Installing GNUStep on FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE

 

 

Installing GNUStep in FreeBSD 15.0 RELEASE 

Installing FreeBSD ports

For installing the required ports at first update the ports tree. Us can use portmaster or pkg.

As user root do a:

# portsnap fetch extract update

# cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster && make install clean

# portsnap fetch update

# pkg version -l "<"

# portmaster -L 

# portmaster -a

# portmaster -af

(if some port fails) on a regular basis.

Install bash as root do:

# pkg install bash

# pkg install xorg

# pkg install gnustep

Installing the Virtual Box Guest Additions port

see: http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox#Installing_Guest_Additions_for_FreeBSD_guests

as root:

# pkg install virtualbox-ose-additions

pw groupmod wheel -m gnustep

 vboxguest_enable="YES"
 vboxservice_enable="YES"

 hald_enable="YES"
 dbus_enable="YES"

Reboot or start both services by hand:

 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dbus start
 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald start

Installing the Window Maker port as root:

 # pkg install windowmaker

enabling Window Maker

 #!/bin/sh
 exec wmaker

Installing GNUstep from FreeBSD ports into the System Domain

Installing the necessary tools

 # pkg install subversion

 # pkg install sudo

 # visudo

 # %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

Installing the GNUstep libraries and framewoks

I've chosen the way of installing the GNUstep ports into the System domain so I don't need to look after the right dependencies for myself but let the FreeBSD's port system handle this.

see also: http://etoileos.com/downloads/installtrunk/freebsd/

Installing the Objective-C 2 runtime as root:

 # pkg install libobjc2

 # pkg install gnustep-make

 # pkg install gnustep-base

 # pkg install gnustep-gui

 # pkg install gnustep-back

GNUstep examples are a collection of simple GNUstep apps to guide you into developing for GNUstep.

see: http://www.gnustep.org/experience/examples.html

 # portmaster misc/gnustep-examples

 # portmaster deskutils/systempreferences

 # portmaster deskutils/gworkspace

 # portmaster x11/terminal.app

 # portmaster devel/projectcenter

# portmaster devel/gorm

 $ echo . /usr/local/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh >> ~/.profile
 $ echo gdnc >> ~/.profile

 # echo source /usr/local/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles/GNUstep.csh >> ~/.cshrc
 # echo gdnc >> ~/.cshrc

as root and as gnustep, edit the .xinitrc file:

 $ vi ~/.xinitrc

 #!/bin/sh

. /usr/local/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh
 

exec wmaker 

exec openapp Workspace
 

 $ startx

 $ mkdir GNUstep-sources
 $ cd GNUstep-sources/

 $ svn co svn://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/trunk .

Building libobjc2 (GNUstep Objective-C 2.0 runtime) from source

 $ cd ~/GNUstep-sources/modules/dev-libs/libobjc2/

 $ CC=clang CXX=clang++ make
 $ sudo -E make install

 $ mkdir Build
 $ cd Build/
 $ cmake .. -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang -DCMKAE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++
 $ make && sudo -E make install

Building GNUstep make from source

 $ cd ~/GNUstep-sources/modules/core/make/
 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/GNUstep --with-config-file=/usr/local/GNUstep/GNUstep-trunk.conf --enable-objc-nonfragile-abi --enable-native-objc-exceptions --with-layout=gnustep --enable-debug-by-default CC=clang CXX=clang++
 $ sudo -E gmake GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DOMAIN=LOCAL install

Don't forget to source GNUstep.sh and make sure this is done on every login:

 $ . /System/Library/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh
 $ echo . /System/Library/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh >> ~/.profile

Building GNUstep base from source

 $ cd ~/GNUstep-sources/modules/core/base/
 $ ./configure --disable-mixedabi CC=clang CXX=clang++
 $ gmake && sudo -E gmake GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DOMAIN=LOCAL install

Building GNUstep gui from source

 $ cd ~/GNUstep-sources/modules/core/gui/
 $ gmake && sudo -E gmake GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DOMAIN=LOCAL install

Building GNUstep back from source

 $ cd ~/GNUstep-sources/modules/core/back/
 $ gmake -j 8 && sudo -E gmake GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DOMAIN=LOCAL install

