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Joined: 04 May 2005
Posts: 361
Location: Germany, 37603
Posted: Thu 18 Aug 2005, 04:16
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Austrumi 0.9.7 vs. Puppy 1.0.4
Hi Guys..
before someone gets hurt, this is just my personal impression of a first
look at Austrumi 0.9.7 and a VERY rough cut 'comparison' to Puppy 1.0.4
Why? Because only the smart learn from others to make themself better
I downloaded austrumi yesterday and gave it a try in qemu environment...
Nice boot screen.. It bootet in graphical desktop, but resolution was to high, to reach the menu at the bottom.. So burned a cd and tried it at home on my current Puppy machine (P-II 350Mhz, 128MB, No HDD, SB LIve, ATI 3D).
..bootet right into max. Res. of my 17" TFT (1280x1024). I switched to english language.. network was not setup... so set it up via menu and use
dhcp.. worked just fine... one click on firefox icon and viola.. internet is there.. there is abiword, cups, gnumeric, inkscape!, some simple games,
and cd burner tool, gmplayer (with internet radio - works). DVD Playback not testet, because Systems lacks DVD drive
Also printing not tested..
So first impression was just fine.
I didn't found a way to save setting between live-cd runs..?
So I dicided to try hdd install. Got a spare 1.2G IDE disk and installed it.
There seems NO (c)fisk tool available..? But the hdd hat already one partition.. so selected that one with lilo in mbr... Installation took app. 5min.. reboot and .. .. .. worked! files under /root will now be saved..
So let me try to summarize my feelings/impressions:
Austrumi 0.9.7 vs. Puppy 1.0.4
nice boot screen
nice desktop background image
nice group of icons for most used applications
clean and stable look and feeling
has internet apps (firefox, xchat), abiword, gnumeric, inkscape, cups
has wifi...
besides what is mentioned, does not have much else..?
missing (c)fdisk?
missed editor/notepad? vi didn't work. found e3vi...
no mounting tool? usb stick is not auto mounted if not injected before boot
no develoment tools
no PutGet/DotPup/*.sfs extensions
no way of saving settings when using live-cd?
even switched to english, faq and other files still are not translated
So Puppy has a lot more switches and wheels to tweak it, Puppy has more
functionalities concerning saving settings, hdd install, usb install, multisession cd.
But Puppys look is not so clean and lean. The fvwm95 is not my favourite..
All major apps should have an icon on the desktop.. The background image.. ( I liked the one from John Murgas 50m version!)..
And the much debated overall 2 apps for the same job doesn't make it
look clean and lean (ex. Puppy mounter and MUT; xpaint and mtpaint; xxxdialup; etc.)
The look of next Puppy is already to be polished according the the latest news...
So, now it's time to hide
Have fun
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Location: Bowser
Posted: Thu 18 Aug 2005, 04:43
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PeterSieg, i for one believe that you've done a decent overall comparison of the two.
However, in my experience (not with the latest Ausrumi, however, haven't bothered w/it), Austrumi crashes a lot, a lot, a lot.
The only way that I could get it to run comfortably was to not allow it to try and cache itself into RAM...
The overall look and feel I thought were quite impressive - they were still using FVWM at the time, but it had a very polished look. Great fonts. Too bad about the crashing.
Perhaps I will D/L the new version, see if it's any better.
Can it say WOOF?
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Posts: 4078
Posted: Thu 18 Aug 2005, 07:40
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i have not tried Austrumi for a long time ... just once, a long time ago ... it did not support my ethernet card and no way to load a driver module, so i could not access the internet
Opera did not have nice fonts either ... i had figured out how to install Opera in /root (/usr was read-only at the time ... also Puppy only had Dillo) and i figured out how to get nice antialiased fonts
i just reinstalled Puppy 1.0.4 in a clean /root (ok, i accidently did a rm -rf /root ... ok, actually i accidently did a rm -rf /, which removed about a gig from my XP partition too) and Puppy looked rather crude compared to what i had setup (Icewm, aqua theme, Rox 2.2.0 with antialised text) ... with Icewm and Rox 2.2.0, it looks about the same as Vector 4.3, which is pretty good ... actually, i find Puppy's fonts are nicer than Win XP
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Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posted: Thu 18 Aug 2005, 11:05
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The main problem with Austrumi, I think, is that the kernel is monolithic, no modules.
The developer has created a whopping big kernel, over 2M, and you just have to hope that it detects your hardware.
It's very interesting that people are experiencing success with their network cards, I wonder what network drivers he compiled into the kernel. But how many people will have working sound I wonder? Or software modem?
Yes, Puppy too is getting a makeover!
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Posted: Thu 18 Aug 2005, 20:52
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It still amazes me how much importance people put on the boot appearance.
It's not that big a deal.......
Least if the text is scrolling by you can see what's happening where the boot fails if it does.......
What you really should be looking for is stability after the boot process.
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Posted: Fri 19 Aug 2005, 00:59
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I second Bladehunter!
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Location: Germany, 37603
Posted: Fri 19 Aug 2005, 03:15
Post subject: Stability...
Yes bladehunter and Earlsmith, of course stability is much more important
than the boot image...
BUT: If everybody would think so, than that would be the end for Windows and Microsoft (haha..)
I ran Austrumi now just for 3 days with just 6-8 times booting it up.
So far NO PROBLEM... but its still to early to say its stable.
And concerning the boot messages... A lot of NOT computer lovers, but
just computer users are really NOT interested what the system has successfully found (they just assume everything has to be ok). They want
the system doing nice gimmics and probably only tell about problems found (if the system can not handle such problems themself)...
BTW: I found sfdisk, so a fdisk program is included...
And of course... looking forward to Puppy 1.0.5a2 to see the polished
desktop and check on the development usrdevx.sfs file system...
Have fun
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Posts: 322
Location: Manila
Posted: Sat 27 Aug 2005, 21:11
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I'm using Austrumi but when I found out there's Puppy, I dumped the former.
One thing I like with Puppy, It boots really
. Even my officemates were really impressed with such speed.
I told them, It's not an ordinary lived-cd. It's Puppy
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Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Posted: Sun 28 Aug 2005, 16:16
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OOooooOOOo... SHE is the next spokes person yes? Woof
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Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posted: Mon 29 Aug 2005, 08:06
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acklan wrote:
OOooooOOOo... SHE is the next spokes person yes? Woof
The real Puppy had an eye for the girl dogs too.
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Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posted: Mon 29 Aug 2005, 08:09
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...er, don't take that the wrong way, gliezl!
I was just reminded of Puppy and his interest in a couple of lady dogs, except they were normal size dogs and he was, well, a chihuahua.
