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Friday, July 24, 2009
TSA Blog Podcast Interview With Airplane Geeks
Also, spread around the podcast like mustard on a fine bologna sandwich, you'll find another interview, good music, and some aviation related news.
By all means, listen to the entire entertaining podcast, but my interview starts at 34:25 and 1:21:10 where I am quite deservedly blown up.
Listen to Episode 57 of the Airplane Geeks Podcast by clicking here.
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- July 24, 2009 at 11:44 AM
- Anonymous said...
Hey lets give TSA a break. we do a job, they do theirs. I check ahead to see what I need to do before the flight, do you? No excuse for not doing it, so if you do not check, its only your fault, not TSA for the prohibited items you decide to bring or forgot to check you bags for. I'd rather have some inconvience and be safe. Just watch some of the people TSA employees have to deal with and you exspect a smile with it? I have, and feel sorry for them. No I am not a TSA worker. I feel people complain too much especially when they can prevent alot of the situations. Next time if you have to leave a item, don't blame them, just look in the mirror.
- July 29, 2009 at 10:57 PM
- Anonymous said...
Hey Bob -- great interview. Please come back to that podcast and keep us apprised of developments at TSA. Keep up the good work!
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TiVo Hacks helps you get the most out of your TiVo personal video recorder. Armed with just a screwdriver and basic understanding of PC hardware (or willingness to learn), preeminent hackability awaits. This book includes hacks for changing the order of recorded programs, activating the 30-second skip to blaze through commercials, upgrading TiVo's hard drive for more hours of recording, use of TiVo's Home Media Option to remotely schedule a recording via the Web, log in to the serial port for command-line access to programming data, log files, closed-captioning data, display graphics on the TiVo screen, and even play MP3s.Readers who use advanced hacks to put TiVo on their home network via the serial port, Ethernet, USB, or wireless (with 802.11b WiFi) will watch a whole new world open up. By installing various open source software packages, you can use TiVo for mail, instant messaging, caller-ID, and more. It's also easy to run a web server on TiVo to schedule recordings, access lists of recorded shows, and even display them on a web site. While TiVo gives viewers personalized control of their TVs, TiVo Hacks gives users personalized control of TiVo.Note: Not all TiVos are the same. The original TiVo, the Series 1, is the most hackable TiVo out there; it's a box thrown together with commodity parts and the TiVo code is running on open hardware. The Series 2 TiVo, the most commonly sold TiVo today, is not open. You won't see hacks in this book that involve modifying Series 2 software.
Raffi Krikorian is an unapologetic TIVo lover and a digital plumber. If you look hard enough, you can usually find him putting together a hack for some random stray idea that got him sidetracked from his last project. He is currently a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab where he is both studying systems of "organic scale" and constructing very small IP-nodes that self organise into larger systems. He does freely admits, however, that his serious television addiction is probably getting between him and his goal to finally graduate MIT for the second time. When he's not studying or watching TV, you can find him wandering about or trying something new. And finally, in whatever time is left, he tends to his wasted bits on his weblog.
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Claude FelizardoSan Gabriel Valley Linux Users GroupPasadena, CAI've got mixed feeling about this book. I think it could have been much better but it didn't quite deliver in some areas based on some expectations i had before reading it.First, let me say that I started hacking my TiVo back in early 2001 just after I got one as a Christmas present from my wife. I had been reading about the various hacks on the web for several months and had decided on a TiVo because it was so open to hacking, the very active TiVo hacking community, and of course it used Linux! Using information from the net, I was able to replace my original 30 GB disk for an 80 GB disk, install the TivoNet network card and started playing with caller-id. I had even installed the TivoWeb server but that was as far as I got and eventually lost interest in hacking my TiVo. Of course, this was fine with the family since I was interfering with their TiVo viewing.Fast forward a few years to last November when I got a copy of "Tivo Hacks" and started flipping through the book. I tried some of the "safer" hacks I had missed before but had to wait until the long Thanksgiving weekend when the family would be out of town visiting in-laws and I'd have TiVo all to my self to try out the more interesting hacks. By the time they got back, I had a bunch of new things to show off: how to rename recordings of my daughter's baton performances which had been recorded off the local community access channel. using TiVo Control Station to watch the radar maps showing the rain in Atlanta and the nice sunshine in Los Angeles.Most of the hacks I had already tried by the time I got the book but it was very convenient to have them all collected in one place w/o having to constantly search the net. I wish I had the book back when I first did my backups and replaced the hard disk which I had to do twice when the larger drive failed a year later and had to be exchanged. By then it was much easier with MFS Tools which is described in the book. Then there's all the common Linux tools that have been ported to TiVo and are described in the book as well.I definely liked hack #96 which explained how to change the padding options including negative padding though there was a typo which I reported