THE WEDDING BANQUET A film review by James Berardinelli Copyright 1993 James Berardinelli
Rating (Linear 0 to 10): 7.4
Date Released: varies Running Length: 1:49 Rated: NR (Mature themes, sexual situations, brief nudity)
Starring: Winston Chao, May Chin, Mitchell Lichtenstein, Sihung Lung, Ah-Leh Gua Director: Ang Lee Producers: Ang Lee, Ted Hope, and James Schamus Screenplay: Ang Lee, Neil Peng, and James Schamus Music: Mader Released by The Samuel Goldwyn Company In English and Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles
Wai-Tung (Winston Chao) has a problem. Living in New York with a well-paying job, a nice home, and a stable relationship (with Simon, played by Mitchell Lichtenstein), everything would appear to be going his way.  But an apparent solution to the dilemma presents itself when Wei Wei (May Chin), a tenant in a building owned by Wai, must find a way to get a green card or face deportation. As a result, a marriage of convenience is arranged between the pair, and everything seems to be working out well until Wai's parents arrive from China to plan the wedding banquet.
What at first seems like a simple romantic comedy is actually a deceptively perceptive look at cultural, sexual, and generational differences. And, despite THE WEDDING BANQUET's often-light, occasionally-playful tone, a forceful dramatic structure underlies the film. Of course, this is what usually makes for the best kind of comedy - a movie that cares more about its story and characters than making people laugh.
There are a lot of tangled relationships in this film, but all of them, no matter how complicated or confusing, are handled expertly. Everyone's motivations are clear, and for once there's no villain, unless you choose to name circumstances as the antagonist. It's refreshing when a movie comes along that allows you to enjoy spending two hours with the people on screen.
Writer/director/producer Ang Lee, a Chinese-American film maker, displays a remarkable ability to present and balance issues without becoming preachy, and while also avoiding the dangerous trap of cliches and stereotypes. All the characters have their own unique identities, and their emotions come shining through.
While there isn't anything revolutionary in the story, and some of the "twists" are easy to predict, it's never clear until the end how everything is going to be resolved. Given the nature of the central triangular relationship (Wai, Wei Wei, and Simon), I had visions of a horrible, Hollywood-type conclusion that would have destroyed all my respect for the film. Thankfully, that did not happen, which shows the intelligence, good taste, and sensitivity of everyone involved.
Although it deals with potentially-weighty issues and some very powerful emotional impulses, THE WEDDING BANQUET never becomes bogged down by its own seriousness. Lee manages to keep the production buoyant by including scenes that are often riotously funny.
The actors are uniformly good. May Chin, a huge pop star in Taiwan, gives a complex rendering of Wei Wei, managing to bring across the churning emotions of the one person in this film who really has no one. Despite this being his screen debut, Winston Chao is as impressive as any veteran, and there are no readily apparent chinks in his performance. Mitchell Lichtenstein's Simon could easily have slipped into obscurity, but the actor manages a strong enough presence to avoid such an ignominious fate. Stately and dignified, Sihung Lung and Ah-Leh Gua breathe life into Mr. and Mrs. Gao, Wai's parents.
It's understandable why THE WEDDING BANQUET won the Golden Bear award at the 1993 Berlin Film Festival, and the Best Film and Best Director citations at the 1993 Seattle International Film Festival. There is enough depth in this picture to fill up several movies, yet THE WEDDING BANQUET shortchanges none of its interwoven storylines. While I won't go so far as to say that this is a magical motion picture, it certainly serves as excellent entertainment on more than one level.
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13-year-old rape survivor gives birth to baby girl
by Our CorrespondentHYDERABAD: A minor girl, who was allegedly subjected to rape over a period of several months in Jacobabad district, has given birth to an infant in Shaikh Zaid Hospital in Larkana district. The 13-year-old rape survivor was shifted to the hospital in police custody because she faces threats from the alleged rapists.
According to hospital sources, DNA samples of the newborn have been collected and sent to Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences’ forensic and molecular laboratory.
Four persons, including two unidentified suspects, were nominated in the FIR of rape at Civil Lines Police Station in Jacobabad. Police had arrested the accused, Zafarullah Surhiyo and Kamran Pathan, but they were later released on bail. The other two suspects, who are not known to the police yet, have been declared absconders.
The girl, who was 12 years old at the time, reportedly did not inform her mother about rape until her pregnancy became known. Meanwhile, the victim’s mother alleged that her daughter used to go to the residence of Surhiyo who provided them free meals. The other known accused, Pathan, is a vendor who sells Haleem.
Police have not been able to establish who raped the girl yet, and have been awaiting the child’s birth for the DNA test. The victim’s mother, who is a widow, has appealed the government and the judiciary to take notice and provide her justice.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 18th, 2019.


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Pairing and Feedback in Dev Bootcamp Phase 0
March 7 2015
BACK | HOMEPairing:
I really like pairing, especially at this point in Phase 0 where we are largely on our own. It provides both an outlet to talk to other people who are experiencing the same frustrations and confusion as I am, as well as a great resource for comparing knowledge and methods to solve a problem. Usually I end up pairing for 1.5 hours or so. In every case, my pair partner has spent extra time going over things with me after we completed the challenge, in some cases completing multiple challenges with me. I always start a pair session slightly nervous and apprehensive, and I always end it feeling great. And invariably we finish the challenge much faster and better than I would on my own.
It has been fun meeting other Dev Bootcamp students face-to-face (if not in person yet). This part of the program especially feels like such a solitary pursuit, and communicating with others in the same boat is both fun and reassuring. A great surprise has been that every single person I've paired with, all ten or twelve or however many, have been cool people I'd be down to get a beer with. People from different places with different backgrounds, but everyone has been nicer than nice and we have much in common.
It can be frustrating going into a pairing session feeling behind or stressed about the material. I've expected to bomb a couple times and generally am pleasantly surprised to find out that, even if my partner is more advanced, I know more than I often think. For me, it can take teasing this out with another person, which is much of the reason pairing often feels like such a breath of fresh air after struggling through the week's exercises by myself. I don't always realize what I know without thinking and talking it through, and that's not always easy to do alone.
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My feedback always makes me feel good! Part of this could be because anything that isn't kind doesn't filter down to me, but I think pretty much all my sessions are up there. I can pretty much remember or tell who wrote each one, and we often have very similar things to say.
Reading my own feedback is very helpful, principally because it is so encouraging. As I mention above, I have a tendency to self-deprecate (a word some of my feedback even used) and get frustrated if I don't understand a concept quickly. Reading feedback is highly reassuring, letting me know that I'm not as far behind as I think, and that I have even contributed to others' knowledge, while I may be feeling like I'm not contributing much at all. It often points out that I am acting this way, and I'll continue to try to be more confident and assertive going forward. I know that to succeed I have to start owning this stuff and not be so doubtful.
Writing feedback can be a little awkward, but overall it comes pretty naturally. The way to do it is definitely right after finishing a pairing session so everything is fresh in your mind. It can be difficult to come up with actionable feedback sometimes, especially if everything went really well. When I do leave actionable feedback, I often find it applies to both my pair and to myself, and often I'll address it to both of us. And most of that feedback will revolve around being more confident and assertive and sticking to assigned driver/navigator roles, all things with which I struggle too. So when I have a pair like me, while we get along very well and get everything done, we can stray off task and waffle a bit. But hey, it's still fun, and still productive.
I can't imagine Phase 0 without pairing, and in some ways wish I paired on every challenge. I definitely would like to continue to pair as often as possible. It is important to spend time studying and working alone too; the reading and the exercises are critical to understand all the complicated material we are covering in these few months. But getting to the next step, real internalization and deep understanding, takes discussion, takes making mistakes and having someone there to help you figure out where and how to fix them, and takes encouragement from peers. Pairing fulfills those goals and more, has already jump-started some new friendships, and is generally one of the more enjoyable and important aspects of Phase 0.


