Instead of a standard zoom, use three or more shots, varying in distance but focused on the same point, cut together rapidly. Commonly used for shock value. Each cut is often accompanied by a sting. Common subjects are corpses and monsters, but it is not exclusively a horror technique.
Examples:
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Anime & Manga
- This technique is used twice in the fourth opening theme of the 2003 anime adaptation of Fullmetal Alchemist, in time with the music, to focus on two of the villains. A rare effect to see, but catchy nonetheless.
- Higurashi: When They Cry does this many times to unbelievable effect.
- This is done on Koro-Sensei in the first opening of Assassination Classroom.
- The effect is used in the anime adaptation of Fist of the North Star, on a shocked expression of Rei when he learns that Mamiya was abducted by his old rival Yuda in the past.
Comic Books
- Parodied in a short history of Mortadelo y Filemón, where they have to resolve a case on a TV studio. Mortadelo removes the safety lock of a crane that has a TV camera mounted on it while recording a news program, and as the latter falls over the television host we see his horrified face being zoomed on the camera's screen followed by a "CRASH!" and static.
Films Animation
- In Up this is how we find out that Carl's house is now surrounded by a massive construction project.
- Done in The Brave Little Toaster just before the Heroic Sacrifice.
- Done for laughs in The Emperor's New Groove, where Kronk is holding the unconscious emperor over a waterfall, where the camera zooms out and out and out... until finally the waterfall isn't even visible, and the focus is on a monkey eating a bug.
Narrator Kuzco: Uh, what's with the chimp and the bug? Can we get back to me?
- Seen in The Great Mouse Detective right when Ratigan finally snaps and has a Villainous Breakdown inside Big Ben, cutting into his eyes starting to become wild.
- Done near the end of the song "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid.
- Also done near the start of "Savages (Part 2)" in Pocahontas, focusing in on the marching, armored form of Ratcliffe.
- My Little Pony: Equestria Girls Rainbow Rocks: The "Under Our Spell" sequence starts with one centered on Adagio's mouth.
Films Live-Action
- Death of a Cyclist: Two staggered zooms are intercut with each other.
- The introduction of Boris Karloff's Monster in Frankenstein (1931) is done as three cuts rather than a zoom.
- Filmmaker Akira Kurosawa used this as a stylistic device; he frequently began his films with a series of establishing shots that jumped in closer and closer to the characters he wanted to focus on.
- In The Idiot he does this as Akama watches Kameda walk away through the peephole in a door, zooming in on Akama's eyes. It's a striking moment as Akama is a Crazy Jealous Guy, Kameda is going to talk with the woman Akama wants, and Akama's eyes are filled with homicidal rage.
- Used by Quentin Tarantino in the first Kill Bill movie, when O-Ren Ishii and her bodyguards enter the restaurant.
- Director Sogo Ishii, of Gojoe is very fond of this. He often does it in reverse: extreme close-up, close-up, medium shot, long shot.
- A similar effect is used for the discovery of a dead farmer in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963).
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy used this as the camera zooms out past the Vogon ships at the beginning. Fifty-five times.
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off uses this in the infamous museum scene of Cameron staring at A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.
- The introduction of Daniel Day-Lewis' character Bill "The Butcher" Cutting in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York follows this trope to a T. The overall effect is heightened by the addition of both a badass longcoat and an American eagle patterned glass eye.
- Used in Casino Royale (2006) at the start of the airport chase sequence.
- In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan this is used to pull back from the Reliant just before the Genesis Device detonates.
- Pictured above: in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick combines this with Quieter Than Silence when the camera zooms in on HAL 9000's eye on the front of the space pod that he kills Frank Poole with, and the sound of Frank's breathing cuts off abruptly.
- Steven Spielberg rarely uses this technique, but a notable exception occurs near the end of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial with the staggered zoom on Elliott's face, synched to the music, as he's about to hit the police roadblock. Spielberg was able to do this because he agreed to let John Williams record the score for the film's finale first, then edited the footage to fit.
- The film of West Side Story does this, starting from an aerial view of most or all of New York City and cutting closer and closer in a series of jumps until it finally gets down to a single neighborhood of just a few blocks before the film cuts to street level. No stings in this one; it's eerily silent until the final cut when Jet Song starts.
- Children of the Corn:
- Used in the fourth film when June is running away from her house, and turns back to look at it. A staggered zoom then shows a scythe breaking through a window on her front door.
- When Jamie sees one of the ghost children in the seventh film skipping in the asphalt in the middle of the night, the camera does a staggered zoom on the kid's face.
- Friday the 13th
- Used in Jason Lives when Jason puts on his mask, and we get a closeup on his one good eye just before the title screen.
- A staggered zoom is used on Jason in The New Blood when the Final Girl Tina finally comes face to face with him.
- When Rennie tries to run down Jason with car in Jason Takes Manhattan, a POV shot accompanied with a staggered zoom shows that she is once again seeing a vision of younger Jason.
- Used on Diana's eyes in Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday when she sees Jason's reflection from a mirror.
- The chilling last shot of Greed, where the film zooms out to show McTeague handcuffed to a corpse in the middle of a desert.
- A staggered zoom onto Opanas's face in Earth, right before he says "there ain't no God" and turns the Orthodox priest away from his home, the morning after his son Vasyl's murder.
- Only Old Men Are Going to Battle: As the men of the fighter pilot squadron sing and relax in the mess hall, there is a cut to one of their planes being made ready for combat. There is then a staggered zoom out from the plane, emphasizing the mortal danger that awaits them.
- Dames: One shot features a single chorus girl in the far distance on a bare stage. Four staggered zoom cuts take us to a closeup of her face. A conventional zoom out reveals her to be just one part of a huge chorus.
- Elf uses one the first time Buddy sees Jovie - the staggered zoom focuses on her face as she puts the finishing touches on a Christmas tree in Gimbels Department Store.
- Mon oncle d'Amérique: The final sequence shows a series of shots of grim urban blight, then shows an elaborate mural on the side of a building, a painting of a lush green forest. Then the camera goes into a closeup via a series of Staggered Zooms to show that the mural of the forest looks like meaningless blotches of paint when examined close up.
- War and Peace uses this for the first shot of Natasha, the central female character in the story.
- Ecstasy: Five cuts in a row zoom us in to Adam's window, as Eva approaches with sex on her mind.
- Yesterday: A staggered zoom out from Yesterday and the doctor at the clinic, when Yesterday finds out the result of her blood test. She has AIDS.
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 uses a staggered zoom out during the last few seconds of the bomb's countdown before it blows up Ego's brain/core.
- In The Day After, this technique is used to pull back from Kansas City just before it is struck by an EMP from a warhead detonating high above. An additional effective touch is that the sound of the city's blaring air-raid sirens abruptly cuts off during one of the jumps.
Live-Action TV
- The Avengers: Combined with the use of Dutch Angles at the start of "Return of the Cybernauts", when one of the eponymous robots smashes its way into a victim's home.
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Onto Holt in Season 4 premiere "Coral Palms Part 1", when he realizes that if they don't investigate the case they might be left indefinitely in witness protection in the worst place on earth, Florida.
- Doctor Who: Parodied in "The Eleventh Hour". The camera shows the things the Doctor is focusing on, but because he's still suffering from regeneration sickness, he focuses on a lot of unimportant things before noticing the important plot detail.
- Famously used in the intro to Hawaii Five-O.
- Part of NCIS' Signature Style.
Music Videos
- In Pepe Deluxé's "Super Sonic Sound System" video, every time the spokeswoman says the words, "Super! Sonic! Sound! System!", the camera zooms closer to her lips with each word.
- Used in Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus" video when Dave Gahan sings "Reach out and touch faith".
Video Games
- Eternal Darkness uses this early on when the heroine encounters her own dead body in a bathtub. Each cut only lasts a few frames, followed by a screamer.
- Used in a trailer for Mass Effect 2, in order to show the relative size of the spaceship Shepard is viewing.
- Used twice in Guacamelee!! First, a staggered zoom-out as the luchador flies into the gigantic Ominous Floating Castle to show that, holy crap, the thing means business. And then, a staggered zoom-in on the luchador himself during his Big Heroic Run towards the Final Boss to show that he means business.
- Done in comic form in the "President Madagascar" strip, a Memetic Mutation of the flash game Pandemic II where the game can become Unwinnable if Madagascar closes its only seaport.
- Used in Paper Mario whenever Gourmet Guy eats something really good. It starts with this, and then the camera spins around, and then it cuts to Gourmet Guy running and flying around the room.
- Used a couple of times in Call of Duty: Black Ops II, allowing the player to get a good look at a villain when they'd otherwise be too far away.
- Happens in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, when Link finally confronts Ganondorf: upon entering the room, Link immediately sees Zelda in the crystal Ganondorf captured her in, and the camera zooms in on her.
Web Comics
- Used here in Ears for Elves to show Tanna's feelings of being worthless because she can't shoot well and her sadness about being alone. Due to the medium, the speed of the cuts can't be shown, but the placement of the three panels on the page is equivalent.
Web Videos
- Used in The Spoony Experiment review of The King of Fighters movie to mock its ending.
Western Animation
- The ending of "The Remote" in The Amazing World of Gumball.
"Daisy. Daisy... Daisy! Daisy!!! DAISY!!!"
- Used a few times in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
- In "Dragonshy", zooming out from the mountaintop cave as Fluttershy explains her objection to facing a fully-grown dragon, each jump punctuating the list of things she finds terrifying about them.
- In Friendship is Witchcraft, this scene is parodied quite nicely, with Fluttershy's story of her Hilariously Abusive Childhood.
- In "Lesson Zero", we get a staggered zoom in on Rarity whenever she decries something as "The. Worst. Possible. Thing!" After the third time (when Twilight has to go face Princess Celestia), we get a normal zoom out afterward, with Rarity meekly stating "I really mean it this time!"
- In "May the Best Pet Win", when Rainbow Dash announces the final contest will be a race through Ghastly Gorge, the camera pulls back to reveal the hazard-filled canyon. She even provides the sting sounds herself.
- In "The Last Roundup", the camera zooms in on Pinkie Pie when the other girls decide to "bring out the big guns" (i.e. use her Motor Mouth tendencies to get Applejack to open up about why she ran away from home).
- In "Dragonshy", zooming out from the mountaintop cave as Fluttershy explains her objection to facing a fully-grown dragon, each jump punctuating the list of things she finds terrifying about them.
- Done on one of Angelica's eyes at the end of the Rugrats episode "Angelica Breaks a Leg", accompanied by the sound of Charlotte's call buzzer repeatedly sounding, until Angelica's pupil fills the screen with black with one final long buzz.
- Happens in the Rocko's Modern Life Halloween Episode "Sugar Frosted Frights", after Rocko and Heffer remove the sheet Filburt is hiding under and he appears headless (he's actually hiding it under his shell.)
- The Simpsons:
- Used in the end of the episode "Bart vs. Australia", when we are shown one stowaway Koala clinging on a helicopter.
- Also happens in "Krusty Gets Busted" when Bart figures out that Sideshow Bob framed Krusty.
- Used in "The Old Man and the Key", with the camera cutting closer to Homer's mouth as he tells Grampa he's "Never! Driving! Again! EVER!"
- In "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming", Bart and Lisa get trapped in the Air Force base; Marge comforts herself with the thought that at least Bart is wearing clean underwear. Cue a dramatic sting and staggered zoom through his bedroom window to his briefs, still on his bed.
Bart: Ahhh! Free and easy, Lis'! There's nothing like an unfurnished basement for pure comfort.
- At the end of Season 7 premiere "Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part two ", Maggie is revealed to be the shooter, obviously by accident—but the episode ends with a Scare Chord and a staggered zoom into Maggie's face as her eyes dart back and forth.
- The Smurfs: In "The Kaplowey Scroll", Grouchy becomes the victim of one of Jokey's exploding packages, and the camera cuts closer to his face just before he angrily curses "Kaplowey!" and makes Jokey vanish.
- Happens in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Wet Painters" when SpongeBob sees a tiny spot of paint on Mr. Krabs' first dollar.
- Steven Universe: "Keystone Motel" has a staggered zoom on Garnet to illustrate that she's still furious over Pearl's actions in the previous episode, "Cry For Help".
- Seen in the Wabbit: A Looney Tunes Production episode "Hareplane Mode" when Yosemite Sam sees that a hair has gotten onto his smartphone screen.


