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I am pleased (THRILLED) to announce that my short story "Not Quite Cricket" which I published here on hubpages.com in December 2011, has been chosen for an anthology collection. I have removed it from my Hubs due to contractual obligations with the publisher. It is available in e-book and paperback copies beginning Sunday, March 10, 2013.
UPDATE: 1/20/2014 -by Rachael O'Halloran
awordlover's publisher, Novelty Fiction, is re-releasing her ebooks for free and paper copies will still be available to order for $8.50. This book was originally pulled from lulu.com because of author death. Now that all the proper paperwork has been furnished to the publisher, the book is available again for downloading and paperback orders.
Here's the web address with the word "slashes" where a / should be.
Anne DiGeorge's name is not in the web address for reasons which should be obvious if you are a follower or reader of her hubs.
http://www.lulu.com slash shop slash roman-trend-and-peter-r-harris-and-rosalie-montgomery-and-adrian-lavelle slash a-touch-of-mystique slash ebook slash product-20740328 dot html
My Publishing Experience by awordlover
This was quite a learning experience since I have never been published in an anthology before. Morten Rand at Novelty Fiction was never tiring in answering my questions. Novelty Fiction is an independent publisher of books, e-books, audiobooks, and magazines, specializing in literary fiction.
When you are new to a certain part of the publishing world, being published in an anthology is not the same as being published in a stand alone book where you have an editor who helps you on your copy, or have an agent who shops your book to publishers for you. The pay scale is quite different too.
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Name Recognition - advice by awordlover
I don't profess to know how I got so lucky to be selected out of so many authors on Hubpages, but I consider myself very fortunate to have my short story chosen for this anthology, A Touch of Mystique, which contains 6 short stories.
The authors in the anthology are Roman Trend, Rosalie Montgomery, Peter R Harris, Adrian Lavelle, Zehra Ali, and Anne DiGeorge (me!)
The name of the publisher is Novelty Fiction (hubber) who first saw my short story here on HubPages.
I do try to comment on many hubs, especially short stories, which I enjoy reading and writing. I also try to participate in various forums.
I think the more you get your name in comments and forums, the more your hubs will be viewed, you will get name recognition and who knows? Possibly a published book!
I participated in the forum Fiction Writer - Please Introduce Yourselves which is where many writers get name exposure, ideas and good information on the process.
Do not copy this article.
Final word by awordlover
Note: Hubpages won't let me put the links in to the website, which would make this hub 'overly promotional.' I totally understand that.
Go to lulu.com, click bookstore, enter title A Touch of Mystique.
Thank you for taking a few minutes to take a look at my work. ::smile::
Published by Anne DiGeorge 3/15/2013
updated September 22, 2013 by Rachael O'Halloran,a member of awordlover's team
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Congratulations, and I will check this out. It is also my dream to get some of my short stories published.
Wow! That is amazing! Congratulations! And may you have as much luck in future pieces of work :)
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A big congratulations from me as well and hope everything goes as planed for you. I'll be popping over to have a look as soon as I get my mail sorted out.
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Reassuringly expensive
The Tinker Board is £55, which is a good chunk more than a RPi3 at £32 – that's quite a premium for a bit more CPU performance and RAM. I like the annotated PCB, and it's also good to have a clicky MicroSD slot (like the RPi2 had rather than the cheaper feeling ones on the RPi3).
It boots straight into a GUI desktop. Chromium is there, and seems fast enough to be used as a desktop machine (if you can live with a 1080p screen). I guess if I can get by with 2GB RAM on my Chromebook then I can get by with 2GB RAM on this.
I've not yet figured out which window manager it's using (likely whatever Debian default is).
Connecting to WiFi from the desktop was easy – click the button, select the network, enter password.
Getting the gigabit wired network working was not so easy/obvious (for something that should 'just work'). I could see from my switch that the network was up (and connected at GigE), but the interface didn't connect and pull a DHCP address and the usual command line invocations like 'ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0' weren't working. Eventually it seems that I clicked something in the desktop UI that provoked action, and at least once it was up it stayed up across power cycles.
The OS image
It's pretty obvious that somebody at Asus cloned an OS from their working Tinker Board, I can even see their command history for the bits and bobs that they installed by hand. This is not how professionals build and release an image, and I'm guessing my network issues might be related to the hardware MACs on my Tinker Board being different from the ones on the one the snapshot came from. At least the base is relatively stock Debian Jesse.
When the board boots into a desktop it's with the user 'linaro', which happens to have a password 'linaro'; that user is part of the sudo group, and so can jump straight into doing stuff as root. So we have a hard coded username and password for a user who can get to root.
SSH is listening by default, making it possible to log in remotely (with the hard coded username and password).
The Raspberry Pi foundation did a better job with this stuff, and Asus clearly haven't learned those lessons, which is a shame.
How could this be better?
If the supplied image booted into a late stage customisation script with the following few options that would be much better:
- Desktop or CLI?
- Username and password?
- SSH (and other exposed services) on or off?
If it was possible to provide a cloud-init like way of supplying customisation to do that without human touch then even better.
