Overtime
I was going back over my logged hours in September, and actually I based it on my CVS comments, so it could be less than what I actually did, but I logged 65 hours in the second week, and 66.5 hours in the third week of September. I stopped doing the totals then.
I am, incidentally, done with this streak, just now on friday. I actually had 'nothing' to do. (Well, I had a few UI things to do for 7.1, to make sure it is done right, and I do have some research to do if I want to look at some of the rule-based systems...)
Anywho, I'm trying to think how much money I would have made if my time was billable. That way madness lies. Or a new job, one of the two.
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Ajax Basics: Part II
Sending Fixed GET Data, Result Shown in HTML
Sending Dynamic GET Data, Result Shown in HTML
City:
Sending Dynamic POST Data, Result Shown in HTML
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Name:Priyanka Gajanan Bhavsar.
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Contact No.:8412035808
Education:
Master of computer science from North Maharashtra university
with CGPA:71%(2017)
Bachelor of computer sceience from DR.A.G.D.Bendale Mahila Mahavidyalaya College,Jalgaon
with CGPA:82%(2015)
HSC
Maharashtra State Board Of Secondary And Higher Secondary Education,Pune
Nashik Divisional Board
score:59%(2012)
SSC
Maharashtra State Board Of Secondary And Higher Secondary Education,Pune
Nashik Divisional Board
score:83.27%(2010)
Skills:
PHP,MYSQL,SQL,.NET,HTML5,CSS3,ANGULARJS,JAVASCRIPT
Interest:
Apart from being a web developer, I enjoy most of my time to draw mehendi designs.
I follow a number of sci-fi and fantasy genre movies and television shows, I am an aspiring chef, and I spend a large amount of my free time exploring the latest technolgy advancements in the front-end web development world.
Co-curricular activity
Got Second prize in iNova(IT Quiz) event in DNC Arts,Commerce & Science Collage,Jalgaon.
Participated in KNOWAFEST event in Dr.A.G.D Bendale Collage,Jalgaon.
Participated in PINNACLE event in G.H.Raisoni Institute Of Business Management,Jalgaon.


| Name | Description |
| disable |
remediate action is delete stats object.
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| enable |
remediate action is create stats object.
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| no_action |
remediate action will do no action.
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| PerfsvcRemediateAction_Unknown |
represent the value when the lower version client cannot recognize the enum value
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| update_profile |
remediate action is update stats object policy.
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public final class SmartChineseAnalyzer extends Analyzer
SmartChineseAnalyzer is an analyzer for Chinese or mixed Chinese-English text. The analyzer uses probabilistic knowledge to find the optimal word segmentation for Simplified Chinese text. The text is first broken into sentences, then each sentence is segmented into words.
Segmentation is based upon the Hidden Markov Model . A large training corpus was used to calculate Chinese word frequency probability.
This analyzer requires a dictionary to provide statistical data. SmartChineseAnalyzer has an included dictionary out-of-box.
The included dictionary data is from ICTCLAS1.0 . Thanks to ICTCLAS for their hard work, and for contributing the data under the Apache 2 License!
| Constructor and Description |
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SmartChineseAnalyzer
(
Version
matchVersion)
Create a new SmartChineseAnalyzer, using the default stopword list.
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SmartChineseAnalyzer
(
Version
matchVersion,
boolean useDefaultStopWords)
Create a new SmartChineseAnalyzer, optionally using the default stopword list.
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SmartChineseAnalyzer
(
Version
matchVersion,
Set
stopWords)
Create a new SmartChineseAnalyzer, using the provided
Set
of stopwords.
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| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
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static
CharArraySet
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getDefaultStopSet
()
Returns an unmodifiable instance of the default stop-words set.
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TokenStream
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reusableTokenStream
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String
fieldName,
Reader
reader)
Creates a TokenStream that is allowed to be re-used
from the previous time that the same thread called
this method.
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TokenStream
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tokenStream
(
String
fieldName,
Reader
reader)
Creates a TokenStream which tokenizes all the text in the provided
Reader.
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close
,
getOffsetGap
,
getPositionIncrementGap
,
getPreviousTokenStream
,
setPreviousTokenStream
public SmartChineseAnalyzer( Version matchVersion)
public SmartChineseAnalyzer( Version matchVersion, boolean useDefaultStopWords)
Create a new SmartChineseAnalyzer, optionally using the default stopword list.
The included default stopword list is simply a list of punctuation. If you do not use this list, punctuation will not be removed from the text!
useDefaultStopWords
- true to use the default stopword list.
public static CharArraySet getDefaultStopSet()
public TokenStream tokenStream( String fieldName, Reader reader)
Analyzer
tokenStream
in class
Analyzer
public TokenStream reusableTokenStream( String fieldName, Reader reader) throws IOException
Analyzer
reusableTokenStream
in class
Analyzer
IOException


The Last Configuration Handler I'll Ever Need
Here. From Craig Andera: I'm sure someone, somewhere has already written this, but I figured it out on my own today, and it's just too cool not to share. Basically, it's a bit of code that lets me store objects in my application or web configuration file, and all I have to do is write the type that holds the values.


"The Cider House Rules" is the kind of film that has every element in place: strikingly good performances, beautiful cinematography, and solid art direction. Considering this film is set in the 1940's, the period detail is astoundingly vivid - the cars, the clothes, the houses all have the right look and design. And so it is frustrating to see that when everything falls in place, the structure of the film takes a dramatic left turn and leaves numerous plotholes in its wake.
The film opens at a snowy train stop in St. Cloud's, Maine where an orphanage exists called the Cider House. It is run by Dr. Wilbur Larch (Michael Caine), a fastidious doctor who performs abortions with the help of his young protege, Homer Wells (Tobey Maguire). Larch's mission is to save women from the clutches of amateur doctors in back alleys - he sees himself performing a service unavailable to most women. His moments of solace and refuge is in his addiction to ether.
Homer assists Larch as often as he can, and his home is at Cider House since he is an orphan and practically grew up there. But Homer feels cold and lonely there, despite knowing all the young, parentless kids who look up to him. He needs an exit to another world he has not seen, outside of what I like to call "The Cider House Blues." He gets a chance one day when Candy (Charlize Theron) arrives at Cider House for an abortion with her boyfriend, Wally (Paul Rudd), who is preparing to go to war. Homer leaves with them, and goes to work at Wally's apple-picking family farm with a group of African-American migrant workers lead by Mr. Rose (the intense Delroy Lindo). While Wally fights the war, Homer falls in love with Candy, and discovers that there are other movies that exist besides "King Kong."
"The Cider House Blues" has a subplot involving incest, and the question of abortion comes up again, as Homer decides if he should perform such a procedure. Unfortunately these episodes at Wally's family farm are less than enchanting and cliche ridden. John Irving adapted his own novel for the screen, but it is not dramatic enough to stimulate much interest. Although the romance between Homer and Candy is sparkling and flavorful, it does not mix well with the migrant workers and their crisis, or the Cider House subplot where Dr. Larch forges an entire application on Homer and his medical background so he can get him back to assist. Once the film ends, there are a lot of unresolved situations and fractured relationships between characters. The final sequence is anticlimactic, promising more than is actually delivered.
"The Cider House Rules" is still a finely crafted and beautifully made film. Michael Caine is as good as he has ever been, mimicking an American accent flawlessly and creating a sympathetic character out of the saintly Dr. Larch. Tobey Maguire reminds me more and more of a young Kevin Kline, sometimes suggesting a cocky side with his eyebrows.  But the film sort of ends abruptly and loses us in the seeming construction of a final act that goes nowhere. It is only half of a great movie, but at least, it is a decent half.
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Reflection Behavior
These are basic tests for the reflection behavior
Reflection on GIF
Reflection on PNG (small)
Reflection on PNG (normal)


