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Accidentally started this discussion on another thread and hijacked in the process. It deserves its own.
Some here seem to think that ever slavish following recipes is learning to cook. I disagree. Cooking is a skill that trends into an art. It is a matter of learning techniques, then using those techniques to advantage under any circumstances
Paint by numbers does not teach art, and following recipes is cooking by numbers. One does need to learn about cuisines, and recipes have a role in teaching cuisine, but then one must move on. Some may say that there are alternative ways of learning, and this is true to a point. I don't want an airline pilot or surgeon who can't improvise based on developed skills, nor one stuck looking at a book while trying to land or operate.
You raise lots of issues but I don't see a specific question to respond to so, I think the following:
- I agree that learning techniques is a good thing and, using those skills, you can improvise with more success.
- I do not agree that recipes are analogous to paint by numbers. I use recipes for fresh ideas, things I've never made before, to make sure I get an old favorite right.
- The topic of improvising versus following a structured set of procedures is a fascinating one that is outside the scope of this board. I really enjoyed Atul Gawande's take on the subject in The Checklist Manifesto (http://www.amazon.com/The-Checklist-M...
)- Cooking is a skill, an art, and sometimes just a routine chore. I don't have a problem bringing out the old meatloaf recipe I've made hundreds of times so I can produce a family dinner.
re: tcamp
Yep, but do you get out the recipe book for the meatloaf you have made hundreds of times? Or have you got that recipe now so ingrained that you can improvise ingredients where necessary?
I think that is what the OP is trying to get at.IMO, recipe books etc are essential when learning a new dish, but once you have made it many times, your skills can develop the dish. Likewise your abilities in a kitchen.
There are too many great cuisines to cook and dishes to behold to eschew recipes.
Maybe I'm just an average home cook, but I will always need recipes to expand my base.
I can't imagine not learning anymore.
Sure, I can improvise, but I'm not so self assured that I can claim to whip up all sorts of dishes without guidance.
Wouldn't even want to.
I adore my cookbooks. They are my inspiration, and they most certainly do teach one how to cook.-
re: monavano
Well said. When I taste a dish that holds all sorts of subtle flavors, I, an amateur, could never hope to recreate that without recipe(s). Well, I could but it would likely be woefully inadequate. Why do that when we have so much knowledge that others have shared? One of my life mottos is 'don't re-invent the wheel.'
And I'll say again, those that say they never use recipes may not be quite as great cooks as they think they are :)
re: c oliver
You're equating preparing food with piloting an airplane or performing surgery?
Everyone learns in their own way. For some it's by following recipes. For others, it's by winging it. You can get stuck too long in one phase.
re: 512window
It's an analogy use rhetorically to make a point..
Actually not all ways of learning are equivalent, nor useful.
If someone buys an expensive set of cookware, doesn't understand it, finds in that person's hands it yields poor results, but continues to use it for 25 years before disposing it, that is "learning" but pretty poor learning. Don't you think?
re: law_doc89
That site is truly ironic. It is called no recipes, yet directly under the title is a link to.... Wait for it.... Recipes!
re: nat8199
Not only is it chock-full of recipes, but contradictions, too.
There's this:
I'm Marc, and I want to teach you some basic techniques and give you the confidence and inspiration so that you can cook without recipes too!"And then there's this:
"I'm a freelance food photographer, recipe developer, and marketing consultant who's loved cooking since before I could see over the kitchen counter."So Marc wants us to cook without recipes, yet he develops recipes for us? What the hell?
re: DuffyH
It's as ironic as this lady, who said "Real cooks don't use recipes" (on national tv), writing a cookbook, with guess what? Recipes!
re: monavano
Alexis is awesome.
re: law_doc89
You don't seem to see value in the middle ground, which most cooks, and some damn fine ones at that, inhabit. Why must it be all or nothing? After learning a technique, why must one then never use a recipe again?
Example having mastered the technique of stir fry, must one then never use a recipe for stir fry again? If one does, are they then NOT a "true cook"?
Where does this all or nothing attitude come from? One presumes from reading your other posts that you consider yourself a "true cook". Do you NEVER use a recipe? Not even for a complicated dish that you haven't prepared in several years? Seriously?
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re: law_doc89
Hi, law_doc:
As learning goes, slow progress beats sliding backward by assuming one knows it all.
You seem to assume that this hypothetical person was: (a) not skilled to start with; (b) not learning more over time, despite crappy cookware; (c) *only* following recipes; (d) not understanding something as simple cast iron; and (e) bereft of technique.
These are dangerous assumptions, and I know one such person for whom ALL of them would be wrong. But you *are* consistent, I'll give you that.
re: kaleokahu
Amen, brother. Amen :)
I dunno. I followed many recipes for beef stews over the years, and now I have a 'method' for making beef stew without a recipe.
re: julesrules
But doesn't your version then become a recipe? And didn't it come from a compilation of other recipes?
re: c oliver
It is all about method.. I think Julia...
Learn the basic... then you can be creative....works for me...
