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BRISBANE, Australia, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Every hour of television watched after the age of 25 reduced the viewer's life expectancy by nearly 22 minutes, researchers in Australia found.
Study leader Dr. J. Lennert Veerman, a senior research fellow at the University of Queensland, and colleagues used 2008 data from the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study, a survey of the health habits of some 12,000 Australian adults.
The study participants were asked questions about general health, disease status, exercise regimens, smoking and diet.
The survey also asked how many hours per day a study participant watched in the previous week.
The study, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, found compared with people who watched no TV, those who spent a lifetime average of 6 hours a day watching TV could expect to live 4.8 years less.

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In a fraught scene in "Disconnect," a lawyer played by Jason Bateman discovers that his son's girlfriend doesn't actually exist. The conversation between Mr. Bateman's character and the fabricated online persona "Jessica" plays out entirely via text. An interface designed to resemble Facebook's chat function appears next to an extreme close-up on Mr. Bateman's increasingly teary eyes.
Director Henry-Alex Rubin recalls Mr. Bateman half-jokingly remarking that he was making a silent movie. "There was a lot of having to sort of communicate and process the receiving of an answer without talking," says Mr. Bateman. "It could have gone really bad with a lot of eyebrow acting."
The revolution in communicating via text, often on tiny phone screens, is presenting filmmakers with a huge challenge: How do you show it on the big screen?


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Their new Optio E75, not quite announced for US release, promises 10.2MP stills, 3x optical zoom, 1600 ISO and face detection on top of its smallish waterproof build. It'll be available in Europe this July for the equivalent of $160. [The Digital News Room via Engadget]


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I don't understand all of the post, I'm more of a belt & braces type, if someone says RTFM then I smile and look for plan B.
I don't mean to be argumentative and I hold you in the highest regard from your many very knowledgeable posts on this forum but do you know what levels he was using when the update borked his laptop? as I see no mention in his post or signature of the levels he used or whether he used Synaptic to upgrade.
From another recent post
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=69886This is my first boot-up after installation and, after the turbulence I encountered trying to update, I fear it may prove to be my last as well....
If I am right then this is very important for newcomers to LMDE
If I'm wrong then I am just confusing matters more but I will go back and edit out my posts, I just wish somebody with more skills than I would have a spare partition to try out my level 1-3 install, for updating i just installed the minty ones logged out/backin and the other, I think 800 odd updates went in with no broken packages error, so simple.
I can only repeat my experiences on three machines using only level 1-3 for the past week could not have been better, totally trouble free but I might have been lucky with my hardware.
Also as a very knowledgeable Linux person, may I ask your opinion of the phoronix link about kernels I posted on the other thread?
yours with due humility and the utmost respect
I see there's a thread about the kernel thingy at http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 74&start=0


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WASHINGTON — With the slip of a finger on the keyboard, The New York Times may have inadvertently handed any future Charlie Dent opponent a gift.
In an online story Tuesday afternoon about the budget standoff, the newspaper referred to the Lehigh Valley Republican congressman as Charlie "Debt."
The campaign flyer writes itself.
The newspaper has since corrected the slip: "An earlier version of this article misspelled, on second reference, the surname of a representative. He is Charlie Dent, not Debt."
[Note: The N and B keys are next to each other on a standard computer keyboard]
In the version of the story currently posted there is no second reference to Dent, only one highlighting his attendance at a half-hour meeting with 20 House Democrats and Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.
Dent's office said House Republicans showed up later. It was a gathering of lawmakers involved with the No Labels group, a political organization that aims to break partisan gridlock. Collins is not a No Labels member, but was there to update the group on the latest talks in the Senate over how to end the government shutdown and avoid default.
Dent had made a last ditch effort to stop the shutdown and has engaged in efforts since to reopen the government. As one of the first Republicans to publicly rebuke GOP leadership and call for the passage of a "clean" funding bill, he's seen his national profile rise.
He's appeared almost daily on cable news shows, been quoted in major national publications and was even profiled by the The New York Times last week.
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These flying swarmbots would fall under the category of things that aren't at CES but we wish were. Maybe next year? They are part of a project at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland to explore large aerial robot swarms.
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This is a blog for humor with sense because it does not only make you laugh but think as well.A collection of pictures and videos of cats forwarded by friends especially Bhayi and Polo. I feel it is a waste keeping them in my mail so I share them with you in my own style of presenting humor.This is the original Cats Me IF YOU CAN. A plagiarist has put up a blog exactly the same, copying everything.


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WASHINGTON, March 16 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama said Saturday America must "get off of oil for good" and urged Congress to set up an Energy Security Trust to fund energy research.
In his weekly radio and Internet address -- recorded Friday at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, where he spoke Friday about the proposal -- the president said the United States is "poised to take control of our energy future."
"We produce more oil than we have in 15 years," he said. "We import less oil than we have in 20 years. We've doubled the amount of renewable energy we generate from sources like wind and solar -- with tens of thousands of good jobs to show for it."
Obama said the United States is producing record levels of natural gas, "with hundreds of thousands of good jobs to show for it," while his administration has supported the first new nuclear power plant "since the 1970s," and said carbon pollution is at a nearly 20-year low.
However, the president said recent annual spikes in gasoline prices are "a serious blow to your budget -- like getting hit with a new tax coming right out of your pocket."
"But the only way we're going to break this cycle of spiking gas prices for good is to shift our cars and trucks off of oil for good," he said. "That's why, in my State of the Union Address, I called on Congress to set up an Energy Security Trust to fund research into new technologies that will help us reach that goal."
Obama said the fund would use revenues from energy extracted from publicly owned lands and waters for "research that will benefit the public, so that we can support American ingenuity without adding a dime to our deficit." He noted the idea originated in a proposal by a non-partisan coalition of chief executive officers and retired military officers.
"So let's take their advice and free our families and our businesses from painful spikes in gas prices once and for all," he said.


