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Installed Options
Standard Features
Transmission w/Driver Selectable Mode
Front-Wheel Drive
Gas-Pressurized Shock Absorbers
Front And Rear Anti-Roll Bars
Electric Power-Assist Speed-Sensing Steering
Strut Front Suspension w/Coil Springs
Multi-Link Rear Suspension w/Coil Springs
4-Wheel Disc Brakes w/4-Wheel ABS, Front Vented Discs, Brake Assist and Hill Hold Control
Single Stainless Steel Exhaust w/Chrome Tailpipe Finisher
Battery w/Run Down Protection
Transmission: 6-Speed Automatic w/Sportmatic
3.32 Axle Ratio
Towing w/Harness
18.8 Gal. Fuel Tank
Engine: 3.3L DOHC GDI V6
GVWR: 5,489 lbs
Steel Spare Wheel
Clearcoat Paint
Fully Galvanized Steel Panels
Lip Spoiler
Front Fog Lamps
Black Bodyside Cladding and Black Wheel Well Trim
Chrome Side Windows Trim and Black Front Windshield Trim
Fixed Rear Window w/Fixed Interval Wiper, Heated Wiper Park and Defroster
Deep Tinted Glass
Black Grille w/Chrome Surround
Liftgate Rear Cargo Access
Tailgate/Rear Door Lock Included w/Power Door Locks
Variable Intermittent Wipers
Body-Colored Power Heated Side Mirrors w/Manual Folding and Turn Signal Indicator
Roof Rack Rails Only
Chrome Door Handles
Perimeter/Approach Lights
Front Windshield -inc: Sun Visor Strip
Fully Automatic Projector Beam Halogen Headlamps w/Delay-Off
Compact Spare Tire Stored Underbody w/Crankdown
Tires: P235/60R18
Laminated Glass
Body-Colored Front Bumper w/Black Rub Strip/Fascia Accent and Metal-Look Bumper Insert
Body-Colored Rear Bumper w/Black Rub Strip/Fascia Accent and Metal-Look Bumper Insert
Integrated Roof Antenna
2 LCD Monitors In The Front
Wireless Streaming
Radio w/Seek-Scan, In-Dash Mounted Single CD, MP3 Player, Clock, Speed Compensated Volume Control, Steering Wheel Controls, Voice Activation and Internal Memory
Manual Tilt/Telescoping Steering Column
Front Cupholder
Rear Cupholder
Proximity Key For Doors And Push Button Start
Remote Keyless Entry w/Integrated Key Transmitter, Illuminated Entry, Illuminated Ignition Switch and Panic Button
Cruise Control w/Steering Wheel Controls
Dual Zone Front Automatic Air Conditioning
Driver Foot Rest
Full Cloth Headliner
Front Map Lights
Fade-To-Off Interior Lighting
Cargo Space Lights
Delayed Accessory Power
Power Door Locks w/Autolock Feature
Systems Monitor
Outside Temp Gauge
Trip Computer
Perimeter Alarm
Engine Immobilizer
Air Filtration
Gauges -inc: Speedometer, Odometer, Engine Coolant Temp, Tachometer, Trip Odometer and Trip Computer
Carpet Floor Trim
Power 1st Row Windows w/Driver 1-Touch Up/Down
Analog Display
Day-Night Auto-Dimming Rearview Mirror
Full Carpet Floor Covering
40-20-40 Folding Split-Bench Front Facing Manual Reclining Fold Forward Seatback Rear Seat w/Manual Fore/Aft
Illuminated Locking Glove Box
FOB Controls -inc: Trunk/Hatch/Tailgate
4 12V DC Power Outlets
Leather/Metal-Look Steering Wheel
Driver And Passenger Visor Vanity Mirrors w/Driver And Passenger Illumination, Driver And Passenger Auxiliary Mirror
Redundant Digital Speedometer
Remote Releases -Inc: Power Fuel
Front Center Armrest and Rear Center Armrest
HVAC -inc: Underseat Ducts, Headliner/Pillar Ducts and Console Ducts
Rear HVAC w/Separate Controls
Leather Seat Trim
Power Rear Windows, Fixed 3rd Row Windows and w/Manual Sun Blinds
Driver / Passenger And Rear Door Bins
Full Floor Console w/Covered Storage, Mini Overhead Console w/Storage and 4 12V DC Power Outlets
Heated Front Bucket Seats -inc: 8-way power driver seat w/2-way lumbar support, 8-way power passenger seat, heated front seats w/3 steps and covered driver and passenger seatback pocket
Leather/Simulated Wood Gear Shift Knob
Manual Anti-Whiplash w/Tilt Front Head Restraints and Manual Adjustable Rear Head Restraints
Fixed 50-50 Split-Bench Vinyl 3rd Row Seat Front, Manual Fold Into Floor and 2 Fixed Head Restraints
Interior Trim -inc: Simulated Wood/Metal-Look Instrument Panel Insert, Simulated Wood Door Panel Insert, Simulated Wood Console Insert and Metal-Look Interior Accents
ABS And Driveline Traction Control
Side Impact Beams
Dual Stage Driver And Passenger Seat-Mounted Side Airbags
Dual Stage Driver And Passenger Front Airbags
Curtain 1st And 2nd Row Airbags
Airbag Occupancy Sensor
Rear Child Safety Locks
Outboard Front Lap And Shoulder Safety Belts -inc: Rear Center 3 Point, Height Adjusters and Pretensioners
