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The dangers of mixing vodka and Red Bull
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WASHINGTON - Mixing alcohol and energy drinks is a disturbing trend among college students, local health experts say, and there is a growing concern that younger siblings may follow their lead.
Lawrence D'Angelo, director of the Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine Division at Children's National Medical Center, calls the mix of energy drinks and alcohol -- like Red Bull and vodka -- a dangerous combination.
"The real worry for us is that it is going to filter down to even younger kids at the high school and junior high level," he says.
D'Angelo says drinking a beverage mixed with alcohol and caffeine is more dangerous for kids and teens because they are still developing and their bodies do not metabolize alcohol as well as adults.
He adds that the big problem with caffeinated drinks is that the caffeine hides the impact of the alcohol, so young people do not feel the effects immediately and drink more in a shorter period of time.
Scott Shapiro, assistant professor of medicine at George Washington University, explains mixing a stimulant and a depressant impedes the feeling of intoxication.
"When it comes to alcohol ingestion, when you combine it with a stimulant, you may mask some of the depressive symptoms of the alcohol, so people may not think they are as drunk as they are," he says.
Shapiro says that can lead to risky behavior.
"They may drive, they may think they are more alert and do things under the influence of alcohol that they may not do otherwise," he says.
In 2010, the FDA sent warning letters to four companies that make energy drinks with caffeine -- including the popular Four Loko -- saying that the caffeine was an "unsafe food additive." The companies removed the caffeine ingredient soon after.
The American Academy of Pediatrics is concerned about the issue and advises doctors to talk to their teenage patients about the risks posed by mixing caffeine and alcohol.
It's an idea that D'Angelo fully endorses. He says some teens may not listen, but he believes enough will get the message to make a difference.
Besides mixing alcohol and caffeine, he says teens should be warned about energy drinks in general. D'Angelo says they are a health problem, and hospitals are seeing more emergency visits as a result.
The number of emergency visits related to energy drinks doubled from 10,068 visits in 2007 to 20,783 visits in 2011, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
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I've been in love with cars since day one. I was almost born in a 70 Firebird Formula 400. I think I could hear the tires burning on the way to the hospital even in the womb. My first cars were Hot Wheels and I still haven't out grown them. My parents always had cool muscle cars. So when it was time to get my first car it had to be fast, loud and of course cool. 1967 Firebird 400. Several tickets and suspended licenses later I parked it and got something tamer. I still have the need for speed I just control it a little better. HAHA.
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Justin Theroux joined Jennifer Aniston this afternoon for the premiere of her new film Cake at TIFF. He's actually been here a couple of days. Was photographed at the Warner Bros party on Saturday night without her. Today they did not walk the carpet together but agreed to a shot inside. As for Cake…well… You've heard it before: get ugly for Oscar. Full Story
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Gwyneth Paltrow was one of the producers of Stand Up To Cancer. The goal of SU2C was to raise over $100 million in support of cancer research. The event was simulcast around the world, even on competing conventional and cable networks and streamed on Yahoo! and Hulu without commercials and featured performances by Jennifer Hudson, Lupe Fiasco, Common, The Who, Dave Matthews, and Ariana Grande. Full Story
Good morning, Jennifer Aniston
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Jennifer Aniston is out there promoting a new movie called Life Of Crime, opening this weekend. She was on Kimmel promoting the film and he staged a mini Friends reunion with Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow, replicating Monica's apartment, and then she went to the premiere in a silver dress. The way the light hits her mid-section, you know what the conversation was supposed to be? IS JEN PREGNANT? For the 33rd time. Full Story
More A List Ice Buckets
Still some big names participating in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Jennifer Aniston was nominated by Justin Theroux. And he poured her ice bucket too. So, yeah, we're getting to the very, very top now. Once we've hit Jennifer Aniston, no matter what her box office looks like, we're approaching the exclusives. Full Story
Jennifer & Justin: a celebration trip
PEOPLE posted an article yesterday about Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux. They're on holiday in Bora Bora. They left on August 7 and were supposed to be away for a week. So it was timed for when they got back. According to US Weekly – and they reported it first – the two were at the Four Seasons. Full Story
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Forbes has released its list of the top earning actresses in Hollywood. Sandra Bullock came in at #1 with $51 million between June 2013 and June 2014. Happy 50th Birthday, Sandy! In second place is Jennifer Lawrence. She made $34 million. Third belongs to Jennifer Aniston at $31 million. The fourth place actress is Gwyneth Paltrow at $19 million. In fifth place is Angelina Jolie.
Now I don't want to take away from any of their accomplishments but this is Hollywood, where careers are built and broken by romance and romantic partners. And that connection is undeniable where the three women in the #3, 4, and 5 spots are concerned.