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The iPad mini is a device I'd like to love. At first glance, the gadget would appear to be everything I'd want in a tablet. It comes withApple's
) iOS software and can run the hundreds of thousands of iPad apps. But it's more portable and less expensive than the full-sized iPad. And the new version, which Apple started shipping in limited quantities last month, fixes the two biggest technical problems of the original iPad mini, which Apple released last year. The new model has a high-resolution display and Apple's latest - and fastest - mobile processor. So what's not to like? Well, the biggest thing is its price. Apple took a device that already cost much more than its competitors and upped its price tag significantly. Considering that bothGoogle's
) Nexus 7 or Amazon's Kindle Fire HDX are much improved from last year also, it's hard for me to recommend that you spend $170 more for an iPad mini. The new mini looks and feels a lot like last year's version. It has the same shape, height and width and the same sized screen. It's slightly thicker and heavier than last year's model, but not so much that you'd likely notice. The aluminum back of the black model has a bit lighter color than last year, but again, the change is subtle. I liked the design of last year's model - although I wished it were a bit thinner - and I'm of the same mind about this year's version. The big change that you'll notice is the new mini's display. Last year's relatively low-resolution screen has been replaced with Apple's so-called high-resolution Retina display. In terms of pixel per inch - the common measurement for screen resolution - the new mini's display is equal to that in the iPhone 5s and is superior to that in Apple's full-sized iPad. It's super-sharp and makes reading books or Web pages or watching high-definition movies a joy. The screen does have one minor shortcoming, though. According to DisplayMate, a consulting firm that evaluates the screens in various computing devices, the range of colors the new iPad mini can display is a fraction of the general color standard and significantly less than what can be displayed by the iPad Air or the Kindle Fire HDX. I noticed the difference when displaying the same pictures on an Air and on the new mini; on the mini, the colors sometimes looked a bit washed out. But to my eyes the difference was small, and I couldn't see much of a difference at all when comparing scenes from movies such as 'The Avengers,' 'Robots' and Pedro Almodovar's 'Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!' The mini's other big change is a much more powerful chip, Apple's A7 chip, which is two generations beyond the A5 chip that was in last year's model. In my tests, it ran many times faster than the previous chip. You may not notice much of a difference on a day-to-day basis unless you are editing videos or playing games with complex graphics. But the new chip is much more future-proof than the old one; you'll likely be able to upgrade to the latest versions of iOS for much longer than you could have with the old mini. Other than those two changes, the mini is basically the same as last year's model. It has the same cameras, and access to the same selection of apps. Both models - Apple is continuing to offer last year's version - now ship with iOS 7, the significantly revised operating system. And both versions have the same claimed battery life - about 10 hours on the Wi-Fi-only models. At $300, the new mini would be an excellent value. But its $400 price tag seems excessive, especially compared to the latest tablets running versions of Google's Android software. Many of those devices are well-designed and have access to many of the best tablet apps. Some also have options you can't get on the mini, such as the ability to change the default Web browser or support for multiple users on a single device. Those Android-based tablets that compete with the mini tend to cost far, far less. Google's Nexus 7, for example, has a rocket-fast new chip, a screen that's as high-resolution as the mini's and a fine selection of available movies and apps. And it starts at just $230. As impressive as the new mini's screen and chip are, especially compared to last year, they just aren't worth that kind of difference in price.


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Pioneer Surgical Technology Enters the Biologics Extremities, Trauma, and General Orthopaedics Market with Legato(TM) Bone Void Filler
RALEIGH, N.C., Feb. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Pioneer Surgical Technology today announces the market launch of their new portfolio of biologic products, Legato, designed to be used in extremity, trauma, and general orthopaedic indications.
Legato Bone Void Filler will be showcased during the 2011 American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) convention in San Diego this week. Legato is a resorbable, collagen-based implant that acts as a scaffold for the in-growth of new bone and is designed to have broad appeal in extremity, trauma and general orthopaedic indications. In addition, Legato forms a cohesive and adhesive product easily shaped to defects while maximizing direct contact with host bone.
Regarding Pioneer's latest product introduction Mr. Shane Ray, General Manager Biologics for Pioneer stated, "We are very pleased to expand our product offerings with Legato into the extremities, trauma and general orthopaedics market. Our goal has always been to establish highly effective products first in spine and now expanding into additional high growth markets such as extremities. We saw incredible sales growth in 2010 and are executing our 2011 growth plans to expand our product offerings within and outside the United States."
For more information regarding Pioneer's Biologics offerings including Legato, please visit the Pioneer Surgical website at www.pioneersurgical.com.
About Pioneer Surgical Technology, Inc.
Pioneer Surgical Technology, Inc. is a dynamic medical device firm founded in 1992. Pioneer's focus on innovation has resulted in over 120 U.S. and foreign patents, with numerous patents pending. The company has a comprehensive portfolio of orthopaedic, spine and biologic systems. Pioneer entered the orthobiologics market with two acquisitions in 2007. Our Orthopaedic, Spine, and Biologics divisions produce state of the art, cost-effective solutions for surgical procedures that have proven difficult or problematic for both surgeons and patients. Pioneer employs more than 270 people worldwide. For more information on Pioneer and its products, visit www.pioneersurgical.com.
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3 young men killed in Kansas grain elevator blast
ATCHISON, Kan. (AP) — Three young men were killed in a thunderous explosion at a Kansas grain elevator and recovery efforts for three other people presumed dead were being hampered by the damage, authorities said late Sunday.
The blast, which shook the ground so hard that it was felt in neighboring Missouri, was a harrowing reminder of the dangers workers face inside elevators brimming with highly combustible grain dust at the end of the harvest season.
The explosion Saturday night in Atchison, about 50 miles northwest of Kansas City, sent an orange fireball into the night sky, shot off a chunk of the grain distribution building directly above the elevator and blew a large hole in the side of the one of its concrete silos.
