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You know when you're out at happy hour with coworkers and then a group of old coworkers from your last job shows up and your head starts spinning because you just can't handle the two worlds colliding? That's how I felt when I read today that Facebook has plans to partner up with HTC to build its own smartphone. Sometimes I feel like Facebook IS the internet… it's how we get our news, talk to our friends, do our shopping. Rarely do I go straight to a site without following a link from Facebook. But I never considered that it could take over other parts of our lives, too, and I'm not sure how comfortable I feel with that. What do you think about the possibility of a Facebook phone?
According to Bloomberg, "More than half of Facebook's 900 million users access the social network via mobile devices, while none of the $3.15 billion in advertising sales last year came from ads on phones. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg could use a Facebook phone, with social-networking features built-in, to woo marketers and assuage concerns dragging on the company's shares."
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The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported Friday that U.S. real GDP grew at an anemic 1.5% annual rate during the second quarter. When the same bad thing keeps happening to you again and again, "disappointed" no longer seems the appropriate word to use.
Lower spending by state and local government and lower net exports each subtracted about 0.3% from the annual GDP growth rate. And there just wasn't any oomph anywhere else to make up for it. Consumer spending grew at the same meager rate as GDP itself, with an outright decline in spending on durable goods, the big ticket purchases that consumers postpone when they're worried about the economy. Nonresidential investment and housing made modest positive contributions.
And things have been "disappointing" like this for quite a while. Although the 2011:Q4 growth has been revised up to what might seem to be an encouraging 4.1% value, most of this was inventory accumulation; growth in real private spending for Q4 was 1.6%, the same sort of anemic numbers we'd been seeing before and since.
Even so, we'd still unambiguously describe the economy as continuing to experience overall economic growth. The latest GDP report puts our Econbrowser Recession Indicator Index at 5.7%. For purposes of calculating this number, we allow one quarter for data revision and trend recognition, so the latest value, although it uses today's released GDP numbers, is actually an assessment of where the economy was as of the end of the first quarter of 2012. The index would have to rise above 67% before our algorithm would declare that the U.S. had entered a new recession.
Not a recession, and not really a surprise, but nonetheless very discouraging. The graph below plots the level of real GDP on a logarithmic scale, so that a vertical move of 1 unit on this graph corresponds to a 1% change in the level of real GDP. U.S. real GDP today is up only 2.9% from where we were 5 years ago. That's worse– by far– than any 5-year postwar period before 2007. Even 1983:Q2, which marked the low point in the second of back-to-back recessions, saw a level of GDP 6.7% above that in 1978:Q2. And even if you don't start counting until the current recovery began, we've only seen an average annual real GDP growth rate since 2009:Q2 of 2.2%, significantly worse than the 2.6% average annual growth rate during the disappointing and discouraging 2002:Q1-2007:Q4 economic expansion. Oh, for the good old days!
I still see potential for a large temporary boost from housing and autos. However, there is also potential for a much bigger negative shock from both fiscal policy and developments in Europe. Aside from these issues, there seems reason also to be concerned about what looks to be a long-run trend of declining U.S. growth. Time for us all to ask again, what could America be good at?
This post originally appeared at Econbrowser and is posted with permission.
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AndrewMGarland • July 31st, 2012 at 4:30 pm
A recent jobs report was +80,000, when about 125,000 would be break-even for a growing population. Obama reacted to this by including it in his long line of "positive" jobs reports.
Politicians have defined "recession" as "two quarters of decreasing national production". This ignores that a growing US population needs about a 3% increase in yearly production to stay even in prosperity. When production grew recently at a 1.5% annual rate, that fell below break-even, but Obama and our government economists say that is growth, not a recession. This is nice for the politician, and bad for the citizen.
This all reminds me of the classic scene in Dumb and Dumber in which Jim Carey evaluates the news about his hopes for a relationship.
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Alaska's Sarah Palin (Rep): Palin skillfully navigated a controversy over court-ordered same-sex benefits for public employees. She declined to force a confrontation with the court, but allayed anger over the order by scheduling an advisory referendum on the subject for April. Her big test, however, will be how she handles the number one issue in the state: the construction of a new natural gas pipeline.
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Russian carrier MegaFon launches the Mint, an Intel-powered Android smartphone for $565
Intel Inside. Not something you're used to reading off of a smartphone's back cover. But get ready, for that may change in the future. Not today, not tomorrow, not even in 2013 perhaps. But at some point, your smartphone may be powered by an Intel processor. The company nicknamed 'chipzilla' isn't going to give up until it can compete in the mobile space. And this year has seen it try harder than ever.
After the Lava XOLO X900, the Orange San Diego, and the Lenovo K800, MegaFon's Mint is the next smartphone to have Intel's Atom Z2460 processor under the hood. MegaFon is a Russian carrier that's apparently following into the footsteps of Orange, the first carrier to release an own-brand Intel device.
The MegaFon Mint is available today in the carrier's retail outlets, and it will set you back 17,990 rubles (that's approximately $565 or €455 if you're wondering).
The smartphone has that 1.6 GHz single-core Atom processor, alongside a 4.03-inch 600×1024 touchscreen, 1 GB of RAM, an 8 MP rear camera, a 1.3 MP front-facing camera, 16 GB of built-in storage, all the usual connectivity options (including NFC), and a 1,460 mAh battery. Disappointingly, the version of Android running the show here is 2.3.7 Gingerbread.
If these specs sound familiar, it's because they're virtually identical to those of every other aforementioned Intel smartphone launched this year. Basically, all of these companies have used Intel's reference design with minor (or no) tweaks. For example, the MegaFon Mint seems to be running the SPB Shell 3D launcher atop Android, and comes with some unnamed MegaFon-specific apps.
