How to install a packaged app from a ZIP on your device:
- Install WebServer (or a similar app).
- Create an additional manifest file which should be a copy of the original, but instead of
launch_path
include a package_path
, pointing to the ZIP (e.g. http://localhost:8080/app.zip
). Additionally, you can add an entry size
with the size of the ZIP in bytes.
- Start the webserver, and make sure this manifest file and the ZIP are accesible under the expected URLs.
- Install your app using this app.
- When you want to install another app, make sure it uses different file names for the manifest and ZIP files.
- To update your app, update the manifest and the ZIP files, and make sure the webserver is runnnig when your device checks for updates. You can do so by disabling the network, rebooting, starting the webserver and then enabling the network again.


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Configuration settings for an app are defined using a config.lua
file written in Lua syntax. It should be placed in the project's base directory.
The config.lua
file is set up using a content
table nested within a application
table as follows:
application =
{
content =
{
--parameters here
}
}
Since most apps are developed for multiple devices and screen resolutions, Corona features dynamic scaling. This allows you to use a common set of screen coordinates while Corona automatically scales text, vector objects, and images to different resolutions depending on the device.
Corona can scale both upward or downward depending on your "starting resolution". It can also substitute higher-resolution image files when needed, ensuring that your app appears clear and sharp on all devices (see Dynamic Image Selection below).
A fundamental concept behind dynamic scaling is content area. In Corona, your base content area can be whatever you wish, but often it's defined as a common screen resolution, for example 640 × 960 (iPhone4) or 800 × 1280 (Kindle Fire HD).
The content area represents the overall "stage" on which text, vector objects, and image assets are displayed. Everything will be positioned in relation to this content area, which may or may not match the screen's actual pixel resolution. The content area will be scaled to fit the screen, with subtle differences dictated by the scale
definition (see scale below).
The internal coordinate system is also dependent on the content area, with coordinates (0,0)
residing in the top-left corner of the content area, not necessarily the top-left corner of the screen. For more information on the Corona coordinate system, see Display Groups and Coordinates.
The content area is defined by the width
and height
values in config.lua
. If you omit or set either of these values to 0
, dynamic scaling will not be used.
application =
{
content =
{
width = 640,
height = 960,
}
}
The content area should always be defined in respect to portrait orientation. If your app is designed for landscape orientation, you should still set the width
and height
according to portrait orientation. In the example above, a landscape-oriented app for iPhone4 should still use width
and height
parameters of 640 and 960 respectively, not 960 and 640.
To control an app's orientation on actual devices, you must define specific parameters in the build.settings
file. See Project Build Settings for more information.
The scaling method of the content area is determined by the scale
value.
application =
{
content =
{
width = 640,
height = 960,
scale = "letterbox",
}
}
The possible values include the following (case-insensitive):
letterbox
— scales the content area to fill the screen while preserving the same aspect ratio. The entire content area will reside on the screen, but this might result in "black bars" on devices with aspect ratios that differ from your content aspect ratio. Note that you can still utilize this "blank" area and fill it with visual elements by positioning them outside the content area.
zoomEven
— scales the content area to fill the screen while preserving the same aspect ratio. Some content may "bleed" off the screen edges on devices with aspect ratios that differ from your content aspect ratio.
zoomStretch
— scales the content area to fill the entire screen. This is the default method if you don't specify one of the above options, or if you omit the scale
parameter entirely. All content will remain on the screen, but it may be stretched horizontally or vertically. This mode is not recommended, as it will often distort the content area.
By default, dynamically-scaled content is centered on the screen. In letterbox
scale mode, empty screen area will be evenly divided between both sides. In zoomEven
mode, the bleed area will be cropped equally on both sides.
If you need to align the content area to a particular edge of the screen, you can use the xAlign
and yAlign
values.
xAlign
— string value which sets the alignment in the x direction. Possible values are left
, center
, or right
.
yAlign
— string value which sets the alignment in the y direction. Possible values are top
, center
, or bottom
.
application =
{
content =
{
width = 640,
height = 960,
scale = "letterbox",
xAlign = "left",
yAlign = "top"
}
}
In addition to dynamic scaling, Corona supports dynamic image selection. If you are developing an app for both normal and "Retina/HD" devices, you should not rely on Corona to simply scale one set of images across a wide array of screen resolutions. There are several issues related to this:
If you design all of your images in low resolution and allow Corona to scale them up for Retina/HD devices, the images will appear blurry or pixelated. Not only will this result in poor visual appearance, but it may cause the app to be rejected before it reaches the marketplace.
In contrast, if you design all of your images for Retina/HD and allow Corona to scale them down for lower resolution devices, the larger images will require the same amount of texture memory on those devices. This may adversely affect the performance of your app — or worse, those images will not appear if they exceed the maximum texture size on a device.
The solution is to create multiple versions of every image, tailored for two or three different resolutions, and name them according to the "image set" they belong to. On each device, Corona will automatically select images from the set that most closely matches the content area and scale.
This feature is only supported by images displayed using display.newImageRect() or by sprites and images taken from image sheets that contain the overall sheet size parameters.
To set up dynamic image selection, you must include an imageSuffix
table within the content
table. Inside this table, declare at least one key-value pair consisting of an image suffix and a scale factor.
imageSuffix =
{
["-small"] = 0.375,
["@2x"] = 1.5
}
As indicated, each image suffix must be specified within brackets and quotes as in ["@2x"]
. The suffix can be named whatever you want, but it should be short and logical since you must append the same suffix to all image files designed for that image set. When adding a suffix to each image file, do not include the bracket or quotes — just append the suffix itself, for example myImage-small.png
or<EMAIL_ADDRESS>.
The second part of each declaration is the scale factor. This value specifies the scale threshold above which Corona will use images in that suffix set. The following code can help you determine the proper values:
print( display.pixelWidth / display.actualContentWidth )
Add this code to your project, access the Corona Simulator, and use Window → View As to simulate different devices. Note the output in the Terminal/console — this is the scale factor for the device. If the value on a particular device is greater than or equal to the number you specify for the scale factor, Corona will use images from that suffix set.
In the following example, just one suffix is defined ("@2x"
), but it accommodates several
application =
{
content =
{
width = 800,
height = 1200,
scale = "letterbox",
xAlign = "center",
yAlign = "center",
imageSuffix =
{
["@2x"] = 1.5
--high-resolution devices (Retina iPad, Kindle Fire HD 9", Nexus 10, etc.) will use @2x-suffixed images
--devices less than 1200 pixels in width (iPhone4, iPad2, Kindle Fire 7", etc.) will use non-suffixed images
}
}
}
Although you can define as many image sets as you wish, there are simply too many screen sizes and aspect ratios to achieve a perfect 1:1 ratio on all of them. Thus, you must accept some degree of scaling, even when using dynamic image selection. In most cases, you should set up image suffixes that target devices of similar resolution, then allow Corona to scale the images up or down slightly depending on the device. This minor degree of scaling will generally not be perceived by the end user, since most modern devices have a very high pixel density. As noted at the top of this section, it's better to scale images down versus up and you should attempt to construct a scaling setup that achieves this on the most popular devices.
Several display properties are exposed within Corona to help you work with scaled content. Please refer to the API Reference for a complete list of properties.
display.contentWidth
and display.contentHeight
— read-only properties representing the original width and height of the content, in pixels.
display.pixelWidth
and display.pixelHeight
— entire screen width and height, in pixels.
display.viewableContentWidth
and display.viewableContentHeight
— read-only properties representing the viewable width and height. This is useful if you're using zoomEven
scaling, as it will reveal the viewable (uncropped) measurements, in pixels.
display.contentCenterX
and display.contentCenterY
— read-only properties representing the center of the content area, useful for positioning objects along either central axis.
In the Corona Simulator, there is a setting under Preferences called Show Runtime Errors which defaults to on. This global setting triggers pop-up error messages while running an app in the Simulator. If you don't like this feature or if it doesn't fit your workflow, you can turn it off.
You can also set this on a per-app basis from config.lua
to control error messages while running the app on a device. showRuntimeErrors
accepts a boolean value (true or false). The default is false.
application =
{
showRuntimeErrors = true,
}
Remember that disabling error messages doesn't mean that errors aren't occurring. The pop-up alerts help you detect these errors.
Another option is to use the unhandledError
Runtime listener to trap errors which would otherwise trigger an error pop-up. This allows you to implement custom error reporting. Note that even if you disable error messages, the listener is still called, but the return
value doesn't matter since the pop-up is never displayed.
function myUnhandledErrorListener( event )
local iHandledTheError = true
if ( iHandledTheError ) then
print( "Handling the unhandled error", event.errorMessage )
else
print( "Not handling the unhandled error", event.errorMessage )
end
return iHandledTheError
end
Runtime:addEventListener( "unhandledError", myUnhandledErrorListener )
The default frame rate is 30 frames per second, but you can set it to 60 frames per second by adding the fps
key. Values other than 30 or 60 will be ignored.
application =
{
content =
{
fps = 60,
}
}
The Corona licensing library lets you confirm that the app was bought from a store. To implement licensing, the license
parameters must be added to the application
table.
application =
{
license =
{
google =
{
key = "Your key here",
policy = "this is optional",
},
},
}
In addition, you must require
the licensing library in your core project file. Please refer to the licensing documentation for details.
Corona SDK Analytics is a free service given to all Corona SDK developers. You can view data about your published apps, including the number of sessions, the number of unique users, and session lengths. Session data is displayed in graphs broken up by device type (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Android) and for device types combined. You can access Corona SDK Analytics through your account dashboard. For more information, see Frequently Asked Questions.
Analytics are enabled by default. To disable them, add a launchPad
key set to false
within config.lua
.
application =
{
launchPad = false,
}
If you're using Analytics on Android, you must grant Internet permission to the application. If you don't, the app will not send out analytics data, nor will a warning or error be reported. See the Project Build Settings guide for details on enabling Android permissions.
If the target device/hardware supports anti-aliasing of vector objects, you can enable this feature by setting the antialias
key within the content
table.
application =
{
content =
{
antialias = true,
}
}
You can check for license verification in your application by providing your Google provided key in config.lua. You can also set the policy. Read more about it on Google's reference page. This is needed if your application wants to use expansion files.
application =
{
license =
{
google =
{
key = "your key here",
policy = "this is optional",
},
},
}


