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Now that the True Blood season 5 finale has set things in motion for an extremely exciting sixth season, it's time to find out what exactly we can expect as our stay in Bon Temps is extended one more year.
True Blood's bloody finale left fans wanting answers to even more questions, chomping at the bit to find out the more about the mysterious Warlow. With almost a year's wait until True Blood season 6, series creator Alan Ball exits the series by revealing some things that fans can expect to see next season.
Speaking with TV Line, Ball brings some hope to Bill's (currently) bleak situation, throws a twist in Pam and Tara's relationship, explains the type of
man vampire Eric Northman truly is, while also providing some answers as to why a fan favorite character (Hoyt) was written off the show. If you're hoping for more visual True Blood extras, you can check out the bonus scene from the True Blood season 5 finale (above). Picking up in the Vampire Authority elevator, we see Jason and everyone attempting to make their exit – but not before the name "Warlow" comes up.
After seeing Bill bloodily transform into Bill/Lilith (Bililith?), everyone is wondering exactly what kind of monster Sookie and friends will have to deal with in season 6. Though Bill showed a brief bit a fear before spontaneously exploding, his demeanor after being reborn was anything but friendly. Touching about this aspect, Ball hints that Bililith may not be completely gone, even if he is terrifying:
"Who's to say what Lilith really is? He is still Bill but he is something different.
It is Bill, but it is a transformed Bill. He is not a completely new person. It's not like his memories or his experiences have been left out and he's just a baby.
Is he going to be evil? What does he want? What is he going to do? Will he be able to revert back to Bill? That's for future seasons. The implication, certainly, is that he is more ferocious."
Though having to fight the always present supernatural inhabitants of Bon Temps, perhaps a former lover turned vampire god isn't the best thing to have hanging around Sookie. While there's no doubt that Bill will somehow have to fight off the power that Lilith's blood brings him, we can only guess how much destruction will have come before that moment. And even if Bill somehow rights himself, there's still one mysterious name left to deal with: M. Warlow.
Ball will only say that Warlow will play a big part of True Blood season 6. Even fans of the books are left in the dark on this mystery, as Sookie's parents were murdered by a pair of fairies in the novel, and the name "M. Warlow" never comes up. That being said, there were still a few hints given about what type of creature Warlow might be. Having been able to present himself to Sookie, it's clear that Warlow has some kind of supernatural power, likely fairy. Combine that with the fact that we already know he's a vampire and there's a very good chance that Warlow is some kind of vampire-fairy hybrid.
Taking a turn for the romantic, the surprising relationship between Tara and Pam caught many off guard. As many will wait and see what comes from television's most powerful women coupling, Ball quickly puts a stop to any type of "happily every after" the future lovebirds may have:
"They both were, if not full-on lesbians, than bisexual. They both were characters with real attitude. And they both hate each other — at least they did at the beginning of the season. And that, to me, felt like it could create a lot of tension that could turn romantic towards the end.
...here's the thing with relationships on True Blood: Once they happen then you have to throw a monkey-wrench into them, because to have people be happy is not that exciting."
Now that Bill is an evil vampire god, the heroic light is shining even greater on the one-time villainous Eric. Putting a different spin on the former vampire Sheriff, Ball reveals what his longtime stance has been on the allusive Northman:
"Eric was kind of like a mischievous cad, but I don't think he was ever, like, a true villain the way that Russell was or the way that Maryann was. And he's done a lot of really heroic things himself. So I never really looked at Eric as the bad guy and Bill as the good guy – at least not since the very early seasons."
Essentially bringing any True Blood season 6 information to an end, Ball talks about one of the great losses from this season. As one of Bon Temps fan favorites, fans couldn't help but mourn the departure of Hoyt Fortenberry. Though still very much alive, Ball reveals why he decided to write Hoyt off his series:
"I felt like we had told his entire story. There weren't many places we could go with him that we hadn't been, but I love that character and I love Jim [Parrack] so much I didn't want to kill him. He's always been such a good soul. I wanted to have the possibility for him to return as well. But he fell in love and he couldn't let go."
To wrap things up, Ball gives his final thoughts on working on True Blood, and why he decided to move on.
"It's bittersweet. It's been such a big part of my life for so long; of course it's hard to step away. But running that show is such a huge job and I've been doing it for five years straight. I just don't think I have another season left in me. I need to re-charge. And then I'm interested in doing something new — something with different characters and a different tone. As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone and format, after a while it's a really great job but that's what it is — a job. You're just continuing to create the same show. I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health. [Laughs] And, also, there are things I want to do that are different. I want to try something completely different."