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v1 v2 2 2 [[TracGuideToc]] 3 3 4 The Trac issuedatabase provides simple but effective tracking of issues and bugs within a project.4 The Trac ticket database provides simple but effective tracking of issues and bugs within a project. 5 5 6 6 As the central project management element of Trac, tickets are used for '''project tasks''', '''feature requests''', '''bug reports''' and '''software support issues'''. … … 15 15 A ticket contains the following information attributes: 16 16 17 * '''Reporter''' -The author of the ticket.18 * '''Type''' -The nature of the ticket (for example, defect or enhancement request)17 * '''Reporter''' — The author of the ticket. 18 * '''Type''' — The nature of the ticket (for example, defect or enhancement request) 19 19 20 * '''Component''' -The project module or subsystem this ticket concerns.21 * '''Version''' -Version of the project that this ticket pertains to.22 * '''Keywords''' -Keywords that a ticket is marked with. Useful for searching and report generation.20 * '''Component''' — The project module or subsystem this ticket concerns. 21 * '''Version''' — Version of the project that this ticket pertains to. 22 * '''Keywords''' — Keywords that a ticket is marked with. Useful for searching and report generation. 23 23 24 * '''Priority''' -The importance of this issue, ranging from ''trivial'' to ''blocker''.25 * '''Milestone''' -When this issue should be resolved at the latest.26 * '''Assigned to/Owner''' -Principal person responsible for handling the issue.27 * '''Cc''' - A list of other associated people. ''Note that this does not imply responsiblity or any other policy.''24 * '''Priority''' — The importance of this issue, ranging from ''trivial'' to ''blocker''. 25 * '''Milestone''' — When this issue should be resolved at the latest. 26 * '''Assigned to/Owner''' — Principal person responsible for handling the issue. 27 * '''Cc''' — A comma-separated list of other users or E-Mail addresses to notify. ''Note that this does not imply responsiblity or any other policy.'' 28 28 29 * '''Resolution''' -Reason for why a ticket was closed. One of {{{fixed}}}, {{{invalid}}}, {{{wontfix}}}, {{{duplicate}}}, {{{worksforme}}}.30 * '''Status''' -What is the current status? One of {{{new}}}, {{{assigned}}}, {{{closed}}}, {{{reopened}}}.31 * '''Summary''' -A brief description summarizing the problem or issue.32 * '''Description''' -The body of the ticket. A good description should be specific, descriptive and to the point.29 * '''Resolution''' — Reason for why a ticket was closed. One of {{{fixed}}}, {{{invalid}}}, {{{wontfix}}}, {{{duplicate}}}, {{{worksforme}}}. 30 * '''Status''' — What is the current status? One of {{{new}}}, {{{assigned}}}, {{{closed}}}, {{{reopened}}}. 31 * '''Summary''' — A brief description summarizing the problem or issue. 32 * '''Description''' — The body of the ticket. A good description should be specific, descriptive and to the point. 33 33 34 34 '''Note:''' Versions of Trac prior to 0.9 did not have the ''type'' field, but instead provided a ''severity'' field and different default values for the ''priority'' field. This change was done to simplify the ticket model by removing the somewhat blurry distinction between ''priority'' and ''severity''. However, the old model is still available if you prefer it: just add/modify the default values of the ''priority'' and ''severity'', and optionally hide the ''type'' field by removing all the possible values through [wiki:TracAdmin trac-admin]. 35 35 36 '''Note:''' the ''type'' (TicketTypes), ''component'' (TicketComponent), ''version'' (TicketVersion), ''priority'' (TicketPriority) and ''severity'' (TicketSeverity) fields can all be managed through [wiki:TracAdmin trac-admin]. 36 '''Note:''' the [trac:TicketTypes type], [trac:TicketComponent component], version, priority and severity fields can be managed with [wiki:TracAdmin trac-admin] or with the [trac:WebAdmin WebAdmin] plugin. 37 38 '''Note:''' Description of the builtin ''priority'' values is available at [trac:TicketTypes#Whyistheseverityfieldgone TicketTypes] 37 39 38 40 == Changing and Commenting Tickets == … … 55 57 '''Note:''' See TracNotification for how to configure email notifications of ticket changes. 56 58 57 === State Diagram === 58 [[Image(http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/attachment/wiki/TracTickets/Trac%20Ticket%20State%20Chart%2020060603DF.png?format=raw)]] 59 59 '''Note:''' See TracWorkflow for information about the state transitions (ticket lifecycle), and how this workflow can be customized. 60 60 61 61 == Default Values for Drop-Down Fields == … … 69 69 * `default_type`: Default ticket type 70 70 * `default_version`: Name of the default version 71 * `default_owner`: Name of the default owner, ''if no owner for the component has been set'' 71 72 72 If any of these options are omitted, the default value will either be the first in the list, or an empty value, depending on whether the field in question is required to be set. 73 If any of these options are omitted, the default value will either be the first in the list, or an empty value, depending on whether the field in question is required to be set. Some of these can be chosen through the [trac:WebAdmin WebAdmin] plugin in the "Ticket System" section (others in the "trac.ini" section). The default owner for a ticket will be the component owner, if that is set, or `default_owner`, if not. 73 74 74 75 … … 82 83 == Assign-to as Drop-Down List == 83 84 84 If the list of possible ticket owners is finite, you can change the ''assign-to'' ticket field from a text input to a drop-down list. This is done by setting the `restrict_owner` option of the `[ticket]` section in [wiki:TracIni trac.ini] to “true”. In that case, Trac will use the list of all users who have logged in and set their email addressto populate the drop-down field.85 If the list of possible ticket owners is finite, you can change the ''assign-to'' ticket field from a text input to a drop-down list. This is done by setting the `restrict_owner` option of the `[ticket]` section in [wiki:TracIni trac.ini] to “true”. In that case, Trac will use the list of all users who have accessed the project to populate the drop-down field. 85 86 86 To appear in the dropdown list, a user needs be registered with the project, ''i.e.'' a user session should exist in the database. Such an entry is automatically created in the database the first time the user submits a change in the project, for example when editing the user's details in the ''Settings'' page. Also, the user must have `TICKET_MODIFY` [TracPermissions permissions]. 87 To appear in the dropdown list, a user needs be registered with the project, ''i.e.'' a user session should exist in the database. Such an entry is automatically created in the database the first time the user submits a change in the project, for example when editing the user's details in the ''Settings'' page, or simply by authenticating if the user has a login. Also, the user must have `TICKET_MODIFY` [TracPermissions permissions]. 88 89 '''Note:''' See [http://pacopablo.com/wiki/pacopablo/blog/set-assign-to-drop-down Populating Assign To Drop Down] on how to add user entries at database level 90 91 '''Note 2:''' If you need serious flexibility and aren't afraid of a little plugin coding of your own, see [http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/FlexibleAssignToPlugin FlexibleAssignTo] (disclosure: I'm the author) 92 93 '''Note 3:''' Activating this option may cause some performance degradation, read more about this in the [trac:TracPerformance#Configuration Trac performance] page. 87 94 88 95 == Preset Values for New Tickets == … … 92 99 Possible variables are : 93 100 94 * '''type''' -The type droplist95 * '''reporter''' -Name or email of the reporter96 * '''summary''' -Summary line for the ticket97 * '''description''' -Long description of the ticket98 * '''component''' -The component droplist99 * '''version''' -The version droplist100 * '''severity''' -The severity droplist101 * '''keywords''' -The keywords102 * '''priority''' -The priority droplist103 * '''milestone''' -The milestone droplist104 * '''owner''' -The person responsible for the ticket105 * '''cc''' -The list of emails for notifying about the ticket change101 * '''type''' — The type droplist 102 * '''reporter''' — Name or email of the reporter 103 * '''summary''' — Summary line for the ticket 104 * '''description''' — Long description of the ticket 105 * '''component''' — The component droplist 106 * '''version''' — The version droplist 107 * '''severity''' — The severity droplist 108 * '''keywords''' — The keywords 109 * '''priority''' — The priority droplist 110 * '''milestone''' — The milestone droplist 111 * '''owner''' — The person responsible for the ticket 112 * '''cc''' — The list of emails for notifying about the ticket change 106 113 107 '''Example:''' ''/trac/newticket?summary=Compile%20Error&version=1.0&component=gui'' 114 '''Example:''' ''/trac/newticket?summary=Compile%20Error&version=1.0&component=gui''[[BR]] 108 115 109 116 ---- 110 See also: TracGuide, TracWiki, TracTicketsCustomFields, TracNotification 117 See also: TracGuide, TracWiki, TracTicketsCustomFields, TracNotification, TracReports, TracQuery


Hi, My name is Jessica Manrique and I am a Graphic Designer and Web Development in Florida. I specialize in Print advertising and recently started working in Web Design.
I want to change the perception of Graphic Design from something that anybody with the correct program can do to show how much craftmanship and skill it really takes. I have found that graphic designers are not considered to be 'real' professionals, and are constantly belitled and shorted on their work. I want to make an impact in the world to showcase how much skill it takes to create a design that is not only beautiful but also sticks with people and conveys a message in a clear way.