Electronic Stability Control (ESC) And Roll Stability Control (RSC)
Tire Specific Low Tire Pressure Warning
Rear Parking Sensors
UVO3 Emergency S.O.S
Wheels: 18" x 7.5 Alloy
Radio: AM/FM/SiriusXM -inc: 7" display, Android Auto/Apple CarPlay, smartphone navigation, telematics, 6-speakers, Bluetooth control w/voice recognition, auxiliary audio/USB/iPod connevtivity, 2-console USB chargers and rear view camera
Front Wheel Drive
Power Steering
4-Wheel Disc Brakes
Brake Assist
Aluminum Wheels
Tires - Front All-Season
Tires - Rear All-Season
Temporary Spare Tire
Heated Mirrors
Power Mirror(s)
Integrated Turn Signal Mirrors
Rear Defrost
Privacy Glass
Intermittent Wipers
Variable Speed Intermittent Wipers
Rear Spoiler
Power Door Locks
Automatic Headlights
Fog Lamps
AM/FM Stereo
Satellite Radio
MP3 Player
Bluetooth Connection
Back-Up Camera
Auxiliary Audio Input
Smart Device Integration
CD Player
Steering Wheel Audio Controls
Hard Disk Drive Media Storage
Power Driver Seat
Power Passenger Seat
Bucket Seats
Heated Front Seat(s)
Driver Adjustable Lumbar
Pass-Through Rear Seat
Rear Bench Seat
Adjustable Steering Wheel
Trip Computer
Power Windows
3rd Row Seat
Leather Steering Wheel
Keyless Entry
Keyless Start
Cruise Control
Climate Control
Multi-Zone A/C
Rear A/C
Woodgrain Interior Trim
Leather Seats
Driver Vanity Mirror
Passenger Vanity Mirror
Driver Illuminated Vanity Mirror
Passenger Illuminated Visor Mirror
Auto-Dimming Rearview Mirror
Security System
Engine Immobilizer
Traction Control
Stability Control
Front Side Air Bag
Rear Parking Aid
Tire Pressure Monitor
Driver Air Bag
Passenger Air Bag
Front Head Air Bag
Rear Head Air Bag
Passenger Air Bag Sensor
Child Safety Locks
Transmission: Automatic
Drivetrain: FWD
Fuel Type: Gasoline Fuel
Engine: Regular Unleaded V-6 3.3 L/204
Market Class: 2WD Sport Utility Vehicles
Trim: EX V6
Style Description: EX V6 FWD
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Put your cardy on.
All credit to the people behind Starsky & Hutch for embracing their cheesy 70s TV roots and running with it, while taking an original slant on it at the same time.
As you control the big-haired duo (Starsky complete with authentic fluffy cardigan), you play through episodes instead of levels and, rather than score points, you strive for increased viewing figures. Its a nice touch that helps distinguish it from the myriad other driving/shoot-em ups already on the market.
Playing with a friend who can do your shooting while you concentrate on the driving is easier than controlling both with a single joypad, as the auto-targeting can sometimes lead to unwittingly slaying those youre trying to protect. Aside from a feeling that weve seen much of it before, its as disposably entertaining as the show that inspired it.

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Evening Quickies: Lady Gaga's Ex Threatening To Release Old Songs
- Lady Gaga's ex-boyfriend and former producer Rob Fusari is threatening to release some of Gaga's unfinished tracks from 2006 and 2007. [PopCrush]
- BDSM erotica writer E.L. James claims she wrote 50 Shades Of Grey because she was having a midlife crisis. [Nerve]
- Also, 50 reasons not to read 50 Shades Of Grey. [The Gloss]
- Comedian Aziz Ansari explains what guys really think when they text you. [Gurl.com]
- Everybody calm down: the gun Pippa Middleton's friend flashed at Paris paparazzi was only a toy. [New York Post]
- Ten other celebs who've gotten in trouble with guns! [College Candy]
- Simon Cowell got robbed by a one-night stand last October by a lady who made off with his laptop and wallet while he was sleeping. [The Sun UK]
- Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb, who is suffering from cancer, has reportedly fallen into a coma. Oh dear. [Celebrity Cafe]
- Michael Fassbender sure makes a creepy robot. [The FW]
- Not-so-secret Trekkie Amelia will like this post: meet Nichelle Nichols, the African-American actress who broke television barriers playing Lt. Uhura on "Star Trek." [Nichelle has been a goddess in my eyes since I was 5-years-old. Uhura forever! — Editor] [Ecosalon]
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SHREVEPORT — Southern University leaders said Thursday that a declaration of a financial emergency for the main Baton Rouge campus is needed this week in order to create a "Renaissance SUBR."
