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QNAP Lauches Marvell-based TS-x20 / x21 Series with Revamped QTS 4.0 OSby Ganesh T S on 5/2/2013 10:59 AM EST
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danjw - Thursday, May 02, 2013 - linkYes, but can you have multiple volumes on a drive, yet? Reply
smitty123 - Thursday, May 02, 2013 - linki don't get why ppl are complaining about the v3.8.2 firmware.
i think it's super easy and i love it. Heck i chose it over the Synology because i found it pretty simple. The synology desktop interface is overly complicated, disjointed and not helpfull at all and too technical, like they're trying to sound too serious. lol
i've been in computers for 20 years, i've seen my share of badly coded interfaces, v3.8.2 is a piece of cake, neatly organised and well thought out with just the right amount of technobabble, ie: practically none !
Sure the boot up and shutdown times could be better. the network transfer speeds could be better too for a lil ts-212, its not bad. i don't plan on doing heavy transfers with it, just hold my stuff i need to stream and the occasional backup at nite.
Tbh, i'm not sure i want to upgrade to this desktop interface. i'm not that much on it once its setup i leave it as is and go on with my life, yunno ?
Yet the Qsync and whatever new apps we'll get might get me to switch in the future. Who knows. Reply
Eug - Thursday, May 02, 2013 - linkI specifically didn't buy a QNAP NAS because the models I was interested in were still stuck on 3.8.
I think QNAP sees the writing on the wall, which is why they're releasing OS 4.0, albeit only on some models at this time. Reply
Death666Angel - Thursday, May 02, 2013 - linkLCD -> The "D" in there already stands for display. So no need to talk about "LCD displays". :) Reply
extide - Thursday, May 02, 2013 - linkATM machine machine machine machine machine machine machine Reply
iwod - Friday, May 03, 2013 - linkAfter all these years we are still stuck in insanely slow Marvell 6282 chips. I hope with the Custom Design of AMD, there will soon be a low cost x86 specifically designed for NAS market.
I know there is already an Intel design, but they are just too expensive. Reply
Eug - Friday, May 03, 2013 - linkAtom works reasonably well for this purpose, and there is also the option of PowerPC. In fact, the last NAS I bought uses dual core PPC. Much faster than the ARM options, and significantly lower power than dual-core Atom. Reply
pensive69 - Tuesday, May 07, 2013 - linkmy gripe with the O/S offered by QNAP and i guess the others in the NAS
lines is with the helpfulness or lack of it when an error occurs.
for instance - if you are logged on as admin and a screen pops up
that says 'Access denied"... you ought to be provided with a
wizard to resolve the conflct right then and there.
i find the get-er-done admin paths a bit obfuscated in these boxes.
for what it's worth we have a few of these, in dedicated NAS applications
on security server duties, and they work fairly reliably. Reply


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NVIDIA's GeForce 6600GT AGP: The Little Bridge that Couldby Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/16/2004 12:15 PM EST
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ShadowVlican - Thursday, November 18, 2004 - linkseems like #28 got pwned... think AGP ^_-
very nice review Anand, it's quite astonishing how fast technology can grow isn't it? with the "top" cards of the last generation being eaten by this generation's top mid card... i'm looking forward to your next review when you have your vanilla 6800! Reply
Speedo - Thursday, November 18, 2004 - linkHmm... I also agree with you people, which wonder if an upgrade to a faster graphics card would help and if you perhaps already are CPU limited.
One way of checking the "status" of your current system is to play around with resolutions for a given game. For example, lets say you normally play UT2004 at 1024x768. Try setting the resolution to 512x384 and see where your framerates go. You will not probably go much above that, no matter how fast video card you upgrade to.
You can also try upping the resolution one step from what you are usually using. If the framerate drops a lot, you would probably benefit from an upgrade.
I know this doesn't tell *which* new card you should get. But if your low-res test shows that your CPU can deliver double the framerate, then a good balance could be to upgrade to a card that is at least double as fast as your current one.
In my own system I seem to have a pretty good balance right now, with a 9800pro(xt mod) & firstname.lastname@example.com. Reply
bigpow - Thursday, November 18, 2004 - linkI agree with the previous commentators.
Most of us are stuck with our older generation platform, say P4 2.4c or AthlonXP 1700+ or 2500+
Where's the result for these platforms, AT?
Most of us (see above) will decide whether it is worth it to upgrade to 6600GT if we see these numbers.
AT, step up and beat the competition.
Don't be lazy and just compare with the expensive and uncommon FX CPU. Reply
Ender17 - Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - linkThose charts with the precentages are awesome!! and the head to stuff was great as well. Keep up the good work and try to get us that head to head with the 6800nu. Reply
Niatross - Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - linkEven when he's cpu limited he's limited by an FX-55 not an XP Barton. Yea I wonder how many 1000 dollar cpu systems have a 200 dollar card?
Yea he's showing the cards abilities off well by using an FX-55 but it TELLS me nothing about what my experiance might be. I would just like to see what it would run like on the average machine. I said before that I've seen this hashed out many times on various sites and I see the value of the way it's usually done, just wishing I had my way (STOMP,STOMP BOO HOO,(LOL) I guess ;-) J Reply
ciwell - Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - linkMaybe an article/chart that lists the CPUs from the past couple of years and the theoretical GPU to go along with it that would MAX out, given a CPU bottleneck or what-not. Reply
navsimpson - Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - linkWhile I get why the fastest CPU must be used to prevent CPU bottlenecking, what I don't understand is why someone who can afford a $1000 processor would buy a $200 video card and not shell out the extra 100 or so bucks to move up a notch. These reviews end up being technically sound - we do our best to see what the cards are actually capable of - but of much less consequence to those of us looking to figure out what cards to buy. Will it be worth it to get a 6600gt or would a 9600xt max out the performance of my Athlon 2600? That's what I - and a heck of a lot of other people - want to know. Reply
Pete - Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - linkDerek emerged from his underground bunker! Now that you've recovered enough to type ;), can you verify and maybe explain those 9700P Far Cry numbers? Reply
nserra - Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - link#57 ciwell
What is really funny is that nvidia almost didn't beat a 2 year old card!
And that a similar hardware 5900 (to some people) at that time some even say it was better is in the ground.
Where are the 5900 PS2.0+ and VS2.0+?
This is the anandtech 5900 test conclusion:
"From the ATI camp the $499 Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB, just like the NV35, is a difficult purchase to justify; even more difficult in this case because the GeForceFX 5900 Ultra does outperform it in a number of tests."
Where is the 5900 in all the benches? Who have bought an nvidia 5900 based on those comments? Reply
ciwell - Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - linkI find it funny how nVidia has beaten ATI to the punch and the fanbois are coming out of the woodwork. :D Reply
Visual - Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - linki think it's important to compare the 6600GT with the normal 6800 and even the OEM 6800LEs that can be found around... also, any non-GT 6600s? because all these cards are around the best performance/value ratio... you should try to find/show which one is the best buy. you should also consider the 6800's chance of modding... Reply
nserra - Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - link#54
But if the nvidia AGP numbers are equal to PCIe, wouldn't ati numbers too? Is it because the card doesn't exist?
Why do you keep talking so much about the nvidia VP, when Ati has this feature since 2002, is it because it doesn't work?
DerekWilson - Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - link#53
There will be no x700 agp before years end. If we had one to test we would love to have included numbers for it.
-- Derek Wilson Reply
nserra - Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - link#7 Decoder
They can be solved, the funny thing is that Ati as decoding features since 07/18/02 and didn't need of lots of transistors or processors to do that, and no one says that! Its like is a nv only feature. http://www.ati.com/vortal/videoinnovations/flash/i...
#28 draazeejs
There is no X700 AGP, but even so the 9800 does a great job for a 2 years old card.
But there should be an X700 PCIe in the test to see how fast it is over the 6600.
#29 Regs
You are absolutely right; some one should pay for having recommended nvidia cards over Ati in some "past" reviews.
#31 Cybercat
9700 cards aren't that bad...
#32 vailr
See my #7 reply.
#34 Anand Lal Shimpi
Yeah, Ati as encoding and decoding since 07/18/02 and I didn't remember anyone talking about it. The new Ati driver as WMV acceleration option also, why I didn't get tested yet!!! Just because of the nvidia fancy name "Video processor" yeah right, they are playing catch up with Ati they were 2 years late!
#38 ChronoReverse
You are so relying in the SM3.0, is a new shading language, which delivers new shading code. Are you sure it will be that BIG. Remember that Microsoft from PS1.1->1.4 calls DirectX8.1 and from SM2.0->SM3.0 Microsoft call it DirectX9.0c, if it is that important don't you think the right name would be DirectX9.1 or 9.5?