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In Serbia, the reform of judiciary has been talked about for 12 years, and since the beginning of reforms in this field, three years ago, the debate is still unsettled on whether we are on a good path, said Dragana Boljevic, the President of the Association of Judges, which has organized the gathering, along with the Association of Public Prosecutors. Unfortunately, she adds, the citizens' confidence with the independence of court authorities and prosecution is on a lower level than before the reforms.
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I demoed it at Gen Con then ordered it through amazon when I got home. It was really easy to get into with familiar building concepts from real-time strategy video games.
One thing that was unclear to me, and even after looking at the resource on this web site- what exactly does the expansion add to the game? The version I played had it incorporated in, but the guy running it didn't say what parts of the game it was.
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I demoed it at Gen Con then ordered it through amazon when I got home. It was really easy to get into with familiar building concepts from real-time strategy video games.
One thing that was unclear to me, and even after looking at the resource on this web site- what exactly does the expansion add to the game? The version I played had it incorporated in, but the guy running it didn't say what parts of the game it was.
The province mat in the basic game has 5 rows instead of 7.
Alternate building rows, Governors, Events and the Soldier Tokens are the other features introduced in the expansion.
Pleased to hear you liked the game!
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I was fortunate enough to get in a full 90-minute, four-player game at GenCon. I think the Event cards are the strongest and most game-changing aspect of the expansion and I agree that it is an awesome game.
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The expansion rather much fixes the main issue of the game: repetitiveness. Once you become familiar with the game, you know exactly which rows you should aim to complete and in which order - and from that point on it's mostly luck and little brains to achieve that (especially with 4 or moer players). The expansion ensures that each game require an emphasise on different rows and allows you to more freely choose your building strategy. And, of course, the Governour cards add for diversity.
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Yes, I agree, the expansion does change the game so there isn't that repetitiveness issue. Before I got the expansion, I pretty much played the same strategy every time. With the expansion, it changes it up enough so I have a different strategy each time. The five elements of the expansion are the Destiny cards, Governor cards, expanded province mat, replacement rows for the province mat, and the soldier tokens.
In the base game, there are no Governor cards. The Governor cards are nice because some can be pretty powerful. One of my favorites is the Duke, which allows you to move your dice from the highest spot on the board to the Duchess. Of course, you can only move there if the Duchess hasn't been taken by another player. The Duchess is my second favorite spot on the board (the queen being first). So with roles like that, sometimes players will purposely take those spots so you don't benefit from them. The nice thing about the Duchess is that you get any two resources of your choice and a plus two token. So thwarting a player who is playing the role of the Duke for the game can become more of a strategy for the other players.
Also, the nice thing about the expansion is that you have a province mat of seven rows instead of five. So there are more options on what you can build, changing that aspect of the game. In the base game, I usually would build the same buildings game after game. My strategy for buildings really didn't change. However, with the seven province mat, that changes it a bit. Also, there are replacement rows for the province mat. At the start of the game, you randomly draw two replacement rows, and have the choice of replacing one, none, or both of those rows on your province mat. So you can have different combinations of buildings each game, thus possibly changing your building strategy.
The Destiny cards are drawn at the beginning of each year (round). They can have various effects, that affect that year only. The effect can be neutral, positive, or even detrimental. The effect of the Destiny card applies to all players. Some of the effects they can have include things such as changing what advisors can be influenced or make players pay certain resources at the end of that year or suffer consequences, etc. For instance, there is a card called The King is Sick, which when drawn, keeps the King from being influenced for that year. And if this card in drawn a second time, the King dies and the game immediately ends.
The last part of the expansion is the Soldier tokens. Rather than rolling a white die and adding that many troops as reinforcements for all players, each player secretly chooses one of their numbered Soldier tokens and then reveals it to all players at the time of the battle. The number on that token indicates how many additional troops that player gets. So in this case, there is less chance involved by doing it this way. At the end of the game, the leftover token(s) count as victory points. This can possibly mean the difference between winning or losing if its a very close game. One thing to note, is that if the King dies and you have extra Soldier tokens, they ALL are counted as victory points. Normally, at the end of year 5, when the game normally ends, you would only have one Soldier token to count. But if the King dies, the game could possibly end after only two years, leaving you with four Soldier tokens. This situation actually came up a few nights ago at my game group. We drew a second The King is Sick card at the beginning of year 5, which ended the game a round early. At that point, I was one point ahead and with the totals of the two Soldier tokens, I tied with the player who was in second place. At the time, there was no clarification in the rule book regarding what you would do in this situation (whether you counted all tokens or not), but it is clarified on the BGG forums.
Basically, with the expansion, it makes Kingsburg more of a gamers game than a gateway game. The expansion is definitely worth buying. If you like just the base game of Kingsburg, you'll definitely like it even more with the To Forge a Realm expansion.
I just ordered this bad boy yesterday. Should be arriving tomorrow sometime. I also have our local gaming store ordering me in a copy of the expansion as well.
Considering how much fun our gaming group has been having with Revolution . . . . we are all going to eat Kingsburg up. This is sure to be a game night favorite.
Got this one for Christmas, haven't had a chance to play yet. Looks really good. Probably going to pick up the expansion pretty soon.
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I have had my eye on this one for about a year. I saw it being played at a con. Only thing stopping me is a rather full board games shelf already.
What can you guys tell me that might get me to finally pick this up?
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I just played this game for the first (and second) time this past weekend, and realyl enjoyed it. We only played iwth the base game, but I loved the bidding aspect for which advisors you control, and that you need to know which die results your opponents have rolled so you can get the most effective use out of your own bidding dice (such as, if no other player rolled a 2 or less, the first two advisors can be safely gotten in the later rounds of bidding,(well, unless someone has a market).
Definitely a fun game, and one I expect to pick up in the near future.
It's definetly one of the best games out there to show people what a Work placement game is like. I have gottem many people hooked on other titles that play the same after they have seen just how much fun games like this can be. I would defintly have the expansion though as it really adds things that the base game was missing.
