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Herbert and Lenore Schorr recognize that there is a downside as well as an upside to giving a museum valuable works of art.
The upside is appreciation: Mr. and Mrs. Schorr, who have donated 91 paintings, photographs, prints and drawings to the Princeton University Art Museum since they began collecting art in the late 1960s, are being honored with an exhibition, "Collecting Contemporary, 1960 to 2015: Selections From the Schorr Collection."
The downside, Mrs. Schorr said in a recent phone interview, "is that you miss having the art around."
Fortunately for the Schorrs, who live in Manhattan, many of the works they have given Princeton, including a Jasper Johns print that started their giving spree in 1978, are famous enough to have been regularly reproduced.
"When I really miss them, I can look at a reproduction," Mrs. Schorr said.
"Collecting Contemporary," a single-room exhibition of about 20 works donated or on long-term loan to Princeton, where Mr. Schorr earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1963, is on view until Sept. 20.
Among the pieces most likely to leave fans of contemporary art breathless, said Kelly Baum, the museum's curator of modern and contemporary art, is Jean-Michel Basquiat's "Leonardo da Vinci's Greatest Hits" (1982), a seven-foot-tall acrylic, crayon, oil paint stick and pencil-on-paper.
"You can learn so much about Basquiat's entire career just from this painting," Ms. Baum said recently from one of the museum's high-security storage areas, where she had pulled that work, as well as "Untitled" (1981), another giant Basquiat, in preparation for hanging.
"Greatest Hits" distributes a scattering of written words across its white collage surface and through a pair of human forms, refers to the anatomical studies of its namesake as well as a muscled-up John Henry, the African-American folk hero and song subject. Basquiat's signature three-pointed crown appears three times.
The painting "is almost a summary or encyclopedia of his work," Ms. Baum said.
"Basquiat loved to draw, which you can see here," she continued. "And he was also a musician and a student of African-American poetry and oral traditions. You see that with the John Henry figure. His love of language appears on the surface through the written word. And there's a playful sense of humor to it."
A study of a bent leg is called "The Return of the Prodigal Sun" on the canvas; the words "latissimus dorsi" are printed in small letters, with "latissimus" repeated in emphatic large ones below a drawing of a human back.
For the show, Ms. Baum organized the Basquiats and an energetic yellow 1981 Keith Haring oil-on-paper, "Barking Dogs and Lightbulb," into a grouping called "The Graphic Impulse." The works, including a handful of pieces by more current artists, traffic in "the flux and chaos of life, particularly the din of the street and of the mind," she said. Images draw from the elite and the quotidian; they also share a commitment to drawing and writing.
Like the works in "Pop," one of two other groupings, they are unquiet.
"Pop," with prints and paintings by Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist and Andy Warhol, addresses the onset of the influence of popular culture. For example, Warhol's twin spray-paint and silk-screen portraits of Jacqueline Kennedy, from 1964, are based on a well-known photograph of her taken the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
"Photography and Femininity," a third grouping, makes less of a visual racket. Here three photographs, one each by Dana Hoey, Justine Kurland and Malerie Marder, hint at the changing priorities of photography at the end of the 20th century. In each picture, the camera frames its female subject or subjects in a way that suggests that the cost of a modern, connected life may be an inauthentic, hypersexualized one.
Aside from choosing which pieces to include, organizing "Collecting Contemporary" did not present much of a challenge for Ms. Baum.
"The Schorrs collect communities; they don't just sample an artist and then move on," she said. "They tend to think in groups of artists. That made curating easy."
In addition, she was well aware of the popularity of certain works, especially the Basquiats.
"The faculty at Princeton routinely and systematically use our collection to teach, and I've brought numerous students through these stacks to study works they want to write their theses on," she said. "Several students have written about the Basquiats."
Also increasing the appeal of the Basquiats is their lack of public accessibility. Fans outside the university "rarely see them," Ms. Baum said, adding, "They don't travel much because the Schorrs are very protective of them."
Mr. and Mrs. Schorr, who are scheduled to visit the museum for a question-and-answer session with Ms. Baum in September, said security was what prompted them to build a relationship with the museum in the first place.
"We lived in California from 1989 to 2014, and when we first moved out there we were thinking about the earthquakes," Mrs. Schorr said.
Mr. Schorr, who retired from his post as vice dean of engineering at the University of Southern California last year, said collecting had been a passion for the couple.
Mrs. Schorr added: "The great thing about having the work at Princeton is that it allows us to share. And I love knowing that young students have a chance to appreciate the artwork the way we did."


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These two poems were my first attempts at poetry. When I was nine years old, my family was given a set of fridge magnets containing hundreds of words. I spent hours in front of the fridge, first organising all the words alphabetically, and then playing with various word combinations. These two are my favourites, and they are a clear indication of the style of writing that I always gravitate towards.
The Garden
Shadows drift across the garden,
Shimmering at dawn.
A fragrant smell lingers like a melody,
Green and glorious.
The garden overflows with colour.
Water is shimmering like a
Liquid moon.