#39 Read the conclusion of own Anandtech on 04/11/04:
"If all of the cards in this review actually stick to their MSRPs, then the clear suggestion would be the $149 ATI Radeon X700. In every single game outside of Doom 3, the X700 does extremely well, putting even the GeForce 6600 to shame" I don't think that putting the X700 out of this test was a good idea! Since 6600AGP and PCIe is at the same level, so the X700 AGP should too?
#40 Pete
See the up post! And it's also an Anandtech conclusion! Reply
R3MF - Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - linkgood article, cheers.
i'll look forward to the vanilla 6800 benchies, as i'm building two PC's in short order, and i need the info. :) Reply
Calin - Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - linkEdit to #49: Radeon 9800 Pro should be at a tie with the 6600GT in Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory, as the speed difference is at best very hard to see (the biggest difference of performance is in the 6% range, just like the difference between the 5900XT and the 6600GT)
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danyel - Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - linkDoes anyone know if there a plan for an AGP version of the plain geforce 6600 as I don't see it mentioned anywhere? Reply
Calin - Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - linkWolfenstein - Enemy territory is a tie, with the speed difference at most 6%. This is hardly a difference (however, the minimum frame rate have a bigger influence on game play than maximum frame rate)
Calin Reply
Samus - Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - linkim ganna buy one asap, its exactly what i've been waiting for... my radeon 9600 pro chugs in doom3, and i can't even run it at my lcd's native res of 1280x1024...
i've been holding off playing doom3 until a card like this came out. Reply
jay75 - Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - linkthe ATI 9800pro beats the 6600gt when anti-aliasing(AA) is implemented in far cry. it doesn't in counter strike but the frame rate is above 75 at 1280*1024(4x AA) anyway. this is something to be noted. Reply
Pythias - Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - link>>The impact of the bridge, as I mentioned in the review, is negligible. The bridge + slower memory results in a 0 - 5% performance difference between the PCI Express and AGP versions of the 6600GT (the 5% figure being because of the additional memory bandwidth courtesy of the 500/1000 clock vs. 500/900).
Just so you guys know, I went out and picked up a vanilla 6800 for inclusion in my upcoming Half Life 2 GPU comparison. Know that your voice has been heard :)
Take care,
Anand, you kick teh bootay. Reply
Poser - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - link#42 He's not benching them with the fastest processor he can get his hands on just to show off what cool hardware he's got, you know. If you match up a fast video card with a slower processor, you can get benchmark scores that are CPU limited, instead of GPU limited like you want to see. You can see a little bit of what CPU limiting looks like when you look at the low resolution benchmarks with older games, and even with Unreal Tournament 2004 in this review. Every card ends up with essentially the same score, because it's no longer the video card that's the bottleneck -- it's the rest of the system, chiefly the CPU.
If you knew all that already, my apologies for the mini-lecture =). I agree that it's nice to occassionally see benchmarks with a range of processors so that you can spot "yours" and see what sort of performance boost you'd get by upgrading, but it hardly seems practical to do that for every video card review and if you've got to pick ONE processor to test everything on, then the fastest available is a good choice. Reply
thebluesgnr - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - link#41,
the PT894 Pro chipset should be sampling right now.
bhtooefr - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkdraazeejs: Anand compared it against other cards that are the same price. So, a 2 year old card that is now that same price IS a fair comparison. Reply
Niatross - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkI know you've heard this comment a million times before. I don't have a FX 55 I've got an Athlon 2500 mobile. These benchs mean absolutly nothing to me Reply
Tanclearas - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - link"Most enthusiast users appear to be sticking with their AGP platforms and while they would consider a GPU upgrade, they are not willing to upgrade their motherboard (and sometimes CPU and memory) just to get a faster graphics card."
Don't you think this has something to do with the fact that you still can't purchase AMD PCIe boards? Not to mention that it looks like the only (realistic) SLI solution that will be available in the next several months will be for Athlon 64. Reply
Pete - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - link#28, as ATi won't be releasing the X700XT in AGP form for quite some time, and as they're actually going to (continue to) use the 9800P as competition at the $200 price point, your accusation is wholly without merit. If you want to see X700XT vs. 6600GT numbers, just read Anand's X700XT review. As it stands, the 6600GT is unchallenged in the field of new AGP cards at $200.
But it's way overpriced for the $250 NewEgg is charging for it, dual DVI or not. For $250, you're better off with the BFG 6800OC at Outpost.com (which may even come with Far Cry, making it an even better deal). Reply
coldpower27 - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkThe review at firingsquad also seems to paint the same pciture, the conclusion there is similar in wording to the conclusion here to me. It seems the 6600 GT AGP is most definitely a good video card for the mass market :P Reply
ChronoReverse - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkTo #28
A quote from HardOCP
"One thing is for sure, the GeForce 6600GT and the Radeon X700XT are very competitive products when it comes to overall gaming performance. If we had to edge out a card that offers up the better value we would have to lean towards the GeForce 6600GT at this point in time. In our two days of X700XT experience we saw it get held out of the top spot in terms of both framerate and image quality by the GeForce 6600GT. Keep in mind that the GeForce 6600 series also packs the performance potential of Shader Model 3.0 once games start using it."
Any nVidia bias you attribute to Anandtech is unfounded. Reply
vailr - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkSome AVSForum.com (/Home Theater Computers) postings had said that the 6600 video processor was fine; that only the 6800 (the AGP version specifically) had certain hardware problems, which "cannot be cured by a driver update". Or, that maybe some future Windows Media Player update would be needed, to enable hardware assisted .wmv files.
So, general confusion, as to what the real facts are.
"nVidia admits 6800 has faulty on chip decoder":
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=&a... Reply
Pete - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkGreat article, Anand. Are you sure about your 9700P numbers for Far Cry, though? They seem awfully low, especially in relation to a 5900XT. Reply
SlinkyDink - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - link/*The AGP version of the 6600GT obviously lacks SLI support given that you can only have a single AGP slot on a motherboard.*/
Actually I believe that AGP 3.0 specs allow up two AGP slots (and both could be used used at once), but nobody ever decided to implement it :P
Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkI am not treating NVIDIA's Video Processor as a feature of any NV4x GPU until NVIDIA provides a working driver and commits to a public release date. The 6600GT AGP supposedly has the same video processor that the PCI Express version has (since they are the same GPU), but to this date NVIDIA has failed to deliver a working driver set to take advantage of it.
Take care,
Anand Reply
slurmsmackenzie - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - link#28....
remember, the point is that ati didn't have a bridge in the works at the release of the x700, so now that it has become apparent that agp is still the front running solution, they're behind it it's agp equivelant releases. so, as far as agp interface is concerned, the closest ati comparison is the 9800. Reply
vailr - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkAny comments on: comparing the hardware video decoding, of the 6600 vs. the (reportedly faulty)6800; and overall video quality, in comparison with ATI's offerings?
For those people interested in the best cost-to-performance video solution, for Home Theater PC use.
Thanks. Reply
Cybercat - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkThey couldn't have been using the NF4 reference motherboard, these are all AGP cards. Also, why is it that the 9800 Pro does 63% better than the 9700 Pro in FarCry? At most that card is around 30% better. Did you guys really rerun the tests with the 9700 Pro using the latest drivers, or did you merely recycle some of the numbers? Reply
marcnakm - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkThe card I was waiting for.
Good review, just missing the comparison with the regular 6800 which is very important. Reply
Regs - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkThis review shows a lot of things. One of them was how the FX series was a horrible failure. Reply
draazeejs - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkDid nVidia pay for this article? Is it really fair to put up this card against a 2-years old card, like R9800Pro? As far as I understood, the X700 should be the real competitor for 6600GT, because the X700 is supposed to be in the same price cathegory, no? There have been numerous reviews of the X700 on the net, why not include it here??? Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkThe impact of the bridge, as I mentioned in the review, is negligible. The bridge + slower memory results in a 0 - 5% performance difference between the PCI Express and AGP versions of the 6600GT (the 5% figure being because of the additional memory bandwidth courtesy of the 500/1000 clock vs. 500/900).
Just so you guys know, I went out and picked up a vanilla 6800 for inclusion in my upcoming Half Life 2 GPU comparison. Know that your voice has been heard :)
Take care,
Anand Reply
Slaimus - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkWhat is missing is an AGP versus PCIE comparison, so the impact of the bridging can be seen. Reply
bob661 - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkNewegg has one for $235.
http://tinyurl.com/6cjej Reply
pio!pio! - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - link#8: What do you mean unlock the stuff? Can you flash the 6800GT BIOS onto the 6800 regular or something? Reply
Da3dalus - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkNVidia rocks again 8D Reply
Staples - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkHell yeah.
