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Anyone who's deployed Windows Server 2008 (Pre-R2) with the Server Core deployment option will know it requires a slight behavioural change from what most Windows guys will have been used to. For those of you who need a refresher, the Server Core interface, in all it's glory, looked like Exhibit A, below:
OK, the eagle-eyed among you will know that isn't a screengrab from a Server Core box, as I've got aero-glass present – it's actually from my Windows 7 box, but, the point is, the interface is the same, all you get is the command line for manipulation and local management. With a reduced overhead, less patching, reduced attack surface, and the ability to trim the install size still further using DISM, there are some key benefits to using Core, however, for some, those benefits are outweighed by the additional 'overhead' around managing the thing! Locally at least.
Step up Core Configurator. Developed by Andrew Auret and Tony Ison from Microsoft UK, this little tool, which can be run from a USB stick, gave the usual GUI-admins much more of a GUI to work with, simplifying and speeding up implementation of aspects such as installing Roles and Features, managing Windows Updates, and Licenses, but also turning on things like MPIO and setting iSCSI options. For those of you who haven't seen it, it looked like this:
As you can see, even in V1, it was a much simpler and more streamlined interface than just using CMD!
Fast forward to now, and V2 is upon us, with significant GUI and usability improvements (click to enlarge):
As you can see, it's pretty rich, and you can run it directly from a USB stick, so it's always handy to have with you! What else can it do?
You can download it here. I know I will be!
More and more information is creeping out of Microsoft with regards to Service Manager. Part of the System Center family, and due for release in 2010, Service Manager is an integrated platform for automating and adapting your organization's IT service management best practices, such as those found in Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). It provides built-in processes for incident and problem resolution, change control, and asset lifecycle management. Through its configuration management database (CMDB) and process integration, Service Manager automatically connects knowledge and information from System Center Operations Manager, System Center Configuration Manager and Active Directory. Service Manager delivers integration, efficiency, and business alignment of the datacenter IT services by:
Optimizing processes and ensuring their use through templates that effectively guide IT analysts through best practices for change and incident management.
Reducing resolution times by cutting across organizational silos, ensuring that the right information from incident, problem, change, or asset records is accessible through a single pane.
Extending the value of the Microsoft platform through automated generation of incidents from alerts and the coordination of activities among System Center products.
Enabling informed and cost-effective decision making through its data warehouse, which integrates knowledge from disparate IT management systems, delivering out-of-the-box reporting and flexible data analysis through SQL reporting services
Enough about the background, what about this Academy Live Session?
MGT54PAL: Understanding Service Manager and Positioning it in the ECAL Suite
Presented by Clare Henry and Kelly Wagman
Thursday, 7th January 2010 - 16:00-17:00pm GMT - Click here to calculate your local time
Customers are looking for solutions to address their automation requirements for compliance management or to implement popular service management frameworks like ITIL, MOF, or CoBiT. With the introduction of System Center Service Manager in FY10, Microsoft can help customers extend the value of ECAL and SMSE to meet these needs. Learn how Service Manager integrates Microsoft management products to improve end-user support through the self-help portal, improve reliability in the datacenter through automated incident and compliance management, and how Service Manager is a platform for delivering business-centric solutions like Asset management.
Some of you may be thinking, what's the eCAL suite? Well, from here, the Microsoft Enterprise Client Access License (CAL) Suite brings together 11 of the latest Microsoft products to provide your people with the newest innovations in compliance, real-time collaboration, security, communication, desktop management, and more. The Microsoft Enterprise CAL Suite provides an outstanding opportunity for customers to use their existing investments in the Microsoft core platform.
Furthermore, the Microsoft Enterprise CAL Suite provides a significant cost savings compared to the purchasing of individual CALs. Customers considering investments in just two of the products included in the suite will find that the economic value of the Microsoft Enterprise CAL Suite becomes compelling.
What technologies are within the eCAL suite?
So, add to that list, System Center Service Manager, and you've got an even more compelling package, all rolled up under the single license.
If you're interested in finding out more, and you'd like to attend the webcast, you can head on over and register here.
Hot on the heels of a recent post around running Dynamics on Hyper-V, Liam from Technology Management wanted to make me aware of another case study, again, focused on Dynamics NAV 2009, with security systems manufacturer, Fortress Interlocks. In this case study, the savings made through the solution saved the company £70k, and at the same time, will give them a capability to double productivity of their employees. At the time, this was the UK's first deployment of NAV 2009, on WS2008 Hyper-V (pre-R2).
In early 2008, Golding and his IT team started working with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Technology Management to help choose and deploy a solution that could meet the company's needs. After evaluating all the leading products on the market, they chose Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 business management software. Golding says: "Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 satisfied all our requirements, and, as it's produced by Microsoft, it had long-term commercial viability and support. Also, it operates on the Windows user interface, which is intuitive and familiar, reducing the amount of training employees need." Once the decision to deploy Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 was taken, Fortress Interlocks and Technology Management wanted to make sure the system had high availability for its users. Virtualisation technology was regarded as the best way to achieve this because a number of virtual servers can be running to support the primary server if that fails. However, this option seemed too expensive. Golding says: "We initially considered VMware technology, but it was too expensive for our organisation. We then became aware of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise and Hyper-V. We researched it further and found it could offer us a similar service but at a much reduced price." Despite it being the first ever U.K. implementation of Hyper-V for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, Technology Management built the environment in less than 10 days, with the project going live on time and within budget. By connecting new Citrix servers running on Windows Server 2008, the company's overseas offices can also access the business management solution, giving Golding complete visibility of all his departments.
