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Posts by Marc Lawrence
59 posts • joined 7 Jun 2007
Utah cops baffled in case of mysterious anonymous cuffee
He is playing real life monopoly and is waiting for his 'get out of jail free' card.
Lindsay Lohan goes down for 90 days
IT as in an 'IT girl'
IT Angle? Not necessary; its fun bootnotes. I thought the OP referring to 'it' (IT) people like SParis (Spare Us) Hilton? And other IT socialites?
Perhaps we need a Socially Homogenised IT person icon? (because lets face it, most of the so called social IT people are homogeneously terrible).
Approaching space object 'artificial, not asteroid' says NASA
When was the date..
Of closest passing?...
And did any strange people events start walking the earth?
Nokia launches ash cloud tracker
<<the rest of Europe has rather lost interest in the cloud since flights resumed and now the attention is on how quickly the airlines can get their planes and crew back into the right places.>>
Erm no. I think it should be phrased
... on how quickly and how much the airlines, laywers and those sponging off Ryan air can get money from EU emergency aid coffers - which are lined by EU tax payers.
Recmininations all around!!! Jobs for the boys and some underhand UK politics.
Just wait until the bigger sister blows (2012 anyone)... then there will be real pressure from airlines to continue flying through future clouds until a plane drops out... at which point it will be the scientists faults and more lawyers lining pockets. By then EU economies will freeze as everyone will have forgotten this small blimp on flying the light fantastic.
Intel staff 'fired' in ring piece stunt
Arrrgh.... Notes
Well if not fake; the 'arrrrgghhh (of impending doom)' before the notes chime is much more realistic for an Intel product...
Epson models wearable PlayStation 3
Missing the VR gloves... and googles...
How to push forwards the boundaries of... ? Sometimes it takes an extreme idea to show the concepts and then 2 years down the road Apple will have patented it, and iPhones will be projecting their tedium...
Chrome OS: Windows killer?
And Wine
Now if Google put some resources into getting Wine (or equivalent) to work - and used all their ex-Microsoft employees knowledge of hidden API's,,, then that would truly make it stand out. It would enable free; effectively open source and compatible with a load of known programs. Now that would be nice.
EZY Technologies MyXerver MX3600
Boot time
And how long / well does it work on bootup. Great if you are someone with it on 24/7 - but these days we try to save power by being off when not needed. Then it needs to be nearly instant on. My old Qnap takes a good few seconds...
Windows 7 and the Linux lesson
Windows 7... or sub-versions
As someone commented on another El-Reg article; there are to be different flavours of Windows 7 to appease the Netbook owners. And to force them to update to better OS / hardware this netbook flavour is to be limited to 3 concurrent apps... If true.. then the testing phase is likely to be even longer whilst they work out how to simplfiy their code (or use some kill-bits).
In the end- the idea of open-sourcing windows is likely to create a bigger 'gulp' - are you sure people will want to see how well we wrote stuff? Probably open them up to a whole raft of anti-trust law-suits etc.
If there is any beast which should be able to say - enough. We go back to the drawing board and start afresh - but reuse the good bits - it should be MS. However probably far too many interested parties / managers who wish their section to be included to enable this to happen
One day people will realise that thinking outside of the box - and giving resources to people to do this- can be a real means to get new products. If MS released an OS which booted in 2 seconds; worked flawlessly with minor bells and whistles (why animated fading menus?) then they would have a killer product.
Palm Pré WebOS: the UI in action
Could learn a lot from this... combine it with the touch screen on the ASUS eee keyboard and data entry / windows / mac will be come MUCH cleaner... allowing more space for all that DRM rubbish.
All that begs the question though: why cant the gui / OS on a PC behave in the same way? Ok many more processes / threads running... doing erm... what? Network access... well its also on the phone (ipod or this). Disk access... well it should be fast with todays data rates... oh right its indexing, defragging and other stuff.
Perhaps its that Virtual memory space? or those bloat ware device drivers...
Competition time: Who is the first person to port an iphone / Palm OS to PC as the main OS.
David Tennant quits Who
David Who?
David Who?
He exits as Tennant of lost BBC corporation
The logo looks like REG should be relabled BBC
Apple MacBook Pro 15in
Reflections of...
It would be really interesting to get some comments on the reflectivity of the screen for both pro and non-pro versions. The new 24" desktop Mac's have great graphics; but I find are too reflective to do much photographic editing :(
OK most semi-pro photographers will use a separate screen; I have a one with DVI input; but it would still be interesting for reviewing in the field.
Reg readers rage at comment icon outrage
Tinfoil Hats Recommended!
What more can one ask... thanks for the other icons returning!
OMFG, what have you done?
Need odds and sodds
Otherwise how else can we quickly surf to the reg and have a good laugh?
Oh dear - the new Paris Angle. Either someone got a pack of lawyers letters or she had a make over to improve herself.... What have you done?
You outlook not so good icon should see some flames licking the flag - not a white space... or is it a hint at the fixed width issues?
Wheres the tinfoil hat icon? The blue bloke looks right - but wrong comment line.
And now with smaller text to make my poor eyes finally give up.
That said - like all Web2.0 things. Good ideas but implementation still needs tweaking (widths, text sizes, white spaces, PDF look alike).
Scottish beavers (and Cali cacti) get their chips
Vice Versa
Neither beavers nor field officer are yet in place. Quarantine restrictions mean that the former are being rounded up (in Norway) over the next few weeks – whilst advertising for the field officer will take place over the next couple of months. Or possibly vice-versa.
Quarantine restrictions mean that field officers are being rounded up (in Norway) over the next few weeks- whilst advertising for the beavers will take place over the next couple of months.
Scientists unravel galactic spaghetti monster
Many years ago
At the heart of the galaxy... a set of Cernairians decreed. There there be LHC... and boom the galaxy was form.
Asus goes official on extended Eee PC line-up
Krikey, Idiotic Saving of Silicon?....
Or lets clear out our (or subsidery) stocks of memory / components / and we can best do this by offering upgrade options to customers. Scratch that.
and we can best do this by offering a bewildering array of monikors, which will drive people insane by trying to track them... but make Redmond happy by having default versions with XP. The geeks will know what the options mean....
silly really... they made the market and then effectively decided to hand it over to others with clean simple options.