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Adeo Dev Summit '18 Alexandre Vandekerkhove - Salto Consulting
About my team and I
Relationship Inhabitant Program (PRH)
Technical products about inhabitants at Adeo : customers repository, web account, customers management, ...
Alexandre Vandekerkhove Software engineer since 2006, tech leader in the team. Backend/JEE specialist
Did you say micro service?
Introduction about microservices
small / single responsibility / isolated / loosely-coupled
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do we often face such simple use cases?
how to split a monolith?
Data-quality product pitch
Clean customers data thanks to a proprietary solution to be integrated
Create new quality measures about customers data
Expose APIs to manage the batches and the quality measures
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1st naive approach
Add new REST endpoints and batches on SCR repository
2nd naive approach
Chief : "Hey! Let's make microservices, it's cool?!"
Bad idea ☹ A lot of modifications on customers repository. It should be only a... repository.
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Think before you code...
Try to imagine a solution which answers to :
SCR is a repository and nothing more
Possibility to connect with other customers sources
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Multi tenant solution : 1 deployment manages multiple B.U.
Agile concepts : easy to change, easy to deploy
SCR isolation : Anti-corruption layer
The ACL handles all exchanges with SCR
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Hide the proprietary software
Do one thing and do it well
The worker microservice will be only responsible of dealing with IN/OUT customers files, and communicate with the software


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by Tammy PetersenBrass valuables, including a pulpit, valued at about R200 000 has been stolen from a Cape Town church as brazen thieves struck holy ground.
Antique brass religious symbols and artefacts from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Belgravia, Athlone, were believed to have been stolen over the past two weeks, provincial dean Pastor De Vries Bock said.
In addition to the eagle stand pulpit, a communion set, baptism bowl, chandelier and candle holders were also stolen.
The money box from its office is missing as well.
"We can't point fingers at who could be behind this," Bock said.
"A church is a public place and everyone is welcome. But whoever took it, came specifically for those items. They left other things of value behind."
The church is offering a reward of R1 500 for the return of the pieces, which are more than 120 years old.
Bock said the theft was a setback to the heritage and religious traditions of the church.
"[It is] disheartening knowing that the church just in the past weeks opened its doors to the displaced people of the Vlei [informal settlement] after a devastating fire and was instrumental in mobilising much-needed aid and support for over 800 people. The church also used its premises to provide emergency relief to the community."
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Eventual Data Consistency Solution in ServiceComb - part 1
Data consistency is a critical aspect of many systems, especially in cloud and microservice environment. We recently released Saga project under ServiceComb to address data consistency issue. But why is data consistency so important and what is Saga?
 We provide one-stop trip planning experience for our customers, so that they only have to provide a destination and we will book a flight, rent a car, and reserve a hotel room for them. From the business point of view, we have to make sure bookings with all the three are successful to make a successful trip plan, or there will be no plan.
This requirement is easily satisfied with our current monolithic application. We just had to wrap all the three bookings in a single database transaction and they would all be done successfully or none was done.
When this feature released, our business was happy, and our customer was happy.
Data Consistency in the Microservice Scenario
In a few years, our corporation is doing so well on this trip planning business and our customers grow over tenfold. As more services provided by our airline, car rental company, and hotel chain, our application and development teams also grow. Now our monolith is so big and complex that not a single person understands how everything works together. What's even worse is that it takes weeks for all the development teams to put together their changes for a new release. Our business is not happy, since our market share is dropping due to the delay of our new features.
We decide to split our monolith into four microservices, flight booking, car rental, hotel reservation, and payment, after several rounds of discussions. Services use their own database and communicate through HTTP requests. They are released according to their own schedule to meet the market needs.  A service cannot just access another's database, because it violates the service boundary and services may not use the same database technology.
Sagas
We found a great paper by Hector & Kenneth on the Internet talking about data consistency issues and this paper mentioned a terminology named Saga.
A saga refers to a long live transaction that can be broken into a collection of sub-transactions that can be interleaved in any way with other transactions. Each sub transactions in this case is a real transaction in the sense that it preserves database consistency. [1]
In case of our business, a trip transaction is a saga which consists of four sub-transactions: flight booking, car rental, hotel reservation, and payment.
Saga is also described in Chris Richardson's article: Pattern: Saga.
Chris Richardson is an experienced software architect, author of POJOs in Action and the creator of the original CloudFoundry.com. [3]
Caitie McCaffrey also showed how she applied saga pattern in Halo 4 by Microsoft in her talk.
How Saga Works
The transactions in a saga are related to each other and should be executed as a (non-atomic) unit. Any partial executions of the saga are undesirable, and if they occur, must be compensated for. To amend partial executions, each saga transaction T1 should be provided with a compensating transaction C1.[1]
We define the following transactions and their corresponding compensations for our services according to the rule above:
| Service | Transaction | Compensation |
|---|---|---|
| flight booking | book flight | cancel booking |
| car rental | rent car | cancel booking |
| hotel reservation | reserve room | cancel reservation |
| payment | pay | refund |
Once compensating transactions C1, C2, …, Cn-1 are defined for saga T1, T2, …, Tn, then the system can make the following guarantee [1]
- either the sequence T1, T2, …, Tn (which is the preferable one)
- or the sequence T1, T2, …, Tj, Cj, …, C2, C1, for some 0 < j < n, will be executed
In another word, with the above defined transaction/compensation pairs, saga guarantees the following business rules are met:
- all the bookings are either executed successfully, or cancelled if any of them fails
- if the payment fails in the last step, all bookings are cancelled too
Saga Recovery
Two types of saga recovery were described in the original paper:
- backward recovery compensates all completed transactions if one failed
- forward recovery retries failed transactions, assuming every sub-transaction will eventually succeed
Apparently there is no need for compensating transactions in forward recovery, which is useful if sub-transactions will always succeed (eventually) or compensations are very hard or impossible for your business.
Theoretically compensating transactions shall never fail. However, in the distributed world, servers may go down, network can fail, and even data centers may go dark. What can we do in such situations? The last resort is to have fallbacks which may involve manual intervention.
The Restrictions of Saga
That looks promising. Are all long live transactions can be done this way?  That is, sagas may view the partial results of other sagas [1]
- Each sub-transaction should be an independent atomic action [2]
In our case, flight booking, car rental, hotel reservation, and payment are naturally independent actions and transaction of each can be performed atomically with their corresponding databases.
We don't need atomicity at the trip transaction level either. One user may book the last seat on a flight which gets cancelled later due to insufficient balance in credit card. Another user may see the flight fully booked and one seat freed up for booking due to the cancellation. He/she can grab the last flight seat and complete the trip plan. It does not really matter to our business.
There are also things to consider on compensations.
The compensating transaction undoes, from a semantic point of view, any of the actions performed by Ti, but does not necessarily return the database to the state that existed when the execution of Ti began. (For instance, if a transaction fires a missile, it may not be possible to undo this action) [1]
However, this is not a problem at all for our business. And it is still possible to compensate for actions hard to undo. For example, a transaction sending an email can be compensated by sending another email explaining the problem.
Summary
Now we have a solution to tackle our data consistency issue with saga. It allows us to either successfully perform all transactions or compensate succeeded ones in case any fails. Although saga does not provide ACID guarantee, it still suits many scenarios where eventual data consistency is enough. How do we design a saga system? Let's address the question in our next blog post.
References
- Original Paper on Sagas by By Hector Garcia-Molina & Kenneth Salem
- Gifford, David K and James E Donahue, “Coordinating Independent Atomic Actions”, Proceedings of IEEE COMPCON, San Francisco, CA, February, 1985
- Chris Richardson: http://www.chrisrichardson.net/
- ServiceComb Saga Project: https://github.com/apache/incubator-servicecomb-saga
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arrays_equal (ndarray_list) |
Checks if a list of arrays are all equal. |
bernoulli (k) |
The kth Bernoulli number. |
check_err (val, err, epsrel) |
Checks the relative error given a tolerance. |
compare_arr (ndarray_list) |
Prints the arrays in a suitable format for comparison. |
exp_expn (n, x) |
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get_grid (a, b) |
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hyp2f1_func_real (n, x) |
Returns the real part of \(_2F_1(1, n+1, n+2, x)\). |
is_log_spaced (arr) |
Checks for a log-spaced array. |
log_1_plus_x (x) |
Computes log(1+x) with greater floating point accuracy. |
log_series_diff (b, a) |
The Taylor series for log(1+b) - log(1+a). |
spence_series_diff (b, a) |
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Interpolator2D (arr0, name0, arr1, name1, val_arr) |
Interpolation function over a list of objects. |