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Posts: 1124
Posted: Mon 29 Aug 2005, 08:34
Post subject: where puppy should be
I am digging this pocketlinux distro!
I think it is what puppy could be, not much of a learning curve either.
Though the kde-lite, at least there version of it sucks, luckily it comes
with kde3.4 and it runs smooth..... picked up my sound
and right clicking brings wonderful option on a .tgz
easy install, no graphical installer needed, just download "example"
limewire.tgz right click and install!!!!!!!!!
Competition, is good, this is what I have been waiting from barry!!
I think it is 345mb
but I think it could have great ideas for puppy to look at!
Heaven is on the way, until then let's get the truth out!
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Posted: Mon 29 Aug 2005, 09:01
Post subject: Re: where puppy should be
klhrevolutionist wrote:
Competition, is good, this is what I have been waiting from barry!!
I think it is 345mb
but I think it could have great ideas for puppy to look at!
Thanks for having a look - I was thinking of having a shufty [cockney? slang=look]
What do you feel are the features that are worthy of our attention? It seems to use KDE lite - which we will hopefully soon have - but as a pupget . . .
PS. I only have two words for Gliezl
woof! woof!
- sorry I don't get out much . . .
Maybe I will send a poem next time . . .
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Posted: Mon 29 Aug 2005, 15:58
Post subject: features
well, the first couple of features I noticed, their version of kde-lite
was buggy. Then I logged in to the regular kde, and have not went back to (lite).
I know that don't tell you much! I remind you I have only used puppy
exclusively since I've used Linux, so some things I mention might not be new!
Okay, the packages, I cannot seem to find a gui for slackpkg, but nor do I need it.
The reason being? When you go to download software from let's say "puppy"
There are usually pre-compiled apps for some distro's. Slackware is one.
So I downloaded "puppy" to my home dir. and was messing around with it
and I right clicked to see my options..
It's got a little button with actions->slackware->install!!!
It prompted me and tolde me what was going on, so d id it work? Yes.
That is one feature, and Barry has been trying to make puppy more slack-compatible as I have heard.
But, I don't want to take up to much space, I don't reccommend booting
into kde-lite as it will "freeze"
I'll tell more later
Heaven is on the way, until then let's get the truth out!
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Posts: 4839
Location: Manila
Posted: Mon 29 Aug 2005, 17:36
Post subject: Gliezl
(Aside: Maybe you were just too busy to look - Gliezl has been here for a while:
Lobster linked to that site in the July news, and Gliezl joined the forum early August.
Will be glad to link that page to your site, Gliezl...)
Puppy user since Oct 2004. Want FreeOffice?
Get the sfs (English only)
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Widespread publication of the treatment cascade has heightened the level of concern for engaging and retaining patients in HIV care. A significant percentage of persons living with HIV are unaware of their status, and an astonishingly low number of people have successfully suppressed their viral loads. Despite recent articles that have reported potential variation in these calculations, it is clear that a significant number of people remain out of care, marginally engaged or worse.
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Through years of psychotherapeutic work with persons living with HIV, I have been consistently struck by the ability of many long-term survivors to incorporate the virus into their lives so that it is not granted a central role, but rather is an undeniable part of themselves that must be accommodated. This is a form of processing trauma, in which the negative emotional power is felt and expressed, thereby removing overwhelming feelings and leaving a more empowered sense of self.
I witnessed this recently at a group for long-term survivors, some of whom were in good health and others who experienced chronic pain or some other constant reminders of HIV. Each one had evolved to a place of peace with the virus and, more important, each had actually taken the devastation of infection and turned it into a source of strength and empowerment. HIV shifted the life path of nearly everyone in the room in ways they ultimately viewed as beneficial. They had experienced many losses due to HIV but had, unexpectedly, found other rewards. Many attributed the virus with a development of spirituality, an increase of community involvement, a healthier lifestyle or even (as in my own case) entirely new careers. Every person had somehow managed to retain a sense of empowerment through psychological shock, health setbacks, physical ups and downs and an overarching sense of not knowing what tomorrow will bring. Each person experienced, at least to some degree, what some have called "post-traumatic growth."
Many health care professionals are uncomfortable engaging their patients at an effective level, preferring to leave "emotional issues" to support groups or mental health professionals. Addressing or even acknowledging these more elusive processes, however, can greatly assist patients in adapting to their particular situation and achieving a degree of acceptance where they can engage their internal resources and promote their own health.
Here are some methods for improving patients' emotional resilience:
Help patients identify and express feelings
When confronted with drastic change, people typically feel that everything they understand and rely upon has suddenly slipped away. People are triggered to respond as they did at other traumatic times in their lives, often regressing emotionally to a much younger age at which they had far fewer coping skills. Helping them to identify what they are feeling and to express it appropriately is vital to move them in a healthy way beyond this shock. Encouraging them to engage their own inner resources is helpful and calming. It is beneficial to remind them of another time they successfully coped with adversity, or invite them to think about what some strong figure in their life (such as a loving grandmother) might say to comfort them.
Create a safe emotional space
Sometimes the only thing we can do is "hold space" for someone. This simply means taking a few moments to allow them to identify and express their feelings. The intensity of such moments can be extremely difficult because we too become triggered. At such times we need to heighten our own self-awareness and hold our responses in check, conveying psychological safety and giving the patient the space for their own process without rescuing them or cutting them off.
Keep the patient empowered
Once the feelings are expressed, practical steps to address the situation must be identified. Of course, patients rely on physicians to guide them with their medication regimen, but it is crucial to include the patient as a collaborator in this process. Losing a sense of empowerment is a critical factor resulting in patients drifting away from ownership of their health and medical care. Mental health professionals stay tuned in to "where the patient is," that is, keeping information and suggestions relevant to the person's level of knowledge, individual motivation, and other important cultural aspects, all the while keeping an awareness of the patient's psychological, social and even spiritual life in the context of medical care.
Assist in visualizing healthy possibilities
Patients can usually understand how HIV and all its medical consequences will negatively impact their lives. More important, they need to be able to visualize how they can successfully incorporate health and wellness into their routines. Many will catastrophize or jump to overwhelmingly negative conclusions. Building on their strengths, reinforcing existing social connections or suggesting new supports is vital. A referral to a peer navigator or support group is an excellent way to assist the patient in discovering possibilities.
Converting losses into gains is a long process requiring a variety of skills, including self-awareness, the ability to fight resistance, a willingness to put plans into action and the promotion of flexibility and persistence. Co-occurring mental health disorders, including addiction, can easily sidetrack a patient from this path. Some patients are particularly vulnerable to the emotionally numbing effects of addiction when facing the pain of negative emotions. If present, co-occurring addiction and mental health concerns, which no doubt account for a significant portion of the treatment cascade, must be addressed, as they will interrupt the healing process.
