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I have an old Promise FastTrak S150 TX4 SATA controller card. I put it in an old machine running Windows Server 2003. I booted the machine. The new hardware was detected. I installed the drivers.
So now in Device Manager under "SCSI and RAID Controllers" I see "Win Server 2003 Promise FastTrak S150 TX4 Controller" and "Win Server 2003 Promise RAID Console SCSI Processor Device"
I previously had the card in a machine that is now dead. When I booted that machine, during the boot process I would see the card info displayed and the drives that were attached. Boot would finish and my drives would be available.
When I boot this new machine I never see that screen/text. No hard drives are available/visible.
What am I missing?
EDIT: I had never opened this machine before. When I opened it I saw that it's only hard drive was connected via PATA, so I figured it didn't have onboard SATA. But upon closer look, lo and behold, there are two open SATA ports on the motherboard. I plugged the hard drive into that and it works.
However, I guess my question now is, is it possible to get the additional controller card working too? I played around in the BIOS and never saw anything about enabling an addon card. I did find a setting enabling SATA, but I assume this just refers to the onboard SATA.


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"The estimate is [Kick-Ass] will do 100 to 150 million on DVD based on the American sales, you know, so it'll end up making a quarter of a billion on a 28 million investment. So It should be okay," Millar told BBC Radio Five Live's Richard Bacon show (via Bleeding Cool). "So the sequel's greenlit, we can go ahead and do the follow up now, you know. The first made so much compared to what it cost it would be crazy not to."
Millar is a master showman and eternal optimist when discussing his own work, of course, so consider the source in that assessment. Nevertheless, he believes the sequel will happen and went on to confirm that director Tony Scott is pursuing Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp for Nemesis. If reality has caught up with his understanding of the situation, it sounds like some fun times are ahead for the man.
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err.. I'm not sure PM is an option on this site, so download my vcard and email me or send me a message through Skype (see my profile).
I'm going to be teaching myself Python and have decided to do so by way of creating a MUD (multi-user dungeon).
I am using 'Evennia', an all-Python MUD framework.
The git server is up...
You can try to wrap the image and text in a <div> and do a margin-top: -5px;
I don't know jQuery, but aren't you missing a closing parentheses and a closing...
The resolution would only be for Android-sized devices.
I haven't set it up yet for myself so I don't know the functionality, but I would expect it to be pubic-hair accurate since the purpose of an...
Are you trying to add some distance between the two? If so:
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height: 48px;
width: 100px;
background-color: #ca3045;
display: inline-block;
For starters you're not defining a unit of measurement in a lot of places (px, %, em).
Browsers probably assume it's pixels, but you should define a unit.
I use % and em for almost everything, and...
That site is only screen-responsive, which accomplishes the same thing as resizing your browser window.
For device-responsive, maybe Android SDK would work. I don't know of any site that actually...
What version jQuery and IE? jQuery version 2.x does not support < IE9.
HTML: use HTML5 instead of XHTML.
Now as for your question:
Since it runs fine inline but not as an external, I would first check folder structure/file names.
You say you only have two folders,...
I'm under the opinion that Win8 is meant for touch-screen devices.
I've had so many clients (desktop/PC) asking me to degrade them from Win8 back to Win7 that it's laughable.


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Bournemouth and Poole College opens new science centre
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A new £1.2m science and technology education centre has opened at a Bournemouth college.
The centre at Bournemouth and Poole College will specialise in the so-called "stem" subjects - science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Facilities include new laboratories and teaching areas.
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We all made predictions at the start, I believe I was 13-3 and win the Super Bowl.
Just curious with a couple days to calm down what the state of the fan base is?
Personally I believe Harbaugh and co. deal with the adversity, get a little more basic in the offensive game plan to slow it down for Kap and we finish the season 12-4. I think they start slow against Washington, then get going and don't look back. Seattle game is a game changer in the season as they come in super cocky and get punched in the mouth.
Unfortunately they need to go through the Wild Card, winning in Detroit, then beating New Orleans in the road. They go to Seattle for the NFC CG and after an incredible battle back and forth, the Inconvemient Truth slips free for a 30 yard TD in the last couple minutes to seal the win. It will be the defining run of his career when he is inducted into the HOF.
We then go to a frozen Super Bowl, and as he usually does in cold weather games Manning plays a little off and has Justin and Aldon on him all game. It is not a blowout as the weather hurts both teams passing, but you get the feeling the game was never in doubt and Niners win 27-17. Kap is Super Bowl MVP throwing 2 td and running in another.
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I have an on-board video card on my motherboard, I also have a separate video card and at the moment I use the latter. I'm going to buy second monitor, can I use one video card with each monitor? Or is there no way and I must switch both monitors to one video card?
Recent Intel motherboards (i7-920, i7-2600K) that I've used automatically disable the onboard graphics outputs when a dedicated GPU is connected to the system. I was able to re-enable it by setting the BIOS option
In my experience, run both displays off of a single card if you can. Pretty much any discrete card worth spending money on will support at least 2 independent displays, and it can save you a lot of headaches about hardware accelerated video.
Generally, if there are two or more video ports on a graphics card, you can run 2 monitors off of the single card.
More often than not, though, when you plug in a new graphics card, any on-board graphics are disabled.
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Balancing Microservices
Microservices are often touted as a critical design pattern, but really it is just a tactic for managing certain vectors of complexity by decoupling the code from operations. For example, if you have a large suite of APIs, each driven by a different microservice, you can iterate and release different APIs as needed, reducing the complexity of releasing a single monolithic API service. In this use case, the microservices allow more concurrent work between teams by decoupling the code and the release process.
Another use case for microservices would be to decouple resource contention. Lets assume you have a database that is used by a few different apps. You could remove this decoupling by using separate services that manage their own data plane, removing contention between the services that exists by using the same database.
From a design standpoint, it is non-trivial. The first example of a huge API suite can be implemented primarily through load balancing rules without much issue. The database example is more difficult because there will need to be a middleman ensuring data is replicated properly. Just like normalization of databases, the normalization that occurs in microservices can be costly as it requires more work (expense) when those services need consistency.
Another expense is designing and maintaining APIs between the services. Refactoring becomes more complicated because you have to consider there is old code still handling messages in addition to the new code. Before, the interactions were isolated to the code, but when using microservices the APIs will need some level of backwards compatibility.
The one assumption with microservices that make them operationally feasible is automation. Artifacts should be built and tested reliably from your CI pipeline. Deployments need to be driven by a configuration management system (ie chef, ansible, etc.). Monitoring needs to be in place and communicated to everyone doing releases. The reason all this automation is so critical is because without it, you can't possibly keep track of everything. Imagine having 10 services each scaled out to 10 "nodes" and you begin to see why it is difficult to manage this sort of system without a lot of automation.
