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Nouveau Driver Comes to Kernel 2.6.33
Good news for anyone with a NVIDIA graphics card: the Nouveau driver goes into Kernel 2.6.33 and supports DRM.
Nouveau is the free driver mainly developed by Red Hat with 2D and partial 3D support for the NVIDIA graphics cards. The nv driver currently used for 2D support is fairly old and leaves most NVIDIA cards well below their full capabilities.
Nouveau developers have now appealed to have the code of about 36,000 lines taken up in Kernel version 2.6.33, which was not previously possible in that the driver was still comprised of proprietary code, albeit a very small part. The team around David Airlie and Ben Skeggs has since outsourced this part (the ctx_voodoo microcode) in firmware that can be subsequently loaded on the current GeForce 6 cards.
The driver will first land in the staging tree, which Greg Kroah-Hartman maintains, as the drm-nouveau-pony branch. It will then flow about one or two versions later into the main branch. With the inclusion into the kernel and DRM support, most distros will shortly switch to the Nouveau driver as the standard for NVIDIA cards. Up to now only Fedora had adopted the driver that had been long classified as experimental.
Source: phoronix.com.
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IMHO, the token ring is a superior protocol! It is deterministic, one could ...
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Ethernet's 40th birthday sparks reunion at PARC
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"See that man sitting in the corner--that's Danny Bobrow, an AI guru and he looks exactly the same as I recall him," said Metcalfe, who hadn't been back to PARC since 1975. "My office with the Selectric typewriter on which I wrote the Ethernet memo in 1972 was right next to his office," Metcalfe said, waiving Bobrow over to the table.
The two men embraced briefly, then talked animatedly for a few minutes. "You're looking very fit. Still playing tennis?" asked Bobrow.
"Bob was very competitive--a very strong tennis and squash player--so it was fun when I could take a squash match from him, and get a 'Wait till next time, Bobrow!' Metcalfe recalled later in an email to an EE Times reporter.
Metcalfe talks with Dan Bobrow (left) while a journalist listens.
"He hasn't changed very much since I first knew him 40+ years ago," said Bobrow, in an email exchange after the brief reunion. "He was a graduate student, and his shock of now beautiful white hair was dark, but he was feisty and sure of himself even then.
"I loved the way he would argue right back with Butler, Chuck and whoever, and he was right as at least as often as he was wrong," he said. "I don't remember his use of my typewriter, but my office was always open, so it could certainly have happened," he added.
"Danny was at BBN where they were developing the Internet a couple decades before Al Gore invented it," quipped Metcalfe to reporters after Bobrow departed.
Its always great to see and hear from the pioneers. Too bad Al Gore wasn't there to chime in.
Should also point out that the triumvirate of Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC)--remember those guys, Intel, and Xerox also had a hand in creating the 10-Mbit Ethernet standard that prevailed over the IBM token ring network and others. Funny how much history gets lost in time.
IMHO, the token ring is a superior protocol! It is deterministic, one could allocate bandwidth and priority to a given node, and many other benefits. The problem was marketing ant the greediness and over protection of IBM.
And look at the current Ethernet! Just a point-to-point, switched network, with a single point of failure.


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There was no shortage of local storylines to follow at the regional cross country meet Saturday at Boardman.
Three individuals won their respective races, two teams took first place, and five others will run at the state meet on Saturday in Hebron.
Mentor, despite lacking an individual champion or team title, had arguably the most impressive showing. Both the boys and girls teams advanced to state in the sport's toughest division. It is the fifth time in seven years the boys have made it down, and the third out of four for the girls.
Heading into their final race of the season, Mentor coach Bill Dennison, who leads both teams, says the pressure is off for the Cardinals.
"I think there is more stress at regionals," Dennison said. "If you don't finish in the top five teams or top 16 individuals, your season is over. Now that they've made it, that pressure isn't there."
Jeff Gudowicz, Matt Evans, Jared Keipert and Tommy Kolzlovich — all seniors — have each been the top runner for Mentor at various points this season. That depth, and the fact that they all consistently have times under 17 minutes, gives the Cardinals a huge advantage over most teams.
The girls have had a different path. Mentor graduated most of its team last year, leaving sophomore Kinsey Robinson as the most experienced varsity runner. Of the Cardinals' top five runners at regionals this year, two are sophomores and two are freshmen.
"We had high expectations with the boys — they've all been running together for a long time — but the girls were a little more unexpected," Dennison said. "Ten minutes before (regionals) I could tell they were getting a little nervous, but they ran a great race."
After months of training, strategically planning workouts and counting miles to build toward a successful postseason, there isn't room for significant physical improvement in the span of a week. Keeping practices simple and mentally motivating the athletes are key for any coach. Continued...
"So much of the sport at this level is mental," Dennison said. "If you can get the kids excited and confident, it goes a long way."
The course at the National Trail Raceway in Hebron is notoriously fast. As a freshmen, Robinson ran a 20:24 at Boardman, and her time went down to 18:57 — four seconds off the school record — at state. During the bad weather on Tuesday, Mentor was able to practice at the indoor track at SPIRE Institute in Geneva.