When asked what accounts for their resilience, patients describe many things, including the ability to feel and express emotions, being connected to others, a sense of empowerment (if only that they will conduct themselves with grace in the face of any complication), some form of spirituality and outreach to others. With some luck, time and encouragement from providers, most patients can foster a degree of emotional resilience that will significantly contribute to their health and wellness.
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Should Alabama be ranked No. 1? Perspective on that will be much clearer Saturday night once we know how the Crimson Tide fared against the most complete team they've faced so far: Ole Miss.
I can hear the Hotty Toddy cheer reverberating after that last sentence. But don't get carried away, Colonel Black Bear. Most complete doesn't mean best.
Texas A&M is the best team Alabama has faced. That Johnny Manziel plays quarterback for the Aggies makes that the case.
Here's what I mean by complete: Ole Miss has the best combination in all three facets of the game -- offense, defense and special teams.
Virginia Tech has the best defense Alabama has faced, but the Hokies' offense has been abysmal. A&M has the best offense, but its defense is porous. The Crimson Tide can't reasonably expect to win Saturday if they play as poorly as they did on offense against the Hokies or if they give up as many big plays as they did on defense against A&M.
The Rebels have difference-makers who are more than capable of making teams pay for lapses. Running back Jeff Scott is a threat any time he touches the ball. He has been particularly explosive in the fourth quarter. Four of his five runs of 15 yards or longer have come in the final period, including the 75-yard game-winner against Vanderbilt on opening night.
Three players who were highly coveted recruits by Alabama -- OT Laremy Tunsil, safety/nickel back Tony Conner and DE Robert Nkemdiche -- have been outstanding as Ole Miss freshmen. Nkemdiche is tied for the team lead in tackles for loss, but is still looking for his first sack. As if one Nkemdiche isn't enough to worry about, Ole Miss could get big brother Denzel, who injured his knee in the season opener, back for this game as well. He led Ole Miss in tackles last season. Now if all of this seems like searching for a pimple on Kate Upton, it is. That's the way it is when you are Alabama -- college football's supermodel. People look for vulnerabilities in the perceived invincibility.
Ole Miss QB Bo Wallace believes that vulnerability is at cornerback, and the Rebels will put points on the Tide. Maybe they will.
Meanwhile, some in crimson have grown a little weary of hearing how much trouble the Rebels gave their team last year. After all, Alabama won the game by three touchdowns.
Last year, we knew for sure that the Tide deserved to be No. 1. We will have a much better read on the answer to that question this year after Saturday night's test. We will also know if Ole Miss is still building a foundation in the SEC West or if Hugh Freeze's team has taken a giant leap into the contender category.
Ole Miss-Alabama is the SEC undercard to LSU at Georgia. For a team that spent the offseason bemoaning the 5 yards of separation between it and the BCS title game, the Bulldogs will almost certainly be eliminated from the national title scene before October if they don't defend home turf against the LSU team that everybody's talking about.
The stakes are high but there is also a compelling subplot. LSU quarterback Zach Mettenberger is a former Bulldog. Mettenberger's mom, Tammy, is a longtime administrative assistant in the Georgia football office. Coach Mark Richt gave her the week off, saying it would be awkward for her to hang around while the Georgia coaches tried to devise ways to let Leonard Floyd unleash untold mayhem on her son.
Les Miles was sorry to see Richt burn a potential spy, facetiously saying, "We were really kind of hoping that we'd get the call sheet and several of the other key pieces of information."
While we can always count on The Hat for good humor, this will be an emotional and serious night for Mettenberger. He was in a heated battle with Aaron Murray for the starting quarterback position before he was dismissed from the team following a spring break arrest in 2010. (He later pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of sexual battery and was sentenced to probation, fines and community service.)
Mettenberger has displayed remorse, taken responsibility for his behavior and repaired his image. Even so, Mettenberger figures to get an earful when he walks between the hedges Saturday. It won't be a warm, hearty welcome home.
He arrives with the best QBR in the SEC and faces the man who has thrived in the job he once coveted. Murray just passed Peyton Manning and Danny Wuerffel on the SEC's career total offense and passing yardage lists, respectively.
Both can put up numbers, but the biggest factor in my judgment is how well Mettenberger manages his emotions. Nothing will be more important in determining whether LSU can continue its rapid ascension while in the process putting the Bulldogs' BCS title dreams in a ditch.
The nation's longest winning streak belongs to Ohio State at 16 games. In hopes of taking a step toward breaking a different streak, coach Urban Meyer is employing the Ric Flair mantra. "To be the man, you've got to beat the man."
Bucky Badger has been the man in the Big Ten, making three straight Rose Bowl appearances. Meyer may subscribe to the Nature Boy's philosophy, but he's ignoring Wally Pipp. Most quarterbacks who come off the bench and throw 12 touchdown passes in three games would have grabbed the job the way Lou Gehrig snagged the Yankees' first baseman's gig from Pipp.
Kenny Guiton has been outstanding filling in for Braxton Miller. But with Miller's knee healthy enough to go, the Buckeyes appear committed to putting their fate in the hands of the preseason Heisman candidate when Wisconsin comes to town this weekend. Reports from practice this week say Miller has been sharp. Seeing your understudy set school records has a way of making you focus, not to mention heal.
Ohio State allows about 2.6 yards per rush -- or less than a quarter of the ground Badgers running back Melvin Gordon covers every time he touches the ball. Gordon leads the nation in rushing average (156 yards per game), and I believe he is the most explosive of all the great Wisconsin running backs of recent vintage. Gordon has more 20-, 30-, 60- and 70-yard runs than anyone in the country. And he isn't even the starter.
After all, James White is the leading active career rusher in the FBS and averages more than 110 YPG. Both will tote plenty of rock Saturday night.
After last Saturday's nonconference hot garbage, this week delivers a more appetizing matchup in Oklahoma and Notre Dame. History has no real relevance once a game starts, or at least that's what people on the wrong side of it want you to believe, but the Irish have beaten the Sooners nine times in 10 all-time meetings. The Irish sprinted away from a 13-13 tie in the fourth quarter last year to win 30-17. That finish was a lot like the one in Bob Stoops' first season in 1999, when Notre Dame scored the final 21 points in a 34-30 win. Few programs have inflicted more pain on another in so few meetings than the Irish have on the Sooners.
Louis Nix dominated the middle last year, allowing Oklahoma only 15 yards rushing. The Sooners are different on offense this year, though. Blake Bell has taken over and there's more pistol and read-option in the OU attack, but it still has to move the big fella in the middle if it wants to run effectively. That's what I'll be watching.