It runs hot
I found the included SOC heatsink after I'd done the unboxing photos, and popped it on. It gets pretty hot, so my guess is that it's needed (or the SOC would be frying). The quick start guide specifies a 2A USB power supply (so that's 10W). I tried to measure current draw with my PLX Legion Meter, but I couldn't get it to boot as it seems to try to draw more current than the meter can supply.
That's it for now
I've not had the chance to do anything meaningful with the board yet (let alone build a project around it). Next up I'll try the Kodi build and see if the x.265 hardware decoding can be used there.
[1] The quick start guide doesn't have download links (I'm guessing they weren't ready at the time of printing), and they're not that easy to find with search. Here's the download site (though it wasn't working at the time of writing – sigh). Updated 18 Feb 2017 – There's a new download site, but it doesn't seem to have a Kodi image.
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The Politics of Data
Organisations of all types are increasingly making decisions based on data and its analysis, but the rigour involved in this hasn't yet entered our broader social discourse. I'm hopeful that we all start getting better access to data, and better understanding of the analysis and modelling process so that decisions can be made for the right reasons.
All models are wrong, some are merely useful — Simon Wardley channelling George Box
I spend my days encouraging people to make better decisions based on scientific method and data — collect, analyse, model, hypothesize, experiment — rinse and repeat[1]. My work is just a minuscule part of the overall trend towards running companies on data rather than opinion, and the march towards machine learning[2] and artificial intelligence it brings with it. This makes me very critical of data when it's put in front of me, and how it gets analysed. I'm going to use a news article I read this morning as an example of bad practice in order to illustrate how things can (and probably will) change for the better.
The News
I'm going to pick apart a no byline piece from the BBC 'Four-year MOT exemption for new cars proposed'. It's full of facts and figures, but also has all the hallmarks of a rushed together content farm piece as described in 'the rest is advertising'.
The proposal
The UK Ministry of Transport (MOT) is proposing that new cars be allowed to go an extra year (4 instead of 3) before their first MOT test. This almost certainly is a decision that's been made in light of the data. The crucial question here, and one that's not answered by the article is 'how many cars fail their MOT test when first presented at 3 years old?'. The MOT people surely know the answer to that question, and that answer no doubt informs the statement that "new vehicles are much safer than they were 50 years ago".
The irrelevant opinion
The article goes on to present data from an Automobile Association (AA) member poll. Apparently 44% were in favour of the change to 4 years, with 26% against.
It's pretty clear that those AA members weren't presented with the data that the MOT has, otherwise I'd expect a vary different outcome.
A question asked with facts presented:
The Ministry of Transport has found that 99.9% of cars presented for their MOT test at 3 years old pass the test, and they're proposing that new cars now start taking the test after 4 years — does that sound reasonable to you?
Gets a very different answer than:
The Ministry of Transport says that new cars are safer than they were in the past. Do you think the MOT should start at 4 years instead of 3 years like it is now?
My bottom line here is: who gives a rats ass what a bunch of ill informed drivers think — where are the facts driving this decision?
This is not (entirely) the writer's fault
For sure the writer could have gone back to the Ministry and asked for the fail rate data for cars at 3 years old (and 4 years old etc.), and I'm sure a better article would have resulted. But that's too much to ask in a world of churning out content and reacting to the next press release or politician's tweet.
If the Ministry was doing a good job of communicating its proposal perhaps it could have also explained its reasoning, and spoon fed the data with the press release.
What's this got to do with politics?
Everything is politics — Thomas Mann
With Brexit and Trump's election 2016 brought a moral panic around 'fake news' and the whole concept that one person's opinion can be more valuable that another person's fact.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' — Isaac Asimov
Facts come from data, but it's easy for the causal link between collected data and presented 'fact' to become stretched, especially when statistical methods are being used (which is pretty much all 'data science'). It's this bending of fact, particularly in social science such as economics that opened the door to statements like this:
Britain has had enough of experts — Michael Gove
It's interesting to note that the Brexit Leave campaign made extensive use of data science, along with other modern strategic tools like OODA as described by Dominic Cummings in his 'how the Brexit referendum was won'. It also seems that we're dealing with the deliberate introduction of noise into Western political discourse per 'Putin's Real Long Game' and 'Playtime is Over'.
There is a more hopeful angle though. Peter Leyden argues for a positive refrain in his 'Why Trump's Inauguration is Not the Beginning of an Era? — ?but the End', noting that California might (once again) be ahead of the pack in moving on from celebrity politicians to a more data driven and scientific approach.
From Global Politics to Office Politics
The section above touched on major political events, but it's worth looking more closely at what happens with data based decision making within organisations. Leaning on my own experience it seems to eliminate lots of office politics.
Don't bring an opinion to a data fight — Kent Beck
Decisions have traditionally been made based on the Highest Paid Person's Opinion (HiPPO), and perhaps the heart of office politics has been saying and doing what's thought to keep the HiPPOs happy. As Andrew McAfee observed in 'The Diminishment of Don Draper' the HiPPO is being displaced by data and analytics. This can be very empowering to front line people, and in turn displaces traditional political structures. I think this is for the good, as it seems to make workplaces more pleasant and predictable (rather than confrontational and capricious).
