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This marks my 100th post to the Touring Gear and Tips column, and after looking back through some previous posts, I thought I would take this opportunity to run down some of the touring gear that I have been most excited about. What follows are my personal favorites, and should not be taken as a definitive 'best of' list, since I don't necessarily believe that there is a true best of show in bicycle touring.

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Has anyone taken the Kim Weston 8x10 workshop? http://kimweston.com/workshops/workshops_8x10.htm
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Has anyone taken the Kim Weston 8x10 workshop? http://kimweston.com/workshops/workshops_8x10.htm
I've been kicking around the idea of taking it.
I haven't attended. But I think that it would be a wonderful experience in a very traditional way of working. The heritage is certainly apparent. The fellow that was and is associated with Brett Weston would be of particular interest. I would hang around him as much as I could simply because I have a high appreciation of Brett Weston's work...maybe some of Brett's ability to "see" has transferred to this gentleman. There is only one other workshop that I can think of that would be of interest to me.
one of my students has taken several of his workshops. really enjoyed them.
I will ask him if it is ok to give you his email address and you can discuss this directly.
Thanks Ann.
did you get my message? Hate to use the global board, but am not sure you got the pm.
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Now I am curious.....Care to share your aspirations. I'd settle for a course with you.
You flatter me. I have not given any thought to offering workshops at this time. I still have much to learn. The other workshop that I would consider is not mine...LOL Thanks for the compliment anyway.
I'm with you on this..would consider a workshop from Don anytime. I think that it may have something to do with where we are in our photography Don, but for some of us, it would be a learning experience.
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"Tsunami geology had the potential to provide estimates of the recurrence of past great Tohoku earthquakes and the minimum inland extent of their accompanying tsunamis," Sawai wrote in a report published Nov. 9 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. It also "might have reduced casualties by improving evacuation maps and informing public-awareness campaigns," he wrote.
Sawai's team examined sand deposits from historical tsunamis along the eastern coast of Japan's Honshu Island. Using stratigraphy and radiocarbon dating, they were able to tie one of those deposits to the Jogan earthquake, which struck Tohoku in 869.
The Jogan deposit underlies the city of Sendai and extends approximately 62 miles (100 kilometers) along the Honshu coast and 1.1 miles (1.8 km) inland. Sawai's team used this data to model the parameters of the Jogan earthquake. They estimate it had a magnitude of at least 8.4 and accompanied a rupture in the Japan Trench at least 124 miles (200 km) long and 62 miles (100 km) wide. (The 2011 earthquake was a magnitude 9.0 and ruptured a fault segment about 190 miles (300 km) long.)
The new findings indicate that major quakes occur in this region every 500 to 800 years — more frequently than researchers had previously estimated.
Until now, researchers had not been able to estimate the magnitude of the 869 earthquake.
Sawai's team has nailed down the minimum magnitude of 8.4 for that quake, but a maximum magnitude will be hard to calculate, he said.
One reason is that researchers don't know how far tsunami floodwaters from the Jogan event may have extended beyond the sand deposit. "We cannot reconstruct water inundation from geology, so far, so we had to model flooding adjacent to the sandy tsunami deposit," Sawai said.
This means they likely underestimated the size of the Jogan tsunami — the 2011 tsunami extended significantly beyond its sand deposit. The team may have also underestimated the north-south extent of the sand deposit, since they couldn't pinpoint its edges.
The new findings should help improve seismic hazard assessments for the Tohoku region, Sawai said.
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They took a gamble with the No. 88's fuel and ran out of it on the final lap as Keselowski passed him for victory. "As soon as I got to the top of one and two the past several laps, I felt like he (Keselowski) wasn't going to get me," Earnhardt said. "I felt fine that if we had enough gas we weren't going to have a problem. But we didn't have enough gas."
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Seems contradictory at first, but during economic slowdowns, accessory sales can spike. Folks who are unwilling to spend $2,000 on a new DSLR system happily spend $200 on accessories to refresh their aging system. And they'll do it over and over. Show them a reason and they'll find a way.
I first noticed this phenomenon three decades ago when America's economy stumbled under the Carter administration. Sales of high-ticket items got slammed, but lenses, gadget bags and other less expensive items fared better.
Minolta distributed the Cokin Creative Filter system in those days (and for nearly 25 years thereafter, until the Konica fiasco), and Cokin sales stayed steady even as the economy faltered. At that time I kept remembering this phrase, and I'm sorry that I cannot remember who said it first: The last thing a person gives up is their hobby.
Serious enthusiasts and hobbyists are always willing to buy accessories that expand their creative horizons. But they can't if they don't know what's available. The key to selling accessories is exposure. Find ways to let your customers know what's new, what it does and most important of all, why they need it. It's a matter of Show and Sell.
"Train your staff to assess the customer's needs, and then approach the transaction from this point of view: what can I do that will enhance this customer's experience and, at the same time, help the store that I work for."
We asked Tom Gramegna, president and owner of Bergen County Camera, located in Westwood and Englewood, New Jersey, how his organization encourages accessory sales.
"Bergen County Camera is fortunate because we benefit from the strength of others," he said. "We're part of the PRO buying group and we share best practices.
"Kits are one way to sell accessories, but frankly, we're ambivalent about kits," Gramegna continued. "We've tried kits for products other than cameras, things like flash units and tripods. Our conclusion is that a well-oiled sales machine doesn't need a kit. The key is training; training, and making the sales staff aware of where their paycheck comes from. It's not just from selling popular hardware."


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POTSDAM Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is reaching far across the state to fill a board investigating New York utilities resilience and response to large fall storms.
Clarkson University President Anthony G. Collins has been appointed to a commission to investigate and study utilities storm readiness and management after the Oct. 29 landfall of Hurricane Sandy, which brought high winds and more than 13 feet of storm surge into New York City and Long Island.
I think it is important that we get onto this as quickly as possible because this is an event fresh in peoples minds, he said. You want to know why the grid isnt more resilient to the weather. We need to understand and give definition to the questions you want answered.
The hurricane struck hundreds of miles away in New Jersey, but Mr. Cuomo looked statewide for the 10-member commission, including to the north country and for good reason. Mr. Collins said the appointment plays into the governors vision of transforming the north country into an energy exporter.
I think it is farsighted that the governor would reach out to someone in the north country, where we foresee building wind, solar and biomass energy, he said. The region has an interest in making sure our concerns are understood in creating a better grid and capacity to respond in the future to problems.
Due to a warming climate, Mr. Collins said, fierce coastal storms like hurricanes will affect New York with greater frequency. We need to be ready to respond to what negative impacts may occur to the power systems, what negatives can occur and learn how we would respond knowing we can expect these kinds of events to occur more frequently, he said.
As utilities restored service to the final pockets of Long Island households without power after Hurricane Sandys impact, Mr. Cuomo called for the commission. The storm cut service to 2.2 million New York households.
Long Island Power Authority Chief Operating Officer Michael D. Hervey resigned Tuesday amid criticism from customers and state officials that his agency was slow to respond to the storm.