If however they took into consideration that CBS just finalised the new deal for Big Bang Theory, it would actually be Kaley Cuoco in Paltrow's position because she's now making Aniston Friends money -- $1 million per episode over 24 episodes a season for the next 3 seasons. Read Full Intro
Monica, Phoebe, and Rachel
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They all went out together last night. It was a Friends reunion at Craig's in LA as Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, and Jennifer Aniston met up for dinner, leaving in separate cars. Courteney and Lisa drove themselves. Jen had a driver. And I'm with her man because why not have another glass of wine when someone can take you home? If more of them took that extra step, they wouldn't always be getting busted for DUI. Full Story
Jen's & Courteney's double date
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Jennifer Aniston was out last night at a DETAILS party because her fiancé Justin Theroux is the current cover. And Courteney Cox came with her fiancé too. In other Aniston news, she's just launched her second fragrance "J". Her first fragrance came out three years ago. Full Story
Who's the horrible boss?
Horrible Bosses was a perfectly serviceable comedy that is most notable for featuring Charlie Day, because Charlie Day is a national treasure and any time he's on screen it's worth watching. And since it made $209 million at the box office, it got a sequel, which is due in November. Horrible Bosses 2 reunites Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, and Day, as well as brings back two of the three bosses from the first movie, Kevin Spacey and Jennifer Aniston. Full Story
Jennifer & Justin…SELL!
Last night was the premiere of HBO's The Leftovers in New York. Now you know if Jennifer Aniston hadn't shown up to support fiancé Justin Theroux on this carpet, they would have given the tabloids a reason to announce a breakup. Not only did she show up, she came to sell. There was a lot of hands on chest and midsection. Full Story
Jennifer Aniston's Life Of Crime
A new trailer for Life Of Crime has been released, adapted from Elmore Leonard's The Switch. Tim Robbins has a mistress, Isla Fisher, and he doesn't seem to be into his wife, Jennifer Aniston. So what happens when some gangsters kidnap her for ransom? I love how Aniston's been styled in this film. Full Story
Gwyneth's past …and future?
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There was some kind of art event – I think – at Paramount Studios yesterday in Hollywood. Brad Pitt was there wearing his favourite outfit. His only outfit? It's the only thing he ever wears! And the thinking used to be that if you wear the same thing, the paps won't want to pap you – so believed Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow. Full Story


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We're staying in very close touch with COMET (Cambridge Open METadata), a fellow project being funded by JISC under the same Infrastructure for Resource Discovery strand as Jerome.
I met up with Ed Chamberlain (the Systems Development Librarian at Cambridge University Library) last week, to discuss how Jerome and COMET can share ideas, resources, and workload – basically, to try and get better value from both projects; to give JISC more squid for their quid; to demonstrate collaboration/sharing/networking and all those sorts of things; and finally, just to keep things really interesting.
It all boils down to two happy coincidences…
- COMET is releasing loads of data (~2.2 million MARC records). Jerome loves data!
- Lincoln is making cool APIs. Cambridge love APIs!
Ed and I have talked already how Jerome can re-use some of the work that COMET are already doing to identify ownership (and potential IPR conflicts) in MARC records. We're also looking to Cambridge for leadership in producing Linked Data representations. In return, we'll attempt to apply Jerome methodologies (NoSQL architecture, "radical personalisation", machine learning) to Cambridge's enormous dataset, and see what results.
Toward the end of both of our projects, we're thinking about an internal, one-day mashup event, where Jerome and COMET developers can get together (probably in Cambridge), and see what interesting things can be squeezed out of both ways of working.


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Tha masterclass is based on the pieces of Wagner, though the participants will also get help and guidance in performig other composers' pieces.
The masterclass will end by a concert on the last day, where the performers will be selected by Eva Marton from the active participants.
The number of active and passive participants are limited, the application does not mean participation automatically. Applications with CV should be sent electronically to the address: email@example.com before 2nd September 2013.
Further information can be found from 12 September on the website: http://opera.hu/Marton-kurzus
Eva Marton's masterclass, taking place at the Székely Bertalan Hall of the Hungarian State Opera, is open and free for Hungarian and foreign singers, Music Acacemy students, active singers and for those are just starting their career.
Dates of the mastercourse: 16 – 20th, September
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All open source software is not created equal
Ed Bott: I love Open Source software. I find it hard to imagine a world without Apache, WordPress, and Firefox, to name three easy examples.
But the world is not a better place because of a horrible security flaw in another Open Source package, the widely used OpenSSL library that existed on web servers for more than a year. The Heartbleed flaw exposed just about everyone who has ever used the Internet to potentially catastrophic losses.
So what happened to the "many eyeballs" that were supposed to inspect that code and find the bugs? Alas, there weren't enough funds to pay for those eyeballs. Even after the flaw was discovered and donations increased, there's still not enough money to sustain development properly. And that story, not enough backing and not enough skilled developers, is true for many, many projects.
There's nothing magical about Open Source, nothing evil about closed source. What matters is that the project be run by an organization that has the resources to write, test, ship, deploy, and maintain code properly. The idea that any Open Source project can be widely used even if it doesn't have proper backing has to end.
It wasn't a failure of open source
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Seriously? That's the question? Come on!
Make no mistake about it. Heartbleed was open-source's worst hour. But, it wasn't a failure of open source per se. It was a failure to actually practice open-source development methods.
Every developer makes programming blunders. One of the big reasons why open source works is to quote Linus's law, as proclaimed by Eric S. Raymond, in his seminal essay "The Cathedral and the Bazzar" is that "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."