#Build: Synplify Pro (R) N-2018.03G-Beta6, Build 118R, May 15 2018 #install: C:\Gowin\1.8\SynplifyPro #OS: Windows 8 6.2 #Hostname: BEACONDEV3 # Mon Oct 8 09:41:26 2018 #Implementation: rev_1 Copyright (C) 1994-2018 Synopsys, Inc. This Synopsys software and all associated documentation are proprietary to Synopsys, Inc. and may only be used pursuant to the terms and conditions of a written license agreement with Synopsys, Inc. All other use, reproduction, modification, or distribution of the Synopsys software or the associated documentation is strictly prohibited. Tool: Synplify Pro (R) Build: N-2018.03G-Beta6 Install: C:\Gowin\1.8\SynplifyPro OS: Windows 6.2 Hostname: BEACONDEV3 Implementation : rev_1 Synopsys HDL Compiler, Version comp2018q1p1, Build 118R, Built May 15 2018 09:18:11 @N: : | Running in 64-bit mode Copyright (C) 1994-2018 Synopsys, Inc. This Synopsys software and all associated documentation are proprietary to Synopsys, Inc. and may only be used pursuant to the terms and conditions of a written license agreement with Synopsys, Inc. All other use, reproduction, modification, or distribution of the Synopsys software or the associated documentation is strictly prohibited. Tool: Synplify Pro (R) Build: N-2018.03G-Beta6 Install: C:\Gowin\1.8\SynplifyPro OS: Windows 6.2 Hostname: BEACONDEV3 Implementation : rev_1 Synopsys Verilog Compiler, Version comp2018q1p1, Build 118R, Built May 15 2018 09:18:11 @N: : | Running in 64-bit mode @N: : | : Running Verilog Compiler in System Verilog mode @N: : | : Running Verilog Compiler in Multiple File Compilation Unit mode @I::"C:\Gowin\1.8\SynplifyPro\lib\generic\gw1n.v" (library work) @I::"C:\Gowin\1.8\SynplifyPro\lib\vlog\hypermods.v" (library __hyper__lib__) @I::"C:\Gowin\1.8\SynplifyPro\lib\vlog\umr_capim.v" (library snps_haps) @I::"C:\Gowin\1.8\SynplifyPro\lib\vlog\scemi_objects.v" (library snps_haps) @I::"C:\Gowin\1.8\SynplifyPro\lib\vlog\scemi_pipes.svh" (library snps_haps) @I::"C:\Gowin\1.8\IDE\data\ipcores\GAO_LITE\GW_CON\gw_con_parameter.v" (library work) @I::"C:\Gowin\1.8\IDE\data\ipcores\GAO_LITE\GW_CON\gw_con_top_define.v" (library work) @I::"C:\Gowin\1.8\IDE\data\ipcores\GAO_LITE\GW_CON\gw_con_top.v" (library work) @W:CG1337 : gw_con_top.v(194) | Net capture_dr is not declared. @W:CG1337 : gw_con_top.v(211) | Net enable_i_delay is not declared. Verilog syntax check successful! @N:CG364 : gw_con_parameter.v(1) | Synthesizing module work_C:\Gowin\1.8\IDE\data\ipcores\GAO_LITE\GW_CON\gw_con_parameter.v_unit in library work. Selecting top level module gw_con_top At c_ver Exit (Real Time elapsed 0h:00m:00s; CPU Time elapsed 0h:00m:00s; Memory used current: 69MB peak: 70MB) Process took 0h:00m:01s realtime, 0h:00m:01s cputime Process completed successfully. # Mon Oct 8 09:41:27 2018 ###########################################################] Copyright (C) 1994-2018 Synopsys, Inc. This Synopsys software and all associated documentation are proprietary to Synopsys, Inc. and may only be used pursuant to the terms and conditions of a written license agreement with Synopsys, Inc. All other use, reproduction, modification, or distribution of the Synopsys software or the associated documentation is strictly prohibited. Tool: Synplify Pro (R) Build: N-2018.03G-Beta6 Install: C:\Gowin\1.8\SynplifyPro OS: Windows 6.2 Hostname: BEACONDEV3 Implementation : rev_1 Synopsys Synopsys Netlist Linker, Version comp2018q1p1, Build 118R, Built May 15 2018 09:18:11 @N: : | Running in 64-bit mode At syn_nfilter Exit (Real Time elapsed 0h:00m:00s; CPU Time elapsed 0h:00m:00s; Memory used current: 67MB peak: 68MB) Process took 0h:00m:01s realtime, 0h:00m:01s cputime Process completed successfully. # Mon Oct 8 09:41:28 2018 ###########################################################] @END At c_hdl Exit (Real Time elapsed 0h:00m:00s; CPU Time elapsed 0h:00m:00s; Memory used current: 3MB peak: 4MB) Process took 0h:00m:01s realtime, 0h:00m:01s cputime Process completed successfully. # Mon Oct 8 09:41:28 2018 ###########################################################]


