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Not much information here other than with a 250mW laser, a kg of plastic powder and 50ml of thermo-gel, Replaser has managed to laser sinter some basic polymer forms in a kinda 2.5D printing (not quite 3D) that are really quite strong.
Check out the pull test at 5:40 and the comparison of how brittle the material is with and without the thermo-gel.
Not as poetic as the Inkjet Printer to 3D Printer Hack but still very impressive.
It is the final days of the the 2010 Shapeways & Despoke: 100% Design Contest so it is your last chance to submit your design(s).
We have already received many fantastic entries but the contest is still open until Wednesday the 1st of September 12:00 CET, finalists will have there model 3D printed by Shapeways, promoted on the Despoke & 100% Design websites while the winner will also receive a $100 Shapeways 3D printing coupon.
Shapeways will also be running a stall at the 100% Design fair in London so if you are in London come and see us at stall D27. 100% Design is the UK's leading design & architecture event. Held September 23rd to 26th in Earls Court, London, 100% Design London features world-class interiors show 100% Design, architectural and interior materials exhibition 100% Materials and emerging talent showcase 100% Futures.
Ambitious project by Kidist, a third year PhD student at the University of Houston taking the FabLab idea into a closed loop 3D printing cycle.
Nice logo..
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Realbot robot by MrAckoy looking very impressive for his very first 3D print with a photo so clean I would have thought it was a render.
Eve by Virtox is elegantly showing of the new Bronze Glossy material is available here: I want Eve!
Charging Dock for the iPhone 4 by Dizingof being a perfect example of combining two 3D printed materials to make a really aesthetically impressive design.
We have started to see some real spikes of heavy traffic on Shapeways Shops based around a handful of really successful designs. The products do not have much in common in themselves other than being clean, simple designs, but the presentation of each is impeccable with great images and descriptions that are easily shared in articles and blogs.
Whenever we ask the Shapeways community what materials and processes they are interested in being made available we always get many requests for 3D printed silver. In response to these requests Shapeways has been experimenting with a few silver processes, testing for quality, reliability, best pricing. 3D printing silver is quite difficult to perfect, so it has taken us some time to get the quality we would like for the Shapeways community and we are now very excited to share with you our first silver samples...
Take a look at the images below and let us know what you think?
The backers get a little something from Improbablecog, depending on their level of investment from a sticker to a custom designed piece of jewelry.
Noah gets an influx of cash, gets his name out there for an innovative approach to the business of design and is freed up to produce more cool designs.
Three of his most popular designs are set free, for everyone to modify, mash up, resell, print by the one or by the dozen, or insert into their game, movie, or art.
Shapeways can now 3D print three of Improbablecog's designs for the cost of material only....
Of course you can still invest to support the cause and set the designs free(er)
Shapeways has a new development we are considering that would allow you to embed your shop (or part of it) using a HTML snippet into almost any page such as a on your own website, blog, forum post and possibly sites such as Facebook or MySpace.
This would work in much the same way as you can embed an Etsy Store, a YouTube video, a Kickstarter Project or a Facebook badge.
Before we go down the development path we would like some input form the Shapeways community.
Is this something you would be interested in using?
What features would you like to see implemented within it?
Where would you use the application and how?
Any suggestions what we should call it?
Any other suggestions you may have along these lines we would be very interested to hear from you..
Shapeways is currently involved in a few contests ending soon so it may be a good time for a quick recap to remind you of the prizes, deliverables and deadlines.
The 2010 Shapeways Despoke & 100% Design Contest closes 1st of September 12:00 CET.
Finalists will get their design 3D printed by Shapeways along with invaluable exposure on the Despoke & 100% Design London websites while the winner will also receive 3D Printing coupons to the value of $100.To enter, upload your design to Shapeways and add the tag '100percent' to it.
The theme is Contemporary Design through 3D Printing, finalists will be chosen by the Despoke Team.
Christmas Co-Creator Contest 2010 closes 30th of September 2010.
Top five finalists receive a free 3D print of their design and be included in our Christmas promotions, Winner to also receive a Shapeways Voucher for $100.
Submit your new Co-Creator with the tag 'Xmas2010' be uploaded to Shapeways, be public and a Co-Creator on the Christmas page
Zoybar, Shapeways & Blender Magazine: Design your own Electric Guitar Contest closes September 20th, 2010.
Win a Full Zoybar Guitar or Bass Hardware kit provided by Zoybar, plus 3D print of the winning design entry in the amount of $200 (USD) provided by Shapeways. Total Value: $870 (USD).
Design original hardware features that can be incorporated with the Zoybar instruments and enter a contest to win your creation. Design in Blender.
We also recently closed the Draw Your Own Earrings Contest and notified the winners via email. If you entered the contest but have not heard from Shapeways please email duann(@)shapeways.com and I will resend you notification.
"Digital fabrication services have the potential to transform craft practice, both technically and commercially. But having used them, I am also struck by how this networked production changes the maker´s experience.....mail-order making certainly feels different to a more hands-on process."
Another week of fantastic finds in the It Arrived! forum made all the more harder to collate due to the number of high quality designs posted and the Show Your Collection thread started by Jettuh.
Road Trooper by Rbot, beautiful in it's raw, 3D printed state prior to hand finishing.
Starfish Pendant by Michaellla
Gumball's collection of Dice and rings purchased from Shapeways.
AN IMPORTANT UPDATE: As of April, 2013, Shapeways no longer offers this high polygon workaround. If your model has over a million polygons, use this handy tutorial to reduce them so you can upload your model in the normal way. Thank you for your understanding!
Ok Zbrush users, organic algorithm artists and character modelers, Shapeways have developed a workaround so that your models can now exceed the 1,000,000 polygon limit currently in place.