In a world where it seems harder than ever to distinguish fact from fiction it's on all of us to bring our data and clearly explain our analysis, because that provides facts with provenence, facts that can be understood, facts that can be trusted, facts that can triumph over opinion; and there's nothing more political than that.
I look forward to better data based journalism in our broader social and political discourse, but I also look forward to what data and data science does to the workplace, because I think less political workplaces are nicer workplaces.
Updated 23 Jan 2017 — I meant to add a link to the London School of Economics series The Politics of Data
This post by Chris Swan was originally made to Medium
[1] For some insight into the work I've been contributing to take a look at my GOTO:London 2016 presentation.
[2] One of the ways I like to think of recent advances in machine learning is that computers are finally doing what we might reasonably expect of them — which mainly boils down to not asking a human a question that the machine can reasonably answer for itself.
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I need local DNS for various home lab things, but the Windows VMs I've been using can be slow and unreliable after a power outage (which happens too frequently). Moving to BIND turned out to be much easier than I feared, and I chose OpenWRT devices to run it on as I wanted reliable turnkey hardware.
My home network is a mixture of 'production' – stuff I need for working from home and that the family rely on, and 'dev/test' – stuff that I use for tinkering. Both of these things need DNS, which I've been running on Windows Active Directory (AD) since it was in Beta in 1999. For many years I had an always on box that ran as an AD server and my personal desktop, but that was before I became more concerned about power consumption and noise. For the last few years my AD has been on VMs running on a couple of physical servers at opposite ends of the house. That's fine under normal circumstances, but leads to lots of 'the Internet's not working' complaints if a power outage takes down the VM servers.
Why OpenWRT?
I already have a few TP-Link routers that have been re-purposed as WiFi access points, and since the stock firmware is execrable I've been running OpenWRT on them for years. They seem to have survived all of the power outages without missing a beat, and restart pretty quickly.
Why BIND?
Despite a (possibly undeserved) reputation for being difficult to configure and manage BIND is the DNS server that does it all (at least according to this comparison). It's also available as an OpenWRT package so all I needed to do was follow the BIND HowTo and:
opkg update opkg install bind-server bind-tools
Getting my zone files
Windows provides a command line tool to export DNS from Active Directory, and the files that it creates can be used directly as BIND zone files:
dnscmd /ZoneExport Microsoft.local MSzone.txt
The exports show up in %SystemRoot%\System32\Dns and it's then a case of copying and cleaning up; the cleaning up being necessary because the exports are full of AD SVC records that I don't need. I simply deleted en masse the SVC records, and tweaked the NS records to reflect the IPs of their new homes.
With clean zone files it was a simple matter of scping them over to the OpenWRT routers and configuring named.conf to pick them up and use my preferred forwarders[1]. A restart of named then allowed my new BIND server to do its thing:
/etc/init.d/named restart
I'd been put off BIND due to tales of its complexity, but for my purposes it's a breeze to use. The fact that I was able to export my existing DNS setup straight into files that were suitable for use as BIND zone files made things extra easy.
[1] I used to run a recursive DNS at home, but I found that it can be slow at times, so I've been using forwarders ever since. I'm not spectacularly keen on giving a list of everything I visit on the Internet to anybody, but ultimately I've settled on this selection of forwarders:
forwarders { 126.96.36.199; # Verisign primary 220.127.116.11; # Verisign secondary 18.104.22.168; # Google primary 126.96.36.199; # OpenDNS primary 220.127.116.11; # Google secondary 126.96.36.199; # OpenDNS secondary 184.108.40.206; # Freenom primary 18.104.22.168; # Freenom secondary };
I really wish the a company with strong values (like CloudFlare) ran a service that I'd be happy to forward to, though the snoopers charter is making me reconsider my whole approach to DNS – I may have to tunnel my DNS traffic offshore like I've done with my Android tablet – anybody know a DNS server that can be forced to use a SOCKS proxy?
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Restoring Power
I had a huge problem with 'nuisance trips' of the residual current device (RCD) in my house, which has been resolved by the installation of residual current circuit breakers with overcurrent protection (RCBOs). More reliable power to individual circuits in the house (and particularly the garage) has forced me to set up better monitoring so that I'm actually aware of circuit breaker trips.
I live in a new build house that was completed in 2002, but it has perhaps the least reliable electricity supply I've ever encountered. Brownouts and power cuts (short and long) are all too frequent, so I've invested in a number of uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) to protect power to my home network and the servers (and their files) that live on it.
As part of the wiring regulations that existed at the time all of the power sockets in my house were protected by a single RCD in the consumer unit (aka 'fuse board'). The RCD was suffering from an increasing number of 'nuisance trips' (activating when it wasn't actually saving me or somebody else from electrocution), taking power to the entire house with it each time it went off.
Why now?
In the run up to Christmas I was experiencing more nuisance trips than ever – three in a single day at one stage; and every time we turned the oven on there was a minute of anticipation about whether it would trip the board again[1].
The incident that spurred me into action happened over New Year. We took a long weekend away with family and friends in the North East of England and Borders of Scotland. On returning home the house was freezing – the power had been out since the evening that we left, and so the central heating had been off. At least the cold weather meant that stuff in the fridges and freezers wasn't impacted. It took hours to get everything back on – it seemed impossible to have all of the house circuits on at once without tripping the RCD and taking everything down again[2].