After the slow response, Mr. Cuomo formed the commission, giving it powers to subpoena witnesses. The commissions findings could translate into legislation next year.
I believe something like this is going to happen again, Mr. Cuomo said. I think we need to be better prepared. We need to learn from it.
New Yorks power grid has struggled to weather a series of strong autumn storms, including Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee in 2011. This year, utilities have taken more than two weeks in some places to reconnect power.
We have aging infrastructure. We know that the weather seems to becoming more severe, and if you put all that together, the question becomes is there a better, more organized way of responding to make the response more efficient, he said.
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A few weeks ago, my home was under attack by an unidentified smell. It offended me in such a primal way that at first I assumed it was a dead animal, but soon discovered that our plumbing had revolted against us. As I gagged and grimaced my way through the days until the repairs were finished, I couldn't help but be reminded of Victorian London.
Close your eyes and think of England. What do you see? Perhaps you see lovely ladies in elaborate dresses and dapper gentlemen sauntering through the streets of London. Or modestly-dressed country tourists gazing in wonder at the metropolis. Or maybe you are a bit more practical and through this pretty picture you also see a filthy little Oliver Twist darting among the crowd. Now, do you also see the horse manure on the dirt road? Or the slaughter house around the corner? If in your imaginings you also use your sense of smell, you would be nearly knocked out because, let's get real: Victorian London smelled bad–really, really bad.
Most immediately, your nostrils would be assaulted by the myriad smells of the businesses of "fat-boilers, glue-renderers, fell-mongers, tripe-scrapers, [and] dog-skinners,"1 that are going on all around you, right there in the middle of London. But the worst offense of all lies just below the surface.
The way the sewage system worked in the mid-century is that, in addition to open ditches, which were going out of favor but still existed, there was a series of underground brick and granite tunnels with various types of drainage openings. Newer homes had their own drain hole of about 2-6 inches in diameter and some buildings like Parliament had larger barrel-drains into which they could cast any garbage and human waste down. Otherwise, there were gulley-holes, or trap door holes on the street going directly down to the sloped tunnel below. These gulley-holes were frequently stopped up, having been inundated with feces, food, road trash, and blood and other refuse from slaughter houses. Once all of this stuff was in the sewer system, the final destination was the Thames, if it made it that far.
Henry Mayhew was concerned about the people of London of all ranks and classes and he wrote extensively on the conditions of the poor. He also wrote about sanitation and seemed to be ahead of his time in understanding the link between sanitation and health. In his various printings of London Labour and the London Poor, from which a good deal of my descriptions come, he fills many pages, discussing in great detail the sewage system of London.
He explains how the tide of moving sewage water can be as far removed from the street surface as 51 feet (north side of the Thames) and as close as 5 feet (south side of the Thames), and he quotes an official statement regarding the south side that, "When the tide rises above the orifices of the sewers, the whole drainage of the district is stopped until the tide recedes again, rendering the whole system of sewers in Kent and Surrey only an articulation of cesspools."2 These cesspools can be seen as "dead ends," where refuse just piled up due to lack of water running through to cleanse it.
Here is a list of some things you may find in such a dead end:
The deposit has been found to comprise all the ingredients from the breweries, the gas-works, and the several chemical and mineral manufactories; dead dogs, cats, kittens, and rats; offal from slaughter-houses, sometimes even including the entrails of the animals; street-pavement dirt of every variety; vegetable refuse; stable-dung; the refuse of pig-styes; night-soil; ashes; tin kettles and pans (pansherds); broken stoneware…; pieces of wood; rotten mortar and rubbish of different kinds; and even rags.3
In the case of backed up debris, people had to manually pull this "crap" up to the street surface. And you thought your job sucked. The sewage tunnels were so old and in such a bad state that pile ups were frequent and clean-up crews had a difficult time maneuvering the putrid and treacherous paths. As you can imagine, some became overwhelmed. From an account of a survey party in Surrey and Kent in 1849:
The surveyors…find great difficulty in levelling the sewers of this district; for, in the first place, the deposit is usually about two feet in depth, and in some cases it amounts to nearly five feet of putrid matter. The smell is usually of the most horrible description, the air being so foul that explosion an choke damp are very frequent. On the 12th January we were very nearly losing a whole party by choke damp, the last man being dragged out on his back (through two feet of black foetid deposits) in a state of insensibility…Two men of one party had also a narrow escape from drowning in the Alscot-road sewer, Rotherhithe.4
Something else to consider are those drainage holes in the houses: when a backup occurred in a neighborhood, the smell (and sometimes nasty matter) had to go somewhere, and often that was right up into the homes. And though the money of high society could afford such personalized disposal holes, it couldn't pay for immunity against the stench:
In the Belgrave and Eaton-square districts there are many faulty places in the sewers which abound with noxious matter, in many instances stopping up the house drains and "smelling horribly." It is much the same in the Grosvenor, Hanover, and Berkeley-square localities (the houses in the squares themselves included). Also in the neighbourhood of Covent-garden, Clare-market, Soho and Fitzroy-squares; while north of Oxford stree, in and about Cavendish, Bryanstone, Manchester, and Portman-squares, there is so much rottenness and decay that there is no security for the sewers standing from day to day…throughout the new Paddington district the neighbourhood of Hyde Park Gardens andt he costly squares and streets adjacent, the sewers abound with the foulest deposit, from which the most disgusting effluvium arises."5
But let us not forget that the Thames was not just for waste disposal: "We drink, and use for the preparation of our meals, the befouled water…; for, more than seven-eighths of our water-supply from the companies is drawn from the Thames, the main sewer of the greatest city in the world, ancient or modern, into which millions of tons of every description of refuse are swept yearly."6
Oh, but it was worse for the poor:
We then journeyed on to London street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course…As we passed along the reeking banks of the sewer, the sun shown upon a narrow slip of the water. In the bright light it appeared the colour of strong green tea, and positively looked as solid as black marble in the shadow. Indeed, it was more like watery mud than muddy water, and yet we were assured this was the only water the wretched inhabitants had to drink.
As we gazed in horror at the pool, we saw drains and sewers emptying their filthy contents into it, we saw a whole tier of doorless privies in the open road, common to men and women built over it, we heard bucket after bucket of filth splash into it, and the limbs of the vagrant boys bathing in it, seemed, by pure force of contrast, white as Parian marble.
And yet as we stood gazing in horror at the fluvial sewer, we saw a child from one of the galleries opposite lower a tin can with a rope, to fill a large bucket that stood beside her…We asked if they really did drink the water? The answer was, "They were obliged to drink the ditch unless they could beg or thieve a pailful of the real Thames."7
At the time, the connection was only beginning to be made between water contamination and the persistent cholera that had plagued Britain (though they did believe that air quality, or "miasma," could be to blame), so although Parliament and media outlets were besieged by outcry from the concerned public, lawmakers repeatedly fought over a complete overhaul of the sewage system because it would be too costly a project to undertake.
But then developed a situation in the summer of 1858 that pushed proper waste disposal to the front of the London consciousness and it seemed like money was no longer an object. This was the Great Stink of London.