I was hoping for a 3 part story, myself. Horus is a good guy. Horus becomes a bad guy. Horus gets grounded by his dad. Done and done.
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Date: May 07 2012
Two years ago, Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens gave punters a very public warning not to bet on house prices rising.
It turned out to be good advice.
Now the RBA is pointing to housing remaining subdued until lower purchase prices, higher rental yields and population growth get us building again.
The weak housing construction industry has been one of the factors holding back economic growth this financial year and it received considerable attention in Friday's quarterly statement on monetary policy. Much of the reporting, though, missed that angle, preferring instead to bemoan the central bank missing its earlier growth forecasts.
(And while the delay in Queensland's coal mines getting back to speed and softer-than-expected public spending were keys factors in growth not being as strong as the RBA forecast a year ago, the bank did give itself a pat on the back for getting private demand and gross national expenditure forecasts about right. Two out of three ain't bad, according to Meatloaf - and the RBA and Treasury forecasts for the unemployment rate for 2011-12 erred on the side of being too pessimistic.)
Given Australia's under-building of housing, the residential construction industry's weakness has been long been a matter of puzzlement and conjecture.
Relief not near
Before the GFC focused the RBA's attention more urgently elsewhere, our central bank regularly railed against the various government policies that have helped make housing more expensive than it should be. The latest quarterly statement suggests state governments are showing some signs of trying to improve their housing performance, but relief remains some way off:
"The near-term outlook for residential building activity has been revised lower, with recent data suggesting that there are few signs of an imminent turnaround in demand," the central bank warns.
The anonymous industry heavies the RBA consults gave three main reasons for that: "Poor sentiment regarding job security, notwithstanding recent low levels of unemployment; softness in established housing markets, consistent with expectations of flat or declining house prices; and relatively tight credit conditions for developers.
"It is expected that residential building activity will in time pick up, as lower purchase costs, higher rental yields, population growth and pent-up demand following an extended period of weak growth in building activity combine."
The RBA statement suggests the housing industry is undergoing its share of restructuring along with the rest of the economy.
Rental view
From an investor's point of view, there's a hint or two that the way ahead will be more about rental income than the reliance on capital growth that fuelled the landlord class explosion over the past couple of decades. In another part of the statement, the mandarins observe:
"The slower growth in housing debt has been associated with weakness in the housing market. Weak demand has been reflected in a fall in Australian capital city dwelling prices of around 6 per cent since their peak in early 2011 and low housing turnover. Notwithstanding this, it appears that in recent months dwelling prices might have been declining at a slower rate. With declines in dwelling prices, the ratio of dwelling prices to income is back around its 2002 level.
"In contrast to dwelling prices, the various measures of rents grew by 4 to 5 per cent over the year. Reasonably strong rental growth, together with falling dwelling prices, has lifted rental yields to around ½ percentage point above their mid-2000s level. Rental vacancy rates have been around 2 per cent since 2009, above the very low levels seen in 2006–2008 but still low by historical standards."
Planning lags
With residential building activity down around the lows of some earlier cycles, the RBA has another crack at government policies:
"The weakness in residential building activity reflects a number of factors. According to liaison, declines in established dwelling prices have made households reluctant to commit to new contracts to build. Also, in recent years, the lengthy planning processes and arrangements for infrastructure provision have increased the cost of new dwellings."
The bank gives state governments some credit for trying to address those issues, but the local and federal government policies that damage housing affordability pass unmentioned, with the immediate outlook remaining poor:
"Despite recent decreases in housing prices relative to income and increased rental yields, forward-looking indicators suggest that there is little prospect of an imminent recovery in housing construction. Approvals for new dwellings have continued to trend downwards in early 2012, especially for higher-density housing."
Rate cut illusions
It looks like the RBA itself is under no illusions about the odd interest rate cut sparking a sudden rival, unlike some spruikers about the place.
That RBA view was preceded by similar opinion from property commentator Michael Matusik, although in stronger language than central bankers use.
"Over the last decade or so the connection between cheaper money and house market improvement has been broken," wrote Matusik. "And unless action is taken, then this circuit might be broken for good.
"In short, residential property, and especially new stock, is taxed way too much and there have been far too many government-induced grants and incentives, such as building boosts & first home buyer grants. These have distorted the more normal property cycle, inflated demand and prices and have made the housing market far more cyclical than it used to be.
"Despite mortgage rates falling by close to 1.5% over the past two or so years, new housing starts have continued to decline," Mr Matusik said.
Cutting taxes
In short, increasing population growth and making more so-called greenfield sites available are the only two things he sees as lifting new housing starts.
As part of latter efforts, cutting taxes will be crucial, he says.
"Work by the HIA shows that the total tax-take from new housing can be as much as 40 per cent of the final price of a new home, Mr Matusik wrote.
"New housing is the second-most heavily taxed business sector in Australia, and yet it still contributes almost $40 billion in tax revenue each year. And regrettably, it's the new home buyer who pays."
Reduce taxation? When the federal and state governments have signed up for surplus worship and aren't game to touch the logical alternatives to the present raft of housing taxes? Looks like there's little threat of that.
Michael Pascoe is a BusinessDay contributing editor.
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Note: this post is personal, and may contain triggers for those suffering through grief. Due to it's nature, I did pass it by Ed before posting it publicly, as every body is different when dealing with their mental illnesses, and this is such a complex topic that it's difficult to talk about without drawing broad brush strokes that may offend some people. Please keep in mind that this is [some of] my thoughts on this very complicated subject, and you are free to disagree.
Dear Ed,
I felt that I needed to write this letter to you, and I wanted it to be open because I think it's an appropriate way to participate in open sourcing mental illness. Consider this a pull request of sorts. The only way to remove the stigma around this topic is by talking frankly and openly about it.
