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Study: California realignment had little effect on crime
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Crowdfunding site seeks profits financing police abuse suits
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Obama signs bill creating nationwide alert system for police
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Waco biker shootout: 7 remain in hospital; uninvited gang had come to meeting
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Open Exhibition 2014
9 Aug 2014 – 6 Sep 2014
AboutSock Gallery's Open Exhibition, generously sponsored by Moss Solicitors, provides a wonderful opportunity for 2D Artists from all backgrounds to showcase their work at this highly popular exhibition. Sock Gallery was delighted with the response to its third Open Exhibition, with over 345 pieces being submitted. Artists from around the country applied, most coming from the midlands area, offering a wonderful opportunity to behold an array of talent, from both adults and young people. The independent judging panel made their choices, and 179 pieces were selected to be exhibited, more than ever before, showing the very high standard of work we received this year. An overall Winner of the Adult category and the Young Persons category has been selected, Bonnie Leeman with her piece âBlue' won the Adult Category and Luke Sheppard with his piece âWinter Coat' won the young persons category; the prizes were presented at the Private View on Saturday 9th August by Laura Anderson of Moss Solicitors, the sponsor of this year's open. The open exhibition offers the opportunity for artists both professional and amateur to apply and exhibit in a professional gallery. The exhibition is running from the 9th August 7th September and many wall pieces are for sale. Sock Gallery is open Monday Saturday from 9am 5.00pm and when the venue is open for shows, with free entry.
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The Info, Tip, Note, and Warning macros allow you to highlight information on a Confluence page. They create a coloured box surrounding your text, as shown below.
Info macro example
This text is rendered inside the info macro.
Tip macro example
This text is rendered inside the tip macro.
Note macro example
This text is rendered inside the note macro.
Warning macro example
This text is rendered inside the warning macro.
To add an Info, Tip, Note, or Warning Macro to a page:
Speeding up macro entry with autocomplete: Type { and the beginning of the macro name, to see a list of suggested macros. Details are in Using Autocomplete. To edit an existing macro: Click the macro placeholder and choose Edit. A macro dialog window will open, where you can edit the parameters of the macro.
Speeding up macro entry with autocomplete: Type { and the beginning of the macro name, to see a list of suggested macros. Details are in Using Autocomplete.
To edit an existing macro: Click the macro placeholder and choose Edit. A macro dialog window will open, where you can edit the parameters of the macro.
Parameters are options that you can set to control the content or format of the macro output. Where the parameter name used in Confluence storage format or wikimarkup is different to the label used in the macro browser, it will be listed below in brackets (
Optional Title
The title of the box. If specified, the title text will be displayed in bold next to the icon.
Show information/tip/Exclamation Mark/Warning Icon
If "false", the icon will not be displayed.
Code examples
The following examples are provided for advanced users who want to inspect or edit the underlying markup for a Confluence page.
Macro name:
Macro body: Accepts rich text.
Storage format example
The following example shows the info macro with all parameters and a body:
Below are some examples of the Info macro with various optional parameters used.
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Info macro with a body defined and no optional parameters
This is important information.
Info macro with with a body and an optional Title parameter defined
This is my title
This is important information.
Info macro with a body and optional Title and Icon parameters defined
Wiki markup example
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Can you edit the size of the title text?
Hi Robert,
There's no direct way to do this. However, you can actually tweak the size by going to Dashboard > Administration > Look and Feel > Global Stylesheet and enter the following:
Feel free to change the font-size. Hope this helps.
Can you change the size of the blue box?
You can use columns or tables to limit the size of the box.
Something to say here.
Something else to say here.
Is it possible to change the background color of the info box?
I don't see the border of the box anymore when using Confluence 4.0. There was one in 3.5.
It's the same with almost all format macro's like Info, Note and Tip.
Is this new in Confluence 4.0?
Hi there Egbert,
Borders on the Info macro should be visible, as they are in the examples on this page. If you can't see borders on the example here, it may be your local computer configuration. If not, please raise a support request so that our support engineers can assist you.
I hope this helps.
Best Regards,
Edwin Dawson
Technical Writing Team Leader
Guys, you took out the wiki markup way to do this (e.g. Info Macro#UsagewiththeWikiMarkupEditor) but you can't do that until all the places we need to use wiki markup (like the Global Template editor) are gone from the product.
Please restore the sections that show wiki markup examples for this and all other macros, at least until we no longer need to use it to create Global Templates!
P.S. Even once you've replaced all the wiki markup editors with RTEs, some people still might find it easier to use the "Insert Wiki Markup" method, especially if they are hand-editing parameters - so you may want to keep the wiki markup examples around even after that point.
Yes. Completely agree. Working a lot with templates, and I have to rely on the comments sections to randomly find wiki-markup for Global Templates.
I'm missing info macro icons in pdf exports. Is this normal?
Hi all,
Can I change the icons used for {Tip, {Info and {Warning macros? I'd like to be able to use the icons we created for our documentation to make Confluence and the PDF docs look more consistent.
I have created an issue about this: CONF-31307 - Word and PDF Export: Info, Note, Warning and Tip macros are not included in the exported document Open .
in Confluence 3 and 4, info had light-blue background. Now it is white.
- why? (some people at Atlassian seem to have a boring time...)
- How to change it back? (CSS entry?)
Its not that they are white, its that they are very very light compared to what they used to be. All four of these are way to light now. For instance with the Info and Warning boxes I have to make the font bold to make it really pop like it used to. Can these 4 boxes have the bg color raised like they used to be? It was much nicer when they looked like this -
Hi Alex and Hans-Peter,
You should be able to change the background color with CSS. I just did a quick test by applying a different color to
div.confluence-information-macro.confluence-information-macro-information, and it worked fine.