In early 2008, Golding and his IT team started working with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Technology Management to help choose and deploy a solution that could meet the company's needs. After evaluating all the leading products on the market, they chose Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 business management software. Golding says: "Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 satisfied all our requirements, and, as it's produced by Microsoft, it had long-term commercial viability and support. Also, it operates on the Windows user interface, which is intuitive and familiar, reducing the amount of training employees need."
Once the decision to deploy Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 was taken, Fortress Interlocks and Technology Management wanted to make sure the system had high availability for its users. Virtualisation technology was regarded as the best way to achieve this because a number of virtual servers can be running to support the primary server if that fails. However, this option seemed too expensive.
Golding says: "We initially considered VMware technology, but it was too expensive for our organisation. We then became aware of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise and Hyper-V. We researched it further and found it could offer us a similar service but at a much reduced price."
Despite it being the first ever U.K. implementation of Hyper-V for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, Technology Management built the environment in less than 10 days, with the project going live on time and within budget. By connecting new Citrix servers running on Windows Server 2008, the company's overseas offices can also access the business management solution, giving Golding complete visibility of all his departments.
Read the whole story here.
Going forward, my role is becoming more and more focused on the management of virtualisation, and just today, I've already seen a couple of items in the blogosphere, including this one, that are highlighting management as the big battleground in 2010, and to be honest, I agree. That's not to say that the virtualisation layer isn't important – far from it, VMware, Microsoft and Citrix to name but three, will still stress the importance of a stable, performant and robust platform to run your workloads on, but once virtualised, how can you ensure you're getting the best out of the workloads you've invested in? How can you ensure that Exchange, right through to Outlook, is performing effectively, and is healthy? The same could be asked for SharePoint, SQL, Active Directory, Terminal Services, and more, not to mention the countless non-Microsoft platforms and technologies that something like System Center Operations Manager can effectively monitor and report upon.
There's a key point right at the end of that last sentence. 'Effectively monitor and report upon'. Monitoring is one thing, and can provide massive benefits around proactivity (I may have made that word up…), alerting, and automated recovery, however, being able to prove systems are functioning efficiently, and effectively, is just as valuable to the business, especially where SLA's are concerned.
This brings me nicely on to the Service Level Dashboard 2.0. SLD 2.0 is a free download, that bolts onto, and extends the current SLD in SCOM 2007 R2, and provides a much richer experience when it comes to visualising the status of your infrastructure, and subsequently reporting on said infrastructure. If you're wondering what I mean by 'much richer experience', take a look at this:
Anyone who's used SLD 1.0 will know this is a pretty big improvement, and provides a much clearer, simple-to-understand interface, enabling users to quickly identify healthy/non-healthy areas of their infrastructure. The dashboard automatically displays application or system availability and performance in near-real time. Using the dashboard, customers can easily keep track of availability, performance trends, and head-off problems before they occur. They can also create role-specific dashboards to support different departments, such as HR, Finance, or Operations, so it really can be tailored to the needs of the organisation.
I'm sure you're wondering how all the 'bits' fit together, but fear not, I have a diagram to explain!
You need WSS at the backend, so those of you who were worrying you'd need full-blown Microsoft Office SharePoint Server can relax! The IT chap defines the Service Level Goals, specifying targets around things like Availability, Performance etc. The dashboard is configured based on these tracking definitions, and Windows SharePoint Services displays the dashboard, building it from the System Center Operations Manager Data Warehouse. OK OK, that's a 100,000ft view, and it's more complex than that, so if you're looking for more information, here it is:
Hat-tip to Matt Hester, an IT Pro Evangelist, who's recorded these SLD Videos. If you're interested, the download of SLD 2.0 is here.
Sticking with the 'plethora' theme of the last post, I was having a chat a few weeks back over email, with Paul from Xtravirt. If you've not heard of these guys, they are a bunch of guys who know there stuff, and I blogged about them ages ago, when they released a whitepaper on how to run VMware ESX/ESXi, on top of VMware Workstation – a great testing solution!
That post was just over a year ago, but fast forward to now, and the Xtravirt site is becoming one of the premier virtualisation sites, spanning across both server, and desktop virtualisation technologies, with a fantastic mix of blog resources, whitepapers, and downloads. Pay particular notice to the downloads section, as, if you're a VMware house, there are a number of tools you may find useful.
I'd also encourage you to take a look at these whitepapers:
I've been playing with vWorkspace 7.0 over the last few days, and I'd say it's definitely one to watch in 2010…
If you're interested, head on over to the site, or subsvcribe through the usual RSS or Twitter channels…
A couple of weeks back, I started a series (currently still 1-part long, apologies!) on Site Recovery for Hyper-V, and in that post, I discussed Essentials for Hyper-V 5.5, from Citrix. Without trying to recreate the wheel from that post, Essentials for Hyper-V is a comprehensive set of advanced virtualisation management capabilities now offering customers affordable business continuity solutions. Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V 5.5 includes Citrix StorageLink Site Recovery, a powerful set of tools that make end-to-end business continuity accessible, affordable, and easy to deploy.
