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The Six Greatest Breakthroughs in UX History
This might be the most controversial piece I've submitted to UX Magazine. I gathered together an entire digital design agency to survey 20 years of Internet history and choose the five most important breakthroughs from a user experience perspective. Tears were shed. Blood was spilled. And in the end we compromised on six.
Why the user experience angle? Because whatever technological innovations are forming in the world's boardrooms and basements right now, in the end, it's our users who will choose the winners—with their attention, enthusiasm, and cash.
Here are they are in rough chronological order:
#1: America Online (AOL)
AOL may be fighting for its life today, but it was once synonymous with the Internet. At it peak it had over 30 million subscribers and even swallowed Time Warner. But that's not why it made our list.
AOL leads our list because it was the original online service for "non-computer people," offering a friendly graphical user interface in place of command lines and fostering communication among its members long before social became a buzzword.
Through force of will and enough direct-mail CDs to bury Luxembourg, AOL wrested the Internet from the techies, scientists, and academics who created it and made it so accessible your grandparents might even use it—and then they did.
Thank you AOL for bringing the Internet out of the labs and into our living rooms.
#2: Internet Search
No discussion of Internet highs can ignore the centrality and ongoing cultural impact of search. Countless billions have been invested in online shopping sites, products and services, games, media, and social sites. Yet search remains our most popular online activity:
- 92% of online U.S. adults use search engines to find information on the web—roughly six in 10 use it on a typical day [Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project]
- 93% of all Internet traffic is generated from search engines [Source: Forrester Research]
- In the U.S., search contributed to 1.2% of GDP in 2009 [Source: McKinsey]
No wonder it's so popular. You type some words into a box, and the information you seek comes back like magic. And increasingly it does work like magic: Anticipating our needs—even correcting our mistakes—at ever faster speeds.
Thank you Archie, Gopher, WebCrawler, Lycos, Magellan, Excite, Infoseek, Inktomi, Ask Jeeves, MSN, AltaVista, Yahoo!, Google, Bing, and others for expanding our consciousness, saving us time and money, making us smarter, and settling every factual dispute we're ever going to have—on the spot.
#3: Amazon.com
It's hard to believe that not so long ago, selling goods online was a risky experiment with an uncertain future. This was the world Amazon entered in 1995 as "Earth's largest bookstore" and one of the first online retailers.
While many of its peers from those days are gone (See CNET's Top 10 Dot-Com Flops for a trip down memory lane), Amazon persevered to become the world's largest online retailer with $48 billion in yearly revenue and millions of products and services for sale. But what most impressed us is how it got there.
"Amazon is such a smart learning organization," Nancy F. Koehn, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, told Bloomberg Businessweek recently. "It's like a biological organism that through natural selection and adaptation just keeps learning and growing."
Through its culture of constant experimentation and tweaking, a willingness to quickly drop what's not working, and its clever use of customer data, Amazon doggedly popularized online shopping and established itself as the beau ideal for successful online retailers across the globe.
Thank you Amazon for finding your way through unknown terrain without a road map. You are the Lewis and Clark of e-commerce.
#4: Napster
We're not talking about the Napster that Best Buy just sold to Rhapsody, but the original start-up that ignited the music file-sharing frenzy and rocked the web 10 years ago. Napster's first act (1999 to 2001) was cut short by music industry lawsuits, but the forces it unleashed continue to transform and shape the global media marketplace today.
Napster boasted as many users as AOL at its peak. Like AOL, Napster popularized a technology it didn't actually invent, and succeeded for many of the same reasons:
- It was easy to use and understand
- It aggregated and standardized a previously fragmented landscape
- It was faster and more reliable than its predecessors
- It harnessed powerful social dynamics found in the real world
Napster paved the way for some amazing things that we take for granted today, like the ability to easily find, own, and share just about any song, album, movie, book, or story in the world. It is the mother of iTunes, Rhapsody, Netflix, and countless other services and websites that we use and love.
Thank you Napster. Because content really does want to be free—not free of cost necessarily, but free of boundaries.
#5: User-Generated Content
It's hard to believe that user-generated content (or "UGC") has only been a mainstream phenomenon since 2005. Even by Internet standards, its proliferation and growing cultural impact have been astonishing.
Through personal blogs, social networks, online communities and discussion boards, product reviews, wikis, news sites, travel sites, video, and photo-sharing sites, average citizens are exerting an increasingly profound influence over our culture and economy.
- In the U.S., 43% of Internet users are generating online content [Source: McKinsey]
- 49% of online users share content online at least one a week [Source: CMB Consumer Pulse]
Entire industries are being transformed. Retail, for one, will never be the same:
- 81% of people use consumer reviews in their purchase decisions [Source: Nielsen Online via BizReport]
- Online reviews are second only to word-of-mouth when it comes to influencing consumer-purchasing decisions [Source: Rubicon Consulting]
User generated content was even featured as Time magazine's 2006 Person of the Year, in which the person of the year was "you," meaning all of those individuals who are changing the nature of the information age as creators and consumers of user-generated content.
Here's another way of looking at it: Take Facebook, Craigslist, eBay, Twitter, Pinterest, Myspace, LinkedIn, YouTube, Wikipedia, TripAdvisor, and Yelp. Without the content produced by users, most of these modern icons wouldn't exist at all.
Thank you UGC. Customers may not quite rule, as some marketing pundits claim, but because of you they are no longer docile subjects either.
#6: The iPhone
Before the iPhone it was the same story every year. The "year of mobile" was upon us. The phone manufacturers would trumpet their latest incremental improvements and cosmetic enhancements as the next big thing. But something was missing. Then the iPhone debuted in 2007 and we all understood exactly what had been missing.
Five years later, Palm is history. RIM and Nokia are floundering. Windows mobile is kidding itself. And Android is successful because it's so much like the iPhone. Now that's disruptive technology.
