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Ned here again. Today's post is probably going to generate some interesting comments. I'm going to discuss the absence of a multi-host distributed file locking mechanism within Windows, and specifically within folders replicated by DFSR.
Some Background
It's important to make a clear delineation of where DFSR and SMB live in your replicated data environment. SMB allows users to access their files, and it has no awareness of DFSR. Likewise, DFSR (using the RPC protocol) keeps files in sync between servers and has no awareness of SMB. Don't confuse distributed locking as defined in this post and Opportunistic Locking.
So here's where things can go pear-shaped, as the Brits say.
Since users can modify data on multiple servers, and since each Windows server only knows about a file lock on itself, and since DFSR doesn't know anything about those locks on other servers, it becomes possible for users to overwrite each other's changes. DFSR uses a "last writer wins" conflict algorithm, so someone has to lose and the person to save last gets to keep their changes. The losing file copy is chucked into the ConflictAndDeleted folder.
Now, this is far less common than people like to believe. Typically, true shared files are modified in a local environment; in the branch office or in the same row of cubicles. They are usually worked on by people on the same team, so people are generally aware of colleagues modifying data. And since they are usually in the same site, the odds are much higher that all the users working on a shared doc will be using the same server. Windows SMB handles the situation here. When a user has a file locked for modification and his coworker tries to edit it, the other user will get an error like:
And if the application opening the file is really clever, like Word 2007, it might give you:
DFSR does have a mechanism for locked files, but it is only within the server's own context. As I've discussed in a previous post, DFSR will not replicate a file in or out if its local copy has an exclusive lock. But this doesn't prevent anyone on another server from modifying the file.
Back on topic, the issue of shared data being modified geographically does exist, and for some folks it's pretty gnarly. We're occasionally asked why DFSR doesn't handle this locking and take of everything with a wave of the magic wand. It turns out this is an interesting and difficult scenario to solve for a multi-master replication system. Let's explore.
Third-Party Solutions
There are some vendor solutions that take on this problem, which they typically tackle through one or more of the following methods*:
Having a central 'traffic cop' allows one server to be aware of all the other servers and which files they have locked by users. Unfortunately this also means that there is often a single point of failure in the distributed locking system.
Having a central 'traffic cop' allows one server to be aware of all the other servers and which files they have locked by users. Unfortunately this also means that there is often a single point of failure in the distributed locking system.
Since a central broker must be able to talk to all servers participating in file replication, this removes the ability to handle complex network topologies. Ring topologies and multi hub-and-spoke topologies are not usually possible. In a non-fully routed network, some servers may not be able to directly contact each other or a broker, and can only talk to a partner who himself can talk to another server – and so on. This is fine in a multi-master environment, but not with a brokering mechanism.
Since a central broker must be able to talk to all servers participating in file replication, this removes the ability to handle complex network topologies. Ring topologies and multi hub-and-spoke topologies are not usually possible. In a non-fully routed network, some servers may not be able to directly contact each other or a broker, and can only talk to a partner who himself can talk to another server – and so on. This is fine in a multi-master environment, but not with a brokering mechanism.
Some solutions limit the topology to a pair of servers in order to simplify their distributed locking mechanism. For larger environments this is may not be feasible.
Some solutions limit the topology to a pair of servers in order to simplify their distributed locking mechanism. For larger environments this is may not be feasible.
* Note that I say typically! Please do not post death threats because you have a solution that does/does not implement one or more of those methods!
Deeper Thoughts
As you think further about this issue, some fundamental issues start to crop up. For example, if we have four servers with data that can be modified by users in four sites, and the WAN connection to one of them goes offline, what do we do? The users can still access their individual servers – but should we let them? We don't want them to make changes that conflict, but we definitely want them to keep working and making our company money. If we arbitrarily block changes at that point, no users can work even though there may not actually be any conflicts happening! There's no way to tell the other servers that the file is in use and you're back at square one.
Then there's SMB itself and the error handling of reporting locks. We can't really change how SMB reports sharing violations as we'd break a ton of applications and clients wouldn't understand new extended error messages anyways. Applications like Word 2007 do some undercover trickery to figure out who is locking files, but the vast majority of applications don't know who has a file in use (or even that SMB exists. Really.). So when a user gets the message 'This file is in use' it's not particularly actionable – should they all call the help desk? Does the help desk have access to all the file servers to see which users are accessing files? Messy.
Since we want multi-master for high availability, a broker system is less desirable; we might need to have something running on all servers that allows them all to communicate even through non-fully routed networks. This will require very complex synchronization techniques. It will add some overhead on the network (although probably not much) and it will need to be lightning fast to make sure that we are not holding up the user in their work; it needs to outrun file replication itself - in fact, it might need to actually be tied to replication somehow. It will also have to account for server outages that are network related and not server crashes, somehow.
And then we're back to special client software for this scenario that better understands the locks and can give the user some useful info ("Go call Susie in accounting and tell her to release that doc", "Sorry, the file locking topology is broken and your administrator is preventing you from opening this file until it's fixed", etc). Getting this to play nicely with the millions of applications running in Windows will definitely be interesting. There are plenty of OS's that would not be supported or get the software – Windows 2000 is out of mainstream support and XP soon will be. Linux and Mac clients wouldn't have this software until they felt it was important, so the customer would have to hope their vendors made something analogous.
The Big Finish
Right now the easiest way to control this situation in DFSR is to use DFS Namespaces to guide users to predictable locations, with a consistent namespace. By correctly configuring your DFSN site topology and server links, you force users to all share the same local server and only allow them to access remote computers when their 'main' server is down. For most environments, this works quite well. Alternative to DFSR, SharePoint is an option because of its check-out/check-in system. BranchCache (coming in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7) may be an option for you as it is designed for easing the reading of files in a branch scenario, but in the end the authoritative data will still live on one server only – more on this here. And again, those vendors have their solutions.
We've heard you loud and clear on the distributed locking mechanism though, and just because it's a difficult task does not mean we're not going to try to tackle it. You can feel free to discuss third party solutions in our comments section, but keep in mind that I cannot recommend any for legal reasons. Plus I'd love to hear your brainstorms – it's a fun geeky topic to discuss, if you're into this kind of stuff.