"Getting the chance to run indoors was good for us to prepare for how fast it will be at state," Dennison said. "With the rain and mud, we couldn't practice at our usual place, and I didn't want to not have a workout. I think the kids get bored of running at the same place all the time, anyway."
The Perry and NDCL boys will also be down at state, as well as the Chagrin Falls, Gilmour and Berkshire girls. Gilmour had such a strong performance, its top five runners would have qualified as individuals.
Hawken's Ally Markovich and Chardon's Nick Elswick and Corinne Kule all won their respective regional races and have a good chance at finishing on the podium.
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After several months in invite-only beta phase, Lady Gaga's fan-based social network Little Monsters has gone public. Borrowing popular features from Tumblr, Pinterest, Reddit, Facebook and Ticketmaster, the extensive website allows fans to post photos, share memes, chat with other Monsters and purchase concert tickets.
Little Monsters was created in collaboration with Backplane, a Palo Alto-based startup specializing in online communities. Gaga's manager, Troy Carter, cofounded Backplane, and the pop star herself is a major investor.
"You can go on somebody's Facebook profile and see they like Lady Gaga, but you don't know to what degree," Backplane CEO Matt Michelsen told Rolling Stone. "Little Monsters shows how many concerts they've attended and their overall level of participation around a common interest."
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Michelsen believes that the Backplane community experience can work for other artists such as Guns N' Roses and Green Day. In the fourth quarter, Backplane will unveil a product that merges interests across different communities, thus allowing fans to tailor their individual identity.
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"As a matter of fact, they found a lot of events and instances where George was what you might call an absolute nonracist," O'Mara said.
On Feb. 26, 2012, Martin was walking back to the Sanford, Fla., apartment of his father's fiancee after picking up some Skittles and an iced tea at 7-Eleven.
That's when Zimmerman, then a 28-year-old neighborhood watch volunteer, spotted him walking through the complex.
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Hi all,
I'm having some trouble understanding how the callback works. This is a quite simple example, doesn't work as I want it to though. My idea is that box2 should animate back when the two first (and simoltaneous, spelling) animations complete, however it doesn't.
Another question is how will I delay the callback by say two seconds? And is it possible to loop this over and over again?$('#elevator').click(function(){
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Go to their site and search those specific terms (call backs, delays, queue), study all there examples carefully. I know everytime I have a problem, I always use this process.
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Where some pitchers might have tried not throwing wild pitches with a runner on third, and others might have tried covering the plate after throwing a wild pitch, Austin instead went with the heretofore untested method of sprinting off the mound toward the advancing runner and body-checking him to the ground before he could reach home plate. And it would have worked if weren't for that meddling umpire!
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CHICAGO (AP) — Carlos Boozer had 24 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Chicago Bulls to a 118-92 rout of the Cavaliers on Monday night.
It was the third straight game that Boozer has eclipsed 20 points. This time he did it against the team that drafted him in 2002.
Joakim Noah added 11 points and 11 rebounds while Luol Deng had 19 points and seven assists for the Bulls, who beat the Cavaliers for an 11th straight time.
Chicago (19-13), which posted a season-high in points, moved to 11-1 when Boozer and Noah have double-doubles.
Dion Waiters led Cleveland (8-28) with 18 points. C.J. Miles and Kyrie Irving had 15 points apiece.
The Bulls turned a close game into a rout in the second half by dominating the offensive glass and forcing turnovers. Shooting 53.7 percent from the field and hitting 10 of 14 3-pointers didn't hurt, either.
The Bulls' bench, which has also been a glaring weak spot most of the season, helped stabilize the offense as Chicago overcame an early 10-point deficit. Taj Gibson had 18 points in reserve, and Marco Belinelli added 15 as Chicago broke the 100-point barrier for the first time since Christmas Day.
Cleveland had won three of its last four on the road. The Cavaliers haven't beaten the Bulls since March 19, 2010.
Tristan Thompson continued to thrive in relief of Anderson Varejao, who missed his 10th straight game due to a right knee contusion. Thompson scored 14 points and grabbed eight rebounds. It's just the third time in 10 games he failed to record a double-double.
Irving and Miles each scored nine first-quarter points as Cleveland jumped out to a 30-22 lead, leading by as many as 10. Continued...
Belinelli had 13 points in the second quarter to jumpstart the struggling Bulls offense. Gibson added 11 first-half points as Chicago took a three-point advantage into the break.
The Bulls' defense also seemed to kick in as Irving was held scoreless in the second quarter, and Miles was limited to three points.
Irving had four assists in the first quarter, and only two the rest of the game.
Miles left in the third quarter due to back spasms and did not return.
Cavaliers coach Byron Scott had no update on Varejao, but remained hopeful he would return to action soon. "We'll see when we get back if he's available to practice tomorrow and we'll go from there," he said. ... Scott said he "hadn't heard" rumors that F Omri Casspi, who has seen just one minute of action in the last 14 games, had demanded a trade. "It's nothing he's done to get put in this position," Scott said. "This is all based on my beliefs with the other two guys (Alonzo Gee and Miles) at the three spot."