to the errata web page. This hack nicely solves the problem of trying to schedule back to back recordings where one show starts early and you want the previous recording to end early.However, I was disappointed with the hacks regarding the Home Media Option. How could information that should be in a manual be considered a hack? I have a Series 1 so I can never use HMO so I was looking for hacks on how to set up my own photo album or play mp3's w/o having to perform a lobotomy on my TiVo.Recently I've started extracting video using the hacks described in the book. Again, I had read about this on the Internet but it sounded too complicated. The author started off by describing the Media File System and how to pull video off using FTP then moved on to using a web browser. Next he covered how to view the extracted video on a PC and then how to convert the files to a more standard video format.This has been very helpful when we want to save recordings of our daughter's baton performances. I wasn't happy with the quality of using a video capture card to record the analog signal so I had been planning on extracting the files. But because it looked too complicated, I had been filling up our TiVo with a few multi-hour airings from the local community access channels when all we wanted was a short 2-5 minute clip. Now I've been able to extract all the saved shows, convert the short clips to mpg files and burn them to a CD for the grandparents.I did like the organization of the book and the logical progression of the hacks in the later chapters, especially those regarding networking and extracting video. Even though I had installed TivoWeb earlier, it wasn't until after I had read the descriptions in the book that I figured out how to use the various features and add-ons. I think a CD containing all of the software would have been extremely useful rather than having to download from the net, especially when some of the URLs have changed or the usage of the tools have changed slightly since the book was published.All in all, a must have book if you are hacking your TiVo for the first time but even experienced TiVo hackers can still benefit by having all the information collected in one place with helpful descriptions.BTW, they do have some of the hacks available online at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tivohks/
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October 20, 2003Bob HammerNCMUGBerea OhioTiVo will change the way you watch TV forever. First a little background for the neophites that aren't familiar with the new product PVR or Personal Video Recorder. In July we had a demo of a Panasonic PVR that would also burn DVD Video. The TiVo, and its competitor ReplayTV, are PVR's but don't burn DVD's.The TiVo will replace your VHS VCR for recording and playing back TV shows faster than Jack Rabbit. The TiVo is a set top box that incorporates a small computer processor combined with a TV Tuner and MPEG-2 hardware encoder. It will record your favorite programs and hold them for you for weeks until you have a chance to watch them. Set it up to record "3rd Watch" and it will find any station airing the show and record it, regardless if the programming schedule changes the day before. The TiVo connects via phone or internet each night to download the programming schedule for your cable or satelite system. With the "season pass" ability never miss another episode again. TiVo allows you to pause live TV for any reason, like a refriderator or bathroom run, and pick up right where you left off. You even have the ability to "rewind" several seconds of live TV because someone sneezed and you missed an important line of dialog. Now back to the book review.The idea of hacking an electronic device to make it work better or to improve its functionality is appealing to many. Some view the warranty seal as a warning while otheres consider it an invitation. Not all hacks involve "popping the top" on your box, but many do. Armed with your remote control a screwdriver and a little knowledge and instructions you can change the way your TiVo works. The book is will make you dangerous and advises you to back up before attempting anything drastic. That prevents the $400 door stop hack. But many hacks are performed just by reprogramming the unit using some systematic key punches on your remote control.A note of disapointment as the book points out, most of the hacks are only usable on series 1 TiVo's. All you can buy today is series 2 TiVo's. The series 1 units were open code and easy to hack. The series 2 units TiVo changed and added a lot of secret code making the units less hacker friendly.The 100 hacks are mostly a set of instructions that rely on previous instructions. For example using a #10 Torx screwdriver from the hardware store to remove the screws to the case is hack #20. Yes the instructions also include warnings about electic discharge and recommend placing the unit between your knees for ease of removal. There are several similar to this.On the plus side, some of the simple hacks could enhance the units value greatly. Little things like being able to program a "jump ahead 30 seconds" button. Note: Replay TV has one built in – and has been involved in numerous lawsuits because of it. More difficult hacks include adding or changing hard drives to increase storage time. Using your TiVo as a web server and more. I found the book useful but somewhat techie. I guess with a title of "Hacks" that is what I should expect..I found one hack quite intriging. You can program Caller ID to appear on the TV screen. You have to subscribe to caller ID first. Instead of running for the phone during your favorite thriller, a line of message is superimposed over your show with the caller indentification.No soldering irons required. But, if have a working knowledge under the hood of a PC you can modify your TiVo, All in all, the book is useful just for the remote control commands that can customize your TiVo and making TV watching more enjoyable.