Baking vrs. cooking....
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re: c oliver
That's exactly how my BBQ sauce recipe came about. I began with 2-3 recipes, made small batches of them, tested them on family/friends, then began tweaking. Each tweak was recorded until I had my own recipe that is entirely unique, at least as far as I know.
re: DuffyH
This is how many of my recipes get developed-- most recently, banana muffins.
re: julesrules
Yes, now you have YOUR recipe that you use to make beef stew. Even if it's just in your head, it's still a recipe.
My contention is that if you are a jaz band and you have a jam session, everyone is improvizing, it can sound great or maybe not so great, but either way they can't repeat the performance because it was all improvization. You can do the same thing with cooking, but if you have a winner, wouldn't you like to be able to make that same dish again with the same results?
re: mikie
But when you try to explain the beef stew recipe to someone else, what happens? How do you get the nuances to transfer without a common understanding of technique?
I don't think the comparison is apt. "Paint by numbers" does not even come close to approximating the way that a painting is made by a real artist. It is more than ultra-simplified, it is something else altogether.
In cooking, however, a recipe might be ultra-simplified, but could also be quite sophisticated and intended to produce a result comparable to what an experienced and expert cook would make. The latter might explain the reason for a way of doing things, and might suggest optional ingredients or ways of proceeding, intending to educate the user of the recipe in the art of cooking. A good example can be found in Julia Child, who contrasted her recipe for coq au vin with simplistic recipes going by that name.
I don't think many cooks aspiring to expert status could get to a decent coq au vin entirely on their own by studying only principles and techniques of cooking. Not easily, anyway. Most would start with a serious recipe, then try other recipes, and perhaps sample some restaurant versions, before developing their own variation.
re: GH1618
I love French Onion soup, and Mrs. mikie tried to make it for me many many times, none were up to what I have had in good restaurants. Then I discovered Julia Child and her recipe for French Onion soup. I made it myself following the recipe as closely as possible. This was several years ago and trust me, back then I had no, nada, nill cooking technique or skills. The difference between my success and my wife's failures was a good recipe not cooking skill or technique. And yes, I continue to make it following the recipe, because I like it and want it to be jsut as good the next time I make it.
re: mikie
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"Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again"
― Julia Child, Julia's Kitchen Wisdom: Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime of Cooking"Maybe the cat has fallen into the stew, or the lettuce has frozen, or the cake has collapsed. Eh bien, tant pis. Usually one's cooking is better than one thinks it is. And if the food is truly vile, then the cook must simply grit her teeth and bear it with a smile, and learn from her mistakes."
― Julia Child, My Life in France"One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed."
― Julia Child, My Life in France"To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating."
― Julia Child, Particular Passions: Talks With Women Who Have Shaped Our Times"The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen."
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re: law_doc89
Julia Child's method for educating Americans who desired to coom in the French manner was, of course, to collect French recipes and adapt them for the American kitchen.
re: GH1618
And then emphasize techniques. Recipes were only the hook, you know.


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By making an engine turned coaster KS4 GCSE students will learn and apply knowledge in a practical situation. This knowledge covers use of an engine turning tool and CAD / CAM. This project was used as part of a enterprise activity where students made various products. By using this project in their enterprise activity students gain entrepreneurial skills and begin to see the link between time to make / materials cost Vs sale price.
Step 1: Engine Turning Tool
- These can be bought but my students make their own
- Put the tool into drill chuck
Step 2: Prepare the guide
- Create a guide that has lines spaced at 20mm apart, arranged in the pattern shown
- Draw the lines of a flat piece of wood
- Clamp to drill plate
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- Align the aluminium so the turning tool is in the top left corner
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- Repeat until you have four coats
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In Step #1, the tool looks like it has a layer of a different material connected to an aluminium body for making the 'swirl' marks. What do your students use to make that layer on their's and how is it connected to the tool body? I've seen similar but much smaller effects done by chucking a pencil and using the eraser to 'rub' the metal which leaves a consistent pattern and a smooth surface but the photos of the plates make it look like the swirls vary slightly from one location to the next and could be a couple thousandths deep. Is this an illusion or does the plate surface actually have a texture? Do the students use any type of abrasive or polishing compound to get this effect?
Also, how thick of aluminium sheet are you using?