It is not elegant, and takes some negotiating, but if we get enough demand we will try and automate the process to make it easier for everyone. Let us know what you think, is this something you would like to see as standard?
The tide is definitely turning when a design consultancy that specializes in product hacks gets invited to be a TED Global fellow....
So instead of making a small mark-up each time a piece of jewelry sells, Improbablecog will get an up-front payment ($1500) from 'investors' freeing him up with a cash influx to design more jewelry. Very smart, how many pieces of jewelry would he need to sell, over what time to make that cash?
Intricate 3D printed Dragon of Swirls designed by Shapie Ean Moody: shpws.me/rAKE pic.twitter.com/OF7PTpiPTt


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811182 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE September 24, 1969
review or the review committee's detennlnatlon.
COioiMIT'l'D AMICND)l(ENT
Exlatlng la.w provldee that the bill of complaint
(In a proceeding brought by a farmer)
shall be served upon a member of the review
oommlttee. The bill 1e l!llent aa to who
shall be served In a. proceeding brought by
the Secretary. The Committee ameudment
would clarify this situation by BPfcl!ylng
that review proceedings Instituted by the
Secretary shall be "against the farmer as
The amendment was agreed to.
The bill was ordered to be engrossed
for a third reading, read the third time,
and passed.
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, with
the permission of the distinguished Senator
from Idaho (Mr. CHURCH}, and
while awaiting the arrival of another
Senator, I ask: unanimous consent that,
notwithstanding the unanimous-consent
agreement, I may proceed for 6 or 7
The VICE PRESIDENT. Without objection,
it is so ordered.
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, conflicting
reports, statements, and stories
make it necessary to set the record
straight on the matter of tax legislation.
It will be recalled that last July, pursuant
to the urging of the administration,
the Senate extended the 10-percent
surcharge on the income tax. The extension
was for 6 months-that is,
througl. the remainder of 1969-but not
until June 30, 1970, as had been sought
by the administration.
Frankly, as one Senator, I would have
preferred not to see any extension of the
surcharge except as part of a here-andnow
tax reform and relief measure. Nevertheless,
together with the other members
of the majority policy committee I
concurred in the scheduling of the 6-
month extension because of certain conditions
and understandings which occurred
at the time.
In agreeing to a callup of the surtax,
the majority policy committee insisted
that tax reform and relief should not be
left In a pig-eonhole. It sought and t·eceived
assqrances thr t. such a measure
1;'''>Uld be hrOUI!ht f ,rt :1 with dispatch for
consH.lcrat:on hy t ' "Senate. In this C( ·nnncLion.
it '1\ 0 fT l.de clear that tlwrc
'''Oulr! be !<' ', ' to the Senate either
the f:\r- reo '· r; I .1 then in the Hon ><'.
that hill :t' ' ..:d. or some other hill
d(''llinc::, in I ock, ~ith Lhe more ftagr:•nL
cs '\]JC hatl;llcs wlticl1 1Jcnef1t a few in
lhe Jl' c.o<'nt income ta ., Ia w and providin
{ ~-·r·'" relief for m lions of others.
M;'v I sa~ ll'ai the wage earners and
other mo•le1 ate anr! lo ver income groups
art: properh impatient for a more equitable
di ~tribution of the tax burden. They
have a light to expect changes In the
present income tax law after yewrs of
inertia in the face of the accumulating
inequities--inequities which have placed
on th~ir shoulders an .Inordinate share
of the cost of government.
Insofar as the majority leadership of
the Senate is concerned there will be no
Mike Mansfield Papers, Series 21, Box 45, Folder 15, Mansfield Library, University of Montana
September 24, 1969 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE s 11183
cot:..ltenancing · a back-door etrort to
l,ut oli or delay t.:l.."t reform and tax relief.
li.! Bllfrankneas, I must express concern,
therefore, wi\11 the reports which have
recently appeare _ ill 1h;l press. I am ukloished
at some sto; :l)S which 1Ddlcate,
for example, that I have agreed to take
up now the repeal of the tnTeStment
credit a.s d.istmct and separate from a
general tax bill.
•• clamor !or repeal of the investment
credit raises a lot of dust because the reform
is a desirable one. I think Senators
should be wary lest other essential tax
reforms and tax relief be lost in the resulting
obscurii:v. InsOfar as the leadership
is concerned, it will always try to be
reasonable bnt reasonable does not include
being a party to smokescreens.
A specific representation was made to
the Senate last July when it was &&Teed
to call up the extension of the 10-percent
surta.x through 1969. That representation
was made on the strength of a decision
of the majority policy committee.
The declslon, in turn, was infl.ulmced by
strong statements by the administration
1n support of prompt action on tax reform
and relief and by many Members of
the Senate along the same lines. It was
made, finally, on the basis of !hnumerable
conversations and several meetings
with the chairman and Democratic
members of the Finance CommlUeethe
committee in which the tax legislation
was beiDa considered.
On that basts, the leadership represented
to the Senate, without contradiction
from any source, but rather with at
least the tacit concurrence of the Plnance
Committee and the mihority leaaderahip,
that a full tax reform packal;re-to go
along with the in'festment tax credit and
the final 6-month e:rlen.sion of the surtax
at 5 percent which wu requested by the
administration-a full ta.x reform and
tax rellef package would be :reported by
the F:nance Committee no later than
October 31, 1969.
A promise of general tax reform has
been made to the NaUDn by the President
and his &dmtn1Btratlon and it bas
been echoed by Membem of Concres~~.
Taxpayers will be reminded of that
promise when tax forma are received
next January. These forms will require
payment of the 10-percent aurtax for the
6 months extenuton voted lMt July by
a~ which bas also held out great
promise of tax reform and tax relief. I
would hope, therefore, that t.hoae wbo
pay the surtax will be able to say, in the
end, that the 6 months extension a.t least
purchased a fairer and more equitable
tax system.