It's hard to imagine that the smell and sanitary conditions prior to 1858 were not the worst of it, but certainly the Great Stink was impressive. One newspaper wrote, "Gentility of speech is at an end – it stinks; and whoso once inhales the stink can never forget it and can count himself lucky if he lives to remember it."8
The smell was so powerful that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert turned around after only minutes of a cruise down the Thames, and the House of Commons considered moving locations after sheets soaked in lime chloride didn't mask the problem. It is no surprise, then, that after years of bickering, in this summer of 1858 it took only 18 days to reach a decision to build a new sewer system at the cost of what would be £1.5 billion today.9
Joseph Bazalgette was the engineer who undertook the massive project and it took 16 years to completely finish. It seemed to work for the time but was far from perfect. In 1895 the leaky pipes burst during a drought and caused a water shortage that resulted in many poor neighborhoods getting their water shut off completely.10
It seems that London is doomed to have sewage problems. According to the Times Online, due to leaky old pipes, "3.5 billion litres of water are lost a day in England and Wales, more than a fifth of the country's supply,"11 and that is certainly distressing.
Considering what the Victorians went through, I can't really complain about my own personal house stench. In my case, a few weeks now of clean air has turned the smell into a distant memory. As for society at large, we are over 150 years removed from the powerful stench of the Victorian era. Maybe just something to think about next time you sit back and enjoy Dickens' A Christmas Carol…
1 Kellow Chesney, The Victorian Underworld (Devon: Readers Union Limited, 1970), 16
2 Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor: the condition and earnings of those that will work, cannot work, and will not work, Vol. 2 (London: Charles Griffin and Company, 1851), 443
3 Ibid., 446
4 Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor: a cyclopaedia of the conditions and earnings of (1) those that will not work; (2) those that cannot work; and (3) those that will not work re-issue of Vol. 1 (G. Woodfall, 1852), 395
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid., 390
7 Henry Mayhew and William S. Gilbert, London Characters (London: Chatoo and Windus, 1881), 453
8 Paul Simons, "The big stench that saved London," The Times Online: The Sunday Times, 17 June, 2008
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid.
11 Ibid.
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Gizmodo is reporting how the recent bomb scares will likely have the unintended consequence of delaying the rollout of in-flight wi-fi, a process that seems to be woefully behind schedule as it is. The problem? Wi-fi means its easier to set off a bomb remotely. Per Gizmodo:
The trouble, according to Roland Alford of explosives consultancy firm Alford Technologies, is that the benefits in-flight cellphone and Wi-Fi tech provides for your average traveler could give someone with malevolent intentions a way [to detonate a bomb]: "In-flight Wi-Fi gives a bomber lots of options for contacting a device on an aircraft," Alford says. "Even if ordinary cellphone connections are blocked, it would allow a voice-over-internet connection to reach a handset."
Come on, there's got to be a way around this? Secure networks, in-flight IT plane marshals . . . bomb screening? If I'm forced to watch "Mamma Mia" on the plane instead of browsing the web or checking my email, then the terrorists have in fact really won.
What about wi-fi on buses? In our nine months in South America, we found a few buses that offered that service for free (though it didn't always work). This would be such a plus on long bus rides. We frequently took 12-24 hour-long bus rides.
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Podcast #240 - GTX TITAN Benchmarks, Frame Rating, Tegra 4 Details and more!
Subject: General Tech | February 28, 2013 - 03:45 PM | Ken Addison
Tagged: video, titan, sli, R5000, podcast, nvidia, H90, H110, gtx titan, frame rating, firepro, crossfire, amd
PC Perspective Podcast #240 - 02/28/2013
Join us this week as we discuss GTX TITAN Benchmarks, Frame Rating, Tegra 4 Details and more!
You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you can still access it directly through the RSS page HERE.
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Hosts: Ryan Shrout, Jeremy Hellstrom, Josh Walrath and Allyn Malventano
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Program length: 1:24:28
Podcast topics of discussion:
- 0:01:18 PCPer Podcast BINGO!
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- 0:40:30 This Podcast is brought to you by MSI!
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- 0:41:45 New Offices coming for NVIDIA
- 0:45:00 Chromebook Pixel brings high-res to high-price
- 0:48:00 GPU graphics market updates from JPR
- 0:55:45 Tegra 4 graphics details from Mobile World Congress
- 1:01:00 Unreal Engine 4 on PS4 has reduced quality
- 1:04:10 Micron SAS SSDs
- 1:08:25 AMD FirePro R5000 PCoIP Card
1:13:35 Hardware / Software Pick of the Week
- Ryan: NOT this 3 port HDMI switch
- Jeremy: Taxidermy + PICAXE, why didn't we think of this before?
- Josh: Still among my favorite headphones
- Allyn: Cyto
- 1:13:35 Hardware / Software Pick of the Week
- 1-888-38-PCPER or email@example.com
- http://pcper.com/podcast
- http://twitter.com/ryanshrout and http://twitter.com/pcper
- Closing/outro
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AMD Releases the FIREPRO R5000: PCoIP and Teradici
Subject: Graphics Cards | February 27, 2013 - 09:42 PM | Josh Walrath
Tagged: workstations, virtualization, Teradici, remote management, R5000, pitcairn, PCoIP, firepro, amd
A few days back AMD released one of their latest FIREPRO workstation graphics cards. For most users out there this will be received with a bit of a shrug. This release is a bit different though, and it reflects a change in direction in the PC market. The original PC freed users from mainframes and made computing affordable for most people. Today we are seemingly heading back to the mainframe/thin client setup of yore, but with hardware and connectivity that obviously was not present in the late 70s. The FIREPRO R5000 is hoping to redefine remote graphics.
Today's corporate environment is chaotic when it comes to IT systems. The amount of malware, poor user decisions, and variability in software and hardware configurations is a constant headache to IT workers. A big push it to make computing more centralized in the company with easy oversight from IT workers. Servers with multiple remote users can be more easily updated and upgraded than going to individual PCs around the offices to do the same work. This is good for a lot of basic users, but it does not address the performance needs of power users who typically run traditional workstations.
AMD hopes to change that thinking with the R5000. This is a Pitcairn based product (7800 series on the desktop) that is built to workstation standards. It also features a secret weapon; the Teradici TERA2240 host processor. Teradici is a leader in PCoIP technology. PCoIP is simply "PC over IP". Instead of a traditional remote host which limits performance and desktop space, Teradici developed PCoIP to more adequately send large amounts of pixel data over a network. The user essentially is able to leverage the power of a modern GPU rather than rely on the more software based rendering of remote sessions. The user has a thin client provided by a variety of OEMs to choose from and they connect directly over IP.
The advantages here is that the GPU is again used to its full potential, which is key for those doing heavy video editing work, 3D visualization, and CADD type workloads. The latest R5000 can support resolutions up to 2560x1600 up to two displays. The same card can support 1920x1200 on four displays. It supports upwards of 60 fps in applications. The TERA2240 essentially encodes the output and streams it over IP. The thin client re-encodes the stream and displays the results. This promises very low latency over smaller networks, and very manageable latency over large or wide area networks.