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Creating Fake Credit Card Numbers in c#
I recently had to create a credit card number generator, nothing nefarious, just we needed unique valid credit card numbers after asking on StackOverflow and getting a less than stellar response (for the first time). I came across something on DarkCoding.Net which did exactly what I wanted but was in Java, I've ported it over to c# and I hope you find it useful
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using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Threading; namespace CreditCardNumberGenerator { public class RandomCreditCardNumberGenerator { /*This is a port of the port of of the Javascript credit card number generator now in C# * by Kev Hunter https://kevhunter.wordpress.com * See the license below. Obviously, this is not a Javascript credit card number generator. However, The following class is a port of a Javascript credit card number generator. @author robweber Javascript credit card number generator Copyright (C) 2006 Graham King firstname.lastname@example.com This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. www.darkcoding.net */ public static string[] AMEX_PREFIX_LIST = new[] {"34", "37"}; public static string[] DINERS_PREFIX_LIST = new[] { "300", "301", "302", "303", "36", "38" }; public static string[] DISCOVER_PREFIX_LIST = new[] {"6011"}; public static string[] ENROUTE_PREFIX_LIST = new[] { "2014", "2149" }; public static string[] JCB_15_PREFIX_LIST = new[] { "2100", "1800" }; public static string[] JCB_16_PREFIX_LIST = new[] { "3088", "3096", "3112", "3158", "3337", "3528" }; public static string[] MASTERCARD_PREFIX_LIST = new[] { "51", "52", "53", "54", "55" }; public static string[] VISA_PREFIX_LIST = new[] { "4539", "4556", "4916", "4532", "4929", "40240071", "4485", "4716", "4" }; public static string[] VOYAGER_PREFIX_LIST = new[] {"8699"}; /* 'prefix' is the start of the CC number as a string, any number private of digits 'length' is the length of the CC number to generate. * Typically 13 or 16 */ private static string CreateFakeCreditCardNumber(string prefix, int length) { string ccnumber = prefix; while (ccnumber.Length < (length - 1)) { double rnd = (new Random().NextDouble()*1.0f - 0f); ccnumber += Math.Floor(rnd*10); //sleep so we get a different seed Thread.Sleep(20); } // reverse number and convert to int var reversedCCnumberstring = ccnumber.ToCharArray().Reverse(); var reversedCCnumberList = reversedCCnumberstring.Select(c => Convert.ToInt32(c.ToString())); // calculate sum int sum = 0; int pos = 0; int[] reversedCCnumber = reversedCCnumberList.ToArray(); while (pos < length - 1) { int odd = reversedCCnumber[pos]*2; if (odd > 9) odd -= 9; sum += odd; if (pos != (length - 2)) sum += reversedCCnumber[pos + 1]; pos += 2; } // calculate check digit int checkdigit = Convert.ToInt32((Math.Floor((decimal) sum/10) + 1)*10 - sum)%10; ccnumber += checkdigit; return ccnumber; } public static IEnumerable<string> GetCreditCardNumbers(string[] prefixList, int length, int howMany) { var result = new Stack<string>(); for (int i = 0; i < howMany; i++) { int randomPrefix = new Random().Next(0, prefixList.Length - 1); if(randomPrefix>1) { randomPrefix--; } string ccnumber = prefixList[randomPrefix]; result.Push(CreateFakeCreditCardNumber(ccnumber, length)); } return result; } public static IEnumerable<string> GenerateMasterCardNumbers(int howMany) { return GetCreditCardNumbers(MASTERCARD_PREFIX_LIST, 16, howMany); } public static string GenerateMasterCardNumber() { return GetCreditCardNumbers(MASTERCARD_PREFIX_LIST, 16, 1).First(); } public static bool IsValidCreditCardNumber(string creditCardNumber) { try { var reversedNumber = creditCardNumber.ToCharArray().Reverse(); int mod10Count = 0; for (int i = 0; i < reversedNumber.Count(); i++) { int augend = Convert.ToInt32(reversedNumber.ElementAt(i).ToString()); if (((i + 1)%2) == 0) { string productstring = (augend*2).ToString(); augend = 0; for (int j = 0; j < productstring.Length; j++) { augend += Convert.ToInt32(productstring.ElementAt(j).ToString()); } } mod10Count += augend; } if ((mod10Count%10) == 0) { return true; } } catch { return false; } return false; } } }
April 19, 2011 at 3:19 pm
Hi Kev!
I'm also using this "generator", although I have a major problem with it: we are running automated tests a lot of times, and we definitely need _unique_ numbers, but this algorithm seems to generate duplicates very often.
I haven't really debugged the code, maybe if you have any immediate proposal how to enhance this piece of code – that would be brilliant.
If you have no time or mood, obviously I'll do the debugging myself, just wanted to let you know about my comments :)
April 19, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Hi Zoltan,
within the same session should be very easy, at least to give the appearance of uniqueness you could just use the Linq Distinct() statement on the GetCreditCardNumbers() method. This would mean you would only get unique records back, if you need unique numbers across sessions you'll probably have to insert them into a database or something similar.
If there are lots of duplicates it may well be to with the random code in lines 80 to 90 in the code sample above.
hope this helps
April 20, 2011 at 8:17 am
Hi Kev,
Unfortunately using a DB for this is not an option for us.
So I did my homework and found the following quick solution:[…]
private static string CreateFakeCreditCardNumber(string prefix, int length)
//sleep so we get a different seed if called multiple times
string ccnumber = prefix;Random rndGen = new Random();
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double rnd = (rndGen.NextDouble() * 1.0f – 0f);ccnumber += Math.Floor(rnd * 10);
This modification is anyway better coding (result: faster generation), you don't need to recreate Random() if you are using it in the same static function.
