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Most unsuitable saloon racing cars
Posted 31 January 2002 - 19:20
Also, I would like to know more about cars that looked unsuitable for racing but were raced anyway. Isettas entered for Mille Miglia come to mind first, then Lanfranchi Moskviches that even proved successful because of strange rules... Audi 200 Avant Quattros in rallying, Volvo station wagons in BTCC...
More favorites?
Posted 31 January 2002 - 20:31
This race has been one to turn out a lot of cars that weren't really all that suitable... Vauxhall Vivas, would you believe, swamped the little-car class in 1963 and beat everything home!
To see a Valiant V8 on the mountain on standard wheels and tyres... Ugly!
Posted 31 January 2002 - 20:36
Posted 31 January 2002 - 20:38
There was this famous racing Mini stationcar in Britain.
A Rolls-Royce taking part in Paris-Dakar (early 80's)
In the ETC, sometimes roadcars took part (perhaps after receiving some Deutschmarks) just to fill the class otherwise there wouldn't have been points for the winner. I know of a Ford Taunus 20M TS which "competed" this way.
Volvo's 240 turbo was an unlikely racecar at first as well. In the German DTM championship, a 4-door version was raced. Someone took the liberty to add a "taxi" sign on the roof... When Volvo was winning, the laughing stopped.
The rallying Audi was a Quattro sedan, incidentally.
The Spa 24h once had a Peugeot 806 (IIRC) racing.
The Nürburgring 24 hour has a liberal format, so cars racing on LPG or even diesel can compete, as well as some stationcars and an Opel Zafira group A.
Posted 31 January 2002 - 20:42
Posted 31 January 2002 - 20:47
Originally posted by Mobetta
Didn't someone rally a Rolls-Royce?This would have been in the late 1960s-early 1970s time frame when there was a fad of transcontinental rallies like the London to Sydney and the World Cup rallies.I can't recall the specific events the Rolls competed in or the name of the driver.I do remember that they had a hell of a time with the semi-trailing rear suspension links breaking due to cornering stress!
I think you're right, though I can't find an entry list. Moreover, Mrs Brown entered a 1927 Rolls in most (if not all) of the round Australia 'trials' of the fifties and sixties...
As for the Westminster, the only thing against it was weight, provided he had the big bore engine... and even then the weight would have been on a par with that of the Jaguars he was up against. Or less.
Posted 31 January 2002 - 20:50
The little Skoda 110's and 130's coupé, unlikely cars but succesfull nontheless
The 1977 AMG Mercedes 450 SLC, with its 3-speed automatic gearbox.
Fiat 2300 S coupé, 1963
Lancia Flaminia
Posted 31 January 2002 - 21:01
Posted 31 January 2002 - 21:45
It was no AMG car, but a works project, in fact not the 4.5 ltr, but a 450 SLC 5.0.
Originally posted by Frank de Jong
The 1977 AMG Mercedes 450 SLC, with its 3-speed automatic gearbox.
1st, 2nd & 4th 1978 Vuelta a la Americana Sud (30.000 km!)
2nd 1979 East African Safari
1st to 4th (!) 1979 Bandama Rallye Ivory Coast
3rd 1980 East African Safari
2nd Rally 1980 Codasur Arghentina
1st & 2nd 1980 Bandama Rallye Ivory Coast
Posted 31 January 2002 - 21:46
Posted 31 January 2002 - 21:51
...but that Rolls Royce of course is my favourite (as Frank already mentioned)...
Posted 31 January 2002 - 21:51
Posted 31 January 2002 - 21:56
Also on that rally (car no. 13) was a Series 1 Silver Cloud
The Shadow made it to Mexico, but not as a finisher, as it was excluded on time somewhere in south America, , but it continued to Mexico as a sort of mobile support car for any competitor that needed it, especially in the Andes.
The Silver Cloud retired in Brazil after the crew apparently spent 23 hours searching for a lost wheel nut!!
Posted 31 January 2002 - 22:12
Originally posted by bobbo
A fellow named Jim Clark drove a Ford (US) Galaxie with a 7 litre engine at Crystal Palace around 1964 or so ! Apparently he didn't do too poorly, IIRC!
There were a few Galaxies in British racing at that time, Brian Muir ended the life of one (Willment's) and the aforementioned Jack Sears also drove one.... Dan Gurney started them on that trend when he took a 1962 Impala 2-door to England and led the Jags a merry chase.. that very car being brought to Australia later by Laurie O'Neil and becoming the tow car for Greg Cusack and his team.
Another was the car of Gawaine Baillie, who brought his car out here for the Sandown endurance race and let Lex Davison put the car perilously close to dropping into the dam. It also raced at Warwick Farm and Longford. A local Galaxie was also driven by Davison and Norm Beechey, and Beechey beat the Jane Jag once with another Impala.
So the big sedans weren't so out of place in the sixties at all.. they were competitive with the other stuff of the day, only being eclipsed when the Mustangs came out...
If you want really wierd... how about the Chrysler entries in the Spa 24-hours events of the fifties... side valve sixes in big sedans, Chrysler looking at attracting buyers among the Swiss populace apparently (where did I read about this? Paul Frere's book, I think)...
Posted 31 January 2002 - 22:21
Originally posted by Michael Müller
It was no AMG car, but a works project, in fact not the 4.5 ltr, but a 450 SLC 5.0.
Michael, I meant the AMG Mampe touring car for the ETC. That didn't have the 5-litre engine, it wasn't homologated at the start and the car received very little development after that.
It wasn't bad either, even racing in 1980 occasionally. But an unlikely racing car anyway.
Posted 31 January 2002 - 22:38
A 1930 Bentley 8-litre Tourer.
Like Bengry's Royce, it made the course, albeit excluded for being out of time. But in an event where there were only 6 finishers out of close to 100 entrants, I'd say that was pretty good going.
If I recall correctly, one of the biggest holdups encountered was having to wait for a crew member who had gone back to England to pick up more wire wheel spokes, because they kept shaking loose over the stage miles.
Posted 31 January 2002 - 22:42
Originally posted by Jeremy Jackson
Also on that rally (car no. 13) was a Series 1 Silver Cloud
What a monster...
Posted 31 January 2002 - 22:43
Originally posted by Frank de Jong
We want more!
The little Skoda 110's and 130's coupé, unlikely cars but succesfull nontheless
The 1977 AMG Mercedes 450 SLC, with its 3-speed automatic gearbox.
Fiat 2300 S coupé, 1963
Lancia Flaminia
What is it that makes the Lancia Flaminia a unsuitable as a salon race car?
The nessesary technology was there: Alloy V6 (homologated for three dual Webers), transaxle, deDion rear suspension, disc brakes on all wheels (in the late '50s to early '60s), 50-50 weight distribution, etc.
Surely it was a bit heavy straight from the production line, but that could be fixed (Zagato even built one or two tubular chassied Flaminias).
The main reason why the Flaminia was not a great success on the race track was that Lancia did not have a offical race department in the days of the Flaminia, it was built after Lancia had stoped raceing in the mid '50s and before HF Scuadra Corse had become a more organised racing dapartment for Lancia.
Despite the lack of official support, the Flaminia did manage to score som class wins f x Brands Hatch 6 hours and Targa Florio.