The three Bartlett Grain Co. workers killed were identified late Sunday by local authorities as Chad Roberts, 20; Ryan Federinko, 21; and John Burke, 24. Two other employees were hospitalized with severe burns.
Bartlett officials decided to temporarily halt the search for three other people presumed dead — one worker and two grain inspectors — because of safety concerns inside the heavily damaged facility. In a statement late Sunday, company officials "it is apparent that they also were killed in the explosion."
Smoke could still be seen billowing from the top of the elevator Sunday, and officials were fearful the building could fall on top of rescue crews.
"It's a fairly dangerous situation. We don't feel comfortable putting fire crews in," Atchison City Manager Trey Cocking said.
Recovery efforts were expected to resume at daybreak Monday, officials said.
Among the three presumed dead was Travis Keil, a war veteran who had served as a site inspector for 16 years. His parents, Gary and Ramona Keil, drove from Salina to Atchison, to wait with his three children — ages 8, 12 and 15 — as crews searched.
"We have all our prayers working for him," Gary Keil said. "It's a parent's worst nightmare to go through this."
Bartlett Grain President Bill Fellows said in a statement that workers were loading a train with corn when the explosion occurred, but the cause was not immediately known. The company brought in a South Dakota-based engineer with expertise in such accidents to help federal safety investigators on the scene.
Over the past four decades, there have more than 600 explosions at grain elevators, killing more than 250 people and injuring more than 1,000, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Just last year, there were grain explosions or fires in several states including In Nebraska, Illinois, Ohio, South Dakota and Louisiana. None were fatal, but several sent workers scrambling and one in Toledo, Ohio in September 2010 forced people to evacuate from a nearby mobile home park.
When grain is handled at elevators, it creates dust that floats around inside the storage facility. The finer the grain dust particles, the greater its volatility. Typically, something — perhaps sparks from equipment or a cigarette — ignites the dust. That sends a pressure wave that detonates the rest of the floating dust in the facility.
Fireballs are a common feature of grain dust explosions, where intense heat from the blast can reach 1,500 to 2,000 degrees.
Dust from corn is among the most dangerous. Most dust explosions happen in late summer and early fall when old, dried grain is being cleaned out of elevators in preparation for the harvest. Freshly harvested corn is less explosive because its wetter.
The Atchison elevator, which is federally licensed to handle up to 1.18 million bushels, is among roughly 850-plus elevators in Kansas. The state is now winding up its fall harvest of corn, sorghum and soybeans.
OSHA has expanded its inspections and efforts to control volatile grain dust in Kansas elevators since an explosion in 1998 at DeBruce Grain, Inc.'s facility in Haysville, which killed seven workers and injured 10 others, said Tom Tunnell, executive director of the Kansas Grain and Feed Association, the industry group representing Kansas grain elevators.
He said the industry as a whole has increased awareness of the dangers since a number of elevator explosions along the Gulf in the 1970s.
"If ever an industry is as well trained, it is ours. We understand dust is an explosive agent and our members work hard to control it," Tunnell said Sunday.
The Atchison facility where the blast occurred has not been cited for any violations in the last 10 years, according to OSHA data, though Bartlett Grain Co. was cited after two people died in separate incidents at two of its other facilities. Neither of those fatalities involved explosions at grain elevators.
In 2007, a Bartlett Grain maintenance employee died in a fall from a work platform at the company's facility in St. Joseph, Mo. In 2004, another employee died while operating a lift that fell backward at a company site in Kansas City, Mo.
"The industry has had a good record — except for a few of this type — considering the billions and billions of bushels of grain handled," Tunnell said.
The two people injured in the explosion were taken to the burn unit at University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Kan., hospital spokesman Dennis McCulloch said. One was listed in critical condition Sunday evening and the other was in serious condition, he said.
Cocking said four other people, including one woman, escaped without injuries. No names were being released pending notification of families.
Paul Moccia, who lives about a half mile from the grain elevator, said the explosion shook his house and lights flickered across his neighborhood for about 30 seconds.
"It was extremely loud. It was kind of like to me a double whomp, — a bomp bomp. It reverberated, and kind of echoed down through the valley. ... kind of like a shock wave," said Moccia, 57. "Everybody came outside. Neighbors were trying to figure out what was going on. It was quite a thump."
Hegeman reported from Wichita, Kan. Associated Press Writer Maria Sudekum Fisher contributed to this report from Kansas City, Mo.
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Selecting an agent to help you through the entire process from start to finish is going to be as important as determining how much to list your home for. You will be spending a lot of time with your agent, so liking them would be a major plus! The best thing you can do when selecting your agent is to choose someone who has a personality that fits with your own.
Consider asking the following questions when interviewing an agent assist in the sale your home:
Are you a REALTOR®?
There is a difference between a Real Estate Licensee and a REALTOR®. A licensee who is a member of the National Association of REALTORS® is bound by the Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice associated with the industry, and may be disciplined for violating it. They have a duty to treat all parties honestly and fairly, and have a fiduciary duty to their clients.
How does the process of selling my home work?
Your agent should be able to explain the process of listing and marketing your property, negotiating offers on the property, the inspection process, the closing process and more. Also inquire about what your responsibilities are during the sale.
Can you assist in determining my listing price?
An agent should know the comparable sales data, and be able to give you the information you need regarding current listings, pending sales, and recent sales. After a thorough review of the data, and some advice from your agent, you should be able to come up with a listing price. Your agent should not be the one to make the final decision about your listing price.
Can you help me stage my home?
Putting your home's best forward from day one on the market is a key part of a successful marketing plan. You agent should offer great advice on ways to make your home appeal to a broad base of buyers. If he/she does not personally offer staging service, they should have a great referral for you.
Do you have training and education?
Most states have strict laws regarding licensing and continuing education. Your Agent should be able to give you up to date information, should be committed to continuing education and should always act with professionalism. Ask if your Agent has any designations indicating a specialty in any areas, such as Buyer Representation.