I'm writing this (specifically) in response to the talk you gave at php[tek] last week. I remember first meeting you, at php|tek (as it was then known) in Chicago, sometime around 2003-4, one of my first conferences. You had some local friends meeting you there and we all hung out at the hotel bar. It was fun. But I remember the intimidation of meeting this hard core rock looking dude that I didn't think I could possibly fit in with and relate to.
I was expecting to find a rough biker type dude, that would beat me up if I said the wrong thing… And I remember you were very intense (which I now know was passion) and I remember the change that came over your entire demeanor when you started talking about your son… The warmth and joy that I saw made me think "holy crap, this guy is just an awesome dad. I like this guy!". Someone else has described this phenomenon as you turning into a pile of goo. As a fairly new father myself I now understand that so much better — thanks for being one of my first peer role models for being a father.
I don't suffer from the kinds of mental illness you (we?) are trying to help, I have some very irrational (but "normal") fears – needles and bugs, especially wasps and spiders – and travel stresses me out (TripIt Pro is so fantastic for helping me with that, ask me if you want details .
I do however have experience with depression, and related things. I lost my father at age 11, and I lost my (first) wife at 22. These were traumatic, depressive, insane things to go through.
But I did get through them, and I feel stronger and happier at this end of that path. Thanks to folks like Ligaya Turmelle, Joey Smith, Matthew Turland and all three Elizabeths (Smith, Naramore and Tucker-Long), who have all at one time or another been a shoulder for me, I am now in a place where I can be laid back about most issues that many people simply can't (the things that stress you out and cause anxiety on a daily basis). I live by "It is what it is". But most folks can't do that.
It is very difficult for me to relate to what people suffering from mental illness have been through in a lot of ways. The kinds of things I suffered from are considered "normal", a part of the grieving process, and a temporary state; I personally don't see it as the same thing as clinical depression — though they can lead to it — but "in the moment" they possibly are very similar.
I do however live with mental illness every day. My wife is bipolar (diagnosed and treated for about 6 years) and suffers from depression and anxieties. I see how it affects her, even with medication, and I really appreciate some more insight into a lot of things that she (like most people) has trouble verbalizing, so that I can help her handle it.
I don't think I can help people suffering directly, I have no direct experience to draw from, other than my experiences with grief over a lost loved one… but I'm very open to any question about what I went through, and how I dealt with it from anyone (consider that an open invitation to anyone reading this.) But I wanted to let you know you have my support, admiration, and maybe even a little bit of love (OK a lot: internet hugs!) for opening yourself up to help this community we both hold so near and dear.
So, thank you!
Can I get a woot? First @joindin pull request of the night has been merged at #tek13 hackathon! — Lorna Mitchell (@lornajane) May 16, 2013
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Offloading slow batch tasks to an external process is a common method of improving website responsiveness. One great way to initiate such background tasks in PHP is to use Oracle Streams Advanced Queuing in a producer-consumer message passing fashion. Oracle AQ is highly configurable. Messages can queued by multiple producers. Different consumers can filter messages. From PHP, the PL/SQL interface to AQ is used. There are also Java, C and HTTPS interfaces, allowing wide architectural freedom.
The following example simulates an application user registration system where the PHP application queues each new user's street address. An external system monitoring the queue can then fetch and process that address. In real life the external system might initiate a snail-mail welcome letter, or do further, slower automated validation on the address.
The following SQL*Plus script qcreate.sql creates a new Oracle user demoqueue with permission to create and use queues. A payload type for the address is created and a queue is set up for this payload.
-- qcreate.sql connect / as sysdba drop user demoqueue cascade; create user demoqueue identified by welcome; grant connect, resource to demoqueue; grant aq_administrator_role, aq_user_role to demoqueue; grant execute on dbms_aq to demoqueue; grant create type to demoqueue; connect demoqueue/welcome@localhost/orcl -- The data we want to queue create or replace type user_address_type as object ( name varchar2(10), address varchar2(50) ); / -- Create and start the queue begin dbms_aqadm.create_queue_table( queue_table => 'demoqueue.addr_queue_tab', queue_payload_type => 'demoqueue.user_address_type'); end; / begin dbms_aqadm.create_queue( queue_name => 'demoqueue.addr_queue', queue_table => 'demoqueue.addr_queue_tab'); end; / begin dbms_aqadm.start_queue( queue_name => 'demoqueue.addr_queue', enqueue => true); end; /
The script qhelper.sql creates two useful helper functions to enqueue and dequeue messages:
-- qhelper.sql -- Helpful address enqueue/dequeue procedures connect demoqueue/welcome@localhost/orcl -- Put an address in the queue create or replace procedure my_enq(name_p in varchar2, address_p in varchar2) as user_address user_address_type; enqueue_options dbms_aq.enqueue_options_t; message_properties dbms_aq.message_properties_t; enq_id raw(16); begin user_address := user_address_type(name_p, address_p); dbms_aq.enqueue(queue_name => 'demoqueue.addr_queue', enqueue_options => enqueue_options, message_properties => message_properties, payload => user_address, msgid => enq_id); commit; end; / show errors -- Get an address from the queue create or replace procedure my_deq(name_p out varchar2, address_p out varchar2) as dequeue_options dbms_aq.dequeue_options_t; message_properties dbms_aq.message_properties_t; user_address user_address_type; enq_id raw(16); begin dbms_aq.dequeue(queue_name => 'demoqueue.addr_queue', dequeue_options => dequeue_options, message_properties => message_properties, payload => user_address, msgid => enq_id); name_p := user_address.name; address_p := user_address.address; commit; end; / show errors
The script newuser.php is the part of the PHP application that handles site registration for a new user. It queues a message containing their address and continues executing:
<?php // newuser.php $c = oci_connect("demoqueue", "welcome", "localhost/orcl"); // The new user details $username = 'Fred'; $address = '500 Oracle Parkway'; // Enqueue the address for later offline handling $s = oci_parse($c, "begin my_enq(:username, :address); end;"); oci_bind_by_name($s, ":username", $username, 10); oci_bind_by_name($s, ":address", $address, 50); $r = oci_execute($s); // Continue executing echo "Welcome $username\n"; ?>
It executes an anonymous PL/SQL block to create and enqueue the address message. The immediate script output is simply the echoed welcome message:
Welcome Fred
Once this PHP script is executed, any application can dequeue the new message at its leisure. For example, the following SQL*Plus commands call the helper my_deq() dequeue function and displays the user details:
-- getuser.sql connect demoqueue/welcome@localhost/orcl set serveroutput on declare name varchar2(10); address varchar2(50); begin my_deq(name, address); dbms_output.put_line('Name : ' || name); dbms_output.put_line('Address : ' || address); end; /
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This is a branch off from a separate discussion on the PHP-FIG mailing list about other ways the Framework Interoperability Group can encourage and foster wider interoperability among its member projects (and by extension, the whole PHP community). I'll start by noting two interesting developments in recent months and one long standing best practice.