If you think it's an issue, feel free to make a suggestion so we can try to gauge the demand.
According ISO xyz we have to have different icons for "Note", "Info" etc.
Is it also possible in the global style sheet or somewhere to change the icons? Or do I have to create custom Plugins and disable the included ones?
Hi Christian, there's some information here that might help you get started https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/77193/what-is-the-source-code-for-the-info-warning-note-and-tip-macros-to-create-own-user-macros.
To be honest I don't know if you can swap out the icons for the existing macros - but sounds like you should be able to create user macros to make some replacements.
Thx for the info, I'll check and see what happens
Hi Christian. I was wondering if you had any luck with this? We also have a regulatory requirement that needs specific icons for notes, warnings, and cautions and we're getting nowhere trying to add them via CSS. As a last resort we are going to have to use tables to hold the icons, but not being able to remove table borders and the way tables export wonkily in PDF makes the ugliest notes ever! Thanks!
Hello Alicia,
unfortunately, I haven't had much time so I've not really been able to check.
The most difficult problem: I don't want to "mess" with the source code, so I ahve to check with our Admin how to do it the most safe way.
If it would be possible otherwise than no problem.
I 've been thinking a workaround, but also not tested.
On one page you put the icons you want to use. Than, instead of the macro, you insert just the picture. Not so nice but at least something.
Maybe Atlassian has mercy with it's users and makes it more flexible
Thanks for sharing your idea for a work around. I think what we're going to end up doing is add the regulatory graphic in the actual note or warning with a transparent background. The next challenge we're facing is that the PDF publish doesn't really allow for inline graphics. It always pushes the text to the next page so I think no matter what it is going to be clunky and awful looking!
Best of luck!


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Abaltat has released version 1.1 of its Abaltat Muse video-driven soundtrack composer. Abaltat Muse is a professional software application for video editors that creates original, royalty-free, broadcast-quality soundtracks in minutes. A free 14-day full trial version of Abaltat Muse is now available for download or shipping.
"This latest version of Abaltat Muse features complementary and seamless integration with Apple, Avid, Adobe and Media 100 edit applications," said Siun Ni Raghallaigh, Abaltat managing director. The software also includes full MIDI export functionality, allowing it to be imported directly into other applications including Digidesign Pro Tools and Apple Logic.
Using Abaltat Muse starts with a QuickTime file of your edited picture sequence being dropped into the application. The software composes a soundtrack based on an analysis of the video along with selected parameters such as tempo and style. Abaltat Band is the sub-program that defines the style of music, and is included free in version 1.1 of Abaltat Muse, along with an array of seven plug-in virtual bands for a diverse range of musical genres from classical to dub reggae.
Abaltat Muse composes the music and plays it out using a sample player and virtual instruments, incorporating technology from experts in the audio industry, namely Native Instruments and Garritan Libraries. As a result, the audio and instrument quality is extremely high. The resulting audio can be exported as AIFF or WAV files. The composition also can be exported as a MIDI file, should the editor require a composer to do additional work on his or her composition.
Abaltat will showcase Abaltat Muse at the upcoming Macworld show in San Francisco, Jan. 14–18, at booth S-1338.
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This unbelievable city piled high with trash is a real place called Garbage City, outside of Cairo in Egypt. It's populated by a community of workers called Zabbaleen, who personally collect, sort, reuse, resell or otherwise repurpose Cairo's waste. Recently several photographers have trained their cameras upon the city, and now we see what it would really be like to live in the aftermath of our own consumption.
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January 30, 2011 at 9:31 am
There is an independent movie about this area of Cairo and the Zabbaleen and a few of the boys growing up there…"Garbage Dreams", it's a great movie ~ watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b26dBL5tQPk
December 12, 2010 at 3:53 pm
Have been looking at doing some SEO and bettering the design on my website for a long time, so this website has been very useful. Easy read as well, so thanks!
October 8, 2010 at 12:35 pm
What seems to be ignored in this report is the fact that this is a Christian community that is struggling for survival in an Islamic society. Because of religious discrimination, they are denied access to a proper education and regular jobs.
Instead of celebrating the high level of recycling taking place we should be criticizing the government policies which deny these people free access to other avenues of employment.
January 18, 2010 at 7:39 pm
Don't glamorize Garbage City.
After visiting last month I'm shocked at the twist that people have chosen to put on what they've seen. "Green" is obviously in vogue, but don't forget that people are literally living in trash – children are crawling in it, people are breathing the results of trash being burned in that neighborhood, the elderly — if they manage to get that old — are fumbling through it.
The residents aren't making some magical buildings out of discarded water bottles or insulating their homes with cleaned up, reprocessed, recycled materials. The smell, even in winter, when it's only around 70 degrees, will choke you. The fumes burn your eyes.
Yes, people are eeking out a living (and don't think it is a high quality of life) by sorting through refuse, but fundamentally this is a landfill where Copic Christians are living. This isn't some idyllic recycling community that is out to save the earth. This is a neighborhood buried in garbage. And don't let these stories make you think that the rest of Cairo is clean. The rest of Cairo is also buried in trash, too. Blame it on consumption? 21 million people in the metro area — even when they can't afford to consume much — still generate trash. There is little or no waste management.
We would call a neighborhood like this in the US a Superfund site. This is fundamentally about poverty, not about recycling.
December 27, 2009 at 11:14 pm
When looking at other articles related to this story, I, for one, was shocked that some people could call this wasteland sustainable. To call the Zabaleen way of life sustainable or environmentally friendly completely overshadows the flagrant lack of rights these people are living with every day. It saddens me to see people commending the fact that young children are sifting through waste to find recyclables for the sake of their environment. They are not doing this for the environment!
