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"Radford University's music department has nurtured and grown my love for music throughout my last two years," said Marion S. Gray Scholarship in Music scholarship recipient Erin O'Neil. "And with the assistance of this scholarship, I am able to continue and prosper in my educational endeavors. I can't imagine my life without the joy music brings to me. I hope to one day share my love of music with many people all around the world."
The same passion and generosity of heart and spirit came naturally to Dr. George A. Gray. Although an engineer by profession, he ardently supported his first wife Marion's music profession. When she died, he endowed the Marion S. Gray Scholarship in Music.
He knew first-hand how scholarships can make a difference in students' lives. His mother gave him $20 when he left for Clarkson College as a young man. While there he took a variety of jobs to pay for his food and tuition. When he was a junior at Clarkson, a professor, recognizing brilliance in the young George, arranged for the college to award him a full scholarship. In return, George taught mathematics to freshmen students. Dr. Gray said that the scholarship gave him the boost he needed. After serving as an officer in World War II, he earned his Ph.D. at Yale. He never forgot the impact his scholarship had on his confidence and on his future. He felt that anyone who had been given even the smallest educational opportunity through a benefactor should give back to future students -- and that he did.
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Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is a huge fan of "Lincoln-Douglas" debates, news that should bring back memories for Colorado's political junkies.
During the 2008 U.S. Senate race between Republican Bob Shaffer and Democrat Mark Udall, Schaffer wanted the two to square off in seven Lincoln-Douglas style debates.
"I think you'll agree that holding our own debates, on our own terms, focusing on issues upon which we agree to debate is a sensible strategy," Shaffer wrote to Udall. "I think these debates could be the high-water mark of the campaign and perhaps renew a national and historic standard of campaign activity."
Gingrich on Monday participated in a Lincoln-Douglas style debate with Jon Huntsman. Afterward, Gingrich encouraged more debates in that manner.
"Anyone who has studied the quality and impact of the Lincoln-Douglas debates knows there has never been an alternative format attempted since that yields higher quality or impact," Schaffer said today. "Having said that, I wouldn't expect Obama to go along with the idea. He would be bringing a knife to a gunfight."


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Open Security Foundation Announces New Advisory Board
As security vulnerabilities and data loss incidents become a regular occurrence, the Open Security Foundation has grown from supporting a single project in 2004 to a leading provider of filtering through security information and providing notifications and aggregation for data for data loss and cloud security incidents.
The Open Security Foundation has evolved into one of the most utilized resources in providing security information, and as a 501c3 non-profit organization relies heavily on public contributions, volunteer effort and corporate sponsorships.
The growing demand for information to provide proper risk management has led to additional projects and now the introduction of an advisory board consisting of industry professionals to lend their expertise in areas to keep OSF moving in a positive direction and to be the first line of access to all that require their service.
Open Security Foundation CEO and founder Jake Kouns stated, "This is a very important step in shaping the future of the Open Security Foundation." "OSF has reached a point in growth that requires a strategic move to provide longevity and sustainability. It has always been a goal of this organization to provide our work to the broadest audience and the introduction of the advisory board will contribute to that objective. I am extremely proud to be part of such an amazing organization that has built a reputation of excellence and serves a very important function," adds Kouns. "We put out a call for qualified individuals that could provide guidance and insight to keep OSF a leader in the security information arena. The results of our search far exceeded our highest expectations; it's not only provides us with confidence in our direction, but the impact OSF has had on the industry."
The new advisory board members comprises of an array of specific industries that understand the importance of OSF resources. Each member was chosen for a specific contribution to ultimately achieve the objective and mission of this foundation and capable of providing broad based perspective on information security, business management and fundraising.
Tom Srail, Senior VP Willis Group provides 19 years of experience in the insurance industry with an expertise in risk consulting, professional liabilities, network security risks, intellectual property and technology professional risks.
Shawn Andreas, VP Marketing Guard Dog Inc. (GRDO.PK) will contribute his 20 years of experience in marketing and brand awareness to remake OSF to be more consumer and market friendly focusing on fundraising and sponsorships opportunities. His expertise in marketing spans over diverse markets and includes opportunities working with some of the country's top companies including GM, Apple, Viacom and more.
Jim Hietala VP, Security for a leading IT standards organization, manages all security and risk management programs. Mr. Hietala is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. In addition he has published numerous articles on information security, risk management and compliance topics.
Daniel E. Geer, Jr. Sc.D. Chief Information security officer In-Q-Tel Washington. Mr. Geer has a list of accomplishments including participation in government advisory roles for the Federal Trade Commission, the Departments of Justice and Treasury, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Science Foundation, the US Secret Service, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Andrew Lewman, Executive Director The Tor Project, Inc. Andrew Lewman is the Executive Director of The Tor Project, a non-profit organization. Mr. Lewman worked on projects with the National Science Foundation, Internews Network, Freedom House, Google, Broadcasting Board of Governors, National Network to End Domestic Violence, and the US State Department.
In addition to the advisory board, OSF also announces new leadership positions with the organization. We are pleased to announce that Becky Chickering and Corey Quinn are now curators for the DataLossDB project. We want to thank everyone that contacted OSF to volunteer their time and skills for the advisory board and flexibility as we went through this process. During our conversations with potential members we spoke with several passionate individuals that have a great deal to offer OSF. We plan to continue to expand our leadership team and are always looking for volunteers to help the organization.


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Instead of making you watch a projector slideshow of my trip to Washington (old school reference), I thought I would just share my thoughts about my experience at Discovery Headquarters.
First, I love a free trip. I'm not sure which I love more – the free or the trip. Combine them and I'm in heaven (if you are reading this and in charge of giving away free trips, please keep me in mind).
If you recall and I'm almost positive you don't, I was invited by Discovery about this time last year to take part in a forum on digital textbooks (I'm told it's the wave of the future).
The way this works is Discovery pays your expenses for two days and then they own you. Sort of like a college athletic scholarship except there aren't coaches from Discovery screaming at you.
Discovery flies or trains you in, provides a hotel room, feeds you, and then asks a lot of questions.
Their purpose is to learn the thoughts and ideas of people who may one day implement digital textbooks (or techbooks) in their school districts.
My purpose was to be helpful but most of all to learn something.
This is harder than it sounds. Think about all the workshops, webinars, speeches, curriculum groups, etc. we've all sat through. More times than not we all leave these experiences dumber and angrier than when we walked in.
Going to Discovery is just the opposite of this type of experience. These people are so happy with their jobs it's almost creepy.
It is hard to be around them and not take something positive away from the experience
When the forum was over, I felt much smarter. I'm sure I'm not, but the feeling is nice.
I would like to feel taller, but that's a different blog.
Participating in an event like this at Discovery is fun for several reasons. The biggest for me is I'm not in charge. And it's nice to be part of a group where you don't hold any responsibility (other than being there on time and eating Georgetown Cupcakes).