If you want the full lowdown on the suite, check out my previous post, however if all you're interested in is the release date, then this post is for you.
It's available now!
You can also grab a Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V Platinum Edition 30-day Evaluation which you may find useful in testing, to see if it meets your needs.
Finally, there is a joint webcast, Citrix Essentials and StorageLink Site Recovery: Disaster Recovery for your Hyper-V Environment, with details below:
During this webcast Citrix and Microsoft introduce a new solution that makes cost-effective disaster recovery attainable for any organization. Citrix Essentials for Microsoft Hyper-V adds new disaster recovery capabilities to Hyper-V with the recent release of StorageLink Site Recovery technology. The joint solution combines the benefits of consolidating servers using Microsoft Hyper-V with advanced clustering and disaster recovery automation to give organizations an affordable way to implement, manage and automate disaster recovery services.
Product experts will demonstrate how StorageLink Site Recovery brings simple disaster recovery controls to Hyper-V while tapping powerful array-based remote replication services to protect your Hyper-V workloads from site-to-site. This session will also explore how you can use StorageLink Site Recovery together with Microsoft Clustering and Citrix Essentials workflow orchestration tools to build an automated DR solution for your Hyper-V environment.
Discussion topics include:
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Did you know, on July 10th 2010, Windows Server 2000 will be end-of-life? No?
Did you also know, that 17% of Windows Server units deployed worldwide are running some form of Windows 2000? No?
Well, with the end of life approaching, there has never been a better time to understand the benefits of moving to the latest release of Windows Server, namely, 2008 R2. If you're interested in understanding more about the story, and and what conversation starters, tools and methodologies are available to you, as a Partner, to smoothly migrate from 2000 to 2008 R2, this could be the webcast for you.
WNS170PAL: Helping your Customers Migrate from Windows 2000 to Windows Server 2008 R2
Presented by Justin Graham
Friday, January 15, 2010 - 17:00 - 18:00 GMT - Click here to calculate your local time
If you're interested, all it will cost you is your time, and you can register here.
Before anyone says 'this has been out for ages!' – yes, I know, but there's a new version out! I just haven't had chance to blog anything about it yet! For those of you who haven't heard about the Offline Virtual Machine Servicing tool, this is your lucky day!
Firstly, what is it?
Well, the name is a bit of a giveaway, unfortunately. I say unfortunately, as it's probably one of the most boring names I've seen for a product, but, at least you won't download it wondering what it is! The tool, as the name suggests, allows you to keep virtual machines that may be offline for a while, up to date with patches and the like. Imagine the scenario; virtual machines may be left offline (stored in a non-operating state) for extended periods of time, which conserves resources when the server capacities of the virtual machines are not needed or frees up physical computing resources for other purposes.
However, offline machines do not automatically receive operating system, antivirus, or application updates that would keep them compliant with current IT policy. An out-of-date virtual machine may pose a risk to the IT environment. If deployed and started, the out-of-date virtual machine might be vulnerable to attack or could be capable of attacking other network resources.
Therefore, IT groups must take measures to ensure that offline virtual machines remain up-to-date and compliant. At present, these measures involve temporarily bringing the virtual machine online, applying the necessary updates, and then storing it again.
In the future, image updating solutions may be able to update virtual machines while they remain offline. Until such solutions become available, the Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool, a Solution Accelerator from Microsoft, provides a way to automate the process of updating virtual machines.
How does it work?
Firstly however, what do you need to make it work? Well, System Center Virtual Machine Manager for starters – this tools supports as far back as SCVMM 2007, but works fine and dandy with the most recent release, SCVMM 2008 R2. You also need some mechanism for actually patching/updating the virtual machines. This is handled by one of the following:
The 'flow' is as follows:
OVMST uses "servicing jobs" to manage the update operations based on lists of existing virtual machines stored in VMM. Using Windows Workflow Foundation technology, a servicing job runs snippets of Windows PowerShell scripts (against SCVMM, which is built on PowerShell) to work with virtual machines. For each virtual machine, the servicing job:
Couple of key concepts to mention there. The VM that is offline will reside in the Library, which is effectively the storage side of SCVMM. From there, it's deployed onto a host. This host, ideally, will be known as a maintenance host, and may be disconnected (not completely!) from your 'production area'. The reason for this? Well, think about it – if you start up an out of date VM, that could be vulnerable, where would you want to start it up? An isolated, controlled environment, or alongside your main environment? Remember, this 'maintenance host' could be a Hyper-V Server, which is a very cost effective way to provide isolation.
Any caveats?
Well, for starters, here's a big one – one of the objects you typically store in the Library is a Template. This is different from an offline virtual machine, as an offline virtual machine is something that has been started, configured, and placed in the library, ready to be started again at any time. A Template however, is a pre-built VM, with a sysprepped OS. The way the OVMST works, is it starts the VM, patches it, then shuts it down. This can't happen with a sysprepped OS – it would start up, but then you'd have to go through the whole out of box experience to 'personalise' the OS with Time Zone, Computer Name etc, before WSUS/SCCM could deploy patches into it. This, I believe, will be solved in the future when injecting patches into offline VHDs becomes reality.