The SEC has taken some nonconference hits in September. Watch out for UCF Saturday against South Carolina.
QBR is only one stat, but consider this: A strong QBR correlates strongly to a team's chances of winning. For instance, if the quarterback gets a QBR of 92 in a game, based on QB play alone, a team would have a 92 percent chance of winning the game. UCF's Blake Bortles' QBR for the season is 92, about 20 points higher than South Carolina's Connor Shaw.
The difference between Bortles having to go up against Jadeveon Clowney and the Gamecocks D (opponents have just a 47 QBR against them) as opposed to Shaw facing UCF's defense (65 QBR against) may even out the battle somewhat.
This weekend will be a great way to finish September while whetting your appetite for the meat of the season.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Cancer is considered a multifactorial condition. Multifactorial means that both genes and environment play an important role.
Most cancers occur due to a combination of both genes and environment. Some forms of cancer, such as lung cancer, are mostly due to environmental factors (i.e., smoking). A few of the known environmental risk factors that can increase a person's risk for cancer include:
We also know that genes play an important role in cancer, since having a close family member (a mother, father, sister or brother) with cancer increases a person's risk for developing cancer. Other forms of cancer, such as retinoblastoma (a rare tumor of the back of the eye), are strongly genetic or hereditary.
While all cancers are genetic, not all cancers are inherited. All cancer cells have mutations in their DNA. It is these mutations that cause a once "normal" cell to behave like a cancer cell--one that grows and divides quickly and does not respond to normal checks on cell growth.
Somatic mutations are mutations that only occur within the tumor itself. Somatic mutations cannot be passed down from a parent to a child.
Germline mutations are mutations that are found in all the cells of the body, including the egg cells of a woman or the sperm cells of a man. Germline mutations can be passed down from a parent to a child. Only those mutations that are present in the eggs or sperm can be passed down through a family.
In some families with a very strong history of cancer there may be a germline mutation that is being passed down through the family. These families usually have some features that are "red flags" or clues that there may be a cancer gene in the family. These red flags include:
Families who have some or all of these features may benefit from meeting with a genetic counselor and/or a geneticist to discuss their family history.
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ROLLINSFORD — Rollins Road was busy for much of the day Saturday with cars, shuttles, and pedestrians on foot flocking to the Wentworth Greenhouse's first indoor Winter Farmer's Market and Craft Market of the year — two events held simultaneously together and sponsored in collaboration with the local organization Seacoast Eat Local.
"We'll probably have more than 2,000 people come through here today," said Brian Wentworth, one of the owners of Wentworth Greenhouse. "The Winter Market has become a pretty social event. People tend to spend a little more time and have an opportunity to walk around and shop in a relaxing environment."
And hundreds of people were doing just that Saturday afternoon. Two singers performed live music in both the Craft Market and Farmer's Market areas of the event. As families and friends milled back and forth between the two markets they had the ability to chat with vendors in a calm and family-oriented environment.
"With other farmer markets it's usually just in and out because everything's in a tight, chaotic space," said William Geoffs, a local resident who was stocking up on locally grown foods Saturday. "This is a pretty big area that allows people some room to actually move around — plus the flowers add a relaxing touch," he said with a laugh while motioning to the Greenhouse's numerous plants and flowers.
Wentworth said roughly 10 vendors were present Saturday at the Craft Market while 50 to 60 were on hand for the Seacoast Eat Local-sponsored Farmer's Market portion of the event.
Local craftsmen included Felt Goods by Kari and Jim Prichard of York, Maine, William Mitchell Serigraphs Prints of Dover, DM Puppets of Kittery, Maine, and Daphne's Jewelry Works, of Rollinsford, among others. Crafters are only allowed at the events on an invitation-only basis. Their work is generally regarded among the best in the area.
And vendors at the indoor Farmer's Market were also selling high quality, locally grown foods Saturday. Shoppers had a variety of local fish, meats, fresh baked goods, preserves, cheeses, gourmet jams, jellies, sauces, herbs, spices, teas and coffees to choose from.
"Seacoast Eat Local uses events such as this to keep their coordination going," Wentworth explained. "They're also collecting donations for the Rollinsford food pantry and other local charities."
Seacoast Eat Local connects people with sources of locally grown foods and advocates eating locally for the health of our environment, community, culture, and economy. Through advocacy, organizing, and education, they work toward a sustainable local food system that meets the needs of both producers and consumers. They organize winter farmers' markets, co-produce Seacoast Harvest, sponsor workshops and events, and provide information through their email newsletter, blog, and website, www.seacoasteatlocal.org
And for those who missed or were unable to attend Saturday's Winter Farmer's Market and Craft Market, the Wentworth Greenhouse will be hosting five more this winter; on December 1, December 22, January 26, February 23, and March 23. To learn more visit www.wentworthgreenhouses.com.
Wentworth Greenhouse in Rollinsford hosts farmer, craft market
ROLLINSFORD — Rollins Road was busy for much of the day Saturday with cars, shuttles, and pedestrians on foot flocking to the Wentworth Greenhouse's first indoor Winter Farmer's Market and Craft Market of the year — two events held simultaneously together and sponsored in collaboration with the local organization Seacoast Eat Local.


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Trying to get the most out of R.A. Dickey, both on the field and at the gate, the Mets moved him from Sunday's start to Saturday. The switch allows him to start the home finale next Thursday instead of in Atlanta the next night.
It might not be much with the way the Mets are drawing, but he could be going for his 20th win in the finale which would be a good send off.
Chris Young flips with Dickey and will start Sunday against the Marlins.
Dickey, 18-6 with a 2.67 ERA, will get three chances to win 20 games. About his Cy Young chances? The Nationals' Gio Gonzalez might be ranked ahead of him, but working in his favor is being 12 games over .500 for a team approaching 20 under overall.
As somebody who has voted for the major awards, pitchers on losing teams get more consideration for the Cy Young than MVP candidates on losers.
The Mets said several times they anticipate signing Dickey to a contract extension.
More Mets Matters:
* Jordany Valdespin was tossed last night for arguing a strike three call. Although Valdespin has been electric as a home-run bat off the bench, he does have somewhat of a short fuse and has loafed several times. That's something young players can't afford to do.
I'm figuring Valdespin will come to spring training, but can't see him winning a starting job.
* Jeremy Hefner (2-6, 4.99) hopes to avert the sweep by the Phillies tonight, going against rookie Tyler Cloyd (1-1, 4.95). Hefner will compete for a job in spring training, but will likely open the season at Triple-A Las Vegas.