I was hoping this card would hit before Christmas. My brother wants a 9800P for Christmas but after seeing the PCI-E vesion as a comprable price, it would pain me to buy a 9800P for the same price. Reply
Staples - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkReply
Bonesdad - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkWill the retail price here match the street price we see in the real world? Often the MSRP is appreciably higher than street price. Have to wait to see...if it is $175-$200 street price, then the message is clear Reply
FinalFantasy - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkAwesome card...I might pick one up for my dad's rig. Reply
CU - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkAnand you must be the only one in the world that can find 6800GT/U and x800Pro/XT, and now a 6600GT AGP the day it is out, but don't have a 6800nu to test with. I wish I had that problem.
P.S. I don't mean this in a bad way or anything. I just thought it was funny. Reply
mldeveloper - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkwill we see a pci express 6600gt vs. agp 6600gt to confirm if the bridge chip actually affects performance Reply
Avalon - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkThank you for taking our concerns into consideration, Anand :) Reply
coldpower27 - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkThat's intresting, how the 6800 GT dips like that in Sims 2 performance at 12x10, do you have any reason why? Even stranger still how the X800 Pro seems to be actually beating the 6800 GT in this particular game in high res. However it's FPS seems to be limited to 40FPS max across the board :S. Also could you possibly bench the Sims 2 under 1152x864, I would like to see what the performance of the 6800 GT is at that res for this game.
Oh good review, would like a 300/700 6800 LE 8x1/4 and 325/700 6800 Vanilla 12x1/5 tested as well. To see how those compare to these cards, Reply
ciwell - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkHmm...try to get the BFG OC one then...
:D :D Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkThanks for the comments. We did not have a vanilla 6800 available for testing for this review, but as soon as we get one in we will make sure to include it in our upcoming reviews.
Take care,
Anand Reply
ciwell - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkYeah, I am wondering where the vanilla 6800 is too? It clearly is in direct competition with the 6600GT. Reply
ciwell - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkReply
CU - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkI would also like to know why the 6800nu is not included. The message may not be so clear if the 6800nu was included. Reply
9700prolover - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkI love the last sentense. Even the writer of anandtech loves the "the message is clear, xxx wins/fails" style of conclusion. Reply
Avalon - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkWhere was the vanilla 6800? You can get a BFG 6800 OC at Outpost for $249.99, and it's in stock at this moment. I recall the 6800 beating the 6600GT in 60% of benchmarks, while losing out in 40% of benchmarks. If the 6600GT is going to cost $225, that won't be much fun. I'd rather take the BFG 6800 and unlock the pipes and vertex shaders, artifact permitting. Reply
Decoder - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkWhat about the video decoding issues on the NVidia chips? Has that been resolved?
skunkbuster - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linknot bad. but that cooler looks a little strange tilted like that :P Reply
Alphafox78 - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkso many graphs... ugg Reply
Illissius - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkawesome :)
although, did you use the reference or the XFX 6600GT for the benchies? I don't remember it being mentioned... Reply
datamon - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkwhy no comparison with a regular 6800?
right now the BFG 6800 can be had for around $250 and 6600GT AGP looks like it is starting at around $230, so they are competitors. Reply
JustAnAverageGuy - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - link:D Reply
ksherman - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - linkSaweeettttt!!!!!!!!! ;) Reply


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WINNIPEG — Don't worry about me, Dustin Byfuglien told reporters and fans this morning.
The anchor Winnipeg Jets defenceman has returned to the city and was on the ice with many of his teammates this morning at the MTS Iceplex for the first time since the labour dispute ended.
Byfuglien certainly looked no larger or worse than during last season and was asked a half-dozen times about his conditioning and his weight. Each response came with a grin and only a general comment.
Such as:
On his weight from over the summer: "I stayed right around the same."
On what his weight is: "You guys always want to know that. You'll never get it."
(The team lists it as 265 pounds on its website.)
On his condition at the moment:"I guess it's time to go to work. It doesn't matter. I don't have a choice. You have to go. It's alright. I feel fine."
During the lockout, Byfuglien stayed at his Minnneaoplis-area home and skated regularly with a group of as many as 30 players.
"We had 30-plus guys down there," Byfuglien said. "It wasn't bad to be there and go to the rink every day because you had a good group of guys to go skate with. It was a good little game. Some days it was tough to get up and go but it wasn't that bad."
A bonus of the time off was being near his family, Byfuglien said.
"It was definitely long," he said. "I guess it was good to stay home and be with the family and watch the daughter grow up a little bit more. And getting a little bit of free time to do different things."
During the summer, Byfuglien saw the resolution of his legal troubles in Minnesota over a boating incident and charges at the end of the summer of 2011.
He was convicted on only one of several charges, that for careless boating. He was fined $1,000 and received a 30-day sentence, 28 of them suspended.
What else was asked of you by the court, Byfuglien was asked.
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In the 1990s Jeff Gordon was called NASCAR's "Golden Boy" as he captured three of his four Cup Series Championships. Now with a series of poor decisions and bad fortune, the NASCAR great finds himself in jeopardy of missing this year's Chase battle.
Gordon has been competitive in the 2012 season, but he has not been able to show the results of those competitive runs. In fact, the No. 24 team has either blown an engine, had tire issues, or made poor decisions in eight of the first 16 events.
"I feel like it's really been a test for us," said Gordon of his misfortunes. "When you have high expectations on yourself, and your teammates are winning and doing well, it makes it even more frustrating."
After Sunday's Toyota/Save Mart 350, Gordon finds himself ranked No. 18 in the Series point battle. With four drivers ahead of him who have already notched a win, Gordon has to win soon if he wants to claim a wildcard berth in the postseason.
"This year, I've had to do more on a personal level," continued Gordon, speaking of how he keeps his team motivated. "Putting some words out there that could be key to keeping us together and getting us through those tough times."
For a little while on Sunday, Gordon seemed to be headed in a direction that would end his string of bad luck. Starting on the outside pole, Gordon led 13 laps early on and established himself as a contender. However, a miscalculation on fuel cost Gordon a chance at victory and continued his plagued season.
Gordon's misfortune was Clint Bowyer's gain as the young driver moved to the front and captured his first win for Michael Waltrip Racing. Afterwards, Bowyer was very proud that he outrun his idol Gordon.
"I just looked up and Jeff Gordon is sitting there on the wall," commented Bowyer on his win. "He's won this race many times, he's a champion of this sport and I just beat him."
Bowyer was not the only person celebrating in the Sonoma afternoon sun. Kurt Busch drove a crippled and unsponsored race car to a third-place finish.
"Today we came home third," said a more subdued Busch in the media center. "I clipped a set of tires and it broke the front suspension and the rear panhard bar and I couldn't compete for the win after that."
Bowyer also had his hands full holding off Tony Stewart in the closing laps and for that, he was thankful.
"I barely held him off the last three or four laps," said Bowyer of the battle. "But somehow, some way we did"
Gordon was able to battle back to a sixth place finish but, as Bowyer and Busch celebrated after their run, Gordon was busy trying to find a way to keep his team positive after another heartbreaking loss.
Next week, he gets another chance.
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GIGABYTE AM1M-S2H Review: What Can $35 Get You?by Ian Cutress on 8/15/2014 3:00 PM EST
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Flunk - Friday, August 15, 2014 - linkI'm confused as to why this needs an ATX 4-pin connector at all, they were introduced to provide more power to power-hungry CPUs. This doesn't need much power on the CPU socket so it seems unnecessary.
It would also have been nice to see the gaming results with the IGP, most of these boards are going to be utilized with the IGP.
Considering the price of this platform the performance seems really great, I think I would recommend something like this to people who just want a very basic desktop system. Reply
TerdFerguson - Friday, August 15, 2014 - linkThis looks great, although I insist that the possibility of a $35 functional motherboard is far less astonishing than the possibility of a $200+ motherboard. Yet again, I challenge any honest, authoritative source to break down the build cost of a "high end" motherboard. Reply
StrangerGuy - Friday, August 15, 2014 - linkEvery industry tries to rip people off as much as they could get away with it...Why would mobos be any different? Most people don't need more than a $50 even for gaming purposes, let alone $100+. Reply
Lonyo - Saturday, August 16, 2014 - linkThe cost of a product is more than just the bill of materials. Reply
kmmatney - Friday, August 15, 2014 - linkMaybe it cheaper to give the cpu it's own power, than routing it from the main connector? I'm sure every decision on this motherboard had cost in mind. Reply
DanNeely - Friday, August 15, 2014 - linkProbably to feed the GPU slot if someone puts a card with a decent power draw. The 24pin connector dates back to when 3.3/5V were used to power most of the mobo and only has 2 12V wires. Reply
MikeMurphy - Sunday, August 17, 2014 - linkBecause when you plug in a 75w PCIe card you need all the power you can get.
