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Participating for the Terps were offensive lineman De'Onte Arnett, defensive backs Isaac Goins and Dexter McDougle, linebackers Demetrius Hartsfield and Marcus Whitfield, long snapper Greg Parcher and tight ends Ryan Schlothauer and Dave Stinebaugh.
As Maryland head coach Randy Edsall put it, this day is no different from a job interview for these men as they tried to impress the scouts with the hopes of making a name for themselves at the professional level.
"Our guys are well prepared," Edsall said. "They're in good shape, you can see that from their bodies. I know the guys that have had an opportunity to sit down and talk to these clubs; clubs have been very impressed with the kids in terms of their football knowledge, but also the kind of young men that they are and the character with how they conduct themselves."
McDougle was invited to the NFL Combine in February, but was unable to participate due to his continued recovery from a shoulder injury he suffered in a Sept. 14 game at Connecticut. Pro Day was McDougle's first opportunity since the injury to showcase his talents.
"It's everybody's dream to go [to the Combine] and I didn't get to participate, so I was down," McDougle said. "I've been looking forward to this day. I finally get to show them that I'm moving again. Show them a little bit of what I can do at my position. Show them that I have not lost a step. Today was definitely a big day."
Edsall is quick to vouch for McDougle, as he has seen him face adversity and push through to the next steps toward his dream.
"The only thing I told him is just go have fun," Edsall said. "He's prepared. He's done all the hard work. He's put the time and effort into it. Now it's just a matter of going out here today and just relaxing and enjoying the moment. Enjoying the day."
Maryland's other participants took advantage of the time to get in front of NFL representatives and spark some interest. Marcus Whitfield was quick to remember that, "All you need is one team, that's it."
As seniors in 2012, Hartsfield and Schlothauer both got the opportunity to return and participate in this year's Pro Day. Due to an injury, Hartsfield could not participate in the 2013 Pro Day and though Schlothauer did participate, he suffered an injury after and had to put his NFL dreams on hold.
"It's Maryland football. It's family," Edsall said of the opportunity for Hartsfield and Schlothauer to return for Pro Day.
More than a year out from knee surgery, Hartsfield took the opportunity to heart and expects only good to come from the day's workout.
"I'm going to bring a lot of intensity, a lot of leadership [to an NFL team]," Hartsfield said. "Sideline speed, that's one of my biggest things. [I'm] just a person that can get to the ball. I can cover. I can stop the run. I can blitz. I definitely think I can do everything you would need me to do in the NFL."

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Providence, RI - Lucas Meyer captured the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 8:52.50 on the second day of Heps competition as Yale finished seventh with 46 1/3 points. The Bulldogs also got second-place finishes from Josh Yelsey in the 1,500m run and Russell Kempf in the 100m dash. Since the standings at Heps determine the All-Ivy team, Kempf and Yelsey were both namde Second Team All-Ivy and Meyer made the First Team.
In the 1,500-meter run, Princeton's Jonathan Kieliszak (3:47.36) narrowly beat Yelsey at 3:47.60. Kempf (10.82) was edged in the 100m dash by Cornell's Rahim Wooley (10.71), who went on to earn Athlete of the Meet honors. Kempf also added a fourth-place finish in the 200-meter dash (22.28). The Bulldogs got another fourth-place finish from Robert Lobue (1:51.06 in the 800-meter run). Shomari Taylor came through with a third-place finish in the 400-meter hurdles (53.98), with Michael Brown fifth (55.55).
Yale's 4x400-meter relay team (Kevin Alexander, Lobue, Taylor, and Rob deLaski) came in fifth (3:15.18), and Brian Hanak (9:19.88) posted a seventh-place finish in the 3,000-meter steeplechase that Meyer won. Two Bulldogs finished the 5,000-meter run, with Casey Moriarty seventh (14:22.88) and Patrick Dantzer 13th (14:36.45). In the 10,000-meter run, David Napper came in 13th (31:11.21) and Andrew Johnson came in 19th (31:29.27).
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Caught in a legal quagmire, commissioners voted Wednesday to sue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the N.C. Division of Water Quality and lot owners in the failed Seven Falls subdivision if the parties can't agree how the county should spend $6 million in bond proceeds.
Caught in a legal quagmire, commissioners voted Wednesday to sue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the N.C. Division of Water Quality and lot owners in the failed Seven Falls subdivision if the parties can't agree how the county should spend $6 million in bond proceeds.
The board authorized County Attorney Russ Burrell to invite the Corps, state DWQ officials and roughly 200 lot holders to a meeting in February, seeking an agreement on how the county should disburse $6 million it recovered from a performance bond forfeited by a developer.
"I won't say I'm particularly sanguine about the possibility of that happening, but it could happen and I hope it will," Burrell said about an agreement.
If those negotiations fail to produce progress within about 30 days, the board agreed the county has no other option than to sue those parties to force a federal judge to mandate how the $6 million should be spent.
"It sounds like a very good approach and I think it's something we ought to pursue," said Commissioner Grady Hawkins, referring to the carrot-and-stick approach of negotiation followed by legal action.
The county maintains the bond proceeds must be used to finish road, water and sewer infrastructure, along with associated erosion control, promised to lot owners by developer Keith Vinson. Burrell told the board that will likely cost more than $6 million at today's prices.
But the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which revoked Vinson's 2008 permits for altering streams and wetlands, wants the county to pay $800,000 in off-site stream work to mitigate damages. The Corps says the county can't proceed on any work at Seven Falls until it's paid and a new permit is secured.
Complicating matters further, the Division of Water Quality is blocking permits for the county to work at Seven Falls unless they pay "significant" fines assessed on Vinson for stormwater violations at Seven Falls.
"For us to do the work after paying the Corps of Engineers and Division of Water Quality, we're going to have to cut the scope of the work (on infrastructure)," Burrell said, which opens the county up to a lawsuit by Seven Falls lot owners and lien holders.
By filing an "interpleader" action in federal court, Burrell said the county essentially puts decisions about how that money is spent in the hands of a judge.
"It basically says, 'We have $6 million to spend on these things,'" he said. "These things total up more than $6 million. If we do it one way, we're going to be subject to liability from one of these groups of defendants that we've sued. If we spend it another way, we're subject to liability from another group. We don't want to be subject to any liability from any of these groups. Tell us how to spend the money."
Concerned about ongoing erosion and stream damage at Seven Falls, Commissioner Mike Edney asked, "Could the county be in a position to go into that lawsuit at a fairly early stage and get permission from the court to expend some funds to mitigate the environmental issues that we know are out there?"
Burrell said that's what the county will seek from the court, if they're forced into legal action. Asked by Chairman Charlie Messer what the timeline for fixing large gullies and washouts might be, Burrell said if the parties can reach an agreement, under the most optimistic scenario, they might begin work next spring.
"If we go to court, I can't begin to give you a timeframe," he said.
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I think the showers that I'm used to and the showers that the OP is decribing is just a different party all together. I'm accustomed to showers being gatherings in someone house where a bunch of women, and sometimes men, eat some food, have some cake, and watch someone open presents. I have never been to one where young children were invited (and I think the tendancy for them to want to participate with the gifts is a good reason why) or where there has been tables that we all sit around.Showers with tables, set meals, etc, seem a bit too formal for what I'm used to...and that is obviously contributing to my confusion.
I've seen both. When I was younger, small showers were held at the hosts home and children were often, but not always invited. There weren't tables simply because the numbers and space did not require or allow for it. When showers grew in size, I saw people renting venues and setting up tables to accommodate the number of guests attending. It didn't necessarily get more or less formal, but it was easier than setting up rows upon rows of chairs around the guest of honor as they opened presents.
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My Webb line springs from my grandfather Robert L. Webb of Tennessee. He married Malla Broyles and they had a number of children most of whom passed relatively early. But My dad survived along with his brother George ( who may be going by Webb or Malone). My dad's father dsied when he was about 3 somewhere near the turn of the century. Dad was born in Guthrie Kentucky in 1895 and then the family moved to St. Louis. There is also a William Webb who married my grandmothers sister Maggie Broyles, by 1910 everyone is a widow. My dad's birth name was Arthur Cleveland Webb and when his dad died his mother remarried and he was known as Arthur Malone for a while, then he joined the cavalry and became known as Robert Lee Malone. I know Nothing of his fathers line.


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Often, you're not particularly interested in how a flow or stream develops over time, but only how the constant flow behaves if it exists long enough to have all initial reactions and changes settled. While Gerris isn't optimised for such calculations, a few simplifications and speed-ups exist.