In a secret shadow,
A ripple is made, and
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They are actively involved in assisting new undergrad students with their transition to college, whether it's from high school, the workforce, military, or another higher education institution. Orientation Leaders also work closely with family members of new students and support new student programs during the beginning of the fall and spring semesters.
OLs are trained year-round in institutional information, group dynamics, leadership fundamentals, and student development. They receive financial compensation for work performed (during orientations conducted throughout the year) as well as room and board in an on-campus residence hall during summer orientation.
The application will open on November 27, 2018 and close on December 18, 2018 at 5 p.m. Apply online!
Minimum Applicant Requirements
Enrolled as a full-time Suffolk University undergraduate student (and not plan to graduate before December 2019).
Grade Point Average
A cumulative Suffolk grade point average of 2.75 or higher at the time of selection and throughout tenure in the position. Appeals of the GPA requirements will be considered on an individual basis if submitted by email before January 2nd.
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- Be in good academic and judicial standing with Suffolk University at the time of selection and throughout tenure in the position.
- Be available for all important dates (Download 2019 Orientation Leader Important Dates [PDF]), including participation in spring training workshops, orientation team retreat, summer training, and work all applicable orientation sessions/new student programs while serving on a diverse student leadership team.
- Understand, believe in and remain committed to the mission and goals of Orientation, New Student & Family Programs at Suffolk University.
- Remain flexible and engaged in assignments while demonstrating open and ongoing communication with staff and co-workers.
- Relate to and interact well with current and new students, family members, faculty, and staff at Suffolk.
- Adhere to all staff policies and training guidelines and positively support other leaders in the performance of their job duties and leadership development.
Selection Process
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Attend one (1) required information session. You are required to attend one (full length of time) information session to learn more about the position and application/selection process before the established application deadline. You can attend an information session if you're not sure about applying - it is a great way to learn more! You must be on time and be prepared not to leave early. We look forward to meeting you at one of the following required information sessions (each required information session lasts for 1 hr. Please arrive on time and plan to stay for the full length of time):
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December 18th, 2019 for 2019 Orientation Leader Section Process
Required Dates: Please ensure that you review the Required Dates Sheet [PDF] before applying.
- Attend one (1) required information session
- Complete online application(including responses to all application questions)
- We recommend submitting one (1) reference form but it is not required (see instructions on form [PDF])
- Sign up for (1) required group interview (sign ups occur at information sessions)
Reference Form: One (1) reference form [PDF] is recommended as part of the application process. The reference form can come from a Suffolk faculty or staff member, a student leader, or a former/current outside employer. It is the candidate's responsibility to make sure completed references are submitted to Orientation, New Student & Family Programs by the deadline. Need to confirm your reference form has arrived? Visit Orientation, New Student & Family Programs (Sawyer 825), call us (617-573-8321), or email us.
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Attend One (1) Group Interview: All applicants who submit all of their application materials by the deadline, including attending a required information session, and who meet the minimum qualifications will participate in a mandatory group interview as the next step in the selection process. You sign up for your group interview session while at an information session (if you need to change your date, you must contact Orientation, New Student & Family Programs no later than 24 hours before the scheduled session time).
Candidates should plan to arrive on time and not leave early for group interviews. Candidates who miss their scheduled group interview or arrive late may be eliminated from the selection process automatically. Dress for group interviews is casual/comfortable (come prepared to move and possibly sit on the floor). Group interviews will be held on:
- January 17th at 6 p.m
- January 18th at 2 p.m
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Attend One (1) Individual Interview. Following group interviews, finalist candidates will be invited (via Suffolk email) to sign up for a 25 min. individual interview to be held at Orientation, New Student & Family Programs (Sawyer 825). Candidates will meet individually with staff members. Dress for individual interviews is business casual.
Individual interviews will be held during the following time period:
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The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) said today that the PMA member carriers sitting on PMA's Board of Directors need to come to the negotiating table so that direct and constructive dialogue between key decision makers can take place.
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Brushing aside calls for federal mediation in prolonged contact talks with employers at 29 U.S. West Coast ports, the union for 20,000 dockworkers urged shipping executives on management's board of directors to take a more active part in negotiations.
Brutal congestion at the nation's busiest ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach is throwing a kink into an economy that's finally kicking into high gear.
Almost six months since the contract expired between the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU), one of the two parties is asking for a federal mediator.
As with any negotiation, a measure of compromise must be made by both bargaining members. By now, it has become clear that only one side is willing give a little in the protracted struggle between U.S. West Coast port management and dockside labor.
The members lines of the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement recommended raising Asia-U.S. freight rates by at least $600 per-FEU starting Jan. 15 — a 26.6 percent increase over the current level.
A group of 166 trade associations is calling on President Obama to intervene in a labor fight that is threatening the flow of packages at ports along the West Coast.
The current contract between the union that represents West Coast port workers, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and Pacific Maritime Association (PMA), was supposed to expire in July, but negotiators have thus far been unable to agree to more than temporary extensions.
American Journal of Transportation
The Temporary Empty Container Depot on Pier S at the Port of Long Beach is scheduled to open Dec. 29. The depot was approved by the Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners in November to free up truck-trailer chassis and ease congestion on the docks at the second busiest seaport in North America.
