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Showers of Luxury
Over the past few years, elaborate multihead shower systems have become a fixture in custom home master baths. Manufacturers boast an enormous array of spray devices, sleek designs and beautiful finishes combined with technologically enhanced flow and temperature controls to create a bathing experience tailor-made for each individual.
With the barrage of home improvement television shows, magazines and websites available today, consumers are more educated than ever on luxury home products. In a custom home, a single showerhead is unacceptable and a complex water delivery system is usually desired. A master bath must now include a shower that is visually appealing while offering the choice of an efficient shower, a soaking deluge, a relaxing massage or a mixture of all three. Vertical spas are completely customizable using a combination of body sprays, showerheads and hand showers. According to Mike Reffner, Moen product manager, "When it comes to vertical spas, there are three things people are concerned about: water flow, temperature control and flexibility."
Manufacturers responded to these interests with an abundance of devices that can be mixed and matched in any number of configurations. "Typically, no design is more popular than a one piece because it provides the ultimate in design flexibility," according to Michael Wanschneider, senior product manager for Kohler. "High-end customers are focused on the experimental side of the system. For the adventurous, there is a variety of products that allow them to create their own shower system."
Blame it on the rain
For a real downpour, nothing beats a rainstorm. Since storm clouds aren't available for in-home use, showerheads emulating the natural experience of rain are in high demand.
"Over time we've noticed a throw-back to how people remember showers. In the '40s and '50s, people would often flock to the beaches to enjoy the sun and surf. Many people have memories of how the vintage showerheads would wash away the sand and how the overflow from a torrent of water made them feel," says Ramon Lopez, technical solutions provider for Santec. "People still desire that feeling, thus the size of the 'beachheads' [as they once were called] continue to grow."
Kohler's WaterTile product line now includes the WaterTile Rain ceiling panel. WaterTile's innovative design, which is nearly flush to the wall, makes it possible to install the body sprays in a number of different ways in the showering space: on the wall, ceiling or at an angle at the intersection of wall and ceiling. The product is designed to complement both modern and traditional décor. The direction of the WaterTile sprays is adjustable to create a targeted water experience in terms of warmth and water coverage.
Moen's new Velocity rain shower showerhead channels water pressure for a total-body, rain-soaking experience. This new 8-in. showerhead features the company's Immersion technology — a self-pressurizing system that increases the force and flow of water delivery. The Velocity showerhead features a convenient lever to adjust the water delivery from the spray nozzles — concentrating it into 30 nozzles or expanding the flow through as many as 100.
Hansgrohe's air-injection technology is available with the company's Raindance AIR products. "We are unique in offering this technology, which pulls surrounding air inside the shower-head or hand shower, mixes it with the water and produces larger, more voluminous water droplets," says Jason McCain, communications manager for Hansgrohe. "The feel replicates the feeling of natural rain, giving the water a different texture, and the sound of the air being pulled in and the water falling actually sounds like a rain shower. It is very relaxing and sensual, appealing not only to your sense of touch but also to sound and visual stimulation."
"There's certainly a trend toward moving beyond the tub/shower combo that has dominated American construction for so many years. As a European manufacturer, we've seen the trend toward more luxurious, more functional showers becoming the norm in the rest of the world," McCain adds.
Contemporary vs. traditional
While American tastes in home design leans largely toward the conservative, manufacturers also offer contemporary and even high-tech styles for the more daring customer.
"Traditional styles are the most popular in the United States, but contemporary designs are becoming more popular with younger people," Reffner says. "They're becoming more popular because they can be used with other modern décor."
Jado collaborated with designer Jean Nouvel to create a visually intriguing, technologically advanced shower system. "Convenience through electronics surrounds us in almost every room of a house and we don't expect to trade style for technology," says Tim Maicher, luxury brand director for Jado. "This collection from Jado absolutely delivers on both fronts. It's aesthetic. It's interactive."
The 44-in. elongated shower totem is a polished chrome tube that curves and flattens into a minimalist bend at the top for the showerhead. An integrated automatic diverter controls a hand-held shower wand, popping up a spray head that retracts when no longer in use. The tub filler is teamed with a hand-held spray that has the same pop-up spray head as the shower totem. The faucet and tub filler sport sleek control options positioned flush atop the design.
