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Cities of the Red Night, by William S. Burroughs
Book Review by James Michael White
Have you read this book?
The temptingly easiest way to describe William S. Burroughs'
Cities of the Red Night
is as a homosexual opus of the apocalypse, but then that would probably put off a lot of readers because the sexually charged nature of the work, though a necessary component of its mythic architecture, isn't really the point.
Nor is the point, really, how its three primary stories intermingle with the ever-present back story, the one from which the book gets its title and driving engine.
No, the point here is that mankind is doomed by its desires, no matter how vain or valiant those desires may be, a theme echoed in the three primary stories and the underlying, perhaps even deeper, one. And to be sure, it's theme that Burroughs is selling here above everything else, the subordinate instruments of its evocation being those stories and the characters who populate them.
And just what are those stories? Well, there's a pirate one set during the 1700s in which said pirates attempt to establish the first egalitarian society, ever, while at the same time attempting to overthrow their matriarchal oppressor, mother Spain; then there's the story of Clem Snide, a globe-trotting private detective, circa 1970s, who happens to be both psychic and retained to find a missing person who may have vanished as part of a magical ritual; then there's a story of time-traveling space-farers warring against matriarchal deceivers in the midst of a radioactive plague that may or may not have been designed to destroy the white race, or, in another time, Spaniards (a resonance here with the aforementioned pirates and their goal).
Beneath it all, though, roils the back story concerning the Cities of the Red Night where, ages ago, a meteor -- or, according to some, a black hole -- thumped into the earth near six ancient cities, ones where civilization and magical technology were highly advanced, this event causing all kinds of mutations of the biological and time-like kind.
Thus, then, the skipping about from pirate story to detective story to space-faring story to even an old west setting, the point of which is to demonstrate the utter interchangeability of human events in the course of history, of even the humans themselves (and a few aliens) who are involved. Each character and event has its analogue in another time and place so that we are given to understand that every place is the same place, every person the same as some other person, the great drives of mankind always the same throughout any age, and always destructive, often in ways unforeseen.
And what are those great drives? They appear to be the drives to oppress and to throw off oppression, which then generates a quest on both sides to achieve better means with which to do so, which furthermore leads to the creation of better and better weapons. Including, perhaps, a radioactive plague hop-scotching through time. Here, the oppression is envisioned by the desire of state entities to subjugate and hang its dissenters (a recurrent mode of death that bedevils pirates, sympathizers, and possesses magical efficaciousness, as well, by most reliably eliciting the transmigration of souls), while freedom is envisioned as sexual and necessarily life-giving, even in the midst of state-sanctioned execution by hanging.
Yet here again we see echoes of the unforeseen. The life-giving sexuality is of an unusual kind, not merely sterile by its (mostly) homosexual nature, but perverted by magic to assure the same kind of vicious cycle as that exhibited by the human drives for oppression and freedom -- this cycle resulting both in death and life via the aforementioned transmigration. The plague, too, assures one kind of destruction, death, while at the same time assuring its own perpetuation, life, by transmigration once more.
In this bleak-seeming and absurdly contradictory narrative landscape, though, Burroughs conjures some startling imagery (not merely perverse), and asks Big Questions. For instance:
"The fashionable thing is to look for the answers or the questions behind sex and death."
Which later finds an answer as such:
"Audrey ... knew the reason for suffering, fear, sex, and death. It was all intended to keep human slaves imprisoned in physical bodies while a monstrous matador waved his cloth in the sky, a sword ready for the kill."
Once again, analogues to other things run rampant (not merely to Gnosticism and Schopenhauer). Audrey also happens to be Clem, while the monstrous matador is both plague, oppressor state, and multifarious forms of villainy. But in a bit of narrative transcendence, we might also see that Audrey is William S. Burroughs himself, thereby reinforcing one of the motifs of the novel, that of interchangeability, and reinforcing it in a startling way. Burroughs' point is less that he's writing a story and more that he's castigating the dual natures of all men, even himself, even the reader. In this fashion he reaches out of the pages and slaps us silly with a "See here, now!" That's quite a trick, and a good one, too, but all's not well in
Cities of the Red Night
As effective as the first two-thirds of the novel are in telling interesting stories which cause readers to draw inexorable conclusions about the central theme, the latter third quite simply lapses into incoherent gibberish, as if those first two-thirds and their stories were matte paintings layered one upon the other, each of their correlations visible to the reader ... yet existing only to get smashed up at the end, the bits fragmentary, the pieces jumbled.
The final chapter comes close to redeeming the gibberish by providing a narrative bookend, placing us in a familiar-seeming time and place hearkening to earlier moments in the novel, but a whole lot of readers will probably abandon the book well before then.
If you like wild experimentation and literary puzzles that almost work,
Cities of the Red Night
will play polo with your brain. Those seeking traditional narratives and easy answers will be happier elsewhere.
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a complex and satisfying polemic, thought provoking and ingenius in its construction one of his best works, take your time and enjoy it.
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With a pencil in hand and paper laid in front of them, Greenwood residents will try to capture images of the community.
They'll draw children playing games at Craig Park and sparrows flitting through the grass at Freedom Park. They'll draw churches, schools and the businesses of Old Town.
Some might sketch friends and family.
Local residents are invited to try their hands at drawing a masterpiece and be more artistic this spring. The Greenwood Public Library will host Draw Greenwood, a community art project aiming to capture the essence of life in the city.
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What: Residents can check out drawing kits from the library so they can draw the people, places and things they see around them. The completed works will hang in the library through July.
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You can draw anything you'd like — family, friends, Greenwood landmarks or whatever captures your attention. The pieces will be on display in the library's exhibit hall through the end of July.
"I hope it gets them to think about the things they see every day in Greenwood," reference librarian Sara O'Sha said. "Seeing what everybody comes up with when they come to the show is going to be a great chance to not only show off their own work but see what other people in the community are doing."
In the library's main meeting room, a group of eight potential artists focused intently on the subjects laid out in front of them. The paper bags were simple and plain but offered clearly defined lines, shapes and shading that would make it easy for those learning to draw.
Rene Gonzalez, an Indianapolis artist and instructor at Herron School of Art and Design, walked them through the process of breaking down the bag.
The easiest way was to find the shapes inside the initial form — the triangles of folds, rectangles and sides of the bag.
"Look for the most basic shapes you see. You have to look at it in its most barest forms," he said.