You make good points on the 770 but I think the point was to show which apps are CPU limited. The 5350 IGP is already well documented. Reply
wrkingclass_hero - Friday, August 15, 2014 - link0.0 dat power supply... Reply
Daniel Egger - Friday, August 15, 2014 - linkThe selection of comparison points is rather strange, why compare power consumption of completely different aimed Intel systems (Servers, Top End of Halswells and an Atom?) rather than a Haswell Celeron or low end i3 while the benchmarks have a completely different and partially also much larger set of systems. Reply
ozzuneoj86 - Friday, August 15, 2014 - linkIt seems like this happens a lot, and there are usually reasons for it, such as a lack of hardware to test on or time constraints, but if the results don't really tell us anything in the end, it is a bit frustrating. I think I said this the last time we had a Kabini review. Basically, the results often only show us that the CPU is slower than far more expensive systems, and that the AM1 CPUs increase slightly in performance as the price goes up... exactly as you'd expect. We get very little in the way of comparison between competing products, or even between old and new products. I really hope Anandtech will start supplying the reviewers with some more low end platforms if we're going to keep getting reviews like this. I just feel kind of bad for the writers of these nice reviews when the readers walk away from a review in the end not really having any more information about how the product compares to similarly priced options, slightly more expensive options, or older options that they might be able to get cheaper. They can only run tests with hardware that is available to them... and clearly there's a lack of entry-level hardware available to the guys here. I'm sure someone would be willing to donate some stuff to make these reviews more helpful. We need some comparisons with ivy and sandy bridge celeron (847, 1037u), older APUs (E350, A4 3xxx), Haswell celeron (G1830), older Athlons (X2, II X2, X2 e low power chips), Core 2 (E4300, E8400) and 771 Xeons (like the L5240, L5420, since they can be had for cheap now and modded to 775). These are the options I think of when I think of systems like Kabini, and they are for the most part nowhere to be seen in these reviews. Reply
fteoath64 - Sunday, August 17, 2014 - linkYes and something different as well like the Asrock AM1 board that had a DC 19v input as well as 24pin psu connector but using the DC input instead!. This is where a cheap or sometimes existing adaptor block is already available for use and being used. Now that would be different. AM1 cpu is disappointing in total cost as BayTrial is way cheaper giving similar performance (though lesser a bit) at half the power consumption as AM1. Reply
jospoortvliet - Monday, August 18, 2014 - linkEvery review I have seen shows the AM1 performance better per watt than the atoms, as AM1 idle usage is lower and performance is better.... but I have seen only a few. Care to link me to one showing the atom has higher performance and lower idle use than the AM1? Load performance matters little, as in typical usage you load these systems .5% of the time... Reply
jabber - Friday, August 15, 2014 - linkUsed a lot of Gigabyte boards with Dual BIOS over the years.....never used it. Reply
bebimbap - Saturday, August 16, 2014 - linkI thought that dual bios might be marginal benefit of dual bios was nothing till one day I decided to change my Cpu from a k series to non-k. I reset the bios in between but it still became corrupted. Though I have other methods of recovvering from this, the board auto recovered and copied the second bios over the first. In the last eight years and over a dozen systems I have only encountered this once and it saved me time. If it were my only system it would have been much worse if I didn't have dual bios. Also I can imagine this happens to reviewers who test multiple chips on multiple boards and with multiple settings. I can see it now: "We would have loved more time on this board but, it's bios failed and we had other boards to review." Reply
HardwareDufus - Friday, August 15, 2014 - linkI look at this system and I think: $50 120GB SSD, $35 MB, $30 CPU, $50 4GB DDR2...
Perfect drop in replacement for ancient PII or AMD K6 systems..... $170..... reuse your existing case, powersupply, keyboard, mouse, monitor.. Sell the old stuff (harddrive, cpu, motherboard, memory) for $20 to somebody. Your out like $150.... and you've got a cheap SSD... It will boot fast and feel fast relative to what you had... Reply
jabber - Friday, August 15, 2014 - linkIs anyone really running such systems? It's pretty rare I get a single core box older than 2004 dropped in to me nowadays. 20th century computing is pretty much extinct. Reply
wintermute000 - Saturday, August 16, 2014 - linkIts indeed a cheap system, but what person who knows how to build a PC, is still using something that old and worthless. The bother + risk on ancient PSU = just throw that PII/III away, but a new box. Which may very well be a cheapie with a 5350, but I don't think system building comes into it in any way shape or form. Reply
jabber - Saturday, August 16, 2014 - linkMmm yes running your new hardware off a 15 year old PSU and yellowed beige plastic PC case...like that'll work.
A system to be proud of. Reply
HardwareDufus - Saturday, August 16, 2014 - linkAlthough I am Irish/American, I have lived 8 1/2 years in Mexico. So yeah.... $170 to build a system, even if it has an old powersupply and a beige case is a fantastic idea. You need to understand just how much of the world's population lives on the edge of poverty.
I personally am an odd one because I build a new Mini-ITX rigs for myself about every 2 years. The last was with an 3770K, IGP for video on 2 24" LCD 1920X1200 monitors. (No discreet video cards for me)... SSD and 16GB of ram.... and I spend too much in the process each time.
However, I truly see the value in recycling old stuff... everytime I build a new system... I pass on the old stuff. I know of an elderly couple in upstate NY that is still using my AMD k6-III+ build overclocked to 600Mhz with 768MB of Ram on Windows2000 Professional with Office2000 Professional. THey turn the computer on... then go start brewing coffee... Eventually the coffee and the computer are ready. There was a time when I was buying up every K6-III+ I could find on EBay, overclocking them to upgrade ancient Socket7 machines for people for almost Zero money.
My old Server machine with Dual PIIs overclocked to 400Mhz (B21 tape trick), 1GB of Ram and 4 4GB UWSCSI drives is still running (WinXP Pro) at another person's house. What a ridiculous machine to surf the web and check email... but I passed it on for free!
Last year I purchased 13 Dell Optiplex755s with 13 Planar 18" LCDs (1280X1024) at less than $120usd a piece. These boxes all had leagal copies of WIndows7 Professional. Yeah, they've only got 2GB of Ram... and 40GB harddrives.... but they are perfect for teaching Physical Computing with Arduino microcontrollers..
Nothing like putting 13 PCs on a couple of plastic coca cola tables and connecting them up to a single 16port Netgear switch and uplinking to your 5mbs DSL that cost you $349mxn a month (About $30usd) and letting folks check email, surf, learn to use Google Docs... learn to program in C/C++ using Arduino software and $15 microcontrollers...All for free.
I grab up all of the obsolete netbooks I can find with WindowsXP on them.... stick on Arduino Software and Adobe Reader... Stick on a bunch of downloaded PDFs on Basic Electronics, C Programming with Arduino in Spanish, etc... and put it all a plastic OXXO (think SevenElven) with an Arduino UNO clone microcontroller, usb cable, handfull of LEDs and Resistors.... and send them off with young people. Too slow for browsing content on the internet kids shouldn't be browsing... but more than they need to learn programming and electronics.
I know a poor family that is using the composite video of the Rasberry Pi (overclocked to 1Ghz) hooked up to their old TV using a usb keyboard, mouse and 2GB microSD to surf the internet and check mail. Cost me $25usd to gift that to them (keyboard, mouse and coax were freebies I got). (I have 2 rasberry pi...I haven't found a thing to do with them excpet to show off really slow $25 computers)..
Yes, I'd rather be handing out Surface 3 Pros to everyone... But in the meantime... $30 cpus, $35motherboards and $50SSDs..... that's good stuff. Cheap SSDs can make the slowest system feel adequate!! Reply
jabber - Saturday, August 16, 2014 - linkI put far newer stuff than that in the trash. There comes a point in the civilised world where it just becomes a liability and a dust trap. Reply
HardwareDufus - Sunday, August 17, 2014 - linkI couldn't imagine trashing perfectly good CoreDuo machines. Maybe someday you could gift some of that stuff to the uncivilised world. Reply
jabber - Monday, August 18, 2014 - linkA C2D machine is a very different beast to the pre 21st century trash being talked about here.
For me if its single core and single core only it gets trashed. No exceptions. Ahh well actually PentiumD machines get trashed too. Reply
Dark Zero - Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - linkDon't undestimate Pentium D. Using a SSD makes it useful again. Reply
jabber - Thursday, August 21, 2014 - linkYes as a toaster oven I guess. Hot junk.