The mobile revolution is in full swing and accelerating thanks to the iPhone's ease of use and endless possibility. And with almost six billion mobile handsets in use worldwide, mobile may well be the greatest business opportunity of all time:
- 90% of the world now lives in a place with access to a mobile network [Source: International Telecommunication Union]
- Mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common web-access devices worldwide by 2013 [Source: Gartner]
- Direct revenue from the sale of apps, in-app purchases, and subscriptions will hit $14.1bn in 2012 [Source: Canalys]
Thank you Apple for launching the real mobile revolution, and making all that came before you look ridiculous.
So only one question remains: Which great breakthroughs would you choose?
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Agree about iPhone really shaking things up. Apple brought the user experience of complex smartphones to the general public and made it simple. Touch interfaces existed before and Apple never said they invented it, but making the touch interface so friendly, easy and smooth is still a problem on Android and Windows Phones.
How about Microsoft? It revolutionised desktop computing by making it accessible to the masses. Mobile is all the rage now but desktop computing for the masses was essential in the last two decades for the mobile computing revolution to be possible now: It brought an easy to use desktop GUI to computer systems that billions of people could afford; It enabled an explosion in the growth of software and hardware companies; Its flexibility made it both an industry standard and a consumer standard; It radically changed the productivity landscape with Office and made working with documents more convenient. I personally use a Mac but following the compromise rationale in this article, Microsoft deserves a spot. Maybe you need to grow the list to a round 10.
The iPhone didn't just revolutionize the way we interact with mobile devices; the endless creative ways that the apps for the iPhone and iPad allow us to access, consume and interact with information is truly a restart (reboot) of the Internet age. I dare say that it has breathed new life into the Web development industry as a whole (I've really not heard that particular point addressed). And thank Apple for that.
As a UX Designer from the beginning (practically speaking), I've been a part of the wave and the burst bubble and now after a few years of a lull in Internet/interactive design and watching myself age, I am rejuvenated at the very high demand for my skills and creativity; if nothing else, I've kept myself current with the in vogue technologies that today's mobile environment has fostered.
Now what is needed (I say with some indignation), is some mechanism through which the Comments sections of the most popular posts is arbitrated; I enjoy the intelligent exchange of ideas, but increasingly, that is very difficult, if not practically impossible, to find. Having to weed through all of these contentious "fanboy" comments, whether it be Apple vs. whomever, science vs. religious fundamentalism, political ideologies, is simply wearisome.
ROFL, written like a true blue American Apple fanboy. You guys really overestimate the presence of Apple outside of the US, especially in asian countries like India and Pakistan. The real reason why mobile phones have had such a huge penetration across the word is because phones have gotten really cheap. You can buy an entry level phone for as little as 10$ in some places, and the associated tariffs have also been really lowered, leading to increased penetration.
Next time, educate yourself a bit before posting such nonsense.
"Windows mobile is kidding itself. And Android is successful because it's so much like the iPhone"
Funny stuff. Do you do standup too?
Surely this wasn't meant to be a UX article. Maybe a more suitable title would have been 'some important technical innovations in Internet history'... But even that seems too broad for the content.
The author appears to be a branding professional- an area totally separate from the field of user experience design. This piece may be of value to others, but it doesn't belong with UX content.
This is not a list of defining >>UX<< moments...they might forerunners on some things, but I would agree with Brian that a clear UX defining moment would be Xerox and mouses....They might not have been thinking in todays UX terms, but that was a big leap in adding direct value and usability to the user. Another one I would have like to see was Google....though others might have introduced search, Google was the ones that really made search as user friendly as it is today. I remember the 'good' old days when yahoo was big, and that was not user friendly.
This list should have contained examples of companies/people that made a big contribution to designing FOR the user, and not just 'invent' new stuff.
Xerox PARC comes to mind. They were early innovators on GUIs with a mouse and pointer.
AOL has had zero impact on people outside US - how can that even be included in this list?
AOL has had zero impact on people outside US - how can that even be included in this list?
How is 'AOL' a UX concept? Internet search? As in the concept of searching (which has been used in libraries forever) or the search box (which is an HTML element that existed since the introduction of hypertex)? How is that related to UX exactly.
I'm not sure this article belongs in UX magazine, maybe Wired or Cnet, although the title is blatantly misleading. Other than the iPhone, which you could argue it had a somewhat revolutionary (but not new) UX paradigm, Napster and Amazon weren't all that revolutionary UX-wise when they came out. The other three items on the list are BS. If you're going back to the history of mankind and you're talking UX, where is the steering wheel?
Windows Phone is kidding itself? In my opinion Windows Phone 7+ is another paradigm shift in terms of UX. iPhone was a real innovation in UX which is true with that article. But Windows Phone 7+ UX is a next step toward a new UX Revolution! I bet after 10 years there will be the same article with the list of Windows Phone UX will be considered as another revolution. Because Icon based UI for phone did exists before iPhone. However it was not made for "for the rest of us".
I am not a fan of either of the devices, as a pragmatic UX Designer, iPhone UX is just a piece of a big puzzle which we usually call it an "Eco System".


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Riding 16-inning scoreless streak, club turns to Teheran vs. McCarthy
D-backs starter Brandon McCarthy will be the next pitcher tasked with trying to cool down Braves right fielder Jason Heyward. Heyward carries a nine-game hitting streak into Atlanta's seven-game road trip beginning on Friday night at Chase Field.
McCarthy has never faced Heyward, who is making many pitchers these days look like they are facing him for the first time. He has hit safely in 21 of his past 24 games, reaching base safely in 23 of those contests.
Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez is hopeful Heyward's hot streak will rub off on his club, which has failed to score a run in 16 straight innings.
