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My husband and I invited friends over for dinner and decided to build a table for the occasion. The invitation was set for two weeks from the day we bought the wood.
Step 1: Designing the Table
We used Rhino to design the table and determine the quantity of wood needed. All the pieces were then laid out and dimensioned in 2d, to be used for reference in the shop. We also created full-scale templates of all the table leg pieces from the 3d model.
Step 2: Choosing the wood
We decided to use walnut for the table because of its beautiful color and grain pattern. For the table top, we bought a single 8/4 thick x 15" wide x 12' long piece of walnut. The legs were made out of a single plank measuring 8/4 thick x 6" wide x 10' long.
Step 3: Jointing and Planing the Wood
We jointed the wood on all but one edge, and then planed it all to 1-1/2" thickness.
Step 4: Building the Table Top
The two pieces for the table top were laid out so that the sap wood (the light wood on the outer rings of the tree, near the bark) would be on the edge.
We did a dry-run with all the clamps in place before we glued it together. Though walnut is a pretty hard wood, we put scrap pieces between the clamps and the wood as often as possible so as not to damage the surface.
The glue job was fairly simple - a generous helping of Titebond 3 Wood Glue on both edges of the joint and then a whole lot of clamps. We tried to wipe as much of the squeeze-out as possible while it was still wet.
Once the glue dried, we used the table saw to cut off the last edge, careful to take off as little as possible so that the sap wood would remain prominent.
Nice work well done
Very nice project, it's amazing love!!
Thanks! I think if you're going to make it for the outdoors it might be a good idea to make it out of teak or some kind of cedar, not the cheapest of woods but they'll avoid rotting over time. If you have all the tools then cost is really going to depend on the wood, but I would guess you'll spend upwards of $500. Good luck!
Great looking project, That would look great in my dinning room. I like the kinda mid-century design.
Very nice project! Gorgeous conclusion!
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I've used water base poly in the past and will give it a good sanding after the 1st or 2nd coat. Once it has a coat or two on it it doesn't seem to raise the gran any more. I do 2 more coats after sanding. I'm guessing your finish didn't need sanding between coats.
You could also do more coats on the top than on the legs.
Very nice work and write up
Wow, I am impressed. I love the design and the execution was outstanding. I really like your new table
One suggestion on the finish. Tung oil is an amazing finish that is very waterproof. It really makes the grain pop and doesn't change the color in any significant way. The oil soaks into the wood and then polymerizes as it is exposed to oxygen. With several applications this gives the wood a beautiful finish. Regrettably tung oil takes a while to dry and you probably wouldn't have hit your two week target.
Watch out, Tung Oil Finish is NOT Tung Oil. The big home stores sell the Tung Oil finish. I personally prefer the natural tung oil you can find at specialty woodworking stores. It give you better depths and a softer feel. From your setup I am guessing you know where to go to find it.
Thanks for the instructable.
Great tip, thank you! Does the tung oil darken the wood? And how frequently do you recommend re-applying it?
One benefit with Tung oil is repairs. Since the oil soaks the wood there is no issue with matching the surface when you repair a chip. Just do whatever you need to to the damage and re apply the Tung oil to the area.
An extra benefit is that natural Tung Oil is perfectly food safe.
My preferred method for applying it is to do the first coat as a soaker coat. I cut the Tung oil 50/50 with either turpentine or possibly a lemon oil solvent (lemon oil smells better). I then coat everything liberally with the mix. You can leave this sloppy and wet for a while. Really let it soak in for up to 24 hours. Then take a rag and wipe off the extra. At this point you need to let this coat dry for a few days at least. This will both harden the wood and give it great depth, but make sure it has lots of time to dry. A week is even better.
After the first coat I just use a lint free rag to apply coats of full strength Tung oil. I get into a pattern of really rubbing in a good coat of Tung oil, wait a day or two then rub in another. Every once in a while (especially near then end) I will take a piece of 1200 grit wet dry sandpaper and use that to buff in the wet Tung oil. This smooths the surface for a better finish.
How many times you do this depends on your patience and how you want the table to look. I have seen great results after 3-4 applications and I have heard of people going up to 20-30 applications. That sounds crazy to me, but it would give you an amazing finish.
The natural Tung Oil finish has a satin finish that can be buffed pretty glossy at times. It really brings out the depth of the grain if you do it right. This is personally my favorite finish by far.
If you do use Tung Oil please send some shots of your results. I would love to see it. Good luck
Thank you so much for the detailed explanation. I'll test this out next time and share the results.
About the rough surface from the water-based polyurethane, did you first raise the grain using plain water and then re-sand? if those troublesome fibers are knocked off beforehand I wouldn't expect the finish to raise again.
That's brilliant! I will try that technique next time!
Excellent job. As a matter of interest, did you use biscuits when you joined the two top pieces? Over time my tables always seem to come apart at the joint without biscuits. I hope it lasts a lifetime and becomes a family heirloom.
Thank you! I've always used biscuits in the past but we decided this time that the wood was thick enough (1-1/2") for the glue to grab on to without needing to use biscuits. I hope we weren't wrong...
Perfect work!
This table is gorgeous. I do wish, however, that some instructables appeal to us with lower budgets and show us how to do more projects with limited tools.
I do acknowledge, though, that sometimes it depends on one's ingenuity to figure it out. I'm taking that challenge, and hope you don't mind copying your design.
Again, congratulations on a simple, yet master piece of a table.
Beautiful table. Great choice of wood and design. Would quit my job and go and home to build this right now if I had a work shop... someday!
Cool. Now all I need is a wood working shop! JK! This is beautiful and your craftsmanship is SUPERB. I would use this in my DINING ROOM! You should "jig it up" build a bunch and SELL EM! I'd buy one.
Top notch build,should last life times,and it is my hope that it will be enjoyed by many.Great job!
My thoughts exactly. Stunning result, great craftsmanship, beautiful joinery, yet still with a clean, simple design. My hat's off to you sir.
My father insists that you never make a table top this way. The one time I did this we started with very similar wood. However, we ripped the wood down to 4 inch strips alternated the arches of the grain and glued it back together. His claim is that all would will arch, bow, or curl. Alternating the strips like causes the future malformations to cancel each other out and only result is a subtle wave on the surface rather than a wide dramatic curve. Don't know how true this is, but he says he learned it from the Amish. Also, my table was intended to be used outdoor and hold my Big Green Egg grill. So, that is more likely to experience aging issues.
I'm also going to mention my envy of your fancy tools. I had to make do with what I had.
Thanks for the detailed instruction on the legs. And the detail overall. Looks like a great project.
But how was the dinner party?
wow. I was really hoping to see the end product as I saw you guys working on it in the shop, and man, you guys nailed it!
wow. I was really hoping to see the end product as I saw you guys working on it in the shop, and man, you guys nailed it!
8/4 thick lumber is about 1 3/4" thick. The '8/4' refers to the thickness of the wood before it's planed. The 1/4" difference accounts for the kerf of the saw. It's a confusing system.
I found a handy guide: http://www.woodworkerssource.com/blog/tips-tricks/what-does-44-mean-when-talking-about-lumber/
Very nice design! Looks like a nice designer table. Now to make the chairs :)
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Wow, that table looks stunning. I want it in my home!
really nice design!
That is just beautiful!


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September 13,2013
Not Worth It
The Place is beautiful.
Romantic ambiance.
Classy service.
Posh experience.
Great Quality of food But the taste, a cheap Chinese takeaway tastes better than this. The taste is the main factor that gives you the satisfaction wen you look at the cheque in the end, unfortunately that is the only drawback in this place.
July 22,2013
Very impressed
We turned up a little before mid day on a Friday looking for a bite to eat. I guess we surprised the staff as they were still not ready for service. Yet, we were made comfortable and what followed next was a very pleasant experience. We had the soup, a starter of fried prawns and for the mains we had the salmon, mixed meat casserole and a pasta for the child. We found all the courses exceptionally tasty. Special mention goes out to the salmon that was cooked to perfection and also the very yummy dip that accompanied the bread basket. Also pleasantly surprised to get a complimentary bottle of prawn pickle at the end of the meal. Would surely go back again.
March 17,2013
Did not get Bowled over
Came here on Wednesday at around 8 p.m. Knew this was a part of Oyster Bay group (had buffet there and quite liked it), so had high expectations from this place.