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Sheriff: Missing girl’s taken to jail after suicide attempt
by The Associated PressJACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The 27-year-old mother of a missing 5-year-old girl has been released from the hospital and taken to jail on charges of child neglect and giving false information to law enforcement.
Jacksonville Sheriff’s officials said Brianna Williams tried to kill herself after remains believed to be Taylor Williams were found Nov. 12 near Demopolis, Alabama.
Williams reported her daughter missing Nov. 6. She stopped co-operating with authorities after they found inconsistencies in her story. Williams is a petty officer at Naval Air Station Jacksonville.
Arrest documents show a neighbour often saw the child alone at their apartment complex. Records show she last attended day care April 29.
The remains found haven’t been positively identified.
The Florida Times-Union reports the child’s grandparents say they last saw her a year ago.
A lawyer isn’t listed on jail records.
The Associated Press


array ldap_explode_dn ( string $dn , int $with_attrib )
Splits the DN returned by ldap_get_dn() and breaks it up into its component parts. Each part is known as Relative Distinguished Name, or RDN.
Returns an array of all DN components. The first element in this array has count key and represents the number of returned values, next elements are numerically indexed DN components.


IsMesh()
语法
Result = IsMesh(#Mesh)概要
Tests if the given #Mesh is valid and the mesh has been correctly initialized.
此函数是保险性的，可能与任何值一起使用。If Result equals zero then the given mesh has not been properly created or initialized. This is the correct way to ensure a mesh is ready to use.
已支持操作系统
所有


This iOS app implements a life clock. The idea is to map a human life span from birth to estimated death on a 12-hour analog clock. The time the clock is set to represents the user's current age in terms of hours, minutes, and seconds. By glancing at the life clock now and then, the user is reminded not to waste valuable time on trival matters.
Lifespan incorporates longevity factors into the estimation of a user's life. These factors include activity level, stress level, risk behavior level, and quality of genetics. The user self-scores these factors on a scale from 1 to 10. Some small attempt has been made by the author to apply the most recent scientific thinking to these factors in terms of their impact on longevity. But, honestly, there is little hard-data and the author of this app assumes that in the years to come research will continue to break the current model of longevity and bring new insights into consideration. Therefore, Lifespan is an app for inspirational, entertainment, and educational purposes. Lifespan's job is to enable the user to focus on their life and how much they have left of it—not in anyway predict the length of a user's life.
To use the Lifespan app go to the Profile tab and enter your biographical data and self score your life factors. Then hop over to the Clock and Analysis tabs to see how your data and factors are displayed. You can move back and forth between the tabs until you get a clock and analysis that you prefer or that seems more accurate to you.
You can customize the Analysis text with your preferred personal pronouns. Below each pronoun field are suggestion but you are not restricted to any of these. If you are grammarian than you'll want to know that that the three pronoun fields correspond to subjective, objective, and possessive (in that order). In longevity research there is much analysis of women enjoying longer lifespans than men, but this observation seems to have more to do with lifestyle factors than gender or sex at birth. So the author decided to side step the issue and separate gender/sex from grammar such that the analysis text is personalized to your preferences.
The Lifespan app had not server-side services and there is no transmission or collection of user data by the author. All data entered into the app is contained within the app on the user's phone. There is no advertising or marketing functionality built into the app. The entire source code of the app is available on GitHub under the MIT open source license. For more info take a look at the Lifespan code at GitHub


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The interpreter processes or executes other programs.
Examples
- Java Virtual Machine
- Rule-based systems
- Scripting languages, i.e. JavaScript
Where does it come from?
A.f.a.i.k. the first interpreter was written for the BASIC programming language in Dartmouth College in 1964.
When should you use it?
- If you want the users of your application to be able to modify the behaviour of the application (scripting).
- If the rules of your application need to be extended long after the application is finished.
- If the Program may not directly access the Environment. The interpreter is a so called sandbox where the Program can play in without being able to do any harm.
How does it work?
One or more Programs or Scripts are loaded into the Interpreter. They may be converted into an internal representation that can be processed more effectively by the Interpreter. Connections between the Program and the Environment are created.
The Interpreter reads instructions from the Program and processes them. This affects the Environment. Changes in the Environment are fed back to the Program. This cycle is executed until the Program is finished.
Problems
- Is slower than direct execution
- Requires a custom made debugger
- Requires the development and implementation of a feature-rich programming language
Common implementation techniques
- The interpreter should not run in a separate thread from the environment, because it would create endless synchronisation issues. Emulate parallel processing in stead. Process only a few Program instructions every cycle.
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RC TEST PAPER 3
Explanatory answers to paper III
1. Para 1 states that eating puffer
fish is a gamble where sometimes the diner may lose his life. Hence, the answer
is [2].
2. Not being able to speak, move and breathe are symptoms of fugu poisoning. Not
being able to think is not a symptom of fugu poisoning because para 1 states
that one can think but cannot speak, etc. Hence, the answer is [2].
3. Ovaries, intestines, and liver are stated as being the most poisonous parts of a fugu. Hence, by a simple process of elimination, option [3] is the logical choice.
4. It is stated in para 4 that about 60 per cent who eat the puffer are poisoned to death. Therefore the rate of people who survive puffer poisoning is 40%. Hence, the answer is [4].
5. The last para states that
millions of diners gamble their lives by eating puffer fish from October to
March. In the Northern Hemisphere, where Japan is situated, it is winter during
this period. Hence, the answer is [4].
6. What the traditional verse actually implies is that the choice between eating
or not eating fugu is like choosing between the devil and the deep sea.  None of the 3 statements explain the correct meaning of
the quotation. Hence, the answer is [4].
7. Refer to line 10 of the passage. Hence the answer is [2].
8. Except for citric acid which is an absolutely harmless acid and not mentioned
in the passage at all, the harmful effects of all the other chemicals are
laid out clearly in the passage. Hence, the answer is [4].
9. The very first sentence of the passage states that the ‘ozone hole’ over
the continent of Antarctica was caused due to the increase in the use of
chlorofluorocarbon in the atmosphere. Hence, the answer is [1].
10. The author enumerates the harmful effects of the ozone layer as cusing skin
cancers in human being and damage to crops and animals. Its destructive effect
on climactic conditions is not mentioned to all, for changes in weather
conditions do not automatically imply storms and cyclones. Hence the answer is
[4].


