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This application is a continuation-in-part of co-pending application Ser. No. 10/330,597, filed on Dec. 27, 2002, entitled "DYNAMIC SERVICE REGISTRY," and which is commonly assigned to the assignee of the present invention.
The invention generally relates to service registries, and more particularly to providing a dynamic service registry responsive to the creation and suspension or deletion of virtual machines (VM) offering or desiring services advertised in a registry.
A network, which may include wired and/or wireless intranets, the Internet, wide area networks (WANs), local area networks (LANs), etc., may have many attached devices offering and/or seeking services, capabilities and/or resources of other devices. It is often difficult to locate devices offering particular services. To facilitate locating and tracking devices and their services, various "web service" or "directory service" technologies have been implemented.
The term "web service" describes a standardized way of describing, discovering, and integrating network applications, services and resources from different businesses using open standards, such as World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards, including XML (Extensible Markup Language), SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), WSDL (Web Services Description Language), UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration), etc., over a network. Web services are self-contained modular applications that may communicate directly with other web services, applications, or system software.
UDDI is an industry initiative utilizing a platform-independent open framework for a global set of registries allowing businesses to define their services, discover other businesses and services, and to share information about how the business interacts. Unfortunately, while UDDI's global nature provides a single source for locating offered services, UDDI lacks the ability to automatically identify and remove stale entries. UDDI allows a device to easily register itself and advertise offered or desired services, capabilities and resources, but UDDI expects the device to behave well and remove its data from the database when the services are no longer offered. Unfortunately, if a device suddenly becomes unavailable, stale registry entries may remain associated with the device.
Consequently, a traditional registry environment is not suitable for transitory devices, such as virtual machines (VMs) which may be arbitrarily created and suspended or destroyed, since suspension or destruction is equivalent to a device suddenly dropping off a network without properly attending to its registration.
The features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of the present invention in which:
A registry facilitates advertising, discovering, and providing/using services and resources (collectively referenced hereafter as a "registration"). Since resources may be encapsulated and advertised and used as services, unless indicated otherwise directly or by context, the term "services" is intended to include "resources". In the illustrated embodiments, there may be many registries on a network, where some registries are kept fully in sync (i.e. coherent) with other registries, while other registries may elect to keep some registrations private. The invention may be utilized with various directory services, web services, UDDI registries, Microsoft Corporation's NET services, and the like. In the claims, the term "registry" is intended to generally reference these various registries possibilities and equivalents thereto. However, for expository convenience, the following detailed description focuses on UDDI registries. It will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, that as times change, alternate registries or services will arise, and that the teachings herein are applicable thereto.
In a network environment, for various reasons, devices may suddenly appear, disappear, and reappear on the network. Such devices are referenced herein and the claims that follow as "transitory devices." The phrase "transitory device" is intended to broadly encompass both physically distinct machines, such as conventional mobile devices including portable computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), as well as a logical or virtual device, such as a hardware processor emulation, software machine emulation, or virtual machine (VM). The following description focuses on the interaction between virtual machines (VMs) and registries, such as a UDDI registry. It will be appreciated by one skilled in the art that the following description applies to other transitory devices and registry environments.
A VM may be an emulated machine or emulated platform in hardware, e.g., as a mode of operation of a processor, or in software, such as in a runtime environment. The VM may include the instruction set and other platform resources and/or devices. VM's may be serialized (e.g. state checkpoint) to a shared file system or shipped over the network to be migrated to, de-serialized (e.g. state restore from checkpoint) on and hosted by a different machine. A single physical device may have (i.e. host) multiple VMs. VMs may also utilize a virtual network in addition to, or in lieu of, a physical network connection. A VM may appear or reappear on the network because its VMM (Virtual Machine Monitor or Virtual Machine Manager) has instantiated or resumed the VM. The VM may disappear from the network if the VMM shuts it down, de-instantiates (suspends) it, or otherwise makes it unavailable. Suspending, destroying or otherwise making a VM unavailable is common to allow other VMs to execute, e.g., to access a host's processor, memory, storage, etc., or when the VM no longer has utility (e.g. it has finished processing, or the service it provides is no longer needed.).
It will be appreciated that VMs may communicate with other VMs within the same physical device, with VMs on other physical devices, or simply with other physical devices. In one embodiment, multiple VMs hosted on a particular physical device may communicate among themselves on a private, virtual (optimized) network. In this latter case, the virtualization software (often the VMM or the host operating system, depending on implementation) may operate in a different manner, e.g. allowing inter-VM communication more efficiently through a virtual local network not externally visible outside of the hosting device.