The SensioLabs Security Advisor Checker is described on its website as follows.
You manage your PHP project dependencies with Composer, right? But are you sure that your project does not depend on a package with known security issues? The SensioLabs security advisories checker is a simple tool, available as a web service or as an online application, that uses the information from your composer.lock file to check for known security vulnerabilities. This checker is a frontend for the security advisories database.
The service operates by having people submit vulnerability data, as YAML files, to a centralised Github repository through pull requests. The upside is that the vulnerability data can be peer reviewed and centrally dispersed either online or via a service API. The downside is that you need to find vulnerability disclosures and people to submit them. The service currently covers Symfony, Zend Framework, Doctrine, Twig and FriendsOfSymfony bundles. It's a tiny sample of packages available through Composer. I'm also not entirely sure if it's sufficiently fine grained to report vulnerabilities on a project's sub-packages where you have no direct dependency on the aggregate package (e.g. using zendframework/zend-db instead of zendframework/zendframework). That said, this is a working model of a service for checking your dependencies.
That said, the service exhibits an ambitious idea – projects sharing their vulnerability disclosures or advisories in a way that allows for automatically checking if any of your projects need to have their dependencies updated for security reasons.
This is a new entry onto OWASP's Top 10 (which is currently at release candidate status for 2013). In summary, it recognises that applications are becoming ever more dependent on code not developed internally. We've had web application frameworks for years. Composer and Github have unleashed a storm of accessible libraries, bundles, modules, and other units of reuse that have revealed Not Invented Here (NIH Syndrome) as a psychological problem in ways not previously possible.
As reliance on externally controlled dependencies increases, so too does the risk of your applications using insecure dependencies. This is a risk that requires a lot of work to mitigate. For each dependency, you need to do a security review (no, I'm not kidding), check for security disclosures (whether voluntary or involuntary) and ensure that you end up rolling out to production with safe versions.
Quoting from the OWASP advice on preventing the use of components with known vulnerabilities…
One option is not to use compone
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We recently migrated Where's it Up to our fancy new hardware, it took a bit more effort than planned (some pains surrounding our use of MongoDB) but I'm incredibly happy with how things have ended up. As mentioned earlier we've purchased our own hardware, and have racked it with Peer 1 here in Toronto. We've installed a hypervisor, and are running different VMs for critical services: MySQL, Mongo, Web Production, Web Development, etc.
Our websites sit under /var/www, so Where's it Up resides at /var/www/wheresitup.com/. Under that directory we have /noweb/apache/ which contains both wheresitup.com and dev.wheresitup.com, configuration files for apache. The entire /var/www/wheresitup.com directory tree resides nicely in our version control system. We hand off key configuration options to our websites through the use of Apache's SetEnv, things like SetEnv mysql_host dev.mysql, these apache configuration options represent the only difference between the two code bases.
I've written or maintained code that implied the state (Dev/Production/Stage) based on the Host, directory, or other factors in the past. I much prefer grabbing an explicit constant. It feels cleaner, I don't have to read up on which variables could have been manipulated by an attacker, and I can ask the exact question I want answered: Is this dev, rather than "is the url the one that means this is dev".
This allows us to match our Development and Production virtual machines very closely, the only difference between the two is which apache configuration file is sym-linked under /etc/apache2/conf/sites-enabled. Clearly WebDev links to the dev.wheresitup.com file, and WebProd links to wheresitup.com. We actually cloned one machine to produce the other.
Keeping the configuration files so close also makes a lot of sense to me. If I'm adding a new constant on Dev, the immediate presence of Prod reminds me that I'll need to add it there as well. Storing the entire site: PHP code, supporting apache configuration, etc, all in once place makes it easy to avoid forgetting anything (which is easy when it's a different file on a different server). The only exception is SSL certificates. We currently host a number of our projects with GitHub, and trust them as we might, we're not willing to hand those to anyone else.
This post shows the changes to the ZF2 tutorial application to allow it to run with Oracle Database 11gR2.
Oracle Database SQL identifiers are case insensitive by default so "select Abc from Xyz" is the same as "select abc from xyz". However the identifier metadata returned to programs like PHP is standardized to uppercase by default. After executing either query PHP knows that column "ABC" was selected from table "XYZ".
In PHP code, array indices and object attributes need to match the schema identifier case that is returned by the database. This is either done by using uppercase indices and attributes in the PHP code, or by forcing the SQL schema to case-sensitively use lower-case names.
The former approach is more common, and is shown here.
The instructions for creating the sample ZF2 application are here. Follow those steps as written, making the substitutions shown below.