The Journey to the Center of the Earth
by Jules Verne
Chapter XXXI. PREPARATIONS FOR A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY
Additional Information
- Year Published: 1871
- Language: English
- Country of Origin: France
- Source: Verne, J. (1871) A Journey to the Center of the Earth (Frederick Amadeus Malleson, Trans.) London: Ward, Lock, &Co., Ltd. (Original work published 1864)
-
Readability:
- Flesch–Kincaid Level: 6.0
- Word Count: 1,376
- Genre: Adventure
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The next morning I awoke feeling perfectly well. I thought a bathe would do me good, and I went to plunge for a few minutes into the waters of this mediterranean sea, for assuredly it better deserved this name than any other sea.
I came back to breakfast with a good appetite. Hans was a good caterer for our little household; he had water and fire at his disposal, so that he was able to vary our bill of fare now and then. For dessert he gave us a few cups of coffee, and never was coffee so delicious.
"Now," said my uncle, "now is the time for high tide, and we must not lose the opportunity to study this phenomenon."
"What! the tide!" I cried. "Can the influence of the sun and moon be felt down here?"
"Why not? Are not all bodies subject throughout their mass to the power of universal attraction? This mass of water cannot escape the general law. And in spite of the heavy atmospheric pressure on the surface, you will see it rise like the Atlantic itself."
At the same moment we reached the sand on the shore, and the waves were by slow degrees encroaching on the shore.
"Here is the tide rising," I cried.
"Yes, Axel; and judging by these ridges of foam, you may observe that the sea will rise about twelve feet."
"This is wonderful," I said.
"No; it is quite natural."
"You may say so, uncle; but to me it is most extraordinary, and I can hardly believe my eyes. Who would ever have imagined, under this terrestrial crust, an ocean with ebbing and flowing tides, with winds and storms?"
"Well," replied my uncle, "is there any scientific reason against it?"
"No; I see none, as soon as the theory of central heat is given up." "So then, thus far," he answered, "the theory of Sir Humphry Davy is confirmed."
"Evidently it is; and now there is no reason why there should not be seas and continents in the interior of the earth."
"No doubt," said my uncle; "and inhabited too."
"To be sure," said I; "and why should not these waters yield to us fishes of unknown species?"
"At any rate," he replied, "we have not seen any yet."
"Well, let us make some lines, and see if the bait will draw here as it does in sublunary regions."
"We will try, Axel, for we must penetrate all secrets of these newly discovered regions."
"But where are we, uncle? for I have not yet asked you that question, and your instruments must be able to furnish the answer."
"Horizontally, three hundred and fifty leagues from Iceland."
"So much as that?"
"I am sure of not being a mile out of my reckoning."
"And does the compass still show south–east?"
"Yes; with a westerly deviation of nineteen degrees forty–five minutes, just as above ground. As for its dip, a curious fact is coming to light, which I have observed carefully: that the needle, instead of dipping towards the pole as in the northern hemisphere, on the contrary, rises from it."
"Would you then conclude," I said, "that the magnetic pole is somewhere between the surface of the globe and the point where we are?"
"Exactly so; and it is likely enough that if we were to reach the spot beneath the polar regions, about that seventy–first degree where Sir James Ross has discovered the magnetic pole to be situated, we should see the needle point straight up. Therefore that mysterious centre of attraction is at no great depth."
I remarked: " It is so; and here is a fact which science has scarcely suspected."
"Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth."
"What depth have we now reached?"
"We are thirty–five leagues below the surface."
"So," I said, examining the map, "the Highlands of Scotland are over our heads, and the Grampians are raising their rugged summits above us."
"Yes," answered the Professor laughing. "It is rather a heavy weight to bear, but a solid arch spans over our heads. The great Architect has built it of the best materials; and never could man have given it so wide a stretch. What are the finest arches of bridges and the arcades of cathedrals, compared with this far reaching vault, with a radius of three leagues, beneath which a wide and tempest–tossed ocean may flow at its ease?"
"Oh, I am not afraid that it will fall down upon my head. But now what are your plans? Are you not thinking of returning to the surface now?"
"Return! no, indeed! We will continue our journey, everything having gone on well so far."
"But how are we to get down below this liquid surface?"
"Oh, I am not going to dive head foremost. But if all oceans are properly speaking but lakes, since they are encompassed by land, of course this internal sea will be surrounded by a coast of granite, and on the opposite shores we shall find fresh passages opening."
"How long do you suppose this sea to be?"
"Thirty or forty leagues; so that we have no time to lose, and we shall set sail to–morrow."
I looked about for a ship.
"Set sail, shall we? But I should like to see my boat first."
"It will not be a boat at all, but a good, well–made raft."
"Why," I said, "a raft would be just as hard to make as a boat, and I don't see –"
"I know you don't see; but you might hear if you would listen. Don't you hear the hammer at work? Hans is already busy at it."
"What, has he already felled the trees?"
"Oh, the trees were already down. Come, and you will see for yourself."
After half an hour's walking, on the other side of the promontory which formed the little natural harbour, I perceived Hans at work. In a few more steps I was at his side. To my great surprise a half–finished raft was already lying on the sand, made of a peculiar kind of wood, and a great number of planks, straight and bent, and of frames, were covering the ground, enough almost for a little fleet.
"Uncle, what wood is this?" I cried.
"It is fir, pine, or birch, and other northern coniferae, mineralised by the action of the sea. It is called surturbrand, a variety of brown coal or lignite, found chiefly in Iceland."
"But surely, then, like other fossil wood, it must be as hard as stone, and cannot float?"
"Sometimes that may happen; some of these woods become true anthracites; but others, such as this, have only gone through the first stage of fossil transformation. Just look," added my uncle, throwing into the sea one of those precious waifs.
The bit of wood, after disappearing, returned to the surface and oscillated to and fro with the waves.
"Are you convinced?" said my uncle.
"I am quite convinced, although it is incredible!"
By next evening, thanks to the industry and skill of our guide, the raft was made. It was ten feet by five; the planks of surturbrand, braced strongly together with cords, presented an even surface, and when launched this improvised vessel floated easily upon the waves of the Liedenbrock Sea.


IPSec Site-to-Site VPN User Guide (VPC network scenario)
As shown above, VPC1 private network is: <IP_ADDRESS>/24, VPC2 private network is: <IP_ADDRESS>/24. One GateWay VM in each of two VPC configured VPN/SNAT, and bind the EIP.
Now we want the VMs in the two private networks can communicate with each other, we need to establish an IPSec Site-to-Site tunnel between VPC1 GateWay VM and VPC2 GateWay VM.
In this example: From VPC1 of <IP_ADDRESS> access VPC2 of <IP_ADDRESS>.
At first, start IPSec VPN service
Go to IPSec "VPN Service Management" page, make sure both GateWay VM1, GateWay VM2 have IPSec VPN service started.
- Start VPN service: Start the IPSec VPN service on the VM. The tunnel startup type as "automatic connection" will automatically try to connect to the remote VPN.
- Stop VPN service: Stop the IPSec VPN service. All connected tunnels will be disconnect.
- Configurate deployment & reload: Generally, this action will be triggered automatically when add, modify or delete the tunnel. But sometimes, if you want to regenerate the VPN configuration, you can do this manually.
Second, add new tunnel
VPC1 GateWay VM:
VPC2 GateWay VM:
- Tunnel ID is an abbreviation of the tunnel, please note naming rules.
- On both sides of the local ID, the peer ID must correspond (It is recommended to use public IP address)
- IKE version, IKE and ESP encryption, authentication algorithm must be same at both ends (For VPN equipment, please get the configuration information, especially IKE version)
- Pre-shared key must be the same to establish a connection (shared secret key, please set it more complex).
- The local subnet 、peer subnet: The previous example <IP_ADDRESS>/24,<IP_ADDRESS>/24.
- The other side of the public network IP: peer GateWay's ECS EIP, it can be a public network IP of the VPN equipment.
Third, check the tunnel list
After added tunnel on Gateway VM of VPC1 and VPC2, goto 'tunnel List "page. Click the "Connect" fo the tunnel configured just now, you can see:
- Connect: connect the tunnels.
- Disconnect: disconnect the tunnel.
Fourth, check the real-time traffic of tunnel
Click on "Traffic" button, you can see real-time traffic of tunnel.
- Colour: in and out direction.
- Unit: Bytes.
Fifth, modify or delete tunnel
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MOUSE HUNT (DreamWorks) Starring: Nathan Lane, Lee Evans, Maury Chaykin, and Christopher Walken. Screenplay: Adam Rifkin. Producers: Alan Riche, Tony Ludwig, and Bruce Cohen. Director: Gore Verbinski. MPAA Rating: PG (slapstick violence, profanity, sexual innuendo) Running Time: 97 minutes. Reviewed by Michael Dequina. Rating: ** 1/2 out of **** (fair)
With its three inaugural releases, megabucks studio DreamWorks SKG has just about covered all the bases: middle-of-the-road action (THE PEACEMAKER); highminded "Oscar bait" (AMISTAD), and now lowbrow comedy with MOUSE HUNT, a slapstick comedy that will please the tykes but will leave the rest of the family less than satisfied. The basic plot setup (a pair of down-on-their-luck brothers inherit a rundown--and, as it turns out, valuable--house from their string manufacturer father) is rendered irrelevant once the "star" of the movie enters the picture: a tiny little mouse (a charmer by the name of "Jenny the Mouse"), who immediately ruins the house renovation plans of the two siblings, Ernie (Nathan Lane) and Lars (Lee Evans) Smuntz. What ensues is one long, frenzied pursuit in which the two bumbling brothers make attempt after attempt to find and kill the mouse, who outsmarts them every time. MOUSE HUNT is little more than HOME ALONE with a mouse in the lead, which should give you a clear idea about the bulk of the comedy in this film: broad physical schtick. Granted, this type of humor goes a long way with the film's target audience--children--and a handful of the gags did make me smile, but after a while I (and, I suspect, most adults in the audience) grew tired of the pratfalls. After all, a man getting hit in the head by a blunt object can only be so "hilarious" after the first two or three times it is done. What keeps the incessant slapstick from becoming completely monotonous are the engaging performances. Even though they are set up as the villains of the piece, Lane and Evans, who develop a nice brotherly rapport, remain likable and sympathetic; at certain points I found myself simultaneously rooting for them _and_ the mouse. And it is through the acting that the film is able to maintain a slightly twisted edge. Lane delivers his acid one-liners with malicious glee, and an effectively creepy Christopher Walken comes close to walking away with the movie as overzealous and slightly psycho exterminator Caesar. MOUSE HUNT, like its destructive but well-meaning protagonist, is harmless, a fairly safe bet to keep the little ones entertained for 97 minutes. But anyone looking for a film that truly is fun for the whole family is better off checking out the opulent ANASTASIA or, better yet, Disney's modern classic THE LITTLE MERMAID, which is enjoying yet another rerelease this week.
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Manifold learning finds a low-dimensional basis for describing high-dimensional data. Manifold learning is a popular approach to nonlinear dimensionality reduction. Algorithms for this task are based on the idea that the dimensionality of many data sets is only artificially high; though each data point consists of perhaps thousands of features, it may be described as a function of only a few underlying parameters. That is, the data points are actually samples from a low-dimensional manifold that is embedded in a high-dimensional space. Manifold learning algorithms attempt to uncover these parameters in order to find a low-dimensional representation of the data.
Some prominent approaches are locally linear embedding (LLE), Hessian LLE, Laplacian eigenmaps, and LTSA. These techniques construct a low-dimensional data representation using a cost function that retains local properties of the data, and can be viewed as defining a graph-based kernel for Kernel PCA. More recently, techniques have been proposed that, instead of defining a fixed kernel, try to learn the kernel using semidefinite programming. The most prominent example of such a technique is maximum variance unfolding (MVU). The central idea of MVU is to exactly preserve all pairwise distances between nearest neighbors (in the inner product space), while maximizing the distances between points that are not nearest neighbors.
An alternative approach to neighborhood preservation is through the minimization of a cost function that measures differences between distances in the input and output spaces. Important examples of such techniques include classical multidimensional scaling (which is identical to PCA), Isomap (which uses geodesic distances in the data space), diffusion maps (which uses diffusion distances in the data space), t-SNE (which minimizes the divergence between distributions over pairs of points), and curvilinear component analysis.
Isometric feature mapping (isomap) is a widely used low-dimensional embedding methods, where geodesic distances on a weighted graph are incorporated with the classical multidimensional scaling. Isomap is used for computing a quasi-isometric, low-dimensional embedding of a set of high-dimensional data points. Isomap is highly efficient and generally applicable to a broad range of data sources and dimensionalities.
To be specific, the classical MDS performs low-dimensional embedding based
on the pairwise distance between data points, which is generally measured
using straight-line Euclidean distance. Isomap is distinguished by
its use of the geodesic distance induced by a neighborhood graph
embedded in the classical scaling. This is done to incorporate manifold
structure in the resulting embedding. Isomap defines the geodesic distance
to be the sum of edge weights along the shortest path between two nodes.
The top n
eigenvectors of the geodesic distance matrix, represent the
coordinates in the new n
-dimensional Euclidean space.
def isomap(data: Array[Array[Double]], d: Int, k: Int, CIsomap: Boolean = true): IsoMap
The connectivity of each data point in the neighborhood graph is defined
as its nearest k
Euclidean neighbors in the high-dimensional space. This
step is vulnerable to "short-circuit errors" if k
is too large with
respect to the manifold structure or if noise in the data moves the
points slightly off the manifold. Even a single short-circuit error
can alter many entries in the geodesic distance matrix, which in turn
can lead to a drastically different (and incorrect) low-dimensional
embedding. Conversely, if k
is too small, the neighborhood graph may
become too sparse to approximate geodesic paths accurately.
When the optional parameter CIsomap
is true, the method
performs C-Isomap that involves magnifying the regions
of high density and shrink the regions of low density of data points
in the manifold. Edge weights that are maximized in Multi-Dimensional
Scaling(MDS) are modified, with everything else remaining unaffected.
In the below example, we apply Isomap to the famous swiss roll data as shown above. This data set was created to test out various dimensionality reduction algorithms. The idea was to create several points in 2d, and then map them to 3d with some smooth function, and then to see what the algorithm would find when it mapped the points back to 2d. The data contains 20,000 samples. Because it is computational intensive to calculate the shortest path for all samples, the example uses only the first 2,000 samples.
val swissroll = readTable("data/manifold/swissroll.txt").unzip
plot(swissroll, '.', Color.BLUE)
val map = isomap(swissroll.slice(0, 2000), 2, 7)
val x = map.getCoordinates
val window = plot(x, '.', Color.BLUE)
val graph = map.getNearestNeighborGraph
for (i <- 0 until x.length)
for (j <- 0 until i)
if (graph.hasEdge(i, j))
window.canvas.line(x(i), x(j))
In this example, we use k = 7
for neighborhood graph. In the mapped
2d space, we also plot the connections between neighbor neighbors.
Note that Isomap produces strange holes like in a slice of Swiss cheese :). This issue can be solved by adding to Isomap a vector quantization step.
Locally Linear Embedding (LLE) has several advantages over Isomap, including faster optimization when implemented to take advantage of sparse matrix algorithms, and better results with many problems. LLE also begins by finding a set of the nearest neighbors of each point. It then computes a set of weights for each point that best describe the point as a linear combination of its neighbors. Finally, it uses an eigenvector-based optimization technique to find the low-dimensional embedding of points, such that each point is still described with the same linear combination of its neighbors. LLE tends to handle non-uniform sample densities poorly because there is no fixed unit to prevent the weights from drifting as various regions differ in sample densities.
def lle(data: Array[Array[Double]], d: Int, k: Int): LLE
The LLE using 8 neighbors on the swiss roll data is as follows.
val map = lle(swissroll.slice(0, 2000), 2, 8)
Using the notion of the Laplacian of the nearest neighbor adjacency graph, Laplacian Eigenmap computes a low dimensional representation of the dataset that optimally preserves local neighborhood information in a certain sense. The representation map generated by the algorithm may be viewed as a discrete approximation to a continuous map that naturally arises from the geometry of the manifold.
def laplacian(data: Array[Array[Double]], d: Int, k: Int, t: Double = -1): LaplacianEigenmap
where t
is the smooth/width parameter of heat kernel
e-||x-y||2/t
.
Non-positive t
means discrete weights.
The locality preserving character of the Laplacian Eigenmap algorithm makes it relatively insensitive to outliers and noise. It is also not prone to "short circuiting" as only the local distances are used.
The Laplacian Eigenmap on the swiss roll data is as follows.
val map = laplacian(swissroll.slice(0, 1000), 2, 10, 25.0)