Building GNUstep examples

 $ cd ~/GNUstep-sources/modules/usr-apps/examples/
 $ gmake -j 8 && sudo -E gmake GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DOMAIN=LOCAL install

 $ su -
 # portmaster databases/postgresql94-server

 # portmaster databases/postgresql-odbc

 # echo postgresql_enable=\"YES\" >> /etc/rc.conf
 # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql initdb
 # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql start

 $ cd ~/GNUstep-sources/modules/dev-libs/renaissance/
 $ gmake -j 8 && sudo -E gmake GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DOMAIN=LOCAL install

 $ cd ~/GNUstep-sources/modules/dev-libs/gdl2/
 $ ./configure CC=clang CXX=clang++
 $ gmake -j 8 && sudo -E gmake GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DOMAIN=LOCAL install

 $ cd ~/GNUstep-sources/modules/dev-apps/projectcenter/
 $ gmake -j 8 && sudo -E gmake GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DOMAIN=LOCAL install

 $ cd ~/GNUstep-sources/modules/dev-apps/gorm/
 $ gmake -j 8 && sudo -E gmake GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DOMAIN=LOCAL install

That's it for now. 

Have fun developing with and for GNUstep!

ACH Payment Instructions

 Using Your Bank’s Website

The first way to send an ACH payment is using your bank’s website. The challenge when using your bank’s interface is making sure that you’re entering the right data into the right field because the fields don’t always follow the same order as above.

You’ll need to pay special attention to where to put the unique “Identification Number” that E-File gives you for every payment. It must go in the ID field for the receiver/payee. This field is called different names in different systems. For example, in JP Morgan’s system, the field is called “Beneficiary ID Number” while in Bank of America’s CashPro system the field is called the “Vendor ID” field.

Using Your Accounting System

The second way to send an ACH payments is to enter data into your accounting system. This creates a file in the NACHA format that is transmitted to your bank.

The Identification Number must be put in the NACHA standard for “Entry Detail Record Type Code 6, Field Number 7 – Identification Number.” You may have to get your IT department to identify a specific field in your accounting system that will store the Identification Number and they may also have to update the system to include this number in the right field. If the Identification Number is in the wrong field, your ACH transfer will be rejected.

We recommend dedicating sufficient time to setup this new process as this could take more time than you think, depending on your system.

Tips for Success

• Find out now which field is the correct field for the Identification Number. This could take time if you need to work with your bank or IT department.
• You must include the unique Identification Number for your payment and put it in the correct field or the U.S. Treasury will reject your payment.
• Do not put the Identification Number in the addendum or comments.
• Your bank or your company may require more information to make a transfer, such as USAC’s Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN). We’ve posted this information in the E-File FAQs, under “Company and Banking Information.” Contact us if you need other information to process a payment.
• Your ACH payment may seem like it processed correctly at first. It can take several days before you receive a rejection notice if your file didn’t contain the required data in the required format.
• Lastly, we recommend you process small ACH payments (such as $1.00) to test this process before the next invoice deadline. All payments will be credited to your account.

2026 Home Network

In 2024-2025 I began home networking again here is what I accomplished.

Here is my Setup

    2 Computers on 2024 Mac Pro, One Elite Desk Hewlett Packard 2020 running Microsoft Windows 2019 Enterprise LTSC, LG Smart TV connected to a Comcast Enterprise Cable Modem. via Category 5 Ethernet cable. Sony PlayStation 5,  Microsoft Xbox X Series. Nintendo Switch and Switch 2. with about 30 games and 75 movies on Blu-ray. A 50 Terabyte Enclosure. with a Universal Sony Disc Player. The Consoles are connected to a HDMI Switch connected to the Klisph home theater. Biometic Fingerprint reader, and a Bluetooth Logi tech Webcam. LP Record Player. Kodak Pro Camera and JVC Video Capture Equipment and a Xerox Laser Jet Printer and USB Hub and peripherals. I'm connecting a Digital Storm Windows Server to the network in 2026. 100TB Orico Enclosure to hot swap the drives. Final Cut Pro, Virtual Box, Coral Draw Suite with Licensed Macromedia Flash Source Code now in the Computer History Museum. Matlab 

    I made my own personal Virtual Machine Cluster of Computer History Operating Systems from AT&T System V to Windows Server 2025 about 12 VM's with Source Code and Microsoft Code Center Premium.