It's also nice to be asked questions instead of being the one asking. Plus, anytime you find yourself in a situation where everyone else in the room is smarter, you should take advantage of it.
For two days, we were quizzed by the good folks of Discovery Education on a variety of topics. The main one being what a digital math techbook should look like.
I'm often asked my thoughts about buying textbooks, but no one has ever asked me to help design a very preliminary version of one.
I guess I can check this task off my bucket list.
When Discovery comes out with their Math Techbook, I'm sure I won't recognize it. It will likely not look anything like the one our group came up with, but that's okay.
We were there when they started. And that's pretty cool.


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This November, Nintendo is rolling out a new bundle in Japan. The white or black Nintendo Wii will come with a regular Wii Remote Plus and a Nunchuk as well as a pink Wii-mote Plus and a copy of Wii Party.
All priced at ¥20,000 (US$260)—a good deal as the Wii console itself is priced at ¥20,000 in Japan.
Nintendo offered a similar bundle this summer with Wii Sports Resort.
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LONGMONT — They're teaching skills and guidelines from several St. Vrain sidelines, from Silver Creek to Skyline. They're the Adams Family.
No, these aren't the creepy, kooky, macabre Addams from the television show. This Adams family has its own quirky family dynamic that revolves around coaching. They all do it and most of them do it in the St. Vrain Valley School District, where they began their prep playing careers.
Working as the program coordinator for the Silver Creek High School Leadership Academy, family and coaching matriarch Carrie Adams currently is the junior varsity girls basketball coach at Niwot High. A graduate of Boulder High, she got her start coaching girls basketball at Skyline High in 1994.
While Adams has been about as involved in area athletics as one can get, she never expected her children to follow in her coaching footsteps. They're all just products of their environment.
"All the time while the kids were growing up, I coached high school and at the rec club and coached at camps with Ceal Barry at CU," Adams said. "We were always taking them to games and players would always be over at our house. So the kids got into this zone of sitting in the living room watching film and being ball boys and girls and things like that. It just kind of became their life."
Adams is not exaggerating.
Of Adams' five children – Erin (29 years old), Mike (27), Kelly (25), TJ (22) and Travis (20) – four of them went on to become coaches. Of those four, both Kelly and TJ Adams returned to coach in the St. Vrain district.
A former softball and basketball player at Niwot, Kelly Adams is now in her third year as the C-team girls basketball coach at Skyline. She also coached junior varsity softball at Silver Creek this past fall.
While all of the Adams children were decent players, Kelly Adams said they each fell in love with the coaching side of sports above the playing side. As each Adams developed his or her own love for X's and O's, choosing a dinner conversation topic began to take care of itself.
"It's really fun that we all love it and we all talk about it all the time, which annoys some people," Kelly Adams joked. "We love the game so much and we all listen to what the other has to say and give them tips. I do think it's a gift and you want to share that gift, that knowledge and that fun with everyone else."
Of all the sports the family plays, basketball takes the cake. In this family, Carrie Adams said the first day of March Madness is an official holiday. The kids didn't go to school and the family would sit and watch every game.
TJ Adams, who was an outstanding basketball player at Silver Creek, had no problem with that.
"The dynamic was nonstop basketball, just basketball, 24-7," TJ Adams said. "We had to plan a lot while we were all playing and mom was coaching just to make sure everyone got where they needed to go. A lot of the knowledge I learned about coaching was just from sitting around listening to my mom and (current Niwot head girls coach) Terri Ward talk about basketball."
TJ Adams learned the value of film study at a young age but it wasn't until an injury thrust him off the court and into an assistant coaching role his senior year of high school that he began to envision his future as a coach. After he went on to play in college, TJ Adams returned to the Longmont area and took varsity assistant coaching positions with the boys basketball and football teams at Silver Creek.
While Carrie Adams is excitable and boisterous on the sideline, and both Kelly and TJ were passionate players, her children developed calmer coaching styles. Carrie Adams suspects their father Scott Adams serving as a basketball and football official in the area for years is the reason why.
The Adams coaching trail didn't begin with Kelly and TJ, either. Eldest sister Erin Adams, who played basketball and soccer at Skyline, runs a youth soccer program in Fairfax, Iowa. Oldest brother Mike Adams, who played baseball at Niwot, is the junior varsity baseball coach at Westminster High School.
Like their sitcom equivalant, the Adams family is pretty big already. The many, varied connections the Adams have to coaching, teaching and playing in the St. Vrain, however, has taught them to look past local rivalry and see themselves as a part of a bigger family within the district.
"Obviously in the St. Vrain, we develop our little rivalries," Carrie Adams said. "But we certainly feel strongly that all the kids in the district are part of the family. It doesn't matter what color they wear.
"They (the Adams children) got a lot out of growing up with athletics and being involved. They had some outstanding coaches to teach them the game. There's just that giving back mentality in the family of how can you give back to the community and helping kids through athletics is how we can do that."
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the open succeeds, and gives me a valid file number.Code:std::string filename = "somefile"; struct stat st; stat(filename.c_str(), &st); int fd = open(filename.c_str(), O_RDONLY);
I then attempt to memory-map the file using mmap() as follows:
I then check the return value of mmap() and find that it is equal to MAP_FAILED. I print the return value of strerror(errno) to stdout and it says "Bad file descriptor."Code:unsigned char* buf = (unsigned char*)mmap(NULL, st.st_size, PROT_READ, fd, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_POPULATE, 0);
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The team would win more than games if Lee started 18, as opposed to Homer starting 18 games, in my opinion, of course.
Naturally, Lee would have a better W-L record than Homer (or whoever Lee replaced) as well.
Heck, if Harang is out for a prolonged period of time, then it makes even more sense to make this trade.
Nov. 13, 2007: One of the greatest days in Reds history: John Allen gets the boot!
My dad got to enjoy 3 Reds World Championships by the time he was my age. So far, I've only gotten to enjoy one. Step it up Redlegs!
I think in conversations like this, people grossly underestimate the possibility that you get ZERO from a prospect. There is a BIG amount of uncertainty in the eventual production from those guys. Sure, the mean expected production is greater than that which Lee would provide, but strength loves certainty, weakness loves risk. 88 win teams are exactly the type who should be picking up a few wins in trade during the season.
Cyclone nailed a big point here. Value is relative. Alonso in particular is not likely to ever produce value on the field for the Reds. His value to the Reds is tied up in his trade value. I'm often the first one to bring up theoretical notions of value, but at some point that value has to be recognized. Now is the time to do convert some of that potential value in to realized value at a time when that value can be leveraged to the hilt.
Games are won on run differential -- scoring more than your opponent. Runs are runs, scored or prevented they all count the same. Worry about scoring more and allowing fewer, not which positions contribute to which side of the equation or how "consistent" you are at your current level of performance.
But here's what I see Homer has given us this year:
LeCure was 1-4 with a 4.86 ERA and 1.7 WHIP
Maloney and Wood may be better (Wood especially) but I think we are looking at average at best over the rest of the season. With Harang out, that means two of the four names listed above are going to get significant playing time until Volquez comes back (another wild card).