"I wouldn't say the word 'frustrating,' because I know how hard these guys work, and I know how prepared they are," Gonzalez said. "I think we've been shut out seven or eight times, and it's a team that shouldn't be shut out, because we're so talented offensively."
Heyward's recent surge has helped him overcome a slow start, during which he batted .209 with a .295 on-base percentage in his first 32 games of 2014. Since May 9, however, he's sporting a .316 batting average and a .398 OBP while returning to the form that first inspired Gonzalez to move him to the leadoff spot last July.
McCarthy could stand to go through another one of his hot streaks in what has been an up and down 2014. The right-hander has surrendered five earned runs or more six times, while giving up two earned runs or fewer in five outings.
Pitching opposite McCarthy will be right-hander Julio Teheran, who has a 1.83 ERA and 11 quality starts in 12 trips to the mound this season. In a matchup with the Braves' ace, Arizona will need the McCarthy who two-hit the Nationals over eight innings on May 14, not the guy who has given up 10 runs on 18 hits in his past 11 innings. McCarthy came unraveled against the Reds in his most recent start on Saturday, giving up five runs after surrendering just one hit while facing the minimum in the first three innings.
"I don't know what happened," McCarthy said after falling to 1-7. "That's kind of where it's been. A few quality innings, and then things turn, and I don't have any understanding why.
"When I go back and look at [the pitches], there's little spots where they're at. They're not horrible pitches -- it just keeps happening and keeps happening. There's something there I'm missing, and it's [ticking] me off to no end, but I don't have the answers for it right now."
Braves: Upton, Johnson head back to Chase Field
The returns of Justin Upton and Chris Johnson to Arizona last season were nothing short of triumphant for the former D-backs. Each Brave doubled and homered, with Upton hitting .500 (5-for-10) and Johnson .571 (4-for-7).
"I wasn't there too long," Johnson said. "I was only there the second half of the [2012] season, so it's not like Justin, who played all of his career there before coming over here. So for me, it was kind of just a pit stop."
D-backs: Club seeking reversal of home woes
Arizona will host Atlanta and Houston in a five-game homestand at Chase Field hoping to improve on a 9-22 home record that's the worst in the Majors.
However, the D-backs have shown improvement during their past two homestands, posting a combined 6-7 record.
Worth noting
• Tommy La Stella has hit safely in five of seven games since making his Major League debut on May 28. He is batting .409 (9-for-22) with two walks.
• Current D-backs are batting .262 (11-for-42) with two doubles, one walk and 11 strikeouts against Teheran. Former Braves pitcher Randall Delgado, who was part of the Upton trade, has one of those hits.
Joe Morgan is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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A selection of the most important places for our tourism information .
Considering that is possible to enjoy different activities and visit many other nature spots in Tenerife, according to our tourism information agents interviewed we have classified the 10 most interesting places of Tenerife that you might not get lost if you come to spend your holidays.
Ttry yourself to realize a selection of those, wich are in our opinion, the places to bear in mind to enjoy the island.
In this post, there are just 10, but could be more. It was a very simple question made: If you had to recommend 10 places to visit in Tenerife, wich would be?
1. National Park of Las Cañadas del Teide.
Undoubtedly, the most visited place in Tenerife is El Parque Nacional de las Cañadas del Teide (Mount Teide National Park) wich lodges the highest peak of Spain (3.718 meters on the sea level).
From Costa Adeje, you can reach the National Park by the roads of Vilaflor or Chío. From the North side of the island, you can drive by the roads of La Orotava or La Laguna (La Esperanza).
Inside the National Park you can find El Centro de Visitantes (The Visitor Center), where you can get more information and enjoy the services of bar, restaurant and a souvenirs shop. You have also the possibility to go up to 3.550 meters of the vulcano by the Teleférico (Cable Car).
If you like hiking, It's also possible here thanks to the footpaths net of the National Park. (Free guide service is possible booking previously Phone 922 290 129). To go up to the very top of the vulcano (3.718metres), you need to be provided with a special permission.
2. Caserío de Masca (Masca Village).
It is located inside of Parque Rural de Teno (Teno Rural Park), within the municipality of Buenavista del Norte. Inside of this landscape scenery the deepest ravines of the island of Tenerife are located.
The Village of Masca has been declared an ethnographic and architectural place as an example of the ancient natural architecture in the Canary Islands. The oldest building is the house of the Avinculados. One of the houses has been conditioned to lodge a museum and a handicraft center.
If you like hiking, the Barranco de Masca (Ravine of Masca) is one of the most spectacular of the island. It starts up in the mountains and goes down to the sea. In case of being interested in realizing this footpath, we recommend you to book previously the collection service with some of the boat companies., avoiding thus you have to come up the same way. They will take you up to the Marina of Los Gigantes
3. Acantilado de Los Gigantes (Los Gigantes Cliffs)
This is one of the most photographed sceneries of the island. Its impressive vertical walls, some of them with more than 600 meters of altitude, go deep into the sea down to approximately 30 meters under the sea. The Acantilados de los Gigantes is a great natural resource that fascinate scuba divers.
If you have arrived at Los Gigantes by car, you can take the opportunity of the trip and approach up to the previous point of our list, El Caserío de Masca.
4. San Cristóbal de La Laguna
It has been declared a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO.
Its historical center supports an excellent conservation level and its streets offer you several monuments and historical buildings together with a big shopping area. It is an important traditional university city.
5.-Parque Rural de Anaga (Anaga Rural Park).
This place lodges an extraordinary natural biodiversity and it is located at one of the topmost points in which the island of Tenerife is settled.
A wonderful scenery, spectacular cliffs and leafy forests of laurisilva. El Parque Rural de Anaga is one of the areas of major ecological value of Tenerife and enjoying it means to dedicate time to cover some of its footpaths. It stands out also, a beautifull beach of volcanic black sand: la Playa de Benijos.
