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Synopsis: Condensate in a Can
By trapping and cooling clouds of atoms, physicists can control and explore exotic states of matter. The most dramatic example, long predicted but only demonstrated in 1995, is the Bose-Einstein condensate, in which many of the atoms in a cloud share a single quantum-mechanical state. In most experiments to date, however, atoms are attracted by a bowl-shaped potential whose strength varies across the cloud, which makes the condensate more complicated to analyze.
Teams have previously trapped atoms in long, uniform filaments, but in Physical Review Letters, Alexander Gaunt and his collaborators at the University of Cambridge, UK, describe a container that lets the atoms move freely in three dimensions. The researchers first cool a gas of a million or so rubidium atoms in a traditional trap to about a ten-millionth of a degree above absolute zero. They then turn on a green laser to create walls that gently repel the atoms. Part of the repulsive beam is shaped into a cylindrical tube surrounding the atoms, while two other parts form sheets that cap the ends of the tube. The effect of gravity is also canceled, using a small, spatially varying magnetic field.
The researchers confirmed the uniformity of the cloud by measuring the speeds with which atoms fly away when the trap is removed and the temperature at which cooling produces a Bose-Einstein condensate. The uniform trap should make it easier to compare results with theoretical calculations, and also to more accurately mimic other uniform quantum states of matter that are hard to study directly. – Don Monroe
Bose-Einstein Condensation of Atoms in a Uniform Potential
Alexander L. Gaunt, Tobias F. Schmidutz, Igor Gotlibovych, Robert P. Smith, and Zoran Hadzibabic
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 200406 (2013)
Published May 16, 2013
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Several years ago I wrote a blog post that was titled Why I Won't Buy Another HP Computer, in which I described (in detail) a series of awful customer support experiences that I had with Hewlett-Packard (HP) when I purchased an HP desktop computer.
I would now like to offer the details of an entirely different customer support experience that I recently had with what is probably my favorite computer manufacturer: Dell.
To start things off, I need to point out that I am a huge fan of Dell computers, and I have been for years. The reason for my admiration is simply this: Dell's computers have always worked for me. I have never had an experience where the hardware in a Dell computer has failed, even in extremely bad conditions. For example, I used to manage the network for a small church which had somewhere around 15 to 20 desktop computers and three Dell PowerEdge servers. During a particularly bad thunderstorm, a nearby lightning strike took out the hard drives on nearly all of the computers, including the servers. Fortunately everything on the network had multiple redundant backups, but as it turns out - I didn't need to use the backups. Only the hard drives were bad - all of the computers survived the damage, and I was able to use a combination of Symantec Ghost and Runtime Software's GetDataBack to restore all of the data on the failed drives to new drives. Despite the wide swath of destruction, all of the computers were up-and-running in less than a weekend.
In addition to having lived through that situation, I have been nothing but impressed with all of the Dell computers that I have owned both personally and professionally, and I have owned a lot. My currently laptop is from Dell, as is my wife's laptop, my son's laptop, my daughters' laptops, my Windows Media Center computer, my tablet PC, and several of my work-related computers. In fact, the only non-Dell computing devices in my house right now are my home-built rackmounted server, my wife's Microsoft Surface, and the HP computer from my earlier blog - which is what led me to my recent experience.
The single HP computer in my household is several years old, and it was time for me to start thinking about upgrading. I had been doing a little shopping, but nothing serious. Since I am taking some graduate courses at the University of Arizona, I have found myself on the receiving end of spam that various companies throw at college students. (Dear Spammers: if you are reading this, I do not need another credit card, or back-to-school attire, or a summer internship, or student housing, etc.) But one piece of spam caught my eye: Dell had sent me an email advertising a free tablet computer with the purchase of a new computer. Since I was already in the market for a new computer, I thought that I would check out their deals.
I followed the link from the email to Dell's website, where I quickly learned that Dell's offer was for an Android-based tablet. I could care less about an Android device, but I was curious if Dell had a deal for a Windows-based device. With that in mind, I clicked a link to start a chat session with a sales representative. I don't want to give out full names for privacy reasons, so I'll just say that I wound up with a guy whose initials are "N.A." He informed me that Dell did have a deal where I could get a Windows tablet instead of the Android tablet, although it would cost more. That was perfectly acceptable to me, so I said that I was interested, but I had more questions. Our chat session wound up lasting 45 minutes, all of which was entirely due to me because I spent much of the chat session looking at various products on Dell's website and asking N.A. lots of questions about this option or that.
I eventually decided on a deal that I liked, and I gave all of my contact information to N.A. so he could call me to get my credit card information. N.A. sent me the full text of the chat session, and he promised to call me within five minutes. But he never called. I remembered from the chat session that I had mentioned that I might want to wait 24 hours since it was the day before payday, so after 20 minutes I decided that N.A. might have misunderstood what I had meant, and I decided to wait until the next day to see if Dell would call me back.
By the following afternoon I still hadn't heard anything, so I decided to call Dell's 1-800 number to see what the deal was. I was routed through to a sales representative with the initials W.P., and I explained the situation. He did a little checking, and he informed me of two interesting pieces of information: first of all, the Dell deal for a Windows-based tablet had ended the day before, and much worse - apparently N.A. had quoted me the wrong tablet PC anyway.
Giving credit where it was due, W.P. was great throughout the call - I was understandably disappointed at the situation, and I kind of felt like I was being forced into a "Bait-and-Switch" scenario based on mistakes over which I had no control. W.P. checked with his manager, J.H., who said that he would try to contact N.A.'s department to see if they would stand behind their misquoted pricing. With that, W.P. and I ended the call.
