![]() It accepts a command line parameter of the number of days. Here ' s a batch file I developed to subtract any number of days from the current date. Short cut way to switch between two IP addresses in a single system. However, I don't have the source code of SHOW16 and I don't know how to enumerate all ring 3 LDT selectors. For each module database it finds, the code looks for the MODFLAGS_WIN32 flag at offset 0xC in the module database if this flag is set, the code adds the module to the end of the window's list." ".examine every possible ring 3 LDT selector, looking for segments that are module databases. It's implemented in a program called SHOW16: His book suggested a brute-force way to enumerate all module databases. The examples in this chapter use the free Abyss Personal Edition web server available from Installed locally on your computer this can be. ![]() The closet equivalent to a Win16 module database is the header portion of a program's or DLL's PE file. The selector of this segment is called an HMODULE. We could be more tolerant there.How to find the 16-bit counterpart "module database" of a 32-bit process on Windows 98?Īccording to Matt Pietrek in Windows 95 System Programming Secrets, Win16 keeps a copy of executable's header in a segment known as a module database. I have much more sympathy for the cases like "Content-Length: 100 " where we reject it due to the semi-colon. imo.making guesses about what that means is a good way to end up with a security problem - which is what drove the change. The truth is that response in comment 42 is unintelligable spew instead of http. If it is trying to do K-A and we read to EOF the result would just be a hang. The server also says keep-alive and EOF doesn't make any sense with keep-alive. LAN Access To access your machine from another computer on your network (LAN), you should use the LAN IP of the computer. Note: If you’re not seeing this page, restart your computer in order to allow the Abyss software to take over at the next computer startup. The full local URL is displayed in Abyss' main window (Local web server URL). 127.0.0.1 If you end up seeing a page whose signature says Powered by Abyss Web Server X1, you’re in the right place. Indeed, what would the length of the above response be? Pretending it wasn't there would mean read to EOF, but the server is obviously trying to delimit. Locally (from your computer), you can use 127.0.0.1 or localhost to access the server. ![]() In this case it is not a legitimate value. Patrick, could we do that?įor content-length we do accept duplicated headers with the exact same legitimate value. > But it seems to me that accepting a duplicated header with the same value (In reply to Boris Zbarsky (:bz) from comment #43) > not throw the error, but rather zero-out the header is a good way forward. Maybe your suggesting that a CD conflict should ![]() > it would be great for you and bz and jduell to sort out what the behavior of I made that judgment specifically for Content-Length,Īnd I totally agree with the outcome for that one! > decided that was a problem for content-disposition. > download might have some security implications, but I'm not the person who > It does seem to me that being able to change the default save name for a But if the message, after the injection, went through an intermediate that folds multiple headers into one (which is allowed), we will only see a single header field instance using the command notation. The full local URL is displayed in Abyss main window (Local web server URL). > attack an attacker can inject either one of those headers due to server bugs. Locally (from your computer), you can use 127.0.0.1 or localhost to access the server. > but they aren't equivalent on this internet thang. (In reply to Patrick McManus from comment #27) > I removed "$r->headers_out-> = $file_type > (In reply to Tim Hibbard from comment #11) (In reply to Julian Reschke from comment #12)
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No other PBX works with as wide a selection of phones, and this has driven the adoption of SIP based VoIP as the industry standard.īy the 1990s, the PC was king. Another response to the complexity of proprietary phone systems is the emergence of Asterisk, a powerful, free, open source PBX that works with phones from several major manufacturers. CSTA has also been extended to SIP phones in the form of uaCSTA (User Agent CSTA), but US adoption has been slow. In response, European standards organizations developed CSTA (Computer-Supported Telecommunications Applications) as a model for standardizing the computer interface to PBX systems. ![]() With hundreds of proprietary digital phones and PBX systems, Windows TAPI (Telephone Application Programming Interface) has traditionally dominated CTI by providing a common API that phone and PBX vendors could write to. These numbers are expected to flip over the next 5 years so that by 2015 approximately two thirds of all installed phone lines in the US will be VoIP. Market research from 2010 suggests that approximately one third of installed phone lines in the United States were using VoIP while two thirds still used the legacy PSTN. There’s a quiet revolution underway as the old 4 kHz narrowband phone system is being disrupted by a combination of cell phones and Internet phones with advanced features and HD Voice. Once you get some soldiers up and running you’ll just tear everything to shreds. You never have to worry about scientists/engineers. There are random missues and covert missions that grant you the option to get plenty. The Xcom skills get randomly generated, but you can still create super OP soldiers that way. A sniper that has both Rapid Fire AND Chain Shot on top of their regular skills. Specialists that have both hacking and healing with Rapid Fire and Run and Gun. Assault that end up with Killzone and Shred. Usually Grenadiers have Aim issues, so you try to give them some through weapon upgrades/pcs. With covert missions you can get +stat boosts. I just made sure to put soldiers on the stat that was most suited for them. You can Bond soldiers together once they did some missions together and become good friends.