It will be further appreciated that, in addition to the local 110 and global 112 registries, there may be many other registries (not illustrated) distributed across public and private networks, each storing service registration data for local and/or remote devices. The multiple registries may be kept in sync so that one may register with one registry and later retrieve registration data from another registry. Alternatively, some registries, such as the local registry 110, may elect to keep some or all of their registrations private from other registries such as the global registry 112. For example, assuming communication path 116 is a private local network, such as an intranet, not generally accessible by the network 114, if it is known that devices on the local network are primarily transitory devices, it may be helpful to limit registrations of such devices to the local registry 110 so as to not unnecessarily propagate transitory registrations to the global registry 112. Often private networks will host private services that should not be advertised to or accessed by entities outside of that network domain. Such is the case for many corporate enterprises and small office, home office network configurations.
In one embodiment one or more registries may federate to operate as a single logical registry. In such a case, some registry entries may be duplicated, such as for efficiency purposes, while others only reside in a single registry. For example, duplicated entries might correspond to frequently used services that persist on the network. Transient or infrequently used services might only reside in specific registries.
As used herein and the claims that follow, the term "hook" or "hooks" refers to mechanisms such as passive or active interfaces (e.g. polled API's, memory locations, or subroutine call-backs), notifications, messages, interrupts, and their associated handlers etc. Each of these provides different tradeoffs which are important to overall system design, but may be incorporated by one skilled in the art. For example, when a VMM destroys a VM, it may notify the registry agent to remove or mark as unavailable all service entries associated with that VM. Often this might be the IP address or hostname of the VM.
As with a conventional device, illustrated VMs 206-210 may include a software server or other hardware or software component offering services, such as web services, and the VM may also have services desired by itself or other VMs. These offered and/or desired services are collectively identified as services 212-216. These services may be conventionally registered, e.g., in accord with the UDDI protocol, with the internal registry 204 or other registry, e.g.,
It will be appreciated that the host 102, as well as the VMs 206-210, may wish to advertise, discover, and provide and/or use services and resources. The dynamically updated registry 204 aggregates registrations and serves as a matchmaker between service/resource producers and consumers. Although the host operating system is illustrated as hosting the registry, in one embodiment, a VM hosts the registry outside of but in communication with the host's operating system, thus insulating the host operating system from possible instability of the registry. The registry may be maintained outside of the device, e.g. through use of the
As is understood in the art, the VMs operate in conjunction with a VMM 218. The VMM operates above device hardware 220 and regulates/arbitrates access by the VMs to the physical device hardware. In the illustrated embodiment, the VMM also regulates VM access to host operating system 202 resources. The VMM may be configured to allow complete isolation of VMs 206-210, or to allow data sharing between some or all of the VMs according to desired security policies. It will be appreciated that the VMM may be implemented in various ways, including in software, hardware, or a combination thereof on a host. For example, the VMM may be implemented as an application and device drivers, etc. (e.g. VMWare by VMware, Inc. of California), as part of the operating system 202, or as part of a chipset or a microprocessor.
In contrast with a conventional VMM, in the illustrated embodiment the VMM 218 is configured to monitor the state of VMs and to automatically issue notifications to a registry to cause the registration and de-registration of VM services 212-216 based on monitored state (see, e.g.,
By providing for automatic handling of registrations based on VM status changes, one may, for example, facilitate VM migration, where a VM and its contents are serialized to a file system or the network and then re-instantiated on another physical host, possibly at a different physical host or remote location. On suspension, a VM's registrations are automatically de-registered, and when resumed, the registrations may be automatically re-registered.
In this embodiment, hooks between the VMM 326 and various VM operating systems 318-324 (or service modules 310-316) allow the VMM to monitor registrations of the VMs 302-308 offered and/or desired services 310-316. A dynamic registry may be implemented, for example as discussed above with respect to
In this embodiment, there is a "thin" VMM 426 operating on top of a host device's hardware 428 which manages VM access to the hardware. It may be desirable to have a thin VMM for efficiency and reliability and verifiability. A management partition 430, possibly residing in a VM, operating system hosted driver, or associated management hardware (e.g., plug-in board, computer, processor, etc.), has special relations, permissions, or interfaces with the VMM. The management partition obtains information about the state of the VMs from the VMM, and takes appropriate action to notify the registry. It is assumed the management partitions, in conjunction with the VMM, have the power to start, stop, and provision the VMM.
The simpler the VMM, the less likely its implementation will have errors resulting in hard-to-identify problems which may intermittently occur across multiple VMs. Thus the VMM may offload or enhance certain operations through the management partition 430. The management partition might, for instance, implement more complex policies. Thus, the VMM might provide a management partition with the information needed to make service registry updates, where the base mechanisms (e.g., detectors, triggers, etc.) are in the VMM, and the code for taking action is in the management partition. An additional benefit of a simple VMM is ability to more easily implement the VMM in hardware as it is less likely to require frequent updating.
As with
In one embodiment, the VMM monitors 500 for events relating to the state of the VMs. The VMM directly controls the global execution state of a given VM and that VM's access to a devices physical and virtual (e.g. emulated) resources and services. It will be appreciated that the monitoring may be augmented or performed by a component of a host or VM operating system, or elsewhere. In this illustrated embodiment, the VMM is monitoring for instantiation 502, destruction 514, suspension 506, or other 512 events indicating a change in the operational state of a VM. For example, if 502 the VMM instantiates a VM, the VMM logs 504 any services offered and/or desired by the VM. That is, when the VM is instantiated, it may start a web-services server, and then register offered and/or desired services with a registry, such as internal registry 204 of