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class: inverse, middle, left, my-title-slide, title-slide # Extending GAMs ### David L Miller ### August 12, 2020 --- # So far: - Simple models - Normally distributed response These are good models, but there's lots more to see! --- # New things - distribution of the data - `family=` argument - adding dimensions to your smooths - space and time --- # Distributions - `family=` argument in `gam()` - see `?family` for a list - what you'd expect, as for `lm()` and `glm()` - most useful cases: - `binomial` ( yes/no, `\(y \in \{0, 1\}\)` ) - `poisson` ( counts, `\(y \in \{0, 1, 2, \ldots\}\)` ) - `Gamma` ( positive, `\(y>0\)` ) --- # Special count distributions - Poisson is often not adequate for "real" counts - Assuming `\(\mathbb{E}(y) = \text{Var}(y)\)` is usually incorrect Other options? - `quasipoisson` (count-ish, `\(y \geq 0\)`) - awkward to check, no likelihood - `tw`/`Tweedie` ( `\(y \geq 0\)`) - great for CPUE-type data - `nb`/`negbin` ( `\(y \geq 0\)`) - can be used but strong assumption (see next) --- # Tweedie distribution .pull-left[ ![](02-extending-gams_files/figure-html/tweedie-1.svg) (NB there is a point mass at zero not plotted) ] .pull-right[ - `\(\text{Var}\left(\text{count}\right) = \phi\mathbb{E}(\text{count})^q\)` - Poisson is `\(q=1\)` - We estimate `\(q\)` and `\(\phi\)` for `tw` - We set `\(q\)` and estimate `\(\phi\)` for `Tweedie` ] --- # Negative binomial distribution .pull-left[ ![](02-extending-gams_files/figure-html/negbin-1.svg) ] .pull-right[ - `\(\text{Var}\left(\text{count}\right) =\)` `\(\mathbb{E}(\text{count}) + \kappa \mathbb{E}(\text{count})^2\)` - Poisson is `\(\kappa=0\)` - Estimate `\(\kappa\)` for `nb` - Set `\(\kappa\)` for `negbin` ] --- # 🐟🐠🐡 Example 🐡🐠🐟 .pull-left[ - Let's look at species richness over time - Number of species in each trawl (counts!) ```r rich <- read.csv(here("data/trawl_nl.csv")) ``` ] .pull-right[ ![](02-extending-gams_files/figure-html/richness-violin-1.svg) ] --- # 🐟🐠🐡 Example 🐡🐠🐟 .pull-left[ - Does richness vary over time? - Let's try assuming the response is Poisson! ```r b_rich <- gam(richness~s(year), family=poisson, method="REML", data=rich) ``` ] .pull-right[ ```r plot(b_rich, shade=TRUE) ``` ![](02-extending-gams_files/figure-html/plot-year-rich-1.svg) ] --- # `summary` output ``` ## ## Family: poisson ## Link function: log ## ## Formula: ## richness ~ s(year) ## ## Parametric coefficients: ## Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|) ## (Intercept) 3.157323 0.003205 985.2 <2e-16 *** ## --- ## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 ## ## Approximate significance of smooth terms: ## edf Ref.df Chi.sq p-value ## s(year) 8.22 8.843 511.5 <2e-16 *** ## --- ## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 ## ## R-sq.(adj) = 0.082 Deviance explained = 8.27% ## -REML = 13207 Scale est. = 1 n = 4152 ``` --- # Other `family` stuff - can specify a `link=` argument - (usually don't have to) - `?family` has options for each distribution - for a fitted model `model$family` - details of what was used - `model$family$linkfun()` gives link function - `model$family$linkinv()` gives inverse link - More on checking distributions tomorrow! --- class: inverse middle center big-subsection ## Beyond one dimensional smooths:
 space, time and more --- # 🦐🦐 Example 🦐🦐 .pull-left[ ```r shrimp <- read.csv(here("data/trawl_nl.csv")) shrimp2010 <- subset(shrimp, year==2010) range(shrimp2010$shrimp) ``` ``` ## [1] 0.000 2293.699 ``` ```r head(shrimp2010$shrimp, 3) ``` ``` ## [1] 0.1202384 0.9619069 13.6270140 ``` Not normal, not integer! ] .pull-right[ ![](02-extending-gams_files/figure-html/unnamed-chunk-1-1.svg) ] --- # 🦐🗺 .pull-left[ - spatial variation! - how do we model this?? - `s(long) + s(lat)` misses the interaction ] .pull-right[ ![](02-extending-gams_files/figure-html/biom-space-plot-1.svg) ] --- # Adding dimensions - Thin plate regression splines (default basis) - `s(x, y)` - Assumes `x` and `y` are measured in the same units - `x`, `y` projected coordinates 👍 - `x` temperature, `y` depth 👎 --- # 🦐🗺 Trying out quasi-poisson response .pull-left[ ```r b_shrimp <- gam(shrimp ~ s(x, y), data=shrimp2010, family=quasipoisson, method="REML") ``` ] .pull-right[ ```r plot(b_shrimp, asp=1) ``` ![](02-extending-gams_files/figure-html/plot-effect-1.svg) ] --- # That plot is hard to understand! .pull-left[ ```r plot(b_shrimp, asp=1) ``` ![](02-extending-gams_files/figure-html/plot-effect-bad-1.svg) ] .pull-right[ ```r plot(b_shrimp, scheme=2, asp=1) ``` ![](02-extending-gams_files/figure-html/plot-effect-good-1.svg) ] --- # `summary` output ``` ## ## Family: quasipoisson ## Link function: log ## ## Formula: ## shrimp ~ s(x, y) ## ## Parametric coefficients: ## Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) ## (Intercept) 3.6137 0.2292 15.77 <2e-16 *** ## --- ## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 ## ## Approximate significance of smooth terms: ## edf Ref.df F p-value ## s(x,y) 25.63 27.72 6.194 <2e-16 *** ## --- ## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 ## ## R-sq.(adj) = 0.289 Deviance explained = 54.2% ## -REML = 1464.1 Scale est. = 176.14 n = 482 ``` --- class: inverse middle center big-subsection ## Now give it a try! --- class: inverse middle center big-subsection ## Other multi-dimensional smooths --- # `s(x,y)` doesn't always work - Only works for `bs="tp"` or `bs="ts"` - Covariates are isotropic - What if we wanted to use lat/long? - Or, more generally: interactions between covariates? --- # Enter `te()` .pull-left[ - We can built interactions using `te()` - Construct 2D basis from 2 1D bases - Biomass as a function of temperature and depth? - `te(temp_bottom, depth)` - 💭 "marginal 1Ds, join them up" ] .pull-right[ ![](02-extending-gams_files/figure-html/tensor-1.svg) ] --- # Using `te()` Just like `s()`: ```r shrimp_te <- gam(shrimp ~ te(temp_bottom, depth), data=shrimp2010, family=quasipoisson, method="REML") ``` --- # `summary` ``` ## ## Family: quasipoisson ## Link function: log ## ## Formula: ## shrimp ~ te(temp_bottom, depth) ## ## Parametric coefficients: ## Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) ## (Intercept) -1.7075 0.1205 -14.17 <2e-16 *** ## --- ## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 ## ## Approximate significance of smooth terms: ## edf Ref.df F p-value ## te(temp_bottom,depth) 14.2 15.96 4040 <2e-16 *** ## --- ## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 ## ## R-sq.(adj) = 0.351 Deviance explained = 60.3% ## -REML = 1390.3 Scale est. = 0.42049 n = 482 ``` --- # Things to fiddle with - Setting `k=` 2 ways: - `k=5`: 5 for all covariates (total `\(5*5=25\)`) - `k=c(3,5)`: per basis, in order (total `\(3*5=15\)`) - Setting `bs=` 2 ways: - `bs="tp"`: tprs for all bases - `bs=c("tp", "tp")`: tprs per basis --- # Pulling `te()` apart: `ti()` - Can we look at the components of the `te()` - `te(x, y) = ti(x, y) + ti(x) + ti(y)` ```r shrimp_ti <- gam(shrimp ~ ti(temp_bottom, depth) + ti(temp_bottom) + ti(depth), data=shrimp2010, family=quasipoisson, method="REML") ``` --- # `summary` ``` ## ## Family: quasipoisson ## Link function: log ## ## Formula: ## shrimp ~ ti(temp_bottom, depth) + ti(temp_bottom) + ti(depth) ## ## Parametric coefficients: ## Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) ## (Intercept) -2.4972 0.1234 -20.23 <2e-16 *** ## --- ## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 ## ## Approximate significance of smooth terms: ## edf Ref.df F p-value ## ti(temp_bottom,depth) 6.642 7.970 2440.7 <2e-16 *** ## ti(temp_bottom) 2.978 3.266 787.2 <2e-16 *** ## ti(depth) 3.778 3.939 3017.7 <2e-16 *** ## --- ## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 ## ## R-sq.(adj) = 0.352 Deviance explained = 60.3% ## -REML = 1390.3 Scale est. = 0.26728 n = 482 ``` --- class: inverse middle center big-subsection ## Now give it a try! --- class: inverse middle center big-subsection ## Building spatio-temporal models --- # 🦐🗺🗓 ![](02-extending-gams_files/figure-html/biom-space-time-plot-1.svg) --- # Space x time - We had a 2d spatial model, add time? - `te(x,y,year)` ? - Want that 2d smooth rather than `te(lat, long)`? - `d=` groups covariates - `te(x, y, year, d=c(2,1))` gives `x,y` smooth and `year` smooth tensor - Assuming default `k=` and `bs=` for bases --- # Fiddling - Often fewer temporal replicates - Fewer years than unique locations - `k=` smaller for temporal covariate? - Use cubic spline basis for time? - simpler basis, even knot placement - When using `ti()` everything needs to match up! --- # 🦐🗺🗓 Putting that together: ```r shrimp_xyt <- gam(shrimp ~ ti(x, y, year, d=c(2,1), bs=c("tp", "cr"), k=c(20, 5)) + ti(x, y, d=2, bs="tp", k=20) + ti(year, d=1, bs="cr", k=5), data=shrimp, family=quasipoisson, method="REML") ``` --- # `summary` ``` ## ## Family: quasipoisson ## Link function: log ## ## Formula: ## shrimp ~ ti(x, y, year, d = c(2, 1), bs = c("tp", "cr"), k = c(20, ## 5)) + ti(x, y, d = 2, bs = "tp", k = 20) + ti(year, d = 1, ## bs = "cr", k = 5) ## ## Parametric coefficients: ## Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) ## (Intercept) 3.47914 0.04048 85.95 <2e-16 *** ## --- ## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 ## ## Approximate significance of smooth terms: ## edf Ref.df F p-value ## ti(x,y,year) 44.318 53.968 74.52 <2e-16 *** ## ti(x,y) 18.804 18.975 513.48 <2e-16 *** ## ti(year) 3.795 3.921 284.67 <2e-16 *** ## --- ## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 ## ## R-sq.(adj) = 0.243 Deviance explained = 46.7% ## -REML = 13546 Scale est. = 25.229 n = 4152 ``` --- # Total effects ![](02-extending-gams_files/figure-html/ti-xyt-plot-1.svg) --- # `ti(x, y, year)` ![](02-extending-gams_files/figure-html/ti-xyt-plot-xyt-1.svg) --- # `ti(x, y)` and `ti(year)` ![](02-extending-gams_files/figure-html/ti-xyt-plot-xy-t-1.svg) --- class: inverse middle center big-subsection ## One more thing:
centring constraints --- # Adding terms to a model .pull-left[ - Already know `s(x)` has "all the bits" - basis functions, intercept: - with multiple terms, can't have an intercept for each - identifiability ] .pull-right[ ![](02-extending-gams_files/figure-html/centring-ex-1.svg) ] --- # What does the intercept mean? .pull-left[ - Solution: absorb all the intercepts into one: `\(\beta_0\)` - 💭 "base level of a factors" - shared over all smooths ```r coef(shrimp_xyt)[1] ``` ``` ## (Intercept) ## 3.479143 ``` ] .pull-right[ ![](02-extending-gams_files/figure-html/centring-ex3-1.svg) ] --- # Thinking further - Need to avoid identifiability issues: use constraints - Ensure that mean value `\(s(x)\)` is 0 - (Shape isn't changed, just a vertical, *intercept*, shift) - Sometimes leads to surprises in your results, compared to their specification --- class: inverse middle center big-subsection ## Recap --- # What did we learn? - set response distribution - `family=` argument - see `?family` - spatial smoothing - `s(x,y)` for projected coordinates - `te(lat, long)` for latitude and longitude (better to project?) - interactions - `te(covar1, covar2, ...)` - `ti()` to decompose the effects - space and time - `te(x, y, time, d=c(2,1))` - again `ti()` to decompose


