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Years ago Sabre Holdings, a big player in the travel business, used UNIX operating systems on SPARC servers. A few years ago they started phasing out older UNIX servers for GNU/Linux on Intel for huge savings and better performance:
"The move to Linux and Intel has saved Sabre substantial amounts of money, Wiseman says, but it was only possible because he was convinced that it would prove reliable enough to replace the NonStop and Solaris systems. As things turned out, Red Hat's Linux has proved rock solid, vindicating his position. "In fact we haven't had a single outage because of Linux," says Wiseman. "The only outages we have had are from hardware failures, but because the hardware is so cheap we can have redundancy to overcome that, he says.""
Sabre did look at that other OS but decided they did not want the lock-in. Having decided to move to Intel processors, they did not want to have to change software again if they moved to another CPU and GNU/Linux runs on everything…
Recently HP has been their "goto" organization to manage their empire of IT and HP has committed to supporting RedHat on their servers for "mission-critical" applications as more of their customers move to GNU/Linux. Sabre has made a deal for support from HP for six years and $800 million.
Sabre has a lot of good things to say about RedHat GNU/Linux for their global network with 24×7 uptime, three times faster and 90% cheaper than UNIX on SPARC on thousands of servers:
While the use of FLOSS and GNU/Linux on servers for big businesses is easy to understand on price/performance, the same advantages come to businesses who use GNU/Linux on the desktop. I recommend Debian GNU/Linux because it works for me and schools where I have worked but RedHat seems to be the preference of many businesses because of the support and business-oriented attitude of RedHat.
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"Just like Linux, it is a decrepit and ancient and burdened OS that is fit only for legacy applications."
"Bank of China Core Banking Benchmark revealed IBM System z9® mainframes, working together, generating 9,400 transactions per second, while servicing 380 million customer accounts and approximately 1.3 billion account records. Those results exceed by four times what HP claims in its Temenos Core Banking benchmark. And, System z9 mainframes doing that work required roughly ¼ of the energy to execute"
When loaded with a microcode change that implemented the integrated facility for Linux, an SINGLE system z running zVM with red Hat enterprise Linux as a guest can easily support 1000 virtual Linux Servers at a cost that work out to roughly $500 US per VM.
Just an FYI
Clarence Moon
z/OS is clearly a proprietary IBM mainframe system by this measure
You will bring a tear to the eye of Mr. Pogson and more sputtering nonsense from Mr. Oiaohm, who are both desperate to "prove" that some 1.7 billion bucks worth of "naked" servers, that they presume are destined to be loaded with some form of Linux (Debian being the local favorite), exist as part of the IDC count. Of course, IDC itself is fairly explicit on the issue, and deems that $1.7 billion to be the mainframe share.
"IBM's System z servers running z/OS experienced the second consecutive quarter of positive revenue growth, with 69.1% year-over-year growth in 4Q10 to $1.7 billion. This is the fastest quarterly revenue growth IDC has ever reported for IBM mainframes…"
Clarence Moon
You keep saying this how many times do I have to pull you up.
Don't flatter yourself, Mr. Oiaohm. You haven't achieved anything beyond showing yourself as a buffoon. Your clumsy constructions and juvenile theories paint you as a complete fool and your lack of real qualifications is transparent to everyone. Why do you persist in embarrassing yourself this way?
I think that anything descended from either System V (AT&T) or BSD (Berkeley, obviously) can lay legitimate claim to being a "Unix." You don't actually need a piece of paper to prove your heritage. This group would still include AIX, Solaris, and HP-UX, and probably a few bit-players.
There's nothing wrong with claiming to being "inspired by Unix." There's nothing wrong with claiming that you "took the best of Unix and improved it," although tbh you are starting with a pitifully small base.
This is actually one of the few cases where "counting lines of code" (mostly in the kernel, although I think filesystems and the like are fair game) is a useful metric.
z/OS is clearly a proprietary IBM mainframe system by this measure. It's far less of a Unix than is NT/Interix.
The history of the original Unix is quite tangled, and it seems to end here:
(Latest release in 2006, so I'm not holding my breath for future development, and anyway – I mean, SCO ? Not saying anything against the original SCO – now Tarantella, but this ex-Caldera outfit is really bad, so it's no surprise they changed their name to UnXis.)
The closest surviving relative is probably Solaris.
Mr Pogson,
another post of mine got eaten here. Please … thanks!
Mr Ham,
you sure wrote a lot of stuff in your last comment, but there wasn't a single fact in it that I haven't known for years (except that I wasn't sure whether Interix was Unix-certified). What made you even think for a minute that I wouldn't know the history of Unix? (I could even point out some small mistakes/simplifications in the graphic you linked to.) However, you have choosen to defend an indefensible position, and it shows.
"Unix is not a OS. Unix is a certification."
That's so obviously silly that you really have to out-moron yourself (not an easy task) to put it forward. A "Unix certificate" from the OpenGroup means that your OS is _compatible_ with Unix, but it doesn't turn your OS into something completely different. Or to put it another way: Any definition of Unix that puts OSes as diverse as Z/OS, Windows and Solaris into the same group is _useless_. There is a good reason why the WP entry on Unix starts with "Unix (…) is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 (…)". Unix and Unix-like systems share some characteristics that distinguish them from other OSes, and if you wanted to know anything about them, you would find them in ESR's book. But once more you prefer "believing" and "insulting" over "actually knowing".
BTW yes, ESR _is_ a raving lunatic – after all, he is one of the prophets of FLOSS. But he does have a clue about Unix, and therefore his book is valuable, while your ranting is not.
Clarence Moon
"IDC's numbers are counts of server unit shipments worldwide"
You keep saying this how many times do I have to pull you up. IDC counts revenue that is the only thing they count all there numbers are based off that.
What are IDC unit shipments from IDC. "unit shipment estimates" That is in IDC own words. They take revenue numbers divide by some magic number of guessed average price and get Units. Basically IDC never counts number of units.
Lot of makers number of units produced are internal figures only. Why if you know how many units a maker is turning over you can work out as a supply if that company is sourcing from another supplier as well for the same part.
If you don't understand what IDC does you cannot use there numbers. IDC is revenue counting so has to be taken with a fairly large grain of salt that is Unit sales estimates could be way out. In fact be multi times out in either direction for any OS in there counts.
IDC unit numbers are not worth a cracker never have been worth anything. Problem Clarence Moon you keep on thinking they are worth something.
Percentage of Income is only useful to see roughly if a party is growing on reducing in market share not how much they have.
If you want to work out unit counts you need to work out someway to get makers to give them to you or do ground surveys.
Web numbers are fairly well screwed up as well.
Clarence Moon
If IDC's numbers are biased that way because of 10K users of GNU/Linux in business,
Maybe they would if IDC's numbers were biased that way, but they are not. IDC's numbers are counts of server unit shipments worldwide and breakdowns of financial revenues for server manufacturers. It has nothing to do with San Francisco, Google, or Timbuktu. IDC has nothing to do with Net Applications. I think you are confusing the two.
Mr Oiaohm:
A rare Unix system without a blood line back to "Unics" (incidentally, Linux has no blood line back to *nix") is not, in fact, a Unix system. You might as well argue — and I have no doubt you will, should the mood take you — that a dachsund has the same blood line as a pure-bred Arabian Stallion.
In a sense, that is true. In a truly worthless sense, that only you would find convincing.
You really have to be a raving nutter to insist that z/OS "is a Unix." The bloodline runs from S/360 to S/370 to S/380 to OS/390. Possibly it takes on AS/400 and System/1 on the way; I couldn't say. At no point whatsoever has it been polluted by the wretched germinal waste of Unix.
Just like Linux, it is a decrepit and ancient and burdened OS that is fit only for legacy applications. But that's about as much as the two have in common.
"So yes some of my hate of Microsoft is they were given a almost perfect OS design by Dave Cuttler then they allowed there coders to completely ruin it."
VMS was far from "almost perfect." Like all Multics children, it was a work in progress. There's a very good case to be made that Cutler's team actually achieved this by NT 4.0, and to be completely objective here, no matter how I wish things had turned out differently, Windows 7 is pretty much what Cutler and the VMS team would have aimed at in the first place.
I live in hope that ignorance will spawn fascinating insight, however. Perhaps you would care to share with us all the precise details (even the vague handwavy links) of how Microsoft allowed their coders to ruin Mr Cutler's dream?
Every time I believe I have seen you plough the depths of determined ignorance, Mr Oiaohm, you continue to surprise me. Is there no limit at all to how much of a cretin you can be?
ch z/OS has a Unix certification not just a Plan Posix one.
"If NT design worked as designed you should be able to load up isolated win32/win64 environments side by side with each other on the one NT kernel."
-Why would I want to do that? The Win64 personality happily runs my Win32 and Win64 stuff alongside each other, so why run them in different environments?-
You did not read. Its like two Win64 environments running next to each other and not being able to see each other. Perfectly sand-boxed from each other. NT was designed to pull this off before ruined.
Cgroups on Linux, Jails on BSD based and Zones on Solaris are all related ideas. These are having to be hacked into the ABI's. Windows had this stuff designed in at the start.
Then developers at Microsoft shot it in the way they allowed subsystems to bind up. Most people don't know windows kernel has a internal thread table and a process representation thread table. Reason for this existing was to allow like two win32 or two win64 environments to run side by side on the same kernel without fighting.
Yes the NT design was head of its time by many years. So far that the other coders working at Microsoft failed to see the design and ruined it majorally.
So yes some of my hate of Microsoft is they were given a almost perfect OS design by Dave Cuttler then they allowed there coders to completely ruin it.
Ch also please look back Interix was a certified Unix95 when on Windows.
Unix is not a OS. Unix is a certification. Any OS can be certified Unix as long as it passes the tests. There is no requirement for blood line or anything else.
This is the mistake lots of people do Unix OS that is not real. z/OS is a certified Unix just like AIX Solaris and many other things are.
Ch basically find Unix. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Unix_history-simple.svg
It don't exist as a OS. Relatives of Unics exist.
The closet you will find is Unixtss.
Nothing in opengroup rules say that a Unix has to be a linked to the Unics blood line. This is why Linux in the past has been a Unix. The mistake that people who don't read opengroup allows them to rule z/OS out.
Even so if you dig deep enough into the Linux kernel you will find some Unix files that have crossed into Linux from BSD in drivers.
Yes there are drivers that are mostly shared between the BSD line and the Linux line. So the graphic shows them as independent when Linux should be linked onto the side of BSD.
What ESR says does not match what Opengroup says. Opengroup are who say what Unix is. So unless you are a define of Unix from the Opengroup its bogus ch.
If people learn to read source documents a lot of problem would be solved instead of reading third party invalid hear say like ESR talking about Unix.
Eric S. Raymond as not updated his FAQ since 2003. Most likely never will again. He did get into trouble over it. The history in that faq is also incorrect by Opengroup documents. Opengroup is the owner of the Unix trademark so defines how it is used. Eric S. Raymond has completely zero standing on what is Unix.
Really ch quoting Eric S. Raymond shows how big of a idiot you are. Laughing stock or what. Quoting someone who has no legal right to say what is and what is not Unix as some kind of define. Really learn to do research properly ch and check out if the document you are referring is anything more than toilet paper at best if printed.
Sorry reality is reality z/OS is a Unix. Its one of the rare Unix systems without a blood line back to Unics.
Clarence Moon
If you really believe IDC then you must believe GNU/Linux has 13% share in California
Can you find a cite where IDC says that is the case? Net Applications has some defect in their counting scheme or else in their data logging scheme that creates pockets of obvious nonsense. The count hits on client websites. You have demonstrated that their methods are not effective, at least when applied to narrow segments of their data. Overall, there is no doubt that their reporting of total hits throughout their coverage area is accurate, but you can question whether or not their application area is representative of the actual installed base.
I doubt that it is, simply because, as I have previously posted, they do not cover the most popular sites, namely Google, Facebook, and Twitter. Nor do their statistice reflect what happens at Yahoo, MSN, CNN, or other major gateway sites. It does not address web services consumed by apps on phones or tablets either. Those are glaring omissions of things that are important to market strategies.
What they do show is that less than 1% of the people visiting their client's sites use desktop Linux. Who those people are can be argued, but there is nothing to be gained by knowing the answer.
Mr Pogson, my last two posts were swallowed by the spam filter, so could you please … ? Thanks!
"Sorry z/OS is a good example that UNIX is a grey define."
It is a good example why "able to run Unix applications" is not the same as "being Unix". The various POSIX and Unix certificates essentially only care about the former. ESR pretty well describes what "being Unix" is about here:
www dot faqs dot org slash docs slash artu
(Sorry but it seems the spam filter gets extra hungry if I put links in my post.)
"OS X is also currently a certified UNIX."
Of course, technically it IS a Unix. But Apple was clever enough from hiding most of the unixy stuff from users. To quote Joel Spolsky again:
OS X is the proof: Apple finally created Unix for Aunt Marge, but only because the engineers and managers at Apple were firmly of the end-user culture (…). They rejected the Unix culture's fundamental norm of programmer-centricity. They even renamed core directories — heretical! — to use common English words like "applications" and "library" instead of "bin" and "lib."
www dot joelonsoftware dot com slash articles slash Biculturalism dot html
(If ESR's book is too long for you, JS' article brings you the highlights in regard to "what is Unix".)
"If NT design worked as designed you should be able to load up isolated win32/win64 environments side by side with each other on the one NT kernel."