- Ned 'Be Gentle!' Pyle
Hi, this is Manish Singh from the Directory Services team and I am going to talk about the machine account password process. Ever wondered what goes on with your machine account in Active Directory? Here is a brief set of question and answers to clear things up.
How often does the machine password account change in AD (is it different for various Windows operating systems)?
The machine account password change is initiated by the computer every 30 days by default . Since Windows 2000, all versions of Windows have the same value. This behaviour can be modified to a custom value using the following group policy setting in Active Directory.
Domain member: Maximum machine account password age You can configure this security setting by opening the appropriate policy and expanding the console tree as such:
Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\Security Options
If a workstation does not change its password, will it not be allowed to log onto the network?
Machine account passwords as such do not expire in Active Directory. They are exempted from the domain's password policy. It is important to remember that machine account password changes are driven by the CLIENT (computer), and not the AD. As long as no one has disabled or deleted the computer account, nor tried to add a computer with the same name to the domain, (or some other destructive action), the computer will continue to work no matter how long it has been since its machine account password was initiated and changed.
So if a computer is turned off for three months nothing expires. When the computer starts up, it will notice that its password is older than 30 days and will initiate action to change it. The Netlogon service on the client computer is responsible for doing this. This is only applicable if the machine is turned off for such a long time. Before we set the new password locally, we ensure we have a valid secure channel to the DC. If the client was never able to connect to the DC (where never is anything prior the time of the attempt – time to refresh the secure channel), then we will not change the password locally.
The relevant Netlogon parameters that come into play and we can think about changing here are:
ScavengeInterval (default 15 minutes), MaximumPasswordAge (default 30 days) DisablePasswordChange (default off).
DisablePasswordChange would prevent the client computer from changing its computer account password.
Key = HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetLogon\Parameters Value = DisablePasswordChange REG_DWORD Default = 0
Group policy setting: Computer Configuration\windows Settings\Security settings\Local Policies\Security Options Domain member: Disable machine account Password changes
Warning: If you disable machine account password changes, there are security risks because the security channel is used for pass-through authentication. If someone discovers a password, he or she can potentially perform pass-through authentication to the domain controller. Here is the article that talks about disabling automatic machine account password change: KB 154501
Warning: If you disable machine account password changes, there are security risks because the security channel is used for pass-through authentication. If someone discovers a password, he or she can potentially perform pass-through authentication to the domain controller. Here is the article that talks about disabling automatic machine account password change: KB 154501
ScavengeInterval controls how often the workstation scavenger thread runs - the workstation scavenger is responsible for changing the machine password if necessary:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetLogon\Parameters Value: ScavengeInterval REG_DWORD 60 to 172800 Seconds (48 hours) Default : 900 (15 minutes)
MaximumPasswordAge determines when the computer password needs to be changed.
Key = HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetLogon\Parameters Value = MaximumPasswordAge REG_DWORD Default = 30 Range = 1 to 1,000,000 (in days)
Group policy setting: Computer Configuration\windows Settings\Security settings\Local Policies\Security Options
Domain member: Maximum machine account Password age
To clear things up, it is 7 days on Windows NT by default, and 30 days on Windows 2000 and up. The trust password follows the same setting. So Trust between two NT 4 domains is 7 days. Trusts between Windows 2000 and up and anything else is 30 days. So what this means is if:
After the Netlogon service starts, the Workstation service scavenger thread wakes up. If the password is not older than MaximumPasswordAge, the scavenger thread goes back to sleep and sets itself to wake up when the password will reach that age. Otherwise, the scavenger thread will attempt to change the password. If it cannot talk to a DC, it will go back to sleep and try again in ScavengeInterval minutes.
The ScavengeInterval setting can be modified to a custom value using the group policy setting in Active Directory.
Group policy setting: Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Netlogon\Scavenge Interval
Further we have given the following clarification regarding the behavior described in: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/regentry/55944.mspx?mfr=true
How do computers actually use passwords?
Each Windows-based computer maintains a machine account password history containing the current and previous passwords used for the account. When two computers attempt to authenticate with each other and a change to the current password is not yet received, Windows then relies on the previous password. If the sequence of password changes exceeds two changes, the computers involved may be unable to communicate, and you may receive error messages.
When a client determines that the machine account password needs to be changed, it would try to contact a domain controller for the domain of which it is a member of to change the password on the domain controller. If this operation succeeds then it would update machine account password locally.
The client first changes the password locally and then attempts to update it in Active Directory. If the domain controller is configured with security policy "Domain Controller: Refuse machine account password changes" (i.e. RefusePasswordChange, see here and here), then the client rolls back locally to the previous password. If the password change fails, however, the client keeps the new password locally and keeps trying to set it on the scavenge interval until it succeeds.
The local copy of the machine password is stored under:
We store the current password and the previous password under CurrVal & OldVal Keys respectively. In Active Directory, we store the password in unicodepwd and lmpwdHistory. We also store the timestamp in the pwdlastset attribute (the method to convert it into readable format is:
The resultant value is the date and time the password was set on this computer object in AD. The cases where in you could run into problems that the KB260575 describes would be: If you use System Restore after the password change interval expired one time, and you restore the computer to a point before the password changes, the next password change may not occur when it is due. Instead, the operating system treats the restore as if the password was changed.
Now consider the scenario, when a machine is not connected to the network for a long period. Supposing on the client:
And on the machine account in AD:
After 30 days when the Scavenger thread runs, the value would be:
At 60th day the same process happens again. So now the newly generated password is C and the values are:
Now when the client connects to AD, it will try the current password to authenticate. When that fails with error. Otherwise machine should be able to reset its password once it boots even after say 90 days.
How to detect and remove inactive machine accounts http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;197478
How to disable automatic machine account password changes http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;154501
Effects of machine account replication on a domain http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;175468
Domain member: Disable machine account password changes http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc785826.aspx
Domain member: Maximum machine account password age http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781050.aspx
Account Passwords and Policies http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc783860.aspx
- Manish Singh
[Updated with a strict clarification of the client local password rollback behavior 7-19-2012; thanks for asking, Joe - Ned]
Craig here. We've had some nasty cases related to this bug, so it seemed prudent to do our best to increase the awareness of this issue. In a nutshell, the DNS Server service in Windows Server 2008 has a bug that can result in a large number of DNS records disappearing. When those records go missing, you will start seeing problems with anything that depends on name resolution, which in an Active Directory environment is pretty much everything. Note this hotfix only applies to standard secondary zones. Active Directory-integrated zones are not affected by this issue because they use AD replication, not zone transfers, to stay synchronized.