For example, in a UDDI context, publish requests may be monitored and logged. Monitoring may entail transparently watching for network traffic, identifying UDDI publish requests. A VMM has observability and controllability of physical networking as well as any virtual, on-device networks used by the VMs as it marshals access to these network resources. Alternatively, a web services or other server may be configured to directly notify the monitor, e.g., the VMM, or middleware (e.g. NET or Java classes) may be configured to notify the monitor when the middleware is invoked to publish service availability, or the monitor could periodically poll the registry for services provided by known VMs, or the monitor could not track publish requests, but instead blindly, on de-activation (suspension or destruction) of a VM, tell a registry to delete "all services published by that VM."
Thus, if 506, 512 the VMM detects a suspension event, or some other event rendering a VM unavailable, such as the VM going to sleep, being swapped out, etc., this may result in the VMM notifying 508 the registry to delete the services provided by that VM, thus keeping the set of services listed in the registry current and never stale. In one embodiment, before de-registering a VM, the VMM may be configured to first check 510 whether the VM registration is flagged to be held. That is, it may be desirable to allow some registrations for transitory devices to survive in a registry even though the VM appears unavailable. For example, a VM may be held in a suspended state until its services are requested. A VM in a suspended state may reside in memory or it may have been stored to non-volatile storage, such as
If 514 the VMM detects a destruction event, it is assumed in the illustrated embodiment that registrations associated with the destroyed VM are now invalid. The VMM therefore notifies 508 the registry to de-register the VM's services. However, it will be appreciated that similar to a hold registration status, a status may be associated with VM registrations so that the registrations of a destroyed VM are to be retained. If 510 registration is not being held or if 514 a destruction event has not been detected, then processing may continue with monitoring 500 the virtual machines.
Note that while the foregoing has assumed the VMM is configured to direct a registry to de-register services for VMs, whether the registry is internal to a device or a local registry such as local registry 110 of
As used herein below, the phrase "host machine" is intended to broadly encompass a single machine, or a system of communicatively coupled machines or devices operating together. Exemplary host machines include
Typically, a host machine 600 includes a system bus 602 to which is attached processors 604, a memory 606, e.g., random access memory (RAM), read-only memory (ROM), or other state preserving medium, storage devices 608, a video interface 610, and input/output interface ports 612. The host machine and/or its virtual machines may be controlled, at least in part, by input from conventional input devices, such as keyboards, mice, etc., as well as by directives received from another machine, interaction with a virtual reality (VR) environment, biometric feedback, or other input source or signal.
The host machine may include embedded controllers, such as programmable or non-programmable logic devices or arrays, Application Specific Integrated Circuits, embedded computers, smart cards, and the like. The host machine and/or its virtual machines may utilize one or more connections to one or more remote machines 614, 616, such as through a network interface 618, modem 620, or other communicative coupling. The host machine and/or its virtual machines may be interconnected by way of a physical and/or logical network 622, such as the
The invention may be described by reference to or in conjunction with associated data including functions, procedures, data structures, application programs, etc. which when accessed by the host machine 600 and/or its virtual machines results in the host machine and/or its virtual machines performing tasks or defining abstract data types or low-level hardware contexts. Associated data may be stored in, for example, volatile and/or non-volatile memory 606, or in storage devices 608 and their associated storage media, including hard-drives, floppy-disks, optical storage, tapes, flash memory, memory sticks, digital video disks, biological storage, etc. Associated data may be delivered over transmission environments, including network 622, in the form of packets, serial data, parallel data, propagated signals, etc., and may be used in a compressed or encrypted format. Associated data may be used in a distributed environment, and stored locally and/or remotely for access by single or multi-processor machines.
Thus, for example, with respect to the illustrated embodiments, assuming host machine 600 embodies the
Having described and illustrated the principles of the invention with reference to illustrated embodiments, it will be recognized that the illustrated embodiments can be modified in arrangement and detail without departing from such principles. And, though the foregoing discussion has focused on particular embodiments, other configurations are contemplated. In particular, even though expressions such as "in one embodiment," "in another embodiment," or the like are used herein, these phrases are meant to generally reference embodiment possibilities, and are not intended to limit the invention to particular embodiment configurations. As used herein, these terms may reference the same or different embodiments that are combinable into other embodiments.
Consequently, in view of the wide variety of permutations to the embodiments described herein, this detailed description is intended to be illustrative only, and should not be taken as limiting the scope of the invention. What is claimed as the invention, therefore, is all such modifications as may come within the scope and spirit of the following claims and equivalents thereto.
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I just installed linux mint and want to record a video for youtube to show my friend that lives 24 hours away and I want to know what program I should use, and if my microphone will work?
its just a normal Cyber Acoustics gaming headset (mic & headphones) but I only care about the mic working.
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Try this: Go to your mint menu and open up your Synaptic Package Manager, then once it is open type in the following: recordmydesktop This program will enable you to make a screencast for your friend. If you have difficulty with your sound, try this open the advanced preferences tab when you open it for the first time, if you are using Linux Mint 8 Helena under the sound settings erase DEFAULT and type in pulse, remember to type it in lowercase. Try it and see if it works, if you need to turn your mic volume up or down go to mint menu>sound and video>Pulse audio device chooser and this should help. If you get stuck, don't stress. Just come back and ask another question, just try to give us as much info as possible, including your linux mint version, as to better help you