* Tonight's game will be broadcast on 1130 AM as WFAN will carry the Giants' game in Carolina. With the Giants on local TV and the Yankees in a pennant race, I'm curious as to tonight's crowd at Citi Field.
* Some awful numbers: The Mets are 4-25 at home and have scored three or fewer runs in 15 straight games. In contrast, the 1962 Mets, losers of 120 games, won 10 games after the break in a similar point in the season. Yes, they are amazing.
* Frank Francisco has elbow tendinitis. Francisco does nothing for me and if the last few games in a lost season are for learning, I'd like to see somebody else get the chance to close a few games. What would it hurt?
* David Wright is five hits away from tying Ed Kranepool for the franchise lead in hits with 1,418. Although I still believe Wright will be re-signed, I'd hate for him to fall short and then go elsewhere. It would be a shame.


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Zumba is a workout phenomenon. Started by Colombian Beto Perez, the dance fitness experience has risen to a whole new level – and has elevated Latino stars with its climb to the top. From Pitbull and Don Omar to Daddy Yankee and Paulina Rubio, America is moving its bodies to Latin artists – and we love that! Here are a few of our favorite Zumba-centric songs to get you moving:
1. Zumba: Daddy Yankee
Daddy Yankee: Limbo
With Zumba said nine times, this song was definitely inspired by the moves of Zumba. Currently ranking in the top 10 on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart, if you haven't heard it, you need to!
2. Zumba: Don Omar
Don Omar: Zumba
This song has remained on the Hot Latin Songs chart for nearly a year, peaking at No.2. And it's no surprise! Take a listen.
3. Zumba: Paulina Rubio
Paulina Rubio: All Around the World
Performing at the Zumba instructor convention in 2012, the song was used as the official theme song for the event. Get ready to dance!
4. Zumba: Pitbull
Pitbull: Pause
Pitbull and Zumba go together like peanut butter and jelly. See Beto break it down to the song from Planet Pit and get inspired!
5. Zumba: Victoria Justice
Victoria Justice: Shake
Performing at the 2013 convention, the star was excited to partner with the brand: "There are Zumba classes in 185 countries," Justice told Billboard. "So that means that that many people will be hearing my song and learning the moves and that's an amazing platform. I love what Zumba stands for so I feel it's a really good mesh."
6. Zumba: Claudia
Claudia Leitte: Largadinho
The Brazilian superstar is ready to make her crossover, and what better platform to do it than Zumba? Performing at the 2013 convention, Leitte will be a featured performer at the 2014 World Cup and was named Zumba Fitness' global ambassador.


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Analysis: Starbucks is expensive, and young Chinese don't care
What did Starbucks Corp. ever do to the Chinese Communist Party?
That's the question China's latte-sipping set is asking in the wake of a now-notorious investigation, first aired on national television Sunday, that revealed - among other examples of allegedly shameless profiteering - that a tall latte costs about 45 cents more at a Starbucks in Beijing than it does at one in London, and that Starbucks's profit margins in the Asia-Pacific region exceed those of any other in which the company operates.
The story has dominated China, with major international news media outlets subsequently picking up on it. The global interest is understandable: Starbucks claims to have more than 1,000 stores in China, and the company's chief executive officer expects China to one day be Starbucks's second-largest market.
To some, the attack is nothing short of absurd. "Is Starbucks coffee expensive?" a Shenzhen-based wine merchant asked Monday on Sina Weibo, China's most popular microblogging service. "Everyone has his own opinion. However, when does a TV station have the right to interfere in a company's pricing policies?"
The investigation, conducted and broadcast by the Communist Party-owned and -operated China Central Television network, was never really about prices. (After all, it's not unusual to find Chinese-owned cafes charging as much as $10 for a small cup of coffee in the country's airports, a point that has been noted by Chinese and Western microbloggers.) Rather, it was an inquiry into foreign corporations, meant to project the appearance - if not the reality - that the Chinese state has its eye on them. The programming was seeped in the Communist Party's historic self-perception as a liberator against meddling foreign powers.
This kind of rhetoric may resonate with older Chinese, as well as some Communist Party cadres, but young, wired Chinese aren't buying it. The segment has generated near universal derision on Chinese microblogs. "It's just a cup of coffee," a young Beijing economist tweeted Monday. "Don't buy it if it's expensive."
CCTV's targeting of Starbucks is hardly a one-off effort to establish the network's credentials as a critic of foreign companies (nor is the criticism of CCTV generated by the program anything new). For decades, the network has held an annual Consumer Rights Gala, a much-anticipated (and loathed) program in which CCTV journalists expose companies that don't treat Chinese consumers right. Inadequate customer-service policies, unhealthy sanitary conditions and poor-quality products are typical targets. Though the gala examines both Chinese and foreign companies, most of the pre-broadcast anticipation (and post-broadcast coverage, at least in recent years) is focused on which foreign company will take the biggest beating.
In 2012, it was McDonald's Corp. This year, Apple Inc. came out on the receiving end of a brutal, arguably justified, expose of its warranty practices in China (which were less favorable than those in the United States, for example). An official apology from Apple ensued, as did a revised set of return and warranty policies. Still, despite widespread belief that Apple was partly in the wrong, in China there remained loud, notable voices calling into question CCTV's motives, methods and ill- intentioned populism.
The well-known writer Li Chengpeng, responding to CCTV's Apple investigation, cited low-quality Chinese knockoffs - which CCTV did not investigate - in his widely circulated defense of Apple posted on his blog in March (as translated by the China Media Project): "Of course you can criticise Apple, but you cannot let all of these domestically manufactured fraudulent goods off the hook when you could so easily investigate them, then turn a harsh and uncompromising eye on a mobile brand that leads the world in overall quality - even making it out to be something of great concern to the people, a form of national discrimination."
Li isn't a figure who enjoys much support from China's state-owned press. He's too closely associated with political reform and a highly networked Web intelligentsia that's very much out of favor with the Communist Party. Nonetheless, his objection to CCTV's investigation has echoed loudly in the criticism of the less substantial Starbucks expose - which includes a couple of surprising instances in local, but still state-owned, media that didn't (yet) feel pressure to follow the lead of national media.
On Monday, the state-owned Qianjiang Evening News in Hangzhou published a commentary from Liu Xuesong that also invoked misguided populism as a means of criticizing the CCTV broadcast. "The state media compares the price of coffee in London, Chicago, Bombay and Beijing, trying to trigger indignation at being discriminated against, all the while exposing irrational consumer behavior," he wrote. "However, this emotional approach has damaged the credibility of the press."