'IbM ls t.he promise which hu been
held out to the American taxpayer-!
repeat--by the admin18tr31tion and by
Members of Oongress. To date, only the
House has delivered on Uul.t promise. It
would be my expectation that on the
basis of the understandings of lut July,
the Finance Committee will also deliver
in the next few weeks and that the Benate
will follow suit as !OOn as possible
In considering tax reform and relief
when it ls repo.ted by the committee, the
Senate will ~ oonatder repeal of the
investment tax credit, retroactive to
April 18, 1969. That ls what was understood
at the time the tax surcharge was
extended last July. That ls sttll the case
-today and I cannot understand why
there should be any doubts or uncertainties
on that score. Indeed, 1! one
wtshes to pursue this business of uncertainty
as a basis for urgent action, one
might well ask of the uncertainty which
confronts tens of mUlions of the Nation's
moderate and lower-Income ta.xpe.yers
who are stm waiting for the long-promised
general tax reform and tax relief.
The fact Is. that the central problem
which faces-'the St>nate in this matter is
not the rc~al of the investment tax credit.
The central problem has been and re.
mains: Wllen and in wt;at context st,ould
the investment credit be repealed in order
also to assure prompt consideration of a
general tax reform and relief measure?
In essence, the problem ls the same that
confronted the leadership 1n the case of
extension of the tax surcharge a few
months ago. It ls the practical problem
of how best to proceed in the llght of the
procedural realities of the Congress. To
refresh memories on this point, let me
quote the remarks of Senator PASTOIIE,
a member of the majority policy committee,
who put it so well last July when he
said on the Senate floor:
The thing that c11sturbs me Is not so much
the 6 months aa against the 12 months. As a
matter ot fact, I would be for the 12-month
extension provldtng I would have assurance
that we are gotng to have tax reform. There
is no Member ot the Sen&te who knows more
&bout the parl1amentary ilmmlcks than does
the Senator from Delaware. And he knows
that U we dlspose permanently of the surtax
problem and then treat the tax reform 1ndependently,
we will have no chance to have
tax reform.
In a similar vein, to dispose of the investment
tax credit at this time, in my
judgment, might well diminish the prospects
of a meaningful general tax reform
and tax rellef during this Congress which
would most benefit middle and lower income
taxpayers. That was also the judgment
of the majority policy committee
last July. That ill still my Judgment and
I have no indication whatsoever that 1t
ls not stUl the judgment of the policy
For thOiie who b.ave concerns about the
investment credit, I repeat that, as far M
I am concerned, any repeal will be retroactive
to April 18, 1969; the date is firm.
Repeal of the investment credit, as of
April 18, Is on the calendar now. It was
on the calendar last July as part of a
House-passed bill and remained there
when the surtax was extended. Repeal, as
ot April I8, will be on the calendar when
the Finance Commi' tee reports the tax
reform and tax relief bill, as expected, no
later than October 31.
It has been by understanding all along
that the investment credit was nat to be
·brought up and disposed of before the
general tax reform bill was available to
the Senate. That was pledged to the maJority
policy committee last July and It
was, in part, on that basis that the Commtttee
agreed, at that ttme to taking up
the extension of the income surtax, even
for 6 months.
That ill the whole story. There have
been no deals, no agreements, and no
commitments to the contrary. So let me
dispel any doubts which may have arisen
because of recent reports. The leadership
has not broken its pledge nor has the
chairman of the Finance Committee
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The Telluride Town Council deserves a lot of credit for forging ahead with a consideration of "horizontal zoning" even in the face of strong opposition from main street property owners and even skepticism from their own Planning and Zoning Commission.
The problems of main street are real. If you doubt that, try a couple of thought experiments. First, imagine you were visiting Telluride on vacation and did the stroll up and down main street. Would you be impressed? Second, do a mental survey of main street businesses. How many can you think of that are doing well? Of those that seem stable, ask yourself whether they have a very low basis in real estate, either because they purchased it a long time ago or have a favorable long-term lease.
The increasingly conspicuous weakness on main street is important for a number of reasons. Sales tax revenues generated by retail and restaurant activity are vital to the town's financial well-being, especially following the Valley Floor condemnation, which will require the town to devote 30 percent of unencumbered revenues for open space for at least the next 30 years. We can't afford to watch sales tax revenues shrink and maintain the level of services the town now provides, at least not without an increase in property taxes.
More importantly, Telluride's historic main street is one of our major assets, both a draw for tourists and an amenity for locals. Vacant historic buildings do not a historic attraction make. We were told during the War for the Floor that the Valley Floor needed to be preserved as an essential setting for the historic district. No less critical to the historic district is an economically functioning main street. So it is no exaggeration to say that protecting main street is every bit as important to protecting our identity as was preserving the Valley Floor
Even if it were not historic, nurturing a healthy main street would be smart. More than ever in the Internet era, distinctive shopping (and dining and nightlife) are crucial distinctions of successful resorts. Yes, people come to Telluride primarily for the scenic beauty and to recreate, but people on vacation like to shop and dine out, too.
Although main street is every bit as threatened as the Valley Floor was, it's not as easy to create the same passion for protecting it. For one thing, there is no single opponent, like Neal Blue, to mobilize against. And although the cancer is well-advanced, it's not obvious to the casual observer. But perhaps the most difficult problem is that we have sentimentalized our historic district. We seem to think that because it has been preserved to closely resemble a 19th-century commercial district, it should be able to operate like one, governed solely by Adam Smith's Invisible Hand, an idealized free market.