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Published: Saturday 27th December 2014 by The News Editor
Extreme weather spelled a "rollercoaster" 2014 for the UK's wildlife, according to the National Trust's annual round-up of the year in nature.
From the stormy winter at beginning of the year to a "superb" June, a very wet August and one of the driest Septembers on record, it was a topsy-turvy year in the countryside and on the coasts, with both winners and losers among plants and animals.
Increasingly extreme weather brought by a changing climate combined with a loss of habitat means the UK's plants and animals are facing a challenging future – and this year could be a sign of things to come, the National Trust said.
The Trust labelled 2014 the "year of the biting fly", with horseflies and mosquitoes benefiting from the warm and often wet summer, while slugs, swallows and house martins, and frogs and toads all did well.
A raft of migrant species also thrived, such as bee-eaters, exotic birds from southern Europe which nested successfully on the Isle of Wight.
But veteran trees were damaged by the storms that raged across the UK at the beginning of the year, while purple emperor and purple hairstreak butterflies did badly.
In good news for picnickers, though, common wasps also had a poor year across much of southern England.
Little terns along the Norfolk coast at Blakeney were forced to nest in low-lying areas after tidal surges changed the profile of the beach and were then hit by high tides in mid-June which flooded their nests and led to a very poor breeding season.
Other seabirds managed to recover from the winter storms to have successful breeding seasons, including shags on the Farne Islands where there was a 37% increase on last year's numbers as a result of a mild summer and plenty of available food.
The mild weather in winter and spring saw insects and spring plants such as snowdrops emerging early, red squirrels mating early and the earliest record of wild bats born in the UK.
But by September, the driest on record and one of the warmest, trees were dropping their leaves early and there was an abundance of autumn nuts, seeds and berries.
The dry conditions spelled bad news for fungi by October, even though that month was wet and mild.
National Trust nature and wildlife specialist Matthew Oates said: "The greatest challenge for wildlife this year, and perhaps a sign of things to come, was the extreme weather.
"This, combined with the loss of habitat, means that nature is in for a bumpy ride in the years ahead as shown by the rollercoaster that many species endured in 2014.
"This was a remarkable year for much of our wildlife, with many extreme highs and lows. Some species fared exceptionally well, others very poorly, with many faring differently from region to region."
And he said: "After such a helter-skelter year, we wonder what lies ahead and what the winter will bring. Last winter was too wet, too windy and even too mild.
"Perhaps we could do with a 'proper winter', leading to a slow but sure spring. Whatever happens in the months ahead, we and our wildlife will have to cope."
He added: "We remain worried about the long-term trends which show enormous pressure on species and habitats."
Here is a month by month rundown of how nature fared this year:
January: It was the wettest January on record in England and Wales, but also very mild, with hazel catkins appearing by New Year's Day in some areas, snowdrops out very early, and great tits, robins and wood pigeons all very vocal.
February: The series of storms that battered the UK continued, with an entire sand dune system washed away at Penbryn on the Ceredigion coast in Wales, and early duck nests washed away. But continuing mild weather saw an early spring, with birds nesting, frogs spawning, and at Formby in Liverpool, red squirrels mating early.
March: With the land finally drying out after the record wet winter, butterflies and bumblebees emerged en masse from hibernation. There were spectacular primrose and celandine displays in short, sharp season and a good breeding season for frogs and toads.
April: A poor end to the month hit early spring insects such as bee flies, but there were fantastic bluebell displays at Blickling Estate in Norfolk, though they were finished by end of April. Sand martins colonised fresh sand cliffs created by the winter storms at Portstewart Strand in Northern Ireland.
May: The right weather conditions helped the return of the rare fen violet at Wicken Fen, while the field fleawort was rediscovered on Dunstable Downs after an absence of 40 years due to a long and generally warm spring. There was the earliest record of wild bats born in the UK, at Bodiam Castle in Sussex on May 16.
June: It was hot, dry and sunny after a wet start, and horse flies appeared everywhere. Storm petrels bred on Lundy Island for the first time, but little terns at Blakeney, Norfolk, were washed out, with only 10 young from 108 breeding pairs.
July: In the month's hot, sunny and thundery conditions, there were more biting flies, as well as flying ants and thunder bugs, while blackberries were ripe by the end of the month.
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1 John 5:14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
Confidence.............. a relationship of trust or intimacy. Faith or belief that God will act in a right, proper, or effective way.
Strong Concordance: Confidence.........Greek word Parrhesia.....
parrhesia par-rhay-see'-ah all out-spokenness, i.e. frankness, bluntness, publicity; by implication, assurance:--boldly, boldness of speach. Speak freely, Speak openly, Speak plainly
If we have the confidence that what we have asked in faith the Father God hears.... and if we have asked according to the word of God........... He answers. Then we are not afraid to proclaim those things to the world... We speak boldly of our faith, we do not retreat from that confidence. We know that He heard and we know that He will answer.
What a powerful verse to hide in our hearts and hold fast to that promise. We read the word and hide it in our hearts and then speak faith filled words from that reservoir to see those things accomplished in the world. What a power house we are when our hearts are filled to over flowing with His word and with our mouths we proclaim His goodness.......
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Talk Is Cheap.....
The older I get the more tired I become of cheap talk and have you noticed that there is a lot more of that than there used to be.
Jesus set an example for all of us to "SEE" as well as hear. He went about "DOING" good. He fed the hungry, he clothed the naked, He visited the sick and healed them. Christianity is not a religion, it is a life style. The world is kicked back and watching to see if we put our "doing" where our mouth is.