The idea for Draw Greenwood stems from a similar project that has been successful in libraries in New York and Massachusetts. O'Sha was intrigued by the idea of getting people who otherwise had never explored art to put pencil to paper and get creative.
Using library funds, O'Sha purchased supplies to create drawing kits for the project. Each one will have a drawing board inside, so people can draw wherever inspiration strikes them.
Paper, pencils, a pencil sharpener and charcoal are included in the packets, so budding artists have everything they need to start drawing, O'Sha said.
The library has 12 packs each for adults and children to check out. People can take them home for a week, and O'Sha will keep a list so people can take the next kit when one is returned.
"A lot of our patrons enjoy the art classes we offer, and this was an opportunity to expand on that," she said.
But not everyone who picks up a pencil is going to do Norman Rockwell-like works of art. For those who want to practice their skills or just learn the basics of drawing, area artists will be on hand throughout May for free instruction.
The aim is to let people express themselves without feeling self-conscious that they don't know how to get started, O'Sha said.
"We always try to have an educational element with our programs. And this is just another way to bring people in the community together who might not otherwise meet each other," O'Sha said.
Gonzalez and longtime art teacher Lisa Guckelberg will lead one of the adult classes. Erin Weartz, a Greenwood graphic designer and artist, will help with the children's instruction.
For people who want to learn to draw or refresh the skills they once had, the hourlong classes are an easy way to get started, said Ellen Storvick, a southside resident taking Gonzalez's class.
"It's not going to be a contest; you're not winning anything. It's just a way to try something new," she said.
The Draw Greenwood contest started at the beginning of May, and the kits have been constantly checked out. O'Sha hopes that, as school ends and people get involved in other activities at the library this summer, more people will get involved.
"I think people are excited about the opportunity to show off the art that they make and seeing what other people are creating, too," she said.

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After a 12 year lay off, we have been embarrassed back into riding by our old friends Ron and Dot Jesser who just celebrated 50 years of marrage.
We sold all but two of our bikes when we moved to Prescott Arizona years ago. We sold my Colnago and our Kuwahara Tandem. Since then, the two remaining bikes have been collecting dust. Our friends Ron and Dot, now near 70, have been back on their tandem. Turns out Ron has kept our old tandem all these years knowing we would someday come back! He called us and said to come and get it!
We are now up to nearly 10 mile rides on our singles. Seems a long way from all the singles, double and occasional triples of years past. It's starting all over again. Oh the pain! I sewar I heard my fanny say,"You're not going to try and put me through this again are you?"
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Cleveland Cavaliers rookie center Tyler Zeller will miss some time after suffering a non-displaced fracture of the orbital cheekbone and a concussion in Monday night's win over the Los Angeles Clippers. Jason Lloyd of the Akron Beacon-Journal reports that a wayward elbow from Clippers center DeAndre Jordan has landed the 17th-overall pick in the NBA's concussion
Pluto: Thompson, Samuels Owning Cavs' Training Facility
With Cavaliers season expected to tip off in just four weeks, the Wine and Gold are receiving excellent returns on a pair of young post players. The Plain Dealer's Terry Pluto has the scoop on Tristan Thompson and Samardo Samuels, two players who will have to see substantial improvement if this extremely young Cavaliers roster1 is
Byron Scott: Only Varejao and Irving are Guaranteed Starters
"If you look at our team, Kyrie (Irving) and Andy (Varejao) are the only starters," he said. "Tristan (Thompson), C.J. (Miles) and Dion (Waiters) will have to earn it." That's the latest on the starting lineup thinking process from Cavs head coach Byron Scott, via Bob Finnan's report for the News-Herald. Scott shared his excitement
While We're Waiting…Indians Bullpen Improving, Assessing Tom Heckert's Work, Slimmed Down Samardo Impressing
While We're Waiting serves as the early morning gathering of WFNY-esque information for your viewing pleasure. Have something you think we should see? Send it to our tips email at firstname.lastname@example.com. Bullpen rounding into form for the second half? "Now, it seems the pen is at least close to getting back to full strength and
Samardo Samuels to Play for Jamaica in Centrobasket Championship
Good news for the Jamaican National team: Cleveland Cavaliers power forward Samardo Samuels has agreed to represent them in the upcoming Centrobasket Men's Championship tournament to be held this June in Puerto Rico. Bad news for the Jamaican National team: Samuels is the headlining act, per The Jamaican Observer, as Indiana Pacers center Roy Hibbert
Louisville beats Florida, punches ticket to Final Four
You might not have had this in your bracket, but Samardo Samuels had it in his. Louisville headed to Final Four after beating Bradley Beal and the Florida Gators on Saturday. Recap from the AP via USA Today: Rick Pitino nudged out Billy Donovan for a spot in the Final Four on Saturday when his Louisville team finished the
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From a coach's standpoint, you can have four or five bad games, you're almost giving me no choice but to look elsewhere. With the way he's playing, do I stick with him or try to find another piece who can help us in this puzzle that we have? I haven't made up my mind yet.
NBA Lockout: Cavs PF Samardo Samuels is Working on His Jumper
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Cavs lose a game to the Clippers that made sense for them to win
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Ramon Sessions and Baron Davis: A Changing of the Guard?
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A great night in the Garden for your Cleveland Cavaliers
This one had to leave you almost as pumped up as Byron Scott was when Baron Davis' three pointer secured the Cavs victory in New York last night with 10 seconds left. It had everything you could ever want in a Cavs game. The Cavaliers rallied from multiple double digit deficits, and eventually erased a 12-point fourth quarter lead
Alonzo Gee Answers the Call in 109-99 Loss to Spurs
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On Anderson Varejao's Injury and What Exists Ahead for Cavaliers
Practices are typically a time of rest for Cleveland's Anderson Varejao. Earning the most playing time in his career to this point in the 2010-11 season, a team-high 32.1 minutes per game entering Sunday night, Cavaliers head coach has been taking it easy on his starting center when the team takes to the practice floor
Cavs Drop Fourth Straight, Mull Rotation Changes
Times could be a-changin' in Independence. In what should have been a road trip to help the Cleveland Cavaliers get back on track, the Wine and Gold suffered their fourth straight double-figure defeat on Sunday night. Losing to the Detroit Pistons, 102-92, the Cavs dropped their third-straight game against a team which they had regularly
Raptors Deliver Harsh Dose of Reality to Cavaliers, Cleveland Fans
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Source: Manny Harris to Nab Cavs' 15th Roster Spot
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Cavaliers Must Improve During Texas Road Trip
The NBA preseason continues tonight and hopefully it will include a better effort from the Cleveland Cavaliers. Despite the absence of several key players from the expected rotation, it will be important for head coach Byron Scott to get more balanced play out of his Cavs than the last game against the Wizards. Tonight the
Cavaliers Waiting on Jawad Williams as Training Camp Approaches
Don't look now, basketball fans, but the Cleveland Cavaliers open training camp in just a couple weeks. In fact, for those of you who follow the Cavs players on Twitter, you may have noticed that several players are already in town and working out at Cleveland Clinic Courts. The air is beginning to cool, the


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Hello forum!