Can you give me any references?
Be certain that your agent is willing to give you references, or let you contact past clients.
What can I expect as far as communication?
You will want an agent who listens to your goals, explains and identifies problems, and answers all of your questions. Communication is key, so ask your potential agent how he or she plans on informing you of issues or concerns throughout the transaction as well as timelines and deadlines.
How do you get paid?
Inquire about the fee structure and representation. Listing agents actually earn a commission and are paid by the seller out of funds at the close of escrow. Ask your agent to explain the process so you have a better understanding of how it works. Your agent is a licensed professional and is there to help and protect your best interests.
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Not content with running roughshod over the world of college basketball, Dickie V is taking his considerable, um ... "talents" to the next level, as he will call the Miami-Denver game for ESPN this Wednesday.
It seems that NORBY(!) got it in his pretty little head to switch the announcing crews from his college basketball and NBA rosters for one night. Vitale and Dan Schulman will work the NBA game, while MikeTirico, Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson will handle the Davidison-Duke tilt earlier in the evening. Why? Why not?!
''It's a natural progression to make connections between college basketball and the NBA,'' ESPN executive Norby Williamson said. ``The commentators involved have strong ties with the other level, which will prompt engaging dialogue. Dick, Mark and Jeff are universally recognized as leading basketball experts.''
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#*# Select ''upstream'' as ''Remote:'' there and ''master'' as ''Remote Branch:''
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#*# Click the ''Fetch & Rebase'' button (it's hidden behind the arrow next to the ''Pull'' button)
#*# Click the ''Fetch & Rebase'' button (it's hidden behind the arrow next to the ''Pull'' button)
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Note that you change the history when amending commits. That means, if you have already pushed your last commit to your personal fork, you have to force-push the changes.
Note that you change the history when amending commits. That means, if you have already pushed your last commit to your personal fork, you have to force-push the changes.
That also means, amending a commit that has been pushed to the main ReactOS repository is not possible!
That also means, amending a commit that has been pushed to the main ReactOS repository is not possible!
=== Removing the need to enter your user+password on push (improves security) ===
=== Removing the need to enter your user+password on push (improves security) ===
Revision as of 16:39, 14 October 2017
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Workflow
- 3 Slightly more advanced topics
Basic Git concepts
Lots of information here, take it slowly!
- Commit: A commit in git contains information about a set of changes to the code. It represents the same information you could see in a patch/diff file, but in an internal binary representation. Notably, a commit has some values we care about:
- Hash: A SHA1 (for now) hash computed from all the data and metadata included in the commit.
- Message: The first line, or 80 characters of the first line, are considered the summary, and the rest is usually shown separately.
- Author: The name+email of the person that wrote the patch.
- Committer: The name+email of the person that applied the patch.
- Parent(s): In a standard commit, there will be one parent, represented as its commit hash. In a merge commit (see below), it would have two parents.
- Branching: A git branch is merely an entry in the repository that has a HEAD property, pointing to the commit hash of the newest commit in the branch. The commit operation implicitly assigns the new hash to the branch's head. This gives git an extremely fast branching system, turning them into a very effective tool for managing contributions.
- Merging: When two branches are merged, a new commit is created, which contains all the data necessary to apply the changes from one branch, onto the other. This is represented in the metadata by a commit with two parents. Parent 1 represents the primary source of code, and parent 2 the "other" branch that is being merged. Git does not distinguish between merging from master into a work branch, or from a work branch to master, in both cases a merge is "A=A+B" with A being the currently checked out branch, and B the chosen target to merge from. The downside of merge commits is that they can "dirty" the history, when merge commits pile up one after another.
- Commit: A git commit encodes the modified files, along with a commit message, and authorship information, into the internal representation. The commit's hash is then assigned to the branch head in the local repository.
- Clone: In git, everyone works based on a full copy of the history. The action of creating this copy from a remote repository into your computer, is called cloning.
- Remotes: A git remote tells git about a repository in another computer (for most of us, this will be GitHub's servers), where you will be fetching from and/or pushing to. You can have as many remotes as you need, and with any names you want, but the most commons are named "origin" for your personal fork, and "upstream" for the repository that you are contributing to.
- Fetch: In order to retrieve new commits from a remote, the fetch operation computes what data you are missing, and sends back all the compressed objects and metadata you need in order to replicate the rest of the history. This data is accessible from special branches, with names such as "remotes/origin/master", where "origin" is the name of the remote you assigned when setting up the repository, and "master" is the name of the branch in the remote repository.
- Checkout: Checking out is the operation of extracting the data at the state represented by the given branch/commit, and making it available in the working copy. Unlike SVN, git does not like performing a checkout with modified files, and stashing is often required.
- Stashing: Git has the ability to save local modifications as patches in an internal "stash". It is a common thing to stash changes before you update the working copy, and "pop" from the stash when you are done, to return to the previous state or apply the changes to a different branch.
- Pull: You will inevitably come across tutorials and examples using the pull command. This is a combined utility command that performs a fetch operation of the selected branch, and immediately after, a merge operation from the remote branch, to the selected branch. We don't recommend using pull, but rather to use fetch and rebase.
- Push: The reverse operation to pull. It computes the required data and sends it to the remote repository, subsequently updating the remote's HEAD to match your local HEAD commit hash.
- Fast-forwarding: A push operation is considered to be fast-forwarding, if it adds commits following the current HEAD, and non-fast-forward if the history does not fully contain all the commits from the target.
- Rebase: In the normal workflow of git, updating the state of a branch implies merging from another branch. There are cases, however, when we do not want to use a merge commit, but rather we want to re-apply all the changes on top of the new updated code. The rebase operation does exactly that: it computes the list of commits that have been added since the branches split off, and applies all of them on top of the target commit. Because the metadata will change, a rebase operation is considered to "rewrite history". Because of that, rebasing is normally considered an advanced operation, and can have side-effects that may be harder to grasp for a beginner. However, we'll be using it extensively, so it is important to understand the idea.