I could maybe see the argument that Wood is the real deal, but Lee is one of the best pitchers in the game..
Let's say the best kid goes 9-9 over 18 starts. That's pretty realistic. Don't you think Lee could do better than 11-7? I know W-L isn't the greatest stat in the world, but I really think Lee would win more than 2-3 games with this team. The alternatives just aren't that good (or are at least much more unknown, in the case of Volquez).
I also think that the NL Central race is going to be very close. 2-3 more wins might be the difference in making the playoffs and not making it.
Nov. 13, 2007: One of the greatest days in Reds history: John Allen gets the boot!
The young core of this team is Votto, Bruce, Phillips, Stubbs, Cueto Leake, Bailey, Chapman. None of them would be touched in any of these proposed deals for Cliff Lee. Alonso is a decent positional prospect blocked at the only position he can play. Heisey looks like he has the potential to be a soild major leaguer, but certainly not a star. Francisco? Who knows? And Wood is a pitching prospect -- and you know what they say about pitching prospects.
Look, the object of the game is to win the World Series. That's why these guys play the game and why guys like Walt do the jobs they do. Is there a chance that the Reds could trade for Cliff Lee and miss the playoffs? Of course. There's a chance they could trade for him, make the playoffs, but miss out on the World Series. There are no guarantees. But you have to go for it. You can't choose the year -- the year chooses you.
I'm a Celtics fan. I remember when they traded Al Jefferson for Kevin Garnett -- I wasn't happy. I felt like we were trading 10 years of a budding star big man for a three-year window of unlikely championship aspirations. Well, one title and one Finals appearance later, I can happily admit I was wrong. Sure, KG is on his last legs and the window appears to be closing -- but they won the title. That's what it's all about.
Honestly, I can't believe there's this much resistance to the prospect of trading for Lee. Because of Yonder Alonso and Travis Wood???? Really?
Excellent points REDREAD!
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Dan Haren has an ERA of 4.38, and has allowed 19 homers while striking out 119 batters this year.
Cliff Lee on the other hand has an ERA of 2.34, and has allowed 5 homers while striking out 89 batters.
I know which one I'd rather have, and it's not even close. I'll take the pitcher who gives up 2 less runs per game.
My dad got to enjoy 3 Reds World Championships by the time he was my age. So far, I've only gotten to enjoy one. Step it up Redlegs!
December 14, 2007: Traded by the Oakland Athletics with Connor Robertson to the Arizona Diamondbacks for Chris Carter (minors), Brett Anderson, Aaron Cunningham, Dana Eveland, Carlos Gonzalez and Greg Smith.
Perhaps Alonso's plate discipline would appeal to the free swinging team they have now.
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Lee not only can get you more wins (for the team) than the fifth starter candidates in Cincinnati, but he's also able to keep the pen rested, meaning they're much more likely to be better in other games. Not only that, those fifth starter candidates go from fifth starters to relievers. This typically makes a picher's stuff much, much better and more reliable, as he's able to stick with fewer pitches.
Lee by himself makes much of the pitching staff better pretty much by himself.
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I'd give up both Alonso and Francisco in a deal for Cliff Lee...
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Q. What makes these cupcakes the ultimate St. Patrick's Day cupcakes?
A. Lots of green and lots of booze!
They are green velvet cupcakes with Irish whiskey cream cheese frosting and a built-in chocolate cup filled with green beer.
Believe or not, prior to making these cupcakes, I had never made velvet cupcakes (red or otherwise). I don't get the appeal – especially given that most of the time the color comes from gobs of food coloring (with the rare exception of people who use beets for the red color). However, since Bride and Groom 3.0 requested red velvet as a possible wedding flavor, I decided to break down and try the elusive velvet cupcake (but, I had to be different and go for green).
How to Make the Ultimate St. Patrick's Day Cupcakes
1. Make the Green Velvet Cupcakes
Because of my distaste for food coloring, I first tried to make my green velvet cupcakes with all-natural food colors. Sadly, after using two whole packages of all-natural yellow and blue coloring, the cupcakes still looked brown. The only way to make the cupcakes bright green was to break down and use Fakey McFake colors (at least St. Patrick's Day is only once a year).
I got the recipe from Sarah of Daily Nibbles. Sarah tried three different red velvet recipes and decided that this one was the best.
Sarah got the recipe from The Way The Cookie Crumbles,
Who got it from Apple A Day,
Who adapted from Saveur,
Who got it from Cake Man Raven.
Yield: About 15 cupcakes
- 2 1/2 C cake flour
- 1 1/2 C sugar
- 1 t baking soda
- 1 T cocoa powder
- 1 t salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 C vegetable oil
- 1 C buttermilk
- 2 T (1 oz.) green food coloring
- 1 t vanilla extract
- 1 t white distilled vinegar
- Sift together flour, sugar, baking soda, cocoa, and salt into a medium bowl.
- Beat eggs, oil, buttermilk, food coloring, vanilla, and vinegar in a large bowl with an electric mixer until well combined.
- Add dry ingredients and beat until smooth, about 2 minutes.
- Fill cupcake liners 3/4 full with cupcake batter.
- Bake at 350 F for 20 minutes or until cupcake bounces back when touched.
2. Fill the Cupcakes with the Chocolate Liqueur Cups
Wait for the cupcakes to cool completely (you don't want to melt the chocolate). Then, using a small paring knife, cut a chunk out of the top of the cupcake and slide the chocolate liqueur cup in.
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3. Frost With Irish Whiskey Cream Cheese Frosting
- 8 oz cream cheese, room temperature
- 1/4 C unsalted butter, room temperature
- 3 C powdered sugar, sifted
- 2 T Irish whiskey
- Mix cream cheese and butter until light and fluffy.
- Mix in powdered sugar one cup at a time.
- Mix in whiskey.
4. Fill the Liqueur Cups With Green Beer
I recommend that you fill the liqueur cups with beer tableside. The easiest way to do this is to use a funnel or a turkey baster. Be careful not to overflow the beer onto the cupcake (although, if you do, your St. Patty's day revelers are not likely to notice or care).


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|The revolution is built with hex fasteners
I think I read in one of the free magazines that is sent to me for free because I am a target demographic or something that bicyclists should consider carrying Torx drivers because pretty soon, any day now, before you know it, bicycles will switch from hex to Torx fasteners for holding all the vital bits together. I believe it was either Ungodly Expensive Rides magazine, or perhaps 300g Frames Times. You know, the glossy magazine where $4000 is called a "mid-range" bike.
I saw the above tool at The Cheap Tool Store, picked it up, found it not only to be cheap, but light in weight, and decided it may prove to be good insurance for the coming bicycle fastener Torx revolution. Then, upon closer examination, I found that the Torx revolution hasn't made it to the tool factory yet.