The problem with OpenSSL that let the Heartbleed blunder in is that no one really looked at the code. Heck, it seems not even the NSA looked at the code!
In short, the recipe is still fine, but only if the cooks actually follow it! Of course there are reasons why people don't this. One of the biggest seems to have been simply paying people to look for bugs. To fix that problem the Core Infrastructure Initiative, made up of top tech companies including Amazon, IBM, Intel, and VMware, will now be sponsoring important, but underfunded, open-source projects.
With cash in hand, and people sticking to the true open-source method, I don't see a repeat of Heartbleed coming up anytime soon.


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Sanitary facilities
Accessible WC facilities can be found in Terminals A and C in the departures and arrivals areas, as well as in the combination module between A and B on the arrivals level. The facilities in Terminal A are provided in the public area. In Terminal C the facilities are in both the public area and in the waiting room. In Terminal B sanitary facilities are only available for people with reduced mobility in the waiting room. The sanitary facilities in the B and C waiting rooms are fully accessible. The toilets in the public area must be opened with a euro-key, but you can ask Airport Service to open them by calling from the info telephone (1740.
All elevators are wheelchair accessible and fitted with a lower control panel, thereby ensuring barrier-free level changes at all points.
Access to restaurants and bars is also set up for wheelchair users, as is the shopping and duty-free area.
Public telephones are provided in all terminal areas, and are also easily accessible for wheelchair users.
Service pillars
Pillars to call from for people with reduced mobility are provided in every terminal on both the arrivals and departures levels to improve the accessibility of the PRM Service. The service pillars are also identified with a wheelchair sign and can be used with induction loops for people with hearing aids. You will be connected with the PRM Service with a direct call button, so that you can independently order the necessary assistance at all times. Alternatively you can also contact your airline. Your check-in staff will be happy to do this for you.
Service pillar locations:
Terminal A – departures: In the center of the terminal adjacent to the panorama elevator.
Terminal A – arrivals: Opposite the panorama elevator.
Terminal B – departures: In the center of the terminal adjacent to the panorama elevator.
Terminal B – arrivals: On the right on the wall beside the escalators leading to the departures level.
Terminal C – departures: Between the Hub Convenience and the revolving doors to the S-Bahn (trains).
Terminal C – arrivals: Opposite the first revolving door to the S-Bahn and directly beside the elevator at the terminal exit.
Medical assistance
Should medical assistance be required, the Airport Fire Department and the Knights of St. John first aid assistance are ready at all times to help you. Health insurance-related emergency services can also be provided on request.
Blind/sight-impaired airport guests
New tactile system in trial phase
In addition to the service pillars, which have been in place in the departures and arrivals areas for some time now, trial sensor strips have been laid on the floor leading away from entrances/exits (luminescent white and abraded). These strips lead to the call pillars, and are primarily designed for passengers and guests with sight impairments. But of course they also serve to provide better orientation for people with reduced mobility.
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Apple has unveiled a new 15-inch MacBook Pro featuring a Retina display, all flash storage and quad-core processors in a thin and light design measuring 0.71 inches thick and weighing 4.46 pounds.
The Retina display features five million pixels, three million more than an HD TV. At 220 pixels-per-inch, the Retina display's pixel density is so high the human eye cannot distinguish individual pixels from a normal viewing distance, so text and graphics look sharp, Apple said. The Retina display uses IPS technology for a 178-degree wide viewing angle, and has 75% less reflection and 29% higher contrast than the previous generation.
Featuring an aluminum unibody design and an all flash storage architecture, the new MacBook Pro is the lightest MacBook Pro and nearly as thin as a MacBook Air, Apple said. Flash storage that is up to four times faster than traditional notebook hard drives enables the new MacBook Pro to play four simultaneous streams of uncompressed 1080p HD video from internal storage. The flash storage architecture also delivers improved reliability, instant-on responsiveness and 30 days of standby time.
The new machine features Intel Core i7 quad-core processors up to 2.7GHz with Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.7GHz, Nvidia GeForce GT 650M discrete graphics, up to 16GB of faster 1600MHz RAM and flash storage up to 768GB, Apple said. Two Thunderbolt and two USB 3.0 ports allow users to connect to multiple displays and high performance devices, and a new HDMI port offers connectivity to HDTVs.
- 2014 global high brightness LED market, trends and shipment forecast
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Conventional growth strategies have reduced poverty. People now have more access to basic services and more opportunities for mobility and participation. But there are still persistent unmet needs, widening inequalities, and new development challenges such as climate change, intensifying natural disaster and resource depletion. There is a search for growth strategies that better fit a changing economic, social and environmental reality.
During the past three decades, the development of highly integrated global value chains in which products are supplied, manufactured and distributed across national boundaries have created a new form of division of labour among Asian economies, especially in North-East and South-East Asia. The rapid growth of global value chains has dramatically changed production patterns, international trade and foreign direct investment in the region, with a notable expansion of intraregional trade through multiple border crossings of parts and components.
The present document is based on the forthcoming Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Report 2013 (henceforth the Report), which is the main substantive document prepared for the third session of the Committee on Trade and Investment. The Report comprises two parts. In the first part, there is a focus on trends and developments in trade in merchandise and commercial services, foreign direct investment flows, performance in trade facilitation, and reliance on preferential policies and trade agreements from an Asia-Pacific perspective.