True Blood season 6 premieres on HBO in 2013.
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In response to increasing demand for satellite communications – and reflective of international cooperation to facilitate expanded access to satellite connectivity – harmful interference prevention regulations and measures are being discussed, developed and implemented worldwide. Building upon dialogue between the ITU and the international ICT community during WRC-12, which has been ongoing since, the Bureau is pleased to announce the holding of a one-day workshop in Geneva on 10 June 2013.
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If you look really quick you may not notice that the team currently sitting in the No. 2 spot with 330 power points are the Brien McMahon Senators, currently 3-0 in the league and 4-0 overall.
It is the first 4-0 start for the Senators since 2004 and a win this week against Harding will move the Senators to 5-0 for the first time since 1994 when they won a state championship.
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"Defense is our staple. When you don't give up more than 12 points, you give yourself a chance to win," McMahon coach A.J. Albano said. "We have always been a bend but don't break team and have had several huge red zone stops so far this season. We don't give up the big play and that is something the players take very seriously."
The Senators held Wilbur Cross to no points twice in the red zone and sealed wins against Central and Westhill with late defensive stops.
Spearheading the defense is the linebacking corps, with leading tackler senior Kenny Keen (59 tackles, 43 solo) junior Timmy Hinton (30 tackles, 23 solo) and senior Allan Lenard (38 tackles, 3 sacks) seemingly in on every tackle.
Playing a 4-3 defense, the experience of the players on the line is what Albano points to as a key advantage.
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"We feel those guys are very important, getting in the backfield and getting hands up on passes which is huge with our secondary facing so many spread offenses," Albano said. "We adjust depending on what the other team is showing us, but we have 8 starters on defense that started multiple games last year. That experience is big because you can't simulate varsity action and speed at practice."
When the ball does get past the line in the air the Senators secondary has been up to the task this season, intercepting eight passes in the four games.
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Cricketweb Colts Captain
I'm a member of Club KerryOriginally Posted by Richard
I'm Green
The color of immortality, nature and envy - you are truly a unique person. While clearly the color of nature, you also symbolize rebirth, fertility and hope in the world. On the other side of the spectrum, a natural aptitude to money with green coming to signify money and possibly even *********!
I watched (IIRC) every ball of the 3rd test at Perth between Aus and NZ, back in 2001.
President of SKAS - Kat is King | Proud member of CVAAS - One of the best | LRPLTAS - Rosco rocks!
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R.I.P. Fardin & Craig
I've watched every single ball of an entire day before, and if I'd had the time and could be bothered, I'm sure I could watch every single ball of a Test match or a Test series. What made you think it was so impossible? 2-hour sessions aren't that long.
I'm fairly sure I watched every delivery of the 2005 Ashes. Missed a session or two of the Perth test this time around, and bits of Melbourne too.
It's cold on the outside they say
But the cold leaves you clear while the heat leaves a haze
Appreciating cricket's greatest legend ever - HD Bird...............Funniest post (intentionally) ever.....Runner-up.....Third.....Fourthcricket player"; "Bob"), 1/11/1990-15/4/2006
(Accidental) founder of Twenty20 Is Boring Society. Click and post to sign-up.
Or else missed the odd few deliveries and relied on their fellow scorer.
A single Test is another thing - I've probably done that once or twice. Still wouldn't think there'd be an enormous number who've done such a thing, mind.I've watched every single ball of an entire day before, and if I'd had the time and could be bothered, I'm sure I could watch every single ball of a Test match or a Test series. What made you think it was so impossible? 2-hour sessions aren't that long.
Haha Richard no. You can't possibly think you know more about what other people do than the people themselves.
Here we go again.
Tell me something... do you know that there is such a thing as insanity?
marc71178 - President and founding member of AAAS - we don't only appreciate when he does well, but also when he's not quite so good!
Anyone want to join the Society?
Beware the evils of Kit-Kats - they're immoral apparently.
Pull the other one.
Everyone needs a drink \ stretch of neck\legs \ change of scene at least a few times in that.
And people are going to record 25 days' worth of cricket and re-watch the whole lot, are they?
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birds in background. Small pass-by with talking then group pass-by with talking. (Don't go over the washboard shoulder is the topic)
Part of a series of recordings made at 'The Driveway' in Austin Texas, an auto racing track. Every Thursday evening the track is taken over by road bikers for the 'Thursday Night Crit'. Recording and processing chain: AT3031 mics in an ORTF pair-->sound devices mixpre-->Microtrack at 48k, 24bit-->MS processing (side reduced 2db)-->normalization-->dither-->rendered to 16bit files.