Now I'm only assuming this, but it seems to me that the only reason the Zabaleen work in these conditions are to gain whatever meager means of life they can afford. When will people realize that sustainability does not only have to deal with lower carbon emissions and inventive design? I'm honestly frightened when I read that one could even argue that this is sustainable when so many people are suffering.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for sustainability, and being eco-friendly, but sometimes it seems we forget that as humans, we are as integral a part of the environment as the solutions we must create to stop the climate crisis. I wish people would stop drooling over an entire economy based on recycling and how great it is that 90% of the trash is being reused when there is such a blatent disregard of human rights that these people will live with the rest of their life.
I don't know what the solution would be for this environmental problem but calling this an acceptable answer is not good enough. Unless we want the rest of the poor throughout the world to live like this in the future, we have to go back to the drawing board and add the people into this equation.
December 15, 2009 at 10:54 am
In response to; Incredible "Garbage City' Rises Outside of Cairo" there is also some positive news of people who try to make it better and in an environmental friendly way. The following articles are about this exact place:
If you want something done right, you do it yourself!
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December 10, 2009 at 5:42 am
OMG! It is like the movie Wall-E! Humans are highly adaptable beings.. Not a good thing to be adapting to
December 9, 2009 at 12:18 pm
That's amazing. It reminds me a little of Wall-E. It's really interesting to see how waste is handled in different places. I wonder how visible this is to other Cairo residents, or if they have a similar experience as the typical American throwing something "away".


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Crews from Mid Columbia Fire and Rescue and Dallesport fire stations quickly extinguished a brush fire on lower Mill Creek Saturday morning, July 5.
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Crash snarls westbound traffic near Mosier
A multi-vehicle crash on westbound Interstate 84 is slowing traffic
City finds Wright Street E. coli source
Crew chief hopes for speedy repairs
CORRECTION: Free bilingual theater event has evening time
Community members are invited to a free bilingual theater production that is preceded by traditional Latino dancing Friday at 3:30 p.m. in The Dalles Civic Auditorium, 323 E. Fourth Street.
City posts E. coli risk on Mill Creek
Public works makes plans to dig up street
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Man faces 360 sex abuse counts
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"Mystery pipe" dumps human waste in Mill Creek
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Mobile Vet Center comes to town
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Sandia National Laboratories launches push to innovate next-generation machines
Computing experts at Sandia National Laboratories have launched an effort to help discover what computers of the future might look like, from next-generation supercomputers to systems that learn on their own — new machines that do more while using less energy.
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Sandia National Laboratories' Francois Leonard holds a wire mesh cylinder similar in design to a carbon nanotube that might form the basis for future computing technology. Computing experts at Sandia are exploring what computers of the future might look like — new types of machines that do more while using less energy.
"We think that by combining capabilities in microelectronics and computer architecture, Sandia can help initiate the jump to the next technology curve sooner and with less risk," said Rob Leland, head of Sandia's Computing Research Center. Leland recently outlined a major effort into next-generation computing called Beyond Moore Computing that's part of Sandia's overall work on future computing.
For decades, the computer industry operated under Moore's Law, named for Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon Moore, who in 1965 postulated it was economically feasible to improve the density, speed and power of integrated circuits exponentially over time. But speed has plateaued, the energy required to run systems is rising sharply and industry can't indefinitely continue to cram more transistors onto chips.
The plateauing of Moore's Law is driving up energy costs for modern scientific computers to the point that, if current trends hold, more powerful future supercomputers would become impractical due to enormous energy consumption.
Solving that conundrum will require new computer architecture that reduces energy costs, which are principally associated with moving data, Leland said. Eventually, computing also will need new technology that uses less energy at the transistor device-level, he added.
Sandia experts expect multiple computing device-level technologies in the future, rather than one dominant architecture. About a dozen possible next-generation candidates exist, including tunnel FETs (field effect transistors, in which the output current is controlled by a variable electric field), carbon nanotubes, superconductors and fundamentally new approaches, such as quantum computing and brain-inspired computing.
Sandia's facilities will play key role in researching future computing technology
Sandia is well positioned to work on future computing technology due to its broad and long history in supercomputers, from architecture to algorithms to applications. Leland said Sandia can play a key role because of that far-reaching background and two key facilities: the Microsystems and Engineering Sciences Applications (MESA) complex, which performs multidisciplinary microsystems research and development and fabricates chips to test ideas; and the Center for Integrated Nanotechnology (CINT), a Department of Energy Office of Science national user facility operated by Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories.
No one is sure what tomorrow's high performance computers will look like. "We have some ideas, of course, and we have different camps of opinion about what it might look like, but we're really right in the midst of figuring that out," Leland said.
Erik DeBenedictis of Sandia's Advanced Device Technologies department said Sandia can play an important role in creating breakthroughs that are not simply variations of transistors — developments such as computers that learn or technologies that move data from one part of the computer to another more efficiently — crucial for big data problems.
What ultimately prevails might well be something not yet invented, Leland said.
"That's the first challenge, to figure out what the new device technology is, then work through what the implications of that are, what sort of computer architecture is required to assemble that device into components and subsystems and systems," he said.
New technology must be broadly adopted to drive improvements
Sandia needs both capability computing, which means finer resolution and more accuracy, and capacity computing, or running many different jobs simultaneously.
"So what does efficiency buy you? It allows you to have a bigger computer or more computers with the same amount of operating expense — paying your power bill," said Advanced Device Technologies department manager John Aidun. "There's no limit to the amount of efficiency we would like to achieve because really there's no limit to the amount of computing we would like to do."