Why would I want to do that? The Win64 personality happily runs my Win32 and Win64 stuff alongside each other, so why run them in different environments?
"Also you would be able to load up subsystems to emulate anything."
The OS/2 subsystem is dead, but I don't see many people mourning that. The Posix subsystem is still around – btw, it's now officially called "Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications". So what are we missing? Do you really need a Z/OS subsystem on Windows?
"M$ changed things arbitrarily in its OS to make moving back to UNIX a jarring experience."
No, they didn't. MS hired Dave Cuttler, so it's not really surprising that the NT kernel is "influenced" by VMS (not the worst pedigree). The network stuff came basically from LAN Manager (at the time a network system with a lot of industry support behind it: IBM, 3COM, HP, AT&T, SCO) and the base for the GUI from Windows (although they probably didn't reuse much actual code). Of course, the team looked around at what else there is out there, and it would be surprising if they hadn't found _something_ useful to learn in Unix, too – and they probably learned what _not_ to take from Unix, as well. The result was a completely new core OS with personalities compatible with Windows, OS/2 1.x and Posix, respectively.
The problem with POSIX is that it's so limited POSIX alone won't take you anywhere useful. So the early POSIX personality on NT was useless but still standard-compliant. Later, MS bought Interix which AFAIK is an actually useful POSIX-compliant Unix-like personality, so you could turn your XP/Vista/7 into a unixoid system. Of course, this doesn't mean that "Windows is Unix", just like z/OS isn't Unix just because it is certified as Unix-compatible.
Robert Pogson
There were about another 7 others.
"I believe the Linux Standard Base and Linux SE are Posix-certified, although I wouldn't swear to it."
That is wrong Linux Standard Base is a response to OpenGroup bills for Unix and Posix certifation.
Even that Linux Standard Base contains all the test for Posix and Unix certification since money has not be paid to opengroup it is not Posix certified or Unix certified.
Linux SE is something else completely.
When Linux world did make Linux Standard Base this all the certified Unix Linux systems got deleted from the Opengroup register. So hiding the fact that Linux was registered at a particular point in time.
aardvark recertification with Opengroup use to require paying a fee each time. Its the Linux Standard base that forced Opengroup to go to a yearly fee.
Lot of ways the opengroup has acted like a spoiled brat.
DoD accept Linux Standard Base certification as the same as Unix or Posix certification in acquirement.
Clarence said:
"If you want to dispute this, you should be able to show where a statistic from the past was found to be in error and no such thing exists."
Clarence Moon
sigh… One number being wrong does not make them all wrong.
Aside from the fact that it truly does not matter one whit to me or you whether the numbers are right or wrong, it seems to me that you are being somewhat disingenuous to suggest that the numbers that show something that you agree with are correct and the numbers that show something that you do not want to be the case are wrong. Neither one of us are going to use the information for any useful purpose.
IDC sells this information to people who make business decisions based on its accuracy. These people have been buying this information for decades now and continue to buy it which suggests that they find it both useful and accurate. If you want to dispute this, you should be able to show where a statistic from the past was found to be in error and no such thing exists. Certainly if it did, there would be a lot of publicity given to it.
Mr Oiaohm:
"Its evil because all updates have to be recertified that they have not broken conformance with the Unix standard."
I gotta admit, that is evil incarnate.
Shouldn't the people involved with the standard just take your word for it? It seems such a shame that they expect a degree of conformance, or even sanity.
What has the world of standards come to?
I believe the Linux Standard Base and Linux SE are Posix-certified, although I wouldn't swear to it.
No distros that I am aware of. Posix is a weapon exclusively used to hammer NT with, even though NT was expressly developed to allow "personalities" (ie different OS superstrates) and therefore Posix compliance. Which it was awarded.
Presumably even the DoD has given up on Posix compliance, since they seem quite happy to use various Linux distros. But then, it's a twenty year old self-defined standard (I'm using self-defined loosely here: the actual history, to do with the original Unix Wars in the 1990s, is too hideous to go through at this point).
So who cares?
ch and Robert Pogson you are both wrong.
Linux at particular points in history has been a certified Unix. It is an highly costly process to pass certification as a Unix. Its evil because all updates have to be recertified that they have not broken conformance with the Unix standard.
Shockily Windows NT has also been certified Unix at particular times as well.INTERIX at one point it did pass and MS was allowed to use UNIX trademark. Yes NT was not just Posix certified but a UNIX as well.
Being a Certified Unix OS does not forbid the OS from having its own ABI as well.
Sorry z/OS is a good example that UNIX is a grey define.
OS X is also currently a certified UNIX. So every OS X user is a Unix user by open group standards.
ch NT supports directly split of either / or \ Yes the / is for posix and unix support. NTFS even include a sub section for posix filenames a long side windows filenames.
Yes OS X server are Unix servers as well.
Really from my point of view Unix marker it too vague to really tell you anything.
And you are wrong I don't want NT to be Unix like. I would love to see NT implemented how it was properly design. With its subsystem design working properly allowing isolated environments.
NT design is super good. Far better than Linux design at current day. Microsoft stuffed it with there implementation. So why would I want a superior design to be made Unix like.
If NT design worked as designed you should be able to load up isolated win32/win64 environments side by side with each other on the one NT kernel. Also you would be able to load up subsystems to emulate anything.
That is the way NT is designed. Way NT is implemented is a ruined mess.
Sorry Mr Pogson, but could you please "resurrect" my last post? Thanks!
"M$ is the only one who has claimed NT was UNIX-like."
Actually, MS never claimed that. But NT shipped with a POSIX-compliant "personality" in addition to it's Windows and OS/2 1.x "personalities". Today, you can install the "Services for Unix" to get an improved POSIX personality. (The original POSIX personality was pretty much useless but still allowed MS to sell NT as POSIX-compliant.)
"I have seen nothing in NT that resembles UNIX at all except FDISK perhaps."
That's the wrong place to look at – better try the system calls for opening / reading / etc. files.
"Where is the root user?"
It's called "System" – and the fact that you don't know that explains a lot about your problems with Windows.
"Whatever happened to forward slashes?"
As every user of the former OS standard CP/M knows, forward slashes indicate command parameters, not directories.
"It was crashing weekly on my wife's PC in the early days."
And you couldn't fix that? Why didn't you ask someone who actually knows Windows?
"GNU/Linux is definitely UNIX-like even if it was never certified."
Of course, but according to Mr Ham's twisted logic NT should be more Unix-like.
"z/OS is a Unix"
Thanks for lighting up my day! Oh, and since WinNT was certified POSIX-compliant while Linux (at least at the time) wasn't, that surely means that WinNT is more Unix-like than Linux is, right?
No, z/OS is NOT Unix, not in any way, shape or form. It just has an additional UNIX API next to it's original API that allows customers to run Unix apps on Z/OS.
Clarence Moon
That is illogical
Not at all, Mr. Pogson. It would be illogical to, as you are doing, accept one set of numbers from IDC, since they allow you to make some point, and reject others because they do not support your pre-conceived notions.
It is logical to think that IDC, whom you trust to count dollars, can also count units. It is logical to think that OS products that are applied to very high cost units such as HPCs or large servers will have lower unit volume for their revenue contributions than the OS that is mostly applied to lower cost units.
Just listing a configuration on a web page does not imply that many are being sold. The fact that the IDC report does not bother to even provide a category for such machines in its abstract summary argues that the category is unimportant to IDC's customers which would not be the case if it were a major part of the market being reported.
IDC does not count the parts market either. Lot do end up in the Linux world as well.
z/OS is counted in UNIX. Clarence Moon you are a moron with the numbers as normal.
$1.7 billion unaccounted does not include Z/OS never has. Pulling fake straws as normal because you don't know a single thing about Operating systems.
"The Open Group certifies z/OS as a compliant UNIX operating system." Yes z/OS is a certified Unix.
IBM makes two Unix OS's one being AIX and the other being z/OS. Anything with either installed is counted in Unix section of IDC numbers.
$3.4-1.7=1.7. Yep z/OS is half if the remaining Unix sold. When you add in AIX IBM is the dominate Unix maker left without question.
Come on Clarence Moon you take about me making a fool out of myself. This is just stupidity on your part not knowing that z/OS is a Unix. I guess you did not know that IBM is the dominate Unix maker either.
Clarence Moon
How is it possible to get that much revenue (45%) from servers while getting 75% of servers?
You have to ask yourself, just what is your purpose in all this, Mr. Pogson. Are you trying to say that IDC is wrong? If you accept one set of numbers from IDC to prove your point, you must logically accept all the numbers from IDC or else cast doubt on your own assertions.
The answer is what I know I have posted before in this forum, namely that a great deal of the Linux server business is on big machines. You yourself note that the million plus dollar HPC machines are mostly Linux. Also, a large number of big servers from HP or Sun/Oracle or IBM that used to be Unix are now shipping with Linux. So a lot of the Linux server revenue is concentrated in these big, expensive units. Microsoft Windows, on the other hand, is concentrated in the low end of things. There are some big iron Windows sales, certainly, but they are few compared to Linux and Unix.
So with almost half of the revenue overall and very little of the high end business, Microsoft makes it up in quantity of low end servers and that gives them a high unit volume.
That means IDC is not counting naked servers at all and their numbers are bogus for share of units shipped.
I don't follow that flurry of numbers, Mr. Posgon, but I would say that it may very well be that what IDC is counting is what they say they are counting and that is revenue from sales of servers world-wide. There may not be any measurable quantity of "naked" servers. My own experience with our customers is that they often buy our products as part of a purchase from IBM, Dell, or HP that includes the OS as well as our stuff. I don't know for sure just what happens with non-Windows servers, but I know that a lot of the Linux and Unix product goes out the same channels. If someone were buying a lot of servers and installing some free version of Linux themselves, they would, like as not, not buy our product anyway. It costs more than the OS.
Clarence Moon
so it is quite unlikely that M$ can hold that large a share in unit volume
HPC is but a handful of units annually, Mr. Pogson, surely you must understand that. Similarly, web servers are but a minor share of the overall market for servers. You use IDC's numbers for most of your reply, so you must accept their numbers for unit volume. We have been over them more than once here in the recent past and IDC is reporting some 75% of unit volume for Windows servers in one quarterly report as recently as a year ago.
"Microsoft Windows server demand also continued to show strong demand as Windows-based hardware revenue increased 10.1% year-over-year. Quarterly revenue of $5.8 billion for Windows servers represented 48.5% of overall quarterly factory revenue and 75.2% of all quarterly server shipments."
That leaves $14.2-($6.5+$3.4+$2.6) = $1.7 billion unaccounted, probably naked servers.
Can you say "mainframe"?
"IBM's System z servers running z/OS experienced the second consecutive quarter of positive revenue growth, with 69.1% year-over-year growth in 4Q10 to $1.7 billion."
As always, I trust your figures implicitly, Mr Pogson. For the "thickies" amongst your readers, let me add them up:
Unix: $3.4 billion = $3.4 billion
Linux: $2.6 billion + $1.7 billion = $4.4 billion
Windows: $6.5 billion = $6.5 billion
The more astute amongst the thickies will notice a small mathematical discrepancy: I have rounded up, in the case of Linux, because the figures after the decimal point are missing.
It's not easy to suggest that Linux is ahead of Windows on servers, given these figures. Perhaps, if Linux were to cannibalize 100% of the Unix server market, it might just about edge it (to be fair, it would be ahead by roughly 25%), but do you really see that as an achievable objective?
And isn't it a bit ironic to be celebrating what is effectively the death of Sun, HP-UX, and AIX in the marketplace, when what you are apparently wishing for is the death of M$?
$800 million is hardly pocket change, is it? I doubt that the difference between RHEL licensing and support on the one hand, and M$ licensing and support on the other, would make much of a dent in that.
SABRE has about forty years of development, database infrastructure, networking infrastructure, and so on to protect. Which choice do you think they would make, Mr Pogson? Throw it all away and start from scratch on Windows Servers? Or port the whole raft from Unix to Linux?
It's something of a no-brainer, really, but if you want to make it out as a win for Linux on technical merit, be our guest.
Clarence Moon
So what is your point here, Mr. Pogson? It is well known that Unix users have migrated to Linux in many areas where there was no justification for a branded Unix OS that cost a lot more and offered no functional or performance advantage over the work-alike Linux versions from Red Hat or Novell. IBM started this movement more than a decade ago when its AIX products were languishing in the face of Solaris and HP-UX. They shot a hole in the price umbrella that existed for Unix servers and the industry has never recovered.
Sun is not even an independent company anymore, eaten up by Oracle in an ironic turnaround from their mutual beginnings.
During that same period of time when Linux was devastating Unix business, Microsoft, starting at zero, has grown over the years to a 78% share of revenues attributed directly to the OS component of a server sale and Windows servers account for about half of all server revenues annually. They account for an even higher share of server unit volume.
You can try to paint that as some sort of loss for Microsoft, but you are not going to get a very loud "Amen!" from even your own choir. Meanwhile, Microsoft's server division sales grow and grow, setting new revenue records quarterly and annually.
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In 2013, federal agencies made $97 billion in overpayments, according to agency estimates. Underpayments totaled $9 billion.
The amount of improper payments has steadily dropped since 2010, when it peaked at $121 billion.
The Obama administration has stepped up efforts to measure improper payments, identify the cause and develop plans to reduce them, said Beth Cobert, deputy director of the White House budget office. Agencies recovered more than $22 billion in overpayments last year.