While transport has been an essential element in the rapid growth and economic development of Asia and the Pacific, the sector is now at a crossroads more than ever before. Rocketing demand for transport services is putting extreme pressure on existing infrastructure at a time when public budgets are constrained and awareness about the negative externalities of transport activities is growing. The challenge is therefore to ensure that today's transport policies and investments will contribute to a sustainable and inclusive development path for the future.
Trade has the potential to contribute to economic growth and to more and better jobs. Whether trade contributes to growth that is inclusive, in the sense that all people can contribute to and benefit from growth triggered by trade, is likely to depend on country specificities including institutional pre-conditions and policies applied in domains other than trade. This paper identifies specific challenges for making trade inclusive and identifies ways for dealing with them.
The Cocoa Grower's Association (CGA) in the Republic of Vanuatu is a fundamental example of how the organization of local cooperatives can make a significant impact and create an environment for inclusive trade. This paper will review a case study of implementing a governing association that coordinates cocoa cooperatives in Vanuatu, and which is focused on organizing the production and trade in the region, as a method to highlight key lessons learned and potential for scalability in furthering inclusive trade goals.
This paper studies the linkages between international openness and inclusive growth, understood as better access to productive employment and entrepreneurship, the reduction of poverty and a more equal income distribution. It introduces the notion of inclusive trade as the linkages through which international integration can contribute to inclusive growth. Four dimensions of potential linkages are analyzed, namely: (i) aggregate employment and its distribution, (ii) aggregate productivity, (iii) poverty and income inequality, and (iv) equal opportunities.
The 2013 ESCAP Population Data Sheet for Asia and the Pacific focuses on maternal health. In light of the current challenges in achieving MDG 5 on maternal health, indicators such as births attended by skilled health personnel, maternal mortality ratio, unmet need for family planning and adolescent fertility rates are provided.
This report highlights that Asia and the Pacific has made good progress towards the MDGs, through the region will still need to make greater efforts if it is to meet some important targets. Now it has the opportunity to set its sights higher when considering priorities for a post-2015 framework.
The Millennium Development Goals have helped rally political support for global efforts to reduce poverty and achieve sustainable human development. The Asia-Pacific region has achieved remarkable progress on the MDGs, particularly on reducing income poverty; however, it still has a significant 'unfinished agenda'. People in the region continue to face major deprivation, along with many new and unaddressed development challenges. As the finishing line for the MDGs approaches, this report articulates Asia-Pacific aspirations for a post-2015 development framework.
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We had every intention of waking up early and soaking in a little bit more of Florence before driving into the next part of our vacation in Umbria. But you know how it goes…you eat a heavy meal, get drunk off of too many glasses of red wine, grappa, and some sort of military spirit you've never even heard of…and then all of a sudden, your 7am wake up call became more like 10am and your plans of making it into Orvieto for lunch on your way to Assisi disappear out of thin air.
Not to be the sort that gets down on a shift in the plan, we leisurely ate our breakfast, took one more look at the river, and even did some light shopping by the Ponte Vecchio before hopping in the car to leave Tuscany. The game plan had turned into an "eat lunch wherever we see something good," sort of thing and we decided that our ambitious Umbrian day-trip would have to do without one piece of the puzzle. As we drove on the autostrada blasting an Italian Top 40s cover of the international Korean hit "Gangnam Style," we noticed a beautiful body of water in the distance.
It was Lake Trasimeno and we had entered Umbria. I had read about Lake Trasimeno while doing research for our trip, so I was familiar with the ancient town of Castiglione del Lago close by. As we hesitated and drove past it, we instead pulled off to get a view of the water and instead stumbled upon Passignano sul Trasimeno; a dainty lakeside town that was quiet but had an assortment of restaurants and small hotels. The vibe here was casual– almost like a lazy beach town. And so we parked the car, surveyed our dining options, and popped into this cute little place called Ristorante Luciano.
I won't lie. The reason why this place won over the others was that the building itself was just so endearing. The decor was vintage-looking and there was a charm about it that drew us in. Luckily, they were still seating late lunch (around 2pm) and were able to accommodate us. Making the most of this impromptu lake trip, we ordered a bottle of sparkling white wine and sat next to a big open window over-looking the water. Continue reading


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Winning lottery ticket in Lorton
WTOP's Neal Augenstein reports.
WASHINGTON - The winning ticket in Saturday's record-setting $600 million Powerball jackpot was sold in Florida, but according to lottery officials, someone in Virginia just missed.
The consolation prize is a cool $1 million.
According to a statement from Virginia Lottery, the million-dollar ticket was bought at the Food Lion on Gunston Plaza in Lorton. Another 11 Virginia tickets each won $10,000.
The winning numbers were 10-13-14-22-52, with a Powerball number of 11. A million- dollar ticket is one that correctly guesses the five main numbers but misses the Powerball number. A total of 33 tickets nationwide won $1 million.
The jackpot grew so big because no one had won since March 30, the lottery said. For Wednesday's drawing, the jackpot goes back to $40 million.