Even though it is expensive, it might be worth it. Incidents are one area where microservices can be valuable. Microservices provide a smaller space to search for root causes. Rather than having to examine a large breadth of over a single codebase, you can (hopefully) review a single service in semi-isolation and determine the problem. Assuming your microservices are designed properly and even though the number of services is large, the hope is that the problem areas will be limited to small services and can be more easily debugged and fixed.
Microservices require a balance. Using microservices is a tactic, not a design. Lot of small processes doesn't make anything easier, but lots of small processes that divide operational concerns and decouple systems can be really helpful. Like anything else, it is best to measure and understand the reasoning for breaking up code into microservices.
REST Command Line Interface
At work we have a support rotation where we're responsible for handling ticket escalations. Typically, this is somewhat rare event that requires the team to get involved, thanks to the excellent and knowledgable support folks. But, when there is an issue, it can be a rough road to finding the answers you need.
The biggest challenge is simply being out of practice. We have a few different APIs to use, both internal and external that use different authentication mechanisms. Using something like cURL definitely works, but gets rather difficult over time. It doesn't help that I'm not a bash expert that can bend and shape the world to my will. There are other tools, like httpie, that I'd like to spend some more time with. Unfortunately,I never seem to remember about in the heat of the moment. Some coworkers delved into this idea for a bit and wrote some tools, but my understanding is that it was still very difficult to get around the verbosity in a generic enough way for the approach to really pay off.
Looking at things from a different perspective, what if you had a shell of sorts? Specifically, it doesn't take much to configure something like ipython with some builtins for reading auth from known files and including some helpful functions to make things easier. You could also progressively improve the support over time. For example, I can imagine writing small helpers to follow links, dealing with pagination, or finding data in a specific document. Lastly, I can also imagine it would be beneficial to store some state inbetween sessions in order to bounce back and forth between your HTTP shell and some other shell.
Seeing as this doesn't seem too revolutionary, I'm curious if others have investigated this already. I'm also curious how others balance a generic command line interface, API specific tooling and reusability over time, without adding a million flags and more to learn than just using cURL!
Balancing Security and Convenience
There is always a question of whether to use a hosted service or manage a service yourself. It is a tough question because the answer changes over time depending on your business needs. A startup might be totally fine using github and slack, but the size of google means rolling your own solution. The arguments regarding hosted services revolve around security, and more specifically, the sensitive data you make available by using these services.
There are many that would argue that owning a service is more secure. While it is true that you may send fewer bits to a third party, it really says nothing of security. A hosted service such as github or slack is already targeted by hackers. While I'm sure there are vulnerabilities, popular hosted services have been vetted by huge amounts of usage. It is in the providers interest to provide a secure and reliable service, constantly improving infrastructure and security over time. Running a service at scale shakes loose quite a few bugs that contain difficult to find attack vectors.
Even if a service is reasonably secure, there is still a risk of trusting your data to another company. Unless you have clients that specifically disallow this, I'd argue that this is not worth the cost. Successful hosted services generally have a community of supporters that have done the work of integrating with the platform. That makes hooking up your bug tracker with your build system, chat and monitoring is trivial. Sorting out all the bits to make this work in an internal environment means writing, debugging and maintaining code along side operating each dependent system. That is far from impossible, but it is certainly expensive when you need developers and operators working on more pressing issues. The irony here is that by avoiding the hosted service, you've essentially made local development more difficult and reduced the ability of your development pipeline to improve the code.
To put this in financial terms, lets say you have a team of 5 people and lets say the average salary is $100k, or $48 / hour. If each person spends 10 hours a week on the CI/CD system and operating tools like chat, it would cost $480 / week, or ~$25k per year. That doesn't seem too bad, but that doesn't include the extra cost of an effective build system catching bugs and the initial development time to get these systems up and running and talking to each other. You might need to get hardware within the network, setup firewalls, configure secure routes via VPNs to allow remote developers to use the system. At this point you might have included the time of another 15 people and spent at least 3+ months of your team's time getting the initial system up and running, noting, that it is all code you'll need to maintain. Also note, that this says nothing about problems that come up.
The fact is, it is really expensive to design, build and operate a suite of services simply to avoid having some bits on another person's computer. It seems better to focus on making your team more productive by providing helpful tools they don't have to manage and prepare mitigation plans for how to recover from a security breach or service failure. Obviously, there are dangers, but mitigating them is less work than rebuilding a service along with its integrations from scratch.
I'm curious what others have experienced when choosing an external service over a DIY solution. Did you feel the DIY solution was full featured? Did you get burned choosing a hosted solution? Let me know!
The Rough Edges of Openstack
I'm thankful Rackspace sent me to Tokyo for the OpenStack Summit. Besides the experience of visiting Tokyo, the conference and design summit proved to be a great experience. Going into the summit, I had become a little frustrated with the OpenStack development ecosystem. There seemed to be a lot of decisions that separated it from more main stream Python development with little actual reason for the diverting from the norm. Fortunately, the summit contextualized the oddities of developing OpenStack code, which made the things more palatable as a developer familiar with the larger Python ecosystem.
One thing that hit me at the summit was that OpenStack is really just 5 years old. This may not seem like a big deal, but when you consider the number of projects, amount of code, infrastructure and contributors that have made all this happen it is really impressive. It is a huge community of paid developers that have managed to get amazing amounts of work done making OpenStack a functioning and reasonably robust platform. So, while OpenStack is an impressive feat of software development, it still has a ton of rough edges, which should be expected!
As a developer, it can be easy to come to a project, see how things are different and feel as though the code and/or project is of poor quality. While this is a bad habit, we are all human and fear things we don't understand! The best way to combat this silliness is to try and educate those coming to a new project on what can be improved. In addition to helping recognize ways to improve a project, it helps new developers feel confident when they hit rough edges to dig deeper and fix the problems.
With that in mind, here are some rough edges of OpenStack that developers can expect to run into, and hopefully, we can fix!
OpenStack Doesn't Mean Stable
You'll quickly find that "OpenStack" as a suite of projects is HUGE. Each of these projects is at different stages of stability. Documentation may be lacking, but the code is well tested and reliable, while other projects may have docs and nothing else. It critical to keep this in mind when developing for an OpenStack project that the other OpenStack requirements, and there will be TONS, may not be entirely stable.
What this means is that it is OK to dig deep when trying to figure out why something doesn't work as expected. Don't be afraid to checkout the latest version of the library and dive into the source to see what is going on. Add some temporary print / log messages to get some visibility into what's happening. Write a small test script to get some context. All these tactics you'd use with your own internal libraries are the same you should use with ANY OpenStack project.
This is not to say that OpenStack libraries aren't stable. You can't assume that just because it has gotten the label "oslo" or "OpenStack", that it has been tested and considered working. The inclusion of libraries or applications into OpenStack, from a development standpoint, has more to do with answering the question of "Does the community need this". Inclusion means that the community has identified a need, not a fully fleshed out solution.