Views can be styles using plain CSS, Less, SASS or any other supported by CSS formatters.
The CSS formatter is added automatically. Formatters for Less and SASS are builtin, but must
be added and the core dependency added to your package.json
.
npm install sass --save-dev
The SASS formatter is now builtin but optional. Add the following line to your app.
ss.client.formatters.add('sass');
By default the includePaths
option is the node_modules
and the client directory.
If you want to change it you can override it.
ss.client.formatters.add('sass', {
includePaths: [ path.join(__dirname,'client','sass')]
});


Language Codes:¶
These codes correspond to the languages. So, just pass in these language codes, to download Manga/Comic in that language (only supported by few sites).
Language Code –> Language¶
0 --> English
1 --> Italian
2 --> Spanish
3 --> French
4 --> German
5 --> Portuguese
6 --> Turkish
7 --> Indonesian
8 --> Greek
9 --> Filipino
10 --> Polish
11 --> Thai
12 --> Malay
13 --> Hungarian
14 --> Romanian
15 --> Arabic
16 --> Hebrew
17 --> Russian
18 --> Vietnamese
19 --> Dutch
20 --> Bengali
21 --> Persian
22 --> Czech
23 --> Brazilian
24 --> Bulgarian
25 --> Danish
26 --> Esperanto
27 --> Swedish
28 --> Lithuanian
29 --> Other
Note :¶
1.) Some websites like bato.to don’t let you view some pages if you’re
not logged in. You’ll have to create an account and pass the login
information to the script via -p
and -u
arguments.
2.) Since omgbeaupeep is uh… well, you just need to pass the absolute chapter numbers in the range section for that. For eg : Check out Richie Rich. If you want to download first 600 episodes, you would pass : –range 001-600. Just check the URLs for those chapters and pass accordingly.


Yesterday I borked up my Ubuntu install trying to install Firefox 3.5. Fed up with the worsening bugs that were cropping up (dropping wifi, for example), I downloaded and installed Linux Mint 7. So far I'm very impressed…. but that's not the point of this post.
I use VMware Server to run an Ubuntu web server, XP, and various other OSes. After installing Server 2.0.1 I added my existing VMs to the inventory; all went smoothly except with XP. Whenever I would add the .vmx config file, the web interface would hang. After googling and finding similar problems but no solutions, I started hacking around on my own, and found a solution.
To manually add a VM to your inventory, simply:
-
Open up your vmInventory.xml config file in your favourite text editor:
sudo gedit /etc/vmware/hostd/vmInventory.xml - Following the format of existing entries, add a new entry for your stubborn VM. Here's a link to a copy of mine for reference: vmInventory.xml
- Restart your VMware services. There's probably a better way, but restarting your box will definitely do the trick.
Hopefully this saves someone some frustration. Might post more about my Mint experience later.


1 Harmonic Intervals in C on Guitar
2 Melodic Intervals in C on Guitar
3 Simple
4 Harmonic Intervals in C on Guitar
5 Harmonic Intervals in C on Mandolin