The downside here is that one client at a time can connect to the card. The card cannot be virtualized as such so that multiple users can access the resources of the GPU. The card CAN run in a virtualized environment, but it is again limited to one client per card. Multiple cards can be placed in each server and the hardware is then placed in its own VM. While this makes management of hardware a bit easier, it still is an expensive solution when it comes to a per user basis. Where efficiency may be regained is when it is placed in an environment where shift work takes place. Or another setting is a University where these cards are housed in high powered servers away from classrooms so cooling and sound are not issues impeding learning.
Too good to be true; bad coding versus GPGPU compute power
Subject: General Tech | November 23, 2012 - 01:03 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: gpgpu, amd, nvidia, Intel, phi, tesla, firepro, HPC
The skeptics were right to question the huge improvements seen when using GPGPUs in a system for heavy parallel computing tasks. The cards do help a lot but the 100x improvements that have been reported by some companies and universities had more to do with poorly optimized CPU code than with the processing power of GPGPUs. This news comes from someone who you might not expect to burst this particular bubble, Sumit Gupta is the GM of NVIDIA's Tesla team and he might be trying to mitigate any possible disappointment from future customers which have optimized CPU coding and won't see the huge improvements seen by academics and other current customers. The Inquirer does point out a balancing benefit, it is obviously much easier to optimize code in CUDA, OpenCL and other GPGPU languages than it is to code for multicored CPUs.
"Both AMD and Nvidia have been using real-world code examples and projects to promote the performance of their respective GPGPU accelerators for years, but now it seems some of the eye popping figures including speed ups of 100x or 200x were not down to just the computing power of GPGPUs. Sumit Gupta, GM of Nvidia's Tesla business told The INQUIRER that such figures were generally down to starting with unoptimised CPU."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Intel reportedly speeds up development of low-power processors @ DigiTimes
- Firefox and Opera squish big buffer overflow bugs @ The Register
- Hexing MAC address reveals Wifi passwords @ The Register
- Cisco Linksys EA6500 Smart Wi-Fi Router Review @ Legit Reviews
- Camera shootout: Samsung Galaxy S III vs S III mini @ Hardware.info
- Black Friday Tech Deals @ TechReviewSource
- Lawrence 'Empire Strikes Back' Kasdan to pen future Star Wars script @ The Register
- Win Corsair AX860i, AX760i, AX860 & AX760 power supplies @ Kitguru
Podcast #227 - Golden Z77 Motherboard from ECS, High Powered WiFi from Amped Wireless, Supercomputing GPUs and more!
Subject: General Tech | November 15, 2012 - 02:10 PM | Ken Addison
Tagged: titan, thor, tesla, s1000, podcast, nvidia, k20x, Intel, golden board, firepro, ECS, dust, Amped Wireless, amd
PC Perspective Podcast #227 - 11/15/2012
Join us this week as we talk about a Golden Z77 Motherboard from ECS, High Powered WiFi from Amped Wireless, Supercomputing GPUs and more!
You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you can still access it directly through the RSS page HERE.
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Hosts: Ryan Shrout, Jeremy Hellstrom, Josh Walrath, and Allyn Malventano
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Program length: 1:07:04
Podcast topics of discussion:
- Join us for the Hitman: Absolution Game Stream
- Week in Reviews:
- 0:18:00 This Podcast is brought to you by MSI!
News items of interest:
- 0:19:00 A renaissance of game types that have been sadly missing
- 0:24:00 You missed our live Medal of Honor Game Stream - loser!
- 0:26:12 NVIDIA launches Tesla K20X Card, Powers Titan Supercomputer
- 0:30:15 AMD Launches Dual Tahiti FirePro S10000
- 0:38:00 Some guy leaves Microsoft - is the Start Menu on its way back??
- 0:41:40 AMD is apparently not for sale
- 0:46:05 ECS joins the Thunderbolt family with a new Z77 motherboard
0:54:00 Hardware / Software Pick of the Week
- Ryan: Corsair Hydro Series H60 for $75
- Jeremy: Form over function or vice versa?
- Josh: A foundation worth donating to
- Allyn: ArmorSuit Military Shields
- 0:54:00 Hardware / Software Pick of the Week
- 1-888-38-PCPER or firstname.lastname@example.com
- http://pcper.com/podcast
- http://twitter.com/ryanshrout and http://twitter.com/pcper
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AMD Launches Dual Tahiti FirePro S10000 Graphics Card
Subject: Graphics Cards | November 13, 2012 - 04:15 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: tahiti, HPC, gpgpu, firepro s10000, firepro
On Monday, AMD launched its latest graphics card aimed at the server and workstation market. Called the AMD FirePro S10000 (for clarity, that's FirePro S10,000), it is a dual GPU Tahiti graphics card that offers up some impressive performance numbers.
No, unfortunately, this is not the (at this point) mythical dual-7970 AMD HD 7990 graphics card. Rather, the FirePro S10,000 is essentially two Radeon 7950 GPUs on a single PCB along with 6 GB of GDDR5 memory. Specifications on the card include 3,584 stream processors, a GPU clock speed of 825 MHz, and 6 GB GDDR5 with a total of 480 GB/s of memory bandwidth. That is 1,792 stream processors and 3 GB of memory per GPU. Interestingly, this is a dual slot card with an active cooler. At 375W, a passive cooler is just not possible in a form factor necessary to fit into a server rack. Therefore, AMD has equipped the FirePro S10,000 GPGPU card with a triple fan cooler reminiscant of the setup PowerColor uses on its custom (2x7970) Devil 13, but not as large. The FirePro card has three red fans (shrouded by a black cover) over a heatpipe and aluminum fin heatsink. The card does include display outputs for workstation uses including one DVI and four mini DisplayPort ports.
AMD is claiming 1.48 TFLOPS in double precision work and 5.91 TFLOPS in single precision workloads. Those are impressive numbers, and the card even manages to beat NVIDIA's new Tesla K20X with big Kepler GK110 and the company's dual GPU GK104 Tesla K10 by notable margins. Additionally, the new FirePro S10000 manages to beat its FirePro 9000 predecessor handily. The S9000 in comparison is rated at 0.806 TFLOPS for double precision calculations and 3.23 TFLOPS on single precision work. The S9000 is a single GPU card equivalent to the Radeon 7950 on the consumer side of things with 1,792 shader cores. AMD has essentially taken two S9000 cards and put them on a single PCB, and managed to get almost twice the potential performance without needing twice the power.
Efficiency and calculations per watt were numbers that AMD did not dive too much into, but the company did share that the new FirePro S10000 achieves 3.94 GLOPS/W. AMD compares this to NVIDIA's dual GPU (Fermi-based) Tesla M2090 at 2.96 GFLOPS/W. Unfortunately, NVIDIA has not shared a single GPU GFLOPS/W rating on its new K20X cards.
|Double Precision
|Single Precision
|Tahiti (x2)
|Tahiti (x1)
|GK104 (x2)
|Memory Bandwidth
|480 GB/s
|264 GB/s
|250 GB/s
|320 GB/s
|Memory Capacity
|Stream Processors
|Core clock speed
|825 MHz
|900 MHz
|732 MHz
Other features of the AMD FirePro S10000 include support for OpenCL, Microsoft RemoteFX, Direct GPU pass-through, and (shared) virtualized graphics. AMD envisions businesses using these FirePro cards to provide GPU hardware acceleration for virtualized desktops and thin clients. With Xen Server, multiple users are able to tap into the hardware acceleration offered by the FirePro S10000 to speed up desktop and speed up programs that support it.