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The last time Marsha Martin saw her son, Wissam, he was just 8-years-old. She's spent the last 11 years wondering if she would ever see him again. Missing out on more than half her son's life, she's kept her faith, praying that one day he would return. Marsha Martin is waiting, waiting to see a son, she hasn't seen since he was 8-years-old.
"The last time I seen him he was on the front porch his dad was gonna pick him up and he started crying and said 'Mommy, mommy, I feel like I'm never gonna see you again,'" says Marsha.
Moments later, Marsha's son Wissam left for a ski trip with his father. And never came back. "He took him, he kidnapped him. He's been in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia," says Marsha.
Despite efforts to get her son back, nothing could be done until he was 18. "It was devastating. It's been the worst 11 years of my life," says Marsha.
My son I couldn't be there with him to take care of him but I could send angels to watch over him," says Marsha.
But now, Marsha is minutes away from coming face to face with her son, now 19-years-old. But the minutes turn into hours. "Do you think you'll recognize him when you see him? I don't know," she says.
Clutching balloons and a teddy bear, Marsha's tears spell out her agony. "I went to the pay phone to call his father tell him that he didn't show," says Marsha.
But what Marsha doesn't know is she's already passed by Wissam without even knowing it. "I seen him walk by but I didn't recognize him. My girlfriend kept saying is that him is that him? No, no, no, no. Until he finally came up to me and gave me a big hug," says Marsha.
"I recognized her she didn't recognize me." "Oh my god!" she says as she swings her arms around his neck.
It's a reunion, 11 years in the making. "You used to have straight hair!", she says to Wissam. "I missed her of course I missed her!", says Wissam.
And now that Wissam is home for good, Marsha isn't going to let him go. "I'm gonna hang on to him," says Marsha.
While in Saudi Arabia, Wissam lived in an American compound where he says explosions went off almost daily. Now, he'll be living in Lubbock and attending Texas Tech to study Computer Engineering.
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Promo images and preview clips for THE AMERICANS, episode 1.10, "Only You".
Stan pursues a lead that puts him on the trail to one of Gregory's crew members, closing the gap between him and Elizabeth, and reigniting some of the deepest conflicts between her and Philip.
Featuring Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Holly Taylor, Noah Emmerich, Derek Luke, Margo Martindale.


