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17-3029.03 - Electromechanical Engineering Technologists
Assist electromechanical engineers in such activities as computer-based process control, instrumentation, or machine design. May prepare layouts of machinery or equipment, plan the flow of work, conduct statistical studies, or analyze production costs.
Sample of reported job titles: Designer, Engineering Specialist, Engineering Tech, Instrumentation and Electrical Preventive Maintenance Inspector IE PM Inspector, Process Control Tech, R&D Lab Technician, Senior Design Engineering Specialist, Senior Designer, Senior Mechanical Designer, Senior Tech Manufacturing Engineering
Tasks | Tools & Technology | Knowledge | Skills | Abilities | Work Activities | Work Context | Job Zone | Education | Credentials | Interests | Work Styles | Work Values | Wages & Employment | Job Openings
- Collaborate with engineers to implement electromechanical designs in industrial or other settings.
- Consult with machinists or technicians to ensure that electromechanical equipment or systems meet design specifications.
- Install or program computer hardware or machine or instrumentation software in microprocessor-based systems.
- Analyze engineering designs of logic or digital circuitry, motor controls, instrumentation, or data acquisition for implementation into new or existing automated, servomechanical, or other electromechanical systems.
- Fabricate or assemble mechanical, electrical, or electronic components or assemblies.
- Modify, maintain, or repair electrical, electronic, or mechanical components, equipment, or systems to ensure proper functioning.
- Select electromechanical equipment, materials, components, or systems to meet functional specifications.
- Produce electrical, electronic, or mechanical drawings or other related documents or graphics necessary for electromechanical design, using computer-aided design (CAD) software.
- Translate electromechanical drawings into design specifications, applying principles of engineering, thermal or fluid sciences, mathematics, or statistics.
- Select and use laboratory, operational, or diagnostic techniques or test equipment to assess electromechanical circuits, equipment, processes, systems, or subsystems.
Tools & Technology
Tools used in this occupation:
|Coordinate measuring machines CMM — Three dimensional laser scanners
|Milling machines — Computerized numerical control CNC machining centers; Machining centers; Manual mills
|Multimeters — Digital multimeters
|Oscilloscopes — Analog oscilloscopes; Digital oscilloscopes
|Signal generators — Function generators
Technology used in this occupation:
|Analytical or scientific software — Automation Studio; The MathWorks MATLAB; The MathWorks Simulink
|Computer aided design CAD software — Autodesk AutoCAD software; Dassault Systemes SolidWorks software; National Instruments Ultiboard; PTC Pro/ENGINEER software
|Development environment software — National Instruments LabVIEW
|Graphics or photo imaging software — McNeel Rhino
|Spreadsheet software — Microsoft Excel
|Engineering and Technology — Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
|Mechanical — Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
|Computers and Electronics — Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
|Physics — Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub- atomic structures and processes.
|Mathematics — Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
|Design — Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
|Production and Processing — Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
|English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
|Clerical — Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
|Public Safety and Security — Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
|Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
|Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
|Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
|Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
|Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
|Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
|Quality Control Analysis — Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
|Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
|Systems Analysis — Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
|Systems Evaluation — Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
|Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
|Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
|Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
|Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
|Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
|Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
|Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
|Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
|Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
|Mathematical Reasoning — The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
Work Activities
|Interacting With Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
|Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
|Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
|Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
|Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
|Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
|Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
|Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment — Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.
|Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment — Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
|Processing Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
Work Context
|Electronic Mail — 100% responded "Every day."
|Face-to-Face Discussions — 100% responded "Every day."
|Telephone — 86% responded "Every day."
|Work With Work Group or Team
|Freedom to Make Decisions — 55% responded "Some freedom."
|Contact With Others — 29% responded "Contact with others most of the time."
|Coordinate or Lead Others — 51% responded "Very important."
|Duration of Typical Work Week — 68% responded "More than 40 hours."
|Structured versus Unstructured Work — 70% responded "Some freedom."
|Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable — 24% responded "Once a month or more but not every week."
Job Zone
|Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed
|Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
|Related Experience
|A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
|Job Training
|Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
|Job Zone Examples
|Many of these occupations involve coordinating, supervising, managing, or training others. Examples include accountants, sales managers, database administrators, teachers, chemists, art directors, and cost estimators.
|SVP Range
|(7.0 to < 8.0)
Percentage of Respondents
|Education Level Required
|Not available
|Bachelor's degree
|Not available
|Post-secondary certificate
|Not available
|Some college, no degree
This occupation may require a background in the following science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educational disciplines:
Interest code: RIC
|Realistic — Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.
|Investigative — Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.
|Conventional — Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.
Work Styles
|Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
|Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
|Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
|Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
|Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
|Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
|Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
|Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
|Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
|Innovation — Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
Work Values
|Support — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.
|Working Conditions — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.
|Achievement — Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.
Wages & Employment Trends
Median wages data collected from Engineering Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other.
Employment data collected from Engineering Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other.
Industry data collected from Engineering Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other.
|Median wages (2014)
|$29.60 hourly, $61,580 annual
|State wages
|Employment (2012)
|68,000 employees
|Projected growth (2012-2022)
|Little or no change (-2% to 2%)
|Projected job openings (2012-2022)
|State trends
|Top industries (2012)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2014 wage data and 2012-2022 employment projections . "Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2012-2022). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.


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Currently we have anaconda for Fedora 18 designed as a hub with spokes. One of the spokes is the software selection task.
are a few reasons why it may be desireable to move it from anaconda to First boot.
a) Simplify anaconda functionality
b) Reduce the livecd size so that it is under 700megs
c) For smaller systems (netbooks, or systems with 1 gig of memory), allow the firstboot to specify a larger set of installable software. (Eliminate the mutually exclusive selection imposed by Fedora 18).
d) One gig systems do not have sufficient memory to install every option within the Gnome choice. Ditto for some of the other DEs.
e) If software installation is moved to firstboot, Fedora is already booted, and firstboot software installation (yum or whatever) can take advantage of the
/home/user folders increased disk space availability.