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This section provides the following information:
Protection groups enable a set of clusters to tolerate and recover from disaster by managing the resource groups for services. Protection groups can exist only in a partnership. You must create a partnership before you can create a protection group for that partnership. One partner cluster is the primary cluster of the protection group, and the other partner cluster is the secondary cluster. A protection group contains application resource groups and properties for managing data replication for those application resource groups. You must duplicate the application resource group configuration on partner clusters. The configuration for a protection group is identical on partner clusters, so partner clusters must have the application resource groups of the protection group defined in their configuration. The Geographic Edition framework propagates protection group configurations between partners.
You can specify a data replication type in the protection group to indicate the mechanism that is used for data replication between partner clusters. A protection group supports only one data replication type. A protection group can manage one or more application resource groups. When a service is protected from disaster by data replication, the protection group also contains replication resource groups. Protection groups link an application in a resource group with the application data that should be replicated. This linkage and replication enable the application to fail over seamlessly from one cluster to another cluster.
Clusters in a protection group must be defined as partners. Protection groups require a partnership that defines the clusters that can host the protection group. A cluster can be defined in more than one protection group, and the cluster can have a different role in each protection group. For example, the primary cluster of one protection group can also be the secondary cluster of another protection group. A partnership can have any number of protection groups.
The following figure illustrates two clusters that are defined in one cluster partnership and two protection groups.
Figure 2 Example Configuration of Two Clusters in Protection Groups
The following figure illustrates three clusters that are defined in two cluster partnerships and two protection groups.
Figure 3 Example Configuration of Three Clusters in Protection Groups
The Geographic Edition framework monitors the status of a protection group on each cluster. The framework then combines the local status of each cluster into a global view of the protection group status. The global status reflects the overall status of the protection group.
You can view the protection group status from the Oracle Solaris Cluster Manager browser interface or through the CLI.
For more information about the status of protection groups, see the Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.3 Geographic Edition System Administration Guide.
To be highly available, an application must be managed as a resource in an application resource group. You can configure an application resource group for a takeover application or a scalable application. You must also configure application resources and application resource groups on both the primary cluster and the secondary cluster. The data that the application resource accesses must be replicated on the secondary cluster.
The replication for the data volumes that an application resource accesses must be in the same protection group as the applications.
Support for data replication might limit how you configure application resource groups. These requirements and limitations vary with the data replication type you choose. For more information about these requirements, see the Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.3 Geographic Edition System Administration Guide.


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Apple this morning accused Samsung of deliberately gaming the technology industry's standards system to unfairly benefit itself.
Opening arguments began Tuesday in the patent trial pitting Apple against Samsung on ornamental and functional technologies. Apple says Samsung copied its patented technology. Samsung says that Apple copied Sony's first.
Standards are agreed upon systems that allow devices to interact predictably. Technology companies meet with competitors to set such standards.
Apple lawyers, a team led by general counsel Bruce Sewell, used the example of the common electrical outlet: if there weren't a standard to the size and location of the holes in the socket, no one would be able to plug anything in.
Apple lawyers say Samsung engineers deliberately suggested the panel that sets standards adopt certain technologies without revealing Samsung held patents on those technologies. Samsung, Apple argues, would also financially benefit if those standards were adopted.
In some cases, Apple says, Samsung revised old patents in an attempt to make money. Standards rules generally require participating companies to warn the standards body if the ideas under consideration contain patents that would benefit a company unfairly.
Apple lawyers contend not only did Samsung not play by those rules -- it deliberately flouted those rules to play the standards game unfairly.
To back up that claim, Apple lawyers introduced into evidence video of Samsung executive Jun Won Lee who said warning competitors that they were about to adopt standards that would benefit Samsung would be "stupid."
Samsung answered Apple's accusations it copied the look and feel of the Apple iPhone by showing the jury four examples of phones that appeared to be copies of the iPhone that in fact pre-dated the Apple device.
Apple "doesn't have a monopoly on rectangles with rounded corners," said Samsung attorney Charles Verhoeven.
With a speaking style somewhat reminiscent of former President George W. Bush, Verhoeven said Samsung "was not some sort of copyist."
Samsung knows it's the visiting team in this San Jose courtroom, so 0bahonen was careful to point out hundreds of Samsung engineers lived and worked in the South Bay.
Samsung showed internal Apple emails that it claimed indicate that in 2006 Apple admired and may have copied some of Sony's ideas for the look and feel of a phone while iPhone was in development.
"There's nothing wrong with being inspired by someone else's design," said Verhoeven.