I pretty confident that company that manufactured this tool is not a licensee of the actual Torx technology. This probably more accurately a star driver, a hexalobular internal driving feature, or even an ISO 10664 compliant driver. It's OK that it takes a hex driver to adjust it, though, since my bicycle multi-tool certainly has the right bit on it, and I apparently won't be needing it much longer. Once the revolution gets going, I mean. Get up. Go ride.


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this morning the fog outside is all the way down to the street.
i stood and watched these people i don't know well enough and i knew their strength. felt it within myself, standing there nestled amongst their stories. another aunt had insisted i be there - i'd been sick, running a small fever. you look like us, she'd said. you are a part of us.
on the way home, i pulled off the highway and changed my heels for boots, my longish legs out the door as traffic whipped by. it made me smile - we are a tall bunch. my aunt was right. i look like them.


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"The Shepherd of the Hills" is a 1941 film based on a novel of the same name. Filmed in gorgeous Technicolor and containing excellent performances by Harry Carey, John Wayne, Betty Field, and others, I'm really not sure why this film isn't a classic. The plot is simple, but beautiful and moving, one of Director Henry Hathaway's greatest cinematic achievements. Our story begins in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri.
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Zektor HDS4.1 is the equivalent of Extra-Strength
Tylenol, except that it instantly removes multiple
HD hook up headaches. by
Vaughn Smith
28, 2006 - It
used to be that a way to a man's heart was through
his stomach. Nowadays with the influx of healthy living,
it appears that if you want to get a man to fall for
you, supply him with something that will make all
of his wonderful television entertainment toys work
perfectly and you'll keep him forever. The Zektor
HDS4.1 Component Switch is such a beast, so ladies
pay attention.
like their toys and since the monstrous HDTV is only
one part of the entertainment equation, living rooms,
dens and other areas men hunker down in can be an
Amazon jungle of cables, electronics, speakers and
remotes. As the quest for the perfect TV experience
continues, so does the hunt for equipment that enhances
it. The onslaught of progressive scan DVD players,
DVD recorders, Xbox 360's, PS2's, Xbox's and the upcoming
Blu-Ray and HD-DVD technology littering these spaces,
some magical box is required to keep it all connected
to one HDTV without any signal loss, crosstalk or
other electronic idiosynchracies.
magical device, recently upgraded to the HDS4.1 is
a component video switch. It allows you to plug in up to
4 component devices such as Xbox 360, DVD PS2 etc.
so that you aren't having to get behind the TV everytime
you want to change entertainment devices. It also
acts as Dolby 5.1 multichannel audio switch. I'm a
fan of minimalist technology and design and the HDS4.1
is the definition of that. The sleek looking box is
about the same width of the average DVD player so
you won't have any trouble finding a place for it
amidst your growing collection of audio/video devices.
The unit is shallow, meaning that if you place it
on top of a DVD player, the cables will gently hang
down onto the DVD player and then cascade off of the
end, therefore relieving any minute bit of undue stress
on the cables themselves. There are four buttons on
the front which can be pushed manually to switch between
devices, but since the HDS4.1 can interface with almost
any remote (my unit didn't come with a remote) you
would be well advised to sit back and let the remote
do all of the work. The unit comes built in with Zektor's
IIR (Intelligent Infra Red) system, which allows it
to "learn" almost any universal remote.
biggest concern I had when introducing the HDS4.1
into the mix was whether or not there would be any
discernible signal loss, degradation of the picture,
intereference or crosstalk from other devices running
simulateously. There was absolutely none - and I switched
back and forth between the switch and plugging into
the HDTV directly just to be sure. The gold clad,
silver-palladium relays which operate the analog signals
might have added some expense to the unit, but they're
worth their weight in gold. Almost literally when
you consider the $259 US price tag. But do you want
a switch that works flawlessly or not?
between resolutions is a breeze and depending on the
age of your equipment you probably won't even notice
any lag switching between a device that runs at 480p
or 1080i. The changes are smooth, without any interruption
and incredibly fast.
only complaint, make that slight complaint, was that
for the price the HDS4.1 doesn't come with a component
cable. You will need to purchase one separately so
that you can hook up the HDS4.1 to the TV and then
plug in your remaining component cables from various
electronic sources into the switch unit.
who are into the high def revolution know that audio/visual
crystal clear clarity doesn't come cheap. The HDS4.1
is pricey, but it does what it exactly what is says
and backs it up with proof. You won't find any degradation
of signal whatsoever with this unit. As more and more
component-driven units are released upon society,
the only conceivable drawback to this unit at the
moment is that in a year's time you'll need to purchase
another because 4 ins may not cut it. Maybe Zektor is working on the HDS8.0. Stay
tuned. The days of getting up off the vibrating massage
chair to change the component inputs is over. Now
just remember guys, if your special lady drops this
bad boy in your lap as a present, she's a keeper.
Who cares if she can cook? That's why Pizza Hut was
If you own the HDS4.0 here is what's new for the HDS4.1
and its features:
Click Here to visit Zektor.com for purchase / order / info on this unit and other products.
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I've tried 3 times to start a new thread,and keep getting kicked to the moderator...
Can I please post?
Dear Chris,
I just got a malware warning from visiting the "Roger dollar" thread in the Silver Forum.
I really like the site and amm keen to play a part in it but am foiled most days by not being able to post. Instead I get a message to say a moderator will check my post before it will be visible. Fine but that never happens and the post is lost forever - annoying after a lot of typing. Other days my post will go straight on the thread no problems.
I suspect it might be to do with my ISP giving me a new dynamic ip address every time I connect - maybe your site then assumes I am a new poster or something and blocks me. Is this something you are able to change?
Webmaster, I posted a thread on Sunday entitled "The re-monetisation of silver". It stayed up for a few hours and got two responses. Then it disappeared from the site and all records. What happeneed? Is your system compromised? I have re-posted a similar thread and this is still up and running OK but it is NOT the original. I have had no communication from you as to what is going on!


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Its bonnet is sealed shut. So what? The Alfa 4C is still your mid-engined Italian carbon fiber sex bomb, with performance to match. Keep your Cayman, I'm sold on this.
The good people at Goodwood took the car out for a spin on the historic track, and guess what? It was faster around on the wet tarmac than a Corvette Stingray. Extremely low weight and a punchy turbo four can play more with the laws of physics.
Now, I know what you're thinking. The Porsche Cayman must be a better car. And you're probably right. Faster on the track and more comfortable out on the road. It doesn't matter, though.
The 4C is an Alfa Romeo, and it's the one that was created to tell you that every car fanatic's favorite brand is back, with more rear-wheel drive cars coming soon to challenge the establishment.
If you get a 4C, you buy a fast and fun piece of modern automotive history, the first affordable carbon fiber car.
If you buy a Cayman, you're making a smart choice. But will it feel right?


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What is the Paleo Diet?