The "good news story" of the season appears to be generated by officials at The Port of Oakland, who report that it has taken additional steps in an ongoing effort to manage a surge of inbound container vessel calls.
Harbor leaders will consider Monday three measures that could help give relief to truck drivers, shippers and other supply chain stakeholders feeling the pinch from bottlenecks at the Port of Long Beach.


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Vince Staples partnered with Converse to create the ultimate merch exclusively for his Life Aquatic Tour staff—a Chuck 70 Hi and Lo and Pullover Hoodie. Vince, stoked on the result, asked Converse to make the tour crew's merch available to fans. This three-piece collection—inspired by the aquatic themes of "Big Fish Theory"— features references that are equally subtle and bold. Crafted for the crew and now finally available for fans, consider Converse x Vince Staples collection your all access pass.
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Many people marvel at the beauty of Singapore and her progressiveness. Most impressive to note is that she was formerly just a humble fishing village, inhabited by an indigenous settlement.
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Located in Southeast Asia, Singapore has a land area of about 710 square kilometers, making her one of the smallest countries in the world and the smallest in the region – hence the moniker "The Little Red Dot". Although small in size, Singapore commands an enormous presence in the world today with its free trade economy and highly efficient workforce. Also, her strategic location in the region has enabled her to become a central sea port along major shipping routes.
Other than having a sound business infrastructure and favorable economic climate, another factor for Singapore's rapid growth is due to a stable and competent ruling government. Singapore is a parliamentary republic with a political system that's centered on democracy. More…..
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Disney On Ice presents 100 Years of Magic Contest
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What: It is a kind of full, circular skirt with a tight waistband
Where: It has a voluminous style which makes this skirt style feminine.
Fun Fact: The origin of this skirt stems from ancient German style. It made its fashion appearance in 1950s.
What: A repeated pattern seen on white or off white background
Where: Seen in shirts, dress and other garments as well.
Fun Fact: Repeated patterns of landscapes and figures for which the 18th-century factory of Jouy-en-Josas, near Versailles, Fr., was famous were printed on linens and cottons using woodblocks. The Jouy factory was started in 1760 by a Franco-German, Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf.
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Defiant Souths forward Chris McQueen said he doesn't care that few people give them any hope of defending their premiership without Greg Inglis.
The star fullback aggravated a knee injury during Friday's loss to the Bulldogs and there are fears his season may be over.
Inglis has carried the injury for most of the season, and after falling awkwardly in a regulation tackle against the Bulldogs during the 32-18 defeat he left ANZ Stadium on crutches and underwent scans on Saturday.
Souths expected to have the results by Monday, by which time - depending on results - they could be out of the top four.
McQueen, a Queensland State of Origin representative forward, said the notion that "no Inglis meant no premiership defence for Souths" was a poor reflection on on the rest of the players would not even be entertained by him or his teammates ahead of their final two premiership matches against table-toppers Brisbane and the Sydney Roosters .
"I don't think it matters," McQueen said on Saturday. "We don't have to listen to that, we just have to worry about ourselves ... people can say what they want."
While McQueen conceded Inglis was a crucial member of the Michael Maguire-coached squad, and would be missed if he were sidelined by his knee injury, he expressed faith in his teammates.
"He's a big part of our team, he has been for a long time," said McQueen. "That's not an excuse [for losing to Canterbury] we had players out there to do a job and we just didn't do it.
"It's never good to see him injured. He was in good spirits [after the game] and will get some scans [on Saturday] and fingers crossed it's not too bad.
"We'll see how his scans go [before talking about being able to win without him] but I certainly believe in the squad we have here."
The Rabbitohs were stunned by the way in which they were bullied by the Canterbury forwards on Friday night, with McQueen conceding coach Michael Maguire ripped into them for "not showing up" in defence.
"We have to learn a lot from that," said McQueen. "It wasn't a good performance, we'll have a look at the video over the next couple of days and do the work at training."
While South went into the game without their experienced hooker Issac Luke, John Sutton was left scratching his head about the team's nightmarish performance.
"A lot of things," he replied when asked what went wrong. "It wasn't up to our standard, we're very disappointed with our effort.
"We have a short turnaround and have to make sure we train hard this week and give our best against the Broncos."
Sutton said the way in which they performed against Canterbury just one week after riding roughshod over the North Queensland Cowboys was a reflection of their inconsistent season.
"Our defence was very poor, our attack wasn't flowing," he said.
Sutton said the match spoke volumes about Canterbury, the team that finished runners up in last year's grand final, who knew they needed to win the match to remain in the top eight.
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November 30, 2000 - In this issue:
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One of the benefits of moving from Windows NT to Windows 2000 is the greatly
improved reliability. I've written about the reasons for the improvements in
several articles, and they are primarily the result of a tool called the
Driver Verifier. You can configure the Verifier, which you launch by typing
"verifier" in the Start menu's Run dialog box, to closely watch the
execution of specific device drivers, looking for violation of any of
several driver programming rules. The Verifier goes one step further than
passively monitoring, however – it also exacerbates potential; error
conditions by, for example, allocating memory blocks for the driver that are
straddled with invalid regions, and zeroing specific fields in data
structures that are passed to the driver. If you really want to get tough,
you can have the Verifier simulate low memory conditions for the driver.