In fact, if we want to see it succeed, we need to start applying some 21st-century thinking to our commercial district. We need not reinvent the wheel here. Communities across the country, and not just resorts but also small towns, aging suburbs and even urban downtowns have been grappling with the problem. Retail districts everywhere have to be smart to survive, and places that imagine – as Telluride has insisted up to now – that they can leave it to the "free market" to sort out the problems are doomed to fail.
So what's the malady, apart from increasingly fierce competition from the Internet and regional shopping malls, as if that weren't enough?
In Telluride, add the prohibitive cost of real estate, the high cost of doing business even beyond real estate costs, a small year-round population, and low visitation numbers.
It sounds daunting, but there are ways to fight back. Smart retail districts, even if they look old-fashioned, do it by operating like a mall. While malls are hardly socialist endeavors, they are master planned. Malls have a single management that calculates what sort of retail mix is necessary for success, sets hours of operation and other policies that tenants have to adhere to, and undertakes marketing activities, including special events, which individual retail businesses could never afford.
In considering horizontal zoning, the Telluride Town Council is tentatively embarking down this path, in effect by tinkering ever-so-gingerly with the tenant mix. The proposal to restrict office uses in the retail district is a way of trying to boost retail businesses.
That's not a bad idea, but it's far too little. Aging suburbs near Denver and elsewhere have tackled the problem far more aggressively by entering into public-private partnerships to redevelop large portions of their downtowns. Telluride probably need not go that far (although it is an approach that is probably appropriate for the Coonskin Base area), but Telluride does need a far more comprehensive plan than the proposed new zoning if we are to compete successfully with other mountain resorts, some of which are far ahead of us on the learning curve in coming to grips with this problem.
We need to increase visitation by continuing to invest in marketing (a disclosure: I am on the board of the Telluride Tourism Board) and, more importantly, by protecting our existing bedbase, which is shrinking, and by creating more bedbase. We need to help our retail and restaurant businesses establish a downtown improvement organization that can try to impose consistent hours of operation and undertake other group initiatives, such as marketing. We need to continue to create more affordable housing so that businesses can find reliable employees who can afford to live here.
But all of this will come to naught if we don't tackle the single biggest problem: the exorbitant cost of commercial real estate. Horizontal zoning is a start, but the town must also consider some bolder measures. A commercial building deed restriction is one idea that could help. The establishment of a commercial building trust, which would own commercial real estate just as a land trust owns open space and would manage it in the community interest, is another. There may be other possibilities, but one way or another, the town is going to have to step in and find a way for businesses to reduce their occupancy costs. That is, of course, a suggestion that inspires great opposition from devotees of the free market. They understand that horizontal zoning is a step in this direction, and that's why they oppose it.
Government intervention in the economy is anathema to many of us. And yet, in this time and place, our only alternative is to stand by and watch our retail district continue to wither away. That's no alternative at all.


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A CRIME spree saw crooks break into 20 caravans over a two day span.
Burglars targeted the static caravans at the Orchards holiday park at Point Clear, St Osyth.
They grabbed items of clothing, a flat screen TV and a haul of other electrical items.
As well as breaking into 20 caravans, the raiders caused damage to another six homes with failed attempts to gain entry.
The incidents happened on December 9 and 10.
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Linux is a fun project to watch because you get to see this living and breathing piece of software change and evolve.
Recently, Linux has been undergoing something of a revolution with a respect to file systems. There are a number of projects including ext4 (See ext4 File System: Introduction and Benchmarks), squashfs, nilfs which have made it into the kernel, and tux3, which hasn't made it into the kernel yet but is under heavy development.
And perhaps most importantly, btrfs. Btrfs holds the promise of giving Linux many enterprise class file system features similar to ZFS (See Solving Common Administration Problems with ZFS and ZFS on FUSE) but with even more features and better performance. In fact, many Linux experts think that btrfs is one of the keys to the future of Linux. While btrfs is not quite ready to be your only file system, it is in the kernel ready for testing and is still undergoing very heavy development.
In this article we will introduce the key features of btrfs find out how it compares to existing file systems. We will also test it using iozone, with the understanding that it's still in development so performance will likely change over time.
Introduction to btrfs
Btrfs, sometimes called "Butter FS", is a new file system for Linux that has a wealth of features users have been wanting for some time. Chris Mason, who works at Oracle, started the project and Oracle has released the project under the GPL license so anyone can work on it. Btrfs has a gained a very large following within the Linux community and has whipped up a good deal of buzz. Some of the features of btrfs that have led to this buzz are:
You can tell from the list of features that btrfs is a very ambitious project with a load of features (got to love that).
One of the most immediate questions one would have about btrfs is, "how does it compare to ZFS?" That's a great question. There is a pretty good blog posting that attempts to impartially compare btrfs and ZFS. While the comparison is quite long, a quick summary of the comparison is below:
Next: Feature Breakdown
Jeff – you didn't mention what type of disks you used for benchmarking, but your results sure look like you're hitting the practical bandwidth limits of SATA-150. I sure would like to see a benchmark on InfiniBand 12x.
Also, what happened to comparing Ext3/Ext4 on RAID?
Jeff, great article! Very informative summaries of the new features. I hope you write a follow-up in a few months (years?) when BTRFS is declared stable. What type of disk(s) are you using?
I do take issue with your claims regarding compression:
When compression was turned on the performance increased by a large amount. The write and rewrite performance almost doubles and the read and reread performance increases by about 30%.
Write performance enhancements vary greatly. The Write performance increase via compression should be split into three sets of data: When using "nodatacow" and "nodatasum", the difference is minimal. Otherwise, when using any RAID, performance increases by about 40% (50 MB/s to 70 MB/s in most tests). Otherwise ("Standard" or "-m single" options), performance more than doubles (30 MB/s to 70 MB/s).
Read performance enhancements do not vary greatly, but are also certainly not 30% when using compression. There is a
Excellent article! I'm glad to see this kind of technology in the OpenSource world!