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Eugène-Louis Boudin
French, 1824–1898
La Baie de Portrieux, 1873
oil on canvas
36.6 x 58.4 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Gift of Mr. George Andison
A devoted marine painter, often working in the en plein air tradition, Eugène-Louis Boudin was one of the early leaders of the Impressionists, and exhibited in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874 in Paris. Born in the seaport town of Honfleur, Boudin, like many of the landscape painters of his generation, remained committed to exploring his craft outdoors, creating his own distinctive studies of the sea and sky. This wind-blown seascape of Portrieux is highlighted by the artist's trademark brushwork, with the paint applied quickly and generously in order to capture the impression of the scene before him. The river view of Dordrecht, Holland, painted later, in 1884, reveals the artist's preoccupation with the changing effects of cloud and natural light depending on the time of day or weather conditions. The impressive canopy of the cloud-filled sky, occupying two-thirds of the composition, affirms Boudin's reputation as "master of the sky."
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- Wednesday 11am-5pm
- Thursday 11am-5pm
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ok im sort of putting togethor an old computer just for fun. im pretty much finished but the hard drive im using was in anohter computer i just took it out and plopped it in this one. it has windows on it but everything on it is messed up mainly cause the hardware i have is not what it has drivers for and isntead of going through all this crap to make windows start correctly i decided it would be best to format it
i tried westerndigital.com i couldnt find a format tool. anyone know how i can get a hold of one that i can run off a disk?


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Computer Security: The First StepBy Steven S. Ross | Posted 2009-02-03 Print
The easiest route hackers can take is through employees.
The easiest route hackers can take is through employees. The natural reaction of an information-technology department to easy-to-crack passwords and log-ons taped to monitors is to send threatening memos and force monthly password changes.
"There's no reason to change a password that hasn't been compromised," says Simson Garfinkel, founder of Sandstorm Enterprises, which specializes in software for fighting security threats. "The problem is, managers don't know if they have been compromised." He says companies should adopt the "cell phone" policy—kill access as soon as a loss is suspected. This means I.T. should keep track of simultaneous log-ons from different computers or access at uncharacteristic times. "There's no great commercial software to do that now," Garfinkel says, "but you can write something suitable for your situation, or check manually."
Morrow Long, director of Yale University's Information Security Office, says a good starting estimate for a centralized log-on is $1 per user per year. He recently went to a 5-minute account lockout after 10 tries. Windows XP has a lockout setting built in.
Garfinkel suggests using a single sign-on system so users only have to remember one password. "It can be a weak password in conjunction with a smart card or a biometric" such as a thumbprint reader, he says.
All too often, security experts say, training is done badly. Employees are told what to do, with little or no time devoted to why specific security rules are in place. In the Baseline worksheet, we estimate the cost for training sessions with enough time to explain "why."
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Torture expert testifies at Guantánamo in USS Cole case
A doctor with expertise in torture testified remotely before the war court Tuesday, advising the chief judge how to conduct a no-harm medical examination on an alleged al-Qaida deputy who was waterboarded by the CIA.
Dr. Vincent Iacopino testified by video teleconference from a U.S. military base in Nevada in the case of Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, accused of war crimes. The doctor said he had neither examined nor met Nashiri, 48, the waterboarded detainee, but that mental health exams of victims of torture need to be culturally sensitive and follow protocols.
Prosecutors sought a competency hearing after defense lawyers suggested Nashiri suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result of his CIA interrogations. CIA agents waterboarded Nashiri, threatened to rape his mother and held a revving drill to his hooded head among other "enhanced interrogation techniques" to break him after his capture in the United Arab Emirates in November 2002.
Nashiri is accused of orchestrating the October 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole warship off the coast of Yemen, killing 17 American sailors. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty at the trial before a military jury, which is at least a year away.
Meantime, the competency issue brought the pre-trial hearing to a halt until at least April 14.
Some of the attack's survivors expressed frustration that the focus of the case was on the accused, not the victims.
"Torture?" said retired Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Joe Pelly, 45, who was aboard the Cole that dark day. "I have my nightmares. I have my PTSD."
Earlier, the chief prosecutor, Army Brig. Gen. Mark Martins said the government sought the competency evaluation to protect the record. If he were found incompetent, said defense lawyer Rick Kammen, Nashiri would likely be put in a facility to try to restore his mental health.
"Doesn't make a difference if we do it now or do it later," said Pelly. "If he's competent, let's nail his ass."
Defense lawyers got the judge, Army Col. James L. Pohl, to agree to hear from Iacopino before the judge crafts an order for a secret three-member military board to examine Nashiri to determine his competence to stand trial.