For this reason, we recommend that you take a look at the following KB article and consider applying the hotfix to your environment.
953317 A primary DNS zone file may not transfer to the secondary DNS servers in Windows Server 2008 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953317
If you are hitting this issue, you may see the following event logged:
Event Type: Error Event Source: DNS Event Category: None Event ID: 6527 Date: 8/21/2008 Time: 3:20:34 PM User: N/A Computer: Server01.contoso.com Description: Zone contoso.com expired before it could obtain a successful zone transfer or update from a master server acting as its source for the zone. The zone has been shut down.
The problem is specific to Windows Server 2008 SP1 (meaning the original release of Windows Server 2008). The 953317 hotfix version of DNS.EXE is 6.0.6001.22218. The problem may occur on both secondary DNS servers that were upgraded from Windows Server 2003 and also new installs of Windows Server 2008. For this issue to reproduce, a master server must be hit with enough changes that it cannot service an IXFR request, and so will respond to IXFR with an AXFR.
What you will see is that most of the records in the DNS zone will appear to have disappeared, expired, or been deleted. The zone itself continues to exist but virtually all records in the zone are deleted except for the Start of Authority (SOA) records. Often a handful of host "A" records will also remain present in the zone.
Because DNS servers affected by this condition continue to host a copy of the zone, they will continue to respond to queries from clients. The typical response returned by DNS servers with deleted zone contents is that the record queried do not exist (this assumes that the DNS server role is otherwise functional) in the zone. Windows clients will continue to direct queries to responsive DNS servers instead of failing over to an alternate DNS server that hosts a complete copy of the zone.
Keywords: Windows Server 2008 secondary master primary zone transfer zone axfr ixfr incremental zone transfer full zone transfer delete deleted disappear disappeared missing expired expire
- Craig Landis
I'm guessing Ned will insert something like "Hello, Warren here again". [Nope – Ned]
The other day I was working with server core and wanted to rename my server. Recently I have been working more with WMIC to get data from the DFSR service so I thought why not try WMIC?
Renaming a computer with WMIC
To rename a computer we can use the "Rename" method of the "Win32_ComputerSystem" WMI class. The command looks like this:
WMIC ComputerSystem where Name=COMPUTERNAME call Rename Name=NewName
WMIC ComputerSystem where Name=COMPUTERNAME call Rename Name=NewName
Don't forget to reboot as you will not be prompted to restart the system.
Netdom can do the same thing
Don't forget that you can also rename a computer using Netdom. You may find the Netdom method more user friendly if you are just renaming one system. Using WMIC may come in handy if you need to script the renaming of several machines or just want show off your "skills" to coworkers.
325354 How To Use the Netdom.exe Utility to Rename a Computer in Windows Server 2003 - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;325354
325354 How To Use the Netdom.exe Utility to Rename a Computer in Windows Server 2003 - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;325354
Netdom is part of the Support Tools for Windows 2003. In Windows 2008 it is included in the OS install.
"Invalid Global Switch" error
I noticed while working with renaming a computer with WMIC I would sometimes get an "Invalid Global Switch" error. After digging a bit I found that WMIC does not handle special characters. If there are dashes in any of the names used the command will fail unless they are enclosed with quotes. Just so happens I always use dashes in my computer names. So if the command was formatted as shown below it would fail.
WMIC ComputerSystem where Name=COMPUTER-NAME call Rename Name=NewName
WMIC ComputerSystem where Name=COMPUTER-NAME call Rename Name=NewName
To get this command to run you would need to enclose the name in quotes
WMIC ComputerSystem where Name="COMPUTER-NAME" call Rename Name=NewName
WMIC ComputerSystem where Name="COMPUTER-NAME" call Rename Name=NewName
This command also takes environment variables, so if you have been using SYSPREP and have computer names that are gross, you can save time by using the %computername% variable:
Happy computer renaming!
- Warren Allen Williams
New KB articles related to Directory Services for the week of 2/14-2/21.
A Windows Server 2003-based computer becomes unresponsive when a high volume of traffic runs through a network adapter that has a large bandwidth
A Windows Server 2003-based or Windows Server 2008-based terminal server stops accepting new connections, and existing connections stop responding
During user logon or logoff, you receive stop error code 0x00000050, and the system restarts automatically on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista SP1
Error message when you create a RODC IFM or RODC Sysvol IFM on a Windows Server 2008-based domain controller
Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 do not correctly audit all the privilege use events
A Terminal Server smartcard logon using RDP 6.0 may fail with error code 0x507
Hi, it's Adam Conkle from the Microsoft Directory Services team. I recently encountered a disaster recovery situation with an ADAM instance where objects were accidentally deleted, and the customer required help performing the restore of those objects from backup. We ran into a major problem that I feel many administrators may be overlooking, so I thought I should write about it.
When I began working with the customer, she had performed a restore to an alternate location of the Microsoft ADAM directory using their enterprise 3rd party backup software. She then showed me the contents of the restore directory and I saw that neither the database (adamntds.dit) nor the transaction log (edb.log) were present. She stated that their backup job was configured to back up the entire Microsoft ADAM directory, and she was concerned why the database and transaction log were not included in the restore.
Here are some things to think about:
Value name: ADAM (<instance_name>) Writer
Value Data: <path_to_adamntds.dit>
Value name: ADAM (<instance_name>) Writer
Value Data: <path_to_adamntds.dit>
This registry value tells NTBackup not to backup these files as a normal file backup. Instead, NTBackup will ignore these files during the normal file backup and then invoke VSS to take a snapshot of the files so that a proper backup can be taken.
In NTBackup, if you select the entire Microsoft ADAM directory for backup and then drill down to the data directory you can see that the database and transaction logs are not checked. This tends to be confusing because one would assume that this means the files will not be backed up. Rest assured that as long as your VSS writer is functional and the registry value described above is in place, the files will be captured in your backup.