The Paleo diet is based upon the idea of eating the foods our bodies were designed for through thousands of years of evolution. These foods were available to early people through hunting and gathering [meat and fish, nuts and seeds, fruits and vegetables]. During modern times, advances in technology have made other forms of food available for consumption [grains, dairy, and processed foods], which are not as easy for our bodies to digest. The foods recommended in the Paleo diet generally provide our bodies with more efficient, long-lasting energy that also aid in burning fat. The Paleo Diet is considered to be optimal for digestion, blood sugar regulation, metabolism, and sleep.
What is the difference between Paleo and Primal?
'Primal' generally refers to Mark Sisson's Primal Blueprint way of eating which is very similar to Paleo, but allows some leeway with certain types of dairy and has fewer restrictions on saturated fat intake. Throughout this book, we use "Paleo" and "Primal" as interchangeable terms. Generally speaking, the Paleo Diet is a high protein, moderate fat diet, and the Primal Blueprint is considered to be a high fat, moderate protein diet. Many people who follow this way of eating consider the terms to be one and the same. How ever you personally decide to "title" the ancestral diet that you abide by, both stem from the core principle of eating the foods our bodies were designed to eat: plants and animals.
What types of food are included in the Paleo diet?
We eat a wide variety of meats, Poultry, Fish, Eggs, Colorful Fruits and Vegetables, Healthy fats from coconut, avocado, pastured fatty cuts of meat, grass fed butter, olive oil, and some nuts and seeds. The options are endless, and our plates are always filled with something new and interesting to challenge our palates!
Which foods do you avoid?
All Grains, Pasteurized dairy, Soy, Legumes, Refined Sugar, and Alcohol
Processed Foods
Why do you avoid healthy, whole grains?
Contrary to popular belief, whole grains are not so healthy to human beings. We simply have not adapted to be able to digest grains. Grains contain toxic anti-nutrients, lectins, gluten, and phytates, and we as human beings are not wired to be able to properly digest these anti-nutrients.To quote Mark Sisson: "Lectins are bad. They bind to insulin receptors, attack the stomach lining of insects, bind to human intestinal lining, and they seemingly cause leptin resistance. And leptin resistance predicts a "worsening of the features of the metabolic syndrome independently of obesity". Fun stuff, huh? Gluten might be even worse. Gluten, found in wheat, rye, and barley, is a composite of the proteins gliadin and glutenin. Around 1% of the population are celiacs, people who are completely and utterly intolerant of any gluten. In celiacs, any gluten in the diet can be disastrous. We're talking compromised calcium and vitamin D3 levels, hyperparathyroidism, bone defects. Really terrible stuff. And it gets worse: just because you're not celiac doesn't mean you aren't susceptible to the ravages of gluten. As Stephan highlights, one study showed that 29% of asymptomatic (read: not celiac) people nonetheless tested positive for anti-gliadin IgA in their stool. Anti-gliadin IgA is an antibody produced by the gut, and it remains there until it's dispatched to ward off gliadin – a primary component of gluten. Basically, the only reason anti-gliadin IgA ends up in your stool is because your body sensed an impending threat – gluten. If gluten poses no threat, the anti-gliadin IgA stays in your gut. And to think, most Americans eat this stuff on a daily basis.Phytates are a problem, too, because they make minerals bio-unavailable (so much for all those healthy vitamins and minerals we need from whole grains!), thus rendering null and void the last, remaining argument for cereal grain consumption." Read more: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/why-grains-are-unhealthy/#ixzz1nc1L5iGT
See the results:
Paleo Success Stories that will blow your mind
-Other frequently asked questions-
Aren't you worried about cholesterol?
- http://chriskresser.com/why-
you-should-eat-more-not-less- cholesterol
- http://chriskresser.com/
What's the deal with dairy?
Where do you get your calcium from?
Where can I find palm oil / coconut aminos / other obscure ingredients?
We often can find most of our pantry items at Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, or our local Food Coop. If we cannot find an item we are looking for in a specialty health food store near us, then we often will order it online from Amazon.
How does the Recipe Filter work?
We created the recipe filter on this website to allow people with food allergies and special dietary restrictions to quickly and easily identify those recipes which are not suitable for them. By turning on the filter in the sidebar, you are highlighting the recipes which do not work for the given condition. For example – if you check the "nut-free" box, all of the recipes which contain nuts will be highlighted. Within those recipes, you will be able to see which ingredients do not follow the special allergy or dietary restriction.
GO PALEO … with our 30 Day step-by-step Program
The 30 Day Guide to Paleo Meal Plan
The 30 Day Guide to Paleo is an absolutely fool-proof guide for anyone that wishes to give the Paleo Diet an honest shot for 30 days. When someone says "try it for 30 days," we actually show you how to do it. Nice, right? Adopting a foreign way of eating can be a major challenge, and one that we have vastly simplified in our 30 Day Guide to Paleo program.
The 30 Day Guide to Paleo Program Includes
- Two different 30-day meal plans (that's 60 days of meals planned out for you!)
- Over 180 recipes that are amazingly delicious, and easy to make
- All the information you need to start Paleo today
- 30 Paleo Tips and Tricks Guide
- Exclusive emails for two months of guidance, encouragement, and tips
- Access to the 30 Paleo forums on our website
- and, Additional online support via our facebook page
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That's less than 50 cents per day for our foolproof 60-day meal plan and 180+ recipes. If you're not ready to buy the guide, no problem. Sign up for our free emails anyway – our gift to you!
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Paleo Meatloaf
Paleo Cobb Salad
Paleo Breakfast Sausage
Paleo Beef Tagine
Paleo Beef Stew
Paleo Baked Cod with Lemon
Paleo Baked Chicken Wraps
Paleo Baked Chicken Thighs
Paleo Almond Flour Pancakes
Learn more about the 30 Day Guide to Paleo program here.


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'Obama's State Dinner for Manmohan Singh the most expensive'
US President Barack Obama has spent a whopping USD 1.55 million on five of his state dinners since 2009, with the most expensive of them being the first one hosted in honour of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.chandigarh Updated: Feb 13, 2014 01:21 IST
US President Barack Obama has spent a whopping USD 1.55 million on five of his state dinners since 2009, with the most expensive of them being the first one hosted in honour of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Records from the state department office of Protocol, whose budget covers state dinners, show they can cost taxpayers in excess of half a million dollars per event, CBS News reported.
In response to a Freedom of Information request which it took the state department 13 months to respond, CBS News has obtained the office of Protocol's expense calculations for the first five state dinners of the Obama presidency.
The Obama administration spent USD 572,187.36 for the state dinner for Singh at the White House on November 24, 2009.
Obama hosted Mexican President Felipe Calderon on May 19, 2010, at a cost of USD 563,479.92.
He held his third state dinner on January 19, 2011, for Chinese President Hu Jintao at a cost of USD 412,329.73.
Obama held the fourth state dinner on June 7, 2011, for German chancellor Angela Merkel and the cost was USD 215,883.36.
The fifth state dinner was held on October 13, 2011, for South Korean President Lee Myung-bak at a cost of USD 203,053.34, the CBS report said.