Posted 31 January 2002 - 22:50
Originally posted by Criceto
Bill Bengry's Silver Shadow in the 1970 World Cup Rally is strange enough - but even stranger, I would suggest, was Keith Schellenberg's entry in the 1974 World Cup event.
A 1930 Bentley 8-litre Tourer.
Like Bengry's Royce, it made the course, albeit excluded for being out of time. But in an event where there were only 6 finishers out of close to 100 entrants, I'd say that was pretty good going.
If I recall correctly, one of the biggest holdups encountered was having to wait for a crew member who had gone back to England to pick up more wire wheel spokes, because they kept shaking loose over the stage miles.
Schellenberg ran that car in a number of marathons, I'm sure, including the London-Sydney. Must have got used to carrying spare spokes...
Posted 01 February 2002 - 00:22
Posted 01 February 2002 - 01:13
Originally posted by Joe in LA
A British hairdresser entered and completed (a special version of the Baja 1000 for y2k) in a Citreon 2cv. The driver had absolutely no business in the event, and the car even less, but he managed to get through it.
Both cylinders beating furiously...
Is that as bad as this thing (or three of its brothers...) that competed in the 1964 Ampol Round Australia Trial... entered by the manufacturer, who really should have stuck to making washing machines!
This one had two cylinders too, I think, made by Villiers (you know, lawnmowers, pumps, etc) and bored right out to 354cc!
Posted 01 February 2002 - 05:13
Maybe Roger can post a picture from an old Motor Sport - there has to be one somewhere.
Posted 01 February 2002 - 12:16
And in group 2 (1000 series-built), it would have been possible to race an Austin Mini Countryman - that's the estate version, complete with wooden trim! I wonder if anyone ever thought seriously about running an Otosan Anadol ... (I always thought that sounded more like a painkiller than a car!)
Posted 01 February 2002 - 12:35
Posted 01 February 2002 - 12:38
The Volvo 850 sedan seemed big and not suited to Super Touring rules, yet managed to win many races.
How about the Jaguar XJ12C that British Leyland ran in the ETCC in 1976 & 77. Very powerful, but didn't handle, even in the hands of quality steerers like Andy Rouse and Tim Schenken.
Posted 01 February 2002 - 12:49
Be warned, this is a very vague recollection!
Posted 01 February 2002 - 13:20
But I now remember another oddball tourer, a picture sent to me by somebody who wanted it posted on the ten-tenths forum thread about Brno...
With a 2.5-litre air cooled V8 in the rear, this Tatra might have enough power, and it might have traction, but balance and weight would be against it. Wonder if the Minis are lapping it?
Posted 01 February 2002 - 16:36
Posted 01 February 2002 - 18:43
Originally posted by Steve Williams
Ray Bell or another one of our esteemed Aussie journos may have more knowledge on this - but as a kid of about 11 or so I remember seeing an article in either Wheels or Sports Car World about a 6.3 or 6.9 Mercedes being raced somewhere in Scandinavia - Finland from memory. I remember it had huge body roll, all sorts of wonderful wheel angles, and a sponsorship sign on the corner behind it which said something like YHDSPANKKI or some such act.
Be warned, this is a very vague recollection!
Perhaps you mean this: http://www.m-100.org...1971/index.html
The site gives some interesting details about the competition life of the 300 SEL 6.3.
Unfortunately, the site mentioned above mixes up some dates.
The works cars practised at Spa 1969 (but didn't race), the AMG car (there might have been two) raced in 1971-1972. There was officially no link between the two, the first AMG was built from a poad accident wreck.
Posted 01 February 2002 - 18:55
They (fielded by Briggs Cunningham, I believe) both finished . . .
Posted 01 February 2002 - 20:08
Tatra 603 was mildly successful race car - I know they ran in Nurburgring one year and had some good results but I should search for more details.
Trabants achieved a lot of class wins in European champioship rally events, as well as Wartburgs.
And a guy from Slovenia, Jani Trcek, rallied a Renault 4 around ten years ago - with predictable "success".
Frank, Audi indeed ralied both saloon and estate version of 200 - Croatian champion Tihomir filipovic drove one estate in European Championship events.
And, of course, historic events are full of unusual entrants. Paris to Peking race was won by a Jeep! His owner, Phil Surtees often rallies it in other UK historic events as well.
Around the world in 80 days race (surely the longest one ever - there was a thread about it) was won by a Hillman Hunter. An early Citroen 2CV was also in that race.
Posted 01 February 2002 - 20:24
on the other size an Isetta at the Mille Miglia in 1956
Posted 02 February 2002 - 00:23
Top speed over 300 km/h ( I would certainly not dare to travel in a Tatra at that speed ;) )
Posted 02 February 2002 - 06:12
Posted 02 February 2002 - 07:21
Posted 02 February 2002 - 07:53
Posted 02 February 2002 - 09:54
Originally posted by William Dale Jr
The Fiat Uno entered in the 1986 James Hardie 1000. Poor little thing was so outclassed by everything else... It managed to finish the race, but having completed 110 laps, it was one lap short of being classified.
There's a story about that, I think I may have posted it before...
Gordon Mitchell was the WA Street Car and Sports Sedan Champion racing for the same entrant, Frank Cecchele (sp?), co-driver was Allan McCarthy who was doing reasonably in the ex-Geoghegan Holden Monaro. The car was built by Frank, who prepared both cars for Gordon and had turned the turbocharged Rover engine into a super-reliable jet.
The got the car set up in Perth, dynoed it, then trucked it straight to Bathurst. It has plenty of grunt and handled well, stopped fine... but it had an annoying and debilitating problem in the ignition... it virtually shut down at any time at all... 135mph down the straight, going fine, then shut down... no apparent reason. They did have one problem, a CV joint failed, but other than that everything was rosy except for the electrical problem.
It was such a problem that they had a hard time getting onto the grid at all, not being able to put in a complete lap with power available, and they would naturally get in the way of others out practising because they never knew when it was about to drop its bundle.
At one stage, the all-knowing all-important 19yo Mark Skaife walked past loudly proclaiming that "amateurs like them shouldn't be allowed to enter the race."
Anyway, they tried to race, had the problem throughout, then packed it up and took it to Adelaide, where they had the same problem practising for the GP weekend supports.
Frank then had a brainwave. The only thing that had been changed after it was dynoed was the precautionary change from carbon plug leads to copper leads... he changed them back and the car was a flyer!
It seems the different resistance upset the management system and told it to shut down every so often...
So the car wasn't such a dud, it just had a minor problem that made it look that way.
Posted 02 February 2002 - 11:14
How about the Audi 5x5 that raced at Bathurst between 1982-1984, or the Maserati BiTurbo, i will never forget the footage of the car wobbling all over the place on the exit of woodcote at silverstone in 1987.
Posted 02 February 2002 - 12:00
I was going to mention the Biturbo, but I always believed that had the cars been better built from their bare shells - their roll cages weren't even connected to the suspension mounting points! - the cars could at least have been competitive and handled better. I know Armin Hahne said that they had many problems with the engines, and that had hindered the development of the rest of the car, but still...
Posted 02 February 2002 - 12:34
Posted 02 February 2002 - 14:36
There are some very misty rememberings to the Mampe SLC now as you mention it, however, no details remained. You have more, may be photo?