ShowerArc is the latest innovation from Pharo, Hansgrohe's international brand of luxury showering systems. ShowerArc features a delicate arch of chrome-plated brass that can be mounted wall-to-wall in a shower cubicle or in a corner of the bath. The product delivers water from three different directions — the top and each side. The ShowerArc integrates several water delivery components and controls into a single, easy-to-use and easy-to-install package that heightens both fun and functionality in the shower. The ShowerArc design includes a Raindance AIR showerhead, six body sprays and the Raindance S100 AIR 3-Jet Handshower.
"As a European manufacturer, most of our products offer a clean design," McCain says. "Even on our traditional products with traditional elements, we don't overdo it with superfluous ornamentation. Many of our products, like Clubmaster, Croma and Aktiva, have a familiar look and feel to what you may expect a shower product to look like, and they are perennial best sellers."
Paul Patton, senior product development manager, Delta Faucet Co., adds that brushed nickel and stainless steel are very popular. Rustic, old-world finishes like Venetian bronze also are popular as they tie into larger trends where consumers are looking to carry out design-themed environments and want to carry that into plumbing fixtures.
"We've done really well with the oil-rubbed bronze finish. It's distressed so you get different colors and tones within the faucet," Reffner says. "And of course brushed nickel has been popular for at least three or four years and demand is still high. Currently, we are looking at many other finishes, which are still in development."
Two heads better than one
Another master bath luxury rising in popularity is the two-person shower. "A two-person shower is a time-efficient luxury," Wanschneider explains. "It's based in both experience and convenience, allowing both people to use the shower at the same time."
Lopez also sees the growing trend for two-person showers. "We've definitely seen an upsurge in the requests for the couple experience. People are increasingly purchasing two sets of systems for their shower enclosures," Lopez adds. "There's nothing more personal than your shower experience and nothing more exceptional than sharing it with that special someone."
According to Al DeGenova, director of advertising and new media for Grohe, large showers are focal points rather than whirlpools in high-end custom homes. "It is important to keep in mind that a shower this large requires multiple valves and drains," DeGenova cautions. "A high-flow thermostatic valve is at the core of any shower this large. I can't emphasize this enough; the shower outlets are the experience, but without a valve that controls the water temperature precisely and flows enough water, the custom shower can be an expensive disappointment."
Taking control
To allow the end user to truly take charge of the showering experience, manufacturers developed some exciting new devices to enhance comfort, control and power in the bathing experience. "In many instances, the more control you want over your shower, the more outlets you'll install," Wanschneider says.
To facilitate this control, Kohler recently launched the DTV custom showering product featuring a thermostatic valve and digital interface. The DTV (digital thermostatic valve) utilizes multiple showerheads, hand showers and body sprays — all controlled with a touch of a button. The DTV's preset hydrotherapy experiences include up-massage, down-massage, wave-massage, as well as temperature therapy that can either run from hot to cold or vice versa.
Moen now offers the new ExactTemp 3/4-in. thermostatic valve allowing the user to continuously adjust the force and flow of water to where it's wanted — the showerhead, the body sprays, the hand shower or a combination of any of these. ExactTemp allows more or less water to be directed to each element for the perfect, custom shower. The product allows shower users to dial up their own personalized water temperature for a comfortable, consistent shower. Precision thermostatic control ensures the same water temperature day after day, while a temperature memory can stay in a set temperature position and quickly return to that preset number.
"Many prefer the drenching rain showerheads," Patton says. "Consumers equate size with performance, so it's important to balance ways to use water more efficiently with the growing shower head size and the 2.5-gpm restrictions. Therefore, Delta is always looking for innovative solutions to incorporate technology and water conservation properties into the design of our products."
Delta offers H2Okinetic Technology on the company's Vesi custom shower system from Brizo. H2Okinetic technology delivers a 36 percent savings of water while still providing a warm, drenching shower experience. H2Okinetic technology offers greater control over the showering experience by managing water droplet size and velocity, spray coverage and thermal dynamics. The product uses only 1.6 gal. of water per minute as opposed to the standard 2.5 gpm, while still delivering a superior shower experience. H2Okinetic technology is included in the Delta Monitor 1800 Jetted Shower Series and the 1900 TempAssure thermostatic custom shower systems, and complements existing shower products such as hand-held showers and showerheads.
Delta's MultiChoice universal valve is designed to simplify the installation of tub/shower systems. The MultiChoice universal valve offers three function options: single-function pressure balance, dual-function pressure balance, and a new dual-function thermostatic valve cartridge. The MultiChoice universal valve allows for easy shower upgrades, eliminates the possibility of the wrong valve from being installed and utilizes existing Delta brand trim packages.