It said the state department has not yet responded to another Freedom of Information request filed seven months ago for its rundown of the expenses for the sixth state dinner honoring British Prime Minister David Cameron on March 14, 2012.
Obama hosted French President Francois Hollande during his seventh state dinner last night.
The US Congress has been waiting for similar information from the state department even longer, it said.
In a letter to then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton dated November 1, 2012, Darrell Issa, a Republican lawmaker from California, chairman of the house committee on oversight and government reform, had expressed concern about the costs of state dinners and asked for an accounting.
"Please provide," wrote Issa, "an itemised list of costs and expenses for each of the last six state dinners, including, but not limited to, amounts paid, including reimbursements, for non-government event planners, entertainers and chefs." Issa gave Clinton two weeks, until November 15, 2012, to respond to his request.
The CBS, quoting a staffer says the committee never received a response from Clinton or the state department, the report said.


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The end of the heat wave is in sight. But there's still some hot and humid weather to contend with first.
An excessive heat warning was issued for Washington, Arlington and Falls Church from noon until 8 p.m. and the rest of the D.C. metro area was under a heat advisory.
The combination of high humidity and temperatures in the mid-90s will made it feel close to 110 degrees.
Storm Team 4 also tracked some scattered severe thunderstorms capable of producing hail and damaging winds Friday afternoon and evening.
A code orange air quality alert remains in effect for the area due to building concentrations of air pollution, which is a threat to young children, the elderly and anyone with heart or respiratory ailment.
The hot and humid weather will carry into Saturday, with a chance of severe storms that afternoon and evening.
But relief on the way Sunday into next week as highs each day should be in the 80s.
But until that relatively cooler weather arrives, here are some ways you can stay cool and prevent heat-related illnesses::
- If you have to be outside for a lengthy periods of time, don't over exert yourself.
- Take frequent breaks.
- Drink plenty of water.
- Wear loose-fitting, lightweight, lightly colored clothing.
- Do not leave children or pets inside vehicles.
- Check on friends and neighbors and have someone do the same for you.
Get the latest weather from NBCWashington.com:
- Severe Weather Alerts: click here
- Interactive Radar: click here
- Complete Weather Coverage: click here
Download our FREE weather apps for iPad and iPhone. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook, and sign up for our e-mail newsletters.


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Columbus delivered to Kennedy Space Center
After a journey that started three days previously, the European Columbus laboratory arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, the United States, on 30 May 2006.
Europe's largest single contribution to the International Space Station, the laboratory will provide internal payload accommodation for various scientific experiments.
Ahead of its transatlantic journey, the 4.5-metre diameter cylindrical module was packed into the transportation container at the EADS Space Transportation facility in Bremen, Germany.
On Sunday 28 May, Columbus was loaded onto an Airbus A300-600 'Beluga' heavy lift aircraft at Bremen Airport. With overnight stopovers in Iceland and Canada along the way, and two short refuelling stops in Greenland and Cleveland, in the United States, Columbus touched down in Florida shortly after 15:00 local time on Tuesday 30 May.
Columbus was unloaded from the Beluga aircraft the following day. In an operation closely watched by members of ESA's Columbus project team, two large cranes were used to carefully lower the container carrying Columbus onto a flatbed truck.
Once unloaded Columbus was escorted across Kennedy Space Center, past NASA's landmark Vehicle Assembly Building, to the Space Station Processing Facility, which will be its home until launch in the second half of 2007.
Inside the Space Station Processing Facility, Columbus was lifted from the transportation container using an overhead crane and moved to a workstand. It is here that Columbus will be prepared for delivery to the International Space Station on a future Space Shuttle mission.
On Friday 2 June, NASA held a ceremony in Kennedy's Space Station Processing Facility to welcome the Columbus module. Representatives from both NASA and ESA participated in the ceremony, including Alan Thirkettle, ESA's International Space Station Programme Manager.


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rtdietz necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 54 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
Nonprofit R+D
Nonprofit R+D is a consulting firm dedicated to helping emerging nonprofits fully utilize technology and the Internet to support their missions through training, education about best practices, and consulting services.
Small to mid-size nonprofit organizations that need assistance with technology so they can better meet their missions. Our services include everything from training and education about best practices to building websites, email marketing, online fundraising, etc.
The individuals we will be working with will not be very tech savvy, so we want a logo that is inviting and not intimidating.
We are looking for a clean modern design that highlights technology but not in a cold "techie" manner. Since we work with nonprofit organizations, we would like to see some designs that can give the impression of serving an organization's mission or working for people.
The R+D is short for "research and development," as we will be doing extensive research and testing of fundraising campaigns, email campaigns, etc. and using that data to inform our clients about best practices and new ideas to further their missions through technology.
At this point we are open to color suggestions and will wait to see how the first batches come out, but probably partial to Blue's to highlight trustworthiness. If you have other ideas we would love to see them!
Keywords: nonprofit, technology, website, fundraising, online fundraising, donations, training
We need a logo that works online as well as in print so will need it in both file formats (Print file format - .ai (CMYK) and Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB).
We'll use the following rating system, which we have copied from another contest:
1 star - Wrong direction, start over
2 star - Some elements we like
3 star - Getting closer but need revisions or a different take on your design
4 star - Design is being considered
5 star - Made the final cut
Please also refer to general comments for further guidance during the contest.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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1700 Ridgely Street, Baltimore, MD 21230
Second Chance, Inc. creates "green collar jobs" by taking apart buildings that would otherwise be demolished and dumped in a landfill. We then offer the reclaimed materials and other donated goods to the public at a discount, helping fund our job training and workforce development programs that serve those with barriers to employment.
Second Chance, Inc.


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Improving performance
This article is a retrospective analysis and basic rundown about gaining performance in Arch Linux.
- 1 The basics
- 2 Storage devices
- 4 Network
- 5 Graphics
- 6 RAM and swap
- 7 Boot time
- 8 Application-specific tips
The basics
Know your system
The best way to tune a system is to target the bottlenecks, that is the subsystems that limit the overall speed. They usually can be identified by knowing the specifications of the system, but there are some basic indications:
- If the computer becomes slow when big applications, like openoffice and firefox, are running at the same time, then there is a good chance the amount of RAM is insufficient. To verify available RAM, use this command, and check for the line beginning with -/+buffers:
$ free -m
- If boot time is really slow, and if applications take a lot of time to load the first time they are launched, but run fine afterwards, then the hard drive is probably too slow. The speed of a hard drive can be measured using the hdparm command:
$ hdparm -t /dev/harddrive
This is only the pure read speed of the hard drive, and is not a valid benchmark, but a value superior to 40mb/s can be considered decent on an average system.