Not Invented Here
OpenStack is an interesting project because the essence of what it provides is an interface to existing software. Nova, for example, provides an interface to start VMs. Nova doesn't actually do the work to act as a hypervisor, instead, it leaves that to pluggable backends that work with things like Xen or KVM. Right off the bat, this should make it clear that when a project is labeled as the OpenStack solution for X, it most likely means it provides an interface for managing some other software that implements the actual functionality.
Designate and Octavia are two examples of this. Designate manages DNS servers. You get a REST interface that can can update different DNS servers like bind or PowerDNS (or both!). Designate handles things like multi-tenancy, validation and storing data in order to provide a reliable system. Octavia does a similar task, but specifically for haproxy.
It doesn't stop there though. OpenStack aims to be as flexible as possible in order to cater to the needs / preferences of operators. If one organization prefers Postgres over MySQL that should be supported because an operator will need to manage that database. The result is that many libraries tend to provide the same sort of wrapping. Tooz and oslo.messaging, for example, provide access to distributed locking and queues respectively. Abstractions are created to consistently support different backends, so projects can not only provide flexibility for core functionality, but also the services that support the application.
In the cases where there really was a decision to reimplement some library, it is often due to an in compatibility with another library. A good example of this is oslo.messaging. It supports building apps with an async or background worker pattern, much like celery. This makes one wonder, why not just celery! My understanding is that celery has been tried in many different projects and it wasn't a good fit within the community at large.
By the way, my vague answer of "it wasn't a good fit" is intentional. There are so many projects in OpenStack that often times these questions are bought up again and again. A new project is started and the developers try out other libs, like celery, because it is a good solution that is well supported. Sometimes the technical challenges of integration with other services is a problem, while other times, the dependencies of the library aren't compatible with something in OpenStack, making it impossible to resolve dependencies. I'm sure there are cases where someone just doesn't like the library in question. No matter what the reasons are, OpenStack has a huge plane of software that makes it hard for new libraries to be a "good fit", so sometimes it is easier to rewrite something specifically for OpenStack.
OpenStack is committed to providing software that can be deployed via distro packages. In other words, OpenStack wants to make yum install openstack or apt-get install openstack work. It is a noble goal, especially for a suite of applications written in python, moving at radically different rates of change.
You see, distro package managers have different priorities than most Python authors may have when it comes to packaging. A distro is something of an editor, ensuring that all the pieces for all the use cases work reliably. This is how Red Hat provides general "linux" support, by knowing that all the pieces work together. Python REST services (like OpenStack), on the other hand, typically assume that the person running it uses some best practices such as a separate virtualenv for each application. This design pattern means that at the application level, the dependencies are isolated from the rest of the system.
Even though the vast majority of OpenStack operators don't rely on system packages in a way that requires all projects use the same versions, it is an implementation detail OpenStack has adopted. As a developer, you have to be ready to deal with this limitation, and more importantly, the impact it has on your ability to introduce new code. I believe that this restriction is most likely to blame for the Not Invented Here nature of many OpenStack tooling, which leads reimplementations that are not very stable.
Why Develop for OpenStack?
If OpenStack has such a rough development experience, why should you commit to learning it and developing on OpenStack software?
You'll remember, I began all this with a recognition that OpenStack is only 5 years old. Things will continue to change, and I believe, improve. Many of the rough edges of OpenStack have been caused by growing pains. There is a crazy amount of code happening and it takes time and effort to improve development patterns. Even though it can be rough at first to develop in OpenStack, it gets better.
Another reason to develop OpenStack code is that it is a exciting work. OpenStack includes everything from low level, high performance systems to distributed CPU intensive tasks to containers and micro-services. If you enjoy scaling backend applications, OpenStack is a great place to be. The community is huge with loads of great people. OpenStack also makes for a very healthy career path.
No project is perfect, and OpenStack is no different. Fortunately, even though there are rough edges, OpenStack is a great project to write code. If you are new to OpenStack development and need a hand, please don't hesitate to reach out!
Development in the Cloud
I've recently made an effort to stop using local virtual machines. This has not been by choice, but rather because OS X has become extremely unstable as of late with VirtualBox and seems to show similar behavior with VMWare. Rather than trying to find a version of VirtualBox that is more stable, I'm making an effort to develop on cloud servers instead.
First off, to aid in the transition, I've started using Emacs in a terminal exclusively. While I miss some aspects of GUI Emacs, such as viewing PDFs and images, it generally hasn't been a huge change. I've had to do some fiddling as well with my $TERM in order to make sure Emacs picks up a value that provides a readable color setting.
Another thing I started doing was getting more familiar with byobu and tmux. As Emacs does most of my window management for me, my use is relatively limited. That said, it is nice to keep my actually terminal (iTerm2) tabs to a minimum and use consistent key bindings. It also makes keeping an IRC bouncer less of a requirement because my client is up all the time.
The one thing I haven't done yet is to provision a new dev machine automatically. The dev machine I'm on now has been updated manually. I started using a Vagrantfile to configure a local VM that would get everything configured, but as is clear by my opening paragraph, frequent crashes made that less than ideal. I'm hoping to try and containerize some processes I run in order to make a Vagrantfile that can spin up a cloud server reasonably simple.
What makes all this possible is Emacs. It runs well in a terminal and makes switching between local and remote development reasonably painless. The biggest pain is the integrations with my desktop, aka my local web browser. When developing locally, I can automatically open links with key bindings. While I'm sure I could figure something out with iTerm2 to make this happen, I'm going to avoid wasting my time and just click the link.
If you don't use Emacs, I can't recommend tmux enough for "window" management. I can see how someone using vim could become very proficient with minimal setup.
Modern Development
My MacbookPro crashed with a gray screen 4 times yesterday and it gave me time to think about what sort of environment to expect when developing.
The first thing is that you can forget about developing locally. Running OS X or Windows means your operating system is nothing more than an inconvenient integration point that lets you use Office and video conferencing software. Even if you use Linux, you'll still have some level of indirection as you separate your dev environment from your OS. At the very least, it will be language specific like virtualenv in Python. At most you'll be running VirtualBox / Vagrant with Docker falling somewhere in between.
Seeing as you can't really develop locally, that means you probably don't have decent integration into an IDE. While I can already hear the Java folks about to tell me about remote debugging, let me define "decent". Decent integration into and IDE means running tests and code quickly. So, even if you can step through remote code, it is going to be slow. The same goes for developing for iOS or Android. You have a VM in the mix and it is going to be slow. When developing server software, you're probably running a Vagrant instance and sharing a folder. Again, this gets slow and you break most slick debugging bits your editor / IDE might have provided.
So, when given the choice, I imagine most developers choose speed over integration. You can generally get something "good enough" working with a terminal and maybe some grep to iterate quickly on code. That means you work in a shell or deal with copying code over to some machine. In both cases, it's kludgey to say the least.
For example, in my case, I've started ssh'ing into a server and working there in Emacs. Fortunately, Emacs is reasonably feature-full in a terminal. That said, there are still integration issues. The key bindings I've used to integrate with non-code have been lost. Copy and paste becomes tricky when you have Emacs or tmux open on a server with split screens. Hopefully, your terminal is reasonably smart where it can help finding links and passing through mouse events, but that can be a painful process to configure.