Love is a noun when speaking of Father God for He is Love ! Love is a verb for it demands action. Jesus did not come speaking fancy words and then have His angels whisk Him back to heaven where He was comfortable and warm and in His safety zone. He came speaking of salvation and then He did something. He gave of Himself and put into action the Love that He professed to us. We are to do nothing less.
The words I love you penned in an email or spoken on the phone falls empty to the floor if not followed by action. You cannot take and take and take and then pen a couple of little dead words and make things right. You cannot sit and stare at your TV or computer screen and make excuses when one you love is ill and laying in a hospital bed. Love DOES........ Love finds a way where there is no way. Love forgets about itself and centers solely around others. Love does not take without giving back a hundred fold. Do not say I love you to me and go for years without putting some action to those words. It is in the little things that Love speaks the loudest. It is the night vigil beside the hospital bed just in case that persons needs to awake to a familiar face, it is flowers just out of the blue when there is only Love to celebrate. It is a visit home to see the elderly Mom and Dad, Love is giving and kind and caring, it goes out of its way to put others first. It is never boastful or selfish. It does not reach out to take but it gives a hundred fold. Love DOES, it just DOES............. It makes me tired to hear the yada,yada,yada of a taker that boast of their love only in words, when doing is far from them.
Just going to church a Christian does not make. The Jesus Christ of Calvary stood on the mountain top and looked down on Jesus Christ of religion and said " I know him not"
Let us strive to be the Christian of the Jesus Christ of Calvary, help us to DO and not just say. Help us to show the world that when we evoke the name of Jesus it is the Jesus that taught us that to give is better than receive. Help us to be doers of the word and not hears only................. Help us Father God,,,,,,,,,,,, The world is watching.
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Lord Krishna one of the great yogi is revealing the secrets of Yog & Yoga to Arjuna. He is so truth ful in his teachings that, He considers himself as a friend of Arjuna and dose not claim to be a Master.
In chapter 4 Shloka 34 : Krishna asks Arjuna to go to the self realised master, serve him submissively show eagerness for knowledge then the self realised master can reveal him the Truth because they are the ones who have really attained the supreme Tattva. Here Krishna though a divine sea is Not claiming to have attained the supreme truth. But instead is guiding Arjuna to go to the Masters who have done it.
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With all the news about the new Star Wars movie, I started to think about the LOTR (Lord of the Rings) movie. We got the original trilogy, that made billions of dollars, was nominated and won few Oscars (Return of the King won 11), and the movies were really good and epic, and they are loved worldwide.
The "prequels" (The Hobbit movies), are also pretty good, and they make billions also.
I will say something dangerous, and the Star Wars fans will kill me, but I believe that the LOTR movies are to this generation's Star Wars movies.
I'm 25, and I remember when I was a kid, I went to see The Fellowship of the Ring, and as a kid I pissed in my pants with amazement. That's something that kids who saw New Hope for the first time years ago probably felt. I believe that people who grew up with the LOTR movies feel that this is teir Star Wars, only instead of it being science fiction, its fantasy. You can agree with me, or disagree, but this is how I feel.
Anyway, right now there is an interesting satiation. Disney owns the Star Wars movies and the Marvel movies (also 80% of the world), and Warner Bros owns LOTR and the DC movies. Disney already making mountains of green papers with the Marvel movies, and now that we will be getting a Star Wars movie every year, Disney will have enough money to buy a galaxy.
The WB has DC, and I hope their movies will be great and make money. But WB also has Lord of the Rings, and if they make more movies after the last Hobbit movie, they can do the same thing that Disney is doing with the Star Wars movies.
Let's look on the numbers of the LOTR movies:
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - $926,047,111
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - $1,119,929,521
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - $1,017,003,568
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug- $953,066,855
So it's obvious that there is a demand for LOTR movies. My idea is after Peter Jackson is done with "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies", WB needs to start thinking how can they expand the LOTR cinematic universe, and start making more movies. And I'm pretty sure that they are doing it as I write this, like every other studio, they want to make some money.
I'm a big fan of Peter Jackson, but I think it's time for him to take some break. He did 6 LOTR movies, and I think that sometimes it is better that a good director will step down, especially after these movies were a big part of his life in the last 14 years.
I think that WB should make a sequel trilogy to the LOTR. What happened after "Return of the King"? There is much more stories in Middle-earth, and it's a world that just asking us to explore it more.
Guillermo del Toro was one of the writers of the scripts to the Hobbit movies, so he already a part of this franchise, and his work on movies like Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth and Pacific Rim proves that this guy can bring it. He has such an imaginative mind, he uses amazing visual effects and poetic beauty in his movies, and I think he could be the one to be in the director's chair.
Duncan Jones works on the Warcraft movie, and if he makes a good movie, I believe WB should let him try a spin-off movie of LOTR. I think that WB should make some spin-off movies, and just like Disney, they should release them on a yearly basis. One year is a movie from the new LOTR trilogy, and a year later a spin-off. I think that David Yates could also be a great fit for some spin-off movies, after all he did some great Harry Potter movies. And who knows, maybe Christopher Nolan would like to do a fantasy movie one day.
I think there is a big chance that all of this will happen, I think WB knows very well that they have pure gold in their hands, and they can make billions from these movies.
And since the big success of Game of Thrones, maybe we will also see a spin-off TV-show of LOTR on the small screen.
So tell me, what kind of movies would you like to see from the LOTR?
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60865014629249721172017-09-04T18:26:00.723-04:00AnsonismsBeing the occasional wit and even more occasional wisdom of some guy named AnsonAnson Kennedyhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086501462924972117.post-9720598963947587772016-07-20T15:51:00.000-04:002016-07-22T15:35:23.458-04:00Lobster Sushi! Lobster sushi?