Thief swipes car with 2 kids in the backseat before crashing nearby
by Alex Taylor and Ben FeuerherdA thief stole a car in Queens with two children in the back seat — but the kids were quickly rescued with only minor injuries after he crashed into a tree in Brooklyn, police said.
The suspect, whose name was not immediately released by police, swiped the car near Liberty Avenue and 92nd Street in Ozone Park at about 7:45 p.m., cops said.
He likely didn’t know that two boys under the age of 10 were in the backseat — but he nonetheless took off, heading toward Brooklyn, cops said.
The suspect soon lost control of the car and smashed into a tree on Norwood Avenue in Cypress Hills, police said.
Witnesses said he was driving like a maniac, heading the wrong way down a one-way street before he crashed.
“It was going very fast. It was like Grand Theft Auto,” Kenny Placencio, 27, who lives nearby, said.
“He needs to be put in jail for a very long time,” Placencio added.
Another witness, who declined to give his name, said the kids looked terrified when they were rescued by cops.
“The kids were scared, man.  They was lost,” the witness said.
“Lock him up. Send him to Rikers Island. He can learn his lesson,” he added.
The suspect was arrested at the scene and is being held at the 106 Precinct stationhouse, authorities said.
The kids, who suffered minor injuries, were treated by first responders at the scene and reunited with their mother, authorities said.
Charges against the car thief were pending.


It’s time for a game of Capture the flag where you will test your skills at both running and patching exploits. The “Capture the Flag” server and scoreboard is located at https://ctf.f5lab.biz. Please first visit the site to create a team name and have a look around. To complete a challenge, enter in the Flag you receive when successfully running or patching an exploit.
Note that each Mission is prefaced with [Hack] or [Patch].
For the [Hack] missions, you will be attempting to run some sort of exploit. Some will require knowledge of programming or some serious Google-foo to make work. You MUST do these first in order to understand how the [Hack] works. Also, you need to run the [Hack] missions against the “Unprotected” VIPs.
For the [Patch] missions, you need to rerun the same Hack you did in the corresponding mission but against the “Protected” VIP which has a special ASM policy attached.
***** Do not create your own ASM Policies *****
The policies which are attached have been customized to integrate with our CTF API to show you the flags. Each “Protected” VIP has an existing ASM Policy attached to it, please ensure that you modify the proper policy for the VIP when you are attempting to get the patch flag.
We will do the first one together… you’ll see how this works and we’re sure you will enjoy the rest of the class.
In order to complete the Capture the Flag, you will need some tools to view the requests/responses and to complete the Hack missions. Many of the tools you will need have been loaded onto the VMs you have access to. Some of them are explained below:
SQLmap is an open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of database servers. It comes with a powerful detection engine, many niche features for the ultimate penetration tester and a broad range of switches lasting from database fingerprinting, over data fetching from the database, to accessing the underlying file system and executing commands on the operating system via out-of-band connections. Here is a link to the sqlmap documentation: Sqlmap Website
SQLmap is installed on the Kali Linux server.
Burp Suite let’s you review/edit the data send and received among other things. It functions as a proxy, typically configured to listen on 127.0.01 loopback address. An application such as a web broswer or sqlmap is configured to use Burpsuite as a Proxy. This enables the review/editing of what is transmitted and received. Here is a link to Burpsuite downloads and documentation BurpSuite.
Burpsuite is installed on the Windows 7 Jumpbox.
Outwit is a simple, straight-to-the-point online image browser. Explore the Web for pictures and easily create, save, and share collections. With OutWit Images, you can automatically explore Web pages or search engine results for pictures and create, save and share your collections or view them as full-screen slideshows.
Outwit is installed on the Windows 7 Jumpbox.
EditThisCookie is a Google Chrome extension which allows the user to easily see and manipulate the cookies on the current page.
EditThisCookie is installed on the Windows 7 Jumpbox.
You can complete the CTF Contest without referring to the document here, however some of the challenges require some extra tools and some specific knowledge in how to use those tools. We have added this to the document here for you, allowing you to conduct the challenge by following the examples here. If you wish, you can do the challenges without these steps.
Command injection is an attack in which the goal is execution of arbitrary commands on the host operating system via a vulnerable application. Command injection attacks are possible when an application passes unsafe user supplied data (forms, cookies, HTTP headers etc.) to a system shell. In this attack, the attacker-supplied operating system commands are usually executed with the privileges of the vulnerable application. Command injection attacks are possible largely due to insufficient input validation.
In this example, we have an application which uses a vulnerable version of the Struts2 library. This library has a vulnerability in the file upload component, allowing a properly formatted exploit to execute commands on the server. More can be learned about this vulnerability here: https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/apache-struts-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-cve-2017-5638-25617
Using the supplied exploit read the flag.txt file in the Tomcat7 folder.
When there is a php application on a web server, typically credentials are stored within the application config in clear-text. Using this knowledge, the Struts2 vulnerability and the DVWA site, access the database for DVWA and get the flag from the database.
One of the uses of Cookies is to track sessions and identify users. For example, once a user authenticates to a server, the server places a cookie on the user computer that identifies the user. The next time the user accesses the site, they will not be asked to authenticate – the server will check the cookie that identifies the user as authenticated, and allow the user in.
Cookie Hijacking is one of the attacks that can be executed to gain access to privileged information. In this exploit, an attacker would gain access to a cookie that contains user credential information, session information, or other types of information that identify a user to a system. Then the attacker would use this cookie (i.e. copy it to their computer) to gain access to the server.
F5LAB.BIZ is a company that offers financial services to customers. They have two services: hr.f5lab.biz (human resources services) and accounts.f5lab.biz (tax services). Both services use a common backend database to authenticate users.
Webscraping is a popular technique used by both white and black hatters to “scrape” a website to harvest information from it. A good example of a mischievous webscraping activity would be a competitor scraping a website in order to harvest a product catalog or product prices. Once they obtain this information, they can gain intelligence about their competition and use it for their own ends.
There are a variety of tools out there to conduct webscraping. Some are off-the shelf and some are custom-developed. In either case, these tools are smart in that they know how to bypass the webscraping security controls – by modifying their traffic patterns (i.e vary the request rate and frequency to avoid detection)
Webstore.f5lab.biz is an online business that offers variety of products. It was detected that an attacker has mounted a webscraping attack against the website and is copying all the product images.
It was discovered that an attacker is using a popular scraping tool OutWit Hub:
Open OutWit Hub from the Start Menu
In the OutWit Hub GUI, go to Tools/Preferences/Exports & Downloads and specify a windows folder under “Save files in”
This folder is where the hacker (web scraper) will save the scraped images
Select Images on the left-hand panel in the GUI:
Note: The OutWit application is written in Java so it sometimes has a challenge with resizing on the RDP session. If you cannot see all the panels well (as in the screenshot below), please resize it and move the sections around in OutWit until it resembles what you see in the screenshot below):
The highlighted sections in the mage above show the settings that need to be set in order to continue with the exercise.
Tell the scraping tool to look for a file called flag-hacked.jpg. Finding this file will earn you a point:
Change the scraping settings in the tool’s GUI to Auto-Catch and Auto-Empty:
Make sure you tell the tool to Save the images which it finds:
train the tool on https://webstore.f5lab.biz:
Hit enter
First set of images should show in the OutWit Hub GUI.
Important: Make the scraper scrape the entire site by following all the site’s links. To do this, push the “Autoexplore the links on the page” button:
Blind SQL (Structured Query Language) injection is a type of SQL Injection attack that asks the database true or false questions and determines the answer based on the applications response. This attack is often used when the web application is configured to show generic error messages, but has not mitigated the code that is vulnerable to SQL injection.
When an attacker exploits SQL injection, sometimes the web application displays error messages from the database complaining that the SQL Query’s syntax is incorrect. Blind SQL injection is nearly identical to normal SQL Injection, the only difference being the way the data is retrieved from the database. When the database does not output data to the web page, an attacker is forced to steal data by asking the database a series of true or false questions. This makes exploiting the SQL Injection vulnerability more difficult, but not impossible.
Putting it together: using SQLMAP with Burp. If dealing with clear-text http, you can just configure sqlmap to proxy thru Burp. If the site you are working with enforces SSL/TLS, within Burp: Proxy Options Proxy Listeners Request handling, select “Force Use of SSL”
Web applications front-end access to back-end databases. Properly built applications will validate the input into form fields. A client will fill out a web form and the results will be submitted. With SQL injection exploits, SQL commands are submitted in via the web application forms. If the application is not validating the input (blocking actual SQL commands), then those will get submitted to the database and results can be returned. When testing a website for SQL injection vulnerabilities, errors may be returned from vulnerable websites that indicate the site is vulnerable and how to exploit it. Some websites may suppresses the error messages however. This makes SQL injection harder and what leads to Blind SQL injection.
SQLi exploits can be performed manually thru a web browser. While this can be useful to test a website, it can consume time to manually exploit a vulnerable website. This is where SQLmap can be useful as an automated method to make SQL injection easier. The SQLmap official website says:
SQLmap is an open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of database servers. It comes with a powerful detection engine, many niche features for the ultimate penetration tester and a broad range of switches lasting from database fingerprinting, over data fetching from the database, to accessing the underlying file system and executing commands on the operating system via out-of-band connections.
The focus of this lab will be on the use of SQLmap to “map” the database, learning the databases, tables, rows and columns. Successful completion of this lab will result in retrieval of the usernames and passwords. In the database you will find the CTF token.
Proxying the requests thru Burp Suite will help to see and work thru the exploit. Later in this lab you can use Burp Suite to proxy the SQLmap requests to get a better view of what is actually being sent/received.
Connect to the jumpbox
Open Chrome and enable the developer tools (Control-Shift-I)
In order to use SQL map, you will need to gather a valid session cookie and the URL to test. The Chrome developer tools can help with this. Clicking on the Application tab of the developer tools will provide details on the cookies as well as other information,
Browse to the DVWA website via the bookmark
Click the SQL Injection (Blind) on the left side of the page and enter a number (4 for example) into the user id field and click submit.
With these details, we are able to construct the sqlmap command.
You can type “sqlmap.py –hh” for an extended list of the options.
Some of the options that will be of interest to us include:


{{site_name}} was written in Django, a python web framework. It uses a mix of Redis for storing votes, and memcache for caching everything. PostgreSQL is used for storing profiles, stories and everything else. Static content is hosted on a Media Temple (dv) server, while the app itself is served up on Heroku.
Mostly just to prove I could. I wanted to create my own version of Reddit/Hacker News/digg/whatever, to gain a better understanding how the internals of such sites worked. I wanted to create a site with the features that I wanted.
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Fizzbuzz using Neural Network
This code gives a contrast difference between the traditional programming methodology and Machine learning model. I have leveraged the Fizz-buzz problem to point out the intricacies and advantages ML (Software 2.0) proposes over conventional programming model (Software 1.0).


Warehouse Keeper Mia:
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This habit-tracking app is designed to help you lessen bad habits and establish good ones by giving you real data about your behaviors. Follow the instructions below to get started:
Set up the good and bad habits you want to track. A habit can be anything from exercising for 30 minutes, to checking Facebook, to smoking. You name it.
Every time you engage in one of your habits, tap the “+” button. This will count instances by day.
Skip a good habit / resist a bad habit for a day? Before bed, click the “0” button to log a zero for the day. (Remember, when it comes to changing habits, not doing is just as important as doing!)
Use the graph button to check on your progress. This data will help you take control of your habits so you can make real and lasting changes.


EE is Already Rolling Out its Early Bird Christmas Deals
by Shabana ArifIt's never too early to grab a bargain, even if they're Christmas bargains and we're only in November.
EE's early bird Christmas deals are throwing in a free 43” Toshiba Ultra HD 4K TV or Nintendo Switch with select handsets, as long as you nab them before November 25.
Here's the list of shiny new phones you can get with your freebie on EE's pay monthly plans:
- Samsung A80 – £44 per month (£50 upfront cost) on a 10GB Essentials Plan
- Samsung A70 – £39 per month (no upfront cost) on a 10GB Essentials Plan
- Samsung A40 – £31 per month (no upfront cost) on a 10GB Essentials Plan
- Huawei P30 Pro – £59 per month (£50 upfront cost) on a 10GB Essentials Plan
- Huawei P30 Lite – £34 per month (no upfront cost) on a 10GB Essentials Plan
- Huawei P Smart – £28 per month (£20 upfront cost) on a 10GB Essentials Plan
EE is also offering pay monthly deals on accessories and consoles, spreading the cost over 11 months. The catch is you need to have signed up for a 24-month handset plan:
- Xbox One S All Digital Edition with 3 x games (Minecraft, Forza Horizon 3 and Sea of Thieves) - £17 a month with a £12 upfront cost
- PlayStation 4 Bundle with additional controller - £25 a month with no upfront cost
- Nintendo Switch v1.1 (2019 edition) - £30 a month with no upfront cost
- Apple AirPods 2nd Gen - £14 a month, no upfront cost and comes with a £20 audio and Smart Home voucher
If you're an existing customer and are within the first 17 months of your contract, you can also grab yourself one of these deals.
SIM only customers get a Christmas treat too, with triple data for six months. You can check out all of the available offers on EE's website, but with Black Friday sales on the horizon, you may want to wait until the tail end of the promotional period before committing to anything.


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- 2016 - Jacqueline Chapman, Carleton University. Disease and fisheries:
Understanding the impact of microbial loading and species diversity on the
physiology and migration behaviour of salmonids exposed to fisheries
interactions.
- 2015 - Kristin Dinning, University of New Brunswick.
- 2014 - Alexandra Muhametsafina, Wilfrid Laurier University.
- 2013 - Aimee Lee Houde, Western University.
- 2012 - Kenneth Jeffries, University of British Columbia.
- 2011 - Anne-Marie Gravel, Carleton University.
- 2007 - Brian R. Lynch, University of New Brunswick (Saint John).
- 2006 - Martin Krkosek, University of Victoria.
- 2005 - Joseph DiBattista , University of Ottawa.
- 2004 - Jeffrey M. Reader, Acadia University.
- 2003 - Céline Duluc, Université du Québec à Rimouski.
- 2002 - Pascale Lafrance, Université Laval.


Every window in pyglet has an associated OpenGL context. Specifying the configuration of this context has already been covered in Creating a window. Drawing into the OpenGL context is the only way to draw into the window's client area.
If the window is double-buffered (i.e., the configuration specified double_buffer=True, the default), OpenGL commands are applied to a hidden back buffer. This back buffer can be copied to the window using the flip method. If you are using the standard pyglet.app.run or pyglet.app.EventLoop event loop, this is taken care of automatically after each on_draw event.
If the window is not double-buffered, the flip operation is unnecessary, and you should remember only to call glFlush to ensure buffered commands are executed.
Double-buffering eliminates one cause of flickering: the user is unable to see the image as it painted, only the final rendering. However, it does introduce another source of flicker known as "tearing".
Tearing becomes apparent when displaying fast-moving objects in an animation. The buffer flip occurs while the video display is still reading data from the framebuffer, causing the top half of the display to show the previous frame while the bottom half shows the updated frame. If you are updating the framebuffer particularly quickly you may notice three or more such "tears" in the display.
pyglet provides a way to avoid tearing by synchronising buffer flips to the video refresh rate. This is enabled by default, but can be set or unset manually at any time with the vsync (vertical retrace synchronisation) property. A window is created with vsync initially disabled in the following example:
window = pyglet.window.Window(vsync=False)
It is usually desirable to leave vsync enabled, as it results in flicker-free animation. There are some use-cases where you may want to disable it, for example:
Note that some older video cards do not support the required extensions to implement vsync; this will appear as a warning on the console but is otherwise ignored.