I really like the OVMST – apart from the name! It's a free tool that can help you solve a key business problem. A lot of organisations I speak to, typically keep their VMs running at all times, but if there are a few servers that only get launched once a month, or quarter, and that need to be kept up to date in line with policy, then this is a great tool to automate that process for you, and the best bit? It integrates into commonly used tools, like WSUS, or like SCCM. I guess it's a shame it doesn't integrate with 3rd Party technologies for managing patches, but maybe that will make it into a future release.
Who knows – maybe I'll record a video on it's use sometime in the near future!
You can get all the info, and download the OVMST here.
If there was ever a site, apart from this one (;-)), that provided a pretty comprehensive set of resources around Hyper-V, this TechNet Resource would be it. From planning to installation, pre-deployment to deployment, and management through to benchmarks, this site has it all. I can't see any links to my videos, but I didn't say it was a perfect site, now did I? :-)
Anyway, short and sweet – just wanted to make sure you had the link, should you be looking for Hyper-V info.
Again, it's here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/dd565807.aspx
For those of you not familiar with the IPD Guides, they aim to provide a couple of key benefits:
The IPD Guides are growing fast, and as always, you can find all the IPD Guides here.
With the release of these updated guides, the Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) series of guides further assists organisations in selecting the right virtualisation technologies for their business needs.
To select an appropriate virtualisation technology, organisations can look to the updated IPD Guide for Selecting the Right Virtualisation Technology. This guide walks the reader through the technology selection process for each workload - and is now updated to include coverage of Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).
If the IPD Guide for Selecting the Right Virtualisation Technology points the organisation to Remote Desktop Services as a best fit for their business needs, the guide then directs the user to the updated IPD Guide for Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services, which then outlines key infrastructure planning and design guidance for a successful implementation of Remote Desktop Services. The IPD Guide for Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services leads the reader through the nine-step process of designing components, layout, and connectivity in a logical, sequential order. Identification of the RD Session Host farms is presented in a simple, easy-to-follow process, helping the reader to design and plan centralised virtual datacenters.
Used together, these updated guides provide comprehensive planning and design guidance for implementing a Remote Desktop Services infrastructure. The IPD Guide for Selecting the Right Virtualisation Technology also teams with other virtualisation guides in the IPD Series - to provide end-to-end planning and design guidance for a variety of virtualization technologies.
For users of Windows Server 2008 R2, the Remote Desktop Services guide is a complete replacement for the Terminal Services guide. The Remote Desktop Services guide reflects the new capabilities introduced with Windows Server 2008 R2 as well as the rebranding of Terminal Services. The Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services remains available on the IPD Web site.


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text: First look: Google Plus and Minuses Technology 01 July 11 by Ryan Singel Tweet Screengrab: Wired.com I got a prized early invite to Google+, the search giant's highly anticipated Facebook competitor, thanks to the magic of Wired's Steven Levy. But I could not find it anywhere.Gmail, it turns out, decided the invite was a phishing attack and stuck it in the spam folder -- where search doesn't naturally reach -- and slapped a giant red bar on the top, warning me it might not be from the sender the e-mail claimed to be from.Gmail's algorithm need not be so protective. Google+ turns out to be a well-designed social network, centred on the concept of Circles -- the idea that relationships are more complicated than the binary friend-or-not-friend model that has served Facebook so well.Instead of asking you to decide whether your mother, dog-walker and old summer camp pal all count as friends and sending them a request to reciprocate, Google+ has a set of circles -- with some default ones like Family, Friends and Acquaintances. To start your social network, Google shows you contacts from your e-mail inbox: Gmail by default and options to import from Yahoo and Microsoft -- but not, ahem from Facebook. You simply drag a person to the circle you want to put them in. You can put them in as many circles as you like, and it has a nifty -- and visually very Apple-like -- feature where you can click on a number of people individually and then drag them en masse to a group, an action accompanied by some swooping into a bundle of little cards, held together with a paper clip, before bouncing into the right circle.Sharing is both simple and complicated in this model; we'll tackle who sees what and how in a bit.Like the familiar Facebook, users see a stream of posts from people in their network, and you can filter it by which circle you want to concentrate on -- say your book club, or family, or fellow windsurfers. You can easily share photos -- and the service naturally integrates closely with Google's picture-hosting site Picasa.Google has thrown in a few other features that seemed aimed to attract the always-on Facebook set. "Hangout" is a visual chat room that holds up to 10 people, giving the top part of a browser window to the person talking -- and arranging the other participants in smaller boxes below, Brady Bunch style. To start one, you click "Hangout" and send the invite to one or more of your Circles and wait for people to stop by. It might sound odd, but it's not hard to see it as a way to easily connect families or work teams.Then there's Huddle -- a group text-chat app that's currently not very useful since it only works on Android phones that have the Google+ app installed. Users of other phone OSes currently have to rely on an admittedly snappy mobile web version, but sending out an invite to "Huddle" is currently frustrating since desktop users and non-Android phone users get an invitation that doesn't explain that they technically can't join. Expect this to change soon so that Huddle will work across a range of devices.But what might turn out to be Google+'s real killer app isn't a feature inside Google+. It's the new black