Pay the extra $2 and get the C2D on Ebay. You'll get the $2 back in energy savings in no time. Reply
Oxford Guy - Sunday, August 17, 2014 - linkI just put Xubuntu Linux on a Shuttle SK-41G with an Athlon XP 2400+ and 768 MB of RAM. I stuck an ATI 2400 Pro in it to get working video. It was running XP but since there are no more patches I switched it over. Xubuntu was the only thing I could get to work, other than Windows. No other Linux I tried (or even FreeBSD) would boot. Someone I know is using the machine as his main computer, along with one of those really old super loud IBM keyboards. Reply
Dirk_Funk - Sunday, August 17, 2014 - linkI'm picturing you as a kind of Johnny Appleseed of computing. Reply
MikeMurphy - Sunday, August 17, 2014 - linkVery motivating. Thanks for sharing this. Reply
Phillip Wager - Friday, August 15, 2014 - linki just wish there was an AM1 mini itx board that had dual lan for teaming im looking to build a NAS by the end of the year and the low power consumption from the kabani quad cores really intrigues me but i dont want to go micro atx sized an then buy a lan card. (the pci-e slot will be taken up by a RAID card) the lack of dual lan has me considering going intel because they have haswell celerons/i3/i5 processors coming out soon that will consume only 35watts and that should get the job done. and although it will only be dual core honestly the am1 jaguar quadcore was overkill in the first place so its not that big a deal. Reply
WatcherCK - Saturday, August 16, 2014 - linkI wonder if the board supports unbuffered ECC RAM? The Asus AM1M board supports ECC unofficially:
Add a cheap LSI from ebay and low power NAS at a lower cost than the C2550 and 2750 Atoms, you dont get dual (or even) Intel LAN or dual channel memory however. Reply
wintermute000 - Saturday, August 16, 2014 - linkIf you have enough requirements for dual LAN/teaming then you're probably going to want more grunt than AM1 can provide anyway. In any event bay trial (cheap) / avoton (expensive) are perfectly viable options NOW. Reply
DanNeely - Friday, August 15, 2014 - linkIs this board full length mATX? It doesn't look like there's quite enough room below the 3rd PCIe slot to fit the 4th and still have room for the edge of board headers. Reply
DanNeely - Saturday, August 16, 2014 - linkConfirmed. Gigabyte lists it as 22x17cm. A full height mATX board would be 24.6cm tall. Reply
HigherState - Saturday, August 16, 2014 - linkI think it would be very interesting to see what using a R7 260X with Mantle enabled would do for gaming. I know thats not exactly what this platform is all about, but this is kinda what Mantle is suited for, I think. From what I could tell from a quick google search, it helps. Would like to see some up-to-date numbers, not ones from 4 months ago where Mantle and Kabini drivers were still being fleshed out. Reply
hojnikb - Saturday, August 16, 2014 - linkOr you could just get the cheapest 1150 mobo and celeron for a little bit more. it will be faster and much much more upgrade friendly. Reply
zodiacfml - Saturday, August 16, 2014 - linktoo bulky and complex for any signage use. this is plain cheap mobo for emerging markets or business such as internet shops in some countries. Reply
hojnikb - Saturday, August 16, 2014 - linkdamn, those green caps really spoil the looks of this thig. Reply
Per Hansson - Saturday, August 23, 2014 - linkThose are Japanese Sanyo capacitors (now Suncon)
Please stop complaining about a $35 board using high quality Japanese caps! Reply
jardows2 - Saturday, August 16, 2014 - linkWhat does $35 get me on this board? Too much in my opinion. I can see this platform working well as a media player +, in a very small (think thin mITX) platform, but all the motherboard offerings I have seen are too bulky. What I want is:
2x USB 2.0 rear connectors for KB and mouse
2x USB 3.0 rear connectors for external hard drive
HDMI video/audio (don't need standard audio jacks for this)
Gigabit Ethernet.
SO-DIMM slots for RAM
mSATA slot
1 SATA connector for possible optical drive
1 mini-PCIE for wireless.
Unfortunately, I am in no position to purchase 10,000+ of these to have an OEM make such a board for me. Hopefully there are enough people requesting this type of board for someone to make it a reality. Reply
Arnulf - Sunday, August 17, 2014 - linkWTF happened to the DE-15 connector, is blue too expensive compared to black or did we somehow land in 1993 ? Reply
yannigr2 - Sunday, August 17, 2014 - link@Anandtech Your spam filter is NOT working properly. And there is NO way to get help.
My apologies for this post that is a result after 1+ month trying to find a way to fix my account other than just making a new one. Reply
FriendlyUser - Sunday, August 17, 2014 - linkI can think of many, many friends who would be perfectly happy using this kind of system for everyday tasks. This is truly "good enough" computing. Reply
Arbie - Monday, August 18, 2014 - linkIan's comment on "unreality" resonates with me. In fact I'd feel bad paying only $35 for a motherboard. Just to think what is involved in producing such a thing makes my head spin. The people doing it deserve more than they are getting from this. Even $100 is cheap. Approaching $200 brings it more in line with my personal reality, though it's still pretty amazing - and you get one heck of a board for that.
It is somehow wonderful that the world can have $35 mobos and the low-cost PCs built on them. I just don't look there. Reply
fanofanand - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkMust be nice living in your world. This guy helps out those less fortunate and all you can do is brag about how you would just throw it in the garbage? You sir, suck at life. Reply
fanofanand - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkThat was supposed to be a reply to the dude trashing HardwareDufus, not sure how it landed at the end....either way, I think it's fantastic that he helps out those less fortunate with your "trash" Reply
jabber - Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - linkWell what do you do with tech junk when no one wants it? This is my job, not a hobby. I have a wife, that means you cant hoard stuff. I live in the first world, people don't want it any more. A friend of mine sells old Dell single core PCs. He sells 10 of them for like $90 on a pallet and no one wants them. It's junk.
I'll say it again...junk.
Plus if you give old slow computers to people...they expect you to support it. I have a life.
Quit being so dippy and sentimental and get with stark modern reality. It's just some crappy 12 year old CPUs and PCs. Not like I'm throwing food in the trash in front of staving kids. Reply


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) has announced the 2012 Tachikara-NAIA Volleyball All-America Teams, as selected by the NAIA Volleyball All-America Selection Committee.
After leading TMC's women volleyball squad during a historic season that culminated in the Mustangs' first-ever NAIA National Tournament appearance, Samantha Dougherty has been named to the 2012 Tachikara-NAIA Volleyball All-American Team.
The Madera, California, native landed a spot on the second team following a campaign in which she led the Mustangs to a 27-8 record, a program-best No. 11 national ranking, and a resilient run at the national tournament. Dougherty finished the year with 452 kills, 372 digs, 56 service aces, and 22 assists. The Mustangs' ace also finished the year first in the Golden State Athletic Conference in service aces and third in kills.
This accolade came on the heels of Dougherty's selection to the All-GSAC squad two weeks ago. On the way to these honors, she earned the GSAC's "Player of the Week" award on two separate occasions this fall and was also a recipient of the NAIA's "Volleyball National Player of the Week" award for the week of October 29-November 4.
TMC went 27-8 in 2012, finishing 10-4 and in third place in the GSAC. For the first time ever, the Lady Mustangs qualified for the NAIA National Tournament, making it as far as the first round of single-elimination play before being ousted by Oklahoma Christian.
To view the complete 2012 Tachikara-NAIA Volleyball All-America, please click here.


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ovideatza replied to Preee's topic in Ford Focus GuidesIt can't be done like that. I need module reprogramming. Only IDS is capable of that. I was hopping that civil will make ELMConfig capable of module reprogramming on bluetooth/voice module, but nothing so far... Some late modules (CS7T-....) are capable of switching languages without reprogramming. Yes, that's what it does.
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ovideatza replied to Preee's topic in Ford Focus GuidesWell, none of them was ticked "as-built" as I remember. Maybe ESP misbuilt detection, I don't think . Water in fuel - is for 1,6tdci that has diesel filter with this senzor, I guess I have :D No error since activation. Fuel cap sensor - I know is for DPF engine's, and I guess it will light up if i Drive the car with the fuel cap left open. I guess. No error since activation (maybe I'll try this function some day) Focus RS - no change. probably I ticked when I was trying to make "Eco-Mode" to work...before instructions for ROM update appeared. "Voice control" - I see now that is not ticked, what is for?. I have bluetooth module with voice controls (german unfortunately, and without IDS I don't think I have any chance to change it in English)
ovideatza replied to Preee's topic in Ford Focus GuidesIt was a driver problem, switching between 2007 and 2008 versions and back +restart solved the problem. > i.imgur.com Regarding PTC (car has PTC): - if I enable PTC (status report only) from HEC page 1, I get a message on display saying PTC on or off, depending of PTC's status. - also, the message comes with "info" led on, and it is shown in the "message" section of the cluster. 1. If I don't enable it in HEC, it will continue working (I guess it will, because it didn't had this option ticked and VIN decoding says it has PTC)? 2. Is there other option to see if PTC is working or not, not as a message shown always on display, perhaps as a submenu?
