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Indeed. We want to make sure the malware/virus attack vector is as large as possible.
It seems like every time I look at my computer something else is asking to be updated. Flash, Java, Adobe, Firefox, Windows itself, etc. Can we just knock it off already and update once every 6 months or so? That would be nice..
You'd like Debian Stable.
This. I have a friend, she's not a big computer user, but every few days - or weeks - she fires up the laptop to check a few websites, do some emailing and perhaps do some writing. Thing is, it sometimes takes her HOURS to actually get started because in that time all of the software has pushed out new updates, and her bandwidth isn't that high.
i'm good with Thunderbird 5
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as long as the space debris cooperates....
I want my email local, fast and accesible. Thunderbird gives me easy rules and a chance for easy archiving. I also can handle my website email accounts (webmaster, sales, info, etc) much easier. Google is slow and cumbersome (for me).
Not everything is better online.
gmail's offline capabilities are still pretty poor, for one thing. Support for S/MIME isn't quite there yet (though there are browser extensions that try to do it). Latencies are way higher than a local mail client, at least for me. The "conversation" model it uses is not something everyone likes.
Gmail doesn't have NNTP support. Gmail doesn't try to remind you when you forget an to attach an attachment that you mention in the mail. Gmail sticks you with a crappy editing widget for your mail (granted, Thunderbird's is not much better).
Most importantly, not using gmail means Google doesn't have access to your mail. This is something some people actually care about, even if you don't. And not just for "office" mails.
Gmail doesn't try to remind you when you forget an to attach an attachment that you mention in the mail.
Sorry to be picky, but Gmail does do that now and has for a while I believe (although may have only been an optional Labs feature until recently).
Ah, interesting. Indeed, it does. Good to see people stealing feature ideas from each other.
I was quite sensitive to my mail client before I made the switch to gMail. What really spurred it was when I was away from home with just my laptop so was forced to use it rather than Thunderbird. Oh, and I use it via my Android phone too now. In theory you can set Thunderbird up with IMAP access and it will sync everything nicely, but I found it never really worked that well and was very slow.
There are lots of things I don't like about gmail. Lack of a preview window, the edit box, even the black on white
Backups and Liability. I don't think I'm the only person who has lost random messages in Gmail. Also, call me old, but there is some stuff you just don't want sitting on a Gmail account or I should say, there is some stuff that your clients would think about suing you if they knew your employees were just forwarding it off to their Gmail accounts.
Precisely why I use a mail client. I like the web interface, but having a copy on my disk makes it that much less likely that I'll lose any emails due to some sort of hardware failure on either end.
I will likely run my own mail server until the day I die or the technology becomes obsolete. It's my mail, hands off.
It's my mail, hands off.
Agreed. At least we know only we've had access to our e-mails until a jackbooted thug beats our encryption keys out of us.
There's probably not a great reason. But there are a few differences that make it worthwhile to some people. The big thing to remember is Gmail and Thunderbird are not mutually exclusive. I use Gmail through Thunderbird and through a web interface.
Reasons Thunderbird might be useful to some people vs web based Gmail:
Interface preference. Neither is superior, but some folks prefer Thunderbird.
Multiple accounts. Thunderbird lets you manage multiple accounts with multiple providers easily.
Plugins. I can only think of one: openPGP. And most people can live without it.
Search. Believe it or not, Thunderbird gives you better control of search than Gmail
Offline. Thunderbird lets you mess with your email while you are offline.
So my advice is to give Thunderbird a try, don't expect to be blown away, but who knows, you might like it.
Multiple accounts. Thunderbird lets you manage multiple accounts with multiple providers easily.
I think GMail actually does a better job of this. Set your other accounts up to forward, set gmail up to allow you to send as though sending from the other accounts and then you have a single inbox that integrates all of your accounts seamlessly. It does the right thing for replies, too. If you want to more easily see which account a given message is from, make a filter that automatically adds a label. If you decide that you don't want one of the accounts to go to the inbox, have the filter archive it (
Yeah, I was walking a fine line with those two. Figured I could still say them with a straight face. Gmail lets you combine several accounts and does it well, but Thunderbird lets you manage those accounts in one spot. At least a little bit better.
Same bit of hair splitting with search. Google does search better, but Thunderbird has some fine grain control that is handy sometimes.
Google does search better, but Thunderbird has some fine grain control that is handy sometimes.
For example? It's been a couple of years since I stopped using Thunderbird, but I don't recall anything I can't do with GMail.
Can someone give me a good reason to use Thunderbird or any other mail client. I haven't felt the need for it ever since gmail arrived.
Because we don't want to give all our email to Google?
I do not WANT to give my email to Google. I really don't. But I need a multi-PC/mobile solution (i.e. an IMAP server), and I ran my own (hosted) server for my own domain for years, until the spam completely overwhelmed me. I used Tuffmail for awhile, although their spam controls are not-user friendly and I find their documentation very hard to apply. Tuffmail is reasonably priced, although not long ago I went on a cost-cutting spree and Tuffmail got hit.
To-date I use gmail, because they are managing my spam
My guess is that it's easier for Google to do content spam filtering because Google is intentionally scanning/storing/aggregating the mail of *everyone* who uses it so they have that much more to compare to. I don't think Tuffmail does that with their customer's mail; I know I don't.
I run my own mailserver and my email address [mailto] is splattered all over the place. I got a spam yesterday. Gmail does an excellent job of spam filtering, but you can do a pretty great job with your own server [honeypot.net].
Thunderbird is free.
Gmail is "free".
Thunderbird also handles receiving mail from multiple accounts better in my opinion. Yes gmail has all kinds of features to do this, but i like COMPLETELY separate inboxes for some stuff; and stuff like multiple-imap account support is better in thunderbird.
Thunderbird is an application. Gmail is a web application.Its a good web app, but its still feels like a webapp. Its window handling in particular is REALLY annoying compared to a native app.
Yes gmail has all kinds of features to do this, but i like COMPLETELY separate inboxes for some stuff
You can do that with gmail.
stuff like multiple-imap account support is better in thunderbird
How so?
stuff like multiple-imap account support is better in thunderbird
How so?
NM, dumb question.
You can do that with gmail.
You can do a poor and quite limited approximation of that with gmail.
Depending on which account you have selected in in thunderbird, it chooses the correct reply to address by default, attaches the correct signature, maintains the sent items, drafts, etc, separately, etc. And there's no arbitrary limit to how many you can have.
There's other things too... like no limit on the amount of mail you receive. I know a few people who are toting around mailboxes (lots of attachments) that
You can do that with gmail.
You can do a poor and quite limited approximation of that with gmail.
Depending on which account you have selected in in thunderbird, it chooses the correct reply to address by default,
So does gmail. In fact, it does this even if you don't bother to separate your incoming mail into different labels or priority inboxes.
attaches the correct signature
So does gmail. In fact, it does this even if you don't bother to separate your incoming mail into different labels or priority inboxes.
maintains the sent items, drafts, etc, separately, etc.
Okay, that gmail doesn't do. I've never missed it, but I suppose you might. I don't have that many drafts at any given time and when I'm looking for sent items I just use the search.
One comment on drafts: I really like the way gmail ha
Sorry you got modded down because it's a legitimate question. For me, though, the converse is true: I don't want to use any webmail sites when I have a perfectly good local app. I've used Gmail and it's a nice attempt at emulating a local client, but it doesn't offer me any advantages over Thunderbird on my netbook, or my iPhone's inbox, or Mail.app on my Mac. I use IMAP everywhere so all of my email is accessible and synchronized from all of those devices, and attachments download in the background while I
GSA (General Services Administration) is switching to Gmail as part of their migration to the "cloud" you wonder who got the bribe to make this stupidity happen. After many relatively trouble free years with Lotus Notes, the airheads hear the new marketing-speak buzzwords "Cloud Computing" and to impress their equally airheaded managers and to look smart they decided to move from a proven enterprise class application to somthing oriented towards small business and end user applications.
If the lack of any s
Since I host my own mail accounts, and don't want to have to maintain my own web interface to them, having a mail client comes in rather handy.
Also, assuming adequately skilled programmers, a purpose-built locally-running app is almost always going to work better than something kludged together in a web browser.
Since I host my own mail accounts, and don't want to have to maintain my own web interface to them, having a mail client comes in rather handy.
It takes maybe 15 minutes to install Open-Xchange [oxpedia.org] and it works just fine.
I flipped around the site for 5 minutes and came up with no clear idea what Open-Xchange is for.
However, the name strongly suggests that it has something to do with Outlook or Exchange, which are the head and ass end of the worst mail combo I'm aware of.
I leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine which end is which. I suppose it depends on which one they've had to administer.
I flipped around the site for 5 minutes and came up with no clear idea what Open-Xchange is for.