OK. I'm venting. It could be worse.
That said, I don't see a major shift anytime soon. I've gone ahead and tried to change my expectations. I'll need to shell into servers to develop code. It is important to do a better job learning bash and developing a decent shell work flow. Configuring tmux / screen / byobu is a good investment. Part of me can appreciate the lean and mean text interface 24/7, but at the same time, I do hope that we eventually will expect a richer environment for development than a terminal.
Ansible and Version Control
I've become reasonbly comfortable with both Chef and Ansible. Both have pros and cons, but there is one aspect of Ansible that I think deserves mention is how it can work with version control thanks to its lack of a central server and through defining its operations via YAML.
No Central Server
In Chef, there is the chef server that keeps the actual scripts for different roles, recipes, etc. It also maintains the list of nodes / clients and environments available. The good thing about this design is that you have a single source of truth for all aspects of the process. The downside, is that the central server must be updated outside of version control. This presents the situation where version 1.1 of some recipe introduces some bug and you may need to cut a 1.2 that is the same as 1.0 in order to fix it.
Another downside is that if a node goes down or doesn't get cleaned up properly, it will still exist on the chef server. Other recipes may still think the node is up even though it has become unavailable.
Ansible, at its core, runs commands via SSH. The management of nodes happens in the inventory and is dependent on file listing or a dynamic module. The result is that everything Ansible needs to work is the local machine. While it is not automatic, using a dynamic inventory, Ansible can examine the infrastructure at run time and act accordingly.
If you are not using a dynamic inventory, you can add hosts in your invetory files and just commit them like any other change! From here you can see when nodes come up and go down in your change history.
YAML Roles
Ansible defines its actions via playbooks defined as YAML. You can also add your own modules if need be in the same repo. What's more, if you find a helpful role or library in Ansible Galaxy, installing the library downloads its file directly into your code tree, ready to be committed. This vendoring makes things like version pins unnecessary. Instead, you simply checkout the changeset or version tag and everything should be good to go.
To compare this with Chef, you can maintain roles, environments, etc. as JSON and sync them with the central Chef server using Kitchen. The problem with this tactic is that a new commit in version control may or may not be an update to the resource on the chef server. You can get around this limitation with things like commit hooks that automatically sync the repo with the chef server, but that is not always feasible. For example, if you mistakenly update a role with an incorrect version pin and your servers are updating on a cadence, then that change will get rolled out automatically.
Again, there are known ways around these sorts of issues, but the point being is that it is harder to maintain everything via version control, which I'd argue is beneficial.
I'm a firm believer that keeping your config management code in version control is the best way to manange your systems. There are ways to make central server based systems effectively gated via version control, but it is not always obvious, and it is certainly not built in. Ansible, by running code from the local machine and repository code, makes it simple to keep the repository as the single source of truth.
More Virtual Machine Development
I've written before developing on OS X using virtual machines. That was ~6 months ago and it seemed time for an update.
Docker is Better
One thing that has improved is Docker. Docker Compose now works on OS X. Docker Machine also has become more stable, which allows a boot2docker like experience on any "remote" VM where "remote" includes things like cloud servers as well as Vagrant VMs.
In terms of development, Docker Compose seems really nice in theory. You can define a suite of services that get started and linked together without having to manually switch configs all over the place. Eventually, Docker Compose will also be supported on things like Docker Swarm, which means, in theory at least, that you could deploy an entire stack.
In practice though, the linking is not as robust as one would like. If a container doesn't start, the link doesn't get added to the host machine's /etc/hosts file. It's also unclear how portable this is across different distros. While an /etc/hosts file is pretty standard, it still must be used by the OS using whatever resolution system is in place. I've gotten the impression that things are moving towards injecting DNS in the mix in order to avoid lower level changes, but time will tell.
While it hasn't worked for me, I'm still planning to keep trying docker compose as it seems like the best solution to starting up a suite of microservices for development.
Docker and Emacs !?!
Emacs has a package called Prodigy that lets you manage processes. I also played around with running my dev environment in a docker container where I just used Prodigy to run all the services I need as subprocesses of the Emacs process. It is like a poorman's emacs init system. Alas, this wasn't much better than working on a cloud server. While it is clever and portable, it still is like ssh'ing into a box to work, which get frustrating over time.
Vagrant and rdo
A while back I released a tool called rdo that lets you remotely execute commands like they were local. This has become my primary entry point into using Vagrant and avoiding having to use a terminal to access my dev environment. I also integrated this into my xe tool to make things more cohesive, but overall, it is easier to just use rdo.
Even with a reasonably efficient way to make VM development feel local, it's still a little painful. The pain comes in the slowness of always working through the VM. Vagrant shares (by way of VirtualBox shared folders) are slow. I'm looking at using NFS instead, which I understand should be faster, so we'll see. The fastest method is to use rsync. This makes sense because it basically copies everything over to the VM, making things run as "native" speeds. My understanding is that this is a one way operation, so that doesn't work well if you want to run a command and have the output piped to a file so you can use it locally (ie dosomething | grep "foo" > result_to_email.txt).
Cloud Server
I also spent some time developing on a cloud server. Basically, I set up an Ubuntu box in our cloud and ssh'd in to work. From a purely development standpoint, this worked pretty well. I used byobu to keep my emacs and shell sessions around after logging out or getting disconnected. Everything worked really fast as far as running tests, starting processes and even IRC. The downside was the integration into my desktop.
When I work in a local Emacs, I have key bindings and tools that help me work. I use Emacs for IRC, therefore, I have an easy key binding to open URLs. This doesn't work on a cloud server. What's more, because I'm using Emacs, any fancy URL recognition iTerm2 often gets screwed up where I can't click it, and in some cases, I can't even copy it. Another thing that was problematic was that since the cloud server used a hypervisor, I couldn't run VirtualBox. This meant no Chef Kitchen, so I was forced to head back to OS X for doing any devops work. Due to firewall restrictions, I also couldn't access my work email on my cloud server.
Lastly, since the machine was on a public cloud, running any process was usually available to the public! In theory, these are just dev processes that don't matter. In practice though, spinning up a jenkins instance to test jobs in our real environment, was dangerous to run openly.
The result was that I had to make a rather hard switch between pure dev work and devops work when using a cloud server. I also had to be very aware of the security implications of using my cloud server to access important networks.
Sidenote: Emacs in the Terminal
Emacs through a terminal, while very usable, has some nits related to key bindings. There are far fewer key bindings available in a terminal due to the shell having to provide actual characters to the process. While I tried to work around these nits, the result was more complex key bindings that I had no hopes of establishing as habit. One example is C-= (C == ctrl). In reStructuredText mode, hitting C-= will allow cycling through headings and automatically add the right text decoration. Outside rst-mode, I typically have C-= binded to expand region. Expand region lets me hit C-= repeated to semantically select more of the current section. For example, I could expand to a word, sentence, paragraph, section, and then document. While these seem like trivial issues, they are frustrating to overcome as they have become ingrained in how I work. This frustration is made more bitter by the fact that the hoops I've jumped through are simply due to using OS X rather than Linux for development.