Dell thinks young and colorful with business notebook refresh
Where Linux 901?
Come on... where else is Micro$hite getting rid of its Vista licences....
Paris Hilton - the compromise
d candidate
Now there was a strong strong hint that there must be outtakes... perhaps each time she took off her clothes and had to start again...
Wheres is that reflection coming from?... seems to be dappling her face and body alot... Perhaps there is another glistening pool somewhere off camera.
Unfortunately - there is actually a seed of something in what she says. If only the pres-candidates would rise to the challenge and endorse her thoughtfulness.
Too much money? Bling your iPhone with the $1000 app
Actually it sounds like a great way to make some quick Dosh. Perhaps we should submit alternative photo schemes with 'glittering' effects to make it look like a Damien Hirst Diamond Skull.... or encode a "hello Michael" voice synthesiser of "Kitt"... complete with 'virtual' remote control of your car.
A 'dont panic' button on the screen to bring up the latest HHGTTG comment for "Earth".
Toyota unveils Segway rivals
S means...
Sit and Ride?
Certainly looks like it could be a bike seat.... unicycle the Segway.
Either that or it is going after the kiddie market.
Is Apple readying a MacBook redesign?
Glass Touch?
Does this mean the touch pad could also be a display?...
So extra series of icons which could be accessed... as well as a desktop. E.g. in photoshop the 'context menu' appears on your touch pad instead of a separate menu on the screen. Now that would be really neat.
Or how about a list of emails on the touch pad... but opened on the big screen. Watching video... the touch pad displays the fast forward / rewind buttons. Want a fast boot...? the touch pad displays your mail etc without requiring the full CPU to be on (like some of the fast BIOS solutions on HP machines)..
No fanboy - just Apple tend to be much better switched onto what the user experience is about than Microsoft. But each has advantages and disadvantages... Use the best tool for the job
Dell adds multi-touch to Latitude XT
Similar to Simon
A car reader... wow.
I can imagine how good it will be for the police. or adult children. Point the camera at a car; and the reader technology will tell you the manufacturer and all the details specs from a HSPDA linked database; formulating on the screen like a nice Donald Trump card.
Adults can then becoming children in the playground again
If your SSD sucks, blame Vista, says SSD vendor
SSDs are for storage
If the SSD is for storage then great. If the SSD is for 'OS' then it is a different kettle of fish.
Storage with SSD is excellent: open a file; make lots of changes and save. The changes need to be stored somewhere _temporary_ and not on something with a limited r/w cycle. Use throw-away USB sticks. Actually thats the way my EEE will be configured.
As many point out - overtime the 'OS' has developed the need for virtual files, often due to limited memory. Actually since the available RAM is now 2-4GB and expanding, do we really need an OS which still requires *MORE* virtual space. Oh wait - modern 'OS's are not designed to be light weight and small footprint any more.
Need to stick with Windoze...? Start getting your admin's to look towards embedded OS systems which have been designed to work on solid state (Compact Flash) systems for sometime. XP Embedded... or some of the new variant Penguins'.
Changing the SSD technology to use a 2-4GB ram to mirror regularly used files would solve the problem of hot exchange (e.g. switch a HDD to SSD). Getting the OS redesigned to use less RAM and HDD thrashing (or cached space; remember the good old RAM Discs of MS-Dos) would make much more sense.
Longing for the day microsoft wakes up to small, light weight, fast modular operating systems.
CherryPal launches $249 mini PC into ad-backed cloud
Custom OS
So how long will it be before this is unlocked, running new linux software and acting as an interesting dumb nas or something...
Government kids website pays £6 for every visitor
Google Robot
And of those how many were unique IP's logging on - or various robot, malware, net hacks?
Intel rolls out Centrino 2, compares it to 2006's 'Napa'
Vista Needs it
why use a top-of-the-line graphics chip for rendering Windows XP's UI, for instance?
Short answer... short question!
Lab tech supplier redefines corporate song paradigm
Oh dear
I understand it....
arghhhhhhh Pity I dont get the lady...
Small, Cheap Computer countdown continues
PC World
It seems some branches had stock as I saw at least one forum poster using one of the 'now delayed' brands... Wind or Acer - I forget which.
MSI Wind Windows XP Edition sub-notebook
@Christian + Perfect spec
I agree....
Why is it only the OLPC system has the option to switch between b/w and colour? How many people in their daily work (not including coders and colourful keywords) really need to have colour working? I would much rather have the OLPC option to swtich colour on for the tasks that require it, and then switch off for reading el-reg (ok friday photo might require a switch on); writing thesis (Latex keywords can be in grey) etc.
I got the 701 and 900. The 701 was lost to my girlfriend within 4 hours; the 900 is my work on train machine. Battery is a laugh though (ahem - Asus f*ck up) but it just does its job. The small keys are a little too small... I would rather have slightly wider keyboard (but not deeper) and an even more widescreen ratio; with with internal SATA (e-sata) for the new CFast Compact Flash devices which are coming soon. Perhaps the community should design and build one - and then stuff M$FT when they ask for XP to be installed.
Start-up outfoxes Apple, Dell and HP by offering stock options with PCs
Has anyone followed through?
Is there a second email stating that in order to get access to the product, you need to wire a transfer to a Western Union account somewhere?. Perhaps their phone number contains 419?....
Ok perhaps it is also a serious enterprise. Many SOHO NAS systems use similar chips and are quite powerful these days; except they are often limited by clumsy implementation designs (fixed ram, slow bus, no video etc). It would be great to see it outperform the new Atom in terms of battery life.
Asus Eee PC 901 Linux Edition
Kernel Hyperthread
There was some talk that hyperthreading was disabled in early versions of the Xandros OS which Asus let slip for the 901. Dont know if it was fixed for the release version - but worth checking out.
A real-world test with the 900 on the same sized battery as the 901 would be interesting - especially since the 4400 appears heavier then the 5800 version - and hence probably older technology.
The 900 and UK battery sizes produces a bad mouth feeling for Asus - and hopefully it can be resolved with the 901. However the price would need to drop consdierably to make it special again. Indeed the 'eee' monikor which a year ago would make you think of a cheap mini-laptop-pc (R) is now so dilouted (eeebox, eeetv, eee.... ) that it seems Asus are possibly loosing their sense of direction and market share.