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CubeHash: a simple hash function |
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Introduction to CubeHashCubeHash is a very simple cryptographic hash function. Here's how CubeHash works.The inputs to CubeHash are
The message is first padded to create a sequence of b-byte input blocks. Padding works as follows: append a 1 bit; then append the minimum possible number of 0 bits to reach a multiple of 8b bits. (The bits in a byte are first 128, then 64, then 32, then 16, then 8, then 4, then 2, then 1.) Implementations restricted to byte-aligned messages can simply append a 128 byte and then the minimum possible number of 0 bytes to reach a multiple of b bytes. CubeHash maintains a 128-byte state. It xors the first b-byte input block into the first b bytes of the state, transforms the state invertibly through r identical rounds, xors the next b-byte input block into the first b bytes of the state, transforms the state invertibly through r identical rounds, xors the next b-byte input block into the first b bytes of the state, transforms the state invertibly through r identical rounds, etc. The 128-byte state is viewed as a sequence of 32 4-byte words x[00000], x[00001], x[00010], x[00011], x[00100], ..., x[11111], each of which is interpreted in little-endian form as a 32-bit integer. A round has the following ten steps:
CubeHash produces the initial state as follows. Set the first three state words x[00000], x[00001], x[00010] to the integers h/8, b, r respectively. Set the remaining state words to 0. Then transform the state invertibly through i rounds. Of course, the implementor can eliminate these transformations at the expense of storage by precomputing the initial state for any particular h,b,r. After all input blocks are handled, CubeHash produces the final hash as follows. Xor the integer 1 into the last state word x[11111]. Transform the state invertibly through f rounds. Finally, output the first h/8 bytes of the state. Overall a round has 32 32-bit additions and 32 32-bit xors, so CubeHashr/b has 32r/b 32-bit additions and 32r/b 32-bit xors for each byte of the padded message; in other words, 128r/b bit additions and 128r/b bit xors for each bit of the padded message. The finalization has 32f 32-bit additions and 32f 32-bit xors, comparable cost to handling fb/r bytes of input. The initialization, if not precomputed, has 32i 32-bit additions and 32i 32-bit xors, comparable cost to handling ib/r bytes of input. My main recommendation is CubeHash512, defined as CubeHash16+16/32+32–512. CubeHash512 uses 16 32-bit additions and 16 32-bit xors for each byte of the padded message. Finalization has comparable cost to handling 16 bytes of input. Initialization has comparable cost to handling 8 bytes of input. VersionThis is version 2010.12.03 of the index.html web page. |


Class ArucoCameraUndistortion
Manages the processes of undistortion and rectification of Images. It's a time-consuming
operation but it's necessary for cameras with an important distorsion for a good alignement of the images with
the 3D content. Base class to reference in editor fields.
Inheritance
System.Object
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UnityEngine.Behaviour
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ArucoCameraUndistortion
Assembly: Assembly-CSharp.dll
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public abstract class ArucoCameraUndistortion : ArucoCameraController, IArucoCameraUndistortion, IArucoCameraController, IConfigurableController, IHasArucoCameraParameters
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public Cv.Mat[][] UndistortionRectificationMaps { get; protected set; }
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ArucoCamera_UndistortRectifyImages(Cv.Mat[], Byte[][])
Updates the undistortion thread with the images
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protected virtual void ArucoCamera_UndistortRectifyImages(Cv.Mat[] images, byte[][] imageDatas)
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Seven die in Osun accident - The Nation Newspaper
by https://www.facebook.com/alao.h.joshuaAdesoji Adeniyi, Osogbo
No fewer than seven people lost their lives in a ghastly motor accident along Osogbo-Ikirun Express Way on Saturday.
Only one person survived among eight passengers in the Mistubishi Wagon car that crashed into a truck.
It was gathered that the car coming from Offa in Kwara State was Lagos bound before the crash near Ikirun around 12 noon.
Read Also: Two die, 17 vehicles burnt in Ogun tanker accident
The driver of the truck, who allegedly escaped after the accident, was said to be making a U-turn towards Osogbo when the ill-fated car on top speed caught sight of it very late and crashed into the truck.
According to the Osun Sector Commander of Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr. Peter Oke, five males and two females traveling in the car lost their lives leaving only one female passenger
The FRSC boss disclosed that the corpses have been deposited in the morgue of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital (LAUTECH-TH), Osogbo while he said the survivor is receiving medical attention in the hospital


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The IEU GWAS database comprises over 10,000 curated, QC’d and harmonised complete GWAS summary datasets and can be queried using an API. See here for documentation on the API itself. This R package is a wrapper to make generic calls to the API, plus convenience functions for specific queries.
Most datasets in the database are public and don’t need authentication. But if you want to access a private dataset that is linked to your (gmail) email address, you need to authenticate the query using a method known as Google OAuth2.0.
Essentially - you run this command at the start of your session:
ieugwasr::get_access_token()
which will open up a web browser asking you to provide your google username and password, and upon doing so a directory will be created in your working directory called ieugwasr_oauth
. This directory contains a file that looks like this: <random_string>_<email@address>
. It is a binary file (not human readable), which contains your access token, and it acts as a convenient way to hold a randomly generated password.
If you are using a server which doesn’t have a graphic user interface then the ieugwasr::get_access_token()
method is not going to work. You need to generate the ieugwasr_oauth
directory and token file on a computer that has a web browser, and then copy that directory (containing the token file) to your server (to the relevant work directory).
If you are using R in a working directory that does not have write permissions then this command will fail, please navigate to a directory that does have write permissions.
If you need to run this in a non-interactive script then you can generate the token file on an interactive computer, copy that file to the working directory that R will be running from, and then run a batch (non-interactive).
You can test to see if you have authenticated using the function
ieugwasr::check_access_token()
It will return NULL
if you are not authenticated, or a long random token string if you are.
To unauthenticate, simply delete the relevant file in the ieugwasr_oauth
folder, or delete the folder entirely.
The API has a number of endpoints documented here. A general way to access them in R is using the api_query
function. There are two types of endpoints - GET
and POST
.
GET
- you provide a single URL which includes the endpoint and query. For example, for the association
endpoint you can obtain some rsids in some studies, e.g.
POST
- Here you send a “payload” to the endpoint. So, the path specifies the endpoint and you add a list of query specifications. This is useful for long lists of rsids being queried, for example
The api_query
function returns a response
object from the httr
package. See below for a list of functions that make the input and output to api_query
more convenient.
gwasinfo()
gwasinfo("ieu-a-2")
Provide a list of variants to be obtained from a list of studies:
associations(variants=c("rs123", "7:105561135"), id=c("ieu-a-2", "ieu-a-7"))
By default this will look for LD proxies using 1000 genomes reference data (Europeans only, the reference panel has INDELs removed and only retains SNPs with MAF > 0.01). This behaviour can be turned off using proxies=0
as an argument.
Note that the queries are performed on rsids, but chromosome:position values will be automatically converted. A range query can be done using e.g.
associations(variants="7:105561135-105563135", id=c("ieu-a-2"), proxies=0)
The tophits can be obtained using
tophits(id="ieu-a-2")
Note that it will perform strict clumping by default (r2 = 0.001 and radius = 10000kb). This can be turned off with clump=0
.
Lookup association of specified variants across every study, returning at a particular threshold. Note that no LD proxy lookups are made here.
phewas(variants="rs1205", pval=1e-5)
PheWAS can also be performed in only specific subsets of the data. The datasets in the IGD are organised by batch, you can see info about it here: https://gwas.mrcieu.ac.uk/datasets/ or get a list of batches and their descriptions using:
batches()
You can perform PheWAS in only specified batches using:
phewas(variants="rs1205", pval=1e-5, batch=c('ieu-a', 'ukb-b'))
By default PheWAS is performed in all batches (which is of course somewhat slower).
The API has a wrapper around plink version 1.90 and can use it to perform clumping with an LD reference panel from 1000 genomes reference data.
a <- tophits(id="ieu-a-2", clump=0)
b <- ld_clump(
dplyr::tibble(rsid=a$name, pval=a$p, id=a$id)
)
There are 5 super-populations that can be requested via the pop
argument. By default this will use the Europeans subset (EUR super-population). The reference panel has INDELs removed and only retains SNPs with MAF > 0.01 in the selected population.
Note that you can perform the same operation locally if you provide a path to plink and a bed/bim/fam LD reference dataset. e.g.
ld_clump(
dplyr::tibble(rsid=a$name, pval=a$p, id=a$id),
plink_bin = "/path/to/plink",
bfile = "/path/to/reference_data"
)
See the following vignette for more information: Running local LD operations
Similarly, a matrix of LD r values can be generated using
ld_matrix(b$variant)
This uses the API by default but is limited to only 500 variants. You can use, instead, local plink and LD reference data in the same manner as in the ld_clump
function, e.g.
ld_matrix(b$variant, plink_bin = "/path/to/plink", bfile = "/path/to/reference_data")
There are 5 super-populations that can be requested via the pop
argument. By default this will use the Europeans subset (EUR super-population). The reference panel has INDELs removed and only retains SNPs with MAF > 0.01 in the selected population.
Super-populations:
See the following vignette for more information: Running local LD operations
Translating between rsids and chromosome:position, while also getting other information, can be achieved.
The chrpos
argument can accept the following
<chr>:<position>
<chr>:<start>-<end>
For example
a <- variants_chrpos(c("7:105561135-105563135", "10:44865737"))
This provides a table with dbSNP variant IDs, gene info, and various other metadata. Similar data can be obtained from searching by rsid
b <- variants_rsid(c("rs234", "rs333"))
And a list of variants within a particular gene region can also be found. Provide a ensembl or entrez gene ID (e.g. ENSG00000123374 or 1017) to the following:
c <- variants_gene("ENSG00000123374")
Here is an example of how to obtain summary data for some datasets for a gene region. As an example, we’ll extract CDK2 (HGNC number 1017) from a BMI dataset (ieu-a-2)
Use the mygene bioconductor package to query the mygene.info API.
library(mygene) a <- mygene::getGene("1017", fields="genomic_pos_hg19") r <- paste0(a[[1]]$genomic_pos_hg19$chr, ":", a[[1]]$genomic_pos_hg19$start, "-", a[[1]]$genomic_pos_hg19$end) b <- ieugwasr::associations(r, "ieu-a-2")
The OpenGWAS database contains a database of population annotations from the 1000 genomes project - the alternative allele frequencies and the LD scores for each variant, calculated for each super population separately. Only variants are present if they are MAF > 1% in at least one super population. You can access this info in different ways
Look up a particular set of rsids
Look up a set of positions or regions
ieugwasr::afl2_chrpos("1:100000-900000")
Extract annotations for a list of 20k variants that are common in all super populations, and evenly spaced across the genome
ieugwasr::afl2_list()
Extract annotations for a 1.3 million HapMap3 variants
ieugwasr::afl2_list("hapmap3")
Infer the ancestry of a particular study by comparing the allele frequencies with different super population reference frequencies
snplist <- ieugwasr::afl2_list() eur_example <- associations(snplist$rsid, "ieu-a-2") ieugwasr::infer_ancestry(eur_example, snplist) eas_example <- associations(snplist$rsid, "bbj-a-10") ieugwasr::infer_ancestry(eur_example, snplist)