I hadn't heard anything by the following afternoon, so I sent an email to J.H. and W.P. to ask what the status was with my situation, and I forwarded N.A.'s email with the original chat session. I also mentioned that I am a big Dell fan, and this situation was not reflecting well on Dell's ability to make a sale. Shortly after I sent out my email, J.H. called me to say that he couldn't contact the right person in N.A.'s department, so he was taking responsibility for the situation on Dell's behalf and was going to honor the deal. Very cool.
This entire experience reinforced my appreciation for Dell - not because I wound up getting a good deal, but primarily because a series of people took responsibility for someone else's mistake and worked to make things right.
Ultimately these people's actions made their company look great, and that's why I will buy another Dell computer.
FYI - The computer and the tablet both arrived and they're great. ;-]
I ran into an interesting situation the other day: I had a bunch of H.264 MP4 video files which I had created with Handbrake that I needed to combine, and I didn't want to use my normal video editor (Sony Vegas) to perform the merge. I'm a big fan of FFmpeg, so I figured that there was some way to automate the merge without having to use an editor.
I did some searching around the Internet, and I couldn't find anyone who was doing exactly what I was doing, so I wrote my own batch file that combines some tricks that I have used to automate FFmpeg in the past with some ideas that I found through some video hacking forums. Here is the resulting batch file, which will combine all of the MP4 files in a directory into a single MP4 file named "foobar.mp4", which can be renamed to something else:
@echo offREM Clean up any pre-existing temporary filesif exist foobar.mp4 del foobar.mp4if exist foobar.tmp del foobar.tmpif exist *.ts del *.tsREM Remux MP4 files into individual transport streamsfor /f "usebackq delims=|" %%a in (`dir /on /b *.mp4`) do ( ffmpeg.exe -i "%%a" -c copy -bsf h264_mp4toannexb -f mpegts "%%a.ts")REM Create a file list of individual transport streamsfor /f "usebackq delims=|" %%a in (`dir /b *.ts`) do ( echo file %%a>>foobar.tmp)REM Remux transport streams from the file list into merged MP4 fileffmpeg.exe -f concat -i foobar.tmp -c copy -bsf aac_adtstoasc foobar.mp4REM Clean up temporary filesif exist foobar.tmp del foobar.tmpif exist *.ts del *.ts
The merging process in this batch file is performed in two steps:
Here are the URLs for the official documentation on each of the FFmpeg switches and parameters that I used:
By the way, I realize that there may be better ways to do this with FFmpeg, so I am open to suggestions. ;-]
I get a lot of question about various configuration settings for the IIS FTP service, and most of the settings that I discuss with people can be configured through the FTP features in the IIS Manager. That being said, there are some useful configuration settings for the FTP service which I periodical send to people that have no user interface for setting them. With that in mind, I thought I would write a quick blog to point out a few of these obscure settings that I personally use the most-often or I send to other people.
I use this setting on all of my FTP servers because it seems a little more natural to me. Here's the scenario: the IIS FTP service supports two kinds of hostnames:
Real FTP hostnames are pretty straight-forward: an FTP client specifies the hostname with a HOST command when a user is connecting to the server. Once the IIS FTP service receives that command, the FTP service routes the FTP session to the correct FTP site.
That being said, the FTP HOST command is still rather new, so only a handful of FTP clients currently support it. Because of that, you can use FTP "virtual" hostnames with the IIS FTP service. By default that syntax uses the "vertical line" or "pipe" character to differentiate between the hostname and user name. For example:
When you are specifying your FTP credentials in your FTP client, you would enter your username like the preceding examples. While this syntax is valid for both the IIS FTP service and the underlying FTP protocol, it seems a little odd to most users (including me). With that in mind, we added a configuration setting for the FTP service that will allow you to use the more-familiar domain\username syntax like the following examples:
To enable this feature, use the following steps:
cd /d "%SystemRoot%\System32\Inetsrv" appcmd.exe set config -section:system.ftpServer/serverRuntime /hostNameSupport.useDomainNameAsHostName:"True" /commit:apphost net.exe stop FTPSVC net.exe start FTPSVC
More information about this feature is available in the IIS configuration reference at the following URL:
The FTP service caches user credentials for successfully-authenticated user sessions in order to help improve login performance, and I wrote the following detailed blog about this a couple of years ago:
Credential Caching in FTP 7.0 and FTP 7.5
I don't want to re-post an old blog, but I have sent several people to that blog over the years, so I thought that it was worth mentioning here since it seems to be referenced quite often. The problem that people seem to run into the most is that their old password is still valid for FTP after they have changed it, and this is caused by the FTP service caching their user credentials.
This is especially annoying for me personally when I am working on a development computer where I am creating an authentication provider. Unless I disable credential caching on my development computer, I can never seem to get any work done. To resolve this issue, I disable credential caching for the FTP service by using the following steps:
cd /d "%SystemRoot%\System32\Inetsrv" appcmd.exe set config -section:system.ftpServer/caching /credentialsCache.enabled:"False" /commit:apphost net.exe stop FTPSVC net.exe start FTPSVC
The blog which I mentioned earlier goes into more detail about setting a custom timeout interval for credential caching instead of disabling the feature entirely, and all of the settings for FTP credential caching are in the IIS configuration reference at the following URLs:
FTP Client Certificate Authentication is an often-overlooked feature of the IIS FTP service, and I think that this is due to two reasons:
My second reason cannot be understated; I usually have to set up FTP Client Certificate Authentication once or twice a year in order to test various scenarios, and each time I do so I am reminded of just how difficult it can be to get everything right, and equally how easy it is to get something wrong.