The above are just my thoughts after having to do the fedora installation twice because of d)
I am not a Fedora internals person and I really do not know if my idea is practical. It may not be if the livecd option is one reason for not considering this idea, there may be others.
When you quote old technology, realize that while two of my three systems are 4 gigs or larger, I also have netbooks that were manufactured by Intel in 2011. That is not old equipement that is past their prime. There are many netbooks made for Asia, Africa, Latin America, and elsewhere that are with 160 to 256gig drives but with 1 gig total memory. These netbooks were designed to be rugged and for students.
Fedora18 runs for about 4.5 hours non-stop on them. I have two of them because I write software. I write for French and Spanish users.
Currently my software is designed for 32bit and 64 bit hardware. (Different compilers and libraries). When you realize that on a two user system, you may have one user who wants KDE and the other Gnome, then you really want to install both in one go. To keep the installation time reasonable, Fedora 18 limits you to installing one and only one DE.
Please also note. Ubuntu is already on tablets. Most tablets have 1 gig memory and up to 32gigs flash. What I propose is to ventilate anaconda so it is easier to support and to allow a livecd image to fit on a 1 gig flash drive.
Have you ever had to restart an installation because something was configured wrong, and you have to wait for firstboot? If you have, then you may find merit in my asking if it is worth researching to evaluate the pros and the cons of this change. The pros and cons include development and support costs, program sizes, modularity, development and quality control activities, security and anything else I forgot to mention, if installing from dvd image on flash, instead of taking 40 minutes, the system can be at firstboot in 10, and that means, the installation was successful. We move about 35 minutes of elapsed execution from anaconda and add it to firstboot. If from first boot, only the latest software gets installed. now, my experience is that the snapshot prepared for the DVD is three months behind in time from the actual go live date. We do the installation, we do the first boot, and we run yum to download 300megs of current updates. By relocating the software installation to immediately follow firstboot, a lot of elapsed time is to be saved.
We must not put sticks in the wheels (batons dans les roules). If the Fedora architects think there is merit, they will build a comparison matrix of pros and cons, and draw a quantitive conclusion.
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Netbooks are not obsolete. Dual core 64 bit atoms with very low battery power consumption, with keyboard, usb ports and the like, and with a $150ea cost are most certainly attractive for schools where the government provides the device. Some Netbooks include a TPM,
The TPM has an integration with the motherboard to permit killing the netbook if the item is reported stolen. The TPM is used to hold licensing and password information, and for college software engineering students, a random number generator that generates numbers uniformly distributed.
Many governments are delighted that they can provide these inexpensive units to students. Many students live in remote locations, where only internet access is the government or school buildings. Yes, these backwoods areas are old-fashioned and obsolete. What is wonderful, is that unlike a tablet which costs 300+ and has at most 32gig free space, the minimum free space on these units is 250gigs. Enough space for all electronic copies of their text books and classroom assignments.
You would not necessarily put a programmers workbench as a main application, but it is a consideration, given the tablet alternative cost.
Obsolete is very much the wrong word. Well matched technically and economically to the need is what I am describing.
You must live in a country where wifi and Cellphone technology is low cost. Not so in the countries where these devices are targeted for distribution. Fedora 17 and Fedora 18 work just fine on these units.
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erudita74 wrote:Birth record is dated Jan 28, 1880 at 8 a.m.
Informant was Leonardo D'Agruma, age 43, a peasant/farmer living in S. Marco in Lamis. He declared to the town official that at 3 a.m. on the 27th of the current month, in the house at #4 via Mazzeo, was born an infant of feminine sex to his wife, Mariantonia De Cata, a peasant/farmer, who was living with him. It was this infant that he was presenting to the town official and to whom the name Maria Concetta was being given.
There were two witnesses to the presentation. Carminantonio Tenace, age 33, a peasant/farmer. The second witness was Antonio Limonsani, age 40, same occupation.
There is a marriage notation in the margin. She married M. Camillo Tenace on Feb 1, 1906, record #27. He had been born on 8/22/1878, record #455.
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Supergrid is a mammoth wind-power development scheme for Europe, recently proposed by Airtricity. This firm, founded in 1997, is a fast growing power-development company focused on wind. Already having built about 600 megawatts of wind turbines in Scotland and Ireland, Airtricity has now expanded to the United States. But its "Supergrid" proposal, to build offshore wind turbines with capacity of 30,000 megawatts of power would change the face of European energy networks, use new technology, and help several European countries meet their Kyoto targets for reducing CO2. The issues are whether a small company like Airtricity has the human and capital resources to pull this off, and whether the U.K., Germany, the Netherlands and the EU can be made to cooperate on such a project.
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Wanna step up to the plate? I can't do it on my own because MY plate's a bit full with things including a full-time job above and beyond the LGP stuff.
This is even more funny... Their publisher is in town. No promises...but I'll check into this shortly and get word back on the forums about what their take is on at least a Linux version out of them.
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Any game being made for linux is a win in my eyes, more so if it's an RPG 'cause RPG > *
My first RPG was akalabeth (precursor to Ultima 1) and played all though out the entire series. Lands of Lore was another and then Planescape and onto NWN. (Dungeon Siege wasn't bad also, A LOT better then the movie).
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Will it eliminate tearing for multi-monitor setups, too?
Because right now I get almost tear-free playback on my main monitor (DVI) via kwin vsync (except for a bug in 4.9) but lots of tearing on the second (HDMI).
Phoronix: Intel Linux Driver Still Working To Address Tearing
Open-Source Intel developers have long been working towards a tear-free Linux desktop with proper vsync support. For Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge hardware there's still been some tearing issues, but they hope to soon finally have it solved...
Will it eliminate tearing for multi-monitor setups, too?
Because right now I get almost tear-free playback on my main monitor (DVI) via kwin vsync (except for a bug in 4.9) but lots of tearing on the second (HDMI).
Nice to know that I can switch tearing between monitors, thanks.