This is not the lobster you're looking for.
Photo credit kevinEats.com Used with permission.

So. Way back in the fast and loose '90s when I was living in Hotlanta I frequently ate at a Japanese restaurant called Sakana-Ya (RIP). Sakana-Ya had great sushi but I never tried their lobster sushi, mainly because whenever I saw it prepared it looked like something best shared with friends. So that's what I did.

And I was right.

I gathered six or so friends together and we went to Sakana-Ya one Friday night for lobster sushi, Japanese beer, and good times. We had all three (and maybe some sake too).

After we ordered drinks, (Kirin Ichiban, anyone?) we gave the waitress our sushi order. We did include the typical items (ebi, toro, salmon, etc.) but the big one was the lobster sushi. And we were in a good location to watch it prepared.

The sushi chef plucked a plump lobster from the aquarium and rinsed it off in the sink at the sushi bar. A quick chop and he separated the tail from the body, which he put aside. He cleaned the tail some more and extracted and prepared the meat. The chef placed the tail shell upside down on a platter with the meat on top, an appealing display. Then he took the body and placed it in front of the tail, as if the lobster was intact. As if it had somehow twisted its tail 180 degrees and turned it inside out.

The waitress brought the platter and set it in the center of our table. That is when I realized there was one significant aspect of lobster sushi I had missed when watching from a distance.

The lobster wasn't dead yet.

While I didn't have a big problem eating the lobster while it watched me chew, some of the others at the table were a bit disconcerted when its antennae and legs kept moving. We did find out another reason they put those rubber bands on the lobster's claws. You don't want it reaching up to pluck tail meat out of a customer's chopsticks. "That's mine! Give it back!"

Only one other aspect of the outing stands out. The waitress noticed our discomfort and offered to take the lobster back and put it in soup. We all agreed and ate the other sushi while we waited. A few minutes later the waitress brought the soup out. They had chopped the lobster into chunks, shell and all, and cooked it in a very tasty soup.

My final verdict: The lobster sushi was a bit salty but it made a great soup. Would I do it again? Probably, if I could get another group together to share the experience. For some strange reason no one seems to want to try it after I tell them this story.