Grohe's Aquatower 1000 shower system is designed as an easy shower upgrade featuring a hand shower, two body sprays, a thermostatic valve and a shampoo/accessory tray in one unit. The product utilizes Grohe's Dreamspray technology to deliver equal amounts of water at equal pressures through each nozzle.
In custom homes, there is no such thing as a typical master bath. With rain showers, improved aesthetic appeal, temperature control capabilities and larger bathing areas, the market is virtually saturated with possibilities.


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Is there any way to get the .usb images onto an usb drive with a Linux environment? The usbcopy utility seems to be Solaris only and dd didn't work the way it should...
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Is there any way to get the .usb images onto an usb drive with a Linux environment? The usbcopy utility seems to be Solaris only and dd didn't work the way it should...
Untill opensolaris doesn't support my ehternet motherboard card, I really don't know what to do with this OS. I tried the last stable release back in may and it didnt support my card, now I tried this new RC and still no support.
what is your network card?
It'd be interesting to find out, most Hardwired network cards (as opposed to wireless) are supported nowadays, although some USB ones (Realtek have an internal USB device instead of an internal PCI ...) will not be supported.
If you don't like the official build, you might like the Belenix one that has all the patches, drivers and fixes that the Belenix guys find fit to install, you have to get the old Belenix, but you can then do a web update (http://www.belenix.org/content/Build...ilable-BeleniX) to get it to the latest kernel.
Hmm ... Had a look at some discussions ...
I can see your point ...
If i had physical access to the hardware theres a few things i'd try, sounds like it might work with the 'nge' driver that comes with Solaris ...
I believe it's a re-badged realtek rtl8211/8211.
exactly, it's a re-budged realtek. But come on, I don't have time to make an OS understand an ethernet card. It's year 2008, and as a desktop user (even though I'm a programmer), I won't waste my time on this. It's duty of OS making my hardware work. If opensolaris goal is to spread out, before even thinking of this it should support at least ethernet cards... I'll give it a try next year.
Realtek's (at least until they started doing weird sh*t like having them as USB devices on motherboards) are well supported.
I'm gonna agree with you that I want the things to work out of the box, but with things like some of the newer realtek cards (which don't work amazingly well on windows either) the support for linux is only via someones hacked binaries that i found on a users website.
If you have a brand new (unsupported) network card for windows you would think nothing of putting the driver disk in the CD drive to add the driver, this isn't much different, except that you don't get the CD in the box, you have to download it
If you pick devices from Major suppliers (Intel, Broadcom, etc) then they will be supported.
Sorry, that sounded like a rant.
well, the case wants that the card works good for me on Windows and Linux so I expect it to work on solaris too if it works on linux it means it can work anywhere and it's not Windows dependent as win modem were. and of course I won't go buying a new ethernet card. I personally, as a user, really don't care why the card works on Linux. What I care is that it works. Thats what 99% of users around the world want. They pay for hardware that must work and they don't want to hear anything else. It can be a bit ignorant to say this, but this is how things work, I pay for something that has to work.
As said, I'll give opensolaris another try next year hoping they do something about this since im not on a strange motherboard but it's an Nvidia Nforce 6 chipset.

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Via Francigena is the ancient route from Canterbury to Rome, followed by archbishops travelling to receive from the pope their symbols of authority as well as ordinary pilgrims en route to Rome or onward to Jerusalem. It was originally described by Archbishop Sigeric in AD990 and his route has been adopted by the Council of Europe Institute of Cultural Routes as the definitive way from Canterbury to Rome.
Today people of all ages and beliefs enjoy the physical challenge of this 1,200 mile journey. Starting at Canterbury Cathedral the entire journey will take approximately 12 weeks on foot, based on an average of between 15 and 25 miles per day. Crossing England, France, Switzerland and Italy you will climb to heights above 8,000 feet and be exposed to a wide range of weather conditions.
You can obtain a Via Francigena passport which will be stamped at the Information Centre in the cathedral precincts.
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My first reaction to this article was, "Pah! Virus scanners on Linux? That's all they could come up with?"
Then I realized two things:
1. A better (faster, more reliable) file access monitor workalike could be used in GLib to improve the file monitoring facility there. That would instantly help programs like Rhythmbox, which sometimes struggle with not noticing that files have been added or deleted from the library directory (to no fault of Rhythmbox; the underlying library is wrong).