bar that sits atop every Google property including the Google.com search page and Gmail accounts. The bar replaces the old links to other Google services, putting your name in the far left corner, giving you one-click access to your Google+ profile. Read page 2 12 Read on one page Comments I find it weird that Wired's comments on Circles are so harsh on Facebook's apparent failure to separate interaction between friends, family, work superiors, etc. Weird because the separation can be made by using lists. Granted, Facebook haven't promoted them as much as they could, but Engadget, Lifehacker, and others have done so. Warrick Ball Jul 1st 2011 In reply to Warrick Ball Warrick:There's a fundamental difference between the way G+ handles groups and the way Facebook does it: On Facebook, you create the groups with different permissions first, and then you post, and what group someone's in determines how much access they have to that post. In G+, you send out posts *to* specific groups. I think that makes the privacy tighter. Brian Hartman Jul 2nd 2011 Technology links people , create new community Mohamed Jul 1st 2011 jaras22 khashayar Jul 1st 2011 Can anyone be kind enough to invite me to google plus and i wish to review it and publish a website on it and promote it. I liked the google plus demo and i wish it to dethrone facebook someday. Google Plus looks cool with quite innovative and useful features which i think would make life easier in the social networking respect.Please invite me. My email id is firstname.lastname@example.com would be very thankful to him/her. 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Bockelmann S, et al. (2010) Archazolid A Binds to the Equatorial Region of the c-Ring of the Vacuolar H+-ATPase. J Biol Chem 285(49):38304-14
Abstract: The macrolactone archazolid is a novel, highly specific V-ATPase inhibitor with an IC50 value in the low nanomolar range. The binding site of archazolid is presumed to overlap with the binding site of the established plecomacrolide V-ATPase inhibitors bafilomycin and concanamycin in subunit c of the membrane-integral VO complex. Using a semi-synthetic derivative of archazolid for photoaffinity labeling of the V1VO holoenzyme we confirmed binding of archazolid to the VO subunit c. For the plecomacrolide binding site a model has been published based on mutagenesis studies of the c subunit of Neurospora crassa, revealing 11 amino acids that are part of the binding pocket at the interface of two adjacent c subunits (Bowman et al. (2006) J. Biol. Chem. 281, 31885-31893). To investigate the contribution of these amino acids to the binding of archazolid, we established in Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutations that in N. crassa had changed the IC50 value for bafilomycin 10-fold or more, and showed that out of the amino acids forming the plecomacrolide binding pocket only one amino acid (tyrosine 142) contributes to the binding of archazolid. Using a fluorescent derivative of N,N'-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide, we found that the binding site for archazolid comprises the essential glutamate within helix 4 of subunit c. In conclusion the archazolid binding site resides within the equatorial region of the VO rotor subunit c. This hypothesis was supported by an additional subset of mutations within helix 4 which revealed that leucine 144 plays a role in archazolid binding.
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Jaipur surely has no dearth of parties anyway but when it's Shilpa Shetty partying in town it is bound to be a special one.
Recently the part owner of Rajasthan Royals with her beau Raj Kundra and other members of the team threw a lavish party at Hotel Jai Mahal Palace. It was a get together meant to meet the bigwigs of Jaipur including politicians, corporate heads, bureaucrats and other important people around town.


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At first sight, 4Pane looks like a rather bare-bones file manager, but beneath its unassuming appearance hides a wide array of genuinely useful features. For starters, the file manager supports tabs, so you can open as many panes as you need. The bookmarking feature allows you to save and quickly access often-used directories, while 4Pane's filtering functionality can come in handy when you want to narrow the current view to files that match specific criteria.
Right-click on a file or a directory, and you can access a list of commands and actions that you can perform on the selected file or directory. Better yet, 4Pane lets you add your own custom actions. For example, you can add an action for unpacking tarballs. To do this, choose Options | Configure 4Pane, and switch to the Tools | Add a Tool section. Enter the tar xzvf %f command (%f is a placeholder replaced by the currently selected file or archive), choose the existing menu or create a new one, and press the Add the Tool button. Press then Apply and Finish, and you can access the added tool by choosing the Tools | Run a Program menu.
The file manager also offers shortcuts to often-used editors, and you can easily replace the default editors with your own preferred applications. Choose Options | Configure 4Pane, switch to The Display | Misc section, and press the Configure toolbar editors button. You can then add your favorite applications.
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Officially, Georgetown played its first Patriot League football game ever Saturday afternoon.
Realistically, however, the Hoyas were not in Lehigh's league.
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4.5 starson by harryhidePros: Fast print speeds,great photo prints,duplex printing
Cons: None that I found
Summary: This is my second Canon printer. I had a Canon I900D which was a great printer but alas it was very slow. The IP 4500 has two paper sources, one for copy paper and one for photo paper. This is a great plus. All you have to do to change sources is press 1 button. I can't understand the CNET review. They rated as a con no preview LCD or memory slots. I have had 2 photo printers previously that had those features and I never used either one. To me that is just a feature that adds to the cost of the printer. And CNET also stated "The Canon Pixma iP4500 is a bit too expensive for basic home users". What was she smoking! This printer sell for just over $100.00 .. As the previous reviewer did, I printed out several photo's that were printed at my local Sam's Club and compared them with the same that I printed on the IP 4500. They were equally as good maybe even a bit better. Bottom line if you are looking for a good photo printer and don't want a copier or a fax you can't go wrong with the Canon IP 4500. Now, why a 9 rating? Because nothing is perfect, but this is close.