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If you haven't tanked before and are looking to start on a serious level there is nothing as valuable as running with friends/guildies to start with. Especially if one of your friends/guildies is already a good pally tank so they can 'see' things you're doing or respond to questions you have.
There are 4 key elements to succesfully starting to tank - there are many more than that to become a great tank ;-)
1. You need to control the pace. If you let the DPS push you, you'll get yourself into trouble. Mark kill priority - skull and X, so you're not trying to taunt 4 mods running at 4 different people. Controlling the pace will be key.
2. Know your threat abilities. Even if you're not great at using them, know which abilities you should start with in AoE and single-target rotations. At first you may not be 'optimal' in using them, but so often I've run with new (thinking CTA only) tanks that only seem to know about 2 or 3 abilities to create threat.
3. Know your defensive CDs. Knowing how long they last, how long they will take to be ready again, this will go really far into making you 'easy to heal' as you can mitigate the big damage spikes healers hate.
4. Know the fights. Know when the damage is coming. Know where the tank needs to place them, no when you need to kite the boss through the molten lava, etc.
I know all 4 sounds like duh! things - but if you're good with these 4, you'll be in good shape. If you start with guildies and/or friends, you'll be in even better shape. Basically, if you know these 4 things, it may be rough at times, but it won't be a confidence killing wipefest. If you don't know these things you'll have a harder time beating the fight and that's not good for your confidence.


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I'm going to try this when I get home! Thanks for the information Squirrelnut.
UPDATE: #3 has been tested by many users and is by far the most helpful for anyone trying to improve their WoW latency.
The other day I experienced 1000-3000ms latency when normally I have 50-80ms. Not only that but I was CONSTANTLY getting DCed from the raid which isn't fun when you are the 25m MT so I did some research and thought I would share it here as well as on my guild's site.
I. Find server IP
II. 3.2.2 DCing & Latency Issues
III. Leatrix Latency Fix
IV. Additional Tips
I personally tested these changes I have returned to a full night of raiding with 50-80ms, no disconnects and no other problems. Hopefully this might help some people resolve their issues without searching everywhere for things to try.
I. Finding your WoW server IP address
For testing purposes it is really important to have an IP that you can trace so that you can see if problems are a result of your ISP or elsewhere in the route to your game server.
Here is how to see what the IP to your WoW server is (PC based):
1. Login to WoW and connect to your normal server
2. Press alt+tab to minimize WoW and return to your desktop
3. Click 'Start', 'Run' then type 'cmd' and click ok
4. Type 'netstat -n' and wait until it finishes and the command prompt appears again
5. Find the IP address connected on port 3724 for example: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:3724 this is the IP to your WoW server
If you want to run a trace to that server do the following:
1. Click 'Start', 'Run' then type 'cmd' and click ok
2. Type 'tracert xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' where the x's are the IP address of your WoW server (don't include the port 3724)
**Note** If you prefer you could type "tracert xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > "C:\trace.txt" in the DOS window to have the trace saved to a 'trace.txt' file.
Blizzard has pinging functionality and the last few hops of a traceroute disabled to prevent attacks, don't worry that after the first group of hops in your trace to the WoW server the connections will all time out.
II. 3.2.2 DCing & Terrible Latency Fix
Here is a potential fix that has worked for some people (XP instructions but Vista should be similar), it mostly works for home users not so much for people on college internet.
1. Right click 'My Computer' and select 'Properties'
2. Under the 'Hardware' tab click the 'Device Manager' button
3. Under 'Network Adapters' right click your adapter and select 'Properties'
4. Under the 'Advanced' tab find the option for 'Flow Control' and enable it
5. Under the same 'Advanced' tab find the option for 'Speed and Duplex' and set it to '100 Mbs Full Duplex'
This really depends on what modem and connection you have, basically if you have 100 Mbs Full Duplex available you should use it. You should be able to leave it on 'auto negotiate' but some don't work correctly and it helps to set either Full or Half duplex depending on what you have available to you.
III. Leatrix Latency Fix (for PCs, read the wowinterface notes for a Mac fix)
I tried this latency fix and surprisingly it actually worked perfectly for me. I was averaging 180-300 pings while other games like Counter Strike I would have 30-65. After using this fix however, my wow latency is down around 50-80
Leatrix Latency Fix : WoWInterface Downloads : WoW Tools & Utilities
Give it a try and see what you think, it modifies your registry for you so you don't need any advanced computer knowledge to do it. If you don't like the fix you can easily take it back off at any time.
Read the included notes on the wowinterface page for full details and explanation of how the fix works and what exactly it does. There is no danger to your computer and the fix can easily be removed.
IV. Additional Tips
- Fubar Addon Spam Fu: tells you who has addons going crazy overloading your connection
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- Get rid of Quest Helper
- Disable as much as possible from your combat log filtering (you can still run /combatlog to record raid info to post to wmo or wws since it is separate from your in-game filtering)
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Hope it works as well for you as it did for me I was really surprised at the improvement.