The Southern Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote Friday on whether to declare such an emergency, called exigency, for the flagship Southern campus.
The panel on Thursday discussed finances during its annual board retreat in Shreveport.
New Southern Chancellor James Llorens has insisted the only way to avoid exigency was for the faculty to voluntarily sign off on 10 percent furloughs — time off without pay — and shorter job termination notices.
Some faculty members said Thursday they would still support the 10 percent furloughs, but not the enhanced administrative authority to cut academic programs and lay off tenured faculty that was allowed in Lloren's proposed agreement.
"It was written to make it impossible for any faculty members to sign," said Diola Bagayoko, a Southern physicist and faculty senator, who argued "emphatically" that 90 percent of his colleagues would have agreed to furloughs alone.
"I think 90 percent is ambitious," Llorens responded to board members, claiming that many faculty members opposed pay cuts of any kind.
Declaring a financial emergency allows the administration more leeway to lay off tenured faculty and ax academic programs.
Exigency is generally considered a serious blemish that could scare away current and potential employees and students. No public Louisiana university has declared exigency since the University of New Orleans did so after Hurricane Katrina.
Tenured and tenure-track faculty cannot be furloughed unless they voluntarily accept the pay cuts or if financial exigency is approved.
Llorens said the furloughs would be a one-year temporary measure to balance the budget so the university can be right-sized through academic program eliminations and the consolidation of some of Southern's colleges and schools. That means laying off some faculty, deans and administrators, he said.
The restructuring plan will be presented in November, Llorens said.
"We are in a period of transformation," he said. "We have been offering the same academic programs for the past 30-40 years."
Such fixes would require faculty, who are laid off because their academic program was eliminated or consolidated, to be actually out of the job — and off the payroll — by the end of the school year, he said. That is why the shorter termination notices are needed, he said. Tenure or tenure-track faculty typically requires a one-year termination notice.
For the past two years, Southern staff has been furloughed, which amounted to a 4.6 percent reduction in pay. But the faculty was not included.
Southern faculty have argued that $1.5 million saved in faculty furloughs should not break the back of a $78 million overall campus budget.
Facing a $10 million budget shortfall — half from budget cuts and the rest from Southern's enrollment losses and internal failings financially — dramatic changes are needed, Llorens and Southern University System President Ronald Mason Jr. said.
"There are things that have to get done before we can get going," Mason said.
"To some extent, we've been spending money we don't have on things we want, but don't need," Mason said. "The only way we can balance the budget is with the declaring of financial exigency."
Llorens said that next year he plans to implement a true "First Year Experience" program to improve the retention of freshman students. He said he will start a new "student leadership academy" as well.
Llorens also wants to begin offering more degrees online. Currently, Southern only offers one master's degree online.
Southern must beef up its continuing education, including its certification programs for working adults to draw more people to the university, he said.
Staff development also must improve in order to avoid having angry students and parents each year through the tedious registration and financial aid processes, he said.
Southern is in its third year of reduced funding from state government. The university has been affected by budget problems more than most colleges because Southern also has lost revenue from its declining enrollment.
A university that once had more than 10,000 students now enrolls more than 7,300 students.
Three years ago, the university budget was $92 million and now it is down 15 percent, according to the university. State funding is down 40 percent, but that has been offset somewhat by increasing annual tuition to more than $5,000 now.
Southern is losing about $5.5 million this year through state budget cuts and the "unfunded mandates" of increased health-care and retirement costs, according to the budget proposal.
But deficits in Southern's athletic department, laboratory school, scholarships and tuition waivers push the total problem to nearly $10 million, the budget states.
The university has saved $6.3 million by axing 129 positions on campus through layoffs, early retirement programs and eliminating vacancies, according to the budget presentation.
On top of the anticipated furloughs, Southern's budget also includes delaying the pay raises for faculty promotions from last year and this year.


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Passport to Culture
A few years ago I embarked on a journey that has been life changing. I had the opportunity to visit as many Oregon wineries as possible and to ask for one bottle of wine for the Oregon Mozart Players auction – and I took it. The collection has grown from 150 to over 270 bottles in the last three years from wineries as far afield at Zerba in Milton Freewater, 12 Ranch in Bonanza, and Foris, near Oregon Caves.
During these visits I have learned more about wines and winemaking than I ever dreamed. I've been afford the opportunity to take part in all aspects of the industry, from planting to harvest to bottling. Along the way I have sat quietly in a vineyard as the sun came up waiting for bud break, listened to the murmur of activity as the grapes are picked and sorted, and sat down satisfied with a hard day of labor with a glass of freshly bottled Pinot Noir.