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CM Punk conducted a Q&A session on Twitter on Saturday night where he revealed his approval of a TNA wrestler.
An Austin Aries fan asked, "Thoughts on "A Double", Austin Aries? Or you're not allowed to talk about the other company?" Punk responded, "I think he's great!"
Punk also fielded a question on the passing of Matt Osborne, who portrayed Doink the Clown. He wrote, "sucks of course."


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text: A family lost everything they owned when their house went up in flames Tuesday in rural Aransas County. They are now in awe at the outpouring of help from the community."And I don't know what to do. We don't have insurance," said Veronica Martinez, a victim in the house fire, on Tuesday. "I don't know what we're going to do."A day after the blaze, the mood was quite different for the Martinez family."I couldn't imagine all the love that's out there," Martinez said.Martinez was with her daughter Dakota and Dakota's fiance, Zack Richard, at Spohn South visiting their newborn, Thomas Blaise Richard, who made his video debut on 3News.Little Thomas Blaise arrived prematurely on Saturday, and has been in the hospital since. Had that not happened, the family believes the outcome of the fire could have been much different."If Tommy hadn't been born a little, just bit earlier, my life, I could have perished," Dakota Martinez said.It took only minutes for the midday fire, which happened on the 1100 block of Mack Road in Aransas Pass, to destroy what took the family a lifetime to build. Still, they remain optimistic. The outpouring of generosity gives them hope."It's coming from everywhere," Veronica Martinez said. "It's amazing."Kim Hoffstatter, owner of Team Satellite in Rockport, set up a drop-off point to collect donations, and they are pouring in."Friends of friends told me about this, and I happen to be moving today," Rockport resident Elizabeth Klontz said. "And I'm just going through and getting out plates and cups.""There's people out there that need help, you know," Rockport resident Joe Gutierrez said. "In situations like this, you put yourself in their shoes. If it were to happen to us, we would appreciate everyone trying to help us out also."In the meantime, the Martinez family is without a home. Staying a few days with relatives is the best they can do for now. They are praying for temporary housing until they can rebuild.


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Now I know we have a show to be great on defense.
The Bears on Tuesday released Adam Archuleta . Playing in 14 games with 10 starts in 2007, the veteran safety registered 63 tackles, two sacks, one interception and one forced fumble.
This was one of our worst mistakes last year. Moose is gone, Arch is gone, Fred Miller is gone, the only guy I still want them to cut is Ricky Mannning Jr. Wow, what an offseason!
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I actually kind of regret the way I titled this, so I changed it. The reason being I didn't think the guy played well for us, but I think that he played hard and did the best he could. He also appears to be a real decent guy. My apologies if he read this. I was really rooting for him when he got here.


