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She's got the voice, now Christina Aguilera looks for hits
LOS ANGELES, Nov 13 (Reuters) – Christina Aguilera has the
vocal chops, the look, the strut and millions of new fans thanks
to her stint as a judge on TV singing contest "The Voice."
But can she still sell records?
The singer, who had global hits with "Genie in a Bottle" and
the female empowerment ballad "Beautiful" more than 10 years
ago, bids to reclaim her status as one of the world's biggest
pop stars with her new album, "Lotus," released on Tuesday.
Klingon goes boldly beyond 'Star Trek' into pop culture
LOS ANGELES, Nov 2 (Reuters) – Why learn French when you
could learn Klingon?
The language created more than 30 years ago for the "Star
Trek" race of long-haired warriors has moved boldly into pop
culture where few other alien tongues have gone before.
New "Star Wars" movies – dream come true, or cosmic yawn?
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – For years, it seemed like another "Star Wars" movie was just a dream, stillborn in a galaxy far, far away.
But down on Earth, the Walt Disney movie studio had different ideas, announcing on Tuesday that it planned not one but at least three new "Star Wars" movies, starting in three years' time.
Whitney Houston's family share struggles in TV reality show
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Making a TV reality show may not be the most obvious way to cope with the sudden death of a loved one, but most families don't count an icon like Whitney Houston among their relatives.
Less than a year after the "I Will Always Love You" singer drowned accidentally in a hotel bath tub after taking cocaine, Houston's teen daughter, her mother, brother and sister-in-law share with the world their struggle to cope in "The Houstons: On Our Own".
NBC breaks TV losing streak, orders more "Revolution"
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – NBC won U.S. television's official premiere week with key viewers for the first time since 2003, and swiftly announced full season orders on Tuesday for three of its new shows.
Boosted by "Sunday Night Football – the nation's most watched program – singing contest "The Voice" and futuristic new drama "Revolution," NBC was first in the 18-49 age group prized by advertisers and showed a 12 percent increase in that demographic compared to the 2011 TV premiere week, Nielsen data showed.
Upsets, drama in store for TV's big Emmy night
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A night of upsets could be on the menu at the Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, with the countesses and kitchen maids of Britain's "Downton Abbey" bidding to end the reign of television's "Mad Men," while post-9/11 psychological thriller "Homeland" lurks close by.
With a tight race for the best drama series top prize and a great year for comedy actresses, the television industry's biggest night could pack as much drama this year as the plot twists and turns dreamed up by TV writers on screen.
Oscar, you've got mail: Electronic voting on tap for 2013 Oscars
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Voting for the Oscars is going electronic for the first time in a move that will speed up the process and could give an boost to younger, edgier movies.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said on Tuesday that a new online voting system will be used for the first time in its 85-year history for the Oscars that will be handed out in February 2013.
Rapper Nicki Minaj, country's Keith Urban pump up "American Idol"
LOS ANGELES, Sept 16 (Reuters) – Controversial rapper Nicki
Minaj and country singer Keith Urban joined the "American Idol"
judging panel on Sunday, as the ageing Fox show seeks to boost
its star power and recapture sliding audiences in a crowded TV
talent show field.
In a decision that divided "Idol" fans, Minaj, 29, known for
her outlandish outfits and headline-making performances, and
Urban were confirmed by Fox hours before auditions in front of
judges kicked off in New York for the show's 12th season.
Nicki Minaj, Keith Urban join "American Idol" as judges
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Rapper Nicki Minaj and country singer Keith Urban have signed up as judges for TV singing contest "American Idol," Fox television said on Sunday.
They will join Grammy-winning artist Mariah Carey for the 12th season of the show when it returns in January 2013.
Britney gets mean, but "X Factor" debut still sinks
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Britney Spears showed off her mean streak as the new talent judge on "The X Factor," but the TV singing contest stumbled with American viewers, drawing a smaller audience than last year and getting drowned out by "The Voice" and "America's Got Talent."
In a first head-to-head battle of three talent shows, an average 8.5 million Americans – about 3.5 million or 32 percent down from the 2011 opener – watched Spears and singer Demi Lovato make their debuts in the heavily-hyped two-hour season premiere of Fox show "The X Factor" on Wednesday.


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Lucas James Bormuth Naomi and Cody Bormuth of Bellingham welcomed a son, Lucas James, on June 27, 2014, at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center. He weighed 8 pounds, 8 ounces, and joins brother Silas. ...