Ordered 2 items. After ordering, a complementary starter was brought. It was nothing but thin stripes of paratha served with cold peas dip and some white sauce (not good). The kane rava fry (4 lady fish) was the starter accompanied with cold veg salad. It was fresh but was bland and tasteless (the rava coating on the fish was very thick, it was like a crab shell, had to literally crack it open). The second item was from the grilled/flamed main course section. Had chicken breast in Chermoulla marination (coriander, cumin, chillies and garlic) served with vegges and mashed potato. It was just okay (maybe Keralites will like it).
Decor was nice. The restaurant has a nice drinks collection (had an open kitchen), service was good. The presentation of food was good but the taste was not to my liking (did not try the curries and desserts, so cannot comment on them). My bill Rs.945 + tax = Rs.1228. On this day, it was a let down...........
My and bangalore's first ever Chef's table
This was an amazing experience , knew about this restaurant coz this is part of oyster bay group owner and this place was meant for sea food lovers. Chef is basicallyfrom kerala so we can undersatnd that his food will be good as in typical kerala or coastal side food. Started with a goa'n drink which initially tasted like imli juice but it was too good and a bit thickish. then the hummus bread ith a chutney of non veg in green colour and butter. the 2 huge prawns unopened and grilled along with two bread's not sure of the bread's name. along with seafood and apple mixture soup with a milk froth. then my main course was again prawns and lambs." i love prawns". totally filled , didnt have space for dessert though but coudnt resist and had an awesome dessert too a indian a and foriegn delicacy mixture. too goo. price's are on the expensive side but i would say worth it . to take your girlfriends.:-p
November 28, 2012response from management at The Grill and Curry Bowl:
Dear Sir/Maam
Thank you for choosing The Grill & Curry Bowl as your pick for The Chefs Table. Am glad to know you enjoyed the food and also aware about our other restaurant, Oyster Bay. I see that you love prawns and The Chefs Table menu did total justice to it. The entire menu was specially created for this event by the Chef, so all credit to his creativity and ideas. Do visit our restaurant again and try out our regular menu too, would love to know your thoughts on it.
Thank you for taking time and reviewing our restauran
November 18,2012
Sea Food Delight
Must say, this place has awesome sea food delicacies. Had been to this place couple of day back for the Chef's Table. I just looooooooved the food. The Prawns and the Crabs with all the other add-ons were blending very well. The welcome drink was disappointing. If you love sea food then this is the right place. Great Ambience and Service ..
November 28, 2012response from management at The Grill and Curry Bowl:
Dear Sir/Maam
Thank you for choosing The Grill & Curry Bowl as your pick for The Chefs Table. Am indeed pleased to know you loved the food, the ambience and the service. The menu was specially created for this particular event and like what Chef had said during dinner that night, he was being creative. Please do come again and try out our other mocktails and co
November 28, 2012response from management at The Grill and Curry Bowl:
Dear Sir/Maam
Thank you for choosing The Grill & Curry Bowl as your pick for The Chefs Table. Am indeed pleased to know you loved the food, the ambience and the service. The menu was specially created for this particular event and like what Chef had said during dinner that night, he was being creative. Please do come again and try out our other mocktails and cocktails, am sure you would like them.
It was a pleasure having all of you that night at the restaurant. Thank you for taking time and writing about us.
October 15,2012
great place
i loved the amience very posh and comfortable. We loved the string hoppers and the goan pomfret curry . the service was good and they served three four varities of bread with olive oil and some fish sause complementory. really enjoyed
October 17, 2012response from management at The Grill and Curry Bowl:
Dear Sir/Ma'am,
Thank you for visiting The Grill & Curry Bowl. I am pleased to know that you had a great time at the restaurant and also liked the ambience and service. I am happy to note that you enjoyed the string hoppers and goan pomfret curry. Do come again and next time try the Squid Ghee Roast and Chilli Lentil Crusted Prawns and let us know what you think. They are new on our menu and the chef's specialities too.
Thank you for your appreciation, it encourages us to perform more and serve you better each time. Thank you
October 04,2012
Not worth...
We visited it few days back.
We ordered a grilled basa fish and another vegetarian dish.
Both items were below par and quantity/quality are not worth the very high price they charged.
The service was also not very prompt and not impressed.
I'm not going back.
October 17, 2012response from management at The Grill and Curry Bowl:
Dear Sir/Ma'am,
Thank you for visiting The Grill & Curry Bowl. I apologise for the bad experience you had the outlet during your visit. I request you to please give me your contact details so i could as my Chef or Marketing Manager to get in touch with you and find out what exactly went wrong that day. It would be great if you could come again and give us another opportunity to serve you, I know that you did not get a good first impression about us but its a sincere request. Everyone has a bad day at work and it was one such occasion h
October 04,2012
guys keep it up
Accidently visited the restaurent on oct 2nd . The place was full and lot of people waiting outside.I generally dont wait but when I saw the crowd i had the eagerness to try the place out. The Decor was poch and the seatig were very comfortable. They had nice collection of imported wine but only served indian wine by Glass. They came and showed us different types of seafood they had. We ordered a Chilean sea bass grilled and had red snapper as curry with Neer Dosa. I have to comment this is best food i have tasted in banglore. Guys keep up the good job. The food took slightly more time to be served which I could see becoz of the big crowd. i would definitely recommed this place
October 5, 2012response from management at The Grill and Curry Bowl:
Dear Sir,
Thank you for visiting The Grill & Curry Bowl. I am pleased to know that you had a pleasant experience at our restaurant and also liked the place & ambience. Sorry you had to wait fir a while to be served. Please do visit us again and try out some wine from our collection as October 2nd was dry day with regards to Gandhi Jayanthi. Thank you for your appreciation, it means a lot to us. We are a new restaurant and getting to hear such great words motivates us to give more from our end.
I also want to thank you for taki
October 02,2012
Good Food, pathetic service & confused management
Went with my wife for lunch and had a pathetic experience. While food is good, it takes crazy time for them to prepare the dishes especially to the extend of making the guests bored. We finished our entire food and Neer Dosa which we had ordered never came (had to cancel it) We had to ask for finger bowl thrice and it took them 20 minutes to provide the same.
Waiters/Captains lack suggestive attitude (have seen in many good restaurants that Captains give hints in case you over order) So be cautious of this fact.
Total Chaos in the restaurant:
Guest standing in queue but no one to address them even when there were Vacant seats.
Orders being mismanaged where your order goes to a different table while some other order is brought to your table.
Especially liked the fact that your final bill does not have all the items that you have consumed - the bill which we got did not comprise of couple of items.
With the food and the service we got found the restaurant slightly overpriced.
October 4, 2012response from management at The Grill and Curry Bowl:
Dear Sir
Thank you for visiting Grill & Curry Bowl . I apologize to you and your family for the bad experience you had in our outlet. I enquired about the matter and found we had service issue on that day . The restaurant was over crowed and one of our Grill Mal-functioned on that day so some of orders got delayed. Oct 2nd being national holiday, we could not get hold of the manufacturer to repair the equipment on the same day. As all our equipments are on warranty and only the manufacturer is allowed to rectify any issue. This led
September 25,2012
Awesome Service, average food
My husband and I wanted to try out this new place. The decor is quite posh and modern. They only serve wine or wine based cocktails, and only Indian wines are sold by the glass, thus limiting an already limited choice. However, their Sangria is brilliant, although the quantity kept diminishing as they kept serving more of it. Coming to the food, they have this "fresh seafood" system which they will display and you can choose to grill it or put it in a curry. One waiter's task was to bring the "fresh" fish over and show it to you, before you even look at the menu. They serve a bread basket which is very different and quite good. There were four varieties of bread with butter, a peas dip and olive oil set out on the bread platter. I would have preferred if the peas paste had less garlic, looked less congealed and a balsamic vinegar had been provided with the olive oil. For starters, my husband chose a Jerk Chicken and I went for an anti pasti platter. The Jerk chicken was okay, and the anitpasti platter was a big/huge disappointment. Except the pesto none of the items on the items on the antipasti platter was tasty in the least. Hummus on the antipasti platter and the tartare sauce were in-congruent and did not sit well. For the mains we had to choose between curries and grill. Both of us chose curry, the prawn moilee was tolerable and contained a good number of prawns, the Andra Style chilli chicken was fantastic and although on the spicy side filled with flavour. The Curry comes with choice of bread including neer dosa, idiappams and rotis. They also provide rice. The complimentary dal was very good.
The thing that sets this restaurant apart is the quality of service, the wait staff were courteous, extremely attentive and very efficient. One waitress in particular really had spectacular eye for detail and made our meal time joyful. Overall experience I don't think the food was value for money, but I would go back for the sangria.