6. Drago Milenario, Icod de los Vinos (The Dragoon Tree of Icod)
It is one of the most important natural, cultural and historical symbols of the Canaries. El Drago Milenario de Icod (The Dragon Tree of Icod) wich is considered the oldest tree of the archipelago is now around 800 years old,over 16 meters high and has a circumference base of 20 meters.
An endemic garden has been made around the tree, specially didactic and illustrative, which has small dragon trees, teasels, tabaibas,etc…
It has become the most popular attraction in Icod and it is situated next to the Iglesia de San Marcos
7. Valle de La Orotava
It is a wonderful picture with Teide's shape at the back. We suggest you to stop at the viewpoint of Humboldt (road TF 21) to enjoy a nice panoramic of the Valley.
Furthermore, on the way, you can visit the Historical City Centre which has been considered an Artistic Historical Whole by the Central Government due the architectural treasures.
8. Vilaflor
If you decide to go to the Teide by the road of Vilaflor, you could stop at this pleasant and quite village in the South of Tenerife.
It´s the highest municipality in Spain and it is located at 1400 meters above sea level. This village is surrounded with pines and almond trees, with excellent architectonical examples like the Parish Church and the old House-Palace of the Soler family´s who founded the village.
Trekking, mountainbiking and hiking are some examples of the activities for enjoying this municipality.
9. Garachico
The Village and Fishing Port of Garachico wich was declared Heritage of Cultural Interest with the Historic Whole Category, shows you a brilliant past with convents, churches, mansions and so many other interesting buildings like the Chapel of San Roque, the Ex Convent of Santo Domingo de Guzman or the old Convent Of San Francisco.
The Town was rebuild in 1706, when Garachico was buried because of the eruption of the volcano of Trevejo.
If you have time enough, after visiting its important Architectural Heritage, you can enjoy the natural pools, beaches and coves.
10. Paseo Litoral desde La Caleta hasta Los Cristianos (La Caleta- Los Cristianos Seafront Pedestrian Promenade)
In here you can enjoy a very long promenade that links both municipalities Adeje and Arona and it has become the most popular activity among tourists.
This is a seafront pedestrian promenade of approximately 9 kms. Different beaches, hotels, restaurants and shops compose the Touristic Town Centre of Costa Adeje and Playa de las Americas-Los Cristianos.
Besides, you´ll feel the pleasant marine breeze and the warm sun, always seeing in the horizon The Island of La Gomera.
We have ruled out some other important places which heve been mentioned for our tourism information agents:La Basilica de Nuestra Señora de Candelaria. It lodges the Patron Saint of the Canarian People.
Parque Rural de Teno Alto ( Natural Park of Teno Alto) which is a hamle located in the Rural Park of Teno.
Puerto de la Cruz, a tourist city in the North of the island where it is possilbe to enjoy the small volcanic beach of Playa Jardín. and fhe pleasant atmosphere that invites you to relax and rest. The capital of the Island, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, is a city where you can walk along boulevards and pedestrian streets to discover a great shopping choice.
Obviously, we are aware of that thematic parks, leisure and beaches have not been mentioned in this top 10. We will do it next time.
What do you think about this Top 10? Do you like it ? will you visit them?
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'Munich' recounts the dramatic story of the secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and assassinate 11 Palestinians believed to have planned the 1972 Munich massacre -- and the personal toll this mission of revenge takes on the team and the man who leads it.
Cast: Daniel Craig, Marie-Josee Croze, Mathieu Kassovitz, Geoffrey Rush, Eric Bana
Produced by: Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Mendel, Colin Wilson
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Written by: Eric Roth, Tony Kushner, Charles Randolph
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Angela Weber and Eric Yorkie are one of the secondary couples in the Twilight series. Their relationship is only featured in the films, as Eric is in a relationship with Katie Marshall and Angela with Ben Cheney in the books.
In the films, Angela is portrayed by Christian Serratos and Eric by Justin Chon.
Angela Weber
Angela Weber is the daughter of a Lutheran minister and his wife. She is also the Forks school paper photographer.
She grew up in Forks, and grew into a shy but kind-hearted person. She is well liked by her peers at school.
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Eric Yorkie is the yearbook editor of Forks High School, who developed a short crush for Bella Swan before Angela won his affection by asking him to prom.
In Twilight, Eric and Angela are both photographer and yearbook editor for the Forks High School newspaper, respectively. After some encouragement from Bella, Angela takes the courage to ask Eric to prom, and he accepts. They are last seen together at the dance, where Eric is the DJ.
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Eric and Angela's relationship continues in New Moon, though Eric seemingly still has certain infatuation with Bella, like Mike. They are both stunned when Bella talks to them again months after her depression by Edward's departure. When Bella and Mike invite them to watch a movie with them, Angela gets the stomach flu and Eric decides to take care of her.
In Eclipse, they are only seen together in one scene where they discuss the perfect speech for Jessica, who is the valedictorian for their graduating class.
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I don't understand anything your wrote.
What hardware did you have.
What hardware did you buy.
What parts did you assemble, how, what is reaction.
What parts did you reassemble, how, what is reaction.
First, you can't insert AM3+ CPU into AM3, AM2+ or AM2 motherboard. This is because AM3+ CPU needs more power (140W+) and previous sockets can only provide 120W.
AM3+ socket is black and the CPU pins are larger. You physically can't insert it.
Insert old CPU into new mainboard. Ensure that there are no damaged pins. Make sure, if there is BIOS reset jumper, that it is correct position (ie OFF).
The fact that motherboard does not react at all, is power problem or very dangerous short circuit, which motherboard logic detected and refuse to power on.