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NcmFitESMCMCWalkerStretchNcmFitESMCMCWalkerStretch — Ensemble sampler Markov Chain Monte Carlo walker - stretch move. |
Functions
Functions
ncm_fit_esmcmc_walker_stretch_new ()
NcmFitESMCMCWalkerStretch * ncm_fit_esmcmc_walker_stretch_new (guint nwalkers
,guint nparams
);
Creates a new NcmFitESMCMCWalkerStretch to be used
with nwalkers
.
ncm_fit_esmcmc_walker_stretch_set_scale ()
void ncm_fit_esmcmc_walker_stretch_set_scale (NcmFitESMCMCWalkerStretch *stretch
,const gdouble a
);
Sets the value of the scale $a > 1$.
ncm_fit_esmcmc_walker_stretch_get_scale ()
gdouble
ncm_fit_esmcmc_walker_stretch_get_scale
(NcmFitESMCMCWalkerStretch *stretch
);
Gets the value of the scale $a > 1$.
ncm_fit_esmcmc_walker_stretch_set_box ()
void ncm_fit_esmcmc_walker_stretch_set_box (NcmFitESMCMCWalkerStretch *stretch
,guint n
,const gdouble lb
,const gdouble ub
);
Sets box sampling for the n
-th parameter using lb
as lower bound
and ub
as upper bound.
ncm_fit_esmcmc_walker_stretch_set_box_mset ()
void ncm_fit_esmcmc_walker_stretch_set_box_mset (NcmFitESMCMCWalkerStretch *stretch
,NcmMSet *mset
);
Sets box sampling for the parameters using bounds from
mset
.
ncm_fit_esmcmc_walker_stretch_multi ()
void ncm_fit_esmcmc_walker_stretch_multi (NcmFitESMCMCWalkerStretch *stretch
,gboolean multi
);
Sets whether it should use multi-stretchs in a single step.
Property Details
The “multi-stretch”
property
“multi-stretch” gboolean
Whether it should use multiple stretchs per step.
Owner: NcmFitESMCMCWalkerStretch
Flags: Read / Write / Construct
Default value: FALSE