Pieridae
Upperside forewings of both sexes have yellow "dog's head" surrounded by black. "Eye" does not touch black border. Female similar, with duller, more diffuse black areas and 2 seasonal forms: underside hindwing of wet season "summer" form is yellow; that of dry season "winter" form is mottled with black and pink.
Dry, open areas such as short-grass prairie hills, scrub oak groves, open woodland, washes, road edges.
Three flights in the southern states from May-June, July-August, and September-April. Northern colonists have one generation per year, or do not reproduce at all.
Nectar from flowers including alfalfa, coreopsis, houstonia, and verbena.


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This is a collection of examples demonstrating the usage of the Google RSS JSP Tag Library.
The Google RSS Tag Library is an extension to the Google Tag Library.
The Google Web APIs Java library is required in order to use the Google RSS Tag
Library. The library's JAR file (googleapi.jar
) should be placed
into the application's WEB-INF/lib
directory.
You must also register with Google (free) in order to obtain a license key. The license key is required to access Google's Web Services.
The license key can be specified as a context parameter in the web application
deployment descriptor (web.xml
) as follows:
<context-param>
<param-name>google_key</param-name>
<param-value>000000000000000000000000</param-value>
</context-param>
The license key can also be temporarily specified using the following:
The included examples will allow you to:
The Google RSS Tag Library uses the Google Web APIs, but is not associated with or sponsored by Google, Inc.
Click here for licensing information.


June 27, 2008
PicoContainer Persistence 2.0 released
This is the first release of a PicoContainer Persistence. It has a 2.0 release number because it is tracking the release cycle of PicoContainer itself, and cannot rely on PicoContainer 1.x. Formerly these persistence components were part of the NanoContainer project.


Introduction -
H & A is a Custom T-shirt Printing Company and Daily Attire Manufacturer located in Kuantan, Pahang. H&A was established on July 2016 founded by Husna Athirah. Our product range includes Ready-made T-shirts such as Round Neck T-shirts, Collar-T-shirts and Polo-T-shirts and others customised T-shirts. Besides, we are also provided other product such as bag, jackets, jeans and other daily attire.


--- layout: post title: Stiffness of trabecular bone thumb: bone pub: title: Image-based goal-oriented adaptive isogeometric analysis with application to the micro-mechanical modeling of trabecular bone author: C.V. Verhoosel, G.J. van Zwietena, B. van Rietbergen, R. de Borst journal: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, volume 284 url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2014.07.009 ---
Solution of linear elasticity on a trabecular bone geometry resulting from micro CT scans, loaded in vertical tension. Discretization by finite cell method. The computational mesh is hierarchically refined to optimize accuracy for vertical stiffness.


This example translate the string "Users" in two languages differents, if you change the language of your browser and reload the page you can view the changes. The languages in this example:


Provides the definition of the Timer MBean. A Timer MBean maintains a list of scheduled notifications and, because it is a {@link javax.management.NotificationBroadcaster NotificationBroadcaster}, a list of listeners for those notifications. Whenever the time for one of the scheduled notifications is reached, each listener receives the notification. Notifications can be repeated at a fixed interval, and the number of repetitions can be bounded.
A listener for a Timer MBean can itself be an MBean, using the method {@link javax.management.MBeanServer#addNotificationListener(ObjectName, ObjectName, NotificationFilter, Object)}. In this way, a management application can create an MBean representing a task, then schedule that task using a Timer MBean.
@since 1.5


The four examples below show usage of secret based authorization. This means that the origin of the URL does not matter. The first example shows that a string literal can be used as a secret. It shows that when the secret is incorrect, no content is displayed. The second example shows a working example using string literal secret that works. The third example shows that a secret function can be used to verify the secret. The fourth example shows how a failure response from the secret validation is handled and no content is displayed.


ED25519 255-bit Edwards Elliptic Curve ECDH/ECIES/ECDSA
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GOLDILOCKS 448-bit Edwards Elliptic Curve ECDH/ECIES/ECDSA
BLS381 381-bit k=12 Pairing-Friendly BLS Curve MPIN
BLS24 479-bit k=24 Pairing-Friendly BLS Curve MPIN


Mancini's Italy visit 'wounded' Venice
Venice - Roberto Mancini's Italian national football team travelled to flood-hit Venice on Saturday, the morning after extending their winning streak in Euro 2020 qualifying.
Goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma donned knee-high wellington boots along with Italian football federation (FIGC) president Gabriele Gravina to visit the inundated St Mark's Square.
The iconic square had been reopened earlier Saturday after unusually intense "acqua alta", or high water, which hit its highest level in half a century.
"On behalf of the whole team, we stand close to the city of Venice," said AC Milan's Donnarumma.
The FIGC delegation visited several businesses damaged by the flooding, and chatted with Venetians, volunteers and police.
"Venice will overcome this too. Like an athlete who suffers a serious injury and then gets up again," said delegation chief Gianluca Vialli.
"Venice is a wounded city, but it is strong as well as being wonderful, and has shown great character and an extraordinary ability to stand up," said Gravina.
Italy coach Mancini later signed autographs as 200 fans were allowed to watch the team's training session at the city's 'Taliercio' sports centre, which had initially been planned behind closed doors.
The visit also coincides with the unveiling of a partnership agreement between the four-time world champions and Venice Airport, later on Saturday.
The Azzurri will on Sunday travel to Palermo for their final Euro 2020 qualifying game against Armenia.
The Azzurri have bounced back impressively after failing to qualify for last year's World Cup for the first time since 1958.
Italy registered a record 10th straight win as they eased past Bosnia and Herzegovina 3-0 in Zenica on Friday.


Anchors¶
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ExpyBox.
anchors
()¶ Create dialog for Anchors
- Returns
None
Method parameters¶
- threshold
Minimum precision threshold for anchor rules.
- delta
Used to compute beta. The lower the value, the higher the beta parameter for beam search (wider beam) is. You can see how exactly beta is computed here.
- tau
Margin between lower confidence bound and minimum precision or upper bound. Here tau is used in place of delta from IML book or the Anchros paper.
- batch size
Batch size used for sampling
- discretizer percentiles
Iterable with percentiles (ints) used for discretization of ordinal features. If None,
[25, 50, 75]
will be used. Here you need specify the name of the variable with list of percentiles that is in the kernel_globals parameter that you passed to ExpyBox.