* Finding your WoW server's IP: US realm list by datacenter - WoWWiki (may be incorrect for newer servers)
* Be aware that even though your latency to the server may be low, different locations in game correspond to different physical machines in the cluster of machines that make up a world server. Depending on the number of people on a given machine and how much traffic is required for one person (ironforge vs. barrens), some of your latency will be due to the sheer number of network requests it has to handle, and just how much processing it has to do to support the users that are on it.
* Read the EJ guide to fixing disconnects: Fixing the Chain Disconnecting - Elitist Jerks
* Understand what the Leatrix thing is doing. It's not necessarily good for other things you do on your computer:
The problem you are solving is the interaction between WoW and the network protocol - delayed ACK, or TCPNoDelay as it's called in the registry.
The delayed ACK mechanism assumes that after you receive some data, it can just wait for the next outbound datagram you're going to send and tack on the acknowledgement of the data you just received (assuming a fixed time interval does not pass before the next datagram goes out). Fine and well, and it does increase efficiency and reduce bandwidth.
This is a reasonable and good strategy, but it does not play well with online games such as WoW. With delayed ACK waiting for the next outbound datagram to attach the acknowledgement to, you're artificially increasing your latency from client to server. When you do this registry trick and your latency drops, it's because you removed the bottleneck that is caused by the poor interaction delayed ACK and the game - you're now getting your true latency to the server. For gameplay, this is a desirable thing
That said, what this thing above does is globally delayed ACK on your computer, for all applications. This has the benefit of improving your WoW performance (and really, any online game's performance,) but on the other hand it can and probably does slow down other things you do over the Internet. This change will not affect web browsing to any great extent, so if your biggest Internet activities are WoW and surfing, this is a very reasonable thing to do.
In past there was another actor at work here - Nagle's algorithm. Nagle's algorithm works by looking at the datagram you're about to send and if it is small, it just buffers it up and waits for enough data to make a "reasonable" sized datagram to send. Again, this is reasonable. Say your message is 4 bytes long. Attach to that the TCP/IP header of 32 bytes, and you can see that individually sending a stream of 4 byte messages will use a lot more bandwidth than the size of the message would indicate. Queueing ten or twenty 4 byte packets and only putting one header on them is a lot more efficient for sure. The WoW client disables Nagle now for you, so it's nothing you need to worry about.
That's for people who don't want to use something like Leatrix and go finding the manual way to do it on the web. Don't worry about disabling Nagle in the registry because the WoW client does it for you. (But also keep in mind that other games may not disable Nagle for themselves, so it may be worthwhile to see if disabling Nagle globally helps your performance in other games!)
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- The problem with that datacenter list is that it is not entirely accurate. My posted method for viewing your server's IP has actually been posted by Bliz Dev's on the wowforums and thus I would think is the most accurate approach.
- The wowinterface page includes discussion on what the Leatrix Latency Fix does and includes mention of the Nagle stuff as well:
- After having used the fix WoW latency has dramatically improved and I have not noticed any reduction in speed in other games, web browsing or downloads/uploads. If anyone is concerned she also included a 1-click uninstall option as well.Didn't Blizzard disable this already?
This is a common misconception but the answer is no. What Blizzard did was disable nagling, way back in patch 2.3.2.
Nagling bundles small packets together into larger ones for more efficient transmission. The effects are similar - bundling packets together always produces higher latency which is why it's bad for online games. Blizzard disabled nagling because of this, however, the acknowledgement queueing system used by the TCP protocol remains.
For the technically minded, Blizzard made the TCPNoDelay function redundant, as Wow now includes it by default. They didn't change TcpAckFrequency. Leatrix Latency Fix changes that.
does this help for the people who get DCed cause of the Gormok fire?
Excellent, there's the Nagle question answered. The realm list is probably less accurate for newer servers, makes sense. Disabling delayed ACK is good for most online games; the only problems people might see is with other network applications.
Gormok fire is probably a combination of combat log and graphics settings.
I was DCing all over the place: Gormok, Ony, Anub, a lot more. Since doing these fixes I have not DCed once and my ping stays constant 50-80ms
There, fixed the bit about Nagle to be only a footnote.
Thanks for the EJ link addition Satrina, I had seen a couple on there but the one you linked has nice pictures exemplifying some of the tweaks I included such as:
- the Fubar Spam Addon link that I included in the additional tips.
- the leatrix fix except they explain how to do it yourself by modifying your registry instead of just clicking the leatrix file which does it for you
- the combat log filtering suggestion with pictures
And it also includes some additional tips on hardware, wireless, etc.
It always amazes me how many people raid on wireless connections. Maybe it'll be good for you today, this week, or this month, but in the end it will come to gnashing of teeth and tears.
My biggest problem with wireless networks is when you have a neighbour with a cheap wireless telephone that doesn't play nicely as per IEC emission regs, and broadcasts full blast on all frequencies in the 2.4 GHz spectrum instead of frequency hopping to establish a clean connection. It's hard to track down the culprit if you live in densely populated area.
basically, you are diabling ethernet auto negotiation, and forcing your PC ethernet port to fixed 100Mb/s, full duplex. most likely, however, you are leaving your router set to autonegotiate. this creates a scenario called "parallel detection" where one side is trying to autonegotiate the speed and duplex, while the other side is fixed. here's the result of that scenario:
1) the router can and will autodetect the speed of your PC and set itself to 100Mb/s.