public class CameraSource
extends java.lang.Object
Detector
. This receives preview frames from the camera at
a specified rate, sending those frames to the detector as fast as it is able to process those
frames.
This camera source makes a best effort to manage processing on preview frames as fast as
possible, while at the same time minimizing lag. As such, frames may be dropped if the detector
is unable to keep up with the rate of frames generated by the camera. You should use
CameraSource.Builder.setRequestedFps(float)
to specify a frame rate that works well with
the capabilities of the camera hardware and the detector options that you have selected. If CPU
utilization is higher than you'd like, then you may want to consider reducing FPS. If the camera
preview or detector results are too "jerky", then you may want to consider increasing FPS.
The following Android permission is required to use the camera:
| Modifier and Type | Class and Description |
|---|---|
static interface |
CameraSource.AutoFocusCallback
Callback interface used to notify on completion of camera auto focus.
|
static interface |
CameraSource.AutoFocusMoveCallback
Callback interface used to notify on auto focus start and stop.
|
static class |
CameraSource.Builder
Builder for configuring and creating an associated camera source.
|
private class |
CameraSource.CameraAutoFocusCallback
Wraps the camera1 auto focus callback so that the deprecated API isn't exposed.
|
private class |
CameraSource.CameraAutoFocusMoveCallback
Wraps the camera1 auto focus move callback so that the deprecated API isn't exposed.
|
private class |
CameraSource.CameraPreviewCallback
Called when the camera has a new preview frame.
|
private static interface |
CameraSource.FlashMode |
private static interface |
CameraSource.FocusMode |
private class |
CameraSource.FrameProcessingRunnable
This runnable controls access to the underlying receiver, calling it to process frames when
available from the camera.
|
static interface |
CameraSource.PictureCallback
Callback interface used to supply image data from a photo capture.
|
private class |
CameraSource.PictureDoneCallback
Wraps the final callback in the camera sequence, so that we can automatically turn the camera
preview back on after the picture has been taken.
|
private class |
CameraSource.PictureStartCallback
Wraps the camera1 shutter callback so that the deprecated API isn't exposed.
|
static interface |
CameraSource.ShutterCallback
Callback interface used to signal the moment of actual image capture.
|
private static class |
CameraSource.SizePair
Stores a preview size and a corresponding same-aspect-ratio picture size.
|
| Modifier and Type | Field and Description |
|---|---|
private static float |
ASPECT_RATIO_TOLERANCE
If the absolute difference between a preview size aspect ratio and a picture size aspect
ratio is less than this tolerance, they are considered to be the same aspect ratio.
|
static int |
CAMERA_FACING_BACK |
static int |
CAMERA_FACING_FRONT |
private static int |
DUMMY_TEXTURE_NAME
The dummy surface texture must be assigned a chosen name.
|
private java.util.Map<byte[],java.nio.ByteBuffer> |
mBytesToByteBuffer
Map to convert between a byte array, received from the camera, and its associated byte
buffer.
|
private android.hardware.Camera |
mCamera |
private java.lang.Object |
mCameraLock |
private android.content.Context |
mContext |
private android.graphics.SurfaceTexture |
mDummySurfaceTexture |
private android.view.SurfaceView |
mDummySurfaceView |
private int |
mFacing |
private java.lang.String |
mFlashMode |
private java.lang.String |
mFocusMode |
private CameraSource.FrameProcessingRunnable |
mFrameProcessor |
private com.google.android.gms.common.images.Size |
mPreviewSize |
private java.lang.Thread |
mProcessingThread
Dedicated thread and associated runnable for calling into the detector with frames, as the
frames become available from the camera.
|
private float |
mRequestedFps |
private int |
mRequestedPreviewHeight |
private int |
mRequestedPreviewWidth |
private int |
mRotation
Rotation of the device, and thus the associated preview images captured from the device.
|
private static java.lang.String |
TAG |
| Modifier | Constructor and Description |
|---|---|
private |
CameraSource()
Only allow creation via the builder class.
|
| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
|---|---|
void |
autoFocus(CameraSource.AutoFocusCallback cb)
Starts camera auto-focus and registers a callback function to run when
the camera is focused.
|
void |
cancelAutoFocus()
Cancels any auto-focus function in progress.
|
private android.hardware.Camera |
createCamera()
Opens the camera and applies the user settings.
|
private byte[] |
createPreviewBuffer(com.google.android.gms.common.images.Size previewSize)
Creates one buffer for the camera preview callback.
|
int |
doZoom(float scale) |
private static java.util.List<CameraSource.SizePair> |
generateValidPreviewSizeList(android.hardware.Camera camera)
Generates a list of acceptable preview sizes.
|
int |
getCameraFacing()
Returns the selected camera; one of
CAMERA_FACING_BACK or
CAMERA_FACING_FRONT . |
java.lang.String |
getFlashMode()
Gets the current flash mode setting.
|
java.lang.String |
getFocusMode()
Gets the current focus mode setting.
|
private static int |
getIdForRequestedCamera(int facing)
Gets the id for the camera specified by the direction it is facing.
|
com.google.android.gms.common.images.Size |
getPreviewSize()
Returns the preview size that is currently in use by the underlying camera.
|
void |
release()
Stops the camera and releases the resources of the camera and underlying detector.
|
private int[] |
selectPreviewFpsRange(android.hardware.Camera camera,
float desiredPreviewFps)
Selects the most suitable preview frames per second range, given the desired frames per
second.
|
private static CameraSource.SizePair |
selectSizePair(android.hardware.Camera camera,
int desiredWidth,
int desiredHeight)
Selects the most suitable preview and picture size, given the desired width and height.
|
boolean |
setAutoFocusMoveCallback(CameraSource.AutoFocusMoveCallback cb)
Sets camera auto-focus move callback.
|
boolean |
setFlashMode(java.lang.String mode)
Sets the flash mode.
|
boolean |
setFocusMode(java.lang.String mode)
Sets the focus mode.
|
private void |
setRotation(android.hardware.Camera camera,
android.hardware.Camera.Parameters parameters,
int cameraId)
Calculates the correct rotation for the given camera id and sets the rotation in the
parameters.
|
CameraSource |
start()
Opens the camera and starts sending preview frames to the underlying detector.
|
CameraSource |
start(android.view.SurfaceHolder surfaceHolder)
Opens the camera and starts sending preview frames to the underlying detector.
|
void |
stop()
Closes the camera and stops sending frames to the underlying frame detector.
|
void |
takePicture(CameraSource.ShutterCallback shutter,
CameraSource.PictureCallback jpeg)
Initiates taking a picture, which happens asynchronously.
|
public static final int CAMERA_FACING_BACK
public static final int CAMERA_FACING_FRONT
private static final java.lang.String TAG
private static final int DUMMY_TEXTURE_NAME
private static final float ASPECT_RATIO_TOLERANCE
private android.content.Context mContext
private final java.lang.Object mCameraLock
private android.hardware.Camera mCamera
private int mFacing
private int mRotation
Frame.Metadata#getRotation()
.private com.google.android.gms.common.images.Size mPreviewSize
private float mRequestedFps
private int mRequestedPreviewWidth
private int mRequestedPreviewHeight
private java.lang.String mFocusMode
private java.lang.String mFlashMode
private android.view.SurfaceView mDummySurfaceView
private android.graphics.SurfaceTexture mDummySurfaceTexture
private java.lang.Thread mProcessingThread
private CameraSource.FrameProcessingRunnable mFrameProcessor
private java.util.Map<byte[],java.nio.ByteBuffer> mBytesToByteBuffer
public void release()
public CameraSource start() throws java.io.IOException
java.io.IOException
- if the camera's preview texture or display could not be initializedpublic CameraSource start(android.view.SurfaceHolder surfaceHolder) throws java.io.IOException
surfaceHolder
- the surface holder to use for the preview framesjava.io.IOException
- if the supplied surface holder could not be used as the preview displaypublic void stop()
start()
or
start(SurfaceHolder)
.
Call release()
instead to completely shut down this camera source and release the
resources of the underlying detector.public com.google.android.gms.common.images.Size getPreviewSize()
public int getCameraFacing()
CAMERA_FACING_BACK
or
CAMERA_FACING_FRONT
.public int doZoom(float scale)
public void takePicture(CameraSource.ShutterCallback shutter, CameraSource.PictureCallback jpeg)
start()
or start(SurfaceHolder)
. The camera
preview is suspended while the picture is being taken, but will resume once picture taking is
done.shutter
- the callback for image capture moment, or nulljpeg
- the callback for JPEG image data, or null@Nullable public java.lang.String getFocusMode()
autoFocus(AutoFocusCallback)
to start the focus if focus
mode is FOCUS_MODE_AUTO or FOCUS_MODE_MACRO.Camera.Parameters#FOCUS_MODE_AUTO
,
Camera.Parameters#FOCUS_MODE_INFINITY
,
Camera.Parameters#FOCUS_MODE_MACRO
,
Camera.Parameters#FOCUS_MODE_FIXED
,
Camera.Parameters#FOCUS_MODE_EDOF
,
Camera.Parameters#FOCUS_MODE_CONTINUOUS_VIDEO
,
Camera.Parameters#FOCUS_MODE_CONTINUOUS_PICTURE
public boolean setFocusMode(java.lang.String mode)
mode
- the focus modetrue
if the focus mode is set, false
otherwisegetFocusMode()
@Nullable public java.lang.String getFlashMode()
Camera.Parameters#FLASH_MODE_OFF
,
Camera.Parameters#FLASH_MODE_AUTO
,
Camera.Parameters#FLASH_MODE_ON
,
Camera.Parameters#FLASH_MODE_RED_EYE
,
Camera.Parameters#FLASH_MODE_TORCH
public boolean setFlashMode(java.lang.String mode)
mode
- flash mode.true
if the flash mode is set, false
otherwisegetFlashMode()
public void autoFocus(@Nullable CameraSource.AutoFocusCallback cb)
start()
or start(SurfaceHolder)
and before stop()
or release()
).
Callers should check
getFocusMode()
to determine if
this method should be called. If the camera does not support auto-focus,
it is a no-op and CameraSource.AutoFocusCallback.onAutoFocus(boolean)
callback will be called immediately.
If the current flash mode is not
Camera.Parameters#FLASH_MODE_OFF
, flash may be
fired during auto-focus, depending on the driver and camera hardware.
cb
- the callback to runcancelAutoFocus()
public void cancelAutoFocus()
autoFocus(AutoFocusCallback)
public boolean setAutoFocusMoveCallback(@Nullable CameraSource.AutoFocusMoveCallback cb)
cb
- the callback to runtrue
if the operation is supported (i.e. from Jelly Bean), false
otherwiseprivate android.hardware.Camera createCamera()
java.lang.RuntimeException
- if the method failsprivate static int getIdForRequestedCamera(int facing)
facing
- the desired camera (front-facing or rear-facing)private static CameraSource.SizePair selectSizePair(android.hardware.Camera camera, int desiredWidth, int desiredHeight)
camera
- the camera to select a preview size fromdesiredWidth
- the desired width of the camera preview framesdesiredHeight
- the desired height of the camera preview framesprivate static java.util.List<CameraSource.SizePair> generateValidPreviewSizeList(android.hardware.Camera camera)
private int[] selectPreviewFpsRange(android.hardware.Camera camera, float desiredPreviewFps)
camera
- the camera to select a frames per second range fromdesiredPreviewFps
- the desired frames per second for the camera preview framesprivate void setRotation(android.hardware.Camera camera, android.hardware.Camera.Parameters parameters, int cameraId)
parameters
- the camera parameters for which to set the rotationcameraId
- the camera id to set rotation based onprivate byte[] createPreviewBuffer(com.google.android.gms.common.images.Size previewSize)