Future Plans
I'm not going to give up just yet and install Linux on my Macbook Pro. I'm doing some work with rdo to allow using docker in addition to Vagrant. I'm also confident that the docker compose and network issues will be solved relatively soon. In the meantime, I'm looking at ways to make rdo faster by reusing SSH connections and seeing if there are any ways to speed up shared folders in Vagrant (NFS, Rsync).
Config Files
In Chef, you can use attributes to set up values that you can later use in your recipes. I suspect a majority of these attributes end up in config files. For example, at work, we have added pretty much every value necessary in our config files. The result is that we duplicate our configuration (more or less) as a Ruby hash that gets serialized using ERB templates into the necessary config, which, in this case, is a conf file format. The other thing that happens is that we also set many of these values via environment variables using withenv, which describes this data as YAML.
Essentially, we go from YAML to Ruby to a template to a config file in a known parsable format. The problem is that each time you transition between data formats there is a chance for mistakes. As we all know, humans can make mistakes writing config files. It is worth considering how we could improve the situation.
I imagine a tool that accepts YAML and spits out different config file formats. YAML seems like a good option because it is arguably ubiquitous and provides data structures that programmers like. The tool to spit out a config file would use consistent patterns to output formats like conf files and plugins would need to be written for common tools like databases, web servers, queues, etc.
For example:
$ ymlconf --format rsyslog rsyslog_conf.yml > /etc/rsyslog.conf
I'm sure there would be some weirdness for some apps archaic and silly configuration file formats, but I'd hope that 1) the people using these apps understand the archaic file format well enough that 2) translating it to a YAML format wouldn't be that terrible. For apps that do understand simple conf files, or even better, YAML or JSON or environment variables, things can be a matter of simply writing the files.
What's more, YAML is resonably programmatic. If you have a list of nodes that need to repeat the same sections over a list of IPs you get when you start up cloud servers, it is trivial to do in a chef recipe. Rather than adding it to a data structure, only to decompose and pass that data to a template, you just append them to a list in a data structure read from YAML.
After using withenv, I think this is another way to greatly reduce the cognitive mapping that is required to constantly go from some driving data (like environment variables) to configuration management system data structures (chef attributes) that are passed to a template languages in order to write config files. Instead it would simply be a matter of running some command and pass it the path or YAML as stdin and be done with it.
Getting Paid
Cory wrote up some thoughts on funding OSS that was inspired by the recent decision to stop feature development on hypothesis. There is a problem in the FOSS community where developers get frustrated that the time they invest has a very low return. While I understand this feeling, it is also worthwhile to consider some benefits to investing in open source software that makes it worth your time.
I think most FOSS developers would agree the benefit of working on FOSS is recognition. It feels good to know others are using your software. Beyond simply being recognized, FOSS also are often given respect from other programmers and technical community at large. It is this respect that can be used to
So, what do you get, right now, from working on (successful) Open Source software?
While many developers would like to get money, the reality is you get something less tangible, a reputation as a good developer. You can use your reputation as an open source leader to negotiate for the things you want. Often you can work from home, negotiate for more vacation time, better pay and time to work on your project, all thanks to your reputation. Not to mention, you often can choose to work for well respected organizations doing work you find reasonably interesting.
Companies should support FOSS developers for the code they have graciously offered for free. At the same time, we as developers should realize that it is our responsibility to capitalize on our contributions, even when they may not be directly justifiable to a business. If a company hired a well known Emacs (or Vim!) developer, even though the company may uses Python, the company may still be able to offer time to work on the FOSS code, more money and/or sponsoring going to conferences. These types of expenses are easy to account for on a balance sheet when compared to giving someone money for non-specific work on a project.
Hopefully, in the future new methods of directly supporting FOSS developers come to light, but in the meantime, lets see what we can do today. Ask your manager about having X number of hours to work on your open source project. Request sponsorship to a conference. If they refuse, look for another job and include your project work as part of the package. A new opportunity is a great means of letting your employer know your skills are valuable and your terms for staying include working on your FOSS work.
For companies, support developers to work on FOSS! Even if someone doesn't work on something directly associated with your current code base or business, that person has proven themselves as a good developer, with the real world experience being available in the open. Similarly, if your organization is strugging to keep or acquire good talent, offering someone 4-8 hours a week to work on a project they already contribute to is a relatively cheap benefit in order to hire someone that is a proven successful developer. What's more, that person is likely to have a network of other great devs that you can dip into.
Again, I understand why developers are frustrated that they spend time on FOSS with seemingly very little to gain. But, rather than sit by and wait for someone to offer to pay you money for your time, communicate your frustrations to your employer and try to use some of your reputation to get what you want. If your current employer refuses to listen, it is probably time to consider other options. Companies that having difficulties attracting or keping talent should offer FOSS support as part of the benefits package.
Finally, for some developers, it is a good idea to take a step back and consider why you write software. As a musician, it is cliché to say I don't do it for the money. The reason being is that the music industry is notorious for not paying anything with a long line of willing musicians to work for nothing. While we as software developers do make a good living writing software, there is something to be said for enjoying our independent time writing code. Taking a hobby you enjoy and turning into a business often removes much of what makes that hobby fun. It no longer is yours to do with as you want. If you write FOSS code for fun, then you are under no obligations, other than your own desires. Programming is fun, so regardless of whether 1 or 1 million people use your code, recognize why you started writing the code in the first place.


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Hold The Applause: Charlie Sheen Is No Hero For His HIV Admission
Yesterday morning, Charlie Sheen went on The Today Show and revealed to the world that he is HIV positive. During the in-depth interview, Matt Lauer confronted Charlie Sheen about extremely personal matters in his private life. Not only was his HIV status disclosed, but Sheen also answered questions about his diagnosis, his bank account, his revolving door of past prostitute companions, and how he revealed his status to his former wife Denise Richards and his family. Even his doctor got in on the action (with Sheen's approval), divulging his health info while Lauer chimed in about whether or not Sheen could be trusted actually to take his medication. It was uncomfortable, invasive and easily one of the most exploitative interviews I've seen in years. But at the end of the day, Charlie Sheen approved every single question that came from Lauer's mouth.
None of his admissions are shocking. But what did shock me was reading the angle that some publications were taking on the matter: They were actually calling Charlie Sheen brave for his admission, and many were sympathetic toward him and his story. I don't think there was anything brave about what Sheen did. It was all self-serving, like most of Sheen's controversies.
Sheen is no stranger to controversy or exploiting the public for attention. He has been in and out of trouble for decades; the long-reigning Hollywood king of second, third, fourth, and fifth chances. From accidentally shooting his fiancée in the arm to serious substance abuse and alcohol issues and dating porn stars and prostitutes, Sheen has been upfront about every single one of his digressions and the public has welcomed him time and again, an opportunity very few people, let alone celebrities, get.