I'm not responsible for the choice of that name, fortunately. Also, if you use open source software you should be already conditioned to expect no sensible description of what the software does
However the software itself is exactly what you need if you require a Web interface to your mail. It's written in Java, works very well and looks good. If you run Ubuntu LTS, for example, the installation is trivia
1. Expended threaded message flow view
2. Viewing messages more than 100 message per page (some folders i have more than 2k)
3. Native execution clients allow better viewing customization (folder/label structure, panel layout, structured view, etc)
4. Automatic viewing message by selection within single viewable screen along with structured message layout view
5. Scheduled message sending (ie. 9AM morning release message prep'd a day before)
6. Client API hook to various other native applications (desktop notifi
You can use drag&drop.
I use it on two computers, for IMAP access to my own mail server, which also has a webmail interface, oh and I can get to my email from my Android phone client too. Or at least I used to until about three weeks ago when my server died and I decided to bin it. Now my email lives inside my laptop and it feels like the 18th century or something. Must by a new fanless system for server 2.0!
Can someone give me a good reason to use Thunderbird or any other mail client.
You need something to access your mail server, and Thunderbird blows the doors off of Outlook. I've set up SquirrelMail on my personal mail server for those times when I only have access to a browser (which isn't often, considering that the mail app on my iPhone speaks IMAPS), but a proper email client (whether desktop or mobile) is just easier to use IMHO. At work, I have Thunderbird talking to our Exchange server with Lightnin
Namely, plug-in compatibility still sucks. Plugins that do really really useful things, such as email redirect, have quit working.
A system of happy volunteers sounds like a great idea until you find out that the volunteers stop maintaining things for whatever reason.
I have 3.1.10 and thought I was quite up to date
Nope! Thunderbird pulled a Winamp and skipped version 4 altogether.
Hmmm, interesting. Would that indicate that skipping version numbers is somehow connected to producing non-standard, totally crappy user interfaces?
Because it uses the same Gecko version as Firefox, they opted to skip a version in the numbering system. It wouldn't have been as obnoxious had they not also skipped Firefox 4.1 in favor of Firefox 5.0.
I feel skipping version numbers is only one step removed from the absolute worst versioning system of using random, not necessarily increasing numbers for each new update. Were these guys drunk or so?
Um, no. Am I the only one who thinks this is a bad idea?
I'm not sure why an email client should have an RSS reader incorporated into it. Seems more appropriate for a web browser, but that's just me.
To be honest I used to think that, but when you have a very old RSS field with 1000+ entries stored as bookmarks, its rather irritating.
Now with thunderbird its rather like receiving an email. In fact, RSS basically replaces the "sending newsletter by email", so its also more natural.
After having read the release notes, the improvement to the ordinary user still remains unclear. Sounds more like a patch than a new version...
The greatest change seems to be the gecko engine. But anyone who sends me HTML mail gets a reprimand anyway. Does anyone really uses HTML in emails? I mean seriously? I get and read about 100 mails per day and write 30-50. Percentage of HTML mail is, once you throw out the marketing spam, well below 1%.
What i really miss from Thunderbird is a better search interface. I want search terms like "from contains dummy.com and body contains upgrade and to is not me". For more complex searches, i currently create virtual folders (based on one search result) and then search within that folder. But even this method has its limits.
I have most of my emails (now 18 years) archived. Saved my ass on at least half a dozen occasions. But this means 12.000 mails archived per year (much less in 1993, but always growing). So searching becomes the main problem now.
CU, Martin
Does anyone really uses HTML in emails?
Embedded pictures. Which of course is why spammers exclusively use HTML email.
Well, if you attach Images to a non HTML mail, they get shown by default too.... So even spammers could do without HTML mails, can't they?
For rich text effects. Bold, code font, italic, decent looking quote of previous mail.
and now it's got partial transparency. Those are the biggest things I notice.
Working with people on organizations over here, everyone uses a simple html template with their sig (simple html plus embedded company logo)
Valid example, but rarely used. I expected to see it more often when Netscape first announced HTML mail. They even showed off examples like the ones you mentioned...
Most of the user interface for Thunderbird and Firefox is implemented in XUL [wikipedia.org] which is rendered using Gecko. Any improvements to the engine, and in particular with JavaScript, will boost the performance of the application as a whole.
I never noticed a performance problem with the GUI, but you may be right there for people with less powerfull machines....
Yeah, I haven't used it since version 1, when I was evaluating a replacement for Eudora on my parent's computer. Back then it was dirt slow on a P4, and I ended up recommending Pegasus for that reason, even though I thought Thunderbird was more user friendly. It's probably gotten a lot better since then.
I was just pointing out why a Gecko upgrade is more significant than just improved HTML emails.
As a developer and program-manager, I use HTML for most of my email...
* When I'm sending code snippets, it's nice to have them colorized
* When I'm sending a list of feature options along with their pros/cons, it's nice to tabulate this
* When I'm sending normal prose, it's nice to use italic/bold
* When I'm sending a list of bugs, it's nice to make that a table
* When I'm sending action items, it's nice to highlight the "Must Act Now" recipient's name in yellow
* When I'm reporting bugs, it's nice to have scree
But anyone who sends me HTML mail gets a reprimand anyway. Does anyone really uses HTML in emails? I mean seriously?
I used to be like you (reprimanding people for not living in my black-and-white monospaced world) until I realized that colors, hyperlinks, inline images, and weighted fonts of varying sizes are helpful in communicating clearly and getting one's message across.
At one time these features were new (not readable by all recipients) and dangerous (not sandboxed appropriately), but that was year
I realized that colors, hyperlinks, inline images, and weighted fonts of varying sizes are helpful in communicating clearly and getting one's message across.
True, but those are usually longer texts which are attachments but not mails. But i have to confess that i can use underline and boldface without using HTML is something i use....
it's time to leave the people using mutt and Outlook Express 5.5 behind.
What's with the users of pine and elm? I know some of them
Does anyone really uses HTML in emails? I mean seriously?
Yes, definitely, though the amount depends on the envrironment. At work, probably over 80% of my emails have meaningful HTML formatting in them - most often it's syntax-highlighted code (copy/pasted from Visual Studio) and screenshots. Occasionally it's also tables and nested lists.
...and hoping Asa doesn't go spouting off about how Thunderbird is horrible for managed email systems.
Nope, he merely said it looked so ugly he was switching to another mail client.
I think at this point, it's more of a "projectile vomited" rather then "released". Or at least it describes both the desirability of the stuff being excreted and the speed.
When it comes to email, reliability and functionality is FAR more important then any new features. Losing important/mission critical plug-ins to version crap can impact your real life in a vastly negative way.
Oh well, there's always outlook. Can't believe I'd actually consider moving back to MS software on email. But if Mozilla is hell-bent to ensure that I don't want to use plug-ins because they will be killed every month for several days if I'm lucky, and never released on time if not (finnish dictionary add-on, I'm looking at you), then I might as well go back to outlook.
At least it has proper spell checking in languages I need for my daily functioning.
I tried Outlook in 2003 or so and found it to be so bad I can't imagine anyone could work on the product and not kill themselves from shame. I imported my e-mail archives into it only to find it craps out at about 1.5GB in a mailbox file and randomly starts losing stuff. When I mentioned the problem to a few folks their responses were, essentially, "Of course, that's a well-known bug." It would take 30-60 seconds to open a large folder. I could go on...
I have to use Outlook at work and I'm randomly gett
So they have caught up with Firefox having the fonts messed up. One has to manually set gfx.direct2d to false in config editor to have readable fonts (at least on Windows).
The whole Mozilla suite seems to go downhill.
All developers considering using Direct2D (or rather DirectWrite) should first read this doc page [microsoft.com], and tattoo DWRITE_RENDERING_MODE_CLEARTYPE_GDI_CLASSIC on their forehead.
Remember, every time you render a glyph in DWRITE_RENDERING_MODE_DEFAULT, I kill a kitten. And eat it. With no mustard.
Seriously. This update schedule is even more innane for email clients then it is for the web browser (where at least there might be something new in one of these releases). Now they're just releasing stuff for the sake of sticking to some retarded schedule, no matter how little sense it makes.
There's only one thing I ask for above all else in an email client: stability. I want it to work, and I want it to hassle me as little as possible. Mozilla seems like their new goal is to annoy people into submission.
Mozilla seems like their new goal is to annoy people into submission.
In the open software world, that's annoying people into finding better alternatives. When the numbers start dwindling, they'll pay attention to the problem. Let's hope for them it won't be too late.
It won't let you create an account (even for testing purposes) using servers and settings that it can't "probe".
Working at a tech support firm as I do, the new account wizard that was implemented with TB3 is an absolute nightmare for users. I like TB better than MS mail clients in general, but they make us and our users' lives far more difficult than need be.