I do need to point out some incorrect entries in the BTRFS vs. ZFS comparison chart, however. specifically:
ZFS can online resize.
ZFS can repair/check/defrag while online. (scrub)
ZFS can take a snapshot of a snapshot
That being said, BTRFS still sounds like an exciting addition to Linux and I can't wait to test it out.
It would have been useful to have CPU usage statistics for all these tests to identify the cost of compression. I would have expected that the compression level/algorithm be selected to increase IO bandwidth at a slight cost to CPU overhead, but the lack of CPU numbers makes it difficult to evaluate how much of a cost that 30% came at.
[I'm also curious how tunable this is, based on larger CPUs and larger caches, or specific workloads]
(BTW – I recognize the compression of zero's makes the compression numbers meaningless)
Yep – I'm hitting the bandwidth limit pretty quickly. It's a pretty old machine. I'm trying to get the family funding agency to fund my proposal for a new machine. :) No word yet but I think the funding agency is waiting for their stimulus package to arrive.
Are you looking for a benchmark of a system with a number of drives and btrfs exporting it over NFS/RDMA over IB?
I'm not sure I follow you? Are you saying the read performance can vary by a great deal so 30% may be in the noise?
I didn't run the tests a number of times and compute the average or examine the standard deviation in a systematic manner. But I did run them several times to get a feel for the results. The numbers I reported are right around the average but that is by eyeball :)
BTW – I'm not sure when they will declare Btrfs stable. I'm guessing early 2010. I talked to Chris but didn't ask that question. They are still doing some fairly heavy lifting in the code base. I think the on-disk format is fixed but they could change it one more time (it's still marked as "experimental" :) ).
Did I capture your questions correctly or am I missing something?
Thanks for the comments. Can you point to an on-line source for the ZFS features? I've been looking for some time for a comprehensive list of ZFS features without luck.
You're absolutely correct but I didn't track the CPU usage during the run :( Bonnie++ might be an easier way to get this information.
I have an interview with Chris Mason that will be appearing soon. He pointed out that the crc32 computations used in the compression can now be done in hardware with Nehalem. I hope to have a Nehalem system soon and I will definitely test this out.
If you want me to repost the testing and to add more tests, let the editor know :)
One pretty good intro to ZFS is here: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/whatis/
It's a glorified bullet list with a brief description of what each feature means.
For example, one could quibble on the "snapshot of snapshots" feature:
ZFS backup and restore are powered by snapshots. Any snapshot can generate a full backup, and any pair of snapshots can generate an incremental backup. Incremental backups are so efficient that they can be used for remote replication — e.g. to transmit an incremental update every 10 seconds.
It also appears you've left some of the ZFS advantages out of the table – I'd encourage your readers to see the original blog posting. I don't know if this is in BTRFS, but it's a lifesaver:
ZFS provides unlimited constant-time snapshots and clones. A snapshot is a read-only point-in-time copy of a filesystem, while a clone is a writable copy of a snapshot. Clones provide an extremely space-efficient way to store many copies of mostly-shared data such as workspaces, software installations, and diskless clients.
I am very glad to see this comparison, but I would like to make a few comments.
- the title/summary is poor. The comment "Linux don't need no stinkin' ZFS…"Butter FS†is on the horizon and it's boasting more features and better performance" is misleading.
According to your summary table, you have one area in which BTRFS can be considered more featured than ZFS (snapshots of snapshots). Considering that you haven't even discussed clones (which maybe do the same thing or more) and that ZFS is not only a filesystem but it, and its utilities, integrate the LVM features and it has, right now, a wide selection of RAID modes that are actually functioning and it does 'automagic' adaptation to volumes of differing performance values, this seems to be a claim that you get nowhere near justifying. Maybe, eventually, it will be true, but the current version doesn't have the features and there is little evidence that 'first stable release' will either.
(Sorry, I'm not trying to say that BTRFS is 'bad', just that you are accidentally overclaiming; my guess would be that you haven't read much on ZFS and all of its features. I think if you had, you would have realised that BTRFS on its own or in its first stable release isn't going to do it. BTRFS plus on the fly compression, plus a revised MD, plus LVM may well, though, but I'm expecting to wait a bit for all of those to work ideally together.)
- the title leads you to believe that BTRFS will be shown to have a better performance than ZFS. The actual comparison is between BTRFS and ext filesystems with various configurations.
- one of the clever features of ZFS is protection against silent data corruption. This may not be vital to me now, but as filesystem sizes increase…a colleague deals with the situation in which a research project grabs nearly 1G of data every day and they have data going back over 5 years (and they intend to keep capturing data for another 50+ years). As he says "how do I ensure that the data that we read is the data that we wrote?", and its a good question. ZFS is good in that, admittedly obscure, situation, but I'm not sure whether BTRFS will be.
- You make (indirectly) the very good point that with the more advanced filesystems, benchmarking performance can be rather sensitive to set-up options. I am very glad that you did that testing and hope that you can do more thorough testing as we get closer to a version 1.0 release. I am not sure that I can help you with your funding submission, though…
It is also the case that the results that you get are heavily dependant on what you measure, so the more different tests you do, the better.
- another clever feature of ZFS (sorry about sounding like sounding like a stuck record, but I am impressed by ZFS and would love to be as impressed by BTRFS) is that you can make an array incorporating SSDs and hard disks and have the system automagically sort out the usage of the various storage types to give an agregate high performance, low-cost-per-TB, array. In a commercial setting this is probably one of the biggest advantages that ZFS has over earlier technology. I'm sure that I don't have to use the 'O' word here, but this is a vital advantage that Sun has, and I'm expecting to see some interesting work on optimising this system, in particular for database accesses, soon.