Whatever technology comes next must be broadly adopted so it will drive continual improvements, similar to the way the 1947 invention of the transistor transformed society. It's not enough to have a device that's fast; it has to be something that can be built into a complete computer system, Aidun said.
Thus, new technology must have commercial uses. "There will have to be some industrial base that supports it and produces it and that can be used to assemble a large number of these into a system that can be deployed for national security," Leland said. "What we'd really like to do is figure out how to advance the state of the art for national security in a way that is more broadly deployable across society."
The computer industry is exploring technologies that in essence are drop-in replacements for transistors with improved characteristics: different designs such as the fin FET, a 3-D rather than a flat configuration on a computer chip, Aidun said. While the design would be moderately disruptive for industry, it's still compatible with standard silicon fab technology and opens the potential for generations of ever-smaller fin FETs on a chip, he said.
While industry views a beyond-transistor technology as something far off, Sandia's national security interests anticipate bigger changes will be needed sooner than industry would develop them on its own, Aidun said. He estimated Sandia could have a prototype new technology within a decade.
Identifying best computer designs can help accelerate innovation
To accelerate the process, Sandia wants to identify computer designs that could take advantage of new device technologies and demonstrate key components or steps in fabrication that would lower the risk for industry by demonstrating technological feasibility.
"We'd be doing it with an eye toward helping industry give due attention to national security needs in computing," Aidun said.
The numerical capability developed in computers in World War II remains valuable today for such tasks as nuclear weapons simulations. But the modern era's largest computing development — the Internet — deals with text and demands computing functions called integer calculation, also used in mobile computing.
Improving mobile computing could allow much more efficient and rapid data processing aboard satellites, so less data would need to be sent to Earth for processing.
"The mobility we see in cell phones and tablets is the closest match for the mobility needs of UAVs and satellites," DeBenedictis said. "The energy and time required to transmit data to the ground, process it there and send the answer back is a bottleneck, and it can be more resource-intensive than just computing on the device."
He also suggested turning more programming over to cognitive computers to help programmers manage ever-faster computers. "While computers have gotten millions of times faster, programmers and analysts are pretty much as efficient as they've always been," he said.
Cognitive computing can play role in pattern recognition
Cognitive computers might be able to do more to recognize patterns in satellite imagery, for example. People would still make the judgments, but computers would help by recognizing some lower-level patterns, he said. Up to now, programmers have created ways for computers to recognize images; computers didn't learn on their own. A cognitive computer, however, would learn to identify patterns, DeBenedictis said.
"A computer can learn to recognize images pretty well. Humans assisted by a computer recognizing images could improve the ability significantly," he said.
Researchers also must determine what hardware and software changes are needed so new devices are both possible to manufacture and practical to operate. "You have to design over all those different considerations," Leland said. "That's what makes this a particularly challenging problem."
Today's computer systems rely on huge, longstanding investments in massive amounts of software.
"So we are strongly motivated to develop computers that will run old software that was optimized for traditional computer architectures that are not used today," DeBenedictis said. "To break out of that, we have to find different architectures that are more energy efficient at running old code and are more easily programmed for new code, or architectures that can learn some behaviors that once required programming."
Since the software of today won't unleash the full capabilities of the hardware of tomorrow, he expects computers in about a decade that can run both today's software and new software. New software "would learn or would process information in fundamentally different ways, and become the most powerful aspect of the computer over time," he said.
Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-program laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corp., for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. With main facilities in Albuquerque, N.M., and Livermore, Calif., Sandia has major R&D responsibilities in national security, energy and environmental technologies and economic competitiveness.
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Many consider Outkast to be the best hip-hop group ever. But when Andre 3000 decided to stop performing live with the release of the group's Grammy-winning Speakerboxxx / The Love Below, some die-hard fans were left with the prospect of never getting to see the duo in concert (me included).
Now those fans will get some relief: Outkast's other half, Big Boi, will take the stage at SOBE Live in Miami Beach on Wednesday, August 18. And the best part? It's FREE.
The 21-and-older show is being put on by HP and Microsoft Windows 7. The catch is that the venue only holds a few hundred patrons, so getting there early for the 11 p.m. show would be wise.
If you can't get in or you can't make it, there's more good news: MySpace will stream the performance live online.
Big Boi is supporting his recently released Def Jam solo debut, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty. He's likely to perform new singles like "Shutterbugg," and "Follow Us," as well as Outkast staples like "The Way You Move," "So Fresh, So Clean," and "ATLiens."
The live stream starts at 11 p.m. Wednesday, August 18 at MySpace.com/hp
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Why is this site so pro EVGA.
They used to be the bottom of the bucket in the geforce 4 days and now everyone loves em.
Does this site have ties to EVGA or is this a jakup thing?
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I've had very good luck with all of my EVGA products so far.
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I thought Teh Bigman owned Evga - that's why I ordered the 280 GTX FTW.
Dang it!
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BFG my friend.
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Step-up, Precision, forums, among other things.
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It featured a black medal bracket to prevent warping, with a glowing XFX logo, as well as fan lighting. I thought it would look cool in my then clear side case. However, the card suffered from massive defects (it wasn't a reference design). I went to the XFX forums and saw mods deleting threads about this card left and right. Users were complaining that XFX was refusing to honor the warranty. An XFX forum mod came out and said that XFX was cutting their losses, due to how expensive it would be to replace these cards (think XBox 360 defect rate here). Finally, the forum bombardment by pissed off users caused XFX to take down their forums. After seeing that, I knew that I would only buy from a company with a rep for honoring their warranty. People at Nvnews recommended EVGA.