- Force-pushing: Git normally rejects commits that are non-fast-forward. If we amend, rebase, or otherwise modify the commit data or metadata of commits that have been previously pushed to a different branch or repository, we are implicitly generating an "alternate history" of those changes. Git will then refuse to accept those modifications, as they could potentially lose data, and hence is considered dangerous. Git provides a "--force" setting, which disables all of those checks. Because "--force" is extremely dangerous, it's highly discouraged to use this flag. However, in order to effectively use the rebase option, we do need to force-push commits, when working with our own work branches (force-pushing to the master branch of our main repository is strictly forbidden , and reserved only for administrative actions). In order to lessen the danger of the force-push operation, there is an alternative flag, namely "--force-with-lease", that conditionally allows the force-push, but only if the remote state matches the local cache.
- Pull Requests: When contributing as an external contributor, or when working with large change sets, spanning many commits, or with sensitive edits, we want to be able to review the changes before they are applied. In GitHub, as with most other repository hosts, a pull request offers this service. A pull request gives other developers a chance to comment, request changes, and eventually approve or reject those changes. Once the changes have been reviewed, and sufficiently approved (the number of approvals is at the discretion of the pull request's author -- or assignee if the author is not a team member), the Merge button allows integrating those changes into the master branch.
- You spoke about parents, but what about children, which is the "next commit" for a given hash?
- Git does not have any information about the children in the commit graph, in order to obtain the list of children (branching implies there can be many), a slow walk through all the branch histories is needed. The main method to analyze the history is to open the commit log on your favorite Git GUI tool, and locate your commit in there. Because this can sometimes be annoying, we have an alternative way through the GetBuilds site, which allows navigating back and forth through the builds, giving something that approximates the linear history of SVN.
Basic rules that we should try to follow
- Prefer working on a branch, and pushing to your personal fork.
- Except for small commits that can be safely pushed to master, if you feel they are safe and you are part of the team
- Avoid merge commits
- This implies using rebase to ensure that all history remains linear
- Keep a summary of the commit on the first line
- Example:
[NTOSKRNL]: Update exports to NT6.3 * Added some stuff * Removed some stuff
- Example:
Cloning the repository
These are the recommended steps to set up a local clone:
- Go to https://github.com/reactos/reactos and click the Fork button there to create a personal fork of the ReactOS repository.
This one will host your work branches and will be the source of your Pull Requests. It will be available publicly in a URL like https://github.com/<yourusername>/reactos.
- I will be calling them personal fork to distinguish them from a project-wide fork such as OpenOffice vs LibreOffice. A personal fork is just a personal space to make changes in, with the intention of contributing them back upstream.
- Creating forks on other sites is possible, but you won't have the pull request feature, so not recommended.
- Clone https://github.com/<yourusername>/reactos into your computer.
- Using TortoiseGit:
Right-click somewhere → Git Clone → Enter URL and Directory → OK
- Using the command line:
git clone https://github.com/<yourusername>/reactos
- Using TortoiseGit:
- Add https://github.com/reactos/reactos as a remote named upstream, so that you can fetch latest changes from the main ReactOS repository.
- Using TortoiseGit:
- Right-click the clone folder → TortoiseGit → Settings → Remote
- Enter upstream for Remote: there and https://github.com/reactos/reactos for URL:
- Then click Add New/Save and answer any appearing questions with No
- Using the command line:
git remote add upstream https://github.com/reactos/reactos
- Using TortoiseGit:
Now you have a local clone with two remotes:
- origin - Your personal fork, where you can work in branches
- upstream - The main ReactOS repository
Updating your environment with latest code
This is how you get the latest code set up before you start working on something new:
- Checkout your local master branch (if you were working on another branch)
- Using TortoiseGit:
Right-click the clone folder → TortoiseGit → Switch/Checkout → Select master as Branch: → OK
- Using the command line:
git checkout master
- Using TortoiseGit:
- Fetch the latest commits from the main ReactOS repository and apply them on top of your local master branch:
- Using TortoiseGit:
- Right-click the clone folder → Git Sync
- Select upstream as Remote: there and master as Remote Branch:
- Click the Fetch & Rebase button (it's hidden behind the arrow next to the Pull button)
- Using the command line:
git fetch upstream git rebase upstream/masteror simply
git pull --rebase upstream master
- Using TortoiseGit:
Performing quick fixes (a.k.a. Working directly into the master branch of the main repository)
These are the steps one would follow during normal development of a "quick fix" (without a work branch). It is recommended to use a work branch for anything that is more than a trivial change:
- Ensure your local master is up to date following the instructions above.
- Do the work. Commit early, commit often (locally).
- You can later use TortoiseGit's combine into one commit, or commandline git's interactive rebase, to reduce the number of total commits you will push later, so don't worry about spamming the log!
- Commit the final touches.
- Fetch the latest code again following the instructions above, and use the rebase method to make sure your changes are applied on top of the latest master code.
- This is your last chance to use interactive rebase, or TortoiseGit's log window, to cleanup your commits until you are satisfied with the resulting patch set.
- Push to upstream
- Using TortoiseGit:
Right-click the clone folder → TortoiseGit → Push → Select master as Remote: under Ref and upstream as Remote: under Destination → OK
- Using the command line:
git push upstream
- Using TortoiseGit:
- If the push operation complains about non-fastforward commits, it means someone else pushed something in between your fetch and your push, so you will have to go back to the fetch+rebase steps and try again.
It should go without saying, but NEVER EVER FORCE-PUSH TO MASTER. Gladly, this is disabled on the server.
Working on a branch
These are the steps one would follow to work on a personal branch, backed by your personal fork, on something that can't be described as a "quick fix":
- Ensure your local master is up to date following the instructions above.