When NTBackup encounters the Microsoft ADAM directory data you can see on the interface when the VSS has been invoked:
In the customer's scenario, the 3rd party backup software could back up the System State, but it was not aware of the FilesNotToBackup registry key, and thus did not back up the ADAM database and transaction log files successfully. Without a valid backup of ADAM we were not able to restore those objects.
In conclusion, for disaster recovery purposes, I highly recommend that administrators verify that they are getting good backups of ADAM, especially if they are using 3rd party backup software. If your ADAM database and transaction logs are not being backed up you should schedule NTBackup to backup your ADAM instances or consult your 3rd party backup software vendor to add this functionality.
*Note - This posting does not apply to AD LDS on Windows Server 2008. Windows Server 2008 contains Windows Server Backup which backs up whole volumes of data using the Volume Shadow Copy Service. A System State backup using Windows Server Backup captures the entire volume for all critical volumes containing operating system files. If your AD LDS instance(s) are stored on a non-critical volume, you will need to ensure that the volume(s) on which they reside are being backed up correctly as they will not be captured in a System State backup.
Take care,
Adam "Wheatgrass" Conkle
[What are the odds of an ADAM SME being named Adam? I think I'll change my name to DFSR - Ned]
Hi, Russell here. I'm a member of the Microsoft Texas Directory Services Team. I specialize in all things LDAP, with particular focus on 3rd Party LDAP Client interop, ADAM & AD LDS, Directory Service Schemas, Indexing, and LDAP Query Performance Tuning.
We recently had a customer who had "inherited" an ADAM infrastructure. He called concerning replication failures between ADAM instances. Trouble was, he had no documentation explaining the configuration. Fortunately, AD LDS and ADAM have many tools to help you sort out the confusion after the fact. One of them is LDIFDE, which is the MS version of a tool that imports and exports in the LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) RFC2849 Spec.
To assist the customer, we asked for an LDIFDE export of his ADAM Configuration Partition to view the ADAM NTDS Settings Objects and Site configurations.
Problem - The command line help leaves a bit to be desired. While export mode of operation is the default for ldifde, we did not require a full output of all ADAM Partitions, #1; nor would the macro expansion feature give us the desired results, #2:
1. LDIFDE -m -f output.ldf
2. LDIFDE -f export.ldif -c "#configurationNamingContext" "cn=configuration,dc=x"
Complicating matters, if the machine is in a domain, the export will occur from the first DC to respond, not ADAM if ADAM is listening on any port other than 389. See the fine print at the end.
To obtain just the Configuration Container for analysis, we'll need to supply LDIFDE more information:
Order is important. Use the -d switch first, then the server, port, and an output file name.
Example: LDIFDE -d CN=Configuration,CN={43B6F689-F8B3-47B5-BB75-5B56BB5A55} –s localhost -t 50000 -f ServerConfig.ldif NOTES – CN=GUID is from a sample machine. Each configuration container will have a unique GUID. Replica members will share this GUID. Possible errors you might encounter when syntax is incorrect:
"The default naming context cannot be found. Using NULL as a search base." "No entries found."
Fine Print on the above error - This is actually an issue with LDIFDE & ADAM interop, in that ADAM does not populate the defaultNamingContext in RootDSE by default. The error shows that you connected to ADAM RootDSE, but without a search base, nothing gets exported.
Hasta luego,
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Ned here again. William Stanek has released a couple of new books through Microsoft Press that any AD administrator will find indespensible:
Active Directory Administrator's Pocket ConsultantGroup Policy Administrator's Pocket Consultant
In William's own words, the "book is organized by job-related tasks rather than by features. Speed and ease of reference is an essential part of this hands-on guide. The book has an expanded table of contents and an extensive index for finding answers to problems quickly. Many other quick reference features have been added as well. These features include step-by-step instructions, lists, tables with fast facts, and extensive cross-references."
These are excellent task-oriented handbooks that are especially useful at 3AM when the brain gets fuzzy and the chips are down. You can read more details on what the books include at William's website. They each list at thirty bucks, but a quick look at Amazon shows they are currently a steal at $19.79 plus free shipping. Hussle on over there before they come to their senses. :)
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Jazz's Raja Bell out vs. Chicago Bulls
Chicago Jazz shooting guard Raja Bell (internal matter) won't be available for a game Saturday night against the Bulls.
Utah announced Bell's absence at 2:30 p.m. CT.
Bell had started the last three games for the Jazz, after missing six consecutive contests due to a strained left adductor.
With Bell out, Utah coach Tyrone Corbin could start Gordon Hayward, C.J. Miles or Alec Burks at the 2.
Hayward spent the first 36 games of the season as the Jazz's starting small forward and filled in at shooting guard during Bell's six-game absence, teaming with Josh Howard in the first unit. Hayward was moved to the bench Monday against Cleveland.
Burks filled in for Bell at shooting guard Friday during Utah's road loss to Philadelphia, playing the final 10 minutes and 3 seconds, and closing the game against 76ers shooting guard Evan Turner.
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I invested in Berkshire for many years and did very well - thank you very much. With that said Buffet of the past decade and likely throughout his career has alwasy been something differrent than his public persona. anyone who's been paying attetion lately can see that reality - if they dare to look objectively. He's a fraud in almost the exact same way Trump is a fruad.
Well, Dede..What will we find when we look at your entrails?? Perfection? Transparency? Nothing hidden from view? I doubt it.
It's interesting how we all selectively choose what we focus on, depending on our mood or disposition. I doubt there are more than a hanful of CEO'S that as people, I would trust more than Warren Buffett. That doesn't imply he's perfect, just that his heart and his mind are in the right places, compared to 99% of us. It's great that WB has made a lot of money, but it's far better in my mind that he's using it for the greater good, hardly a requirement.
Where was the clip shown at the BRK annual meeting? I rounded up my family to watch and all we got was this... The annual meeting clip was hilarious! (The Governator clip at the annual meeting in hindsight was downright sleezeball...)
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The reason why I haven't updated my blog since Tuesday is because I've been either riding my Spearfish or staring at it. I will be the first to admit that I am completely obsessed with that bike. At first, I was a little curious to how I would feel riding it. I mean, my favorite bike is a single speed hard tail. Not only does the Spearfish have gears, but it's also full-suspension.