RCBOs vs RCD
A bit of online research led me to this Institution of Engineering Technology (IET) forum thread about nuisance RCD trips in a house with 'a lot of computers', the response was:
Too many computers, cumulative earth leakage is tripping the RCD.
Ditch the single RCD and install RCBOs.
I'd not previously heard of RCBOs, but they're basically a device that combines the functions of a Miniature Circuit Breaker (MCB) and an RCD into a single breaker. This has a couple of advantages:
- When a trip happens due to high residual current leakage to earth it only takes out a single circuit rather than the whole board.
- Any background levels of current leakage get spread across a number of breakers rather than accumulating on a single breaker and bringing it ever closer to its tripping point.
I got in touch with a friendly electrician[3] and he's now installed a new consumer unit along with RCBOs[4] for each of the socket circuits (and in accordance with updated wiring regulations the light circuits are now RCD protected too using a 'split board' approach).
Since getting the RCBOs installed there hasn't been a single trip on any circuit – so mission accomplished :)
A quick detour on suppression
The IET Forum Thread I referenced above also contains some discussion of the problems that come with transient voltage suppressors (TVSs). The issue is that when a there's a voltage spike the transient suppressor gives it a path to earth, which then causes a residual current leak that trips an RCD.
I removed all of the surge suppressed power strips from the house, but it didn't make any difference, likely because I left in place my 4 UPSs, which I expect all have their own TVSs within.
Every silver lining…
Now that I had reliable power there was a new problem. How would I know when power to the garage (and the server and freezer out there) went off? A trip on the garage RCBO wouldn't take out the rest of the house, so it would be far less obvious. If I was away on a business trip it's possible that the rest of the family wouldn't notice for days.
The answer was to have better monitoring…
Time to go NUTs
I have a PowerWalker VI 2200 out in the garage looking after my Dell T110 II and associated network switch. Like most UPSs it has a USB port that provides a serial over USB connection. I hooked this up to a VM running on the server and installed Network UPS Tools (NUT) to keep an eye on things.
Email alerts
I use upsmon to run upssched to run a script that sends me an email when power goes out (and another when it's restored). I've dropped the configs and scripts into a gist if you want to do this yourself (thanks to Bogdan for his 'How to monitor PowerMust 2012 UPS with Ubuntu Server 14' for showing me the way here)
Graceful shutdown
My NAS and Desktop NUC both interface directly by USB with their local UPS and are configured to shut down when the battery level goes critical. I needed the same for the VMware vSphere servers running off the other two UPSs (in my garage and loft). Luckily this has been taken care of by René with his 'NUT Client for ESXi 5 and 6' (Google Translation to English) so I just had to install and configure that, pointing at the same NUT servers I used for email alerts.
RCBOs have totally solved the problems I was having with RCD nuisance trips, and I now have monitoring and graceful shutdown in place for when there are real power issues.
[1] Conventional fault finding would suggest a fault with the oven, but I wasn't convinced given that it's only about 18 months old. My take was that a trivial issue with the oven that wouldn't trip the RCD on its own was taking it over the edge when added to other leakage on other circuits. The fact that the oven doesn't trip its new RCBO seems to bear that out.
[2] Going through the usual fault finding to identify a single culprit was fruitless. Everything was wrong and nothing was wrong. It didn't matter which circuit I isolated. My hypothesis became that there was probably about 3-4mA of leakage on each circuit in the house, combining to a total leakage that had the single RCD on a hair trigger of any additional leakage.
[3] Despite being an electronics engineering graduate, a member of the IET (MIET) and a Chartered Engineer (CEng) I'm not allowed to do my own electrical work. I recall that there were ructions about this when the revised regulations with proposed and introduced, but it's pretty sensible. Messing around with the 100A supplies to consumer units is no business for amateurs, and I was happy to get in a professional.
[4] After a bit of hunting around and price comparison I went for a Contactum Defender consumer unit and associated RCBOs and MCBs from my local TLC Direct. The kit came to just over £200, and getting it professionally installed cost about the same – so if you need to do this yourself budget around £350-500 depending on how many circuits you have.
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I thought I could put Squid in front of an SSH tunnel, but it can't do that. Thankfully Polipo can do the trick.
I was quite happy when it was just spies that were allowed to spy on me (even if they might have been breaking the law by doing so), but I see no good reason (and much danger) in the likes of the Department of Work and Pensions being able to poke its nose into my browsing history. The full list of agencies empowered by the 'snoopers charter' is truly horrifying.
PCs are easy
I've been using Firefox (with the FoxyProxy plugin) for a while to choose between various virtual private servers (VPSs) that I run. This lets me easily choose between exit points in the US or the Netherlands (and entry points on a virtual machine [VM] on my home network or a local SSH session when I'm on the road).
To keep the tunnels up on the home network VM I make use of autossh e.g.