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We manage the generation and revocation of digital certificates for the VPN.
We actively capacity-manage the cloud platform to ensure you have access to the resources you request.
We control the deployed versions of technology on the platform. This covers internal platform-supporting technologies, and any technology versions available to you.
Internally this includes, but isn't limited to, the vSphere and ESX versions, and the hardware version of the platform.
Externally this includes the available versions of the edge gateway and VMware Cloud Director.
Promiscuous mode is disabled.
You can make additional configurations inside a VM (such as acting as a secondary hypervisor or implementing third-party software technologies). We do not support customer implementations inside a VM.
Service resilience
You can specify Farnborough or Corsham as the site where you'd like to have your SRA service provisioned. We'll try to accommodate requests and will advise you if we are unable do so.
You can set affinity or anti-affinity rules through VMware Cloud Director so that VMs do, or do not, run on the same physical host.
Operating systems
Licensing
We can provide:
OS licensing through the SPLA and academic frameworks for Microsoft
Red Hat Enterprise Linux licensing
For the latest available licences, see the UKCloud Pricing Guide.
You can bring your own licensing for Red Hat and certain Microsoft application licensing under Microsoft Mobility using software assurance. You should inform UKCloud via a Service Request if you're providing your own licensing for a retrospective discount.
For non-UKCloud issued software, you must obey the licensing requirements of the software provider. This includes being aware of any constraints around using the software in a virtualised environment.
VM server images
We provide base VM images for the operating systems for which we provide licensing. You can access these from VMware Cloud Director.
You can use your own images for non-Windows and RHEL services, where licensing stipulates that to use the VM on our platform it must be licensed (and reported back to the software vendor) by UKCloud.
Update services
We make update repositories available for all software for which we provide licensing. We don't provide software update facilities for non-UKCloud licensed software.
Anti-virus
We do not provide anti-virus software as part of the service.
Networks
From a customer management experience, you manage all your connectivity rules, such as firewall, IPsec VPN and NAT functionality, through your edge gateway, using either the VMware Cloud Director tenant portal or vCloud API.
You can find more information about networking within the SRA walled garden in the Getting Started Guide for the Cross Domain Security Zone Walled Garden.
Edge gateway
By default, we assign two edge gateways per SRA walled garden VDC: one facing the VPN termination devices and one facing Elevated.
You can have up to nine Org VDC networks per edge gateway.
vApp edge
vApp networks enable you to create smaller networks within individual vApps that have a vApp edge, similar to the edge gateway on your VDC. Although a vApp edge isn't as feature rich as an edge gateway, it lets you create firewall and NAT rules to separate your VDC networks from your vApp VMs. See How to create a vApp network for configuration details.
Site-to-site IPsec VPN
You can create IPsec VPN tunnels to connect from SRA walled garden edges to virtual firewalls in Assured or Elevated. There is a limit of 64 tunnels per edge gateway.
Load balancing
The edge gateway acts as a basic layer 3 load balancer, including features such as session persistence and health checks. If you need more advanced load balancing, you should consider a third-party product.
Protective monitoring
We've implemented GPG 13-aligned Protective Monitoring across the Assured and Elevated security domains at the hypervisor level and below. For more information, see Protective Monitoring from UKCloud.
If you require protective monitoring services above the hypervisor (for example, for your VM), we offer our Security Operations Service to monitor your virtual estate (additional charges apply). For more information, see the Security Operations Service Service Definition.
In line with UKCloud's System Interconnect and Security Policy (SISP), we provide notifications of customer-impacting security incidents. It's the customer's responsibility to report similar incidents to us.
Platform management
Users can access, manage and view the SRA service, accessing only those features allowed by their role, in any of the following ways:
vCloud API. Enables the programmatic creation and management of VMs inside the SRA walled garden.
VMware Cloud Director tenant portal. Provides a graphical interface to access the VMware Cloud Director environment (depending on assigned permissions).
UKCloud Portal. Enables the creation of compute services and subsequently VDCs and edge gateways. The Portal also includes an overview of actual and estimated spend, along with service configuration information. Access to incident and request management is also possible through the Portal.
You cannot access the underlying infrastructure. This includes (but isn't limited to) the hardware and the vSphere environment.
Service reporting
Visibility
Maintenance notifications and Service Status reports are delivered through the Portal.
Billing
We provide you with monthly bills covering your monthly spend.
Customer service
Cloud Architect. UKCloud Cloud Architects support you during the design of solutions for the cloud platform. UKCloud Cloud Architects are ideally placed to help reconcile your requirements with the UKCloud platform. We recommend engagement with a Cloud Architect when implementing an SRA walled garden.
Service Delivery Manager (SDM). An assigned point of contact who will provide any assistance you require during your use of the service, including onboarding, service reviews and incident reporting and escalation.
Support Desk. After the initial onboarding and design phase, customers can utilise the standard UKCloud support entitlement. For more information, see Raising and escalating support tickets with customer support.
Customer responsibilities
You are responsible for:
Assessing whether the UKCloud platform can support the various requirements of your application.
Completing and submitting an SRA application form in order to be granted access to an SRA walled garden.
The control and management of access and responsibilities for end users including appropriate connectivity, security and accreditation if required.
Managing the devices used for access to the SRA service, including patching and anti-virus on the device.
Installation of the Cisco AnyConnect software on your devices. We are responsible for providing software and updates.
Installation of the certificates on your devices in order to connect to the SRA service.
If you require onward connectivity to government secure networks within Elevated (MCN or PSN), you are responsible for adhering to the relevant Code of Connection (CoCo) and for providing evidence of your CoCo to UKCloud upon request. UKCloud is unable to provide access to secure networks where such evidence has not been provided by the customer.
Management and administration of layers above the hypervisor (OS patching, application performance monitoring, user administration).
Ensuring only lawful data that supports the UK Public Sector is stored and processed by applications on this environment, and that you fully comply with the UKCloud Security Operating Procedures (SyOPs) and other information assurance requirements as specified in the UKCloud System Interconnect and Security Policy (SISP) and associated accreditation documentation sets.
Service provisioning
Within 4 hours of accepting an order (shorter deployment times are typically achieved and can be prioritised upon request), UKCloud will create the customer's Primary Administrator account and send a Welcome Pack, which includes the URL for the UKCloud Customer Portal, and the Getting Started Guide.
Customers will have two assessment options when purchasing an SRA service.
A light-touch design review/self-assessment route for customers with simple implementations, or those who are experienced at designing secure solutions.
An assurance-wrap style approach with UKCloud's experienced professionals for more complex implementations or those customers who would like support and guidance when developing their solutions.
Both options require the same submission documentation to enable UKCloud to provision the service.
Deployment time following validation of the assurance document set is 5 days. This includes the setup and configuration of customer specific firewall requirements.
UKCloud has created several videos, help guides, manuals and FAQs to help train and instruct users so that they are up and running quickly and easily. These are available within the Knowledge Centre.
UKCloud also has a large ecosystem of partners who can deliver additional services, such as support and professional services. UKCloud would be pleased to introduce you to the right partner to suit your needs.
Service constraints
For information about Planned and Emergency Maintenance, see Understanding UKCloud service maintenance windows.
Supporting documents and resources
The following documents contain more information about SRA and the service options:
Feedback
If you find a problem with this article, click Improve this Doc to make the change yourself or raise an issue in GitHub. If you have an idea for how we could improve any of our services, send an email to feedback@ukcloud.com.