Microsoft leverages the Verifier through its driver signing program, which
requires that any driver that is digitally signed by Microsoft to pass
strict Driver Verifier testing. When a driver installs, the hardware wizard
checks to see if the driver is signed. If its not, then it will either warn
you or fail to install the driver, depending on the settings you've entered
in the Driver Signing Options dialog, which is accessible from the Hardware
page of the System applet in the Control Panel.
The fact that the default driver-signing policy warns end users about
unsigned drivers is enough to make most hardware vendors go to the trouble
of making their drivers robust and getting them signed. However, device
drivers can sneak onto your system undetected by the driver-signing policy.
Only drivers that are installed using INF files (driver installation files
that end in the .inf extension) get checked for signatures. Setup
applications can manually install drivers either by using Setup APIs
directly, or by manually configuring the driver's Registry settings.
Sysinternals applications are great examples of this: Filemon, Regmon, and
other Sysinternals tools that have driver components install their drivers
manually, which is the reason you don't get warned that they aren't signed
by Microsoft.
Drivers that aren't commonly installed with INF files include virus
scanners, encryption software, and CD-ROM burning software. However, that
doesn't preclude hardware-related drivers from slipping through. The
Sysinternals Ctrl2cap driver for Windows 2000
(www.sysinternals.com/ctrl2cap.htm is an example of a hardware-related
driver that installs in a manner that bypasses driver signing checks. This
loophole leads to the presence of drivers on your system that have not been
verified, which can compromise system stability (I verify all the
Sysinternals drivers on the highest settings). Microsoft should force all
drivers, not just those that install with INF files, to go through the
signing check.
Why am I on this rant? My CD-ROM burning software, which is the most popular
of that type of software on the market, has a driver that will reproducibly
crash my Windows 2000 SP1 system. If I configure the Driver Verifier to
check it, the system doesn't even finish booting before the Verifier detects
the driver's first violation and crashes the system. The driver installed
without an INF file so I wasn't warned that it was unsigned. I guarantee
that if Microsoft's policy was stricter that this vendor would think twice
before shipping an unsigned (and buggy) driver.
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Besides an obvious name change from LoggedOn to PsLoggedOn, this
command-line tool, which has the ability to show you who is logged in
locally and via resource shares on the local or a remote system, has some
new features. The first is the '-l' command-line switch that has resulted
from user feedback. Many people use PsLoggedOn to see if any account is
logged on locally to their servers. There may be users logged on through
file shares, for example, but that isn't relevant when making a decision
about when an account can be updated or the server can be remotely
PsLoggedOn's second new feature shows you not only who is logged on, but the
time at which the logon took place. PsLoggedOn obtains logon times for
logons from resource shares for free when it uses a Win32 API,
NetSessionEnum, to enumerate resource-share logons (the command-line Net
command also uses NetSessionEnum to enumerate sessions). However, there is
no Win32 API that tells you who is logged on to a system locally, much less
at what time they logged on.
To determine who's logged on to a system locally, PsLoggedOn enumerates the
Security IDs (SIDs) located under a computer's HKEY_USERS Registry key. When
someone logs on to a computer locally, either at the console or through a
service, his or her profile is loaded into the HKEY_USERS key. Applications
can access their profile's Registry settings through the HKEY_CURRENT_USER
key because the system treats that key as a symbolic link to their
particular profile under HKEY_USERS. Thus, PsLoggedOn can know who is logged
on locally by translating the SIDs it finds in a computer's HKEY_USERS key
into the corresponding user name. PsLoggedOn uses RegConnectKey to connect
to a remote computer's Registry when you direct it to list users logged on
to a remote system.
Figuring out what time a user logged on works using a similar trick. When
the WinLogon process loads a user's profile into HKEY_USERS after they
login, WinLogon creates a volatile (not saved to the profile on disk) subkey
in their profile named, appropriately enough, Volatile Environment. The
Registry stores last-modified timestamps for Registry keys, and because the
system does not modify Volatile Environment subkeys subsequent to their
creation, PsLoggedOn can determine when a user logged on by obtaining the
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If you've ever needed to shutdown or reboot a local or remote Windows
NT/2000 system, then you'll want to download PsShutdown. PsShutdown is a
clone of the Shutdown Windows NT/2000 Resource Kit tool. It takes the same
command-line arguments that allow you to specify a delay before the
shutdown, whether or not to reboot, an optional message to display to any
user currently logged on to the system, and the name of the computer to
shutdown or reboot.
Download PsShutdown v1.0 at www.sysinternals.com/psshutdn.htm.
You've probably noticed the increasing number of tools at Sysinternals that
begin with the prefix "Ps". The first was PsList, a command-line tool that
lists information about the active processes on the local or a remote
Windows NT/2000 system. I gave PsList its name because the standard UNIX
command-line process information tool is named "ps". The next tool to get
the prefix was PsKill, a command-line utility that enables you to terminate
processes running on local or remote Windows NT/2000 systems. I gave PsKill
the "Ps" prefix because it made a perfect companion to PsList.