Do away with the "autoconfiguration" crap and just let people specify what they want, or at least make it optional to have TB "autodetect" everything, for cripes' sake. What's wrong with letting the end-user configure an account using any settings they want?
Same here. WTF is the point of using tabs for email? If I want multiple messages open, it's BECAUSE I WANT TO SEE THEM AT THE SAME TIME. The whole thing felt like using webmail, the avoidance of which is exactly why I was using a desktop email client in the first place.
Still on 18.104.22.168 and apparently I'll still be on it for a long time â" especially since a commenter above said that the "redirect" plugin no longer works in 5.0. Why on earth they are so rabidly resistant to adding that basic feature
I know that eye candy isn't really the measure of a quality product, but, by the same token, I can't comfortably use an application that is visually offensive to me. Thunderbird 3.1 on Windows XP had some aspects of its UI that didn't seem quite right. When I moved to Windows 7, everything looked pretty good.
Then Thunderbird 5 comes out with their "theme fixes" and the menu bar and Mail Toolbar look unbelievable awful. I use Thunderbird to access my two Gmail accounts, because I prefer a more traditional, f
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T-Wolves use onside kick to get comeback win
West Oktibbeha head coach Adam Lowrey felt like his team needed to work on their onside kick in recent weeks, but he did not expect them to need to use it.
As fate would have it, Friday night's 32-26 win over Noxapater came down to an onside kick.
The Timberwolves scored on an 18-yard pass from quarterback Von Smith to receiver Aaron Brownlee with 3:28 left in the game to pull the score within one point of the visiting Tigers at 26-25. Lowrey made the gutsy call to go for the two-point conversion and the win, but Smith's pass went just over the head of Dwight Quinn and fell to the ground.
It was time to attempt and onside kick.
Pavious Lawrence kicked the ball up the middle of the field, and in the scramble a Timberwolves player came up with the ball (no one on the sidelines was sure who got it.)
"We needed it tonight, and it worked," said Lowrey, who was coaching against his former teammate at Louisville High School, Tyler Peterson.
The Timberwolves took over at their own 45-yard line, and moved to the Noxapater 47 after a 12-yard completion from Smith to Drake Powell. A 45-yard run by sophomore Tiberius Lampkin set the Timberwolves up at the Noxapater goal line, and two plays later he punched it in for the go-ahead score. West Oktibbeha held Noxpater on their final drive and went home with a 32-36 victory.
The touchdown was Lampkin's second of the night, as he began the game's scoring with a 61-yard touchdown reception in the first quarter. Lampkin finished with 127 rushing yards behind Steven Robinson, Jeremy Brown and Lawrence. He also had 76 receiving yards for the night.
After halftime, Lowrey made the decision to give Lampkin more carries after listening to what his lineman had to say.
"He was rippin em," Lowrey said. "The boys told me they we're soft up the middle, and I was greedy throwing a little too much."
The Timberwolves appeared to be comfortably ahead at halftime, up 13-0 after a 19-yard touchdown pass from Smith to Quinn, but turnovers and penalties put Noxapater back in the lead.
Noxapater first got on the scoreboard with a double-pass that ended with Gregory McBeath in the end zone. West Oktibbeha extended the lead back to two touchdowns on a Quinn run from 11 yards out in the third quarter.
In the fourth quarter, a 40-yard dash to the corner of the end zone by Noxapater quarterback Ethan Hamilton put the Tigers up 26-19, but the Timberwolves rallied to score two more touchdowns before time ran out to lock up the win.
Lowrey said he pulled out all the stops in Friday's win, and did not want to leave anything in his arsenal unused.
"I can't go home with my big guns loaded, still in the truck," Lowrey said. "I better shoot them rascals before I can't shoot anymore."
Lowrey and the Timberwolves will look to build on their back-to-back wins when they take on Thomastown next Friday. For now, Lowrey is just thankful for his team's ability to overcome adversity.
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Hero Complex commando Chris Lee visited the set of "The A-Team" in Canada last month and writes that the Fox summer film might be of a different caliber than fans might expect.
The new trailer for Fox's big-budget screen adaptation of "The A-Team" (due in theaters June 11) makes a point to hit the familiar touchstones of the cheese-tacular '80s action-comedy TV series.
Liam Neeson's character, Col. John "Hannibal" Smith, leader of the fun-loving crew of mercenary brigands, utters the late George Peppard's signature line from the show: "I love it when a plan comes together!" And Bradley Cooper (in the playboy mercenary role of Lt. Templeton "Faceman" Peck made famous by Dirk Benedict ) looks at former UFC champion Quinton "Rampage" Jackson's B.A. Baracus character (Mr. T's scowling dramatic creation) and remarks, "You look like you have a real bad attitude."
But in movie promotions, as with blind dates, first impressions can be deceiving.
On the movie's Vancouver set last month, writer-director Joe Carnahan ("Smokin' Aces," "Narc") explained "The A-Team" film is hardly a by-the-book big-screen rendering of the series. Where the original Alpha Unit was a squad of disgraced Vietnam war vets, the new team is made up of covert operatives who ran missions during the most recent Iraq war and get hung out to dry for crimes they didn't commit.
According to the director, this adaptation is more in the spirit of Christopher Nolan's Batman update than, say, Will Ferrell's dumbed-down version of "Land of the Lost" or Ben Stiller's comedy-arrested "Starsky and Hutch." "I'm not interested in making the easy, breezy Cover Girl version of 'The A-Team,'" Carnahan said.
Although the project had been gestating with various directors – most notably John Singleton — for almost a decade, Carnahan threw out all the previous scripts and redrafted the action to kick off during the impending American troop withdrawal from the Middle East.
"I thought they were too slavishly devoted to the TV show," Carnahan said of past script adaptations. "While I like the TV show, I didn't think it was any great shakes in terms of heavy drama. You could take that story and have it translate into the present day with more success."
Exhibit A: Gone are B.A.'s thick coil of gold necklaces and habit of exclaiming "I pity the fool!" In character on-set, however, Jackson conspicuously sported temporary tattoos across his knuckles that read "P-I-T-Y" on the right hand and "F-O-O-L" on the left.
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I can feel a lawsuit coming...
If those guys didn't get sued after leaving Apple and starting their own company, why do you think Apple would have any legal grounds to come after them now?
It's quite likely that the price was a trifle (In Google's eyes).
And Google probably roped them into being employees at least for a few months.
And maybe they just wanted some particular technology.
Apple probably doesn't care if they go on their own way and have a great success, say, making chips for controlling A/C units. But going to Google, whom they see as a big ship in collision course with them, can't end up in a happy "we're all friends" ending, can it?
I can feel a lawsuit coming...
Because that's the kind of business Apple is, they don't innovate, they litigate. It's been this way for a while, the look and feel lawsuit is a great historical example.
Why is it any different then any other day? Lawsuits are just the name of the game now.. no matter what a company does *someone* is going to sue..
Typically, a group like that builds a chip or architecture and learns from the experience. Sitting around having a few beers or in the cafeteria they start talking about how they could make the bestest, badest, most energy efficient or highest performance or whatever chip ever, given what they know now. Someone knows someone who works higher up at google and pretty soon they are talking.
Google wants to make phones, netbooks and tablets. They've been investing money in coding for ARM, but it makes sense to look into producing their own chips for these devices.
With everyone saying ARM is so efficient how are we to know that Google is not investing in ARM to make more energy efficient ARM based servers?
With everyone saying ARM is so efficient how are we to know that Google is not investing in ARM to make more energy efficient ARM based servers?
It's definitely a market that ARM itself is also targeting: ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/ict/docs/computing/arm-emre-ozer_en.pdf [europa.eu] (see e.g. the EuroCloud project mentioned on slide 3)
apparently nobody paid attention to the fact that every android phone runs on arm, aka google is already investing in ARM.
They are.
Google has job postings all over advertising looking for infrastructure architects with ARM experience and solid state drives, with an aim of reducing power consumption.
I'd have to guess that was a server play, though maybe it's a handheld one....
Seems smart. Why am I paying for (and paying to power) this Intel floating point unit when I'm only serving web pages?
But, Google's growth has been perpetuated by use of cheap commodity hardware, ie: profiting off the fact that the rest of us drive the price down by buying lots. A switch to specialized chips would mean a new direction for the company.
I mean, they could have done this from the beginning with fancy IBM or SUN or Unisys mainframe stuff, which typically allow you to configure IO subsystems (which is the main bottleneck of web serving). Likewise if they are doing database stuff you'd want a lot of RAM and wide I/O bandwidth, 128 bits or more. All standard for a long time on IBM stuff. But it's expensive, not commodity. Even Google's 100-300K servers (or maybe it's a million now, who knows) is not going to bring the scale of the whole worldwide market for Intel chips (100M plus annually).