Problem: A basketball player has a season free throw average of \(70\%\) halfway through the season, and raises it to \(80\%\) by the end of the season.
Is it necessarily true that it was exactly \(75\%\) at some point? Why or why not? Source
Extension: For which integer triples \((a,b,c)\) can a basketball player go from a free throw average of \(a\) to \(c\) while avoiding a free throw average of \(b\).
Solution


Preferences are applied to all your devices to present information in a manner you are accustomed to.


Hello, all! I am currently in the process of updating this website, but in the meantime please enjoy the site I built before starting phase 1 of Dev Bootcamp.
Here's a cheat sheet for Ruby Enumerables!
My first attempt at responsive design for a 480px screen (make screen smaller to see changes)


Basic interactions
Fragmentation Table Browser including three parts:
- Tool Bar: gives user to modify some parameters.
- Fragmentation Table: shows peptide fragmentation ions match the spectra.
- Errors Differ Chart: shows the matches between theoretical digestion masses of the peptide and the peaks of the fragment ions for the spectra / peptide selected.
Tool Bar: There are three components on the tool bar:
| Tool Bar Component | Description |
| Comment Label | Shows current type of fragment ions matching. |
| Choose Ion Type | Choose one type of ions pair. Such as A_X means show A and X fragment ions in the Fragmentation Table. The default choosed value is B_Y ion pair. |
| Range(Da) | Choose error differ interval range from 0.1Da to 1.0Da in the Errors Differ Chart. Default value is 0.5Da |
Fragmentation Table: shows peptide fragmentation ions match the spectra. Highlight on the table cell means there exists a fragment ion matching. When you click the cell, system will give an box annotation on the Errors Differ Chart.
| Ion Type | Description |
| y | Y ion |
| y++ | Doubly charge Y ion |
| y° | Y ion with loss of water |
| y°++ | Doubly charge Y ion with loss of water |
| y* | Y ion with loss of ammonia |
| y*++ | Doubly charge Y ion with loss of ammonia |
Errors Differ Chart: shows the matches between theoretical digestion masses of the peptide and the peaks of the fragment ions for the spectra / peptide selected. When you click one point on the chart, the according matched the Fragmentation Table cell background will become grey color.
Display Manual Annotations
If there exist fragment ion matches which stored in the PRIDE database, system will show these manual annotations to user. At this context, Tool Bar's Comment Label component will display "Show manual annotations" message, and Range(Da) component not display.
Display Auto Annotations
If there not exist fragment ion matches in the PRIDE database, system will using peptide spectrum matches (PTM) algorithms to generate some annotations automatically, and show them to user. At this context, Tool Bar's Comment Label component will display "Show auto annotations." message, and Range(Da) component will display.
Errors
If delta mass over charge of peptide great than 1 Da, which means the spectra mass is not reliable. Thus, Fragmentation Table Browser hide the Tool Bar, Fragmentation Table and the Errors Differ Chart, only show "Delta m/z is too large, no fragmentation table!" message.