I bought two cards from EVGA, a 7800GT and 6800GS (my system, and my wife's). Within 90 days, I stepped them up to a 7900GT KO Superclock, and a 7600GT SuperClock. My wife still uses that 7600 to this day without issue.
My 7900GT ended up dying, so EVGA replaced it. It died again. EVGA's forums were loaded with problems with this card, like XFX before them. It was a dud. So, EVGA launched the 7900GT, and started passing them out as replacements to those with 7900GT KO SC issues. And I used that 7900GTO until last month without issue.
And no, it didn't die :) I sold it on ebay when I bought my current setup, an EVGA 9600GT, and an EVGA 650i Ultra mobo. If EVGA offers a product I want, I buy from them over any other brand. Most companies build up their rep, and then cut quality to raise profits once they become a top seller. EVGA hasn't done this. They continue to improve.
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GTX 280 for $40 :) Stepup is my number one reason, otherwise I wouldn't be getting a 280. Alot of people have been saying that we could be waiting in the queue for days, but I've already sent payment and will be shipping my card out tomorrow. So far stepup has been fast and smooth, just like the 280 ;) Also they're offering a free HDMI adapter, don't know whether other brands offered it, but it's a nice touch. From the looks of their forums, they can be accommodating, as some users went over on their 90 day window and EVGA rolled them back so they could stepup. Having jAkUp on the forum propably helps just a little too.
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Explain this step up program.
does it mean people can upgrade every few months for dollars instead of hundreds of dollars?
I baught my cards from Bestbuy which don't count.
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-purchase a GPU from EVGA direct or any authorized retailer
-within 90 days of purchase, choose a new GPU from EVGA website, you only pay the difference between EVGA price on 2nd card, and what you actually paid for the first card.
-EVGA mails you a new card, you mail back old card (not sure if they still offer cross shipping, they did when I did my stepup)
-Once you step up, you can not step up the new card. It's a one time thing per initial purchase. The new card automatically replaces the old one in your online registration.
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when i did the step up from 7950GX2 to 8800GTX there was no cross-ship option.
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I will only purchase EVGA cards. I've started with my 6800U EE and only strayed once to be burned.
Awesome customer service, warranty, the step-up program and great products is what makes EVGA a great company to do buisness with.
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When is Evga going to expand to Asia? We have BFG here, which offers 10 year warranty for all their cards, other brands usually only have 1 to 3 year. I heard BFG also has a trade-up program in the States, too bad it's not available here.
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EM gauge (named for the track gauge of a nominal Eighteen Millimetres[1]) is a variant of 4 mm to a foot (1:76) scale used in model railways.
EM was developed because OO gauge, favoured by manufacturers of British prototype models, utilised track that was too narrow. OO was developed in the UK in the 1930s as a response to manufacturers finding they were unable to fit the motors of the time into British prototype small boilered locomotives when scaled at the globally popular HO scale's 3.5 mm to a foot (1:87). As the scale was increased to 4 mm to the foot to make the locomotives larger, the track gauge was left at 16.5 mm (0.65 in), and hence is too narrow (by a scale 178 mm or 7 in) to correctly depict the prototype's track gauge of 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm).
EM gauge was founded in the 1950s, originally with 18 mm (0.709 in) gauge track and rolling stock wheelsets based upon the crude and massively out-of-scale products of the contemporary OO model manufacturers.
Since then wheelset standards have become more fine, allowing EM to evolve into 18.2 mm (0.717 in) gauge track (for a while called EEM gauge until it was adopted into the mainstream standard). Some modellers were still not happy with this, it is still a scale 1.9 inches (48.26 mm) too narrow, and developed P4 scale standard (18.83 mm or 0.741 in gauge).
Most EM modellers will have started off using OO gauge and having acquired the necessary modelling skills, then advanced into EM. Modellers in EM typically re-wheel their rolling stock and hand-build their trackwork, although pre-built track is available from specialist suppliers. There are also many 4 mm scale kits which can be used by all 4 mm scale gauges, and since the advanced skills, advanced kitbuilding and scratchbuilding are also common.
EM standards are set by the EM Gauge Society, defining gauge and wheel dimensions to ensure compatibility across layouts.
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an antenna array comprising an array of M×N antenna elements;
a corporate feed for operatively interconnecting said antenna elements with a backhaul link for communicating with ground-based equipment; and
radio frequency circuits proximate the antenna array for processing radio frequency communication signals between said antenna array at a tower top and a backhaul link, said radio frequency circuits configured for interfacing with backhaul signals in at least one of digital IF and digital baseband formats at the backhaul link and including:
multiplexing circuitry for multiplexing between the backhaul link and multiple antenna elements of the array;
analog/digital conversion circuitry for converting between analog and digital representations of the backhaul signals;
frequency conversion circuitry for converting between radio frequency communication signals and intermediate frequency signals;
the radio frequency circuits configured for providing the necessary processing of radio frequency communication signals between said antenna array and said backhaul link for transceiving communication signals with said ground-based equipment in one of the digital baseband and digital IF formats on the backhaul link.
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operatively interconnecting said antenna elements with a backhaul link for communicating with ground-based equipment and backhaul signals being in at least one of digital IF and digital baseband formats for the backhaul link;
processing radio frequency signals between said antenna array and a backhaul link; and
with radio frequency circuits proximate the antenna array including analog/digital conversion circuitry and frequency conversion circuitry, providing the necessary processing of radio frequency communication signals between said antenna array and said backhaul link, in said tower-top installation, for transceiving communication signals with said ground-based equipment in one of the digital baseband and digital IF formats on the backhaul link.
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This application is a continuation-in-part of pending application Ser. No. 09/299,850, filed Apr. 26, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,583,763 and application Ser. No. 09/422,418, filed Oct. 21, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,597,325.