Now my xorg.log states:
(II) intel(0): Kernel page flipping support detected, enabling
This might be a dumb question, but why do I see tearing then?
Is page flipping simply not used by X/Kwin?
Could I do something about it?
Thank you.
I don't like the idea of losing power savings, is this something that will be enabled by default, or is it just talking about the optional TearFree xorg conf option?
From what I've seen this tearing issue is only a problem if you aren't using an opengl compositor. Compiz in ubuntu 12.10 seems to support pageflipping, because I get no tearing on my intel card even with vsync disabled in compizconfig, and I get no tearing in gnome-shell as long as I use the CLUTTER_DEBUG=disable-culling workaround, no tearing in kwin either.
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The problem is that with the agressive powersaving of SandyBridge and the greater decoupling between the display engine and the GPU, the ability to delay rendering until a particular scanline had passed was assumed to be a legacy feature and the GPU commands to do so were removed. By presuming that all updates would then be through a compositor using pageflipping (i.e. their primary target, Windows Vista/7/8), they were then able to make further power savings. If you use an OpenGL (really DRI2) compositor that only pageflips (i.e. doesn't try to take "advantage" of MESA_copy_sub_buffer), you will not see any tearing, suffer very little jitter, and maximise the power savings of the GPU.
The TearFree option (still in its infancy, and really only a proof-of-principle at this stage) is to make sure that even a bare X only ever pageflips. This is primarily because future hardware will have even more widespread aggressive power savings that assume a compositor, and worst case scenario, the display engine will only be functional with a pageflipping compositor.
Yes I do use OpenGL with enabled VSync option. The remaining tearing I'm seeing seems to be a bug in Kwin (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307965)
This is only on my main monitor, on the second there does not seem to be any synching.
Edit: Windows is fine as long as you use an Aero theme, with anything different everything tears (both monitors).
So this looks like another Kwin bug?
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The menu layout on a web page plays an important role in the overall user interface layout. The menu pattern used should be in sync with the display constrains of the device, and depending upon the context, the menu layout should be used.
In this article we will discuss a couple of menu patterns which could be useful for designing mobile web pages:-
[edit] Overlay Menu
A menu which gets displayed at the location where the user presses the touch screen. Once the user selects a particular item from the menu or pressing the touch screen again, the menu goes away, allowing the user to browse the website normally.
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When the overall navigation pattern of the site is not complex and the level of menu items is not nested, this menu pattern can be used to give the site a jazzy look so to speak.
This menu pattern also makes a lot of sense in cases of a product catalogue, map locator kind of websites, where depending upon the position at which the pointer has been clicked, the menu can be popped up pertaining to the specific item that is present at those co-ordinates. Say in case of an apparel website, the user can chose from a variety of offerings like tuxedo, jeans, trousers etc, depending on the pointer click location, the menu popped up can have specific information regarding tuxedos for example and so on.
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Some of the limitations/drawbacks of this menu pattern are:-
- Not very user friendly in case of non touch screen devices as the user might find it tough to position the click event at the exact co-ordinates.
- The navigation through the drop down kind of menu that pops up in place might be a slightly cumbersome task for the end user.
- The in place menu might block the information being displayed below the pop-out menu causing usability concerns.
[edit] Retractable Menu
A menu which expands/collapses depending upon on the user click is available to be accessed again at a later point in time. This menu makes a lot of sense where the display area is limited and the user wants to use that to view the remainder of the webpage.
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Where the display area is limited, but at the same times the user wants to be able to use the menu options as and when they require. When the user presses the retractable menu it either expands horizontally or vertically depending on the design of the webpage and the amount of information tat needs to be displayed.
More details on this menu pattern can be had from:
[edit] Accordion Menu
Additional details on accordion menu can be had from:
Mobile Design Pattern: Accordion Menu
Additional details on teaser menu can be had from:
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one could say "two down, one to go" when speaking of those major video card companies ;-)
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At the Linux.Conf.Au conference today, Intel has announced NDA-free programming documentation covering the 965 Express and G35 Express integrated graphics processors (IGPs). Intel's display driver has long been open-source, but up until now, they have not been releasing the programming documentation for these products to the public. This move comes months after AMD announced their new open-source strategy and began releasing register documentation on their R500 and R600 GPUs.
one could say "two down, one to go" when speaking of those major video card companies ;-)
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I can already assert my next video card will not be an NVidia
Thank you AMD/ATI for making this possible. Without you opening the specs, this would probably never have happened...
Looks like this year might become another great year for open source. The success of the EeePC will increase Linux usage numbers in all the statistics (since those tend to mainly count "copies sold", which is generally not a way prefering open systems like linux and bsd). And those statistics might lead to more companies considering cross platform development.
Are we talking equivalent R200? R300? R400? Similarly for NVIDIA?
Which version of OpenGL can it support?
Intel's still not QUITE credible for the high-end (Though they ARE getting closer to that...), and if you're honest about it, neither is AMD right at the moment. The future's bright for both parties- very bright. And if your plans are 6-12 months out for purchase, you can probably make that claim without worries or concerns. But if you're buying right now, you're buying to reward their show of faith, not buying something that'll be truly usable yet if you're gaming or doing 3D visualization work. The GMA X3500 shows some real promise of being usable on the low-end for that and light duty gaming. On paper the R600 rocks.
The reality, though, is that NVidia's kind of largely the only robust play on the mid-to-high end right now.
I don't exactly like that any more than anyone else here- but that's how it is. I'm keen on seeing what comes of the next 6-12 months on the front now that Intel's stepped up to the plate along with AMD. No good reason for NVidia to not do the same thing, to be honest. If only there were more good things showing on the fglrx driver story or there were some solid 3D answers in the open source solutions for AMD past R300/R400, then I'd be leaning the same way you are.
In the long run AMD should drop fglrx for good and just develop some blob module for open drivers for things that couldn't be opened like h.264 hardware decoding or other DRM things... It's a waste of resources to develop both open and closed drivers.