/usr/lib/autossh/autossh -M 20001 -D 0.0.0.0:11111 [email protected]
I can then use an init script to run autossh within a screen session (gist):
### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: sshvps # Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs # Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs # Should-Start: $network # Should-Stop: $network # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: Tunnel to VPS # Description: This runs a script continuously in screen. ### END INIT INFO case "$1" in start) echo "Starting sshvps" su chris -c "screen -dmS sshvps /usr/lib/autossh/autossh -M 20001 -D 0.0.0.0:11111 [email protected]" ;; stop) echo "Stopping sshvps" PID=`ps -ef | grep autossh | grep 20001 | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'` kill -9 $PID ;; restart|force-reload) echo "Restarting sshvps" PID=`ps -ef | grep autossh | grep 20001 | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'` kill -9 $PID sleep 15 su chris -c "screen -dmS /usr/lib/autossh/autossh -M 20001 -D 0.0.0.0:11111 [email protected]" ;; *) N=/etc/init.d/$NAME echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart}" >&2 exit 1 ;; esac exit 0
That script lives in /etc/init.d on my Ubuntu VM. I haven't yet migrated to systemd. With the VM running it provides a SOCKS proxy listening on port 11111 that I can connect to from any machine on my home network. So I can then put an entry into the Firefox FoxyProxy Plugin to connect to VM_IP:11111
Android isn't so easy
It's possible to define a proxy in Firefox on Android by going to about:config then searching for proxy and completing a few fields e.g.:
- network.proxy.socks VM_IP
- network.proxy.socks_port 11111
- network.proxy.type 2
That however will only work on a given network, in this case my home network.
I could (and sometimes will) use localhost as the SOCKS address and then use an SSH client such as ConnectBot, but that means starting SSH sessions before I can browse, which will get tiresome quickly.
Android does allow an HTTP proxy to be defined for WiFi connections, but it doesn't work with SOCKS proxies – I needed a bridge from HTTP to SOCKS.
Not Squid
I've used Squid before, and in fact it was already installed on the VM I use for the tunnels. So I went searching for how to join Squid to an SSH tunnel.
It turns out that Squid doesn't support SOCKS parent proxies, but this Ubuntu forum post not only clarified that, but also pointed me to the solution, another proxy called Polipo.
Installing Polipo was very straightforward, as it's a standard Ubuntu package:
sudo apt-get install -y polipo
I then needed to add a few lines to the /etc/polipo/config file to point to the SSH tunnel and listen on all ports:
socksParentProxy = "localhost:11111" socksProxyType = socks5 proxyAddress = "0.0.0.0"
Polipo needs to be restarted to read in the new config:
sudo service polipo restart
Once that's done I had an HTTP proxy listening on (the default) port 8123. All I had to do to use it was long press on my home WiFi connection in Android, tap 'Modify Connection' , tick 'Show advanced options' and input VM_IP as the 'Proxy hostname' and 8123 as 'Proxy port'.
A quick Google of 'my ip' showed that my traffic was emerging from my VPS.
Yes, I know there are holes
DNS lookups will still be going to the usual place, in my case a pair of local DNS servers that forward to various public DNS resolvers (though not my ISP's). If I was ultra paranoid I could tunnel my DNS traffic too.
When I'm using the tablet out and about on public WiFi and cellular networks I'll not be proxying my traffic (unless I explicitly use an SSH tunnel).
Polipo provided the bridge I needed between Android's ability to use WiFi specific HTTP proxies and the SSH tunnels I run out of a VM on my home network to various VPSs outside the UK. I don't for a moment expect this to provide any protection from real spies, but it should prevent casual snooping, and will also guard against the inevitable ISP data protection failures.
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Tags: http, IPAct, Polipo, proxy, snoopers charter, SOCKS, Squid, SSH, VPS
Amongst the flurry of announcements at re:invent 2016 was the launch of a developer preview for a new F1 instance type. The F1 comes with one to eight high end Xilinx Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to provide programmable hardware to complement the Intel E5 2686 v4 processors that come with up to 976 GiB of RAM and 4 TB of NVMe SSD storage. The FPGAs are likely to be used for risk management, simulation, search and machine learning applications, or anything else that can benefit from hardware optimised coprocessors.
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Amazon have launched Lightsail, a Virtual Private Server (VPS) service to compete with companies like Digital Ocean, Linode and the multitude of Low End Box providers. The service bundles a basic Linux virtual machine with SSD storage and a bandwidth allowance. Pricing starts at $5/month with tiers by RAM allocation. Each larger configuration comes with more storage and bandwidth, though these scale sub-linearly versus RAM/price.
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I went along to Serverlessconf last week and wrote up a couple of InfoQ news pieces about it:
Day 1 – Serverless Operations is Not a Solved Problem
The emergent theme from day one of the Serverlessconf London 2016 was that far from being 'NoOps', Serverless platforms bring with them substantial operational challenges. The physical servers and virtual machines may have been abstracted away, but that doesn't mean an end to infrastructure configuration; and developers ignore the implications of underlying persistence mechanisms at their peril.
continue reading the full story at InfoQ
Day 2 – Serverless Frameworks
The emergent theme for the second day of Serverlessconf London 2016 was the availability and functionality of management frameworks to address the operational issues highlighted on day one. The Node.js based Serverless Framework featured in at least three talks, and there was also coverage of Zappa, a more opinionated Python based framework.
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Review – Lenovo X250
I've been very happy with the X250 – it's given me the same performance I got from my X230, but with better battery life, a smaller form factor and it seems more robust.