Steered beam antenna systems have been used in defense electronics for radar systems, or for direction finding (DF) applications. These technologies have been making their way into commercial communications, for interference reduction and/or capacity enhancement. The generally accepted term in the latter industry is smart antennas; however, the term has been used to describe many different techniques and technologies. The earlier technologies were based on RF (radio frequency) beam steering, which used selection of one of a number of highly directional antennas. In these technologies, tower top antennas were typically completely passive, with the beams formed via Butler matrices, or by selecting antennas individually. The independent beam signals were then delivered to the base station via separate coaxial RF lines, with signal selection and RF switching performed at the base station.
Digitally adaptive systems, which might use any type of antennas at the tower top, and digital signal processing techniques (DSP) at the base station, have been tested and are slowly making their way into the commercial markets. However, most of these technologies are still based on using passive antennas at the tower top, bringing the RF signals from the tower to the base station via coaxial (RF) cables. The frequency conversion, digital conversion, and beamformer processing is then performed at the base station.
In accordance with one aspect of the invention, an antenna system architecture is based on installing the RF electronics at the tower top, with the antenna or within the antenna housing. Other aspects of the antenna system architecture of the invention include:
Tower top electronics;
Distributed amplifier system;
Frequency and digital conversion at the tower top;
Antenna/array inputs/outputs are time division multiplexed;
Final multiplexed digital signal is converted to fiber optics;
Single or multiple fiber optic delivery cables for backhaul, or convert to microwave for backhaul.
Additionally, this approach allows for a basic split of functionalities, as follows:
RF signal processing is performed at the tower top;
Beamforming (DSP) and channel coding is performed at another location, such as:
a) at the bottom of the tower (base station) or BTS (Base Transceiver System);
b) at the MSC (Mobile Switching Center); or
c) at the CO (Central Switching Office).
This approach allows all processing and software, as well as digital hardware, to be installed at a single location, rather than distributed among various cell sites; which should reduce initial installation costs, as well as maintenance and upgrade costs.
Briefly, in accordance with the foregoing, an antenna system, for tower-top installation, comprises an antenna array comprising an array of M×N antenna elements, a corporate feed for operatively interconnecting said antenna elements with a backhaul link for communicating with ground-based equipment, and radio frequency circuits for processing radio frequency signals between said antenna array and said backhaul link, said radio frequency circuits including substantially all of the circuits required for the processing of radio frequencing signals between said array and said backhaul link.
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FIG. 1 is a simplified schematic diagram, partially in block form, of a transmit only configuration for a generalized beamformer/smart antenna system; having tower top mounted electronics;
FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of the components in FIG. 1, and corresponding base station mounted components;
FIG. 3 is a simplified schematic diagram, partially in block form, of a receive only configuration, for a smart antenna/beamforming subsystem;
FIG. 4 shows the same basic configuration as FIG. 3, but with a low noise amplifier (LNA) circuit/component at each antenna element;
FIG. 5 is a simplified schematic diagram, partially in block form, of a first configuration for a transmit/receive smart antenna/beamforming subsystem,
FIG. 6 shows a similar configuration to FIG. 5, except that the receive mode signals (uplink) are amplified, via an LNA, before summing in the corporate feed network;
FIG. 7 shows a basic system architecture,
FIG. 8 shows a system architecture for a system using a microwave backhaul link;
FIG. 9 is a simplified schematic diagram, partially in block form, of the tower top components for a "third generation" (3G) transmit mode antenna system; 15FIG. 10 is a simplified schematic diagram, partially in block form, of the tower top components for a "third generation" (3G) receive mode configuration with a single LNA at the output of the corporate feed for each branch;
FIG. 11 is a simplified schematic diagram, partially in block form, of the tower top components for a "third generation" (3G) the receive mode configuration with an LNA on each antenna element, prior to the corporate feed network;
FIG. 12 is a simplified schematic diagram, partially in block form, of the tower top components for a "third generation" (3G) a transmit/receive mode configuration with a single LNA on each receive branch; and
FIG. 13 is a simplified schematic diagram, partially in block form, of the tower top components for a "third generation" (3G) a transmit/receive mode configuration with an LNA on each element, prior to the corporate feed network.
Referring now to the drawings, FIG. 1 shows a transmitter system configuration 20 for a beamformer/smart antenna system, using tower-top mounted electronics for all of the RF circuits. The illustrated embodiment takes digital IF (intermediate frequency) signals (from an optical carrier or fiber optic cable 22), converts, at a fiber converter (FC) 24 from optical to a high speed digital signal and at a high speed time multiplexer (T-MUX) 26 de-multiplexes the high speed digital signal into M lower speed digital signals. The transmitter 20 next converts to analog via digital to analog converters (DAC) 28 and upconverts, at upconverters (UC) 30, the analog IF signals to RF. The transmitter 20 then amplifies the signals via a distributed antenna approach, resulting in a beamformed collection of signals. This distributed antenna approach, in the embodiment illustrated in FIG. 1, comprises an M by N array of antenna elements 40, such as patch/microstrip antenna elements, and a power amplifier (PA) 42 closely coupled to each of the antenna elements 40, for example, at the feedpoint of each antenna element 40. Thus, each of the upconverters 30 feeds one of M composite antennas, each comprising a total of N antenna elements.
In operation, after conversion from fiber (optical IF) to digital, at a selected data rate X, the high speed digital signal is de-multiplexed into M streams of digital signals, at data rates of X/M. These signals contain the digital beamforming weights and adjustments for phase and amplitude (determined and fixed at a central processing site-BTS, MSC, or CO). It will be noted that digital IF signals may be fed to/from the T-MUX by a twisted pair or coaxial cable rather than using a fiber optic cable and converter as shown in FIG. 1 and the below-described drawings. Also, a DC power cable/system for delivering DC power from the ground to the tower top has been omitted in the drawings for simplicity, but will be understood to be included in such systems.