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I'd be positive of 1.5 support, I'd suspect strongly of 2.1 support with provisos on what ARB extensions they advertise being available.


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On Wednesday night in Denver, Jorge De La Rosa continued his impressive, but extremely quiet season. The left-hander picked up his league-leading 16th win of the year, carving apart a Dodgers lineup that threatened, but couldn't get De La Rosa to break.
In what has become expected from the Rockies ace, De La Rosa wiggled out of trouble in the 6th inning. With the bases loaded and no one out, the Dodgers threatened to erase the Rockies early lead. Flashback five years ago and this same situation might have done De La Rosa in. Today a situation like De La Rosa faced barely raises the blood pressure of the hardcore Rockies fan. Instead of wondering how many runs the opposition will score, the thought is about which new way the lefty will invent to wiggle off the hook.
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The win gives De La Rosa 35 in his career at Coors Field. That ties him with Aaron Cook for the most ever at the hitter's haven. When the Rockies acquired him from the Royals for Ramon Ramirez, not one person was thinking that he would eventually be the all-time wins leader at 20th and Blake. When his emotions got the best of him, many didn't think he would last more than a couple of seasons.
There aren't enough words that can be said for what De La Rosa has accomplished. His 16 wins ties a career high. He accomplished the feat in 2009 as well, but this season is far more impressive than that one. The 2013 campaign follows a long battle back from Tommy John surgery. Out for almost a year and a half, the lefty once again faced scrutiny. Many didn't believe that he would be any better than a 5th starter.
Even with a few miles per hour off of his fastball, De La Rosa has shown to be even better than he was before the injury. Add on the fact that his thumb has been hurt since June, in fact, hurt so badly that on Monday he underwent an MRI, and there is no reason to think that he shouldn't be receiving far more praise than the national media has been giving him.
The Rockies are lucky to have De La Rosa in the mix for another year for relatively cheap. This team would be crazy not to offer him a 3-year deal in the offseason and try to get him to reproduce the 2013 season with a team closer to contention.
Wednesday night was a great example of the talent that the Rockies have. Something very strange about this Rockies team is that they have plenty of talent. Josh Rutledge, for all intents and purposes was missing in action out of the gate, has returned from Triple-A looking like the guy who got called up in mid-2012, not the guy from earlier in the year.
Despite a costly error in the 7th inning, Rutledge has looked like a new man in his return. He went 3-for-4 at the plate including a triple in the 1st inning that helped the Rockies get on the board. With the emergence of DJ LeMahieu and Nolan Arenado, the Rockies are stacked in the infield. If Troy Tulowitzki can stay healthy, and that is a big "if", the Rockies have one of the best infields, not only at the plate, but in the field, in the National League. Neither LeMahieu, nor Arenado's average is spectacular, but consider that this is both of their first seasons getting chances everyday and it is easy to see that the talent is there.
Maybe the focus should be on the positives, but with the Rockies front office, it is difficult not to see how the positive will be used to spin another bad season into no changes. Will the Rockies try to sell fans on the potential of a team that is much better than a year ago? Will they talk about how the injury to Tulowitzki really devastated them in 2013? Will they say that it was just the Dodgers year? The talent is clearly there. This team has young guys who can play the game and are getting better.
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The short answer is yes.
Each year the Colorado School of Mines hosts their annual Engineers' Days which is a celebration all the things nerdy university engineering students are into. The day involves a whole pile of stuff like soap box races, gold panning, mattress races and what I can only imagine as super awesome, a Tesla coil demonstration.
One of the great traditions of the event is the annual cardboard boat race down the local Clear Creek. The only rules are that the contestant teams must build their boat with a set amount of cardboard and tape and it must carry the while team down the raging class I moving water. Extra points are awarded for creativity, floatability and keeping upright at least until the finish line.
This year, two students decided that floating down a river was so last year and decided walking was the way to go. Just wait until they need to negotiate a very small waterfall
Go team AT-AT!
This guy just moved into his first apartment and hasn't gotten around to purchasing a sofa yet. He gets my vote for having the right priorities.
Thinking about it a bit more, this reminds me of two other friends below who also had their priorities in order when they decided to trade the entertainment center for a canoe.
Looking for a challenge today? Find the kayak in the word search above. Here is a hint; the word appears only once.
The idea for this comes from Charles Lohr who decided to see how hard it would be for a computer to build a word search based on only the letters you gave it.
I wrote a program that creates them in C. It took about 30 minutes. It simply produces letters from a list of letters I provide it, and checks to make sure that the word in the search does not show up. If that word does show up, it starts rewriting some letters. Eventually, it creates a wordsearch without the word that you're searching for.
More info: cnlohr.blogspot.ca/2014/02/to-make-terrible-wordsearches.html
While I am by no means a fan of romantic comedies I did enjoy this clip of Jason Segel from Forgetting Sarah Marshall attempting to get a surf lesson from Chuck (or Koonu, his Hawaiian name according to an internet website) who is played by Paul Rudd.
For you paddling instructors out there teaching, the take-away lesson here is to basically do the exact opposite of everything Chuck does and you are guaranteed to be a more effective instructor than him.
I've always enjoyed the videos that the gang from Body Boat Blade. Shawna Franklin and Leon Sommé are super down to earth instructors and their passion to make kayaking fun is clearly there.
If you are just getting into the world of SUP and interested in taking a lesson you don't need to look any longer as SUP Professional, Rod Mentor is here to give you a FREE lesson. In just over 4 minutes you will learn to strengthen your core muscles, learn about the spiritual side of SUPping and learn to dress properly for the water.
Even though you will be looking and talking like a pro in 4 minutes from now, actually paddling like a pro might be a different story but hey, that's over-rated anyways.