2) the router CANNOT autodetect the forced duplex setting and so will automatically choose half-duplex (per ethernet protocol standard) - this explains why you are having to force your PC to flow control.
with a full duplex link, there is no flow control since data can pass in both directions at full speed simultaneously. if you truly had a FD link, like you think you are forcing, then the flow control setting would be unnecessary.
however, since you are ending up with a duplex mismatch, and the router is operating in half-duplex mode, you need to set the flow control to stop your connection from slowing to a crawl. half-duplex links can only send data in one direction at a time. without flow control there are constant collisions; by forcing flow control, at least you have a back-off algorithym to help increase the speed somewhat, but it will not equal what a full-duplex link will give you.
my guess is someone tried this and their connection got better. it could have been by chance, or they could have had a very specific network problem that this fixed. perhaps they had a very old ethernet hub that did not support autonegotiate.
99.9% of the time, this is NOT going to help the average home user. any reasonably new hardware is going to support autonegotiate, and be configured for autonegotiate by default. this will result in a 100Mb/s, full duplex link at startup, or even a 1Gb/s link if both ends support it. either way is a better scenario than parallel detection.
don't do it, unless you know why.
Are you referring to just the flow control part or are you recommending not setting the full duplex part as well? I sifted through various tech support threads and found many people suggesting this approach with Blue dev support (specifically asking people to try using either 10mbs or 100mbs full duplex connection).
if you know what you are doing, you can force both ends of the link - meaning force the PC to 100Mb/s, FD and also force the router to 100Mb/s, FD, which will guarantee you a 100Mb/s, FD link. flow control is irrelevant with a FD link; the only reason it was necessary to force that in your suggestion is because the router must default to half duplex.
here's the thing though - by forcing both ends to 100Mb/s, FD, you will end up with the exact same thing you would have had by leaving both sides set to autonegotiate, which they should already be set to. per the standard, autonegotiate will pick the highest speed that both ends support, and will always choose full duplex if available at both ends. this will happen 100% of the time, unless something is broken.
the only time i could see this helping is if someone had previously forced their router to 100Mb/s, FD because of the same misunderstanding of how autonegotiate works. in that case, also forcing the PC setting would fix the existing parallel detection condition.
nobody said every tech support person was an ethernet expert either... SBC once told me to unplug my ethernet cable and turn it around and plug it back in the other way...
i like tip III though; i'm going to do that as soon as i get home
First of all, not receiving an ack does not in and of itself stop a computer from sending packets. A TCP sender will happily keep sending out packets without having received a single ack (and in fact, some congestion control approaches do that fairly aggressively).
Instead, TCP acks are used to recognize lost packets. If you don't ever lose a packet, sending acks early will not buy you much. But when you do, it can matter. Briefly, TCP generally relies on getting duplicate acks to recognize packet loss, as follows: Each ack has a byte sequence number showing the sender how much data the receiver has already received. The receiver sends an ack with the byte index of the last contiguous piece of data it has received. If there's a missing packet, it will just resend the last ack. So, if the sender starts getting duplicate acks, it will know that the sender is getting packets, but is not making progress because of a missing packet. So it knows to send data again, and the sequence number will tell it what needs to be resent.
This matters in two ways: One, with delayed acks, resending data can take longer, because it takes longer for the sender to recognize that a packet has been lost. Two, with delayed acks, you may run out of send buffer space: Until data receipt has been acknowledged, the sender has to keep around the data in case it has to be resent. Fast acknowledgements allow the sender to remove old data from the send buffer earlier (of course, this shouldn't matter for games, and if it does, you could also make the send buffer bigger). Finally, delayed acks can also interact oddly with flow/congestion control (but so can non-delayed acks, since congestion control algorithms are usually implemented assuming delayed acks). I'm not sure what exactly is happening in the Windows case, but I've seen it myself, and it can be noticeable (400+ ms latency with delayed acks vs. 200+ ms latency with non-delayed acks).
Incidentally, if you own a Mac, while you can apply a similar change, the tweak may not be necessary. To be precise, you can change the TCP ack mechanism policy by setting the kernel parameter net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack via sysctl -- 0 is off, 1 is on, 2 and 3 are different adaptive settings. On my Mac at least, the default (3) works well enough to not require further tweaking, while on my husband's spare Windows laptop (which I currently use because my Mac's graphics card gave up the ghost last week) I needed to tweak the TCP ack frequency parameter to get rid of a fairly noticeable lag effect. So, while you could set it to 0, there is unlikely to be a noticeable effect. (Note also that the values have meanings that are totally different from Windows!)
That is a very good explanation of the whole picture
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From a complete dummy's perspective, reading these posts really helped me to understand why my connection was so bad. I've refered half my 25 team to this post and no one is dc'n anymore! I do not run a router and I changed my settings to 100mbs Full Duplex and it really sped me up!
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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:15 pm
Post subject: Lots of spam lately
The forum has been getting hit pretty hard lately by spam.
Perhaps its time we enforce a login mechanism? I'd like to see what the people think about this, in a democratic manner. So, I'm putting up a poll.