Relocation of the "Sleep" is needed so we indeed use a different seed while creating multiple CC numbers.Self-criticism: I particularly don't like the position of Sleep() in my solution, I hate to waste 20ms, even if it's only in the first cycle. So for those tick-maniac, move Sleep() here (in this case, you will HAVE to use *Numbers() method instead of *Number()):
public static IEnumerable GetCreditCardNumbers(string[] prefixList, int length, int howMany)
result.Push(CreateFakeCreditCardNumber(ccnumber, length));
//sleep so we get a different seed in CreateFakeCreditCardNumber()
Ideal solution OO-wise would be to change the structure and force the user to create a new instance of this class (like in case of system Random and call Next() to get new CC number), but I like your simple "static" interface, so I guess this is OK like this :)
Keep up the great work and sorry for the long "comment", I hope you like it!
April 20, 2011 at 8:21 am
I couldn't agree more about the Thread.Sleep in the code, never feels right..
The whole class could be made much nicer, its a pretty flat copy from the existing java solution Graham King has on his site, we needed something fairly quick for generating credit cards for when I was writing tests, and this is what I came up with.
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I didn't have high hopes for the Kia Soul EV. I assumed that it was a bit of a lash up; a regular Soul with the engine and gearbox ripped out and a battery pack and electric motor rudely bolted onto it. Wrong.
kia_in_puddle The Kia Soul. Designed in California. Made in Korea, Only 100 coming to UK
In many ways it is quite the …
EVA to become P6000 in HP's Converged Infrastructure
HP's Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) will be rebranded as the P6000 and be a main player in HP's Converged Infrastructure (CI).
Converged Infrastructure is a set of integrated stacks of server, storage and networking with a common management layer, orderable as single SKUs (Stock Keeping Units). An updated server element was …
Virtually yours: Citrix swallows Sanbolic
Server/desktop virtualisation supplier Citrix has acquired storage virtualisation software startup Sanbolic. No price was revealed.
Sanbolic's Melio software turns a set of servers' direct-attached and network-attached storage into a virtual storage resource pool.
Citrix will combine it with XenDesktop, XenApp and XenMobile …
HP Storage results: Gloomy, but there's light at the end of the tunnel
HP storage emulated HP's latest overall quarterly results, with both good news and bad news, but the gloom overwhelmed the gleam.
Within HP's $27.6bn third fiscal 2014 quarterly revenue report, storage contributed $796m (just 3.6 per cent) of HP's earnings for the quarter and 11.5 per cent of the Enterprise Group's revenue. EG …
HP pumps wee EVA box at big businesses
Hewlett-Packard is revamping the bottom end of its StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) family with a new system the company says will better address that cherished lower-upper-midsized business market.
Or was that upper-lower-midsized...?
Anyway, it's for enterprise customers that are too big for HPs entry-level storage …
Where is the EVA going?
What is HP going to do with the Enterprise Virtual Array?
The El Reg strategy department reckons a speed and feed increase is coming but no more than that, because HP doesn't own the clustering EVA functionality, and the newly-acquired 3PAR product has the virtualised data centre/cloud storage on-ramps which EVA lacks.
Why do …
HP readies plan for EVA revolution
It appears that HP is getting ready to announce two revolutionary EVA arrays, abandoning its proprietary EVA controller design and using SAS drives for the first time.
HP's Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) is its mid-range departmental storage array, placed between the workgroup and branch office MSA product and the enterprise XP …
Italian appeal court clears seismologists of manslaughter
The pain remains, but at least not the crime. In a case watched by scientists around the world, six Italian seismologists who had been found guilty of manslaughter for failing to predict the L'Aquila earthquake have had their convictions overturned by an appeals court.
They had been sentenced to six years in jail and a fine of € …
Swedish prosecutors finally agree to London interview for Assange™
After deadlock for almost three years, Swedish prosecutors have finally agreed to travel to London to question WikiLeaks' co-founder Julian Assange™ on suspicion of sexual offences.
In a statement Marianne Ny, the Swedish director of public prosecutions, reiterated her view "that to perform an interview with [Julian Assange] at …
Lizard Squad gang moves from PlayStation, Xbox Live attacks to Tor
The developers of Tor, the software that tries to mask netizens' identities on the internet, have downplayed the arrival of 3,000 new relays – which are courtesy of a gang of mischief-makers.
Tor Project members say the flood of nodes will largely be ignored by the network.
The relays were seemingly introduced by Lizard Squad …
HP tells us all about EVA
HP has finally revised its mid-range mainstream EVA arrays with EVA6400 and 8400 models featuring more capacity and solid state drive (SSD) support. It has also announced an enhanced SAN Virtualization Services Platform supporting more multi-vendor SAN systems.
The EVA6400 updates and replaces the existing EVA6100 with the 8400 …
STEC goes all the way with EVA
Another tier one storage vendor has publicly pitched its tent in STEC's backyard - HP EVA arrays will use STEC solid state storage.