2. Virus scanners may be needed on Linux if you are accepting a lot of untrusted uploads and may potentially make them executable and then execute them (although this is already sounding like a very bad design for any software system). Or, if you are accepting user submissions and then handing them back out to Windows users, there's an even stronger case for a virus scanner on Linux; but here you need to check for Win32/Win64 viruses, not GNU/Linux+ELF.
Problem is, every virus scanner I've ever run (on Windows, admittedly) has been both proprietary and a significant resource hog, especially in terms of disk space and CPU usage when first reading a file. For a Linux server, I'd find this extra resource usage patently unacceptable. Usually, on a free platform, when you encounter a security vulnerability, you fix it in the source, even redesigning APIs and interfaces if necessary. We are adaptable and agile; we can change to make exploits harder or impossible. Therefore I think most Linux servers and desktops today don't run a virus scanner (I have both, and I don't).
I really hope that this doesn't change in the future. I hope that there is not a point 10 years from now when someone would look at you like you're crazy if you say that you run Linux without a virus scanner (consider that, today, most people would look at you like you're crazy if you say you run Windows without a virus scanner, particularly XP or earlier, or Vista/7 with UAC off). Unlike firewalls, NATs, hardware SPI, and software that is secure by design, virus scanners are an extremely wasteful form of security. They consume countless untold megawatts of electricity every year, by increasing CPU load, disk activity, and FSB/QPI activity. They grind endlessly on busy servers, bringing services to a barely-tolerable speed (or worse) for users, and killing venerable, high-quality SAS disks in only a couple of years. Virus scanners are destructive to hardware in the long run, and destructive economically as well.
That's why I think virus scanners on Linux are, for the most part, bogus. And if you are a system administrator who is responsible for the security of Windows desktops that send or receive untrusted files to your *NIX server, I sympathize with you. This is probably the only situation where I could see a Linux virus scanner being justified. I hope that the future will not prove me wrong.


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The move comes in response to scrutiny of the NYPD's tactics including stop-and-frisk searches and widespread surveillance of Muslims following 9/11.
"New Yorkers know that we can keep our city safe from crime and terrorism without profiling our neighbors," Councilman Brad Lander said at a late night meeting before the vote in the early morning.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg vowed to veto the measures, saying the NYPD will be "pointlessly hampered by outside intrusion and recklessly threatened by second-guessing from the courts."
Both measures passed with enough votes to override a veto.
Critics argue that the higher proportion of stop and frisk searches of minority groups are in line with higher crime rates, and that the tactics are responsible for reduced crime.
But just last month, based on publicly available NYPD crime data from 2012, the New York Office of the Public Advocate found that white people were far more likely to be carrying drugs or guns than minorities, despite making up a small proportion of targets in the controversial searches.
The NYPD uncovered a weapon in one out every 49 stops of white New Yorkers. By contrast, it took 71 stops of Latinos and 93 stops of African Americans to find a weapon. To uncover contraband, it took 43 stops of white New Yorkers, 57 stops of Latinos and 61 stops of African Americans.
Blacks and Latinos constitute 84 percent of all stops, despite comprising only 54 percent of the population. Innocence rates remain nearly 89 percent.
Of 532,911 stop-and-frisk searches in 2012, only 729 guns were found, but over 5,000 were arrested for private marijuana possession. Though possession has been decriminalized in the city, officers empty pockets during searches, bringing contraband into "public view" -- an arrestable offense.
The Council's measure that would create an outside Inspector General to oversee the department comes amid lawsuits against the NYPD for unconstitutional surveillance of Muslim communities and mosques in New York and New Jersey.
Four CIA analysts were embedded with the NYPD in the decade following 9/11, and according to a newly declassified CIA Inspector General report from 2011, the relationship was characterized by "irregular personnel practices."
Inspector General David B. Buckley wrote that the CIA is not permitted to engage in domestic surveillance, and that the operatives' actions did not constitute domestic spying. One analyst, the report said, believed there were "no limitations" on his activities, however, because he was on unpaid leave of absence, exempting him from the prohibition against domestic spying.