- Create the branch with a name representative of the work you will be doing
- Using TortoiseGit:
- Right-click the clone folder → TortoiseGit → Create Branch → Enter a name → OK
- Right-click the clone folder → TortoiseGit → Switch/Checkout → Select your new branch → OK
- Using the command line:
git branch <branch-name> git checkout <branch-name>
- Using TortoiseGit:
- Do the work. Commit early, commit often (locally).
- You can later use TortoiseGit's combine into one commit, or commandline git's interactive rebase, to reduce the number of total commits you will push later, so don't worry about spamming the log!
- Push to your personal fork (Remote: origin) whenever you want to back things up online. This is optional, but recommended!
- The first time you push to your personal fork, you have to tell it explicitly about the new branch:
- Using TortoiseGit:
- Right-click the clone folder → TortoiseGit → Push
- Leave Remote: in Ref blank and select origin as Remote: in Destination
- Check Set upstream/track remote branch
- Click OK
- Using the command line:
git push --set-upstream origin <branch-name>
- Using TortoiseGit:
- Subsequent pushes will be easier:
- Using TortoiseGit:
Right-click the clone folder → TortoiseGit → Push → OK
- Using the command line:
git push
- Using TortoiseGit:
- The first time you push to your personal fork, you have to tell it explicitly about the new branch:
- Commit the final touches and push the result to your personal fork.
- Navigate to your personal fork on GitHub, and in your branch, choose Create pull request
- If the push was done very recently, it will show up on the main page of your fork
- Take a final look, and maybe ask others to review the code and give their approval.
- Getting things reviewed is highly recommended, specially for bigger changes.
- Once you are positive about your changes, press the Merge with rebase button that GitHub provides.
If the merge button isn't enabled, it probably means GitHub can't safely rebase your changes. In that situation, you first have to rebase manually as described in #Updating your environment with latest code. Then force-push into your personal fork
- Using TortoiseGit:
Right-click the clone folder → TortoiseGit → Push → Check Force: May discard known changes → OK
- Using command line:
git push --force-with-lease
Applying an old patch from SVN
We have plenty of patches in JIRA, and in our HDDs, that were created from SVN, or at least for svn.
Although Git is perfectly capable of generating and applying patches, its primary patch format contains more metadata that SVN patches are lacking. Most notably, the authorship information. To work around the differences in the patch format, alternative methods need to be used to get the patch applied.
Here are the steps needed to apply an old patch:
- Make sure your environment is updated, and an appropriate branch is in place, as described in the previous sections.
- Use the general-purpose patch program (instead of git apply) or a GUI patching utility to apply the changes.
- Using TortoiseGit:
Right-click the patch file → TortoiseGit → Review/apply single patch
- Using the command line:
patch -p1 < patchfile.patch
- Using TortoiseGit:
- Review the changes and write an appropriate message.
- Perform the commit with a custom author
- Using TortoiseGit:
Check the Set Author checkbox in the Commit dialog and enter the Name and E-Mail Address of the patch author.
- Using the command line:
git commit --author "Name <email@example.com>"
- Using TortoiseGit:
- Rebase and push as needed.
Slightly more advanced topics
Amending commits
If you notice a mistake in your last commit, Git allows you to amend it:
- Do the file changes that should have been included in the last commit.
- Amend the last commit:
- Using TortoiseGit:
Right-click the clone folder → Git Commit → Check Amend Last Commit
- Using the command line:
git commit --amend
- Using TortoiseGit:
You can also change author or date information when amending commits. TortoiseGit has additional checkboxes for this while command line Git accepts additional parameters for git commit.
Note that you change the history when amending commits. That means, if you have already pushed your last commit to your personal fork, you have to force-push the changes. That also means, amending a commit that has been pushed to the main ReactOS repository is not possible!
Alternatively you can amend, squash or rename multiple commits at once. This is called "interactive rebasing".
- Using the command line:
git rebase -i HEAD~3where 3 is the number of commits to edit after HEAD.
Removing the need to enter your user+password on push (improves security)
Github (similarly to most other Git hosts), offers a way to authenticate your machines using SSH, replacing the need for passwords. These SSH keys are usually generated once per machine, so that if one machine becomes stolen and/or compromised, you can disavow the public key, and prevent extra damage.
In order to use an SSH key, these are the steps:
- Get yourself an SSH key. This depends on your environment and platform. My choice is to configure TortoiseGit to use PuTTY, generate my keys with PuTTYgen, and load them with PuTTY's Pageant (authentication agent). Another option is to use OpenSSH tools instead.
- You can find tutorials of your chosen tool, or ask someone on IRC for help.
- Add the public key to your GitHub account, in the account settings, under SSH Keys. Don't ever share the private key!
- Change your local clone settings, so that your remotes point to the URL with SSH protocol.
You can see this URL by navigating to the repository, clicking the Clone or download button and choosing Use SSH.
- From this point on, pushing will not ask for your GitHub password, but it WILL ask for the SSH passphrase if your private key has one.


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In Reply to: Flogged within an inch of your life posted by David FG on December 23, 2006
: : : What is the orogin of the phrase "flogged within an inch of your life" ?
: : Peter, this phrase is more likely to be found with a different pronoun, such as, e.g., "of his life," or "of my life." "You" refers to the person addressed, who presumably already knows whether and how he was flogged.
: : The word "origin" is somewhat ambiguous. The phrase originated in the mind of someone trying to express in vivid language just how bad the flogging was. It was bad enough, apparently, to come as close as possible to killing the person flogged while still leaving him alive. "Within an inch" is pretty close, although it is a metaphorical closeness. The closeness of death cannot often be measured in inches.
: : "Of his life" is used here as a way of saying "of his death." Another example would be, "He was in fear of his life." It wasn't his life that made him afraid, but rather the chance of losing it. True, one may also say "in fear for his life." But that hasn't yet put the previous expression out of business. (Caution: don't try to substitute "of one's death" for "of one's life" in idiomatic expressions.)