In Oracle 11gR2, the schema can be created like:
DROP USER ZF2 CASCADE; CREATE USER ZF2 IDENTIFIED BY WELCOME DEFAULT TABLESPACE USERS QUOTA UNLIMITED ON USERS TEMPORARY TABLESPACE TEMP; GRANT CREATE SESSION , CREATE TABLE , CREATE PROCEDURE , CREATE SEQUENCE , CREATE TRIGGER , CREATE VIEW , CREATE SYNONYM , ALTER SESSION TO ZF2; CONNECT ZF2/WELCOME CREATE TABLE ALBUM ( ID NUMBER NOT NULL, ARTIST VARCHAR2(100) NOT NULL, TITLE VARCHAR2(100) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (ID) ); CREATE SEQUENCE ALBUMSEQ; CREATE TRIGGER ALBUMTRIGGER BEFORE INSERT ON ALBUM FOR EACH ROW BEGIN :NEW.ID := ALBUMSEQ.NEXTVAL; END; / INSERT INTO ALBUM (ARTIST, TITLE) VALUES ('The Military Wives', 'In My Dreams'); INSERT INTO ALBUM (ARTIST, TITLE) VALUES ('Adele', '21'); INSERT INTO ALBUM (ARTIST, TITLE) VALUES ('Bruce Springsteen', 'Wrecking Ball (Deluxe)'); INSERT INTO ALBUM (ARTIST, TITLE) VALUES ('Lana Del Rey', 'Born To Die'); INSERT INTO ALBUM (ARTIST, TITLE) VALUES ('Gotye', 'Making Mirrors'); COMMIT;
The driver and credentials are Oracle-specific. Always use the OCI8 adapter in ZF, since it is more stable and has better scalability. Specifying a character set will make connection faster.
return array( 'db' => array( - 'driver' => 'Pdo', - 'dsn' => 'mysql:dbname=zf2tutorial;host=localhost', - 'driver_options' => array( - PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => 'SET NAMES \'UTF8\'' - ), + 'driver' => 'OCI8', + 'connection_string' => 'localhost/orcl', + 'character_set' => 'AL32UTF8', ), 'service_manager' => array( 'factories' => array(
return array( 'db' => array( - 'username' => 'YOUR USERNAME HERE', - 'password' => 'YOUR USERNAME HERE', + 'username' => 'ZF2', + 'password' => 'WELCOME', ), // Whether or not to enable a configuration cache. // If enabled, the merged configuration will be cached and used in
The rest of the application changes are just to handle the case of the Oracle identifiers correctly.
$dbAdapter = $sm->get('Zend\Db\Adapter\Adapter'); $resultSetPrototype = new ResultSet(); $resultSetPrototype->setArrayObjectPrototype(new Album()); - return new TableGateway('album', $dbAdapter, null, $resultSetPrototype); + return new TableGateway('ALBUM', $dbAdapter, null, $resultSetPrototype); }, ), );
$form->prepare(); echo $this->form()->openTag($form); -echo $this->formHidden($form->get('id')); -echo $this->formRow($form->get('title')); -echo $this->formRow($form->get('artist')); +echo $this->formHidden($form->get('ID')); +echo $this->formRow($form->get('TITLE')); +echo $this->formRow($form->get('ARTIST')); echo $this->formSubmit($form->get('submit')); echo $this->form()->closeTag();

<?php echo $this->escapeHtml($title); ?>

Are you sure that you want to delete -'<?php echo $this->escapeHtml($album->title); ?>' by -'<?php echo $this->escapeHtml($album->artist); ?>'? +'<?php echo $this->escapeHtml($album->TITLE); ?>' by +'<?php echo $this->esc
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Their Eyes Were Watching God was published in 1937.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston was published in 1937. The novel tells of the life and loves of Janie Crawford in a story that is highlighted by its use of storytelling, black folklore, and dialects.
Their Eyes Were Watching God explores stories and storytelling. To introduce the novel in your class, ask students to brainstorm the kinds of stories they know. If students offer specific stories, list the stories and then go back through the list and divide the stories into categories such as family stories, mythology, folklore, urban legends, and so forth.
Next, ask students where these stories come from. Students should identify such sources as experience, books, parents, ancestors, history, friends, nature, fears, dreams, childhood, and home. As students begin reading the novel, return to these questions-identifying the kinds of stories that are being told, where the stories come from, and why they are being told.
- Zora Neale Hurston
This Today in History entry from the Library of Congress celebrates Hurston's birthday. Hurston was born on January 7, 1891 in Eatonville, Florida, the first incorporated black town in the United States.
- The Official Zora Neal Hurston Website
This site offers biographical information about Hurston, lists of her books, related news, links to additional resources, and guides for educators and reading groups. Included is an Instructor's Guide for Their Eyes Were Watching God.
- The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress
The Library of Congress offers a collection of plays written by Hurston but unpublished until 1997, well after her death. The plays reflect Hurston's life, as well as her studies of African American folklore.
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A Harlem Renaissance Retrospective: Connecting Art, Music, Dance, and Poetry
Students research, evaluate, and synthesize information about the Harlem Renaissance from varied resources, create an exhibit, and highlight connections across disciplines (i.e., art, music, and poetry) using a Venn diagram.
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Thrills! Chills! Using Scary Stories to Motivate Students to Read
Students examine story elements through teacher read-alouds and independent reading and then use reader-response journals and graphic organizers to prepare for the creation of their own scary stories.


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Application Switches - Contributions Only Make Requests in the Main forum below
Posted 06 July 2006 - 12:52 AM
Extract downloaded file:
FC8200US.exe -extract_all:"C:\Temp"
Create setup.iss (from the extracted folder):
setup.exe /r
The answerfile will be in C:\Windows
Silent install:
X:\FC82\Setup.exe /s /sms /f1X:\FC82\Setup.iss
\\SRVNAME\SHARE\Setup /s /sms /f1\\SRVNAME\SHARE\Setup.iss
Posted 10 July 2006 - 04:12 AM
PowerISO30.exe /S
Using that switch will not make the program define it's file asociations, you can do that later inside the program itself.