Explanation
Reasons that this is a good Inteface
The interface allow the user only access to one function at a time which minimize the possibility of inputing in correct informations
Due to function is not shown at the same time it allow more simple look for interface and not blocking the view of what inside
For temperature use can choose between Fahrenheit or Celsuis (fig4)
User is given precision control over both the temperature and time (fig4 and fig5)
There is a Mute option if user doesnt like the noise of the toaster oven (fig1) (use with caution)
The Toaster Oven offer a preheating option that allow use to set what temperature the toaster oven should be (fig6)
The preheat function has a safety mechanism which turn of the toaster after 5min(the application is sset to 10 sec for demo purpose)
When the Toaster Oven is on there is a red Frame around the inteface indicating that it on and it hot
When cooking is done the toaster oven will play a sound ever 2 sec and blinking borders
There are preset that user can select (fig1)
User can still modify after selecting presets
User last use setting is save
User can choose where the heat souce should be coming from (fig3)
fig1: User can choose to create custom time and temp or select a preseted option
fig2: User can select a mode(heat source and temperature)
fig3: Selecting heat souces
fig4: precision contol over Temperature
fig5: precision contol over Time
fig6: User can start or select preHeat option
fig7: Red frame to indicate that oven is on. Show remaining time and temp inside without blocking the view of the inside


Final Judgment:
International War Crimes Tribunal
The members of the International War Crimes Tribunal, meeting in New York, have carefully considered the Initial Complaint of the Commission of Inquiry dated May 6, 1991 against President George H. W. Bush, Vice President J. Danforth Quayle, Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf Commander of the Allied Forces in the Persian Gulf, and others named in the Complaint charging them with nineteen separate crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity in violation of the Charter of the United Nations, the 1949 Geneva Conventions, the First Protocol thereto, and other international agreements and customary international law:
having the right and obligation as citizens of the world to sit in judgment regarding violations of international humanitarian law;
having heard the testimony from various Commissions of Inquiry hearings held within their own countries and/or elsewhere during the past year and having received reports from numerous other Commission hearings which recite the evidence there gathered;
having been provided with documentary evidence, eyewitness statements, photos, videotapes, special reports, expert analyses and summaries of evidence available to the Commission; having access to all evidence, knowledge, and expert opinion in the Commission files or available to the Commission;
having been provided by the Commission, or elsewhere obtained, various books, articles, and other written materials on various aspects of events and conditions in the Persian Gulf and military and arms establishments;
having considered newspaper coverage, magazine and periodical reports, special publications, T.V., radio, and other media coverage and public statements by the accused, other public officials and other public materials;
having heard the presentations of the Commission of Inquiry in public hearing on February 29, 1992, the testimony and evidence there presented; and having met, considered and deliberated with each other and with Commission staff and having considered all the evidence that is relevant to the nineteen charges of criminal conduct alleged in the Initial Complaint make the following findings.
Findings
The members of the International War Crimes Tribunal finds each of the named accused Guilty on the basis of the evidence against them and that each of the nineteen crimes alleged in the Initial Complaint, attached hereto, has been established to have been committed beyond a reasonable doubt.
The members believe that it is imperative if there is ever to be peace that power be accountable for its criminal acts and we condemn in the strongest possible terms those found guilty of the charges herein. We urge the Commission of Inquiry and all people to act on recommendations developed by the Commission to hold power accountable and to secure social justice on which lasting peace must be based.
Recommendations
The Members urge the immediate revocation of all embargoes, sanctions and penalties against Iraq because they constitute a continuing crime against humanity.
The Members urge public action to prevent new aggressions by the United States threatened against Iraq, Libya, Cuba, Haiti, North Korea, Pakistan and other countries and the Palestine people; fullest condemnation of any threat or use of military technology against life, both civilian and military, as was used by the United States against the people of Iraq.
The Members urge that the power of the United Nations Security Council, which was blatantly manipulated by the U.S. to authorize illegal military action and sanctions, be vested in the General Assembly; that all permanent members be removed and that the right of veto be eliminated as undemocratic and contrary to the basic principles of the U.N. Charter.
The Members urge the Commission to provide for the permanent preservation of the reports, evidence, and materials gathered to make them available to others, and to seek ways to provide the widest possible distribution of the truth about the U.S. assault on Iraq.
Charges of Other Countries
In accordance with the last paragraph of the Initial Complaint designated Scope of Inquiry, the Commission has gathered substantial evidence of criminal acts by governments and individual officials in addition to those formally presented here. Formal charges have been drafted by some Commissions of Inquiry against other governments in addition to the United States. Those charges have not been acted upon here. The Commission of Inquiry or any of its national components may choose to pursue such other charges at some future time. The Members urge all involved to exert their utmost effort to prevent recurrences of violations by other governments that were not considered here.
Done in New York this 29th day of February, 1992.
- (signed)
- Olga Mejia, Panama
- President of the National Human Rights Commission in Panama, a non-governmental body representing peasants' organizations, urban trade unions, women's groups and others.
- Sheik Mohamed Rashid, Pakistan
- Former deputy prime minister. Long-term political prisoner during the struggle against British colonialism and activist for workers' and peasants' rights.
- Dr. Haluk Gerger, Turkey
- Founding member of Turkish Human Rights Association and professor of political science. Dismissed from Ankara University by military government.
- Susumu Ozaki, Japan
- Former judge and pro-labor attorney imprisoned 1934-1938 for violating Security Law under militarist government for opposing Japan's invasion of China.
- Michael Ratner, USA
- Attorney, former director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, past president of the National Lawyers Guild.
- Lord Tony Gifford, Britain
- Human rights lawyer practicing in England and Jamaica. Investigated human rights abuses in British-occupied Ireland.
- Rene Dumont, France
- Argonomist, ecologist, specialist in agriculture of developing countries, author. His 45th book, This War Dishonors Us, appears in 1992.
- Bassam Haddadin, Jordan
- Member of Parliament, Second Secretary for the Jordanian Democratic Peoples Party. Member of Parliamentary Committee on Palestine.
- Dr. Sherif Hetata, Egypt
- Medical Doctor, author, member of the Central Committee of the Arab Progressive Unionist Party. Political prisoner 14 years in 1950s and 1960s.
- Deborah Jackson, USA
- First vice president of the American Association of Jurists, former director of National Conference of Black Lawyers.
- Opato Matarmah, Menominee Nation of North America
- Involved in defense of human rights of indigenous peoples since 1981. Represented the International Indian Treaty Council at the Commission of Human Rights at the U.N.
- Laura Albizu, Campos Meneses, Puerto Rico
- Past President of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and current Secretary for Foreign Relations. Honorary president of Peace Council.
- Aisha Nyerere, Tanzania
- Resident Magistrate of the High Court in Arusha, Tanzania. Researched the impact of the Gulf war on East Africa.
- Peter Leibovtich, Canada
- President of United Steel Workers of America, USWA, Local 8782 and of the Executive Council of the Ontario Federation of Labor.
- John Philpot, Quebec
- Attorney, member of Board of Directors of Quebec Movement for Sovereignty. Organizing Secretary for the American Association of Jurist in Canada.
- John Jones, USA
- Community leader in the state of New Jersey. Vietnam veteran who became leader of movement against U.S. attack on Iraq.
- Gloria La Riva, USA
- Founding member of the Farmworkers Emergency Relief Committee and Emergency Committee to Stop the U.S. War in the Middle East in San Francisco.
- Key Martin, USA
- Member of Executive Committee of Local 3 of the Newspaper Guild in New York. Jailed in 1967 for taking message of Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Vietnam to active duty Gls.
- Dr. Alfred Mechtersheimer, Germany
- Former member of the Bundestag from the Green Party. Former Lieutenant Colonel in the Bundeswher; current peace researcher.
- Abderrazak Kilani, Tunisia
- Tunisian Bar Association. Former President, Association of Young Lawyers; founding member, National Committee to Lift the Embargo from Iraq.
- Tan Sri Ahmad Noordin bin Zakaria, Malaysia
- Former Auditor General of Malaysia. Known throughout his country for battling corruption in government.
- P. S. Poti, India
- Former Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court. In 1989 elected president of the All-lndia Lawyers Union.