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| Table 3 |
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--- category: "sprites" sortorder: 1 ---
Draw 2D sprites with screen coordinates. Supports scaling, rotation and tinting. As its name would suggest, it batches draw calls to be able to draw as many sprites as fast as possible. It also supports drawing text.
var SpriteBatch = require('lib/sprite.js').SpriteBatch; // var window = new Window(...); var batch = new SpriteBatch(window);
To add a sprite to be drawn the draw
function is used. This function takes an object parameter that specifies the sprite properties. All of these properties have default values so you don't have to specify all of them if you don't need it. The only required property for the object parameter is the texture. The default parameter object is defined as:
// var texture = new Texture2D(...) var sprite = { // Source rectangle on the texture. source: { x: 0, y: 0, w: texture.width, h: texture.height }, // Position for the sprite. position: { x: 0, y: 0 }, // Scaling for the sprite. scaling: { x: 1, y: 1 }, // Rotation (in radians) for the sprite. rotation: 0, // Origin for the sprite. origin: { x: 0, y: 0 }, // Color for the sprite. color: { r: 1, g: 1, b: 1, a: 1 } };
Specify only the properties you need (texture is required).
// var texture = new Texture2D(...) var sprite = { // Texture for the sprite. texture: texture, // Position for the sprite. position: { x: 50, y: 50 } };
Draw sprites between begin
and end
. The begin
function sets up the rendering states needed before drawing sprites. The end
function reset those rendering states and flushes the sprites not yet drawn.
// var batch = new SpriteBatch(...); batch.begin(); for (var i=0; i<10; i++) { // var sprite = {...} batch.draw(sprite); } batch.end();
When drawing text you must first create a TextureFont. The same concept applies when drawing text as drawing sprites, you don't have to specifiy all the object properties, only font and text is required. To vertically align the text, baseline is used. It can have any of the following values: 'top', 'middle', 'alphabetic'.
// var textureFont = new TextureFont(...); var text = { // Font used when drawing text. font: textureFont, // Text to draw. text: 'Text to draw goes here', // Position for the text. position: { x: 0, y: 0 }, // Scaling for the text. scaling: { x: 1, y: 1 }, // Rotation (in radians) for the text. rotation: 0, // Origin for the text. origin: { x: 0, y: 0 }, // Color for the text. color: { r: 1, g: 1, b: 1, a: 1 }, // Vertical align the text. baseline: 'top' }; // var batch = new SpriteBatch(...); batch.begin(); batch.drawText(text); batch.end();


Lemonwhale Player API In Screen Demo
This demo uses Lemonwhale Player API that is available on Github and can be used to communicate with Lemonwhale players. This example shows how to play and pause the video when it's in screen. More documentation of the API can be found
here


CONTACT 1997 A film review by Timothy Voon Copyright 1997 Timothy Voon 4 :-) :-) :-) :-) for the most thought provoking movie I've seen this year
Making contact with an alien race doesn't come as easily as "E.T. phone home" anymore. This reflective movie directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey, prods the human skull with a radar dish full of science and religion. Ever looked up at the night sky and wondered to yourself, quote "What a great waste of space"? Well it is, and this movie attempts to give some meaning to those pondering whether man is truly alone in the universe.
Behind every motive lies an underlying reason, which drives a heroine to become great. In the case of the Scientist (Foster), the search for the meaning of her existence is the same as her quest to find her dead parents. The orphan, whose fascination with the universe begins with a low frequency radio and telescope, sets out to reach the furthest stars, in the furthest galaxies, to confirm what man has always feared or fantasised. She listens and watches from dusk till dawn, for a sign, a message that carries with it the same vain hope of a child wishing her parents would return from the grave. Patience is a product of time, not relativity, and the patient Scientist is rewarded with a signal from Vega.
To every action there must be an equal and opposite reaction - not so. For every agnostic scientist there lies in wait a thousand religious gnostics. Representing the unbalanced proportion of this equation of beliefs, is the Reverend (McConaughey). Can God and Science coexist? Does placing faith in one necessarily rule out the existence of the other? There are two sides to this search for the truth, but enough room for both sides to come out smiling. After all, the universe is a big, big place.
E=MC2. Extra-terrestrial = making contact twice. If you receive a message from an alien, it is only polite to reply. Close to a trillion dollars is spent on an amusing looking gadget reminiscent of the nucleus of an atom. Drop a small pod in the centre of revolving twirling rings, and leave the rest to speculation and imagination. I had a good laugh when I first saw the contraption. "That thing is not taking anyone anywhere", I said aloud, but perhaps to a hospital bed with a fracture or two.
The Quest to make first contact, gets as political as politicians on heat. The Scientist stands by her belief that there is no God, in front of an international selection committee. Her application to be earth's messenger to the stars is rejected. However, the right hand of religion which strikes her cheek, also carries a fanatical left, which ironically allows her to journey where no man has gone before.
The Scientist returns without an incredulous story of space and time travel. She has only a sense of wonder, and feelings of a glorious encounter of the millennium kind to share with others. An international enquiry is assembled to judge her story, but brushes aside the truth as a mere figment of her imagination. At this moment, the Scientist realises that she is asking others to believe her words on faith alone, a concept which is as foreign as believing in God; and those who have no qualms about believing in a supreme being, are unable to believe the tale of her miraculous journey.
So in this meeting place, Science asks Religion to Believe, but ironically Religion turns her face. So my longwinded after thought is that perhaps if the Science had more faith in God, and Religion had more faith in Science, there may be harmony on the third rock from the Sun.
Exceptionally thought-provoking material, splendidly directed, and visually sensational. Well done.
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Section 1.2 Set and Check Time and Date
There are many tools on the BrailleNote to help a student be organized at school or home. The BrailleNote can be used to check the time and date. This is done quietly and quickly with simple shortcut commands. Students and adults can increase their independence by leaving and arriving on time and meeting various time commitments.
Subsection 1.2.1 Tasks
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Navigate to Date and Time
Begin at Main Menu.
Check the time enter + t
Clear the time Advance thumb-key
Check the date enter + d.
Clear the date display advance thumb-key
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Set Time
Open Utilities menu letter u
Open Date and Time Set letter d
Toggle UK and USA date/time setting Space + dots34
When "Date format? USA" is displayed enter
Toggle 12 hr and 24 hr time options Space + dots34, enter
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Toggle time zones space+ dot34 , enter
Time zome options, m=Mountain, p=Pacific, c=Central, e=Eastern
"Is daylight saving time?" y for yes or n for no
Write the time in 12 hour format as hours and minutes, a space, then a for a.m. or p for p.m.
To move to Date menu enter
-
Set Date
Type the date as number sign month, number sign day, number sign year. For example, 09 12 2013 = dots3456,245,24 dots3456,1,12 dots3456,12,245,1,14.
To delete last character backspace
To accept typed date enter
-
"Week starts on which day?" Toggle space + dots34
Direct selection s=Sunday, m=Monday
For context dependent help space + h
Accept settings and return to Utilities enter
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Repeat the keyboard commands above to check the time and date.
If they are not correct, try again.
It may be that the "day light saving" option was set incorrectly.
Subsection 1.2.2 Quiz:
Write or say the letter of the best answer choice.
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What is the command to check the time?
space + t
enter + t
backspace + t
previous thumb-key
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What will space + h do when using the BrailleNote?
a hard reset
put the BrailleNote in one-hand mode
give help
half re-set
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What company makes the BrailleNote?
HIMS-Inc
Hadley
Freedome Scientific
Human Ware
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What is the command to toggle among choices?
enter + dots3 4
Space + dots34
space
enter
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From Main Menu, what is the fastest way to open the Utilities Menu?
letter u
space + u
press enter
backspace
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How can you toggle among the "speech modes"?
Space + dots34
enter + d
previous thumb-key with space
previous thumb-key with enter
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How can you delete the last character written?
backspace
space
enter
previous thumb-key
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What will space with a full cell do?
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1 Here is a list of the tribes of Israel and the territory that each tribe is to receive. The northern boundary of Israel will start at the Mediterranean Sea and go east to the city of Hethlon, then to Lebo Hamath, and farther on to Hazar Enan, which is south of Damascus, and it will continue to Hamath. Each tribe will receive land that will extend from the eastern boundary of Israel west to the Great Sea.
The tribe of Dan will receive land alongside the northern border of Israel.
2 South of their area will be the territory for the tribe of Asher.
3 South of Asher's land will be territory for the tribe of Naphtali.
4 South of Naphtali's land will be territory for the tribe of Manasseh.
5 South of Manasseh's land will be territory for the tribe of Ephraim.
6 South of Ephraim's land will be territory for the tribe of Reuben.
7 South of their land will be territory for the tribe of Judah.
8 South of Judah's land will be an area that the entire nation will give to me; you will set it apart for special use. The temple will be in the center of this area. It will be as long as any of the portions of land assigned a tribe of Israel.
9 This special area will be about 13.5 kilometers long and about 5.4 kilometers wide. This is what you will give to Yahweh.
10 Within this special area, these will what you will assign to the priests: you will assign them an area of land measuring about 13.5 kilometers on the northern and southern side; and about 5.4 kilometers on the western and eastern sides. The temple of Yahweh will be in the middle of this special area.
11 The temple area will be for the priests, those set apart for my honor, who are descendants of Zadok. They are ones who served me faithfully and did not turn away from Yahweh as the descendants of Levi did.
12 When the land is distributed, you will offer that special area to me, for it to be the priests' special portion; it is land that you will treat as very special to me. Next to the priests' territory will be where the other descendants of Levi will live.
13 The land that you will assign to the descendants of Levi will be the same size as the land that the priests will receive. So together, these two portions of land will be about 13.5 kilometers long and about eleven kilometers wide.
14 None of this special land, this best land, may ever be sold or traded or used by other people, because it belongs to Yahweh. It is set apart for him.
15 Another strip of land about 13.5 kilometers long and about 2.7 kilometers wide will be allotted for other people iving in the special area to use; there they may build homes and have pasturelands, and there will be a city in the middle of this area.
16 The city will be square, about 2.4 kilometers long on each side.
17 There will be an open area around the city, within the special area, that will be about 135 meters deep in each direction.
18 Outside the city there will be a farming area that will extend about 5.4 kilometers on the east side and about 5.4 kilometers on the west side. Men who work there will produce food for the people who work in the city.
19 Those who come from the various tribes to work in the city may also work in this farmland.
20 This entire special area, including the land given for Yahweh's use and the city, will be a square that is about 13.5 kilometers long on each side.
21 The tracts of land to the east and to the west of Yahweh's area and the city will belong to the ruler. One area will extend east to the eastern boundary of Israel, and the other will extend west to the Great Sea. Yahweh's area, which contains the temple, will be in the middle.
22 The area that belongs to the ruler will be between the tribe of Judah to the north and the tribe of Benjamin to the south.
23 South of Yahweh's area, each of the other tribes will receive one portion of land that extends from the eastern boundary of Israel west to the Great Sea.
Just south of Yahweh's area will be territory for the tribe of Benjamin.
24 South of Benjamin's land will be the land for the tribe of Simeon.
25 South of Simeon's land will be the land for the tribe of Issachar.
26 South of Issachar's land will be the land for the tribe of Zebulun.
27 South of Zebulun's land will be the land for the tribe of Gad.
28 The southern boundary of Gad's land will extend south from En Gedi to the springs at Meribah Kadesh, and then to the west along the brook of Egypt to the Great Sea.
29 This is a description of the land that you must assign to the tribes of Israel, for it to belong to them permanently.' That is what I, Yahweh the Lord, declare.
30 Here are the city gates: On the north side, which is about 2.4 kilometers long,
31 there will be three gates. Each gate will have the name of one of the tribes of Israel. The first one will be named for Reuben, the next for Judah, the next for Levi.
32 On the east side, also about 2.4 kilometers long, will be gates named for Joseph, Benjamin, and Dan.
33 On the south side, also about 2.4 kilometers long, will be gates named for Simeon, Issachar, and Zebulun.
34 On the west side, also about 2.4 kilometers long, will be gates named for Gad, Asher, and Naphtali.
35 The distance around the city will thus be about 9.7 kilometers.
From that time on, the name of the city will be "Yahweh is there."