October 4, 2012response from management at The Grill and Curry Bowl:
Dear Ma'am,
Thank you for visiting The Grill & Curry Bowl. I am indeed happy to know that you would visit our restaurant once again and also loved the Sangria served. My sincere apologies for the few complaints you have about our food. Please do visit our restaurant again and while placing the order do mention how you would like it. For eg:- you can ask the waiter attending your table to make a note that you would like less garlic in the peas paste for your bread basket. Our aim is to give our customers' complete satisfaction.
Delectable Food
Visited this place on the repute Oyster bay, similar food experience with wide variety of fresh sea food to sin. Great collection of wine from around the world, though on the expensive side..Chef and bearers were extremely professional and friendly in behavior, same courteousness from Oyster bay reflect in Curry bowl.
Fried Calamari is the test to any resto freshness of the sea food, and curry bowl jus swooped it off on the freshness and preparation.
The only 2 negatives in my perspective are-
1. Interiors do not match the cuisine and experience inside.
2. (Personal) They did not honor my american express select discount, stating it was not valid, while american features it on their website along side Oyster bay.
Must visit if you are Sea food fan, the rotis are commendable too along with the dal fry
August 1, 2012response from management at The Grill and Curry Bowl:
Dear Sir
Thank you for Visiting The grill and curry bowl. I am pleased that you had a pleasant experience in our outlet. We just started the outlet any issues in service will be rectified soon. I am going to look at the American express issue and come up with a solution soon. We do also have lots of imported and local meats which can be grilled as per customer choice of marinations . Thank you once again for your good words
Philips Thomas
Managing Director
The Grill & curry bowl
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Nielsens' Teapot
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Miniature Tea Pot, Nielsens'
A miniature tea pot that was made in the Nielsens' studio in California. Stands 5.5 in. tall. 24 K gold lustre overlay.Dark cobalt blue porcelain. Hang tag is still attached. Botom marked and dated '93. No damage. Adorable addition to your miniature tea pot collection.
Circa: 1993
Condition: used
Size: 5.5 in. tall
Color: Blue Gold
Type: Porcelain
Country of Origin: US
Manufacturer: Nielsens'
Oriental TeaPot
Dragonware Teapot
This is an antique teapot that has a dragon motif. Stands 2.75 in. tall plus the bentwood, twisted vines handle. Measures approx. 6 in. diameter. The applied decoration does have a broken fang? of f the dragon. Please view images carefully. also the lid has a crack. I believe the age of this teapot would be in the early 1900's. Perhaps earlier. Acquired at an estate sale so was unable to get much information. I think the porcelain piece applied with oriental writing would be the signature of maker? A superb display piece for your orientalia collection or teapot collection.
Circa: Early 1900's
Condition: used
Size: 6 in. diam. 2.75 in. tall
Color: Terra Cotta, Multi
Type: Porcelain
Country of Origin: JP
Manufacturer: unknown
Teapot, Pearl China
This elegant teapot is bottom marked Pearl China co. 22 Karat gold, Hand trimmed. Stands 5.25 in. tall. Measures 10.5 in from spout to handle. Lovely molded design, spout and handle. Pearlized cream or off white glaze. No damage.
Circa: '40's-'50's
Condition: used
Size: 5.25 in. tall
Color: Pearlized, gold Trim
Type: Porcelain
Country of Origin: US
Manufacturer: Pearl China
Teapot, Poppytrail, Metlox
This lovely teapot is marked Poppytrail by Metlox Made in California. Stands 6.5 in. tall and is 6 in. long. Other than a slight scuff at the top of the handle it is in very good condition. Lovely to use and delightful to display. The ivy pattern will add a fresh touch to your home.
Circa: '60's
Condition: used
Size: 6.5 in. tall
Color: white/green
Type: Pottery
Country of Origin: US
Manufacturer: Metlox
Teapot, Czechoslovakia
Teapot, 4-6 Cup Czechoslovakia
This teapot stands 6.5 in. tall. Measures 10 in. from spout to handle. Bottom marked Czechoslovakia. I think this would be prior to WW2. Bright colors on a mottled white background. The base color is a slightly blueish white mottled. I believe this would make 4-6 cups of your favorite tea. No chips, cracks, nicks, etc.
Circa: '30's-'40's
Condition: used
Size: 6.5 in. tall
Color: White, Orange Green
Type: Porcelain
Country of Origin: CZ
Manufacturer: unmarked
Teapot, John Maddock
Teapot, England Porcelain
A useful and attractive vintage teapot. Marked John Maddock & Son Vitreous Ltd. England. Stands 5.5 in. tall and measures 10 in. from spout to handle. I believe about 6 cup size. Floral pattern with gold trim. The gold trim shows slight wear. I find no damage.
Circa: '50's-'60's
Condition: used
Size: 5.5 in. tall 6 cup
Color: White Floral Gold Trim
Type: Porcelain
Country of Origin: GB
Manufacturer: John Maddock and Son
Teapot, Noritake
Teapot, Noritake, White with Gold Trim
An elegant teapot of white porcelain with a lavish gold trim. Stands 4.5 in. tall including the lid. Measures about 4.75 in. diameter. I think this would hold 2-3 cups. Bottom marked with an M in a green wreath and Noritake above the wreath. I believe from the late 1930's era. I find no damage. Elegant to use and a perfect addition to a display.
Circa: '30's
Condition: used
Size: 2-3 cup
Color: white, Gold
Type: Porcelain
Country of Origin: JP
Manufacturer: Noritake
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Juicy J, A$AP Ferg at White Rabbit
: April 24, 2013 : Updated: April 25, 2013 10:05am
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After you win an Oscar, what's next? Juicy J and his Memphis-based partners in Three 6 Mafia landed the Oscar for "Hard Out Here for a Pimp." After working with the group for 20 years and 20 million albums sold, Three 6 Mafia co-founder Juicy J is launching his solo career. The Columbia label will release the CD later this year, but the debut single, "Bandz A Make Her Dance," featuring Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz, and the new single, "Show Out," featuring Young Jeezy and Big Sean, are hits. You can get a preview via Juicy J's Stay Trippy Tour. A$AP Ferg, touring with the single "Work," will open.
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Babe and Kendall discuss their shared attraction to "bad boys."
Tad sees the genetic testing results for Emma.
Ryan finds Annie, and she finally tells him the truth.
Kendall and Babe discuss Josh. Kendall tells Babe that she's stupid to choose JR over Josh�a man who truly loves her. They both agree that they're attracted to bad boys.
Babe tells her that JR's changed and is devoted to Little Adam.
Kendall replies all they can do is love their men�until something else happens. She doesn't give second chances�except to Zach.
An irritated Simone tells Kendall about Josh leaving Fusion. They both blame Babe.
Bianca goes to see Josh, and finds him combing through mass of research he promises to use to "destroy the Chandlers."
She tells him that she's spoken to Babe, unsuccessfully�and that destroying JR won't bring Babe any closer to him. He has to wait and let Babe discover JR's evilness on her own.
Josh is still angry and wants to reveal that his father was the father of all the children born due to his fertility clinic treatments. Bianca says that would be cruel to the families who only trusted Greg, and wanted a baby.
He decides not to keep Greg's money but to share it with a mother a child�Bianca and Miranda.
At the hospital, David taunts Tad with news of Krystal's pregnancy. Their conversation turns ugly and old grievances are aired. David insists Joe Martin killed his daughter. Now they have that in common�and he regrets helping Tad find Kate.
Tad sees them, they talk briefly, and then he asks Julia for help in searching the DNA database and comparing his markers to Emma's. As far as she can see, it's a match. Of course, that's based on the genetic material tested being genuine.
David sweet talks a nurse and gets possession of Krystal's lab results.
Ryan finds Annie at Jonathan's. He begs her to come back to Pine Valley. Jonathan reminds him that he "killed a man" and is agitated, and Ryan asks him to step back and let him take care of this situation. Ryan agrees.
Annie explains to Ryan that protecting Emma is her only priority and she'd die before giving her up. Ryan tells her to come home and he'll make sure nothing bad happens. Is there something she's telling him?
Was anyone else in the room when she delivered Emma? He suggests DNA tests for her and Emma. She says can't do it�and he won't understand. Finally, she admits that if she takes the test, her DNA won't match Emma's.
Adam and Krystal see the baby's ultrasound pictures, and Krystal is admitted to the hospital. She tells Adam that she wants to name their baby "Charlotte" after his sister.