This may be overstating matters a bit. The state-owned press suffers from a credibility gap that predates investigations into Starbucks and Apple, and even the widespread criticism it's received since the advent of Chinese microblogs. Undoubtedly, there are those in China who like CCTV's broadcasts, though they don't appear to spend much time online commenting about them. That's particularly ironic given that some of the country's most popular microbloggers probably enjoy larger audiences than many of its state-owned outlets do.
Whoever and wherever CCTV's staunch fans are, they probably care - a lot - about the alleged 30 percent premium that Chinese must pay for a Starbucks stainless steel mug compared with what those in the U.S. pay. And so China is left with a divide between the state-owned media that reflexively invokes age-old propaganda devices in the name of entertainment and a young, digital and irritated audience that has no interest in watching it anymore. This gap - between Communist Party institutions inextricably linked to China's past and a new, market-oriented generation - has become one of the country's most critical social dynamics, and one that will have a profound effect on its future.
"In the era of the Internet, the public is too smart to be fooled," tweeted a characteristically fed-up microblogger in Nanjing on Monday. "Targeting a coffee company that has nothing to do with the national interest or the people's livelihood only demonstrates the shamelessness, ignorance and stupidity of CCTV."
Adam Minter, the Shanghai correspondent for the World View blog, is the author of "Junkyard Planet," a book on the global recycling industry that will be published in November.


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GOP Clashes Stymie Medicaid Expansion
Intraparty Discord in Florida and Other States Threatens to Derail Plans to Broaden Health-Insurance Coverage for Poor
Several Republican governors who defied their conservative bases to support Medicaid expansion under the federal health-care law are running into a brick wall: their states' GOP-led legislatures.
The latest clash is unfolding in Florida, where Republican Gov. Rick Scott, an ardent opponent of the 2010 health-care law, shocked many observers by announcing his support for Medicaid expansion in February. As the legislative session nears its conclusion Friday, the state's GOP-controlled House of Representatives remains opposed...


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SOURCE: Serena Software
February 14, 2013 09:04 ET
SAN MATEO, CA--(Marketwire - Feb 14, 2013) -
Serena Software, the leader in Orchestrated IT solutions, today announced a fun new Twitter-powered DevOps Love Letter contest to kick off the most romantic holiday of the year, Valentine's Day.
There are three key players/teams in the triangle that is the modern product-focused IT organization: Dev, Ops, and for the most successful teams, the marriage of the two, DevOps. These teams all work closely together and play integral roles, but such as with any relationship comes wonderful triumphs and infatuation -- also sometimes frustrations and lows. For example sometimes Dev is especially appreciative of Ops' ability to solve service problems and on the flip side, sometimes Ops is not so happy with Dev's inability to deliver on deployment. Serena is launching a Twitter love letter contest to showcase those feelings between, Dev, Ops and DevOps to one another.
Anyone on Twitter is encouraged to submit their own DevOps Love Letter. A panel of judges will select the best DevOps Love Letter entries based on creativity, humor, relevance and frequency of submissions. Winners will be announced via Twitter on March 11, 2013. The grand prize winner will be awarded a $150 US AmEx gift card, bottle of California Champagne and a box of Ghirardelli chocolates. Three winners will be chosen with second place receiving $100 AmEx gift card and third, a $50 AmEx gift card.
To be included, simply write and Tweet a DevOps Love Letter. All entries must be submitted via Twitter to @SerenaSoftware, and include the hash tag #DevOpsLove. Submitters must also follow @SerenaSoftware.
To help inspire you, here are a few examples:
@SerenaSoftware Dev - nice code. Love, Ops #MatchMadeInHeaven #DevOpsLove
@SerenaSoftware Ops, I love your communication and our collaboration. Love, Dev. #BestFriendsForever #DevOpsLove
Contest Details
Serena Software Launches DevOps Love Letter Twitter Contest
Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 12:01am ET through March 8, 2013 at 11:59pm ET
Anyone who is on Twitter and follows @SerenaSoftware is encouraged to participate
To win great prizes, including Grand Prize of a $150 US AmEx gift card, bottle of California Champagne and box of Ghirardelli chocolates
For official rules and prizes, please visit: http://www.serena.com/devopslove
Tweet This: @SerenaSoftware launches #DevOpsLove Valentine's Day Twitter contest for chance to win great prizes, enter here http://ser.so/DevOpsLove
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Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Serena serves enterprise customers from 29 offices in 14 countries. Serena is a portfolio company of Silver Lake Partners, the leader in private investments in technology-enabled industries.
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Traditionally, relational databases were designed for scale-up architectures. In other words, to handle more load you get a bigger box. A few years ago this meant that to support a scale-out architecture you either ditched SQL or applied tricks like sharding and explicit active-passive replication. If you wanted a real ACID programming model against a flexible, logical database you were out of luck. This tension is what inspired the NewSQL movement and captures the heart of what NuoDB is all about.
NuoDB is a relational database designed to be cloud-scale. What does that mean? It's a true SQL service: it has all the properties of ACID transactions, standard SQL language support and real relational logic that you know (and hopefully) love today. It's also designed from the start to scale the way you want a cloud service to scale.
I won't bore you here with some long definition of "cloud scale." If you're really interested, I've gone into more detail then you probably want over on our technical blog in an opinion piece on what it means to be cloud scale. The short version is that you need a scale-out model (of course) but I think that you also need something that's agile, easy to work with, automatable, secure and highly available. The rest of this piece is motivated by that point of view.
Note that NuoDB is "just" a piece of software. That means we run on Linux, Mac, Windows or Solaris whether it's on your laptop, a private cluster or a public cloud. You can use it in Amazon Web Services or Google Compute Engine, integrate us with Open Stack or run as a local Windows service on your laptop. The software is flexible, so you can get testing and developing wherever you like and later decide on where and how you want to deploy.
What I'm going to cover in this article is what NuoDB is, how it was architected to solve today's class of challenges and what problems you can solve with it. By the end of this piece you'll be familiar with the key concepts and architectural differences of NuoDB. You'll also understand something of the practical deployment and management features and be ready to get scaling on your own NuoDB database.
Three-Tiered Architecture
The simplest way to approach NuoDB is to think of it as a three-tiered architecture. There's an administrative tier, a transactional tier and then a third tier for storage. We'll come back to the administrative layer later. For now let's focus on the second and third layers.
Splitting the transactional and storage tiers is part of the key to making a relational system scale. Traditionally, a SQL database is an exercise in synchronizing the on-disk representation of data (as pages) with an in-memory B-tree structure. This tight coupling is efficient but highly sensitive to IOPS and therefore very hard to scale out. By separating these roles we have an architecture that can scale out without being nearly as sensitive to things like disk throughput.