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The latest version of this FAQ is always available from the main Apache web site, at <http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html>.
If you are reading a text-only version of this FAQ, you may find numbers enclosed in brackets (such as "[12]"). These refer to the list of reference URLs to be found at the end of the document. These references do not appear, and are not needed, for the hypertext version.
struct iovec
" when compiling under Linux?
crypt
function when I attempt to build Apache 1.2.
ErrorDocument
401
work?
.htaccess
files are being
ignored.
ErrorDocument
and SSI to simplify customized error messages?
Apache was originally based on code and ideas found in the most popular HTTP server of the time.. NCSA httpd 1.3 (early 1995). It has since evolved into a far superior system which can rival (and probably surpass) almost any other UNIX based HTTP server in terms of functionality, efficiency and speed.
Since it began, it has been completely rewritten, and includes many new features. Apache is, as of January 1997, the most popular WWW server on the Internet, according to the Netcraft Survey.
To address the concerns of a group of WWW providers and part-time httpd programmers that httpd didn't behave as they wanted it to behave. Apache is an entirely volunteer effort, completely funded by its members, not by commercial sales.
We, of course, owe a great debt to NCSA and their programmers for making the server Apache was based on. We now, however, have our own server, and our project is mostly our own. The Apache Project is an entirely independent venture.
A cute name which stuck. Apache is "A PAtCHy server". It was based on some existing code and a series of "patch files".
For an independent assessment, see Web Compare's comparison chart.
Apache has been shown to be substantially faster than many other free servers. Although certain commercial servers have claimed to surpass Apache's speed (it has not been demonstrated that any of these "benchmarks" are a good way of measuring WWW server speed at any rate), we feel that it is better to have a mostly-fast free server than an extremely-fast server that costs thousands of dollars. Apache is run on sites that get millions of hits per day, and they have experienced no performance difficulties.
Apache is run on over 1.2 million Internet servers (as of July 1998). It has been tested thoroughly by both developers and users. The Apache Group maintains rigorous standards before releasing new versions of their server, and our server runs without a hitch on over one half of all WWW servers available on the Internet. When bugs do show up, we release patches and new versions as soon as they are available.
The Apache project's web site includes a page with a partial list of sites running Apache.
There is no official support for Apache. None of the developers want to be swamped by a flood of trivial questions that can be resolved elsewhere. Bug reports and suggestions should be sent via the bug report page. Other questions should be directed to the comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix or comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows newsgroup (as appropriate for the platform you use), where some of the Apache team lurk, in the company of many other httpd gurus who should be able to help.
Commercial support for Apache is, however, available from a number of third parties.
Indeed there is. See the main Apache web site. There is also a regular electronic publication called Apache Week available. Links to relevant Apache Week articles are included below where appropriate. There are also some Apache-specific books available.
You can find out how to download the source for Apache at the project's main web page.
If you are having trouble with your Apache server software, you should take the following steps:
Apache tries to be helpful when it encounters a problem. In many cases, it will provide some details by writing one or messages to the server error log. Sometimes this is enough for you to diagnose & fix the problem yourself (such as file permissions or the like). The default location of the error log is /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log, but see the ErrorLog directive in your config files for the location on your server.
The latest version of the Apache Frequently-Asked Questions list can always be found at the main Apache web site.
Most problems that get reported to The Apache Group are recorded in the bug database. Please check the existing reports, open and closed, before adding one. If you find that your issue has already been reported, please don't add a "me, too" report. If the original report isn't closed yet, we suggest that you check it periodically. You might also consider contacting the original submitter, because there may be an email exchange going on about the issue that isn't getting recorded in the database.
A lot of common problems never make it to the bug database because there's already high Q&A traffic about them in the comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix newsgroup. Many Apache users, and some of the developers, can be found roaming its virtual halls, so it is suggested that you seek wisdom there. The chances are good that you'll get a faster answer there than from the bug database, even if you don't see your question already posted.
If you've gone through those steps above that are appropriate and have obtained no relief, then please do let The Apache Group know about the problem by logging a bug report.
If your problem involves the server crashing and generating a core dump, please include a backtrace (if possible). As an example,
# cd ServerRoot
# dbx httpd core
(dbx) where
(Substitute the appropriate locations for your
ServerRoot and your httpd and
core files. You may have to use gdb
instead of dbx
.)
Apache attempts to offer all the features and configuration options of NCSA httpd 1.3, as well as many of the additional features found in NCSA httpd 1.4 and NCSA httpd 1.5.
NCSA httpd appears to be moving toward adding experimental features which are not generally required at the moment. Some of the experiments will succeed while others will inevitably be dropped. The Apache philosophy is to add what's needed as and when it is needed.
Friendly interaction between Apache and NCSA developers should ensure that fundamental feature enhancements stay consistent between the two servers for the foreseeable future.
Yes, Apache is Year 2000 compliant.
Apache internally never stores years as two digits.
On the HTTP protocol level RFC1123-style addresses are generated
which is the only format a HTTP/1.1-compliant server should
generate. To be compatible with older applications Apache
recognizes ANSI C's asctime()
and
RFC850-/RFC1036-style date formats, too.
The asctime()
format uses four-digit years,
but the RFC850 and RFC1036 date formats only define a two-digit year.
If Apache sees such a date with a value less than 70 it assumes that
the century is 20 rather than 19.
Although Apache is Year 2000 compliant, you may still get problems if the underlying OS has problems with dates past year 2000 (e.g., OS calls which accept or return year numbers). Most (UNIX) systems store dates internally as signed 32-bit integers which contain the number of seconds since 1st January 1970, so the magic boundary to worry about is the year 2038 and not 2000. But modern operating systems shouldn't cause any trouble at all.
Users of Apache 1.2.x should upgrade to a current version of Apache 1.3 (see year-2000 improvements in Apache 1.3 for details).
The Apache Group encourages patches from outside developers. There are 2 main "types" of patches: small bugfixes and general improvements. Bugfixes should be submitting using the Apache bug report page. Improvements, modifications, and additions should follow the instructions below.
In general, the first course of action is to be a member of the
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>mailing list. This indicates to
the Group that you are closely following the latest Apache
developments. Your patch file should be generated using either
'diff -c
' or 'diff -u
' against
the latest CVS tree. To submit your patch, send email to
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>with a Subject: line
that starts with [PATCH] and includes a general
description of the patch. In the body of the message, the patch
should be clearly described and then included at the end of the
message. If the patch-file is long, you can note a URL to the file
instead of the file itself. Use of MIME enclosures/attachments
should be avoided.
Be prepared to respond to any questions about your patches and possibly defend your code. If your patch results in a lot of discussion, you may be asked to submit an updated patch that incorporate all changes and suggestions.
The simple answer is: "It hasn't." This misconception is usually caused by the site in question having migrated to the Apache Web server software, but not having migrated the site's content yet. When Apache is installed, the default page that gets installed tells the Webmaster the installation was successful. The expectation is that this default page will be replaced with the site's real content. If it doesn't, complain to the Webmaster, not to the Apache project -- we just make the software and aren't responsible for what people do (or don't do) with it.
The short answer is: "You aren't." Usually when someone thinks the Apache site is originating spam, it's because they've traced the spam to a Web site, and the Web site says it's using Apache. See the previous FAQ entry for more details on this phenomenon.
No marketing spam originates from the Apache site. The only mail that comes from the site goes only to addresses that have been requested to receive the mail.
The detailed answer to this question can be found in the
Apache license, which is included in the Apache distribution in
the file LICENSE
. You can also find it on the Web at
<http://www.apache.org/LICENSE.txt>.
Check out Dean Gaudet's performance tuning page.
Regular expressions are a way of describing a pattern - for example, "all the words that begin with the letter A" or "every 10-digit phone number" or even "Every sentence with two commas in it, and no capital letter Q". Regular expressions (aka "regexp"s) are useful in Apache because they let you apply certain attributes against collections of files or resources in very flexible ways - for example, all .gif and .jpg files under any "images" directory could be written as /.*\/images\/.*[jpg|gif]/.
The best overview around is probably the one which comes with Perl. We implement a simple subset of Perl's regexp support, but it's still a good way to learn what they mean. You can start by going to the CPAN page on regular expressions, and branching out from there.
If you have installed BIND-8
then this is normally due to a conflict between your include files
and your libraries. BIND-8 installs its include files and libraries
/usr/local/include/
and /usr/local/lib/
, while
the resolver that comes with your system is probably installed in
/usr/include/
and /usr/lib/
. If
your system uses the header files in /usr/local/include/
before those in /usr/include/
but you do not use the new
resolver library, then the two versions will conflict.
To resolve this, you can either make sure you use the include files
and libraries that came with your system or make sure to use the
new include files and libraries. Adding -lbind
to the
EXTRA_LDFLAGS
line in your Configuration
file, then re-running Configure, should resolve the
problem. (Apache versions 1.2.* and earlier use
EXTRA_LFLAGS
instead.)
Note:As of BIND 8.1.1, the bind libraries and files are installed under /usr/local/bind by default, so you should not run into this problem. Should you want to use the bind resolvers you'll have to add the following to the respective lines:
EXTRA_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/bind/include
EXTRA_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/bind/lib
EXTRA_LIBS=-lbind
If the server won't compile on your system, it is probably due to one of the following causes:
The Apache Group tests the ability to build the server on many different platforms. Unfortunately, we can't test all of the OS platforms there are. If you have verified that none of the above issues is the cause of your problem, and it hasn't been reported before, please submit a problem report. Be sure to include complete details, such as the compiler & OS versions and exact error messages.
struct iovec
" when
compiling under Linux?
This is a conflict between your C library includes and your kernel includes. You need to make sure that the versions of both are matched properly. There are two workarounds, either one will solve the problem:
struct iovec
from your C
library includes. It is located in /usr/include/sys/uio.h
.
Or,
-DNO_WRITEV
to the EXTRA_CFLAGS
line in your Configuration and reconfigure/rebuild.
This hurts performance and should only be used as a last resort.
GCC parses your system header files and produces a modified subset which it uses for compiling. This behaviour ties GCC tightly to the version of your operating system. So, for example, if you were running IRIX 5.3 when you built GCC and then upgrade to IRIX 6.2 later, you will have to rebuild GCC. Similarly for Solaris 2.4, 2.5, or 2.5.1 when you upgrade to 2.6. Sometimes you can type "gcc -v" and it will tell you the version of the operating system it was built against.
If you fail to do this, then it is very likely that Apache will fail
to build. One of the most common errors is with readv
,
writev
, or uio.h
. This is not a
bug with Apache. You will need to re-install GCC.
crypt
function when I attempt to build Apache 1.2.
glibc puts the crypt
function into a separate
library. Edit your src/Configuration
file and set this:
EXTRA_LIBS=-lcrypt
Then re-run src/Configure and re-execute the make.
Your Group directive (probably in conf/httpd.conf) needs to name a group that actually exists in the /etc/group file (or your system's equivalent).
This message almost always indicates that the client disconnected
before Apache reached the point of calling setsockopt()
for the connection. It shouldn't occur for more than about 1% of the
requests your server handles, and it's advisory only in any case.
This is a normal message and nothing about which to be alarmed. It simply means that the client canceled the connection before it had been completely set up - such as by the end-user pressing the "Stop" button. People's patience being what it is, sites with response-time problems or slow network links may experiences this more than high-capacity ones or those with large pipes to the network.
In Apache version 1.2, the error log message
about dumped core includes the directory where the dump file should be
located. However, many Unixes do not allow a process that has
called setuid()
to dump core for security reasons;
the typical Apache setup has the server started as root to bind to
port 80, after which it changes UIDs to a non-privileged user to
serve requests.
Dealing with this is extremely operating system-specific, and may require rebuilding your system kernel. Consult your operating system documentation or vendor for more information about whether your system does this and how to bypass it. If there is a documented way of bypassing it, it is recommended that you bypass it only for the httpd server process if possible.