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Getting Started
First, you will need to install an IDE, a few recommendations below:
Then, follow the instructions presented in INSTALL.md.
After building, the Gravity library can be found under Gravity/lib
, and the executables (from Gravity/examples
) can be found under Gravity/bin/Release
The model below was implemented in Xcode:
Some Numerical Results:
Performance Profile on ACOPF
The first figure below is a performance profile illustrating percentage of instances solved as a function of time. The figure compares Gravity, JuMP and AMPL’s NL interface (used by AMPL and Pyomo) on all standard instances found in the PGLIB benchmark library.
The figure below compares model build time between Gravity and JuMP on the PGLIB benchmarks.
Performance Profile on Inverse Ising Model
Citing
The original paper was presentend at the Machine Learning Open Source Software Workshop at NeurIPS 2018, a longer version of the paper can be downloaded here.
Bibtex ref:
@article{Gravity,
title={Gravity: A Mathematical Modeling Language for Optimization and Machine Learning},
author={Hassan Hijazi and Guanglei Wang and Carleton Coffrin},
journal={Machine Learning Open Source Software Workshop at NeurIPS 2018},
year={2018},
note = {Available at \url{www.gravityopt.com}.},
publisher={The Thirty-second Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}
}
License
Gravity is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License. Please see the LICENSE file for details.
Contributors
See the list of contributors here


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To Kill a Democracy: If
Not Psychologically, At Least Physically
By Katie Lula
Niccolò Machiavelli believed war for a government is inevitable
because either others wish to govern our government or others
fear our desire to govern theirs. Necessity requires a government
go to war, although at the beginning of the STAR WARS
prequels, heroine Padmé refused to condone any course
of action that would lead to war and argued that if the galaxy
went to war, "Many will lose their lives, all will lose
their freedom." Later, Anakin Skywalker and she discussed
the dangers of war, embodied by the civil war consuming the galaxy:
ANAKIN:
I think this war is destroying the principles
of the Republic. PADMÉ: Have you ever considered that
we may be on the wrong side?
What if the democracy we thought
we were serving no longer exists, and the Republic has become
the very evil we have been fighting to destroy?