Overall a great product - I like my 900 and already had good use from it - the 901 will be the logical upgrade - in 6 months. By which time there will probably be another version...
O2 prices up the latest iPhone
But no-one spotted the typo
[Quote]You might need the caculator[/quote].
Yep nothing better for the Jesus Phone 2.0. ;-)
Google takes another bite out of NASA with 42-acre research center
Space port
Perhaps Google will want it as their space port for the global advertising campaign which we will see by then...
GoogleAds posted to the stars...
Asus speaks out on UK Eee PC 900 battery issue
it seems that in Europe / rip off UK we get the option: choose Windows and 12GB or Linux and 20GB. However with the battery we were given NO choice - and indeed no advance warning. Mine was preordered before the full UK battery specs were released.
Please El-Reg - give them some more stick. this is an easy cop-out and it is an obvious one most people will try to wriggle from. it will also be interesting to see if all Europe really does get the 4400 or whether it is just UK?
Next time I will import from USA or wherever best deal comes from.
Asus Eee PC 901 spied on web... in black
But... has it got a large one?
Oh and make sure it has a big battery. All UK customers of the 900 got shafted with a small one and no intention from Asus to give a better sized battery. Perhaps they think we will watch the girl picture and our batteries (well generally male ones) grow in anticipation.
Im sure PH knows how to add extra charge to make her batteries grow...
OLPC and Microsoft punt Windows-only XO laptop
EEE by eck
I just wish the 'mesh' and 'b/w to color' screen options could be made available to other laptop manufacturers (asus eeepc take note)... How many people travelling and working on train really need true colour resolution when compared to long battery life...
Its going to Microsoft? Well there is a huge surprise. Dirty tricks work in all directions. The Asus one with 12GB (windows) or 20GB (linux) is a good example in the other direction. Just wait to see what happens on the 901 (eee + Atom)...
And at least more people will know about Microsoft.... and then google and other freeware. Just wonder if this is the other reason behind the recent XP long life agreement...
UK's tallest bovine soars to 6ft 6in
Old Cow
Perhaps he has some old genes in him. The Aurochs was a breed of cattle often hunted in prehistory which was much larger than our current breeds...
Ill get my red coat and run for it.
'Great tits cope well with warming'
Aberdeen in winter is often a great place to see blue legged booby's.
MSI releases £235 desktop Eee PC rival ahead of Asus
To brick
Its a brick... power supply that is. Oh and it looks nano-itx sized. iei world did nano itx with celeron processors and 1gb ram for oh 2 years. i have one on my desk. 12V only (on board regulator) and IDE and floppy etc.
Or if you want real small - the Wafer models are 3.5" drive sized with SATA and DVI options. Via are not the only small (read embedded) processors out there.
Winehouse cans Bond theme project
First few times
The music was good... then her voice became Whine-House... long before Drugs kicked in. Pity the poor soul... and then ask about the people dealing and supplying. Our version of Brittany...
Microsoft soothes Vista pain with Bossploitation flick
Spot the Mac
After wondering if this was a Windows Geuine Article... my colleague realised there was a mac at 2:11... the cringing bit-locker scene...
It sure looks like an Apple to us... oh yeah... I wonder if it is on SP1
Now I have to take a cold shower with a Penguin...
Asus launches second-gen Eee PC
Rumours have been high for a while. However the touch screen and blue tooth seem to be missing. I would guess that it is a rush out a new model before HP job...
The Intel Atom is effectively slower than the included celeron at 900MHz ' but with a much longer battery life. So get the good models whilst you can...
Asus chief has also mentioned that there will be more specs in the future: perhaps this includes the touch screen and maybe more WXGA resolution and bluetooth... and ZIF HDD.
However something strange: No US release dates for this... the 8G disappeared in Europe to be replaced by 900. So perhaps 8G gets US dumped and Europe gets the 900 Celeron... then US gets the Atom. If there are not enough machines because of battery fires etc then it is a interesting way to fill supply and demand.
Mines the too much time reading...
Monroe BJ film - world exclusive still
El Reg
Just gets better and better...
Now all we need is a photo from the future of the after effects of the LHDC @ cern generating a big black hole... somewhere....
It is feasible - time will do strange things around the hole... perhaps thats where the bullet came from...
El Reg reconstructs Heathrow T5 chaos
This is just 'piece de resistance'
For a friday afternoon this is excellent. Can we see a new El - Reg round up of the weeks events in Playmobile / Lego? This is much better reporting than BBC New 24 staged re-enactments; and the models have much more life than most 24hr news programmes.
Perhaps there is scope to make models in their own image... (PH with a Laptop to make the IT angle?)
Oh and piece de resistance - well the French are in town and 'Resistance is Futile'. Im off to play with the Germans
And if you need the IT angle I could suggest looking at the Virtual Lego software.
BBC Micro creators meet to TRACE machine's legacy
long for the days of old
I remember the days at school spent loading early versions of cad software... printing dot-matrix versions... rattle rattle whizzz... rattle rattle whizz... turn over the floppy for the 'other side'... sigh
rooms full of networked BBC's which we used to programme turtle devices... sending naughty messages via the echo commands and wondering at the geek power which did fancy things with assembler. Hey I even remember writing some assembler... for some fancy function or two.
Then along came the Achimedes... doing my 'GCSE Business Studies' course on the nice devices and spending more time helping as a techie than actually doing my trivial boring work. Three button mice... nice software installations and wow music! (popcorn was popular back then)... The poor Business studies teacher had no clue... she was the old school 'Typewritters are best' variety. I certainly remember some nice DTP packages; and can put myself back into the computer room at Corfe Hills... That must be what... '89 -91... and Mr Cornick the BBC Master Guru.
Arthur C. Clarke dead at 90
The Last Rendezvous
Hopefully it will be full of stars, as you pass to the next world - wherever you dreamed that my be. Not many people can live to see their dreams become a reality; and im sure many more of yours will be achieved sometime.
So long.
Swisscom chills to the sound of whalesong
Oh Oh la la laaaaa
I think she was either trying to make whale song... or was having a 'whale' of a time when the rebranding Joss-Stick man demonstrated the latest moves of the logo...
