![]() This haunting Swedish Danish silent film is part historical survey of medieval witchcraft and witch hunts, part dramatic re-creations thereof. Wouldst thou like to watch deliciously? Häxan (1922) But all are strange, surprising, and at least a little dangerous. Like witches themselves, these movies resist easy classification: Here you’ll find selections from horror and comedy, as well as entries that blend or defy both genres. For that, we kindly direct your attention to the rest of pop culture.)īelow, Vulture makes the case for the 21 best witch flicks ever made. (No disrespect to the wizards and witches of Hogwarts, but you’ll find this is a Harry Potter–free zone. Whether you’re into the fun-for-all-ages allure of Hocus Pocus (and its sequel, now on Disney+) or the blood-spewing charms of Black Sunday, somewhere out there is a pointy hat and broomstick that’ll fit you just right. What makes witch movies so fascinating as a collection, though, is their wide variety of tones and messages. #PCON PLANNER PRO MOVIE#Isn’t it high time that the witches of cinema also get the acclaim they deserve? A great witch movie is inherently compelling because it’s driven by a person - a woman, usually - who refuses to behave the way that society demands. #PCON PLANNER PRO SERIAL#If you’re a horror-movie aficionado, you’ve seen more vampires, werewolves, zombies, and serial killers than you could shake a stick, stake, silver bullet, or arrest warrant at. We’ve added more movies and we’re republishing in honor of Hocus Pocus 2. This list was originally published in 2017 as part of Vulture’s Witch Week. In the browser, you will see a list of the current and pending render jobs.Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photos Courtesy of the Studios and Getty Images #PCON PLANNER PRO WINDOWS#Note: If you accidently close the browser window, you can reopen it using the Windows task bar. Here, you can see the progress of your image calculation and can manage your render jobs. Generate a compressed video from the single frames: Open the first frame of the animation in Avidemux, set output profile (codec etc.) and save video.Ī new tab will open in your standard browser. Save the single frames (single images) to a local directory.ĩ. Batch Rendering calculates the single images of the animation.Ĩ. Click the Export b utton and then click on Export. If needed, insert a logo to your animation.Ħ. Make your settings for the rendering in the Video dialog or select a profile.ĥ. Select the animation that you want to render.Ĥ. Open the Video dialog ( Presentation tab)Ģ. For the creation of a compressed video from these images and for the editing of your video we recommend Avidemux. The image calculation will start in the background.īatch rendering can calculate the individual images of an animation from the anner. A render job will be created for your exported views and cameras. Using your mouse, select the cameras and views that you would like to render as photorealistic images.Ĩ. Click on the Export button and select Export. If needed, insert a logo to your image.Ħ. Determine the settings for the rendering in the Image dialog or select a profile.ĥ. In the Image dialog, set OSPRay as the renderer.ģ. Open the Image dialog ( Presentation tab)Ģ. To make the object invisible in the image, you must hide it globally: Do this either in the Start tab, Visibility group Layer Filter : All or in the Layer Dialog.ġ. If you have hidden an object in a single viewport, it will still be displayed in the rendered image. Batch rendering uses the global visibility settings. ![]()
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He’s also created events for Jennifer Lopez, Elton John, the Rolling Stones, Al Gore and Tommy Hilfiger.įrom our media partner EDGE Jason St.For the last 50 years, the Book Review has chosen the best illustrated books of the year in its Children's Books issue. He’s planned a number of celebrity weddings, including ceremonies for Star Jones and Shannen Dorhety. Tutera, the author of seven books, has hosted "My Fair Wedding" since it began in 2008. #THE GNU AND THE GURU GO BEHIND THE BEYOND PROFESSIONAL#I am saddened by these developments I am angered by the lies and I am committed to moving beyond this painful moment to focus on my professional commitments and the upcoming birth of my children." I believe them to be fabrications of a desperate individual in order to gain a legal advantage in our separation. In a response to the Huffington Post, he said, "The allegations against me are baseless and untrue and I will fight vigorously to defend my reputation in the court of law as well as the court of public opinion. Tutera isn’t taking the allegations lightly, however. #THE GNU AND THE GURU GO BEHIND THE BEYOND FULL#" has engaged in a pattern of hiring sex escorts and prostitutes to support his addiction." The documents also state Jurica is also asking for full custody plus financial support. "After repeated attempts at marriage counseling and therapy, we have been unable to save our relationship due to addiction to sex," a section of the documents filed by Jurica reads. TMZ reports that Jurica filed his own papers in Connecticut, which claim that Tutera has a sex addiction and frequents prostitutes. The wedding planner does not want to pay spousal support and wants Jurica to pay for the legal fees related to their pending divorce and division of shared property.īut Jurica has a different (and more exciting) take on the split up. 1, 2013 and Tutera is seeking full custody of the twins the couple is expecting via surrogate this July. On April 19, Tutera filed divorce papers in Los Angeles Superior Court and citied "irreconcilable differences," People points out. They legally married in Vermont in 2003 and have a domestic partnership in California where they reside. Tutera is currently in the process of divorcing his husband, Ryan Jurica. As People magazine reports, the host of WE TV’s "My Fair Wedding," is battling allegations made by his soon-to-be ex-husband that he is a sex addict and frequents prostitutes. 