hilarion - and it was clear that it was his Albrecht's BEHAVIOR that caused suspicion in the mind of Hilarion.
Posted 17 April 2001 - 12:50 AM
If I'm remembering correctly (and I may not be) I thought that one of the many things I liked about Nureyev's Albrecht was that he didn't reach for the sword to respond to Hilarion's knife -- but, as you said, showed who he was by his nobility of manner.
Posted 15 September 2007 - 03:30 AM
"For the ballet to make sense, I believe he has to be genuinely in love with her. We're moved when he comes to her grave. And Giselle has this passion of her convictions, her love.
I think the reason the ballet is still around is that it's a story about love that is greater than the separation of death."
That's very much in line with Vasiliev's interpretation.
Posted 15 September 2007 - 06:00 AM
I wonder whether the choices are quite as simple and far-apart as the article presents them. "Love" takes many forms, and different kinds of love develop on their own, often twisted, paths.
The most debated questions about this plot line are: Is Albrecht simply a two-faced jerk who went slumming among the peasants, took advantage of Giselle's innocence, then cruelly betrayed her? And if so, why does Giselle love him enough to rise from the dead?
I, too, have memories of this interpretation. It is indeed powerful. And, with Nureyev, it worked. One reason was that it stunned.
I know I have told this before, but the most powerful Albrecht I was was Nureyev towards the end of his dancing career. He was completely contemptuous of Giselle, laughing at her beind her back, just playing along. When Hilarion grabs her, he just turns his back, not even trying to protect her. Clearly a heartless rake, who perfectly happy to kiss Bathilde's hand. During Giselle's mad scene, he just stood there stony faced, angry that this little nothing would embarass him. He didn't even reach towards her as she ran to him just before she died. Then when she lay on the ground, it all came tumbling in on him, and he realized what he had lost.
Nureyev just bent down and touched the hem of her dress in a daze, no melodramatics, no "acting", just the most profound grief.
I wonder, though, whether "cad" or "caddish" -- let alone "two-faced jerk," as the article has it -- are the correct terms. There are connotations of superficiality, triviality, along with the callousness and manipulativeness.
Nureyev seemed to be striving for -- or to genuinely believe in the existence of -- something deeper.
As a dancer, Nureyev returned several times to noble characters who cannot (or cannot imagine) compromise with the real world and who live in a kind of proud apartness from those around them. Aristocrats. Artists. Even his Pierrot seems to experience his victimhood as a kind of noblity.
In the Giselles we are speaking of, it is as though Albrecht is dancing in his own personal bubble of aristocratic self-regard. For him, the village is a playground; the girl is there to be enjoyed, which is what simple, pretty village girls are for; the mothers are minor roadblocks to be circumvented; peasants like Hilarion, even if they become threatening, are almost beneath notice. He is not a dishonest person who knows better. He is something who genuinely -- and tragically -- believes this is how a nobleman is supposed to act. What happens in Act I subverts and attacks those assumptions, leading to the collapse that cargill describes.
As in the stories of the saints, the most memorable conversion experiences involve people who are supremely, arrogantly, blindly involved in self. This makes their fall -- and consequent redemption -- even more dramatic. The idea of reducing this, as Kain suggests, to
is possibly to trivialize it.
a story about love that is greater than the separation of death.
What do the rest of you think? And what about that idea of giving Bathilde a happy ending?
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Posted 15 September 2007 - 09:02 AM
It seems cluttered to me. One does wonder what happened to her, but another marriage would probably have been arranged. And she still had the ring! Bringing her back, to me, would be only a little more meaningful than bringing back Siegfried's mother. I get the theology, but not the dramaturgy.
I also wish I could remember. Can anyone help?
If I'm remembering correctly (and I may not be) I thought that one of the many things I liked about Nureyev's Albrecht was that he didn't reach for the sword to respond to Hilarion's knife -- but, as you said, showed who he was by his nobility of manner.