The canonical location for Apache's core-dump files is the ServerRoot directory. As of Apache version 1.3, the location can be set via the CoreDumpDirectory directive to a different directory. Make sure that this directory is writable by the user the server runs as (as opposed to the user the server is started as).
Your kernel has been built without SysV IPC support. You will have
to rebuild the kernel with that support enabled (it's under the
"General Setup" submenu). Documentation for kernel
building is beyond the scope of this FAQ; you should consult the Kernel
HOWTO, or the documentation provided with your distribution, or
a Linux
newsgroup/mailing list. As a last-resort workaround, you can
comment out the #define USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD
definition in the LINUX section of
src/conf.h and rebuild the server (prior to 1.3b4,
simply removing #define HAVE_SHMGET
would have
sufficed). This will produce a server which is slower and less
reliable.
These are symptoms of a fine locking problem, which usually means that the server is trying to use a synchronization file on an NFS filesystem.
Because of its parallel-operation model, the Apache Web server needs to provide some form of synchronization when accessing certain resources. One of these synchronization methods involves taking out locks on a file, which means that the filesystem whereon the lockfile resides must support locking. In many cases this means it can't be kept on an NFS-mounted filesystem.
To cause the Web server to work around the NFS locking limitations, include a line such as the following in your server configuration files:
LockFile /var/run/apache-lock
The directory should not be generally writable (e.g., don't use /var/tmp). See the LockFile documentation for more information.
This is a known problem with certain versions of the AIX C compiler. IBM are working on a solution, and the issue is being tracked by problem report #2312.
RedHat Linux versions 4.x (and possibly earlier) RPMs contain various nasty scripts which do not stop or restart Apache properly. These can affect you even if you're not running the RedHat supplied RPMs.
If you're using the default install then you're probably running Apache 1.1.3, which is outdated. From RedHat's ftp site you can pick up a more recent RPM for Apache 1.2.x. This will solve one of the problems.
If you're using a custom built Apache rather than the RedHat RPMs
then you should rpm -e apache
. In particular you want
the mildly broken /etc/logrotate.d/apache
script to be
removed, and you want the broken /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd
(or httpd.init
) script to be removed. The latter is
actually fixed by the apache-1.2.5 RPMs but if you're building your
own Apache then you probably don't want the RedHat files.
We can't stress enough how important it is for folks, especially vendors to follow the stopping Apache directions given in our documentation. In RedHat's defense, the broken scripts were necessary with Apache 1.1.x because the Linux support in 1.1.x was very poor, and there were various race conditions on all platforms. None of this should be necessary with Apache 1.2 and later.
You should read the previous note about
problems with RedHat installations. It is entirely likely that your
installation has start/stop/restart scripts which were built for
an earlier version of Apache. Versions earlier than 1.2.0 had
various race conditions that made it necessary to use
kill -9
at times to take out all the httpd servers.
But that should not be necessary any longer. You should follow
the directions on how to stop
and restart Apache.
As of Apache 1.3 there is a script
src/support/apachectl
which, after a bit of
customization, is suitable for starting, stopping, and restarting
your server.
You are probably running into resource limitations in your
operating system. The most common limitation is the
per-process limit on file descriptors,
which is almost always the cause of problems seen when adding
virtual hosts. Apache often does not give an intuitive error
message because it is normally some library routine (such as
gethostbyname()
) which needs file descriptors and
doesn't complain intelligibly when it can't get them.
Each log file requires a file descriptor, which means that if you are using separate access and error logs for each virtual host, each virtual host needs two file descriptors. Each Listen directive also needs a file descriptor.
Typical values for <n> that we've seen are in the neighborhood of 128 or 250. When the server bumps into the file descriptor limit, it may dump core with a SIGSEGV, it might just hang, or it may limp along and you'll see (possibly meaningful) errors in the error log. One common problem that occurs when you run into a file descriptor limit is that CGI scripts stop being executed properly.
As to what you can do about this:
limit
or
ulimit
commands). For some systems, information on
how to do this is available in the
performance hints page. There is a specific
note for FreeBSD below.
For Windows 95, try modifying your C:\CONFIG.SYS file to include a line like
FILES=300
Remember that you'll need to reboot your Windows 95 system in order for the new value to take effect.
Since this is an operating-system limitation, there's not much else available in the way of solutions.
As of 1.2.1 we have made attempts to work around various limitations involving running with many descriptors. More information is available.
On versions of FreeBSD before 3.0, the FD_SETSIZE define defaults to 256. This means that you will have trouble usefully using more than 256 file descriptors in Apache. This can be increased, but doing so can be tricky.
If you are using a version prior to 2.2, you need to recompile your kernel with a larger FD_SETSIZE. This can be done by adding a line such as:
options FD_SETSIZE nnn
to your kernel config file. Starting at version 2.2, this is no longer necessary.
If you are using a version of 2.1-stable from after 1997/03/10 or 2.2 or 3.0-current from before 1997/06/28, there is a limit in the resolver library that prevents it from using more file descriptors than what FD_SETSIZE is set to when libc is compiled. To increase this, you have to recompile libc with a higher FD_SETSIZE.
In FreeBSD 3.0, the default FD_SETSIZE has been increased to 1024 and the above limitation in the resolver library has been removed.
After you deal with the appropriate changes above, you can increase the setting of FD_SETSIZE at Apache compilation time by adding "-DFD_SETSIZE=nnn" to the EXTRA_CFLAGS line in your Configuration file.
ErrorDocument 401
work?
You need to use it with a URL in the form "/foo/bar" and not one with a method and hostname such as "http://host/foo/bar". See the ErrorDocument documentation for details. This was incorrectly documented in the past.
Apache does not automatically send a cookie on every response, unless you have re-compiled it with the mod_usertrack module, and specifically enabled it with the CookieTracking directive. This module has been in Apache since version 1.2. This module may help track users, and uses cookies to do this. If you are not using the data generated by mod_usertrack, do not compile it into Apache.
Firstly, you do not need to compile in mod_cookies in order for your scripts to work (see the previous question for more about mod_cookies). Apache passes on your Set-Cookie header fine, with or without this module. If cookies do not work it will be because your script does not work properly or your browser does not use cookies or is not set-up to accept them.
As of version 1.2, Apache is an HTTP/1.1 (HyperText Transfer Protocol version 1.1) server. This fact is reflected in the protocol version that's included in the response headers sent to a client when processing a request. Unfortunately, low-level Web access classes included in the Java Development Kit (JDK) version 1.0.2 expect to see the version string "HTTP/1.0" and do not correctly interpret the "HTTP/1.1" value Apache is sending (this part of the response is a declaration of what the server can do rather than a declaration of the dialect of the response). The result is that the JDK methods do not correctly parse the headers, and include them with the document content by mistake.
This is definitely a bug in the JDK 1.0.2 foundation classes from Sun, and it has been fixed in version 1.1. However, the classes in question are part of the virtual machine environment, which means they're part of the Web browser (if Java-enabled) or the Java environment on the client system - so even if you develop your classes with a recent JDK, the eventual users might encounter the problem. The classes involved are replaceable by vendors implementing the Java virtual machine environment, and so even those that are based upon the 1.0.2 version may not have this problem.
In the meantime, a workaround is to tell Apache to "fake" an HTTP/1.0 response to requests that come from the JDK methods; this can be done by including a line such as the following in your server configuration files:
BrowserMatch Java1.0 force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch JDK/1.0 force-response-1.0
More information about this issue can be found in the Java and HTTP/1.1 page at the Apache web site.
Even though the registered MIME type for MIDI files is audio/midi, some browsers are not set up to recognize it as such; instead, they look for audio/x-midi. There are two things you can do to address this:
AddType audio/x-midi .mid .midi .kar
Note that this may break browsers that do recognize the audio/midi MIME type unless they're prepared to also handle audio/x-midi the same way.
Apache provides a couple of different ways of doing this. The recommended method is to compile the mod_log_config module into your configuration and use the CustomLog directive.
You can either log the additional information in files other than your normal transfer log, or you can add them to the records already being written. For example:
CustomLog logs/access_log "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\""
This will add the values of the User-agent: and Referer: headers, which indicate the client and the referring page, respectively, to the end of each line in the access log.
You may want to check out the Apache Week article entitled: "Gathering Visitor Information: Customizing Your Logfiles".
When you access a directory without a trailing "/", Apache needs to send what is called a redirect to the client to tell it to add the trailing slash. If it did not do so, relative URLs would not work properly. When it sends the redirect, it needs to know the name of the server so that it can include it in the redirect. There are two ways for Apache to find this out; either it can guess, or you can tell it. If your DNS is configured correctly, it can normally guess without any problems. If it is not, however, then you need to tell it.
Add a ServerName directive to the config file to tell it what the domain name of the server is.
The mod_info module allows you to use a Web browser to see how your server is configured. Among the information it displays is the list modules and their configuration directives. The "current" values for the directives are not necessarily those of the running server; they are extracted from the configuration files themselves at the time of the request. If the files have been changed since the server was last reloaded, the display will will not match the values actively in use. If the files and the path to the files are not readable by the user as which the server is running (see the User directive), then mod_info cannot read them in order to list their values. An entry will be made in the error log in this event, however.
In versions of Apache prior to 1.3b2, there was a lot of confusion regarding address-based virtual hosts and (HTTP/1.1) name-based virtual hosts, and the rules concerning how the server processed <VirtualHost> definitions were very complex and not well documented.
Apache 1.3b2 introduced a new directive, NameVirtualHost, which simplifies the rules quite a bit. However, changing the rules like this means that your existing name-based <VirtualHost> containers probably won't work correctly immediately following the upgrade.
To correct this problem, add the following line to the beginning of your server configuration file, before defining any virtual hosts:
NameVirtualHost n.n.n.n
Replace the "n.n.n.n" with the IP address to which the name-based virtual host names resolve; if you have multiple name-based hosts on multiple addresses, repeat the directive for each address.
Make sure that your name-based <VirtualHost> blocks contain ServerName and possibly ServerAlias directives so Apache can be sure to tell them apart correctly.
Please see the Apache Virtual Host documentation for further details about configuration.
RedHat messed up and forgot to put a content type for .htm
files into /etc/mime.types
. Edit /etc/mime.types
,
find the line containing html
and add htm
to it.
 (Many browsers won't re-examine the content type after they've reloaded a page.)
.htaccess
files are being ignored.
This is almost always due to your
AllowOverride directive being set incorrectly for the directory in
question. If it is set to None
then .htaccess files will
not even be looked for. If you do have one that is set, then be certain
it covers the directory you are trying to use the .htaccess file in.
This is normally accomplished by ensuring it is inside the proper
Directory container.
Apache recognizes all files in a directory named as a ScriptAlias as being eligible for execution rather than processing as normal documents. This applies regardless of the file name, so scripts in a ScriptAlias directory don't need to be named "*.cgi" or "*.pl" or whatever. In other words, all files in a ScriptAlias directory are scripts, as far as Apache is concerned.
To persuade Apache to execute scripts in other locations, such as in directories where normal documents may also live, you must tell it how to recognize them - and also that it's okay to execute them. For this, you need to use something like the AddHandler directive.
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
The server will then recognize that all files in that location (and its logical descendants) that end in ".cgi" are script files, not documents.
In some situations, you might not want to actually allow all files named "*.cgi" to be executable. Perhaps all you want is to enable a particular file in a normal directory to be executable. This can be alternatively accomplished via mod_rewrite and the following steps:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /~foo/bar/
RewriteRule ^quux\.cgi$ - [T=application/x-httpd-cgi]
It means just what it says: the server was expecting a complete set of HTTP headers (one or more followed by a blank line), and didn't get them.
The most common cause of this problem is the script dying before sending the complete set of headers, or possibly any at all, to the server. To see if this is the case, try running the script standalone from an interactive session, rather than as a script under the server. If you get error messages, this is almost certainly the cause of the "premature end of script headers" message.
The second most common cause of this (aside from people not
outputting the required headers at all) is a result of an interaction
with Perl's output buffering. To make Perl flush its buffers
after each output statement, insert the following statements around
the print
or write
statements that send your
HTTP headers:
{
local ($oldbar) = $|;
$cfh = select (STDOUT);
$| = 1;
#
# print your HTTP headers here
#
$| = $oldbar;
select ($cfh);
}
This is generally only necessary when you are calling external