A note about the photo. As I said, this all happened back in the 1990s. We were not in the habit of taking pictures of our meals when we went out so we have no photos of the actual event. The picture of Badagaje Hoe I found on kevinEats.com is the closest I have found to what we are served. Thanks to Kevin for allowing me to use it in this story.Anson Kennedyhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086501462924972117.post-32483530006067426032016-01-28T15:30:00.000-05:002016-01-28T15:30:34.295-05:00Deer in the headlightsThis deer dared me to hit it on the way to work this morning. I declined.

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I remember the Space Shuttle Challenger. I watched her first liftoff on television and watched her final flight in person.

On January 28, 1986, I was a young engineer at a defense contractor in Palm Bay, Florida, about 30 miles south of Cape Canaveral. We would either go to the roof of the building or into the parking lot to watch whenever a Space Shuttle launch was scheduled. Since this was just before lunch time, several of us planned to watch from the parking lot and then go to a nearby fast food joint to eat. It was bitter cold for Florida that morning (in the 20s, well below the temperature for any previous shuttle launch -- but we didn't know that). We had one "newbie" with us, a new grad who had just started work the day before.

Source: http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2004-00012.html

We checked our watches and when 11:38 rolled around we began to tell the newbie where to look for the shuttle over the tree line. A few seconds after liftoff Challenger was high enough that we could see her. We were telling the newbie to watch for the solid rocket booster (SRB) separation when the ball of fire and smoke erupted around the shuttle and the plumes of the two SRBs continued on, forming some sort of perverted "Y" in the sky.

We immediately rushed to a car and turned on a radio. The station that normally carried launch coverage was silent and then we heard the announcer, "Obviously a major malfunction." Some two or three minutes later we felt a rumble in the car. We didn't realize at first that it was the sound of Challenger exploding.

We were stunned. We all had worked on contracts associated in one way or the other with the space program and we felt this loss personally. I can't say what we did for the rest of the day but I remember our group leader had a little black and white television in his office. We all clustered around it to watch news coverage.

This was the last manned space launch I watched in person. A couple of months later NASA launched a Delta rocket to deploy a weather satellite. I went up to the Cape to watch this one. Problems after liftoff forced the flight safety officer to destruct the launch vehicle a minute or so after liftoff. That was the last unmanned launch I watched in person.

Today marks 30 years since the loss of the Challenger. In that time we have lost another shuttle, Columbia broke up on reentry after an otherwise successful 16 day mission in 2003. I had moved on to another job and another state by then but it still hit hard.

Challenger was not intended as a flight vehicle. It was originally built as structural test article STA-099, delivered on February 4, 1978. After testing NASA determined it would cost less to convert STA-099 to full flight status than the original plan to convert Enterprise, OV-101. Rockwell converted STA-099 to a fully rated orbital vehicle, OV-099, from 1979 to 1982. Challenger's first orbital flight, STS-6, launched on April 4, 1983. STS-6 deployed the first TDRS satellite and was the first shuttle flight to conduct a spacewalk. Challenger landed at Edwards Air Force Base on April 9, 1983.

Challenger flew nine missions without incident. Its tenth mission, STS-51L, launched on January 28, 1986. It featured the first Teacher in Space, Christa McAuliffe. The Teacher in Space Project was intended "to inspire students, honor teachers, and spur interest in mathematics, science, and space exploration. The project would carry teachers into space as Payload Specialists (non-astronaut civilians), who would return to their classrooms to share the experience with their students." School children across the country watched the live feed of the shuttle launch and explosion.

Source NASA Human Space Flight Gallery,

The crew of STS-51L was:

Francis R. Scobee, Commander

Michael J. Smith, Pilot

Ronald McNair, Mission Specialist

Ellison Onizuka, Mission Specialist

Judith Resnik, Mission Specialist

Gregory Jarvis, Payload Specialist

Christa McAuliffe, Payload Specialist

Historical Sources:

Challenger (STA-099, OV-099) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbiters/Challenger.html

Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster

STS-51-L https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-51-L

Anson Kennedyhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086501462924972117.post-5658597095354704752015-06-16T16:53:00.002-04:002015-06-16T16:53:30.059-04:00Whoa!I just realized I haven't posted anything here in over a year and a half. I have more opinions than that.Anson Kennedyhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086501462924972117.post-27131292455909873752015-06-16T16:51:00.000-04:002015-06-16T16:51:16.736-04:00Truth vs. Message

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I was reading a post on Language Log about David Brooks' penchant for, shall we say, elaboration in his writing and public speaking. This story reminds me of an incident when I was a freshman engineering student taking my first college English class. As an exercise we had to write a paragraph about "the best restaurant I ever ate at." The professor read one student's paragraph (not mine!) to the class. It began something like, "I don't remember the name of the best restaurant I ever ate at, but it was in New Orleans…" She stopped and said to us that the writer had just blown his whole message, because if he couldn't remember the name of the restaurant how good could it be, really? Then she gave us the advice that still shocks me today: "In this class, if you don't remember a fact or don't have a ready example, make it up! I won't go to New Orleans to check the restaurant!"