Demystifying GIS, the Cliff's Notes Version
We're going to cover a few things today:
- Demystifying GIS, the cliff's notes version
- A typical Delta case study
- How to request a map product for your project: save time, make friends, be excellent
There are a few common map-making scenarios at Delta:
1. You want some information displayed on a map. Example: Detroit demo permits
2. You have some geospatial data and you want to use it to answer a question. Example: Little Village brownfields
3. You want to use a map to get a better sense of a problem. Example: Prioritizing erosion vulnerability
4. You are preparing a publication and need something designed. Example: K6 binder cover
Before we get too far in the weeds, let's talk about what we mean by GIS.
"A geographic information system (GIS) is a computer system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of spatial or geographical data." -
Wikipedia
That's all well and good, but when most people talk about GIS, they are really talking about...
ArcMap is the quintessential desktop GIS. It's very powerful and most of us have interacted with in one way or another at some point, but it can be cumbersome, has some tricky proprietary formats and so on, so we use a whole suite of tools
Some folks here have gotten a crash course in
QGIS, an open-source desktop GIS that can do pretty much everything ArcMap can do and is free.
We also use a bunch of free or paid online services...
Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Fusion Tables, GeoCommons, BatchGeo, CartoDB, CrossLet, ESRI Business Analyst Online, ESRI ArcGIS Online, GeoJSON.io, etc, etc, etc...
So...
Based on the earlier GIS definition, all of these things qualify as GIS and each has a part in the way we collect, manipulate, analyze and present geospatial data.
Let's take a quick look under the hood.
We'll cover a couple of things really quickly, so don't worry if some of it still feels abstract. We don't have enough time to go really in depth, so I've tried to link to resources wherever possible. This is really just to give you a high-level glance at what's going on when we make maps here.
- Common data formats
- Geodesy
There are two main types of geodata you'll run into: vector and raster.
Vector geo data has three things: geometry, a location, and attribute information.
Like vector data, raster data contains location. But it stores its attribute information differently. Raster data stores its information in its pixels. This information can include height, slope, direction, color, and many others.
- Common data formats
- Geodesy
Geodesy (gee-Odyssey). A lot of folks who learn ArcMap miss out on the finer points (because ArcMap is smart and abstracts this bit away), but geodesy is what makes mapping work. Here's a real brief rundown
To recap...
You need to know the geoid or, to put another way, mathematical model of our "lumpy earth"
You need to know the datum, or coordinate system, that takes into account all of your reference earth's lumps
You need to define a projection, or method for transforming your data from a sphere to a plane.
Let's bring it all together by cracking open a vector file
DEMO
Okay, great. Let's talk more about that process with an example.
This is a fairly typical workflow we see across our projects and we'll use it to talk about how we typically get from idea to finished product and all of the steps along the way.

- Once you've got your list of sites, use the geospatial data to help guide on-the-ground data collection
- Produce a large, illustrative map for a stakeholder meeting
Step 1, ID'ing sites: OMG addresses
Waddya gonna do with that spreadsheet full of addresses?
LITTLE VILLAGE BROWNFIELD DATA SHOW AND TELL
Geocoding is the process of turning addresses into lat/long coordinates.
This process is what allows us to put a bunch of points onto a map and view them. It relies on super complicated databases, usually maintained by private companies like ESRI or Google in order to function.
Step 2, ID'ing sites some more: D'oh! It turns out the city's address database doesn't align with the county's parcel boundaries.
We really needed to know the county PIN for each potential site in order to look up that site's assessor data, but there didn't seem to be a single dataset with both the addresses and the county PINs.
Enter geosprocessing!
Geoprocessing is what separates data analysis in excel from data analysis in a GIS.
Because your data is spatially enabled (this really just means that your data has lat/long coordinates associated with it), GIS software can perform some fancy analysis, such as...
Tell me whether this point (address) falls within a polygon (parcel) and, if it does, spit out a new dataset with that extra info tacked on at the end.
Step 3, ID'ing sites even more: Oh no. Our project boundary wasn't correctly defined.
This happens all the time. Once you get into a project, you realize you forgot something at the beginning.
In this case, our partner told us that the project fell across two zip codes. Turns out it was 3. That's okay.
At the end of this presentation, we'll talk about a couple of ways we can try to avoid these issues by asking some strategic questions at the outset.
Step 4, Helping out the data collectors
Sometimes you just can't beat on-the-ground observation, which meant sending a bunch of students out into the field. To help them find their way, I put together some printed maps.
Demo!
Step 5, producing a map for the stakeholder meeting
Another key element of the LV project is the stakeholder process. This is common with Delta projects.
For this type of work, we produce a big, easy-to-read map with some important elements displayed.
In this case, the map helped facilitate the discussion and get people thinking about how a bunch of potential redevelopment sites fit into the fabric of their neighborhood.
DEMO!
Some key elements to this process:
- How big is the map going to be? This will dictate how each map element gets scaled and placed in the designed product.
- Which information should be displayed?
- Do we already have that information or do we need to find it or create it? What format is it in and how much cleanup will need to be performed?
- Who is going to print the map for us and what format do they require?
- Who needs to review the product before it is printed? When are they expecting to receive a draft and how long will they need to respond?
WHEW! Thanks for hanging in there.
To recap the Little Village case study...
We geocoded a lot of different datasets and brought them together
We used geoprocessing to figure out where addresses (points) fell withing parcels (polygons) and generated a new dataset with both types of information.
We created some field maps for students to use while conducting site visits
We made a big ol' printed map for a stakeholder meeting
......
Why did I tell you that? A couple of reasons...
1. Jean asked me to. (just kidding)
1. I am hoping this will give you a better sense of how to plan your projects with regard to geospatial products
2. GIS and mapping are not black boxes and we shouldn't treat them that way
3. I want to propose a process for planning the geospatial aspects of your projects
One last thing...


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I'm a self taught programmer specializing in application development. I do both front and back-end work with no particular preference. I'm a full stack developer, which means if you give me one more task my stack will overflow.
This was my first serious development project. It taught me all the basics of building an interface using XML in conjunction with Java. When it first released, it was a bit of a mess. Through constructive criticism I managed to slowly improve the app. I also learned to maximize revenue through analysing statistics about how people use the app. After a bit of trial and error with ad placements, I've found what I believe to be the most profitable solution, at least for my app. You can have a look at the app here! The various versions of the app total over 100k downloads.
I was hired to assist in their technological transistion. The end goal was to improve efficiency through expanding the amount of technology in use. My specific tasks were assisting co-workers in the use of new technologies as well as developing an inhouse app. The app was a digital signature app, which increased efficieny by reducing the amount of paperwork needed when signing.
The company was tasked with making sure the pipes on the oil rig Njord had no leakage under various pressures. I was hired as an operator, tasked with both locating and repairing leaks. We did this by pumping the pipes with gas, then locating leaks by ear, using sniffing tools around pipes and using frequency detectors on pipes.
In one of my high school classes "Technology and Scientific Learning" we were assigned a project were we had to design an electric ferry. We made a 1 to 100 scale of a ferry designed from scrath by me and my teammates, and we also added a micro processor running Python to the ship. It was used to steer the boat, detect water leaks and control the lights.
This was my first step to learning a high level coding language. We spent a few weeks building a game using C# and the game engine Unity. It taught me a lot about object oriented programming. The final result was a small couch coop game.
Processing is ultimately what got me started in web development. As an excersice for improving my JavaScript, I implemented some famous algorithms like the recursive backtracking maze algorithm, and a genetic algorithm. I wanted to share my creation, so I looked in to how to develop websites. I've been interested ever since.
Apart from being a developer, I enjoy racing cars (Especially F1 and WRC) and I also competed in scandinavian folk racing. Driving is my second passion.
When indoors, I listen to books and podcasts while driving in my simulator and playing games. I also enjoy working on my own side projects, like small apps and games.