After publicly dissing his boss and co-workers in 2011, he was fired from his million-dollar-an-episode gig on Two and a Half Men and went rogue. He had a meltdown where he publicly showed off multiple girlfriends that he called "goddesses," said he had "Adonis DNA" and was "winning." He even went on a tour, 'My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat is Not An Option' where he was able to share his rants. The tour sold out in minutes.
And a year later, he found himself with another high-profile job, bad behavior be damned. He starred in Anger Management on FX, which ran for 100 episodes. Charlie Sheen really was winning.
Or at least it seemed like it. Around that time, he was diagnosed with HIV and quickly discovered that the company he kept was toxic, which led him to tell all his business to Matt Lauer.
Four years later, he is insisting that he is under attack and he just wants to share his truth. It's a great plea. However, Charlie Sheen has not proven himself to be anything but a victim of White privilege. His PR team has been top notch and they undoubtedly held the puppet strings in Sheen's big interview, especially when Sheen used his children, whom he claimed blackmailers were really taking his millions from, as a reason for the public to pity him:
"What people forget is that that's money they're taking from my children. I trusted them and they were deep in my inner circle, and I thought they could be helpful. My trust turned to their treason."
Pretty low to use his kids to gain the public's pity. Especially when ex-wife Denise Richards, whom he has publicly disrespected many times, had full custody of the four young children he has (including their two daughters and his sons from another relationship) while he lived recklessly. Last year, ex-wife Brooke Mueller was granted full custody of her twin boys with Sheen.
The truth of the matter is that Charlie Sheen is a reckless man who is suffering from more than just a slew of health conditions. He is using this as a moment for yet another chance. He didn't come out to help others who share his diagnosis, but rather, he came out to save face and money.
I do want Sheen to receive all the help that he needs in the coming years to keep his condition under control. May he continue to have success in fighting his HIV. But I just think it's best to be honest: Charlie Sheen is many things, brave is not one of them.
Tags:charlie sheen, HIV, today show
Did Brian Williams' 'Today' Show Interview Help?: Making A Professional Comeback After Lying
Now that we have word of NBC's plans for both Lester Holt and Brian Williams, it's time for Williams to take to the airwaves in the hopes of rebuilding his career and reputation. Once the face of NBC News — smart, trusted, a leading voice for good journalism, and a good sport known for making a pit stop on the set of Jimmy Fallon's late night show to slow jam the news — he's now been pushed to MSNBC to start from scratch.
This morning, the Today show aired an interview taped over two days between Williams and Matt Lauer. Prefaced with Lauer's note that there were "no conditions or guidelines" placed on the interview, he went about asking Williams direct questions about why he lied and what he learned from the humiliating experience of being caught and suspended.
By way of explaning the embellishments he made to his experiences covering big stories, Williams said, "It had to be ego that had to make me sharper, funnier, quicker than anybody else."
In that, Williams is not alone. Professionally speaking, there are only a few reasons why someone lies: to cover their a$$ after making a mistake, to play hooky, or to seem better and more important than they actually are. Williams' reason falls squarely in the option three category.
For Williams, this is especially egregious. The facts are (supposed to be) at the heart of what journalists do. To that, Williams said, "I am sorry for what happened here… And I expect to be held to a different standard."
In fact, for anyone in a position of authority, be it a manager or a high-level executive, there's the expectation that this person is a leader in not just skill but rising to a certain level of integrity. Which is what makes getting snagged all the more embarrassing and cringeworthy.
The jury is still out on whether Williams is on the path to redemption. He'll likely never rise to the status he once held. But holding a place at MSNBC, at the very least, leaves the door open for him to make segment appearances on NBC and slowly work himself back onto some top-level stories.
For the rest of us, the road back is a little easier and a little harder at the same time. Easier because we don't have the glare of the media spotlight to answer to. Harder because it's Williams' fame that can also soften negative reactions from the bosses.
The first step, however, is a proper apology. The tail end of that interview has a good example of what an apology should sound like. There's an admission of wrongdoing, what sounds like genuine contrition, and strong statements about his soul-searching and the changes he's going to make going forward.
You must say the words, "I'm sorry." You've heard the fake apologies on reality TV where the person has a million excuses for what they did and starts pointing out what others did — the mitigating factors — that prompted the bad behavior. Nope. That's not an apology. That's a concession. It's meant to make the apologizing party sound like they're taking the high road rather than admitting guilt. An apology is both taking responsibility and accepting the repercussions that come with wrongdoing.
Next, you have to be patient. Don't expect to be brought back into the fold like nothing happened right away. You have to earn your good reputation again.
Finally, you have to do the work and act with integrity. If you're given a second chance you have to prove why you're deserving of it.
Really, there should be no lying to begin with. Be honest about all of your accomplishments (Claim them ladies! No need to wait to be acknowledged all the time!), but also be forthcoming about the errors and shortcomings. You're human. And in the end, demonstrating that you know how to get the job done even when you're working outside your area of expertise is a sign of just how fantastic you really are.
Tags:apologies, brian williams, matt lauer, NBC, today show
Will You Watch? Janay Rice Set To Speak With Matt Lauer About Elevator Incident And More
Matt Lauer has been playing coy for at least a week now. It was about a week ago that rumors started to swirl that he would be interviewing Janay Rice, Ray Rice's wife or both she and her husband together.
Well, someone let the cat out of the bag.
Franchon Parlour, a company that specializes in preparing clients for photo shoots, recently posted images of a very made up Janay, cameras in a living room and an NBC News logo on Instagram, leading us to believe that Janay was the main interview subject. The images have since been deleted from the Instagram page but there were others that appeared on the company's Facebook page. Without the logo, of course.
I guess it's really not that much of a secret anymore since Matt Lauer himself, confirmed to TMZ that the interview went off without a hitch.
The jury is still out on whether or not Lauer sat down with both Janay and Ray in their Maryland home but NBC sources told TMZ that Ray will make an appearance. Ray Rice's people have not confirmed the news but TMZ was told that Ray was home when the interview took place…so all signs point to yes.
As you know the main reason for the sit down was so the couple could address the infamous surveillance footage which shows Ray Rice knocking Janay unconscious in an elevator back in February. And according to sources, Janay was very open about discussing the incident.
Other sources believe that Ray won't be the only one making an appearance. Allegedly, Janay's mother will be featured in the segment as well. It's said that both of Janay's parents are very supportive of the couple's marriage.
It would have been nice to hear solely from Janay, considering we've already heard from Ray and even friends of the couple. But that's not how the cookie crumbled, for whatever reason.
No official air date has been announced but we'll be sure to keep you posted.