To Bobbo and Ray:
The Galaxy was in no way unsuitable, even today the "smaller" version, the 5 ltr Ford Falcon, is a "must have" if you want to win in historic touring car racing.
To Steve and Frank:
The 300 SEL 6.8 basically was rather unsuitable, but the brute power of the enlarged V8 compensated air suspension and weight.
Even in standard street version the 6.3 was a beast, which I remember with awe. Only available with a special automatic gearbox, as no manual MB transmission and no clutch was able to handle the gigantic torque, 0-100 kph at 6.8 sec - without real first gear, because on gearing the first was more a 2nd, and hunting 911's on the Autobahn, which was special fun with a "250 S" fixed to the boot lid.
The engine was totally understressed, 250 DIN-HP resp. 280 bhp for 6300 cc with manual fuel injection was nothing. Top power was available already at 4000 rpm, and more than 5000 was not possible. Theoretically the M100 engine could be tuned rather easily, as there was plenty of potential, but in practice this was blocked by the injection pump. We had plans to drop the injection and convert it to 4 Weber carbs, which finally failed due to financial reasons. The figures I remember for the factory 6.8 increased constantly, with the Spa version around 425 DIN-HP, although rumours had been around up to 485. The later AMG version was somewhat tamer, lacking the full technical possibilities the factory had.
Anybody remembering the colour of the factory cars? The AMG was blood red, I still remember. One of the cars I saw at a hill climb in Germany in the eearly 70's was silver. I also remember one which was black-yellow, but don't remember whether it was genuine or not.
Since I sold my 6.3 end of 70's I missed it, and I still miss it today. Since 20 years now I'm thinking to buy one again, always with ups and downs, and I'm nearly sure that the day will come where I cannot withhold anymore. And who knows, may be I'm crazy enough to convert it into a blood red AMG replica, with Webers of course, as even after 25 years I'm keen to know whether it works ...!
Posted 02 February 2002 - 16:36
Here's the 1969 Spa car, in B/W (DNS) :
The 1971 AMG car:
Finally, the 1978 AMG 450 SLC:
The last one may be the ugliest Mercedes ever raced...
Posted 02 February 2002 - 17:03
An Opel Astra Estate on the old Nürburgring...
Posted 02 February 2002 - 17:13
I prefer the AMG version, due to change of regulations now wide wheel arches had been allowed, which looks more brute with the fat tyres.
Btw, Cock Wieman of Amsterdam 2 years ago prepared a 6.3 for cicuit racing in the Yountimer Trophy. However, he claims to be in the beginning of the project only having reached just 350 HP. Also air suspension has been removed in favour of mechanical springs.
Posted 02 February 2002 - 17:26
The year is 1973, and the event is a continantal rallycross. Maybe one of the racing saloons seen on the above pictures...?
Posted 02 February 2002 - 21:23
1968 Macao 300 SEL: 6.3 litres, 296 HP, 1700 kg
1969 Spa 300 SEL: 6.8 litres, 358 HP, 1588 kg
1971 Spa AMG car: 6.8 litres, 398 HP, 1635 kg
1972 AMG car: 6.8 litres, 428 HP (although 480 HP was mentioned as well), 1635 kg
A heavyweight - but one of the most impressive touringcars of its time.
Posted 02 February 2002 - 22:06
Posted 02 February 2002 - 23:48
I also remember the rallye cross car, as far as I remember it was a standard 6.3 only. Sad picture, only the last one is even sader!
Posted 03 February 2002 - 08:28
If they only have read the rules...
Still the car was told to be a 'muscle man' (around 450 hp), realtively lightweight and, as far as I can see, extremely good looking.
Posted 03 February 2002 - 14:07
The story behind is available at http://uweb.superlin...oint3/rudi.html
Anybody able to confirm this incident really happened?


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Twins Arrested After Living With Mother's Corpse for Three Months
Texas twins Edward and Edwin Berndt, both 48, have been arrested and charged with murder after cops discovered their mother's corpse on the floor of the home the three shared.
There aren't many things creepier than stories where people live with dead bodies in their homes for months, are there? And when those stories involve twins with the same name, it just ratchets up the creepiness a whole extra degree.
But the details of the story are more tragic than creepy. Apparently Sybil Berndt slipped and fell while her sons watched the NCAA championship football game on Jan. 10; the twins didn't help her, despite the fact that she was still conscious (and talking) for three days, because—they said—they couldn't afford an ambulance, or, later a burial. Oof. The Berndts have been charged with murder; apparently investigators have found "accounts totaling $700,000" in the house.


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Children ages 2-3 are invited to attend Step into Storytime! We'll continue to develop your child's motor and literacy skills with stories, fingerplays, songs, and activities. No registration required, however, high attendance is expected. Program begins promptly at 10am.
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A New Storage Paradigm for Big Data
The BIG deal is the disruptive value caused by the advent of high performance digital data capture. This technology has made data collection almost free. Internet-based marketing systems auto-magically capture masses of information about prospective customer preferences. Flash-enabled digital movie cameras can be emptied every night and re-used, a far cry from the film model in which every frame was burned on expensive media — which then had to be manually processed and edited. Digital capture systems also enable capture of exponentially more data per event. Social media sites and businesses increasingly create, store and analyze HD video instead of text, at ten to one hundred times more granularity of data per customer or product. The availability of compute power to manipulate this data to create business advantage enables companies like WalMart to maintain and frequently utilize multi-petabyte databases to analyze customer patterns and speed decision making. For the first time, solutions are also becoming available which allow for productive analysis of video as well. Finally, the resulting content is being stored forever: after all, that terabyte per day per oilfield of 3D seismic data being collected today might turn into the next decade's oil find; or today's genomic profile might be tomorrow's cure for cancer.
As a result of this "free" data capture, increasing information granularity, more frequent usage and extended data value, businesses, research institutions and governments are growing enormous stores of large unstructured data (increasingly video) that needs to be stored and managed. This result presents a number of challenging data storage problems: extreme scalability; affordability (in general); managing the balance between cost and easy online access; maximizing application and user access; and assuring data durability.
Like the cavalry, a new set of "wide area storage" solutions based on second generation object storage are arriving just in time to help enterprises manage these issues. Object storage is a unique storage architecture utilizing a kind of valet parking ticket system to store and retrieve data. The creator of a piece of data (an object) hands the object to the storage in exchange for an object identifier (the digital equivalent of a valet parking ticket). When the data is later needed, the user hands the system the object identifier, and data is returned. The power of this model is that it is highly scalable — many objects can be stored and retrieved in parallel — and retrieval can be independent of the original application or physical location. Any application or user who gains authorized access to the electronic key can use the data. Historically, this technology has been used to store data in large, containerized archives, but these were limited by the size and performance of the object storage "box."
What makes the latest generation architecture different is its ability to copy and disperse objects very efficiently across large numbers of independent processing and storage elements, which can even be distributed widely — geographically providing disaster recovery protection without the need for traditional replication. This wide area storage essentially frees object storage from the constraints of a box or even a site. Wide area storage is similar to storing data in the internet or cloud — data is freed from the traditional boundaries of expensive storage hardware and processes. This results in capabilities which are perfectly suited to the challenges of Big Data: almost infinite scale; low cost per petabyte; the ability to afford 100 percent online data storage; global multi-application access; and a content store which can live forever without ever needing to endure a disruptive data migration.