The diagram of FIG. 1 shows M columns of N antenna elements forming an antenna array 45, each connected via a series corporate feed network. Parallel corporate feed arrangements could also be used here and throughout the rest of the described embodiments hereinbelow. The corporate feed network could be microstrip, stripline, or RF coaxial cables.
Each antenna element 40 is fed with a power amplifier (PA) module 42, in similar fashion to the active/distributed antenna architecture described in the above-referenced copending applications.
A common local oscillator (LO) 32 is used for all of the upconverters 30, thus assuring coherent phase for each of the M paths. This LO 32 can be a fixed frequency crystal, or a synthesizer.
The fiber optic input(s) 22 to the fiber to digital converter (FC) 24 can be separate lines (e.g., multi-mode fiber), or a single line (e.g., single mode fiber).
FIG. 2 shows the tower-top components of FIG. 1 in functional block form (shown on the left hand side of FIG. 2), and (on the right side of FIG. 2) a ground-based central processing site (BTS, MSC or CO). In FIG. 2, voice and or data channels 50 are fed into a DSP block 52 which performs all channel processing (vocoder, code spreading/code division multiple access (CDMA), time multiplexing/time division multiple access (TDMA), equalization, etc.) and beamforming and/or spatial processing. This block 52 may be referred to as the "Common DSP Block". It is a collection of DSP processors, programmed for each specific task (channel and spatial processing). The output from this block 52, in either digital baseband (I&Q—in phase and quadrature) or digital IF, is converted to an optical carrier via a digital fiber optic (OF) converter 54. In one embodiment of the invention, this block 52 and the converter 54 can be located at the tower base (cell site) BTS, MSC, or CO (Central Office).
The fiber signals are then carried to the tower via a single cable or combination of multimode or singlemode fiber cables, indicated by reference numeral 22.
FIG. 3 shows a receive-only system configuration, for a smart antenna/beamforming subsystem 120. RF signals are received via an M×N array of antenna elements 140, here shown as a collection of patch/microstrip elements. Each column in the array is summed via a series corporate feed, which could alternatively be a parallel corporate feed. In this particular configuration, the summed signals are amplified, via a low noise amplifier (LNA) 144, after the corporate feed. After each signal is amplified, it is downconverted at a downconverter (DC) 160 to IF, and digitized by an analog to digital converter (ADC) 128. The digitized signals are then time division multiplexed by a T-MUX 126, into a single high speed digital signal, which is fed to a fiber converter (FC) 124, which translates/modulates the high speed digital signal onto an optical carrier 122. This carrier 122 may be a single, or multiple, fiber optic cables, for delivering signals to the BTS, MSC, or CO. Similar to the transmit mode (see FIG. 1), a common LO 132 is used to coherently translate all column/array signals from RF to IF. The systems of FIGS. 1 and 3 may be combined to form a transmit/receive system, which could in turn be combined with the ground-based components of FIG. 2 to define an antenna system architecture in accordance with one embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 4 shows the same basic architecture (a receive-only subsystem 120 a) as FIG. 3, but with an LNA circuit/amplifier module 142 at each antenna element 140. Thus the signals are amplified prior to being summed via the corporate feeds. This configuration may be more expensive, in terms of the costs of the additional LNA components, but will achieve increased sensitivity (lower system noise figure) since the signals are amplified prior to any losses in the corporate feed circuits.
FIG. 5 shows one embodiment of a transmit/receive smart antenna/beamforming subsystem 220. This system utilizes a single LNA 244 for each branch (i.e., column of the M×N array), similar to the receive-only configuration of FIG. 3. At each antenna element 240, a frequency diplexer (D) 262 is used to separate the transmit and receive power, on separate frequency bands. The receive power is summed, via a series corporate feed (could be parallel), and fed to an LNA 244 at the bottom of each branch (column, i.e., of the M×N array). The amplified RF signals are then downconverted to IF at downconverters (DC) 260 and digitized at A/D converters 264, and fed to the high speed T-MUX (time domain multiplexer) 226. Similarly, transmit mode signals (from the BTS, MSC, or CO) are converted, de-multiplexed, digitized, and upconverted from IF to RF at FC 224, T-MUX 226, DACs 228 and UCs 230. The converted signals are then distributed to the antenna elements, on each branch, via the corporate feed (series or parallel) and amplified (at each antenna element 240) by PAs 242. The amplified signals pass through the frequency diplexer (D) 262 to the antennas 240 to be radiated into space. The same LO source 232 can be used for both the upconversion and downconversion operations, for all of the branches.
The fiber optic cables 222 thus carry digital IF on an optical carrier in both directions. This can be accomplished on a single OF (fiber optic) cable via wavelength division multiplexing, or on multiple OF cables, one (or more) for each path.
FIG. 6 shows a similar architecture to FIG. 5 for a transmit/receive system 220 a, except that the receive mode signals (uplink) are amplified by LNAs 244 at the antenna elements 240, before summing in the corporate feed network. This is similar to the receive-only configuration of FIG. 4.