Operating systems in particular have begun tapping into GPU acceleration to speed up the user interface and run things like the Aero desktop in Windows 7. High end software for workstations also have a high GPU acceleration adoption rate, so there are benefits to be had, and AMD is continuing to offer it with its latest FirePro card.
AMD is offering up a card that can be used for a mix of compute or graphics output, making them an interesting choice for workstations. The FirePro S10000's major fault lies with a 375W TDP, and while the peak performance is respectable it is going to use more power while provided that compute muscle.
The cards are available now with an MSRP of $3,599. It is neat to finally see AMD come out with a dual GPU card with Tahiti chips, and it will be interesting to see what kind of design wins the company is able to get for its beastly FirePro S10000.
AMD's new FirePro S10000 sports two GPUs
Subject: General Tech, Graphics Cards | November 13, 2012 - 01:17 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: amd, Intel, firepro, firepro s10000, HPC, Xeon Phi, 3120A, 5110P, Knight's Corner
AMD's new Tahiti based FirePro S10000 sports a little more than just a GPU upgrade it sports two GPU updates as this is a dual GPU card. According to The Register it should run about $3,600 and need 375W to perform, numbers which make it a more efficient card than the S9000 even though it needs significantly more cash and power to run. It is a 2 slot card, a necessity in the server and workstation world and while it does not support CrossFire it does support EyeFinity with its DVI port and four Mini DisplayPorts.
The Register also got some news about Xeon Phi, Intel's answer to the HPC cards on offer from AMD and Intel. Knights Corner is the evolution of Larrabee into an actual product, in this case two 62 core cards though not all of the cores are active. The passively cooled 5110P has 60 cores running at 1.053GHz, while the 3120A has 57 cores clocked slightly higher at 1.1GHz and sports a fan. Both cards produce just over a teraflop of double precision floating point math, compared to the 1.48 teraflops offered by AMD's S10000 or the 1.3 offered by the Tesla K20x. Check out more on these coprocessors at The Register.
"With the FirePro S10000, not only is the GPU geared down to 825MHz, but the memory is similarly downshifted to 5GHz. The memory interface is 384-bit wide on each GPU, with two blocks of GDDR5 memory yielding a total of 6GB. (This could be a little skinny on the memory for some HPC workloads, given that the S9000 card has 6GB of memory for one Tahiti GPU.) Each GPU can access 240GB/sec of memory bandwidth linking to each 3GB chunk of GDDR5 memory.
Because the card is double-stuffed, it can deliver a very impressive 5.91 teraflops SP and 1.48 teraflops DP in peak floating point oomph."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- The TR Podcast 123: Incremental improvements
- Microsoft Makes Direct X 11.1 a Windows 8 Exclusive @ Slashdot
- Random Linux Commands to Make Google Talk, Fix Wifi, Find Duplicate Files, and More @ Linux.com
- Microsoft Surface RT may only achieve 60% of forecasted sales @ DigiTimes
- Windows chief Steven Sinofsky leaves Microsoft @ The Inquirer
- Fedora 'Spherical Cow' delayed by bugs, Secure Boot @ The Register
- Microsoft rolls out always-on Skype for Windows Phone 8 @ The Register
- Gaming in Windows 8 vs Windows 7: what's the difference in performance? @ Hardware.info
- Windows 7 vs Windows 8 – The Definitive Performance Guide @ hardCOREware
- How to Change the Start Screen Background in Windows 8 @ TechSpot
- TP-Link TL-WDR3600 and WDR4300 review: two shades of black @ Hardware.info
- Win 1 El'Druin ARPG Gaming Mouse, 2 Hellion Gaming Mice and 1 Aegis Gaming Pad @ NikKTech
Graphics Core Next Professional Edition, FirePro W8000 and W9000
Subject: Graphics Cards | August 10, 2012 - 07:21 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: firepro, firepro W8000, firepro W9000, amd, Tahiti XT
For GPU accelerated applications such as CAD there are only two main choices, AMD's FirePro or NVIDIA's Quadro series. Legit Reviews got their hands on two of the three new cards from AMD, the $1600 W9000 and the $900 W8000, with the $600 W5000 missing in this review. The results were good, the new generation cards perform better than their predecessors though in some tests only by a slim margin. It is possible that more mature drivers will see the performance increase on those test to the large gap present in most of the other tests. AMD has also kept the power requirements reasonable which is very important considering the huge improvement in efficiency displayed by NVIDIA's new architecture.
"AMD has successfully brought the new GCN architecture to the workstation! We noticed some pretty nice performance gains in the FirePro W8000 and W9000 cards from the previous generation of AMD FirePro graphics cards. The AMD FirePro W9000 is impressive on paper as it has 2048 stream processors running at 975MHz, 6GB of ECC GDDR5 memory at 1375MHz and the ability to drive six monitors! In some benchmarks the AMD FirePro W9000 blew away the previous generation FirePro V8800 video card, but in others it was..."
Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- Sapphire Radeon FleX HD 7870 GHz Edition 2 GB @ X-bit Labs
- Club3D Radeon HD 7850 Royal Queen @ Guru of 3D
- Sapphire Radeon HD 7770 Vapor-X OC Edition 1GB @ Tweaktown
- HIS HD 7750 iCooler 1GB Review @ HardwareLOOK
- AFOX HD7850 Single Slot Crossfire @ Kitguru
- HIS HD 7770 iCooler 1GB Review @ HardwareLOOK
- HIS HD 7870 IceQ Turbo 2GB Review @ HardwareLOOK
- MSI R7870 HAWK Edition @ Bjorn3D
- Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 2GB OC Edition @ Tweaktown
- Radeon Gallium3D Has Made Much Progress In Two Years @ Phoronix
- Desktop Graphics Card Comparison Guide @ TechARP
- ASUS GTX 680 DirectCU II TOP Video Card Review @ Hi Tech Legion
- Crazily Expensive and Inconceivably Fast: Nvidia GeForce GTX 690 SLI @ X-bit Labs
- Do Graphics Cards Need 4 GB of Memory? - EVGA GeForce GTX 670 4 GB Superclocked+ @ X-bit Labs
- MSI GTX 680 Lightning Review @ Hardware Canucks
- Gigabyte GeForce GTX 680 SOC @ Guru3D
- Overclocking the MSI N680GTX Lightning @ Benchmark Reviews
- Zotac GT 640 Zone Edition @ Bjorn3D
AMD Launches New FirePro W600: 6 mini-DisplayPorts, 1 slot
Subject: General Tech, Graphics Cards, Shows and Expos | June 13, 2012 - 12:07 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: InfoComm 2012, firepro, amd
AMD launches their new FirePro W600 graphics card for professional uses where you desire to drive up to 6 4K monitors from a single-slot PCIe card. The FirePro W600 will be available immediately at an estimated MSRP of $599.