How does it achieve this? Well first, as previously described, the underlying object storage is natively extremely scalable; unlike systems with centralized indices, if you want to add more data to a wide area storage system, you simply add more objects, which are then dispersed across more scaled out components to add access, performance or storage. And the hardware architecture is scale-out, which means if you need more storage, more performance or more communications bandwidth, you just plug in more pre-packaged storage, processors or network capacity, and the system takes care of the rest. Growth is simple.
Second, much like the systems we've all read about at Google, wide area storage systems are built under the assumption that individual hardware components will fail. Because objects are copied and dispersed across many storage and geographic resources, a multitude of components can fail while data is continuously available. This "failure-assumed" model allows for wide area storage to operate on lower cost, off-the-shelf disk and processor technologies, which translates to much lower capital cost than traditional disk storage. The ability to defer replacement of failed components also results in lower support and operating costs. And because multiple users and sites can share the system in common, the overhead of storage and disaster protection is shared across all users. No archive silos.
Third, the native cloud-like access model of these new offerings embeds the capability for "wide" geographic and application access, supporting a wide range of uses – from streaming data (like video, sensor information, and genomic sequences) to parallel processing (like Hadoop for analytics). Some solution vendors are also providing easier access for existing applications, including policy-based tiering from traditional disk or the ability to appear like a NAS archive.
Finally, and perhaps most intriguing, these new solutions offer the capability for content, once stored, to never need to be migrated again. This may be the most critical element of all. For any user or technology manager who has endured the pain of unloading a broken, filled or obsolescent NAS or traditional block storage array in order to migrate to the next big thing, with next generation object storage, you never need do this again. This is going to be critical when your Big Data store is holding hundreds of petabytes of high value data. Forever.
Janae Stow Lee is senior vice president for Quantum's file system and archive products.


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Shelter offers $52 adoption fee in honor of Ray Lewis
Nonprofit hopes to adopt some pets, honor star linebacker
An animal shelter in Harford County is celebrating Ray Lewis' 17-year career with the Baltimore Ravens, and it's hoping to get some cute pets adopted, too.
The Humane Society of Harford County in Fallston is offering a $52 adoption special in honor of the superstar linebacker, who announced before the playoffs that this year will be his last with the team.
This Friday through Sunday, families visiting the shelter can adopt any adult cat or dog for that price, and anyone wearing purple when they do so will get a free gift. The $52 includes the rabies vaccination, the first set of distemper shots, de-wormer, a flea and tick preventative, a microchip for identification purposes and a general health exam.
Potential owners are also being asked to put down a $50 deposit for the animal sterilization program that will be returned once the pet's procedure is completed.
Regular fees for adopting pets usually run from between $75-$160.
The Humane Society of Harford County is a nonprofit that sees roughly 4,500 animals come through its doors every year. The shelter isn't affiliated with any national or regional organization, so those looking to donate should do so directly through the shelter.


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This post is going to list 99 different speed tips for speeding up
your Mac. I have done a couple of these posts before, but those were
more discussions. This post is designed to tell you what to do in each
section. Each item is going to be quick, simple and easy to complete.
Over the past couple of weeks I have been collecting these and using
them. Although none of these tips will make your Mac hundreds of times
faster than it already is, if you have a slow Mac or are experiencing
slow downs a couple of these could help. There are lots of them here,
but there is always more. If you have any tips please post them below
in the comments.
1) Get Intel or G5 Binaries
A rather simple first tip. If you are running on either an Intel or
G5 check the download site of your applications to see if there is
specific binary for your computer. You may need to upgrade to get the
best speed.
2) Slim Down Universal Binaries
In a similar note to the previous tip you can save a bit of RAM and
disk space by removing the binary in applications that you wont use. Xslimmer is the best application for this job.
3) Clear Caches
Your computer runs on Caches. If a cache becomes corrupt or full of
erroneous data removing it could actually speed up your computer. Find
your caches files under /Users/[name]/Library/Cache. Once as your
delete them a new one will be created.
4) Web History
A large web history will mean your web browser will have to load it
during start up. A big history can slow this down. Delete really old
entries to speed up browsing. Disable it all together for an even
quicker load.
5) Reduce Firefox Extensions
The more extensions you have the more RAM your computer uses. Delete and uninstall Firefox extensions you don't use.
6) Optimize Firefox
You can speed up Firefox by changing a couple of settings in the
about:config page. Open it up and add the following values. Use the
search bar at the top to search for these values and change them
network.http.pipelining = True
network.http.proxy.pipelining = True
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests = 8
You can find more Firefox settings here.
7) Reduce Mailbox Sizes
A massive mailbox (1,000 + messages) will take longer to load, this
is because Mail has to read the large database and message files
associated with it. Split large mailboxes down into folders and smaller
8) Check Mail Less Frequently
If you set Mail to check every minute you put a lot of load on your
Internet connections as well as your computer. Increase the time it
takes to check for messages to give your Mac a break.
9) Delete Unused RSS Feeds
Since Mail (and other RSS readers) can show RSS feeds you may end up
collecting a lot of feeds. Delete any old and feeds you don't
read to increase performance. You can find my RSS feed here.
10) Remove Previous Recipients
If you message a lot of people Mail adds all of these addresses to a
list. Removing any unused emails in Window > Previous Recipients can
speed up Mail.
11) Delete Duplicate Fonts
In font book delete any duplicate fonts in font book to reduce errors and enable your Mac to speed up when using fonts.
12) Delete Any Unused Fonts
If you have hundreds of fonts which you don't use, asking for
them in applications will slow down your Mac. Deleting them will save
your computer time.
13) Validate Fonts
Validate your fonts to make sure they are correct. Like most items
in this list, speeding up your Mac means removing anything that is
corrupt. Font validation is under the File menu item in Fontbook.
14) Remove Old Events In iCal
Similar to the history tip in your web browser. Go through your old
events in iCal and delete them. It will save iCal time when it has to
15) Reduce iCal Subscriptions
This, again, is similar to the RSS feed tip. In iCal delete any
unused subscriptions that you don't use. Although it may not take
up a lot of remove removing it will save just that little bit of RAM.
16) Rebuild A Mail Box
Along the lines of corruption once again if you have a Mail box that
is getting bloated and it is slowing down you may need to rebuild it.
Under the Mailbox menu item when you have selected your mailbox is the
Rebuild option. Use this to rebuild your mail database.
17) Remove Smart Playlists In iTunes
All of that scripting in the smart mailboxes can cause iTunes to
open and run slowly. Delete any unused smart mailboxes and give iTunes
a break.
18) Delete iTunes Songs
If you have millions of iTunes songs it has to put all that
information into its preference file. Remove any usused songs to reduce
the size of the files iTunes uses to load.
19) Remove iTunes Plugins
Going along the same vein as the Firefox plugin tip. Delete any
unused iTunes plugins. Delete them by removing the files from the
iTunes plugin folder.
20) Empty The Trash
Give your Mac fewer items to track by deleting the Trash. Trash
files are stored in numerous locations on your disk. Emptying the Trash
will save disk space and gain you a small amount of speed when opening
21) Remove Any Languages Your Don't Use
Your Mac and the applications on it use a lot of different language files. Use a tool like monolingual to remove any language files you don't use. Please note people have experienced problems with this tip.