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We should have figured that Bobby Bramhall and Matt Langwell, both College Station natives, would earn wins over Texas A&M this weekend. Bramhall won in relief Friday, and Langwell survived some hairy moments to stifle the Aggies 5-2 Saturday. Langwell worked 6 1/3 innings, allowing one run on four hits and three walks with seven strikeouts. He's been fabulous for six weeks, although hardly anyone has noticed. Needless to say, he was pretty happy with beating A&M.
"I've been waiting a long time to throw against them, to have a start," he said. "I just wanted to be successful, come out and believe (in myself). It was real cool."
Perhaps nothing was cooler than Joe Savery, the face of the program for three seasons, recording the final put out in his final game at The Reck. He had a pretty interesting story about that final out, and is looking forward to actually pitching in Omaha this time around. A shoulder injury prevented Savery from taking the mound at the 2006 College World Series, where the Owls finished third.
Of course, Savery didn't pitch this weekend, which goes to show the potency of the Owls' pitching. Ryan Berry, Bramhall, Langwell and CSC held the Aggies to four runs on 12 hits over 19 innings. It was dominant pitching, Rice pitching. Now the Owls head to Rosenblatt Stadium, where they will face the winner of the Louisville Super Regional on Friday. In all likelihood, the Owls will play the 1 p.m. game, with the potential SEC-SEC or SEC-ACC matchup (Mississippi State vs. South Carolina or North Carolina) getting the plum primetime first pitch at 6 p.m.
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i beg to differ.
he's not looking that pleased.
HAHA! I'm enjoying these photos...
That's just... weird. Oh! Maybe he knows it does his curls good?
How many things did you spray with hot steam before you found one that liked it?
I'm sure he's more concerned over the biscuit in your right hand.
Will your next victim be a shar pei?
I'm guessing tomorrow's photo will be your bandaged hand.
I totally love the daily photos!! Can't wait to see more. :)
I just hope that dog's name is Cleveland. For the jokes.


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The concept of "tradition" taking precedence over equal rights is just wrong. The 2009 bill provides for "separate but equal" rights, which really isn't equal.
The letter writer puts out the same tired argument about marriages that produce offspring. There are plenty of heterosexual married couples that cannot conceive children, which makes that argument a moot point - they are still married.
The letter writer asks what would get lost? So what would get lost if R-74 passes? I don't see what would get lost here, but I see a further gain in equal rights. Why are people so freaked out about homosexuals getting the same equal rights as us straight folks?
The fact remains: Only one of these unions is biologically able to produce offspring. To attempt to define them as equal is ridiculous.
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Slow road to digital switch-over - Cable groups mum; Flow ahead but network coverage behind
Published: Friday | August 14, 2009
Michelle English, chief executive officer of Flow Jamaica. Flow is fully digital. - File
Jamaica has begun the process to go fully digital in radio and television broadcasting, but with no national digital switchover (DSO) policy in place and the necessary research yet to be done, broadcasting regulator, the Broadcasting Commission says no timeline has been set to switch off analogue signals still being used.
A steering committee set up by the commission to plan the way forward has met only twice, but has already decided to focus on the switchover to digital television, with radio to be treated as a separate project after a feasibility study has been completed.
"It is expected that switchover will be carried out in a phased manner," said the Broadcasting Commission's information and public relations officer, Nicole Morrison.
"This will give the relevant parties adequate time to make the necessary changes and adjustments for transition."
Around the world, the use of set top and rooftop antennae to receive broadcasting signals has been coming to an end as DSO picks up pace.
European countries such as Germany, Finland, Luxembourg, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium and much of Austria have already built out their digital
The United States went digital in June, pulling the plug on its old analogue system.
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But Jamaica's move in this direction is still in the early stages, with the study to be undertaken being the first of four stages of implementation identified in March
A report on the Broadcasting Commission's website lists the other stages as technology selection, digital switch-on and analogue switch-off.
Players in the cable industry have so far been tight-lipped on the moves being made to go digital. Winsome Witter, president of the Jamaica Association of Community Cable Operators (JACCO), which represents the 38 cable operators islandwide, would not comment.
The group's representative on the national steering committee, Wesley Anderson, who heads the May Pen, Clarendon-based General Satellite Network, was equally mum when contacted by the Financial Gleaner.
However, Dennis Darby, general manager of Telstar Cable, which operates in Kingston said company officials were now informing themselves of the DSO process.
"We are researching the matter, looking at the whole scenario and seeing how it will impact on what we do, as well as how we will utilise the new technology," he said.
Columbus Communications, the parent company of Jamaica's largest cable operator, Flow, has been offering a digital service since it entered the local market three years ago.
The company has invested, it says, some US$200 million (approximately $15 billion to $17 billion) in this market, including six or seven cable company acquisitions.
Flow entered the market willing to buy up operators willing to sell, but is now backing off of that programme.
"There are still quite a number of companies that are approaching us to buy their systems but we are just concentrating on our greenfield (operations) - building out in new areas, putting our network in place, rather than acquiring and overbuilding," Chief Executive Officer Michelle English told the Financial Gleaner.
Flow behind
The company, under its licence, is committed to building out a nationwide network, but now says it would not have achieved blanket coverage at its initial deadline.