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Prominent Bubble Teams January 16, 2013 By Joe Nelson VegasInsider.com While the NCAA conference season is just underway, there are several prominent teams that don't yet have the credentials to feel secure about a NCAA Tournament invite. Several of these teams are well-known national powers that did not get enough done in the non-conference season. Pressure should be on these squads in the next several weeks to get a few more quality wins. BYU: The Cougars have been in the NCAA Tournament each of the last six years, but moving from the very strong Mountain West to the West Coast Conference won't help the cause when it comes time to hand out NCAA Tournament bids. BYU has an excellent 14-4 record, but there is very little substance and the strength of schedule will go down unlike in past years when a deep Mountain West slate helped the cause. Gonzaga and St. Mary's are formidable in WCC and BYU will have a chance to score helpful wins in those match-ups, but it certainly won't be easy to make the conference a three-bid league as it often is tough for two WCC teams to get in. BYU is off to a perfect conference start, including a convincing win at Santa Clara last weekend, but they may need to take down Gonzaga at least once to really make a strong case. BYU failed in non-conference opportunities against Florida State, Notre Dame, Iowa State, and Baylor, and with each of those four losses coming by double-digits, the Cougars will have a hard time making favorable comparisons with other teams on the bubble. Kentucky: The formula for John Calipari has worked for the Wildcats as his youthful teams often run into some trouble early in the season, but develops into a late season threat, going the distance last season for his first national title. This year's squad does not project to have that type of a ceiling and frankly the Wildcats are a few more losses from being on the outside looking in for the NCAA Tournament. Kentucky beat Maryland in the opening game of the season, but they failed in every other notable game, losing to Duke, Notre Dame, Baylor, and Louisville in non-conference play. The strength of schedule is boosted with those losses, but there are very few quality wins on the resume. Kentucky has started 2-1 in SEC play, but the home loss to Texas A&M could be a detriment that pushes the Wildcats a few notches down in the SEC pecking order. Kentucky picked up needed wins over Vanderbilt and Tennessee, but both games were very close and it is easy to see this Wildcats team losing a few similar games in the course of the SEC season. Florida, Mississippi, and Missouri all look like more qualified SEC teams and this will not be a league that will justify a great deal of bids. Kentucky is entering a critical stretch of the schedule with six of the next nine on the road and a few slip-ups could lead to the Wildcats falling on the wrong side of the bubble. Kentucky also won't have many chances to score big wins as they play Missouri and Mississippi just once each this season and the home meeting with Florida will be the last game of the year, when it may be too late. Memphis: Under John Calipari, Memphis was a powerhouse that had several deep tournament runs before NCAA sanctions vacated many of those wins. This has continued to be the top team in Conference USA even with Josh Pastner taking over and the Tigers have been in the NCAA Tournament in eight of the last 10 seasons. Memphis earned the automatic bid from winning the conference tournament each of the past two seasons and that may be the route the Tigers need to go this year as the league schedule won't help the cause and this Tigers team does not look strong enough to avoid a few losses. Memphis lost three non-conference games and none of them were damaging, falling to VCU, Minnesota, and Louisville and in competitive games. Memphis did not have any other noteworthy opponents in the non-conference slate, so the Conference USA schedule is all the Tigers have to work with, though a non-conference game with Xavier could provide a boost in late February. Southern Miss and UTEP look formidable in Conference USA and every team will be bringing their best in games with Memphis as the Tigers are likely to slip at some point and a near-perfect conference season might be what they would need to earn at-large consideration. North Carolina: The Tar Heels often go through up-and-down cycles with high player turnover in many years. After winning the 2009 national championship, North Carolina did not even make the NCAA Tournament the next season. Last season, North Carolina finished 32-6 and earned a #1 seed in the NCAA tournament, but this year's team is right on the edge of being excluded from the Big Dance. North Carolina is sitting at 10-5 and while non-conference losses to Butler, Indiana, and Texas won't be too damaging on the resume, the Tar Heels only picked up one notable win, narrowly beating UNLV at home. North Carolina opened ACC play 0-2 before rallying to beat Florida State last weekend, but overall, the ACC does not look like an overly strong conference and finishing fifth or sixth in the league might not be good enough to get a bid. The Tar Heels will have opportunities for big wins with Duke and NC State twice each on the schedule and they probably need to win at least one of those games to stamp themselves into the tournament. Pittsburgh: The Panthers had been in the NCAA Tournament 10 straight years before missing out last season. Most expected a quick rebound and a 12-1 non-conference run had the Panthers back in the rankings. As usual, Pittsburgh played a very soft non-conference schedule and while they did only lose by five against Michigan in the only loss, there weren't any wins of note either. Conference play has been a disaster so far for the