Posted 26 July 2006 - 01:43 AM
* "SPxxxxx.exe is the SoftPaq to unpack
* "-pdf" is a runtime switch that overrides the build parameters
* "-f" is a runtime switch that overrides the default path set at build time
* "-s" instructs the package to unpack in silent mode, skipping the Welcome, License, and Directory screens
* "-e" instructs the package to extract only, that is, do not run the component installation program.
* -s -a -silent -reboot (Good for silent installs.)
Posted 16 August 2006 - 07:33 PM
Switch: /S /v/qb or /qn
Example: dskkpr.exe /S /v/qb
No registration window
The "/S" has to be in CAPS or install will fail, this is the EXE file no need to extract
This post has been edited by ricktendo64: 16 August 2006 - 07:37 PM
Posted 19 August 2006 - 03:10 PM
Silent & Invisible:
/S /v/qn
Extraction needed: No
Make sure you have all switches exactly the way it is shown above! Slash, capital "S", space and then lower case "v" followed by slash and lower case "qn"
Dunno if anyone needs or wants this, just came across the thread hunting for an opera switch. Since i didn't find it i post it (after having done the famous command "/?" on the opera exe....).
(i don't mention that it took me 30 minutes to actually have that idea....)
Posted 02 September 2006 - 11:55 AM
To install this silantly just download the package and do this
START /WAIT %SystemDrive%\updates\hotfix\ie7\IE7RC1.exe /quiet /norestart
Its as easy as that.
Posted 14 September 2006 - 09:50 PM
Atmel AVR Studio 4.12 and SP3 for Atmel AVR Studio 4.12:
Both use an Installshield installer (-R to record to setup.iss, -s for silent install). Select W/O USB driver if you don't want that to popup (can easily be installed later, and no use unless you've got like a USB JTAG ICE or such)
Software for Tekpower lab equipment (multimeter, adj power supplies, etc - for RS232 comms) uses installshield as well (same switches, -R, -s)
CodeVisionAVR C Compiler: password protected Inno installer:
setup.exe /VERYSILENT /SP- /PASSWORD=passwordgoeshere
ImageCraft ICCAVR seemingly has no switches (home made installer?) You have to capture/repack it.
I'll spare you guys the really weird/unusual stuff
[edit] More stuff:
PerfectDisk Command Center 8
-r to record, -s [-f1] [-f2] as usual
WinMerge 2.4.10
SQL2005 Service Manager 220.127.116.11
/qb or /qn
Unleash It v22.214.171.124
GhostDoc 1.9.5 (for 2005; v1.3.0 for 2003)
/qb or /qn
The Regulator 2.03
/qb or /qn
Console 2.00 Beta
No installer!
Use $OEM$ or make a SFX
This post has been edited by crahak: 24 September 2006 - 09:59 PM
Posted 30 September 2006 - 07:14 PM
echo Installing Gzip...
start /wait %cdrom%\cabs\GNU\gzip1.3.exe /VERYSILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES
more info about inno setup:
ps: my second post here i think =)
Posted 02 October 2006 - 09:42 AM
echo Installing ActiveSync
start /wait %cdrom%\cabs\phone\activesync.exe /S /v/qn
these switches worked with both 4.1 and 4.2 versions =)
more info:
have a nice day
Posted 02 October 2006 - 01:49 PM
echo install DBPowerAmp FAAC Codec start /wait %cdrom%\cabs\MM\dBpowerAMP-codec-FAAC-mp4.exe ^<Silent^> echo install DBPowerAmp WMA9 Codec start /wait %cdrom%\cabs\MM\dBpowerAMP-codec-wmav9.exe ^<Silent^> echo install DBPowerAmp Ogg Codec start /wait %cdrom%\cabs\MM\dBpowerAMP-codec-ogg.exe ^<Silent^> echo install DBPowerAmp start /wait %cdrom%\cabs\MM\dMC-r11.exe ^<Silent^> taskkill /IM musicconverter.exe
Posted 14 October 2006 - 11:55 PM
Posted 15 October 2006 - 12:49 AM
I use the free addition of Caphyon's Advanced Installer to create my own *.msi slip stream installers. I used it for sysinternals applications, putty, WinDirStat, TrueCrypt, etc ... The standard cmd line options for *.msi are supported, so /quiet works. I even used it, again because I am lazy, to install all my quick launch shortcuts. I prefer doing this because the uninstaller is included for free and I can tweak how I want the apps installed
here is the link: http://www.caphyon.com/
Posted 21 October 2006 - 07:37 AM
Files required:
All other files may be deleted.
Silent Installation:
msiexec /i AcroRead.msi /qbAuto-accept EULA:
REG ADD "HKLM\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\8.0\AdobeViewer" /V "EULA" /T REG_DWORD /D 1 /FContrary to popular belief, it is NOT necessary to also add this to HKeyCurrentUser.
Posted 04 November 2006 - 08:38 AM
Alanoll, on May 10 2004, 04:28 PM, said:
This thread is for posting switches, not requesting or saying you've had problems. I went through and deleted all posts regarding requests and problems. Please Read the very first thread next time.
Well that was 2.5 years ago..
Cleaned up again today, Lets keep it clean.
Posted 02 December 2006 - 08:25 PM
This is a module for LCD displays for the parallel port. Looked on the board and couldn't find anything.
REG ADD %KEY%\045 /VE /D "PORT95NT" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\045 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\applications\port95nt\port95nt.exe /s /a /s" /f
Posted 27 December 2006 - 02:55 PM
After downloading the package, I extract it using WinRAR and then I have an .msi file that can be installed using
DesktopSidebar.msi /qb-!
Posted 25 January 2007 - 03:12 PM
Hi all,
Im new to this "posting in forums thing" but have been here for yonks. I have been struggling to work out Mcafees Virusscan V10 for the past 3 days. Its got a nasty little zipped file called vsoins.ui and its passworded so you can't get in and change the install behaviour. I was stumped to find a way to silently install it. Anyway, last night I thought I'll have a break from it and move on to Mcafees Spamkiller V10. I cut the spamkiller folder from an Internet Security 2006 OEM CD and ran the setup.exe to watch it and lo and behold it installed "Very Silent" straight from the CD, I thought wow, dont have to do anything with that one, anyway, I went back to the same CD and did the same with Virusscan, and it too installed silently. SO what I couldn't do with the virusscan CD Was already done for me on the Internet Security CD.