Tags:domestic violence, Janay Rice, matt lauer, Ray Rice, today show
Kevin Hart And Kerry Washington Participate In Ice Bucket Challenge
If you're a fan of The Today Show, you're already familiar with the #IceBucketChallenge. If not, allow me to bring you up to speed. Instead of anyone dousing themselves in flames, participants are actually drenching themselves in ice water not for followers or likes, but to bring attention to ALS.
ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease gradually shuts down the body's muscle movements and can affect the afflicted's ability to move and breathe. ALS currently has a fatal rate of 100%.
The #IceBucketChallenge requires participants to film themselves getting a bucket of ice water dumped on their heads, then donate to the cause and invite three friends to do the same. Matt Lauer and Willie Geist of The Today Show have already fulfilled the challenge, and recently Oprah, Kevin Hart and Kerry Washington have shown their support. Check out their vids along with a few other celebs:
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"It Was A Moment Of Desperation" Shanesha Taylor Finally Gets To Tell Her Side Of The Story
We've been talking about Shanesha Taylor and her case, since she was arrested for leaving her two young sons in a car in Arizona while she went for a job interview. If you've been following her story here on MN, you know that we've empathized with her decision. It was clear that Taylor, who had experienced bouts of homelessness, was simply trying to provide for her family.
Earlier this morning, on the "Today Show," Taylor and her lawyer Benjamin Taylor, no relation, sat with Matt Lauer to explain her thought process that day, her current custody status and what she would say to other people who may find themselves in her situation.
Matt Lauer, who came across as a bit callous to me, asked Taylor what caused her to make the decision to leave her children.
She answered, "It wasn't necessarily a moment of decision. It was planned out beforehand and the plans fell through. I actually had a sitter scheduled and that person wasn't available or I guess they flaked on me, I guess is the best way to say it."
Lauer asked her again, specifically, what made her decide to leave her kids in the car.
"It was a moment of desperation. It was me knowing my family was in crisis and knowing that I had to make a choice between providing for me children or caring for my children."
Then Lauer asked her, despite the circumstances, did she act reasonably or responsibly.
"That's a difficult question because it's making a choice out of desperation. It's choosing what is the best option, what is the best thing to do in this particular situation, being able to provide food, a roof, clothes, shoes for them or take this moment and care for them."
Lauer then attempted to summarize Taylor's response asking her if she was saying "responsibility, in this context, is in the eye of the beholder."
She agreed.
Then he asked her about her current custody situation and how often she gets to see her children.
Taylor said: "I saw them Monday. I get to see them every weekend. We definitely have a lot of family time and do as many activities as we can in a short, two day period."
To which Lauer responded, I bet they still miss their mom though right?
Taylor agreed.
Then Lauer said Shanesha has kind of become the face of the working poor and asked her what her message might be to others who may find themselves in a similar situation.
"The message is: I understand your family is in crisis but reach out, seek that help. I do understand that there are holes in the governmental system, that they don't necessarily have the funding or the programs available to help you but there are other sectors. There are the non-profit sectors that have stepped up to fill those gaps to make sure that families that are in crisis are being taken care of, so just reach out."
I don't know who could have done this interview, but Lauer just wasn't the one. He lacked all types of compassion and empathy. There's something so unsettling about a White, rich, man asking a Black, formerly poor, woman about her parenting decisions and whether or not she acted responsibly. It felt paternalistic and…cold. Who acts or makes any type of decision without taking the circumstances into account? That was the whole point. The circumstances were that she needed to feed her children and she needed a job to do that. I don't know what Lauer's personal thoughts about Taylor were going into this interview, but it seemed he let his bias show.
Watch the entire interview in the video below.
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Katie Couric Squashes Reports Of A Return To The 'Today' Show Anchor Desk
Update: During a visit with CNN's Bill Weir, Katie Couric addressed whether she would ever return to the Today show, where she was an anchor for 15 years.
"I don't think so. No. No. No," she said succinctly. She admits that she does "miss the gang" and keeps in touch. But she's wrapping things up with her talk show Katie and has a new gig leading global news coverage for Yahoo. So it sounds like she's moved on and has her hands full.
Update written by Tonya Garcia
Original post published May 6, 2014.
Rumors are floating around that Katie Couric could be heading back to the Today show, meaning she might be sitting next to her old friend Matt Lauer pretty soon.
According to the New York Post, Couric is in early talks to return to the NBC morning show, albeit on a temporary basis. If the negotiations work out, Couric will sit in for Savannah Guthrie, who will be on maternity leave during the summer months. But sources tell the Post Couric's temp gig could develop into something longer-term if her return causes a ratings boost.
Couric might be getting a feeling of deja vu right about now if this rumor is true. "In 1991, she got her first taste of the co-anchor chair on 'Today' when she sat in for Deborah Norville when Norville left for maternity leave. When Norville didn't return, Couric got the gig full-time," reports the Post.
In 2006, Couric left to host the CBS Evening News.
But Couric isn't the only one NBC is talking to. They are also considering Meredith Vieira, who succeeded Couric at Today until 2011, when she was replaced by Ann Curry.
It could take a little finagling to get Couric back. Currently, Couric is "global anchor" for Yahoo, which has a content partnership with ABC News. However, Couric's work for Yahoo isn't included in the deal. This might mean there would be no conflict if Couric did in fact return to Today. According to Mashable, Couric is one of Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer's biggest signings, in a deal worth $6 million per year. And Couric's syndicated talk show, Katie, wraps in June.
Today has consistently come in second place to Good Morning America for more than a year, with the ABC show beating Matt Lauer and the gang by its biggest margin so far last month. Beating ABC with their own media partner could be the cherry on top.
But after the situation with Ann Curry, Today has to be very careful with who they choose to put on the show and how they bring them on-board, even if it is on a short-term basis.
Would you like to see Katie Couric return to Today?
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'I'm A Part Of This For Black Women:' Tamron Hall Becomes Official 'Today Show' Co-Anchor
After working as a morning show fill-in for quite some time now, Matt Lauer and Samantha Guthrie announced during this morning's "Today Show" taping that Tamron Hall has been officially promoted to co-anchor for the 9 o'clock hour along with Al Roker, Natalie Morales and Willie Geist. The wonderful announcement came along with a beautiful tribute to Tamron that documented her journey as a broadcast journalist.
"I'm excited, I'm nervous. I'm like the sitcom character that keeps popping up behind the sofa and now I'm finally on the sofa," Tamron said during the on-air announcement today.
"We're really excited to officially welcome Tamron into the Today family," said Today's Executive Producer, Don Nash. "She brings wit, enthusiasm and a keen sensibility to an all-around fantastic team, and I think Tamron, Al, Natalie and Willie will have a lot of fun together hosting the third hour."
This makes the 43-year-old Texas native the first black woman to ever co-anchor the morning show in its 62-year history.
"How could I not be walking on cloud nine?" the bright-eyed beauty gushed to Essence. "Just the other day I was reading about Meredith Vieira being the first woman to host the primetime Olympic shows. Of course, I knew what was happening with my negotiations behind the scenes and I thought, wow, these big moments at NBC News and now I'm a part of this for women, for Black women, for all of us. And I'm just taken aback by it. I can't even describe to you how it feels."