Fortunately I took the time a couple of years ago to write a blog which documents everything that it takes to configure the FTP service, and I have used my notes in that blog several times. In complement to my blog on the subject, Vivek Kumbhar wrote an excellent blog series with additional steps to configure your Active Directory for certificate authentication. With that in mind, here are all of the requisite blog posts that you would need to set up this feature:
As I have mentioned before, configuring this feature is not for the faint-of-heart, but it can be very beneficial from a security standpoint.
For more information about the settings that are required for FTP Client Certificate Authentication, see the following articles in the IIS configuration reference:
That wraps it up for today's post. ;-]
Note: This blog was originally posted at http://blogs.msdn.com/robert_mcmurray/
Have you ever wondered how much work is involved when migrating a traditionally-hosted production website to Microsoft Azure? If so, the following case study might be of interest to you:
Microsoft Azure Migration: Microsoft's .NET Community Websites Migrating Microsoft's ASP.NET and IIS.NET Community Websites to Microsoft Azure
Here's a little background information on this migration case study: last fall Microsoft worked with two of it's hosting partners, Neudesic and Orcsweb, to migrate the www.asp.net and www.iis.net websites from a traditional web hosting scenario (e.g. websites hosted on physical servers) to virtual machines that are hosted in the cloud on Microsoft Azure. Here's what the web farm looked like before the migration:
After the migration, Microsoft had reduced both the hosting costs and the number of servers required by almost 50%. Here's what the web farm looked like when the migration had been completed:
There are a lot of people who helped make this migration a success - and there are far too many to name here - but I would like to say a special "thanks" to everyone at Neudesic and Orcsweb for making this migration process as painless as possible.
I have to download various files from time-to-time, and it's nice when websites provide checksum hashes so I can validate that the file I just downloaded matches the version on the server. (ON a related note, I wrote a blog several years ago which showed how to create a provider for the IIS FTP service which automatically creates checksum files when files are uploaded to a server; see my Automatically Creating Checksum Files for FTP Uploads blog post for the details.)
In order to calculate hashes for files that I have downloaded, several years ago I wrote a simple command-line application for Windows which uses several of the built-in algorithms in .NET's System.Security.Cryptography. And while I realize that there are probably other tools that provide this same functionality, I have used this little utility for years, and I've had several people ask me for copies. With that in mind, I thought that it might make a nice blog topic if I shared the code with everyone. (Note: It's a really simple sample; the .NET framework does all the real work for this application.)
Without further fanfare, here's the source code. In order to use this code sample, you need to create a new C# project in Visual Studio and choose the Console Application template. When the new project opens, replace the template's code with the following:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
class Hash
static void Main(string[] args)
// Verify the correct number of command-line arguments.
if (args.Length != 2)
// Show the help message if an incorrect number of arguments was specified.
byte[] hashValue = null;
// Verify that the specified file exists.
if (!File.Exists(args[1]))
// Show the help message if a non-existent filename was specified.
// Create a fileStream for the file.
FileStream fileStream = File.OpenRead(args[1]);
// Be sure it's positioned to the beginning of the stream.
fileStream.Position = 0;
// Use the specified hash algorithm.
switch (args[0].ToUpper())
case "MD5":
// Compute the MD5 hash of the fileStream.
hashValue = MD5.Create().ComputeHash(fileStream);
case "SHA1":
// Compute the SHA1 hash of the fileStream.
hashValue = SHA1.Create().ComputeHash(fileStream);
case "SHA256":
// Compute the SHA256 hash of the fileStream.
hashValue = SHA256.Create().ComputeHash(fileStream);
case "SHA384":
// Compute the SHA384 hash of the fileStream.
hashValue = SHA384.Create().ComputeHash(fileStream);
case "SHA512":
// Compute the SHA512 hash of the fileStream.
hashValue = SHA512.Create().ComputeHash(fileStream);
case "BASE64":
// Compute the BASE64 hash of the fileStream.
byte[] binaryData = new Byte[fileStream.Length];
long bytesRead = fileStream.Read(binaryData, 0, (int)fileStream.Length);
if (bytesRead != fileStream.Length)
throw new Exception(String.Format("Number of bytes read ({0}) does not match file size ({1}).", bytesRead, fileStream.Length));
string base64String = System.Convert.ToBase64String(binaryData, 0, binaryData.Length);
Console.WriteLine("File: {0}\r\nBASE64 Hash: {1}", fileStream.Name, base64String);
hashValue = null;
// Display the help message if an unrecognized hash algorithm was specified.
if (hashValue != null)
// Write the hash value to the Console.