- If the CPU load is consistently high even when RAM is available, then lowering CPU usage should be a priority. CPU load can be monitored in many ways, like using the top command:
$ top
- If the only applications lagging are the ones using direct rendering, meaning they use the graphic card, like video players and games, then improving the graphic performance should help. To verify this, try running this command for 20 seconds:
$ glxgears
This also isn't a valid benchmark, but a value of 300fps or less can be considered very low on an average system. If that is the case, then maybe direct rendering simply isn't enabled. This is indicated by the glxinfo command:
$ glxinfo | grep direct
The first thing to do
The simplest and most efficient way of improving overall performance is to run less and lighter applications. This can be achieved by:
- Changing the desktop environment to a lighter one. Good choices are LXDE, Xfce, or a standalone window manager like Openbox.
- Using lightweight applications. See Lightweight Software and the Light and Fast Applications Awards threads in the forum: 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.
- Removing unnecessary daemons in rc.conf.
Almost all tuning brings drawbacks. Lighter applications usually come with less features and some tweaks may make a system unstable, or simply require time to implement and maintain. This page tries to highlight those drawbacks, but the final judgment rests on the user.
The effects of optimization are often difficult to judge. They can however be measured by benchmarking tools
Storage devices
Choosing and tuning your filesystem
Choosing the best filesystem for a specific system is very important because each has its own strengths. The beginner's guide provides a short summary of the most popular ones. You can also find relevant articles here.
- XFS: Excellent performance with large files. Low speed with small files. A good choice for /home.
- Reiserfs: Excellent performance with small files. A good choice for /var.
- Ext3: Average performance, reliable.
- Ext4: Great overall performance, reliable, has performance issues with sqlite and some other databases.
- JFS: Good overall performance, very low CPU usage.
- Btrfs: Great overall performance (better than ext4), reliable (once it becomes stable). Lots of features. Still in heavy development and considered as unstable. Do not use this filesystem yet unless you know what you are doing and are prepared for potential data loss.
Mount options
Mount options offer an easy way to improve speed without reformatting. They can be set using the mount command:
$ mount -o option1,option2 /dev/partition /mnt/partition
To set them permanently, you can modify /etc/fstab to make the relevant line look like this:
/dev/partition /mnt/partition partitiontype option1,option2 0 0
A couple of mount options improving performance on almost all file-systems is Template:Codeline. In rare cases, for example if you use mutt, it can cause minor problems. You can instead use the Template:Codeline option.
See Ext3 Filesystem Tips.
See JFS Filesystem.
For optimal speed, create an XFS file-system with:
$ mkfs.xfs -l internal,size=128m -d agcount=2 /dev/thetargetpartition
An XFS specific mount option that may increase performance is Template:Codeline. As its speed when dealing with small files is poor, you should definitely consider using pacman-cage. For defragmentation, see Defragmentation XFS.
The Template:Codeline mount option improves speed, but may corrupt data during power loss. The Template:Codeline mount option increases the space used by the filesystem by about 5%, but also improves overall speed. You can also reduce disk load by putting the journal and data on separate drives. This is be done when creating the filesystem:
$ mkreiserfs –j /dev/hda1 /dev/hdb1
Replace /dev/hda1 with the partition reserved for the journal, and /dev/hdb1 with the partition for data. You can learn more about reiserfs with this article.
Btrfs is a new filesystem offering online defragmentation, optimized mode for SSDs, writable snapshots, changing size of partition without data loss and many other features. Btrfs is still in active development, and is available in the kernel (marked experimental). See more info on the Btrfs homepage.
mkinitcpio.conf for btrfs
For non-root btrfs filesystems the btrfs module and dependencies are loaded when required. For a root btrfs filesystem you should ensure the initial ramdisk has the correct modules. There is a dependency of the btrfs module on the libcrc32c module. You can add crc32c to the modules line of /etc/mkinitcpio.conf like so:
MODULES="crc32c libcrc32c zlib_deflate btrfs"
This avoids pitfalls like "unknown symbol" errors when loading the btrfs modules. See also mkinitcpio-btrfs.
Compressing /usr
A way to speed up reading from the hard drive is to compress the data, because there is less data to be read. It must however be decompressed, which means a greater CPU load. Some filesystems support transparent compression, most notably btrfs and reiserfs4, but their compression ratio is limited by the 4k block size. A good alternative is to compress /usr in a squashfs file, with a 64k(128k) block size, as instructed in this Gentoo forums thread. What this tutorial does is basically to compress the /usr folder into a compressed squashfs file-system, then mounts it with aufs. A lot of space is saved, usually two thirds of the original size of /usr, and applications load faster. However, each time an application is installed or reinstalled, it is written uncompressed, so /usr must be re-compressed periodically.Squashfs is already in the kernel, and aufs2 is in the extra repository, so no kernel compilation is needed if using the stock kernel. Since the linked guide is for Gentoo the next commands outline the steps especially for Arch. Basically we have got install two packages to get it working:
$ pacman -S aufs2 squashfs-tools
This command installs the aufs-modules and some userspace-tools for the squash-filesystem. Now we need some extra directories where we can store the archive of /usr as read-only and another folder where we can store the data changed after the last compression as writeable:
$ mkdir /squashed $ mkdir /squashed/usr $ cd /squashed/usr $ mkdir ro $ mkdir rw
Now that we got a rough setup you should perform a complete system-upgrade since every change of content in /usr after the compression will be excluded from this speedup. If you use prelink you should also perform a complete prelink before creating the archive. Now it is time to invoke the command to compress /usr:
$ mksquashfs /usr /squashed/usr/usr.sfs -b 65536
These parameters/options are the ones suggested by the Gentoo link but there might be some room for improvement using some of the options described here. Now to get the archive mounted together with the writeable folder it is necessary to edit fstab:
$ nano /etc/fstab
Add the following lines:
/squashed/usr/usr.sfs /squashed/usr/ro squashfs loop,ro 0 0 usr /usr aufs udba=reval,br:/squashed/usr/rw:/squashed/usr/ro 0 0
Now you should be done and able to reboot. The original Author suggests to delete all the old content of /usr, but this might cause some problems if anything goes wrong during some later re-compression. It is more safe to leave the old files in place just to be on the safe side.
A bash script has been created that will automate the process of re-compressing (read updating) the archive since the tutorial is meant for Gentoo and some options don't correlate to what they should be in Arch.
Tuning for an SSD
This tutorial has some very simple tricks to fully harness the power of an SSD and to reduce disk read/write cycles to prolong its life. But you should keep in mind that the one tip that suggests to mount /tmp within RAM is really usefull as long as you don't compile stuff like games or don't watch long flash videos within your browser. Yaourt uses /tmp for storing everything that it compiles and might abort due to insufficient amount of disk space which means in this case not enough RAM. You can do the following to let Yaourt use another directory for its temporary files:
nano /etc/yaourtrc
and now uncomment the line:
# TmpDirectory /what/ever/you/want/
and change it to something like:
TmpDirectory /home/arch/.tmp/
Just make sure that this directory is not on your SSD; that's what we're trying to prevent in first place!
See also compcache.
See this guide for information on the introduction of online SSD TRIM support in the 2.6.33 kernel.
If you have the latest Kernel and use ext4 you can simply activate SSD live TRIM support by adding one mount option to your fstab.