Getting rid of advection calculations
In a mailing list thread people agree, a steady-state solution at very low Reynolds numbers (Re << 1) behaves equally to a pure Stokes flow and advection terms are negligible. You can switch them off:
GfsAdvectionParams { scheme = none }
For an example, see the Couette flow test case.
To give the removal of advection evidence, I've run the example from An engineer's pipe flow with the viscosity of water (Re = 2485) and up to time t = 1.0 (with advection it "explodes" at about t = 1.49) with and without advection:
At a Reynolds number of 2485, there are big differences, as expected. The calculation time drops from 4500 seconds to 80 seconds, but this speed-up is useless as results are plain wrong.
So I did again with a Reynolds number of 0.01 (by pipe diameter):
As you can easily spot looking at velocities, the difference is still very significant. Both pictures use the same color scaling.
The pressure difference inlet to outlet is about 22 (fluid domain dimension) without advection but 340 with advection. Unlike most other pictures of this geometry shown, the pressure scaling in -1 to 200 here.
It pretty much looks like advection is needed for all but extreme cases.
End the simulation when the state is steady
In the same mailing list thread, Stéphane Popinet shows how to stop simulation as soon as a steady state is reached. This optimisation won't decrease computing time of the simulation, but will end it automatically without watching you how the flow develops.
In your calculation script, remove the end time and insert an GfsEventStop. The result could look like this:
GfsTime { } GfsEventStop { istep = 1 } U 1e-3 DU GfsOutputSimulation { start = end } result%2.1f.gfs
Uis the variable to watch. Variables other than velocity should work as well.
- The number behind this is the threshold (difference to previous value) at which the simulation is stopped when reached.
- The
DUis finally a new, optional variable where the current difference is put in.
You can also add an additional
GfsOutputScalarNorm { istep = 1 } stdout { v = DU }
to watch this variable and how the velocity changes get fewer and fewer from step to step.
With this optimisation the simulation stops at a fluid domain time of 7.8 or a CPU time of 540 seconds and the results should be within a 1% accuracy of what you can reach.
- Nota Bene: It's a simulation after all and if a simulation would fit reality within a 1% accuracy, this would be stunning.
- Caveat: As of version 1.1.2 (080113-033605), this appears to work with the fully-implicit solver (see below), only. Tests included the example on this page with and without advection.
Using a different solver
The third point Stéphane made in this thread belongs to the type of solver. He writes:
- Also for Stokes flows, you probably want to use the fully-implicit diffusion solver to avoid potential oscillations in time in the solution which can appear when using the default Crank-Nicholson diffusion solver. This decreases the time-accuracy from second-order to first-order but it doesn't matter since you are looking for a steady solution.
Lacking time accuracy should have no influence on steady-state flows of higher Reynolds numbers either. Again, it's a simple change. Add a
beta = 1 term to your
GfsSourceViscosity line, e.g.:
GfsSourceViscosity 4.024e-5 { beta = 1 }
For comparison, I've run my favourite example with a Reynolds number of 2485 (water at 0.5 m/s) with both solvers:
Wall clock time needed for the calculation is the same within few seconds (of about 4500 seconds). Results are the same within 2% accuracy. The time-accurate version appears to have a slightly lower Reynolds number.
It looks like the fully implicit solver doesn't change anything in normal situations. Nonetheless, it might help in some border cases.


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The beans are back and booyyyyy Dad was not happy about his chair!
HAH! Thats what he gets!
Everyone did such a wonderful job at the house trashing Mom has been so busy cleaning up and I have a feeling she will be doing it for days!
Thanks everyone!
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7 comments:
- Inigo Flufflebum and d'Artagnan Rumblepurr said...
All these naughty humans going away... we should all take our own holidays away from the humans!! That'll show em!!
- July 28, 2010 at 4:15 AM
- The Whiskeratti said...
We're glad your hoomins are back, but darn, it does mean y'all don't get to party as much.
- July 28, 2010 at 8:50 AM
- Jacqueline said...
Glad your parents are back, but hope you guys aren't in trouble because of the big party...We had a great time with you sweet, handsome boys and all your fun friends!...xoxo...Calle, Halle, Sukki
- July 28, 2010 at 9:32 AM
- ABBY said...
hehehehehehehe they'll never know all the things we did!
Glad they are back, ya know they are helpful with those opposable thumbs.
- July 28, 2010 at 1:57 PM
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YAY! Glad everyone is home safe and sound.
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Glad you're all back together!!!
- July 28, 2010 at 4:02 PM
- Cat said...
I bet your mum and dad missed you a lot!
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These probes work by communicating with one another and measuring the slight changes in speed they experience as they orbit together. This change in speed correlates to a slow-down due to different gravitational pulls, hence lunar densities.
Did these probes take a really bad detour or something? If I read it right, they were launched in September, and are just getting into orbit around the moon at the end of this month. The Apollo missions made the same trip in a couple days. Why the incredibly long delay?
When you have to fly oxygen, food, and water to feed humans, you have to make the trip happen much faster -- and therefore burn way moe fuel -- than when you can take your time because the only thing you're consuming is electricity (and you can recover some of it via solar).
The SMART-1 probe launched by ESA took about 13 months to reach Lunar orbit, propelled by a small ion engine and solar panels. Even then it started from a geostationary transfer orbit as a Getaway Special piggybacked on the commercial launch of two communications satellites via an Ariane 5.
I see that they're crashing both probes when their work is finished, too. NASA's really going skimpy on the delta V here.
Believe it or not, this long route (via the Earth-Sun L-1 (Lagrange-1) point is a lower energy trajectory (that is, it takes less energy to send the probes) than the more direct route followed by the Apollo missions. This allows for a smaller launcher (or conversely, a larger payload for the same sized launcher). See http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/582116main_GRAIL_launch_press_kit.pdf [nasa.gov].
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So when is Ubuntu Linux (or one of the other eye-candy filled Linux distros) going to come with SimDock, Kiba-Dock, or Cairo-Dock (my favorite) installed by default? And sensible key-bindings for Compiz functions?
I think the bigger issue with Linux isn't the UI consisting of the widgets on the screen. I think it's the UI related to how software is installed and updated. For instance, which of the three installation methods would the general public most readily accept:
I know I've simplified these things, but by and large, the installation
You don't install linux programs by typing strange commands into a text box. That's optional for those that aren't as visual and want to fine tune what is happening.
Most linux programs are installed via a program called synaptic. You load it, find the program, mark it, and click Apply. It finds everything it needs for you and does the install.
Another option is to download the
It is nearly never required to type commands into a text box these days
Women over 40 in fact constitute over 1/4 of the developed world adult population. That's not a targeted audience. In fact, I suspect that, as they have had significant life experience so far, it is a much more varied market than women under 40. Which shows that he doesn't understand what is meant by targeted marketing.
As an example, I've just ordered a MSI Wind with XP - why? Because the main reason for it is to work with my 3G HSDPA modem, that'
The last time I attempted to use iTunes was an unmitigated disaster. I'm pretty sure we are already beating apple. I never have problems like that in Rhythmbox. TVtime needs a lot of work though....
There absolutely is nothing even remotely resembling Open Source going in any Microsoft entity, subsidiary, or within Microsoft itself. Open Source was defined 10 years ago and Microsoft's efforts in no way even remotely resemble that definition.
Microsoft is trying to Embrace Open Source, to Extend it their direction, and then Extinguish it by making the real Open Source obscure and arcane.
We are smarter than this people. We do not want Microsoft involved in Open Source at any level for any reason, period
This just is flat out wrong.
This is like claiming that Apple has such polished desktops and product design because they have really good artists and industrial designers.
It is the management culture at Apple that makes those things happen and the people doing it are just the tools they use. And the same goes for Core Animation and the rest of OS X's UI and imaging technologies.
Just take one look at the visual abortion that is KDE 4.1:
Core Image isn't
May I interrupt your rant and ask for some facts please? Where are the usability studies showing OS X or Windows to be superior?
The fact is that Apple has never shown their usability to be better than anybody else's.
And you have nothing to back up statements "There is a complete lack of even the most basic UI design concepts that have been developed over the past 20 years." Come on, try naming those "basic UI design concepts" that Gnome or KDE supposedly violate.
Looks like a [bad] fanboi theme on XP...
I totally agree with you. I just started hacking around with Cocoa, and I am pretty blown away by how elegant it is.
Objective C is pretty amazing, too. (I couldn't speculate about whether developing for Cocoa with Java is fun or not).