In NuoDB durability is a completely separate task from transactional processing, meaning that you can scale these tiers and handle failure independently. You want to scale out transactional throughput? You can do it without adding more disks. You want independent archives to protect you against data center failures? You can do it without affecting transactional performance. This separation not only helps the system scale, it makes it much easier to scale on-demand and make provisioning decisions based on your requirements.
The transactional layer is responsible for Atomicity, Consistency and Isolation, but knows nothing about Durability. That means it's an in-memory tier, so it runs fast and any piece of it can fail or be shut down at any point without loss of data or consistency. Because it's in-memory it's also a caching layer (specifically, it's an on-demand cache, which I'll come back to soon). You don't layer any additional caching logic on top of a NuoDB database.
The storage layer, obviously, is where the D in ACID is enforced. It's an always active, always consistent source of all the data. It's responsible for making data durable on commit, and providing access to data when there's a miss in the transactional cache.
Note that the meaning of "commit" in NuoDB is tunable. You have the flexibility to trade-off performance and high availability in part because of these separated layers. To understand how and why you would tune commit protocols, I need to explain what actually makes up these layers.
Peer-to-Peer Coordination
The two database tiers are made up of processes running across any number of hosts. There's a single executable that can be run in one of two modes: a Transaction Engine (TE) or a Storage Manager (SM). All processes are peers, with no single coordinator or point of failure, and there's no special configuration required at any of the hosts. By default, all peers are mutually authenticated and communicate over encrypted sessions.
Each of the TEs accepts SQL client connections and handles queries. The caches are kept in the process space of the TE. SMs and TEs communicate with each other over a simple peer-to-peer coordination protocol. When a TE takes a miss on its local cache, it can get the object it needs from any of its peers, which typically means going to another TE if there's one with the object in-cache since that's faster than asking an SM to provide something from durable storage.
This simple, flexible process model makes bootstrapping, scale-out and migration very easy. For instance, suppose you want the simplest possible NuoDB database. You'd start a single TE and SM on the same host. At this point you have a full ACID database running, but it's all on one host. This is great for testing on your laptop, but not so much for real deployment.
One thing you could do now is install the software on a second host and send it a message to start a new TE. The new TE will mutually authenticate with the existing processes, load a few root elements into its cache and then report that it's ready to start taking on transactional load. The whole process from the time the message is sent to the time the TE is ready to do work is typically less than 100ms. You've just doubled the transactional throughput of your database and increased your resiliency to failure by running TEs on two separate hosts.
Great, but you've still only got one point of durability. To address that, you could bring up a third host and send it a message to start a second SM. That SM will automatically synchronize with the running system and then when it's ready, start participating actively in the database. You've now got two independent points of durability for your database. Pretty easy too.
Finally, let's say you want to get the first TE and SM running on different hosts. You guessed it: bring a fourth host online, start either a TE or SM on that new host and when it's ready, shut down the original TE or SM (whichever you started on the new host). What you've just done is live migration of database components with no loss of availability. No down-time. You've also configured a fully redundant database, since any host can fail and you still have a full archive of data and access to transactional processing.
All of this works so easily and quickly because of the simple process-based, peer-to-peer model that NuoDB is built on. It also works because of the simple on-demand caching scheme and the format of the data that's actually being cached and shared. No, it's not actually SQL structure. It's something we call Atoms.
Everything is an Atom
While it's true that NuoDB is a relational database, that's not what the internal architecture looks like. The front end of a TE is something that speaks SQL and knows how to optimize transactions. Behind that layer, all of the logic operates on objects we call Atoms. Atoms are essentially self-coordinating objects that represent specific types of information (e.g. data, indexes, schemas, etc.). Even the internal meta-data is stored as Atoms.
Atoms are chunks of data, but they shouldn't be thought of like traditional pages in a relational database. In a way, the Atoms are really the peers in our network coordinating between their instances in cached state and marshalling or unmarshalling at the storage layer. They contain arbitrary chunks of data, where the size of an Atom is chosen to help maximize efficiency of communication, number of objects in-cache, complexity of tracking changes, etc.
In addition to database content, there are also Atoms that represent catalogs. A catalog is how NuoDB resolves other Atoms. Essentially, it's a distributed and self-bootstrapping lookup service. When a TE starts up, it needs to get exactly one Atom, something called the Master Catalog. This is the root Atom from which all other Atoms can be found. In the previous example where a second TE fetches an Atom from the first TE's cache, it knows it can do this because the catalog tells it where the needed Atom can be found. It's this simple bootstrapping mechanism that makes it easy and quick to bring a new TE online.
Atoms are more than just a nice way of organizing data. They greatly simplify internal communications and caching because we don't have to think about specific SQL structure. Everything is contained in the same generic structure and identified in a consistent way.
This view of internal state also helps with consistency of the database as a whole. Because meta-data and catalog data is stored in the same Atom structure as database data, all changes are happening in the context of the same transaction. So if we're changing some meta-data or catalog data in the context of a SQL operation, either all of the changes happen or none happen. We don't run the risk of making some inconsistent change that skews the data and state.
Finally, treating all data as Atoms makes durability considerably easier. Because the contents of a database are simply a collection of named objects, our durability layer is just a key-value store. In theory, it could be any store. Out of the box in the 1.1 version of NuoDB, we support any filesystem, the Amazon S3 interface or Hadoop HDFS. There will be support for more storage systems in future versions. Within a single database you can even mix-and-match storage mechanisms, meaning you could (for instance) be using both a local filesystem and an S3 service to store your database.
Multi-Version Concurrency Control
The Atom structure is a powerful, simplifying component of the architecture that helps us to scale, but without some way of handling conflict and enforcing consistency NuoDB couldn't support ACID semantics. For this, Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) is used. Unlike global lock-managers or distributed transaction coordinators, MVCC works by treating data as versioned, and treating the database overall as an append-only set of updates.
MVCC has a lot of nice properties when it comes to scaling out a distributed database. First, when data is changed what we're really doing is creating a new, pending version of that data (it's "pending" until the transaction commits). Within the cache there can be multiple pending versions as well the current "canonical" version so nothing is ever changed in-place. This makes rollback trivial (the transaction just never committed so the pending change is dropped) which in turn means that update messages can be highly optimistic.
Not only can these messages be optimistic, but in NuoDB they're typically asynchronous. That is, when a transaction is trying to make a change it will send out the associated messages (more on this below) right away and then continue. If the TE hears back that the change is allowed before the transaction is ready to commit, then no cost for the messaging is seen. Otherwise the transaction blocks, but only once it's come to the end and needs to figure out if it's allowed to commit. This pairing of asynchronous and optimistic behavior, along with liberal message batching allows NuoDB to stay ahead of the expected latency spikes and other unpredictable network behavior in cloud environments.