When Adam leaves for a brief errand, Tad comes into her room and asks "is the baby mine?"
Erica walks into Kendall's house and is shocked to see Zach, and refuses to believe the news about the reconciliation. She believes he's broken in and calls 911.
She gives Zach an earful about how much he hurt Kendall, and that he should leave. He tells Erica that he wants to spend the rest of his life making Kendall happy. The police officer arrives, and she explains the mistake. Erica is skeptical of Zach's motives and lets him know. They agree to an uneasy truce.
� Tad discovers that Annie had a DNA test run a year ago.
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CMSC 143: Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming with Robots Lab 8: Photobooth Due November 1, 2010 Submit a copy of your python program named cmsc143 lab8 NAME.py. You should include a sample image named test.jpg. Your should have your name, email, and the date at the top of the file as a comment. Learning Objectives ◦ Manipulate Images. ◦ Understand Image Coordinate Systems ◦ Use Nested Loops. Functions to be Implemented You should implement the first five functions, and choose one of the functions 6–9. All your functions should return a new image, i.e. they should not modify the original. Your file should look something like: def mirror(image): INSERT CODE HERE if __name__ == "__main__": p = makePicture("test.jpg") show(p, "original") show(mirror(p), "mirrored") show(flip(p), "flipped") 1. mirror(image) – Create a mirror image (reversed horizontally) 2. flip(image) – Create an upside-down image CMSC 143 (Fall 2010): Lab 8 1 of 3 3. resize(image, factor) – Resize the image according to factor; a factor of 2 should make it twice as big, a factor of 0.5 should make it half its original size. 4. photobooth(listOfImages) – Write a function that takes a list of images and creates a new image with all the images appended vertically, like the photobooths of years past. 5. Create a program that uses your scribbler's camera to create a photobooth. The scribbler should take 5 pictures, around 2 seconds apart. You might want to beep before taking the image, so your user can smile or make a goofy face. Feel free to apply one of your special effect functions to the images. Then use your photobooth() function to create one big image, and save it to a file. CMSC 143 (Fall 2010): Lab 8 2 of 3 PICK ONE 6. nest(image) – Write a function that uses resize to nest an image inside of itself, recursively. (Al- though, your function does not have to be recursive.) 7. blur(image, neighborhood size) – Blur the image by replacing each pixel with the average of itself and its neighboring pixels. If there aren't enough neighboring pixels for some pixel x (pixels on the edges of the image), you should just use x instead of the missing neighbor. 8. sepia(image, sepiaAmount) – Write a function that applies a sepia effect, which raises the red and green channels, and lowers the blue. In particular it adds 2 * sepiaAmount to the red, adds sepiaAmount to green, and subtracts sepiaAmount from blue. 20 is a good value for sepiaAmount. 9. fairey(image) – Write a function that applies an effect similar to Shepard Fairey's iconic Obama "HOPE" poster. Each pixel is colored one of four colors depending upon the sum of its RGB values. It assigns roughly equal intervals for each of the four colors. RGB Sum Color 0 – 181 darkBlue (0, 51, 76) 182 – 363 red (217, 26, 33) 364 – 545 lightBlue (112, 150, 158) 545 – 765 yellow (252, 227, 166) CMSC 143 (Fall 2010): Lab 8 3 of 3
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Nursing students to graduate Sunday
Antelope Valley College is doing its part to combat California's shortage of nurses with 62 graduates due to receive their nursing pins during a 3 p.m. Sunday, June 6 ceremony at the Poppy Pavilion, Antelope Valley Fairgrounds, Lancaster.
The associate degree nursing graduates are now qualified to take the national licensing exam to become registered nurses.
Those in the spring 2010 graduating class are:
Jameela Abdullah, Faye Alexander, Alicia Allen, Dana Armendariz, Aracely Avila, Anzhela Bagramyan, Rajwinderpal Bains, Brenda Barajas, Jennifer Bello, Bryan Bender, Shawdae Biles, Shelly Bjorge, Kelly Boyle, Tanya Camberos, Merlin Carcamo, Paulina Cos, Theresa De La Torre.
Cari De Zubiria, Angela Dinehart, John Dunagan, Heather Ferrell, Natasha Ford, Andrea Franklin, Darren Friday, Monie Garcia, Stefanie Gardner, Sunni Gessel, Angelica Gonzalez, Samantha Grace, Sheri Hartness, Sabrina Ingram, Kristy Lee Irvine, Jacinda Jipp, Dayna Jones, Brenda Levenson.
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Diana Ritz, Pawandeep Sandhu, Hayley Schlieper, Ashley Smith, Lindsay Steinwachs, Johnathan Stoneking, Jeffrey Tibbetts, Lalomie Tibbs, Nicole Timms, Benjamin Valerio II, Joan Valoria, John Villa and Oleg Volkov.


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DARPA is soliciting for innovative research proposals to explore the feasibility of a wideband spread-spectrum RF communications system with greater than 10 GHz of instantaneous bandwidth in its Hyper-wideband Enabled RF Messaging (HERMES) effort. The communications system has to operate below 20 GHz to mitigate atmospheric absorption and must employ coding gain and spectral filtering for resistance to jamming.
Proposed studies will advance technology through "1) investigation of system architectures, channel propagation effects, spectrum regulation, signal processing techniques and culminating in a demonstration using commercial components and 2) the development of novel receiver technologies with a path towards a handheld radio size, weight and power envelope."
The document DARPA-BAA-14-34_HERMES_Final_For_Posting_30June2014.pdf has more details on the opportunity. Explaining the need for the research, DARPA states, "Allocating small slices of the spectrum to defense allows adversaries to effectively target their efforts. As a result, we have seen the aggressive development and fielding of electronic attack technologies. The effort described herein will study means to reclaim this lost bandwidth without unintentionally jamming others."
Here is the document's technical description of the HERMES effort:
"In recognition of these severe and mounting challenges, DARPA is exploring extremely wideband RF links. Increasing bandwidth provides resiliency to interference through two principle modes. First and foremost, interference can be mitigated through coding gain using techniques such as direct sequence spread spectrum. Wideband operation has the potential to provide a significant coding gain while also providing operationally useful data-rates. To date, coding gains of more than 50 dB have been demonstrated but with data-rates below 100 bps. Increasing the bandwidth by a factor 1,000 will yield a commensurate increase in data-rate while maintaining the coding gain. Second, operating at over 10 GHz of spectrum with large fractional bandwidth also provides resistance to jamming through a less conventional means. The fundamental physics of high-power amplifiers tends to stifle attempts at delivering high power jamming signals with large fractional bandwidth. Physics favors resonant devices. The receiver, then, can reject in-band spectrum as wide as 1 GHz while still receiving 90% of the signal. The wideband operation also enables relevant data-rates while maintaining ultralow-power spectral densities to mitigate interference with conventional narrow-band systems."
This sounds like an interesting project. The phrase "reclaim this lost bandwidth without unintentionally jamming others" would indicate they will be looking at the impact on other users of the spectrum. These include satellite uplinks at 6 GHz and 14 GHz, downlinks at 4 GHz and 12 GHz, numerous fixed terrestrial microwave bands, and, in the future, 5G at 15 GHz.
A system with 10 Ghz of bandwidth under 20 Ghz?
This almost sounds like the specification for something that will jam frequencies from 1 Ghz to 20 Ghz.
Maybe DARPA should consider 1 Ghz bandwidth instead, as there is room for that.
Physics does favor resonant devices, but if someone can transmit wideband, someone else can too... this strikes me as being a prime example of the "better mousetrap" conundrum. Whomever does the R&D will make a pretty penny, but this certainly won't be a long-term solution to jamming.
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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States and he steered the country through a period of immense change, including the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery. According to many historians, Abraham Lincoln was one of the best American presidents, so what 10 interesting facts about Abraham Lincoln are there?
1. Although Lincoln married Marry Todd in 1842 and subsequently had four children with her, his first love was Ann Rutledge. She sadly died in 1835 and he became deeply depressed as a result. At the time he was diagnosed with "melancholia", which today would be called clinical depression. This was an affliction he was to suffer from again at many different stages in his life, particularly when he and Mary endured the loss of their children.
2. The Lincoln's had four sons—Robert, Edward, William and Thomas (also known as Tad), but only Robert survived to adulthood. Edward died of tuberculosis when he was 4 years old and Thomas died from heart failure aged 18. William passed away from bilious fever in 1862 and is the only child to have died in the White House.