It's a total cliche, but it's true: You only get one shot at making a good API. If it has warts that you want to get rid of later, be assured that millions of developers will have written code that depends on those warts.
Yeah it's basically due to the easy modularisation of the apple API due to Cocoa (objective-c). THat makes programming for mac so simple. Linux has an equivalent to this in Gnustep/Etoile with Objective C but it is lacking developer manpower. I am convinced that with a lot of developers backing gnustep/etoile it could easily replicate the mac experience on linux and surpass it.
E17 (i.e. Enlightenment) has been promising a lot of this kind of thing for a while now. Of course, the Hurd, and DNF also promise a lot as well...
What are you going to do if you can't push OSX, and Microsoft is dying? You start pushing Linux. Maybe this won't happen, but it isn't an unreasonable scenerio.
It is a completely unreasonable scenario. And where do get off saying that Microsoft is a dying company? Here's their FY 2008 earnings release [microsoft.com]. Tell me again how $60B a year is a dying company. Perhaps you were talking out your ass?
It is a completely unreasonable scenario.
It is not a completely unreasonable scenario. Are you suggesting there is no way for Microsoft to lose the market? Are you aware that at one time, people said similar things about IBM? IBM is still around, but it isn't in any way the company it once was.
Microsoft's lifeline is Windows (and office). If people don't want it anymore, then the cash flow dries up. Mac sales grew by 40% over last year. The previous year they grew by 30%. Apple is expected to introduce a new line of low cost computers by
Apple: down 23% fom their 52 week high Microsoft: down 30% from their 52 week high VA Linux: down 66% from their 52 week high
Why look at VA Linux, when they don't even sell Linux anymore? Take a look at Red Hat, which is down only 14% from their 52 week high.
and it's time users gave them a piece of their mind more directly, or helped with better themes, instead of simply nagging on slashdot.
Uh huh....you do realize it seems like you are simply nagging on slashdot, right? The sad thing is, interface development tools are not enough, if the underlying framework is hard to use.
The real problem is X and the fact that it is an utter pile of gash.
That's a pretty ironic statement, given that both Apple and Microsoft had to abandon their previous window systems a few years back and adopt an X11-like architecture.
What's X11-like about the Apple windowing system ?
That was pretty much X's only really good idea.
Many other technologies you take for granted today were pioneered with X11: mixed desktop and 3D graphics, client/server 3D graphics, separation of window management from applications, theming, 3D look-and-feel, remote GUIs, pixel accurate graphics, backing store policies, server-side extensibility, window server media handling, mixed direct screen buffer and desktop interfaces, and tons more.
And technologically, X11 and the desktops built on it are lightyears
Macs don't "just work".
People try them because they are told they "just work" and they pay highly for the privilege. When they discover that they have been lied to they are assured to "stick with it" and once they are heavily invested they are afraid to pull out because they don't want to lose that investment. Then they try to enlist other people so they don't feel so abnormal.
In other words, it's a cult. And if you find that too hard to believe, keep in mind that the leader of this cult is Steve Jobs.
Macs don't "just work".
People try them because they are told they "just work" and they pay highly for the privilege.
TBH, I bought a Mac because I'd had enough of issues with hardware (both under Windows and Linux) which didn't do what it said on the box.
Which is not to say there isn't the occasional issue - if I'm buying a peripheral I need to ensure it's not some Windows-only POS but to be honest I'd have avoided such things in the Windows world as well because IME Windows-only peripherals are Windows only because the manufacturer decided to shave a bit off their costs and do the legwork in the driver rather than on the
In other words, it's a cult.
Then how come you're acting so much more brainwashed than the people with positive things to say about Macs?
"It just works" is obviously referring to the machine being usable on day one, without requiring a lot of work first. In other words, the software to do what you want to do is already there and there's no preinstalled deadweight bloatware or nagware that you need to waste time removing. It also suggests that the software is of higher quality and crashes less often.
I'm sorry, but it's completely fair f
We're not talking about the people who "just like it", we're talking about the people who claim it "just works". It doesn't just work! The fact is that for the vast majority of people who get on a Mac for the first, second, or even 20th time, they damn thing doesn't "just work" it doesn't even "just kinda work". What it does is anything but. So stop speaking shit. I challenge everyone who has never used a Mac to go to the Apple Store and try to perform the most basic of tasks.. hell, try to switch from one maximized application to another. Enjoy the learning curve. They don't.. just.. work..
If you take a Mac from the Mac store and sit down and use it (i.e. don't install a bunch of garbage on it before you figure out how to use it), well, most people find it pretty intuitive.
And this is different from Linux how?
If you plop down an Ubuntu system on someone's desktop, in my experience, they find it "pretty intuitive" as well. Actually, many users prefer the Ubuntu desktop because it's easier to find and launch the apps that they need; nobody has has had any complaints about it.
or a linux machine (which could look like anything depending on the window manager installed and the programs opened).
That's a bullshit comparison. You need to compare desktop operating systems, not a kernel and a desktop OS.
Furthermore, OS X can also "look like anything" if people choose to theme it.
My grandma officially can use the Eee PC Xandros OS after trying for months and failing to feel like she could do anything in OSX. Now my parents have a spare rather new Macbook of some sort...hmm...
Command+~ switches windows. Command+Tab switches applications. You're right that the Zoom button does fit-to-content in some apps and maximize in some apps and I'd rather see it do just one of them, preferably maximize.
I *challenge* you to take a person who has never used a Mac to the Apple store and ask them to use a Mac to do any standard task. Actually listen to what they say. If they don't mutter "how the hell do I..?" in the first 5 minutes you've found a genius. It is not intuitive. You're told it is intuitive and you believe it, but have you actually tested it?
Mr. (or Miss or Mrs, for that matter) MG, you appear to have a great deal of anger about OS X and how intuitive or otherwise it is.
Why? Why does it matter to you what OS anyone elects to use? More to the point, how is it any of your damn business? Everyone is entitled to their opinion, surely?
For the same reason we should care about what Christians believe - cause they are delusional and accepting irrational belief as "ok" is bad for all of us in the long run.
Their belief in charity and community are just a ticking time bomb. I heard the other day they were giving out free food and clothing to the poor! This must be stopped.
Speaking personally, I don't really care what any group believes as long as they don't try and impose their beliefs on me or use them as an excuse to cause harm to me or anything I feel strongly about. I certainly have better things to do than try and convert them to atheism.
I don't really see how your "you are deluded and I will keep on telling you this until you agree with me" attitude is fundamentally different from Jehovah's Witnesses knocking on doors and asking if the occupants have found God.
The nipple's intuitive. Everything else is more or less hard to learn.
Funny, I found a Mac incredibly intuitive and easy to use -- especially after 5 years of Linux.
I would disagree, while there is a (shallow) learning curve, when I plug in a printer it "just works".
then you do agree with me.
No.. I'd be happy to say that no OS "just works". It's not a question of Apple-vs-Whatever.. it's a matter of Apple lying.
Dude, you are obviously trolling. This is nonsense. OS X does "just work," for many many many reasonable definitions of "just work."
Example 1: I don't have to fight with my computer just to find out what the date is. In most computer users' experience, this is ridiculously hard, because WinXP inexplicably stops showing the date on hover-over-the-systray-clock sometimes. Now, if you're on your home computer, you can double-click and bring up the calendar view where you can set the date. But if you're at work
One of the biggest 'just works' is Zeroconf/Bonjour. You can take a room full of brand new out of the box Macs, turn them on and they are on the network. Nothing to setup. Toss in a zero conf printer (like those from HP) and again, nothing to setup. I went to my Uncle's for Thanksgiving and had to print something. Without setting anything up or even forgetting I didn't have a printer installed I did the "Apple-P" and low and behold his USB printer on his desktop was setup as a ZeroConf, I hit print and it j
That's a trick question because you can't maximize applications.
But in my experience there are those hot corner thingers that make every window fly out of whatever nook or cranny you hid it in and then you just click the one you want. Combining youur visual processing ability and Fitt's law mean you're much more likely to end up with the window you wanted sooner than say a linear search via alt-tab.
Now I don't own any Macs, but frankly, that's a killer feature.
Took me a couple of days to understand the whole thing.
What? So it didn't "just work"? Huh?
What? So it didn't "just work"? Huh?
Hey, jackass. "it just works" mean things just work (and this is generally true). It does *not* mean "I don't have to learn how to use it".
How you got the second notion from that phrase is beyond me.
"it just works" mean things just work (and this is generally true). It does *not* mean "I don't have to learn how to use it".