A second advantage of versioning is that it provides a clear model for visibility. In its default mode, NuoDB provides snapshot isolation. In other words, you get a consistent view of the data as it existed at the moment that your transaction started. We also support read-committed isolation and select-for-update as a SQL operation, but I feel that snapshot isolation is what you really want in a distributed database.
In practice, what this means is that a transaction on one TE can read some data and then a transaction on another TE can modify that data without conflict. As long as everything else the first transaction interacts with is consistent relative to the version of this object, then consistency is maintained. MVCC gives the system knowledge of all the pending and committed versions so an always-consistent view of the system is maintained with a minimum of global coordination messages and conflict.
What does need to be mediated is write-write conflict. For that, NuoDB picks some host to act as the Chairman for the object. It's a fancy name, but really all it's doing is acting as a tie-breaker when two transactions both want to update the same object. Only TEs that have a given object in their cache can act as Chairman for that object, so in the case where an object is only cached in one TE, all mediation is local. When a TE shuts down, fails or drops an object from its cache, there's a known way to pick the next Chairman with no communications.
Finally, MVCC provides one more key benefit to the performance of the system. SMs not only maintain the archive of the database but they also can (and we recommend that you do) maintain a journal. Because NuoDB is a versioned system, the journal is just an append-only set of diffs, which tend to be very small. This makes journaling very efficient and means that the cost of adding a journaled SM doesn't have a strong overall impact to the running time of a typical transaction.
Just as update messages can be sent out optimistically, so too can updates be written to a journal before a transaction commits. If a transaction doesn't commit then we'll note that, and when we play through the journal the associated update won't be included in the batch change to the archive. So it's not just the in-memory coordination that can be optimistic but the durability of your data as well.One important detail to note is that versioning is done on records within Atoms, not on Atoms themselves. Atoms could contain many records and would be too coarse-grained to effectively minimize conflict.
In Part 2 of this article we will take a look at how the transaction system is implemented, the role of the administrative layer, how all components work together and what to expect in the future.
About the Author
Seth Proctor is CTO of NuoDB, Inc. and has 15+ years of experience in the research, design and implementation of scalable systems. That experience includes work on networks, languages, operating systems, security, databases, and distributed environments; all of which are integral to the NuoDB product. Prior to NuoDB, Seth worked at Nokia on its internal private cloud architecture. Before that he was at Sun Microsystems working in the research labs and collaborating with product groups and universities.
Seth holds eight patents for his cutting edge work across several technical disciplines. He has an additional five patents awaiting approval, all related to achieving greater database efficiency and end-user agility in NuoDB decentralized database deployments. You can contact him here.
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Re: NuoDB vs. Riak
Seth Proctor
From an architectural point of view the consistency and caching models are also fairly different. NuoDB is an always-consistent system (Riak is eventually consistent) meaning that there's no burden put on the application to understand how to mitigate or reconcile conflicts. The caching model in NuoDB is on demand as apposed to an explicit, replicated cache structure in Riak. Both valid designs, just different approaches.
NuoDB was designed to provide relational programming, but scale out like a KV-store and support flexible schemas. From that we can work across multiple data centers without any explicit configuration about how/where to do replication and without the usual k-safe caching bottlenecks. I would argue that this makes the operations model easier. So personally, I think the key differences are in the programming model, the operations model and the way that consistency and durability are treated in the architecture.
While it's true that NuoDB is a relational database, that's not what the internal architecture looks like.
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There is no such thing as a "relational internal architecture". A database is relational, if one can talk to the database using a relational language (BTW, SQL is only an incomplete implementation of the relational model).
¿But internally? There is no such thing! The relational model does not prescribe how you build your database.
So, maybe NeoDb has a an architecture that is very different from the architecture of other pseudorelational databases (like Oracle or SqlServer) it is not right to say that its internal architecture does not "look relational". A database is relational if it looks that way from the outside, and its internal implementation has nothing to do with that.
Myths: Thanks for breaking them, just don't create new ones!
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CAP theorem
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This means that NuoDB breaks the CAP theorem??
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Seth Proctor
What I was getting at is the internal structure of data. In a page-based system you're dealing with data internally that's still known to map to SQL structure. In our system the internal structure has no direct mapping. We could replace SQL with something document or graph based. The translation between internal structure and SQL syntax happens way up in the stack.
So, internally, we're treating data as generic objects whereas as another database might be thinking about that data as rows or columns. I was just trying to call out how far up the stack you have to get before you "know" that the data is actually used for SQL as opposed to some other model.
Re: CAP theorem
Seth Proctor
CAP is a useful way to think about tradeoffs. It does a great job of capturing problems that you need to think about when you're weighing operations challenges. What we've tried to do at NuoDB is give you a simple way to understand your exposure and adjust accordingly. I'd say what we do is make availability a lot easier and more robust, but again I'll save all my thoughts on this for some place with more space to write :)
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Francisco Jose Peredo Noguez
I didn't say we have a "relational internal architecture" ...
No, but you did say: "While it's true that NuoDB is a relational database, that's not what the internal architecture looks like." and that can be interpreted as:
"NuoDB is a relational database, and its internal architecture does not look relational, unlike the internal architecture of other relational databases"
but sorry this wasn't more clear.
Don't worry. Maybe it is me that is misunderstanding, I apologize if that is the case.
What I was getting at is the internal structure of data. In a page-based system you're dealing with data internally that's still known to map to SQL structure.
The thing is... first, the concept of "page" is not a relational concept. There are no "pages" in relational algebra.
Second, SQL is only pseudorelational, and very flawed
And third, there is no rule requiring your internal data representation to "map to SQL" to have a relational database. (It might make sense to map it to relational algebra but only from a high level perspective)
In our system the internal structure has no direct mapping.
As all should have been built. Great work!
We could replace SQL with something document or graph based.
How about a proper implementation of the relational model? As in TheThirdManifesto by Hugh Darwen and C.J. Date
The translation between internal structure and SQL syntax happens way up in the stack.
Again, great work, that is the way all databases should be implemented...
So, internally, we're treating data as generic objects whereas as another database might be thinking about that data as rows or columns.
Great approach!. Although using a true relational language on top of this could allow you to do some query plan optimization based on properties derived from relational algebra that could get you even better performance (and that are currently impossible to implement with SQL due to its incomplete implementation of the relational model)
I was just trying to call out how far up the stack you have to get before you "know" that the data is actually used for SQL as opposed to some other model.
Ok, I get it. Any chance you will open an API so that a third party can plug-in other languages (such as a D?)


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