In fact I think it sounds more like a hum of a well known SMS ring tone...
US satellite-shoot effort seeds conspiracy theory storm
target practice
has anyone concered that it might have been designed to fail in order to give a chance to destroy with new "save the earth" technology?
Suicidal moose descends on Alaska
Well I heard that after having to return so many faulty X-Box 360's, Santa had decided to invest in new flying creatures which had more pulling power than poor old Rudolphe. Guess he forgot to check their flying specifications...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
COBIT 5 is here: essential reference for everyone in IT
You may recall Pink12 gave you 10 things to do when you got home, and my own recommendation was
Read ISO/IEC 38500 Corporate Governance of IT and dip into COBIT 5 Process Reference Guide (Draft) - you need to be aware of these
COBIT 5 is no longer in draft: the final public version is out and you can download it here (46,000 downloads as of April 26th). As ISACA says on the website
COBIT 5 is the only business framework for the governance and management of enterprise IT. This evolutionary version incorporates the latest thinking in enterprise governance and management techniques, and provides globally accepted principles, practices, analytical tools and models to help increase the trust in, and value from, information systems. COBIT 5 builds and expands on COBIT 4.1 by integrating other major frameworks, standards and resources, including ISACA's Val IT and Risk IT, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL®) and related standards from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
That sounds like something everybody in IT should at least be aware of.
Personally I think it is something that everybody in IT should have in their toolkit.
In fact I go even further than that and say it should be the default best practice framework which we reach for first (as you know if you went to my "ITIL vs. COBIT: showdown of the methodologies" presentation at Pink12).
But even if you don't buy that last premise, it is hard to argue with the first one: everybody in IT should at least be aware of COBIT 5.
ISACA want your registration to get the core COBIT 5 content (but they don't want money).
They want your membership to get all the associated books in digital format for free as well, but personally I think that is a good deal. I pay it. I buy the hardcopy versions too, but I'm like that: I still prefer paper to bytes.
If all you want is overall awareness, then you don't even need to register. You can download a few documents without registration that will give you the picture:
- Executive Summary (powerpoint)
- COBIT 5 Introduction (powerpoint)
- Framework Overview, the main diagrams describing COBIT 5's structure (pdf)
- Toolkit, a zipfile of articles, presentations and a spreadsheet.
I would encourage everyone to have a copy of COBIT 5 at hand. I use COBIT as
- a structure for framing any IT management thinking
- a checklist for any form of review: process capability assessment, current state review, document audit, process audit…
- an input to role descriptions, especially the RACI responsibility matrices
- a reference for process best practice (fleshed out when necessary with other sources such as ITIL)
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Leading The Way To A LEAN Problem Management Culture
The Pink Elephant 2011 ITIL Project of the Year Award winners were Deutsche Bank. This award "recognizes an organization that has demonstrated significant commitment to ITIL and ITSM best practices with involvement of certified staff, and visible positive outcomes." The 2011 runners-up were Adobe and Air Canada Jazz.
You can learn more about this interesting initiative next year at PINK13, when Joseph Gallagher, Vice President, Global Problem Management Process Owner at Deutsche Bank will present Leading The Way To A LEAN Problem Management Culture
I talked to Joe about the project.
Joe, for those readers who weren't at the ceremony at PINK12, please tell us a little about Deutsche Bank's winning project
The DB project was called "Problem Management Transformation Program" - at the end of 2010 we realized that, although we had a nice, repeatable problem management process, we were not working very efficiently, nor were we providing our clients with consistent quality. At the beginning of 2011 we initiated this program to address both of these weaknesses, by conducting a LEAN 5D review of our process and implementing higher standards for producing a quality problem analysis. LEAN helped us to identify various types of TIM WOOD [Transport, Inventory, Motion, Waiting, Over-processing, Overproduction, Defects] deficiencies in our process, which we drove out through automation, consolidation, industrialization (moving very repetitive tasks to a support organization that focus on those tasks and become very efficient at it), and elimination. By Q4'2011 we had removed close to 40% waste from the process, allowing our problem managers to focus on the two areas where they add the most value – root cause determination, and remediation determination. As part of the LEAN component we "went back to the drawing board" as it relates to the proper way to implement program management as detailed within ITIL v3.0. We found that over the years we had "over engineered" the problem management process, making it cumbersome and slow, with lots of "cool steps" in the process that really added no value to the client. Finally, we improved our overall quality by aligning our problem managers to specific business areas, giving them a better understanding of the applications/infrastructure they support, which made them much more effective over time. We also trained all our problem managers (and all were certified) in Kepner Tregoe Resolve, giving them the foundation of a rational and consistent thought process.
What have been the consequences or impact of winning this award?
Consequences – I believe we have set the bar very high and expectations for problem management in 2012 will be well above that bar. But we are up to the task and looking forward to really extending the value we add throughout the organization. One of the consequences of the project itself, is that it has allowed us to shift a portion of our problem management resources to focus on more proactive problem management – driving problems out of the organization before they lead to serious incidents
You are presenting next year on LEAN Problem Management Culture. I'm willing to bet not too many organisations have applied LEAN principles to problem management in particular, especially on a global scale. You had difficulty sourcing expertise?
We were fortunate at the beginning of the project to have an outside firm come in and teach us the LEAN concepts and help us with the initial Define and Diagnose phases. From there, it became fairly straightforward to identify and address the various types of waste we discovered.
And did you find any resources at all pertaining to LEAN and problem management?
We found no resources externally or internally that had experience using LEAN within a problem management process. Although the LEAN methodology seems to be very easy to apply to any process.
Were there peculiarities to problem management when applying LEAN to it?
Measuring waste was a challenge at first, as we were using 2010 baseline, which was filled with hazards related to data quality. We saw the LEAN program coming in early Q4'2010 so we paid particular attention in Q4'2010 to provide as accurate a reflection of our workload and process as possible, so that could serve as the baseline for 2011 measureable improvements.
Can you expand on what that was about please?
One of the issues we recognized in 2011 is that the quality of our data was not great. This was due to the lack of strong governance and quality controls around what we were entering in problem records. It wasn't as bad as garbage-in-garbage-out, but it was inconsistent (an artifact of having problem managers coming together into a single organization in 2010, each bringing their own "unique" perspective on what was required to be documented in a problem record). We started to change this in Q4'2010 just as a matter of good practice, but also recognizing the fact that in order to measure 2011 improvements we needed to have at least one quarter of reasonably good data as the baseline.