/dev/sda1 / ext4 defaults,noatime,discard 0 1
The only way to directly improve CPU speed is overclocking. As it is a complicated and risky task, it is not recommended for anyone except experts. The best way to overclock is through the BIOS. When purchasing your system, keep in mind that most Intel motherboards are notorious for disabling the capacity to overclock.
A way to modify performance (ref) is to use Con Kolivas' desktop-centric kernel patchset, which, among other things, replaces the Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) with the Brain Fuck Scheduler (BFS).
To install a kernel that contains the ck patchset from the AUR using yaourt:
$ yaourt -S kernel26-ck
Or a kernel that contains just BFS patch:
$ yaourt -S kernel26-bfs
Some other kernels in the AUR have the BFS patch included or available as an option.
Verynice is a daemon, available on AUR, for dynamically adjusting the nice levels of executables. The nice level represent the priority of the executable when allocating CPU resources. Simply define executables for which responsiveness is important, like X or multimedia applications, as goodexe in Template:Filename. Similarly, CPU-hungry executables running in the background, like make, can be defined as badexe. This prioritisation greatly improves system responsiveness under heavy load.
See relevant section in General Recomendations.
Xorg.conf configuration
Graphic performance heavily depends on the settings in Template:Filename. There are tutorials for Nvidia, ATI and Intel cards. Improper settings may stop Xorg from working, so caution is advised.
Driconf is a small utility that allows you to change the direct rendering settings for open source drivers. Enabling HyperZ can drastically improve performance.
GPU Overclocking
Overclocking a graphics card is typically more expedient than with a CPU, since there are readily accessible software packages which allow for on-the-fly GPU clock adjustments. For ATI users, get rovclock, and Nvidia users should get nvclock in the extra repository.
The changes can be made permanent by running the appropriate command after X boots, for example by adding it to Template:Filename. A safer approach would be to only apply the overclocked settings when needed.
RAM and swap
The swappiness represent how much the kernel prefers swap to RAM. Setting it to a very low value, meaning the kernel will almost always use RAM, is known to improve responsiveness on many systems. To do that, simply add those line to Template:Filename:
vm.swappiness=20 vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50
To test and more on why this may work, take a look at this article.
Compcache, also known as the ramzswap kernel module, creates a swap device in RAM and compresses it. That means that part of the RAM can hold much more information, but uses more CPU. Still, is it much quicker than a hard drive swap. If a system often falls back to swap, this could improve responsiveness. Compcache is available in [community].
It is also possible (and recommended) to tell compcache to fall back on the hard drive swap when full. To do this, define a backing swap device in the configuration file. This swap device must not be in use when compcache is started, so remove it from your /etc/fstab!
This is also a good way to reduce disk read/write cycles due to swap on SSDs.
Mounting /tmp to RAM
This will make your system a tiny bit faster, but will take up some of your RAM. It also reduces disk read/write cycles, and is therefore a good choice if using an SSD or if you have RAM to spare. Simply add this line to Template:Filename and reboot:
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
Using the graphic card's RAM
In the unlikely case that you have very little RAM and a surplus of video RAM, you can use the latter as swap. See Swap on video ram.
Preloading is the action of of putting and keeping target files into the RAM. The practical use is that preloaded applications always start very quickly, because reading from the RAM is always quicker than from the hard drive. However, part of your RAM will be dedicated to this task, but no more than if you kept the application open. Therefore, preloading is best used with heavy, often-used applications, like firefox and openoffice.
Go-preload is a small daemon created in the gentoo forum. To use it, first run this command in a terminal for each program you want to preload at boot:
# gopreload-prepare program
Then, as instructed, press enter when the program is fully loaded. This will add a list of files needed by the program in Template:Filename. To load all lists at boot, simply add gopreload to your DAEMONS array in Template:Filename. To disable the loading of a program, remove the appropriate list in Template:Filename, or move it to Template:Filename.
A more automated, albeit less KISS, approach is used by Preload. All you have to do is add it to your DAEMONS array in Template:Filename. It will monitor the most used files on your system, and with time build its own list of files to preload at boot.
Boot time
You can find tutorials with good tips here and here.
Suspend to ram
The best way to reduce boot time is not booting at all. Consider suspending your system to ram instead.
Kernel boot options
Some boot options can decrease kernel boot time. The Template:Codeline option usually can take off one second or so. Also, if you see a message saying "Waiting 8s for device XXX" at boot, adding Template:Codeline can reduce the waiting time, but be careful, as it may break the booting process. Those options are set in Template:Filename or Template:Filename, depending on which bootloader you use.
Custom kernel
Compiling a custom kernel will reduce boot time and memory usage, but can be long, complicated and even painful. It usually is not worth the effort, but can be very interesting and a great learning experience. If you really know what you are doing, start here.
Application-specific tips
The Firefox article offers good tips; most notably disabling pango, cleaning the sqlite database, and using firefox-pgo. See also: Speed-up Firefox using tmpfs, and Turning off anti-phishing.
See Ccache.
User josh_ from the forum has made impressive changes to the mkinitcpio script, making it two or three times faster. While waiting for these changes to be implemented, you can get them here.
See Speed up OpenOffice.
See Improve Pacman Performance.
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This anti-pattern is about delivery processes, given a major goal of SOA is to enable business flexibility its amazing how organisations still insist on having a single delivery process for every type of delivery, or a best two approaches, one for package and one for the rest.
The effect here is that there is no link between the business drivers and requirements and the type of delivery process employed. No matter whether agility is required or a single compliance driven delivery its always a single process that is applied. This means seeing package projects capturing requirements rather than doing a best-fit analysis, it means seeing agile processes where a vanilla package implementation would be better and it means seeing software development projects doing waterfall because that is what is used on vanilla package implementations.
The end effect is that while the services might map well to the business objectives the delivery process prevents this being realised in a way that matches the way in which the business wants the SOA to be delivered. This gets SOA a reputation as either expensive (e.g. when packages get over customised) or slow (waterfall on a software development package).
The cause of this tends to be an over reliance on project management in the IT department and a fixed approach. The use of Waterfall across the board is often driven by the finance departments approval processes which mandate that everything must be known and priced before a project can start. Often these fixed processes are part of a broader "quality" initiative where the quality approval people find it easier to have a single process to audit than understanding and coping with different ways of working that actually deliver more quality
The resolution is to understand the differing business and technical objectives that business services have and to tailor your process appropriately. This means increasing the ceremony where you have complex contracts and external interactions, it means doing waterfall when you have a vanilla package implementation and are going to change the business to fit and it means having co-located teams when you want true agility and pace of change.
This means convincing the quality people, or convincing the business that the quality people are getting in the way of quality. It also means shooting the sacred cows in the project management organisation and investing in the training and mentoring required. It also involves explaining to finance how different financial approval models make sense in different areas of the business. Its a whole lot of explaining but there is thankfully a whole lot of data out there on how single process approaches tend to destroy IT estates.
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