Control the language and you control the debate, eh? I see you are still drinking the Koolaid.
"it just works" mean things just work (and this is generally true). It does *not* mean "I don't have to learn how to use it".
Control the language and you control the debate, eh? I see you are still drinking the Koolaid.
What kool aid? I said "it just works" means that things "just work". You seem to think it means you don't have to know how to operate them. Which, of those two, seems like word games?
Compared to Windows the Mac indeed "just works". But it still has many problems.
I'm not so sure.
Apple 'just worked' and had a GUI from the 80s (pre-os X), and now just works and has a modern GUI.
It happens that that OS X is also when the masses really started using Macs again.
Now, there are *A LOT* of factors that changed in that timeframe - marketing, GUI, features, etc. However, is there any proof, one way or the other, that that the 'just works' is enough without a flashy GUI?
There's plenty of proof of the exact opposite, as it happens. Clever marketing can sell a product which is otherwise running about 2-5 years behind everything else in the marketplace.
Witness MS-DOS and the rise of the IBM PC compatible at a time when Apple had a much larger market share than they have ever since.
That's not proof the opposite happened, that's circumstantial evidence suggesting that you can't be sure it happened. I already said you can't be sure one way or the other, so you really didn't counter my point.
There are a *lot* of factors that could be involved.
That's not proof the opposite happened, that's circumstantial evidence suggesting that you can't be sure it happened. I already said you can't be sure one way or the other, so you really didn't counter my point.
There are a *lot* of factors that could be involved.
I'm not sure what sort of evidence wouldn't be considered circumstantial.
MSDOS was miles behind more-or-less everything else that existed in the personal market - particularly in terms of UI and ease of setting up. This remained the case for its entire life.
Now, I can't produce evidence of this without spending an inconvenient number of hours going into the history of personal computing, but if you're prepared to seek a little for yourself, I suggest you look up the Amiga, the Atari, the BBC Micro, the Aco
I'm not disagreeing with that. I'm just saying that I've yet to see proof that
There's no such thing as an inferior OS these days - it's all in the applications and, to a lesser extent, peripheral support.
I've heard it said - and there is a glimmer of truth to it - that Unix makes difficult things possible; Windows makes easy things difficult and Apple make difficult things $19.99.
People don't use Macs because the GUI is pretty. They use Macs because "they just work"
People do buy macs 'cause the hardware is prettier, which I think is what most people think of when they think Mac eye candy. At this point, Windows just works about as often as Macs do,(meaning just fine as long as it's used as intended) so usually once cost/functionality are factored in, it probably does boil down to eye candy.
Another reason things just work is 'cause Apple GUI's tend to be fairly intuitive, so it's easy to get things working, once the user gets accustomed to it. Lots of FOSS UI's aren't
I am posting this from a fairly new Mac lappy and I would estimate that I've used the Mac OS on this thing less than two dozen times. Bootcamp + XP SP3. FTW
And yes, yes I bought it for the beauty of the hardware.
They use Macs because "they just work".
I constantly hear this quote from Mac fanboys but it doesn't make any sense. The implication is that other computer systems don't work. I'm on a machine that dual boots Windows and Linux, and guess what? It works!
And you know what else. Nearly every server in the world is on Linux or Windows and they work too. And most businesses are running Windows or Linux and it works there too. And finally Linux and other non-Apple OS's are running nearly all of the embedded systems in the world. And what's most interesting about this is how microscopically small the amount of these people who think Apple "just works" is.
I have used and administered Linux systems for a decade now. Whenever I try to setup a "Linux" desktop such as Ubuntu, there is always a long list of problems that would never, ever afflict a Mac or Windows system.
Here are some of the current problems:
- NumLock light is opposite the NumLock mode (this on a dead-common 104-key setup). We see a very high degree of spurious breakage of what should otherwise be very solid functionality.
- Right-click in Firefox 3.x sometimes executes random context item without
I myself hate to be quoted because often doing so takes sentences and phrases out of context. Overall you have to read the meaning of what's being said and address that instead of nitpicking someone's inability to precisely elaborate what they mean. So, I won't do it to you.
Over the past decade you are correct, many of these issues existed, and some still exist. By far, the issues were addressed in the past couple years and most of the problems you speak about affect all the operating systems.
As a small
I think you are wrong on many technical points, and that people with your mindset are a large part of the problem preventing a worthwhile FOSS desktop system from being developed.
On a couple of the technical points: If these issues have largely been addressed, then why are my Numlock lights reversed? Why do I have to edit a file in
Why is there no SDK? No default IDE t
First of all, my enthusiasm for looking for the interesting points amidst dismissive names, such as fanboys and freetards, is waning. Please, if we must babble our useless cliches, let us return to welcoming our frist posting "In Soviet Union" joke overlords.
The phrase "just works" dates back to the mid-80s and was no more than a relative statement at best. Since then, everyone has made great strides in simplifying usability. Comments about server and embedded space are irrelevant because, as you imply, whe
At my shop I'm tasked to remove Vista and replace it with XP on more machines than I see with Vista come in for other issues. Those vista issues I do see are nasty and show how haphazardly the OS was implemented.
I have also been tasked more in the past few months to put linux on machines even for elderly people. People in their late 60s to early 80s want me to put Linux on their computers. And, when done I rarely hear back from them. Those that do visit me say that Linux is working well for them and tha
Don't hold your breath:
A few more years Linux fonts will suck in an equally but completely different way.
Don't even have to use profanity. Essentially you could say that "proprietard" is the equivalent of the expression of profanity you make.
linuxhaters is awesome, right? It's like maddox only somehow dumber and less entertaining (which is itself impressive, I guess).
Err... Maybe I should put it in terms you'll understand:
linuxhaters sucks big hot hard freetard cock!
- freetard
Actually, even Jeremy Alison of SAMBA fame agrees with the general thrust and acknowledges the technical acumen of the LinuxHaters blog. He is a big proponent of free software, GPLv3 etc., yet considers it valuable criticism of the way the community is running things. So I guess that makes you a doctrinaire, humorless, freetard.
It is written in the style of the Unix Hater's Handbook. So yes, its insulting and potty-mouth but it effectively draws the humorless and doctrinaire in, and those are the types with the least tenable ideas and attitudes about "Linux". LinuxHater makes mincemeat of them, showing what a sorry gruel of platitudes and excuses they keep dishing out. IMO he is doing us a big favor.
Check out the article on fonts... the author has his Linux chops and knows well of which he (angrily) speaks.
And really, who would bo
My main problem with Linux right now are the damn fonts... They look like complete crap without heavy aliasing. This should *NOT* be the case even with the extra font packs installed.
You probably didn't set up the right anti-aliasing in preferences; that can happen on Windows and OS X as well. The OS doesn't know what you need or want.
When you use X or power management features or bluetooth..etc its not long before something starts going haywire.. at least thats been my experience.
Did you buy supported hardware? If not, that's like complaining that when you install OS X on your PC, things don't work.
It's not a Linux problem when Linux doesn't work on unsupported hardware, and that simply will never get fixed.
Compared to RDP there is no contest in terms of network resources consumed by remote sessions. X11 is a pig.
That is by design: X11 and RDP are designed for totally different bandwidth/performance/functionality tradeoffs.
Furthermore, modern X11 applications are not written or tested for remote usage anymore. The equivalent of RDP in the Linux world is VNC, which works very well.
Give it a few more years and I'm sure Linux will continue to make great strides on the desktop... IMHO they really do just need to kill the damned X11 system alltogether.
You don't know what you're talking about. Microsoft and Apple had to abandon their idiotic attempts at window systems and Windows UI Server and Quartz now have the same architecture (asynchronous client-server systems) as X11. X11 is still the better system.
If "asynchronous client-server" architecture makes something "the same as
Oh, please, get a clue. We're talking about window systems here. X11 was one of the first asynchronous client-server window system. And it's the asynchronous client-server aspect that Mac and Windows users keep whining about. Yet, after more than a decade each, both companies came around and adopted an asynchronous client-server architecture for their window systems as well.
If you have some other complaint about X11, please share it with us.
No, Mac users kvetch about X11 because it requires sending every little damned pixel across the connection rather than sending sensible drawing instructions like one does in Quartz. Oh, and X11's godawful color modes.
No, Mac users kvetch about X11 because it requires sending every little damned pixel across the connection rather than sending sensible drawing instructions like one does in Quartz
Are you just not listening? X11 and Quartz do the same thing: they both have connections and they both send vectorized instructions across them. The only difference is that X11 has been doing this for 20 years and does it a lot more efficiently, while Apple only came around half a dozen years ago.