Another peculiarity with problem management is that you really can't remove "waste" from the actual root cause investigation itself. Sure, we can streamline our root cause sessions, and provide more consistent results (KT), but you can't "squeeze" much waste out of this part of the process, which by its nature, has lots of variability due to the different levels of investigation required. Thus, we set out to remove all the waste before and after the actual root cause investigation, and that's where we reaped lots of benefit.
What tools or techniques helped you with the cultural change over 73 countries?
There was lots and lots of training, communication, and awareness throughout the year. I cannot understate the importance of this aspect – updates were provided to the problem management staff and senior management at least monthly, and sometimes more often. We also made LEAN improvements part of all the problem manager's objectives – they were all required to provide at least two LEAN improvement initiatives that made it to production. Finally, we governed the process very well – we had daily health checks to ensure we were on target with our objectives, and weekly trend reports to see where we needed to shift resources.
Watch this blog for a future discussion with Joe and George Spalding of Pink Elephant about the judges' views on this project and why it won the Award. And go hear Joe at PINK13.
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
Governance sessions at PINK13
Governance is an important topic to everyone in IT. Of course it is of greatest interest to IT managers - those accountable to the governors - but we should all have a general understanding of it, just as we do with say security, whether we are directly involved with it or not.
We've talked about governance often enough on this blog before and seen a rising tide of posts and presentations about governance. Next year at PINK13 I'll be presenting some more.
Past discussions on this blog include
- This useful Intro to IT Governance from George Spalding
- This excellent series on IT governance podcasts by Troy DuMoulin
- An interesting interview with Dr John Beachboard
- More here from Troy on governance strategy-setting
- and this from me about service, governance, and assurance being key themes
Next year I'll bring you more on Governance of IT (I much prefer "Governance of IT" to "IT Governance": it makes it clear than governance happens to IT not by IT).
- What Governance Isn't and thereby developing an understanding of what governance is.
- Plug and Socket: Preparing IT For Governance, the practical application of governance to IT
You will of course find discussion of governance in a number of other sessions too (don't miss Jennifer Wels on COBIT)
Conferences • Rob England • Permalink
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Pinkie goes to Hollywood
Recall that David Ratcliffe made this invitation recently
I have a bit of a fun challenge for you. In the past we've encouraged Pink customers to send us their interesting photos of Pinky - our little stress elephant mascot. We have a nice little collection going, and sometimes we post the best ones for all to see. So this is just a gentle reminder. have some fun and take a pic of Pinky in a fun situation and we'll post it right here!
So here's my contribution: Pinkie goes to Hollywood in which Crooner Pinky leaves Las Vegas en route home to LA
Waving to fans, with his backing singer and ...ahem… constant companion Beach Pinky:
Into the sunrise on the early morning train to LA…
A Channel 24 News helicopter shot…
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Some of my favourite shots
Here are some of my picks from the pics, chosen from the Pink Flickr account. Do you have any snaps of your own you'd like to share? Send them in!
Further to our discussions of Pinker shirt colours, THIS is "mulberry":
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Friday, March 02, 2012
Pink12 gave you 10 things to do when you got home
The 16th Annual ITSM Conference (colloquially known as Pink12) is over and Las Vegas settles back into the dull, sleepy place it is when we are not there. One of the last events of the conference was David's and George's session on 10 things to do starting Monday morning. I saw a few tweets about how Monday was looking overloaded: you can always pick and choose, and of course the session title says "starting" on Monday - you could give yourself all week.
Do you recall what those 10 things were? Revisit them here and start checking them off:
- Go meet a user – connect with them face-to-face. Ask them what they need (talk in value, outcomes, costs and risks) (suggested by Paul Wilkinson).
- Validate the desirability, viability and achievability of each of your current IT projects (suggested by Graham Price).
- If the culture needs to change in your organization, start by getting to the "connectors" and "salesmen" who have influence over others. Get them to agree to change and everyone else in their network will follow (suggested by Jack Probst).
- Read ISO/IEC 38500 Corporate Governance of IT and dip into COBIT 5 Process Reference Guide (Draft) - you need to be aware of these (suggested by Rob England).
- Consider all the changes you have scheduled – if you think you're going to have trouble with people resisting, look for what they're attached to that is getting in the way, then support them through the change (suggested by Dr. Victoria Grady).
- Go visit your business [the customer, not the same thing as a user (see #1)] to find out what their concerns, challenges and needs are (suggested by Gary Case).
- Document the different RESULTS you expect from your future state. Then define the different ACTIONS you need to take to get those results (suggested by Troy DuMoulin).
- Get connected! Socialize and share your new knowledge amongst your peers (suggested by David).
- Get started with your Service Catalog by consolidating all the "access points", so the business only has one way of asking for anything – via the Service Catalog (suggested by George).
- Take advantage of the Super-Faithfull offer for Pink13. Sign-up! (Suggested by Pinky!)
There is good advice there. Why not try them all.
Conferences • Rob England • Permalink
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
The largest gathering of ITIL-Certified Professionals in a single spot
Over 500 ITIL-Certified Professionals joined together at Pink Elephant's annual conference to participate in the largest gathering of ITIL-Certified Professionals in a single spot.
The monumental photo was taken at Pink Elephant's 16th Annual Conference & Exhibition at the beautiful Bellagio in Las Vegas. IT professionals from around the world participated in the record setting photo including attendees from Canada, Latin America, South Africa, UK, Japan, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
"We were curious to see how many of the 1600 attendees would show up for the photo opp," Fatima Ratcliffe, Pink Elephant's CEO's mused, "Thanks to the 500 who did. Of course, it's very hard to compete with the Vegas Strip – even for a record breaking photo!"
This photo is a first for the industry and will hopefully lead to other organizations and events taking part in similar activities. Pink Elephant is known for creating some awe-inspiring moments at its events and this year's conference and record setting photo was no different. Past events have featured a live Elephant, the Miami Dolphin Cheerleaders and a Pink Floyd cover band.