Panthers with a 1-3 start including two home losses in critical games with Cincinnati and Marquette, two teams likely in the mix with Pittsburgh for spots in the upper half of the Big East. Pittsburgh did score a notable blowout win at Georgetown that will help the cause, but with the Big East losing some stature nationally this season, it is hard to see the conference carrying more than six or seven bids this season in contrast to past years. The schedule turns brutal in late January and early February so the Panthers would best served to get back above .500 with some of the lesser foes on the schedule the next two weeks or it could be two years in a row sitting on the outside. The schedule does feature just one game each with Louisville and Syracuse which could help the Panthers finish higher but this is a team that may need that type of a win to boost the resume. Texas: The Longhorns have not missed the NCAA Tournament since 1998, but things are not looking good for this year's squad. Texas had a disastrous trip to Hawaii early in the season, losing to both Chaminade and USC in the Maui Invitational, two unforgivable losses that will continue to haunt the program as we inch closer to the release of the brackets. The big win over North Carolina no longer looks that impressive and while losses to Georgetown, UCLA, and Michigan State won't penalize Texas, the overall loss count is really adding up. Texas has opened up the Big XII season at 0-3 and while two of those losses came in overtime, a sub-.500 Big XII record won't cut it for the Longhorns with the ugly non-conference losses and the lack of quality wins. The scenario is pretty clear for Texas; they almost certainly need to beat Kansas at home this weekend and then they could get on a run in Big XII play with some of the more favorable games in the next two weeks. With seven losses and no wins against the top 50, Texas is a team with serious work to do as right now they are not even in range of the bubble. West Virginia: While the move to the Big XII didn't exactly help the football team in year one, the Mountaineers could face a worse fate in the basketball season. West Virginia has been a NCAA Tournament team each of the last five years, even in years with marginal overall records as the strength of the Big East boosted the ratings for the Mountaineers and afforded many opportunities for quality wins. That won't be the case this season as there appear to be far fewer quality teams in the Big XII this season. West Virginia played a quality non-conference schedule but they did not pick up any prominent wins, with a one-point win at home over Virginia Tech being the best that the team can offer. Worse, West Virginia picked up tournament loses to Davidson and Oklahoma, as well as losing to Duquesne. Having Michigan and Gonzaga on the resume helps but West Virginia lost badly in both of those games. West Virginia beat Texas in what could be a critical head-to-head game but they lost again to Oklahoma, this time at home and could not pull off a needed win over Kansas State, falling by one at home. West Virginia does have a non-conference game at Purdue this weekend that falls into the must-win category and the Mountaineers will need a strong finish in the Big XII and possibly upsets over Kansas, Missouri, or Baylor to truly make a case to the selection committee. Wisconsin: The Badgers have been one of the most consistently successful programs in the last decade with 14 straight NCAA Tournament appearances and consistently high finishes in the Big Ten standings. Wisconsin failed to pick up a prominent win in the non-conference schedule, losing in big games with Florida, Creighton, and Marquette, and slipping at home in the ACC/Big Ten challenge with a loss to Virginia. Wisconsin has opened the Big Ten season 4-0 and the Badgers may have picked up their golden ticket by stunning Indiana in Bloomington. The Big Ten is very tough this season and the schedule is brutal for the Badgers in the next several weeks, facing Ohio State and Minnesota twice as well as playing Michigan, Michigan State, and Illinois all in the next nine games. Wisconsin's 4-0 start could quickly be erased and this weekend's road game at Iowa certainly looks like a dangerous spot. Wisconsin is rarely a strong road team and the Badgers have been known to slip up against lesser foes on occasion so a bad loss or two in conference play might wipe out the gains with the Indiana win. Right now, the Badgers have done enough to get in, but a .500 Big Ten campaign and no quality out-of-conference wins could leave Wisconsin on the bubble for the first time in many years.
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Forgive my ignorance, but couldn't this be done with a pseudo-filesystem like /proc, doing changes on the fly, while writing a hardcopy alternative xorg.conf whenever a change is made, ensuring a persistent setting?
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In recent times, the xorg.conf file once used for configuring all static X-related server options has been shrinking in size. Thanks to more reliable EDID (Extended Display Identification Data) on LCD panels, it's generally no longer needed to manually specify mode-lines within this X.Org configuration file. With improvements for auto-detection, in many circumstances it's no longer even needed to manually specify your graphics driver and other options. However, the X Server currently lacks an infrastructure for supporting persistent device properties.
Forgive my ignorance, but couldn't this be done with a pseudo-filesystem like /proc, doing changes on the fly, while writing a hardcopy alternative xorg.conf whenever a change is made, ensuring a persistent setting?
The problem is that Linux lacks ANY API for managing X server options and xorg.conf was meant to be absolutely static.