Over time I have developed other tools that shared the same defining
characteristics as PsList and PsKill: they are command-line based and work
on the local or a remote Windows NT/2000 system. For example, ElogList let
you dump the contents of a system's event logs, and GetSid showed you the
SID of a computer or particular account. Recently, I decided to tie all of
these tools together by giving them all the "Ps" prefix and making them
downloadable as a single package named PsTools.
PsTools, which includes PsList, PsKill, as well as the renamed PsLogList and
PsGetSid, consists of a total of seven tools. If you see a Sysinternals tool
with the "Ps"-prefix, you automatically know that it's a command-line tool
that works locally as well as remotely.
Download PsTools v1.1 at www.sysinternals.com/pstools.htm.
As a result of tremendous user feedback, Bryce has updated BgInfo, a utility
that sets desktop wallpaper to display customizable information about a
system's configuration, as a result of the user feedback he's gotten. By
default, BgInfo counts down for 10 seconds before applying the settings
specified in its dialog box, but a new command-line option, "/timer", allows
you to change or eliminate the countdown altogether. This makes it more
convenient to include BgInfo in a logon script, or as a shortcut in a
profile's Startup folder.
Version 1.1 includes other new features, such as the ability to display
arbitrary text that you define, and more pre-defined information categories.
The desktop bitmap BgInfo v1.1 creates is also generally smaller, minimizing
the BgInfo's desktop memory footprint.
Download BgInfo v1.1 at www.sysinternals.com/bginfo.htm.
Tokenmon is the latest addition to the varied suite of monitoring tools you
can download from Sysinternals. Tokenmon, which shares the same UI as that
of its cousins like Regmon and Filemon, monitors significant
security-related activity on a Windows NT/2000 system. Just what is
"significant" security-related activity? At the heart of Windows NT/2000
security is the token object, a data structure that contains an account SID,
group SIDs, and privileges. Whenever a process attempts to access a secured
object, the Security Reference Monitor uses the SIDs in its token as part of
the access validation. If a process attempts to perform a restricted
operation, such as reboot the system, the system checks the appropriate
privilege in the process' token.
One of the powerful (and patented) features of the Windows NT/2000 security
model is impersonation. Impersonation lets a thread temporarily override its
process-based identity and adopt an alternate identity through the use of an
impersonation token. Server applications take advantage of impersonation
when accessing resources on behalf of a client, when they adopt the identity
of the client for the duration of the access.
Tokenmon installs system call hooks in the same way that Regmon does for
Registry APIs, in order to monitor the creation and deletion of tokens, the
enabling and disabling of privileges, and impersonation. Tokenmon also uses
process creation hooks provided by the NT/2000 kernel to monitor the
creation and deletion of processes, and other APIs to determine when a user
logs on and when they log off.
The full source code to Tokenmon is posted, and it's worth discussing some
of the interesting techniques the code demonstrates. Tokenmon detects a
logon event by hooking the NtCreateToken system call, which is the one used
by logon brokers such as WinLogon to create an initial token for the first
process of a new logon session. Processes created by the first process
inherit a copy of the first token. To detect logoff, Tokenmon registers for
logoff notification via the kernel-mode
SeRegisterLogonSessionTerminatedRoutine function, an API that exists for the
benefit of file system drivers, called network redirectors, that cache
logon-session data and wish to cleanup when a user logs off. Network
redirectors implement the client side of file sharing client/server
Another interesting Tokenmon implementation detail is the way that Tokenmon
hooks the APIs it monitors. Some of the APIs that Tokenmon hooks are not
exported for use by device drivers, but are exported in the user-mode
NTDLL.DLL library for use by applications that use their Win32 equivalents.
All of the Registry APIs that Regmon hooks are exported in kernel-mode,
making is possible for the Regmon device driver to obtain their system call
numbers, and to hook the system call table appropriately. For APIs not
exported for use by drivers, the Tokenmon GUI must obtain the call numbers
by using the exports in NTDLL.DLL, and then pass the numbers to the driver
so that the driver can hook the system call table. Thus, Tokenmon
demonstrates how to hook system calls that are not exported in kernel mode.
Download Tokenmon v1.0 with full source at
This latest Filemon update introduces more intuitive and complete filtering,
display of full UNC path names for Windows 9x/Me network file access, and
display of NTFS metadata file names.
Previous versions of Filemon required you to enter filters with mandatory
wildcards. For example, if you wanted to monitor accesses to the Temp
directory on drive C:, you had to enter a filter like this: "c:\temp\*".
With the new filtering syntax wildcards are optional, so while the example
filter would work, "c:\temp" would achieve the same effect. In addition,
Filemon now applies the filters you enter against all fields in the display,
including the process name, request type, path, and "other" column. This
flexibility allows you to watch for specific types of requests, or requests
with certain data in the other column, something not previously possible.
Users of Filemon on Windows 9x/Me systems will now see Filemon display path
names with full UNC syntax when they access remote resources. Filemon
previously did not display the server or share name for such accesses,
resulting in incomplete path names.