"WOW!! In the click of a shutter we set a world record!!" George Spalding, EVP, Pink Elephant said enthusiastically, "Just a hair over 500 ITIL-certified professionals gathered in a single spot at Pink12, the most people with ITIL certifications ever photographed in a group! Silly? Of course. But after an incredible head-filling day of intense learning what better way to unwind at Pink12! It was indeed a blast. Let's go for 600 next year!!"
I was there. Were you?
Conferences • Rob England • Permalink
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Pink12 staff plumage
Does an elephant have "plumage"? That's the word we used in a past post to canvass previous conference colours.
This year the Elephant is displaying "mulberry" and "sage" colours. Here's the Conference Host, George Spalding (@gspalding11), and the Pink Prez, David Ratcliffe (@pinkerdavid), displaying "berry" ("mulberry" yet to be revealed):
Yesterday they were spotted wearing red with Crooner Pinky (@Pink12_Live), who wears white shirts every day.
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Monday, February 13, 2012
Preparing for Pink12!
Las Vegas is a fun place. And there are a few things you should know in advance to help you enjoy it.
If you haven't been following this blog in previous years, here is some advice we have provided in the past:
- Las Vegas dress code
- Things to do in and around Las Vegas #1
- Things to do in and around Las Vegas #2
- Things to do in and around Las Vegas #3
- Things to do in and around Las Vegas #4
- Things to do in and around Las Vegas #5
- Las Vegas Hello (sung to the tune of "Jamaica Farewell")
In addition to George's Conference Optimizers, here is some advice from past years on preparing for the conference:
- EHOBOK Planning Worksheet, worksheet you should fill out before you come to conference to make sure you are prepared for assessing the products on display
- You will need EHOBOK, the Exhibit Hall Optimiser Body of Knowledge! Get the latest version with the 2012 floorplan here
- Exhibit Hall booth plumage which is a potted history of Pinker colouration in other conferences
- ConfBOK Session Strategy, some tips from leading Pinkers (and me) about how to choose which sessions to go to
- ConfBOK: Learning 1.1.1
- ConfBOK: Luggage Validation and Testing
- ConfBOK Strategy: How to get to a conference, how to get your attendance to a conference paid for
...and don't forget to get PinkApp!
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Monday, February 06, 2012
The ITSM Extreme Makeover proves the four-Ps principle.
I hope you have been following along with the ITSM Extreme Makeover a project led jointly by Pink Elephant and Hornbill along with participating sponsors GamingWorks, LCS, HDI and TSO, to bring extreme change to the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Recently Pink's lead contributor, Jack Probst, had this to say:
We went live with new processes and ITSM tools – and achieved SUCCESS!
Through most of last year and right up until now we have been preparing for this big day. We assembled all the parts and explained how they worked. With the aid of all the partners we assessed, developed, documented and trained on processes. Hornbill has been working behind and in front of the scenes with the development team to install the Supportworks ITSM tool. Their work included assisting with the integration of the Incident Management process developed under the guidance of the Pink Elephant consultants. (FYI for my readers, the UTHSC team, being the overachievers that they are also implemented the Change Management process they self-developed and stood up the Problem Management module in Supportworks to address major incidents).
All through this time there has been a series of training, testing and certification events ... that were conducted by members of the partner team – HDI, GamingWorks, Pink Elephant and LCS. And of course TSO was there with the all-important guides, the ITIL framework documentation, that proved invaluable in cementing the team's understanding of the big picture.
As Jerry York, UTHSC CIO, said yesterday in a core team meeting, the success of the Extreme Makeover experience has truly been the result of a team effort – the UTHSC core team providing guidance, direction and leadership, the partners lending their expertise and products as needed, and most importantly all the members of the UTHSC staff who embraced a new way of working.
Most of you will have heard of the four-Ps principle: to succeed at ITSM transformation, you must pay attention to People, Process, Products and Partners. Jack's description clearly demonstrates this.
Look out for lots of feedback from the ITSM Extreme Makeover at this year's conference:
- ITSM Extreme Makeover – Part 1: ITSM Program Roadmap
- ITSM Extreme Makeover – Part 2: ITSM Program Roadmap In The Real-World
- ITSM Extreme Makeover – Part 3: ITSM Program Management In the Real-World
- ITSM Extreme Makeover – Part 4: It's All About People & Results
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Sunday, February 05, 2012
"Our Way", Not "My Way" - Please!
With a conference Pinky icon like this one, I guess we are going to hear a bit about "My Way" at the upcoming conference. I think it is a great song, although the version that often pops into my mind when I hear "My Way" is Sid Vicious's dulcet tones.
And there-in lies my problem with the song. I can identify with it personally in the seven years since I broke away from the corporate yoke. And it probably resonates for Pinkers too, since Pink Elephant seems to go its own sweet independent way in the ITSM industry. But Frankie wasn't exactly a pillar of moral rectitude and philanthropy, and certainly Sid reminds us of the other way the song can be sung. Inside a team of people responsible for delivering service, "My Way" isn't the right way.
It is a big issue with some IT techs that they are so convinced of their own technical superiority that they lose sight of corporate goals or customer needs, and instead resort to obstructionism and abuse of power. There have been a number of rants on the Web of late venting frustration with IT and their resistance to change, usually around personal computing, bring-your-own-device, cloud or social media. Some readers will know I'm not a fan of rushing into any of these new technologies, and I think control of risk is being dangerously played down, but it can't be denied that part of the problem is IT staff who really are getting in the way because they think they know better… or in a few cases they just want to be dogmatic.
In my book Working in IT I wrote about how techs need to align with where the organisation is going. If they don't "get on the bus" it'll go without them and eventually they will cause a problem that will get fixed, and the fixing seldom enhances their career. You can hear me talk about this in a recent webinar
So let's not hear an excess of "My Way" at the conference OK? Let's also hear plenty of "Our Way".
Conferences • Rob England • Permalink
Friday, February 03, 2012
Gamification Of The Service Desk
"Gamification" - the application of video gaming and online gaming concepts to business - is a hot topic right now. The folks at Omnicare in the USA are doing some exciting stuff to improve their customer service. Kim Liston and some of her staff from Omnicare will be at the Conference this year (Kim is part of a Social IT presentation) and of course ServiceNow will be there too, so you should ask them about their automation of badges and rewards for service desk staff.