Oh, and X11's godawful color mod
must be your hardware. on an intel laptop with a broadcom card + bluetooth, compiz, etc and had no problems from X11, but on a new laptop with an ati card things are a bit less stable
WTF? "update" only retrieves the package lists, which cannot ruin anything even theoretically. "dist-upgrade" is a bit of a risk but if you're using official repositories and the stable branch, you'd have to try really hard to break something. Either way, it's hardly Debian's fault.
If you're going to troll(?) at least do it in metric please!
I can do better than oven roasted steak.
Parents, talk to your kids about Linux, before somebody else does:
http://xkcd.com/456/ [xkcd.com]
That sounds good, I'll have to try it.
I'm confused. Are you talking about something other than what's in the Layouts tab of System -> Preferences -> Keyboard? Because there's also the keyboard setup that happens during the install process. What's missing?
The issue you are encountering has nothing to do with Linux or Ubuntu. It has to do with how they configured and locked down your configuration. Linux keyboarding works fine. I doubt 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of the population of the 50 million worldwide users have issues with Linux and their keyboard.
OK. Thank you very much for that pointer. I will reinstall my own VM.
I thought it was general, because several people complained on the Ubuntu forums, and were told to go edit files
Actually, I'm stuck using Ubuntu because it has support compiled in for some FTDI based usbserial hardware I'm using - usually I employ Puppy in a VM. And yes, I consider resorting to a compiler to be something to be done with malice aforethought
Is that all the Linux leaders today can think of, is copying or matching what has already been done? "When we catch up to OS X..." "If only we targeted netbooks..." - Why can't they think of anything original? By the time they've reach their their target it will have already moved.
On an overall level, Linux distributions (ie: Linux operating systems) are designed by community consensus. And community consensus behaves like a gigantic committee. And we all know what happens when you leave software design to a committee.
Image sells. Linux needs an image. Nothing wrong with rallying others to bring the same level of image to Linux.
Companies large and small have taken up the Open Source ideology and are carrying it further. Essentially it means that Open Source is surpasing closed source, and that is hardly a copying effort to accomplish that.
In the late 80s and early 90s innovation in software concept was so varied that trade journal computer magazines were released often 2 times a month and were packed with information,
Ok fine, do that. I urge the entire Linux user community to please tune out anything that has to do with Solaris, Windows, Mac OS X, and any OS that isn't derived from sacred Linux code.
Don't even look at a Mac or Vista desktop, you wouldn't be interested, nothing to see there. Linux is perfect, and in every way. It's not even useful to draw comparisons between Linux and other ungodly OS's, so just run a mental grep -v Apple|Sun|Mac|Solaris|Windows|Microsoft filter on everything you read. Correct my re
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HURON - A former Beadle County janitor indicted last September on two counts of sexual contact with a child under the age of 16 has pleaded not guilty.
KOKK reports that the trial for Fred Sylaart is set for March 6 in Beadle County.
His 18-year-old son, Jordan Sylaart, is charged with two counts of first-degree rape.
Prosecutors say the alleged incidents involved girls under the age of 12 who attended a day care ran by Fred Sylaart's wife. The day care is currently closed.
Former Brown County States Attorney Kimberly Dorsett is acting as special prosecutor in the case because Fred Sylaart is a former county employee.
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Hacking Radio on the Macby Wei-Meng Lee
So you've been having a lot of fun with your iPod and iTunes ever since you got your brand new shiny iPod mini. But no doubt you will, at some point in time, be bored with all of the songs you have in your iPod. What about having something new, for a change? Perhaps you want to hear some news or listen to the latest songs by some other artists. In this case, the radio is the next best companion. Unfortunately, the iPod does not come with a radio receiver, and hence, it is not possible to listen to the radio with it. But there are some other nifty ways to get the radio on your Mac. You can then record it and copy it onto your iPod. In this article, I will show you how to listen to and record radio on the Mac.
Listening to Radio on the Mac
There are times when you are on the road with your Mac and you might want to tune in to the radio for the latest weather information or road conditions. In this case, it is useful to have a radio receiver on hand. The much-delayed Griffin RadioShark is one such radio receiver (see Figure 1).
Figure 1. The Griffin RadioShark
The Griffin RadioShark is powered by its USB cable connected to your Mac. It comes with an application that allows you to record radio programs. The recorded broadcast can be transferred to an iPod or any other AIFF-compatible digital music player to replay on the go.
The Griffin RadioShark has received some rave reviews on the Web. Unfortunately, I was not able to obtain a unit in time for this article. But going by the Web reviews, the RadioShark is definitely worth its $69.99 price tag.
Recording Direct from the Radio
If you do not have the Griffin RadioShark, the next best thing you can do is to connect your Mac directly to a radio. Figure 2 shows connecting my stereo to my PowerBook.
Figure 2. Connecting my stereo to my PowerBook
To listen to the radio on your Mac, connect the line-out (or headphone) connector on your stereo to the line-in port on your Mac (see Figure 3) using an audio cable.
Figure 3. Locating the line-in port on the PowerBook
To record the radio on your Mac, you can use the following applications:
- Sound Studio
- AudioX
Using Sound Studio
Sound Studio is a Mac OS X audio application that lets you record and edit two-channel audio. You can download a trial copy of Sound Studio that will work for 14 days, after which you need to purchase a $49.99 license to use the application. (After the trial, you cannot save your recorded sound tracks.)
Figure 4 shows the Input Levels window detecting signals coming into my line-in port. You can enable your Mac to play the incoming sound by checking the "Soft play-thru" checkbox. To record the incoming signal, click on the Record button.
Figure 4. Using Sound Studio to record incoming sound
Once the sound is recorded, you can click on the Play button to hear the recorded sound. You can also edit the recorded sound track (see Figure 5).
Figure 5. Playing back the recorded sound track
You can save the recorded sound track in a number of formats (see Figure 6).
Figure 6. Saving the recorded sound track
Using AudioX
AudioX is another Mac OS X application that records sound. You can download a trial edition of the application (with a 30-second recording limit) or purchase the licensed copy for $19.95.
To record incoming sound signals, click on the Rec Window button in the main AudioX window and click on the Record button (see Figure 7).
Figure 7. Using AudioX
Upon recoding, you have the option to save the recorded sound track to a number of formats (see Figure 8).
Figure 8. Saving the recorded sound track
Broadcasting Your iTunes Music to Other Radios
In the first two sections of this article, I discussed how you can get the radio signal into your Mac. What about the reverse? Can your Mac broadcast radio? Actually, the answer is a simple yes, if you use a FM radio transmitter.
Recently, I bought the Griffin RoadTrip (see Figure 9), an iPod vehicle mounting kit for both charging and transmitting the iPod sound signal over FM. One interesting feature of the Griffin RoadTrip is its removable FM radio transmitter (Figure 9).
Figure 9. The Griffin RoadTrip
And so, I connected the FM radio transmitter to my PowerBook's microphone port (see Figure 10).
Figure 10. Connecting the FM radio transmitter to the PowerBook's microphone port
To broadcast the output signal of your PowerBook, select a frequency on the FM radio transmitter. You can now launch iTunes and play your favorite music. To listen to the music, simply tune in to the selected frequency using any radio.
Wei-Meng Lee (Microsoft MVP) http://weimenglee.blogspot.com is a technologist and founder of Developer Learning Solutions http://www.developerlearningsolutions.com, a technology company specializing in hands-on training on the latest Microsoft technologies.
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Jamie Lyon has two days to prove his fitness with Manly coach Geoff Toovey insisting his co-captain has to get through training if he is to play in Friday night's NRL semi-final against North Queensland.
Toovey said he would not risk going into the sudden-death match without Lyon testing out the calf muscle he strained in Friday night's qualifying final loss to Canterbury.
While the club will wait until midday on Tuesday to decide whether they will contest the high tackle charge that threatens to rub Steve Matai out of the Allianz Stadium clash, Lyon will need to be running by Thursday.
"He wants to play and that's always a good sign," Toovey said.
"We'll have to keep him with some medical staff, but hopefully if possible he'll be training in the next day or two.
"He'll have to if he's going to play. If he does do that, then obviously he'll be right."
But Toovey did indicate that even if Lyon was less than 100 per cent - he may gamble on playing the star centre.
"I think with the do-or-die game that we've got, you probably have to," Toovey said.
"He is, in my opinion, the best centre in the game and without those quality players it makes your job more difficult."