22) Remove Startup Items
Remove the number of start up items for your account by removing
them. In the Accounts System Preferences Pane, under Login Items delete
any items you don't use.
23) Log Straight In
Every time you Mac starts to bring you the login screen it takes up
time to load the accounts screen. If you only use one account set it to
log straight into that account under Login Options in the Accounts
Preference Pane.
24) Repair Disk Permissions
In Disk Utilities, repair the disk permissions for your Mac disk.
Enables improved performance. Not a big one mind, but does help if you
have a two year old Mac and have never run this command.
25) Verify Computer Disks
Again under Disk Utilities verify your connected disks. This is to
make sure your computer doesn't bump into any damaged blocks.
26) Test Your RAM
You have been trying to save all RAM with these little tips but you
really need to make sure that your RAM is working. Use a tool like memtest to test to make sure it works.
27) Quit Unused Programs
Mac's have the habit of keeping programs running when you hit
the close button on any window. Close any unused programs by Command +
Tabbing through your open applications and closing them. You can save a
lot of unused RAM this way.
28) Remove Unused System Preference Panes
All those extra system preference panes have to be loaded into your
computers RAM when it is opened. If you don't use them delete
them. Right click on any unused Preference Pane and select Remove.
29) Switch Off Universal Access, Bluetooth, Speech Recognition, and Internet Sharing
All handy little tools that can improve features on your Mac but if
you are not using them they are taking up RAM which could be used by
other computers. Go into all of your preference panes and switch off
any features you don't need.
30) Close Widgets
Widgets can be the biggest memory hogs of all. Close any widgets
your don't use. You will be surprised in the amount of RAM you
can save. If you are interested you can find my widget here.
31) Disable Dashboard
If you don't use Dashboard at all you can save your login by
disabling it. Although Dashboard doesn't run until it is called
for you can save some time during login with this simple little snippet.
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
killall Dock
Change the YES to NO to reverse the effect.
32) Clean Your Hard Drive
All of that clutter takes up space. As well as this it also takes up
time when searching through it using Spotlight. Go through you Mac and
delete anything you don't use. Your Mac needs about 10% for use
in swap files and other system processes.
33) Clean Your Desktop
Having lots of shiny icons on your Desktop means you Mac has to
render and store lots of shiny icon images. This takes up RAM and disk
space. Remove any items off you dashboard you don't use.
34) Turn Off Icon Previews
If you have a lot of items in a folder, Finder has to open up every
single file and render and icon preview. Turn this off by right
clicking in a folder, select Show View Options and then uncheck Shown
Icon Preview.
35) Switch Off Image Rotation Desktop
Having a desktop which changes every 5 minutes is neat but it takes
up CPU cycles that you don't have to lose. Turn this option off
in the Desktop sections of the preferences.
36) Let Preview and Quicklook Open Files
If you need to look into files a lot use programs like Quicklook,
Preview and Textedit to open them. This will save a lot of time and
enable you to speed up how you work. You don't need to open a big
bulk text editor to look at one line in a text document.
37) Remove Animations
Eye candy like this is all well and good but if you want your
computer to run quicker disable it in the Preferences, you computer
will start to run quicker.
38) Remove Menubar Items
These items can suck down memory and CPU cycles like they are going
out of fashion. Remove any ones you don't want by Command +
dragging icons off the menu bar.
39) Skip Disk Image Verification
Most disk images work as planned. The Internet at the moment
doesn't seem to drop many packets of data. You can turn off the
checking disk image message by typing the following line into Terminal.
com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skip-verify TRUE
Change True to False to re-enable disk image verification.
40) Update Printer Drivers
Old printer drivers can take up a lot of unwarranted CPU time and
RAM. Head over to your printers driver page or search Google to finder
the latest printer driver.
41) Keep Applications Up To Date
There couple of a massive memory bug in your favourite application
which can slow it down and make it unresponsive. Use Software Update or
AppFresh to keep up with the latest release.
42) Remove Unused Perhiperals
Firefire disk, USB devices etc can cause slow downs since your Mac
has to access these devices every so often. Remove anything you
don't use by unplugging them.
43) Use Bokeh To Freeze Applications
Bokeh is my favourite application
if I want to squeeze slightly more juice out of a program. It will
freeze any background applications from running enabling you to get
more CPU cycles out of the ones you are using.
44) Speed Up Dialogue Boxes
A cool animation effect runs when you open and close dialogue boxes.
If you want to decrease the animation time of these run this Terminal
command so you can save a couple of milliseconds.
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSWindowResizeTime 0.01
The default is 0.2 if you want to change it back.
45) Enable A Solid Background Wallpaper
Ones of those speed freaks if you disable a wallpaper picture and
just have a colour you can save your Mac from loading that image. You
will probably not notice the difference.
46) Remove Safari Favicons
Although I haven't seen a big increase in speed with this tip
others have. Open up [name]/Library/Safari/Icons and drag this to the
47) iPhoto Thumbnail Size
Use a default thumbnail size for your iPhoto icons. Default sizes
are created when iPhoto imports and image. Using a none default size
means iPhoto has to resize the thumbnails.
48) Turn Off iPhoto Shadows
Turn off the shadows which iPhoto adds to every image. The extra processing time can be saved and used for something else.
49) Delete iPhotos Trash
Similar to your Macs normal Trash, delete the iPhoto one so it
doesn't have to store the information and track it every time you
open iPhoto.
50) Store Aperture Photos In Their Original Location
When importing files into the Aperture library set them to be stored
in their original location and not in the Aperture Library file. The
Aperture Library file can quickly expand if you don't keep a
tight hand on what you insert into it.
51) Turn Off iDisk Syncing
If you have an iDisk or what ever it is called you could speed up
your Mac by turning off your iDisk when you really don't use it.
52) Learn Shortcuts
You can speed up how you work by learning computer shortcuts.
Shortcuts are a lot quicker than going through the menus. A good tool
is Keycue.
53) Make Applescripts
On the same line of number 52 you can speed up what you do by making
Applescripts and workflows for common tasks. If you do the same task
every day, it may be quicker to run an Applescript.
54) Add Cron Tasks
If you do a lot of system tasks and you know a lot about cron and
Terminal you could added system tasks to your cron tab. This will
enable you to run system tools automatically with out the need for user
55) Use A Wired Mouse
A bluetooth mouse is cool, but using bluetooth means it can lag
behind. When you are low on battery it makes you work slower because
you have to move the mouse more.
56) Use A Wired Keyboard
If you are a speed typer you will want a wired keyboard. If a wireless keyboard lags it makes you slow down, losing you time.
57) Check Your Processor Performance Setting
Under System Preferences > Energy Saver > Options, there may
be an option to change how fast you processors run to save power. If
your computer is slowing right down this option could be the problem.
Turn it back up to get the most juice out of your Mac. Turning it up
will use more energy and reduce battery time on laptops.
58) Turn Off File Vault
Encrypting your user folder is a good idea if you have a laptop, but
most people don't need it turned on. By having it on your
computer has to work harder to decrypt the information. Turn it off
under System Preferences > Security > File Vault.