Riding my bike is one of my oldest interests, but it's one that I unfortunately don't do nearly often enough. There's a wide variety of reasons why I neglect my bikes, but chief amongst them is that I don't have very many friends who share the hobby. My goal in joining this forum is to subject myself to more bike culture, to get myself excited about riding more often. Also, I've enjoyed lurking in the vintage bike thread, and I'm excited to take part in those discussions.
A bit about myself as a bicyclist: My first bike was an 16" BMX that I rode around in the kitchen of our house. While I've owned a couple mountain bikes in my life, my passion during junior high and high school was 20" bikes. I used to ride flatland BMX on a highly modified bike that I spent way too much money on. In addition to that, I've built lowriders and make-shift choppers. During my first few years of college, I lost a lot of my fire for riding (mostly because it was very inconvenient on our campus), and by the time I finally got back into it, I found myself a lot less excited about BMX and gimmick bikes. However, years of riding single speed bikes left me with a lingering appreciation for simplicity, which drew me into the realm of old 3 speeds. I've fixed up a couple, and fallen in love with them. Since then I have branched out and gotten a ten speed and a 5 speed, with the normal derailur set up, but I love the simplicity and reliability of old Strumey-Archer hubs. Also, the aesthetic sensibility is great.
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Father's Little Dividend
|Release Date: December 08, 1995
|Running Time: 106 mins.
|MPAA Rating: PG
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|Genre: Adaptation, Comedy, Romantic Comedy, Sequel
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Summary:Still young at heart, and fully recovered after having been the "Father of the Bride," George Banks finally feels content. His wife Nina loves him as deeply as he loves her. his daughter Annie, and son-in-law Bryan, are happily married and each are responsible working adults. With his son Matty growing into a young man, and the mortgage to his dream house fully paid off, George feels he's finally ahead of the game. And that's when his life turns upside down. First Annie and Bryan unexpectedly announce they're going to be parents. Then, a short while later, it's Nina's turn to make the same shocking speech to George. They too, are going to have a baby! George is reeling. He feels much to youn... Full Summary >>


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I have been contemplating a touring bike for a couple years now. I played around with my Hybrid GT Nomad, added upright bars when it originally had flat bars . A couple years ago I was fine touring with it, it flexed a little under load, but it was fine for 60 mile rides.
Recently I rode a Handsome Devil. I am so used to heavier bikes like my Bridgestone MB3 MTB that it felt like a racing bike/comparably. It was fun and nippy. I read it can handle some gravel roads and lighter touring okay. It kind of looks like a Cross Check to me?
My co-worker has a Surly Cross Check and says it would likely be a good choice. If I changed up the drops and added a different stem. How different is this bike from a Cross Check? The one I rode had a 7 or 8 speed Deore gearing set up, likely will need more gears for hills and loads.
The Long Haul Trucker just seems too over built. Trek 520's are too aggressive. Soma has a few bikes that might fit the ticket. I here they have a Ritchey tuning one that is as strong as a LHT but less heavy.
I want something nippy enough but can still handle an overnight camping trip with 35 lbs or so of gear, and not flex too much.
I also want a longer head tube.
Trying to avoid over stemming and stacking. I need a more upright stance.
Have to say, the stock handle bar set up and geometry felt pretty good on the Handsome Devil.
Pake was brought up. I could build it up the way I wanted it. I like the blue paint, too. Never rode one to comment on it's feel. I am assuming it is similar to the CC and Handsome?
I am also open to the idea of a not-too-overbuilt, but appropriate touring bike.. and maybe the Handsome as a fun commuter. The light weight stock wheels might have contributed to the sporty feel and quicker nature, but ... perhaps... they might not hold up to 35+ lbs of gear on a 60 mile trek?


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My Sports Tracker profile I started creating and using recently is here. I have been maintaining around 12-14mph, 30-35 minutes, ~8 ish mile bicycling runs.
Right now, I just want to lose my visible stomach. That's about it. I know the basics, calories spent should be more than calories taken in, can't spot reduce, etc etc.
So ..what do you guys recommend I do? Should I increase the distance / time I exercise? Or should I try to pedal faster and harder ?
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I have a vintage TA double crankset - 48/34 rings - and I'm building up a bike with a Suntour Cyclone 7000 6-speed set up on the back.
When cross-chaining from the small chain ring to the smallest sprocket on the freewheel, the chain rubs on the inside of the outer chainring.
I've tried wider BBs - up to 123mm - and spacers but still have the problem. Rear dropouts are 124mm spacing and the rear wheel dish is spot on. Is this just something I'm going to have to live with, and avoid cross-chaining, or is there a simple solution to the problem that I'm missing?
I use the same crankset on other vintage bikes with 5-speed freewheels and have no problems but the 6-speed is considerably wider. Maybe its the narrow Q of the crankset that makes it unsuited to this set-up?


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I really want to sue my doc for having paid him 35grand to have me look like a man. I had double jaw surgery 2012 of April and I Sooo hate what he's done to my face. He totally stretched my lip to cover my gums too and I asked him not to...it defeated the whole purpose of surgery. I still have a gummy smile, overly large lips and a long ass chin. Can I sue his ass!!!!
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As the new season for Snow Chains approaches, I would like to give you some updates on what is happening in the business.
1. We have changed shopping carts to use the Magento shopping cart as opposed to the OSCommerce cart. There were several reasons for this change; the main reason was that we get feedback from customers often complaining of the clunkiness of the old shopping cart not having express checkout. Furthermore, we assessed that the old shopping cart was not mobile friendly and did not serve up SEO friendly URLs. While there were other issues as well, we simply felt it was time to upgrade. For past customers, this does mean that past purchases are only found in the old system which we will soon make available to you for purposes of finding your history.