3. During the American Civil War, Lincoln's wife, Mary, tended wounded soldiers in the many hospitals nearby, but it was not until later that many soldiers realised that the First Lady had cared them for.
4. Lincoln was the first president to be photographed during his inauguration. His future assassin can clearly be seen standing nearby in the photograph.
5. Lincoln was the first president to have a beard while serving in office.
6. John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln during his second term in office, an event that still remains clouded in mystery and the subject of numerous conspiracy theories. Some conspiracy theorists believe the murder was a result of a Confederate plot whereas others claim the Catholic Church was responsible. But ultimately, we will probably never know what really happened, and why.
7. It is said that Lincoln had a premonition he was going to be assassinated: a short time before the assassination he had a dream in which he heard weeping in the White House and upon investigation was told the president had died. When he looked inside the coffin, he saw himself lying there, dead.
8. Interestingly, shortly before the assassination of Lincoln, an actor called Edwin Booth—the brother of John Wilkes Booth—pulled his son, Robert Lincoln, to safety from beneath the wheels of a moving train.
9. Every single president of the United States who was elected during a year ending in zero has been assassinated or died whilst serving in office, including Lincoln. This is known as the Tecumseh's Curse. There are also a number of very spooky coincidences between the assassinations of Lincoln and John F. Kennedy.
10. The most influential moment of Abraham Lincoln's presidency was the famous Gettysburg Address. His speech only lasted three minutes, but had a deeply profound effect on the future of democracy.


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The PCI bus cannot support devices such as a direct memory access controller. By providing virtualization hardware, a computer system can be fooled into believing that the device actually exists on the PCI bus. Thus, access signals sent to an incompatible device, for example a channel on a direct memory access controller, which does not exist on the PCI bus can be processed and returned by the virtualizing hardware as if the PCI bus supports the channel.
1. A computer system comprising:
a host processor;
a PCI bus;
an ISA bus;
a first bridge for coupling said host processor and said PCI bus;
a second bridge for coupling said PCI bus and said ISA bus;
a peripheral coupled to said ISA bus, said peripheral not supported by said PCI bus;
virtualizing hardware coupled to said PCI bus for allowing said peripheral to operate compatibly with said PCI bus; and
an expansion board, coupled to said virtualizing hardware, including a sound card, said sound card and said virtualizing hardware being on a single integrated circuit chip.
2. The computer system according to claim 1, further comprising system memory coupled to said host processor, wherein said virtualizing hardware is a PCI bus master which emulates the operation of a direct memory access controller and transfers data to/from said sound card to/from said system memory.
3. A computer system comprising:
a host processor;
a PCI bus;
an ISA bus;
a first bridge for coupling said host processor and said PCI bus;
a second bridge for coupling said PCI bus and said ISA bus;
a peripheral coupled to said ISA bus, said peripheral not supported by said PCI bus; and
virtualizing hardware coupled to said PCI bus for allowing said peripheral to operate compatibly with said PCI bus,
wherein said second bridge uses subtractive decoding to bridge said PCI bus to said ISA bus.
4. A computer system comprising:
a host processor;
a bus;
a bridge for coupling said host processor to said bus; and
virtualizing hardware coupled to said bus for trapping access requests by said host processor to a device not supported on said bus,
wherein said virtualizing hardware is located on a sound card, said sound card being incompatible with said bus.
5. The computer system according to claim 4, further comprising system memory coupled to said host processor, wherein said virtualizing hardware is a bus master which emulates the operation of a direct memory access controller and transfers data to/from said sound card to/from said system memory.
6. A method for virtualizing a device not supported by a first bus in a computer system, said computer system including a host processor, a first bridge for coupling said host processor to said first bus, virtualizing hardware located on said first bus, a second bus which supports said device not supported by said first bus, and a second bridge for coupling said first bus to said second bus, said method comprising the steps of:
said host processor initiating an access cycle;
determining whether said access cycle is intended for a device coupled to said first bus;
said virtualizing hardware claiming the access cycle when no device coupled to said first bus claims the access cycle; and
said virtualizing hardware examining the access cycle to determine whether the access cycle is for the device not supported by said first bus,
wherein if the access cycle is not for the device not supported by said first bus,
issuing a retry for the access cycle on said first bus, and
passing the access cycle to said second bridge and to said second bus, and
wherein if the access cycle is for the device not supported by said first bus, said virtualizing hardware using information associated with the access cycle to emulate the operation of the device not supported by said first bus.
7. The method of claim 6, wherein said first bus is a PCI bus and said second bus is an ISA bus.
8. The method of claim 7, wherein the device not supported by said first bus is a direct memory access controller.
The invention generally relates to a method and apparatus of virtualizing ISA (industry standard architecture) hardware devices that require DMA (direct memory access) accesses and, more particularly, to virtualizing hardware on the PCI (peripheral component interconnect) bus.
Direct memory access (DMA) is a term that indicates that system buses are to be removed from control of a microprocessor in a host computer and are to be placed under control of a DMA controller. The DMA controller is typically used when bulk data transfers are to be made between system RAM (random access memory) and another data storage device. Examples of bulk data transfers include, but are not limited to, loading computer programs into RAM memory from an external source, transferring files from external disk storage into RAM memory, and transferring data from another computer into RAM memory. In instances such as these, provided that the saving of data-transfer time justifies the expense, it is advisable to allow the DMA controller to temporarily take control of the address and data buses from the microprocessor. Thus, a decision to employ a DMA controller is not merely a question of whether or not bulk quantities of data need to be transferred. It is a matter of whether the time saved in making the data transfer justifies the expense in using DMA hardware.
A DMA controller does not perform any task that the microprocessor cannot do itself. The microprocessor has available both I/O and memory data transfer instructions that allow it to move data. The choice of whether to use a DMA controller is a matter of efficiency. However, the DMA controller does not relieve the microprocessor so that it can do other tasks while the DMA controller is active. Rather the DMA controller, while active, replaces the microprocessor.
When a DMA is used, the DMA controller controls the address and the read and write signals for both the system RAM and the external data source. The DMA controller transfers the required number of data bytes and returns system control to the microprocessor. A DMA controller is programmable and may serve several channels. The DMA controller can be programmed to assign priority levels to each channel and to resolve priority conflicts between channels. External devices make requests to the DMA controller by sending signals on DMA request lines or channels. Each line is assigned a priority level that corresponds to its numerical designation. For example, line one has the highest priority, line two has the second priority, and line three has the lowest priority.
Even with a DMA controller chip controlling the actual movement of data, the microprocessor still must set up and oversee DMA transfers, tying up the chip throughout a bus transfer.
In the early days of PCS, the entire operation of an expansion bus was controlled by the microprocessor. The expansion bus is the electrical connector sitting at the bottom of an expansion slot, i.e., the space for an expansion board to be plugged into the system. A bus directly connected to the data and address lines of the host processor is referred to as a local bus.
Newer buses break the direct microprocessor connection by vesting the authority to control bus transfers in special logic circuits to make an arbitrated expansion bus. In the arbitrated bus design, the microprocessor surrenders its powerful position and becomes an equal to the expansion boards in the system. The microprocessor still maintains control of the bus transfers that it originates or receives, but it does not need to be involved in transfers between other devices in the system.
A device that takes control of the expansion bus to mediate its own transfers is a bus master and the device that receives data from the bus master is a bus slave.
In 1992 Intel introduced the PCI local bus specification. The PCI bus is not really appropriately characterized as a local bus. Rather, the PCI bus is more of a high-speed interconnection system a step removed from the microprocessor that runs closer to the speed of the microprocessor than the traditional expansion bus. The circuits and signals of the PCI design are independent of the requirements of a specific microprocessor or family. Thus, it has been referred to as a mezzanine bus instead of a local bus.
Before PCI, systems employed the ISA bus. It is desirable to use many of the devices used on ISA on PCI. For example, it would be beneficial if old sound cards and related devices compatible with ISA could be used on PCI. Unfortunately, old ISA sound cards are not currently compatible with PCI.
A record operation involving a sound card was implemented easily with ISA. An analog/digital converter receives sound input from a microphone and converts the input to digital information. The sound card makes a DMA request on the ISA bus. Responsive to the request, the DMA takes digital information from the sound card on the ISA bus and transfers it to the system memory. The playback operation performs the opposite transfer from system memory onto the ISA bus and to the sound card. The DMA again takes control of the processor and makes the transfer.