However it was GAME OVER the moment I started pedaling. I can't even begin to describe how the Spearfish rides except that it climbs like a hard tail (I felt no bobbing) but floats over everything. Instead of getting jarred over bumpy trail the Spearfish just glides right over them. I can't stay off of it!
I spent all week looking forward to the 6 hours of Pando. I could not wait to test the Spearfish out during a long-ish race. Unfortunately it rained all Friday long and I decided to leave the Spearfish at home. As much as I wanted to race it I couldn't afford to trash all of my parts in the mud. I basically need them to last ten years.
So I took my Selma and El Mariachi.
Anyways, Pando went really well. The rain stopped, the course dried out freakishly fast, and I was able to push myself the entire time. At the start line I looked around and realized that I was the only female racing solo. I decided to go after the guys....bahahahahahha :-)
I made it back from my 16th lap with about 30 seconds to spare and I'm really happy my friend Steve told me to go back out for one more lap because I ended up taking the overall win out of the 6-hour solos by a lap!
It was a really great workout and I'm happy that I raced it instead of Ore to Shore. Don't get me wrong, I really love racing Ore to Shore. But I really didn't feel like making the drive. Instead of being stuck in the car all day Sunday I was able to get another 5.5 hour ride in. And yes, my legs are officially tired!!!
Speaking of car rides...now I have four days until I leave for Minnesota. Packing shouldn't be that hard because I never fully unpacked from Wisconsin! Scott can't go on the trip but I do have a great friend coming with to help me with the drive and filling out my hydrapaks...it should be a good time!


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ATLANTA – An avid Jeep owner from Athens, taking note of a Georgia Lottery ticket with vroom, has won a brand new vehicle. Edwin Etheridge III, 33, played the instant game Jeep Outdoor Adventure and won a 2012 Jeep Wrangler, taxes paid, plus $25,000 for customization.
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Stitches Used: Single Crochet; Slip Stitch
Here's an easy project for the beginning crocheter. It can be done in no time and the design uses less than one 3 oz. skein of white, red, and green yarn.
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White Baby Rick Rack
3 oz. Red Heart Super Saver 4-ply Knitting Worsted Weight Yarn (Green)
Scrap brown yarn (for trunk)
1/2" Red Tinsel Pompom by Fibre Craft
Two 12" Red Chenille Stem
8 Small oval gold beads
1 small bunch of red berries
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With brown yarn, ch 6, sl st to beginning of row.
Rd 2: Sc 10 times into center. Sl st to beg, ch 1.
Rd 3: Sc around row, sl st, ch 1 (10 sts)
Rd 4 & 5: Rep row 3. (Will begin to curl up)
Change to green yarn.
Rd 6: 2 sc in each st, sl st, ch 1.
Rd 7: * sc in 1 st, 2 sc in next st. Repeat from * around row, sl st, ch 1.
Rd 8: Sc around row, sl st, ch 1. (28 stitches).
Rd 9: Rep row 7. (40 stitches).
Rd 10: * sc in 2 sts, skip 1 st, repeat from * around row. Sl st, ch 1. (26 stitches).
Rd 11: Sc around row. Sl st, ch 1.
Rd 12: Skip 1 st every 4th sc. Sl st, ch 1. (22 stitches).Stuff base of tree.
Rd 13: Rep row 11.
Rd 14: Skip 1 st every 5th sc, sl st, ch 1. (18 stitches).
Rd 15: Work even in sc, sl st, ch 1.
Rd 16: Rep row 14.
Rd 17: Work even.
Rd 18: Rep row 14. Stuff as you progress.
Rd 19: Work even. (12 stitches).
Rd 20: Repeat row 12.
Rd 21: Work even.
Rd 22: Skip every 3rd st, sl st, ch 1.
Rd 23: Work even.
Rd 24: Skip every other stitch, sl st. Stuff tip well.
Sl st 2 sts at top and pull yarn thru. Tuck in end.
Glue one end of each chenille stem together and curve to fit around tree as shown. Push end at top back into crochet to anchor and at bottom back of tree. Glue large pompom at top.
Make small bows from white rick rack, about 8 or 9, and one with longer tails for front top. Glue bows in place where desired and glue on gold beads as shown. Cut off stems of berries and glue in place.


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Oh, the beauty of a statuesque layer cake, always the belle on a buffet of Southern desserts. The cakes I love from these five bakeries possess professional twists—a finesse to the presentation or a unique flavor combination that would make it darn tricky to pass off as your own at an office party or family reunion.
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Grammys 2013: Carrie UnderwoodThe annual 55th Grammy Awards is to take place tonight in Los Angeles.
As one of music's biggest events of the year, top performers include comeback of six-time Grammy winner, first-time artist collaborations, Grammy debuts and more.
Carrie Underwood tweeted her excitement about the show, "Uh-oh...It's the night before the Grammys and I can't sleep! It's going on 3:30... :( #whyme."
Carrie has won the Best Country Solo Performance with her hit song "Blown Away" and wowed the crowd with an amazing performance looking beautiful. Her performance receives a standing ovation.
Fans shared on Twitter, "Great light effects on Carrie's dress," "We were already #BlownAwayby her voice...but the dress, too?!! Amazing @CarrieUnderwoodperformance at @TheGrammys."
The 55th Annual Grammy Awards is to return to Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday. It will air live on the CBS Television Network at 8p.m. ET. It will be hosted for the second time by LL Cool J.
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Cluster experiment-OAR2
This practice is about running jobs on a cluster. You will learn how to access a Grid'5000 cluster, how to install your data and how to run your jobs and visualize them.
We recommend you to open at least 2 terminals:
You're advised to look at the OAR2#Quick_Glossary for definitions of terms used below.
Prepare the experiment environment
In this tutorial, we are going to use a very simple program using the OpenMPI library. This hello world example only prints the rank of each parallel process and the name of the node it is running on.
- To simulate a computation, each process sleeps during 60 seconds.
The program to run is stored outside of Grid'5000. Thus, we need to retrieve and install it on the cluster where we are currently connected.
Cluster setup
Check proxy configuration
To retrieve data from a web site outsite Grid'5000, it is required to use the web proxy.
Only a few external web sites are reachable from inside Grid'5000
We will use the wget command to retrieve our data from Internet. To use a web proxy with wget, the
$http_proxy and
$https_proxy environment variables must be defined.