2. We have always been selling the RUD product. We continue to promote RUD as the premier supplier of Tire Chains. As RUD does not have a cable offering, we have reached out to Quality Chain – a very reputable company – and we now offer cables known as the Volt product.
3. Supplies of Olympia Sprints are dwindling and RUD will not be ordering more. We have sold out of some of the best selling models of the Olympia Sprints including the OS-129, OS-131 and OS-136. We still have limited quantities of other models. We also are the only company offering the OS-140 MFG which is the chain for the 35″ tire sizes. They are an outstanding product for this tire size; however, the bags are marked rather oddly. The OS-140 MFG is actually a chain meant for the larger trucks, but cut down to size for the individuals who own the really large off road tires.
4. We no longer are stocking stores in the California mountain areas. The drought has played a toll on tire chain sales in those locations and since we are no longer located in California, we felt it was time to move out completely.
5. I am training a new assistant to help with the packing and shipping of all locally stocked and shipped items. She is very responsible and I look forward to off loading more and more responsibilities on her as time goes on.
Thank you all for your past support in purchasing your chains through us. We are still here and look forward to continuing meeting your needs for snow chains and cables for your cars and your industrial equipment.
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QLogic boss says he's too busy to quit
QLogic CEO H.K. Desai had planned to step down this year, but says there is too much going on in the storage industry for him to leave now.
That's why his heir apparent left QLogic in March, and QLogic isn't looking for a replacement. "I'll be hanging around for awhile," Desai, who has been QLogic's CEO since 1995 and its chairman since 1999, told me.
He wouldn't have said that a year ago. QLogic hired Jeff Benck from IBM as COO and President in April 2007 with the understanding that he would replace Desai in a year. But Desai stayed put and Benck left QLogic – eventually signing on with its HBA rival Emulex as COO.
Desai says QLogic isn't trying to replace Benck, because it doesn't need to replace the CEO. "The whole plan was for us to have a long-term transition, and it didn't work out," Desai said. "I've been fully engaged the last few months and I expect to be fully engaged for awhile. I won't even talk to the board [about a COO] unless we plan a transition, which I don't expect to do."
Desai said his change of heart came because the storage networking world is so busy now. The industry is in a transition to 8-Gbps Fibre Channel with Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and 16-gig FC coming up on its heels. QLogic is also trying to make inroads in InfiniBand. "There's so much activity going on now, I don't want to disturb anything," he said. "Our team has been working together for so many years, and I don't want to bring anybody in from the outside to disturb things. There's a time to do a transition, and I don't think this is the time."
Of course, if Desai is looking for a lull in emerging storage technologies to retire he just might work forever.
Ibrix gets a new leader
Yesterday I met with Ibrix, a company I haven't caught up with in a while. They seem to be doing well with movie production studios, and our meeting featured a screening of Wall-E, the latest picture from Ibrix customer Pixar.
Along the way, I was told that while his business cards still say VP of marketing and business development, Milan Shetti is actually the new president of Ibrix. The handover from former interim CEO Bernard Gilbert has happened over the last few days, according to Shetti. The CEO before Gilbert, Shaji John, remains chairman of the board.
"My gut is that if [Shetti] performs well over the next six months, he'll end up in that CEO role," Taneja Group analyst Arun Taneja said.
Generally, companies that undergo frequent reorganizations aren't doing spectacularly. But Ibrix presented this second transition as a planned one, saying Gilbert had been focused on getting operations moving along, while Shetti has already become the public face of the company. Shetti said Gilbert planned on serving one year as CEO, and that term has been completed.
Or as StorageIO Group analyst Greg Schulz put it, "Ibrix has been shifting from development-focused to that of marketing, business development, partner/reseller/OEM crecruitment and sales deployment execution." In the past few years, Ibrix has signed channel deals with Dell and HP. Shetti played a key role in both deals, according to the company.
Shetti told me yesterday that Ibrix has been winning deals like the ones with Pixar and Disney because its clustered file system is software-only, and customers can choose their own hardware. Ibrix software can also be embedded within HP or Dell servers at the factory before shipment, so the customer doesn't have to load software agents on every node.
Ibrix's software is rumored to be shipping with EMC's Hulk, but Shetti was mum on that subject.
Brocade still a fan (not FAN) of software
Although Brocade has a lot on its connectivity plate these days as it transitions to 8-Gbps FC switches, plots its move to FCoE and gets into the HBA game, it still has plans for its fledgling software business.Brocade's FAN (file area network) initiative has been a bust so far, but at Brocade's Tech Day Thursday, Max Riggsbee, CTO of the files business unit, laid out a roadmap for a refocused data management portfolio.
Nobody from Brocade used the FAN acronym, but file management remains a key piece of its software strategy, beginning with the recently released Files Management Engine (FME) product. FME is a policy engine that handles migration and virtualization of Windows files. Brocade will add SharePoint file services, disaster recovery for SharePoint and file servers, content-driven file migration and data deduplication in a series of updates through 2010.
Brocade has been fiddling with its files platform and overall software strategy for months now. It dumped its Branch File Manager WAFS product earlier this year, but kept StorageX file migration and Thursday revealed plans for new replication products, including one that deduplicates and compresses files moved across the WAN.
While the new lineup looks impressive on paper, it will take time to play out. And Brocade is walking a tightrope between expanding its product line and treading on its storage system partners' turf with file virtualization and replication. "We are interested to see how this is received by storage/server vendors," Wachovia Capital Markets financial analyst Aaron Rakers wrote of the replication product in a note to clients.
Brocade execs say they will take great care to work with partners and avoid competing with them — something they say rival Cisco does with many of its products. Ian Whiting, Brocade's VP of data center infrastructure, said the new products will be developed jointly with its major OEM partners. "Our business model is all around partnerships with bigger systems companies," he said. "We believe that's how customers will consume the technology."
At least Brocade's not calling its new files strategy FAN 2.0. That's a good start.
Litigation update: Sun 1, NetApp 0
According to a blog posted today by Sun's general counsel Mike Dillon, at least one of the patent-infringment counts is off the table in court, after the US Patent Office (PTO) granted a re-examination request filed by Sun.