programs from your script that send output to stdout, or if there will
be a long delay between the time the headers are sent and the actual
content starts being emitted. To maximize performance, you should
turn buffer-flushing back off (with $| = 0
or the
equivalent) after the statements that send the headers, as displayed
above.
If your script isn't written in Perl, do the equivalent thing for
whatever language you are using (e.g., for C, call
fflush()
after writing the headers).
Another cause for the "premature end of script headers" message are the RLimitCPU and RLimitMEM directives. You may get the message if the CGI script was killed due to a resource limit.
This is almost always due to Apache not being configured to treat the file you are trying to POST to as a CGI script. You can not POST to a normal HTML file; the operation has no meaning. See the FAQ entry on CGIs outside ScriptAliased directories for details on how to configure Apache to treat the file in question as a CGI.
As of Apache 1.3, CGI scripts are essentially not buffered. Every time
your script does a "flush" to output data, that data gets relayed on to
the client. Some scripting languages, for example Perl, have their own
buffering for output - this can be disabled by setting the $|
special variable to 1. Of course this does increase the overall number
of packets being transmitted, which can result in a sense of slowness for
the end user.
Prior to 1.3, you needed to use "nph-" scripts to accomplish non-buffering. Today, the only difference between nph scripts and normal scripts is that nph scripts require the full HTTP headers to be sent.
The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) specification can be found at the original NCSA site < http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/interface.html>. This version hasn't been updated since 1995, and there have been some efforts to update it.
A new draft is being worked on with the intent of making it an informational RFC; you can find out more about this project at <http://web.golux.com/coar/cgi/>.
The simple answer is that it was becoming too difficult to keep the version being included with Apache synchronized with the master copy at the FastCGI web site. When a new version of Apache was released, the version of the FastCGI module included with it would soon be out of date.
You can still obtain the FastCGI module for Apache from the master FastCGI web site.
SSI (an acronym for Server-Side Include) directives allow static HTML documents to be enhanced at run-time (e.g., when delivered to a client by Apache). The format of SSI directives is covered in the mod_include manual; suffice it to say that Apache supports not only SSI but xSSI (eXtended SSI) directives.
Processing a document at run-time is called parsing it; hence the term "parsed HTML" sometimes used for documents that contain SSI instructions. Parsing tends to be extremely resource-consumptive, and is not enabled by default. It can also interfere with the cachability of your documents, which can put a further load on your server. (see the next question for more information about this.)
To enable SSI processing, you need to
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml
This indicates that all files ending in ".shtml" in that location (or its descendants) should be parsed. Note that using ".html" will cause all normal HTML files to be parsed, which may put an inordinate load on your server.
For additional information, see the Apache Week article on Using Server Side Includes.
Since the server is performing run-time processing of your SSI directives, which may change the content shipped to the client, it can't know at the time it starts parsing what the final size of the result will be, or whether the parsed result will always be the same. This means that it can't generate Content-Length or Last-Modified headers. Caches commonly work by comparing the Last-Modified of what's in the cache with that being delivered by the server. Since the server isn't sending that header for a parsed document, whatever's doing the caching can't tell whether the document has changed or not - and so fetches it again to be on the safe side.
You can work around this in some cases by causing an Expires header to be generated. (See the mod_expires documentation for more details.) Another possibility is to use the XBitHack Full mechanism, which tells Apache to send (under certain circumstances detailed in the XBitHack directive description) a Last-Modified header based upon the last modification time of the file being parsed. Note that this may actually be lying to the client if the parsed file doesn't change but the SSI-inserted content does; if the included content changes often, this can result in stale copies being cached.
So you want to include SSI directives in the output from your CGI script, but can't figure out how to do it? The short answer is "you can't." This is potentially a security liability and, more importantly, it can not be cleanly implemented under the current server API. The best workaround is for your script itself to do what the SSIs would be doing. After all, it's generating the rest of the content.
This is a feature The Apache Group hopes to add in the next major release after 1.3.
This is almost always due to having some setting in your config file that sets "Options Includes" or some other setting for your DocumentRoot but not for other directories. If you set it inside a Directory section, then that setting will only apply to that directory.
ErrorDocument
and SSI to simplify customized error messages?
Have a look at this document.
It shows in example form how you can a combination of XSSI and
negotiation to tailor a set of ErrorDocument
s to your
personal taste, and returning different internationalized error
responses based on the client's native language.
This variable is set and thus available in SSI or CGI scripts if and only if the requested document was protected by access authentication. For an explanation on how to implement these restrictions, see Apache Week's articles on Using User Authentication or DBM User Authentication.
Hint: When using a CGI script to receive the data of a HTML FORM notice that protecting the document containing the FORM is not sufficient to provide REMOTE_USER to the CGI script. You have to protect the CGI script, too. Or alternatively only the CGI script (then authentication happens only after filling out the form).
Two of the most common causes of this are:
EXTRA_CFLAGS=-DMAXIMUM_DNS
This will cause Apache to be very paranoid about making sure a particular host address is really assigned to the name it claims to be. Note that this can incur a significant performance penalty, however, because of all the name resolution requests being sent to a nameserver.
There are several ways to do this; some of the more popular ones are to use the mod_auth, mod_auth_db, or mod_auth_dbm modules.
For an explanation on how to implement these restrictions, see Apache Week's articles on Using User Authentication or DBM User Authentication.
Use the Satisfy directive,
in particular the Satisfy Any
directive, to require
that only one of the access restrictions be met. For example,
adding the following configuration to a .htaccess
or server configuration file would restrict access to people who
either are accessing the site from a host under domain.com or
who can supply a valid username and password:
deny from all
allow from .domain.com
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/conf/htpasswd.users
AuthName "special directory"
require valid-user
satisfy any
See the user authentication question and the mod_access module for details on how the above directives work.
Under normal circumstances, the Apache access control modules will pass unrecognized user IDs on to the next access control module in line. Only if the user ID is recognized and the password is validated (or not) will it give the usual success or "authentication failed" messages.
However, if the last access module in line 'declines' the validation request (because it has never heard of the user ID or because it is not configured), the http_request handler will give one of the following, confusing, errors:
This does not mean that you have to add an 'AuthUserFile /dev/null' line as some magazines suggest!
The solution is to ensure that at least the last module is authoritative and CONFIGURED. By default, mod_auth is authoritative and will give an OK/Denied, but only if it is configured with the proper AuthUserFile. Likewise, if a valid group is required. (Remember that the modules are processed in the reverse order from that in which they appear in your compile-time Configuration file.)
A typical situation for this error is when you are using the mod_auth_dbm, mod_auth_msql, mod_auth_mysql, mod_auth_anon or mod_auth_cookie modules on their own. These are by default not authoritative, and this will pass the buck on to the (non-existent) next authentication module when the user ID is not in their respective database. Just add the appropriate 'XXXAuthoritative yes' line to the configuration.
In general it is a good idea (though not terribly efficient) to have the file-based mod_auth a module of last resort. This allows you to access the web server with a few special passwords even if the databases are down or corrupted. This does cost a file open/seek/close for each request in a protected area.
Some organizations feel very strongly about keeping the authentication information on a different machine than the webserver. With the mod_auth_msql, mod_auth_mysql, and other SQL modules connecting to (R)DBMses this is quite possible. Just configure an explicit host to contact.
Be aware that with mSQL and Oracle, opening and closing these database connections is very expensive and time consuming. You might want to look at the code in the auth_* modules and play with the compile time flags to alleviate this somewhat, if your RDBMS licences allow for it.
You have probably configured the Host by specifying a FQHN, and thus the libmsql will use a full blown TCP/IP socket to talk to the database, rather than a fast internal device. The libmsql, the mSQL FAQ, and the mod_auth_msql documentation warn you about this. If you have to use different hosts, check out the mod_auth_msql code for some compile time flags which might - or might not - suit you.
Yes, you can - but it's a very bad idea. Here are some of the reasons:
If you still want to do this in light of the above disadvantages, the method is left as an exercise for the reader.
There is a collection of Practical Solutions for URL-Manipulation where you can find all typical solutions the author of mod_rewrite currently knows of. If you have more interesting rulesets which solve particular problems not currently covered in this document, send it to Ralf S. Engelschall for inclusion. The other webmasters will thank you for avoiding the reinvention of the wheel.
There is an article from Ralf S. Engelschall about URL-manipulations based on mod_rewrite in the "iX Multiuser Multitasking Magazin" issue #12/96. The german (original) version can be read online at <http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/9612149/>, the English (translated) version can be found at <http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/E/9612149/>.
Hmmm... there are a lot of reasons. First, mod_rewrite itself is a powerful module which can help you in really all aspects of URL rewriting, so it can be no trivial module per definition. To accomplish its hard job it uses software leverage and makes use of a powerful regular expression library by Henry Spencer which is an integral part of Apache since its version 1.2. And regular expressions itself can be difficult to newbies, while providing the most flexible power to the advanced hacker.
On the other hand mod_rewrite has to work inside the Apache API environment and needs to do some tricks to fit there. For instance the Apache API as of 1.x really was not designed for URL rewriting at the .htaccess level of processing. Or the problem of multiple rewrites in sequence, which is also not handled by the API per design. To provide this features mod_rewrite has to do some special (but API compliant!) handling which leads to difficult processing inside the Apache kernel. While the user usually doesn't see anything of this processing, it can be difficult to find problems when some of your RewriteRules seem not to work.
Use "RewriteLog somefile" and "RewriteLogLevel 9" and have a precise look at the steps the rewriting engine performs. This is really the only one and best way to debug your rewriting configuration.
If the rule starts with /somedir/... make sure that really no /somedir exists on the filesystem if you don't want to lead the URL to match this directory, i.e., there must be no root directory named somedir on the filesystem. Because if there is such a directory, the URL will not get prefixed with DocumentRoot. This behaviour looks ugly, but is really important for some other aspects of URL rewriting.
You can't! The reason is: First, case translations for arbitrary length URLs cannot be done via regex patterns and corresponding substitutions. One need a per-character pattern like sed/Perl tr|..|..| feature. Second, just making URLs always upper or lower case will not resolve the complete problem of case-INSENSITIVE URLs, because actually the URLs had to be rewritten to the correct case-variant residing on the filesystem because in later processing Apache needs to access the file. And Unix filesystem is always case-SENSITIVE.
But there is a module named mod_speling.c
(yes, it is named
this way!) out there on the net. Try this one.
Because you have to enable the engine for every virtual host explicitly due to security concerns. Just add a "RewriteEngine on" to your virtual host configuration parts.
There is only one ugly solution: You have to surround the complete flag argument by quotation marks ("[E=...]"). Notice: The argument to quote here is not the argument to the E-flag, it is the argument of the Apache config file parser, i.e., the third argument of the RewriteRule here. So you have to write "[E=any text with whitespaces]".
Apache version 1.1 and above comes with a proxy module. If compiled in, this will make Apache act as a caching-proxy server.
"Multiviews" is the general name given to the Apache server's ability to provide language-specific document variants in response to a request. This is documented quite thoroughly in the content negotiation description page. In addition, Apache Week carried an article on this subject entitled "Content Negotiation Explained".
Because you need to install and configure a script to handle the uploaded files. This script is often called a "PUT" handler. There are several available, but they may have security problems. Using FTP uploads may be easier and more secure, at least for now. For more information, see the Apache Week article Publishing Pages with PUT.
SSL (Secure Socket Layer) data transport requires encryption, and many governments have restrictions upon the import, export, and use of encryption technology. If Apache included SSL in the base package, its distribution would involve all sorts of legal and bureaucratic issues, and it would no longer be freely available. Also, some of the technology required to talk to current clients using SSL is patented by RSA Data Security, who restricts its use without a license.
Some SSL implementations of Apache are available, however; see the "related projects" page at the main Apache web site.
You can find out more about this topic in the Apache Week article about Apache and Secure Transactions.