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Known Issues
One of the Inventory tasks—stage_inv_transaction_con_cus5 Process—is missing from both the History and Daily load jobs. To correct this, prior to running the INITIAL_JOB_SETUP, Edit Tasks for both the HIST_INV_PROCESS_XXXXXXX and DAILY_INV_PROCESS_XXXXXXX jobs. After stage_inv_transaction_con_cus4 and before stage_inv_transaction_con_sup, add the task stage_inv_transaction_con_cus5 with the action Process. This task should not be grouped with those above or below it; it should have an Order that is higher than the con_cus4 task and lower than the con_sup task. Save and rebuild dependencies.
The BI Portal application cannot run in the same instance of Tomcat as QXtend. (QBI-174)
Visual items: drill-in using hierarchy the loading spinner displays forever. (QBI-181)
Model changes in QAD BI DWD are not picked up unless a custom model is opened in the Portal, saved and closed. (QBI-127)
fact_ar_invoice_history has the entered date value stored as a degenerate dimension value rather than as a dimensional join. This will change to a full dimension join in future releases of the BI data warehouse. Doing so might cause some queries to need to change in the future. (QBI-26)
Now that the GUI supports translation of repository object names, the Export/Importobject functionality needs to support the import and export of the translated strings. (QBI-604)


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I'd like to see where linux graphic stack is faster than windows in a real test. I always laugh when linux fan boys cry about nvidia blob yet its the only way to get decent graphic speeds on linux. All the open source drivers are crap, at best you can play a FPS shooter with a 10 year old engine at a good framerate. Also you act like using a LTS such as ubuntu means wifi drivers work properly. All that means is I have an OS that is stable until the next LTS, which breaks my wifi. Which happens all the time, linux slogan should simply be 'regression'.
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And it's not true "all Open Source drivers are crap", because they're usually more stable than proprietary equivalents and support features like KMS.
PS. new Windows Service Packs break things, so not only I have to care about new Windows releases, but also about patches.
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This is good news - they've stuck perfectly to their release schedule for many years.
Some of the software provided is out of date, but they freeze versions a while before releasing to concentrate on bugfixes. It's a shame that it doesn't have KMS, but it is being worked on (by one guy, who I believe also has a full-time job, hence it's taking a while).
Their "-current" flavour has more up to date software (firefox 12 etc.), and despite being their development version, it's remarkably stable.
I see no reason for any arguments here - I don't use FreeBSD, but I'm happy that they continue to make progress and put out new releases - it doesn't hurt me, and if they do something very good then it will make its way into systems that I do use.


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Modeling Diffusion with the Particle Tracing Module
Model ID: 12333
Transport which is purely diffusive in nature can be modeled using a Brownian force. This model shows how to add such a force in the Particle Tracing for Fluid Flow physics interface. Particle diffusion in a fluid is modeled with the diffusion equation and the Particle Tracing for Fluid flow interfaces and the results are compared.


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Alpine Linux and apk-tools.
You are welcome in our #alpine-devel channel on freenode for a chat.
You should also ditch FreeBSD and use Linux for fuck sake.
FreeBSD sucks and so does all other BSDs and non-Linux crap
Like database optimizations. Dragonfly is way faster than freebsd, because it follows Linux principles like:What "Linux principles"?
"Light Weight Kernel Threads (LWKT) implementation and a virtual kernel similar to User Mode Linux."
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I'm not freebsd user and never was, I'm occasional OpenBSD user.
Virtual kernel feature is similar to User Mode Linux, but it's not performance feature:
attention everyone, azmo (the only developer of ArchBSD) is a useless fucking prick would just wants to show off to the world how shitty his piece of shit OS is cause it's based on the shittest OS of all (BSD)
the world needs less projects like this
Compilers do not matter very much as far as performance goes. Better aglorithms and code that plays well with cache will always matter more than anything a compiler could do.
Dtrace and ZFS could be called a "tech preview" in FreeBSD 7.x and FreeBSD 8.0-8.2. It is fairly mature in FreeBSD 8.3 and later. At this point, ZFS and Dtrace are no more of a "tech preview" than DragonflyBSD is.
Lastly, DragonflyBSD has influences from AmigaOS, not Linux.
DragonflyBSD has its merits, but it is different, not better.


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The Lincoln-Douglas Lab (1-Week Labs - June 21-June 27 OR June 28-July 4 - $450 resident / $150 commuter) OR (2-Week Lab - June 22-July 5 - $875 resident / $300 commuter) is a lab for Lincoln-Douglas Debaters of all levels and features numerous practice debates, small group political philosophy discussions, and individualized skills and strategy development. Debaters learn theory and practice writing and debating affirmative and negative cases for future topics.
Heather Hall, Assistant Debate Coach, Liberty University—Lincoln-Douglas Lab Instructor and Dorm Parent: Coach Hall was an accomplished high school Lincoln-Douglas debater including qualifying to the NFL National Tournament. She was also a varsity policy debater for Liberty University. She has coached novice debate for 11 years at Liberty where her teams have won multiple national championships. She has taught at several debate workshops including the Virginia Beach High School Workshop and the Centre Hall, PA Home School Seminar.
Eddie Fitzgerald, Varsity Debater, Liberty University-Lincoln-Douglas Lab Instructor (not pictured): Mr. Fitzgerald debated at Liberty University where he was a varsity debater, working towards a major in philosophy. As a high school varsity Lincoln-Douglas debater for Timothy Christian in Piscataway, NJ he had winning records at both the Harvard and NJ State Tournaments. As a college debater, he has won the James Madison University, John Carroll University, University of Richmond, and ADA Nationals debate tournaments.
Cole Bender - Assistant Debate Coach
Graduated from Liberty with a B.A. in Philosophy in 2009 and an M.A. in Religious Studies in 2011. He is a former varsity member of the Liberty debate team and has coached for Liberty since 2011.


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Earthquake Program
SEMA's Earthquake Program informs Missourians about the region's earthquake hazard and steps that can be taken to prepare for earthquakes and their potential consequences. Program activities include assisting in state-level response planning for an earthquake, particularly one in the New Madrid Seismic Zone, which includes much of eastern and southern Missouri.