In the last problem, the motherboard usually does give short power (fans rotate just a bit) but does not power at all.
It could also be that BIOS is set default to CPU cooler auto power off, and the motherboard will not start if CPU cooler does not give the tacho signal.
You might want to remove everything, except
properly inserted CPU with correctly connected cooler,
PSU on 5v 4pin(or two) and 24pin primary connector,
and speaker
and try to poweron.
With absent memory it should do "peep-peep-peeeep", this is when you correctly insert memory, videocard and attach 12v cables+monitor and try to boot.
If the board does not power on from this configuration, it is probably physically defect or your PSU is incorrectly working or connected; since working motherboard can even detect faulty CPU.
So, make sure you have speakers always connected, unless you use motherboard with LED error signal.


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Does nouveau supports powersaving, because if it doesn't do it and uses card in such way that it becomes hot then I consider such driver as hazardous for my hardware and I wouldn't be happy to have such support.
Phoronix: Nouveau To Enter The Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Kernel
The Nouveau driver, the X.Org project designed to provide a open-source NVIDIA graphics driver for Linux with 2D/3D/Video acceleration that's developed by cleanly reverse-engineering NVIDIA's binary driver, is about to get promoted in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. The Nouveau project has been around for years now and continues to make progress but there has yet to be a stable release of any component -- even just a DDX driver -- although their current feature matrix is reflecting that 2D and X-Video support is complete for all NVIDIA graphics hardware generations, many output-related features (RandR 1.2, KMS, NouveauFB) are done, and the 3D work using Gallium3D is even progressing...
Does nouveau supports powersaving, because if it doesn't do it and uses card in such way that it becomes hot then I consider such driver as hazardous for my hardware and I wouldn't be happy to have such support.
the article had a link to the feature matrix, which clearly says that power saving is "TODO". Good power saving depends on KMS and is harder to do than you might think. Especially if you don't have hardware docs.
I don't think the official nv driver has powersaving, either.
I also don't think it would affect your hardware's lifetime much if nvidia hadn't screwed a whole generation of their GPUs. A lack of powersaving should produce more heat and a higher electricity bill, but that's it.
Usually I'm opposed to the idea of new technologies in an LTS release but given the obfuscated and ill maintained nature of the nv driver nouveau seems like it will be easier to support and get bug fixes.
Thanks for nothing, nVidia!
This comes to mind:
Anyway, what happens when you install the proprietary nvidia driver? Does KMS get disabled when the nvidia module gets loaded?
I don't think loading both nouveau and nvidia kernel modules will give desirable results.
I'll tell you what happens when you install the proprietary nvidia driver: You'll get lame, half-baked workarounds for the later generation of nVidia cards so that the solicon doesn't get fried after a month long use.
If you decide to use the Nouveau driver anyway then I'd like to kindly advice you to get an ATI card somewhere around januari next year...


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Can you include things like KWin and Compiz performance? Those are still pretty important, though as things keep getting faster, they will end up being non-interesting after a few years.
Phoronix: A Fresh Look At The AMD Radeon Gallium3D Performance
As noted earlier in the week, the open-source AMD Radeon "R600g" driver that supports 3D acceleration on Radeon HD 2000 series graphics cards through the latest Radeon HD 6000 and Fusion graphics processors, is becoming quite fit. The driver is nearing a point of stability, is mature enough for most desktop users, and it is beginning to receive some performance optimizations and other improvements. Thanks to this recent work, plus the ongoing development of the Linux 3.0 kernel, here is a fresh set of AMD Gallium3D Linux driver benchmarks.
Can you include things like KWin and Compiz performance? Those are still pretty important, though as things keep getting faster, they will end up being non-interesting after a few years.
This is a much better benchmark comparison than the ones before. Disabling SwapbuffersWait has usally the most impact of benchmarks. I did not test the impact of the other option used. The problem with SwapbuffersWait is when a game runs in the 20-25 fps range, then tearing is really extreme, like Trine, in that case i usually enable it. But for benchmarking you definitely should turn it off. Maybe test with installelled libtxc_dxtn and enabled texture-float unigine heaven, but of course in that case you need to disable tesselation in the benchmark.
Excellent news and excellent article!
Agreed. These benchmarks with everything over 100 fps are of questionable use, but overall this was a much better set of tests than usual. I really wish Michael would benchmark some more challenging apps, like Doom3, Portal, etc. in addition to the standard Quake 3 engines.
would it be easy for someone to explain why we don't have consistent performance across resolutions ?? (at least Catalyst seems to fluctuate less than the Open solutions)
how about benching the blender view-port performance in different modes?
this is something you actually use compared to benches like lightsmark
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As a Debian user, it sounds like a big pile of I-couldn't-care-less. Apt's performance is fine.
Phoronix: The SprezzOS Rewrite Of Debian's APT Continues
One of the more peculiar Linux distributions to emerge recently has been SprezzOS, which debuted with claims of being the most robust, performant, and beautiful Linux. When it launched it didn't generate much attention, but recently the SprezzOS developers began rewriting Debian's APT software...
As a Debian user, it sounds like a big pile of I-couldn't-care-less. Apt's performance is fine.
Especially considering that in Wheezy, apt grabs package lists automaticlaly in the background and the desktop environments has notifications when updates are available.
I think what they're primarily doing is making apt multi-threaded (parallelism)? If so, it seems a little pointless. I remember this being discussed on Debian mailing lists that making apt more parallel just means creating more overhead on the servers (multiple TCP connections from the same client is more expensive to the server than a single TCP connection over a longer period of time because of context switching).
If they are in fact making apt a lot more efficient (less CPU usage and faster) without breaking it and without opening more TCP connections on the servers from the same client, I'd think they should contribute this to Debian rather than creating a whole new distro around it...