Īnd some missions providing full out promotions were perfect to rank up slacking, or completely new, soldiers. This will let you bond them and grants the ability of giving 1 extra action to their buddy, once a mission. This can become two as well as some other nice perks as their bond gets stronger. The extra actions on a turn can sometimes mean an extra kill…or just use them as n Oh:heart: I need to fix my mistake. Once you get the use of them the extra turns, especially later on with extra XCom abilities learned, soldiers can just tear up entire battlefields in a single round no matter who they’re fighting. Seriously the game gets progressively more a joke. The final 15 missions or so I just couldn’t care. Took out some rulers, andies, sectopods… it didn’t matter anymore. 50 Lost on the screen? Just send in 1 ranger with bladestorm and the other soldiers can go for a drink while he cleans up. The Lost are a nice concept early on, but from mid game and beyond they’re just their to waste your time. They do not provide in-direct challenge or noteworthy effects on ammo management or whatever. 1 ranger and 1 sniper can take care of hordes while the other 4 soldiers can take care of Gatekeepers, Sectopods and other advent nuiscances. I played super careless in ithe end, because I didn’t care about anything anymore since nothing mattered at late game. Covert missions give you enough chances to reduce avatar progress. Combined by cleaning up some facilities… It caused the Avatar progress bar to be at 0 before starting the final mission. Only in Early Game I had it go up with only 2 bars remaning, before I started to do covert missions. Never touched a Blacksite until I had taken care of the three Chosen. ![]() Now the order in which you get the Covert Missions from the Ring is RNG. My first playthrough I got a lot of them early on. And their influence can change per playthrough. On the first one the Assasin had taken the Avenger down and I had to deal with an interesting ground battle. ![]() She is the most threatening to deal with. Once you got battle scanners, or specialist with scanning abilities she becomes a lot easier. The Warlock is ok, but his summons and mind control hardly posed any danger. Used three mindshields when going to his stronghold, whcih did come in handy. ![]() Other then that he’s quite the push over unfortunately. The hunter however… in both playthroughs he is just pointless. Pure cannonfodder.ĭealing with their search/sabotage gave another layer to deal with stuff. Some people might say it gets hectic since you also have to worry about advent and avatar progress. But seriously you can ignore avatar due to the covert mission, or just do occasional blacksites. On my second playthrough I was lucky enough to get a faction order that reduced Chosen progress for 33%. Perhaps that is too strong and 25% would be more in line, while the default progress is a bit on the fast side. ![]() Press the button on the end of the dongle. When the controller appears in the device list, press the X button on the controller to activate it. Super Hot Finished Level 4 Mature Snake Finished Level 5 Snake Force Finished the game. Battlefield of Excitement Finished Level 2 The Evacuation Finished Level 3 Having ten bros in your team. Simultaneously hold the PS and Share buttons on the controller until the light on top starts flashing. Scholar of the Snake Force Finished Level 1 Left Four Dead Completed a level with THREE members in the team. 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You can also restrict things like in-app purchases on iOS and iPadOS devices and require a password to even make a purchase.Īdjusting these parental control settings can be done by either logging into a child’s specific Mac account or via using Family Sharing, which is a feature in which you can add your family members to a group and then manage their accounts’ parental control settings remotely from your own account. MacOS’s parental controls also allow you to set limits on a child’s gaming habits such as whether or not they can have private messaging and whether or not they’re allowed to play multiplayer games. In the latest version of MacOS, Big Sur, you can set up restrictions for things like movies, apps, web content, and privacy using the Screen Time section of your Mac’s System Preferences. ![]() MacOS touts more than a few options for parental controls. MacOS built-in parental controls Riley Young/Digital Trends There are some real-world safety features, including the ability to track your kids’ location via the Microsoft Family Safety app (on iPhones and Android phones) or via the Microsoft Family Safety website if they’re using a Windows 10 phone or have Microsoft Launcher on their Android device. You can also limit how much time they spend on the account and strictly control their purchasing activity. You get activity reports for all online activity from the child accounts and block any apps, games, or sites you want. This approach may be a little complicated, but it comes with a variety of benefits. You can then add a specific child account (or more) to your family account that your kids can use. Microsoft Family Safetyįor Windows 