By default, those
$http_proxy and
$https_proxy environment variables are not set, to avoid any confusion when using http to connect resources inside Grid'5000. Please run the following command to check your current environment :
You should get:
http_proxy= https_proxy=
For this tutorial we use the web proxy, so we need to set the 2 environment variables:
export http_proxy="http://proxy:3128" ; export https_proxy="http://proxy:3128"
We can now verify that the environment is indeed modified:
You should get:
http_proxy=http://proxy:3128 https_proxy=http://proxy:3128
Data installation
The experiment data are stored on the project's repository at INRIA Gforge.
(1) Copy them onto the
wget --no-check-certificate https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/26756/hello.tgz -O ~/hello.tgz
(2) Unpack experiment data:
~/hello/ directory has been created in our home directory.
It will be available on every clusters's node of the site because of
NFS-mounted home directories.
If your experiment generate lots of writings, it's advised to do them on local disk space of the nodes instead of your networked-shared home directory.
This way, you will avoid a lot of NFS troubles, such as lags or breakdowns.
NFS service is shared among all users and all compute nodes, its performance may vary independently of your experiment.
In order to ensure experiment's reproductibility, be sure to avoid measurements that could depend on the performance of a shared NFS server !
Visualize cluster
Experiment data are now ready. Before running the experiment in a job, we are now going to look at the cluster state, which can be visualized in many ways.
Scheduled or running jobs
oarstat is a command-line tool to view current or planned job submission.
View each submissions:
View each submission details:
View a specific submission details
View the status of a specified job:
View each submissions from a given user:
The API provides a UI to view all scheduled or running jobs.
Nodes properties
oarnodes is also a command-line tool. It shows cluster node properties:
Among returned information there is current node state. This state is generally
Alive or
Absent. When nodes are sick, their state is
Suspected or
Pretty output
oarprint is a tool providing a pretty print of a job resources.
The command prints a sorted output of the resources of a job with regard to a key property, with a customisable format.
On a job connection node (where
$OAR_RESOURCE_PROPERTIES_FILE is defined):
The following command must be executed in an OAR job (on a compute node)
On the submission
For now, you can test this tool using the second command with a
OAR_JOB_ID obtained with
Current nodes states
Monika is a web interface which in a way synthesizes information given by
oarstat and
It displays:
- Current nodes states
- Scheduled or running submissions (at the bottom).
Gantt charts
Drawgantt is a web interface that prints past, current and planned node states on a temporal diagram.
Node load, memory usage, cpu usage and so on are available with the Ganglia web interface: https://helpdesk.grid5000.fr/ganglia/
By default, current metrics are displayed but you can have an aggregated view of up to 1 year in the past.
Interactive run
OAR2, the Grid'5000 batch scheduler, has an interactive mode. This mode connects the user to the first of his allocated nodes.
Submit an interactive job:
OAR2 returns a numeric unique Id that identify our submission:
-I option automatically connects you to the job's first node.
OAR2 sets several environment variables that can be used by scripts to get parametrized by the current submission properties:
Especially the list of your dedicated nodes can be viewed:
Sometimes nodes name are duplicated inside the
It is time to run our script:
Results are going to be printed on the standard output.
Submission is visible on the Monika web interface of the site where it was submitted:
Cluster status cannot be obtained in command-line from the node where you were connected by OAR.
You need another terminal connected to the
frontend machine:
With interactive submission, the end of the job is:
- Not related to the execution lifespan of your scripts.
- Depends on the connection to the job's first node that OAR made for you.
Thus you can run as many scripts as you want until the job deadline.
Default submission's walltime are of 1 hour. If your connection still lies after that deadline, it's automatically cut off by OAR2.
You can kill your submission by quitting the shell opened by OAR.
But the submission should no longer appear when requesting the current cluster status:
Check Monika and DrawOARGantt if they have been updated after your submission's end.
The nodes dedicated to the job should return in the available state.
Passive run
OAR2 could be used in passive mode:
- A script is passed into parameter.
- It will be executed on the reservation's head.
- It must know about the other dedicated nodes to split its work between them.
Submit a passive job with our script:
Environment variables, described during our interactive submission, are also set for passive jobs.
Do the same as for interactive submission.
Wrapping script
The following script launches a passive job that will execute the
hello_mpi program and waits until the job starts.
launchJob.sh :
#!/bin/bash my_script="~/hello/run_hello_mpi" oar_job_id=`oarsub $my_script | grep "OAR_JOB_ID" | cut -d '=' -f2` oar_stdout_file="OAR.$oar_job_id.stdout" until oarstat -s -j $oar_job_id | grep Running ; do echo "Job (id: $oar_job_id) is waiting..." sleep 1 done echo "Job $oar_job_id is started !"
To ease post-run analysis, OAR will by default redirect standard output and standard error output
OAR.OAR_JOB_ID.stdout and
OAR.OAR_JOB_ID.stderr respectively.
They should be seen in your current working directory after job's end:
Thus you can follow the output of your job as it is running:
OAR lets you to specify output files for standard and error output streams by using options
-O and
-E respectively.
For example it is possible to redirect the oarsub output in /dev/null or in other files:
The results of our job are available at the end of the files containing the standard (and error) outputs:
Connection to a running job
While a job is running, it is possible to connect inside its environment with
-C OAR_JOB_ID option.
Unless you specify a submission with
-t allow_classic_ssh you have to use the OAR shell to connect to
job's nodes:
Node number specification
Unless specified, submissions request the default resource quantity: 1 node.
For submitting an interactive job on 2 nodes:
We are automatically connected to the reservation's head (one of the 2 nodes) due to the interactive submission.
We can learn about our dedicated resources:
As you can read, the example script detects the available nodes and adapts itself to use all the CPUs:
We can verify that the run occurs on the other node with another terminal:
Container jobs
With this functionality it is possible to execute jobs within another one.
- So it is like a sub-scheduling mechanism.
(1) Submit a job of type
oarsub returns the
OAR_JOB_ID of the container job.
(2) From the frontend in a new terminal, it's possible to use the
inner type to schedule new jobs within:
Inner jobs have to be submitted with:
Until now our submissions used default start time now and default duration 1 hour. OAR could off course let you choose a specific duration and a delayed start: advance reservations.