So I don't see how this could benefit them long-term. Sure, power savings might add up to a lot so it's a good investment. And since they want to be the entire Internet (including your desktop), it's really a matter of energy over all else. But they are definitely going to need to keep adding hardware to keep growing, so that means higher chip expenses upfront. But, if they can spin the same processor into a little home or mobile computer to connect to their services, they might be able to start leveraging this scale thing again. But it seems to be a big risk to get into the manufacturing business.
What's even more amusing is that some of the seed capital that founded ARM Holdings came from.... Apple corporation.
But master of none, to finish the phrase.
Google's famous for being a risk taker. They try a ton of stuff and keep what seems to work. It keeps them fluid. The search engine game was good for them for a long time but they seem to get the hint that the way of the world is "innovate or die", so they're branching out. Gmail/Google Apps and the Android seem to be working out for them pretty well.
I think that this branching out is just a sign of a company doing the right thing and keeping active rather than resting on it's laurels.
Google's famous for being a risk taker.
They are?? Seems like a "risk taker" wouldn't have required months of research and usability studies to decide on a simple color change or that they should in fact increase the font size of their home page by 2 points...
That's fine. While I love my iPhone and I'll gladly shill Apple's crap for free, there's hardly a master of any of these(I'll argue that yes, Apple deservedly top of the heap for mobile devices; but if there were no iPhone, Android *would* be the sexiest thing on the block; even if there are huge, radical flaws with the platform). When it comes to maps, fiber, search, even Usenet, Google does things well.
Google needs to try a little harder, Google Groups is one of the biggest sources of spam for discussion groups, to the point that many people simply block it altogether.
IBM was known as a typewriter company. Diversification and investing in future markets is a major reason IBM is still a major player today, even though the typewriter business is dead.
The reality is that Google is not a monolithic entity that does everything poorly. I don't think the search team has much to do with the Android team. They probably don't have many "jacks of all trades", but instead have many small, focused teams that are really good at what they do.
Just because they share the same brand name doesn't mean they all work out of one homogenous brain-pool.
I mean, there are plenty of companies making ARM chips for phones. Google will want to use commodity stuff for that -- it means that the cost of innovating around the phone platform (hardware side) is someone else's problem, and that's already happening.
On the other hand, they have enormous power bills and would gain personally from computers which do the same amount of work as what they currently have for 1/10th the power.
Google's avoided making their own servers (using a commodity board) because other pe
I know ARM is very efficient for low-power, small devices. But ARM has had Linux support for years. If ARM scaled up well, wouldn't we have seen ARM Linux servers by now?
I'm assuming it doesn't scale up the way Google would need it. If I'm mistaken, please enlighten me.
If ARM scaled up well, wouldn't we have seen ARM Linux servers by now?
I suspect the answer is that none of the off-the-shelf ARM SoCs come with the kind of network and disk controllers that servers need. This means that you can't just use off-the-shelf ARM parts in a server, you need to do a fair bit of custom work. A quad-core Cortex A9 with a couple of SATA and GigE controllers on die would be a pretty nice server chip for a lot of workloads.
Going back to my question, if this was feasible, why hasn't it been done before?
Google definitely wins todays headlines
I wonder if Google just absconded with the real value in the chip company?
I don't actually believe that Apple lost a lot of momentum in this defection. In general, it's the folks who had alternative ideas for an architecture that didn't win out that tend to leave. I bet Google eventually gets stuck with something like a chip that has an insane pipeline structure, makes a different power/speed tradeoff (and probably for the worse), or has some other weird bag o'crap bolted to the side.
In addition, there are a *lot* of chip designers still left over from the chip manufacturer lay
As someone else said, ARM may not be the best platform for Google's servers.
If what you say is true - they're the divergent group of engineers - then it's quite possible that Google hired them for that very reason. Maybe they wanted to build a PPC architecture for Apple's iPad, or something else entirely. We do know that these engineers were focused on power efficiency, and that is a very big concern for Google (it's a large part of their operations costs, after all). There are a lot of ways to save power w
Some of the key talent, yes. However, that talent would have been wasted at Apple, just as their fine processor was. I'd be surprised if any of top people stayed long, after Apple tossed out their years of effort, only to have them doing ASIC monkey work.
It disgusts me to see how Apple chews up brilliant companies only to scavenge a few bits and pieces.
Google has had their hands in some aspects of hardware for a while now. They have their own custom designed server motherboards.
Google has had their hands in some aspects of hardware for a while now. They have their own custom designed server motherboards.
But this is their first into the whole "digital music/iphone/ipad" world. Apple has dominated that world for quite some time so it may be good to get some competition.
Um, the G1 - Google's first phone - came out 2 years ago. 1 year after the iPhone. They aren't exactly new to that space.
The "iPad" world? It was released 18 days ago. Apple is as much of a newbie on that scene as everyone else.
Um, Google didn't design that. HTC did. It's not very different at all from HTC's Windows Mobile products.
Even the Nexus One isn't a Google design - it's an HTC phone carrying Google branding. (Which is very common, HTC has ALWAYS been very rebranding-friendly, it is only very recently that you started seeing the HTC brand in the United States even though HTC phones have been in the USA for quite a while.)
Um, Google didn't design that. HTC did. It's not very different at all from HTC's Windows Mobile products.
Google laid out the platform, which is what people care about. Hell when the thing first came out it was just called the "Google Phone" by most people. Google providing the firmware while other companies deal with the hardware seems to be how they're approaching this market, and they seem to be doing well with it.
Google has had their hands in some aspects of hardware for a while now. They have their own custom designed server motherboards.
Next - Google Chips,
Then - Google Sand!
Then Google Planet Formation, Google Accretion Disk, all the way down to the Google BigBang I assume
Custom designed server boards aren't as hard as you think - based on what CPU and Chip set combo you plan on using there is a starting working reference design for you to customize (only exception was when VIA reverse engineered their own P4 chip set using no reference)
but the point being - it is a lot easier to do something custom if you do it by modifying something that you already know works..
Apple has a good handle on their vertical, from hardware to content. Google is just beginning its jump into the hardware portion. I imagine this is just another rung in the ladder from the bottom to the top, control all the way.
You seem a bit confused.
Apple designed the vertical integration from the word go, Google designed an open platform from the word go. What you state is the antithesis of an open platform
If Google is entering the consumer hardware business which is pure speculation at this poin
I did not know "architect" could be used as a verb. Let me try: Frank Gehry architects buildings for a living. Emperor Palpatine tried to architect the downfall of the rebels.
How about...
"The firm's enormous security guard reacted quickly to the arrival of Carlos the Jackal. Reaching for the closest blunt instrument at hand, the guard picked up I. M. Pei and architected the terrorist to death."
"The firm's enormous security guard reacted quickly to the arrival of Carlos the Jackal. Reaching for the closest blunt instrument at hand, the guard picked up I. M. Pei and architected the terrorist to death."
Who said crime doesn't Pei?
Even better is nouning the verbs.
What the fuck does that mean?
I think it would be "empowerment"
I'm can't think of any verbs that can't be nounded, but maybe my imagination is failing me. LOL
There are plenty of nous that can't be verbed easily. (such as noun and verb and door, etc)
I just looked and the Oxford dictionary recognizes it, and points to archived letters from Keats in 1813 using the word as a verb.
It was considered an "overly formal" usage for awhile, but I think the use in computer-speak has brought it back toward mainstream.
I did not know "architect" could be used as a verb.
Heck, it worked for "Googled"
Grammatical or not, it's been standard parlance for at least a decade in datacenter (and probably other) IT. Everything gets verbed eventually. See?
It's called NewSpeak. Don't worry. Your head will clear and your worries will be gone as soon as the war ends.
Mountain View, start your photocopiers.
Sounds like an interesting sex toy!
No, they sniped the engineers, not the marketting team.
Google isn't THAT dumb.
And then, about 5 years later, the WinPad.
Right with a "early experimental hacked together" OpenPad, which is only actually usable 5 years later,
and looks and behaves exactly like the WinPad with some missing smoothness, which itself behaves exactly like the GPad and iPad only a lot more annoying and with shitloads of security holes.
Meanwhile in useful innovation land... nobody has ever heard of *Pads. ^^
Google has been spending a lot of effort -- from custom power structures inside their buildings to buying that magic box that generates power form minerals to custom-making their own server blades -- to reduce power and make energy efficient servers; they have so many of them after all.
These guys, while formerly PA Semi, focused their new business on energy-efficient server CPU's. So I wouldn't so much expect a gPad. It's likely the consumer will never see the chips that are being produced here.