HP has been understood to be a STEC customer for some time. Now it is out in the open and we know that STEC's Zeus IOPS SSD is the product HP will use.
It's a case of the now classic array SSD use …
EFF sues NSA over snoops 'hoarding' zero-day security bugs
Intelligence agencies are among the most prolific buyers of zero-day computer security flaws that can be used to spy on enemies foreign and domestic, or so it's claimed – and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched a lawsuit to find out what exactly they are doing with them.
"Since these vulnerabilities potentially …
'Executed ex' of Norkers' bonkers Kim Jong-un rises FROM THE GRAVE
We're delighted to announce that reports of the execution last year of North Korean chanteuse Hyon Song-wol appear to have been greatly exaggerated.
The former lover of Nork supremo Kim Jong-un was allegedly dragged before a firing squad along with fellow musicians on charges of "videotaping themselves having sex and selling the …
HP to spruce EVA storage arrays
HP is set to launch its upgraded mid-range EVA storage arrays featuring 80TB+ increases in capacity, new controllers, and solid state drive (SSD) support.
According to a training document seen by The Register, HP has already started briefing relevant employees, contract trainers, and partners across Europe. The launch is, …
HP: Classic storage? Nah. They'll eat glommed store+serve gloop in '14
At its San Francisco analyst day event, HP CEO Meg Whitman laid out the main points of the tech giant's storage strategy – and it looks like "traditional" storage is no longer a priority.
3PAR (StoreServ)
StoreOnce deduping arrays
StoreAll object storage
The 3PAR product line is HP's now largest storage contributor, according …
An EMC-HP Borg cube will totally ANNIHILATE its storage worlds
Suppose EMC and HP merged: the result would be an outrageous nightmare of overlapping storage products. Managers would run screaming into the darkness, and bean counters would spend millions converging products. It's a no-go area, really.
Quick and dirty look at HP and EMC storage products A quick and dirty look at HP and EMC …
HP 3PAR kit wins X-Factor for mid-range storage arrays
Mirror, mirror on the wall, which is the fairest mid-range array of them all? Why, the 3PAR 7400, says enterprise data storage analyst DCIG.
The outfit rates storage gear in various categories, like enterprise midrange arrays and backup appliances. It updates its reports roughly once a year and is quite successful in getting …
HP dishes up iSCSI infusion for EVA systems
With its storage business on the mend, HP today announced a few additions to its StorageWorks EVA and XP lines.
First off, HP has started touting the "EVA iSCSI Connectivity Option." This lets customers turn an EVA system into a dedicated iSCSI box and means they can tap into data stored on Fibre Channel SANs (storage area …
Danish lit star Helle Helle, Marianne Faithfull and Jim Al-Khalili on Quantum Biology
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El Reg bookworm Mark Diston reviews the latest releases from the publishing world. Helle Helle proves a master of understatement while Marianne Faithfull's recollections seem large than life. And talking of life, scientists Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden shed light on the latest thinking on its mysteries.
This Should be …
Nimble nearly nudging $200m: Claims all-Flash grunt with partial iron
Hybrid array high-flier Nimble Storage has upped its revenues by 110 per cent annually - but deepened its losses by 109 per cent, as it eschews profits for growth.
In its first fiscal 2015 quarter revenues were $46.5 million compared to $41.7 million in the previous quarter and $22.1 million a year ago. The net loss was $19.6 …
HP: Look to the East, admins! Lo, it is Project Dawn
Dawn is approaching for HP storage, and the sun will rise on two new low-end 3PAR storage arrays providing a future for legacy EVA array users.
Currently there are three 3PAR models HP is focussing on:
The high-end P10000 with its fourth generation ASIC speeding its operations; it was announced in August 2011 and stores up to 1 …
HP clampdown on 'unauthorised' server fixing to start in January
Hewlett-Packard will start restricting who is allowed to fix its ProLiant servers starting in the new year.
HP is changing the way it delivers firmware updates for ProLiant systems from January, The Reg had learned, so only HP or HP-authorised partners are allowed to receive and install the patches.
According to a leaked …
HP preps little EVA starter box
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In a bid to boost its lagging storage business, HP today announced a new "starter kit" system in its EVA line that can scale up to 16TB.
The EVA3000 starter system is meant to help customers roll out low-end to midrange-sized SANs (storage area networks). It arrives as a SAN array with 2Gb Fibre Channel and bundled management …
Acer pulls out Wang, thrusts its wealth at Ho
Acer has appointed Eva Ho as Chief Financial Officer today to replace Lilia Wang, Bloomberg reports.
Ho, who was educated in Taiwan, previously held financial posts at Sun Microsystems China and Oracle. She will also take the role of company spokesperson and assume all her new responsibilities by the end of March.
The finances …
HP's plunging storage revenues could yet be saved
The good ship HP is being held back by many things and storage ain't helping, yet. The one brightspot there - 3PAR - can't overcome plunging revenues elsewhere.