To run the job on April 19th, 5:30pm for 10 minutes:
You can do advance reservations without specifying a script.
The delayed submission appears as Scheduled on Status#Monika of the site where it was submitted.
When the job starts, you can connect to the reservation's head to interactively run the script or monitor its run:
Submission's ending does not occur when you disconnect from reservation's head (even if you omit specifying a script to run).
Ending occurs when:
- Specified script ends
- Job hits its walltime.
- Job is explicitely terminated
If you did not specify a script to run and you finished before the job's walltime, it is a good idea to release the allocated nodes earlier.
To terminate a job:
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BEIJING » China on Monday blamed Muslim extremists trained in Pakistan for an attack that killed six civilians in one of the most troubled ethnic regions where police later fatally shot five suspects.
Sunday's attack raised the death toll from weekend violence in the Silk Road city of Kashgar in China's far west to 18.
Kashgar is in Xinijang region, which has been tense since nearly 200 people were killed in fighting between Uighurs and Han Chinese in 2009 in Urumqi, the regional capital.
Kashgar's city government said in a statement that an initial investigation showed members of the group behind Sunday's attack had trained in making explosives and firearms in neighboring Pakistan in camps belonging to the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, a banned militant organization advocating independence for Xinjiang.
The statement on the city government's website did not offer any proof. China says the group is allied with al-Qaida.
On Sunday, the "group of armed terrorists" stormed into a restaurant in the Kashgar city center, killing the owner and a waiter and setting the restaurant on fire, the city government said.
The attackers then ran out of the restaurant and stabbed civilians indiscriminately, leaving another four people dead and 12 injured, it said.
Police opened fire and shot dead four suspects at the scene, while another suspect died later in a hospital, it said.
Xinjiang has been beset by ethnic conflict and a sometimes-violent separatist movement by Uighurs, a largely Muslim ethnic group that sees Xinjiang as its homeland. Many Uighurs say they have been marginalized as more majority Han Chinese move into the region.
The statement called the latest violence a "premeditated terrorist attack."
Xinhua news agency said that the local government issued arrest warrants Monday for two local ethnic Uighurs who allegedly fled the scene.
Sunday's violence followed a day of clashes in the same Silk Road city that killed seven people and injured 22.
It was unclear who started the clashes. But an overseas ethnic activist group said that it feared the violence could prompt a new crackdown on minority Uighurs lamed for previous violence in the region.
Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the German-based World Uyghur Congress, which advocates a nonviolent approach, said that frustrations were forcing Uighurs to take to the streets.
"Uighurs have no peaceful way to oppose the Chinese government so some have taken to extreme measures. It is unthinkable but it is the reality, and Beijing should take responsibility to deal with these issues," he told The Associated Press from Sweden, where he is based.
China defends its treatment of minorities, saying all ethnic groups in the country are treated equally and that tens of billions of dollars in investment and aid have dramatically raised living standards.
The violence flared Saturday night when a police official said two knife-wielding men hijacked a truck in Kashgar, rammed the vehicle into a crowd and got out attacking pedestrians.
People who came under attack retaliated, and one of the suspects was killed and the other caught, said the official from the Xinjiang regional public security bureau.
A total of seven people died and 22 were injured, she said. Xinhua said six bystanders and one suspect were killed.
The official said the attack was under investigation and the motive unclear. She refused to give her name, as is common with Chinese officials.
Police patrolled Kashgar on Monday but locals said it was a sight they were used to. There is usually a strong security presence in Xinjiang's main cities.
"I took a bus to work as usual this morning and saw police armed with rods patrolling on streets," said a woman at Hua'an International Travel Service, who only gave her surname, Zhao. "Seven or eight of them were in a group, but the police patrol the streets everyday. I didn't see there was a big difference today."
Another woman, at Kashgar International Travel Service, said she saw a report about the violence on TV. "I have grown up in the city since I was a child and got to used to it," said the woman, surnamed Deng.
In another violent incident less than two weeks ago, police shot 14 rioters who attacked a police station and killed four people in Hotan city, 300 miles (500 kilometers) southeast of Kashgar, Xinhua said.
Xinjiang is China's Central Asian frontier, bordering Pakistan, Afghanistan, Russia and other countries. Kashgar was an important hub on the ancient route through which Chinese silk and other goods reached Europe.


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Polarized photoreflectance and photoluminescence spectroscopy of InGaAs/GaAs quantum rods grown with As2 and As4 sources
1 Optoelectronics Department, Semiconductor Physics Institute, Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, A. Goštauto 11, Vilnius, 01108, Lithuania
2 School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
3 CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, 110012, Dr. K. S. Krishnan Marg New Delhi, India
Nanoscale Research Letters 2012, 7:609 doi:10.1186/1556-276X-7-609Published: 5 November 2012
We report photoreflectance (PR) and photoluminescence (PL) investigations of the electronic and polarization properties of different aspect ratio (height/diameter) InGaAs quantum rods (QRs) embedded in InGaAs quantum wells (QWs). These nanostructures were grown by molecular beam epitaxy using As2or As4sources. The impact of the As source on the spectral and polarization features of the QR- and QW-related interband transitions was investigated and explained in terms of the carrier confinement effects caused by variation of composition contrast between the QR material and the surrounding well. Polarized PR and PL measurements reveal that the polarization has a preferential direction along the crystal axis with a large optical anisotropy of about 60% in the (001) plane for high aspect ratio (4.1:1) InGaAs QRs. As a result, in PL spectra, the transverse magnetic mode dominated -cleaved surfaces (TM[001]>TE[110]), whereas the transverse electric mode prevailed for (110)-cleaved surfaces (). This strong optical anisotropy in the (001) plane is interpreted in terms of the hole wavefunction orientation along the direction for high aspect ratio QRs.


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Starting today, we will extend availability of our current Windows 8.1, Windows 8.1 Pro and Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM builds to the developer and IT professional communities via MSDN and TechNet subscriptions. The Windows 8.1 RTM Enterprise edition will be available through MSDN and TechNet for businesses later this month. Additionally, today we're making available the Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate which you can download here.