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The six suspects are charged with beating a robbing a
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suspects in a McDonald's. The suspects then began to call her derogatory names
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Villain: Charlie X?
Funny how actor Robert Walker (who played Charlie X) is in a movie titled Out of the Darkness…
Charlie and Gary were both in OGAM... where also Vulcan was destroyed :D
There's been some thought given in some circles about Charlie Evans being the possible villain, but outside of the fact Cumberbatch looks a bit old for Charlie, there's the part in the synopsis that indicates the villain was part of Starfleet (or at least the Federation)...
I'd make Charlie a low-on-the-totem-pole guess, but not outside the realm of possibility in the JJverse.
Robert April, who wanted the Enterprise and never got her? He wanted her in the beginning, but Pike won. Then he thought he'd get it after Pike, but then Kirk was chosen and April seeks revenge... XD
Peter Weller = John Harriman
It would take too much time away from exploding planets and ship-swallowing black holes to explain what Section 31 is to the mostly non-Trek schooled audience.
Orci could potentially be smart enough to use something like Section 31, but I'm afraid JJ would likely axe such a thing.
Yeah, I don't think Section 31 and the concept of it would be too hard to grasp for the non-Trek audience really or wind into a story.
It's involvement is possible but unlikely for a TOS based story.
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News Updates:1/19/2012: Marianne Gingrich's two-hour interview with ABC's Brian Ross will be shown on Nightline prior to the South Carolina primary.
Born:Newt Gingrich aka Newton Leroy McPherson: June 17, 1943 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Marianne Ginther: Abt. 1958. Marianne grew up in Leetonia, Ohio.
How Newt and Marianne Met:Marianne and Newt met in January 1980 at a Republican fund-raiser in Ohio.
Ariel Levy: "One year later, he met Marianne Ginther at a political fund-raiser in Ohio, and within weeks, she told the journalist John Richardson, he asked her to marry him. It was 'way too early, and he wasn't divorced yet,' she said. 'I should have known there was a problem.'"
Source: Ariel Levy. "The Good Wife." NewYorker.com. 1/23/2012.
Wedding Date:Marianne and Newt were married on August 8, 1981 in a Lutheran Church in Leetonia, Ohio.
Occupations:Marianne Ginther: Former personnel clerk with the Secret Service, county planner, business consultant.
Newt Gingrich: Fox News political analyst, politician, author, public speaker, Republican Speaker of the US House of Representatives during 1995-1999, producer.
Residences:While married, Newt and Marianne lived in Washington D.C. and had an apartment in Jonesboro, Georgia.
Ginther/Gingrich Divorce:The bumpy marriage relationship of Newt and Marianne was first noticed when the couple separated in June 1987. After having separate residences for six years, Newt and Marianne reportedly reconciled.
"He [Thomas Browning] said the Gingriches maintained separate residences for six years before reconciling in late 1993 or early 1994."Marianne and Newt separated again on May 10, 1999 and Newt filed for divorce on July 29, 1999.
Source: AP. "Gingrich reveals 6-year separation in latest filing for his divorce." Marysville Journal-Tribune. Marysville, Ohio. 8/31/1999. pg. 3.
John Mayoue: "I can tell you that she [Marianne] thought that they had a very sound marriage, right up until this unexpected demand for divorce."In May 2002, Newt asked the Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta for an annulment based on the fact that Marianne was reportedly previously married.
Source: AP. "Wife's lawyer to question woman in Gingrich divorce case." Marysville Journal-Tribune. Marysville, Ohio. 8/13/1999. pg. 2.
John Richardson: "She [Marianne] was not bitter about the divorce or angry at Gingrich, but it was clear that she'd been brooding about what happened for years, that the divorce introduced a note of unreality that permanently shook her life —- she'd been going along thinking everything was one way for eighteen years and then suddenly it wasn't that way."
Source: John H. Richardson. "Why Marianne Gingrich Told Me About a Vulnerable Newt." Esquire.com. 8/10/2010.
"We were married 19 years, and now he wants to say it didn't exist."
Source: AP. "People in the news." Marysville Journal-Tribune. Marysville, Ohio. 5/11/2002. pg. 7.
Quotes About the Marriage of Marianne Ginther and Newt Gingrich:Newt: "Let me be quite clear. Let me be quite clear. The story is false. Every personal friend I have who knew us in that period said the story was false. We offered several of them to ABC to prove it was false."
Source: "CNN Nuked by Newt." FoxNews.com. 1/19/2012.
Marianne Gingrich: "And I just stared at him and he said, 'Callista doesn't care what I do,' He wanted an open marriage and I refused ... He always called me at night and always ended with 'I love you.' Well, she was listening."
Source: Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz. "Gingrich Lacks Moral Character to be President, Ex-Wife Says." ABCNews.go.com. 1/19/2012.
James V. Grimaldi: "Newt Gingrich asked Marianne for an "open marriage" so that he could continue to see whoever he wanted. Marianne Gingrich, who had attended services in a Baptist church with Newt Gingrich, refused."
Source: James V. Grimaldi. "Marianne Gingrich, Newt's ex-wife, says he wanted 'open marriage.'" WashingtonPost.com. 1/19/2012.
Holly Bailey: "Speaking about the breakup of the marriage for the first time, Marianne Gingrich tells Esquire's John H. Richardson that her former husband lied to the public when he insisted they had an "understanding" about the affair. She says Gingrich tried to convince her to "tolerate" his relationship with Bisek, but she refused."
Source: Holly Bailey. "As Gingrich considers 2012 run, his ex-wife talks about their breakup." News.yahoo.com. 8/10/2010.
Marianne: "We started talking and we never quit until he asked me for a divorce ... He asked me to marry him way too early. And he wasn't divorced yet. I should have known there was a problem."
Source: John H. Richardson. "Newt Gingrich: The Indispensable Republican." Esquire.com. 8/10/2010.
John Richardson: "Back in the 1990s, she [Marianne] told a reporter she could end her husband's career with a single interview. She held her tongue all through the affair and the divorce and even through the annulment Gingrich requested from the Catholic Church two years later, trying to erase their shared past."
Source: John H. Richardson. "Newt Gingrich: The Indispensable Republican." Esquire.com. 8/10/2010.
Marianne: "He believes that what he says in public and how he lives don't have to be connected."
Source: John H. Richardson. "Newt Gingrich: The Indispensable Republican." Esquire.com. 8/10/2010.
Jake Tapper: "Gingrich married his second wife, Marianne Ginther, months after he divorced Battley in 1981. According to Battley, Gingrich discussed divorce terms with her while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery."
Source: Jake Tapper. "Gingrich Admits to Affair During Clinton Impeachment." ABCNews.go.com. 3/09/2007.
"In those giddy days after the 1994 election that made him Speaker, Newt and Marianne Gingrich decided to drive to the Georgia coast for Thanksgiving so they could have time to talk, time to think, time to sort out what had happened to them. Marianne has always been Newt's sounding board, the one to bring him down to earth."
Source: "Fall of the House of Newt." Time. 11/16/1998. pg. 38.
Marianne: "You marry to get married, not because you want to change the world."
Source: Leslie Kaufman-Rosen. "Newt's one-woman focus group." Newsweek. 2/13/1995. pg. 31.
Candace, Newt's sister: "Jackie was his equal. With Marianne, initially, he was the authority, the high power."
Source: Gail Sheehy. "The Inner Quest of Newt Gingrich." Vanity Fair. 9/1995. Pbs.org.
Betty Sekula: "Newt was indifferent to Marianne right from the beginning. It was him, not us."
Source: Gail Sheehy. "The Inner Quest of Newt Gingrich." Vanity Fair. 9/1995. Pbs.org.
Gail Sheehy: "I ask Marianne if their marriage was a one-sided equation from the beginning. "That's true ... I was necessarily happy being married to someone like Newt," she admits. Later on, she says, "I made it very clear I wasn't happy with certain behaviors." She gave him a copy of the book Men Who Hate Women & The Women Who Love Them (compare prices), by Susan Forward and Joan Torres. The book describes men who are socialized to dominate and control. One variation is the "Henry Higgins" type of man, who is "often charming and even loving," but who switches to "cruel, critical, insulting behavior on a moment's notice ... They gain control by grinding the woman down. They refuse to take responsibility for how the attacks make their partners feel." "Oh, boy, does that sound like Newt!" exclaims a family friend ... At one point, Newt publicly described the chances of his second marriage succeeding as 53-47. He confides during our interview that he really had not learned to express emotion until he married Marianne -- when he was nearly 40."
Source: Gail Sheehy. "The Inner Quest of Newt Gingrich." Vanity Fair. 9/1995. Pbs.org.
Bill Sanderson: "Gingrich asked Marianne for the divorce by phoning her on Mother's Day, 1999."
Source: Bill Sanderson. "Newt's Ex Wife Aiming to Pen Book." New York Post. 7/18/2000.
Mickey Porter: "Gingrich's most recent ex-wife says he ditched her eight months after finding out she had multiple sclerosis. Marianne Gingrich, 48 ... says the ex-speaker of the House told her on Mother's Day 1999 that he wanted a divorce, after learning she had a neurological condition that could lead to MS [multiple sclerosis]."
Source: Mickey Porter. "Newt's a Beaut." Akron Beacon Journal. 7/25/2000.
Gail Sheehy: "He completely ignores her," observes a Washington journalist who has interviewed Marianne. "It's my impression the marriage is a dead letter. He is so self-obsessed, she could open the door wrapped in plastic wrap and he wouldn't notice."
Source: Gail Sheehy. "The Inner Quest of Newt Gingrich." Vanity Fair. 9/1995. Pbs.org.
Additional Resources:
Steve Benen. "Marianne Gingrich Has Something to Say." WashingtonMonthly.com. 8/10/2010.
"Newt Gingrich: The 5 juiciest details from his ex-wife." TheWeek.com. 8/10/2010.
AP. "Newt mum on mag's claim." Chronicle Telegram. Elyria, Ohio. 8/10/1995. pg. 23.
Mark Hosenball. "He can't do it without me." Newsweek. 8/21/1995. pg. 28.
Margaret Carlson. "Newt's bad old days." Time. 8/21/1995. pg. 31.
"Changing Partners: Newt and Marianne Gingrich and Callista Bisek." George.loper.org. 8/1999.
AP. "Gingrich avoids divorce court battle." Chronicle Telegram. Elyria, Ohio. 12/18/1999. pg. 6.
AP. "Newt Gingrich." Estherville Daily News. Estherville, Iowa. 5/11/2002. pg. 5.