Toovey was clearly upset at the charge handed down to Matai, but gave no indication whether they would take the early guilty plea and one-week ban.
"It's just so subjective," Toovey said of the grade two careless high tackle charge.
"I don't know how they come up with the grading."


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Jenrry Mejia diagnosed with hyperactive thyroid
The 23-year-old flew to New York this week for tests following his spring training physical. He has been advised by doctors not to eat seafood, which is rich in lodine, but he does not have to take medication.
''Everything is doing great. Everything is going well,'' said Mejia, expected to start the regular season at Triple-A Las Vegas. ''They said everything is looking great and I can do every activity, but don't eat fish. It's like Jose Reyes.
''They said (the thyroid) is too quick, but it's normal right now. They don't want me to make it faster.''
Reyes, a former' Mets shortstop, was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism during Spring Training in 2010 and missed the first five games of the regular season. It's been a spring training of delays and setbacks for Mejia, who went 1-2 with a 5.63 ERA in five appearances for the Mets last season.
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Superior Court Judge Craig Mitchell has certainly gone the distance for his friends on Los Angeles' skid row.
On Sunday he'll go another 26.2 miles as he leads members of the Midnight Mission Running Club during the Los Angeles Marathon.
For much of the last year, Mitchell has spent portions of Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays conditioning mission residents for the competition, which starts at 7:28 a.m. at Dodger Stadium and ends in Santa Monica.
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Chelsea's late winner on Wednesday night brought another winner's medal for interim manager Rafa Benitez.
As Branislav Ivanovic rose to meet Juan Mata's corner to finally put Benfica down, Benitez could finally say it was all worth it. His short stint at Stamford Bridge has been full of acrimony, especially from the fans, but with Champions League football all but secured for next season and a trophy in the cabinet, it has at least been successful.
"I am really pleased and really proud because it was not easy. We have been talking about this the whole time.
"If you have to win for people to realise the job we are doing. Well, we won. Hopefully now people will say it is not bad," Benitez told Sky Sports.
So where next for the former Liverpool, Valencia, and Internazionale coach? Here are five possible destinations.
Real Madrid
Some Chelsea fans may laugh, but the ex-madrista and B-team coach would jump at a chance to manage Los Merengues. Benitez won two La Ligas with Valencia, has Champions League pedigree with Liverpool, and may be helped by Real's inability to get their first choice, PSG's Carlo Ancelotti. The only downside is it would mean being far away from his family who are settled on the Wirral in Merseyside.
Paris St Germain
If Real should succeed in poaching Ancelotti, Benitez would be a prime candidate for the top job at the Ligue 1 winners. The transfer budget would more than meet his demands, while Benitez's skill at squad management would be much needed in a Parisian side that has more egos than a meeting of the world's leaders.
Paris is not much further from his Liverpool home than London, while the chance to manage Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Lucas Moura, and potentially David Beckham should wet any manager's appetite.
Well, erm, he'd be able to live with his wife and children!
Manchester City
With Manuel Pellegrini not yet confirmed at time of writing, there is a slim chance of a twist and that twist could be Benitez. The Chilean has said no deal has been agreed with City, while Malaga will not comment on their manager until their season ends on 1 June, so why not Benitez? He is a proven winner, the only title he hasn't won in England is the Premier League, there needs to be a clear out at the Etihad, and the chief executive and director of football are both Spanish.
Pellegrini is the odds on favourite, but it might be worth Benitez sending his CV north.
It couldn't happen, could it? If it were not for the fans, Benitez would surely be set to extend his interim stay for another 12 months, as stated in his contract. As it turned out, it was only the fact Benitez was in it for the short haul that quelled the discontent from the fans and allowed the 'Interim One' to work in something resembling a calm environment.
Roman Abramovich has shown previously that he is not afraid to go against the wishes of the terraces, with the sacking of Jose Mourinho, Carlo Ancelotti, and the hiring of Avram Grant all upsetting the supporters. The Russian oligarch should feel satisfied with Benitez's work – he's won a trophy, returned the side to the Champions League, helped developed some of the younger talent like Eden Hazard and David Luiz while slowly moving the older guard towards the exit. He has achieved what the board wanted, albeit under a fragile truce between coach, players and supporters.
The likelihood is Benitez will find himself unemployed come the start of next season. The Spaniard has stated he wants to work for a team that is competing for trophies, preferably in England, but his reputation is such that clubs are looking for fresher managers that do not carry the stigma of tight, defensive football, played in a stressful environment, with a manager who wants big transfer funds.
While this stigma is not entirely correct, there have been enough blots on Benitez's copybook for the top clubs to think twice, and his reception at Chelsea will scare away some potential suitors.
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Sun Home Loans, the residential mortgage division of Sun National Bank, announced Tuesday it has named Theresa M. Trainum senior vice president and chief operating officer.
According to the announcement, Trainum will oversee daily operations and team management, leading initiatives in strategic planning, compliance, finance, customer service, business development and marketing.
"Terry is an accomplished professional with deep industry knowledge and an impressive record of achievement in residential mortgage lending," Sun National Bank's chief administrative officer Michele Estep said. "We welcome her to Sun and are confident that her experience, leadership and customer service focus will drive continued growth of our residential lending platform."
Trainum has more than 30 years of experience as a financial service professional and is the former Bank of America/Countrywide vice president/fulfillment site leader, the announcement said.
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I realize I'm a little out of order this week in my month-long mission to introduce you to Twitter, but in thinking about steps to getting started, I realized that I totally left out how to create your profile. And since who you say you are says a lot about you, that's sort of important. So here are some tips for optimizing your Twitter persona.
One of the first prompts you encounter when setting up a profile is to decide on a Twitter handle. People often become known by their user names, so it's important to put some thought into what you choose.
Are you going to be posting things you wouldn't really want associated with your name? For example, "breaking in my new five foot bong! #420!!!" is not really something you should want people (ahem, future employers) to find when searching your name. If you're fond of showing off your glassware, a more anonymous username might be better suited for you.
If your posts are going to be relatively tame (or you just don't care), going with your name is a pretty safe bet. It points out exactly who you are, and people will know you as, well, you, so there won't be any confusion if you ever meet IRL.
But honestly -- and this is coming from someone whose handle is her name -- that's a little boring. I always get a big kick out of people whose handles are plays on words or even fun variations of their names (@theglamourai and our own @fantzypants both come to mind). Having a fun Twitter handle shows your personality right off the bat and makes you memorable.
Next you'll need to choose an avatar -- Twitter's default egg avatar screams "scammer" and looks totally sketch. The best avatars are pictures that contain your face -- they're pretty small, after all -- or fun cartoons that represent you. One of my favorite Tweeps, @tcabeen redesigns his avatar (a cartoon version of himself) to match different occasions -- including the addition of Yoda ears on May 4th ( "may the fourth be with you," get it?).
Your bio should be short and sweet -- Twitter only gives you 160 characters. I like ones that show who you are and what you're about, but there are also some great ambiguous bios as well. Darren Criss (swoon) has a bio reading "I was born a while ago... Now I'm here. Pretty cool."
Finally, it's time to personalize your profile design. The fine folks at Twitter make it really easy to customize your design. But if you don't feel creative enough to make your own design, there are plenty of sites with pre-made themes to choose from. My favorite is the Boulder-based Tweety Got Back (@tweetygotback), which has themes for everything, from photography by Boulder's Kendall Ruth (@iamkendal) to a Justin Bieber theme (no, really). They've also partnered with Threadless to turn some of their most popular shirt designs into Twitter profiles.
Setting up your profile is an important step to getting started on Twitter, but don't worry. Your choices aren't set in stone, and you can edit everything -- even your Twitter handle -- whenever you want.
Jessica Ryan is a senior media studies major at CU. She writes about nerdy things once a week for the Colorado Daily. On Twitter: @JessicaLRyan


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Today, it seems, just about all startups — and even more mature companies — want to wield the growth hacking buzzsaw. Growth hacking was the theme that drew several hundred marketers, entrepreneurs and business strategists to the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco on Thursday for the fancifully named Weapons of Mass Distribution conference put on by 500 Startups.
And while growth hacking may be hot hot hot right now — even marketing consultant Sean Ellis, who coined the term, was on hand — the impressive lineup of speakers made it clear that to succeed, a new enterprise can't spin flax into gold. You've got to have some kick-ass idea to begin with, and you have to have a product team that knows how to execute. And then, yes, by all means, call in the growth hackers and marketers to run the numbers, size up your analytics, get feedback from customers, and create a virtuous product development loop that fast-tracks your company on to its inevitable trajectory of fame, riches and a guest spot on Jason Calacanis's "This Week in Startups" podcast.