The program supports important earthquake-related projects and events, such as the St. Louis Area Earthquake Hazards Mapping Project; the Great Central U.S. "ShakeOut," an 11-state central U.S. earthquake drill; and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute's New Madrid Earthquake Scenario Project.
The program also assists with important training events, including SAVE Coalition training classes, Central U.S. Earthquake Consortium "Disaster Medicine" classes, and FEMA nonstructural mitigation classes. The program works closely with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources' Division of Geology and Land Survey, and other state, federal, and private technical experts to ensure SEMA remains up to date on earthquake research, mitigation techniques and ways to protect and inform the public about the region's earthquake hazard.
The earthquake program manager serves as state representative for both the Missouri Seismic Safety Commission and the Missouri Structural Assessment and Visual Evaluation (SAVE) Coalition. The Earthquake Program also helps organize and publicize Earthquake Awareness Month, which is held each February in Missouri.
To rapidly deploy credentialed volunteer SAVE Inspectors to assist SEMA, local jurisdictions and local building inspectors to determine if buildings are safe for continued occupancy and provide essential demolition, cleanup, or other related services in the event of an earthquake or other disasters, including manmade disasters.
Authority: Section 44.023.
Establishment: The SAVE (Structural Assessment Visual Evaluation) Coalition was authorized by RSMo 44.023 whereby volunteer architects and engineers registered under Chapter 327, RSMo, and construction contractors, equipment dealers and other owners and operators of construction equipment may volunteer the use of their services and equipment for up to three days when activated by SEMA. The statute established the duties of SEMA to oversee, support and activate the volunteer organization, specified local government responsibility to reimburse SAVE Volunteer Inspectors' out-of-pocket expenses and granted SAVE Volunteer Inspectors immunity from liability, except in cases of gross or willful negligence.
Purpose: The purpose of the SAVE Coalition is to implement a building inspection program for disaster events such as earthquakes and other natural disasters. Following catastrophic events, unsafe buildings of all types pose serious hazards to their occupants, creating an immediate need for damage inspections throughout the affected areas. People may need to be kept from using unsafe buildings, and safe shelter must be provided for those left homeless. Regular building inspection officials may become overloaded instantly and require additional help. It is essential that qualified SAVE inspectors quickly identify structures that are safe for reentry and those that must be avoided. In some instances under SEMA's Section 44.023 emergency volunteer program, other volunteers may be needed to assist in emergency demolition, cleanup or other related emergency services.
Eligibility: Credentialed Volunteers – Credentialed SAVE Volunteer Inspectors include architects or professional engineers, or certain building inspectors or skilled construction industry personnel with at least 5 years of verifiable general building design, construction contractor, or inspection experience. Other Section 44.023 SEMA Volunteers – Under this statute, other emergency volunteer participants include construction equipment dealers, owners and operators who are willing on a temporary, as needed basis to provide the use of their services and equipment (either manned or unmanned) for up to 3 days when requested. SEMA maintains contact and liaison with organizations in the state that can provide these services and equipment – including the "Plan Bulldozer" Committee of the Heavy Constructors Association of The Greater Kansas City Area, the Kansas City Chapter Associated General Contractors, and the Disaster Resource Council of Metropolitan St. Louis.
Credentials: Each SAVE Volunteer Inspector must attend SAVE Coalition ATC-20 training to receive SAVE credentials. Every 3 years, each SAVE Volunteer Inspector must be recertified.
ATC-20 Training: SAVE Volunteer Inspectors must attend the ATC-20 Post Earthquake Safety Evaluation of Buildings course to receive SAVE inspector credentials and become a SAVE team member qualified to inspect disaster damaged buildings. During the course, procedures and documents are presented which promote uniformity in the rating of building damages so that different individuals examining the same building will arrive at the same conclusion about its relative safety. At the course, each SAVE inspector will receive a field manual and detailed instructions to guide their future work. Some professional organizations also award continuing education credit for completion of this course.
SAVE Board of Directors
|David Weber, P.E., S.E. ( Chair)
|Structural Engineers Assoc. of Kansas & Missouri
|Allstate Consultants,
|Michael J. Griffin, P.E. (Vice-Chair)
|Earthquake Engineering Research Inst/New Madrid
|CCS Group, Inc., Chesterfield
|John Finke, P.E.
|American Council of Engineering Companies/MO
|Jacobs Engineering Group, St. Louis
|American Council of Engineering Companies/MO
|John Waggoner
|American Institute of Architects/Missouri
|Arning Companies Inc., Cassville
|Bud Gruchalla
|American Institute of Architects/Missouri
|Mainline Group Architecture, Inc, St. Louis
|James A. Taylor, P.E., S.E.
|American Society of Civil Engineers - St. Louis
|ABS Consulting,
Maryland Heights
|Benjamin Ross, P.E., PTOE
|American Society of Civil Engineers - St. Louis
|Eng. Surveys/Services,
|Gregory L. Hempen, PhD, P.E., R.G.
|Earthquake Engineering Research Inst/New Madrid
|URS Corporation, St. Louis
|Thomas B. Ellis, P.E. Associate
|Missouri Society of Professional Engineers
|Ellis Engineers, St.Louis
|Dennis Kidwell, P.E.
|Missouri Society of Professional Engineers
|Kidwell Construction, Inc., Kingdom City
|Mark A. Roenfeldt, P.E.
|Society of American Military Engineers St.Louis
|U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis
|Stephen L. McCaskie, P.E.
|Society of American Military Engineers St.Louis
|Hanson Professional Services, Inc., St. Louis
|Steve Stack, P.E.
|Structural Engineers Assoc. of Kansas & Missouri
|Wallace Engineering, Kansas City
|James D. Palmer, P.E., S.E.
|Missouri Seismic Safety Commission
|Kansas City Power & Light, Kansas City
|Dennis Kidwell, P.E.
|SAVE Coalition Statewide Coordinator
Kidwell Construction, Inc.,
|Theodore Pruess, P.E.
|SAVE Coalition Training Coordinator
|Larson Engineering, St. Louis
Board Mission Statement: The Seismic Safety Commission shall review the "State of State" in earthquake preparedness and make recommendations for the government; private sector and citizens to better mitigate the effects of a major seismic event within the state or an event that will affect the state.