     I make UNIX-Like Operating Systems with the Common Desktop Environment and other Desktop Environments. VAX and Digital Corp Programming Environments from Bitsavers. OpenVMS for VAX source.  However I found it. Reading the Longhorn Migration Guide Build 4074 With new Longhorn reset layout and Vista XAML Windows with the WPF Toolkit Plus, MSDN Magazines SideBar Source Code and the Longhorn Transformation pack, Reading Disecting a C# Application and building SharpDevelop Wrox Edtion, and using ILSpy and Global Assembly Cache de-compilation of .NET Assemblies for my own Vista Transparency Center and reading the Windows Internals Supplement Series for next year’s Imagine Cup. Registered for 2026.

    Made Windows NT 3.5/4.0/XP/2003 Source Code Build Server in a Windows XP 32-bit Virtual Box 1.5 Terabytes VHD with Longhorn PDC 2003 VHD mount and Microsoft MVP. Using Interix Services for UNIX, NetBSD 2.0, SCO, Solaris FOSS Program, Red Hat Linux 8.5 Source, AIX, AIX Toolbox, HP-UX and the Open-Source Tru-64 UNIX, OSF 1.0, Sourceware, and DECUS Windows XP OPK. OPK Training Courses the MSDN Library 2005 with UNIX Migration Guide, Windows XP UX Guidelines, Windows Research Kernel with Virtual Labs. Adobe CS2, ZAM3D, Swift 3D, Windows XP Embedded and Feature Pack. Microsoft Office XP Pro for PowerPoint. Visual C++ 4.2, 6.0, Visual Studio 2002, 2003, 2005 and Team Foundation Server 2005 for work groups Visual Studio 2008 Team System Oracle Tuxedo for middleware and 2010 Ultimate and the Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure. With Active State Perl 5.6 XP/2003 Platform SDK's and DDKs. Windows CE 6.0 with book and Training Courses and Code Plex.

    My 1983 Nintendo's back  the NES and SNES Mini's with HDMI the N64 with SDK's and Operating Environments with Konami Code. Game Cube XENO Chip MOD with all the Game Cube ISO's with a SWISS  and a Mac G4 Cube PowerPC and XBox original Operating System source.

    My 2024 Mac Pro M4 Silicon Chip with Macports, The Andrew Project, GNU, GNUStep, Mach 3 Kernel, Gershwin, BeOS, GNOME, QuickTime Source Code, Apache. Windowmaker, and building FreeBSD on Non-FreeBSD. The AI Repository from CMU. Made a 4.6 terabyte source initiative on a 8 tb laCie

    Nullsoft DJ Software, Cycling 74 Max with Planet CCARMA and a Ableton licensed PX-18 Source Code Gaming Console SDK's, Operating Systems and Development Kits. MSDN Subscription from 1999-2019. Recently bought Office 2024 LTSC, Visual Studio 2026 Enterprise. Windows 10 IoT 2021 Enterprise LTSC. Steinberg Cubase connected to 2 Yamaha Studio Monitors to a Creative Audigy Soudblaster. One Epiphone Les Paul Standard with Princeton Fender Amp and one AKAI 49 Key MIDI Controller and a Avid MBox Studio.

$10K pre investment assistance grant  and ONADA Forex trading.

Quickbooks 2025 Enterprise for COCOMO II inventory reporting and owners draws from M&A Share holders equity starting from 1982.  

The software running are :

Cornell University's Bio HPC from Microsoft Research.

The price or cost is about $45K from Direct and Amazon. 

Morrell Music and Builders First Source Cutris Morrell, Kelly Curtis, and my father were promoter for 8 shows. Including my graduation show in 2013.