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:40 pm
Post subject: Re: Lots of spam lately
dylan wrote:
The forum has been getting hit pretty hard lately by spam.
and notice how quickly it disappears...
dylan wrote:
Perhaps its time we enforce a login mechanism? I'd like to see what the people think about this, in a democratic manner. So, I'm putting up a poll.
i have voted
. i think a more constructive course of action would be for more folk to take a more active role in deleting spam. anyone want to moderate a forum?
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:02 pm
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doh. i'm dumb. i meant to vote "no". Minus one for yes, plus one for no. ;)
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:44 pm
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I vote no. I mean we got enough people with mod status to note IP, delete post and ban IP. The only thing that gives away spam exists here is the user list something we can deal with if it becomes out of control. It takes 1 minute to create an account to spam with and just 5 seconds to delete it.
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:34 pm
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I voted no. I just wish Jeff would let me & r7 have access to the firewall so we can add 'em in without going through jebba (of course, I understand that would have some security implications too...).
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Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 1:28 pm
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I wouldn't mind moderating this forum, but I am very busy getting a Free Software convention started in my hometown before school begins, so I'm very busy.
I mean, I can't tell some little kid to come here for help if there's p0rn spam in the forums. But as long as its moderated, I guess there's no problem?
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 4:19 pm
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Well, you can't tell a kid to go on the net period, then.
We get hit by a lot of spam, but we also clean up very quickly.
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:54 pm
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While its true that you guys do a fantastic job of cleaning up the spam quickly, what vexes me is that I like to check out posts that were made since the last time I logged in. And I'm 8 hours out of sync with the forum maintainers, so a lot of spam has built up by the time I check the forum. So about half the time I'm checking out posts that have been modified by a nice fresh hunk of spam. Also, this means I get to see a lot more spam than someone just randomly browsing the forums for interesting subjects or doing a search.
I like the notion of being able to post to the forum without mucking with registration. I love the Bugmenot Firefox extension.
It enables me to visit news web sites without bothering with registration. But the purpose of those registrations is to track you for marketing purposes and send you unsolicited email. Forum registration is to keep other forum users from being annoyed by similar commercial solicitations.
I don't think the forum needs one of those 'hit the link in the return email' registration processes, because I think the spam is probably being generated by bots. Maybe just 'pick a username and a password' login, supplemented by one of those little glyphs that requires you to type in a fuzzy number.
The glyph seems necessary because the bots seem to be forming spam accounts at a geometric rate. Look at page 3 of the memberlist and the vast majority of accounts seem to be from real people and were added over a period of almost 3 months. On page 41 all of the usernames look like spammers and they accumulated in less than 1 day.
On the other paw, maybe just adding a couple of moderators would be sufficient, at least in the short term.
I don't think this should be a democratic decision, in the sense of one poster, one vote. Most of us aren't doing much of the important work, so I think those that are doing most of the grunt work should make the decision. And since folks like jebba, r7, Jason & stevo32 seem to be against requiring registration, that should be decisive, but I'm just posting my opinion for them to see the "reasoning" of those who think otherwise.
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:24 pm
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The "fuzzy number" thing you are referring to is often called "captcha". See this wikipedia entry:
Captcha is probably the most effective way to block web spam bots. It does have a small drawback in that some people can't read them for one reason or another (an obvious one being blind people that use screen readers). Also, every time you put up one more hurdle for people to go over, you lose people.
Right now we're in the process of moving the forums from one of my boxes to Jason's. The phpBB crowd has created a number of extensions to help with spam and such. Perhaps Jason will have time to look more deeply into it.
As much as I don't really like them, i think a captcha solution would be a decent middle ground (note to Jason: I think it requires ImageMagick's `convert` program).
Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 8:21 am
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Well most of the spam has now gone. This includes the user accounts. We went from just over 2100 or so down to less than 600. Not all of these remaining are active by any means because we aren't deleting people with 0 posts. The accounts deleted were those with 0 posts AND a link to a rogue website. This was a manual process so undoubtedly I have missed a few. If anyone sees any I missed, just message me or one of the admins and we can delete it. We are banning the IP's of the spammers server wide as a counter measure.
Captcha is cool and has its purposes but would get in the way here I feel. I know of someone who makes use of captcha per POST. How frigging annoying is that!
I know sometimes threads see a lot of spam but it will never be there for more than a few hours that is for sure. So it is not really a problem.
Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 5:14 pm
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Thanks Jason!
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:46 pm
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I check the forums a lot. If you felt safe giving me access I would like to volunteer deleting them. It would be a way for me to give something back to the project.
Ed LaBonte
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ewl, pop around to #blag in irc.indymedia.org and me, stevo32, or r7 can get you set up.
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:34 pm
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also have a look at the settings in your account if you have registered. There's an option to have a notification of new posts in your email. you'll emailed something like
"forums... you have been sent this email because you have chosen to watch new topics and posts. if you want to see the post, click here <url> and if you no longer want to watch this topic click here <url> ..."
with which you will be taken directly to that new post. If it's spam` rm` and it's gone. That's how I deal with it. I don't think that it's ever there for more than a couple of hours.
Notify the chaps at irc.indymedia.org #diespamdie of the IP address of the spammer.
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