With regard to one NetApp patent, the '001 patent, the PTO has issued a first action rejecting all the claims of this patent. Based on the positive response we received from the PTO, we asked the trial court to stay a portion of the litigation. Obviously, it doesn't make sense to go through the expense and time of litigating a patent in court if the PTO is likely to find it invalid. The court agreed with our request and at least one NetApp patent has thus far been removed from the litigation.
NetApp started all this by filing its ZFS lawsuit against Sun with great fanfare last September, but Sun has been the aggressor ever since. Sun countersued NetApp's original suit and accused NetApp of violating Sun's patents. It tacked on another lawsuit in March alleging patent infringement related to storage management technology NetApp acquired when it bought Onaro in January.
This is the first of six reexamination requests filed by Sun. Dillon said Sun expects to hear more throughout the year.
NetApp refused comment on the latest developments and a survey of NetApp's many executive blogs hasn't turned up any further discussion, though some of Dave Hitz's testimony is now being made available by Sun online.
Nirvanix readying cloud-based NAS
Startup Nirvanix today unveiled CloudNAS, which will combine Nirvanix software agents with Linux or Windows servers at the customer site to offer standard NAS storage in the cloud. Until now, Nirvanix and most other cloud storage services such as Amazon's S3 required API integration between applications and the cloud service.
Nirvanix has had three large companies alpha testing CloudNAS, and is now starting up an open beta program, according to chief marketing officer Jonathan Buckley. "CloudNAS can run on a laptop," Buckley said. "We're looking to bring dozens more companies into the mix."
As far as I know, this is a first. Rackspace's Mosso offers cloud-based NAS, but only for Web developers. Nirvanix says CloudNAS will use commonly available interfaces, including NFS on Red Hat Linux 5 or SUSE 10 and CIFS on Windows XP. Customers must provide the server hardware and hook it up to Nirvanix's cloud. The company charges 25 cents per GB per month for its service, but the NAS software will be free. Customers will have the option of a $200 per month support contract.
Just don't look for CloudNAS to replace your production NAS boxes any time soon. Buckley said he expects the service will be used for mainly for backup, archiving, and other applications that can tolerate latency. "We're not going to restrict what people put on it, but cloud storage can never be as fast as local enterprise storage," Buckley said.
The enterprise and open-source storage
Jesse at SanGod wrote an interesting post the other day entitled "Enterprise storage vs….not."
I have a cousin. Very well-to-do man, owns a company that does something with storing and providing stock data to other users. I don't pretent do know the details of the business, but what I do know is that it's storage and bandwidth intensive.
He's building his infrastructure on a home-grown storage solution – Tyan motherboards, Areca SATA controllers, infiniband back-end, etc. Probably screaming fast but I don't have any hard-numbers on what kind of performance he's getting.
Now I understand people like me not wanting to invest a quarter-mil on "enterprise-class" storage, but why would someone who'se complete and total livelihood depends on their storage infrastructure rely on an open-source, unsupported architecture?
Jesse goes on to point out the resiliency and services benefits of shelling out enterprise bucks. His post sparked a conversation between me and an end user I know well whose shops (in the two jobs I've followed him through) are as enterprise as they come. This guy also knows his way around a Symmetrix, and Clariion, and NetApp filers, and when it comes to the secondary disk storage and media servers he's building for his beefy Symantec NetBackup environment…he's going with Sun's Thumper-based open-source storage.
Obviously it's a little different from cobbling together the raw parts, and Sun offers support on this, so it's kind of apples and oranges compared with what Jesse's talking about. But I've also heard similar withering talk about Sun's open storage in particular, and can only imagine Sun's open-source push is making this topic timely.
This is the second person I've talked to from a big, booming enterprise shop who picked Thumper to support NetBackup. The first, who had the idea more than a year ago, was a backup admin from a major telco I met at Symantec Vision.
Obviously it's not mission-critical storage in the sense that Symmetrix or XP or USP are, but I'd venture to guess that for a backup admin, his "complete and total livelihood" does depend on this open-source storage. As for the reasons to deploy it instead of a NetApp SATA array or EMC Disk Library or Diligent VTL? Both users cited cost, and the one I talked to more recently had some pointed things to say about what enterprise-class support often really means (see also the Compellent customer I talked with last week, who found that the dollars he spent made him less appreciative of the support he got from EMC).
This ties in with a recent conversation I had with StorageMojo's Robin Harris. He compares what's happening in storage to the relationship between massively parallel systems and the PC in the era of the minicomputer. When the PC arrived, the workstation market was dominated by makers of minicomputers, the most famous being Digital. Minicomputers were proprietary, expensive and vertically integrated with apps by vendors, much like today's storage subsystems. Just as the PC introduced a low-cost, industry-standard workstation and the concept of a standardized OS, Harris predicts clustered NAS products built on lower cost, industry-standard components will bring about a similar paradigm shift in enterprise storage.
While there will obviously remain use cases for all kinds of storage (after all, people still run mainframes), I suspect people are starting to think differently about what they're willing to pay for storage subsystems in the enterprise, regardless of the support or capabilities they'd get for the extra cash. And I do think that on several fronts, whether open-source storage or clustered NAS, it is looking, as Harris put it, like the beginnings of a paradigm shift similar to those that have already happened with PCs and servers.
That's not to say I think Sun will win out, though. For all Sun's talk about the brave new world of open-source storage, I haven't heard much emphasis placed on the secondary-storage use case for it. And that so far is the only type of enterprise deployment for Thumper I've come across in the real world.
Yahoo, I hardly knew ye
I've watched the story unfold about Microsoft and Yahoo, but from a removed perspective because it has little to do with the storage industry and when it comes to most things Web-based and search or email related, I'm a Google user. Still, it's been a good story to sit back with some popcorn and watch develop.
Recently, though, it's hit home a little more for me. First, I saw that the New York Times/AP reported that the co-founders of Flickr, a photo sharing service bought by Yahoo in 2005, have left the company. Then I found out that the founder of Del.icio.us is also leaving Yahoo–which was the first time I even realized Del.icio.us was a Yahoo property.
Now I wonder two things–1) How many other staples of my Web 2.o life are part of Yahoo and I didn't know it? (One helpful resource for this question: TechCrunch has posted a big table to keep track of the Yahoo exodus). 2) What's going to happen to them?
It's as close as I'll ever come to the experience my enterprise storage audience must have regularly when dealing with the effects of mergers and acquisitions. Anxiety frequently accompanies these events, causing people to wonder how the user experience will change with the product, how support might change, how well might the company keep up with features…
It's not like products can't survive without their original innovators, and for the moment, Yahoo does still exist as we know it (though there's speculation that's not for long). But I have seen in the storage industry how innovation diminishes after the guys who first built the machine in the garage leave the company, innovation diminishes, and the company itself is more likely to move on to the next shiny object.