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Candlelight vigil takes a stand against domestic violence
POSTED: Sunday, October 14, 2012 - 7:11pm
UPDATED: Monday, October 15, 2012 - 8:53am
BATON ROUGE, LA (NBC33) — Baton Rouge residents and LSU students came together to take a stand against domestic violence. Dozens of people came out for the 26th annual "Take back the Night" event on LSU's campus. The event honors those who lost their lives to domestic violence. It also hopes to spur people to action to turn around a trend that sees one in four women become a victim of domestic violence in their lifetime.
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Kids' Choice Awards 2015: "Bang Bang" wins Favorite Song of the Year!
The 2015 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards aired tonight and included on the list of winners are Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj who won "Favorite Song of the Year" for their smash hit "Bang Bang."
Congrats ladies!
Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 8:57 PM
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Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 4:24 PM
Nicki Minaj and fans pose for photos on 'The Pinkprint Tour' (France + Germany).
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Nicki Minaj earns first top ten hit on Billboard's Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart.
"Hey Mama" by David Guetta featuring Nicki Minaj and Afrojack rises from #18 to #10 on Billboard's Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart this week, earning Nicki her first top ten hit on that chart.
"Hey Mama" grabs both the top Digital and Airplay Gainer awards, with the track up by 138 percent to 20,000 sold and rising by 106 percent to 8.6 million in radio audience. The song also surges by 52 percent to 459,000 streams; its lyric video arrived March 22.
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Differences in how Fibre Channel and Ethernet Measure Speed
February 9, 2015 3 Comments
Where servers, storage and networking combine to form Voltron.
February 9, 2015 3 Comments
September 3, 2014 Leave a comment
There's been some misconceptions and misinformation lately about FCoE. Like any technology, there are times when it makes sense and times when it doesn't, but much of the anti-FCoE talk lately has been primarily ignorance and/or wilful misrepresentation.
In an effort to fight that ignorance, I put together a quick introduction to how FC and FCoE works. They both operate on the basic premise that you can't drop any frames. Fibre Channel was built as a lossless protocol, and with a bit of work, Ethernet can also be lossless.
Check it out:
August 27, 2014 Leave a comment
So how's this for a condescending tweet?
@tbourke @elonden @sbdewindt ; Learn what Tony doesn't know. See why 2 * 8 != 16. (And yes, 2 * 10 < 16 also). http://t.co/1hx6RPlZ2V
— EGI Russ (@russtystorage) August 27, 2014
It's from Russ Fellows, author of the infamous FCoE "study" (which has been widely debunked for its many hilarious errors):
Interesting article (check it out). But the sad/amusing irony is that he's wrong. How is he wrong? Here's what Russ Fellows doesn't know about storage:
1, 2, 4, and 8 Gbit Fibre Channel (as he points out) uses 8/10 bit encoding. That means about a 20% of the bandwidth available was lost due to encoding overhead (as Russ pointed out). That's why 8 Gbit Fibre Channel only provides 800 MB/s of connectivity, even though 8,000 Megabits per second equates to 1,000 Megabytes per second (8000 Megabits / (8 bits per byte) = 1,000 Megabytes).
With this overhead in mind, Fibre Channel was designed to give 100 MB/s for every Gigabit of speed. It never increased the baud rate to make up for the overhead.
Ethernet, on the other hand, did increase the baud rate to make up for the overhead. Gigabit Ethernet uses the same 8/10 bit encoding, but they kicked the baud rate up to 1.25 gigabaud to make up the differences. As such, Gigabit Ethernet provides true 1 gigabit of throughput, or 125 Megabytes per second.
10 Gigabit Ethernet moved to 64/66 encoding, and kept to the approach of not letting the overhead impact throughput. 10 Gigabit Ethernet then provides 1250 Megabytes per second of throughput. The baud rate is 10.3125, giving true 10 Gigabit per second of data.
When Fibre Channel moved to the more efficient 64/66 bit encoding, rather than change the 100 MB/s per gigabit to 125 MB/s (which you get with all Ethernet speeds), they left the ratio (1 Gigabit to 100 MB/s) the same. Thus, every Gigabit = 100 MB/s, just like in previous speeds (1/2/4/8 FC). So while 16 Gbit Fibre Channel provides 1600 MB/s of throughput, the baud rate is actually only 14 gigabaud, and not true 16 Gbit. And don't take my word for it, check out page 7 of Scott Shimomura's (of Brocade) presentation at the SPDE conference.