Iacopino is an adjunct professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School and leading member of Physicians for Human Rights, an international organization that documents abuse and treats victims. He is also an author of the Istanbul Protocol, which lays out how to conduct a medical examination of someone who's been tortured.
Iacopino has reviewed medical files of at least 10 Guantánamo detainees, testified in a number of those cases, and met with one detainee face-to-face in a habeas corpus case, according to Stephen Greene of Physicians for Human Rights.
That detainee was Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian man who was one of two Guantánamo detainees approved for special interrogation techniques by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
In a since-overturned order to set Slahi free, U.S. District Court Judge James Robertson said the Mauritanian was so abused at Guantánamo from mid-June to September 2003 that his case was "so tainted by coercion and mistreatment, or so classified, that it cannot support a successful criminal prosecution."
According to the judge, Iacopino testified that any information Slahi gave his interrogators was likely unreliable, because of his abuse at Guantánamo, drawing an unfavorable critique from the judge in a footnote: "Dr. Iacopino was earnest and well-meaning, but he can hardly be described as independent. I found his testimony to be biased and unpersuasive, particularly as the subject of his testimony was not the subject of his professional training."
This time, Iacopino was not testifying on the reliability of evidence from someone who was tortured but on how to conduct a medical examination of people who may have been tortured.
Captives should be examined without security personnel in the room, unless the person being examined had a history of violence, Iacopino said. If officers are present at the examination, Iacopino said, it should be noted in the medical record as a potentially disqualifying factor.
He also urged the judge to appoint specially skilled medical personnel with experience treating torture victims. "Psychiatrists and psychologists, though familiar with diagnoses of anxiety or depression, rarely have knowledge or experience interviewing people who allege torture or documenting PTSD," he said.


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text: It was just two months ago that the Middleman was showing us how to use traffic cones to keep unsuspecting civilians away from a hole in time and space. Now The Onion News Radio's latest headline is "City Places Orange Traffic Cones Around Space-Time Portal." Is someone a fan? Or will the Middleman have to deliver one of his stinging lectures about the evils of plagiarism? [Onion News Radio]


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For denominators like 13, 17 i often see my professor use a method to test whether a given number is divisible or not. The method is not the following : Ex for 17 : subtract 5 times the last digit from the original number, the resultant number should be divisible by 17 etc...
The method is similar to divisibility of 11. He calls it as compartmentalization method. Here it goes.
rule For 17 :
take 8 digits at a time(sun of digits at odd places taken 8 at a time - sum of digits at even places taken 8 at a time)
For Ex : $9876543298765432..... 80$digits - test this is divisible by 17 or not.
There will be equal number of groups (of 8 digits taken at a time) at odd and even places. Therefore the given number is divisible by 17- Explanation.
The number 8 above differs based on the denominator he is considering.
I am not able to understand the method and logic both. Kindly clarify.
Also for other numbers like $13$ and $19$, what is the number of digits i should take at a time? In case my question is not clear, please let me know.


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NAME | Synopsis | Description | Examples | Diagnostics | Files | See Also | Bugs | AUTHOR | Attributes
instance-path/config/hosts.allow instance-path/config/hosts.deny
This manual page describes a simple access control language that is based on client (host name/address, user name), and server (process name, host name/address) patterns. Examples are given at the end. The impatient reader is encouraged to skip to the EXAMPLES section for a quick introduction.
In the following text, daemon is the the process name of a network daemon process, and client is the name and/or address of a host requesting service.
Note that the version of hosts_access supplied with Directory Server Enterprise Edition is different from the version delivered with Solaris. The Directory Server Enterprise Edition version of hosts_access has the following characteristics:
Shell commands are not available on Microsoft Windows.
hosts_options are not available on any OS.
IPv6 is supported on all platforms except Windows.
PARANOID mode is not available.
You cannot replace the lib with your own lib, as it is statically linked to the server.
There is no support of NIS Netgroups. Any '@' symbols in rules are ignored.
The daemon_list process name is the port number of the server. For example, 3389:eng.example.com or 636:192.168.11.254. Port numbers are server properties: ldap-port, ldap-secure-port, dsml-port, dsml-secure-port. Use the dsconf command to view and modify these properties.
Server instances can share files by pointing the instance name at the same file (instance-path/config/hosts.allow). Use the dsconf command to view and modify the server property host-access-dir-path. For example, to have all server instances pointing to /etc/hosts.{deny,allow}, run the following command on all servers: $ dsconf set-server-prop —h host —p port host-access-dir-path: /etc
You can make changes to the hosts_access or hosts_deny files without needing to restart the server. You can safely ignore the dsconf server restart message.