That's what I'm afraid will happen now to Flickr and Del.icio.us, and then I'd have to face another nightmare commong among enterprise folks–how to get my 8,000-plus photos and 2,000-plus bookmarks migrated over to another service.
Symantec's SwapDrive: $500 a year for 2 GB?
I wasn't convinced at first when an alert blog reader flagged an error in my previous posts about Symantec and SwapDrive: a comment from "kataar" pointed out that yearly, SwapDrive actually charges $500 (five hundred) for 2 GB, not $50 (fifty).
That couldn't possibly be right, I thought. I clicked the site, saw the same price list, read down the column for individual users–ah! 2 GB, $50. I was all ready to post a reply when I went back and checked it one more time, just to be sure. That's when I noticed "Monthly" over the cost I was looking at. Under "Yearly" was, indeed, $500. For 2 GB of storage per year. For multi-user plans of up to 10 GB, the yearly cost is $2,800.
My bad. And thanks to kataar!
EMC, of course, is having a field day with this. Even comparing a relatively modest price of $49.50 a year (you'll notice Mark Twomey made the same mistake I did), they are only too happy point out that you can get 2 GB of storage free from Mozy (I'll let the irony of EMC gloating about another vendor's pricing pass for now). Meanwhile, you can get up to 5 GB free from Windows SkyDrive, GMail will give you a 2 GB inbox for free, and Carbonite will let you back up unlimited capacity to its cloud for $49.95 per year.
I've heard of some of the older data hosting services, like certain specialized deals with Iron Mountain, costing in the neighborhood of SwapDrive's quoted price, but I haven't heard of too many in the consumer/SOHO/SMB space charging on that scale.
When I asked Symantec about the pricing, this was the response: "SwapDrive's current online pricing will keep pace with the market and the value derived. Our service is more robust and redundant than many others offered in the market today." The spokesperson added that 2 GB of online storage comes included with Norton 360 for an MSRP of $79.99.
I'd really like to learn more about exactly what makes SwapDrive hundreds of dollars more robust and redundant per year. And what makes it worth $500 standalone but worth some percentage of $80 with Norton 360? That seems like a big swing to me.
Users rebel against e-Discovery liabilities
Tory Skyers' post about dedupe and the law jogged my memory about recent conversations I've had with users about data compliance and archiving. It's become a big topic for this industry, and as stewards of data, storage managers are part of the legal e-Discovery process.
But some storage managers are beginning to draw a line when it comes to the extent of their role in that process. A discussion about compliance only goes so far these days before frustration starts to show. Someone from a municipal government shop I met at Symantec Vision last week extolled the virtues of Symantec's Enterprise Vault for data retention and said his organization has policies for dealing with litigation. But he was clear that his role in the process involves managing bits on disk, period. "I don't delete anything without the department that owns it giving me explicit instructions," he said. "It's not up to me to decide to delete data–it's up to me to keep the storage and backups running on whatever data departments want to keep."
This week I spoke to a storage guy from a hospital about email management and archiving, and he told me his shop deletes all email after 60 days. "We wrote policies that say we don't keep email very long because of the storage cost," he said, and then added that he'd been told by some vendors pushing archiving that a short enough retention period could "make him look guilty."
"I'm not guilty of anything," retorted the user. "I'm an IT guy trying to keep email running."
And he's right. As long as a company's retention policy is clearly defined and followed scrupulously, it can be just about any length of time.
As everybody and their uncle tries to get in on selling e-Discovery products and services, new players emerge and the competition gets fiercer. It sounds to me like this is leading some vendors to use scare tactics to push sales by exaggerating how much liability the storage people have when it comes to data compliance and retention. Analysts increasingly agree that organizations of sufficient size should dedicate a liaison between IT and corporate governance to oversee policy instead of tossing legal liability onto the shoulders of IT.
The problem is, IT people remain responsible for understanding and following policies. They also may be called upon to testify as to what those policies are. While I don't think users should have to take on the legal burden alone, I hope they're not being pushed too far in the opposite direction, so caught up in shrugging off false expectations that they aren't mindful of the real ones.
Compression, dedupe and the law
Data deduplication is the poster child of 2008. Everyone is rushing to add this capability to just about everything that could possibly ever sit on a network–I thought I saw an ad for a cable tester with de-dupe built in! On the face of it, de-dupe looks like the savior it's made out to be (except in very isolated instances where it actually inflates the size of stored data, but that's another subject for another time.).
But take a look a little deeper with my paranoid, curmudgeon-y, semi-lawyer-esque hat on.
De-dupe technology has been likened to "zip" on the fly (no pun intended), which is where I have a couple of problems while wearing my pseudo-legal hat. The first is the act of compression. Way back in the olden days of computing there was a product appropriately named Stacker; its purpose in life was to allow you to fit more on the ridiculously expensive devices we had in our computer called "hard drives". Microsoft, not content with Stac backing out of a licensing deal, created DoubleSpace (got sued and lost), then DriveSpace (DOS 6.21).
Via the use of a TSR (even the acronym is dusty), these products would intercept all calls destined for your hard drive and compress the data before it got there. Sound familiar? Those disk compression tools had their run, I used them but it presented problems with memory management, at the time Bill Gates decided no one would ever need more than 640KB, amongst other things. This presented a phenomenally large problem when I would load up one of my favorite games at the time from Spectrum Holobyte: Falcon 3.0, Falcon fans know what sorts of contortions one had to endure to get enough lower memory to run Falcon, but I digress.
So I would try to get around having Stacker or DoubleSpace turned on all the time. That didn't work out well for me, and I spent quite a bit of time compressing and re-compressing my hard drive, enabling and disabling Stacker and DoubleSpace and setting up various non-compressed partitions.
While I don't see that specific instance as an issue now per se, I do have that (bad) experience, and because of it I have a problem with something sitting inline with my data, compressing it with a proprietary algorithm that I can't undo if/when the device decides it doesn't like me anymore. Jumping back 16 years, it wasn't that hard to format and reinstall DOS, which was a small part of my (then gigantic) 160MB ESDI hard drive, to get around the problems I had. But today when we are talking about multiple Terabytes and such, I want to be sure that I can get to my data unfettered when I need it.