10, you need to sign up for a Family Safety account. The parental controls for both Windows and MacOS provide a convenient and acceptable means for restrictin g web access and chat functionality, along with viewing detailed logs and monitoring email exchanges. When they have access to more general computing devices, you can leverage parental control features built right into the OS. Giving your kids technology designed for their age group is an excellent first step toward keeping them safe online. Parental controls help keep your kids safe from the dark web, and there’s a no-strings-attached version available for all operating systems. ![]() That’s where parental control software comes in handy. ![]() ![]() ![]() NFC, or near field communication, is another option. If you’ve created your card through a digital business card maker service or a contact app like Gmail, that program will have its own specific instructions for sharing it. Business card design by maxgraphicsĬreating a digital business card is one thing, but how are you supposed to hand over something you can’t touch? The most common methods involve a URL, an email signature attachment, and/or a QR code the potential client can scan directly from your phone or a printed source. How digital business cards are shared A printed QR code can lead potential clients to your virtual contact file. We’ll have more on these processes later on. If you want to get more creative than this, you would essentially need to work with a designer and a developer. These are typically based around customizable design templates. There are also digital business card maker apps that create their own proprietary file format, using cloud storage for your data and contact list. All in all, vCards are a relatively old file format and somewhat limited in what they can accomplish-they largely consist of text input fields. How all of that information is displayed is dependent on the app that is reading it, which is to say that the UI designers have already created rules for how incoming data will conform to the app’s branding. The vCard file format is capable of storing text and an image like a profile picture. With Gmail, you can create and export a VCF or vCard file through the Contacts app Often, whenever you create a new contact in some form of messaging app, you are actually creating a new vCard file. Third-party apps like Gmail, Outlook and CRM (customer relationship management) services like Hubspot and Salesforce also read and store vCard information into contact lists. ![]() Macs and PCs come with built-in capabilities of creating and reading vCard files through built-in contact apps. The traditional file type used for storing contact information is called vCard (Virtual Card) or VCF (Virtual Contact File)-these are the same thing. But first, let’s get into how exactly these files work. Of course, a digital business card can be so much more than a static image, as we’ll see later on. In fact, a print business card scanned and uploaded to a computer can technically be considered a digital business card. Because its usage is still not as widespread, it can sometimes be referred to as a virtual or electronic business card.Īs all of these names imply, it is essentially the digital version of a physical business card. Design by OrangeCrush What is a digital business card?Ī digital business card is a computer file containing contact information, including text and multimedia, that can be shared electronically between devices. To make the process clearer, we’ve put together this guide to digital business cards. At the same time, their popularity is still growing, and there isn’t as much information as to how to go about making them. They are also much easier to make, share, and are less wasteful than traditional business cards. Virtual business cards make networking much more seamless by integrating with the built-in contacts on digital devices. This is poised to change thanks to the rising popularity of digital business cards. But while paper newspapers and magazines have largely gone the way of the dinosaur, somehow print business cards have managed to hang on. Digital media has overtaken print in almost every aspect of day-to-day life. ![]() Furthermore, you can search for services near a particular location, such as restaurants near Statue of Liberty and other areas of interest. Just type restaurants near me or departments stores near me, etc., and you’ll receive the results of locations near you. Whilst most restrictions have been lifted, as a business, we have taken the decision to keep the measures we feel necessary in place to ensure that we protect all our guests and team members from the risk of the virus. You won’t even need to specify the name of the location where you are. In our Scottish, NI and Irish restaurants you can still visit the buffet counter, but our chefs will serve your food to you. Kids under 11 can also visit the buffet now while supervised. ![]() Of course, you can return to the buffet as many times as you like as long as you follow our few simple practices, it's as easy as that. As before, you can still serve yourself at the buffet but due to the nature of our business and movement around the food area, we reccomend you to wear a mask, and are required to sanitise your hands before picking up a plate. This means our full menu will be available in no time. Located in downtown Cleveland, Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse is convenient to a wide selection of dining options that fit your mood. We have started to bring back all dishes which were removed during Covid-19. Please note, some branches are not offering bottomless soft drinks, please check