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Sysprep vs. Quickprep
In a VMware View environment you can either use Microsoft Sysprep or VMware Quickprep for the personalization of your Linked Clone desktop pools, while you can only use Sysprep for the personalization of traditional desktop pools based on VM templates.
Every Windows operating system is generating a unique SID (Security Identifier) during the first installation of the system. This SID is used to clearly identify the operating system in a network environment. But this local SID is only used until the computer is a member is a Windows Workgroup only. As soon as you add the computer to a Active Directory domain a new SID for the computer account will be created and the local SID is no longer in use. The Microsoft Sysprep tool does change the SID for the operating system as the SID should be unique for each OS instance. The Sysprep operation needs several minutes to change the SID on a Windows OS as it needs to change all files on the hard disk drive.
The VMware Quickprep tools which comes with VMware View is used for the same reason but only with Linked Clone desktop pools. Quickprep is faster compared to Sysprep as is does not change all files on the hard disk. It does change the SID in the Active Directory which is only used as described above.
Also other software vendors use their own tools to change the SID on Windows instances, especially companies from the software deployment, like Altiris.
The Quickprep process is started by the View Composer during the creation of the Linked Clones. After the View Composer has created the replica disk and the Linked Clone own OS disk is mounted, the View Composer communicated with the Active Directory and creates a new computer account for the Linked Clone desktop and sets a random password. This process uses the standard Windows API interface and also the user account you've configured for the View Composer in the View Administrator GUI. If the configured user account does not have sufficient permissions the action will fail. If the action is successful, a configuration file which includes information about the desktop (hostname, domain and more) is created on the OS disk of the Linked Clone. After the file is written the desktops gets restarted. During the next boot process the View Agent hooks in. It does that in two modes. Firstly it runs in the native mode just before the Win32 subsystem is started. During that time it can still access system files which are usually locked. Secondly it starts the Service Agent which does the most tasks i.e. the communication with the View Server or writing to the Windows Registry. The native part of the agent reads the information which is written in the configuration file by the View Composer before and sets the hostname for the Windows operating system before the system comes up. After that the Service Agent writes the needed Windows domain information into the Registry.
Both applications, Sysprep and Quickprep give you the same result: A Windows desktops with a unique SID.
It's a good decision to choose Quickprep for the Linked Clone pools because the personalization process is faster but there are also reasons for choosing Sysprep. Sometimes software products i.e. Antivirus software or network access control need a unique local SID. But anyway using vShield Endpoint is better than having a anti virus scanner in each desktop.
If you're choosing Sysprep for your Linked Clone desktops please consider the following points.
- All vSphere servers in your cluster must run a 4.0 or 4.1 version.
- A recompose does force the system to create a new SID. (That takes a long time depending on the number of files in the VM)
- The View Agent on the VM needs the View Composer component to be installed. (Usually this is the standard)
- The Active Directory controllers must be reachable from all the desktops.
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Skillsoft announced today that registration for its 2013 Annual Perspectives User Conference is now open and that the theme of the conference is "Learning Transformed." Created for Skillsoft customers and prospects to network, interact and learn from each other, Skillsoft Perspectives enables learning professionals across all industries to gather and discuss how to link learning to business value. As a global event, it provides attendees with the unique opportunity to collaborate with peers, industry leaders and experts from around the world. Through keynote addresses, panel discussions, workshops and networking events, attendees share and learn best practices for creating and maintaining learning programs that deliver tangible results. 2013 Skillsoft Perspectives will take place May 13 – 16, 2013 in Orlando, Florida. To learn more and register for 2013 Skillsoft Perspectives, please visit: http://perspectives.skillsoft.com/2013/
"Perspectives has become a must-attend event for learning professionals. It provides our customers and prospects with a collaborative environment in which innovative approaches to learning are shared through networking, discussion and top notch instruction," said Jerry Nine, chief operating officer, Skillsoft. "Feedback from past attendees has been consistently positive, and we are certain that this year's event will exceed expectations. We also look forward to recognizing the work of most forward-looking customers through our Innovation in Learning Awards."
2013 event attendees will have access to keynote speeches, learning sessions, networking opportunities and a range of workshops highlighting a variety of learning and development trends and themes.
This year's conference will be anchored by keynote speaker Seth Godin, international best-selling author and word-renowned marketing entrepreneur. Godin will share his vision of the new, creative economy and how professionals can utilize qualities of initiative, creativity and passion to create success, impact and relevance while building competitive advantage within the marketplace.
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Flooding has struck another town in Western North Carolina after heavy rainfall fell in the area Wednesday night.
Buncombe County Emergency Management said that the Beaverdam Fire Department in Asheville has been hit by heavy floods, and is not operating out of their building at this time.
Stick with FOX Carolina and foxcarolina.com for the latest on this developing story.
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Emma Watson: Lancome Ad Revealed!
Emma Watson shows off Lancome's new red Rogue in Love lipstick and Vernis in Love nail polish in this new advertisement for the beauty brand.
"The idea is to make this young generation – that has been a gloss fan – come back to using lipsticks," Youcef Nabi, president of Lancome International, tells WWD. "At the same time, they were complaining about the fact that the classical lipsticks were heavy on lips. So we invented a formula which is a brand new generation of texture that is at the same time very intense color and six-hour perfect wear."
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Baseball's winter meetings start a week from Monday in Nashville. The Red Sox could be in position to make one important move before then.
Free agent Mike Napoli was in Boston Saturday to meet with the Red Sox, according to CBS Sports. Red Sox executives would not comment on whether a meeting took place.
Regardless, Napoli seems close to making a decision. He previously met with the Seattle Mariners and is expected to sit down with the Texas Rangers this week. Napoli, 31, is seeking a four-year contract
Napoli caught 72 games for the Rangers last season. But the Red Sox see him as a first baseman. Napoli has started 118 games at first base in his career.
Napoli hit a modest .227 last season, but had 24 home runs in 352 at-bats and an .812 OPS. He hit .320 with a 1.046 OPS in 2011 for Texas in what was the best season of his career.
Napoli was not made a qualifying offer by the Rangers, meaning the Red Sox would not forfeit a draft pick for signing him. That adds to his appeal.
Most teams view Napoli as a poor defensive catcher and would prefer to use him at first base.
He is not a particularly adept first baseman, but the Red Sox could compensate for that.
Napoli has hit well against the Red Sox (.288 with a 1.075 OPS) and at Fenway Park (.306 with a 1.107 OPS in 19 games). That could inflate his value in the eyes of some.Peter Abraham can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @PeteAbe.


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Don't Let Your Credit Cards Run Wild During the Holidays
Around holiday time the temptations are all around us to whip out our credit card and start taking care of year-end business. Whether it's to cover an annual donation to a charity, pop for a big impulse Christmas gift, or pay off some pesky medical bills, we find some reasons to run up our balances with the intent of getting back on top of it after the New Year. Not so fast. This is especially the time to rein it in for a number of reasons:
- Identity theft and fraud are at their rampant peak during the holidays. Avoid giving your card information over the phone to charities or unfamiliar vendors or ones that contact you. Do not order food over the phone using your credit card. Never let your credit card out of your sight at a restaurant or store.
- Keep your credit card balances below 30% of their credit limit. It's all too easy to run up the balances, and much more difficult to get them down to where they don't affect your credit score.
- Paying your taxes with your credit card is always tempting when you can pump your cash back or travel rewards. But, with the 2% surcharge you pay you wipe out any benefit.
Impulse buys are all too common around the holidays a "guilt" gift, a lavish dinner with drinks, a holiday getaway. Unless you want to start off your New Year deep in the hole with nothing to show for it, keep your holiday spending within your budget and don't buy anything on your card unless you know you can pay it off in full.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Patients who have lost their sight due to a rare disorder may be able to regain some vision using a new implantable device that takes the place of damaged cells inside the eye.
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System as the first treatment for an inherited disorder that causes the breakdown of cells in the retina, a membrane inside the eye.
FDA says that while the device will not fully restore patients' vision, ''it may allow them to detect light and dark in the environment,'' which could help them perform daily tasks.
The system includes a small video camera and transmitter mounted on a pair of glasses. Images from the camera are processed into electronic data that is wirelessly transmitted to electrodes implanted into the patient's retina.
The FDA approved the device from Second Sight Medical Products for patients 25 years and older who have advanced retinitis pigmentosa. In people with the disease, the light-sensitive cells that line the retina gradually deteriorate, which can eventually lead to blindness.