: I am more familiar with the phrase 'flogged TO within an inch of his life' which makes it a little clearer, I think.
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April 2005
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Copyright © 2003-2005 The Real Deal.
April 2005
The Big Picture
Residential and Commercial vital statistics
By Melissa Dehncke-McGill
New York real estate rests at the zenith of a golden age or teeters on a precipice, depending on your point of view.
In uncertain market conditions, with rising rates amid record prices, a sense of context helps. This month, The Real Deal takes a look at the big picture trends in the Manhattan residential and commercial markets.
Looking back can be sobering. If you bought an apartment in 1987 for the median price at the time -- $375,000 -- you would have had to wait until 2000, a 13-year stretch, to see a price gain.
But if you bought five years ago at the median price, your property would be worth 34 percent more today.
Prices for Harlem and other uptown neighborhoods have shot up more than 330 percent in the last decade, but even more dramatic increases can be seen in the Downtown condo market. The average price of a Chelsea condo was $162,000 ten years ago. Today, it's $1.29 million, according to Jonathan Miller, whose appraisal firm Miller Samuel provides the industry's most cited reports.
"The low mortgage rates all along are what's been fueling this real estate boom," says Miller.
With the ranks of Manhattan's real estate agents growing, more agents are competing for a piece of the commission pie. The number of sales has come down since reaching more than 9,000 annually for three out of four years from 1999 to 2002, and is now in the mid-8,000 range. Still, that's an improvement over the 1990s as whole, with the number of sales averaging around 4,500 a year for that decade.
On the commercial side, you might be patting yourself on the back if you bought an office building in Midtown in the early 1990s, but not so much if you bought Downtown. Rents have gone up 42 percent in Midtown Class A buildings since that time, but have actually declined Downtown, according to Colliers ABR.
Last month, the Federal Reserve nudged up short-term interest rates for the seventh time since June, with rising rates expected to slow home sales after a bout of frenzied buying. Still, price records continue to be set throughout Manhattan, from trophy apartments to development costs for new projects.
Where prices and rates are heading--and at what pace-- remains uncertain, but history and experience show us that it's unwise to face the future without a sense of the past.
Copyright © 2003-2005 The Real Deal.
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By Paul Tharp
June 9, 2004
Virgin's new discount airline is calling Manhattan its home because New York is the talent capital of the world.
"New York is second to none when it comes to talented people," said Bob Dana, the new airline's finance chief.
"In marketing, finance, law, human resources, administration, planning in everything this is the place you'll find the best," he said.
British tycoon Richard Branson's Virgin Group already operates a successful global airline, Virgin Atlantic, but decided that New York should be the headquarters for its new discount airline, which will launch next year to serve U.S. destinations.
The new airline, whose name will be revealed in coming weeks, will create 3,000 jobs here and elsewhere, and also set in motion the hiring of another 50,000 to 70,000 people at vendor companies, officials said.
Up to 700 will work at the Manhattan headquarters alone, adding about $67 million to the Big Apple's economy over the next 15 years.
City Hall is jubilant that the new discount carrier has picked New York for its home over contenders Boston and San Francisco, and has awarded the carrier $7.5 million in incentives and tax breaks.
The company's launch is bankrolled with as much as $150 million that will go directly into the economy.
Dana a veteran investment banker from CSFB and his colleagues are still negotiating their headquarters lease package and expect to be flying out of two airports here.
The airline's maintenance operations will be handled in San Francisco for the next few years, Dana said.
Copyright 2004 NYP Holdings, Inc
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...Oh thank you very much... :wink:Virgin's new discount airline is calling Manhattan its home because New York is the talent capital of the world.
"New York is second to none when it comes to talented people," said Bob Dana, the new airline's finance chief.
By LOIS WEISS
June 9, 2004
JOHN Jay College of Criminal Justice has signed a 10-year lease for additional space near its main campus on Tenth Avenue.
It's also moving closer to approving plans for a new, $442 million permanent home. To solve its current space issues, though, the college, City University of New York division, took on 60,000 square feet at the Related Companies' rental, the Westport, at 854 Tenth Ave., near its main campus between 58th and 59th Streets.
The school spent two years looking for and negotiating the terms.
The space will provide the college which has grown along with security concerns in the aftermath of 9/11 with more classrooms and offices on the 32,000 square-foot second floor and a private entrance on 56th Street.
Part of the 28,000-square-foot ground floor will be used for food service. A college bookstore with a mezzanine will have an entrance on Tenth Avenue.
Steven E. Baker and Jeff Winick of Winick Realty Group represented both the Related Companies and the City University of New York. Bruce Beal handled the in-house work for Related, which was asking $45 per square foot for the ground floor retail and $30 for the second floor.
Today, the college's board of trustees will review a design for its future, more permanent quarters with the full board expected to approve the final Skidmore Ownings Merrill designs at the end of the month.
The $442 million, 612,180 square-foot structure will replace North Hall and an existing parking garage.
The budget includes site acquisition, demolition, design, construction, management, fixtures, furniture and equipment. Construction alone is $238.7 million.
The architects have designed two buildings known as the Podium and the Cube that can eventually be expanded.
The Podium will become the 57th Street mid-block public entrance and lead into a series of pedestrian escalators, elevators and passageways to high volume classrooms and activities.
Its football field-sized roof will become an outdoor commons and gathering space, connecting the new building with the existing Haaren Hall.
The nine-floor Cube will rise from the northwest corner of the Podium roof and house faculty and student dining facilities, academic departments and learning centers.
To ensure justice is not blind but also transparent, a Moot Court on the sixth to seventh floors will have a glass outer wall and be visible from the commons and Tenth Avenue.
Copyright 2004 NYP Holdings, Inc
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New membership club in Manhattan
by Lisa Fickenscher
June 10, 2004
An exclusive membership club inspired by the SoHo House New York concept has begun recruiting key executives to help it launch in Manhattan in the next year.