Hope this helps anyone else trying to silently install this V10 Mcafee...
On a side note- I made a winrar SFX file to do this because Mcafee deletes the source folder on reboot. very annoying
Is that a correct post for here? it is a contribution I think.
Hey do I get flamed if I ask how to silently install Limewire......
Just kidding guys.
Posted 27 January 2007 - 12:34 AM
Switch: -s [case sensitive]
Full syntax: CSDiff50.exe -s
Extraction needed: yes, from csdiff.zip
Program Site:http://www.component...SDiff/index.htm
This is a file and folder differencing tool, my favorite.
This uses Ghost Installer, which PEID doesn't seem to recognize.
XMLPad 3
WMHelp XMLPad 3.0.1 setup , although an .EXE, has an MSI inside which can be extracted with Universal Extractor...so you can just install that silently.
Program Site: http://www.wmhelp.com/index.htm
This post has been edited by daddydave: 27 January 2007 - 12:12 PM
Posted 31 January 2007 - 02:15 AM
echo Installing Adobe Reader start /wait E:\PostInst\AR\AR8.exe /sAll echo.
echo Installing ATI Catalyst Control Center start /wait E:\PostInst\ACCC\setup /s /v"/qn /norestart" echo.
echo Installing FlashGet start /wait E:\PostInst\FlashGet\FG /s pskill flashget start /wait regsvr32 /u /s "c:\program files\google\googletoolbar1.dll" echo.
echo Installing Sun Java VM start /wait E:\PostInst\SJavaVM\SJavaVM /s /v"/qn addlocal=jrecore iexplorer=1 reboot=suppress javaupdate=0 webstarticon=0" echo.
echo Installing RegEditX start /wait E:\PostInst\regeditx\regeditx /s echo.
echo Installing WinRAR start /wait E:\PostInst\WinRAR\winrar /s copy "E:\PostInst\WinRAR\rarreg.key" "%ProgramFiles%\WinRAR" copy "E:\PostInst\WinRAR\Settings.reg" "%ProgramFiles%\WinRAR" start /wait regedit /s "%ProgramFiles%\WinRAR\Settings.reg" echo.
echo Installing Yahoo Messenger start /wait E:\PostInst\ymsgrie\ymsgr8 /s pskill YahooMessenger echo.
Posted 31 January 2007 - 04:50 AM
In WinRAR 3.70 we added -d<path> SFX option, so you can
try to use it like this:
wrar37b2.exe -s "-dc:\program files\winrar37"
It is not supported by earlier WinRAR versions.


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The Results Are In!
Happy January, SUSIE Sisters!
We have some super-exciting news to share with you! After working with the Global Orphan Project, we've declared a winner of the first-ever SUSIE Christmas Challenge! Drum roll, please …
Joslynn, creator of Help4Haiti, is our grand prize winner! Joslynn raised an amazing total of $2,265 for the GO Project. She and her mom, Penny, will be traveling with Anna Lipscomb and her mom to Haiti to visit the Saintilus village, along with other villages in the area.
Here's what Joslynn shared about her experience with the Challenge:
The Open Her World Christmas Challenge was such a life-changing thing for me spiritually. I didn't rely on others to give me money, and I didn't persist in asking for it. I decided that God would work through the hearts of the people that could give financially. He even worked in me by putting it on my heart to give all the money I had earned in December to the girls in Haiti. I learned that most of the time, those who didn't have as much were the ones who gave the most.
I raised money by first telling my church about it. These people are my family, and I knew they would support me in the best way they could, whether it be financially or through prayers. I then gave an information sheet about what I was doing to other area churches in our community. Finally, I sent out letters asking people to consider their part in this opportunity. The results overwhelmed me!
God's faithfulness overwhelmed us, too! Because of what ALL of you did, the SUSIE Sisterhood will be sending a grand total of $6,454* to help orphans in Saintilus! You focused on others this Christmas season and have been a reflection of Jesus' selfless love and compassion. We know the lives of orphans will be changed because of your sacrifice. The SUSIE staff would like to give you a huge thank you, and so would the GO Project! Here's what Trace Thurlby, president of the GO Project, wanted to share with each of you who participated:
The Global Orphan Project would like to thank you for helping care for orphaned and abandoned children through SUSIE's Christmas Challenge. By following her heart, Anna Lipscomb helped provide dozens of Haitian orphans with a home. By following your hearts, you've helped children who were fending for themselves in the poorest country in the western hemisphere. Now, they no longer worry about their next meal. They live with the care of a house momma. They go to school. They have a future. Each one of you helped replace their hunger with hope.
Anna also shared a word of thanks and encouragement with the SUSIE Sisterhood for partnering with her in her efforts to share God's love with Haitian orphans:
I am so amazed at what you did for the teen girls in Haiti through the SUSIE Christmas Challenge — over $6,000 raised … WOW! Thank you to all my SUSIE Sisters who took time to be part of it during an already busy holiday season. What you all did WILL make a difference in the lives of these orphans. Let's keep encouraging each other in the year to come as we seek to reach out to "the least of these" — in our own communities and around the world!
Precious SUSIE Sisters, we are so excited about what God's done through the Challenge! Thank you for every sacrifice you made, every prayer you prayed and every dollar you raised. We pray God opened your heart in a new way this Christmas season! Let's follow Anna's lead and continue loving and serving those around us. You are His light to the world!
*This total includes online donations and checks that were mailed in to the GO Project. Checks were not counted toward an individual's total in the contest, but they were counted toward the overall grand total.
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