10 Gigabit Ethernet provides 1250 MB/s, providing true 10 Gigabit Ethernet, and not putting the slight overhead into the equation. So while 10 Gigabit Ethernet is true 10 Gigabit, 16 Gigabit Fibre Channel is actually 14 Gigabit Fibre Channel (14.025, to be exact).
And that's what Russ Fellows doesn't know. His entire article is based on a false premise: Thinking that the move to 64/66 makes 16 Gbit pass more than twice as much traffic as 8 Gbit. But it's not. He says that with 8 Gbit FC, 1+1 = 1.6 (when compared to 16 Gbit FC), which is factually incorrect for the reasons I've just explained. Yes, 64/66 bit encoding is more efficient. But they dropped the baud rate, negating the efficiency gains.
8 Gigabit Fibre Channel provides 800 Megabytes per second of data transfer. 16 Gigabit Fibre Channel (really 14 Gigabit Fibre Channel) provides 1600 Megabytes per second of data transfer. 800 + 800 = 1600.
Sorry Russ, 1+1 really does equal 2. Even in Fibre Channel.
July 14, 2014 Leave a comment
While prepping for CCIE Data Center and playing around with a lab environment, I ran into a problem I'd like to share.
I was setting up a basic OTV setup with three VDCs running OTV, connecting to a core VDC running the multicast core (which is a lot easier than it sounds). I'm running it in a lab environment we have at Firefly, but I'm not going by our normal lab guide, instead making it up as I go along in order to save some time, and make sure I can stand up OTV without a lab guide.
Each VDC will set up an adjacency with the other two, with the core VDC providing unicast and multicast connectivity. That part was pretty easy to setup (even the multicast part, which had previously freaked me the shit out). Each VDC would be its own site, so no redundant AEDs.
On each OTV VDC, I setup the following as per my pre-OTV checklist:
So I got all that configured and then configured the OTV setup. Very basic:
feature otv otv site-vlan 10 interface Overlay1 otv join-interface Ethernet1/2 otv control-group 188.8.131.52 otv data-group 184.108.40.206/28 otv extend-vlan 100 no shutdown otv site-identifier 0000.0000.0002 ip pim rp-address 10.11.200.1 group-list 184.108.40.206/4 ip pim ssm range 184.108.40.206/8
The only difference between the three OTV VDC configurations was the site-identifier and the join interface. Everything else was identical, pretty easy configuration. But… it didn't work. Shit. Time for some show commands:
N7K-11-vdc-2# show otv adjacency
Overlay Adjacency database
Overlay-Interface Overlay1 : Hostname System-ID Dest Addr Up Time State VDC-3 18ef.63e9.5d43 10.11.3.2 01:36:52 UP vdc-4 18ef.63e9.5d44 10.11.101.2 01:41:57 UP vdc-2#
OK, so the adjacencies are built. I've at least got IP4 unicast and multicast going on. How about "show otv"?
N7K-11-vdc-2# show otv OTV Overlay Information Site Identifier 0000.0000.0002 Overlay interface Overlay1 VPN name : Overlay1 VPN state : UP Extended vlans : 100 (Total:1) Control group : 184.108.40.206 Data group range(s) : 126.96.36.199/28 Join interface(s) : Eth1/2 (10.11.2.2) Site vlan : 11 (up) AED-Capable : No (Site-ID mismatch) Capability : Multicast-Reachable N7K-11-vdc-2#
Site-ID mismatch? What the shit? They're supposed to mismatch. I try another command:
N7K-11-vdc-2# show otv site Dual Adjacency State Description Full - Both site and overlay adjacency up Partial - Either site/overlay adjacency down Down - Both adjacencies are down (Neighbor is down/unreachable) (!) - Site-ID mismatch detected Local Edge Device Information: Hostname vdc-2 System-ID 18ef.63e9.5d42 Site-Identifier 0000.0000.0002 Site-VLAN 11 State is Up Site Information for Overlay1: Local device is not AED-Capable (Site-ID mismatch) Neighbor Edge Devices in Site: 1 Hostname System-ID Adjacency- Adjacency- AED- State Uptime Capable -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VDC-3 18ef.63e9.5d43 Partial (!) 00:17:39 Yes
Now this show command confused me for a while. I was trying to figure out the Site-ID mismatch. I was also wondering why I could see VDC-3 but couldn't see VDC-4. Then it dawned on me (after am embarrassing amount of time) I'm not supposed to. I'm not supposed to see VDC-3, either. The "show site" command is only looking at the local area. For my configuration, I shouldn't see any other VDCs with "show otv site".