I've wanted to give something back from this experience, and a few months ago I came up with the idea of creating photographic etchings to show, sell, or give away to help promote wineries in Oregon. It started with Saginaw Vineyards and a picture of their big Birch tree. After turning it in to an etching, I became obsessed with getting an image of a tree somehow related to the different wineries of the South Willamette Valley. The culmination of this, after a conversation with the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, was a show of the works printed on wood, a series of wine tastings at the museum, an edition of 30 etchings of 17 wineries, a show of the works printed on wood, a series of wine tastings at the museum, and a dinner on the 27th of August to celebrate our local bounty.
See the full schedule of events for this month's The Art of Wine: A Passport to Culture in Eugene.
Robert Canaga currently serves as a board member of Travel Lane County, Lane County Cultural Coalition, Oregon Mozart Players and Eugene's First Friday ArtWalk. He is a graduate of the University of Oregon, a full-time artist and Oregon wine enthusiast. Robert blogs at Oregon Wine and Music Project.
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This is a beautiful hotel at the top of a cliif with wonderful views and was our favorite part of the trip.
Room: Our room was the best part of the hotel. After receiving a great value on Groupon we were able to afford the junior suite which is off in a separate building. Our room had a private terrace and jacuzzi as well as a private pool for the building. My favorite moments were enjoying breakfast or a drink on the terrace watching the macaws and toucans. Wifi and Cable were also great in the room and made the trip effortless in terms of doing research during the trip.
Food/Drink: Were definitely overpriced and only so so based on what we had. Breakfast was the best value but since our room had a refrigerator i was just as happy going to supermarket in Herradura picking up snacks and relying on those.
Beach: Was not worth the trek pool is a much better deal for sunbathing and relaxing
On grounds jungle trail: was very steep make sure to grab walking stick or wear hiking boots
Overall i would recommend Villa caletas for the views alone. Head into Jaco for dinner the food there was excellent.
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Fifteen soldiers were killed this week guarding an oil pipeline in northern Iraq, the first assault to involve so many casualties amid concerns an al-Qaida insurgency in western Iraq is spreading to vital oil-producing regions.
Iraqi security authorities said Tuesday's attack on the camp in Nineveh province took place the same day that Iraqi security forces captured three al-Qaida suspects as they tried to blow up a pipeline near the northern Kirkuk oilfields, which hold about a third of Iraq's oil reserves of 431 billion barrels. Twin pipelines that carry Kirkuk's oil production to Turkey's Ceyhan terminal on the Mediterranean for export are a frequent target for saboteurs.
Hussein al-Shahristani, Iraqi's deputy prime minister for energy, told reporters in Baghdad Jan. 28 Iraq's oil industry, the country's economic lifeline, is increasingly coming under attack because of the civil war in neighboring Syria in which Iraqi jihadists are battling the regime of President Bashar Assad.
One of the largest rebel forces is the Islamic State for Iraq and the Levant, a Sunni offshoot of al-Qaida in Iraq, which is also waging an escalating campaign inside Iraq against the Shiite-dominated government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
There have been signs ISIL is extending its war, been centered on Iraq's three western provinces, which are overwhelmingly Sunni, to the north, like Nineveh, dominated by Sunnis, Kurds and other minorities.
"Attacking the energy sector has been among their top priorities to deprive the country of its main revenue sources," Shahristani said. "The attacks have been focused on oil export pipelines, power generation and transmission lines."
There have been some attacks in Shiite-dominated Basra province in the south where Iraq's biggest oil fields are, but these have so far had little impact on the energy industry in the area dominated by major international oil companies such as BP, Exxon Mobil, Total of France and Italy's Eni, which are seeking to boost production to unprecedented levels.
Iraq is currently the second largest producer in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting countries after Saudi Arabia, with an output of about 3 million barrels per day, of which 22 million barrels are exported.
Shahristani, who as oil minister was the architect of Iraq's drive to rebuild its dilapidated energy industry following the 2003 U.S.-led ouster of Saddam Hussein, says Baghdad aims to triple production to 9 million bpd by 2020.
But that could be impeded by the worsening security situation and fears Iraq is headed for all-out sectarian warfare between the majority Shiites, backed by Iran, and the Sunni minority who are in a rebellious mood because of a nationwide government crackdown.
Sunnis make up about a third of Iraq's 32 million population.
Sharistani admitted the fighting in western Iraq, most notably in Anbar province where al-Qaida fighters seized much of the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi Dec. 31, is hampering Baghdad's efforts to develop the Qayara and Najmah oil fields, as well as in Nineveh in the northwest, an al-Qaida stronghold.
The foreign oil companies have long complained Baghdad's notorious infrastructure bottlenecks and slow-moving bureaucracy are often more of a hindrance than the security threat.
But all this is stifling efforts to boost production and Baghdad's plan to show the biggest annual rise in oil exports since the U.S. invasion of March 2003.
Nevertheless, oil analysts say as long as the violence can be kept out of the vast southern megafields like Rumeila, West Qurna 1 and Majnoon, Iraq can maintain an acceptable production level.