before your visit. We’re offering our bottomless soft drinks in the majority of our restaurants, where your server will refill for you as many times as you wish. Whether it’s a pint of lager, a glass of wine or a cheeky cocktail, we’ve got it all ready for your party. We can now serve alcohol in all our branches and have a full drinks menu for you to choose from. We remain closed for lunch during the weekdays but we’re working on getting the resources together to be able to open up again all day. There are plenty of high street dining chains that are perfect for family groups, a stone’s throw from the London Eye, by the Royal Festival Hall and alongside the South Bank. See below for a list of nearby restaurants. Where are the nearest restaurants The Southbank offers you many different dining options by walking just a few yards from the London Eye. We’ve got something for everyone so we’re the perfect post-Covid destination. The Altria Theater is located in Downtown Richmond, Virginia, featuring many restaurant options for visiting guests. For parties of up to 20, you can book online from the 19th of July and for those more than 20, simply contact the restaurant directly. Feel free to use our restaurant locator to find restaurants, cafes or fast food favorites in your area. So, get your friends and family together for that long-awaited and well-deserved meal out. Below you can search for the restaurants, Chinese food, Mexican food and the fast food places closest to your present location. Join us for unbelievable value seven days a week & much. We’re so excited to be able to host your parties again. There are over 90 Stonehouse Pizza & Carvery Restaurants in handy locations across the UK. In our English branches, we are able to take bookings for tables of any size from the 19th of July. In our Scottish branches, guests are required to wear a face covering. Here's what to expect from 16th August: Face Masksĭue to the nature of our business being a buffet where guests are walking around the restaurant and in close proximity around the food area, we recommend all our guests continue to wear face coverings when not at their table, with the exception of those who are exempt. Youll find our restaurants at carefully selected locations, each offering the same quality and generosity of the much-loved original Paarl restaurant. Naturally, due to the lifting of restrictions, we have removed several measures in our restaurants but a few remain in place for the time being. However, rest assured, your safety and welfare is still our top priority. We're so happy and excited that things are slowly returning to normal. Find Restaurants Nearby My location.Adapting our COSMO buffet experience for Covid times. Yelp Restaurant App (iOS/Android/BlackBerry/WP7/WebOS)įoodspotting App (iOS/Android/BlackBerry/WP7). Google Places Restaurant App (iOS/Android) OpenTable App (iOS/Android/BlackBerry/WP7/WebOS) The Top “Restaurant Finder” Apps.Īlternatively, download one or more of these popular Apps. For the map to work properly, however, your Mobile Gps Location must be turned on (if using a mobile phone). Then, press enter or hit the search button.įor a quick overview of the closest restaurants to your location, please have a look. I ordered the blacken salmon and my friends ordered catfish and grits. French toast arrived first with the fish in another 5 minutes. Feel free to use our restaurant locator to find restaurants, cafes or fast food favorites in your area. My friend had the fried fish dinner with fries and I had the crab cakes and f. ![]() Very recently, the ALPHA collaboration have been able to report the fine structure of antihydrogen up to the state using laser-induced optical excitations from the ground state and a strong external magnetic field. Of course it is only very recently that atomic versions of antimatter have been able to be created and trapped, allowing researchers to uniquely study the foundations of QED (and hence modern physics itself) from the perspective of this mirror-reflected anti-world. This is of course known as the Nobel-Prize winning Lamb Shift in hydrogen, a feature of the interaction between the quantum fluctuations in the electromagnetic field and the orbiting electron. In fact, the most successful theory of the 20th century, quantum electrodynamics (QED), properly accomodating anti-electronic interactions, also predicts a foundational test for both matter and antimatter hydrogen – the splitting of the and energy levels (I’ll leave a reference to a refresher on this notation). And not just the mass and magnetic moment, but also the fine structure (atomic transition frequencies). In particular, one of the most intriguing predictions of the invariance of the laws of physics under charge, parity and time transformations is that antihydrogen should share many of the same properties as hydrogen. What I’ll focus on is what we can do with it and what it means for fundamental physics. I’ll leave this up to a reference at the end. There are plenty more details of how the ALPHA collaboration acquires antihydrogen for study. cold) that cannot overcome the weak effect of external magnetism. Therefore not surprisingly, these are the atoms of very low kinetic energy (i.e. The difficulty however is in the complexity of external magnetic field required to ‘trap’ the neutral antihydrogen in space. Just like hydrogen, the orbit of a positron around an antiproton behaves like a tiny magnet, a property known as an object’s magnetic moment. Well this is precisely what the international ALPHA collaboration at CERN has been concerned with, providing “slowed-down” antiprotons with positrons in a device known as a Penning trap. But what if we start simple – gather together an antiproton and a single positron and voila, we have antihydrogen – the antimatter sibling to the most abundant element in nature. Hence it goes without saying that we can’t just keep them sealed up in Tupperware containers and store them next to aunty’s lasagne. Antimatter-matter pairs readily interact, releasing vast amounts of energy proportional to the mass of the particles involved. The trick with antimatter is to keep it as far away from normal matter as possible. Matter, but anti.