So here was a college professor advising her students to lie in their papers. Granted, she was more interested in the quality and style of the writing than in accuracy, which I suppose is appropriate for a freshman English class at an engineering college (people say us engineers don't right so good). But still.

I wonder if the message sometimes gets muddled and students come away with the idea that it's OK to make it up outside of class as well.

Did David Brooks have similar advice when he was younger, or does it just come naturally to him?

Note 1: Above quotes are from memory and may not be totally accurate. But they're close.

Note 2: This post is a slightly edited version of my comments on the Language Log blog.
Anson Kennedyhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086501462924972117.post-74005285916890580722013-10-24T18:06:00.003-04:002013-10-24T18:06:53.565-04:00There's a reason they call it "The Cloud"

Image credit: flickr/Jackie Tranter

Over on IT World, Dan Tynan tells the story of how his cloud storage on box.com was deleted. By a stranger. With no notification to him.

The short version is that box.com allows enterprise customers to "roll in" accounts of their employees or "external collaborators". This allows the company to manage them all and (apparently) adds additional functionality to the accounts.

Some six months prior to his account deletion, Tynan's account was "rolled in" to a PR firm's account because of a single business exchange with the firm conducted by his wife via box.com. On this basis someone at the firm decided to put his account under their corporate umbrella.

Tynan received no notice of this action. Ever.

So long as the PR firm didn't do anything to affect his account Tynan had no idea anything had changed. Then someone at the PR firm was looking at the list of accounts and didn't recognize his wife's name. So they deleted the account.

Tynan received no notice of this action. His first indication of a problem was when he had no access to his account. Because it had been deleted.

This illustrates in vivid detail some of the hazards of relying on "the cloud" to store your data:

You have to trust a third party to safeguard your data. This might work with banks and safety deposit boxes, but cloud-based "boxes" are nothing like that.

You are at the mercy of a third party's terms of service. By this account, box.com followed its processes. Its system worked as designed. I am sure buried somewhere the the terms everyone blindly clicks the "Accept" button on was some mention of this "convenience feature".

You have to trust a third party will notify you of adverse actions affecting your data.

There are plenty of others.

The bottom line is that you have to trust a third party to protect the data you want to keep safe. Do you really think trusting data in the cloud is safe?

Personally, I use the cloud only to share non-sensitive data (mainly photos) between devices. But all of that data is stored permanently on devices I own.

Oh, and Tynan's story had a happy ending. Once customer support failed to help him he pulled the journalist card and suddenly box.com paid attention. His data was restored.

What card do you have to play when something similar happens to you?

[Link]Anson Kennedyhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086501462924972117.post-86809344597719113872013-10-22T20:22:00.000-04:002013-10-22T20:23:05.795-04:00Textbook Project Management Failure

So the much-ballyhooed unveiling of the Affordable Care Act (ACA, AKA Obamacare) web sign-up occurred about three weeks ago. It was an utter failure. Does this mean that the ACA therefore also fails? Not necessarily.

What it really represents is a textbook failure of project management. Granted, I am saying this based on sketchy (and often biased) news reports, but this much seems clear:

Requirements creep? Check. Testing involved too late in the process? Check. Goldplating? Probably check.

The chart pictured here is titled "Periodic Table of FEPS I.T. Work Streams" (so FEPS has no periods in the abbreviation but I.T. does. Schizo). You can see a zoomable version of the chart at the link. First, periodic table? Someone had a cute idea that didn't make sense. The "key milestones" were missed and probably the schedule was unreasonable even if it was followed.

And speaking of that "periodic table of work streams" - The fact that the contractors' names are more prominent than their tasks/responsibilities indicates a fundamental lack of focus in the project. What needs to be done is more important than who is doing it. At least it has names so we know who to fire.

At a minimum, in Key Federal IT Staff I would fire Henry Chao (Executive Oversight), Monique Outerbridge (Program Oversight), and Tina Nguyen (Program Oversight). Although everyone named in that section should be sweating right now. Not that anything is really going to happen to them. Anson Kennedyhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086501462924972117.post-77608938196730070962013-10-22T16:34:00.002-04:002013-10-22T18:21:08.901-04:00A Blog In Search Of Its PurposeThere's a Farside cartoon I like. The caption is "Edgar finds his purpose."* The picture shows a nerdy guy kneeling on an overturned sofa cushion, holding a oddly shaped ball with various things protruding. Including a whisk broom. I guess you can find your purpose anywhere and it can take any shape. Just accept it.

Well, this blog is still searching for its purpose. Maybe one day it will find it behind the sofa or under the bed.

Meanwhile, enjoy the search.

* I won't post the actual cartoon here because I am concerned about copyright violations. I will, however, link to a Google search which take you right to the picture.Anson Kennedyhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com


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