The reason I am paranoid about getting access to my data when I need it: compliance and legal situations. Which brings me to my second point. How will de-dupe stand up in court? Is it even an issue? Is compression so well understood and accepted that it wouldn't even be problem? Even as paranoid as I am I would have to say … maybe.
Compression has been around for a very long time, we are used to it, we accept it, and we accept some if its shortcomings (ever try to recover a corrupted zip file?) and its limitations, but will that stand up in court? In today's digital world there are quite a few things that are being decided in our court systems that may not necessarily make sense. Are we sure our legislators understand the differences between a zip (lossless) and JPEG (lossy) compression? How does the act of compressing affect the validity of the data? Does it affect the metadata or envelope information? The answer to these questions, while second nature for us technology folks, may not so second nature for the people deciding court cases. Because compressing and decompressing data is a physical change to the data itself, I can imagine a lawyer trying to invalidate data based on that fact.
I hope that doesn't turn out to be the case. The de-dupe products currently on the market have some astounding technology and performance. They also return quite a bit to the bottom line when used as prescribed, and the solid quantifiable return on investment they represent does for most outweigh any risks.


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VALPARAISO | Had there been a giant leader board on the 18th hole at the Valparaiso Country Club, the Porter Amateur might have had a different finish Sunday afternoon.
Jeff Gilbertsen didn't feel any pressure when he sank his 3-foot putt to finish with a final round of 75, but he also didn't know that Thomas Newton had five birdies through the first 12 holes and was right on his heels.
Gilbertsen had to sweat out Newton's final few holes, but the Chesterton native hung on with a total score of 296, just one stroke better than Newton and two ahead of third-place finisher Chris Schultz.
"I would've been going crazy had I known (Newton) was that close," Gilbertsen said. "I just went through my process and made the putt."
Gilbertsen's victory tops his previous best finish of fourth place. Gilbertsen didn't lead through the first three rounds of the tournament and entered Sunday one stroke behind Bob Jacobs.
"I've always had to come from behind to be in contention," Gilbertsen said. "I played four steady rounds this year.
While Gilbertsen did enough to win, it was Newton's final round of 68 that had everyone talking in the clubhouse after the tournament. The Valparaiso native birdied three of his first four holes and recovered from a tough third round to get in contention by the turn. The 2010 Porter Am winner had Gilbertsen in his sights, he did everything he could to overtake the eventual champion.
"This tournament is different because the leaders start first," Newton said. "I had an idea that I was close. Once I knew I was in the running, I wanted to know how he was doing. I wanted to stay aggressive."
Newton came into the day with an expectation that he needed to shoot a 65 in order to topple Jacobs and the rest of the field. Jacobs struggled Sunday with a final round of 84 while Newton came up several strokes short of his goal and the title.
"It was probably an unrealistic expectation, but I had two bad rounds and needed to make up some ground," Newton said. "I'm proud of Jeff. He's a great champion and I'm happy to add his name to our trophy."
Natalie Achten defended her women's division championship by shooting a final-round 86 and holding off Sandra Teal in an improbable playoff.
Achten and Teal entered the find round tied for the overall lead, but Teal looked to be out of contention when she took a nine on the 10th hole. With a chance to finish out her second straight title, Achten carded a triple and double bogey on back-to-back holes. Once in the playoff, Achten sliced her opening shot into the trees and then landed her second shot in the bunker. Teal's opening shot was in the middle of the fairway, but her following shots struggled to find the green.
"I wasn't paying attention to what she did and when I putted in; I said 'Congratulations,'" Achten said. "They told me that I won and I couldn't believe it. I was in the trees, in the bunker."
Achten's victory comes nearly three years after she was told she would never golf again because of a shoulder injury suffered at work.
"I'm glad to win it again," she said. "When I came off 18 I thought I'd lost and I was happy to share the wealth. I played competitively in high school and in college. Now golf is fun for me."


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I get the feeling that this will be making the sysadmin-blog rounds :-)
Today's XKCD is excellent, and already has a huge following from the sysadmins on twitter.
The weird sense of duty really good sysadmins have can border on the sociopathic, but it's nice to know that it stands between the forces of darkness and your cat blog's servers.
He's right, of course. Sysadmins in general can develop a hero complex.
It's a complex topic, but the smartest people in systems administration today (read: not me) have been vocal that sysadmin heroism should be discouraged. I can agree with that, to a point. We should never rely on heroism to save the day, because that means our designs have failed. When we stop believing in miracles and start relying on them, we have made bad design decisions and the reliability of our network will suffer.
On the other hand, there are sometimes events which happen that are beyond our control, and it's up to us to make it right. In those cases, there's no rule or mandate that says "you – sysadmin: go above and beyond the call of duty and be a hero!" I think it's more our mental alignment that says "It's my job to make sure that things work. In order to make things work, I've got to climb on top of the roof in the middle of a blizzard and restart the generator" (something my boss has done multiple times, and I'm sure some of you have as well). It's just the way it works. We think logically, if the job needs done, and it's our job to do it, then we need to do the job. The peripheral variables are unimportant.
I think the comic is hilarious, but like most Mission Impossible / Jack Bauer / Die Hard scenarios, it's a rare event. Don't go take ju-jitsu just in case someone cuts your network cables. Have a redundant infrastructure so that it doesn't matter if they get cut.


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We continue to push for higher clock speeds. Next, the processor hit the 3.20 GHz mark, albeit at a much higher core voltage than its dual-core counterpart. To reach this frequency, we had to increase the voltage by a full 0.100 V to enable it to complete the Prime95 test without issue on a front-side bus of 356 MHz (1424 QDR).
Along with the clock speed, the memory frequency increases to DDR2-854 (427 MHz), while still running at a latency of CL 4.0-4-4-12. That such a dramatically increased core voltage is needed to achieve this speed is due to the Q6600's design, which uses two dual-core chips. Here, the probability that one of the two cores has lower overclocking potential is twice as high, even though both of the dual-core parts inside use the G0 stepping. Also, two dual-cores dissipate twice as much heat, which in return results in a higher CPU temperature, leading to a higher risk of instability.
|CPU Frequency
|3.20 GHz (+33.3 %)
|356 MHz (1424 QDR)
|Core Voltage
|1,4125 Volt
|Memory Multiplier
|Memory Frequency
|DDR2-854 (427 MHz)
|Memory Latency
- E6750 or Q6600 – Which is the better choice?