This means that there's some type of Layer 2 connectivity between the different sites. VDC-3 and VDC-4 both somehow see each other as Layer 2 adjacent. That shouldn't happen if they're supposedly on remote sites. This is a lab environment, so there's some sort of Layer 2 connectivity for the Site-VLAN that I need to kill.
OTV edge devices are like highlanders, if there's Layer 2 adjacency, they sense each other.
"I could sense you by your VLAN"
It probably happened on the interface that I assigned the site-VLAN to as an access port. A VLAN will not show "active" unless you have an active physical link (interface VLANs don't count).
So I went through and re-configured the site VLAN. Instead of VLAN 10 (which was probably active on the other ends of those interfaces somehow) I created new VLANs, and used a unique VLAN for each VDC. The site-VLANs do not need to be identical between sites. I put the VLAN on a physical link that was up, and voila.
In the real world, you probably won't run into this. However, it's possible if there are other Layer 2 interconnects going on in your data center (perhaps dark fiber) or you're transitioning from one DCI to another, you may hit this.
April 25, 2014 Leave a comment
It's been a while since the trainwreck of a "study" commissioned by Brocade and performed by The Evaluator Group, but it's still being discussed in various storage circles (and that's not good news for Brocade). Some pretty much parroted the results, seemingly without reading the actual test. Then got all pissy when confronted about it. I did a piece on my interpretations of the results, as did Dave Alexander of WWT and J Metz of Cisco. Our mutual conclusion can be best summed up with a single animated GIF.
But since a bit of time has passed, I've had time to absorb Dave and J's opinions, as well as others, I've come up with a list of the Top 5 Reasons by The Evaluator Group Screwed Up. This isn't the complete list, of course, but some of the more glaring problems. Let's start with #1:
Reason #1: I Have No Idea What I'm Doing
Their hilariously bad conclusion to the higher variance in response times and higher CPU usage was that it was the cause of the software initiators. Except, they didn't use software initiators. The had actually configured hardware initiators, and didn't know it. Let that sink in: They're charged with performing an evaluation, without knowing what they're doing.
The Cisco UCS VIC 1240 hardware CNA's were utilized. Referring to them as software initiators caused some confusion. The Cisco VIC is a hardware initiator and we configured them with virtual HBAs. Evaluator Group has no knowledge of the internal architecture of the VIC or its driver. Our commentary of the possible cause for higher CPU utilization is our opinion and further analysis would be required to pinpoint the specific root cause.
Of course, it wasn't the software initiator. They didn't use a software initiator, but they were so clueless, they didn't know they'd actually used a hardware initiator. Without knowing how they performed their tests (since they didn't publish their methodology) it's purely speculation, but it looks like the problem was caused by congestion (from them architecting the UCS solution incorrectly).
Reason #2: They're Hilariously Bad At Math.
They claimed FCoE required 50% more cables, based on the fact that there were 50% more cables in the FCoE solution than the FC solution. Which makes sense… except that the FC system had zero Ethernet.
That's right, in the HP/Fibre Channel solution, each blade had absolutely zero Ethernet connectivity. In the Cisco UCS solution, every blade had full Ethernet and Fibre Channel connectivity. None. Zilch. Why did they do that? Probably because had they included any network connectivity to the HP system, the cable count would have shifted to FCoE's favor. Let me state this again, because it's astonishingly stupid: They claimed FCoE (which included Ethernet and FC connectivity) required more cables without including any network connectivity for the HP/FC system.
Also, they made some power/cooling claims, despite the fact that the UCS solution didn't require a separate FC switch (it's capable of being a full-fledged Fibre Channel switch by itself), though the HP solution would have required a separate pair of Ethernet switches (which wasn't included). So yeah, their math is a bit off. Had they done things, you know, correctly, the power, cooling, and cable count would have flipped in favor of FCoE.
Reason #3: UCS is Hard, You Guys!
They whinged about UCS being more difficult to setup. Anytime you're dealing with unfamiliar technology, it's natural that it's going to be more difficult. However, they claimed that they had zero experience with HP as well (seriously, who at Brocade hired these guys?) How easy is UCS? Here is a video done from Amsterdam where a couple of Cisco techs added a new chassis and blade and had it booted up and running ESXi in less than 30 minutes from in the box to booted. Cisco UCS is different than other blade systems, but it's also very easy (and very quick) to stand up. And keep in mind, the video I linked was done in Amsterdam, so they were probably baked.