Authority: Sections 44.225 - 44.237, RSMo. Board Function: The Missouri Seismic Safety Commission initiates, with the assistance and participation of other state, federal and local government agencies, a comprehensive program to prepare the state for responding to a major earthquake. The program was implemented in order to result in specific tools or products to be used by governments in responding to an earthquake, such as educational materials for citizens.
Number of Members: 17 members.
Number of Members Appointed by Governor: 15.
Length of Term: 4 years.
Senate Advice and Consent Required: yes.
Political Affiliation Required: no.
Geographic Affiliation Required: no.
Special Membership Requirements: Yes, one Commissioner is selected to represent each of the following professional areas: architecture, planning, fire protection, public utilities, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, structural engineering, soils engineering, geology, seismology, local government, insurance, business, the American Red Cross and emergency management.
Commission Members
|Term Ends
|Art Bond AIA, NCARB
|Saint Louis
|July 1, 2010
|Dr. Phillip Gould, P.E. (Chairman)
|Richmond Heights
|Electrical Engineering
|July 1, 2012
|John Mallott
|Fire Protection
|July 1, 2012
|Miles "Joe" Green
|July 1, 2012
|Joel P. Evans
|Local Government
|July 1, 2012
|The Honorable Billy Pat Wright
|MO House
|No Term Limit
|The Honorable Rob Mayer
|MO Senate
|No Term Limit
|Dr. Gregory Hempen Ph.D., P.E., R.G.
|Saint Louis
|July 1, 2010
|John C. Farris
|Public Utilities
|July 1, 2012
|Donald W. Shaw (Vice Chairman)
|Jefferson City
|Public Utilities
|July 1, 2012
|Eric Sandvol
|July 1, 2012
|Dr. Raymond Bailey, Ph.D, P.E., R.G. (Secretary)
|Saint Charles
|Soils Engineering
|July 1, 2012
|James D. Palmer, P.E.
|Kansas City
|Structural Engineering
|July 1, 2010


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As the Keystone Kitchen staff was cruising "Runs With Spatula's" amazing food blog this past week, we all said "OOOOOH!" aloud when we ran into this recipe. We can't wait to make this one and serve it with an ice cold glass of milk!
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Peanut Butter Torte
Adapted from: , by Dorie Greenspan
1 1/4 cups finely chopped lightly salted peanuts
2 teaspoons sugar
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 cup mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
36 Oreo cookies, finely ground
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled to lukewarm
2 1/2 cups heavy cream
1 1/4 cups powdered sugar
12 ounces reduced-fat cream cheese, at room temperature
1 1/2 cups creamy peanut butter
2 tablespoons 1% milk
4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Coat a 9-inch spring form pan with cooking spray and set it on the baking sheet; set aside.
In a medium bowl, combine the Oreo crumbs and melted butter, stirring with a fork until all the crumbs are moistened. Transfer crumb mixture to the spring form pan, pressing the crumbs evenly across the bottom and up the sides about 2 inches. Freeze crust for 10 minutes, then bake for an additional 10 minutes. Transfer crust to a wire rack and let cool completely before filling.
In a small bowl, combine 1/2 cup chopped peanuts, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and chocolate chips. Set aside.
In the large work bowl of a mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, whip 2 cups of heavy cream on medium-high until it holds medium peaks. Add 1/4 cup powdered sugar and continue to beat until the cream holds medium-firm peaks. Transfer the cream to a medium bowl and place in the refrigerator until needed.
Wipe the mixing bowl out well with a dry paper towel (do no wash). Switch to the paddle attachment (or regular beaters for a hand mixer). Beat together on medium speed the cream cheese with 1 cup powdered sugar until satiny and smooth. Add the peanut butter, 1/4 chopped peanuts, and milk. Beat until well incorporated.
With a rubber spatula, gently fold in 1/4 of the prepared whipped cream. Fold in the chopped peanut and spice mixture followed by the remaining whipped cream. Pour the filling into the prepared and cooled crust, smoothing the top. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours, or overnight. Cover with plastic wrap as soon as the filling sets.
Once the filling is properly chilled, prepare the ganache topping. Place the chopped bittersweet chocolate in a medium bowl. In a small saucepan, bring 1/2 cup heavy cream to a boil. Pour the cream over the chocolate and gently stir until the chocolate is fully melted and the ganache becomes fully blended and glossy. Pour ganache over the top of the torte, smoothing the chocolate to the edges with a offset spatula. Sprinkle the remaining 1/2 cup chopped peanuts over the top of the torte. Place the torte back in the refrigerator until the topping sets, about 20 minutes.
To remove the spring form pan, warm the sides of the pan with a hairdryer, then remove the sides. Refrigerate torte until ready to serve.
Serves: 16
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In addition to this decadent pie, there are low-cholesterol, lowfat, and under 500 calorie recipes at Runs wtih Spatulas. Click here and check out her blog today!


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FWIW I have the opposite experience - I often see GUI lag in Windows when working with slow network shares or usb sticks, but IO doesn't affect X here. I did use to get a small skip in music during heavy IO (git gc of a big tree), but upping mplayer cache settings fixed that.
That sounds very much like a typical PulseAudio installation... Just get rid of it. It is bloatware crap. I run on nothing more than ALSA, and I can put the cpu under intense load and never get any audio lag or skips.
Hold on, if you know you are hitting memory limitations, why are you choosing some of the most bloated software that you can choose? PA, KDE, Cromium, Eclipse... I mean come on, in every case there is something lighter that would work better on your hardware.
EDIT: and if you are only using 1GB of ram and still have 2GB available, and it is already swapping, then something is configured wrong... You should check out swappiness.