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Crispy Wontons
There's nothing like biting into a crispy wonton. I love the sensation of that first crunch followed by a tender and juicy pillowy center of yummy shrimp, chicken and water chestnuts. These are so easy to make and are great for entertaining because they only take a couple of minutes to fry. They're also extremely economical as you can make 50-60 wontons with this recipe using only about 1/2 pound of shrimp and 1/4 pound of ground chicken. The other cool thing is that you can put a few wontons aside before frying and drop them into boiling chicken broth with some veggies and voila! you have wonton soup. That's what I call Double Happiness!! Whenever an Asian recipe calls for sesame oil, make sure it's dark or toasted sesame oil. You can find Asian sesame oil in the gourmet section of Cost Plus World Market.
- 1/2 pound peeled and deveined raw shrimp, pureed in food processor of finely chopped
- 1/4 pound ground chicken or pork
- 6 canned water chestnuts, finely chopped
- 1/4 cup green onions, finely chopped (green and white parts)
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon toasted seame oil
- dash white pepper
- 1 pound wonton skins
- Store-bought sweet and sour sauce
- 1 egg, slightly beaten
- Veegetale or corn oil for frying
- Mix the shrimp, chicken or pork, water chestnuts, green onions, cornstarch, salt, sesame oil and white pepper in a medium bowl.
- Place 1/2 teaspoon shrimp mixture in center of wonton skin (cover the remaining skins with a damp towel). Fold the bottom corner of the wonton skin over the filling to the opposite corner, forming a triangle. Brush the right corner of the triangle with some egg. Bring the corners together below the filling; pinch the left corner to the right corner to seal. Repeat with the remaining wonton skins.
- Heat the oil (to 1 1/2 inches) in a wok or deep skillet to 350 degrees. Fry 8 to 10 wontons at a time until golden brown, turning 2 or 3 times, about 3 minutes. Drain on a paper towel lined baking sheet. Serve with store-bought sweet and sour sauce.
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These look great….just curious where you buy wonton skins or do you have a recipe for that too? Thanks!


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Hugh Hefner and the rest of the team at Playboy magazine have decided to put Lindsay Lohan's issue on newsstands ahead of schedule after photos from it leaked online yesterday.
RELATED: PHOTOS: Lindsay Lohan Wears Nude Shoes In Nude Playboy Spread
Websites of all stripes posted the pictures yesterday after the entire January/February issue was posted to a site called WorldMags.net. While Playboy spokespeople told Fox News they don't know who is responsible for the leak yet, they have reached out to many sites asking them to remove the pictures. (We here at Styleite obliged to such a request last night.)
The legal action is understandable — Lohan was reportedly paid $1 million for appearing nude in the magazine, and Playboy wants to make all of its money back in newsstand sales. But who's going to buy the magazine if they've already seen the photos online? Hefner himself tweeted last night that "the actual Lindsey Lohan issue will be available on newsstands at the end of next week," but suggested that if they wanted to see the photos right now, they could buy the Playboy iPad app (for $8 a month).
We don't know how negatively the leak will impact sales, but Playboy is taking it very seriously — so seriously that this issue specifically is being marketed as "the perfect Christmas issue for men in your life–father, son, husband, boyfriend, whoever." (Again, Hef's words.) Whoever has the newsstand price in their pocket.
[FoxNews.com, Hugh Hefner Twitter]


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Our friends at Imeem just sent me this drop from Too Short….I had to post it.
Hey Everyone,
So today is the day!!!!!!!!!!!! I am getting ready right now as we
speak to head off to the airport. I am more than excited cause
today is my first record release party in San Francisco which is the
home of my record label Om Records anyway, wish I could stay and
chat a little bit longer but then I would miss my flight . Dad is
doing good and responding to the Chemotherapy thanks to all of your
prayers. I Love you guys and hope to see some of you tonight at
Harlot in SF.
Take Care,
S James.
I couldn't believe it when i saw this website, but it's true. There is a fantasy hip hop league where you can create your own label, sign producers, groups and mc's, manage tours and merch, set marketing budgets, work on distribution deals and set unit prices and help a & r albums. The best thing is that you compete head to head with other members and the model is based off real data for the most part. Check it out, i found a new hobby.
For all those prodcer and dj heads, Scratch Magazine is calling it quits. 3 years in existence and owned by the parent company Harris Publications (XXL), Scratch has announced today that it will be finishing things off with Timbaland and 50 cent on the cover including articles about Alchemist, 9th Wonder and RZA. Read the full story Here
Owner of Ecko and marketing genius just bought Barry Bonds' record breaking baseball. He's leaving it up to the fans to decide the fate. Your choices are giving it to the Hall of Fame, giving it to the Hall of Fame with an asterisk on it, or blasting it off into space in a rocket ship. You can voice you own opinion by clicking Here.
Om's newest singer / songwriter is also a talented painter. For the release of her album Samantha will be laying her interpretation of "Rise" down on canvas. Be one of the first 100 people to purchase "Rise" from Om-Records.com and be entered to win a one of a kind rare autographed painting from Samantha James.
Photo coming soon.
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TOP 20 — Beats that have been bumpin on my block:
1. Ticklah – "Ticklah VS. Axelrod" (Easy Star)
2. B-Team – "Took It To Come Down" (Super HiFi)
3. Awa Band feat. Tony Allen — "Barbatteur" (Sound Way)
4. Kid Sister — "Control" (Fool's Gold)
5. Marvin Gaye – "Give It Up" (U-Tern Mix)
7. Projections – "Souther Girls"
8. Earth, Wind, & Fire – "Brazilian Rhyme" (Kenny Dope Remix)
9. Isley Brothers – "Love Music" (Beatconductor Rework)
10. Brownout – "Homenag" (Freestyle)
11. Brand New Heavies – "All Fired Up" (Tom Moulton RMX)
12. El Coco – "Cocomotion �79"
13. Circus – "I Know You feat. Lyric L & Motet"
14. Blaze & Cook – "Raise Your Feet"
15. Bassnectar – "Yo" (Om Records)
16. Mark De Clive Lowe — "Turn The Light" (Antipodian)
17. Body & Soul – "Ripp's Rework"
18. Bar-Kays -"Too Hot to Stop"
19. Panacea — "Flashback to Stardom" (DJ Spinna RMX)
20. Neighbor – "Oilcity Slut" (Homebreakin)
I know this has been around for quite some time, but man does it bring back memories…


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It's a good day to be a fan of big name recording artists, because there are a bunch of them dropping new albums today. Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa, Radiohead (sort of) and…we think that's it. Oh, wait! There's a new Britney Spears album also, if that's your kind of thing.
Let's get to it. This is your Weekly Release for the last week of March, 2011…
Snoop Dogg – Doggumentary
Jay-Z may have declared the death of Autotune, but that's not stopping plenty of people from trying to resurrect it. The obituary clearly wasn't posted in whatever newspaper Snoop Dogg reads, because "Wet," the first single from Doggumentary, is an Autotune heavy affair. It's also heavy on the bass and, shockingly, quite heavy on the awesome. Snoop has been on a bit of an experimental streak for a few years now, and that shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Who are we to complain about that?
Wiz Khalifa – Rolling Papers
DJ Prince Paul lookalike (raise your hand if we've already lost you) Wiz Khalifa finally releases one of the most anticipated rap albums of the year today. Wiz is possibly the most polarizing figure in rap right now. On one side are fans who have been calling him "Rookie of the Year" for about three years now, if that makes any sense at all (it doesn't). On the other side, a devout group of purists who have declared him a sellout before a good portion of the listening public has even heard of him. You probably already know which side of the fence you've planted your flag on, but if not, his major label debut is ready for your listening pleasure.
Radiohead – The King of Limbs
Wait, what? Hasn't this album been out for a long time now? Yes, it has. But only in digital form. If you're one of the last ten people on Earth who aren't satisfied until you've paid an unreasonably high price for the music you listen to, your prayers have been answered in the form of an official CD release of The King of Limbs. Obsolescence be damned!
Britney Spears – Femme Fatale
The Britney Spears "I Promise I'm Not Insane Anymore" tour makes another stop today with the release of Femme Fatale. Laugh it up, Johnny, but keep in mind, the album is actually getting some pretty stellar reviews. Rolling Stone gave it four stars out of five, for whatever that's worth. People are calling it her best album in years. Again, take that however you wish. We're just letting you know the damn thing is out. Don't shoot the messenger, y'all.