Guns N' Roses

My Aunt McGuiness attended the 1988 Aerosmith show and brought back a autograph

• The Ritz, NYC (May 16, 1991)

Pearl Jam

• Thompson-Boling Arena - Knoxville, Tennssesse, Sept 06, 1998 [attended]
• Assembly Hall, Champaign - IL - April 23rd 2003
• Wachovia Spectrum - Philadelphia, PA, USA 2009
• Copps Coliseum - Hamilton, ON, Canada 2011
• John Paul Jones Arena - Charlottesville, VA October 29th 2013
• Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA North American Tour 2016
• First Ontario Centre, Hamilton, ON, Canada 2022
• Lenovo Center, Raleigh, NC, USA 2025

In 2016 I tested as a INTJ-T. In 2026 I'm attending the Anne Hathaway premieres of a few movies.  I asked her to marry me if I'm rejected for real only copy of the HIV Cure will be destroyed. I'm starting to think if computing industry is all mental health because the only celebrity that answered me on Twitter or X was Anne Hathaway the Actress with a verified social media check. I'm beginning to read the Virginia and California Consumer Privacy law. I paid for her FBI Movie.

I applied to Stanford University to the Graduate School of Mathematics for 2027 admissions. I was denied admissions but told I had a very impressive resume. That I just applied too late. convergent UVa computer science graduate in 2018. I'm starting on ARM computer architecture for 2026. I'm looking for one book in 2026 and investing the rest of my income a VAX to ARM Book to port DEC to ARM.

I built a home studio its registered a Dissident Studios in town. 

What did IBM say? "How much room do you need?" and keep it that way! 

I would like to thank Mr. Rose for the Terminator show in 91' that mentions Izzy's lisp like mine. 

My theory of a cousin in the Actress Anne Hathaway is a beautiful and talented actress. However she needs to understand I did test in the top 2% percentile and don't deserve to be abused by psychiatry and its her choice if she wants to learn computer science. I am related the Charles Darwin. I did get corporate endorsements that made me a celebrity according to personality law. I want her to make a Darwin masterpiece but with me in it. Maybe a small cameo I didn't take acting lessons.

I side with Charles Darwin's Conversions with Mr. Hooker. However immutable presumptions need to to be adaptive. I and making my father's home a 501 organization because I don't believe in taking money from the aging population and money demand.  I just don't want to adapt to a changing world in 2029. I side with China. In WWIII as war breaks out over Taiwan. I dream of a simplified Chinese wedding not traditional and bringing castles to America not skyscrapers and am well read in Thomas More's Utopia.

I do not support postmodernism a late 20th-century movement (roughly post-1940s/70s) that arose as a skeptical reaction against modernism and Western philosophical, scientific, and cultural norms

The cash supply isn't backed by gold anymore. My family did not support Nixon. I received the Pell grant for one year but then used a personal account on record. It is the upper class and my family that was robbed maybe by postmodernism and the lose of the the gold standard. I don't support the deceleration of independence. I do no support the colonization of mars as terraforming is impossible on mars. 

The Castle may like Microsoft's Software Assurance.  5 or more devices.

Code View for MS-DOS 6.22

I'm learning Code View for MS-DOS 6.22 and making a Virtual Appliance for sale The appliance will contain Code View MS-DOS 6.22 Source and the MKS-Toolkit

Why Windows 2000 and XP Virtual Machines in Vitrual Box are running slow or have a black screen on Windows 10

 So, I have changed settings of machine to 1 CPU and 3.5GB RAM
than did:
- memory integrity off
- DeviceGuard via gpedit - off
- regedit - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceGuard\Scenarios\SystemGuard - all "0" values
- bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off
- shutdown -s -t 2

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=110203

Alias

In Windows XP/2003 Source Kit after you open a razzle window you just need to execute 'alias' and navigate to the project window and build the specified project. with the build utility.

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Get instant Access to Carleton's latest updated NO DOWN PAYMENT profit producing system. This PROVEN "how to" step-by-step system shows you exactly WHAT to do and HOW to do it. It contains everything you'll need to become a successful real estate investor.

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I bought Charlton Sheet's No Down Payment Program in 2003 and paid $400 they gave me vouchers not good for cash but good for real real estate  I have $2 million in vouchers I'm on Section-8 housing until my dad passes. I would like a new home if the east coast would listen to me and California.