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ovideatza replied to Preee's topic in Ford Focus Guides@ Memorex : you can do that with ForScan last version with ELM327. Civil-zz said that it could be a driver problem...altough I used the same driver like before. Problems started after Windows 7 64 bit reinstall, before it worked. Without runtimepack it wouldn't start, it is there. COM port was COM3, now I changed to COM2, same behaviour. I think I need another driver or another laptop...but this one had a very good battery.
ovideatza replied to Preee's topic in Ford Focus Guidesso, there is this possibility to have wires but no pin inside. thank you for the link, I will use it when I get my ELMConfig working again...I keep getting "Error reading COM device". ForScan or other software works with my ELM327, even ELMConfig worked before.. in ELMConfig you just read module and you will have thicked all your default car configuration. After that you can make modification as you like, depending on what your car support. AS BUILT is needed when you have problems and you want to go back to default configuration and you don't know it. As an advice, be sure to save each page from ELMConfig read from the car on your laptop prior doing any modification.
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ovideatza replied to Preee's topic in Ford Focus GuidesHello again guys! I'm having a problem with my ELM327 and I cannot manage to find out why. I posted on the russian forum, but no answer yet: http://ffclub.ru/topic/302511/go_post/15014740/ Can you help me? Could I need a hard reset of the ELM? All other programs are working fine, only ELMConfig is not working. Thank you. Also, few months ago, when I tried to enable the alarm, it said on the screen "open hood" or something like that. The car it's a Titanium. I checked the wiring, I have wires to the front hood lock, is it possible to have the wires going to the lock but the lock not to have pins inside? Can I check this without taking out from the car de lock? PS: on civil's ftp there is a incode-outcode calculator, in the folder called "New Folder", maybe it is a free program for this. Anyone knows something about this? Too bad that he didn't made possible to program key's with ELMConfig.
ovideatza replied to Preee's topic in Ford Focus GuidesI think it is done like this: - BCM(body in this case) procedures "Read CCC (central configuration) from BCM" - then Central Configuration , change what you need - BCM - Procedures - " Write to BCM" Is that correct?
ovideatza replied to Preee's topic in Ford Focus GuidesI have modified the ELM, everything works great, first saved all the initial configuration files. 1) If I got it right, for ECO Shift UP/ ECO Mode I need upgrading the ROM to 0509? No change for me untill now, my HEC is 04xx version 2) And what are the Focus RS info? I thicked that box, but I do not notice any change. 3) And I want to disable the sound when outside temperature is under 4 °C (39.2 °F), it drive's me crazy when the temperature is just that level with slight increase/decrease, it rings again and again...so I must untick from ELMconfig " HEC Page 3 Low outside air temperature" 4) Voice Control in HEC Page 1 - what it does? Because I allready have voice control over bluetooth module, and default setting is unticked. 5) in FDS i have noticed that under HEC you get the transponder keys. I have 2 keys, shown there. Could I use this feature to programm a new key to a car? I don't know if when I buy a new key I get the transponder code also in written.
ovideatza replied to Preee's topic in Ford Focus GuidesLook's like my problem was the drivers. So keep trying if you have similar problems, change drivers untill it works. After installing different drivers it worked. Now i will modify ELM.
ovideatza replied to Preee's topic in Ford Focus GuidesI'm back with my problems. I tried using different COMM. Same result. When using EasyOBDII, ScanMaster, etc..it reads the car parameters, real time. SO: 1. Using ELMConfig - I still get the same error - Run-time error '8020':Error reading comm device 2. Using ELMFF2: - I tried Russian and English versions - same result: Translated with Google into: Open port COM1 * Reading the configuration of the module IPC (instrument panel) > ATZ <Error reading ! Wrong answer adapter 3. Using FDS: - it connects to the vehicle - when I press "Read VIN from car" I get errorfigu - when I pres Read Current Configuration i get the car's configuration, like in picture - it download's ASBuilt from web, no problem there - when I thick something, like Radio, or VoiceControl, or Reverse warning, anything, I get: "Download the HEC data from the vehicle first". I do not have other FF2 to try. I don't know if it si something wrong with the : - computer (maybe comm port?? Win7 64bit. ) - car (few weeks ago I used IDS and it worked ok!) - or ELM? I could try to change the ELM, I haven't modified it yet. But I have to decide this days, I cannot wait too long. Any ideea? Thanks.
ovideatza replied to Preee's topic in Ford Focus GuidesOk, I will try to use com 5,6 or other. I wanted to be sure it is working before I modify the elm. So the ELM-FF2 only works with modification on the cable? I have read it works, but not all options.
ovideatza replied to Preee's topic in Ford Focus GuidesHy guys. I'm not from Uk, so please forgive my english. In my country we have a FordClub, with upgrades and tehnical stuff, but this topic is really interesting. I want to thank you all for your effort. After reading all this pages, i bought an elm327, cheap one. After half a day work, I managed to install on Win7 64bit. It now connect to my car when using some programs included in the box. But when i try to connect using ELMConfig, latest version from Civill, I get this error: Any ideea? have allready changed port speed, between 9.600 and 38.400, no chance. Also, i used comm 3, comm 2, comm 31...the same error. When I use ELM-FF2, when i press the button translated to "Read car info", I get a popp-up (i only understandt HCAN there) after that nothing...in the black screen something that I don't underdstand, and no chance to thick something on/off, everything remains faded..


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I am currently piloting FrontlineSMS with patients with TB in Argentina who are receiving treatment by self-administration (<50% of patients in the Province of Buenos Aires receive treatment by directly observed therapy-DOT).
Have two issues with platform: We are able to see messages received when selecting 'All messages' in the messages tab however when selecting by patient only sent messages are displayed. In order to more easily track patients daily ideally we would like to see sent/received by selecting each patient in 'message history'. Under 'All messages' we need to compare phone numbers in order to identify each patient. Both received and sent boxes are selected for view preference. Any suggestions/other options that I am not aware of?
Second, we have experienced where messages have been received by modem but not FrontlineSMS platform. Most messages appear in modem 'inbox' but not all in FrontlineSMS. Unsure what we are doing sometimes and not others to get this inconsistency?
So far patients have received the intervention well and have maintained contact with staff regarding treatment progress.
Thank you for any assistance
Hi Sarah,
Thanks for getting in touch about this. Firstly, it sounds like you are now running a very interesting use of FrontlineSMS, and it would be great to learn more about your project and potentially feature it on our blog. Please do let me know if this is of interest.
On your first question - when you select the individual contact/ patient and then view their message history in FrontlineSMS is their number listed with the international dialing code? I just checked this in my system and it seems that for all contacts that do not have the full dial code at the beginning (for example +44 in the UK) FrontlineSMS only displays the messages sent, but not received from this contact. In the All Messages tab, the Sender Number column shows the contact / patient you have received a message from, and the Recipient column will be blank for messages you've receive.
On your second question, it may be that the modem is running device manager software that is getting in the way of FrontlineSMS receiving messages. You should make sure that device manager software has started and been fully shut down before starting FrontlineSMS.
Hope this all makes sense and helps you with these issues, but please let us know if you need further assistance.
Thanks Florence,
I have previously passed on our study abstract/ info to Nadim and have been in contact with Josh Nesbit as well. Likely no time for blog but as things come up and as report/papers written I will be happy to pass them on.
Regarding viewing issue. In contact list I can list with or without country code (+54 here) and messages can be sent but received messages record number without the country code, only the cell phone prefix which here is two numbers 11 or 15. A 0 is recorded in front of numbers received in FrontlineSMS platform. For example the sender number for received messages is 011 then 8 numbers of mobile phone. It is true that recipient number column is blank for messages received. With few patients it is OK to look at 'all messages' but as list is growing much more challenging. Do not have local tech support to trouble shoot. Any further suggestions?
thank you
Hi Sarah,
Thanks for your reply. It would be great if you can pass on reports and papers to us about your project, wherever possible, and we'd be happy to feature these on the publications page of our website if suitable. I look forward to staying in touch as your project progresses!
Meanwhile, on your question about viewing messages I'm not sure what the problem could be here then. Just to check, have you tried making sure (in the Phones tab, right clicking on connected device) that your modem / phone is set to send and receive messages?
In terms of local troubleshooting support, it may be worth connecting with Domingo Liotta here on the forum, who is an active FrontlineSMS user based in Argentina. I can also check in with our developers to see if they have any suggestions I'm missing.
I hope we can help solve this issue soon.
Yes "use for sending" and "receiving" messages are checked in the phone tab for modem. And under Message tab both received and sent boxes are checked for view.
I will see if I can touch base with Domingo. Thank you
Hi Sarah,
Ok thanks. Please let us know whether you are able to connect with Domingo to troubleshoot this further, and if not I will see if our developer team can help.
Best of luck, and I look forward to staying in touch.