Interaction Rust with Julia
Published 5 months ago
Rust and Julia are two promising languages focusing on speed, integrating them will help achieving great results.
Let’s say we have the below Julia code, and we want to cal it from Rust code:
# __precompile__() # If required to be kept precompiled for faster execution
# name = isempty(ARGS) ? "name" : ARGS[1] # To check input arguments
println("hello from Julia function")
Then we can call it using the below:
use std::process::Command;
fn main() {
println!("Hello from Rust");
let mut cmd = Command::new("Julia");
cmd.arg("main.jl");
// cmd.args(&["main.jl", "arg1", "arg2"]);
match cmd.output() {
Ok(o) => unsafe {
println!("Output: {}", String::from_utf8_unchecked(o.stdout));
},
Err(e) => {
println!("There was an error {}", e);
}
}
}
Then, the rust file can be executed by running cargo run
:
From the other other hand, let’s say we have the below rust file:
#[no_mangle]
pub extern fn double_input(input: i32) -> i32 {
println!("Hello from Rust");
input * 2
}
First we need to define proper cargo file to create the library, and calling cargo build
:
[package]
name = "julia_call_rust"
version = "1.0.0"
authors = ["hasan yousef]
[lib]
name = "my_rust_lib"
crate-type = ["dylib"]
Then the the functions in this lib can be called from Julia code as:
println("Hello from Julia")
input = 10 #Int32(10)
output = ccall( #(:function or "function", "library"), Return type, (Input types,), arguments if any)
(:double_input,
"target/debug/libmy_rust_lib"),
Int32, # Return type
(Int32,), # (Input types,)
input) # Arguments if any
println("As result of $input * 2 is: $output")
Then, by running cargo build
to get the rust library built, and by running julia main.jl
you’ll get the required output.