The start-up has hired Mark Briskin, general manager of Times Square boutique hotel The Muse, to develop the concept, which will be called the Core Club. Mr. Briskin has been with the Muse since it opened in 2000 and begins his new job next week.
Mr. Briskin says the idea is to introduce a new hospitality brand in the city that is even "more exclusive" than the meat-packing district's trendy SoHo House, which offers facilities including a rooftop pool and movie theater, restaurant, spa and meeting rooms for a $1,100 membership fee. SoHo House also has 24 hotel rooms that are available to members for a preferential rate.
Because the concept is still in the early stages, Mr. Briskin declined to provide further details about his new employer.
Copyright 2004, Crain Communications, Inc
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You can check out renderings of the John Jay project on the SOM web site.
Unsurprisingly, being that this is by SOM, it's a shiny box.
It's not without some nice features..
What is this building for? A college? Housing?
It's a new complex being planned for John Jay College. It's expected to be on Tenth Avenue between 58th and 59th Streets.
Yeah...the complex looks amazing...Good thing for the area of modern new buildings. Thanks for those renderings.
:? Isn't that the Time Warner Towers in the background?
Yes, it is the TWC. Those towers are between 58th and 60th streets.
By PAUL THARP
June 14, 2004
Street-fashion powerhouse Ecko Unlimited is moving into a new home on the historic Ladies Mile in Chelsea complete with a basketball court for its CEO suite.
The company, whose trademark rhino grew into a symbol for young hipsters, is taking one of the biggest real estate leases in Manhattan this year.
The streetwear firm will use five floors spreading over two adjoining buildings on West 23rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, totaling 275,000 square feet, according to today's Crain's NY Business.
The company's 31-year-old founder Marc Ecko, a former graffiti artist from New Jersey, will build himself a suite large enough to accommodate a court for shooting hoops in between deal-making.
Ecko told Crain's he was looking for space just a third the size of the new digs, but jumped on the bigger deal when he realized how sales projections were soaring.
The 10-year-old company, with sales of about $500 million, expects revenue to double from its lines, including skateboard wear, rapper clothing and a women's line.
The new space will also have kitchens, so staffers can fix their own meals, as well as gaming rooms and space for skateboard testing. Ecko will pay an estimated $9.5 million a year, or about $35 a square foot, for the space.
Ecko is consolidating its current six locations in the garment district and its original New Jersey space into the new space, which the staff will renovate on its own to reflect its youthful style.
The building won't be hard to find. In the coming months, Home Depot will be moving into two floors on street level for the chain's first Manhattan store.
Copyright 2004 NYP Holdings, Inc.
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CBRE Reports Strong Office Leasing in May
With 1.16 million sq. ft. in leasing, Midtown continued to see brisk activity in May - the seventh consecutive month with velocity exceeding one million sq. ft. For the year to date, leasing exceeded activity during the same period last year by 65%. Meanwhile, Midtown availability continued to tighten.
Last month, deals were done at 84.4% of asking rents, based on a 6-month rolling average.
Top Midtown Leases:
* Dreyfus Corporation's renewal and expansion for 372,000 sq. ft. at 200
Park Avenue
* Rodale Press, Inc.'s lease for 114,000 sq. ft. at 733 Third Avenue
Leasing in Midtown South in May increased 47% over the previous month's activity. However, with negative net absorption of 197,000 sq. ft. in May, absorption for the year to date moved slightly into negative territory. Meanwhile, pricing remained stable, increasing $0.13 in May to $31.88 per sq. ft.
Last month, deals were done at 84.9% of asking rents, based on a 6-month rolling average.
Top Midtown South Leases:
* Federated Department Stores' lease for 52,000 sq. ft. at 11 Penn Plaza
* Automatic Data Processing's lease for 32,000 sq. ft. at 1 Penn Plaza
Downtown leasing in May was more than double the activity during the previous month. For the first five months of 2004, velocity exceeded the year-earlier performance by 18%. Pricing was unchanged from the previous month, while availability tightened slightly by 0.1 point. Absorption for the month remained positive.
Last month, deals were done at 83.2% of asking rents, based on a 6-month rolling average.
Top Downtown Leases:
* New York State Department of Transportation's lease for 34,000 sq. ft. at 199 Water Street
* Port Authority of New York & New Jersey's lease for 19,000 sq. ft. at 115 Broadway
** This Office Market Snapshot reflects market activity through June 1,
2004. These are preliminary figures on the New York City office market.
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Thanks Lorene Sasson for sharing two of your holiday tables with us! I love the holiday colors and themes that you chose! Now I'm ready for summer! Marlene
Hi Marlene!
The first night of Shavuot I went for the summer/ocean/colorful look, and for the second night, I went for a garden feel. I actually bought the mirrors and the silver chargers from Amazing Savings. The napkins and rings are from Bed Bath and Beyond.
I also used shower gifts from 6 years ago. The silverware was a gift from my sister, as well as the dishes and stemware. I love making the holiday by me because I can use the items that are really special to me.
I was going to go thru with the whole summer/oceanside feel- but then I saw the flowers at the shop stuffed together and i love COLOR and at the last minute my whole table changed. but to stay true to my original theme, I threw in some ocean glass.
The second night- I bought new dishes from home goods (Mikasa Cherry Blossom) and I already had cherry blossom branches that I have never known what do do with EVER so i put them away. I decided to bring them out of the closet and add them to the table with my new dishes.
The table runner is Lenox. The pewter dragonfly/butterfly plates were a gift from my mother who was not here for the holiday this year, so it gave me the chance to make the nights by me. I cant wait to show her the pictures,I know she'll love them!
I am very pleased with this table because everything really fell together nicely in the garden theme.
Thanks Marlene, and Shabat Shalom!!
Lorene Sasson
First Shavuot Night- Seaside Inspired
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