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This is primarily a tracking issue for myself with the intent to add packages not yet included from PortableApps, make sure they use static installer links, ensure the right installer types are being used, and include as much information possible in the manifests (such as descriptions, tags, cli names, etc.). ![]() ![]() It seems that our plugin's Spring initialization is getting invoked while Confluence still holds a lock on some part of the plugin table. We initially discovered what appears to be the same issue when developing one of our own plugins, which may shed some additional light on the problem. 11:52:40,333 INFO notifyPluginDisabled Disabling .plm-plugin-installer 11:52:35,490 ERROR execute Could not synchronize database state with session referer: http: //172.16.16.10:8090/confluence/plugins/servlet/upm | url: /confluence/ rest/plugins/1.0/upgrades/all | userName: scott 11:52:35,488 ERROR logExceptions Lock wait timeout exceeded try restarting transaction 11:51:43,337 INFO notifyPluginDisabled Disabling .plm-plugin 11:51:43,336 INFO disableDependentPlugins Found dependent enabled plugins for uninstalled plugin '.plm-plugin'. Keep transactions as short as possible.ĭiscover more about our expertise in SQL Server.11:51:39,838 INFO notifyPluginDisabled Disabling.Don’t schedule long data updating processes to run concurrently, if possible. #DEADLOCK DATABASE UPDATE#Access objects always in the same order (i.e.: update Table1, Table2 and Table3 rather than sometimes Table2 first).If you use nested transactions, be sure there are no commit or rollback conflicts.Make sure that UPDATE and DELETE statements use an existing index.With SQL Server, you can use “bound connections” to control the execution sequence of the shorter transactions. Break long transactions up into many shorter transactions.For example, instead of inserting all rows from one table to another all at once, put a single INSERT statement in a loop and insert one row at a time. Avoid high row count SQL statements that can cause a table lock.Use clustered indexes on high-usage tables.“There are a few design strategies that can reduce the occurrence of blocking locks and deadlocks: Some of the strategies are described here: #DEADLOCK DATABASE MANUAL#Deadlocks are resolved by SQL Server and do not need manual intervention. This article explains how SQL Server detects and resolves deadlocks: Deadlocks are considered a critical situation in the database world because processes are just being automatically killed. #DEADLOCK DATABASE CODE#The victim process receives a very specific error message indicating that it was chosen as a deadlock victim and therefore the process can be restarted via code based on that error message. For that reason, SQL Server has a deadlock detection and resolution mechanism where one process needs to be chosen as the “deadlock victim” and killed so that the other process can continue working. In a deadlock situation, the processes are already blocking each other so there needs to be an external intervention to resolve the deadlock. In a simplified way, the deadlock would look like this: In these extreme situations, the blocking process may need to be killed and/or redesigned.ĭeadlock occurs when one process is blocked and waiting for a second process to complete its work and release locks, while the second process at the same time is blocked and waiting for the first process to release the lock. if the blocking process did not complete the transaction properly) or may take a long time to complete. But if blocking locks are common (rather than infrequent), there is probably some kind of design or query implementation problem and the blocking may simply be causing performance issues.Ī blocking situation may NOT be resolved by itself (i.e. In a normal server environment, infrequent blocking locks are acceptable. The blocking chain is like a queue: once the blocking process is complete, the next processes can continue. As soon as the first process is complete, the blocked process resumes operation. Locking is the mechanism that SQL Server uses in order to protect data integrity during transactions.īlock (or blocking lock) occurs when two processes need access to same piece of data concurrently so one process locks the data and the other one needs to wait for the other one to complete and release the lock. If we update the data, we need to ensure no other process is updating it at the same time, etc. By locking the piece of data we ensure that we are able to action on that data the way we expect.įor example, if we read the data, we usually like to ensure that we read the latest data. Lock is acquired when any process accesses a piece of data where there is a chance that another concurrent process will need this piece of data as well at the same time. There is a big difference between the three and it will explained at a high level in this post: We are often being paged by development teams talking about locks, blocks or deadlocks and some people make the wrong use of the terms. ![]() ![]() Apple gave its new mouse multi-touch capabilities, but only takes advantage of a fraction of what it can do. Thanks vladalexa MagicPrefs, a developer from Romania, for the final decision on the 70 purchase )steve (. Tracking Speed adds the ability to increase the maximum mouse speed by an extra 200%.