Long term review
I started writing this post in January not long after I got my X250, but I never got past the title, and another nine months have rolled by. In that time the X250 has been a faithful companion on a pretty much daily basis.
RAM and SSD
My X250 came with 8GB RAM and a 256GB SSD, neither of which is really sufficient for my needs, so I dropped in a 16GB DIMM from Crucial[1] and a 500GB SSD from SanDisk[2]. The X250 can take 2.5″ SATA and/or M.2 SSDs, though I've not tried the latter (as I already had a spare 2.5″ drive to hand).
Subjectively the X250 is no better or worse than the three years older X230. That's fine, because the older laptop had all of the speed I needed, but it's interesting to note that laptops have essentially plateaued in performance, offering better battery life instead.
For a less subjective view, the X250 gets a Geekbench 3 multi-core score of 5166 (5083 on battery) versus 4065 for the X230 – so there is some extra quantitative performance there. I expect that the newer GPU would also be much better (but hardly ideal) for gaming e.g. it would provide a noticeable improvement to Skyrim, but it's not going to cope with No Man's Sky.
The X250 actually has two batteries, an integral battery in the main body, and a detachable battery in the usual place. Together they provide around 6hrs of real world use, which is sufficient to get through a day away from power outlets at a conference or similar.
Form factor
The X250 and its 12″ screen provide the same width and depth as the older X230, but it's a good bit shallower whilst still offering full sized VGA and network ports (so no need to carry a bag of adapters).
The resolution of the 12″ touchscreen is the same resolution as the screen I had before at 1368 x 768, and it's nice and bright. It's thicker than the X230 screen, but more robust as a result.
After 10 months a worn down Ultrabook label shows that it's had plenty of use, but that's the only sign – nothing seems to be otherwise showing any age or wear and tear. It will be another 8 months before I can do a fair comparison, but it seems to be made of stronger stuff than my old X230. It seems that Lenovo have got the old ThinkPad mojo back for making laptops that can withstand what everyday life throws at them.
Every Thinkpad that I've previously had sported a removable drive bay, which I've generally taken advantage of and hence found useful. The X250 has dispensed with this, which means taking off the base (and dealing with potentially fragile plastic clips) to get at the SSD. It's the same story for the RAM, which doesn't have an access door.
The M.2 SSD interface only takes SATA drives, so there's no option for a further boost with NVMe.
The slimmed down form factor means that Lenovo have changed their 20v power supply jack from circular to rectangular, so I've had to buy a bunch of adaptors for the handful of power supplies I already had in my daily use and travel bags.
Should I have waited for an X260?
Perhaps – but they weren't available in December 2015, and I wasn't going to refuse a laptop that fitted the bill. The Skylake CPU in the later model might have given me even better battery life, but that's the only difference that I'd expect to notice.
I've been very happy with the X250. It's fast, small, lightweight, has a full selection of ports and can get through the day without worrying about when the next charging opportunity will come. It also seems to show that Lenovo have restored the build quality that traditionally went with the ThinkPad brand, and perhaps slipped a little a few years ago.
[1] The DIMM failed after about 8 months causing the laptop to become *very* unstable. A quick run of Memtest86 revealed the culprit, and I swapped back to the OEM DIMM whilst Crucial did their RMA process, which took longer than I might have hoped, but was otherwise painless.
[2] I don't seem to have filled the SSD anything like as quickly as I did the similar size one I first put into my X230, so there's been no need yet to upgrade.
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is responsible for addressing the threat of nuclear smuggling. Radiation detection portal monitors are key elements in our national defenses against such threats. DHS has sponsored R&D and testing activities to develop a "next generation" portal monitor, known as the advanced spectroscopic portal monitor. However, each one costs 6 times more than a current portal monitor. In March 2006, we recommended that DHS conduct a cost-benefit analysis to determine whether the new portal monitors are worth the additional cost. In June 2006, DHS issued its analysis. In October 2006, we issued our report that assessed the DHS study. GAO's statement, based on our October 2006 report, addresses whether DHS's cost-benefit analysis provides an adequate basis for its decision to purchase and deploy the next generation portal monitors.
DHS's cost-benefit analysis does not provide a sound analytical basis for its decision to purchase and deploy the new portal monitor technology. Our review of the analysis determined that it had the following problems. Regarding the performance of the portal monitors: instead of using the results of its own portal monitor tests conducted in 2005, DHS assumed that the new portal monitor technology would correctly detect and identify highly enriched uranium (HEU) 95 percent of the time--a performance level that far exceeds the new technology's current capabilities. To determine the performance of the current generation of portal monitors in detecting HEU, DHS used data from limited tests carried out in 2004 that test officials concluded were unreliable for such purposes. DHS's analysis of the new technology portal monitors was incomplete because the analysis focused on identifying HEU, but did not fully consider how well the new portal monitor technology could correctly detect or identify other dangerous radiological or nuclear materials. Regarding cost estimates: in comparing the costs of the new and current technologies, the procurement costs of the current generation portal monitors were highly inflated because DHS assumed a unit cost of about $131,000. However, the contract price at the time of the analysis was about $55,000. According to officials who manage the contract, it was to expire and they expected portal monitor prices to increase, but not nearly as much as DHS assumed. DHS stated that the primary benefit of deploying the new portal monitors is reducing unnecessary secondary inspections. However, DHS's analysis does not fully estimate today's baseline costs for secondary inspections, which makes it impossible to determine whether the use of the new portal monitors as currently planned, will result in significant cost savings for these inspections. The new portal monitor contract price has exceeded DHS's total cost estimate by about $200 million. The cost-benefit analysis shows the total cost for deploying both current and new portal monitors to be about $1 billion. However, in July 2006, DHS announced that it had awarded contracts to develop and purchase up to $1.2 billion worth of the new portal monitors over 5 years. DHS's cost-benefit analysis omitted many factors that could affect the cost of new portal monitors, such as understating the life-cycle costs for operating and maintaining the equipment over time. For these reasons, DHS's cost-benefit analysis does not meet the intent of our March 2006 report recommendation to fully assess the costs and benefits before purchasing any new equipment.