Two conditions must be met in order for acess to be allowed. Firstly, the permissions of the file(s) must be owned by nsslapd-localuser or root and secondly write permission must be allowed for the owner, but not for group or other. Ensure that you use correct permissions, as incorrect permissons on shared files can cause problems. Note that these conditions are not checked on Windows platforms.
The access control software consults two files. The search stops at the first match:
Access will be granted when a (daemon,client) pair matches an entry in the instance-path/config/hosts.allow file.
Otherwise, access will be denied when a (daemon,client) pair matches an entry in the instance-path/config/hosts.deny file.
Otherwise, access will be granted.
A non-existing access control file is treated as if it were an empty file. Thus, access control can be turned off by providing no access control files.
Each access control file consists of zero or more lines of text. These lines are processed in order of appearance. The search terminates when a match is found.
A newline character is ignored when it is preceded by a backslash character. This permits you to break up long lines so that they are easier to edit.
Blank lines or lines that begin with a `#' character are ignored. This permits you to insert comments and whitespace so that the tables are easier to read.
All other lines should satisfy the following format:
Hosts are identified by server port numbers. If there is no port number match or wildcard, the access control check skips that line of the file.
List elements should be separated by blanks and/or commas.
All access control checks are case insensitive.
The access control language implements the following patterns:
A string that begins with a `.' character. A host name is matched if the last components of its name match the specified pattern. For example, the pattern `.tue.nl' matches the host name `wzv.win.tue.nl'.
A string that ends with a `.' character. A host address is matched if its first numeric fields match the given string. For example, the pattern `131.155.' matches the address of (almost) every host on the Eindhoven University network (131.155.x.x).
An expression of the form `n.n.n.n/m.m.m.m' is interpreted as a `net/mask' pair. A host address is matched if `net' is equal to the bitwise AND of the address and the `mask'. For example, the net/mask pattern `18.104.22.168/255.255.254.0' matches every address in the range `126.96.36.199' through `220.127.116.11'.
When using IPv6 for matching, be aware that an expression of the form [n:n:n:n:n:n:n:n]/m is interpreted as a [net]/prefixlen pair. An IPv6 host address is matched if prefixlen bits of net is equal to the prefixlen bits of the address. For example, the [net]/prefixlen pattern [3ffe:505:2:1::]/64 matches every address in the range 3ffe:505:2:1:: through 3ffe:505:2:1:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff.
Wildcards `*' and `?' can be used to match hostnames or IP addresses. However, this method of matching cannot be used in conjunction with the following: net/mask matching, hostname matching beginning with `.' , IP address matching ending with `.' or a IPv6 rule (begins with '[').
The access control language supports explicit wildcards:
The universal wildcard, always matches.
Matches any host whose name does not contain a dot character.
Matches any user whose name is unknown, and matches any host whose name or address are unknown. This pattern should be used with care: host names may be unavailable due to temporary name server problems. A network address will be unavailable when the software cannot figure out what type of network it is talking to.
Sun does not recommend that you use the UNKNOWN wildcard. Directory Server always fills in both host and address, so there is never a case when the host name is unknown. The user is unavailable because of no NIS netgroups support.
Matches any user whose name is known, and matches any host whose name and address are known. This pattern should be used with care: host names may be unavailable due to temporary name server problems. A network address will be unavailable when the software cannot figure out what type of network it is talking to.
In Directory Server the user is always marked as unknown and is unavailable because of the NIS Netgroup restriction.
Intended use is of the form: `list_1 EXCEPT list_2'; this construct matches anything that matches list_1 unless it matches list_2. The EXCEPT operator can be used in daemon_lists and in client_lists. The EXCEPT operator can be nested: if the control language would permit the use of parentheses, `a EXCEPT b EXCEPT c' would parse as `(a EXCEPT (b EXCEPT c))'.
Note that shell commands are not available on Microsoft Windows.
If the first-matched access control rule contains a shell command, that command is subjected to %letter substitutions (see next section). The result is executed by a /bin/sh child process with standard input, output and error connected to /dev/null. Specify an `&' at the end of the command if you do not want to wait until it has completed.
Shell commands should not rely on the PATH setting of the inetd. Instead, they should use absolute path names, or they should begin with an explicit PATH=whatever statement.
The following expansions are available within shell commands:
The client (server) host address.
Client information: user@host, user@address, a host name, or just an address, depending on how much information is available.
The daemon process name (argv[0] value).
The client (server) host name or address, if the host name is unavailable.