(BTW, this is so effective that a hybrid array, as used in Amber Road, can be so effective that comparing a hybrid array of SSDs and slow hard disks can be faster, cheaper and much more power efficient than one using the usual enterprise class SAS disks, so this can be an interesting solution, in enterprise apps)
If you wish to know more about ZFS, you can do worse than read Sun's whitepapers on the subject; search on "sun zfs discovery day" to get more info; the presentation is very readable. (I'm not, btw, suggesting that this is an unbiased comparison of ZFS to anything else; its a description of the features and how-to-use.)
I was going to say your trasnfer speeds are slow, as I get 70MB/s trasnfer files over ethernet Gige from XP to Unraid cache drive (csche meaning single drive unprotected no raid) which uses rieserFS. The drives are use are two 500GB Seagte 7200.12 and seagate 1.5TB 7200.11. I am sure the performance would be better trasnfering from drive to drive and not over ethernet. I am pretty close to hitting the Ethernet practical limit. Of course this is with my aqntivirus running and zone alarm pro, and streaming a movie from the same box.
If anyone gets a chance to test the brts performance on a fast system with those seagate drives above, please let me know.
I chose those drives because they are as fast at the veloraptor 10K drives, only more storage and cheaper!
One (of the many) mis-understood features of ZFS is how the file metadata works. In most existing filesystems that support arbitrary metadata, the metadata space is limited and essentially allows key/data pairs to be associated with the file. In ZFS, the metadata for each filesystem object is another entire filesystem rooted at the containing file. ZFS is, in essence, a 3D filesystem. Consider Apple's application bundles, currently implemented as a directory that the Finder application recognizes and displays specially. Using ZFS, the application file could be the icon file for the application, all of the component files, including executables, libraries, localization packs, and other app resources, would be stored in the file metadata. To the outside world, the bundle truly appears as a single file.
ZFS has it's warts, for instance that storage of small files is quite inefficient, but actually besting it is going to be a long, hard slog. I suspect the big commercial Linux distributions will iron out the licensing issues somehow and including ZFS in their distributions in the next year. Linux is too big a business to be driven by the religious zealots anymore.
Will BTRFS have the option to sync to file system copies over
the network (WAN as well…)?
I believe ZFS has such an option and Linux DRBD allows this as
well on the device level.
no speed comparisons with zfs?
2-and-a-bit years on and ZFS is still chugging along nicely as a working, robust filesystem (and yes, it _does_ have snapshots of snapshots) which I've found impossible to break.
Meantime, Btrfs has again trashed itself on my systems given scenarios as simple as power failure.
That's without even going into the joy of ZFS having working ssd read and write caching out front which substantially boosts performance while keeping the robustness (even 64Gb is more than adequate for a 10TB installation I use for testing)
If there's any way of reconciling CDDL and GPL then the best way forward would be to combine forces. BTRFS has a lot of nice ideas but ZFS has them too and it has the advantage of a decade's worth of actual real world deployment experience to draw on.
Less infighting among OSS devs, please.
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Some parts I didn't completely take apart, so they were weighed altogether on the scale-
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Frame- scott addict sl- 810g w/ derailleur hanger, braze on FD hanger & cable guide
Fork-scott addict sl- 295g cut (might be cut down some more)
Headset- Ritchey WCS 80g w/ cups
Bottle Cages- Emporelli Dolomiti (2 cages) 31g (including alloy bolts)
Front der- campy chorus tuned to 58g, all bolts and washers included
Crankset- Lighning cranks 170mm, Stronglight CT2 50t, Extralite 34t, extralite chainring bolts, Time Iclic Titanium pedals - 682g
BB Cups- Zipp Vuma ceramic (don't ask, I had them laying around and they work w/ lightning cranks) 75g
Seatpost- xx-light sp31- 93g
Seatpost Clamp- scott stock (until I can get a new ultimate clamp) - 13g
Saddle- ax lightness endurance - 77g
Rear Derailleur- Sram Red 136g (w/ some tuning)
Brakes- KCNC CB1 w/ swissstop yellow pads - 181g
Cable Adjusters on frame- ritchey 6g (for the pair)
Cable Housing and Liner - I-links and Mini I-links - 54g
FD & RD Cables - mini-I-link 22g (uncut)
Brake Cables- Power Cordz - 8g (F & R)
Shifters, Stem, Bars, Tape- Sram Red w/ btp clamps, Extralite UL3 90mm, Schmolke TLO (white carbon, 44cm), Deda tape, BTP hoods- 543g
Fork expander- Extralite Ultrastar - 9g, Extralite Top Cap and screw - 5g
Rear Wheel- Edge 1.45, 24h, extralite hub, dura ace 7900 11-27 cassette, m2 racer bolt-on skewer, magnet for speed sensor, Continental Competition 700x22 w/ valve extender (total weight 1001g)
Front Wheel- Edge 1.45 20h, extralite hub, m2 racer bolt-on skewer, conti comp 700x19 w/ valve extender (total weight 723g)
Chain- kmc x10sl, I never weighed the damn thing, but I think it came in around 226g
I didn't weigh the Garmin 500 nor the speed/cadence sensor (individually)
My weight weenie sticker on the top tube doesn't register on the scale.
I took it out for a 36 mile ride today with a couple of climbs. Umm, not much difference from the cr1sl, but when you go from 11.96 to around 11.5 lbs, what's the freaking difference?
Ok- the real differences are the fit- with a shorter headtube and slightly longer top tube, I can use my non-setback post- I was having serious issues w/ my hip and lower back which went away on the cr1 when I switched to a setback post- my position was too cramped. After measuring and trying out the new frame w/out the setback, I feel MUCH more comfortable and found myself riding w/ my hands on the hoods instead of the tops of the bars, which is a good thing. Someone had mentioned the addict did not provide as much of a "beating" as the ride of the cr1 and I think they were right- it's definitely a bit more forgiving. I couldn't even begin to judge stiffness, especially since the bike only dropped half a pound, but the last couple of weeks I think I dropped about 6lbs. Still the fit is just outstanding (so far).