But I just had to have a chat in advance:
Omnicare - Gamification Of Service Desk by Pink Elephant Inc.
We look forward to hearing more about that in future. It is an interesting cultural change initiative.
Conferences • Rob England • Permalink
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
A preview of CyberOverload
A few months ago we interviewed Dr Joanne Cantor about her upcoming presentation at the conference: Conquer CyberOverload: Strategies For Sanity & Success . You can hear Dr Cantor here as she talks about her book and a preview of the presentation at the conference.
Conferences • Rob England • Permalink
Friday, January 20, 2012
The Inside Skinny On Pink12
Following on from our recent tips of what you might see at this year's conference, here's the inside skinny on how the numbers are progressing, and other insights. "Skinny" isn't a word used a lot around me, but the Pink President David Ratcliffe is pretty trim. Listen in as he gives us insight into the planning of the Pink Elephant conferences, some of the philosophy behind them, the registration numbers, and - yes - the theme.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Some advance tips on what we will see at Pink12
|To do is to be.
|To be is to do.
|Jean-Paul Sartre, Plato
|To be or not to be.
|William Shakespeare's Hamlet
|Do be a Do Bee, don't be a Don't Bee.
|Miss Connie from Romper Room
|Scooby Dooby Doo.
|Scooby Doo
|Yabba Dabba Doo.
|Fred Flintstone
|Inka Dinka Doo.
|Jimmy Durante
|Boop Boop be Doop
|Betty Boop
|De do do do, de da da da.
|The Police
|Doo Wah Diddy.
|Manfred Mann
...and of course Do-be-do-be-do from Frank Sinatra.
Collected by Tex Texin
What has this to do with this year's ITSM Conference? Everything.
Twitter is a-flutter with hints, or should I say Twitter is crooning with hints of what is to come at this year's ITSM Conference.
Every year the Conference has had a theme, and in recent years the theme has been related to some musical concept - either an artist or famous album. The last two years we had the Beach Boys and then Jimmy Buffett's "Changes In Latitudes; Changes in Attitudes". Before that it was Pink Floyd's "Another Brick In The Wall", and the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper... but this time there isn't a prominent musical theme. That's so last year! Instead while we'll certainly have musical threads running throughout the Conference no one artist will dominate, except perhaps when it comes to Pinky!
Regular Conference attendees will be familiar with the annual Special Edition Pinky - the little stress elephant that all attendees receive. There are many dedicated collectors of this much anticipated souvenir (I have two as well as two sizes of the regular Pinky). Well, this year sees the introduction of - Crooner Pinky!
Do-be-do-be-do indeed.
The curious coincidence is that the New Zealand itSMF national conference for 2012 has the theme of "I did ITsm my way". I blame the Mayans.
Other hints on Twitter of what we might see?
- Pattie Langtree tells us the Bellagio fountains have learned new dances. (And "Bellagio's Tower $70M room remodel, 2,568 newly redesigned Rooms is complete!")
- David Ratcliffe, the Pink Pres, tweeted "Just been brainstorming with @GSpalding11 [George Spalding of Pink] the possibility of a world record attempt at #PINK12 - curious? See you there!"
- And Rhett Glauser of ServiceNow tweeted "According to @pinkerdavid, #pink12 will be a more open community of vendors, practitioners & even competing consultants." Now what could that look like? Be there.
Conferences • Rob England • Permalink


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Aggressive End-of-Life Care Easing in Hospitals
"For example, while patients cared for by New York University's Langone Medical Center who died in 2007 spent a relatively high number of days in the hospital in the last six months of life, NYU led academic medical centers with a 29% decrease (26.9 to 19.1 days) by 2010," the report says.
"Some hospitals with a relatively low number of hospital days reduced them even further," for example, at Fletcher Allen Health Care, hospital days for dying patients "fell about 22%, from 11 to 8.6 days."
Goodman puts some blame for high intensity of end-of-life care on clinicians who "are not very good at assessing patient preferences. We don't receive the training to do it. It's not enough for physicians to be well-meaning, and not sufficient for physicians to assume that everyone wants to live one more day."
Doctors need to "provide accurate information about uncertainty, choices and possible outcomes" of aggressive care… and what treatment entails," and that making good on a pledge to extend life a week or a month longer, saying "there's hope for you," may mean the patient will spend most of that time in the hospital.
"Too often those discussions never occur, and when they do, physicians paint an overly optimistic scenario of patients' chances. It's rare that a patient would be seeking those additional days if they knew they would all be spent on a ventilator in an ICU."
See Also:
Hospitals' Fear of 30-Day Penalties May Speed Hospice Admissions
Aggressive Care for Dying Cancer Patients Futile, Study Finds
Cheryl Clark is senior quality editor and California correspondent for HealthLeaders Media. She is a member of the Association of Health Care Journalists.
Comments are moderated. Please be patient.
Betty Noyes (6/18/2013 at 1:29 PM)
Thanks for a good article. I would call for more discussion about the [INVALID]native of granting the patients desire to die at home with family. THere seems to be gaps in available service, MD acceptance of this plan, financial review. Thanks!
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Dual Pixel CMOS AF delivers full-time continuous autofocus (with phase detect at every pixel in framing area) for video and Live View still shooting; Full HD (1080p) video recording with pro-level features and quality; Improved resolution and good high ISO performance; Excellent Wi-Fi remote shooting with full exposure controls; 3-inch articulating LCD touchscreen.
Image quality only improved slightly over 60D; Dynamic range still lags behind competing models; May not feature enough upgrades to convince people to step up from 60D.
Excellent image quality; 9 cross-type AF points; Stereo microphones; Built-in touchscreen; Multi-shot modes; Improved kit lens; Even more affordable.
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Combining amazing acoustic guitar skills, soulful vocal work and onstage presence, Reverend Stickman is the perfect entertainer for your club, lounge, house concert or event! The Reverend's award-winning original songs combine elements of Americana and folk/pop in a sweet musical fusion with meaningful storytelling lyrics, and feature Jenene "Neener" Lambert on hand percussion and vocals.