Debate Bill Gates and Charlton Sheets

https://www.mcspotlight.org/debate/workers/messages/2521.html

 

Build your own SPARC workstation with QEMU and Solaris

"Back in the late 80s and through the 90s, Unix workstations were super powerful, super cool, and super expensive. If you were making 3D graphics or developing applications, you wanted a high-performance workstation and Sun made some of the best ones. But unless you worked for a huge company, university, or government, they were probably too expensive.

More than twenty years later, we have much more powerful and affordable computers, so let's emulate the old systems and see what it was like to run some of the coolest computers you could buy in the 90s".

https://learn.adafruit.com/build-your-own-sparc-with-qemu-and-solaris?view=all

Installing X-Windows and Motif

#pkg install xorg

#pkg install open-motif

#pkg install xlm 

#pkg install xdm 

#pkg install drm-515-kmod 

#kldload i915kms

$ echo "mwm" > ~/.xinitrc
$ startx 

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics  

The book uses Solaris UNIX 2.5 

There are the mwm, fwm, twm fvwm95 for the Windows 95 look and

feel.. 

UNIX® Certified Products

"The Open Group UNIX standards offer the most stable, portable and cost-effective applications development environment for a wide range of platforms from mobile devices to mainframes. For end-user enterprises, procuring certified UNIX systems ensures the highest level of availability, scalability, and maintainability for those who want to focus on their business with confidence in their IT.

UNIX certification is a trusted and open system industry standard, ensuring that products conform to the most exacting criteria for portability, compatibility, and global interoperability. This enables buyers to specify UNIX conformance in procurement's, facilitates Boundary less Information Flow™, and enhances the perception of the UNIX system as a consistently stable, flexible, and reliable operating system."

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/

Xinuos Sues IBM and Red Hat for Antitrust Violations and Copyright Infringement, Alleges IBM Has Been Misleading its Investors Since 2008

 

ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands, March 31, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Xinuos, Inc., a software company headquartered in the U.S. Virgin Islands that provides commercial customers with server operating systems, today filed a copyright infringement and antitrust lawsuit against International Business Machines Corp. ("IBM") and Red Hat, Inc. ("Red Hat") in the United States District Court of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas and St. John Division. Xinuos alleges that IBM and Red Hat, using wrongfully copied software code, have engaged in additional, illegal anti-competitive misconduct to corner the billion-dollar market for Unix and Linux server operating systems. 

"While this case is about Xinuos and the theft of our intellectual property," said Sean Snyder, President and CEO of Xinuos. "It is also about market manipulation that has harmed consumers, competitors, the open-source community, and innovation itself."

According to the complaint, at their peak, Xinuos' operating systems were the most widely-used operating systems in the Unix/Linux server operating system market. Xinuos' UnixWare 7 and OpenServer 5 and 6 server operating systems were popular because they were stable, reliable, and easy to manage. Xinuos alleges that in or around this time, IBM's server operating systems were declining in popularity and new entrants to the market, such as Red Hat, were gaining market share and threatening IBM's server operating system business, its underlying business selling server hardware, as well as related software and services.

Xinuos' complaint alleges that IBM then took unlawful steps to improve its market position and safeguard its business from competition:

"First, IBM stole Xinuos' intellectual property and used that stolen property to build and sell a product to compete with Xinuos itself.  Second, stolen property in IBM's hand, IBM and Red Hat illegally agreed to divide the relevant market and use their growing market powers to victimize consumers, innovative competitors, and innovation itself.  Third, after IBM and Red Hat launched their conspiracy, IBM then acquired Red Hat to solidify and make permanent their scheme."

The complaint further alleges that IBM has been misleading its investors about its rights to use Xinuos' code for more than a decade:

"IBM has made demonstrably and materially misleading statements in securities filings about its ownership interest in the Code.  In every annual report filed with the SEC since 2008, IBM has represented that a third-party owns all of the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights, and that this third-party has waived any infringement claim against IBM.  These self-serving representations are demonstrably false and misleading to investors and potential asset purchasers."