PrintHashData(args[0].ToUpper(), fileStream.Name, hashValue);
// Close the file.
catch (Exception ex)
Console.WriteLine("Error: {0}", ex.Message);
// Display the help message.
private static void ShowHelp()
{/> Console.WriteLine("HASH.exe <hash algorithm> <file name>\n\n" +
"\tWhere <hash algorithm> is one of the following:\n" +
// Print the hash data in a readable format.
private static void PrintHashData(string algorithm, string fileName, byte[] array)
Console.Write("File: {0}\r\n{1} Hash: ", fileName,algorithm);
for (int i = 0; i < array.Length; i++)
Console.Write(String.Format("{0:X2}", array[i]));
When you compile and run the application, you will see following help message when you specify no command-line parameters:
HASH.exe <hash algorithm> <file name>
Where <hash algorithm> is one of the following:
When you specify one of the supported hashing algorithms and a filename, the application will display something like the following example:
C:\>hash.exe SHA1 foobar.zip
File: C:\foobar.zip
SHA1 Hash: 57686F6120447564652C20426F6220526F636B73
That's all there is to it. As I mentioned earlier, it's a pretty simple sample. ;-]
It seems that I have always had a difficult time explaining to people what I do at Microsoft. It's not that I'm unsure about what I do - the details of my job have always been crystal-clear to me and I love what I am doing. It's just that I can't find a way to explain things in a way that doesn't result in blank stares from anyone who isn't a geek. (This problem isn't limited to me, though; my non-technical wife simply responds "I have no idea what he does" when someone asks her what I do for a living.)
Here's a perfect example: when I was a Program Manager on the Internet Information Services (IIS) team, people would often ask me what I did for Microsoft, and I would reply with something like, "I help design and implement the web publishing protocols for Microsoft's web server."
Other Person: [Blank Stare]
I would attempt to remedy the situation by adding, "You know, I design Microsoft's implementation of Internet technologies like the File Transfer Protocol, WebDAV, and the FrontPage Server Extensions."
In a sometimes-futile effort to salvage the conversation from complete disaster, I would interject, "You like to use the Internet, right? Well, your computer is on one side of the Internet, and my team helps build the other side of the Internet. That's kind of what I do."
That comment would usually be met with a slight spark of recognition, which was sometimes followed by a half-muttered, "That's nice."
At one time or other during my tenure as a Program Manager on the IIS team I was responsible for a smattering of disparate technologies; things like FTP, WebDAV, FPSE, FastCGI, PHP, URL Rewrite, IIS Express, Log Parser, etc. Most of those technologies garnered little to no interest for the average person, and many of my coworkers found them pretty boring as well. Just the same, I personally found every one of those technologies completely fascinating. (Why else would I spend eight years trying to get just one new command added to FTP?)
A couple of years ago I left the IIS program management team and I joined the writing team which is responsible for documenting Microsoft's ASP.NET framework; and if you have to ask what that means, then you are probably not interested in the answer.
Still, people would ask me what I do for Microsoft, and I would try to explain my job with statements like, "I document the Application Programming Interfaces (or APIs) for Microsoft's ASP.NET."
I would try to nudge the conversation along by saying things like, "I help people write web code."
Skipping ahead in the conversation, I would usually make a last-ditch attempt by stating, "Let's say you wanted to create a website; if so, you might read something that I wrote in order to help you get started."
Sometimes this remark would illicit a hint of acknowledgment, but usually I just got another blank stare.
This leads me to a few days ago. My wife and I were at dinner, and a waiter asked me what I did for a living. In the back of my mind I started to say something like, "Well, these days I'm documenting a set of APIs that Java programmers will use with Microsoft Azure technologies [blah blah blah]..."
But what actually came out of my mouth was, "I could explain it to you, but I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want me to. Trust me."
I like that answer. I think I'll stick with it in the future. :-)
So here's the deal: I don't use anything from Apple. I have no iPod, no iPhone, no Mac, etc. I buy all of my MP3s through Xbox Music and Amazon. :-] Because of this, I have had no real need to install iTunes or QuickTime in years.
But unfortunately it seemed that I had to install either iTunes or QuickTime at one time or other, mainly because some of my digital cameras recorded video in QuickTime *.MOV format. But over the years I learned to detest both iTunes and QuickTime because of the undesirable ways in which they modified my system; both iTunes and QuickTime would remap all of media settings to open in their @#$% player, which I didn't really want in the first place.
Now that Windows supports the *.MOV format natively, and I can easily convert *.MOV files into something infinitely more useful and universal like *.MP4 format, I really never see the need for installing either iTunes or QuickTime.
However, just the other day I installed a new video editor (which shall remain nameless) and it quietly installed QuickTime on my system. I presume that this was to make it easier to import files in *.MOV format into the video editor, but I was pretty upset when I discovered that QuickTime had been installed. What's more, I was angry when I discovered that QuickTime had once again messed up all of my media settings.
In all of this misery is one saving grace: QuickTime has the decency to preserve your original settings. I am assuming that the backups are for when you uninstall QuickTime and attempt to reclaim your system from being hijacked by Apple, but just the same - that little nicety allowed me to fix my system with a little bit of scripting.
So without further introduction - first the script, and then the explanation:
Const HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT = &H80000000
Const strQuickTimeBAK = "QuickTime.bak"
Set objRegistry = GetObject("winmgmts:" & _
"{impersonationLevel=impersonate}" & _
objRegistry.EnumKey HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, "", arrSubKeys
For Each objSubkey in arrSubKeys
If Len(objSubkey)>2 Then
If Left(objSubkey,1)="." Then
objRegistry.EnumValues HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, _
objSubkey, arrEntryNames, arrValueTypes
If IsArray(arrEntryNames) Then
For i = 0 To UBound(arrEntryNames)
If StrComp(arrEntryNames(i), strQuickTimeBAK, vbTextCompare)=0 Then
intReturnValue = objRegistry.GetStringValue( _
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, objSubkey, strQuickTimeBAK, strEntryValue)
If intReturnValue = 0 Then
intReturnValue = objRegistry.SetStringValue( _
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, objSubkey, "", strEntryValue)
End If
End If
End If
End If
End If
Here's what this script does: first the script enumerates all of the keys under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and looks for file extension mappings, then it looks for mappings which have been modified and backed up by QuickTime. When it locates file extensions which have been modified, it copies the value which was backed up into the default location where it belongs.