FIG. 7 shows a basic architecture for the tower-top beamformer subsystem, for all of the embodiments of FIGS. 1-6. A panel antenna system 300, with a fiber converter (FC) 324, is shown with fiber optic transmission line(s) or cable(s) 322. The subsystem 300 may include all of the components of any of the subsystems of FIGS. 1-6, up to the FC (fiber converter) 324. The advantage of this arrangement is that all of the RF functionality is performed at a single location, i.e. at the tower top. This minimizes the lengths of RF transmission lines throughout the system. For example, there is no need to transmit RF back to the base station (BTS), MSC or CO 310. This results in minimizing ohmic and power losses, as well as increasing the overall system performance (noise figure, etc.). This is also the part of the system that is most likely to remain static (i.e. not requiring performance-oriented changes as often).
The section of the beamforming system that will likely change, due to improved DSP availability and algorithms, software updates, etc. can be centralized in a single location 310 (e.g., BS/BTS, MSC, or CO). This section may include beamformer, digital signal processing (DSP) and channel processing components as indicated by reference numeral 352 in FIG. 7.
At the other end of the fiber cable 322 is a fiber converter (FC) 354 to convert to digital IF, and a digital multiplexer 312, which may be part of the base station 310. The above-described arrangement allows all the high cost "digital processing" segment of the beamformer to be placed in a central location, to facilitate algorithm and software upgrades, as well as hardware (DSP) changes.
FIG. 8 shows an architectural approach for microwave backhaul link to replace the fiber connection 22 (122, 222, 322). All of the prior embodiments described the high-speed backhaul link being performed using fiber optic cable. However, currently many cell sites use microwave (2-40 GHz range) links for the trunking/backhaul, and this may be substituted for the fiber link shown in the above-described embodiments without departing from the invention.
In FIG. 8, on the top left, is a block 300 denoted as "RF circuits". This encompasses the antenna elements, LNAs, PA's, corporate feed networks, RF upconverters and downconverters, as well as A/Ds and DACs shown in the above-described embodiments. The digital signal is then fed into a composite high speed digital T-MUX 326 (as shown in the previous embodiments). However, rather than feed the time division digitally multiplexed signals into a fiber converter, the signals are directly translated, at the tower top, by a microwave (MW) converter (transceiver) 313, and amplified through a PA (power amplifier) 317, fed through a microwave frequency diplexer (D) 321, to a radiating backhaul antenna 323. This backhaul antenna 323 is similar to a terrestrial microwave antenna, or LMDS (local multipoint distribution service) antenna system. Similarly received uplink microwave signals, from the antenna 323, are fed back through the frequency diplexer (D) 321, amplified via a microwave LNA 319, and downconverted to digital IF (high speed), back to the high speed T-MUX 326.
Optionally, the high speed digital multiplexed signals from the beamformer/smart antenna subsystem 320 could be fed to an intermediate modulator (MOD) 315 (shown in phantom line), that modulates the IF signals to a format more efficient for microwave transmission, and then fed to the microwave converter 313.
FIGS. 9-13 are respectively similar to FIGS. 1 and 3-6, however, FIGS. 9-13 show third generation PCS and UMTS (universal mobile telecommunications service) (3G) systems. Two standards, designated as CDMA-2000 and W-CDMA, are currently being developed for use as the worldwide roaming or mobile (cellularized) systems for voice and data transport. While architecturally very similar to the diagrams in FIGS. 1 and 3-6, FIGS. 9-13 differ in that they use a QPSK (quadrature phase shift keying) modulator and RF upconverter block, designated in FIGS. 9-13 as a 3G (third generation CDMA) modulator block 410 (510, 610). This block assumes digital baseband I & Q on the input (or output). Therefore, digital baseband (I&Q) signaling is embedded in the fiber optic signal, which is assumed to be time division multiplexed.
FIG. 9 shows a 3G transmit mode smart antenna/beamformer subsystem 420. The digital multiplexed (baseband I & Q) signals, carried on a high speed stream, are converted from fiber to digital at FC 424 and de-multiplexed at T-MUX 426 into M lower speed streams. The 3G modulator block 410, on each branch, converts the signals from digital to analog, performs a QPSK modulation, spreads the carriers (via the appropriate CDMA spreading codes) and upconverts to RF. The rest of FIG. 9 is similar to FIG. 1. Also, all 3GM blocks 410 use the same local oscillator 432 to coherently upconvert to all branches.
FIG. 10 shows a receive mode configuration 520, with a single LNA 544 at the output of the corporate feed for each branch. A 3G modulator block 510 has been separated into two blocks, a "demodulator" (downconverter, CDMA code despreader, and QPSK demodulator) 560 and an A/D 564. The digital baseband (I & Q) outputs are then time division multiplexed at T-MUX 526, and fed to the digital to fiber converter (FC) 524, which sends the multiplexed digital baseband signals on a fiber carrier 522.
FIG. 11 shows a second receive mode configuration 520, with an LNA 544 at each antenna element 540, prior to the corporate feed network, on each branch, and is otherwise the same as FIG. 10.
FIGS. 12 and 13 shows two configurations 620, 620 a for a transmit/receive 3G beamformer/smart antenna system, with a 3G modulator block 610, 612 on each path (2-Way) on each branch. FIG. 12 shows a configuration with a single LNA 644 on each receive branch. FIG. 13 shows a configuration with an LNA 644 at each antenna element prior to the corporate feed network. In FIGS. 12 and 13, components similar to those used in the above-described embodiments are designated by similar reference numerals with the prefix 6. Also in FIGS. 12 and 13, the 3G modulator block 610 includes the components of both the 3G modulator blocks 410 and 510 of FIGS. 9 and 10, as described above.
While the systems of FIGS. 9-13 illustrate a fiber carrier 422, 522, etc., each could alternatively use a microwave backhaul link of the type shown in FIG. 8.
While particular embodiments and applications of the present invention have been illustrated and described, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the precise construction and compositions disclosed herein and that various modifications, changes, and variations may be apparent from the foregoing descriptions without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.
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