Finally, if you've used Filemon on Windows NT/2000 you've undoubtedly seen
the text "DASD" in the path column for many accesses ("DASD" comes from
"Direct Access Storage Device", a term that Microsoft uses to describe
accesses to a volume that bypass file system structures). For most activity
on NTFS volumes, DASD is now a thing of the past. Instead, you'll see the
names of the NTFS metadata files that are being read and written. For
example, an update to an MFT record would have resulted in a DASD output
line before, but now you'll see it as an access to "$Mft", the MFT's
internal metadata file name.
Why didn't Filemon show metadata file names before, and how does it obtain
these names now? The file objects that represent NTFS metadata files do not
store a file name, so Filemon cannot extract the name from the file object.
Filemon's alternative method for obtaining a file's name, querying the file
system driver, doesn't work either for NTFS metadata files. While NTFS does
respond with the names of metadata files, NTFS on NT 4 randomly cause
crashes, and NTFS on Win2k occasionally hangs when responding to such
Filemon has to therefore resort to a trick to obtain the metadata file
names. When it sees a request directed at a file object on an NTFS volume
with no name it sends NTFS a query for the file's index. This is the same
index that the Win32 function GetFileInformationByHandle returns, and for
files on NTFS volumes the index is the file's MFT index. The first 16
entries in the MFT are reserved for specific metadata files, so given an
index in that range, Filemon simply looks up the metadata file name in its
own table.
Unfortunately, you'll still see DASD for directory metadata and file
allocation table (FAT) accesses on FAT volumes, because FAT doesn't store
names for directory metadata files or the FAT. You'll be surprised at how
often the NTFS logfile ($LogFile) is accessed. Incidentally, NTFS on
Whistler stores the names for metadata files, so the trick is unnecessary on
The final Filemon enhancement enables Filemon to show time-of-day timestamps
with millisecond resolution. This support required ugly hacks in the Windows
9x/Me Filemon driver because of bugs in a timing function in the Windows
9x/Me kernel. See the source code for more information.
Download Filemon v4.32 with source code at www.sysinternals.com/filemon.htm.
Regmon's changes aren't as major as those of Filemon, but Regmon now
supports the same more intuitive filtering syntax as Filemon, and like
Filemon, applies the filters to all fields. It can also show millisecond
resolution on timestamps.
Those of you that have started playing with Whistler (the successor to
Windows 2000) Beta 1 might have noticed that previous versions of Regmon
crash Whistler when started. This is because Microsoft has placed the system
call table, which Regmon modifies to insert its hooks, in write-protected
memory. Regmon v4.32 works around this by using a technique for which I have
not provided source code at the request of Microsoft, because the technique
may break in the final release of Whistler, and Microsoft is exploring ways
to support system call hooking. Windows NT was not designed to support
system call hooking, which is something that we pioneered with the first
release of Regmon back in mid-1996.
Here's an undocumented Filemon/Regmon tip. I often get e-mails that ask how
to run Regmon or Filemon from a non-administrative account on Windows
NT/2000 There are many cases when a certain application works properly when
run from the administrator account, but not from that of an unprivileged
user, where Regmon and Filemon would be useful for determining why the
application fails (its usually an issue related to security settings on a
file or Registry key). However, running Regmon and Filemon from an
unprivileged account will fail because both Filemon and Regmon install
device drivers, something that requires administrator privilege.
However, there's a trick that let's you work around this: If you log in as
an administrator and start Filemon or Regmon, you'll be able to subsequently
run them from unprivileged accounts. This is because Filemon and Regmon
install a driver on their first execution, and in following executions
access the already loaded driver. Since I don't implement any security in
the driver, an unprivileged user can run the tools after the driver is
loaded. Security problem? Yes, but Filemon and Regmon are intended to be
troubleshooting tools so I, and the people that ask how to run the utilities
from unprivileged accounts, view this as a feature.
Download Regmon v4.32 with full source code at
One of the applications I've received the most user feedback for is,
somewhat surprisingly, DebugView. This new version has some significant
enhancements that address many of the feature and functionality requests
that I've received, and make DebugView more powerful than ever.
Most visibly, DebugView now supports up to five different highlighting
filters, each with its own customizable colors. This allows you to
simultaneously home in on different keywords in your debug output and easily
distinguish them. In addition, DebugView implements the same new filtering
syntax as Filemon and Regmon, making the wildcards optional for substring
A complaint I received about previous versions of DebugView is that, even if
you just wanted to capture Win32 debug output, you still needed
administrative privileges to run DebugView, because DebugView would not run
if it could not install its device driver. This new version runs even from
accounts that have no special privileges. If it cannot install or access its
driver it simply disables its kernel-mode capture-related menu items.
Two features that make it easier to have DebugView start capturing output
automatically when you login are its minimize-to-tray option and support for
command-line switches. Using command-line switches, you can have DebugView
start in the system tray and log output that it captures to a file, and
after you've started DebugView you can use a menu option to toggle its
minimize button behavior between minimizing normally, and minimizing to the
system tray.
For users that run DebugView in remote sessions on Windows 2000 terminal
services, DebugView now captures Win32 output generated by applications
running in your remote session, and optionally, from the console session.