The client (server) host name (or "unknown").
The daemon process id.
Server information: daemon@host, daemon@address, or just a daemon name, depending on how much information is available.
The client user name (or "unknown").
Expands to a single `%' character.
Characters in % expansions that may confuse the shell are replaced by underscores.
The language is flexible enough that different types of access control policy can be expressed with a minimum of fuss. Although the language uses two access control tables, the most common policies can be implemented with one of the tables being trivial or even empty.
When reading the examples below it is important to realize that the allow table is scanned before the deny table, that the search terminates when a match is found, and that access is granted when no match is found at all.
The examples use host and domain names. They can be improved by including address and/or network/netmask information, to reduce the impact of temporary name server lookup failures.
In this case, access is denied by default. Only explicitly authorized hosts are permitted access.
The default policy (no access) is implemented with a trivial deny file:
instance-path/config/hosts.deny: ALL: ALL
This denies all service to all hosts, unless they are permitted access by entries in the allow file.
The explicitly authorized hosts are listed in the allow file. For example:
instance-path/config/hosts.allow: ALL: LOCAL ALL: .foobar.edu EXCEPT terminalserver.foobar.edu
The first rule permits access from hosts in the local domain (no `.' in the host name). The second rule permits access from all hosts in the .foobar.edu domain (notice the leading period), with the exception of terminalserver.foobar.edu.
Here, access is granted by default; only explicitly specified hosts are refused service.
The default policy (access granted) makes the allow file redundant so that it can be omitted. The explicitly non-authorized hosts are listed in the deny file. For example:
instance-path/config/hosts.deny: ALL: some.host.name, .some.domain ALL EXCEPT 1389: other.host.name, .other.domain
The first rule denies some hosts and domains all services; the second rule still permits connections to directory port 1389 from other hosts and domains.
The next example permits requests to Directory Server port 1389 from hosts in the local domain (notice the leading dot). Requests from any other hosts are denied. Instead of the requested file, a finger probe is sent to the offending host. The result is mailed to the superuser.
instance-path/config/hosts.allow: 1389: LOCAL, .my.domain
instance-path/config/hosts.deny: ALL: (/usr/sfw/sbin/safe_finger -l @%h | \ /usr/ucb/mail -s %d-%h root) &
The above example assumes that the safe_finger command is installed in /usr/sfw/sbin. For Solaris, the safe_finger command is in the SUNWtcpd package. The default location for the safe_finger command in the SUNWtcpd package is "/usr/sfw/sbin". For other operating systems the safe_finger command should be installed in a suitable place. The safe_finger command limits possible damage from data sent by the remote finger server, and gives better protection than the standard finger command. Shell commands for Windows is not supported, so Windows users should not use this rule.
The expansion of the %h (client host) and %d (service name) sequences is described in the section on shell commands.
Warning: do not booby-trap your finger daemon, unless you are prepared for infinite finger loops.
On network firewall systems this trick can be carried even further. The typical network firewall only provides a limited set of services to the outer world. All other services can be "bugged" just like the above tftp example. The result is an excellent early-warning system.
An error is reported when a syntax error is found in a host access control rule; when the length of an access control rule exceeds the capacity of an internal buffer (2048); when an access control rule is not terminated by a newline character; when the result of %letter expansion would overflow an internal buffer; when a system call fails that should not. All problems are written to the Directory Server instance access log.
instance-path/config/hosts.allow, (daemon,client) pairs are granted access. instance-path/config/hosts.deny, (daemon,client) pairs are denied access.
tcpd(1M) tcp/ip daemon wrapper program. tcpdchk(1M), tcpdmatch(1M), test programs.
If a name server lookup times out, the host name will not be available to the access control software, even though the host is registered.
Wietse Venema (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Department of Mathematics and Computing Science
Eindhoven University of Technology
Den Dolech 2, P.O. Box 513,
5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
Stability Level
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I've still got my little tents together all still on one 10" baseplate, if I get the time I'd like to make them a bit bigger.
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Our lives are made up of not only our stories, but the stories of loved ones, friends, and individuals who have made a difference in our lives, no matter how big or small the impact. These people are the ones we admire most because they inspire us, encourage us, and simply make our world a better place by being in it. Scrapbook what about these individuals makes them a role model to you.
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Journaling Tip Tuck your letter into an envelope or attach it to the back of your layout if you'd prefer not to display it on your layout.
Mother, Role Model, Inspiration, Friend by Stacy Cohen, as seen in the July/August 2012 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine.