Hi Sarah:
Regarding your second question the Carriers Software gets into the way and immediately downloads pending messages to its propietary software.
I use Movistar and It immediately opens, when the modem is inserted. A way to avoid this is to disable autorun.
Also if I dont close the propietary software FrontlineSMS doesnt detect the modem.
I¨m running the lastest FrontlineSMS in a windows 7 Toshiba and I see the sent, and received emails ok separated by students phone number with the 011 as prefix for Buenos Aires
Add me on skype (dliotta)
Best regards
Fantastic! Adding the 0 is what I needed to do. Also, although you can call a cell phone here directly with prefix 11 or 15 the program recognizes only 11 (at least with the numbers that I have so far). Therefore you must be sure to enter contact with 11 and not 15 although the messages will be sent using 15.
I am using Movistar as well and will disable auto run.
Thank you for the help. I will add you to skype. Would be interesting to discuss how things are going for you with system here in BsAs.
One other issue we have picked up- the time log in FrontlineSMS is 2 hours behind the actual time. Not sure if it is picking up a different time zone? Any ideas how to fix.
Thank you and look forward to meeting/chatting via skype
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A DRIVER who left a cyclist with life-changing injuries has been jailed.
Adrian George of Robert Louis Stevenson Avenue, Bournemouth, was found guilty of two charges at Weymouth Magistrates Court last month.
Yesterday, George, 39, returned to the same court and was jailed for failing to stop at the scene of an accident and failing to report the collision.
He was told to serve a four-month sentence for each charge, which will run concurrently.
Earlier, the court had been told that the charges referred to a collision on the A338 Wessex Way at the Cooper Dean flyover on April 27 last year.
Sarah Faulkner was knocked off her bicycle by George's Renault Master van at around 7.45am.
She received life-changing injuries, including several fractures and a head injury that led to a subdural haemorrhage.
Police seized George's van a day after the incident.
Forensics matched it to glass taken from the scene of the incident.
George had already admitted to the charge of careless driving on October 15.
He accepted he had been in a collision with the bicycle but denied knowing about it at the time.
Patrick Goodings, prosecuting, read Miss Faulkner's victim statement to the court, which was recorded in June last year.
In her statement, Miss Faulkner said: "The injuries I have sustained mean my life will never be the same again.
"I'm concerned about my future financial situation as I won't be able to return to work in the near future."
Brendan Allen, representing George, said the bench wasn't dealing with someone who was a bad person.
He said: "It's not surprising in his pre-sentence report he maintains what he said in his evidence."
Mr Allen added George was "horrified and deeply ashamed" by his actions, which had left him unable to concentrate and engage with others.
The bench heard George's previous convictions, which span across an 18-year period.
Those included charges of driving while disqualified and without insurance and two separate drink/driving related offences.
Mike Owen, chairman of the bench, said they accepted George had shown remorse for his actions but this was a very serious case and incident.
He added that only a custodial sentence was appropriate in view of the bench's findings.
George will also be disqualified from driving for 12 months and will remain so thereafter until he passes a test.
Mr Owen said there would be no separate penalty imposed for the charge of careless driving.


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Irish industries see boost in employment, record level of foreign investment, reports IFB
IFB touts rising employment in audiovisual industries and growing production expenditure, despite IFB budget decline in tough economic conditions.
The Irish Film Board's (IFB) €10.5m 2012 investment in more than 30 projects resulted in in €80m spend in the Irish economy, according to an end of year report from the organisation.
Employment levels in the audiovisual sector increased by 20% from 2008 levels to 6,500 full-time job equivalents and €118m was raised in foreign direct investment by Irish producers on IFB funded projects.
The IFB outlined that production activity increased with an estimated total expenditure across the entire sector of €180m, which represents an increase of approximately 30% on 2011 figures.
Bord Scannán na hÉireann / the Irish Film Board chief executive, Mr. James Hickey said: "The IFB has achieved record levels of foreign direct investment in IFB funded projects this year and the film and television industry as a whole has seen an estimated 30% increase on 2011 levels of production. When you consider that this activity has happened against an extremely challenging economic and fiscal climate it is even more remarkable.
"The extension and future enhancement of the Irish tax incentive by the Irish Government to 2020 for the film and television industry also demonstrates the commitment of the Irish government to the future of the Irish film and television sector and to the value of Irish creative talent and allows us to remain competitive."
The constraints on Ireland's economy have meant that IFB funding has decreased in successive years from €16.5m in 2010 to €13.5m in 2012 and €12m in 2013.
IFB-backed projects in 2012 included John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, Neil Jordan's Byzantium and Ruairi Robinson's Last Days on Mars.
2013-backed projects include a feature film version of Joseph O'Connor's novel Star of the Sea, which is in development with Parallel Films and Film4, Ten Dates for Mad Mary, to be directed by Darren Thornton with Element Films and Brown Bag Films' first feature.
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One of my colleagues came into town last Friday from upstate New York and brought me some apples picked from his apple tree. There wasn't any way we were going to be able to eat that many apples before they went bad, so I had to find a use for a bunch of them. I thought that some dutch oven apple cobbler would be perfect!
Folks - it doesn't get any easier than this. Recipe & pics below:
10-15 Apples cored and sliced into about 6 pieces per apple
1 cup of Brown Sugar
1 Box Yellow Cake Mix
1 Stick Butter (Unsalted)
12 Inch Dutch Oven
Dutch Oven liner or parchment paper for easy cleanup
Charcoal Chimney
Place liner into oven
Wash Apples, core, slice & lay in bottom of dutch oven
Pour brown sugar over apple slices
Pour cake mix over brown sugar (do not mix)
Cut stick of butter into pats and evenly space across the top then sprinkle with cinnamon
Time to Cook! Place 10 hot briquettes on bottom and 10 to 15 on top
Cooking usually is 45 min to 1 hour depending on temperature / wind conditions. Check after 30-45 minutes, it is done when the crust starts to brown and you can see the apples/brown sugar mixture bubbling up through the crust.
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PHOENIX (AP) – The New York Mets have activated left-hander Oliver Perez off the 15-day disabled list and sent infielder Justin Turner to Triple-A Buffalo.
Perez has been on the disabled list June 5 with right knee tendinitis.
In the second year of a $36 million, three-year contract, Perez (6.28 ERA) lost his spot in the rotation this season and was banished to a mop-up role in the bullpen. Manager Jerry Manuel has said Perez will return to the bullpen upon his return.
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Holiday parties are in full swing as another year comes to a close. While it seems both natural and logical to look back and review what was, I challenge companies and business owners to look forward and set goals for the year ahead. In doing so, we start the year with hope. The hope that the economy continues to improve, that business grows, and that new jobs are created.
To help spur that growth and achieve those goals, companies need to take a serious look at their marketing efforts and implement a marketing action plan.
1. Make sure your website works
Is the information on your website still relevant? Does the message speak to your target audience? Are you integrating your marketing campaign and driving new business to your site and through your doors? If not, it may be time for an update.
2. Consider the benefits of public relations
If your company or business has a story to tell or expertise to share, share it. A proactive public relations campaign can increase a company's visibility and, more importantly, its credibility tenfold. An ongoing public relations campaign will also directly benefit your online marketing efforts by successfully increasing the impact of your search engine optimization (SEO).
3. Build it, and make sure they come
Having a current website that accurately reflects your brand is only the first step. The next step is utilizing a variety of available tools to help increase your ranking on Google. You can hire experts to manage your SEO, or if budgets are tight consider using rankpay.com, a performance-based service that only charges if the company website moves up in ranking.
4. Expand your reach
Even if you are a small local retailer, the Internet provides the opportunity to reach potential customers from across the country and around the globe. If your business sells a product that might appeal to others in other geographic areas, consider adding e-commerce. According to Forrester Research, e-commerce sales grew to $200 billion in 2011. The same study also predicts that online sales will continue to grow from 7 percent of overall retail sales to nearly 9 percent by 2016.
5. Get social
If you have established social media pages, then make sure you are consistently posting and engaging. If you have not, consider which ones may be the best fit for your business to help reach your potential customer. Take the show beyond cyberspace, and get involved in the community, participate in business organizations and associations, network, speak, get out of the office and away from the computer, and connect with others the old-fashion way. One coffee, lunch or chance meeting at a networking event can result in new business.
The start of a new year is the ideal time to launch a new, proactive approach to building your business. After mapping out your 2013 goals, put together a plan that is achievable, and make sure it is measurable. And remember marketing does not succeed overnight. It takes commitment to implement an integrated and consistent action plan to generate results. If all companies would do this, imagine the job growth we might see.


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ATHENS—The Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center will host the annual Halloween at the Hatchery the evening of Thursday, October 27.