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Many people today recognize that search engine optimization (SEO) and public relations (PR) have much to offer each other.
The latest Google changes have put a real emphasis on high quality, unique content that is linked to by quality sites. And this is where real public relations – as opposed to crappy news release distribution – can play such a crucial role.
There are real opportunities for great business. What follows are 10 reasons why SEOs should really get to grips with PR in 2013, based on my conversations with the people who are making the two work together.
1. The PR Industry is Definitely 'Getting it'
Most of us who have been in link building for a while have in the past experienced a certain degree of frostiness from the PR industry. But that is clearly changing and people are breaking out of silos.
Mike Cherenson is a former Chair and CEO of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and is EVP of Success Communications Group. He sees the importance of SEO and link building.
"Authentic and relevant link building, aimed at driving engagement, informing publics and building mutually beneficial relationships should be a part of every public relations and SEO effort," Cherenson said.
But not only should link building be a part of every public relations effort, public relations also has much to offer SEO.
"Public relations professionals are skilled storytellers and content generators and should be a part of every SEO effort," he said. "The future of SEO is not in the technology, it's in the ability to tell stories that readers and Google will find interesting… and that's public relations."
And Cherenson understands the value of linking.
"Links need to provide value to the reader," he said. "Media will be more likely to link to content that is compelling and provides information that goes beyond the original reporting."
Another PR professional is Ken Deutsch, EVP of JPA, a healthcare communications firm and a seasoned specialist in public affairs.
His company takes SEO and link building very seriously. But that's still not the case throughout the industry.
"Many PR people stop at getting media coverage and think their job is done. They get a placement in the New York Times but they don't follow up to make sure a link is put in. So they're not taking advantage of the SEO side of the story."
And while many media outlets provide links, there are some that don't link out as a matter of policy.
That influences the targets he goes after, "because they don't put links in, it's not worth putting as much energy into getting placement there."
2. There is a Tremendous Synergy Between SEO and PR
Putting it simply, SEO enhances a press release. Use popular keywords and the press release, never mind any stories it generates will continue to bring search engine traffic. And the editorial links the press release generates bring direct click-throughs and lead to higher rankings.
Public relations enhances SEO by focusing on what's newsworthy, crafting a great story, finding editorial opportunities, getting coverage and building relationships with reporters and editors. And of course, they got the negotiation skills to ask for a link without really asking for a link.
"PR helps SEO directly by increasing branded traffic," said Lindsey Kirchoff, a Media and Speaker Relations specialist at HubSpot.com. "We always see a bump in branded traffic after a big campaign! Indirectly, PR helps SEO generate inbound links from quality sources that not only gets first-touch exposure to new audiences, but credibility in the eyes of search engines.
"SEO grounds PR with hard, measurable data. PR has always been notoriously difficult to pin down, but SEO adds hard numbers to the equation. I also think that SEO allows PR to be less isolated from the rest of the team – sometimes PR can feel like an island. SEO helps PR connect their work to the rest of the company's business goals.
"Finally, SEO establishes credibility for PR for keywords. You look much more credible to a news source if you come up high for the term they are reporting on!"
3. Editorial Links Bring a Big SEO Boost
Most PR links are extreme quality links, according to Jordan Brannon, the SEO guy at Coalition Technologies. Why? "Because getting them is not a free for all – you have to earn your media placements," he said.
But the rewards are worth the effort.
"If you get 200 high quality editorial links, it's worth more that 20,000 low quality links," Brannon said.
However, most reporters work to a deadline and you have to be swift in your response to get in.
"Most editorial opportunities are time sensitive and you need to act quickly. That means you need to have the authority to reply on the client's behalf," Brannon added. "And you have to have an email account on your client's domain – it's not good saying you're a marketing agency."
Will Marlow was formerly a Press Secretary for two congressmen before founding a company that specializes in search engine marketing. He knows that to get those all-important editorial links, sticking to deadlines is crucial.
"You need to understand that you're dealing with someone who has a hard deadline. It's like a train going by in the night and there's one open boxcar that can take you wherever you want to go," Marlow said. "But jump too early and the reporter won't write about you: jump too late and the reporter won't write about you. You got to get it just right."
And it's not unusual to miss opportunities.