59) Use LAN Instead Of Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi is great for places where cables wont reach, but it tends to
be a lot slower. Use LAN when you can. Installing a new LAN cable
instead of using Wi-Fi will enable you to have massive improvements
when using your home network.
60) Upgrade Your Network Architecture
If you are using an old 10Mbit LAN network it is really slow.
Upgrade your network components to run at 1Gbit which all new Mac
support. With a new faster network your will definitely see a big speed
61) Upgrade Your Internet
Although this wont be a viable option for most people. If you can
get the fastest internet option available. A lot of things use the
internet on your Mac, the faster your internet is the quicker these
jobs will complete.
62) Upgrade Your RAM
I've mentioned many times about saving RAM. One of the biggest speed improvements is to add more RAM. The more RAM you have the quicker your Mac will run.
63) Buy A Fast Hard Drive
A hard drive with a faster access time will enable your computer to
run quicker. This is because it will take less time for your computer
to find the applications it needs. This may only be an option for
people running on iMacs and Mac Pro's.
64) Buy An SSD Hard Drive
The fastest hard drive you can buy at the moment is a solid state
hard drive. These have really fast access times. If you can splash the
cash you may want to think about buying one of these.
65) RAID Your Hard Drives
Another speed tip for people with a lot of hard drives. Set you
computer to be a strip RAID. Use the RAID Utility under Utilities in
the Applications folder.
66) Upgrade Your Video Card
Most slow downs are visual. If you have a fast video card your Mac
can render your screen quicker making your Mac appear to run quicker.
67) Switch Off Application Preferences
A lot of programs have preferences which make your programs look
good but increases the time it takes for programs to open and run. Go
through your commonly used programs in the preferences and turn off
anything your don't use.
68) Stop Using Classic Apps
A very big speed tip can be found if you stop using old classic OS 9
apps and finder a new alternative. There are hundreds of Mac OS X apps
out there so there should be no reason for using them.
69) Find Shortcuts For Your Apps
If you do a certain method of opening a folder or file their may be
a quicker way. Use Google or a search program to try and find a quicker
way of doing something. You could save yourself a couple of seconds
speeding up how you work.
70) Overclock Your Computer
A very dangerous way of speeding up your computer. But if you do
want to get a little bit more juice out of your computer you may want
to overclock it. There are plenty of tutorials on the Internet. A quick
search will reveal them.
71) Keep Your Mac Cool
When you CPU cores heat up your Mac may automatically slow them down
to preserve the life of the CPU. If you keep you Mac cool with clear
vents you can keep it running at full speed.
72) Reboot
After a while your computer may start to collect a lot of junk in
the RAM. The quickest method of getting rid of it is to reboot your
computer and start a fresh.
73) Clean Your Computer
A dirty computer will mean that your make Mac runs hotter. As a
result your computer will compensate by slowing down processes to
increase the life of it components. Clean out your Mac by taking it
apart and using an anti-static cloth. Consult Apples website for more
information. Image courtesy of tips4pc.
74) Turbo Charge Your Mouse
You can speed up how quicker your mouse tracks by using a terminal command line.
defaults write -g com.apple.mouse.scaling some_number
The highest value that a mouse can track at is 3, through a normal
way. You can try and increase this to 5 or 6 for a starting point. To
revert it back insert a number lower than 3 or use the Preference Pane.
75) Turbo Charge A Trackpad
You can use the same method to turbo charge a laptop trackpad. The
max speed for a trackpad is 1.5 through a Preference Pane so you may
want to change some_number to 2 or 3.
defaults write -g com.apple.trackpad.scaling some_number
76) Use A Seperate Drive For Large Files
The Mac file system HFS is a fickle system for fragmentation of
large files. Defragging is not recommend for your Mac system since it
breaks system file hot clustering, but it can speed up large files. So
for a quick file access put large video files on a separate disk to
speed up access time to these files.
77) Kill Background Processes
I have mentioned earlier that you should kill any programs you are
not actively using. Another speed tip to get the most out of your Mac
is to kill any background processes. Open up Activity Monitor and quit
any processes you don't need. Be careful because some processes
you shouldn't quit. Only end the ones you know.
78) Optimize GarageBand Response Times
In the GarageBand Preferences change the optimization time. A small buffer will enable you to listen to tracks sooner.
79) Lock GarageBand Tracks
Lock GarageBand tracks in the main window so you can't change
their settings. This takes the load off your CPU and RAM and puts it on
the hard drive enabling your computer to do something else.
80) Hide The Track Mixer In Garage Band
Turn off the track mixer during playback. This frees up CPU when playing back tracks.
81) Combine Tracks In GarageBand
Combine finalized GarageBand tracks so your computer doesn't have to keep track of these music tracks.
82) Clear PRAM (Intel Macs)
Although people haven't found any speed increase, this little
trick will clear out any RAM gremlins allowing your computer to boot
quicker. Restart you Mac and hold Command + Option + P + R and let your
computer chime three to four times.
83) Set Big Packets On Your Network
The size of your data packets on your network will enable more data
to be sent at once. Open up Network in System Preferences. Hit the
Advance button and click on Ethernet. Set the MTU to Jumbo and the
Duplex to full duplex, flow control. This will enable bigger packets to
flow over your network. You will have to do this for all your computers
for best effect.
84) Use Quicksilver
is designed to enable you to work quicker on your computer. Install it
and do your every day actions quicker. Once as you learn how it works
and how to use it you will never be without it.
85) Let Unix Scripts Run
Your computer has a couple of built in Unix scripts for cleaning up
your Mac. Keep your Mac on during the night on a Saturdays and the
first day of the month so it can run its scripts.
86) Remove Services
If you have a lot of services in the services menu this take up RAM
and time to load. Remove the ones you don't use with a tool like Service Scrubber.
87) Clean Your Dock
Many people have found that a full dock has caused there computer to
run slower. Clean it out by removing unused applications or stacks.
88) Block Ads With Firefox
Let web pages load quicker by blocking adverts. A lot of bandwidth,
CPU and RAM is wasted with this extra content that you may not use. Use
Adblock Plus for the best browsing experience.
89) Use Onyx To Run System Tasks
Use the computer program Onyx to run maintenance tasks to keep you Mac clean. One quick tip, only do tasks which you understand.
90) Use Tinker Tool
You can use Tinker Tool
to remove parts of your computer that you don't use. This can
save you RAM since it doesn't have to load and rendered by your
computer. By careful before you use this tool and understand what you
are doing.
91) Use MainMenu To Access Maintenance Scripts
Use a tool like MainMenu to access maintenance scripts which you can use to clean out your Mac on a daily basis.
92) Use A Smaller Screen
Having a massive 30inch monitor is nice and cool, but you computers
graphics card has to render a lot of information. Use a smaller screen
to free up your graphics card for other tasks.
93) Use Speed Freak To Prioitize Apps
Speed Freak
can take your Mac applications and prioritize the order they are run.
This enables you to give more CPU time to certain applications. The
default on your Mac is that every application has the same CPU time.
94) Remove Shadows
For Tiger only, ShadowKiller
can remove your shadows on your computer so you computer doesn't
have to render them. Save CPU, GPU and RAM. May look a bit funny though
if you are used to shadows all this time.
95) Buy A Faster Mac
If you want a quicker Mac the best method is to buy as faster Mac.