And now we once again face a situation when everyone tries to invent its own wheel (the first to attempt to do that was Corel with its Corel Linux).
We have Fedora/Suse/Mandriva/Ubuntu/Arch all having different methods of managing such a simple file. This situation sucks immensely. Now we see an advent of a new hell of competing solutions of managing X server runtime configuration.
There's a thing called "LSB" for "Linux Standard Base". Couldn't they define an official architecture for such problems, in order to have something standard accross the various distros ??
This non standardisation of linux is its weakness. Windows at least managed to create a standard for everyone.
For example, DirectX. You can either love or hate DirectX, but DirectX has at least permitted the standardisation of the programming language for 3D apps. At the time of launching DirectX as a common language for everyone, there was the S3 Virge which had his own language, 3DFX which had another and there was OpenGL which was more or less reserved for professionnals.
At least, now, everything is standard with DirectX.
The only problem, is that this standard is based on proprietary software, and depends on the will of a single editor.
I'm perhaps wrong as I'm not informed of all what happens in the linux world, but I fell that the linux side should take more time to have standards, as this would simplify the compatibility between distros and save therefore a lot of time for the dev of enhancements.
Actually, that's an illusion, which takes a considerable amount of effort (by both the Windows teams and application developers) to maintain. It may be a useful illusion, but it doesn't just happen because someone waved a document around (c.f. the World Wide Web, for which standards have been known to sit around for 5-10 years before anyone seriously attempts to conform).
Would that be DirectX 9 or DirectX 10?
It is not clear to me what "persisting driver configuration" is, but it sounds like something like
Include "/etc/X11/confs/*.conf"
could do the trick?
Suse does this with Apache, with its advantages and DISadvanges[0].
[0] Just think of the include order.
Sigh... I prefer xorg.conf IF the driver writers document the options properly. Give me the manual, give the n00bs a GUI.
I just hope they're not going to remove ModeLine support from X.org as it's the only way I can use 1280x960@85 mode on ATI proprietary driver with my setup (x1950 PRO AGP 512MB + AOC 9k+ 19" CRT connected via DVI2DSUB connector).
The only driver with proper modesetting is radeonhd - it doesn't even need monitor configuration in xorg.conf - just disabling XRandr and it works like a charm.
Latest ATI proprietary (8.06) needs explicit ModeLine option to make it work.. Other Open Source driver (xf86-video-radeon) on the other hand seems to have broken modesetting at all (and they're thinking on 3D still having broken modesetting?!) - unable to set this resolution, ignoring ModeLine, disabling terminal completely after X to VT switch (redirecting output to secondary ??) - ati radeon just doesn't work - no matteer what I change in xorg.conf. And with this state of things there are ideas of persistent configuration options for X.org drivers with no ModeLine because nowadays nobody uses them?
EDID autodetection is well implemented in all drivers I tested (I examined logs and all required modelines were dumped) but logic and some actions taken based on those modes are plain wrong and xf86-video-ati seems to revert to "default" 1280x1024@60 - is this hardcoded in xf86-video-ati?
Seriously - finish modesetting first - then proceed to 3D/compiz.
(I'm talking about git versions that is).
I would be glad to help testing modesetting (at least on my machine).
Last edited by reavertm; 07-18-2008 at 12:44 AM.
I hope they don't do something incredible stupid and use that gconf crap for this.
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See PEP 361 for release details: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/
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MoP raids
1. Dragon Soul, just didn't feel like a final raid to me. The recycled zones and encounters made it feel thrown together. I think because it was hard to give Deathwing a personality beyond the giant evil dragon cliche. Least favorite since I felt it wasted the opportunity to be something epic and original.
2. Trial of the Crusader, again felt like a cop out. Could have had more potential but was simply to direct with each boss subsequent after the other.
3. Gruul's Lair, just because... I can't think of a third.
"Enjoy your power"
Pretty much sums up my feelings.Well that easy.
100. ToC
ToC lead to my ONLY WoW break in 6 years.
Dragon Souls encounters were fine mechanic wise (-Spine of course), but from an art PoV It was a huge letdown. I was very disappointed.
Ermm hello? Robot? He can be disassembled and reassembled as the legions engineers see fit.exactly how did they intend to get Void Reaver out of there?
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Trial of the Crusader, Ruby Sanctum (really pointless), and Naxx2.0
Why do you need him to link his armory though? He is right, Sunwell is faceroll at 90, that's a fact. It was already pretty easy at 85, at 90 it's just a joke. You wouldn't even need such a thing as a dedicated healer to clear every boss there (except of course Kalec, who can't be soloed, but can easily be two manned by two DPS, or simply skipped).