We heard from you that our decision to not initially release Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM bits was a big challenge for our developer partners as they're readying new Windows 8.1 apps and for IT professionals who are preparing for Windows 8.1 deployments. We've listened, we value your partnership, and we are adjusting based on your feedback. As we refine our delivery schedules for a more rapid release cadence, we are working on the best way to support early releases to the various audiences within our ecosystem.
In providing the best developer tools to our customers, Visual Studio 2013 RC enables development teams to build, deliver and manage compelling apps that take advantage of today's devices and services. With the release of Visual Studio 2013 RC, we've made available additional features and functionality to enhance developer and development team productivity and agility. For more information of what's new in Visual Studio 2013 see today's blog post from S. Somasegar.
With these updated platform and tools bits, developers will be able to build and test their Windows 8.1 apps. The RTM versions of tools, services, and platform are required for store submissions which will open up for new Windows 8.1 apps beginning at general availability on October 18.
Given the accelerated rate of technological advancement we continue to see in the industry and here at Microsoft, it's an exciting time to be an app builder. We recognize the critical role developers play—the breadth of our apps ecosystem is a key pillar of the Windows experience. It's an essential end-to-end relationship – we deliver the tools, services and platform to give developers the flexibility and opportunity to innovate and build experiences for Windows that make all our lives more productive and fun.
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The primary purpose of Windows 8.1 RTM and Visual Studio 2013 RC availability is for testing as our engineering teams continue to refine and update the product and tools in preparation for Windows 8.1 general availability on October 18 and the release of Visual Studio 2013 RTW. Third party apps may require final refinement to onboard into the Windows Store at the October 18 GA milestone. However, we're confident this pre-release will enable developers to ready their Windows 8.1 apps for customers while validating their existing apps function as expected on Windows 8.1
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We are pleased to provide non-production support for Windows Store app development and testing for Windows 8.1, via forums and assisted support channels. For links to those resources, along with existing Windows 8 support options, please visit the Dev Center support options page. We will also provide assisted support for Windows 8.1 RTM and Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM through standard commercial support channels.
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Does this extend to the MSDN AA users as well?
... actually I'm afraid a lot of feedback is ignored ... loads of requests to continue development of Silverlight (even only in bug-fixing/maintenance mode would be acceptable) and allow it to run in Win8 Modern UI are constantly ignored. Do you really think anyone who's developed a serious LOB app will ever port it to Win8.1/2/3/n? It's almost impossible technically and cost prohibitive given the almost non-existent adoption of Win8 in enterprises. Having Silverlight running in Win8 (in whatever way, through winstore or just IE) would give you instant productivity apps that would help tremendously adoption of Surface tablets in enterprises.
@CS Student - Windows 8.1 is available to academic institutions only via DreamSpark Premium (aka MSDN AA Developer) subscriptions. Subscriptions administrators can download it today from MSDN Subscriber Portal.
Florin, that's what you get for using closed technologies :)
This doesn't make any sense. Are you saying the RTM and GA will contain different bits? So let me get this straight, on Oct 18th, all of the DVD pressed (Purpose of RTM) will be different than the RTW (Release to Web)/GA version thus the DVD packaging is out of date?
Call it a Release Candidate if you're going to do this.
RTM is RTM, the build should not change and any changes needed should be delivered via hotfixes.
AWESOME! Thank you!
Thanks! I have two simple questions:
What is the "N" version? Which version do I use on a Surface Pro?
Windows 8.1 N (multiple editions) (x64) - DVD (English)
Windows 8.1 (multiple editions) (x64) - DVD (English)
"The primary purpose of Windows 8.1 RTM and Visual Studio 2013 RC availability is for testing as our engineering teams continue to refine and update the product and tools in preparation for Windows 8.1 general availability on October 18 and the release of Visual Studio 2013 RTW. "
Joe I guess you get this wrong - maybe clarification needed by Steve. But I understand, that they publish 8.1 RTM not to have Windows 8.1 refine and updated but Visual Studio 2013 RC, which is Release Candidate :)
So from my point of view, no worries - as RTM is RTM :)
Great news. Now if you'd reopen TechNet, I could live a happy life again.
I see download links for the ADK and WDK for Windows 8.1 RTM, but where's the download link for the 8.1 RTM SDK? I really don't want to install the VS RC just to get the final SDK bits.
Thanks @Andrew - That is correct and why we chose to release today to our developer communities. RTM is RTM, but with any software, through other updates and continual testing, we work hard to make sure the release continues to improve. Thanks
Thank you. Hopefully you won't try to "innovate" this way again. Early access to developers has been the reason windows works as well as it does. Don't cut out your best fans. Be more open.
When I try to upgrade from Windows 8 pro, the install asks "Choose what to keep". The only options are
-Keep person files only
By choosing either option, will I loose my desktop apps or metro apps?
Will Visual Studio 2013 RTM be available on Dreamspark Premium on Windows GA or will Dreamspark Premium members have to wait for RTW? Also, when will VS2013 RC expire?
We're starting a practical course in C# programming for students during the winter term (Oct 19th-March) and it'd be good to know if we'll can to use VS2013 RTM, RC or have to fall back on VS2012.


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April – Wild Garlic Soup
IngredientsServes 4
1 white onion, peeled and chopped roughly
1 leek, chopped and washed
125ml white wine
2 sticks of celery, washed
Approximately 100g of wild garlic (two large handfuls). Make sure this is well washed and drained dry.
2 pints of chicken or vegetable stock
Salt and pepper if necessary
Vegetable oil for frying ingredients
Simply fry the onion until soft in a pan with the vegetable oil.
Add the celery and leek and continue to cook until soft. Add the wine and reduce by half.
Add the wild garlic and cook down briefly. Add the stock and bring to the boil and when the wild garlic is soft, add the other ingredients and simply blend in a food processor until smooth.
Then pass this through a sieve to make a smooth soup, correct the seasoning and serve.


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Saturday's Reality Tour shed light on the lives of Rochester's homeless, oftentimes the city's most invisible and overlooked group.
Sponsored by the Social Welfare Action Alliance, the Reality Tour offered participants a chance to understand what being poor or homeless means. The tour made stops at the House of Mercy, as well as Rochester's abandoned subway, where many people are forced to seek relief from the wind and cold as a result of overcrowded shelters. ...