All-in-all, it's a pretty straight-forward script, but it sucks that I had to write it.
Shortly after I published my FTP ETW Tracing and IIS 8 blog post, I was using the batch file from that blog to troubleshoot an issue that I was having with a custom FTP provider. One of the columns which I display in my results is Clock-Time, which is obviously a sequential timestamp that is used to indicate the time and order in which the events occurred.
At first glance the Clock-Time values might appear to be a range of useless numbers, but I use Clock-Time values quite often when I import the data from my ETW traces into something like Excel and I need to sort the data by the various columns.
That being said, apart from keeping the trace events in order, Clock-Time isn't a very user-friendly value. However, LogParser has some great built-in functions for crunching date/time values, so I decided to update the script to take advantage of some LogParser coolness and reformat the Clock-Time value into a human-readable Date/Time value.
My first order of business was to figure out how to decode the Clock-Time value; since Clock-Time increases for each event, it is obviously an offset from some constant, and after a bit of searching I found that the Clock-Time value is the offset in 100-nanosecond intervals since midnight on January 1, 1601. (Windows uses that value in a lot of places, not just ETW.) Once I had that information, it was pretty easy to come up with a LogParser formula to convert the Clock-Time value into the local time for my system, which is much easier to read.
With that in mind, here is the modified batch file:
@echo off rem ====================================================================== rem Clean up old log files for %%a in (ETL CSV) do if exist "%~n0.%%a" del "%~n0.%%a" echo Starting the ETW session for full FTP tracing... LogMan.exe start "%~n0" -p "IIS: Ftp Server" 255 5 -ets echo. echo Now reproduce your problem. echo. echo After you have reproduced your issue, hit any key to close the FTP echo tracing session. Your trace events will be displayed automatically. echo. pause>nul rem ====================================================================== echo. echo Closing the ETW session for full FTP tracing... LogMan.exe stop "%~n0" -ets rem ====================================================================== echo. echo Parsing the results - this may take a long time depending on the size of the trace... if exist "%~n0.etl" ( TraceRpt.exe "%~n0.etl" -o "%~n0.csv" -of CSV LogParser.exe "SELECT [Clock-Time], TO_LOCALTIME(ADD(TO_TIMESTAMP('1601-01-01 00:00:00', 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss'), TO_TIMESTAMP(DIV([Clock-Time],10000000)))) AS [Date/Time], [Event Name], Type, [User Data] FROM '%~n0.csv'" -i:csv -e 2 -o:DATAGRID -rtp 20 )
When you run this new batch file, it will display an additional "Date/Time" column with a more-informative value in local time for the sever where you captured the trace.
The new Date/Time column is considerably more practical, so I'll probably keep it in the batch file that I use when I am troubleshooting. You will also notice that I kept the original Clock-Time column; I chose to do so because I will undoubtedly continue to use that column for sorting when I import the data into something else, but you can safely remove that column if you would prefer to use only the new Date/Time value.
That wraps it up for today's post. :-)
In the past I have written a couple of blogs about using the FTP service's Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) features to troubleshoot issues; see FTP and ETW Tracing and Troubleshooting Custom FTP Providers with ETW for details. Those blog posts contain batch files which use the built-in Windows LogMan utility to capture an ETW trace, and they use downloadable LogParser utility to parse the results into human-readable form. I use the batch files from those blogs quite often, and I tend to use them a lot when I am developing custom FTP providers which add new functionality to my FTP servers.
Unfortunately, sometime around the release of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 I discovered that the ETW format had changed, and the current version of LogParser (version 2.2) cannot read the new ETW files. When you try to use the batch files from my blog with IIS 8, you see the following errors:
Verifying that LogParser.exe is in the path... Done. Starting the ETW session for full FTP tracing... The command completed successfully. Now reproduce your problem. After you have reproduced your issue, hit any key to close the FTP tracing session. Your trace events will be displayed automatically. Closing the ETW session for full FTP tracing... The command completed successfully. Parsing the results - this may take a long time depending on the size of the trace... Task aborted. Cannot open <from-entity>: Trace file "C:\temp\ftp.etl" has been created on a OS version (6.3) that is not compatible with the current OS version Statistics: ----------- Elements processed: 0 Elements output: 0 Execution time: 0.06 seconds
I meant to research a workaround at the time, but one thing led to another and I simply forgot about doing so. But I needed to use ETW the other day when I was developing something, so that seemed like a good time to quit slacking and come up with an answer. :-)
With that in mind, I came up with a very easy workaround, which I will present here. Once again, this batch file has a requirement on LogParser being installed on your system, but for the sake of brevity I have removed the lines from this version of the batch file which check for LogParser. (You can copy those lines from my previous blog posts if you want that functionality restored.)