The complaint also details IBM's and Red Hat's alleged conspiracy, summarizing it as follows:

"Thereafter, IBM and Red Hat…divided the market for enterprise clients to protect IBM's precious high-end server, software, and services business, they promoted each other's operating system products, and they granted each other special technical access and abilities that were not made generally available and from which Xinuos and others were specifically excluded.  These bad acts continue to this day."

Xinuos alleges that the IBM and Red Hat conspiracy has harmed the open-source community and specifically Xinuos' OpenServer 10 product, which is based on FreeBSD, an open-source UNIX-based operating system and alternative to Red Hat's Linux-based open-source operating system, RHEL. "By dominating the Unix/Linux server operating system market, competing open-source operating systems, like our FreeBSD-based OpenServer 10, have been pushed out of the market," said Snyder. "This prevents developers and consumers from receiving the benefits that these products have to offer."

Xinuos asserts claims under the copyright infringement provisions of 17 U.S. Code §101, the Sherman Antitrust Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Virgin Islands Antimonopoly Law, and Virgin Islands Unfair Competition and Unjust Enrichment common law. Xinuos has asked for both monetary damages and injunctive relief.

About Xinuos, Inc.

Xinuos provides commercial customers with operating systems that are reliable, dependable, and secure for mission-critical applications that demand rock-solid performance. The Xinuos general-purpose operating systems are on pace with hardware and software industry advances and are designed to power any size business that requires stability, reliability, and scalability. Learn more at www.xinuos.com.

Contact:
Simone Jackenthal
SJackenthal@tridentdmg.com
(202) 923-5296

SOURCE Xinuos

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/xinuos-sues-ibm-and-red-hat-for-antitrust-violations-and-copyright-infringement-alleges-ibm-has-been-misleading-its-investors-since-2008-301259756.html

My So-Called Code Center Priemium

I have had my Symbols since 1997 and NT 4.0 and accumulating up to Windows 10. Until the Windows Installer Service just wasn't strong enough to install all the debug symbols that you would have to retrieve it from the symbol store at Microsoft. if you have all your debug symbols you can set up a private symbol server and work with debug help to retrieve the source files from the servers using the DIA SDK and the Debug Help API. Really it is up to the partners to make a dbghelp solution if they haven't already I might have a older one in my files. If I do I'll put it on my GitHub. Corporate has a supply chain. Microsoft needs to work on their Component Source relationship. I own Sparx Systems stock from Australia. I paid for my Code Jock Suite Pro 98.

https://github.com/sharedsourceinitiative/Debugging-Code-Center-Premium

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/dbghelp/

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/dbghelp/nf-dbghelp-symgetsourcefile

 

Using SymChk

 The basic syntax for SymChk is as follows:

symchk [/r] FileNames /s SymbolPath 

FileNames specifies one or more program files whose symbols are needed. If FileNames is a directory and the /r flag is used, this directory is explored recursively, and SymChk will try to find symbols for all program files in this directory tree. SymbolPath specifies where SymChk is to search for symbols.

There are many more command-line optinos. For a full listing, see SymChk Command-Line Options.

The symbol path specified can include any number of local directories, UNC directories, or symbol servers. Local directories and UNC directories are not searched recursively. Only the specified directory and a subdirectory based on the executable's extension are searched. For example, the query

symchk thisdriver.sys /s g:\symbols 

will search g:\mysymbols and g:\mysymbols\sys.

You can specify a symbol server by using either of the following syntaxes as part of your symbol path:

srv*DownstreamStore*\\Server\Share
srv*\\Server\Share

This is very similar to using a symbol server in the debugger's symbol path. For details on this, see Using Symbol Servers and Symbol Stores.

If a downstream store is specified, SymChk will make copies of all valid symbol files found by the symbol server and place them in the downstream store. Only symbol files that are complete matches are copied downstream.

SymChk always searches the downstream store before querying the symbol server. Therefore you should be careful about using a downstream store when someone else is maintaining the symbol store. If you run SymChk once and it finds symbol files, it will copy those to the downstream store. If you then run SymChk again after these files have been altered or deleted on the symbol store, SymChk will not notice this fact, since it will find what it is looking for on the downstream store and look no further.