This is useful for debugging COM servers and Win32 services remotely, since
these types of programs run in the console session.
Lastly, DebugView now works on Whistler Beta 1, with support for capturing
output from the several new Whistler variants on the kernel-mode DbgPrint
Download DebugView v4.02 at www.sysinternals.com/dbgview.htm.
The official book on the internals of Windows 2000 is now available! This
edition, coauthored by David Solomon (www.solsem.com) and Mark Russinovich,
is over 40% larger than the previous, with new coverage of networking,
plug-and-play, power management, services, the Registry, WMI, boot and
shutdown, and storage. It also includes a CD with several powerful tools,
not available anywhere else, for investigating Windows 2000 internals.
One of the tools that I wrote specifically for the book is LiveKd, a program
that let's you run both of the Microsoft kernel debuggers, i386kd and
WinDbg, on a live system as if you were looking at a crash dump. Many of the
experiments presented in the book work on a live system when run using
LiveKd. LiveKd works by installing a file system filter driver that presents
the physical memory of the computer to the Microsoft debugger as if it were
a crash dump file. LiveKd creates a pseudo dump file of 0 length, and when
the debugger reads from the file, LiveKd returns data from physical memory.
Check out the book's errata and updates page for a LiveKd patch that
corrects an incompatibility between LiveKd v1.0 and several on-access virus
See the book's table of contents and order now through
Curious about what exactly changed between NTFS v4 and NTFS v5? If so, check
out my two-part series in the November and Winter issues of Windows 2000
magazine. Part 1 describes reparse points, directory junctions, volume mount
points, quota support, and consolidated security settings. Part 2 concludes
with a close look at encryption, streams, distributed link tracking, and the
change journal. Both articles take you deeper than others do, presenting the
on-disk changes and internal behavior of these new features.
One thing I don't talk about in the articles is how NTFS for Windows NT 4
isn't really version
Find links to all our publications at www.sysinternals.com/publ.htm.
Sysinternals has made an appearance in several new Microsoft Knowledge Base
(KB) articles since the last newsletter, and I've also tracked down some
older KB articles that refer to Sysinternals.
Q260513 PRB: An Error Occurs When You Install Visual Studio Products
This article recommends readers use Filemon and Regmon to troubleshoot
Microsoft Visual Studio installation problems.
Q202258 XADM: The System Cannot Find the Path Specified - ID No: 0cx002003
Microsoft actually walks users through using Filemon to troubleshoot
Exchange 5.0 service pack upgrade problems, complete with a sample Filemon
output line and recommendations on setting up filters.
Q269383 PRB: 'Error Accessing the System Registry' Message When Displaying
VB/VBA References
Regmon gets the referral from this article, which discusses using it to
determine why the References dialog in the Visual Basic IDE reports when it
can't access a Registry key as a result of a bug in Seagate Crystal Reports
that applies incorrect permissions to several keys.
Q269251 BUG: Automating Windows Installer May Hang When Enumerating Products
Regmon is highlighted again here, where it's used to reveal a Windows
Installer automation bug.
Q276525 Your Computer May Stop Responding When You Monitor Open Handles
NtHandle is responsible for revealing a bug in Windows NT 4 SP6a, where the
kernel would hang under certain conditions when using NtHandle. Microsoft
worked with me to resolve the problem and they have issued a hotfix. If your
NT 4 system hangs when using NtHandle, you should get the follow the link to
this article.
Q160660 Ntregmon.exe causes STOP 0x0000001E with New Service Pack
This last one is an oldie, but goodie. The first version of Regmon used
hard-coded system call numbers to patch the system service table in order to
hook Registry APIs. Because system call numbers sometimes change between
service packs, this technique is pretty fragile, and I hadn't coded
defensively in anticipation of this (against the advice of Andrew Schulman,
who was afraid Regmon would break). Sure enough, SP3 introduced a few new
system calls, and Regmon would crash the system when it hooked incorrect
system calls. While this surely annoyed a few people, I did get my own KB
article out of it!
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A few newsletters back I revealed the existence of the DiskEdit tool that
Microsoft inadvertently shipped on the NT 4 SP4 CD. DiskEdit is a very
powerful, though quirky, file system structure viewer that you can use to
examine NTFS and FAT (though it's the NTFS support that's interesting)
on-disk data structures. If you missed the NT 4 SP 4 CD and are interested
in exploring NTFS on-disk structures you're not totally out in the dark,
though. Microsoft has released a free tool named NFI (NTFS Information) that
understands and can dump the internal structures of NTFS volumes. While its
output is not nearly as detailed as that of DiskEdit, it is interesting and
You can download NFI as part of the OEM Support Tools at
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q253/0/66.asp. Running NFI
with a file name dumps the NTFS MFT record for that file. The following
example shows NFI dumping the MFT record for the $Quota metadata file, a
file that only exists if you have quota management enabled on a volume:
C:\nfi c:\$extend\$quota
File 24
$STANDARD_INFORMATION (resident)
$FILE_NAME (resident)
$INDEX_ROOT $O (resident)
$INDEX_ROOT $Q (resident)
The output shows that the file occupies the 24th entry in the MFT (its file
index is 24), and that it contains four attributes, including
standard-information, file name, and two index roots (and index is
essentially a collated list of entries, like a directory). I describe how
NTFS uses the $Quota indices in my latest Windows 2000 Magazine series on
NTFS v5.