Instead I fear what they're doing is **EXACTLY** what Debian doesn't want to do, and has good reasons for why they don't do it (being nice to their mirrors)... Which is why they split off from Debian.. Hopefully they don't use the same Debian repos or they could create problems for Debian if their users make multiple TCP connections and abuse the servers just to get faster downloads. It would most certainly mean that a lot of mirrors that are high bandwidth running on very old hardware might have to upgrade their hardware to run the exact same bandwidth due to server overhead lost to context switching / multiple TCP connections from each client.
If they're parallelizing the package installation, then that just makes apt that much more annoying when running in the background (eating up a lot more RAM and CPU) and so it's more disruptive to the system, so that doesn't make a lot of sense either.. Unpacking multiple archives at the same time can chew through a lot of RAM, especially with some packages in Debian moving to xz compression! If you have a lot of memory heavy apps open in the foreground and then run a multi-threaded apt that unpacks a lot of archives simultaneously, you can expect a whole crap ton of swapping to happen that otherwise wouldn't have happened.
Perhaps if you were running Debian Unstable then it would be rather benefitical to parallise apt because of all the I/O and package installations you'd be doing every week, otherwise I'm not sure what they're trying to accomplish here.
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They could at least maintain consistent naming conventions, why is one rapt-show-versions, and the other raptorial-file? Stick with rapt.
This SprezzOS is a complete joke. The website is horrible. The bug tracker is full of bugs all reported by the same person; the only developer apparently. I still haven't figured out the confusing as hell partitioner in the installer.
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WHERE HE STANDS: Kevin Harvick remained in fourth place for the ninth straight week after Michigan. He trails series leader Jimmie Johnson by 64 points (down from 101 last week), is 13 points behind third-ranked Carl Edwards and leads fifth-ranked Kyle Busch by 43 points (up from 14 points last week).
BRISTOL RECORD: 25 career starts, 1 wins, 9 top-fives, 12 top-10s, 0 poles. Best career finish: First in spring 2005. Was 15th in this race last year and finished 14th in this year's spring race there.
LOOKING AHEAD: Harvick is all but locked into the Chase, but he could use another win or two before the playoffs begin three weeks from now. He couldn't pick a better place to do so than Saturday night at Bristol. Here's his thoughts: "We ran really well there (Bristol Motor Speedway) in March, we just kind of got a little bit off on pit strategy at the end, but all-in-all the performance was pretty good. Overall, Bristol is a pretty crazy track. It doesn't matter if it's the old track or new track, it just seems like that night race brings a lot more excitement."
LOOKING BACK: Harvick had one of his best runs of the season this past Sunday at Michigan, finishing second to Joey Logano.
ETC.: Harvick has completed 98.2 percent (12,290) of the 12,513 total laps contested in 25 career starts at Bristol. His average start is 17.8 and average finish is 12.6. He has two DNFs there.
18 KYLE BUSCH, Toyota
Team: Joe Gibbs Racing
WHERE HE STANDS: Kyle Busch remained in fifth place for the second consecutive week after Michigan. He trails points leader Jimmie Johnson by 107 points, is 43 points behind fourth-ranked Kevin Harvick and leads sixth-ranked Matt Kenseth by 18 points.
BRISTOL RECORD: 17 career starts, 5 wins, 8 top-fives, 12 top-10s, 1 poles. Best career finish: First in spring 2007, spring and summer 2009, summer 2010 and spring 2011. Finished sixth in this race last year and was second in this year's spring race there.
LOOKING AHEAD: Bristol is without question Kyle Busch's best Sprint Cup track. After coming so close to a sixth win there this spring (finished runnerup), he goes for win No. 6 there this Saturday night. Here's his thoughts on the race: "I'm not exactly sure what makes me so good at Bristol. I've just had a lot of success there, but I've also had some misfortune there, too. Ever since I got through my rookie year, I've just taken a liking to the place. Of course, I've been able to get some help from my brother (Kurt). He's always been really, really good there. But, when they changed the track to this current surface in 2007, I just really took to it right away. It's just a fun racetrack no matter what series I'm running there."
LOOKING BACK: After winning the week before at Watkins Glen, Busch had a terrible outing at Michigan, finishing 31st. He's looking for a big bounce back this Saturday night.
ETC.: Busch has completed 97.6 percent (8,310) of the 8,513 total laps contested in 17 career starts at Bristol. His average start is 18.2, while his average finish is an outstanding 9.8. He has zero DNFs there.
20 MATT KENSETH, Toyota
Team: Joe Gibbs Racing
WHERE HE STANDS: After spending the previous two weeks in seventh place, Matt Kenseth moved up one spot to sixth after Sunday's race at Michigan. He trails points leader Jimmie Johnson by 125 points (down from 149 last week), is 18 points behind fifth-ranked Kyle Busch and leads seventh-ranked Dale Earnhardt Jr. by nine points.
BRISTOL RECORD: 27 career starts, 2 wins, 10 top-fives, 17 top-10s, 1 poles. Best career finish: First in summer 2005 and summer 2006. Finished 25th in this race last year and was 35th in this year's spring race there.
LOOKING AHEAD: After having an outstanding run for most of his career at Bristol, Kenseth has struggled in his last two starts. He's looking for a big bounce back Saturday night. Here's his thoughts on the race: "The first one is early in the season, it's during the day and its cooler. Then we go back in the middle of the summer and it's hot and it's nighttime, so the cars always look faster -- you see the sparks flying and all that. It's a really cool atmosphere for a race fan and for the teams and drivers as well. The track of course -- the way it's shaped and being later in the year, everybody's patience is a little thinner and all that stuff. It seems like the racing is more intense and that leads to close racing, frustration and all that kind of stuff that is fun to watch."