- The Processors – E6750 or Q6600?
- Processor – G0 Stepping is a must
- Motherboard – Gigabyte or MSI with P35 chipset
- Highlights of the MSI Board – Affordable, Heatpipe on Board
- Highlights of the Gigabyte Board – More Features
- GEIL Memory – An Overclocking Natural
- Cooler - Zalman's CNPS9700LED is Ideal
- Looking at the Bottom Line – CPU, Cooler, Board, and RAM
- Overclocking I – Dual-Core E6750 at 3.00 GHz
- Overclocking II – Dual-Core E6750 at 3.30 GHz
- Overclocking III – Dual-Core E6750 at 3.40 GHz
- Overclocking IV – Dual-Core E6750 at 3.50 GHz
- Overclocking V – Dual-Core E6750 at 3.60 GHz
- Overclocking I – Quad-Core Q6600 at 3.00 GHz
- Overclocking II – Quad-Core Q6600 at 3.20 GHz
- Overclocking III – Quad-Core Q6600 at 3.30 GHz
- Overview of Core Voltages
- Power Consumption and Energy Cost – Less is more with Dual-Core
- Overclocking Yields 25 Percent Performance Increase
- Performance Winner – Q6600 Provides 5.3% More Performance
- Test Setup
- Software Configuration
- Benchmarks and Settings
- 3D-Games - UT2004, Prey
- 3D-Games - Quake 4, Warhammer
- 3D-Games - Supreme Commander, Serious Sam 2
- 3D-Rendering - Cinema 4D, 3D-Studio Max
- Applications - AVG, WinRAR
- Applications - Photoshop, PDF
- Applications - Deep Fritz
- Audio Encoding - iTunes, Lame
- Synthetic - Sandra CPU
- Synthetic - Sandra Memory
- Synthetic - Sandra Multimedia
- Synthetic - PC-Mark
- Synthetic - 3D-Mark
- Video Encoding - Xvid, Pinnacle Studio
- Video Encoding - Premiere, Mainconcept
- Video Encoding - HDTV, DivX
- Video Encoding - CloneDVD
- Conclusion - Intel Quad-Core and MSI P35 Neo2 get our Nod
0spuddyt , 5 November 2007 22:42so what you just said, is the newer stuff is better
0dobby , 6 November 2007 05:31i dont know why they take 10 pages to show what can be said in 1 page + a few graphs
0technogiant , 6 November 2007 14:20On top of that Crysis is meant to be very cpu dependant and prefers 4 cores - it's the way things are going
0ilovemrdoe , 6 November 2007 17:09Hmm, if they'd have gone for a different motherboard they could have gotten the q6600 to 3.6 on air.
0crisUK , 9 November 2007 04:28Dunno if you have a duff chip or mobo. I have a Q6600 and exactly the same cooler and I can do 3.41 GHz at stock voltage on a Gigabyte 965P-DS3P.
0crisUK , 9 November 2007 04:32"Its stock clock speed is 2.4 GHz, which it operates at using a comparatively low core voltage of 1.3125 Volts – the lowest core voltage available for this chip"
Wrong my Q6600 is 1.26V although it runs slightly higher in practice.
0anqe , 18 November 2007 01:31I guess this shows how OC'ing can vary depending on luck. Even hand picking the best S numbers is no guarantee. A bit of luck (unless you have deep pockets) can be key.
Fortunately for myself, my Q6600 is 1.28v core, and hits 3.6GHz with only slight bump.
Indeed electron migration is a significant issue at high Vcore but realistically most of us overclocking are probably running 6-12 month cycles on our hardware (at least from my experience) and the cost of killing a mid range part every year against taking a top end part is still more cost effective.
That's given only one CPU in the past 15 that I've OC'd have failed (possibly luck?) on me and that was due to a faulty voltage regulator on my motherboard
0rune1980 , 31 December 2007 04:03Very nice review/test. Highly informative. I was gonna buy a 6850 or a quad core but now im just gonna grab the low cost msi board and a 6750 and spent my cash elsewhere.
0rune1980 , 31 December 2007 19:56question, you end up recommending the MSI motherboard, but the test system states that you used the gigabyte for the test. Will i be able to get the same clocking abilities with the MSI?


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If the Niners wanted to trade up to #2 or #3 in order to take Okung before the 'Skins have a chance, here is what a trade would look like:
Niners send: #13, #17, 4th rounder
Niners receive: #2 or #3, #33 or #34
If we were able to pull off a similar trade with the Chiefs, there would be no 4th rounder involved and we would still get their #36.
I think trading up for Okung is the best move the 49ers can make this year: getting a franchise-grade tackle AND filling their biggest need. Okung would play RT until he beats out Staley for the left side -- Staley would then move to the right.
With a pick at 33 - 36, the niners can still get a top-flight prospect: Jahvid Best, Golden Tate, Maurkice Pouncey, Devin McCourty, Sergio Kindle, Jerry Hughes, Kareem Jackson, Patrick Robinson, etc.
And we'd still have the #49.
I'm starting to lean towards the idea of jumping up to grab Okung with 'whatever it takes'. Okung would be the single biggest way to improve our team, without question.


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The Foundation for Shackleford Horses is checking on the well being of the wild horses on Shackleford Banks following Hurricane Arthur last week.
The eye of the hurricane passed directly over Cape Lookout National Seashore last Thursday.
On its Facebook page, the Foundation for Shackleford Horses posted, "Will begin counting horses on Monday. Arthur wasn't as bad as many past storms, and the horses are canny about getting to forests and high ground. It may take a couple of weeks to account for all of them, as they have about ten-miles of island to move about in. Hopefully, all is well. We may even have a new little face after the storm."
The National Park Service says Shackleford Banks is home to more than 110 wild horses and is one of the few places in the eastern United States where wild horses can still be seen.


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Carribean Breeze created by Audiovibez 4 years ago
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Genre: Electronic/Techno Mood: Warm/Comforting Theme: Other
[Bounce] Bongo Time
[Arpeggiator] Sophisticated Soft Synth
[Normal Long Tone] Moog Bass 2
[Rhythm] Sophisticated Acoustic Guitar
[Melody] Hollow Echoed Trumpet
[Rhythm] Hard Dance Piano
A cool song for the summer.
The background is Mole Saint-Nicolas, Haiti.
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