By Dale Farris
TiVo Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & ToolsBy Dale Farris, SecretaryGolden Triangle PC ClubSeptember 2003When the TiVo personal video recorder (PVR) first hit the market in 1999, TV viewers quickly learned a whole new way to watch their favorite programs. The TiVo device represents a sea change in television, far beyond what happened when VCR technology first began to develop. In addition to its recording capabilities, TiVo will also let you control "live" TV, slip time, set up a television firewall, set up "season passes" to your favorite television series, integrate a high degree of technological intelligence in the device, set up wish lists, and record TV programs without videotape.The TiVo device is actually a carefully tweaked desktop computer with a television tuner card. Instead of a Pentium or Athlon processor, the original TiVo is an IBM PowerPC 403GCX-based embedded system. It uses standard IDE hard drives, with custom MPEG-2 encoding/decoding hardware, a modem, and an infrared receiver. On the outside, it's running a Linux kernel. Everything the TiVo does, save the TV channel tuning and the video encoding, is done in software. Everything you see on the screen, all the interactivity through the remote and the recording schedule is all defined in code.However, not all the TiVos are the same. The original TiVo, the Series 1, is the most hackable TiVo, a box thrown together with commodity parts. The TiVo code is running on open hardware. If you feel like it, you can throw the TiVo software out and just home brew your own code from the bottom up.The Series 2 TiVo, the most commonly sold TiVo today, is not as open. To lock down the platform, TiVo, Inc. has started to add some "secrets" under the hood. While TiVo is not against people hacking their platform, they do have a media service to run, and they don't want people to freely play around with some of the stuff they intend to make money on down the road.With the prevalence of TiVo devices, it is little wonder that we see an equally strong interest in finding ways to hack, or modify the device. The most common community of TiVo hackers on the Internet can be found at www.tivocommunity.com. Author Krikorian has assembled some of the more useful, interesting, and cool hacks found in this community, as well as on his own.There are hardware hacks, requiring you to pop the top off your TiVo and fiddle about with the innards. There are also software hacks, requiring a little less manual dexterity but no less of a sense of adventure. And, for the faint of heart, there are remote control hacks you can do from the comfort of your favorite armchair.There are also 2 types of hacks you will NOT find here. The first are those that circumvent having to pay for TiVo. There are a few open source projects out there, like MythTV that do the same things the TiVo does, but you don't have to pay a monthly fee or a single lifetime fee to get to use it. Instead, this service queries the Internet for those valuable tidbits of information on when and what channel your television shows are on.The second type of hacks you will NOT see involve getting to the software insides of that new and shiny Series 2 box. Most TiVo hacking has been and continues to be done on the older and more open Series 1 box. There are those who have managed to gain access to the internals of the Series 2 box, opening it up to many of the hacks available to the Series 1 box. Unfortunately, these go beyond the scope of this book, are tricky, and are of questionable legality. Series 2 owners wishing to go beyond the remote control hacks and hard drive upgrades will most likely find newer hacks for Series 2 boxes appearing online over time.Be sure you are aware of the clearly worded warranty statement when you get your TiVo -- "Do not open or you will void your warranty." If you open your TiVo, you will not be able to send your TiVo to TiVo, Inc., if a problem later develops. If this is of little concern to you, then by all means, open this marvelous book, open your TiVo, and start exploring these 100 tips and tricks to hacking your TiVo.Summary of Table of ContentsThe 100 TiVo hacks are organized into 7 chapters, including the following:1 - TiVo Remote Control Hacks2 - Adding More Hours3 - The TiVo Shell4 - Bring the Internet to TiVo5 - TiVo and the Web6 - Working with Videos7 - Writing CodeKey Topics CoveredTiVo Hacks give users personalized control of their TiVo. This book explains how to:Use your remote control to activate the 30-second skip to blaze through commercials, enable advanced wishlists, push fast-forward to the limit, and open the backdoor to further hacksUpgrade your TiVo's hard drive for all the recording time you wantLog in to the TiVo command line for access to programming dataDisplay caller-ID on your television, present digital slide shows, and play MP3sUse TiVo on your home network to schedule recordings, access lists of recorded shows, and display your preferred programming on your web siteWrite your own TiVo programs in Tcl and CAccess TiVo's Media Filesystem for programmatic access to show details - actors, directors, Thumbs-Up ratings, and moreBook Contents280 pages; preface; figures; tables; tips; index; cover colophonAuthorRaffi KrikorianAbout the AuthorRaffi Krikorian is an unapologetic TiVo lover and digital plumber. If you look hard enough, you can usually find him putting together a hack for some random and stray idea that sidetracked him from the last project or stray idea. He freely admits that his serious television addiction is probably getting between him and his goal of finally graduating from MIT for the second time, although he claims it's getting better. When he's not studying or watching TV, you can find him wandering around or trying something new. In whatever time is left, he tends to his wasted bits on his weblog, www.bitwaste.com/wasted-bits.ISBNAugust 2003 First Edition0-596-00553-9List Price$24.95$38.95 CANPublisherO'Reilly & Associates, Inc.101 Morris StreetSebastopol, California 954721-800-998-99381-707-820-0515FAX 1-707-829-0104www.oreilly.com