For me the worst raids would have to be, in no particular order:
Mount Hyjal - the thing I dislike about this raid is how we have to clear so many trash waves. Doing this raid Warcraft III style didn't translate into a very exciting WoW raid. The bosses aren't really that interesting, either. Archimonde had some neat tricks, but that's about it.
AQ40 - I realize this is a very old raid, and therefore raid mechanics were still kinda primitive back then, but this is not, by far, the thing I dislike the most about this raid. The amount of nightmarish trash, not to mention how much one had to walk after a wipe, plus the aforementioned bland bosses (with two or three notable exceptions, obvious who they are), made for, in my opinion, a bad raid. Still a fun place, though.
Serpentshrine Cavern - nothing in particular against this raid, but for some reason I never liked the Coilfang dungeons. The only one I can say I like is Steamvaults. The raid and the other two 5-mans are pretty bad for me. Don't ask me why, I just don't like the setting there.
1) dylon
2) dylon
3) dylon
4) dylon
5) dylon
No but i guesssssss
(Didn't -raid- in vanilla so my experience is from bc+)
1)dragon soul
SP is farm status. SOOOOOOOO easy now.
I do it playing Survival with nothing more than Spirit Bond for healing and it's a joke still.
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Suprised at how many people aren't mentioning my all time mosted hated raid...
1. Mount Hyjal Summit. The trash drove me mental after it had been on farm a while. Bosses were far too easy upto Archimonde and they were all boring looking reused models of other mobs except for Archimonde.
2. TOC. Didn't mind the bosses too much and the mechanics were ok but the 1 room design (2 if you count the cavern) ruined it.
3. Dragon Soul. Huge let down for me. Deathwing was th final boss of the expansion and yet he was 1 of the most underwhelming raid bosses i've ever fought against. Also when I do a new raid I want to explore a new zone but DS was mostly a bunch of glued together previously used areas. Yorshaj was cool though... Nice interesting mechanic with the blob combos.
Honorable mention to TOTW which was a poor raid but I never did it enough to truly grow to hate it.... I wasn't really raiding during tier 11 and only did the fight once or twice on normal before firelands arrived.
I'm liking the MOP raids so far although Terrace of endless springs wasn't as good as the other 2.
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From the #1 Cata review on Amazon.com: "Blizzard's greatest misstep was blaming players instead of admitting their mistakes. They've convinced half of the population that the other half are unskilled whiners, causing a permanent rift in the community."Blizzard's blame game in action: Deleting 6,100+ of Kevyne's posts and threads from the WoW forums.
1: ToC - Too early, too small, too boring
2: Dragon Soul - Just found it lackluster for an end-raid.
3: Ruby Sanctum - Reeked of desperation for filler content.
1) Mags - current content was insanity with everyone clicking those orbs (yes it's been nerfed about 12 times)
2) Ruby Sanc - pug destruction
3) TOTFW's - rng driven
1. ToC
2. Hyjal
3. Firelands/MC tied. Not because I hate the area but the orange is a headache IRL.
From the #1 Cata review on Amazon.com: "Blizzard's greatest misstep was blaming players instead of admitting their mistakes. They've convinced half of the population that the other half are unskilled whiners, causing a permanent rift in the community."Blizzard's blame game in action: Deleting 6,100+ of Kevyne's posts and threads from the WoW forums.
1) Dragon Soul. This raid solidified my dislike for the current state of WoW which led to me quitting the game. Up until this raid, I may have taken breaks from WoW every once in a while but come back to the game. This raid, and most of the content that came out with it and since has completely and utterly bored me to tears. I can't stand current WoW and have barely played at all for almost a year now.
2) Ruby Sanctum. Help! I seem to be stuck in this tree! The content here was pretty weak and didn't feel rewarding enough to actually put forth the effort to complete. Actually, I think my guild ignored it for the most part. Even though we had been banging our heads on heroic ICC for months, it was more fun to do that than go raid Ruby Sanctum.
3) This one is tough, since most of my raid experience is Wrath of the Lich King and Cataclysm. I guess I'll say ToC, though I liked that raid for the most part. 4/5 bosses were great and since it was so short, it complemented Ulduar pretty well (though I feel that it should not have been a new tier). However, the Faction Champions fight was so annoying to deal with that I think that fight alone messed up a lot of our attempts to complete the raid. That fight ruined the raid dungeon.