LOOKING BACK: Kenseth typically does well at Michigan, but not this past Sunday, having to settle for a 15th-place finish.
ETC.: Kenseth has completed 97.0 percent (13,101) of the 13,513 total laps contested in 27 career starts at Bristol. His average start is 16.8, while his average finish is a 12.9. He has four DNFs there.
88 DALE EARNHARDT JR., Chevrolet
Team: Hendrick Motorsports
WHERE HE STANDS: For the second week in a row, Dale Earnhardt Jr. dropped one position, this time from sixth to seventh after Michigan. He trails teammate and points leader Jimmie Johnson by 134 points, is nine points behind sixth-ranked Matt Kenseth and leads eighth-ranked Brad Keselowski by 12 points.
BRISTOL RECORD: 27 career starts, 1 wins, 7 top-fives, 13 top-10s, 0 poles. Best career finish: First in summer 2004. Finished 12th in this race last year and was sixth in this year's spring race there.
LOOKING AHEAD: One week after still looking like he was secure to make the Chase, Earnhardt is suddenly in trouble, going from a 45-point margin ahead of 10th place to just 16 points after Michigan. Still, he feels confident coming into Saturday's race that he'll make the Chase: "I like Bristol. I've always enjoyed going there as a kid and watching races. The Saturday night race is one of the best tickets in the series. It's an exciting racetrack, and it's a lot of fun for the drivers. You're always in the middle of something every lap. It keeps you on your toes, and it's a pretty tough racetrack. I enjoy the challenge and look forward to hopefully having a good weekend."
LOOKING BACK: After finishing a disappointing 30th the week before at Watkins Glen, Earnhardt went from bad to worse at Michigan, finishing 36th. His chances of making the Chase took a serious hit.


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It got changed to mtune=intel
See http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html
Phoronix: GCC x86 Receives New Intel CPU Tuning Target
With future versions of GCC there is now a "-mtune=ia" target for the GNU Compiler Collection's x86 back-end to always optimize the compiled program for the very latest Intel processors...
It got changed to mtune=intel
See http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html
Suppose I add the -mtune=ia option by default to my {C,CXX}FLAGS when compiling using GCC because I have the latest Intel CPU. A new Intel CPU architecture comes out, after which I upgrade GCC. Does this mean that the binaries I now produce won't work on my hardware?
Check the gcc manual - mtune doesn't affect the "will it run on foo", march does.
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Only need to install Image Magick package.
Display a xkcd comic with its title and save it in /tmp directory
If you prefer to view the newest xkcd, use this command:
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I wasn't sure how to display the image, so I thought I'd try xml for a different twist.
as unixmonkey7109 pointed out, first awk parse replaces three steps.
It's not a big line, and it *may not* work for everybody, I guess it depends on the detail of access_log configuration in your httpd.conf. I use it as a prerotate command for logrotate in httpd section so it executes before access_log rotation, everyday at midnight.
This bash function uses albumart.org to find the cover for an album. It returns an amazon.com url to the image.
Usage: albumart [artist] [album]
These arguments can be reversed and if the album name is distinct enough, it may be possible to omit the artist.
The command can be extended with wget to automatically download the matching image like this:
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This function uploads images to http://omploader.org and then prints out the links to the file.
Some coloring can also be added to the command with:
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Sometimes, you don't really care about all the other information that ifconfig spits at you (however useful it may otherwise be). You just want an IP. This strips out all the crap and gives you exactly what you want.
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I have a directory containing log files. This command delete all but the 5 latest logs. Here is how it works:
* The ls -t command list all files with the latest ones at the top
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Checks the Gmail ATOM feed for your account, parses it and outputs a list of unread messages.
For some reason sed gets stuck on OS X, so here's a Perl version for the Mac:
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That would be enough to buy 4.6 million tons of corn
North Korea's missile launch
succeeded in putting a satellite in orbit
(perhaps thanks to some Iranian expertise) this morning. But at what cost did the successful launch come?
I. Money Could Have Ended Famine, Claims South Korea
According to
South Korean officials in the Ministry of Unification, the launch and a failed attempt in April directly cost $600M USD (mostly for the rocket and engineering expertise), the launch site costs $400M USD, and additional $300M USD was spent on related facilities. That adds up to a total of a cool $1.3B USD -- a massive sum for the poverty stricken nation.
To put this in context, South Korea says that would have bought 4.6 million tons of corn for the nation, where a third of citizens are estimated to be malnourished. That would be enough corn, it says, to feed the people in the north for four to five years.
North Korea is home to an estimated 24 million people,
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One third of North Koreans are estimated to be malnourished. [Image Source: NK Now]
There is some debate about the true cost due to potential deals between Iran and North Korea, in which North Korea agreed to act as the Middle Eastern nation's weapons test bed (and thus may have received better rates on parts and engineering expertise).
Further questions on the price figure come in due to the fact that North Korean engineers are known to make much less than their foreign peers, but the exact rate is a topic of current reserach and debate. North Korea is very hostile, isolated, and secretive to its neighbors (other than China) and the U.S., so it is difficult for foreign observers to get accurate numbers to describe its economy.
II. North Korea -- Proud or Used?
Despite its anti-U.S. propoganda North Korea has expressed of late a desire to be recognized by the U.S. and given aid. A food deal was in the works, but fell through when North Korea broke promises and launched its failed missile test in April.
The big winner in the missile test may be Iran who is unlikely to face sanctions for its supposed involvement, and appears to have offloaded some of the costs of its weaponization efforts on a far poorer ally. Average income in Iran,
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An Iranian Revolutionary Guard test launch of missiles is shown here dating back to 2006. The launch was carried out in the city of Qom, a holy city in the Islamist movement.
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Iran had
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Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh in recent statements denied it was targeting the U.S., but confirmed it was refining designs to fire at Israel, stating, "Israel is our longest-range target."