The company reported its second quarter of its financial 2013 revenues yesterday. Within the overall Enterprise Group, the storage segment declined 13 per cent year-on- …
HP storage bods: We're not up there with EMC, but we're CRUSHING IBM
HP's annual storage sales are growing much faster than IBM's, but are eclipsed by the revenue growth of storage front-runners EMC and NetApp.
Stifel Nicolaus MD Aaron Rakers has computed the annual percentage change in storage revenues for the companies and we charted his numbers:
Major Storage vendors annual revenue changes …
HP makes FATA fatter for EVA
HP today scrambled to counter EMC's launch of a new Symmetrix monster by announcing an upgrade to the FATA (Fibre Attached Technology Adapted) drives used in its EVA storage line.
HP sexed-up the news with some Dilbert-speak.
The FATA technology will "better enable information delivery according to its business relevance," HP …
Microsoft store staff to hold all night vigil for Surface 2
Microsoft is planning a midnight launch for its next-generation Surface fondleslabs, to be capped by a performance by rapper Pitbull.
Reg readers may recall that Redmond pulled a similar stunt when it launched the Surface RT last October, holding witching-hour events at the 32 pop-up stores it opened for the holiday season. …
HP's StoreVirtual gets a bit older, decides it needs some Fibre
HP is adding Fibre Channel connectivity to its previously iSCSI access-only StoreVirtual range of arrays.
These are the re-branded LeftHand Networks iSCSI arrays and HP is introducing a new mid-range product as well as adding Fibre Channel access.
The new StoreVirtual models are:
4630 for the mid-range with 6Gbit/s SAS, a …
Defragger salesman frags HP
Defrag software supplier Diskeeper has denounced HP for failing to mention fragmentation issues.
Mandeep Birdi, a technical presales consultant at Diskeeper Corp Europe, said: "It's unfortunately becoming a little too common for me to hear from many customers who are adding SANs to their network estate, that their SAN vendor has …
New HDS array: It's a G1000 Jim, but not as we know it*
HDS has updated its 2010 vintage high-end VSP array with the VSP G1000 and a new operating system, together providing the "highest performance and most available unified storage system in the industry," and claiming it's "the most reliable hardware on the planet."
There are three mainstream high-end enterprise arrays; EMC's VMAX …
Scality proudly unveils its RING to the world
Is it possible? Could a digital media company have a single storage system for rich media libraries that covers linear archiving, non-linear play-out and scales indefinitely?
Storage biz Scality says, using its object storage-based RING for Digital Media, it is.
Digital media storage can be a heterogeneous nightmare. Take …
Competition crowdsources blisteringly-fast software
If you want a massive improvement in the software you use, the cheapest way to get it is to host a competition on TopCoder.
That seems to be at least one of the discoveries made when a group of research biologists staged a competition on the MIT-operated site. A two-week contest with regular prizes of $US500 ended up costing the …


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Bëor the Old (F.A. 262 – 355, aged 93 years) was the leader of the first Men to cross the Blue Mountains into Beleriand in the First Age. He was originally named Balan.
In F.A. 310, Finrod Felagund came upon Balan and his people and enchanted them with his music. Finrod quickly befriended the Men and advised them to settle in Estolad in the realm of Amrod. In 402, Orcs attempted to break through the Pass of Aglon, but the people of Bëor helped Maedhros and Maglor throw back the invaders. This was the first time Men fought on behalf of the Eldar.
Sometime between 415 and 420, Balan left with Finrod for his kingdom of Nargothrond, where he served as his vassal until his death. Bëor's eldest son, Baran, ruled the people of Bëor in his stead. The friendship of Bëor and Baran with the Eldar led to the creation of the First House of the Edain, which produced some of the greatest heroes of the First Age.
Balan was called Bëor by the Nargothrondrim, which meant "vassal" in Taliska, the language of the the people of Bëor. When Bëor finally died at the age of 93, a very old age for men at that time, he was given the epithet the Old'.
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Big Bang myth of creation also pretty extreme
Science is the way we understand the forces of nature as they exist today. But today's cosmic speculations and supposed successes in confirming them ("Cosmic Revelation," March 24) aren't science but simply flights of fantasy driven by faulty assumptions, especially the belief that we can infer the conditions of the past by projecting backward from what we observe today.
This is because most scientists arbitrarily (and thus falsely) assume the nonexistence of forces that we either don't recognize today or that are not active today (whether natural or supernatural) and that the forces we observe today always worked exactly as they do now. Sorry to all of you "science-worshippers," but because all of these things can't be known, science simply can't know how or when the universe was formed.
Thus, the notion that everything, including the laws of nature, simply sprang into existence from a single tiny particle is a far more extreme act of blind faith than belief in a creator God. Most scientists today also make a basic logical error in jumping to the conclusion that because science is the proper way to approach the physical world, then this must be all that exists. But this categorically excludes our own existence as knowing subjects. Thus the driving question of most cosmologists today, "Are we alone in the universe?" would actually be meaningless if ultimate reality was only matter/energy, mindless forces and space/time, for there wouldn't even be a real "we!"