Journaling from someone else's perspective is important because it captures what another person feels about somone. Ask someone else, such as a son, daughter, or other relative to write a note or letter that you can include on your layout, just as Noel Culbertson did with the letter from her daughter, which expresses her daughter's appreciation for her father and the great example he is in her life.
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Advertising merger spurs concern
It is a cliche as old as the golden age of advertising itself, the image of gray-suited Madison Avenue executives filing onto the bar cars of Metro-North as they make their workday commute from the bedroom communities of Connecticut and Westchester, N.Y.
Which is why, on the heels of Sunday's announced merger between the two advertising giants, the French firm Publicis and New York-based Omnicom, talk of potential job losses was raising its specter over the local area. Through their large network of holdings, both Publicis and Omnicom own companies with satellite offices in Fairfield County. Omnicom's Colangelo has a branch in Darien, while Publicis' Digitas has a presence in Stamford. In addition, Omnicom's corporate headquarters are based in Greenwich in addition to New York and Boca Raton, Fla.
According to the Census Bureau's 2011 American Community Survey, roughly 5,400 people living in Fairfield County, or 1 percent of the total population, identified the category of "advertising, marketing, promotions, public relations and sales managers" as their occupation.
But the area has traditionally been home to many advertising executives who work in New York, presumably at many of the brand name agencies owned by Publicis and Omnicom. While the exact number is difficult to pinpoint, those in the industry say the population is significant, if only because New York is a major work hub.
"As a homeowner in Fairfield County, any time jobs in the tri-state area are at risk, I start checking my Zillow," said Marian Salzman, CEO of the North American division of the public relations firm Havas PR, referring to the real estate website. Salzman lives in Norwalk.
"Even if this is not a place of employment," she explained, "all the people who fit into the big network of jobs become vulnerable any time there is any kind of job shrinkage."
Since news of the merger broke, industry analysts and veterans have been abuzz with theories about the potential fallout of a $35.1 billion deal that would result in the world's largest global ad agency.
Top clients
Publicis, the third-largest advertising firm, brings a large portfolio of digital assets including Digitas, LBi International and Razorfish, a client roster including Bank of America, Coca-Cola and BMW, as well as agencies in emerging markets.
The strength of Omnicom, ranked second and whose customers include PepsiCo, Nissan Motor and Royal Philips Electronics, lies in its U.S. business. Accounts that overlap include McDonald's and Procter & Gamble.
The merger is expected to create a new holding company, Publicis Omnicom Group, with more than 130,000 employees. According to a press release issued Sunday, the company's operational head offices will continue to be based out of Paris and New York.
While the concern over job losses was echoed in several newspaper and trade websites, some in the area were more optimistic about the eventual impact of the shakeup.
Arthur Selkowitz, a Stamford resident who served as the vice chairman and chief client officer of Bcom3 Group, a company that was bought by Publicis in 2002, said that, over the long term, the merger would bring about "a stronger, healthier company which will benefit the New York job market."
He speculated the near-term jobs loss would not result in a "bloodbath" in the creative and marketing departments of the two companies. More likely, he said, the consolidation would affect those working in back-office capacities. "You don't need two accountants when one can do," he said.
`Big data'
Like other industry analysts, Selkowitz saw the merger as a reflection of the industry's shift toward the business of analyzing and processing the personal data of consumers, otherwise known as "Big Data."
"So much of the way the world is going is Big Data," Selkowitz said. "The ability to analyze and use that data is an offensive weapon in advertising."
Others, like William Apfelbaum, a Greenwich resident and longtime advertising executive who founded Titan Outdoor Advertising, said they were puzzled by a move that now puts rival clients in the uncomfortable position of being represented by the same advertising company. "I don't understand it," he said. "They are going to take out tons of costs, but how many accounts are they going to lose?"
At least one well-known Madison Avenue veteran in the area, Harold Levine, one of the founders of Levine, Huntley, Schmidt & Beaver, a firm known for its witty and creative ad campaigns beginning in the 1970s, looked on the merger as the end of an era, calling it "the death knell of what I used to remember as creative advertising."
"The minute they start telling me that data is more important than the creative message, then they lost me," said Levine, who resides in Westport. "I would not have gone into a business that was about the technology of data. I went into a business where ideas made a big difference."
John Wren, the CEO of Omnicom, has in the past spoken about the changing landscape of advertising. In a rare 2006 public interview in front of industry executives that is available online, Wren somewhat mockingly referred to the "Mad Men" stereotype of the '50s, '60s and '70s.
"They were all from Connecticut," he said. "And they all started drinking at lunch."
The suggestion was that the business had changed dramatically since -- although apparently not in every way. Wren himself lives in Greenwich.
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