Over 3 hours of original music (ASCAP)
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It's here!!! So excited to begin a new website and hope fully a new online relationship with all of you! Stay tuned as we continue working to bring you more and better music, entertainment and FUN! Love you all,
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Charlie Imes performs beachy, jazzy, folky, rock-ish music a la Jimmy Buffett and James Taylor...Reverend Stickman on acoustic lead guitar.
Bviolin and the Mystic Groove performs every first Sunday with our beautiful belly dancer! Don't miss your chance to see her do the sword dance!!
Singer/songwriter Jackie Austin performs with her ensemble band, including Reverend Stickman on acoustic and electric rhythm and lead guitars. Jackie Austin performs memorable songs of inspiration and peace as well as some wonderful story-songs that will please people of all ages. Get discounted tickets online: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/jackie-austin-singer-project-concert-tickets-11551399547
Christopher Dale hosts with special guest Reverend Stickman. A mixed format show with Chris kicking off the evening solo, then bringing other musicians to the stage throughout the night for a fun and interesting combination of talent!By the finale, the stage may be full of contributing artists! Come out and help us entertain you.
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Tiger Woods has been a Buick spokesman since 1999, but both General Motors and the greatest golfer of all time are in a holding pattern regarding a new endorsement contract. Tiger's current deal, which expires in 2009, was reportedly for $40 million over five years. Though getting Tiger was a coup for Buick, many wonder why GM would give the world's most popular athlete to its low volume Buick brand instead of Cadillac or even use him across multiple marques.
Both GM and Tiger are taking a wait-and-see approach towards negotiations on a new contract, with both sides having met once and agreed only on when they should meet a second time. The automotive landscape is tenuous at best, and GM is taking a major hit on the sales floor and on Wall St., which could make retaining Mr. Woods more difficult. We're pretty sure Tiger will end up hocking cars for one automaker or another, so the General better find some funds fast if it doesn't want to lose the 14-time majors champion to another brand.
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Posted by Grant Howitt, 12 October 2011
Pixie Lott, singer and wearer of fantastically short dresses, wore cat ears last week. We're alright with this. Not because we're into cats, you understand. We're into Pixie Lott.
Take your average house cat, for example – they're spoiled, overweight, entitled and generally murderous little bastards who'd kill you for food if they were a) big enough and b) worked out how to open cans for themselves. Cats, despite their undeniable popularity on this here internet, are total dicks.
Bet they'd wear sunglasses inside if they could
Yet we love them. For many of the same reasons, we love Pixie Lott. Pixie (who was performing at the Radio 1 Teen Awards over the weekend, in case you're interested, she doesn't dress like a cat just for the hell of it or anything) is cute. Cats are cute.
She's agile (look at those legs and tell us she can't run like hell when she needs to), much in the same way as a cat is – we bet she's never fallen off a fence, for example. She's also touchably soft – at least, well, we assume she is. Not in a weird way, you understand. We're not touching her. It's just a confident guess.
Pixie calm down it was A GUESS, jeez
And Pixie won't leave half-dead birds flapping pitifully around your living room as a gift. She won't hack up hairballs on your settee when your girlfriend's parents are visiting. And the sounds she produces with her mouth are lovely, unlike the mad yowling the cat three houses down produces on an almost weekly basis.1
So, in closing – Cats are okay. Pixie lot is great. Pixie Lott with cat ears is awesome.
1 Seriously. It's like someone is using a sick cat to beat ANOTHER sick cat to death. That's what it sounds like.
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Well, you live under his roof, you abide by his rules. that's how it works. All he's doing is what he thinks is best for you. He doesn;t think you're ready for that kind of thing yet. If you really wanna date, show him that you're ready. Show responsibility, show respect, show constancy in those things. Show that you're mature and he might let you date.
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Eastbound And Down Season 2 Complete 720p
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Subject : Eastbound And Down Season 2 Complete 720p (2010) Size : 5.10 GB Spoken Language : English Subtitles : English (srt files) Contents : Eastbound.And.Down.S02E01.720p.HDTV.x264.mkv ~ Eastbound.And.Down.S02E07.720p.HDTV.x264.mkv Eastbound.And.Down.S02E01.720p.HDTV.x264.srt ~ Eastbound.And.Down.S02E07.720p.HDTV.x264.srt DO ENJOY IT !!! Special thanks to all the original uploaders and release groups. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- if you want to download this drama MUCH FASTER, click below link (initial torrent file upload site) http://to0u.com/bbs/?mid=board1&document_srl=24913
I downloaded this, perfect quality and subtitles.. But no audio? like theres music and all that but i cant hear them speak at all its just subtitles :S
can anybody help me with how to remove the subtitles? or are they permanently hardcopied onto the videos?
great upload. everything is awesome, however I would rather watch them with no yellow subtitles all over the bottom of the screen.... anyway to remove them or turn them off?
please let me know. thank you!
great upload. everything is awesome, however I would rather watch them with no yellow subtitles all over the bottom of the screen.... anyway to remove them or turn them off?
please let me know. thank you!
when this finished it was just 1.25 gigs of random documents. anyone else get that?
If you can't play the files, download VLC media player: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
If you move or delete the .srt files, it should stop the subtitles.
If you move or delete the .srt files, it should stop the subtitles.
i appreciate the ups and all... but what kind of moron writes his own subtitle dialog? stupid fuckin' dialog at that! as others have stated, just delete the .smi and .srt files and you're good to go! peace out!
actually, both your season 1 and 2 have this problem. season 2... this d/l, the audio is completely shot! not worth the d/l
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i don't know what these idiots are complaining about. fucking noobs i guess. i just downloaded this. it plays perfectly in vlc. great sound, great video. don't dl the sub files, and/or turn off the sub tracks in vlc. there are no hardcoded subs. this is a great upload. many thanks
if you guys have no audio it may be because the audio track is on 5.1 and you only have stereo? try playing with the output device settings in VLC in WMP or whatever program you use.
and to everyone:the audio is fine, prefect upload, thanks Konashine!!!
and to everyone:the audio is fine, prefect upload, thanks Konashine!!!
seed please!
Thank You
Extras: 10+ (subs)
Extras: 10+ (subs)
This is NOT the complete season 2. Only up to Ep7. Good quality....but not the full season.
triplexpsycho: There are only 7 episodes on this season
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