It's also unlikely that Google would ever see a ROI from purchasing an entire semi-conductor company just to save a bit of money on the chips in their own servers. They're planning on marketing these to SOMEONE. They might be part of servers, or they might be part of a pad (I think Android-based pads are an inevitability myself - it's just a question of if these will power them or not). Heck they might be part of a set-top box or something else, but they are definitely planning on selling these chips as
We're talking millions per year worth of money for powering their server farms. The custom blade design alone saved them a few million annually. We're not talking small money, especially as they keep expanding to meet the needs of the tubes.
I know we're talking millions per year powering their server farms, but keep things in perspective. NOTHING will eliminate that power bill. All something can do is REDUCE it. So you have to look at the difference in power consumption as the return. Total power consumption is moot. Now consider: how much did they pay for this company? We don't know, but semi-conductor firms tend to run in the HUNDREDS of million of dollars. You also have to take away from that the cost associated with RUNNING this com
It should be fairly obvious that your estimate of the acquisition price is substantially wrong. Yes, semiconductor manufacturing firms are worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Intel and Motorola are worth billions.
But that's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about a startup that doesn't even have a webpage. They have a handful of employees and very likely they have little or no revenue at all. Google was buying a convenient blob of talent, nothing more. I'd be astounded if they paid m
to reduce power and make energy efficient servers; they have so many of them after all.
These guys, while formerly PA Semi, focused their new business on energy-efficient server CPU's.
Yeah, Google has to realize their trends and that they can't cover the entire Earth's landmass with servers or they'll have nowhere for their customers to live.
There was some talk about a packet-processing oriented CPU that would be less general-purpose, but better suited to Internet-style workloads. Maybe get a 30:1 improveme
Now that Google is getting into hardware, it's only a matter of before we see:
The Google Search (and destroy) Robot.
Its ok, all you have to do is tattoo the following on your forehead and they won't bother you:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Thankfully we've been defending against this [robotstxt.org] for years.
Now that Google is getting into hardware, it's only a matter of before we see:
The Google Search (and destroy) Robot.
In that case, any future Robot invasion could be thwarted with robots.txt
It could be for their back end, to save power over intel.
They might save enough $ in power savings alone to make it worth buying the chip company.. AND not be reliant on anyone else.
Speak fucking English dammit.
Are you telling me that Apple bought PA Semi in April 2008, the formerly PA Semi team designed the A4 and then they left Apple to start their own company which Google bought right away?
A 32-bit architecture like ARM really has no place in Google's servers, and it is hard to imagine that those who jumped ship from PASemi/Apple would want to do the same sort of ARM integration monkey work at Google.
It is a shame that Google didn't pick up PASemi before Apple wasted their processor and years of effort; the PA6T would have served Google very well. I expect that Google is thinking long-term here, and we may even see a brand new 64-bit ISA, something that scales well from phones to low-power s
A 32-bit architecture like ARM really has no place in Google's servers,
Why are you so sure about that??
I'm thinking that, for what Google does, it fits like a charm.
Think 4 core ARM chip (maybe) with 4GB RAM and an SSD running using 10W. Compare that with the, I dunno, 50W maybe 80W current x86 + HD server
Especially since Google doesn't care (much) about server performance rather than shoving as many servers as they can onto their datacenters.
That may seem fine now, but core and memory density will continue to grow. It just doesn't scale, and in a few years, the efficiency advantages will be lost with increasingly integration. For example, a single 32-core/32GB machine vs. eight 4-core/4GB machines, 8 network connections, etc. Also, 32-bits of address space is already insufficient to properly utilize 4GB of physical RAM.
The fact is, it is a dead end, and I don't think Google is short-sighted or arrogant enough to employ some of the most talen
These are people who left PA Semi as soon as it was bought by Apple. They had nothing to do with iPad.
Apparently, ex-Intrinsity people had more to do with the A4 than ex-PA Semi people also.
The rumor now is that Apple will buy ARM, which they co-founded to make the Newton.
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Where to pray is not the issue. But whether.
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I dare not lay down too strict rules on such points as these. I leave them to your own conscience. You must be guided by circumstances.
Our Lord Jesus Christ prayed on a mountain;
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I have heard of young men praying in stables and haylofts. All that I contend for is this, you must know what it is to "go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen" (Matthew 6:6).
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While visiting the Grand Canyon (east side drive) we stopped at the Tusayan Ruin and Museum. The National Park Service maintains an extremely informative web page on the Tusayan site here. The Tusayan Ruins is the remnant of a small village that had perhaps 30 inhabitants. They only lived at the site for about 25 to 30 years in the late 1100's. It was constructed of pueblo, which at this site, is made of limestone blocks held together with mud. The site was excavated in 1930.
The ruins site provides a fascinating glimpse into the history and peoples of the Grand Canyon. I took a few photos in the museum with low light and no flash, the quality is poor at best. Outside at the actual site I found this map, I found the organization of the rooms to be interesting.
Below, by the shape and size, appears to be the storage rooms:
And, below, these rooms would appear to be living quarters:
This round area is called a small kiva or ceremonial room. The signage explained that Kivas were usually built underground, but due to the limestone here in the Grand Canyon that type of construction was not viable. They signage also claimed that this Kiva burned at some time, it was not rebuilt, but another Kiva was built close by.
Also visited during our drive of the east side of the South Rim of the Grand Canyon National Park was the Watchtower. The National Park Service has an information page on the Watchtower and Mary Colter here.
The Watchtower was build as a gift shop and rest area at Desert View. It was designed by architect Mary Colter, finished and opened in 1933. She personally oversaw the building and placement of just about every stone. She chose Hopi art to be painted on the interior walls, the artist was Fred Kabotie.
Note high on the walls are also containers, bowls, beautifully painted, the placement on shelves was certainly interesting.
Below, the view from the Watchtower looking east:
And, below, this view is basically looking west, the Colorado River snaking through the Canyon can just be seen in the distance.
As we left the area one of the pull overs we stopped at had this view of the Watchtower (we were looking east to the tower.)
Tomorrow I will finish up our visit to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.
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- Michelle Goodrum said...
Thanks for the tour of the Watch Tower. We have never been inside and I must say it is stunning.
- July 18, 2011 at 1:05 AM
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Following up on yesterday's story about the PS3 being hacked by one of its own official controllers, there's now a guide in English that details how to mod a Sixaxxis controller.
If by "official controllers" you mean "a microcontroller mounted inside the shell of an official controller", sure. Or you could save yourself the work and just keep the microcontroller outside by itself.
(And the exploit is still blocked by new firmwares, so it's still not terribly exciting.)
Instead of a bunch of exploits and cracks and whatever, I'd currently settle for having the full functionality of my PS3 slim restored, so I can use sound over HDMI again, something I can no longer do since 3.42.
As I said, I don't care about the cracks, I just want my sound back.
File a lawsuit because part of the HDMI standard requires the capability to output sound over HDMI.
You may not bear the HDMI logo without following the HDMI standard.
This is blatant false advertising
It's optional to choose which revision of HDMI audio/video you want, but you must still include the full functionality or not bear the HDMI logo.
I upgraded to 3.42 before taking the time to think about how much I've actually been using the PS3 for games this year. It's really just another media center for me at the moment.
Since realizing that I'd rather use it as a retro gaming station than have PSN functionality, I've been frustrated by my own haste to accept the update to 3.42.
He's not even wanting an exploit. He just wants his PS3 to work as it did when he bought it.
Sony did a bait and switch on it's customers.
Ah, good point. And your right, it's just a matter of time before people find a way to make it do what they want.
i would dispute that the tutorial could be considered English and not a semi random group of english words
could somebody please that has access to the original please do a proper translation??
"(And the exploit is still blocked by new firmwares, so it's still not terribly exciting.)"
But it means they will have to update the firmware, perhaps they will actually include something interesting.
Just punch this into the controller:
That is exactly what he typed. unfortunate arrow keys don't display all that well.
hmm... I can't seem to find the select or start button on my keyboard either, what the hell.
The summary makes it sound like the ps3 controller was first, but there have been lots of compatible devices, especially android phones, also listed here.
http://psfreedom.com/wiki/Device_compatibility_list [psfreedom.com]
I can't believe it hasn't had a mention in this thread -
The PSFreedom hack started out with someone tinkering with their N900 - the full-fat linux phone.
The Android, iPhone, dingoo and other PSFreedom ports originate there.
If you're going to make a guide telling people where to solder chips onto a board, you should really, REALLY make the effort to have those pictures be in focus.
Best possible advice I can give to anyone soldering is not do it stoned and/or naked. I know that may sound strange and unbelievable, but when you get stoned you tend to try to do your favorite hobbies in new and exciting ways.
My particular mistake was being distracted by the awe and wonderment of solder turning into a liquid and not realizing that it had pooled on the table and then started a river of molten hot excitement over the edge, down my stomach, across my penis, and then a waterfall of exquisite, transcendental, and searing heat/pain/dear-fucking-god-thats-hot of solder across both my testicles.