About 100,000 people in the U.S. have the disease, though the FDA estimates fewer than 4,000 will initially receive the device under its currently approved indication. Besides the age requirement, patients must also have little to no light perception in both eyes but a prior history of being able to make out basic shapes and forms. They must also have signs of at least some remaining retinal function.
''This new surgically implanted assistive device provides an option for patients who have lost their sight to RP - for whom there have been no FDA-approved treatments,'' said Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, FDA's director for medical devices.
Results from a study of 30 patients showed that most were able to perform daily activities better with the implant than without it. Activities included navigating sidewalks and curbs, matching different color socks and recognizing large words or sentences.
Development of the Argus II was supported by $100 million in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy.
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UBS analyst Steven Milunovich has a note out today reiterating his Neutral rating and $540 price target on Apple (AAPL), writing that he has been disappointed by the sales of the iPad, which is not "on the same growth curve as the iPhone at a similar point since introduction."
He admits that the new iPad models will likely boost December quarter shipments to 25 million, a 9% year-over-year increase, but writes that Apple's share of the tablet market has also fallen by more than half, from 70% to 30%: "It's not that Samsung Electronics' (005930KS), Google (GOOG), and Amazon (AMZN) are gaining share head-to-head but that there is so much growth in $100-200 tablets in Asia.
Milunovich writes that tablets in general are being squeezed between smartphones and PCs (and even phablets), while upgrade cycles for tablets are longer.
In addition, the tablet might be a luxury in a way that other devices are not. "The smartphone is best at keeping people in contact with friends and family. The PC's differentiation is to do work with productivity apps. The tablet is particularly good at entertainment." This opens up another issue for tablets: "content creation is the tablet's Achilles heel. So far Apple appears okay with that but an alternative is to develop a convertible product aimed at a different job to be done."


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The student chapter of the Association for Operations Management won 6th place in the Great Lakes District Case Competition Feb. 22-23 in Downers Grove, Ill. This is the second year in a row GSU students have placed in this competition.
GSU students analyzed a business case, submitted a paper, and made a presentation in front of professionals from the Chicagoland area. The case for the competition was given to the students on Friday night and they had to write the paper and submit it for presentation by Saturday morning at 10 a.m. Presentations were held at 11 a.m.
GSU students were competing against universities of various calibers and regions and above all they performed well under pressure. The group is led by faculty member Dr. John Simon.
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As a longtime customer of PRWeb, I've seen many changes over the years. The oldest optimized press release I could find of mine that's still online dates back to mid 2001 and in the years since, it's been an evolving relationship moving from customer to consultant.
From the days of talking new features as a super user with founder David McInnis to our current role as search and social media consultants, the focus on innovation and serving customers has always been a mutual focus. I've had the pleasure of getting to know Vocus Product Manager for PRWeb, Jiyan Wei, Director of Online Marketing, Meg Walker and Vocus CMO Bill Wagner as well as other members of the Vocus team and they've been working very hard to make an array of substantial changes to the PRWeb platform to better serve customers.


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NEW YORK – The Ivy League golf season comes to a head this weekend at Baltusrol Golf Course in Springfield, N.J., as the eight conference schools will come together to compete in the 2014 Championships from April 25-27.
Columbia competed four times this spring, including a team title at the Wildcat Invitational hosted by Villanova on April 1. The Lions other top-five finish this spring came at the Princeton Invitational when they took fourth in the 15-team event. The last time out, Columbia finished13th at the rain-shortened Wolfpack Spring Open.
Junior Brandon Jowers heads into the Ivy Championships as the top-ranked golfer in the Ancient Eight. The Shalimar, Fla., native has the lowest scoring average at 71.58 and a 0.84 score against par in 19 rounds of action. His scoring average is on pace to be the lowest since the 1993-94 season. Jowers best finish this season was second at The Doc Gimmler held at the Bethpage Red Course in the fall, shooting 68-66-66—200. The back-to-back 66's are Jowers' lowest scores this year.
Sophomore Harrison Shih is the fifth-ranked golfer in the conference with a 72.26 average. His best round was also a 66 at The Doc Gimmler, but his top finish has been a pair of third-place showings at the Patriot Collegiate and Wildcat Invitational.
Senior Andrew Kim, and first-years Christopher Chu and Arjuna Anday all rank in the top-15 of the Ancient Eight heading into the Ivy Championships. Anday is the only one of the three to crack the top 10 at a tournament this season, taking seventh at the Stars and Stripes Invitational.
As a team, the 2013-14 season has been among the most dominant for Columbia golf. The Lions 290.89 per round scoring average is the lowest in program history by 6.25 strokes since Golf Stat began tracking such marks in 1993-94.
Yale leads the pack heading into the Ivy Championships, sporting a No. 67 national ranking. The Bulldogs earned wins this year at The Doc Gimmler and the Ivy League Match Play event, while also finishing as the runner-up at The MacDonald Cup, The Met Intercollegiate, the Princeton Invitational and the Yale Spring Invitational.
Sam Bernstein and Will Davenport are ranked second and third, respectively, in the Ivy League. Bernstein is the only other golfer besides Jowers with a score versus par under one at 0.95 and scoring average under 72 at 71.84. Davenport is just shy of the 72 mark at 72.05 in 19 rounds.
Harvard enters the weekend ranked No. 126 nationally and second in the Ivy League. The Crimson are riding high heading to Baltusrol, coming off consecutive wins at the Princeton Invitational and the Yale Spring Invitational. First-year Robert Deng holds a 1.43 score against par to rank fourth in the conference.
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A ghostly gloom dominates the stage of the London Coliseum, where the English National Opera is closing out its season with Benjamin Britten's 1951 shipboard tragedy "Billy Budd."
Surely life aboard a British naval ship was never quite so grim and oppressive as it appears in director David Alden's powerful but skewed new production, seen at its second performance Saturday night.
These sailors, whose choruses provide some of Britten's most inspired music, look and move more like zombies than able-bodied seamen as they scrub the deck with heavy stones or slowly drag ropes across the stage. Even when they relax below decks by singing sea shanties, there is precious little merriment.
The closest they come to animation is in the scene that opens Act 2, when the HMS Indomitable finally sights the French warship they've been awaiting. As the curtain rises, the men are at the rear, shrouded in fog, but they gradually move forward, singing "This is our moment!" as a giant gun is wheeled out to fire at the enemy. (Two sets of drummers standing in boxes on either side of the stage add to the excitement here.) But the shot falls short, the wind dies, and the men recede once again into the mist.
Alden's vision of the ship as a prison for the living dead is furthered by the dark tones of Adam Silverman's lighting and Constance Hoffman's costumes. Paul Steinberg's set is minimalist, the main deck represented by a bare stage with black or rust-orange backdrops appearing for other scenes. Only Captain Vere's cabin is brightly lit and painted white.
The weakness here is that by draining the crew of life, Alden prevents us from seeing the young sailor Billy Budd as part of the complex, even vibrant, shipboard society portrayed in the original Herman Melville story or the libretto by E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier.
That may help account for why the performance by baritone Benedict Nelson doesn't have more impact. He sings well enough — movingly, in fact, in his final solo — but his personality tends to fade into the prevailing dreariness.
By contrast, his nemesis, the master-at-arms John Claggart, dominates the stage, especially as chillingly sung by bass Matthew Rose. He doesn't have a particularly large voice, but it's so well-focused and perversely beautiful in tone that we hang on his every word.
This Claggart, dressed in a long black leather coat, makes his entrances by rising like the devil from below or skulking past the berths where the men are sleeping. Alden makes his sexual attraction to Billy explicit by having him fondle the red neckerchief he has taken from the lad while he vows to destroy him. And when Claggart falsely accuses Billy of plotting mutiny and sees the lad is too tongue-tied to respond, he laughs in his face, goading him to throw the punch that will kill him.
The third principal, Vere himself, witnesses that encounter and, though he admires Billy and despises Claggart, orders the sailor hanged for attacking a superior officer. Tenor Kim Begley brings great pathos to Vere's torment, especially in the prologue and epilogue when he appears as an old man still brooding on the events of long ago.
The chorus sings magnificently, and there is strong support from many of the soloists, including baritone Jonathan Summers as Mr. Redburn, the first lieutenant; bass Gwynne Howell as Dansker, an old sailor; and Nicky Spence as the Novice.
Conductor Edward Gardner and the orchestra bring out the quiet lyric beauty of many passages while hitting the dramatic climaxes with thrilling power.