Reason #4: It Contradicts Everyone Else's Results (Especially those that know what they're doing)
For the past couple of years, VMware and NetApp have been doing performance tests on various storage protocols. Here's one from a few years ago, which includes (native) 4 and 8 Gbit Fibre Channel, 10 Gbit FCoE, 10 Gbit iSCSI, and 10 Gbit NFS. The conclusion? The protocol doesn't much matter. They all came out about the same when normalized for bandwidth. The big difference is in the storage backend. At least they published their methodology (I'm looking at you, Evaluator Group). Here's one from Demartek that shows a mixture of storage protocols saturating 10 Gbit Ethernet. Again, the limitation is only the link speed itself, not the protocol. And again, again, Demartek published their methodology.
Reason #5: How Did They Set Everything Up? Magic!
Most of the time with these commissioned reports, the details of how it's configured are given so that the results can be reproduced and audited. How did the Evaluator Group set up their environment?
As far as I can tell, magic. There's several things they could have easily gotten wrong with the UCS setup, and given their mistake about software/hardware initiators, quite likely. They didn't even mention which storage vendor they used.
So there you have it. A bit of a re-hash, but hey, it was a dumb report. The upside though is that it did provide me with some entertainment.
April 1, 2014 Leave a comment
From Juniper to Cisco to VMware, companies are spouting up new SDN solutions. Juniper's Contrail, Cisco's ACI, VMware's NSX, and more are all vying to be the next generation of data center networking. What is surprising, however, is what's at the heart of these new technologies.
Is it VXLAN, NVGRE, Openflow? Nope. It's Fibre Channel.
If you think about it, it makes sense. Fibre Channel has been doing fabrics since before we ever called Ethernet fabrics, well, fabrics. And this isn't the first time that Fibre Channel has shown up in unusual places. There's a version of Fibre Channel that runs inside certain airplanes, including jet fighters like the F-22.
Keep the skies safe from FCoE (sponsored by the Evaluator Group)
New generation of switches have been capable of Data Center Bridging (DCB), which enables Fibre Channel over Ethernet. These chips are also capable of doing native Fibre Channel So rather than build complicated VPLS fabrics or routed networks, various data center switching companies are leveraging the inherent Fibre Channel capabilities of the merchant silicon and building Fibre Channel-based underlay networks to support an IP-based overlay.
Buffer-to-buffer (B2B) credit system and losslessness of Fibre Channel, plus the new 32/128 Gigabit interfaces with the newest Fibre Channel standard are all being leveraged for these underlays. I find it surprising that so many companies are adopting this, you'd think it'd be just Brocade. But Cisco, Arista (who notoriously shunned FCoE) and Juniper are all on board with new or announced SDN offerings that are based mostly or in part on Fibre Channel.
However, most of the switches from various vendors are primarily Ethernet today, so the 10/40 Gigabit interfaces can run FCoE until more switches are available with native FC interfaces. Of course, these switches will still be required to have a number of native Ethernet ports in order to connect to border networks that aren't part of the overlay network, so there will be still a need for Ethernet. But it seems the market has spoken, and they want Fibre Channel.
March 19, 2014 1 Comment
Hey, remember vTax/vRAM? It's dead and gone, but with 6 Terabyte of RAM servers now available, imagine what could have been (your insanely high licensing costs).
Set the wayback machine to 2011, when VMware introduced vSphere version 5. It had some really great enhancements over version 4, but no one was talking about the new features. Instead, they talked about the new licensing scheme and how much it sucked.
While some defended VMware's position, most were critical, and my own opinion… let's just say I've likely ensured I'll never be employed by VMware. Fortunately, VMware came to their senses and realized what a bone-headed, dumbass move that vRAM/vTax was, and repealed the vRAM licensing one year later in 2012. So while I don't want to beat a dead horse (which, seriously, disturbing idiom), I do think it's worth looking back for just a moment to see how monumentally stupid that licensing scheme was for customers, and serve as a lesson in the economies of scaling for the x86 platform, and as a reminder about the ramifications of CapEx versus OpEx-oriented licensing.
Why am I thinking about this almost 2 years after they got rid of vRAM/vTax? I've been reading up on the newly released Intel's E7 v2 processors, and among the updates to Intel's high-end server chip is the ability to have 24 DIMMs per socket (the previous limit was 12) and the support of 64 GB DIMMs. This means that a 4-way motherboard (which you can order now from Cisco, HP, and others) can support up to 6 TB of RAM, using 96 DIMM slots and 64 GB DIMMs. And you'd get up to 60 cores/120 threads with that much RAM, too.