Naturally, Tamron says her mom was the first person she called when she learned of the big news.
"I called my mother and she called everyone in Luling [Texas] and Austin," she revealed. "And everything in between. I have three incredible nieces, and a nephew who's going off to college. To hear them say they're proud of me left me in tears."
Way to go, Tamron!
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Not Likely: NY 'Post' Says 'Today' Show Considering A Replacement For Al Roker
New York Post's Page Six says that Al Roker's job could be in peril, with the Today show considering a switch to The Weather Channel's new meteorologist, Sam Champion. Champion appeared on the Today show last Thursday (The Weather Channel is partly owned by NBC), and Page Six writer Richard Johnson says Champion would be much less expensive than the $8 million per year that Roker is getting paid.
However, Roker is wildly popular, serving as host for the Rose Bowl parade and the annual tree lighting event in Rockefeller Center. And traveling along with the Today show team to host NBC's coverage of the Olympics. Roker is more than just a meteorologist. He was even in DC for the Presidential Inauguration. There aren't too many meteorologists covering those kinds of stories.
Even Johnson points out that NBC is still reeling from Ann Curry's departure from the show, with Today settling in to the number two spot behind Good Morning America after a long reign up top.
Just last Friday, Roker became a Twitter meme. NBC correspondent took Roker's seat on set and Roker appeared behind him, his angry face lit by a lamp. Soon after people were sending in their #Rokering pics with the hashtag.
The show's executive producer, Don Nash, says the rumor isn't true. With contracts in place and Roker's following, we're predicting that Roker's staying put for a while.
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'From 'TRL' To 'Today": Carson Daly Is Joining Matt and Savannah On The Morning Show Team
Carson Daly has been popping up at the Today show anchor desk here and there over recent months. Turns out that may have been his audition. Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie, and the rest of the Today show team announced this morning that Daly is joining them as host of the Orange Room, a digital set that will make its debut on Monday.
For the past couple of weeks, the show has been broadcast outdoors on the Plaza while Studio 1A has undergone renovations. Those changes have included a new Orange Room, a digital set where Daly will be interacting with the audience through social media hangouts, livestream interviews, and social media updates to stories reported on the air.
The show aired a huge "get to know you" video about Daly, who has had his own late night talk show and moved on to become the host of The Voice since his days VJ'ing and interviewing entertainers for MTV's Total Request Live. You can check that out below.
Daly will continue to host The Voice, but will only serve as executive producer of Last Call. A new host will be announced. He will also continue to host his morning radio show on 97.1 AMP FM Los Angeles and will work with NBC on new shows and opportunities through a partnership between the network and his Daly Productions.
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The Honest Shoppers: Assumed "Burglars" Spotted On Camera Doing The Right Thing!
They're being touted as the "honest shoppers" but four young men from a New Jersey college football team were just doing the right thing.
William Patterson University freshmen football players Anthony Biondi, Jelani Bruce, Kell'e Gallimore and Thomas James went into Buddy's Small Lots to pick up some batteries and an audio cable before heading back to practice. What they didn't know is that they'd triggered the store alarm in the process. The police alerted the store's vice president and based on the outside store cameras, the men are seen entering the store and leaving a few minutes later.
But after further investigation using the store's inside cameras, the "honest shoppers" were shown at the checkout counter, waving their money directly at the camera and paying for the items by leaving the money on the counter. They even left the proper amount of tax.
Marci Lederman, the store's manager said the store was closed which explains why there was no store clerk. The lights were on because of a "quirk" in the system and the door was open because the lock is broken. Lederman also had this to say about the honest shoppers:
"I think it's terrific that there are still people out there that have moral character not to do the wrong thing when they easily could."
For their part, the young men are excited to have a little bit of fame right now. When speaking to Today's Savannah Guthrie, Matt Lauer and Tamron Hall, Biondi said, "(We're) just ecstatic knowing that one good deed blew up nationwide and now everyone's hearing about it." Gallimore added, "Soon as I went on my laptop, it was like right there, front page, and I was just excited. I was like smiling because I was like, 'Oh I'm famous."
All four young men were rewarded with $50 worth of free merchandise from the store.
What a great story and how cute is it to see the guys so excited about their share of fame?!


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ok i know this website is MENT for artist and msuciians to share their creations with the world. but this is to sad. Why would anyone make something THIS dark. a kid killing himself due to an abusive parent is kinda deep. although it had a nice story. (not a hate comment)
If it was me who took that class I'd fail within the first hour. And you received some pretty helpful advise from it (besides the person who said you should learn to draw... they haven't seen your portraiture obviously).
Anyway, well done!
ps now u have no excuse but to work on drawings for major!!
haha actually I m the only person who did animation in the class:)
and hell no! I think I should really look for something BIG rather than just drawing...perhaps a game? :)
not bad
The art was excellent. Definitely captured the dark mood. But honestly, I couldn't enjoy it that much. My reason? There's a little 9 year old boy missing just down the road from where I live and work at. So the runaway child theme made me think of that. I'll still give you a good rating though.
Sorry to hear about that
Very nice animation....
You lose major points for having it loops. At least you had the music stop. If you haven't turned this in yet, you'd best put a stop(); in there with a replay button or yer gonna probably lose some credits.
Other than that - i thought having the kid's head be that big was kind of inappropriate for the mood. A bit comical for a bit serious thing - "Hey for feeling so small and insignificant he SURE HAS GOT A BIG HEAD" lol. but seriously - imagery is important.
I really loved the bottle rolling part. Just an excellent animation right there.
If anything else... i could say you should put it at 24fps and animate that bitch out, but i understand it's just for a class and that might take more time than you have.
Good overall - i gave it a 5.
OH yeah, and as far as the music goes - since there's poetry, i'd say stick with something instrumental. I kept thinking i was gonna hear the words in the lyrics and i think it distracted from the video a bit.
So there ya go - i figured you probably put this up before you turned it in to get some criticism, so criticism i gave. Keep it up, kid.
Actually the loop was deliberate. This work was supposed to put in a gallery context so I don't have to restart it manually. But still I admit that I have uploaded it too rush (it is due today) before any modification is done
It's not terrible
good story, just need to practice animation more.


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"Of such overpowering intensity...that you're knocked sideways."—BBC
African ensemble Konono No. 1. and their debut release, Congotronics, have been the buzz of the world and indie music scenes, inspiring incredulous reactions in review after glowing review. The 12-member Kinshasa-based street band performs on amplified thumb pianos and a startling array of rhythm instruments, many created from salvaged car parts, pots, and pans. Polyrhythms are then pushed to the edge of distortion by extremely lo-fi effects and makeshift electronic devices. Konono's trance-inducing, futuristic-yet-timeless sound has made an indelible impact, drawing comparisons to electro-funk pioneers Kraftwerk and reggae dub master Lee Perry.
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