In a PCI system, a third party DMA is not supported, that is the PCI bus does not have a DMA. A third party DMA may be, for example, any Motorola DMA or an 8237-DMA or any other DMA known in the art. However, the third party DMAs are not compatible with the PCI master and thus do not comply with the PCI bus structure. Since PCI does not allow conventional DMA control, no DMA signals are allocated.
A PCI bus master can act like a DMA controller, but only to the extent that it can make transfers across the bus independently of the host microprocessor. However, many devices require third party DMA to interface with a host processor. The user may want to connect old sound cards which are not compatible with PCI to the host processor. However, since in a PCI system, there is no DMA controller, every device requiring direct memory access must have its own master capability. The PCI bus master cannot function as a third party DMA. Thus, it has not been possible to employ external devices incompatible with the PCI bus in a PCI system (e.g., where the device requires a third party DMA to interface with a host processor). Accordingly, there is a need in the art to make certain types of older devices, such as sound cards usable, compatible with PCI.
The present invention overcomes the disadvantages associated with the aforementioned PCI system by virtualizing (i.e., simulating) hardware on the PCI bus, for example, DMA hardware. Virtualization is useful where, for example, the hardware in a new machine does not have certain characteristics of the original hardware in original machines which are necessary for compatibility. In this instance, virtualizing hardware can be designed to act similarly to the missing original hardware without new software in the new machine recognizing the difference.
Thus, an advantage realized by the present invention is the ability to virtualize hardware of ISA hardware devices that require DMA accesses. In a PCI system, a third party DMA is not supported, that is the PCI bus does not have a DMA. According to the invention, DMA hardware is virtualized and accesses to the DMA that do not exist can be trapped by the virtualizing hardware. The virtualizing hardware permits operations to be carried out which are incompatible with the PCI bus. This ultimately allows, for example, sound cards and other devices which were not supported by the PCI bus to be utilized.
Further, conventional software and cards can be used to implement the virtualized hardware. The hardware that virtualizes a DMA, for example, coexists with the peripheral hardware that uses the DMA. For example, with a sound card, the virtualizing hardware can be placed on the sound card.
The present invention will now be described in more detail with reference to preferred embodiments of the invention, given only by way of example, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a PCI system according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of the virtualizing hardware.
The present invention is discussed below with reference to virtualizing the ISA DMA controller on the PCI bus. However, the present invention may be applied to virtualizing any ISA devices on the PCI bus.
An ISA DMA controller has seven paired request/acknowledge DMA signal lines or fourteen signal lines for each slot or card. The ISA bus cannot share signal lines, i.e., channels. Thus, each channel must be programmed for a particular card or slot which requires DMA. In contrast, with PCI architecture, each card or slot has its own grant/request pin. Accordingly, there are no multiple DMA channels in PCI and PCI cannot support architectures which require multiple channels. Thus, the PCI is not compatible with the ISA DMA controller.
It would be advantageous to convert the ISA architecture to PCI to allow the ISA DMA controller to be used with the PCI bus. This is particularly beneficial to applications involving audio devices. Audio devices require hardware compatibility, for example with games, that cannot be directly connected to PCI. Thus, rather than making a PCI to ISA bridge, the present invention provides a PCI, not an ISA, device that uses direct memory access for hardware compatibility that connects directly to the PCI bus.
By providing virtualizing hardware, the ISA DMA controller is adapted to operate with the PCI bus. In particular, the virtualizing hardware forms part of an integrated circuit that can be directly attached to the PCI bus while maintaining backward compatibility with third party direct memory access software such as games. As a result, the hardware required to make a bridge integrated circuit chip is reduced. Thus, cost and space is reduced with the virtualizing hardware of the present invention over using a PCI to ISA bridge integrated circuit chip. Reducing space is particularly important with portable devices such as laptop computers.
For a PCI bus to be most useful, it must be compatible with expansion boards. Two levels of old-board compatibility are available, slot-level compatibility and system-level compatibility. Old-board compatibility indicates that old expansion boards, such as PC-style expansion boards used by systems like IBM's 1981 PC and 1984 AT, still have some usefulness. Slot-level compatibility ensures that old-boards plug into the same slot as boards that follow the standard employed by the host processor. System level compatibility means an old expansion board can be plugged into at least one slot in the computer system. Thus, with system level compatibility, old boards can be inserted into one or more slots inside the system dedicated to backward compatibility. However, with the present invention, no old expansion interfaces are needed. Rather the present invention provides an integrated circuit chip that may be directly attached to the PCI bus while maintaining backward compatibility with third party direct memory access.
An exemplary embodiment of the present invention is depicted in FIG. 1. A host processor 100 is coupled to a PCI bus 110 via a host to PCI bridge 120. The host processor may be any processor designed to be employed with PCI, such as a Pentium, 486, Pentium Pro, etc. System memory 115, according to the embodiment of FIG. 1, is connected to both the PCI bus 110 and host processor 100 via the host to PCI bridge 120. In an alternative embodiment, system memory 115 may be located between the host processor 100 and host to PCI bridge 120, wherein each of these three elements are interconnected with the same data lines.
The virtualizing hardware 130 is coupled to the PCI bus 110. The virtualizing hardware 130 coexists with the peripheral hardware that requires the DMA. For example, with a sound card, the virtualizing hardware 130 may be placed on the sound card. The key is that the virtualizing hardware 130 and the device requiring the DMA must be on the same slot. A DMA for another device in a different slot cannot be virtualized by the virtualizing hardware 130.
The PCI bus 110 is coupled to the ISA bus 140 via a PCI to ISA bridge 150. The ISA DMA controller is located in the PCI to ISA bridge 150.
An exemplary peripheral device 125 is coupled to the PCI bus 110, and two exemplary peripherals device 145 are coupled to the ISA bus 140. It is to be understood that one or more peripherals may be coupled to both the PCI bus 110 and ISA bus 140.
The virtualizing hardware acts in conjunction with a non-selective or subtractive scheme. An example of non-selective or subtractive decoding will be described with reference to FIG. 1 assuming the virtualizing hardware 130 is being used with a sound card.
In a typical system, when a host processor 100 attempts to access a device on either the PCI bus 110 or ISA bus 140, the access cycle travels through the host to PCI bridge 120 and appears on the PCI bus 110. If the cycle is not claimed by any device on the PCI bus 110, the cycle is then and only then claimed by the PCI to ISA bridge 150 and generated on the ISA bus 140 through the PCI to ISA bridge 150. Thus, when no device on the PCI bus 110 claims the access cycle, it defaults to the ISA bus 140. Normally, the chip that takes the cycle is the ISA DMA controller which according to an illustrative embodiment of the invention may be located in the PCI to ISA bridge 150.
A DMA channel to be virtualized is one of the DMA channels on the ISA DMA controller (e.g., an IBM 8237A-5). When the virtualizing hardware 130 of the present invention is coupled to the PCI bus 110, the normal scheme operates differently. When an access cycle appears on the PCI bus 110 and is not claimed by any device on the PCI bus 110, the virtualizing hardware 130 steals the access cycle and takes a peak at the data to determine whether it desires the data instead of the access cycle passing directly to the PCI to ISA bridge.
The virtualizing hardware 130 examines the data. For example, the virtualizing hardware might be emulating DMA channel one. Thus, the virtualized hardware looks for information to program DMA channel 1.
If the virtualizing hardware 130 does not want the data, a retry is issued. During the retry, the virtualizing hardware 130 does not claim the access cycle. Consequently, the access cycle passes through the PCI to ISA bridge 150 to the ISA DMA controller.
If the virtualizing hardware 130 determines that the information relates to DMA channel 1, it uses the information to simulate channel 1 of the DMA. The information tells the virtualizing hardware 130 where data is to be transferred. For example, a record operation may be occurring and data needs to be transferred from the sound card to the system memory 115. Then, the virtualizing hardware 130 generates a master cycle to become a PCI bus master, for example a virtual DMA, and takes the data from the sound card and places it in a desired location in system memory 115. That is, the virtualizing hardware 130 performs the function of the ISA DMA.
To mimic the third party (e.g., ISA) DMA, the virtualizing hardware 130 needs to be a PCI master and take over control of the PCI bus 110. Bus mastering with the PCI operates as follows. A bus master board or PCI master, or in this instance the virtualizing hardware 130, sends a request signal to the host processor 100 requesting control of the PCI bus 110. The PCI bus 110 starts to transfer data when it receives confirmation in the form of a grant signal from a central resource (i.e., the circuitry shared by all bus devices on the motherboard including bus control logic). Each PCI device including the virtualizing hardware 130 has its own dedicated request and grant signal. This allows great flexibility in assigning priorities in the computer system.