With these tips you will never make a Mac Mini into a Mac Pro, the only
way of doing that is to buy a Mac Pro.
96) Learn To Touch Type
One of the biggest speed tips can be yourself. If you are a really
slow typer you can save a lot of time by learning to touch type. There
are hundreds of tutorials on the web about learning to touch type. Stop
looking at the keyboard and learn where the keys are. Even better would
be to learn Dvorak.
97) Reduce Finder Icon Size
In your Finder windows if you have massive icons, it means your
computer has to render a massive amount of information. Reduce the size
of the icons through the Show View Options.
98) Disable Spotlight For External Drives
Using Spotlight can be a major hog on resources. You can switch off
Spotlight for external drives by adding it to the list under the
Spotlight option in System Preferences.


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KEA is a new open source DHCPv4/DHCPv6 server being developed by Internet Systems Consortium. The objective of this project is to provide a very high-performance, extensible DHCP server engine for use by enterprises and service providers, either as is or with extensions and modifications.
DHCP Standardization efforts: The lead developer on KEA is co-chair of the Dynamic Host Configuration working group in the IETF. We are committed to providing a standards-compliant implementation and are closely tracking developments in this working group and evaluating them for inclusion in KEA.
Kea News
2015-12-29: Kea 1.0.0 released!
Kea 1.0.0, our first production version, is released! Adding features like leases expiration, client classification and storing host reservation in MySQL! For detailed information please check Release Notes.
Kea 1.0.0 version is distributed under new license: MPL2.0. See the blog posting where you find new license and reasons why ISC decided to change.
Tarball package is available on the ISC.org downloads page or ISC ftp server.
The following major features are working:
- Fully functional DHCPv4, DHCPv6 and Dynamic DNS servers
- OpenSSL support
- IPv6 prefix delegation
- Host reservations and PXE boot
- Leases and stored in CSV file, MySQL or Postgres
- host reservations can be stored in the JSON configuration file or MySQL (DHCPv4)
- Applications API is available and documented
- Linux, BSD and Mac OS X operating systems support
- On-line configuration. It is possible to update the configuration file and tell the servers to reload configuration without restarting the system.
- Statistics
- Control channel
Known Issues List - known issues for current release.
To Do List? - running list of items to be done in the future
Kea is a high performance server. It is able to handle over 1000 leases/sec (that is 4000 packets/sec) with a MySQL backend. We also have a custom memfile backend that can provision 7500 leases/sec. To assess server performance, ISC has developed perfdhcp, a tool that is able to simulate thousands of clients and assess server responses.
See Install page for details, including packages list and installation from sources.
We are looking for a small group (up to 6 total) of key collaborators at this point. Contact us via the Kea mailing list if you think you might be interested in working on Kea and sharing that work with the community. The primary things we need are:
- Test coverage in different environments, with a variety of clients
- Applications based on the Kea API, both to validate the API and to demonstrate the potential for DHCP applications.
Current collaborators
- ISC Forge - A Python/Lettuce/Scapy DHCP validation environment under development by students of Gdansk University of Technology.
- DHCPv4-over-DHCPv6 - A Tsinghua University team are developing support for draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-over-dhcpv4 in Kea. See ticket #3357.
How to participate in this project
1) Subscribe to the Kea developers mailing list.
2) Read the User Guide (sections 16,17,18 and 19) and the Developer's Guide.
3) Download and build a KEA instance. For the latest KEA code, rather than downloading from the main ISC site, please use our public GIT repository.
4) Give us feedback via the mailing list or submit a bug (sub-project=dhcp). See below for information about the known issues.
5) A description of the workflow can be found here Kea Git Workflow
- User Guide (Stable) (development snapshot) (see sections 16,17,18 and 19 in the stable version, all sections in development snapshot).
- Manual Pages
- Developer's Guide: (development snapshot)
- Intallation and system specific notes for building Kea
- Kea coding guidelines
Known Issues
- Known Issues - This is a list of known issues with the current and previous releases
- Outstanding tasks - this is a list of tasks that we are planning to do. Sometimes the difference between a bug and a missing feature is thin.
- Submit new bug - setting the milestone as Kea-proposed is appreciated.
- Known System Issues - list of all detected issues related to specific system configuration.
- Our milestones - list of all milestones. KeaX.Y milestones contain the tickets we're planning to do in specific releases. Usually only the current milestone is up to date. Future milestones tend to fluctuate a bit.
Design documents
See Designs page.
- Test Plan
- build-bot - Kea is being built and unit-tests are being run on great variety of platforms.
- ISC is using Jenkins and ISC Forge system/conformance tests to validate Kea.
- Reports of manual and automated tests of Kea components: TestingKeaComponents
Kea and BIND10
Kea was developed as an application within the framework of the BIND10 project. In 2014, ISC decided to discontinue active development on BIND10 and continue development of Kea as a standalone DHCP server. As a result, the BIND10 components were be removed from Kea to simplify long-term maintenance and reduce the footprint of Kea.
Getting in touch
- Kea mailing list - feel free to post any Kea questions here
- Kea developers list - for development discussions
[xmpp://email@example.com DHCP Jabber chatroom] - if you want to chat with developers.(Temporarily unavailable for non-ISC people)
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Successful ballistic tests should lead to programmed tests, in which the missile's midcourse guidance and flight control systems are used to control the missile's flightpath. The final stage of trials will be closed-loop fully guided tests, with the missile's seeker providing control inputs to the guidance section. In the meantime, Denel Dynamics will conduct ground testing and captive air testing of the latest version of seeker.
What is now known as Marlin has been a Denel Dynamics project to develop an active radar missile for around 10 years. The missile has evolved into one that is capable of satisfying land, sea and air applications, and its design has been carefully crafted to meet the requirements of surface and air launch. It employs a degree of modularity that allows it to incorporate elements from the successful A-Darter and Umkhonto programmes, such as the motor technology and fuze. The missile relies on the same motor for all its applications, negating the need to develop
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Marlin is being developed by Denel Dynamics as a technology demonstration programme to a Department of Defence/Armscor contract. It was unveiled at the LAAD show in Rio de Janeiro last year, and Brazil is being courted as a likely partner.
Brazil is already a partner in the A-Darter imaging infrared guided air-to-air missile programme, and it is hoped to extend that partnership into Marlin and other projects.
A-Darter itself is already integrated onto the Saab Gripen fighter used by South Africa and selected by Brazil. Production is expected to begin next year for service-entry in 2016. Integration of the weapon to the SAAF's Hawk trainer is underway.


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Karen Dolan is a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. Karen holds an M.A. With Highest Distinction in Philosophy and Social Policy from the American University in Washington DC.
Karen joined IPS in 1996. Her public scholarship and activism at IPS has linked community-led organizations with policymakers at the local, state, and federal levels. The focus of her work is on anti-poverty issues, local democracy and empowerment, and peace. Karen currently coordinates the Economic Hardship Reporting Project with New York Times Best-Selling Author Barbara Ehrenreich. The project focuses on telling the stories of widespread economic hardship in the United States.
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It seems my HOWTO create a new linux_base port was not too bad. There is now a PR for a CentOS 6 based linux_base port. I had a quick look at it and it seems that it is nearly usable to include into the Ports Collection (the SRPMs need to be added, but that can be done within some minutes).