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UTAH: NCAA runner-up on the vault as a freshman ... strong tumbler is also a candidate for floor finals ... goal is to make the all-around lineup as a senior after contributing on vault, beam and floor her first three years ... 12 career victories ... has hit 96-102 career routines ... member of Utah's Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).
2009-NCAA West Region floor co-champion scored a 9.95 ... NCAA regional runner-up on the vault (9.90) ...outstanding in the NCAA Super Six team finals, scoring a 9.925 on both vault and floor ... career-high 9.975 on floor at BYU on Mar. 20 ... eight wins ... hit 29-32 routines ... made the Athletic Director's Honor Roll.
2008-Three-event starter (vault, beam and floor) averaged a 9.80 on her six routines at the NCAA Championships... scored a career-high 9.925 on floor at both Washington and UCLA ... career-high 9.85 on beam ... three wins ... did not fall all season (hit 38-38 routines) ... made the Athletics Director's Honor Roll.
2007: NCAA vault runner-up scored a 9.8875 in individual event finals ... first-team All-American on vault ... scored a career-high 9.925 on vault the first day of the NCAA Championships ... also competed on floor at nationals, scoring a 9.775 and 9.85 in the team qualifying round and Super Six, respectively ... hit all five routines at nationals ... consistent scorer on vault and floor also competed on beam for the first five meets ... four 9.90-or-better vault scores and one 9.90 on floor ... scored a 9.90 on vault and a 9.875 on floor at regionals... one victory ... hit 29-32 routines... NACGC Scholastic All-American ... made the Dean's List and the Athletics Academic Honor Roll.
PRIOR TO UTAH: Two-year U.S. National Team member was the vault runner-up at the 2005 World Cup in Belgium and at the 2005 U.S. Championships ... placed seventh in the all-around at the 2005 U.S. Championships ... first on vault at the 2005 North American Tri-Meet (USA, Canada, Mexico) ... won vault and finished 10th all-around at the 2004 U.S. Classic ... 2003 Junior Olympic floor champion and vault runner-up ... trained at Byers Gymnastics Sacramento under coaches Mas Watanabe and Eli and Debbie Rodriguez ... graduated from Folsom High School.
PERSONAL: Daughter of Nancy and John DiLuzio (pronounced da-LOO-zee-oh) ... father is a firefighter ... adopted when she was 10 days old ... one brother (Anthony) ... behavioral science and health major ... full name is Annie Kaitlyn DiLuzio ... born Sept. 28, 1988 in British Columbia, Canada.
DiLuzio's Career Highs
Vault 9.950 vs. Arizona State, Mar. 6, 2009 9.950 vs. Florida, Mar. 13, 2009 Beam 9.850 vs. Florida, Mar. 14, 2008 Floor 9.975 vs. Brigham Young, Mar. 20, 2009
Age Started Gymnastics: Two
Nickname: Dooz
Last Summer I: I coached at a local gym and went home to California
These Words Describe Me: Determined, supportive, affectionate
You may not know: I was born in Canada and I have dual citizenship
Favorite Gymnastics Skill: Triple full on floor
Most Difficult Skills I've performed: 3 ½ twist on floor and Yerchenko 2 ½ on vault
Favorite Subject in School: Psychology
Favorite Foods: Steak and pasta
Favorite Gymnast: Nastia Liukin


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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries will accept bids through Wednesday for houseboat mooring sites at Atchafalaya Delta Wildlife Management Area in St. Mary Parish.
Successful bidders will be awarded a five-season lease allowing houseboat mooring from Sept. 1 to March 15 each year. The department will provide mooring pilings at the lease site. Bids will be opened on July 31 at 10:30 a.m.
Houseboats can be used as bases for hunting, fishing, boating and other activities.
More bidding information is available online at www.wlf.louisiana.gov/wma/32639 .
Questions about bidding may be directed to Cassidy Lejeune or David Leblanc at 337-373-0032.
The 14,000-acre Atchafalaya Delta Wildlife Management Area is at the mouths of the Atchafalaya River and the Wax Lake Outlet, about 25 miles south of Morgan City.


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Bus Number Changes
Please click here to see the information for the new bus stops & number as of December 2nd, 2013.
Revised Bus Routes 2013-2014
The Massena Central School District Transportation Department announces the revised bus routes for the 2013-14 school year. Please click here to see the information.
Modification to the Elementary Dismissal Schedule
Pick Up Points in the Village
If you have any questions please call the transportation office at 764-3700, ext 3020.
Child Care Transportation Form.pdf
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An industry client
A drinks company was interested in developing a new additive for a soft drink. Bibra was asked to give an opinion on the possible health risks for members of a tasting panel involved in a sensory analysis trial, in which they would receive a one-off exposure to a particular chemical in a liquid product.
To assess whether there was any health risk to members of a tasting panel who received a one-off exposure to the new additive.
The client advised bibra of the maximum level of the new additive to which members of the tasting panel would be exposed. We identified information on existing levels of exposure that are considered acceptable, based on occupational exposure limits, levels used in toxicology studies on volunteers, and experience from the medical use of the compound. Searches were limited to the bibra TRACE database, as this was considered sufficient for the purposes of this initial risk assessment.
Bibra was able to reassure the client that no significant health risks would be anticipated in healthy members of a tasting panel at the estimated levels of exposure to the compound. However, even this preliminary assessment was enough to highlight some potential adverse effects that might arise following prolonged oral intake. It was suggested that the dose-response relationships would need to be carefully assessed before any decision could be made on the merits of deliberately adding this compound to a particular food or beverage. The client was made aware of the possible pitfalls of this idea at an early stage of product development, thus potentially avoiding heavy investment in a product with associated health issues
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Sources: chair, loveseat, flowers, rug
My "office" in our townhome is a metal parsons desk from West Elm (which I love!), a hard plastic chair from Ikea (which I loathe!) and a bulletin board above it… all situated in between a window to the patio and our couch. It's not the worst set-up in the world, as I enjoy being downstairs and near my husband while I'm working at night. But, there's no real separation and it gets hard when I need to be on the phone and Dave is home… and we're both in the middle of the family room (one of us with the TV on mute)… or when I should be cooking dinner or spending time with my family and instead rush over to the computer at every "ding." Some of that is just self-discipline, I know, but I would like my own space so that I can close myself in, or close it off at the end of the day.
In our new home, I'm going to get my wish – an office downstairs complete with glass french doors that provide that separation if need be. I've been day-dreaming about how I will outfit my new office… in addition to adding this table (currently being used as a tiny kitchen table) for spreading papers out, I'd like to add a navy blue velvet sofa, a soft rug underfoot and (this is a must!) a big, comfy chair to replace my hard plastic impossible-to-sit-cross-legged-in chair.
One of my favorite offices is Emily Henderson's, which provides more than enough inspiration for me. I particularly love the blue vintage rug…
What do you think? Any office must-haves I'm forgetting about? I have the boring stuff, like a big printer/scanner and a filing cabinet (of course).


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Lauren N. Ramberger and Justin L. Allen have plans to wed at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 5, 2013, in Free Will Baptist Church, Bunker Hill, by Pastor Bill Sheets.
She is the daughter of Denise Ramberger and Mr. and Mrs. Chris Ramberger. She is a 2010 graduate of Maconaquah High School and completed schooling for a CNA. She is working toward a medical assisting degree.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Scott Allen. He graduated from Maconaquah High School in 2010, studied diesel mechanics at Ivy Tech and is working with that degree.


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Several baby brown pelicans were rescued and treated at the Pelican Harbor Seabird Station in Miami, Florida on Saturday.
The pelicans ranged in age from 5 to 10 weeks old, and had been cared for at the Fort Jackson Bird Rehabilitation Center in Buras.
All photos courtesy U.S. Coast Guard