And I remembered one (of many) aspects about vRAM that I found horrible, which was just how quickly costs could spiral out of control, because server vendors (which weren't happy about vRAM either) are cramming more and more RAM into these servers.
The original vRAM licensing with vSphere 5 was that for every socket you paid for, you were entitled to/limited to 48 GB of vRAM with Enterprise Plus. To be fair the licensing scheme didn't care how much physical RAM (pRAM) you had, only how much of the RAM was consumed by spun-up VMs (vRAM). With vSphere 4 (and the current vSphere licensing, thankfully), RAM had been essentially free: you only paid per socket. You could use as much RAM as you could cram into a server. But with the vRAM licensing, if you had a dual-socket motherboard with 256 GB of RAM you would have to buy 6 licenses instead of 2. At the time, 256 GB servers weren't super common, but you could order them from the various server vendors (IBM, Cisco, HP, etc.). So with vSphere 4, you would have paid about $7,000 to license that system. With vSphere 5, assuming you used all the RAM, you'd pay about $21,000 to license the system, a 300% increase in licensing costs. And that was day 1.
Now lets see how much it would cost to license a system with 6 TB of RAM. If you use the original vRAM allotment amounts from 2011, each socket granted you 48 GB of vRAM with Enterprise Plus (they did up the allotments after all of the backlash, but that ammended vRAM licensing model was so convoluted you literally needed an application to tell you how much you owed). That means to use all 6 TB (and after all, why would you buy that much RAM and not use it), you would need 128 socket licences, which would have cost $448,000 in licensing. A cluster of 4 vSphere hosts would cost just shy of $2 million to license. With current, non-insane licensing, the same 4-way 6 TB server costs a whopping $14,000. That's a 32,000% price differential.
Again, this is all old news. VMware got rid of the awful licensing, so it's a non-issue now. But still important to remember what almost happened, and how insane licensing costs could have been just a few years later.
My graph from 2011 was pretty accurate.
Rumor has it VMware is having trouble getting customers to go for OpEx-oriented licensing for NSX. While VMware hasn't publicly discussed licensing, it's a poorly kept secret that VMware is looking to charge for NSX on a per VM, per month basis. The number I'd been hearing is $10 per month ($120 per year), per VM. I've also heard as high as $40, and as low as $5. But whatever the numbers are, VMware is gunning for OpEx-oriented licensing, and no one seems to be biting. And it's not the technology, everyone agrees that it's pretty nifty, but the licensing terms are a concern. NSX is viewed as network infrastructure, and in that world we're used to CapEx-oriented licensing. Some of VMware's products are OpEx-oriented, but their attempt to switch vSphere over to OpEx was disastrous. And it seems to be the same for NSX.


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Anyone remaining this deep in processing from that 2006 test had the option to take the CPAT through CFD. Some people did, some took it on their own to get pushed up higher on the processing list. Regardless of method (and payer) we got emails notifying that we need a valid card to start the academy. CFD did not say if they would pay for another round, but some of us are taking the initiative to take it on our own and supply an updated card to HR.
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Baltimore Ravens safety Ed Reed is preparing for this weekend's Super Bowl against the San Francisco 49ers. But since the veteran is in the final year of his contract, he's fielding just as many free agency questions as he is about the upcoming big game. Yesterday he raised eyebrows and excited a certain team's fan base when he said he could "definitely" see himself playing for the New England Patriots and coach Bill Belichick, according to Jeff Howe of The Boston Globe. "Yeah, oh yeah, man, I could definitely play for coach Belichick," Reed responded. "He is a great coach. I'm sure he can help me to expand my football knowledge even more as a player and as a coach, so if I'm ever able to be around him, just like I was at the Pro Bowl, it's huge." I'm still not convinced, but there is a lot of speculation going around that Sunday will be Reed's final game with the Ravens. How weird would it be next season to see a Reed and Ray Lewis-less Baltimore squad? Follow @TheNFLInjuryRpt !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="http://www.thenflinjuryreport.com//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-34100676-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();
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|The YBCO compound was first synthesized and tested for superconductivity in this building.
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|The plaque will be installed in the park-like are of the IBM Research Laboratory. It will be publicly visible. IBM Research GmbH IBM Research - Zurich Säumerstrasse 4 CH-8803 Rüschlikon Switzerland Lat 47.309272 Lon 8.545346
|Hollow dielectric beam waveguide of sub-millimeter wavelength range, 1966 +
|Entrance to the Institute of Radio-Physics and Electronics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (IRE NASU), vul. Proskury 12, Kharkiv 61085, Ukraine. Hollow dielectric beam waveguide technology of the millimeter and sub-millimeter wavelength range was conceived in 1963, developed since 1964, and demonstrated at that site in 1966. This is a corporate building. There are no historical markers at the site.