But with some 8,000 people killed by U.N count in 2013, the bloodiest year in Iraq since 2008, and 2014 already looking like it will be just as bad, if not worse, there doesn't seem to be any relief in sight for the oil industry, or the country as a whole.
Maliki's energy problem is further compounded by the semiautonomous Kurdish enclave across three northeastern provinces, which has started exporting its oil to Ceyhan through a Turkish-built pipeline rather than through the Baghdad-controlled state network.
This has heightened tensions between the Kurdish Regional Government and Baghdad, already enflamed over the Kurds' claim to the Kirkuk oilfields just south of their heavily armed enclave, and cut into Iraq's overall output at a critical time.
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More sneak peeks to Ashley Tisdale-starring family adventure movie, 'Aliens in the Attic', have been made available for viewing pleasure.
Two brand new clips from 20th Century Fox's forthcoming adventure fantasy, "Aliens in the Attic", have arrived. While both of them are around one minute long, they provide different footage and come out from two different sites. One of them came out courtesy of MTV, while the other was from IGN.
The one from MTV brings up the scene wherein two of the aliens in the attic throw in a tiny metal device which sets off anti gravity into the room the Pearson's boys are defending, making the unsuspecting boys float in the air. Another one from IGN focuses on the snippet that shows the boys are toying around with Bethany's boyfriend with a remote control they found.
Scheduled for July 31 release in the U.S., "Aliens in the Attic" is an adventure fantasy movie from the 20th Century Fox. It tells about the Pearson kids who during their family vacation must fight off an attack by knee-high alien invaders with world-destroying ambitions while the youngsters' parents remain clueless about the battle.
It is directed by John Schultz using the script written by Mark Burton and Adam F. Goldberg. Aside from Ashley Tisdale, it also stars Robert Hoffman, Tim Meadows, Carter Jenkins, Austin Butler, Kevin Nealon, Gillian Vigman, Ashley Boettcher and Henri Young.
- "Anti Gravity"
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Interactive banner. To start click a flag.
Digital advertisment created by Ogilvy, United Arab Emirates for Berlitz, within the category: Education.
Languages made easy
Executive Creative Director: Till Hohmann
Creative Director: Preethi Mariappan
Art Director: Rafael Guida
Copywriter: Melanie Clancy
Flash Developer: Sarabjeet Singh
Media: Anna Gibbons
Símón, esto está muy bacán
Stay low, move fast. Kill first, die last. 1 shot 1 kill, not luck, just skill.
It's an appealing idea but they made it an unappealing 'game'
felicitats Preethi!!!
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simple yet very creative
keeping comments about execution, concept etc aside...if someone noticed that chooses a country and play with cubical...then i had worked some what...hadn't it?
Go away. We're judging the whole thing here.
Great idea!
For the programmers, there's a problem when you click the Portuguese flag. First, when you solve it, it doesn't rotate to mimic how the Portuguese flag looks.
And also if you rotate the Portuguese flag by turning the top row with Help Off, you solve it, but when you reset the cube, it doesn't always set it back to the original cube orientation (so if you try to choose any other country it messes up the colours).
Oh... using Rubiks cube to show that something is complicated. Damn, that's creative.
Well, it was creative... in the 70's.
Love it. And execution is always an issue, but that doesn't change anything to the fact that this idea is very strong.
And the Rubiks Cube was indeed used in the 70's, so were a lot of other things. If this hasn't been done this way before, it's creative imo.
very nice... id like to be able to see the banner tough, and id be careful because rubiks cubes are hard, and it contradicts the languages made easy message
but i guess thats the point making hard things easy... yeah still great work
Stupid, as the team did not make their homework. For example, there is no Nigerian language. Youruba, Housa and about 200 other tribal languages, but no Nigerian. Also, it is so user unfriendly unless you turn the help on and then it's just plain stupid. Furthermore, you see front side, but the requested flag actually creates itself on the other, invisible, one. And on top of this all, it LOOKS TERRIBLE.
The idea is ok, but the execution sucks.
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|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|Apr 19, 2005
|Filing date
|Aug 15, 2002
|Priority date
|Sep 23, 1999
|Fee status
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|Thomas M. Slaight
|Original Assignee
|Intel Corporation
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|Patent Citations (26), Non-Patent Citations (1), Referenced by (15), Classifications (12), Legal Events (3)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This application is a continuation of Ser. No. 09/405,513 filed Sep. 23, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,480,809, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
The present invention relates to the monitoring of a computer system, and more particularly to the monitoring of a computer system by a platform management subsystem.
Some computer systems, particularly servers and high-end workstations, include a platform management subsystem that monitors the computer system and indicates when it is functioning outside a specified operating range. A conventional platform management subsystem includes a microcontroller that compares a sensor measurement to an associated threshold stored in a non-volatile storage. If the sensor measurement is outside the operating range defined by the threshold, this event is logged by the microcontroller in the non-volatile storage. The logged even can then be used by the platform management subsystem (or by other components of the computer system) to determine whether the computer system is operating abnormally so that corrective action can be taken. For example, a platform management subsystem might include a voltage sensor to monitor the output voltage of a power supply.