Week in 5 charts: Sensex, Nifty end flat amid no progress on US-China deal; rupee gains
On a weekly basis, the rupee rose 8 paise to end at 71.71 on November 22 versus the November 15 closing of 71.79.
by Rakesh PatilThe market ended flat for the week ended November 22 as it remained volatile throughout amid no major domestic cues and no concrete signs of progress on the US-China relations.
In the past week, the Sensex ended flat at 40359.41 against November 15 close 40,356.69, while the Nifty also ended flat at 11914.4.
In last week, Cabinet gave the in-principle approval for disinvestment in select CPSEs. This includes the government's stake of 53.2 percent BPCL, excluding BPCL’s equity shareholding in Numalighar Refinery, based in Assam.
Also, the in-principle approval has also been granted for the government's 63.75 percent in Shipping Corporation of India, 30.8 percent of Container Corporation of India, to a strategic buyer.
Further, 74.23 percent of THDC and 100 percent in North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) will be sold to NTPC.
Essel Group on November 20 announced plans to sell 16.5 percent stake in its flagship company Zee Entertainment Enterprises to financial investors.
"We expect the Indian markets to remain under pressure in the near-term, as there are no visible positive triggers, which could boost investor sentiments. Further, market participants would continue to track global factors such as US-China trade deal, crude oil price and currency movement. We would recommend investors to follow stock-specific approach," said Ajit Mishra Vice President, Research, Religare Broking.
Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) remained net buyers the past week as they sold equities worth Rs 4,709.75 crore, while Domestic Institutional Investors (DIIs) also bought equities worth of Rs 330.1 crore.
On a weekly basis, the rupee rose 8 paise to end at 71.71 on November 22 versus the November 15 closing of 71.79.
"On the technical front, the level of 12,000 is seen as a key resistance by many market participants which adds up to the selling pressure. We believe post the short duration of profit booking, markets should reverse on a much more stronger footing," Joseph K Thomas Head of Research, Emkay Wealth Management said.
The BSE mid-cap index was down 0.23 percent, while the small-cap index rose 0.21 percent and the BSE large-cap index was up 0.15 percent in the past week.
On the BSE, RIL added the most in terms of market value, followed by Bharti Airtel and Sun Pharma. On the other hand, TCS lost the most in terms of market value.
The Nifty Media index outperformed the sectoral indices with a gain of nearly 10 percent during the week.
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cpgf library -- a free C++ open source library for reflection, serialization, script binding, callbacks
cpgf is a free, open source and cross platform C++ library.
cpgf is composed by several independent components:
- cpgf reflection -- a library to add reflection feature to C++.
- cpgf serialization -- a library to save C++ data and objects to persistent storage and then load back.
- cpgf script binding -- a script binding engine to connect Lua, Google V8 Javascript and Python to C++. It's based on the reflection library.
- cpgf callback -- a callback library to implement signal/slot or callback in C++. It's the primary library for other libraries.
- cpgf meta data collection -- a library with built-in meta data support. Now there are meta data for C++ STL, OpenGL, OpenGLU, OpenGLUT, Box2D physical engine and SFML multimedia library.
- cpgf meta data generator tool -- a tool written in Java to automatically generate meta data from Doxygen XML files.
The goal of cpgf is to extend C++ language with lots of easy to use features, which are only available in other higher level languages and absent in C++.
cpgf provides a powerful reflection and meta data system. Have you ever envied the reflection system in C# and Java? Now we have it in C++!
cpgf provides a very easy to use serialization system. Want the the same serialization system that is in C# and Java? Now we have it in C++!
cpgf makes binding Lua, Google V8 Javascript, and Python to C++ a piece of cake! The script binding engine extensively uses the reflection system.
cpgf provides a very easy to use callback system, which is commonly used in C# and script languages.
Want to use OpenGL, Box2D and SFML in Lua, Javascript and Python? It is very simple and easy using cpgf.
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Key features
- Provide easy to use class and function based library.
- Also provide interface based, Windows COM style, binary compatible API. It's easy to put meta data in a dynamic library and use the meta data from within another library.
- Written in standard and portable C++. It can be compiled in VC 2008, GCC 3.4.2, Intel Composer XE 12.1.2 and C++ Builder 2010, on Windows, Linux, and Mac (iOS, iPhone, iPad).
- Extensively, but not abuse, using template programming.
- No need external preprocessor or code generation tools. Just coding and enjoy. Easy to setup, easy to integrate with your project.
- Free and open source.
Quick facts of reflection library
- As powerful as the reflection system in Java and C#.
- Reflect global/member functions, global/member fields (variable), global/member properties (fields with getter/setter), constructors, classes, enumerators, and annotations.
- Real runtime reflection. No compile time template parameters are needed when using the reflection.
- No external preprocessor required, no ugly macros. Only using C++ templates, classes, and functions.
- Support multiple inheritance.
- Support default parameters for constructor, method, and operators.
- For more information, please read cpgf reflection related documentation.
Quick facts of serialization library
- As powerful as the serialization system in Java and C#.
- Serialize object graph.
- Correctly resolve multiple pointers to same object.
- Serialize polymorphic objects.
- Serialize C++ array.
- Very extensible. The library supports customized serializer to serialize special data type manually.
- Storage format agnostic.
- Versioning.
- Doesn't require extra intervention. Serialization only depends on relection meta data.
- For more information, please read cpgf serialization related documentation.
Quick facts of script binding library
- Support Lua 5.2 and 5.1, Google V8 Javascript, and Python 2.7.3.
- Very easy and simple to use. Any reflected meta data can be bound to scripts.
- Bind C++ classes, enumerators, functions, variables and operators to Lua, Google V8 Javascript and Python.
- Invoke Lua, V8 Javascript and Python functions from C++.
- Pass function written in script to C++ and used by C++.
- Get and set Lua, V8 Javascript and Python variables from C++.
- Transfer arbitrary binary data between C++ and script.
- Pass arbitrary script function and object to C++.
- For more information, please read cpgf script binding related documentation.
Download cpgf library
Download the library
Documentations
Read the documentations
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
Change log
Change log
Author and owner
Wang Qi, in Beijing, China
Website:
http://www.kbasm.com/
Compatibility -- Tested compilers and platforms
Support GCC 3.4.2 and up, MS VC 2008 and up, C++ Builder 2010 and up, XCode and Intel C++ Compiler.
Read this document for more information
Required third party library -- None for the primary libraries
Doesn't require C++0X, TR1 or C++11 features.
Doesn't require Boost library.
For Lua binding, Lua library is required.
For Google V8 Javascript binding, V8 library is required.
For Python binding, Python library is required.
If you want to run the unit test, UnitTest++ is required. But usually you don't need to do that.
Learning the library
Though there are some documentations on this website, they are far from good.
They are incomplete, and not quite native reading.
The fastest way to get start with the library is to read the sample code in the folder "samples".
The sample code was originally written for test purpose, so they are not as easy to read as you expect. But they covers most features so it's a good kick off.
If you want to read more sample code, read the code in the folder "test".
They are for unit test. They are much more difficult to read and they use a lot of macros.
However, they cover much more functions than the sample code.
How is the library tested
Several measures are adopted to test the library.
Unit test -- hundreds of unit tests were written and ran. More unit tests are being added for existing code and new code.
Valgrind -- valgrind is used to check memory leaks and other memory problems (wild pointer, double free, etc).
Code coverage -- GNU gcov is used to check the code coverage in unit tests. The ultimate goal is to cover all API functions and 80% implementation code. Though we didn't achieve the goal yet, we are closing to it day by day.
Contribute to the library
If you like the library and want to contribute to it, here are some most desired work to do
1, Use the library in your real project. That will help the library much. A library is nothing without real projects using it.
2, Help with the documentation. I'm not a native English speaker, and I also don't enjoy writing documentation.
3, Test the library on more compilers and platforms, especially on 64 bit platforms and compilers.
What does cpgf mean?
The original cpgf means Cross Platform Game Framework.
It was intended to be game framework that can work on PC and smart phone.
But later I decided to add more fun but non-game features to the library.
So now the library is neither for game nor a framework.
It's a cross platform C++ library.