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Fluentd is an open source tool to collect events and logs. Its architecture allows to easily collect logs from different input sources and redirect them to different output sinks. Some input examples are HTTP, syslog, or apache logs, and some output sinks are files, mail, and databases (both RDBMS and NoSQL ones). Also, it allows to parse logs and to extract only the significative parts from each of them; saving this structured information on a DB allows much easier log searching and analysis.
The fluentd architecture can be extended with ruby plugins to support input sources and output destinations; for the scope of this example, we will use:
- MongoDB plugin for Fluent event collector;
- fluent-logger rubygem;
- the built-in tcp input and stdout output.
Installing fluentd server
The first thing to do is installing the fluentd server. You can easily do this via rubygems (beware it requires at least ruby 1.9.2):
$ gem install fluentd
When you’re done you can create a setup file:
$ fluentd -s ~/.fluentd
This will create the file ~/.fluentd/fluent.conf
and setup the ~/.fluent/plugins
folder.
The fluentd.conf file
Edit the configuration file with your favourite editor (which is vim, of course), and make it look like this:
You can see it’s made of three parts:
- The first one is the default HTTP source input. It listens for JSON messages
on port
24224
. - The second one is the default standard output. The
match fluentd.test.**
line tells fluentd to forward all messages matching the given pattern to the chosen standard output. - The third block is the MongoDB output. It requires the MongoDB plugin cited above to be installed, but we’ll talk about this later.
Let’s start the server and keep it running in foreground, to easily see incoming messages:
$ fluentd -c ~/.fluent/fluent.conf
Logging from bash to STDOUT
Now, let’s prepare a sample bash script to log things to fluentd
. Open
another terminal, create a bash script and paste the following content:
As you can see I created a wrapper function to make it easier to redirect logs
to fluentd
. Save the file, make it executable and run it. You should see output
like this in your server:
2013-08-09 17:01:06 +0200 [trace]: plugin/in_forward.rb:150:initialize: accepted fluent socket object_id=70144024060720
2013-08-09 17:01:06 +0200 fluentd.test.log: {"project":"Library","script_name":"Reload books","message":"Started"}
2013-08-09 17:01:06 +0200 [trace]: plugin/in_forward.rb:191:on_close: closed fluent socket object_id=70144024060720
This is telling us that fluentd
is accepting input from the fluent-cat
command
and it is redirecting it to standard output, according to the first rule.
Logging from bash to MongoDB
To go on in our test, we need to install MongoDB. Use the best way depending on
your system (I used homebrew
on my mac), run it and connect to its console via
the mongo
command.
Now, in the previous bash script, change the target of fluent-cat
from
fluentd.test.log
to mongo.log
. Save it, run it again, and type this in your
MongoDB console:
$ db.test.find()
This time you should see an entry in the test
collection:
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5204dfee9f60b167da000004"), "project" : "Library", "script_name" : "Reload books", "message" : "Started", "time" : ISODate("2013-08-09T12:26:22Z") }
Logging from bash to MongoDB
Let’s see how to achieve the same result in a ruby script. Install the fluent-logger rubygem with
$ gem install fluent-logger
Then create a ruby script with the following content:
Run it, rerun the query in the MongoDB console, and a new entry should be present.
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5204dfee9f60b167da000005"), "project" : "Library", "script_name" : "Reload books", "message" : "Completed", "time" : ISODate("2013-08-09T12:46:32Z") }
Final considerations
The ease of use of fluentd
allows to quickly setup a centralized log system in
just a few hours. You could use any tool you want to browse data in the MongoDB
database. You can make elaborate statistics, build charts, and do everything you
want with it. According to the fluentd
website, its simple architecture allows
it to run with very good performances:
"Fluentd’s performance has been proven in the field: its largest user
currently collects logs from 5000+ servers, 5 TB of daily data, handling
50,000 msgs/sec at peak time."
So, I hope this post helped you to understand what this tool is about. I suggest you to check out the fluentd documentation to know more, it’s really complete and clear. If you found this post useful, feel free to drop me a line :)


Bitcoin Price Could Hit the $14k – $20k Range Around Next Halving: Analysis
by Christine VasilevaBased on historical patterns, Bitcoin’s price could go through a narrow price range, soon before the block reward halving. BTC remains unpredictable, yet past analysis shows a certain trend.
Convergence to S/F Pattern Could be Caused by Reward Halvings
Bitcoin price will most probably move in the $14,000 – $20,000 price window around May 2020, based on a convergence analysis of the S/F pattern. Quant analysis by Plan B was used to chart the particular BTC price pattern, revealing a long-term convergence to a certain range. The convergence is predicted to happen due to the increasing scarcity of the BTC supply.
As of November 2019, there are less than 3 million BTC left to mine, and in a few months, the daily production of Bitcoin will be just 900 new coins. At current block time, the halving should arrive on May 15, in about 186 days.
Beyond the wild Bitcoin price rallies in the past, BTC also had periods of relative stability and slower overall growth. Focusing on the periods between reward halvings, the price of Bitcoin has been charting lower highs, but also higher lows, creating the conditions for a price locked between certain borders.
Bitcoin Price May Have Returned to Bearish Territory
BTC fell to the $8,800 range recently, after moving again toward $10,000. However, those short term fluctuations may be subdued in a larger trend. The convergence is based on a marker of the stock-to-flow (S/F) ratio. The analysts propounding the theory discuss that the historical pattern still needs to continue for the convergence to happen.
The latest Bitcoin downturn is suggestive of prices returning to bearish trends, which could alter the pattern. At this point, it is uncertain what direction BTC could take, and what the effect of the third halving would be. So far in 2019, the expectations of the halving added to the Bitcoin price rally.
Still, an expectation of $14,000 to $20,000 in a few months looks like quite a bullish trend for BTC. Despite the failure to achieve the Halloween rally to $16,000, Bitcoin still is pretty capable of resuming $1,000 days and reaching highs very rapidly.
At this point, the S/F model is just one pattern to which Bitcoin price converges. This data has been gathered through very different trading periods, with patterns based on a fluctuating set of markets and sources of liquidity.
What do you think will Bitcoin’s price be by next halving? Share your thoughts in the comments section below!
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NoComment is a simple Chrome extension for hiding user-generated comments on the web.
I'd greatly appreciate a rating in the Google store along with any constructive criticism you have. If the application doesn't function correctly on a particular website, let me know, preferably by opening an issue on the repo.
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There are various reasons why someone may wish to hide comments on all/specific sites, including but not limited to:
On a fresh installation, NoComment does the following:
Both of these settings can be changed:
This is discussed (with example use-cases) at the top of the Allow List/Block List page. Be sure to read it,
especially if plan on using the URL pattern wildcard (*
) selector.
This will only show on pages where the blocking of comments is in effect. Clicking on the icon will show you some information about NoComment, as well as a quick-link to the options page (the same one you're reading right now!), where you can change your settings.
If you would like to completely uninstall this extension, you can do so via.
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