As my buddy and I were joking around we came up with:
This is a bike Chuck Norris would ride.
This bike could rip a man's heart out and show it to him while it's still beating.
Nothing else would be appropriate.


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Newton and the layperson
Newton's notion of BODY (existing in-and-of itself) is [in a sense] an acknowledgment and a further assertion of layman's understanding of body: yours, mine, etc. This is not to suggest anything along the lines of brilliance (Laws of Motion) follows science building on the things we understand and definitely not to say science gone fishin when it goes on fishing expeditions.
There's not much choice: just DO, with DESCRIBE as a part of doing.
I can read a book. So book is an entity that can be read. Did anything happen to the book as a result of reading? Looks happy. So this entity can be characterized in terms of what operations can be performed on it and in terms of the (emotional) terminology employed to describe its properties (looks) in the context of reading (operation).
Do something more definite?
If you give me a piece of string, then I can align the two endpoints and hold them together with my thumb and forefinger letting free fall of the string in between and after some more words like these I have two strings of the same length and this length (description) is determined by equations involving the definite deeds performed.
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The site looks at why and where achievement gaps exist; the impact they have on students, teachers, families, communities and national competitiveness; and most importantly how they can be narrowed and eventually closed. The ETS Achievement Gap website is: www.ets.org/achievement_gap.
"Our purpose in creating this website is twofold," explains Kurt Landgraf, President and CEO of ETS. "First, improving quality and equity in education for all students is a founding principle of ETS, and we have included our own world-class policy research on achievement gaps. Second, besides current and historical research and data, we wanted the site to feature success stories — of organizations that have made strides in research, policy and practice; of schools that have had positive results in narrowing gaps; and of individual students who have overcome socioeconomic barriers."
The site features success stories such as the Children's Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schools® program that provides summer and after-school enrichment that helps children fall in love with reading, increases their self-esteem and generates more positive attitudes toward learning. The Strengthening Instruction in Tennessee Elementary Schools: Focus on Mathematics (SITES-M) project, and the Young People's Project (YPP), are also featured.
Full accounts of recent ETS-sponsored conferences devoted to achievement gap issues are also provided. Included among those is last November's Advancing Equity: Removing Roadblocks to Achieving High Academic Standards conference. At this symposium, scientific experts and education stakeholders grappled with the academic, fiscal and program investments — including standards and structures — necessary to fully achieve equitable educational opportunity.
Last June's symposium A Strong Start: Positioning Young Black Boys for Educational Success held in Washington, D.C., and attended by more than 300 of the nation's leaders on education, learning and achievement gap issues is also featured. The symposium was devoted to the issues facing Black boys in their early years. ETS partnered with the Children's Defense Fund to explore the challenges facing this vulnerable population, as well as the opportunities to position young Black boys for educational success.
"The rigorous research ETS conducts into the causes and consequences of education inequity is the cornerstone of our efforts to close the achievement gap," says Michael Nettles, Senior Vice President of ETS's Center for Policy Evaluation & Research. This site offers free studies and reports we've compiled and analyzed over many years that have enabled us to develop innovations in educational assessment, collaborate effectively with partners, and raise awareness of issues and attitudes that must be overcome to achieve universal education. Reports include:
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Very annoying problem...I first had a H67 board with HD 2000 and game didn't work and now I tried runing it with the Intel HD 3000 chip and it doesn't work either (same exact problem), I get to the menu and no animation, problems with the menu itself, in short, you can't play the game. I also tried running it through Lucid as the dedicated graphics card runs the game no problem, I get a DDRAW.dll error 80004005. Only way to play the game is connection the monitor to the dedicated graphics card...VERY annoying. I looked this problem on google and found out people who have Intel HD graphics on their laptops got it to work by setting the power settings in the IGP control panel to "High Performance" but that option obviously does not exist on the desktop machines. It's very ironic that it does work on undergraded IGP on laptops and not on the IGP HD2000/3000.
Please fix your drivers Intel.
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I already read and done everything possible. Intel needs to fix the drivers! This game works on older intel hd integrated graphics some old laptops have so it MUST work on HD2K/3K.
Just fix the drivers... !
anything new? Getting desperate here...
I am having the exact same problem on two of my PC's with HD Graphics 2000. Is there going to be a fix?
I have the same problem.
I like this game so much but I can not play it.
My PC's HD Graphics 3000 (Core i5 2500k, Main board Asus P8H67-V, Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit).
It's a long time to wait for a driver.
Is there going to be a fix? Please let me know, I will buy a discrete graphics card or wait for a driver from Intel.
Thank you.
I also have this problem. It's very annoying.
My hardware:
(with integrated graphics)
Thinkpad X220
Please fix this, Intel!
Same problem here with Tiberium Sun and C&C Red Alert 2. H
I knew many people will find this thread. As of now, I have the latest intel display driver for my hd 3000 and game still can't be played. Very annoyed considering the fix is probably so simple for an Intel coder to do.
Same problem here with Red Alert 2 Yuri's Revenge, a lot of people still play to this game. Intel please fix your drivers.
Config : Core i7, Intel HD 3000 184.108.40.2069 + nVidia GT525M, Win 7 x64
Spam the thread boys so they'll finally take care of this crap.
Found a solution for those with dual GPU (e.g nVidia GT525M & Intel HD 3000 in my case) :
- Right click on desktop->screen resolution
- Click the Detect button. Unconnected screens will appear.