Here's the way that this workaround is implemented: instead of creating an ETW log and then parsing it directly with LogParser, this new batch file invokes the built-in Windows TraceRpt command to parse the ETW file and save the results as a CSV file, which is then read by LogParser to view the results in a datagrid like the batch files in my previous blogs:
@echo off rem ====================================================================== rem Clean up old log files for %%a in (ETL CSV) do if exist "%~n0.%%a" del "%~n0.%%a" echo Starting the ETW session for full FTP tracing... LogMan.exe start "%~n0" -p "IIS: Ftp Server" 255 5 -ets echo. echo Now reproduce your problem. echo. echo After you have reproduced your issue, hit any key to close the FTP echo tracing session. Your trace events will be displayed automatically. echo. pause>nul rem ====================================================================== echo. echo Closing the ETW session for full FTP tracing... LogMan.exe stop "%~n0" -ets rem ====================================================================== echo. echo Parsing the results - this may take a long time depending on the size of the trace... if exist "%~n0.etl" ( TraceRpt.exe "%~n0.etl" -o "%~n0.csv" -of CSV LogParser.exe "SELECT [Clock-Time], [Event Name], Type, [User Data] FROM '%~n0.csv'" -i:csv -e 2 -o:DATAGRID -rtp 20 )
Here's another great thing about this new batch file - it will also work down-level on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008; so if you have been using my previous batch files with IIS 7 - you can simply replace your old batch file with this new version. You will see a few differences between the results from my old batch files and this new version, namely that I included a couple of extra columns that I like to use for troubleshooting.
There is one last thing which I would like to mention in closing: I realize that it would be much easier on everyone if Microsoft simply released a new version of LogParser which works with the new ETW format, but unfortunately there are no plans at the moment to release a new version of LogParser. And trust me - I'm just as depressed about that fact as anyone else. :-(
Like most people these days, I tend to swap a lot of removable storage devices between my ever-growing assortment of computing devices. The trouble is, I also have an ever-growing collection of removable storage devices, so it gets difficult keeping track of which device is which when I view them in Windows Explorer. The default images are pretty generic, and even though I try to use meaningful names, most of the drives look the same:
By using a simple and under-used Windows feature, I have been personalizing my drives so that they have meaningful icons in Windows Explorer that will be displayed when I plug them into any of my computing devices:
Here's how this works - you just need to store two files in the root folder of each removable drive, both of which will be discussed in more detail later:
The autorun.inf file defines the icon that will be used in Windows Explorer, and its syntax very simple:
Paste the above code into Windows Notepad and save it as autorun.inf in the root folder of your removable drive.
This part is a little trickier because you have to find an image and convert it to an icon. I find all of my images by using http://images.bing.com/ to search for a particular removable drive - see http://tinyurl.com/mztbald for an example. What I am looking for is a specific image for the removable drive that I am using, and if I can't find a specific image then I will look for a generic image that works. The following image illustrates that idea:
Once I have an image, I need to convert it to an Icon file. To do my conversions, I use AveIconifier 2.1 by Andreas Verhoeven, which you can download through the Internet Archive at the following URL:
When you open the application, it will prompt you to drag and drop a PNG file into it.
If you were only able to find a JPG or GIF file, don't worry - you can open the image in Windows Paint and click File -> Save As -> PNG Picture to save it as a PNG image:
Once you drag a PNG image into AveIconifier, you can drag out the ICO file that you will need to rename to Icon.ico and save that the root folder of your removable drive.
Click the following image to see what a completed icon that was created with AveIconifier to show looks like.
One last thing that I do is optional, which is to hide and protect the autorun.inf and icon.ico files. To do so, open a command prompt and change directory to the root of your removable drive, then enter the following commans:
attrib +r +h +s autorun.inf
attrib +r +h +s icon.ico
These two commands will make the files as read-only, hidden, system files, which should normally prevent you from seeing them when you open your drive in Windows Explorer, and it should prevent them from being accidentally deleted.
After you have saved both the autorun.inf and icon.ico files to the root of your removable drive, you will need to eject the drive and re-attach it to your system in order to see the effects. But as you can see in my earlier illustration, personalization of the drives makes them much easier to identify.


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We have a spare room up for rent in our beautiful castle in Adamstown Heights and are looking for a new housemate. Rent will be $170 per week and bills are split between 4, so are really affordable. The room fits a queen bed and a desk very comfortably, and has both reverse-cycle air conditioning and a built-in wardrobe. The house is fully furnished, and situated a 5 minute drive from both Kotara Westfield and Charlestown Square. We are a very easy-going and tidy household. We enjoy having a wine together but also respect each others' personal space.
A great room. Hardwood floors throughout. Nice gardens. Large yard with verandas out the front and back with outdoor seating in multiple sections. Full kitchen with a dishwasher. Your bathroom has a bath and shower and we also have another toilet located next to the laundry at the other end of the house. This property is within walking distance to Cardiff train station and shops. There is plenty of parking and heaps of storage. This house has gorgeous high ceilings and a high powered ceiling fan in your room. My 2 friendly Labradors offer plenty of cuddles if ever needed and will happily keep you company while you relax on one of the verandas with your computer or book? You will have access to all the essential white goods. Your room has large mirrored built-ins with drawers. The room is unfurnished and recently painted with the rest of the house. We have a fire pit that will be used quite often in winter (there is nothing like relaxing around a fire with a few friends, a couple of drinks talking the night away... and maybe marshmallows 😉) We a mini gym available to use, weights, Ab machine, bike etc. It has been packed away for many years and i'm finally keen to dust it off and see if i can remember how to use it *No racists, homophobes or anyone who thinks Trump is ok 😜
Great location Pool for summer time Gas Aircon and gas fireplace Open plan living areas Room has built ins Also must be a team player for pool volley ball
Foxtel and WiFi. Ducted air con throughout. I have a dog and three cats. New kitchen and bathroom. 10 mins to charlestown square and Kotara. 15 mins to the uni and 20 mins to town.