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|Abbey Road Studios are working studios having been established in 1931. Abbey Road was the site of where on January 19th 1934, Alan Blumlein used his Stereo recording equipment to record Sir Thomas Beecham conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra playing Mozart's Jupiter Symphony. There is one existing plaque on the front of Abbey Road which is dedicated to Sir Edward Elgar who officially opened the Abbey Road Studios on November 12th 1931
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|The achivement was developed in a small room opposite the 5th floor elevator at the intended site in 1967 and 1968. The intended site was formerly the historic Jackson Mills building. In 1826, Charles C. Haven constructed Indian Head Co. mill to manufacture woolen goods. In June 1830, Indian Head Co. was incorporated under the new Jackson Co. The Jackson Co. and its 1,200 operatives merged with Nashua Manufacturing Co. in 1916 before being sold to Textron, Inc. in 1945. The Jackson Co. was the last mill to close in December 1951. In 1952, the buildings became home to Sanders Associates, and later to BAE Systems.
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|The current headquarters of Apple, Inc., is a high profile location in Silicon Valley. It has a direct lineage to the work done by Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs and the Apple team that worked on the Apple II. It is a location that is seen by and visited by thousands of visitors, vendors and Apple employees on a daily basis.
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|The current headquarters of Apple, Inc., is a high profile location in Silicon Valley. It has a direct lineage to the work done by Steve Jobs and the Apple team that worked on the Macintosh. It is a location that is seen by and visited by thousands of visitors, vendors and Apple employees on a daily basis. There are not any other historical markers already on the site.
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|On or in the building of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, SW7 2AZ, England, UK. Dennis Gabor moved from the BTH company to the Electrical Engineering Department of Imperial College, University of London, in 1949, where he was appointed Reader in Electronics. He was promoted to Professor of Applied Electron Physics in the same Department in 1958.
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|The Milestone Plaque would be mounted at one of the sites used by John Logie Baird for his inventions in TV – Crystal Palace – home of Baird's Laboratories and his Company for some years during his main work on Television. Using ultra-short waves (6-7 metres) he transmitted TV under his company name (Baird Television Ltd) between 1933 and 1939. N.B. [JLB's first television company – "Television Limited"- dates from 1926. Then there were several other Baird companies which were amalgamated in 1930 to form "Baird Television Ltd" which lasted until 1939. The company moved out of Long Acre in about 1934]. In September 1939 broadcast television was shut down and Baird Television Ltd. Went into receivership. However, Baird continued his research independently. Notes: a. JLB's workplace in Hastings where he sent crude 30 line silhouettes, first confirming to himself that television was possible, already has a plaque, at the Queen's Arcade in the centre of the town. There is one also at 21 Linton Crescent, the house in Hastings where he lodged. (www.discoverbexhill.com) b. JLB's old house at Bexhill in Station Road, where he lived between 1944 and his death in 1946, was demolished in 2007 but on the same site Laing Homes has built a modern block of flats in the same architectural style as the old house. The old house had a plaque before it was demolished with the permission of the council. c. JLB's company office at 133 Long Acre in Central London would have been a good candidate for a plaque as it was the base of several demonstrations, and for a short while it housed the experimental TV studios for the early BBC broadcasts in 1929, before the BBC set up its studio in Portland Place. Royal Television Society Plaque. (Royal Television Society – JLB PLAQUE d. The same comment applies to the address at 22 Frith Street in Soho where he gave the first demonstration of his TV (London County Council -JLB PLAQUE) e. Alexandra Palace, home of BBC transmissions for many years, was not directly associated with JLB but it also has a BBC plaque stating it was first place of BBC Television Transmissions -Greater London Council – (Alexandra Palace BBC Plaque). f. Helensburgh, Scotland, his family's home town, where JLB began his interests with childhood inventions - notably a telephone link to a childhood friend and where he began to think of picture transmission, contains several plaques and other memorials. One plaque is on John Logie Baird's birthplace, 121 West Argyle Street; another is on the Municipal Buildings in the town centre g. There is a bronze bust of John Logie Baird on a plinth in West Clyde Street overlooking the Firth of Clyde. There is a commemorative stained glass window in the West Parish Church. At the University of Strathclyde there is a plaque outside the department of Electrical Engineering. Until a couple of years ago, one of their halls of residence was called Baird Hall. However the building has now been sold. The museum that links with Strathclyde University holds many of John Logie Baird's manuscripts. </p> </p> The Crystal Palace tower and buildings were destroyed by fire in 1936 but the building adjacent – which at that time was also used by John Logie Baird for this work - is still standing. It is now a Museum of Crystal Palace historical artefacts, housing some references and artefacts of his work and activity at Crystal Palace. The site has large parkland around it (currently used for a multitude of activities) and also this site now has an LDA development plan for it which has recently been approved. This will bring Crystal Palace into an active site with many visitors. The Museum will be rebuilt and can possibly house the IEEE Plaque to good effect with JLB information set alongside it. This should make it most appropriate with the prospect of many visitors and well protected.