North Korea contends that regardless of the cost, it is worth it to develop both peaceful space projects and nuclear weapons, which it
says it needs to "defend itself"
against the U.S.
According to a recent public radio report North Korea's rhetoric has shifted since Kim Jung-un assumed power, taking the fresh stance that failure is (sometimes) acceptable, because as some observers put it, the leader says great nations often fail. For instance, North Korea in the past only broadcast Olympic events where its team or athletes won the particular match. This time around, they broadcast the whole event and welcomed home the athletes -- even the losers -- as national heroes (traditionally losers were sent to work camps).
Indeed many expected this unfamiliar new breed of mea culpas from the Asian regime to arrive this week when the rocket launched, given the delays due to technical difficulties. But instead North Korea surprised observers and succeeded, shifting the question to a new one -- whether the cost of success was worth it.
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No food, because of US sanctions.
Its like not that money could be spent either on missile test, or on importing food.
The problem is about all the sanctions put against NKorea by the USofA.
Without those sanctions the people would do much better.
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Seven of every ten U.S. households now subscribe to an online service, and high-speed broadband customers account for about 60 percent of that total, according to new data from Leichtman Research Group [1] (LRG).
LRG notes a correlation between income and the choice of service. Cable high-speed data (HSD) subs are more likely to be more affluent; DSL customers are more likely to fall in a middle range of income; and dial-up customers are more likely to be in a lower income bracket. The correlation tracks with the monthly fees charged for cable, DSL, and dial-up, from highest to lowest in order.
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East Lansing — Judging by the rankings and the rantings, it's all about the Buckeyes. They have the perfect record, the 24-game winning streak, the fancy quarterback, the gilded coach, the national attention. They have a nice warm spot in the BCS title game just waiting for them.
Yep, the Big Ten championship game Saturday night apparently is Ohio State against history, or Ohio State against conference perceptions, or Ohio State against the civilized world. In other words, it's exactly what Michigan State is accustomed to, and determined to change.
The 11-1 Spartans will be in Indianapolis, too, and they're way past oh-gosh, happy-to-be-here sentiments. This is their third 11-victory season in four years and second trip to the championship game. This is the next giant step for Mark Dantonio's program, and while they appreciate all the kind words, please don't pat them on the head and tell them they can go to the Rose Bowl, win or lose.
Michigan State is in a great spot, taking on a 12-0 Ohio State team that isn't as invincible as its record. While everyone — probably even in the Big Ten commissioner's office — is mapping out national-championship scenarios for the Buckeyes, there's a reason Dantonio hit the "Why not us?" mantra again Tuesday. He was suggesting college football is crazy enough, and the Spartans are good enough, that no boundaries exist, and why couldn't a victory propel them to the BCS title game?
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Well, that's not going to happen because at No. 10, Michigan State has too much ground to make up, and that 17-13 loss to Notre Dame still haunts. But Dantonio's point is ambiguous enough to be valid. With this program and this remarkable defense, there aren't many barriers left. The Spartans may understand their place in the national conversation, but it doesn't mean they have to embrace it.
"I don't really care if we're overlooked, to be honest with you," senior linebacker Max Bullough said. "I think we've been overlooked, underrated, all that stuff, in football and basketball for years. I'm just worried about, we win this game and we're going to be talking about Michigan State going to the Rose Bowl the right way, not the back door."
The placement of the door matters, and it should. In fact, the Spartans should pay zero attention to all the other possibilities. That's our job.
And the possibilities are bizarre. If Ohio State, a 5˝-point favorite, wins, it almost assuredly will play for the national championship, probably against Florida State. That would allow Michigan State, even in defeat, to go to the Rose Bowl for the first time since the 1987 season, although not as Big Ten champion.
But this is still the BCS, so it can't be quite that simple. If Ohio State narrowly beats Michigan State, and No. 3 Auburn clobbers Missouri in the SEC championship game, perhaps Auburn slides up, even with one loss, and Ohio State slips back to the Rose Bowl.
If that happened — and I doubt it would — it would be an enormous slap at the Big Ten, which has endured all sorts of indignities over the years. The theory is, to be safe, the Buckeyes should win in a rout (as if it's solely up to them), which actually might seal the Rose Bowl bid for the Spartans.
See why I suggested they completely ignore all of it?
"It's about us, it's not about them," Dantonio said. "If we're 12-1 at the end of the week, why not us? That's how I'm going to approach it. I'm not going to sit there and worry about losing."
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In other words, what appears to be a win-win situation really isn't, not from Michigan State's perspective. After Michigan showed Ohio State was vulnerable in that 42-41 thriller, Michigan State can finish it off. And maybe that's what the Buckeyes deserve, because they swing wildly (and literally) from unbeatable to insufferable. Urban Meyer issued no sanctions for his punching, finger-flipping players, and Jim Delany's office didn't suspend offensive guard Marcus Hall, either.
This game supposedly is all about Meyer and Braxton Miller and the Big Ten finally ending the SEC's seven-year national-title run. If the Spartans pull the upset, there will be two narratives. One is that Michigan State really is good, and man, what about that defense? The other is, Ohio State just blew it and the Big Ten remains incapable of competing on a national scale.
Perceptions take a long time to form and a long time to change, and the Big Ten has developed some ugly ones. The Spartans have the No. 1 defense in the country but haven't beaten a team currently in the top 25 and haven't faced an elite quarterback, so no one is sure how dominant they really are.
"We play some of the best offenses in the country," Bullough said. "We just make them look bad sometimes, so (people) might not think they're that great. That's the reality behind it, you know?"
Everyone is focused on the Buckeyes' drive to create a new reality, and that's fine. But the truth is, the Spartans also can stamp a new reality, even if it's not the one most people expect.


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