Off Cherry Road, 5 minute drive to Warners Bay, cafe precinct, supermarkets, pharmacy, banks, hotel. 10-15 minute drive to Kotara, Charlestown , Belmont or Glendale. Rent includes all utilities as well as Foxtel and unlimited WIFI. House is air conditioned with a salt water pool and BBQ entertaining area
Hi I'm Tim. I have a good size room with large built in wardrobe (plenty or extra storage space) and leafy yard. We are a super chilled house and we like to keep it tidy and relaxed. I work nights and my house mate works days so there will be plenty of space for all to move. We like to have a few friends over on weekend nights for bbqs and drinks also :) Feel free to come check it out! Walk to the beach in 10 mns and Charlestown Square is 10 mins drive. Bus stops 2 mins walk. Cheers Tim :)
Hi! I'm looking for a flattie to take the 2nd bedroom in my home. The room is huge – could easily fit queen bed, desk and lounge with TV – only drawback is there is no built-in wardrobe. I do have a spare one that my previous flatmate was using, so happy for you also to use that too! There is plenty of on street parking with a bus stop right outside and just a five minute walk to Adamstown Shops, 5 mins to Merewether and 15 mins to the Uni. Rent is $175 per week with unlimited internet, Hulu and Netflix included. Bond will be two weeks rent. Only other bill will be electricity which comes quarterly. (There is also gas heating in the house, but i've included this in the rent!)
This house is beautifully refurbished, with all hard wood floors. Its got a neat , new kitchen with lots of pantry space, a dishwasher and all appliances. We've got a cute little backyard and MASSIVE bedrooms. The room available has a huge built in wardrobe and is a large room. We will be moving in to the property on the 21st, and have all the furnishings for the house. You'll just need to furnish your room. Located near Brunker rd, its only a 5min drive to the beaches and city, and super close to Westfield.
We have a lovely home at Adamstown to share. Set in a great location … just a short stroll to local shops (Glebe Road end/Adamstown), venues, public transport- both bus & train all within easy walking distance. The room to let is large, as is the house. Rent is $180 per week including expenses (elect, water & basic household exps ie. cleaning products, lawn mowing etc). Bond up front is $350 (less than 3 weeks) plus rent paid in advance f/nightly. Features include huge back yard, bath tub, and more. It's a great location, so handy to shops, venues and public transport (short stroll). Not to mention just a nice home environment.
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Credit Cards aren't just for Christmas!
At this time of year I suspect that most of us are doing the same thing - filling up our credit cards to the limit to pay for Christmas. Every year we're expected to break all the credit card spending records. We rarely disappoint - last year we spent on average £600 on our cards and this year is set to be no exception.
There are around 55 million cards in circulation and we already owe £45 billion on them - an average of £1,000 per adult. But with interest rates so low temptation has never been greater. Spare a thought now for those post Christmas bills and it's not too late to avoid getting so far into the red that you spend the rest of the year getting back in the black.
What interest rate does your card charge? If you aren't going to be in the position to pay off your bill all at once switch to one with the lowest possible interest. The most competitively priced cards charge between 9.9 and 14.9 percent. If you are still with the card issuer you've been with for years you could be paying much more than that. With Barclaycard for instance customers are paying anything from 9.9 to 24.9 percent depending on their credit rating.
Many cards offer 0% interest for a limited period - usually 6 months. You can move your existing debt balance to the new card and pay no interest on it for that introductory period. But beware. With some cards new purchases also qualify for the 0% rate and cashback deals but with others they don't. And check the rates you'll be paying once the 0% period is up. Some cards charge fairly high, uncompetitive rates after that time. You could run up larger than normal bills because you aren't being charged interest, end up carrying big balances forward beyond the interest free period and find yourself having to pay 18 or 19%. Note in your diary when the 0% ends and be prepared to move cards again if necessary. Most cards charge their normal interest rates for cash withdrawals during their special offer periods.
If you can't be bothered to keep switching cards to take advantage of 0% offers look for a one that suits you and give you the lowest standard rate on both your existing debts and new purchases.
The more often we switch to take advantage of lower rates the more difficult it is for the card companies to keep our business and make a profit out of us. So some of them are thinking longer term. 9 million people have Barclaycard but many of those customers have other cards as well and use the cheaper ones to shop with. So the company is now trying to persuade it's customers to ditch the others by offering to match the interest rate charged by the cheapest of them (that's the standard rate not a cheaper introductory rate). You can gather all your card debts under Barclaycard's wing and you'll pay the lower rate on everything you owe.
The Co-op is also thinking longer term with a card rate that is guaranteed to stay 5 percent above the bank of England base rate. Whatever the offer and whatever bells and whistles there are in the way of perks make sure you can't find a better deal elsewhere.
If you do pay off your card bills in total on the due date interest doesn't matter so look for other perks. Give those a miss that charge an annual fee and go for ones that give you up to 56 days interest free before you have to pay the bill. Some offer you cashback - the best offer one per cent but with others it's one percent for a fixed period or if you spend over a certain amount. Read the small print.
We all like to think we're doing our bit for others at this time of year and affinity cards are on way of doing that. Every time you use one a donation goes to charity. But they often charge high rates so you could be better off with a lower rate card and making your own donation direct.
The stores are pushing their own cards now too. They're convenient but rates are often much higher than on credit cards so even with a discount on you purchases they are usually not a good option. Think twice.