To dump all the files on a volume specify the drive letter on NFI's
command-line without a file name e.g. "nfi c:". You'll see a list of each
MFT entry, including all the metadata files.
NFI has some other talents, like the ability to translate a sector number
into the file in which it resides. Want to know what file sector 2345 on
drive C: is in? Use the command "nfi c: 2345". Note that this fails on
software-RAID volumes like volume sets and stripe sets. NFI works on both NT
4 and Windows 2000.
Two issues ago I said that I would cover "hidden Win9x Registry keys" in the
following newsletter, and several of you reminded me that I had forgotten.
So this month I'll tell you about hidden Registry keys in Windows 9x.
Several years ago I discovered a way to create hidden Registry keys in
Windows NT. By hidden, I mean that, although you can see the keys being
accessed by the application that creates them with Regmon, you can't write a
Win32 program to look at the key's values, nor can you look at the keys with
the Regedit or Regedt32 Registry editors. Hidden keys are useful for storing
data that you don't want end-users to be able to modify, such as a
trial-product's timeout date.
The trick to making a hidden Registry key was my realization that the native
NT API, which is the system call interface upon which the Win32 API is
built, requires that Registry keys be specified as counted Unicode strings.
A counted Unicode string is one whose length is indicated by a length field,
not the presence of a null terminator. Using the native API you can
therefore create Registry keys that contain a null character, like
"test\0test". Since the Win32 API's Registry key API is based on
null-terminated strings, there's no way to open a Registry key that contains
a null terminator using the Win32 API. If you tried passing the preceding
example key name to RegOpenKey or RegCreateKey it would be treated as "test"
, with the string truncated at the null character. Since all existing
Registry editors, including those bundled with Windows NT and Windows 2000,
use the Win32 API, an application that uses the native API to create
null-character-embedded names effectively makes hidden keys.
This method works on Windows NT, but what about Windows 9x? I didn't think
there was a way to make hidden Registry keys on Windows 9x until someone
e-mailed me with a Regmon log file that shows Internet Explorer (IE)
accessing keys that don't appear in Regedit. To see this for yourself, start
Regmon and set the following include filter: "policydata". Then start IE
(this works for all versions of IE 4 and IE 5) and visit a web site. If you
don't see any output in Regmon, go to IE's options configuration dialog and
ensure that the Content Advisor is enabled.
If the Content Advisor is enabled, or has ever been enabled on your system,
you'll see accesses to the HKLM\PolicyData key and its subkeys. However, you
won't find a PolicyData key under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE when you look in
Regedit. Take a minute and see if you can figure out what's going on.
The answer is that IE is dynamically loading a Registry hive using the
RegLoadKey Win32 API, reading the values it needs, and then unloading the
hive with RegUnloadKey. The hive is named C:\Winows\System\Ratings.pol – the
file is hidden and read-only, but you can reveal it by typing "attrib –r –h
The traces that you see in Regmon show you the information that the Content
Advisor is looking for in the hive. If you want to explore its contents
yourself, download my Regload utility from www.sysinternals.com/regload.zip
and run it with the following syntax: "regload test
c:\windows\system\ratings.pol". Then open Regedit and browse HKLM\test. The
values you'll find correspond to the settings you specify in the Content
Advisor, and are related to the configuration file named in the
Users\FileName0 value in the hive. The value typically points to
C:\Windows\System\RSACi.rat, the ratings file defined by the Internet
Content Rating Association. Incidentally, you might see a value with the
somewhat humorous name of "PleaseMom" in the Content Advisor's Registry
settings, for example under HKLM\Test\Users\Default. This value derives from
the "Supervisor can type a password to allow users to view restricted
content" checkbox on the General page of the Content Advisor settings
The reason Microsoft would obfuscate the existence of these Registry values
should be obvious. However, there's a pretty serious weakness in their
design. Note that when you enable the Content Advisor you must specify a
password that protects the Content Advisor's settings dialog. This password
is stored in
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Ratings\Key. Delete
that value and, presto, you can access the Content Advisor settings without
entering a password! Now if the IE developers went to the trouble to
obfuscate the Content Advisor settings, why do they leave this back door
hanging out in the open? Typical Microsoft security design, I guess. By the
way, to unload the key you loaded with Regload just type "regload test".
Whistler is an incremental evolution of the Windows 2000 operating system
with a focus on increased reliability and easy migration of users from
Windows 9x operating systems. However, it does include some kernel changes.
The most visible are the handful of new system calls and exported (available
for use by device drivers) kernel functions. Next time I'll give you a
preview of these new kernel APIs.
Thank you for reading the Sysinternals Newsletter.
Volume 2, Number 5


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be sure to check out
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"Get Drunk and Light a Fire"
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The garage project
is about as beachy
and groovy as you'll get
with a Chicago rock album,
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