Said English: "2011 has been pushed out a little, but it is tough to say right now when we will be completed. We are a bit behind, but trying to look at ways that we can make that up, so I would not want to give a hard and fast time."
Flow's cable company acquisitions that operated analogue systems have been converted.
"What we have done is acquire some analogue companies as in Portmore and Mandeville and have gone in and replaced the analogue structure with digital," Sharon Roper, head of marketing at Flow told the Financial Gleaner.
"What we will do as short term - that people don't miss out on their cable - is keep the analogue service in place while we upgrade the existing infrastructure, after which they are required to switch over to the digital service," the Flow representative said.
Flow, with is core retail business of cable-television, high-speed Internet and landline telephone service predicated on a digital backbone, has resisted calls from some of its cable TV clients to retain the analogue systems they buy in order to keep down the cost of the service.
But English is against that, saying it would compromise the core standards that come with Flow's digital infrastructure.
"That would mean an inferior network offering outdated products," English said.
"I don't see us going down that road. The whole world is trying to move to digital, and certainly would be a real step back to offer anything less than the type of service that we are offering today."


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Tonight, while researching my Forbes ancestry, I happened upon a book at Google Books. The title is The Scottish Nation – Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours and the Biographical History of the People of Scotland. Yeah, that is quite a title. However I made a very interesting discovery.
Here's the deal. Recently, I was approached by someone with knowledge that would help me get my research from 1726 back to the 1100s. Well, of course, I jumped on that offer. Of course, the tree I was directed to has no sources except a link to a tree on Ancestry.com and other sources at that site. However, I was able to take the names and start popping them into Google. What happened? Voila!
I found this book.
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Alexander de Forbes … governor of Urquhart castle in Moray, which he bravely defended for a long time, in 1304 (speaking of his birth). against Edward the First of England, but on its surrender all within the castle were put to the sword, except the wife of the governer, who escaped to Ireland, and was there delivered of a posthumous son. This son, Sir Alex, de Forbes, the only one of his family remaining, came to Scotland in the reign of Robert the Bruce and his patrimonial inheritance of Forbes having been bestowed upon others, he obtained a grant of other lands instead. He was killed at the battle of Duplin, in 1332, fighting valiantly on the side of King David, the son of Bruce. From his son, Sir John de Forbes, 1373, all the numerous families in Scotland who bear the name and their offshoots, trace their descent.
So, how many times can you find a reference that states that you have a definite point where all of a certain surname can trace their heritage? I find this very interesting. Even if I can't confirm everything that this new lead has given me, I know I only have a window from 1373 until 1726 to discover. After that history itself can unveil my heritage!
OK, some will try to destroy my glee over this discovery but I just wanted to share what I found and ask if there are any others out there with a similar story. Can you find a certain relative that all others can trace their heritage back to? No, let's not say Adam & Eve!
OK, back to my seclusion!
Just kidding, hopefully I will be able to get this blog back up and going and start sharing my discoveries with everyone!
Take care everyone and I hope you are all having a wonderful new year!


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Last night, Teddy Kennedy passed the torch to a new generation, and the Obamas were the all-American family. Tonight, Hillary Clinton will address the convention, and the world will learn how serious the split with Barack Obama supporters really is. The National Convention is supposed to unify Democrats around Obama's presidential candidacy, but media coverage continues to emphasize the continuing tension with Clinton supporters. We talk with delegates in both camps. Are the media fanning a controversy that's only skin deep? Keynote speaker Mark Warner says he's not an attack dog. Are the Democrats missing their chance for an offensive against John McCain and George Bush?
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We've entered a time where men's fashion is embracing colour and print. And for Marni, that means an opportunity to shine.
For what else springs to mind at the mention of the brand than whimsical, off-beat prints and retro-inspired colours? At least for women's. But if men are becoming more daring in their willingness to add patterned pants or clashing prints to their wardrobes, then Marni are given license to let fly a little. And for spring / summer 2013 they did that to just the right extent.
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Slide Show: Round 1 Of The World Series Of Linux
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Canonical's Ubuntu 7.10 competed first. The latest version, known as Gutsy Gibbon (in keeping with the distribution's tradition of odd animal names), made Linux look very easy. The community support is extensive, and there is a lot of built-in functionality. [Read More]
The desktop is very clean and uncluttered. All the menu options are neatly arranged in the top taskbar under Applications, Places, and System. Users can drag any icons to the taskbar to make a shortcut.
On the upper right, there is an icon for updates, network, sound, and date. Icons for all external devices and media appear automatically on the desktop. Files, images, and folders appear as thumbnails be default.
All system administration is accessible in Control Panels like applets under the System menu. Engineers checked under Printing to make sure the printer was detected, under Synaptic Package Manager to download OS updates, and under Network to check network settings.
The Synaptic Package Manager searches and finds all the OS-specific packages that need to be installed. Users can also search to find tools that haven't been downloaded by default, such as compilers and version control software.
The Add/Remove Software applet is organized in a manner similar to the package manager. Engineers used this to install a variety of other applications, such as games, multimedia programs, and editing tools.
The Officejet Pro printer was detected automatically and appeared under the Printer applet. Through this panel, engineers could set access control policies, check on printer status, and get printer information.