An example of the above described virtualization may be explained by the following sequence of events: 1) host processor 100 attempts to program the ISA DMA controller connected to the ISA bus 140; 2) PCI virtualizing hardware 130 recognizes the cycle as possibly a port (e.g., an I/O port or channel of DMA) which it has to take action on; and one of the following sequences, 3a) PCI virtualizing hardware 130 traps the access and identifies the data as unnecessary to the process; 4a) PCI virtualizing hardware 130 then issues a retry and the next access to the ISA DMA controller is ignored, allowing data to pass through to the ISA bus 140; 5a) end process; or 3b) PCI virtualizing hardware 130 traps the access and identifies the data as necessary to the process; 4b) PCI virtualizing hardware 130 processes or requests the master to write the modified data to the ISA DMA controller on the ISA bus 140, then as master, the task is performed that might be required of the ISA DMA controller; and 5b) end process.
Virtualizing DMA hardware does not require the host processor (e.g., X86 or Intel) to be in a protected mode, that is in a mode in which the process is not running and in which I/O and memory accesses are intercepted. In protected mode, to write to certain memory locations, there are certain priority levels. Virtualization can be carried out in both real and protected mode. In real mode (e.g., DOS), there is no protection and information can be read or written to any location.
According to the present invention, virtualization can be extended to include any bus system which uses non-selective or subtractive decoding to bridge one bus to another. In an illustrative embodiment of the present invention, only one channel of a DMA device on an ISA bus is being virtualized while the actual DMA on the ISA bus handles all other DMA channels.
FIG. 2 depicts a functional block diagram of an exemplary implementation of the virtualizing hardware 130 described in connection with FIG. 1.
When an access cycle goes unclaimed on the PCI Bus 110 and is stolen by the virtualized hardware 130, the PCI target logic 160 in FIG. 2 receives the data. PCI target logic 160 interfaces with the PCI bus and divides the address and data from a multiplexed data stream received from the PCI Bus. The PCI data is written to DMA shadow registers and CODEC control and data registers 170 as described below. The CODEC control and data registers control the CODEC (coder/decoder) performance of standard CODEC functions (e.g., record, capture). The DMA shadow registers shadow the third party DMA registers to obtain data including base addresses, counters, status, etc.
DMA decoder 180 handles the address information for the virtualizing hardware 130 by receiving and decoding the high order (A4-A31) bits of the PCI address. In an illustrative embodiment, the virtualized device is the IBM 8237A-5 DMA controller. A channel parsor 190 receives the lower order portion of the address data (A0-A3) to determine for which channel the data is intended. The lower order address data identify the desired channel of the DMA and function to be performed. For example, address lines A0-A3 are examined when an 8237 DMA controller is being virtualized. An address select signal determines whether the channel parsed out corresponds with channel being virtualized. The channel parsor is typically programmed by, for example a plug and play BIOS or via utilities, to identify the virtualized channel.
If the channel is not the channel being virtualized, or otherwise contains irrelevant data (e.g., mask data or data from mask register), channel parsor 190 generates a channel miss signal. PCI write data from the PCI data write line via PCI target logic is input to channel parsor 190 which determine whether the data is desired (relevant). PCI target logic 160 receives the channel miss and requests a PCI retry by informing the PCI bus. During the retry, the virtualizing hardware 130 does not claim the access cycle.
If channel parsor 190 determines that the channel corresponds to a channel being shadowed (a virtualized channel), a channel hit signal is issued. DMA shadow registers 170 receive the channel hit signal which permits the PCI data on the PCI data write line to be written to or captured by the shadow registers 170. Also, if information is to be read out of the virtualizing hardware 130, the channel hit signal triggers information to be read out of the DMA shadow registers 170 onto the PCI data read line and passed through the PCI target logic 160 to the PCI bus.
In an exemplary embodiment, coupled to the DMA shadow register and CODEC control and data registers 170 is an audio CODEC 210 which is a bus master device. The audio CODEC is coupled to PCI bus master 220 and provides standard data record and playback functions. Optionally, DMA register write back logic 230 can be coupled to the PCI bus master 220. Interposed between the PCI bus master 220 and audio CODEC 210, and the PCI bus master 220 and DMA register write back logic 230 is audio/write back arbitor 240. The arbitor 240 is used when there are two sources of data.
DMA shadow registers 170 provides a third party DMA status terminal count to the DMA register write back logic 230. DMA register write back logic 230 writes data back to the virtualized device (e.g., the 8237) such as the terminal count when necessary. The DMA register write back logic 230 can change the terminal count register for the virtualized device. This may be necessary to complete the operation so that the entire system including the virtualized device acts as if the virtualized device has performed.
While particular embodiments of the present invention have been described and illustrated, it should be understood that the invention is not limited thereto since modifications may be made by persons skilled in the art. The present application contemplates any and all modifications that fall within the spirit and scope of the underlying invention disclosed and claimed herein.
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Saturday, February 25, 2012
When you aren't allowed in the building
This isn't usually a topic I'd talk about on STACKED -- I'd take it over to my library-related blog -- but this is such an important issue and one that impacts anyone who loves and advocates for ya books, so I'm going to talk about it here.
You know I am fired up this year about making sure books I care about are nominated for any of YALSA's award and selection lists. And you know I've talked about how anyone can nominate books they think are worthy of consideration for those award and selection lists. That's a huge deal and something not many people knew about. I think I've beat this horse pretty well.
Wednesday night, I went to go look at a book list on YALSA's site and came across something that bothered me (click to enlarge):
What was once an open and freely accessible resource of YALSA book award and book list information was suddenly requiring me to log in to my YALSA account to access. I clicked around for quite a while without logging into my account and realized that not only could I not see any of the award or selection lists without signing in, but I couldn't even see what the award or book lists were without logging in. That means, I had no idea how many awards there were, what they were called, what the criteria were for books to be considered for any of the lists, nor anything else related to any of YALSA's award or book lists. There was nothing, absolutely nothing, accessible about the award nor book lists without logging into my account.
Part of my professional responsibility as a librarian, at least in my head, is belonging to my professional association. It's very pricey, especially since I pay for the membership on my own and don't have an organization that pays it for me. To be a member of YALSA, you must also be a member of ALA -- you can't just be a member of YALSA. Yearly membership into ALA for me costs $100, and my membership into YALSA costs $50 (I'm also a member of PLA and ALSC, which are also additional costs). I think it's a steep price to pay each year, but it's one I make. Paying means I'm a member and I help support the creation and development of these award and selection lists, among a host of other things. It gives me the ability to have a say in the organization, as well. It's $150 I spend because it supports many things I am passionate about and allows me to have a say in many of these arenas.
When I hit the fire walled screen on Wednesday night and found out I needed to log in to my account to access, I was at first confused. Why would my professional organization hide information about one of the biggest things they do? Why would they require me to log in to see something that's always been openly accessible and available? I passed along the link to a non-member to see whether it was just me, and I came to find out that no, it wasn't just me.
No one could access these lists from YALSA's site without logging into an account of some sort.
For me, this means another couple of clicks on the screen to log in to my account. It's not the biggest deal in the world on a practical level. And non-YALSA members can also access the lists and information about the awards by filling out a short form that asks for a name, email address, and what products or services they might be interested in from YALSA. It also opts them into being signed up for YALSA email.
Let's step back a second here. To access even information about what awards or selection lists YALSA makes each year, you have to log into either your YALSA account or provide your personal information to the organization and be opted in to an email list. No longer can you access these freely from the YALSA site without information being collected about you. No longer can you hop onto YALSA's site to look at what books were Alex Award winners last year. No longer can you look at the criteria for Printz Award books. No longer do you even know how many award or selection lists there are without logging into some kind of account. No longer can you nominate a book for a list without breaking through the fire wall.
I'm disturbed by this because it chokes access to information. More than that, though, I'm bothered that nothing was said about this change in access. Librarians strive to prove access to information and our goal is always to make it as painless as possible. But here, YALSA, the biggest professional organization for young adult library services, has put up a barrier to information about the biggest honors they bestow upon ya literature each year.
And they did it without telling anyone.
After a little investigation, it was discovered that there was a Board of Directors document discussing a potential change in access to information about these award and selection lists. The document suggests that there should be a change in access so that due-paying YALSA members can access privileged information. More specifically, annotated lists would be put behind a fire wall and made members only, but general information about the award and selection lists, as well as the non-annotated lists, would still be freely accessible for anyone. This change makes sense to me -- as someone who pays the dues, getting the benefit of an annotated list, one that not everyone can access, seems fair. It's a small perk for paying the money each year to keep the organization going.