- Extend desktop to a VGA connection on the Intel GPU
- Drag the 2nd screen to the corner of the primary screen so the mouse boundaries of the primary screen will remain (almost) the same.
- Click OK/Apply
Taken from http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1532786#post1532786, not really for games but it's working.
I don't have any slowdown with this config in the [Video] part of RA2MD.ini:
I have to agree that this problem is intel based, and that this needs to be fixed. We are not the first ones with this problem, and I'm sure it wouldn't take longer than an hour for an Intel programmer to fix this. Some people have got the game working by turning the power to high performance, so it is solvable, but this didn't solve it for me.
Please update your drivers intel, or at the very least reply to this thread and help us resolve it ourselves.
Same problem.
Config1 : Core i5-2400, Intel HD 2000 188.8.131.529, Win 7 x32.
Config2 : Core i5-2410M, Intel HD 3000 22.214.171.1249 + nVidia GT520M, Win 7 x32.
Еxcept Red Alert 2 the same problem in C&C: Tiberian Sun (same engine) and Space Rangers 2.
Intel have really no time to read and answer on this topic? O_o
Bad news to be competitive brand.
Problem still not solved with 188.8.131.5298 drivers


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Best Sushi in 412 – The headline say it all. It's a real hidden jem.
Consistently the Best! – Extremely good sushi!
I have never eaten anything there that i have been unhappy with.
The reviewers who were unhappy completely baffle me. I have been eating there for 10 years and have never had a bad experience.
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The egg drop soup is the best I have ever had. I order it in most places and here it just rocks!
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Disappointed – I ordered hot and sour soup and shrimp lo mein today. The soup was bland. The lo mein was a little burned and has a smoky and bitter after taste. It got stronger after a few bites. My husband's and friends' dinners were fine. I told the waiter about the burning taste. His reply was what you want me to do about it; there is nothing I can do. I'm not a picky eater. One bad dish doesn't stop me from trying other items on the menu. But the attitude ruined my experience. I will not go back to this restaurant.
Poor Service – I have received on numerous occasions' poor service, i.e., not being welcomed in this restaurant. Today, I got there before my party, and was asked to have a seat. Then a woman came in after me, and was told to look around, see if her guest were in the restaurant???? When my party arrived we were asked if we wanted to be seated in the rear of the restaurant, when there were tables up front. We watched the owner go to other tables and have a conversation, but didn't bother to come to our table. We watched the owner thank others for coming in, but no one, no one thanked us. The food is good, but not worth the bad feelings we experienced. Thanks but no thanks, I'll spend my money where I am welcomed.
amazing is an understatement! – The best chinese and asian food, not only in the city but anywhere. My husband is active duty military and we look for good chinese in every city we end up in and none have ever come close to taipei. The owners are amazing, the food to die for, and they will make authentic dishes that aren't on the menu if you ask. This was my husband's first stop and first meal when he came home from iraq
Highest Quality Chinese and Japanese near Pittsburgh – They have the highest quality popular Chinese cuisine and Japanese sushi dishes close to Pittsburgh. I've dined at Taipei Tokyo over 100 times and never had 1 bad meal. They always offer great seasonal maki and the waiters have many non-menu items to recommend for the more adventurous.
They have a very good liquor and beer selection to go with the meals, including some of the freshest 20oz steel Sapporo cans in the city.
The atmosphere is a bit strange (pink neon and pink seats), but it grows with you.
Japanese Items of interest: "Shrimp and Vegetable Tempura Lunch", "Spicy Crunch tuna Roll", "Spider Roll", "Volcano Roll", and the Best "Dynomite Roll" in the city.
Chinese Items of interest are: Fresh sea bass with Ginger Scallion Sauce.
Lunch is affordable, and dinner offers some options to splurge on if you want to show off. If you want to make a good impression on somebody who has never tried Japanese or Chinese food, this is a good place to take them.
Great Sushi! – My husband and have had Sushi all over the city and always come back to Taipei Tokyo...we truly feel it is the best sushi in the city....try the Black and Gold Roll...to die for!
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What the heck do Parisians do with all that extra bread?Ā Eat anywhere in Paris, a bistro, a brasserie, a fine restaurant, a cafe, or a private home, and a basket of thickly sliced baguette is as important to the table setting as cutlery.ĀĀ Not a skimpy 3 or 4 slices, but piled high.Ā No butter. No olive oil.Ā The bread is so good it stands alone.Ā No bread plates, either.Ā A few eateries run by the cool new chefs whose cutting edge menus use the classics as a jumping off point, serve butter beside their bread basket.
The basket is passed with pate, with the main course, with the salad course, with the cheese course.Ā The basket never goes empty.Ā It's constantly restocked.
The baguettes are so uniformly beautiful that I swear they are from the same place.Ā Golden and crisp on the outside, tender with a large crumb and air holes inside.Ā It's just the standard.Ā One night I sat down at a brasserie on Rue Cler, known for its flower and vegetable markets.Ā A waiter plunked down a basket of bread that could have come from an American supermarket bakery.Ā I left.Ā Found a much nicer place a few doors away.
The question still stands.Ā No one could eat all that bread.Ā Especially at home.Ā At home, they turn it into a variety of dishes.Ā Two in particular.Ā Onion soup.Ā Onions cooked for hours until sweet, good stock added, then slices of yesterday's baguette topped with cheese and slid under the broiler.Ā And then, there's lost bread, pain perdu, never called "stale" or "day old" as we do in the USA.Ā It's yesterday's baguette dipped into eggs – eggs are very big here – and fried until golden.Ā Then crowned with confectioner's sugar.Ā We call it French toast.Ā And to make it authentically, I use a baguette.
This is based on my favorite American recipe from Marion Cunningham's Breakfast book.Ā I changed up the American white bread for the French baguettes.
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