Local businesses and organizations will hand out free candy, and the center will be decorated throughout with a Halloween theme.
The event runs from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and is expected to attract about 3,000 people. No one will be admitted before 6:00 p.m., and no pets are allowed. Minors must be accompanied by an adult.
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Decorations for the event are made possible by sponsor donations, and local businesses and organizations provide candy and hand it out to visitors. Sponsors at press time included: The Vault; Athens Steel Building; The Realty Crew; Southside Bank; Dallas Manufacturing; KCKL; Red Hat Rentals; Republican Party of Henderson County; Island Tans; Wulf Outdoor Sports; Dr. Stuart Spitzer for State Representative; Heritage Land Bank; Walgreen's; TVEC; Texas Farm Bureau; FutureMatrix Interventional; Brookshire's; Citizens National Bank; Nelson-Putman Propane; First State Bank; and Aaron's Sales and Lease Ownership.
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I am sure that all family historians have experienced the attachment to a particular parish where one's ancestors lived. You become so engrossed with the people that you have meet in the parish registers and the census that it almost feels like you have lived there!
Some genealogists and local historians take research one step more and undertake a one place study researching the people of a community within the context of the place they live. Of course in this day and age of the internet there is a website and a society to bring together people who are undertaking such research,
The Society for One Place Studies is based at the Devon Heritage Centre and link to their website is below. There is a page explaining about the society, a blog and a list of where studies are being undertaken. The society is still in it's early days having been established in June this year, but the site is well worth keeping an eye on.


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The analysts are not happy. Chairman Yves-André Istel's statement at the Richemont earnings report today that "No disposals are under consideration at this time or for the foreseeable future." has been met with grim reaction in the city, which was hoping that Johan Rupert's sabbatical, and the new leadership of co-CEOS Bernard Fornas and Richard Lepeuwould opt for a rationalisation of the Group, where the fashion brands – Chloe, Alfred Dunhill, Lancel, Shanghai Tang, Alaia – have always seemed an anomaly. Clearly, there's something of a perception gap here between internal and external players. Why? Read more
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THREE brothers who are still coming to terms with their dad's terminal cancer organised a garden party to raise money for St Helena Hospice.
Josh Hadden, 15, and brothers Ben, 12, and Alfie, nine, organised a raffle, a bouncycastle andabarbecue at their Colchester home and raised £568.
They came up with the idea after their dad Craig, 43, was told he has a year to live.
The boys want to make the party an annual event in their dad's memory, but were equally keen to make sure he was around to enjoy the first one.
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29 September 2011 • Ancient Faith Radio Podcast
"We are a healing presence to others when we give them strength and when we give them hope," said Dr. Albert S. Rossi, our adjunct professor of Pastoral Theology, during a recent interview on Ancient Faith Radio. The interview, titled, "Becoming a Healing Presence: Through Christ, We Learn to Bring Healing to Others," is divided into two episodes: "Welcome: Definition of a Healing Presence" and "God Heals Others through Us." The episodes are featured podcasts on the radio show, and both may be heard here.
During his interview, Dr. Rossi explores "how the fire of God's healing presence can flow right through us to others." He also explains how to imitate Christ, "our complete healer, who desires nothing more than for us to be His humanity on earth—His healing presence to others."
Listen to other podcasts featuring our faculty in the Voices from St. Vladimir's section of Ancient Faith Radio.


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Cast join Viking epic Northmen
Ken Duken and James Norton have joined Kon-Tiki actor Tobias Santelmann in action-adventure Northmen - a Viking Saga.
Duken (Inglourious Basterds, Distanz), Norton (Rush, Belle) and Santelmann form part of a band of Viking marauders shipwrecked off the coast of Scotland.
Claudio Faeh directs from a screenplay by Mattias Bauer and Bastian Zach for Zurich-based Elite Film Produktion.
Ralph S. Dietrich, Karin G. Dietrich and Daniel Höltschi co-produce together with Frank Kaminski, Ulrich Stiehm, Marco Del Bianco and Rolf Wappenschmitt of Berlin, and Hanover-based Jumping Horse Film.
The film will be shot in English with principal photography set to commence in September this year in Bulgaria.
Sales are handled by Salt with eOne distributing in UK, France, Scandinavia, South Africa and Australia and New Zealand. Ascot Elite Entertainment Group will release in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in 2014.
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All your technology are belong to Apple?
Two patent violations....hardly enough to justify banning from US sales. Especially considering Apple has a nag for patent infringement as well. Maybe they should ban themselves.
I'm sure tomorrow Apple will make up another 15 patents that HTC is violating since they couldn't get all 10 in this round.
U.S. Patent No. 5,946,647 on a "system and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data"U.S. Patent No. 6,343,263 on a "real-time signal processing system for serially transmitted data" Seriously.... who the hell decided to grant these stupid patents?
I would love nothing more then to see this backfire in Apple's face. Let's be honest, the patent system is broken and much of today's cell tech came from Nokia. One of those patents applies to pretty much any electronic device ever made. Absolutely ridiculous.
i sold my 2 apple iphone last week on ebay got 986$ for two i went to buy htc evo 3d ..
and i loved 2 core is better than one .. all the free **** all the freedom . i hope htc win so they can sue them back
"But RICO....this is a forum for Apple fanatics."
No it's not....this is a forum for people who own Apple products or have aspirations of owning Apple products and want to hear the latest news on them. Good OR bad. There are just as many people who dislike Apple who are members of this site as there are people who adore Apple.
You may not like me because i call it like I see it, but you know damn well that what I said in my first post is true. Steve Jobs and Apple are no better than the companies they are trying to run out with their lawsuits and alleged patent infringements.
You want to talk about half-a** products. Fine let's do that. Let's talk about a phone that was built with a hardware defect that Steve KNEW about and still allowed the design and production to continue.....all based out of a supposed $100 million signal testing facility. Let's talk about iOS 4 with it's false signal strength readings, laggy performance, and the fact that it basically gave 3G iPhones a heart attack when it was installed. And let's talk about Steve's unwillingness to acknowledge his signal problem and essentially blaming the customer before the backlash got so severe that he was basically forced to band-aid the fix with free bumpers and selected cases.
Do other companies have problems with their phones......of course, but Apple takes great pride in flaunting their successes and "innovative" products much more than anyone else....and if you're gonna draw that kind of attention to yourself then you should probably make sure that your product actually IS leaps and bounds better than anyone else.....which is just not the case.
If HTC were making "half-a** products" I don't think Apple would be paying them this much attention and be trying to get them freakin BANNED from the U.S. That's how you know one company is scared of another and feels like they are losing or are about to lose ground against them.
But anyhow....it's gonna be a sad day in the cell phone industry if HTC is banned from the U.S. over some crap like this.


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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Former U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro became the highest seed dumped out of the Australian Open on Saturday when he was stunned 6-3 6-3 6-7 3-6 6-3 by France's Jeremy Chardy in their third-round clash.
The sixth-seeded Argentine, the only player outside of the 'Big Four' of men's tennis to have won a grand slam in the last eight years, had come into the match in ominous form, conceding only 13 games to his first two opponents, the lowest in the men's draw.
After 225 minutes on Hisense Arena, though, it was the unfancied Chardy, a 36th-ranked clay court specialist with a solitary ATP title, who was toasting one of the finest wins of his career.
"From the first point to the last point, I played exactly the same. I stayed calm, and very focused so that's why I won today," the 25-year-old beamed at reporters, after setting up a fourth-round clash with 21st seed Andreas Seppi of Italy.
"It's a big win for me, and maybe the best of my career ... I'm so happy."
The 6ft-6in (1.98 metres) Del Potro was dismantled by the simplest of tactics, lured inside the court by sliced backhands and then picked off by the Frenchman's forehand.
The Argentine "Tower of Tandil" served his way back into the match, but lost the decisive break at 4-3 in the fifth set, allowing Chardy to calmly serve out with an ace on match point.
Del Potro, wearing a bright blue and white polo shirt in the Argentine colours, was philosophical at his post-match media conference.
"In the end when he had the chance to break me, he did," he said. "I think that was the key. In the end, he played better in the important moments, and he took the chance to win the match."
Since upsetting Roger Federer in the 2009 final at Flushing Meadows, Del Potro has struggled to reach his peak after a long battle with a troublesome wrist injury.
He returned as a force in men's tennis last year, however, winning four titles and reaching the quarter-finals at Melbourne Park and the U.S. Open to finish the season in the top 10.
Even after shocking world number one Novak Djokovic to win the singles bronze at the London Olympics, Del Potro has been circumspect about his chances of adding a second grand slam title.
"I have to work hard because the season just started," Del Potro said. "I believe in my game, myself. I will work very, very hard for the future."
Editing by Patrick Johnston and Nick Mulvenney