Christopher Andrus
Recognition was greatly appreciated
I want to thank the Pleasanton Chamber of Commerce for the recognition at the 51st Community Service Awards. Your staff is outstanding, having had the opportunity to work next to them (or their parents) at many volunteer activities. Your Chamber members do fantastic things for our community and beyond. It was an honor to share the stage with current and past recipients.
I am especially thankful for the support of my wife, Nancy; our children, Jessica and James Brooks, Alex, Gabi and Elyssa. The leadership and fellow volunteers of the organizations for which I have had the opportunity to be a part of really deserve the recognition. These include CYO (Catholic Community of Pleasanton), Amador Valley High School Boosters, Special Olympics, committees for the school district, sports council and neighborhood initiatives. Additionally, city and school district staff deserve credit. Personally, some incredible families have shared challenges that have made a difference for others.
We are blessed to have an appreciative community with such a serving spirit. Thank you all for thanking those who serve you!
Greg Thome
Article good but missed a few points
I was so pleased to see the well-written article by Maggie Sharpe about the Honoring Women Vets' event put on by Las Positas College's Veterans First program.
This program gets neither the credit nor attention it so richly deserves, so having this front page on the local section was wonderful to see. However, I was terribly disappointed in some omissions of the story. I think it's important to know that in addition to her time as active-duty Army, Mary King was also a West Point graduate. A pretty impressive lady to be sure, and she continues to work tirelessly for vets in her capacity at PG&E.
Retired Brig. Gen. Lucy Titus, whose military career began in the late '40s, is also a very impressive lady who addressed the gathering ending her short remarks by saying she'd still take a bullet for any of those ladies. But the most important aspect of the article omission is the fact that seven $500 scholarships were awarded that day to deserving women student veterans in the Veterans First program at Las Positas. PG&E awarded two of them, but FIVE were awarded by the Josefa Higuera Livermore chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution -- two of them anonymously, and three of them by donations of $20 -- $50 by many chapter members. Last year the ladies of this chapter provided three $500 scholarships, one anonymously, but obviously outdid themselves this year in support of these young women students. Providing scholarships for Women Veterans at Las Positas is an integral part of this event, and it should have been recognized in the article.
Kathy Chase
No taxpayer bailout for Bankhead
The Bankhead Theater in Livermore (operated by Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center) is in serious financial trouble. Most residents probably don't know that the county and city have already given tax dollars to LVPAC to keep the theater afloat. Fees from the Vasco dump also help support the theater.
Supporters claim that the theater is responsible for the revitalization of downtown, bringing millions of dollars into the community. The assumption is that this money is generated when theatergoers shop and dine out. If that were true, when the theater is dark, downtown would be quiet. Anyone who drives on First Street knows this is not accurate.
Supporters also claim that the Bankhead is needed to provide educational opportunities for students. Venues including Livermore High and Las Positas could be used for programs such as Science on Saturday.
LVPAC needs to devise a plan to solve their financial problems without depending on taxpayers. We are fortunate that LVPAC did not get to build a second multimillion dollar theater when they can't manage the finances of the first.
Linda Trame
News more important than sports
In the April 1 publication of the San Ramon Valley Times, the prominent front page article entitled "Monty: It's time" chronicled the announced retirement of longtime Stanford and Cal men's basketball coach Mike Montgomery.
While this is certainly newsworthy it needs to be viewed within the context of other stories that ran that day in the main section of the paper. Back on page A6 of the first section ran an article of a just released study from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) entitled, "Panel: Warming planet faces hunger 'hot spots.' "
The premise of this article focused on the IPCC's extensive study and findings surrounding future food production affecting 7 billion people. While the study looks out toward 2050 and says food prices are expected to go up somewhere in a wide range of 3 to 84 percent the underlying message is that climate change is going to have a significant and dramatic effect on world food production in the coming years. This seems to be a more important piece of news than the retirement of a college basketball coach (albeit a good one).
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Wedding Guide: the best wedding photographers in Toronto
Partners Vanessa Heins and Jess Baumung use their doubles act to get multiple perspectives on the client's big day, producing stylish, candid images backed up by Heins's experience in editorial photography and Baumung's background in live-music shots. They only do 20 weddings a year, so book early. From $3,500. By appointment.
Wedding Guide: the best bridal florists in Toronto
Bloom the Flower Company
1009 Yonge St. (at Crescent Rd.), 416-324-9900
Event planner–cum–floral designer Paul Girling set out to bring inspiring flower design to Rosedale. The shop is famous for its jaw-dropping window arrangements, which feature unconventional elements like green roses, proteas, kiwi branches, asparagus and brussels sprouts. Bouquets start at $35, but average $150 for brides and $80 for bridesmaids. Centrepieces are $75–$600 plus delivery and set-up. Full service available. Closed Sunday.