We may be deep in the middle of AMD Fusion Developer Summit 2012 coverage -- but AMD is not just in Seattle this week. The processor and graphics card company is also attending InfoComm 2012 where they released a new FirePro graphics card for a very specific customer. The AMD FirePro W600 is classified as a professional graphics card for display walls.
That description is very accurate.
This single slot card can feed up to 6 4K displays through its 6 mini-DisplayPort 1.2 outputs. Also announced is the multi-stream transport hub (MST hub) which can forego 4K output for 4 separate 1080p displays. They do not claim that 24 1080p monitors can be output from the card so it is possible that there is a limit to prevent all 6 mini-DisplayPorts from being utilized.
If you prefer to not use any hubs and simply have one display per output then you have the option to send independent audio streams to each of the 6 displays. Each of your 4K monitors could be fed different audio all from the same PC and all from the same card.
Enterprises interested in the card would also receive PowerTune and ZeroCore features which were introduced in the Radeon line to reduce power usage. ZeroCore specifically would allow the card to consume up to 95% less power while the rest of the PC is idle.
The FirePro W600 has an MSRP of $599 and is available for purchase immediately.
A sub $200 AMD FirePro benchmarked on Linux
Subject: Graphics Cards | November 3, 2011 - 01:17 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: amd, firepro, V4900, linux, turks
Workstation graphics cards tend to be significantly more expensive than their desktop counterparts, something the new AMD FirePro V4900 seeks to overcome. The card is available for less than $200 but still comes with the advantages of the FirePro series, workstation application certification, a three-year hardware warranty and greater technical support than with a desktop GPU. Performance wise, the benchmarks that Phoronix ran showed the card to be nicely between the V4800 and V5800 so perhaps not worth immediately running out and upgrading from the previous low end model but definitely worth considering for new machines.
"AMD is announcing today a new FirePro workstation graphics card. What is being announced is not a new ultra high-end creation, but instead it's a new entry-level graphics card to fit in between the FirePro V4800 and FirePro V5800 / V5900: it's the AMD FirePro V4900. The FirePro V4900 will retail for less than $200 USD while offering up some nice capabilities for the price. Here is a launch-day look at the FirePro V4900 along with the first Linux benchmarks of this latest AMD workstation graphics creation."
Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- HIS Radeon HD 6870 IceQ 1GB @ Legion Hardware
- VTX3D Radeon HD6770 & HD6670 Streamer Edition @ Kitguru
- Catalyst 11.10 Windows 7 Driver Analysis @ Tweaktown
- Sapphire HD6970 Battlefield 3 Flex Edition @ Guru3D
- i3DSpeed, October 2011 @ iXBT Labs
- The Effect of GPU Memory on Surround & Stereo 3D Performance @ Hardware Canucks
- KFA2 GeForce GTX 580 Anarchy Edition SLI @ kitguru
Podcast #156 - AMD FirePro V7900 and V5900, MSI R6970 Lightning, Intel i7-990x and more!
Subject: Editorial, General Tech | May 26, 2011 - 02:04 PM | Ken Addison
Tagged: R6970, podcast, nvidia, Intel, firepro, amd, 990x, 990fx
PC Perspective Podcast #156- 5/26/2011
This week we talk about the AMD FirePro V7900 and V5900, MSI R6970 Lightning, Intel i7-990x,Viewer questions and more!
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Program Schedule:
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- 0:05:25 MSI R6970 Lightning Review: A Supercharged AMD Radeon HD 6970
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- 0:17:20 Intel Core i7-990X Gulftown Processor and DX58SO2 Motherboard Review
- 0:22:30 NVIDIA GTX 560 Review Coming soon
- 0:24:36 Cray Announces AMD Bulldozer CPU and NVIDIA Tesla GPU Supercomputer Capable of 50 Petaflops
- 0:27:38 Sneak Peak at the MSI 990FXA-GD65
- 0:30:13 ASUS Sabertooth Motherboard Supporting 990FX Chipset Pictured
- 0:32:33 Email from Jeff about Bulldozer leaks
- 0:36:00 Revisiting quad-gpus and the Law of Diminishing Returns
- 0:39:58 Leaking Llano and Bulldozer prices
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This page provides statistics, facts and market data related to internet. This includes information on segments and industries such as social media, online search, user-generated content, online advertising and marketing as well as statistics on demographics and use.
Current internet user figures suggest that there are more than 2.5 billion users worldwide with a global penetration rate of 35 percent with North America accounting for 14 percent of global internet users.
Since the late 1990s, the internet has not only provided users with online experiences such as email, online search and general browsing but has also played a major role in enabling human interaction and reshaping traditional communications media such as film, television, music and telephone. The mainstreaming of internet features, such as digital music and video, user-generated content and digital media sales, have caused traditional media consumption to undergo significant changes. With the large-scale offerings of user-generated as well as licensed content in the forms of audio, video, games and writings, companies such as YouTube, Netflix, Spotify, Pandora and Tumblr have broadened the selection of available entertainment and enabled internet users to interact more closely with the media and each other.
The emergences of new digital technologies and websites have accelerated forms of human interaction through online forums, instant messaging, and social networking (since the mid-2000's). Email has been a staple of the online experience. However, the rise of social networks, most notably market leader Facebook, and mobile social apps such as Twitter, LINE or WhatsApp have changed the notion of online communications and the divide of the personal and public online space. Facebook has more than 1.2 billion monthly active users, presenting a global reach of almost 50 percent of internet users worldwide.
According to internet market data, online sales via B2B and B2C e-commerce have not only expanded the reach and volume of traditional wholesale and retail trade but have also changed entire business infrastructures across various industries. The reach of online commerce has also enabled small and independent business owners to pursue their business ventures across local borders. Market data suggests a steady growth of global digital buyer penetration. Online shopping is not the only way of making money via the internet – statistics suggest a growth of digital content sales via e-commerce platforms such as iTunes, Google Play or Steam as well as the vast market of online advertising and marketing. Global companies such as Google, Amazon and Baidu generate the majority of their revenues via online services.
Whereas the majority of internet access used to be via a fixed-line connection to a desktop PC, the growth of mobile technologies such as WiFi and laptops as well as mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers have completely changed the online landscape. In countries with weak technological infrastructures, mobile internet has enabled people to access the web and to participate in the global information exchange. Notable examples are mobile banking and the ability to provide people with a global platform in order to broadcast their issues during times of unrest and crisis such as the Arab Spring movement. During national and global disasters such as Hurricane Sandy, Fukushima or Typhoon Yolanda, online services such as Google and Twitter have formed crisis response portals in order to co-ordinate and support rescue efforts.
Today, surveys indicate that daily internet usage plays a significant role in the everyday lives of consumers in the connected world.
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What is a reprobate mind?
[rep-ruh-beyt] noun, adjective, verb, -bat·ed, -bat·ing.