I realize this PSA might be for a small demographic here on Slashdot, but trust me, it's an important one.
Hmm, is there a "too informative" mod?
and then a waterfall of exquisite, transcendental, and searing heat/pain/dear-fucking-god-thats-hot of solder across both my testicles.
Sort of like very hot grits?
Haven't been following these developments too closely, but does anyone know if this jailbreak will eventually (or already does) allow installing a Linux distro on a jailbroken PS3?
Removing the OtherOS option really pissed off a lot of people (including a friend of mine who wanted to try his hand at some Cell development) and while I admit the machine didn't quite seem powerful enough to run full-on X/* comfortably (and forget compiz/etc) it still had its uses for many of us tinkerers (yes yes, small crowd).
There are two options for linux on a Jailbroken PS3 -
1. Re-enable OtherOS. Some progress seems to have been made in this direction, one guy managed to get linux to install to an existing OtherOS partition by running the OtherOS installer, which can be made to work on cracked machine. However there doesn't seem to be a way of activating it. Work is currently going on to crack PS3s running fw version 3.15, so that a firmware dump of those can be analysed to see what the differences are and find out if there's
<leans back in easy chair and sips drink>
Sony has been thoughtful enough to entertain me lately with all these stories of them cutting off various appendages in order to spite their face.
Only Sony...like no other.
e-credibility: the non-guaranteeable likelihood that the electronic data you're seeing is genuine rather than somebody's made-up crap. - Karl Lehenbauer


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Macon Police Bust Suspected Meth Lab | Crime
A suspected meth lab bust kept Macon law enforcement busy early Wednesday morning.
13WMAZ learned the bust happened off Vineville Avenue near the intersection of Brookdale Avenue and Kingsbury Drive.
Police dispatch confirmed that location to us, along with several news tips.
Our crew on the scene saw several cop cars, along with a HAZMAT vehicle and a firetruck.
The police on the scene say the house was suspected of meth activity for a while, but "not known to be active." They only confirm they found "something," but would not verify the location of the lab.
In a news release, police spokeswoman Jami Gaudet says investigators found two bottles -- 12- and 16-ounces respectively -- "containing residue."
No other information has been made available at this time.


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Just curious, but did the dentist give you an anti-biotic? I'm not certain if you take them or not, but a lot of the time tooth pain can stem from an infection. If I read your previous entry it sounds like you split a tooth into the root and then there was an air pocket that got into there? (I had that happen when I was younger, couldn't stop screaming for about 3 hours)
I hope you feel better soon :-)
That's so great of your friend, Cathy! Worth her weight in gold! Hope you feel better today.


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Two chambers on course to become one
- December 29, 2009
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Believing that the value of two business organizations is more than the sum of its parts, the Prince William County-Greater Manassas Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Prince William Regional Chamber of Commerce are moving forward with a merger proposal.
Chamber leaders say that the move was prompted by opportunity rather than concern over the economy. The Greater Manassas Chamber, which will celebrate its 75th anniversary in 2010, and the Regional Chamber, which is 55 years old, are the third and fourth largest chambers, respectively, in Northern Virginia. Each organization has more than 1,100 members (with only about 200 overlapping members) and operates on an annual budget of more than $600,000.
Two chambers were established because distinct communities existed on the east and west sides of the county, separated by a large tract of forest. With the county's rapid development in recent years, the communities have grown closer together.
"One of the key benefits is to unify our business community, to help show that, as far as economic development efforts go, the community is going to help promote the entire region, including Manassas and Manassas Park," says Jim DiModica, chairman of the Regional Chamber. He notes that 85 percent of chamber members are small businesses with fewer than 15 employees. "This is all about a strength move and an investment in the community."
If the merger is approved by the chambers' members this spring, the new organization will be called the Prince William County Chamber of Commerce. To guard against the perception that one chamber is more important than the other, the combined organization would hire a new CEO. The current chamber presidents would be offered positions in the chamber's executive management and the current staffs would merge.
Molly Grove, chairman of the Greater Manassas Chamber, says unification would position the new organization as "the go-to place and a single voice" for business in Prince William County.


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(AP) -- Top-ranked Alabama has improved to 4-0 by handing Ole Miss its first shutout loss in almost 15 years.
T.J. Yeldon rushed for 121 yards and Kenyan Drake added 99 as the Crimson Tide beat No. 21 Mississippi 25-0. Alabama entered the game last in the SEC in rushing and was held to 36 yards on the ground by halftime before gaining another 218 in the second half. Yeldon scored on a 68-yard run and Drake added a 50-yard scamper.
AJ McCarron completed 25 of 32 passes for 180 yards with an interception for Alabama.
Mississippi was seeking its first 4-0 start since 1973.
Ohio State quarterback Braxton Miller made a productive return by throwing for a career-high four touchdowns to lift the fourth-ranked Buckeyes to a 31-24 win against No. 23 Wisconsin. Miller was back after missing the last two games with a sprained left knee and didn't show the slightest bit of rust. The junior threw three touchdown passes in the first half, including a 40-yarder to Corey Brown with one second left that put the Buckeyes ahead 24-14.
Georgia and Oklahoma also won top-25 matchups.
The ninth-ranked Bulldogs beat No. 6 LSU 44-41 on Aaron Murray's 25-yard scoring strike to Justin Scott-Wesley with 1:47 remaining. Murray also ran for a touchdown and finished with 298 passing yards and four TDs in Georgia's second victory over a top-10 team.
The 14th-ranked Sooners turned three interceptions into touchdowns and beat No. 22 Notre Dame 35-21. Corey Nelson returned a pick for a 24-yard TD, Damien Williams added an 11-yard scoring run after an interception by linebacker Frank Shannon, and Blake Bell threw a 26-yard TD pass to Lacoltan Bester following a Julian Wilson interception.
Eleventh-ranked Oklahoma State can expect to fall in Sunday's Associated Press college football poll. The Cowboys were 3-0 until they allowed 13 points off four turnovers and lost 30-21 at West Virginia.
Clint Trickett was 24 of 50 for 309 yards and a touchdown in his first start for the Mountaineers. Ishmael Banks returned an interception 58 yards for a touchdown as the Mountaineers bounced back from their first shutout loss in 11 years.
Also in top-25 action, Tajh Boyd threw for three TDs and ran for another as third-ranked Clemson blew out Wake Forest 56-7. Boyd became the second ACC quarterback to account for 100 career touchdowns, joining Philip Rivers of N.C. State.
Jameis Winston threw for 330 yards and four touchdowns as eighth-ranked Florida State outscored Boston College 48-34. Winston also ran 14 times for 67 yards to help the Seminoles improve to 4-0.
Johnny Manziel (man-ZEHL') threw two touchdown passes for Mike Evans and accounted for 320 total yards as 10th-ranked Texas A&M outscored Arkansas 45-33. Manziel was 23-of-30 passing for 261 yards, and he rushed for 59 yards in the Aggies' ninth straight road win.
Mike Davis ran for 167 yards and three touchdowns as 12th-rated South Carolina held off Central Florida 28-25. The Gamecocks won despite trailing 10-0 at halftime, turning the ball over four times and playing the final three quarters without starting quarterback Connor Shaw due to a sprained right shoulder. Coach Steve Spurrier says he hopes Shaw will return in two weeks.
No. 15 Miami rolled to a 49-21 win against South Florida as Stephen Morris threw for 222 yards and a pair of first-quarter touchdowns. The Hurricanes scored on their first three possessions and had 251 yards by the end of the first period.
Bishop Sankey carried a school-record 40 times for 161 yards and a touchdown to lead Washington's ground attack in a 31-13 win over Arizona. Keith Price had a couple of touchdown passes for the 16th-ranked Huskies.
Florida earned its 27th straight win over Kentucky as Matt Jones rushed for 176 yards and a touchdown to help the 20th-ranked Gators earn a 24-7 win over the Wildcats. Tyler Murphy ran for a touchdown, threw for another and finished with 156 passing yards.
(AP) -- The Pittsburgh Pirates will be home for Tuesday's National League wild-card game against the Reds. They earned the right to play the game at PNC Park by beating Cincinnati for the second straight day.
Neil Walker slammed two of the Pirates' six home runs in an 8-3 victory over the Reds. Bronson Arroyo served up a career-high five of those home runs as the Reds suffered their fourth consecutive loss to earn themselves a trip to Pittsburgh.
Andrew McCutchen, Marlon Byrd and Pedro Alvarez also went deep before Andrew Lambo smacked his first career homer.
Pittsburgh's bullpen tossed hitless ball for the final 4 2/3 innings to wrap up the Bucs' 93rd win.