When FreeBSD 8.3 is released and the Ports Collection open for sweeping commits again, I will ask portmgr to do a repo-copy for the new port and commit it. This is just the linux_base port, not the complete infrastructure which is needed to completely replace the current default linuxulator userland. This is just a start. The process of switching to a more recent linux_base port is a long process, and in this case depends upon enough support in the supported FreeBSD releases.
Attention: Anyone installing the port from the PR should be aware that using it is a highly experimental task. You need to change the linuxulator to impersonate himself as a linux 2.6.18 kernel (described in the pkg-message of the port), and the code in FreeBSD is far from supporting this. Anyone who wants to try it is welcome, but you have to run FreeBSD-current as of at least the last weekend, and watch out for kernel messages about unsupported syscalls. Reports to firstname.lastname@example.com please, not here on the webpage.


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By Sarah N. Lynch
WASHINGTON, April 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed former federal prosecutor Mary Jo White as the new head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the agency tasked with policing Wall Street and writing new rules of the road for financial markets.
White received wide bipartisan support in the Senate thanks to her reputation as a tough former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where she went after mobsters and terrorists.
White was nominated in January by President Barack Obama, roughly a month after SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro stepped down from the post.
She sailed through her March 12 confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee and received little opposition on March 19 when the panel voted 21-1 to send her confirmation to the full Senate.
"The SEC needs a strong leader in place as it works to implement Wall Street Reform, and that is exactly what the commission is getting with Mary Jo White," said Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson in a statement.
"After meeting her, listening to her testimony, and closely reviewing her qualifications, it came as no surprise that she received such overwhelming bipartisan support for her confirmation."
White will be taking over at the SEC at a critical time. The agency still has much work remaining as it seeks to finalize rules required by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law, particularly in the areas of over-the-counter derivatives and credit-rating agencies.
The agency is also behind on completing capital-raising rules required by more recent legislation, the 2012 Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, which relaxes certain securities regulations to help small businesses raise funds and go public.
The SEC has been stuck in a rut since Schapiro left in December, leaving the five-member panel divided between two Democrats and two Republicans.
Since then, the SEC has done little in the way of rule making.
What little criticism White has received so far has mostly been about her ties to Wall Street.
After working as a prosecutor, she became a partner at Debevoise & Plimpton where she represented high-profile clients, including JPMorgan Chase & Co, former Bank of America Corp CEO Ken Lewis, UBS AG and accounting giant Deloitte & Touche LLP.
Some, including Ohio Democrat Senator Sherrod Brown, have raised concerns that this "Wall Street bias" could harm the SEC, an agency that has been accused by some of striking weak settlements with Wall Street banks over their behavior during the 2007-2009 financial crisis.
Little is also known thus far about White's views on securities regulatory policy and how she will direct critical rule-making, including a controversial plan to reform the $2.6 trillion money market fund industry.
The Senate's vote on Monday only allows for White to fill out the remainder of Schapiro's term, which expires in June 2014.
Obama had nominated White to both fill out Schapiro's term and also to serve a full, five-year term at the helm of the SEC.
It is unclear exactly when the Senate will take a vote on the longer-term nomination, although some aides have said it will possibly come up later after Obama nominates two new commissioners to replace Elisse Walter and Troy Paredes.
Walter, a Democrat who is serving as SEC chairman until White takes over, is working past her expired term and can only stay until the end of the year.
Paredes, a Republican, is facing the end of his term this coming June.


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Hickenlooper's Fort Lyon homeless plan successfully amended to corrections officer bill, critics say it lacks 'legislative integrity'
Amid questions of "legislative integrity," the Senate late Monday night concurred with an amendment to a popular bill that was greatly altered in the House to include a homeless plan for a shuttered prison in rural southeastern Colorado — an effort heavily endorsed by Gov. John Hickenlooper.
Senate Bill 210 deals with corrections officer pay and how their work hours are calculated, but it was amended in the House to include a plan that buses the state's homeless — mostly from Front Range communities — to the old Fort Lyon prison campus so they can receive treatment.
The plan was originally encompassed in House Bill 1261, which passed out of the House easily, though it died in the Senate Appropriations committee Friday due to cost questions and the program's sustainability. Then, Friday afternoon, members of the House revived it and tacked it on to Senate Bill 210.
"This is a clear pork-barrel earmark," said Sen. Scott Renfroe, R-Greeley, of the amendment that will cost taxpayer's about $2.8 million this year with increasing costs in the years to come.
Since he recommended to close it two years ago — a move that killed 200 jobs to save money due to a $1 billion budget shortfall — Hickenlooper, a Democrat, has sought to repurpose the rural facility.
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Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Look du jour!
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oh this is really an outfit i love, pair a floral dress with a black leather biker style jacket and you look like a rockstar ;) and your burgundy beret and mulberry are fabulous!ReplyDelete
love and kiss,mary
I love that Mulberry bag! I have wanted a Mulberry ever since high school. Their designs are great, and you styled the bag well with this outfit! Very lovely!ReplyDelete
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XO, Janie
That bag is gorgeous, I love it's color. You look so pretty!ReplyDelete
Fabulous outfit :)ReplyDelete
Love the hat, looks really pretty against your hair!ReplyDelete
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This outfit is so perfect for winter! And I always geek out for an awesome biker jacket! Xo LoriReplyDelete
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This greenhouse is part of a larger business that belongs to a friend of my father's. It is currently non-operational and has been abandoned and up for sale for the last couple of years.
I can still remember watching them hunt snapping turtles in the summer and terrorizing the waterfowl on their small cattail choked pond when I was a kid. In the winters, we would wait for it to freeze over so that we could go ice skating. Skates were put on in one of the shuttered greenhouses; it was always so cold that my fingers would turn white and stop working. I have a vivid memory of my skate held carefully between my father's knees as he laced them up for me one of those times my fingers became useless. My skates belonged to my mother when she was younger. They were a sort of roughed up, fuzzy old leather and I had used white shoe polish to try and make them look better. They had these ridiculous homemade pink pom-poms tied through the laces down at the toe and gave terrible ankle support.
When I got older, I worked a summer at the greenhouse when they were still running wholesale alongside their newly opened on-site store. I was always selected to pull flats of tomatoes, partly because their green house was short and so hot and humid it felt like there was no air to breathe, but also because I could drop down and sit cross-legged, scoop up several trays so they ran down the length of both arms, and smoothly stand up without losing my balance.
The guy who ran the place was always hatching the craziest schemes; my favorite was the one where he was going to have these fancy gardens in the middle of everything with peacocks living in them. The gardens never happened, but the peacocks did; they lived in a large shed towards the back with a huge chicken-wire wrap pen. They smelled and were absurdly loud, but the two females were nice enough; the male was kind of a jerk.
As the years have passed, age and economy made the place more than they could handle. It's a rather typical farm sort of story: the kids don't want to take it over, 24/7/365 is too much for the owners, and no one wants to buy it. So it sits there. The sheeting is ripping off of the two greenhouses that have managed not to collapse, and though plants grown up from seeds that were scattered still pop up and flower here and there, it is literally just a shell of what it was. Every time I see it, I have all these weird complex emotions about where I grew up, and what is happening to the space that I once knew as it becomes something new to which I have no connection.
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