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|The Funkerber-museum is situated in the histrorical site.
|Krka – Šibenik Electric Power System +
|Only ruins of the first power plant (Jaruga I) exist today. But the the power plant built in 1903 (Jaruga II) is still in operation. A memorial house ("Šupuk House") devoted to Ante Šupuk, one of the builders of the first Krka electric power system, could also be a potential site for the plaque. GPS: 47.48' N;15.58'E
|The Hood building is not a suitable place for the proposed IEEE plaque. Instead, the loran milestone plaque could probably be mounted alongside the other IEEE milestone plaques at MIT Building N42, 211 Massachusetts Avenue. The Boston Milestone Committee will seek their approval from MIT and proceed accordingly.
|Line spectrum pair (LSP), an essential technology for high-compression speech coding, 1975 +
|Initial invention, follow up investigations and developments have been carried out at this site.
|Mainline Electrification of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 1895 +
|The Howard Street Tunnel still exists but is not suitable for the location of the Milestone plaque. The intended site for the plaque is the B&O Railroad Museum, located at Pratt and Poppleton Streets (901 West Pratt Street), Baltimore, MD 21223. the Museum is on the site of the historic Mt. Clare shops, considered by many to be the birthplace of American railroading. The Museum is comprised of five historic buildings located on approximately 40 acres and houses one of the world's finest and most comprehensive collections of railroad locomotives, rolling stock, and other artifacts. The Museum has been granted National Historic Landmark status by the U.S. Deartment of the Interior. The Museum's centerpiece building is the original B&O roundhouse built in 1884 and in continuous railroad use until 1953. Courtney Wilson, the Museum's executive director, has indicated that the Museum would be honored to be the location of the plaque.
|Marconi First Wireless Experiments, 1894-1895 +
|The two plaques suggested are related to the two sites in which Marconi carried out his first experiments: in the garden of Villa Griffone (his family home, now the site of the Fundazione Guglielmo Marconi), where Marconi transmitted his wireless signals, and beyond the Celestini hill, where those signals were received. Villa Griffone, Marconi's family home in the second half of the 19th century, is now the site of the Guglielmo Marconi Foundation and of the Marconi Museum, which includes the young Marconi's laboratory, on the upper floor of the villa.
|Mercury Spacecraft MA-6 +
|The milestone plaque will be mounted at or near the entrance of the James S. McDonnell Prologue Room: An Air and Space History Exhibit. The Prologue Room is located in The Boeing Company Building 100, headquarters for Boeing's Integrated Defense Systems business. This will provide public access to view the plaque. Inside the Prologue Room, there is an exact replica (mock-up engineering design fixture) of the Mercury Spacecraft MA-6 that Col. John Glenn piloted thru 3 earth orbits. The Mercury Spacecraft were designed, developed, and tested in nearby buildings less than 200 yards from where the plaque will reside.
|Pearl Street Station +
|4 Irving Place, New York, NY In the lobby of the Con Edison building, under an existing bust of Thomas Edison.
|Research and education in electronics and communications at Cruft Laboratory, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science, 1915 to 1947 +
|It is a building named Cruft Laboratory which looks like this. [[Image:Cruft Laboratory - Harvard University - DSC05376.JPG|thumb|center|650px]]


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Tuesday's sports briefs: 9/24/13
Dion tops field at BH Invite
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TYNDALL — Wagner's Nick Dion topped the boys' field at the Bon Homme cross country invitational Monday.
Dion finished in 18 minutes, beating the second-place finisher by 4 seconds.
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Degrassi: Dish It Out!
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- It's your shift at The Dot, and the Degrassi students are ready to order! Do whatever it takes to serve 'em what they want.
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