Yet war is inevitable: when government organized with a view
to its internal stability eventually goes to war and manages
to maintain its independence in war for any length of time, the
burden of its resulting empire, which it cannot manage given
its original infrastructure, will result in its downfall. Even
if such a government could avoid war entirely, such peace would
engender faction, resulting ultimately in the same lamentable
outcome as war successfully prosecuted for the government ill-prepared
for empire. This was the problem in STAR WARS: the Galactic
Republic was too big and too stable. Its peace engendered faction,
which resulted in civil war. One character observed in disbelief,
"It's unthinkable. There hasn't been a full-scale war
since the formation of the Republic," though Palpatine
himself hinted that civil war was inevitable: "I will
not let this Republic which has stood for a thousand years be
split in two."
Machiavelli's "faction" naturally stems from corruption:
the common people's refusal to put the common good before their
individual private benefits. The threat of such corruption to
a government, however, lies not with the common people, but with
the ambitious few in a government, who-if the government is to
survive-should not be permitted to gather common people with
promises of private benefits. Machiavelli refused to blame people
if they look to someone who promises them relief and rewards,
for naturally people will respond to such promises.
The mortal threat to a government occurs when people come together
around one individual, raising that individual over his or her
rivals and creating dangerous political inequality and thus faction,
which, of course, leads to war. While people look to this ambitious
individual to easily satisfy their desires with private favors
such as helping them with money or defending them from others,
the ulterior motive of the individual who offers such favors,
of course, is to make partisans, who will make him leader over
the government; in other words, partisans give rise to tyranny.
In Robert Bolt's A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, the villain Cromwell
explained the concept of partisans-and bureaucracy:
"It's much more a matter of convenience, administrative
convenience. The normal aim of administration is to keep steady
this factor of convenience
Now normally when a man wants
to change his woman, you let him if it's convenient and prevent
him if it's not - normally indeed it's of so little importance
that you leave it to the priests. But the constant factor is
this element of convenience
However, in the present instance
the man who wants to change his woman is our Sovereign Lord,
Harry, by the Grace of God, the Eighth of that name. Which is
a quaint way of saying that if he wants to change his woman he
will. So that becomes the constant factor. And our job as administrators
is to make it as convenient as we can
"
This is the core horror of corruption: all it takes is one person
to enact a government's ruin; as Galadriel, Elven Queen of J.R.R.
Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS, acknowledged: "Even
the smallest person can change the course of the future."
In order to remain free of corruption, much less survive, a government
must concentrate on its leaders and ensure that political equality
is maintained among them. Corruption must be managed: easier
said than done, but an answer. As war breeds corruption, and
corruption breeds war, they are causes and not excuses for the
inevitable tyranny that follows them.
To save a corrupted government, Machiavelli demanded complete
renovation, a new law and order. This sounds like revolution,
a dangerous creature, as a speech in Bolt's play illustrated:
MORE: "What would you do? Cut a great road through the
law to get after the Devil?
[W]hen the last law was down,
and the Devil turned round on you-where would you hide, Roper,
the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws
from coast to coast-man's laws, not God's-and if you cut them
down-and you're just the man to do it-d'you really think you
could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?"
Regardless, Machiavelli believed salvation must originate from
a single "virtuous" individual: a hero, in modern-day
lingo. If a government that has fallen into decline through corruption
is to rise again, it can only rise through the virtue of one
individual, either a reformer of a very long life or two virtuous
ones continued in succession. The individual must become leader
through ordinary procedure, however corrupt that procedure may
be so long as it is legitimate, but then he or she must use extraordinary
means, even repugnant means, to correct the government and make
the sweeping changes necessary to restore it and purge it of
its corruption. When the deed accuses him, the effect excuses
him.
In STAR WARS, this was where Palpatine went wrong. He
became Chancellor in a completely legitimate way, but his governmental
reform enacted afterwards rather had the effect of permeating
the Galactic Republic's ills, although the changes were prima
facie designed to renovate the Galactic Republic: "In
order to ensure our security and continuing stability, the Republic
will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire, for a safe
and secure society
An empire that will continue to be ruled
by [the Senate], and a sovereign ruler chosen for life
An
empire ruled by the majority
ruled by a new constitution."
Whatever the galaxy, an empire is never the same thing as a democracy.
However, two closely-related problems for the virtuous individual
arise, one come from the corrupted government and another coming
from the individual. First, in Bolt's A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS,
the Common Man observed, "It isn't difficult to keep
alive, friends - just don't make trouble - or if you must make
trouble, make the sort of trouble that's expected." The
virtuous individual might die if he tries to rescue his government
form itself, for a corrupted government, though needing desperately
to be saved, naturally doesn't want to be saved from itself.
Corruption likes corruption, and it will try to destroy anything
and anyone contrary to it.
Second, if an individual knows what a government needs to amend
its corruption, he or she may not be able to achieve it without
sacrificing the very principles that render him or her the virtuous
savior. Because the proper reordering of a government for a political
way of life presupposes a good individual, and becoming prince
or emperor of a government by violence presupposes a bad individual,
the good individual will never become prince or emperor by bad
ways, even though his end is to do good, for the bad individual,
having become prince or emperor by bad ways, will never think
to use for good the authority that he or she has acquired badly.
In STAR WARS, perverting that distinction was what made
Palpatine so evil: having come to power entirely through legitimate
means, he should have been presupposed a good man, but his entire
motivation was to put himself into a secure position where he
could abuse at will the authority he had acquired so goodly:
he wanted to become a tyrant all along.
For the truly virtuous individual to save a corrupted government,
he or she must be placed in power by others. A virtuous individual,
to save a corrupted government, cannot save it until he or she
is called to do so. He or she must feel forced that this path
is placed before them, and no other path exists, nor can anyone
else rightly walk it. As Galadriel noted of heroes, "If
[they] do not find a way, no one will."
However, once a corrupted government has fallen but is replaced
by a democracy, is it possible for that democracy to succumb
to similar events, forces, and people that fell the original
government? Democracy has sometimes been expected by some people
to be the golden solution, to succeed in every area where all
other forms of government failed. This is an impossible expection
of perfection, and for democracy to fall short is, however natural,
nevertheless disappointing.
The fundamental cause of democratic decline in contemporary politics
is the major imbalance now developing between the role of corporate
interests and those of virtually all other groups. Taken alongside
the inevitable entropy of democracy, this is leading to politics
once again becoming an affair of closed elites, as it was in
non-democratic governments. Changes are so powerful and widespread
that it is impossible to see any major reversal of them. It leads
us to say the fall of democracy is inevitable because it is already
falling.
In STAR WARS, Anakin and Padmé shared a conversation
exemplifying how easily a democratic government can fall to become
a non-democratic government simply due to complacency with the
reality of democracy's failures and acceptance of the impossibility
of its ideal model:
ANAKIN: I don't think the system works
We need a system
where the politicians sit down and discuss the problem, agree
what's in the best interest of all the people, and then do it.
PADMÉ: That's exactly what we do. The trouble is that
people don't always agree.
ANAKIN: Well, then, they should be made to.
PADMÉ: By whom? Who's going to make them?
ANAKIN: I don't know
Someone wise.
PADMÉ: Sounds an awful lot like a dictatorship to me.
ANAKIN: Well, if it works
America is undergoing a process of fundamental change, though
exactly where it will lead is uncertain. The 2000 presidential
election foreshadows the coming of ambitious individuals to America
as a stronger embodiment of what has already begun. The growing
complexity of issues has made it increasingly difficult for people
to have informed positions, make intelligent comment, or even
know what "side" they are or should be on. Participation
in political organizations declines; voting is apathetic. Like
Palpatine, then just a Senator in STAR WARS, observed,
"There is no civility, only politics. The Republic is
not what it once was. The Senate is full of greedy, squabbling
delegates. There is no interest in the common good
The bureaucrats
are in charge now."
It may not be too long before America-and democracy-suffers an
accumulation of events, forces, and people similar to or at least
with the same strength of that which fell Rome. Taking a snapshot
of where and what we are now, in 2006, gives us no picture of
what lies in store, but if we put that snapshot in an album,
in context of history, we might see a pattern and a path. War
has already begun: the current war in Iraq may not be enough,
but it need not be. There was Bosnia, Somalia, the Gulf War,
the Vietnam War, the Korean War. There has been dissent-the feminist
movement, Civil Rights protests-and there has been corruption:
Watergate, Whitewater, Clinton's impeachment. The corruption
has been somewhat managed and controlled, but if efforts to manage
it fail, and extraordinarily, irreparable catastrophe and damage
result, soon someone might echo Padmé's cold words: "I
was not elected to watch my people suffer and die while you discuss
this invasion in a committee. If this body is not capable of
action, then I suggest new leadership is needed
It is clear
to me now that the Republic no longer functions. I pray [that
someone] will bring sanity and compassion back to [democracy]."
Arnold Schwarzenegger, governor of California, seemed to be along
Padmé's line of thinking when he called for a special
election to be held in November 2005 to continue dramatic reformation
of the state's government and finances, saying, "I did
not come to Sacramento, and [the people] did not send me here,
to repeat the mistakes of the past."
NOTE: This is an edited version
of the article. For the full length version, click here.
Posted January 18, 2006
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Are Tesla Investors Missing The Point?
by Trefis TeamTesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) stock rallied by close to 24% since it published its Q3 2019 results last week, posting a surprise profit. However, taking a closer look at the underlying numbers and comparing them with the previous quarter (Q2 2019) and the year-ago quarter (Q3 2018), we believe that the markets could be overlooking some negatives in the earnings release.View our interactive dashboard analysis on Are Tesla Investors Overlooking Some Key Trends In Q3 Earnings?
Tesla reported positive Operating Cash Flow in Q2 as well at $864 million, versus only $756 million in Q3, but investors didn’t care to jump and buy TSLA at that time
- Tesla’s operating cash flows were actually lower on a sequential and year-over-year (YoY) basis, partly due to an increase in Net Operating Assets.
Tesla’s Free Cash Flow was also positive, at around $614 million in Q2, compared to $371 million in Q3. Investors still didn’t jump with joy in Q2, but in Q3 they bought the stock fast until it spiked ~20%.
- Tesla’s Free Cash Flow, calculated as Net Income less CapEx has actually trended lower sequentially as well as YoY, due to lower Operating Cash Flows as well as sequentially higher CapEx.
Tesla’s Earnings need to be subject to more scrutiny, with declining D&A expenses, and higher one-off revenue items
- A bulk of Tesla’s earnings improvement has come from lower Cost Of Revenue for the auto business, which benefited from better cost absorption and lower labor intensity for production.
- Interestingly, Tesla also saw lower depreciation expenses (down 13% sequentially and 5% YoY), which is odd for a company with ambitious growth plans.
- Tesla did not recognize any “Restructuring and Other” charges over Q3. In Q2, it recognized $117 million in charges, contributing to a significant earnings miss.
Tesla’s Automotive Revenues are almost flat sequentially & down YoY
For more information on Tesla’s revenues, view our interactive dashboard analysis.
And, for more Trefis analysis, view our interactive dashboard analysis Deep-Dive X-Ray: What Drove Tesla’s Q3 Profits & Which Parts Are Sustainable?
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Replace Failed Storage Pool HDD
In my day to day jobby, I manage multiple Hyper-V clusters, and these clusters use shared storage. Most of the storage is a JBOD shelf with dual SAS connections to the hypervisor nodes. Because the shelf is JBOD, Windows is the brains for the storage. Enter Windows Storage Spaces. This is basically a Software RAID that you configure a pool of disks, and then you layer a VHD over that pool. After a volume is created on the VHD, it can be used by the hosts. These volumes can be added to Cluster Shared Volumes which allows the volume to move between host nodes, creating redundancy. All the VMs hosted in the cluster, live on the CSV, making them Highly Available.
As hardware always does, physical disks in the pool fail. Most of the Microsoft docs on fixing this issue are quite cumbersome to follow, and even more so, they tend to deal with Storage Spaces Direct, which is not the same technology. So I thought I would make up a quick little walk through on replacing a failed HDD in a storage pool. I have to do this about once a month, so this is just as much for me, as it is for you.
In my configuration, I run Windows Server Core exclusively for Hypervisors, so we will tackling this with PowerShell, tbh, not really even sure how to do this with a GUI.
Identifying a failed HDD
Identifying a failed HDD is pretty simple, it can be done with a simple PowerShell command:
Get-PhysicalDisk | ? HealthStatus -ne "Healthy"
This will show you any disks that have failed, I typically use a 3-way mirror on my Storage Pools, so if that number is greater then 2, then well, might as well just start over. Anyway, if the Usage
property of the failed disk is not marked as Retired, you will need to mark it as such:
Get-PhysicalDisk | ? HealthStatus -ne "Healthy" | Set-PhysicalDisk -Usage Retired
So, this next part tends to vary between JBOD models, but to actually identify the failed HDD for physical replacement, there are a few things you can do, first off, you can actually trigger the slots LED to indicate the failed drive:
# This command assumes you already completed the previous command and 'Retired' the failed disks.
Get-PhysicalDisk -Usage Retired | Enable-PhysicalDiskIdentification
You can also get the physical SlotNumber
:
Get-PhysicalDisk -Usage Retired | select SlotNumber
However, this number is 0 indexed so when looking at the JBOD shelf, be sure to start counting at 0.
Replacing the HDD
After you have identified the failed HDD and marked it as retired, you can now physically replace the drive. In my experience, after the new drive is inserted and running Get-PhysicalDisk
the new drive always hangs in a Starting
Operational Status. And because of this you cannot add it to the storage pool (notice the CanPool
Property will be False
). This can be cleared up by Resetting the disk:
Get-PhysicalDisk | ? OperationalStatus -eq "Starting" | Reset-PhysicalDisk
After this is complete, running the Get-PhysicalDisk
will show the disk is Healthy
and the CanPool
property will be True
. Now, you need to identify the Storage Pool’s Friendly Name, this can be found by running the Get-StoragePool
command. Once you have the Friendly Name, you can add the new disk to the pool:
Add-PhysicalDisk -StoragePoolFriendlyName MyStoragePool -PhysicalDisks ( Get-PhysicalDisk -CanPool:$true )
Now that the drive is replaced, go ahead and repair the virtual disk:
Get-VirtualDisk | ? HealthStatus -ne "Healthy" | Repair-VirtualDisk
This will take some time depending on how large the virtual disk is, resiliency settings, and hardware, but there will be a progress bar. Or you can add the -AsJob
switch to the Repair-VirtualDisk
command and let it run in the background. You can fetch the status with Get-StorageJob
.
Be sure to disable the LED identification:
# I always just run this on against all the disks, it won't hurt anything for the ones where its not enabled.
Get-PhysicalDisk | Disable-PhysicalDiskIdentification
After the repair is complete, the last step is to remove the failed drive from the pool. Remember, the repair has to fully complete before removing the failed drive from the pool, else data loss will occur.
Remove-PhysicalDisk -StoragePoolFriendlyName MyStoragePool -PhysicalDisks ( Get-PhysicalDisk -Usage Retired )
And thats it, good to go! Cheers.


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The following are my activities and lifestyle that i live
Just like everyone casuality is my first priority!
This lifestyle consists of ;
Hobbies can be defined as likes and what you mostly and love the most to do
my favourite hobby is playing soccer .By both real life soccer which is foot played and playstation computer controlled game of multiple players (2 players)
My second hobby is swimming and beach playing swimming is healthy to the human body and keeps the body fit n helps in blood circulation in the brain mind and even the whole body
Third hobby is codding . Computer skills and languages are so cool amazing and awesome . A codder has alot of achivments nothing to loose but alot to gain
Mostly i love spending my leisure time in three things and they are ;
- Spending time with my family and friends . Real men put their families as there first priority and thus my first my first priority . Friends always either add positivity into your life or not
- Reading novels to expand my ideas since a codder must have enough ideas for his projects to get executed
-Fulfiling some of my hobbies like playing soccer or going for swimming
So far so good i own 0 hahaha
I am a footballer by experience. i can play any position in the pitch as long as the game is soccer i can make it count out
My other skill is swimming . I once went for the international competition of skuba diving but rater didn't make to what i wished for i was in position 3 out of 45 skuba divers from all over the globe
My final skill is codding and its my career and one of my favourites


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