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DALLAS — A man launched a serious accusation against one of Dallas' largest hospitals during the public comment portion of the Dallas County Commissioners Court meeting on Tuesday morning.
Standing at the podium, James Dunn rolled up his shirt sleeve and showed off an intravenous connection still attached to his arm.
"Right here," he declared, holding up his arm, "the shunt — a medical instrument — was left in my arm!"
Dunn had been taken to Parkland after collapsing at church on Palm Sunday. He was discharged eight days ago with the IV still in his arm.
The accusation clearly alarmed some of the commissioners, who immediately asked staff to find him help.
"That came out of left field," Commissioner Maurine Dickey told News 8 after the meeting. "I was shocked."
Dunn, 54, said he was admitted to Parkland Memorial Hospital on Sunday, April 1 for dizziness. It was his fourth trip to the emergency room this year, he claimed.
After staying overnight, he said nurses discharged him without ever removing the IV connection.
"It's been there since last Monday," he told the commissioners, "which is dangerous."
Parkland refused to discuss Dunn's case. Neither News 8 nor county officials could confirm his claim. Yet Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins asked the hospital's leadership for a full investigation, admitting he has heard similar patient complaints.
"There has been at least one instance that I'm aware of in the near past with someone being released with an IV left in their arm, and that's just not acceptable." Jenkins said. "We can't have that."
For months, Parkland has been rocked by repeated accusations and reports showing widespread, life-threatening problems at the county hospital. The public facility failed a series of government inspections last year and has promised massive changes.
"It's unacceptable this hospital is in the state that it's in now, given our taxpayers pay $400 million a year to subsidize this hospital," Jenkins said.
Late Monday, Parkland spokeswoman Candace White released this written statement:
"Though we are unable to provide specific details due to patient privacy laws, we are concerned and continue to investigate this matter."
Although Dunn admitted he was leery of Parkland, he said he decided to return to the hospital after the Commissioners Court meeting and get the IV removed. He was back home on Tuesday night.
County leaders worry they may be other patients like him.
"If it's happened again, we need to know: Is this a pattern?" Jenkins asked. "And what can we do to correct it?"
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Y.P. Wang, T. Pavlidis, "Optimal Correspondence of String Subsequences," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 12, no. 11, pp. 1080-1087, November, 1990.
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The definition of optimal correspondent subsequence (OCS), which extends the finite alphabet editing error minimization matching to infinite alphabet penalty minimization matching, is given. The authors prove that the string distance derived from OCS is a metric. An algorithm to compute the string-to-string OCS is given. The computational complexity of OCS is analyzed. OCS is more efficient than relaxation and elastic matching for 1D problems. An algorithm combining syntactic information in template matching is given to show the ease of integrating regular grammar into the OCS technique. Since in different applications different penalty functions may be required, two of them are discussed: one pointwise and the other piecewise. The pointwise application consists of a stereo epipolar line matching problem solved by using string-to-string OCS. The feasibility of applying OCS to UPC bar-code recognition is investigated, showing the elegance of string-to-regular-expression OCS compared to the relaxation and elastic matching techniques.
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Alright people now that I've push some buttons, let me start by saying thank you to all of you veteran posters who have been here for awhile. I apologize for the harsh critizism's and bad grammar . Hope you can accept me as an avid fan who is absoloutley passionate about our Chargers. So let's move on....
Continuity has been the key word that A.J. has preached since he has been here. Not many NFL teams have had that. I agree to his model of hiring coaches who has had some measure of success in the same system that has been employed offensively by Norv Turner and defensively by Ron Rivera. We have alot of key free agents this year who probably will not be here for long. Just the same, some of them are not worth keeping anyway. I may be wrong, but I think Luis Castillo is one of those who have already lost a step. We need a quicker defensive end who can not only rush the quarterback, but also plug up some running holes. I also think we may have overpaid for Sproles last year. We tagged him as our franchise player but I just didn't see him living up to it.
What do you guys think of Nnamdi Asomugha playing on the other side of Jammer? I'm just not completly sold on Cason yet. Drafting or signing some free agents who can help us with the pass rush and stopping the run should help our corners. I know it all sounds cliche but defense wins games. Hopefully we can get some players who can help us maintain that continuity on being number one on defense. A.J.'s preaching sounds good for now.


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Dec 10 2013
Snowy, Snowy Cows
After being spared most of the snow that most of our area received over the past week—the snow that has caused schools and churches to close, cars to wind up in ditches, and havoc to break out in the world of air travel—the ranch got a couple of inches of snow late yesterday [...]
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Dec 02 2013
The Day After Thanksgiving
Because it's tradition and because, well, there were calves to work, we had a big working Friday morning, the day after Thanksgiving. The good news was, we didn't start till the late, late hour of 9:00 am…which is sort of like starting at noon on [...]
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Oct 28 2013
Gathering, Sorting, and Preg-Testing
We had a big cattle gathering last Thursday. We didn't start before dark, and that's because it's not the brutally hot summertime anymore. It was after seven when we drove out into the pasture. The horses are saddled before they go in the [...]
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Oct 24 2013
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The guys had a big morning of gathering, sorting, and preg-testing (Moooooooo!!!) on the ranch and I have a big post to share tomorrow with all the highs and lows, ups and downs, tragedy and triumph of that four hour period. As a little bit of a tide-me-over, here are some moments that [...]
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Aug 30 2013
Learning the Ropes
We had some really little calves to work yesterday, and when the calves are this small, the quickest way to get them worked is to rope them. And by "quickest" I don't mean "so we can hurry up and be done." I mean quickest, so the calves will have the least [...]
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Aug 26 2013
The Range Roundup
We had a wonderful time at the Range Roundup over the weekend. It was the first time our kids had actually competed in the rodeo and the little whippersnappers actually held their own. As a mother and an aunt, it was extremely exciting and nerve-wracking to watch, and I only just stopped [...]
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Jul 15 2013
We're shipping cattle right now, and woke up at 4:15 this morning to a pretty strong storm. And while you'll never in a million years catch us complaining about a rainstorm in July, it did delay Marlboro Man's plans by a good hour or so. So I did what any self-respecting [...]
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Jul 12 2013
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The answer to any question anyone asks me this week is 4:15. What did you do today, Ree? 4:15. How are you, Marlboro Man, and the kids doing? 4:15. How's your summer going? 4:15. Can you bring a snack to Cookie Sunday? 4:15. How do you feel about the global climate shift? 4:15. [...]
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Jul 09 2013
It was a beautiful day for hauling hay yesterday! One of our children had the audacity to go to church camp for a week (suspicious timing!) so everyone else had to pick up her slack. My oldest child led the pack. All the while [...]
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May 22 2013
Fixing Water Gaps
Note from PW: Yesterday I posted a list of organizations that are helping Oklahoma tornado victims. You can see that list here if you'd like to help, or check out this page on NewsOK's website for a regularly updated list including local organizations and drop-off centers. [...]
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May 16 2013
A Busy Time on the Ranch
We're smack-dab in the middle of one of the busiest times of the year here on the ranch. We've gotten up before five every morning this week, and the days have been very, very long. In the cracks (I said cracks. Huh huh.) I'm trying to get my garden planted, our roof [...]
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May 14 2013
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Note from PW: I received quite a few more advice questions yesterday and I'm still working on answering several of them, so the Dear PW installment will post tomorrow instead. Meanwhile, my beloved has written a post about his trip to Kansas yesterday. Take it away, honey! [...]
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May 10 2013
Marlboro Man Questions & Answers
Note from PW: Thank you guys for celebrating Anniversary Week with me all week. It's been a great seven years! Thanks, also, for sending along your questions for MM and for me. My beloved is answering today, and I'll post a bunch of answers next week. Take it away, Marlboro [...]
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May 03 2013
Gathering Herefords
The other day, Tim needed to work calves. Marlboro Man and Tim hauled the kids and their horses around to the back side of the pasture so they could start gathering, then they drove back to the pens, rode out, and joined them. Marlboro Man took photos. [...]
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May 01 2013
In the Tub
Once the boys got all the cattle rounded up and herded into the pens, the real work began. They guys were processing the cattle to get ready for the spring and summer grass by worming them, etc, which meant the younger men (pictured above) had to keep the cattle moving in the direction of [...]
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Apr 30 2013
Working Without the Girls
Marlboro Man has entered into a very busy time on the ranch, with many, many cattle to work. Last week, on the eve of one of the most packed days of working he'd scheduled, our two daughters got hit with a wicked sinus infection and had to lie in bed and moan and text me from their [...]
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Mar 07 2013
Sorting Pairs in the Cold
We didn't leave until about 7:30 yesterday morning. But it was so cold, it might as well have been 3:00 a.m. I totally didn't wear the right socks. My boy opened the gate so his mama wouldn't have to. And I was very, very [...]
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Mar 06 2013
How to Warm Up Your Face
This morning we left the house at 7:30 and spent three hours sitting stationary on horseback while Marlboro Man and his brother Tim sorted off pairs. I'll write a post about our morning in a little bit, just after all of my bodily systems defrost. You see, it was cold this morning. I [...]
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Feb 27 2013
Our power is back on, which means I can spend some time telling you about Abigail, a calf that was born last week. We'd gotten a big snowstorm mixed with freezing rain, and Marlboro Man was on full-time feeding duty. Calves were being born, as is normally the case, but most of [...]
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Feb 25 2013
When Snow Hits the Ranch
Marlboro Man feeds cattle and horses all winter, but when snow hits the ranch as it did last week, the feeding operation has to shift into full gear to make sure the animals do well during the bad weather. My younger daughter took these photos the other day when she went feeding with her [...]
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