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Speaking to the Rome Exchange Club in the wake of some year-end figures that actually may be even more positive than the smiley-face appearance they offered, Free even managed to inject humor based on realism into his analysis, as when saying that to get a mortgage nowadays "You have to go into the lending institution and prove you don't need the money."
He's not entirely kidding, at least when compared to 2007 and before when the ability to breath seemed to be an applicant's most-important qualification. Nowadays a hefty down payment in cash with a credit rating once considered golden has become the minimum acceptable, plus your job/income better look really solid. The lending rules have likely gotten too tight, as Free indicated, but that's the way pendulums swing: From one extreme to the other before going back to the middle.
GIVEN THE FIRMER financial footing now demanded, it may well be the Greater Rome sales figures for all of 2012 are even better than just strongly up once again. Which they were with a gain of 17.9 percent: 813 single-family homes sold with an average sales price of $111,691, which is up 5 percent from $106,334 the year before when 689 homes were sold. In 2007, when what has since been found to be hot air floated sales artificially higher, there were 990 homes sold in Greater Rome.
Remove all the buyers from that era who probably shouldn't have gotten mortgages to start with (and would not be considered today) and a realistic view of today's market may well be that the solid portion is just about where it was then. Indeed, throughout this period there's probably not a Greater Rome Realtor who would have wanted to exchange places with one in the Atlanta metro — and still wouldn't today.
For the overall good of the local economy, restored vitality in this sector is essential. Not only are there hundreds of sales agents — most depending on sales volume and price to make a decent living as they depend largely on commission — but there are even more hundreds of carpenters, electricians, plumbers, etc. who sure would like a lot more work than they have now from the home-building side. The commercial side, hardly in boom mode either, has seemed a lot more solid judging just from what can be seen (Lowe's, Hight/Publix center and so forth).
WHILE FREE didn't mention that there is a lot of obesity still in the listings, much of it coming from foreclosures, that remains to be slimmed down he was correct in pointing out that "Construction of new homes is going to be our biggest sign of recovery. When we start seeing spec houses, that will be the final exclamation point in a full recovery."
Note that Free did not say "spec subdivisions" as was the norm and fad in recent times. He said "houses."
That reflects a national trend he also pointed to: The rising generation, dubbed "millennials," is staying in school longer, marrying later, struggling to find jobs and often instead of being in the market for homes of their own moving back in with mom and dad — who may or may not have paid off their own mortgages.
Additionally, national surveys show a lowered affection for "house with white picket fence" as a primary lifestyle goal, doubtless a reflection of the long and lingering belt-tightening phase most Americans have been passing through. There is a new awareness of caution, if not downright frugality, regarding most purchasing decisions on everything from food to clothes to cars that certainly rubs off on what is the largest single purchase/debt most Americans ever undertake: a home of their own. That mood may or may not persist but is certainly present now.
WHAT THE LOCAL real estate and construction markets need most of all now is growth — more people coming here for more jobs. Such would sop up the existing excess supply rapidly plus create demand for new apartment complexes, homes … perhaps even subdivisions.
It's actually rather remarkable that the local real-estate market has not sunk as fast and deep as in many neighboring communities during this downturn period. Greater Rome population has been stagnant, with little growth but no real exodus considering what has been a loss of jobs that actually in percentage exceeded the state rate.
A lot of that has to do with Greater Rome being both diversified economically and a rather pleasant place to live with a high percentage of residents having family roots here. It also has a generally low cost of living (if you don't count the ridiculous gasoline prices) with housing/rent being a real bargain compared to what's not very far distant toward the east and south. In a time when new jobs are not only hard to find but fewer companies pay relocation expenses, staying put even when wages remain stagnant can often make sense.
This community also has exceptional amenities for residents, not only in lifestyle and outdoor activities but particularly in ready access to health care and higher education.
Those are also sales pitches, of course, and while real estate/construction would benefit greatly from growth — and that strengthened revival would make retailers in particular smile as well — it is something that must really be emphasized even more than at present by community leaders and economic recruiters.
THIS COMMUNITY is not 100 or even 1,000 more home sales a year away from a restoration of real estate to former levels of economic glory — it is 100 or 1,000 new jobs arriving each year of the sort that create the ability to purchase homes away from an enduring prosperity.
It is population growth generated by economic/employment growth upon which Greater Rome must turn all its sales-pitch firepower if real estate/construction are to again flourish as one player on a winning team. All other players in the batting order — retailing, services, tax revenues to support government/school and so forth — benefit from there being no weak hitters in the lineup.
Zero down payment with adjustable interest rates and balloon payments don't get the job done; they only get us another day older and deeper in debt — like Washington. The past few years have taught not only Realtors but also all of us that, haven't they?


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hysan wrote:No problem. I'm a foilist as well and also like Yuki Ota's style but only fence recreationally now (well not at all since coming to Japan since I didn't bring any gear with me). Sadly, I think it will just come down to placement luck and the dreaded ESID that you will hear repeatedly in JET =/
Well Hysan, if you are planning on staying with JET for another year and everything works out for me. Mayhaps I can convince you to give me a bout or two If I bring all my stuff, which I plan to, I will have enough or two to fence (assuming you're not a lefty). Well... and assuming that we are not on opposite ends of Japan.