The ideal would be to cut up the plastic and use cash instead. But for most people that's just not practical. There are 1,500 cards on offer for 60 providers so there's plenty of choice. But as soon as your existing card company gets wind of the fact that you're not flexing their plastic any more they're likely to increase your credit limit to tempt you back. Don't bite. Interest rates are at their lowest for 40 years and we're used to being in debt but sooner or later rates will start to rise so resist the temptation to run up so much debt that even small rises could tip you carefully planned budget crashing over the edge. Unfortunately credit isn't just for Christmas!
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Hello friends!
As I sat down to design something Valentine's Day inspired for you, the phrase that kept replaying in my head was something my dad said to me and my three sisters every day growing up. As a matter of fact, he still says it to me every time I see him. Without fail, he'll take a moment out of his day to give us a hug, look us in the eye and say, "Have I told you I love you today?"
As another Valentine's Day approaches, I was finding myself wondering if Alex and I should even bother celebrating, or if we should put the kibosh on this commercialized and seemingly arbitrary holiday. But today, I remembered that Valentine's Day is simply a much-needed reminder to tell your friends and family that you love them. It can be in the simplest of ways or the most extravagant. A simple handwritten note or a roomful of roses (go ahead...channel your inner McDreamy circa Sweet Home Alabama).
The thing is, the way in which you tell them isn't important— it only matters that you TELL that person that you love them. My realization made me rethink Alex and I's (nonexistent) plans for Valentine's Day, and come up with a fun way to tell him that I love him to pieces.
That being said, I hope you fully take advantage of your Valentine's Day, as well as this fun little reminder I made for your phone!
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I am so glad to say that today's class with the 26 nine year olds went MUCH more smoothly!
Before I begin, I have to say that I really admire teachers (and TA's) who can speak sharply and discipline students directly and meaningfully in a way that is not threatening but is certainly intimidating. Sometimes, kids cross the line and they need to be reminded of where they stand. Take today for example. Three grade 4 boys pointed and laughed obnoxiously for no reason at a couple of senior high girls in their sports uniforms. They were immediately shut down by a Teacher Assistant (whom I now aspire to be like) who said, "STOP. Why are you laughing? What is so funny to you? Is it funny for you to be laughing at other students who play on a sports team for this school??"And as she continued reprimanding them, I was reminded that discipline isn't simply telling a kid to stop doing something and leaving it at that. But in fact, it is getting them to realize why their actions are wrong, to to make them feel remorseful for their actions and to admit that they were wrong. And in this particular case, I think it was good for these three boys to be disciplined in front of their peers rather than privately, because everyone needs to know that it is never okay to make fun of others.
My Class Today:
I immediately put my colleague's advice to practice! Before class started, I prayed "Dear God please help me. Please, please, please…". I was very apprehensive and anxious of how everything would turn out, because I did not need a repeat of yesterday.
My students entered the classroom and right away, those four students started their usual business of shouting, walking around, and kicking things. So I marched to the back of the room, pulled one desk into a corner and told one of them that that would be his seat from now on. I pulled another desk to another far corner and sat the other student down telling him the same thing. By now, the other two had settled quickly into their seats. I marched back to the front of the class, called everyone to attention, and we went over our three class rules. I also explained that from now on, if anyone was disturbing everyone else's learning, their name would go on the board and if they continued, they would get a checkmark by their name. Each checkmark equals 5 minutes of staying in at recess.
As students started working on their assignments, sure enough, one of the boys started wandering out of their desks and bothering other students. I wrote his name on the board and he went back to his seat and didn't cause any more trouble for the rest of the class. The next boy started moving the desk that I had deliberately placed at the back of the room, so up went his name on the board. He started walking around, boom! a checkmark. And another one. After the second checkmark, he finally started working.
Now the last two… it took them a little longer. They nearly got me fed up until I remembered my colleagues warning me yesterday that they will really try to test me (they have these same students). As soon as I realized that they were simply testing me, I grew calm and just kept adding checkmarks to their names. In the end, one boy had six checkmarks and the other had four. It took losing 1.5-2 recesses before they finally realized that I meant business. They didn't get any work done, but by the end of class, they were sitting properly and quietly without bothering anyone else. And it doesn't even bother me that they didn't finish their work, because those two boys made huge progress in behaviour today.
Best of all, while I had everyone line up at the door, they came up to me and said that they were sorry. I was so surprised and so pleased that they apologized without me having to force it out of them. It wasn't my smoothest lesson, but it was indubitably the best thing that happened to me so far this month.


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Jacques Pepin's Crusty Chicken Thighs with Mushroom Sauce this stuff is heaven! i used lemon pepper+salt and garlic powder delicious :)
Yukon Gold Potatoes - Jacques Pepin Style - Potatoes baked in Chicken Broth, Garlic and Butter, SO GOOD! They get crispy on the bottom but stay fluffy inside. Chocked full of flavor.
Legendary Chef Jacques Pepin came by The Chew to make his delicious and decadent Crepes Suzette recipe. http://www.recapo.com/the-chew/the-chew-recipes/chew-legendary-chef-jacques-pepins-crepes-suzette-recipe/
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I had never seen a version of this recipe until recently when I looked it up on line. I have made it a lot but all based on the memory of how Jacque Pepin made it on his show. So this recipe is based on his recipe. This is a great dish for entertaining. It is really quick to make and I have made it ahead of time leaving everything separate and tossing it together just before I put it into individual gratins and pop them into the oven. You will notice a pound of shrimp serves four…
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Jacques Pepin's Potatoes Fondantes. saw this on Rachel Ray and it looks amazing.
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