However, that is not what happened. Rather than hide simply the annotated lists behind a log in screen, YALSA has hidden everything behind a log in screen, and this change in policy was never discussed. It is not in any Board document, it was not discussed with membership, it was not put to vote, and it was certainly not shared on their website nor in any of their communications. This was a decision made behind closed doors somewhere.
Accessing any information about book award and selection lists is now a privilege.
For me, this means another couple of clicks on the screen to log in to my account. It's not a big deal, but it's an extra step in accessing information I need. And people who aren't members of YALSA can still access the lists by filling out a small form on the website. The problem is, YALSA's now collecting your information and it's now forcing you into their email list. This isn't an opt-out situation but an opt-in. You can't choose not to be forced into their mailing list.
Think about it this way: say you're a library patron whose library has always allowed anyone to use the computers in the building. You don't need to log into them with a library card, since you can just use one if it's open. One day, though, there's a change in the policy. It's not written down anywhere but you find out when you go sit at a computer and discover you need some kind of ID number and password to sign in. You're a little frustrated because no one told you there was a change, but you go to the librarian and sign up for a library card to get your log in information. Not a huge deal, but an extra step in the process.
Except in this scenario -- with the YALSA list access -- you aren't even allowed in the building without some sort of ID. You aren't even allowed to see what the library can offer you because you have to have the log in information before you walk inside.
I'm deeply bothered by this change in access to information by YALSA, and I am frustrated that as a member, I wasn't told about this change. When YALSA was asked about this, their response was that the choking of access to all of this information was a technical glitch and that the Board's decision about what information would be privileged would be the information fire walled when the glitch was solved.
But in my mind, besides sounding like a really bad excuse, the damage has already been done.
If we're advocating for books and reading, if we're advocating for the best of the best, and if the goal in having these awards and selection lists is to provide information, then there is no excuse for cutting it all out of public reach. Yes, I believe there is value in member's only content -- especially for something like annotated lists -- but there is no value in blocking off everything about these award lists. What is the value in not letting anyone even see what the award and selection lists ARE? It's locking out not only information, but valuable promotional opportunities. It puts barriers up to advocacy. Everything I told you about nominating books for awards because it's important still stands, but now there are extra steps involved in making those nominations. How many people will go through the extra hassle? I know I wouldn't.
Whether or not you are a YALSA member, you should have access to at least the basic information about these awards. That's one of the reasons you'd consider joining the organization in the first place -- you want to know what your money will be supporting. It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that the reason YALSA took these steps was so it could collect information about non-member behavior in hopes of growing their membership. And it makes sense. There's money to be made through growing membership, but this is not the way to achieve it. In fact, by developing this fire wall and not telling anyone about it, YALSA's pushing people away. It's making it an exclusive club.
Fortunately, there are workarounds to this situation that allow you access to the information without logging in or creating an account with YALSA. The first? Google the lists. You'd have to know what lists you're looking for, but a Google search of "YALSA Alex Awards" will take you to the information without forcing you to log in.
Now I don't know about you, but it seems backwards that you should be able to access information available on YALSA's site without restriction by going through Google, rather than YALSA, but I digress. You can do it this way.
The second means of accessing this information is by asking someone who is a YALSA member to log in and share the link to the list with you. I guess if you're given a link from a logged in member, you can go directly to it. Again, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, but it works.
What this long post is about is this: YALSA screwed up big time, and they didn't bother telling any of us about it. Instead, we're finding out when we're being locked out of information that's always been freely available. Information that's always been freely available and accessible. We're being forced to share our information with YALSA. We're being forced to figure out workarounds so we can access and share this information with others.
We're being pushed away from advocating and promoting these awards, these selection lists, and we're being pushed away from spreading the information about why these things are important.
The organization which supports freedom of information and spreading of knowledge is breaking down those very ideas.
This is not okay.
Edited to add this: Liz has also blogged on the topic, and her post is worth thinking about as well.
Later edited to add that YALSA has responded to this issue. For the record, I do not equate collecting email addresses to access this information as any sort of nod toward value but rather a nod toward needing to access the information. I'm a little disappointed this wasn't addressed with the membership nor was it in any Board documents, but there it is.
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I've been telling my students to use YALSA for a couple of years now. It helps them find books for their YA Lit projects. We've also used it in class so I can explain the awards and their criteria, in particular the Printz award because we read Looking for Alaska in my YA Lit class. I don't want to jump through hoops to get that information now.ReplyDeleteReplies
"I don't want to jump through hoops to get that information now" = EXACTLY the problem. Even for members, it's a hoop. I have to remember my log in information (which isn't easy) and then it's still a couple of screens away from the information.Delete
I was looking at a library book yesterday that I thought might be eligible for ENYA. ENYA has weird publication date rules so I wanted to look them up quick.ReplyDelete
But I forgot I had to log in first. I'm a member. I even changed my log in info so I have an easy-to-remember user name instead of using my ALA member number.
But I was in the middle of something else. I just wanted to look up the date REAL QUICK.
I hit the log in screen and said "Screw it. I'll look it up later when I have time to deal with it." Now, I actually care whether or not this book is eligible, so I did look it up later, but...Replies
Nail on the head, Jennie, and you know, the worst part is YALSA doesn't GET IT.Delete
I'm all for members only content, the kind you do have to log in to access, but the fact you have to log in to get any of the info now? It's not okay at all.
Never did I think I'd be advocating just going to Google, but here it is!
I teach a class to educators called, "Excellence in Children's Literature." As a part of that class, they have to read award winning books in multiple categories--from the Printz, to the Alex, to the specific State Award books. I keep a list for them on my blog: www.mindyhardwick.wordpress.com for easy access. I am disappointed that, now, they will have to go through an extra step to get that information. In a time when so many school librarians are being cut and/or hours decreased, it is important teaches have this information at their fingertips. So many tell me they aren't even aware that so many awards in children's literature are available.ReplyDeleteReplies
I agree. And I think that the whole extra step in the process is going to be a hassle that further hinders people's interest in supporting YALSA/their lists.Delete
As a teacher, I cannot afford to join ALA/YALSA, but I look at the list as a recommendation for books. It's disappointing to discover I can no longer access the information.ReplyDelete
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You can access it for free still, but you have to give YALSA your information (which signs you up for their mailing list in the process).Delete
Very disappointing! I'll be making my displeasure known. Thank you for pointing it out Kelly, I haven't been looking at the lists recently--although when my award books come I would have gone looking and been frustrated if I didn't have my ALA number here at home.ReplyDelete
Wow -- that's disappointing. I'm a school librarian and a member of ALA/AASL who has utilized YALSA's book lists since I was a library student. To give awards that celebrate exceptional books and then restrict access to information about those awards seems illogical. I've entered my information in order to access the book award and book list pages, but I wonder if YALSA will "remember me" or if I'll need to sign up every time I use a different computer.ReplyDelete
I'm confused. I just search for them online and as long as I land on the list itself and not the booklists directory, I can see everything without being logged in. http://www.ala.org/news/mediapresscenter/presskits/youthmediaawards/alayouthmediaawardsReplyDeleteReplies
You just hit the nail on the head. "I just search for them online" is the problem. You can't access them if you go to YALSA's site directly.Delete
Am I the only one who has my ALA number quasi memorized? The problem with the search that alethea did (as I mentioned in my blog post) is that you need to know what you're looking for to do the online search option. Also, if tech issues are still to be resolved, chances are the "fix" will include those who get to the content via online search rather than via the yalsa website.ReplyDeleteReplies
I have no idea what my number is (I save it on my home computer). And the problem is that exactly with the search -- you have to know what it is you want. And it's still an extra step.Delete
I totally agree with your comments and believe this will be a public relations mess for YALSA.ReplyDelete
Ironically, librarians fight against filtering, advocate for free access, and promote the use of free web 2.0 tools as well. Has YALSA really thought through all the people that access this list that aren't potential members? (authors, reporters, English teachers, students, etc.)
Also, the same thing could easily be accomplished by just having a prominent "sign up for more details" box above the list.
I work at an academic library, but I still have a few college students keen to read YA. One asked what recent award winners were, so I went to the site and BAM, I was blocked out. I'm not a YALSA member, so I figured I couldn't log in, which really upset me. I had to Google search award winners, which took more time, and then we eventually gave up. Frustrating.ReplyDelete