Īlso featured is a real-time display of the fingers touching the surface of the mouse that you can enable to test and monitor the way the mouse sees your input. A new third-party program called MagicPrefs, enables all the multi-touch capabilities you could ever want for the device - and even some you likely don’t. Apple hasnt even bothered to work it out in their own OS yet. Touch Sensitivity implements a single point control for a number of factors impacting the algorithms of the taps, swipes, pinch and other gestures. It features the ability to bind a variable number of finger clicks, taps, swipes, pinch and other gestures to functions like Middle Click, Hold Down Both Mouse Buttons, Spaces, Expose, Dashboard, Recent Applications, Tweet, Read Tweets, Google Reader etc. #Magicprefs apple freeMagicPrefs is a free application for OS X which aims to improve the functionality and configuration options of the Apple Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad and the MacBook glass trackpad. TLDR if it doesn't work anymore thats it, if it still works then its just a matter of time until it won't. No audio product purchase necessary for current owners of eligible devices. Offer good for 3 months after eligible device pairing. Apple is not likely to replace the deprecated Api's nor provide access to the underlying multitouch technology so that's the end of the line for MagicPrefs and similar software. Offer available for a limited time to new subscribers who connect an eligible device to an Apple device running iOS 15 or iPadOS 15 or later. MagicPrefs is more than 5 years old now and is no longer mantained, the functionality it provided was made possible by Api's that are now deprecated and reverse engineered private Apple frameworks. ![]() ![]()
While it may not be as focused on gaming as Nzxt CAM is, it’s ideal for monitoring system hardware performance and temperature. Open Hardware Monitor was developed in 2010. Here’s a noteworthy free Nzxt CAM alternative on our list. #Windows version of istat menus softwareThe software is compatible with 64-bit and 32-bit Windows PCs running on XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 10 versions.Ĭheck Out: Best FreeNas Alternatives 4. While Nzxt CAM works on Windows, Android, and iOS, Speccy can be installed only on Windows computers. Speccy’s major disadvantage is compatibility. You can share the exported data to a new PC to compare its performance or use it for issue diagnosis. You can save them as snapshots or export them as text or XML files. This feature allows you to save and export your PC insights. When it comes to in-depth PC performance monitoring, you can rely on Speccy more than Nzxt CAM.Ī unique feature of Speccy is the snapshot. Hence, you can spot possible problems and fix them before they happen. You can’t do that with Speccy, but the software displays real-time temperatures of those components. Nzxt CAM allows you to customize the behavior of some of your PC specs like the lighting and fan. Unfortunately, Speccy doesn’t feature visualized data like Nzxt CAM but the reports you get are well detailed. These data are featured in different sections in the interface, but you can get a rundown of everything from the summary section. This includes insights on your operating system, CPU, RAM, storage, graphics, and motherboard. With Speccy, you get almost the same insights you get with Nzxt CAM. #Windows version of istat menus proYou only get advanced PC insights with the free version, while you can get automatic updates and premium support with the Speccy pro version. However, there’s a pro version available that lets you discover more specs. It is a free Nzxt CAM alternative that works very fast. Owned by CCleaner, Speccy is software that helps you find your computer’s specifications. However, there are not many customization options on GPU-Z as there are on Nzxt CAM. With this, setting up GPU-Z is a lot easier than setting up Nzxt CAM. However, it features an optional installer. #Windows version of istat menus installYou don’t have to install GPU-Z before using it. Plus, it can back up the BIOS of a system’s graphics card. The software will run on NVIDIA, AMD, ATI, and Intel graphics devices. It also displays information about the sensors. #Windows version of istat menus driverThe GPU-Z software displays information about the graphics card GPU, technology, memory type, memory size, driver version, transistors, bus interface, and more. In fact, the developers of CPU-Z granted TechPowerUp permission to use such a name. As you’ve noticed, this software has a similar name to the former Nzxt CAM alternative. You don’t pay to use Nzxt CAM and you don’t pay to use GPU-Z either. With these, it’s an ideal PC monitoring software for gamers just like Nzxt CAM. More specifically, GPU-Z works for monitoring information about a computer’s graphics processor and video card. This is a lightweight software from TechPowerUp for monitoring vital system information. Intel Pentium overdrive. Nzxt CAM offers better customer support and resources to customers CPU-Z only features a contact form.Īlso Read: Best SpeedTest Alternatives 2. Notably, this Nzxt CAM alternative has a vintage edition that supports SPM memory and #Windows version of istat menus androidOn Android and iOS, the CPU-Z app is compatible with recent software versions. For PC, you can use CPU on Windows PCs from version 95 to the recent versions. On mobile, everything you need is featured on the Home Screen, you just need to tap to view the data you want.ĬPU-Z is available for Windows, Android, and iOS devices just as Nzxt CAM. On PC, the software is compatible with several function keys which work as shortcuts. Installation is straightforward and you just need to launch the software for it to start working. Nevertheless, even if the user interface on desktops isn’t friendly, getting the performance and monitoring data you need isn’t difficult. On mobile, the user interface is friendly with modern graphics and ideal colors. Hence, it’s not user-friendly compared to Nzxt CAM. The CPU-Z interface on the desktop is proprietary. This includes details such as IP address, free disk space, CPU real-time usage, etc. On mobile devices, CPU-Z monitors the CPU, battery, storage, cell, and network performance. The information provided is in-depth and generated in real-time. With CPU-Z, you can detect and monitor your processor, mainboard, chipset, memory, and vital internal frequencies. It’s a free software that delivers information about your computer. Developed by CPUID, CPU-Z is the number one alternative tool to CAM by Nzxt. ![]() |
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