Note  SymChk always uses SymSrv (Symsrv.dll) as its symbol server DLL. On the other hand, the debuggers can choose a symbol server DLL other than SymSrv if one is available. (SymSrv is the symbol server included in the Debugging Tools for Windows package.)

Examples

Here are some examples. The following command searches for symbols for the program Myapp.exe:

e:\debuggers> symchk f:\myapp.exe /s f:\symbols\applications 

SYMCHK: Myapp.exe           FAILED  - Myapp.pdb is missing

SYMCHK: FAILED files = 1
SYMCHK: PASSED + IGNORED files = 0

You can try again with a different symbol path:

e:\debuggers> symchk f:\myapp.exe /s f:\symbols\newdirectory 

SYMCHK: FAILED files = 0
SYMCHK: PASSED + IGNORED files = 1

The search was successful this time. If the verbose option is not used, SymChk will only list files for which it failed to find symbols. So in this example no files were listed. You can tell that the search succeeded because there is now one file listed in the "passed" category and none in the "failed" category.

A program file is ignored if it contains no executable code. Many resource files are of this type.

If you prefer to see the file names of all program files, you can use the /v option to generate verbose output:

e:\debuggers> symchk /v f:\myapp.exe /s f:\symbols\newdirectory 

SYMCHK: MyApp.exe           PASSED

SYMCHK: FAILED files = 0
SYMCHK: PASSED + IGNORED files = 1

The following command searches for a huge number of Windows symbols in a symbol server. There are a great variety of possible error messages:

 

Taken from the MSDN Library

e:\debuggers> symchk /r c:\windows\system32 /s srv*\\manysymbols\windows

Mets fire Buck Showalter after disappointing season

NEW YORK -- For the fifth time in six years, the New York Mets are in the market for a manager.

Buck Showalter was fired Sunday after a disappointing season in which baseball's highest-spending team tumbled from contention by midsummer.

The 67-year-old Showalter said before the 2023 finale against Philadelphia that he will not return next year, and a few minutes later the Mets announced the club had decided on the change.

New York plans to introduce David Stearns as president of baseball operations on Monday, placing him above general manager Billy Eppler. Showalter's departure with a year remaining on his three-year contract clears the way for Stearns to pick the next manager.

 https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/38539509/buck-showalter-return-mets-manager-2024

IMDb Enhancement Content: User Reviews

An add-on to IMDb's Essential metadata package. Includes text of user-written reviews of movies, TV shows, and video games from IMDb's global audience of more than 200 million visitors. Content is in English.

The dataset contains the 'Most Helpful' user-written reviews as voted by IMDb's users. Each title inlucludes up to 15 reviews, with a mix of review lengths.

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Amazon Fires Producer Joel Silver From Films Starring Mark Wahlberg, Jake Gyllenhaal Over Verbal Abuse

 

"For the past few years, Joel Silver has kept a relatively low profile, his most recent credit on the little-seen “SuperFly” remake of 2018. Still, the hard-charging producer behind some of the biggest hits of the ’80s and ’90s was attempting to mount a comeback. And his prospects looked promising with a series of feature film and TV projects at Amazon that were based on Donald E. Westlake’s Parker noir crime novels.

Alas, the Silver comeback has hit a snag. Sources say Amazon has fired the polarizing Hollywood figure from at least two films — one starring Mark Wahlberg, the other Jake Gyllenhaal — for being verbally abusive to two female executives. But sources close to Silver say Amazon is retaliating against the producer after he pushed back on the studio’s calls to use artificial intelligence to finish a movie during the strike. Amid the chaos, Silver’s longtime friend Robert Downey Jr. has quietly exited one of the projects."

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/amazon-fires-producer-joel-silver-mark-wahlberg-jake-gyllenhaal-road-house-1235812510/

The real danger in Sinclair Broadcast’s ‘fake news’ scandal

 

"Over the last month, viewers in dozens of local media markets across the country began to hear impassioned warnings from their trusted local anchors about the danger mainstream media outlets and “false news” posed to democracy.

It was soon discovered that these weren’t genuine outpourings of principle or belief from the anchors, but scripted monologues mandated by their superiors, and repeated verbatim across the country. Sinclair Broadcast Group

, the single largest owner of local television stations in the United States, had sent down marching orders; these were must-runs.