In a conventional platform management subsystem, the thresholds are set according to the manufacturer's specifications, plus an additional range to compensate for inaccuracies introduced by the monitoring circuitry and prevent false events. For example, a five-volt power supply is typically specified to have an output voltage of 5.0+/−5%. Assuming that the monitoring subsystem is set with an additional range of 3%, the thresholds would be set at 4.6 and 5.4 volts (5.0+/−8%). If the voltage exceeded the upper threshold of 5.4 volts, or fell below the lower threshold of 4.6 volts, the controller would generate an alert message indicating that the power supply is not operating properly.
Platform management subsystems are described by the following documents: Intelligent Platform Management Interface Specifications, v1.0, Intel Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, NEC Corporation, and Dell Computer Corporation (Sep. 16, 1998); Intelligent Platform Management Bus Communications Protocol Specification v1.0, Intel Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, NEC Corporation, and Dell Computer Corporation (1998); IPBM v1.0, Address Allocation, Intel Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, NEC Corporation and Dell Computer Corporation (1998); Platform Management FRU Information Storage Definition v1.0, Intel Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, NEC Corporation, and Dell Computer Corporation (1998); Intelligent Chassis Management Bus Bridge Specification v0.9, Intel Corporation (1997); System Management BIOS Specification, Version 2.3, American Megatrends, Inc., Award Software International, Inc., Dell Computer Corporation, Intel Corporation, Phoenix Technologies Ltd., SystemSoft Corporation (1998); The I 2 C Bus And How To Use It, Philips Semiconductors (1995); and Network PC System Design Guidelines, Version 1.0b, Compaq Computer Corporation, Dell Computer Corporation, Hewlett Packard Company, Intel Corporation, and Microsoft Corporation (1997).
In general, the invention is directed to a computer monitoring system. The computer monitoring system has a sensor, a non-volatile storage, and a controller. The sensor measures a parameter of a computer, and the non-volatile storage holds a threshold representing a limit for the parameter. The controller is configured to determine a normal operating range for the parameter and modify the threshold to match the limit of the normal operating range more closely.
Advantages of the invention may include one or more of the following. The platform management subsystem may be more sensitive to unusual behavior of the computer system, thereby providing more accurate failure prediction. The platform management subsystem can automatically adapt to the normal operating conditions of an individual computer system, without requiring calibration during production.
Other features and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the following description, including the drawings and the claims.
The platform management subsystem 20 includes a microcontroller 22, such as a programmable microprocessor or application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), one or more sensors 24, and a non-volatile storage 26, such as an erasable programmable read only memory (EPROM), hard disk drive, or battery-backed random access memory (RAM). The non-volatile storage can be shared with or implemented as part of the other components in the computer system 10, such as the computer system's basic input/output system flash-programmable read-only memory (BIOS FLASH ROM). The microcontroller 22 is connected by a subsystem interface 28 to a system bus 30 in the computer system 10. The platform management subsystem 20 may also include a platform management bus 32 to send and receive messages to and from other management subsystems, such as a chassis management subsystem. Although illustrated as a single component, the monitoring subsystem could be distributed, and its components could communicate through the platform management bus 32. In addition, devices external to the computer system 10 can be used to extend or access the platform management system's capabilities.
The sensors 24 can monitor a variety of "physical" parameters of the computer system, i.e., parameters relating to the physical functioning of the computer system. These physical parameters can include environmental parameters (e.g., the temperature of the computer motherboard, or the temperature and humidity in the computer system chassis), mechanical parameters (e.g., the fan speed), and electrical parameters (e.g., the output voltage and output current from the voltage supply). Typically there will be one sensor for each monitored parameter, although a single sensor could measure more than one parameter, and the readings from several sensors could be combined when monitoring a parameter.
The platform management subsystem 20 can maintain a sensor configuration storage 40 and an optional system event log 42 in the non-volatile storage 26. The sensor configuration storage 40 also contains at least one threshold for each parameter measured by the sensors. The thresholds define the limits of the parameter during normal operation of the computer system. The sensor configuration storage 40 may also describe the location, type of measurement (temperature, voltage, etc.), and unit of measurement (degrees Fahrenheit, volts, etc.) of the sensor 24. The identity of the register with the appropriate sensor measurement can be hard-coded into an ASIC, stored in system BIOS, or implemented in software.
If the parameter has an operating range with an upper limit and a lower limit, then the sensory configuration storage 40 will include an upper threshold and a lower threshold to define the range. If the parameter has simply a maximum or minimum value, then the sensory configuration storage 40 need include only a lower or upper threshold, respectively. The sensory configuration storage 40 can also include other information relating to the sensor, such as an identification number.