What you describe, Alexandra, would be consistent with Albrecht's world-view as a medieval nobleman. A peasant, even an upper peasant employed by the nobility, was described by some as almost another species. The thought of gaining an upper hand by fighting with a sword -- duelling being a prerogative of nobles -- would be beneath someone like Albrecht.
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Of course, this would soup up the ballet no end. Overkill, perhaps?
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While I doubt that Canon has a sweeping 'no lemon' policy beyond what is offered in their basic warranty language, I will say this: photographers who are Canon Professional Services members are offered services well above and beyond those that are offered within the basic warranty language.
As someone who over the years has had equipment lens malfunctions both as a non-CPS member, and also as a member I've personally experienced the difference in service level...
I had a regular warranty claim several years ago which essentially went the 'standard' route with Canon of 'ship the lens back to us at your expense and we'll repair or replace it. You'll be without your lens for 2 or 3 weeks while we take care of it.'
As a CPS member, on the other hand... Last year I had a lens go out on me in the middle of a project with a tight deadline and their response was one of 'no-questions-asked' next-day-air shipping of a brand-new duplicate to the malfunctioning lens at their expense. Upon shipping my defective lens back to them (again, at their expense), I was told that my lens's electronics did indeed have a problem (which was causing AF 'scrubbing' problems) and to simply keep the lens they had sent me in exchange 'with their apologies.'
I get the feeling that the customer service reps with the CPS program are given pretty broad leeway in how they can handle things for the members... Maybe that's where the notion/idea/rumor of a 'no lemon' policy has stemmed from?
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Is there a version of Bézout's theorem for non-proper intersections?
For my specific problem, the setup is as follows: Let $P_1,P_2,P_3,P_4\in\mathbb{C}[z_1,z_2,z_3,z_4]$, and suppose that (as a scheme) $\bigcap_{j=1}^4 \mathbf{Z}(P_j)$ is a 1-dimensional variety in $\mathbb{C}^4,$ plus some embedded points. I would like to say that the number of embedded points is at most $\prod_{j=1}^4 \operatorname{deg}(P_j)$. Does anyone have a reference / counter-example for such a statement?
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struct Roster { string LName; string FName; char Cheesecake; Roster *next, *prev; }; inFile.open(file_name); Roster * head; for (int record = 0;record < numRecords;record++) { static Roster * thisRoster = new struct Roster; inFile >> thisRoster->LName; inFile >> thisRoster->FName; inFile >> thisRoster->Cheesecake; cout << (*thisRoster).LName << " " << (*thisRoster).FName << " " << (*thisRoster).Cheesecake << endl; }


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Toni, While your panohead shows a nice round circle, the floor is poorly stitched. Something is wrong with either your stitching or the panohead setup.
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I will not take more time in this topic and will experience myself taking more shots than asking :-)
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The Mazur-Ulam theorem says that any surjective isometry of normed vector spaces is affine. This argument doesn't seem to apply to Minkowski space (of special relativity) since the metric is degenerate. How would one show that the Poincaré group consists of affine maps? This seems really standard but I can't seem to find it anywhere.
Let's fix notation and define the bilinear form $\eta: \mathbb{R}^4 \times \mathbb{R}^4 \to \mathbb{R}$ by:
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This statement is much stronger than you need. After Alexandrov, it was reproved independently 5 times or so.
I haven't worked out the details, so I might have this all wrong, but couldn't you proceed as follows:
It seems to me that the proof that an isometry is linear should be very similar to the proof that any flat metric is locally isometric to the standard one.


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I have a few questions about the lower unit.
My understanding is that the sections in the lower unit are each longer than the sections in the upper unit for series 1? So that the overall closed length of the combined pole increases more drastically than would be required simply to accommodate the upper unit? This essentially creates empty space in the bottom of the lower unit when contracted fully?
If this is indeed the case, would it be possible to order a custom lower unit that has been cut down to minimize contracted length? I understand that this would reduce the extended length by 3 times the contracted savings, however portability is of greater concern for me that maximum exstention. A 1m pole that extends to 5m would suit my needs much better than a 1.3m pole that extends to 6m, if this is possible.