The Spanish Prisoner
Chad'z rating: **1/2 (out of 4 = OK/average)
1998, PG, 112 minutes [1 hour, 52 minutes]
[thriller/mystery]
Starring: Campbell Scott (Joe Ross), Rebecca Pidgeon (Susan Ricci), Steve Martin (Jimmy Dell), Ricky Jay (George Lang), produced by Jean Doumanian, written and directed by David Mamet.
Seen April 18, 1998 at 12 p.m. at the Ritz Bourse (Philadelphia, PA), theater #1, with Ted Prigge for $4.50 [Theater rating: ***: good seats, sound, and picture]
Independent films thrive on their dialogue, storytelling, characterization and other basic aspects while the big-budget Hollywood blockbusters use these elements only as needed. "The Spanish Prisoner" seems to be an independent film that tries to have it both ways, as it's a standard thriller that attempts to substitute emotion and sympathy for special effects and production design.
The basic set-up to the story is rather simple, but explaining the significant aspects is a complicated task as many details are pushed aside to make room for the plot. We start out somewhere in the Caribbean where we meet our four main characters: Joe Ross (Scott), a young man who is apparently successful, as he has just finished some kind of mathematical or chemical formula that will change the world; Susan Ricci (Pidgeon), Joe's new personal secretary who adores him like a 5-year-old with a large vocabulary; George Lang (Jay), Joe's co-worker and company lawyer who plays a role in how successful he will become; and Jimmy Dell (Martin), a wealthy-but-mysterious businessman who serves as the film's main catalyst (and only interesting character).
Right from the beginning it's clear the film is establishing all the key elements which will crop up later. The pacing is slow, tedious, and often boring and it's not due to overwhelming detail, but to lack thereof. Almost nothing happens in terms of plot, only scene after scene of the generic highbrow, 5th Avenue business rhetoric. When the Jimmy Dell character is introduced, it's through a manner which is impossible to understand at the time, and only minor details crop up later to explain the significance to the rest of the plot.
Mamet has often been called a master of characterization and dialogue, yet the entire first act seems more like a novel acted out rather than a modern film. The performances are mediocre and conflicting because the actors are playing caricatures, not characters (i.e. Scott as the monotone loner and Pidgeon as the happy-go-lucky extrovert). Most importantly, we don't learn much about Joe, nor about "The Process" he has invented and its application. The absence of that is probably one of the film's central themes, but since it creates for a snowball effect of flaws, it's more distracting than anything else.
Although the first half tends to wander with little focus, everything comes back into play as the second half turns almost instantly into a suspenseful thriller. What had been a subtle, almost irrelevant sub-plot involving a conflict and cooperation between Joe and Jimmy suddenly becomes the main focal point of the film. Jimmy had always been an enigmatic character, and when Joe realizes he has just been completely taken advantage of and framed into a situation impossible of escape, a fantastic case of the perfect conspiracy is evident.
Throughout the second and third act the plot thickens as Joe becomes entrapped by just about everyone and everything and it's impossible to tell who's who and what's what. The "Batman Syndrome" (where by a seemingly normal man is transformed into a brilliant detective and stunt man) takes over, and it doesn't work because the atmosphere isn't gripping enough to believe. The story is so involved with itself that everything that happens seems to take place within a reality shared by only a few characters while no one else in the world seems to notice the insanity going on (unless it creates for suspense) [example of the former: Joe and Susan running from police and villains through airports and boat docks while no one seems to notice the chaos; example of the latter: everyone in the world noticing some blood on Joe's hands as he rides the subway, giving the impression he is about to be "caught"].
Even if "The Spanish Prisoner" fails to be a thrilling adventure, it still has an original hook, that is, an independent take on a tired Hollywood formula. It's a valiant effort to be sure, but the net result is a bit too sensational and thus the impact isn't as strong as it could be.
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Data. Your data. My data. Our data. Let's pool it out, and see what surprising, alarming, amazing, inspiring connections we can find. Learn about yourself, and learn about all of us.
Really! Information about you is already all over the Internet. Why not own it, and actually learn something interesting from it about yourself?
TheMe.fyi was hand-designed and coded by Shai Davis as his final project for Elevation Academy. It's his first MEAN stack application, built head to toe. Shai is an independent full-stack product team who runs StartleLabs, a consulting agency for young startups.
Oh so much! There are still bugs to quash and features to build! The whole custom reporting is still mostly an idea. Do you have a background in statistics and mean MEAN skills? Also, I plan to allow users to upload their own questions (and at least for now, have them approved by administrators). There are 100 different directions this can go in, but first I might finally catch a few hours of sleeep