Assuming the monitoring subsystem 20 maintains a system event log 42, this log can describe each "event" recorded by the microcontroller 22, e.g., each time that one of the monitored parameters exceeds or falls below its associated threshold. The system event log 42 identifies the sensor associated with the event, the time of the event, and the type of event (e.g., whether the sensor reading exceeded or fell below the associated threshold).
The microcontroller 22 provides the intelligence for the platform management subsystem 20. In general, the microcontroller performs automatic baselining, a threshold adjustment procedure, and an autonomous monitoring procedure. In the automatic baselining procedure, the microcontroller 22 determines the normal operating ranges for the parameters monitored by the sensors 24. In the threshold adjustment procedure, the thresholds are tightened to increase the platform monitoring system's sensitivity. In the autonomous monitoring procedure, the microcontroller monitors the performance of the computer system 10 by periodically comparing the sensor readings from the sensors 24 to the threshold values in the non-volatile storage 26. The microcontroller can include a first agent 50 that performs the automatic baselining and threshold adjustment procedure, and a second agent 52 that performs the autonomous monitoring procedure. The microcontroller 22 may also receive the log event messages from the platform management bus 32. In addition, the microcontroller may also include a system time to log the time of any event. The microcontroller may be implemented in hardware, firmware, software, or combinations thereof, including ASIC and discrete logic devices.
As noted above, the initial thresholds are stored in the non-volatile storage in step 102. These initial thresholds are set during manufacturing or the platform monitoring subsystem 20, or during integration of the platform monitoring system 20 into the computer system 10. For example, a vendor may be given tools to set the initial thresholds depending on what components are installed in the computer chassis.
The initial thresholds may represent the manufacturer's specifications, with some margin for resolution, tolerance and accuracy of the platform monitoring system. All similar computer systems from the system manufacturer should meet the manufacturing specifications. Hence, any individual computer systems should operate within the range that is specified by the initial thresholds.
At the initial start-up, the initial thresholds may be loaded into the monitoring system from a non-volatile storage outside the monitoring system, e.g., from the BIOS flash PROM. In steps 104 and 106, the platform management subsystem tightens the thresholds to more closely watch the actual normal operating range of the individual computer system 10. For each parameter, the microcontroller 22 periodically obtains measurements from the associated sensor 24 at step 120 and searches for the 'extreme' values, i.e., the highest and lowest values, that occur in the measurements at step 122. These extreme values may be stored in volatile or non-volatile storage. The extreme values are accumulated until some preset ending point at step 124. For example, the microcontroller 22 may monitor the measurements from the sensor 24 for a fixed interval, as measured by the internal timer or by a system clock. The microcontroller 22 can use the maximum and minimum values measured during that interval as the new thresholds. Alternately, the timer or clock can be restarted each time the microcontroller 22 detects a new maximum or minimum measurement value. In this case, the microcontroller 22 will continue monitoring the sensor 24 until the maximum and minimum measurements have remained unchanged for a predefined interval.
Once the extreme values are accumulated, the controller adjusts the thresholds in step 106. The new thresholds are stored in non-volatile storage for later use. The new thresholds may be stored directly by the platform management subsystem, or the thresholds may be stored by computer systems, e.g., in the system BIOS. This might or might not be the same non-volatile storage used to store the initial thresholds. The new threshold may overwrite the initial thresholds, or the initial thresholds can be saved.
In general, the upper threshold is set to the maximum value determined in step 104, and the lower thresholds is set to minimum value determined in step 104. However, a correction factor for the resolution and tolerance of the platform monitoring system sensor, plus a general margin to compensate for transient changes, can be applied to either threshold so as to avoid false events. Resolution indicates the smallest discrete charge detectable by the sensor, and tolerance indicates a potential constant offset in the sensor measurement.
The range between the minimum and maximum values during normal operation is typically significantly smaller than the range required by the manufacturer's specification. Therefore, the threshold range is tightened so that is more exactly matches the normal operating range of the individual computer system 10. Consequently, the platform monitoring subsystem 20 becomes more sensitive, and the event messages more accurately predict system abnormalities.
For example, assume that a voltage supply that is specified by the manufacturer to generate a nominal supply voltage of 5.0 −/−5% volts, and the sensor has a resolution of a 0.01 volts, a tolerance of 0.02 volts, and an accuracy of +/−3%, and the manufacture desires an additional margin of error of 0.05 volts. The initial upper and lower thresholds stored in the non-volatile memory might be 5.48 and 4.53 volts, respectively. The upper threshold can be calculated by multiplying the specified operating range (5.0*1.05=5.25) by the accuracy of the sensor (5.25*1.03=5.4075); rounding to the resolution (5.41), and adding the tolerance (5.41+0.02=5.43) and margin (5.43+0.05=5.48). The lower initial threshold can be calculated similarly.