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Valentine * * * (out of * * * * )
Directed by Jamie Blanks. Cast: Marley Shelton, Denise Richards, Jessica Capshaw, David Boreanaz, Jessica Cauffiel, Katherine Heigl, Daniel Cosgrove, Hedy Burress, Johnny Whitworth, Fulvio Cecere, Benita Ha. 2001 - 95 minutes Rated R (for strong violence, profanity, and sexuality). Reviewed by Dustin Putman, February 3, 2001.
Imagine my surprise to find that "Valentine," directed by Jamie Blanks (1998's "Urban Legend"), has more in common with the slasher films of the late-'70s/early-'80s, than those of the "oh-so-clever," jokey, post-"Scream" era of the late-'90s. With everything from "Scream" and its sequels, to "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and its sequel, to "Urban Legend" and its sequel, following the same pattern of a mystery killer offing teenage characters until their identity is exposed and they explain their motive to the remaining cast members, it was a genuine pleasure to sit back and watch a group of non-teen actors getting dispatched of in a grisly way, with the motive of the killer determined within the opening five minutes. Sure, there is still a whodunit quality to the proceedings, but the payoff is quite different and surprisingly refreshing from the recent slew of, as Roger Ebert calls them, Mad Slasher Movies.
"Valentine" also follows in the footsteps of the nostalgic holiday-set slashers, such as 1978's "Halloween," 1974's "Black Christmas," 1980's "New Year's Evil," and even 1981's "My Bloody Valentine." The movie makes no bones about its old-fashioned, "let-me-go-bathe-in-the-hot-tub-as-a-killer-lurks-in-the-house" horror conventions, but that is part of the fun. The impressive production values, however, are very much of a decidedly 2001 nature, as is its healthy budget that afforded such rising young stars as Denise Richards (1999's "The World is Not Enough"), David Boreanaz (WB's "Angel"), Katherine Heigl (WB's "Roswell"), and Marley Shelton (2000's "Sugar & Spice").
In a prologue set at a junior high school dance in 1988, a nerdy, bespectacled boy is severely traumatized when he asks five classmates to dance, all of which turn him down except one--a heavyset girl who later accused him of attacking her in front of other classmates. Switch forward 13 years, four of the now-grown girls reunite at the funeral of the fifth, Shelley (Katherine Heigl), who is brutally murdered while studying for her pre-med final. Immediately afterwards, sweet-natured Kate (Marley Shelton), sexy Paige (Denise Richards), bitchy Lily (Jessica Cauffiel), and the now-pretty, poor-little-rich-girl Dorothy (Jessica Capshaw), begin receiving grisly, threatening Valentine cards as the holiday approaches. Could their former middle school classmate, whom they haven't seen in years, be out to seek revenge on those that did him wrong? And if so, might he be someone that is already in their lives?
Loosely based on the acclaimed novel by Tom Savage, "Valentine" stands out from the recent spate of slasher films because of its simple throwback to the setup and payoff of the horror movies of old. Aside from natural humor that surfaces from some of the dialogue, the film takes itself very seriously, and divulges several good scary moments and more than a couple thrilling, suspenseful setpieces. While many of the older, lesser slasher flicks relied on nothing more than gore and exploitative violence, "Valentine" manages to keep the tension level high, and is actually pretty tame as far as blood-and-guts goes. There's a bit of that, to be sure, but talented director Jamie Blanks, whose first film, "Urban Legend," was the best of the post-"Scream" knockoffs, is more interested in stylish camera movements, tight editing, and genuinely unsettling sequences of mayhem to create a distinct atmosphere of dread.
One of the biggest stars of "Valentine" is its gorgeously sleek, threatening production design by Stephen Geaghan, which becomes a character all its own, particularly in the climax set at a Valentine's Day party at Dorothy's family's wooded mansion. The cinematography, by Rick Bota, is also top-notch, particularly its truly eerie use of red to not only cleverly foreshadow the holiday, but also the threat of death that grows around the characters as the story progresses. The makers of "Valentine" have succeeded awesomely in their challenge to make the title holiday palpably felt, and potentially dangerous.
The characters are a grab-bag of both the likable and spiteful variety, which actually aids the film more than it hurts it, because, in some strange way, we are supposed to feel sympathy for the killer. The jury is still out if director Blanks is successful on this count, but he does allow you to at least grow to care about three of the characters--Kate; her boyfriend Adam (David Boreanaz), who is struggling with his alcoholism; and Dorothy, who has now lost a lot of weight but feels remorse for the way she treated her junior high classmate when she was really in the same boat as he at the time.
Marley Shelton ably provides the honest center for the film, and is better here than she was in the recent "Sugar & Spice." Getting to play a more adult, mature character, Shelton is a beautiful face, and just the sight of her smile creates an overwhelming feeling of warmth and realism. More importantly, she is very good as the put-upon Kate, and hopefully this will be her breakthrough role.
The biggest name in the cast is Denise Richards, whose performances have ranged from trashily great (1998's "Wild Things") to middling (1999's "Drop Dead Gorgeous") to downright bad ("The World Is Not Enough"). As the sexually powerful Paige, who takes almost everything in her life for granted, including her own attractiveness, Richards respectably creates a well-rounded character with the material provided, and even gets a few chances to test out her comedic skills.
In his first feature film since he hit it big on TV's "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer" and currently its spinoff, "Angel," David Boreanaz does fine work in a mostly superfluous supporting role, while Kate Capshaw, as Dorothy, turns in a poignant portrayal of someone who is so insecure with herself that she doesn't yet know where she fits into the world. Finally, Katherine Heigl is memorable with only ten minutes of screen time as the first victim of the creepy Cherub mask-wearing killer.
The purpose of a slasher film is two-fold: it should be entertaining, yet scary, fun, yet nail-biting. It's fairly safe to say director Blanks and screenwriters Donna Powers, Wayne Powers, Gretchen J. Berg, and Aaron Harberts were not attempting to recreate the wheel when they made "Valentine," so there is no use in even expecting a masterpiece. However, thanks to Blanks' numerous inspired Hitchcockian elements that he subtly pays tribute to, as well as the surprising twist ending that, for once, does make sense, "Valentine" ends up being the next best thing: a modern-day slasher pic that is a step above most.
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