"And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient" (Romans 1:28)
"Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith." (2Timothy 3:8)
"They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate." (Titus 1:16)
The following link gives a study of the meaning and compares other versions to get a more accurate picture:
I think you are beginning to see by now that a person that has been given over to a reprobate mind by God is a person who is lawless, self-absorbed, and generally wicked, but they don't see it that way. There minds are confounded and you would not be able to convince them they are wrong in any way shape or form. Does this mean that they do not know right from wrong? No, because they were given over to their reprobate minds because of their behavior and the condition of their hearts. However it no longer matters and they do not see themselves as others do. Instead it's always someone else's fault and they didn't do it. Sounds like Casey Anthony, but not just Casey, there are more than a couple in this case. People with reprobate minds are liars. They do anything they can to spread that which is false. Casey's family nor her attorneys have ever admitted one ounce of truth, nor have they simply defended her actions, but instead they have covered up and lied. Now I know some of you are saying that her attorneys won't do that(admit the truth), but they didn't have to say anything except in court. They also do not have to go around proclaiming her innocence even in court, all the while making freudian slips to the media. Her family did not have to speak to the media either. That was a choice. The Anthonys could have stayed out of the media and the defense could have stayed out of the media game too. The defense could have instead been about defending her actions rather than lying and trying to throw innocent people under the bus for a crime their client committed. It's really that simple. The problem, however is that it was not and is not profitable to take the high road. It was instead a much more inviting proposition to sell the pictures and videos and lie to the point that they have slipped up in their own lies. Yes, Casey chose a good defense. They are perfectly suited to her and her way of thinking. They even fit right in with the family.
Sadly the world is full of reprobate minds these days. I'm afraid it's a sign of the times.
What do you think???


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The Life and Times of Reina P. Gallion
Monday, October 17, 2011
Check out my you tube video
Friday, October 14, 2011
Some A-hole spit on my car today
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Hiking Adventures
Friday, September 16, 2011
Drug Mules...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
(I don't need your handouts) ... I'm an Adult
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Gobble Gobble
Well it's about time I blogged again. Here we go:
Last week I went to Little Rock, AR for a Product Innovation Engineering Leadership program. On the 2nd day I got to talk about Cleanwaste (where I work) and do a product demonstration to be used as a case study for the session. I cracked a couple good poop jokes: Cleanwaste is #1 in the #2 business. When you work in the human waste industry business is always crappy. Budumdumching. Ironically, the hotel we were staying at smelled like sewer the entire time I was there. It was a really nice hotel to so I'm not sure what was going on with that. I definitely ate catfish while I was there, probably the first time since Grandma Tucker made it last. It was great. (okay so I ate catfish twice while I was there, with hush puppies.) I liked Little Rock, well, what part I saw of it anyway. Seemed decent enough. Turns out no one I know lives there but one of my favorite friends, Aubrey, grew up 30 minutes north in a town called Toad Suck. (Yes, I just wanted to but that hillbilly named town in my entry.)
The program I attended is run by Doug Hall of American Inventor fame… see the clip here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdUMy9HzdWo&feature=related For the record this is NOT a Cleanwaste product. Simon Cowell (of American Idol) has called Doug hall the most annoying man in America. Doug is the guy in the clip that puts his head down on his desk and says no like 10 times in response to the product that is being presented. Doug is actually enthusiastic about some of the products Cleanwaste is coming out with.
It's actually turned into winter here in Bozeman. I think it's about 2 degrees today..still snowing with 40mph winds expected all afternoon. Driving home last night was a bit scary. Visibility was low and I had a hard time seeing my exit. I'm just glad my car is starting. I must admit I miss having a SUV.
JJ, Cody, Dean and I went and saw Harry Potter last night. I didn't get it. Seemed like a bunch of people and events shoved into a 2 hr movie with no resolution…who ends a movie with a elf dying? Really. I know there's a part 2 coming out but you can still end part 1 so it can feel somewhat complete. If you haven't seen it wait for the 2nd part to come out, rent part 1 on DVD and then see part 2 in theaters. Then it will be like seeing one entirely completed film.
Tielle is flying here today. She will be spending Thanksgiving with us. So exciting! I bought a 22lb turkey and we will probably eat turkey all week and on into December. I am looking forward to making turkey curry with the leftovers. Thankfully Dean has volunteered to take out all the turkey guts. I probably would have just gotten a ham had I known that you had to clean out the turkey innards. I think on Thursday we will eat all day and have a Tetris tournament using Cody's projector. I think Thanksgiving is going to feel a lot like Christmas because we already have a tree up, lights around the windows, fireplace (that works and we use daily) and we're making mom's wassail. The only thing that will be missing is gifts…
By the way you will all be getting the Pee Wee Unisex Urine bag from me for Christmas. Your gift to me can be using the bags and rating it on ease of use and functionality. HO HO HO!
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
So my schedule at work recently changed—Mon and Wed are 8-5. Tues and Thurs are 7:30-5:30. Friday is 8-3. I really love this new schedule except for the Tues/Thurs 7:30-5:30 part. Today is my second time having to do the 10 hr day thing and it's already a loooong day and it's only 10:34. Please help. In other exciting news I am now the proud owner of 4 giant paperclips. I just measured them with my recently acquired tape measure and they (my 4 paperclips) are 4inches long. Look how far science in manufacturing has brought us.
So, I had a birthday. It was on Saturday. Thanks to everyone for all the lovely cards with lovely checks inside of them. It was exactly what I wished for, how did you know? Am I that transparent or was it a dead giveaway when you asked JJ what I want and she told you money? J But really thanks. I was able to put this money toward getting TL up here for Thanksgiving!! Which we are all really excited about.
I also have to say how tickled I was by Grandma and Grandpa Sherwood's birthday card. I got a full page of information about Uncle Monte's new violin assistant. I wonder if Monte's assistant has any idea that my family is trying to set me up with him? When mom called I reminded her that I was dating someone and then I promptly asked if this assistant made any money. She didn't know so I quickly reverted back to my original argument of being taken. She said that I'm not married so all is fair in love and war. Shocking mother, shocking.
By the way, if you are reading this and you are my family member and you have not become a facebook fan of my music page---shame on you. All you have to do is click a button. I will consider your fan-dom or lack of fan-dom as a measurement of how much you love me---or not. This is serious. I have specifically kept my lyrics family friendly. You're welcome mom.
Speaking of music. I'm am really glad Cody is my roommate, he is really good at this recording business. He makes me sound good. I guess that goes for Jewelyn as well because she is chamazing on the piano.
Work has been pretty busy and demanding…stressful some may say but I haven't felt overly stressed…just busy. JJ and Cody can attest to how late I've been working. Things will only get busier because we are moving the entire company in 2 weeks. Phew.
I did buy an exercise bike last week. I'm proud to say that I have used it twice. I'm saving up for a treadmill and then a flat screen tv to make my workout "room" complete. The resistance on the bike is insane. I can only get up to like level 4 before I start looking around for the trolls that I'm sure are there holding onto my pedals to keep me from peddling. Sneaky little suckers.