Wedding Guide: 10 top spots to get wedding invitations in Toronto
Carte Blanche Design
35 Collahie St. (at Gladstone Ave.), 416-885-5399
Customized invitations allow the bride and groom to show off their personal style, but graphic designer M. J. Fontaine also has prototypes on hand to get the creative juices flowing. She specializes in creating
a specific look to be used throughout the special day. For an art deco wedding, she created a period monogram and all the printed materials (including seating board and gift tags). She also does thermal engraving. From $7 per custom invitation set. By appointment.
Wedding Guide: the best Toronto wedding planners
60 Sumach St. (at Queen St. E.), 416-323-3353
Wedding coordinator Tara O'Grady is known for her unflaggingly good taste. Bliss's staff of four consult from their downtown studio, pulling off six-tent high-society extravaganzas, small out-of-town gatherings in Niagara-on-the-Lake and chic urban restaurant weddings at places like Canoe. Clients' budgets range from $50,000 to $250,000. Wedding day service from $2,500. Full service from $5,000. By appointment.
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Bakerbots Baking
Trained as a visual artist as well as a baker, Rosanne Pezzelli loves to experiment with non-traditional shapes and sculptural forms (a cake that looks like a geisha, for example). Her sense of whimsy is evident in a simple cream-coloured three-tier with a handful of pastel macarons tumbling down the side. A stunning white cake with a sugar bow edged in black showcases beautiful restraint. Each cake—made with eggs, milk, butter and Belgian chocolate—features at least two layers, with possible fillings including chocolate-hazelnut buttercream or cream cheese frosting. Cakes from $1,000. By appointment.


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Seven years ago this week, Muslim terrorists from al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial jets, flew two of them into the World Trade Center, rammed the third into the Pentagon and crashed the fourth in a field in pastoral Somerset County, Pennsylvania – leaving close to 3,000 people dead by lunchtime on Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
The bloodbath brought a holy war to this secular nation and changed the world. It forced us to gag on a crash course in the poisonous zeal of Islam's extremists, and the mentality of its mainstream followers, who kept their heads bowed and their lips zipped as the tumult and disbelief unfolded – and expanded.
As is the wont of progressive nations, after the tears had subsided and the anger justified with sort-them-out sorties in Afghanistan and blistering blitzkriegs in Baghdad, where weapons of mass destruction have a long and sordid history, a new phenomenon emerged: the radicalization of reason.
Almost subliminally, since 9/11, there has been an international, multi-level crusade to temper the terror assaults perpetuated upon America, London and Madrid in the name of Islam, and to near forget those which have disrupted and destroyed the Islamic world from within, because no one quite knows how to deal with anarchistic, suicidal people, nor resolve their issues except by offering them a pacifier to suckle.
Why the Free World is able to proceed – and even turn the anger inward by concocting 9/11 conspiracy theories when al-Qaeda admitted to the attacks – is plain and simple: People living in progressive, liberated countries have a verve for life and a new day.
Their priorities and emotions differ from those bogged down in the lawless nations of the Third, Arab and Central Asian sectors, where the earth's bounty has been depleted by deadly demagogues, and where spineless societies malinger because they cannot, or will not, find the courage from within to stem the tide.
The fallout is detrimental. For a new generation, the war on terror – brought to our shore by our enemies – has become America's doing and ruination, and slandered its reputation, while history, in hindsight, will record a far different version.
Seven years later, whether in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, or elsewhere on this beautiful planet, Muslims are exacting their revenge on the western world – and there seem to be few obstacles along their quest to Islamicise all of us.
One of the more disturbing ramifications is the curtailment of free speech, likely borne more of a fear of repercussions from a society known for its emotional drama and tantrums.
Beacons of authority in the west have been scared into mollifying Muslims. In March, when Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders released his short film, "Fitna" about Islamic universalism and the Koran's incentive for terrorism, the Muslim uproar deafened craters on Mars, no television company would air it, terrified Dutch politicians tried to ban it and Jordanian justice authorities sent "a signal to the Netherlands" by prosecuting Wilders as a criminal. When the British Website, LiveLeak.com finally aired the film, it promptly removed it after receiving death threats.
Then, there was the case, last year, of the Canadian Human Rights Commission and the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal blacklisting conservative writer Mark Steyn – compelling him to move to the United States – because his book, "America Alone," offended the Canadian Islamic Congress, which thought it "flagrantly Islamophobic."
Easily insulted, emotionally volatile and ever subjective, Muslims have not been able to turn the other cheek because of the militaristic aspects found in the Koran. The inability to take part in necessary world discourse about Islam and its practitioners is one more indicator of the shaky Muslim mind, which cannot seem to cope with criticism beyond flying off the handle, and issuing fatwas – much less learn from it.
Nor can we afford to forget about fundamental Islam's growing numbers, its huge, radical wingspan and its hatred of western beliefs. That trilogy of woes is only exacerbated by what has become the near bastardization of 9/11.
Can its commercialization be too far away?
Some events are just too monumental and catastrophic to place on the back burner of time. The next president of the United States should not forget that close to 3,000 victims made the supreme sacrifice on September 11, 2001. They should not be allowed to have died in vain.
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