While the NL wild card is settled, there's still the possibility of a three-way tie for the two AL wild-card berths. Cleveland has surged into sole possession of the first wild-card berth with one day left in the regular season, one game ahead of Tampa Bay and Texas.
The Indians picked up their ninth straight win as Scott Kazmir allowed a run and six hits in six innings of a 5-1 triumph at Minnesota. Carlos Santana hit a two-run homer and Michael Bourn added a two-run triple for the red-hot Indians.
The Rays suffered their second straight loss since a seven-game winning to lose control of their postseason destiny. Ryan Goins and Kevin Pillar banged out two-run homers as Toronto downed Tampa Bay 7-2. Adam Lind had two hits and three RBIs, and Brett Lawrie reached base four times for the Blue Jays.
The Rangers pulled even with the Rays by earning their sixth consecutive win, downing the Angels 7-4. The Rangers took advantage of five Los Angeles errors, scoring three unearned runs while collecting just three RBIs. The Texas bullpen tossed one-hit ball over 4 1/3 scoreless innings.
Elsewhere in the majors, Andy Pettitte has tossed a complete-game victory in his final major league game, doing it in the New York Yankees' 2-1 win at Houston. Pettitte scattered five hits and struck out five while going the distance for the first time in seven years. Pettitte ends his career 256-153 with a 3.85 ERA and 2,448 strikeouts.
Matt Holliday hit a two-run homer and Yadier Molina (YAH'-dee-ehr) had two RBIs as St. Louis notched its fifth straight win, 6-2 against the Chicago Cubs. Adam Wainwright picked up his 19th win by holding the Cubbies to two hits in 5 1/3 shutout innings.
Brad Miller's second homer of the day was a grand slam that put Seattle ahead 7-1 in the fifth inning of a 7-5 win against Oakland. Justin Smoak socked a two-run homer for the Mariners, who allowed the Red Sox to clinch home-field advantage throughout their postseason. The Athletics will take on Detroit in the AL division series, beginning Friday in Oakland.
Baltimore beat Boston 6-5 on Steve Pearce's two-run double in the bottom of the eighth. Pearce had three RBIs and Brian Roberts hit a solo homer for the Orioles.
Nolan Arenado's fourth-inning double brought in the lone run as Colorado blanked the Dodgers 1-0. Juan Nicasio held Los Angeles to three hits while striking out seven in 5 1/3 innings.
Cameron Rupp hit a two-run single in the first inning to put Philadelphia ahead to stay in a 5-4 triumph in Atlanta. Cesar Hernandez scored twice while going 4-for-5 to help the Phillies withstand Justin Upton's three-run homer in the ninth.
Miami beat Detroit 2-1 on Giancarlo Stanton's RBI single in the bottom of the 10th. The Tigers were one out from a 1-0 victory until Ed Lucas hit an RBI single off Joaquin Benoit (wah-KEEN' BEHN'-wah).
Dan Haren pitched well in Washington's 2-0 shutout of Arizona, holding the Diamondbacks to four hits and one walk over seven innings. Chad Tracy hit a solo homer in the eighth, one inning after Ryan Zimmerman's RBI grounder broke a scoreless tie.
Marcus Semien and Jordan Danks hit back-to-back homers in the second inning before Adam Dunn and Conor Gillaspie added two-run shots to help the Chicago White Sox beat Kansas City 6-5. Semien provided three of the White Sox's nine hits.
Homers by Jedd Gyorko (JUR'-koh), Jesus Guzman (GOOZ'-mahn) and Chris Denorfia highlighted San Diego's 9-3 rout of San Francisco. Guzman and Tommy Medica each had three of the Padres' 16 hits.
Carlos Gomez and Yuniesky (yoo-NEHS'-kee) Betancourt hit RBI singles in the 10th inning to give Milwaukee a 4-2 win over the New York Mets. Gomez was 4-for-5 with a solo homer and two stolen bases against his former team.
HOUSTON (AP) -- New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera says he won't pitch again or play the outfield before he retires on Sunday.
Rivera last pitched on Thursday night in the season finale at Yankee Stadium, making a tearful exit to a standing ovation. He had expressed interest in playing center field earlier this week but now says he didn't think his knee was up to it.
Pence agrees to deal
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Hunter Pence and the San Francisco Giants have tentatively agreed to a five-year contract. The package is worth a reported $90 million and is expected to be formally announced on Sunday.
Pence is hitting.282 with a career-high 27 home runs and 96 RBIs this season. The two-time All-Star outfielder came to the Giants in a trade last season and was credited with being instrumental in helping San Francisco win its second World Series title in three years.
Report: Collins working on new deal
NEW YORK (AP) -- It looks like Terry Collins will remain manager of the Mets. Three people with knowledge of the situation tell The Associated Press that Collins is close to an agreement with the ballclub. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal had not been finalized and no announcement had been made. Collins' current contract expires after this season, his third in charge of the Mets.
The 64-year-old Collins is 224-261 as manager of the Mets.
Cochran takes the lead
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- Tom Lehman sank a 20-foot birdie on his final hole to take the lead in second-round action at the First Tee Open at Pebble Beach. Lehman has carded back-to-back 67s for a 10-under total, one shot ahead of Russ Cochran.
First-round leader Bernhard Langer is tied for third with Kirk Triplett at minus-7.


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Turbo kits are comparatively rare, when compared with the plethora of supercharger systems on the market. That's because, unlike most bolt-on blowers, which easily can be adapted to a variety of vehicles, turbo kits present unique challenges. There's more to contend with in the routing of inlet and outlet tubing between the exhaust manifolds, turbocharger(s), and engine intake.
At a minimum, major changes are required of the exhaust system. Of course, all that plumbing changes for a different vehicle, whereas adapting a Roots blower, for example, requires comparatively minor revisions to suit the accessory drive and intercooler mounting.
To put it simply, turbo kits are expensive to engineer and produce, but many enthusiasts prefer the higher-rpm application of power, the adjustability of the performance, and the on-demand power that doesn't compromise daily driving characteristics. Often, enthusiasts must rely on custom-designed systems-and hope the shop they've entrusted their car with knows what it's doing.
Decatur, Indiana-based Lingenfelter Per-formance Engineering's (LPE) solution to turbo systems is a hybrid of sorts, which blends the attributes of a fully engineered kit with the precision fitment of a custom system. The company has designed Corvette-specific kits, but it fits them individually to each vehicle for a more accurate and precise installation-much like a custom-tailored suit versus a "close enough" off-the-rack one. LPE also rebuilds the engine to make it boost-friendly, including forged-aluminum, lower-compression pistons and an upgraded rotating assembly.
"There are enough vehicle-to-vehicle variances that we feel our method is the best at ensuring the best installation and a more robust engine," says LPE's Jeff Myers. "And typically one of the side benefits is, most customers report better fuel economy in normal everyday driving."
We recently visited LPE's shop to follow the installation of the company's twin-turbo system on a C6 Z06. In fact, it was the blue Specter Werkes/Sports GTR Z06 that wowed SEMA attendees last fall and was previewed in VETTE earlier this year. With the 505hp LS7 as the foundation, LPE rates the system at a stunning 800 hp. Notably, the kit sacrifices nothing in driveability, such as air conditioning, power amenities, and the like.
LPE's system uses a pair of medium-size Garrett ball-bearing turbos and an air-to-air intercooler. The turbos are mounted low in the engine compartment, which helps minimize underhood heat. The mid-size hairdryers also offer an optimum combination of tremendous airflow and minimal lag. In fact, lag is, for all intents and purposes, nonexistent here. The turbos spool quickly and deliver a smooth yet incredibly forceful application of power.
Here are the basic elements of the system: • Two Garrett GT30-series turbochargers • Custom exhaust manifolds • Custom air-to-air charge cooler • Upgraded fuel system • Kenne Bell Boost-A-Bump • Upgraded oil cooler • Custom oil-scavenging system • Custom Corsa/Specter Werkes low-restriction exhaust system • Reprogrammed factory controller.
Although boost in any turbo system is tunable, the base LPE system delivers about 10-12 pounds to help the 7.0-liter engine produce 800 horses. The turbo system isn't installed until after the rebuilt engine is lowered into place. We should note, too, that our photos provide an overview of the installation. There are far more details than we have room to show, but what we've shown here provides an excellent glimpse into the major components and procedures involved.
We can't emphasize enough how impressed we are with the engineering, fit, and finish of the system. The routing of the various lines and hoses is exceptional. Many of the lines and connectors are carefully measured and custom-tailored, delivering a precision appearance that looks as if the technicians are working on fighter jets. Items like the intake duct to the throttle body are created specifically for each vehicle, for a fit and appearance that exceeds the factory in most regards. To put it simply, it is a world-class setup.