I went to fhe for the first time in forever. My friend Jon has moved back into town and they were carving pumpkins and he wanted me to go. He bought me a pumpkin which was thoughtful. I carved out a Cyclops, with a wide grin and a long scar on his cheek. Jon carved out an outhouse. I think the most impressive carving I saw was a pumpkin with a pumpkin in its mouth. It was pretty cute. I think this is what people call irony.
I happened upon a very cute—my new favorite—Korean tv show called Playful Kiss. It is absolutely hilarious and the man guy character is b-e-a-utiful. I told JJ that I have never been attracted to any oriental human before and she told me that Korean people are the most beautiful people on earth. I think I might just agree. Anyway, the show has a very cute storyline. It is subtitled which surprisingly hasn't bothered me.
I'm bored of writing now.


text: On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 01:01:54AM +0200, van Helsing wrote: > > Thats why ppl. dislike oBSD-mailinglists and oBSD... thanks for the > perfect example. Oh come on. This is a tired old FAQ that I'm sure goes back to the earliest days of the OS. Seeing it repeated endlessly in the lists makes me more impressed with the patience of some people. In some cases it's like talking to drooling 6 year old retarded kids that found mommy's crack pipe hidden under the trailer. New List Member 'Bubba': "Duh... Where can me get ISO images for teh OpenBSD?" List: "You can't, it's on the FAQ page at http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq3.html#ISO" Bubba: "So me got to buy CDs? No can't just download?" List: "CD purchases support the project. If you're worried that the CDs will arrive after $RELEASE_DATE then download and send a few bucks to the project. It's good karma." Bubba: "$DISTRO Linux lets me download ISOs!!!!1111oneonetwo" List: "OpenBSD is a smaller project. It doesn't have IBM or other big companies behind it." Bubba: "... so me no can't download an ISO? That's teh ghey!" List: "No." Bubba: "Teh OpenBSD user are GHEY and MEAN!!! Slashdor it RIGHT. Me go back to Linuxxxxxxx!~!~!!!!~!_(_at_)_~!~!~!" . . [normal list traffic for 3 days] . . New List Member 'Cooter': "Duh... Where can me get ISO images for teh OpenBSD?" ... and the same tired cycle repeats itself over and over and over. I won't bother replying to, and continuing the life cycle of, this pointless thread. Gord


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The Kubuntu Council announced a few hours ago, March 1st, that the upcoming Kubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system will be supported for 5 years.
We already knew from January 2012 that the Ubuntu Technical Board approved both Kubuntu and Edubuntu as LTS (Long Term Support) releases, keeping the distributions alive, with security updates and bugfixes, for 5 years.
"Some recent confusion followed an announcement by Canonical that they would no longer be sponsoring a full-time developer for Kubuntu, or offer commercial support contracts for it." - was stated in the official announcement.
This announcement comes right after Canonical's release of the highly anticipated Beta release of its upcoming Precise Pangolin operating system, proving that Kubuntu is not dead and it will live a lot more longer.
The Kubuntu project team members assure their users that the Kubuntu distribution is here to stay, even if Canonical will no longer sponsor it, with money.
Kubuntu is a community distro, built by the community and supported by the community, and its next major release, the Precise Pangolin, will be as good as any previous version, having the same level of support from both the Kubuntu developers and the community.
"Kubuntu has always been primarily built and supported by an active community of volunteers. If you would like to help build the future of Kubuntu, we welcome new recruits with experience or interest in the following areas: KDE Programming (in C++, QML, Python), Packaging, QA Testing, QA Automation, User support, Bug Triage" - was stated in the end of the announcement.
Kubuntu 12.04 LTS Beta 1 has been made available for testing a few hours ago, bringing a full version of the KDE Software Compilation 4.8 environment, with lots of in-house enhancements.
The LightDM login manager has been implemented in this release (experimental) for testing. For more information take a look at our screenshot tour for Kubuntu 12.04 LTS Beta 1.
Download Kubuntu 12.04 LTS Beta 1 right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a beta release and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended to be used for testing purposes only.


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CPI in November
December 20, 2004
On a seasonally adjusted basis, the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.2 percent in November 2004, following a 0.6-percent rise in October.
Energy costs, which advanced 4.2 percent in October, increased 0.2 percent in November. Within energy, the index for household fuels rose 2.5 percent, while the index for motor fuels decreased 1.8 percent.
The index for food, which rose 0.6 percent in October, increased 0.2 percent in November. The index for all items less food and energy advanced 0.2 percent in November, the same as in October.
During the first 11 months of 2004, the CPI-U rose at a 3.7-percent seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR). This compares with an increase of 1.9 percent for all of 2003.
For the 12-month period ended in November, the CPI-U rose 3.5 percent, as shown in the chart.
These data are from the BLS Consumer Price Index program. For more information, see "Consumer Price Index: November 2004" (PDF) (TXT), news release USDL 04-2518.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, CPI in November on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2004/dec/wk3/art01.htm (visited October 10, 2015).
Recent editions of Spotlight on Statistics
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In 2013, the Consumer Expenditure Survey improved its personal tax data.
Trends in long-term unemployment
Long-term unemployment reached historically high levels following the recession of 2007–2009.
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Aquarius 2015 Love Horoscope
Thank the great planet Jupiter for all this as it is in transit over your 5th house from your sign Aquarius.
As I just mentioned, the willing singles are likely to fall in love easily and those already going steady will find an extraordinary increase in the magnitude of love for the same person.
If you are a Single and would like to enter into a relationship then hurry up, the stars are smiling on you till mid 2014. If for some reason or the other, you can't find a right partner till then don't rush to commit as this is the period for checking your mutual compatibility, re assess your position and your ability to maintain a healthy relationship consistently.
Of course, the married couple need not worry as much as those who are in a committed relationship. However, if you want to enjoy a good harmony then you will have to leave aside the narrow or conservative thinking. Also petty domestic issues or many a times small differences in taste shall try to cast an evil shadow on otherwise smooth going. But now you are forewarned, I am sure you will be wise and smart now. Therefore, do not be too critical of the tastes and styles of your partner. Just give love unconditionally and let there be an excellent rapport and understanding between the two of you.
Your other responsibilities will keep you preoccupied during the month of July to November 2014. Be prepared to accept the fact that striking a balance between personal love life and other aspects of life cannot be put on 'auto pilot'. Therefore, make sure you approach the issues with a positive frame of mind and find smart solutions. Also it is quite possible that sometimes in the second half of the year, negative thoughts may occupy your mind resulting into an unwanted behavior by you such as your turning into a conformist or an advocate of old traditions. Don't let this happen to you as negative thoughts and emotions will hold you back and you will not be able to give your best, neither at home nor with your beloved. It may also hamper your productivity at work.
A few exclusive tips for you
From July 2014 onwards your schedule might get hectic, leaving you with little or no time for personal matters. This is likely to infuriate your beloved and also upset the family members. Therefore, be prepared in advance and try not to let this happen to you.
And finally
If at all you are unable to reduce your professional commitment and your other strategies to please the loved once do not yield satisfactory results then the best solution would be to stay calm and not get into arguments or try to convince others.