If the voltage supply actually generates a voltage of 4.9 volts with an operating range of +/−1% under normal operating conditions, then the controller should detect extreme values of 4.95 and 4.85 volts when determining the normal operating range of the supply voltage in step 104. In the adjustment step 106, the upper and lower thresholds could be changed to values close to 4.95 to 4.85 volts, respectively. Specifically, the same margin used in determining the initial thresholds may be added or subtracted from the extreme values to calculate the new thresholds. In the example, this would provide new upper and lower thresholds of 5.00 and 4.80 volts, respectively. As compared to the initial thresholds of 5.48 and 4.53 volts, the autobaselining step has resulted in a 480 mV decrease in the upper threshold and a 270 mV increase in the lower threshold. Thus, the thresholds are tightened to more closely match the actual normal operating range of the supply voltage in that individual computer system.
Of course, many other procedures may be used to determine the new thresholds. For example, the microcontroller 22 may monitor the sensor 24 for a preset interval, compute the average value and standard deviation of the measurements taken during the preset interval, and then set the thresholds based on the average value an standard deviation. Alternatively, the microcontroller 22 may monitor the sensor 24 and compute the average value of a parameter, and then calculate the thresholds for the parameter by adding and subtracting a predetermined variance from the average value.
If the baselining and system steps are conducted concurrently, then the platform management system 20 can use the default thresholds until the baseline thresholds are available. Alternately, the thresholds can be adjusted incrementally as the baselining step progresses.
If the minimum or maximum values measured during step 104 are outside the range specified by the initial thresholds, this indicates that the computer system is not operating normally. In this case, the platform monitoring subsystem 20 uses the initial thresholds to trigger an event rather than adjust the thresholds.
Once the computer has performed its automatic baselining and threshold adjustment, the normal monitoring mode begins. In the normal monitoring mode, the platform management subsystem intermittently measures the parameter with the sensor at step 108, and compares the measurement to the thresholds at step 110. If the sensor readings exceed the upper threshold, or fall below the lower threshold, the microcontroller 22 generates an action such as logging the event in the system event log 42 in the non-volatile storage 26, make the event available as a volatile status or interrupt signal, generate an alert, or directly trigger a system management action such as resetting or powering off the computer system. The actions can be used by the platform management subsystem 20 (or other components of the computer system) to determine whether the computer system is operating abnormally.
More generally, the platform monitoring subsystem 20 can trigger an event any time the measured parameter crosses a threshold. For example, if the sensor readings falls below the upper threshold, or exceeds the lower threshold, this can be used to signal that the computer system is now operating normally. In addition, multiple types of thresholds can be stored for each parameter. For example, the platform management system may include "non-critical" thresholds as a warning, "critical" thresholds to indicate that specified operating ranges have been exceeded, and "non-recovery" thresholds to indicate that hardware may have been damaged.
It may be noted that the autobaselining and threshold adjustment process may be reexecuted, automatically or manually, e.g., in response to a configuration or environment change. For example, if a new hard-drive is installed in the chassis, the autobaselining and threshold adjustment process may be reexecuted for the temperature sensor.
Although the invention has been described with sensors that monitor the "physical" parameters of the computer system, the invention might also apply to "performance" parameters, such as chip set, bus and interface performance monitors (e.g., memory errors, bus occupancy, bus error rate, bus backoff operation rate, cache hits, memory usage, communication error rate, and input/output speed). Copies of the initial thresholds can be maintained separately from the adjusted thresholds in the non-volatile memory, and the microcontroller can log additional events if the sensor readings exceed or fall below the initial thresholds.
The methods described may be implemented in hardware, firmware, software, or combinations thereof, or in a computer program product tangibly embodied in a computer readable storage device. Storage devices suitable for tangibly embodying the computer program include all forms of non-volatile memory, including semiconductor memory devices, magnetic disks, magneto-optical disks, and optical disks.
The present invention has been described in terms of a number of embodiments. The invention, however, is not limited to the embodiments depicted and described. Rather, the scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims.
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|SENSOR LINE has contributed a fiber optic railway sensor concept to the possible solutions for the overwhelming EMI problems that railway vehicle detection systems are anticipated to face in the nearest future. Modern propulsion and braking systems are being introduced but can not be fully utilised due to insufficiencies of the existing railway track equipment in general. Even some devices far less sensible than sensors are said to be literally disassembled by the strong magnetic fields of eddy-current brakes used with the new German ICE-3 train. And future engines are going to disturb the frequency range now used for detection purposes, too. General advantages of fiber optic road traffic sensors also apply to railway wheel load sensors without any restrictions:
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Black Cats Witches Familiar, A late sixteenth-century illustration of a witch feeding her familiars from England.
In European folklore and folk-belief of the Medieval and Early Modern periods, familiar spirits (sometimes referred to simply as "familiars") were supernatural entities believed to assist witches and cunning folk in their practice of magic. According to the records of the time, they would appear in numerous guises, often as an animal, but also at times as a human or humanoid figure, and were described as "clearly defined, three-dimensional forms, vivid with colour and animated with movement and sound" by those alleging to have come into contact with them, unlike later descriptions of ghosts with their "smoky, undefined form[s]".
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