If you're wondering what a custom-fitted, 800hp twin-turbo system costs, have a seat and take a deep breath. The base price is about $46,000, including removal/rebuilding of the original engine, installation of the turbo system and dyno tuning, and a three-year/36,000-mile warranty. No, that ain't cheap in anybody's book, but 800 hp is race-car-level performance, and there are many racing engines that cost far more and make considerably less power.
"The performance range of this combination is astounding," says Myers. "It drives like a stock Corvette in most driving conditions, but when you call on those turbos, most people will run out of nerve before the engine reaches its full potential. You have to feel it to really understand, but this is power like nothing you've experienced in a street car."
We're not here to debate the value equation of the price. We're here to show you what goes into making it possible. We're keeping our words to a minimum here, too, in order to show you more of the installation details in the accompanying photos.
There's nothing like the rush of a twin-turbo system, and Lingenfelter's is among the best we've encountered. If we could only get a $50,000 pay advance from the HR department, we'd order one up ourselves.


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Story highlights
- Nicolas Maduro to be sworn in Friday as interim president
- Chavez, who had cancer, died at 58 on Tuesday; the funeral is set for Friday
- Chavez's body "will be surrounded by crystal glass forever," Maduro says
The body of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will eventually be displayed publicly "just like Lenin (and) Mao Zedong," the country's vice president said Thursday on state-run TV.
"The body of our leader will be embalmed, and it will ... be surrounded by crystal glass forever, present forever, and always with his people," Nicolas Maduro said.
Maduro will be sworn in as interim president in a special session of the National Assembly at 7 p.m. Friday, said National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello on Thursday on Venezuelan state broadcaster VTV.
The funeral for Chavez, who died at 58 Tuesday after a battle with cancer, will be held Friday in the capital, Caracas.
Attendees are expected to include Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Cuban leader Raul Castro and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, Maduro said.
Venezuela is slated to hold elections 30 days after Chavez died, according to Foreign Minister Elias Jaua.
Maduro did not say when Chavez's final resting place, at a military museum, will be ready. But people still will be able to view Chavez's body -- lying in state in a wooden casket at a military academy in the capital -- for at least another week, he said.
"Everybody can see him without any limits," Maduro said. "We want anyone who wants to see him to have the chance to do so."
The South American nation is in a seven-day period of mourning, with schools closed for the week.
Chavez's body later will be displayed much like the remains of former revolutionary leaders Vladimir Lenin of Russia and China's Mao, Maduro said.


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For more than 80 years, luxury lodging in the Lowcountry has meant Sea Island. So how do you improve on a property that's a regular fixture among our top 5 resorts? Simple. Add a popular PGA Tour event to the mix.
In late October, Sea Island resident and Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III hosts the third annual McGladrey Classic, played over Sea Island's Seaside course. The greatest incentive for making the cut at the McGladrey is getting to spend the weekend at Sea Island.
The destination garnered Platinum Medal honors in our 2012 Premier Resorts Awards for many reasons. Naturally, it starts with the three courses at nearby Sea Island Golf Club. Seaside sports classic 1929 Colt-Alison holes that were melded in 1999 into an up-to-date coastal risk-reward masterpiece by Tom Fazio.
Walter Travis, Dick Wilson and Rees Jones contributed to the Plantation, while the Love brothers, Davis and Mark, earn high marks for the redesign they did on the Retreat course.
Still, what elevates Sea Island into rarified air are the superior service and restaurants, the Cloister and Lodge accommodations, a world-class spa and a stunning beach right outside the front door.
It's no wonder that Sea Island landed the No. 1 position for lodging in our recent rankings. It could keep the top spot for years to come.
November rates from $395. 888-732-4752, seaisland.com (Photo: Courtesy of Sea Island Resort)


text: Here's a fun one to wake you up. 15 year old Calvino Inman of Tennessee actually cries blood at least three times a day. Let that sink in for a few minutes. What's worse is right now doctors can't figure out why this is happening. While they don't believe there is any serious danger in the crying they can't figure out how to stop it. Check out the news clip below to see Calvino in full action. Good luck not throwing up in your Rice Krispies.


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(I can't confirm any of this, but it's just a move from Havana since the clothing is based on a standard Cuban outfit.)
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Members of the "Cubans" in GTA Vice City.
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GTA Vice City Stories
|Little Havana, Vice City
|Umberto Robina
|Street gang
|Haitians; Cholos; Sharks
|Victor Vance and Vance Crime Family (formerly)
Tommy Vercetti and Vercetti Gang
|Cuban Hermes
Katana (Dirty Lickin's mission only)
Uzi (missions only)
Ruger (Bombs Away mission only)
Colt M733 (Cannon Fodder mission only)
|Drug trade
|Café Robina
|Alberto Robina, Rico, Pepe, Hilberto, Carlos, Fernandez, Juan, Ronaldo and Joaquin Noff
The Cubans, also known as Los Cabrones, are a Cuban street gang in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. In both games they are led by Umberto Robina and are based in the Little Havana district of Vice City. Cubans are considered the prominent gang in the southern end of the mainland, considering that they defeated the Cholos and most likely the Haitians.
In 1984 the Cubans are known as the Los Cabrones and are in conflict with a Mexican street gang named the Cholos, over control of Little Havana and Little Haiti. Umberto Robina employs Victor Vance to aid him in his fight against the Cholos. Umberto Robina asked Victor to prove his worth to his gang by picking up a package from Downtown in a race with Hilberto, Carlos, Fernandez, Ronaldo and other Cuban gang members.
Victor Vance then begins to work with the Cubans, which includes killing various Cholos gang members who are causing havoc in Little Havana, and picking up Alberto Robina from the Hyman Memorial Stadium to avoid a possible abduction and/or murder. The Cubans eventually win the war with the Cholos after stealing their weapons supply and destroying the warehouse they had been stored in.
By 1986, the Cubans found themselves in a war with the Haitians. Umberto Robina contacts and employs Tommy Vercetti to aid him in the war with the Haitians. After completing a boat challenge with Rico, Tommy begins to help Cubans against the Haitians. Following this, Tommy Vercetti helps steal a van full of drugs, killing various Haitians for two briefcases and blowing up a factory owned by the Haitians.
Tommy Vercetti is, however, also working for Auntie Poulet, the leader of the Haitians. Auntie Poulet drugs Tommy with her Juju Juice and has him collect three briefcases before the authorities, blow up boats and Cuban gang members using a remote controlled plane and killing various Cuban gang members in a fight between the Cubans and Haitians. Auntie Poulet eventually turns on Tommy, telling him that she no longer needs his services.
Tommy eventually returns to working for Cubans, and helps them destroy a Haitian drugs factory in Little Haiti. The final result of the war between Cubans and the Haitians is unknown, although the Cubans appear to have the upper hand. Umberto Robina and Cuban gang members also treat Tommy Vercetti as an equal, with Umberto once saying: "Tommy, to us, you Cuban". The Cubans most likely beat the Haitians in the gang war causing the Haitians to lose power.
Cuban gang members are either seen wearing white sleeveless shirts, red bandanas and jeans, or a fedora hat, light yellow shirts and black pants. They are armed with 9mm pistols.
The Cubans congregate and move groups. They usually do not patrol the streets separately. The Cubans are not ordinarily hostile to Tommy, and will only attack in self-defense or if they are under the influence of the "Pedestrians Hate You" cheat; Cuban members will also attack the player if they hijack an occupied Cuban Hermes.
Cubans may attack or be attacked by the Vercetti Gang if they are seen entering or walking near the Cherry Popper Ice Cream Factory, Sunshine Autos or the Print Works. Likewise, Cubans will shoot and kill Haitians seen in Little Havana or near the Print Works. The Haitians are frequently in conflict with the Cubans gang over turf and the Vercetti Gang over control of their assets; police act against both parties when gun battles occur. In addition, policemen will pursue and kill Haitians members in the same manner as they do with gang members and street criminals, allowing the player to attain "Good Citizen Bonuses" worth $50 each for each punch/kick/attack delivered to a fleeing Cuban member. Player must be careful though, as the Cuban (or any nearby Cubans) may attack player with a pistol. Also, accidentally hitting the cop will give the player a one star wanted level, killing the cop will give the player two.
Cuban-American discrimination controversy
The third version of GTA Vice City had all references to the Cuban and Haitian people removed, (along with a number of other trademarks), in response to Cuban and Haitian groups in the United States, who threatened to use action against Rockstar Games, on the basis that they were being discriminated against. This is why in GTA Vice City Stories the gang is referred to as Los Cabrones as opposed to simply "The Cubans," as they were in GTA Vice City. Los Cabrones literally means "The Bastards" in Spanish.
- The white-shirt Cuban gang model in GTA Vice City features clothing identical to the those worn by an extra during the airport scene in the first episode of Miami Vice, and Aswell Kurt Russell's character in Big Trouble in Little China.