"If an SEO was learning from any PR guy, they would all have stories about how they missed opportunities because someone internally didn't get back to them or didn't give the reporter what they need," Marlow said. "If the reporter wants to talk to the CEO and the CEO is playing golf, then you're not going to get the story. So you've got to collaborate with people within the company and make sure that the right people are available."
4. There's a Big Cascade Effect
Journalists will often quote, comment or enlarge upon other journalist's work. Bloggers are also constantly citing other stories.
So if you get your story covered in one prominent media outlet, you'll quickly see a cascade of similar stories and links spring up.
You'll get links you never even asked for.
Miranda Miller wrote about How Google Rakes In Over $100 Million in Search Advertising Daily, based on research from Larry Kim of WordStream.
In writing that report, Kim was directly targeting the Wall Street Journal for a link – and succeeded. The story really benefited from the cascade effect and attracted coverage and links from literally hundreds of quality media outlets.
5. You Win Bragging Rights For Your Client
Clients just love to write "As featured in …" on their website, whether its the Washington Post, Inc. Magazine, or whatever.
That builds consumer trust in their brand and makes it more likely they'll buy.
And you also increase trust from other reporters. If you've already been quoted or covered by a respected publication, then other reporters will think you're a safe bet to write about, too.
6. PR Skills Can be Learned – or at Least Understood – Easily
Kirchoff has this advice for SEOs who know little about PR:
"SEO experts should think of PR as a way to build strong referral links – something that should be on their radar already. If you have a PR expert in the office, start by taking them out to lunch and chatting. After all, PR is all about building relationships."
But of course, learning about public relations will help you understand the process – but it might teach you that there's a lot you don't know. If that's the case you might do better to partner with a PR resource.
7. It's Easy to Partner With an Up and Coming PR Person
Mona Moore is an SEO who has teamed up with a small PR company, Hepner Communications, to pitch their services together.
"I think SEOs are always so focused on getting those links back to the client, we sometimes forget how important it is to nurture those long-term relationships necessary to continue working with specific media outlets," Moore explained. "And PR reps are great at finding opportunities – but, they don't always take full advantage of those opportunities from an organic SEO standpoint. By working together, SEOs and PR people are able to maximize exposure to a higher level than either of those entities by itself.
Joel Gross, who works with Brannon at Coalition Technologies, describes himself as the SEO tech guy.
"I know how to build and code websites so that they are search engine friendly, and I understand that in order to achieve visibility and revenue for our clients we need to build high quality links and work in tandem with traditional and social media," Gross said. "I know what needs to be done, but Jordan is able to bring in the creative aspect and wow factor that is needed in order to gain the attention and keep it focused where it needs to be. He devises how we frame the content and package it for the consumer in the most digestible and memorable way.
"The best advice I'd give to an SEO would be to get to know your client's people, their background and story, what's unique about the company," Gross said. "And remember, this is news and human interest so your stories don't always have to be selling product. You can have perfectly good story and link from a story on say, 'work places that are pet friendly'!"
8. You'll Build Media Contacts That You Can Use Time And Time Again
Contacts are essential both to PR people and to reporters.
"One mistake I made at the start was sending out too much poor stuff," Kim said. "Blasting out press releases is over-rated. What you need to do is get to know the reporters or bloggers you're targeting.
"Read their articles every day, get a sense of what they're interested in and only approach them with what you know they'll be interested in," Kim continued. "Start small and work your way up. Once you've built a relationship, they'll start contacting you."
He said he has found that PR is the fastest way to generate those backlinks on related industry websites, but you've got to go past distribution services and build your own contacts.
"We are diligent in keeping a database of related editors here," Kim said. "So we're sending press releases directly to the editors and not through a service. However, we also post the press releases to PRweb or PRnewswire to get the added Internet news site exposure (i.e., Yahoo News)."
Kim said those personal relationships increase the chances of coverage so much it's "unreal."
"We now get lots of calls from editors who ask – is there an engineer over at such and such a company that we could talk to?" Kim said. "Now, when they see our press releases, they always read them. And they're more likely to publish them because we've been helpful.
If you're an SEO who new to PR, the best place to start is by reading the editorial guidelines of the publications you're targeting, Kim advised. Then you know what they're looking for and can pitch accordingly. Don't pitch something they clearly don't want.
And don't forget editorial calendars – you can see months in advance what the publications are going to be covering.
9. It Strengthens and Extends Your Relationship With the Client
If you learn how to do proper public relations effectively or bring in a competent professional that you work well with, then you increase the respect your client has for your work. That can only strengthen your relationship and help ensure that they'll stay with you.
10. It Opens up Additional Income Streams
It probably goes without saying that with the increasing interest in this area, it should offer some profitable and additional income streams to your agency.
There are tremendous publicity and quality links available through effective public relations. You'll probably have failures to start with but if you keep at it, your skills will grow and you'll get the benefits.
How do you cope with failures?
"I don't believe in failures – it's a matter of setting your expectations," Kim said. "You can't start out and immediately get coverage on CNN. Far better to pick a local target and learn from it. Every time you do it, you have more experience. Say you approach 10 journalists and you get nothing but two reply and say I'm not interested because it's not exactly what I do – you'll get a better idea of what will work next time."
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