įigure 1: The Hydrogen atom and its nemesis – antihydrogen. With such an exceptional result, we would want to be absolutely sure that all our experiments say the same thing, so that brings us the our current topic of discussion – antihydrogen. the amazing thing is that under all these transformations, the laws of physics behave the exact same way. A ‘CPT-transformed’ universe would be like a mirror-image of our own, with all matter as antimatter and opposite momenta. This is the simultaneous transformation of charge conjugation (C), parity (P) and time reversal (T), or CPT for short. So far one of these important symmetries has stood up the test of time with no observable violation so far being reported. These days our understanding of symmetries and how they relate to the phenomena we observe have developed so comprehensively throughout the 20th century that physicists are now often concerned with the opposite approach – applying the fundamental mechanisms to determine where the gaps are between what they predict and what we observe. For example, how many years after you first calculated the speed of a billiard ball using conservation of momentum did you realise that what you were doing was only valid because of the fundamental symmetrical structure of the laws of nature? And hence goes our life through physics education – we first begin from what we ‘see’ to understanding what the real mechanisms are that operate below the hood. From the idea that “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction” to the vacuum solutions of electric and magnetic fields from Maxwell’s equations, we often take such astounding universal principles for granted. Physics often doesn’t delay our introduction to one of the most important concepts in history – symmetries (as I am sure many fellow physicists will agree). Article title: Investigation of the fine structure of antihydrogen ![]() But, that adventure led to his life-long love for the majestic low-elevation forest and the crystal-clear creek that met Battle Ax Creek in the mining camp and became the Little North Fork Santiam River, an Oregon Wild and Scenic River – so designated by George’s Uncle, Oregon Governor Vic Atiyeh. It was run by family members.Īs he tells it, when he was eight, he hiked up Opal Creek by himself and returned to late to dinner and was sent to bed hungry. As I write this no contact has been made since that fateful day.Ītiyeh grew up Summers at Jawbone Flats, an old mountain mining camp in the Willamette National Forest. 8 th Wildfire that roared down Opal Creek, burning down the Opal Creek Ancient Forest Education Center at Jawbone Flats, the old mining camp that he and pals restored starting the 1970s. "Oregon Wildfires: How the tiny Beachie Creek Fire blew up and ravaged the Santiam Canyon". Hatfield Recounts Final Negotiation to Protect Opal Creek (Speech). Showdown at Opal Creek: The Battle for America's Last Wilderness. ^ "Opal Creek Wilderness: Overview/Background".^ "Opal Creek Scenic Recreation Area".Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. National Wilderness Preservation System Map (Map). As of September 2020, the severity of the damage within the wilderness is unknown. The Opal Creek Wilderness is within the burn zone of the Beachie Creek Fire that began approximately two miles south of Jawbone Flats on August 16, 2020, one of several major wildfires on the West Coast that summer. įinally, in 1996, after working with all stakeholders, including environmental groups, local communities and representatives of the timber industry, to draft consensus legislation, United States Senator Mark Hatfield obtained passage of expansive legislation to protect Opal Creek. When books and photo essays were published in the early 1990s, national attention was brought to the area. Lawsuits were filed, Wild and Scenic Rivers were designated, and multiple bills to protect the area failed, including an attempt to make it a state park. In 1980, the District Ranger of the Detroit Ranger District, Dave Alexander, vowed to "cut Opal Creek." By late 1981, clearcut boundary markers were placed. The wilderness was designated on September 30, 1996, after a nearly 20-year battle to protect the area from logging and mining. Understory vegetation includes huckleberry, vine maple and rhododendron. Common hardwoods include bigleaf maple and red alder. The most abundant trees are Douglas fir, Pacific silver fir, and western hemlock. ![]() The valley forms the largest intact stand of old-growth forest in the western Cascades, and 500- to 1000-year-old trees are common. Eight hiking trails, remnants of the early day prospecting and fire access routes, total 36 miles (58 km). The Opal Creek Valley contains 50 waterfalls and five lakes. In addition, the 36,870-acre (14,920 ha) Bull of the Woods Wilderness in the Mount Hood National Forest shares its southern boundary with the Opal Creek Wilderness. The 20,746-acre (8,396 ha) Opal Creek Wilderness is adjacent to a designated "scenic recreation area" of 13,538 acres (5,479 ha), creating a nearly 35,000-acre (14,000 ha) protected area. |
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