Must-runs are nothing new for Sinclair station employees; they’ve been happening for ages: prepackaged stories designed to be aired over a specific period of time during local newscasts, and very often politically charged.

They’ve included mandatory daily terrorism stories, hit pieces on Hillary Clinton, and forceful denunciations of “fake news,” a term with which we are all by now deeply familiar. The past month’s word-for-word diatribes are simply the latest example of this, and notably, have finally caught public notice."

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/03/the-real-danger-in-sinclair-broadcasts-fake-news-scandal.html

https://www.prwatch.org/fakenews/tv-stations

 

Mac OS X Server 1.0

 

"Mac OS X Server 1.0 is an operating system developed by Apple, Inc. released on March 16, 1999.^[1] It was the first version of Mac OS X Server.

It was Apple's first commercial product to be derived from "Rhapsody"—an eventual replacement for the classic Mac OS derived from NeXTSTEP's architecture (acquired in 1997 as part of Apple's purchase of NeXT) and BSD-like Mach kernel. It could run applications written using the "Yellow Box" API, and featured components such as NetBoot, the QuickTime Streaming Server, components carried over from NeXTSTEP, and the "Blue Box" environment (which allows a Mac OS 8.5 session to be launched as a separate process to run legacy Mac OS software).

Mac OS X Server 1.0 was a prelude to the first consumer-oriented version of the OS—Mac OS X 10.0—which was released in 2001. It did not include the eventual Aqua user interface (instead using NeXTSTEP's Workspace Manager shell mixed with aspects of Mac OS 8's "Platinum" user interface) or Carbon API"

EOL 2022

 

Virtual Box Teleporting

"When you want to run a virtual machine, you have several hypervisors to choose from, including two of the most popular products: Oracle VirtualBox and Microsoft Hyper-V. So how do you decide which one to choose: VirtualBox or Hyper-V? Both solutions provide many features that allow you to run and manage VMs. Read the VirtualBox vs Hyper-V comparison to understand the differences between these two hypervisors and select the one that better meets your needs"

https://www.nakivo.com/blog/hyper-v-virtualbox-one-choose-infrastructure/

SQL Injection

"SQL Injection attacks (or SQLi) alter SQL queries, injecting malicious code by exploiting application vulnerabilities. 

Successful SQLi attacks allow attackers to modify database information, access sensitive data, execute admin tasks on the database, and recover files from the system. In some cases attackers can issue commands to the underlying database operating system.

The severe impact of these attacks makes it critical for developers to adopt practices that prevent SQL injection, such as parameterized queries, stored procedures, and rigorous input validation."

https://brightsec.com/blog/sql-injection-attack/

 

SQL Injection and DoSS Faternity in Azure

Microsoft handled 238 internal complaints of sexual harassment and discrimination in a “lacklustre” way, according to court documents published this week.

Between 2010 and 2016, women in technical jobs at the company lodged 108 complaints of sexual harassment, 119 complaints of gender discrimination, eight complaints of retaliation and three complaints of pregnancy discrimination.

The plaintiffs accuse the world’s largest software company of systematically denying pay rises or promotions to women and has an “exclusionary ‘boys’ club’ atmosphere” that is “rife with sexual harassment”.

At least three women reported sexual assault or rape by male co-workers, including a female intern who alleged rape by a male intern, reported the rape to the police as well as her supervisor and HR, and yet was forced to work alongside her accused rapist

 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/13/microsoft-sexual-harassment-lawsuit-lacklustre-response

 

Monster Career Builder

 

CHICAGO, Sept. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- We are excited to announce that with the completion of all customary regulatory approvals, the agreement to combine CareerBuilder and Monster is now finalized. As previously announced, the combination of CareerBuilder and Monster brings together two strong, trusted, complementary brands to create a job board with greater scale and reach. Together, both companies can more effectively capitalize on prevailing trends in the market to deliver enhanced growth.

Jeff Furman, CEO of the combined company, said: "I could not be more excited to bring these two celebrated brands together. We are able to leverage the best-in-class solutions, capabilities, and expertise from both companies to better serve both our candidates and employers and help them navigate the evolving talent marketplace."