Xandros is the only enterprise product in the Debian League. For $99, it promises a whole lot, such as the ability to run Windows applications (even Microsoft Office), Active Directory support, built-in PPTP VPN to connect to the office, and security features. Unfortunately, it couldn't install on the test hardware and was automatically disqualified. [Read More]
Xandros has a look and feel much closer to Windows than the other distributions. If it had installed, engineers could have tried out desktop search. Xandros has a lot to offer, and the Test Center will be keeping an eye on it.
Freespire is this round's Cinderella. The free version of Linspire, it showed off its clean interface, feature-heavy menus, and easy-to-use desktop. It came with the beta version of CNR, its portal for updating packages and installing new applications. [Read More]
Ubuntu went for the minimalist look. Freespire seems to go for the "As Much Like Windows As Possible" look. The Computer and Network Share Manager icons are remniscent of the My Computer and Network Neighborhood icons in the Windows world. Unlike Ubuntu, the main taskbar is at the bottom, and relies on icons.
The first menu option is very similar to the START button in Windows, and has a lot of the high-level menu options and recently used shortcuts. While Ubuntu has a more logical approach to its menus, Freespire will be an easier transition for Windows users.
The icons next to the main menu are all tool-specific menus. The Trash icon opens up a menu of options specific to the trash, the Terminal icon next to that will have terminal specific options, Open Office and Firefox all have their own personal menus on the task bar.
Control Center gives a single interface to see what hardware is installed, how networking is configured, security, and other administration tasks. In order to check on the Ethernet card, speakers, and Printers, engineers started from Control Center.
The printer applet provides wealth of information. Freespire makes it easy to switch between different printing systems by listing supported system in a drop-down. Engineers stuck with CUPS. Engineers can also set personalized options, such as creating a banner page unique to each user on the system, setting up printer quotas, and setting up user access control policies. Users can be denied from using the printer depending on username or by time of day.
Scoring each of the Debian distros on installation, ease of use, and driver and network support, Ubuntu clearly dominated Round 1. Deploying it and integrating it into an office environment isn't the dirty job that desktop Linux used to demand.
Ubuntu will face either SLED 10, Fedora 7, or PCLinux OS in the championship round of The World Series of Linux. [Read More]


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Black Farmers Still Losing Ground By Stephen Patterson In These Times December 10, 2010 http://www.inthesetimes.org/article/6741/black_farmers_still_losing_ground A new federal lawsuit settlement won't stem the decline in black land ownership, activists say. It only took 11 years and 10 floor votes. In late November, Congress finally agreed to pay black farmers $1.15 billion in compensation for decades of discrimination in lending practices and access to U.S. agricultural subsidy programs. The claims stem from a civil-rights lawsuit settlement reached in 1999 between 400 farmers and the government. But even as payouts begin, America's black farmers are still losing ground-literally. "It's not restitution for what's been done," says Gary R. Grant, national president of the Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association (BFAA). "Folks still don't understand that farmers are continuing to lose." The number of U.S. farms operated by black farmers decreased by a staggering 97 percent between 1920 and 2007 (925,710 farms to 30,599) farms, according to government statistics. The BFAA, a national nonprofit organization based in Tillery, N.C, with more than 1,500 members across the country, works to reverse black farmers' losses by connecting black farmers with services and monitoring the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). For the newly settled lawsuit, known as Pigford II, BFAA worked with a coalition of other black farmers' organizations to lobby for relief through Congress, Grant said. The group is now helping claimants obtain their due in the Claims Resolution Act of 2010. The total sum to be claimed by black farmers is $1.25 billion, as Congress approved $100 million under the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008. (They aren't the only group seeing justice: The Claims Settlement Act of 2010 also included $3.4 billion in restitution for Native American farmers, who won a lawsuit against the government for losses due to mishandled trust funds. In October, another group of Native American farmers won $680 million in a discrimination lawsuit filed against the USDA.) But Grant says that because the approaching relief is no panacea for black farmers, the organization is working to call attention to the continued decrease in black- owned farms before there are none. In October, BFAA hosted its first annual Save the Land: Black Farmers Benefit and Rally, in Tillery, to "bring awareness to the plight of the continued decline of black farmers and black land ownership." The event consisted of local music, food and film screenings-all with justice for black farmers in mind. More than 200 people attended the event, says Grant, with representation from states across the country. One of the films, We Shall Not Be Moved: The History of the Tillery Resettlement Farm, shows pre-Civil Rights era black farmers struggling against racism and discrimination in the Tillery farm community. The BFAA is planning additional events in 2011, perhaps in New York City or Washington D.C., to generate awareness of black land loss and empower black farmers to stand their ground. (Visit bfaa-us.org for more information.) Grant says the goal is to educate the public on the true standing of black farmers in America. "The farmers who were involved in Pigford are still trying to merely survive," he says. "Many people don't understand that land is not only power. It is an economic base that brings about independence and creates safe spaces for people to stand their ground." ___________________________________________ Portside aims to provide material of interest to people on the left that will help them to interpret the world and to change it. Submit via email: [log in to unmask] Submit via the Web: http://portside.org/submittous3 Frequently asked questions: http://portside.org/faq Sub/Unsub: http://portside.org/subscribe-and-unsubscribe Search Portside archives: http://portside.org/archive Contribute to Portside: https://portside.org/donate
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