Last edited by duby229; 03-12-2013 at 02:48 AM.
Never had any sound playing lag when copying files though, also this gui lag has always been IO bound, I've never encountered it despite maximizing the cpu cores (like running x264 encodes while compiling etc). I wouldn't be surprised if BFS/BFQ still gave noticeably better responsiveness during extreme IO load but it's running smooth enough here for me not to bother.
For the record I haven't used swap on my machines for many years so there may be problems with excessive swap access that I'm not aware of.
running linux with amd anything = that's your problem son
here I'd say overall performance is 70-80% of windows performance (I blame it worse intel drivers) but everything runs great.
fans tend to kick in a lil more than in win 2


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Alvaro Ybarra Zavala took a socially related issue as his starting point, that of the marginalization of mentally and physically disabled people in India. The Kuderu center, in the central Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, is one of the few facilities in the country offering specialist care. At Kudera, people's disabilities are not seen as barriers to leading a life of fulfillment and dignity.
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I cannot seem to be able to change blocks when playing Minecraft on my laptop. I have no idea how to either. It has changed before to a different block but i have no idea how it did.
You do not have to use the mouse button 3 for changing blocks; the numbers 1 to on your keyboard will choose the respective blocks from your selected quick bar (the row of blocks on the bottom of your screen).
When you changed it to another block, you probably happened to have pressed one of the numbers on your keyboard. You should try ordering blocks consistently so that you have an idea of which number is which (for common things such as a pickaxe or stone), and from there you can get used to using numbers and quickly switching.
You can see the controls here for details.
You can use either the mouse scroll wheel (or scrolling sections/gestures on a trackpad) or the number keys 0-9 on your keyboard to switch between currently selected items in your hotbar. These are the main methods of doing so.
The "Pick Block" key is by default bound to your mouse Button 3, or the scroll wheel. Since many laptops do not support clicking with the scrolling function, you can bind the control to another key on your keyboard instead.
What Pick Block actually does allows you to quickly switch to another block type if you have it in your quickbar. For example, let's say you have some stone in your hotbar. If you use Pick Block on a stone block in the world, it will quickly swap to have that item selected.
Alternatively, using Pick Block in creative mode will automatically bring that block into your hotbar, if it's not already there.
To be able to play Minecraft without a compatible mouse (one without a scroll wheel) meaning accessing your quick-bar problematic.
The following controls are able to do the same job.
If there is no muse button on your laptop the buttons 1-9 on your keyboard will scroll through the quickbar without the need fo a mouse wheel.


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As a Forester, you will be challenged to grow physically by training and competition, mentally by developing stronger skills of determination, discipline, and focus, and ultimately, spiritually by growing in your relationship with God.
Are you serious about attaining a first-rate education? Are you passionate about taking your game to the next level? The Huntington University golf program can assist you in shaping your university experience.
Great start for Forester golf
Huntington opened the season by bringing home the Midwest Collegiate Championship title
Sholund to take over the HU men's golf program
HUNTINGTON, Ind. – Huntington University athletic director Lori Culler has announced the hiring of Rick Sholund as the new HU men's golf coach. Sholund becomes the sixth head coach of the golf program since its inception in 1959. "We are very excited to add Rick to our coaching staff," said Culler. "We believe that Rick has the experience and tools to take our men's golf program to the next level. "Rick has played professionally, provided...


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rangerdave Oct 15 '77
There is no offseason in dynasty leagues. January and February are crucial times for reviewing and changing league rules in order to give teams enough time to adjust their rosters and draft strategy before the annual draft. Knowing what changes are coming with the 2012 Flea season is extremely helpful. What can we look forward to?
For example:
Will we see new player positions (e.g. DT, DE, CB, S, etc.)?
What will the rules concerning dual position players be like?
Are any new scoring options being added?
Will we see polls?
Are chatrooms coming?
Will roster sizes be increased?
I know that some things are still being worked on, and there is reluctance to say something is coming that may take awhile, but certainly there are things which you know will be available and can let us know about. Any info would be helpful, if possible.
scotto1959 Oct 19 '77
Individual idp slots are just as improtant as ind off slots.
scotto1959 Oct 19 '77
if you guys ever get the celeb thing worked out. First things first!!
rangerdave Oct 19 '77
Agreed. This is one area where Flea is behind other sites. They will get us those slots eventually. I would just like to see them early enough in an offseason to prepare my leagues for that change.
FFCSR_Hal Admin Oct 19 '77
I agree. I'll see if our infrastructure can support it with our head programmer. If so, I'll try and separate them by: DT, DE, LB, CB ad S (I believe this is what you guys are asking for). Not something I'm sure we can support this year in a timely fashion, but I'd like to see it soon. Is this what you guys want?
rangerdave Oct 19 '77
Thanks, Hal. That's exactly what Scotto and I are looking to see changed.


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The year is 1936.
Adolf Hitler has been the German Chancellor for three years. During this time, the Nazis have established a totalitarian regime in Germany, and they have begun rearmaments efforts at an accelerated rate.
Europe worries. The French hide behind their forts, the British huddle on their Islands, the Czechs and Slovaks imitate the French with worse fortifications and less wine, and the Russians don't do anything, they're busy enough with their homegrown crazy dictator.
These are dark times for Europe, and one hardly sees how they could get worse.
Well, you'd be wrong to think so. After all, wanting to control all of Germany and all of its armies all of the Nazi party all of the time is a bit hard on your brain. And you don't even get extra cookies.
So what had to happen happens:
The Führer Goes Nuts!
(and he's contagious)
Whoops, wrong Führer.
Better fix that before Adolf notices.
The Führer Goes Nuts!
(and he's contagious)
Wait, it could be "The Furry Goes Nuts!"
Sounds cool
Mein Furry, your dialogue sucks
On second thought we'll stick with the original. He talks nonsense but at least he TALKS
Outch! And he hasn't got claws!
Go away! Stupid cat!