By Tony Murray
I normally love O'Reilly books, and have recommended many of them to others."Hacking TiVo," however, is the first release that I thought really let me down. My one and only objection is that the advertisements (About the Book, etc.) do not make it at all clear that the majority of information pertains only to the early TiVo models. Having a Series 2 running at least version 4 of the TiVo software, almost everything in the book is irrelevant or inapplicable to me.Even the most lightweight "hacks" (the extra features enabled via the remote control) have only a small subset that are applicable to my system. The rest have to be unlocked with codes that can only be derrived by applying later hacks -- hacks that are also inapplicable to my system.The book provides a clue for where users in my situation can begin to dig around for the information, and I have done that digging. Of course, if I had wanted to dig around through countless internet message boards, I would not have gone straight for an O'Reilly book!I think the topics covered in the book are excellent, and would be of great interest to those looking for a handy compilation to help them get started hacking their Series I TiVo's (and/or those running version 3.0 or earlier software). I also found the book to be well-written and easy to follow.However, I think there ought to be a disclaimer on the back of the book (or at least on the O'Reilly webpage) indicating that this book is largely not for newer TiVo machines (specifically Series 2 and version 4+ of the software).
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Ohlone College accredited for next six years - Article, Office of College Advancement
Tuesday, July 29, 2014—Reprinted from San Jose Mercury News.
By Chris De Benedetti, The Argus.
Fremont—Ohlone College has earned eight commendations for displaying "academic quality and institutional effectiveness," according to a report that reaffirms its accreditation for the next six years.
Ohlone's accreditation, which will run until 2020, ensures that it remains eligible for state funding and that its students can receive financial aid and transfer their credits to other colleges.
The accreditation report also recommended several improvements for the Fremont community college.
"The college does meet or exceed standards," said Eliza Chan, spokeswoman for the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, which reviews 117 campuses statewide. "However, the whole idea behind accreditation is to have continuous improvement."
The commission praised Ohlone for offering services for deaf students, constructing environmentally sustainable buildings and improving the "ongoing education and development" by the board of trustees for its members.
But it also called for the college to do more for students.
"The report was good news," Ohlone College President Gari Browning said. "The accreditation process is a lot of work but it's helped us improve our board and other parts of the college that otherwise would be more difficult to do."
Ohlone College has 16,500 students, about 650 employees and a $55 million annual budget.
This year's report was much more positive than the 2008 version, which warned that the board of trustees' dysfunction and micromanagement threatened its approval. Given another chance the following year, the college received accreditation.
"We feel very proud that we got a commendation regarding our board," Browning said. "The board once had caused us to be put on warning, and now we've come all the way to getting a commendation for it."
The new accreditation report, issued earlier this month, followed a challenging year in which the nine-member board unexpectedly lost two members. Kevin Bristow took a job in Merced and board President Garrett Yee, an Army Reserve brigadier general, was sent overseas for a year of duty in Kuwait.
The 69-page report had some criticism, as well.
The commission listed seven deficiencies, including three that the college must demonstrate it has solved in a follow-up report next March.
Ohlone must establish a minimum standard for student achievement, make student learning a part of faculty evaluation, and create a plan for support services for students that shows how the college makes a measurable difference in their success, Browning said.
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|hey guys just an update made a ton of progress, if anyone has mod power or knows someone i have a bunch of pics i cant upload bc they are way to large, upwards of 11megs i have a high quality camera. so this is where i stand... as you all know i sand blasted the frame rails on the truck and repainted, came out nice today i rented oxy acet torches and cut the frame, i also rented a miller 110v mig flux-core and welded a plate on closing the frame off. no tag along hitch like i had mentioned earlier the welds weren't the most wonderful but they were by far better than what was on there before haha and it has been years since i touched a welder. i did run into an issue with the electrical supply lol kept tripping the darn circuit breaker every time i started getting a good bead going. so i broke out the generator and trucked along the plate deff isn't going anywhere and i have to give much credit to you guys who have been welding for years its not as easy as it looks on tv. tomorrow will consist of drilling the holes for the 5th wheel hitch to be secured to the frame, using grade 8 3/4x1-3/4 bolts nuts lock washers so that wont be going anywhere. fuel tanks wont be in for at least 2 weeks so just doing the smaller stuff for now. like i said at the beginning of this post if anyone knows a way to upload these pics to here id really like to show you guys the progress im making.
|VERY nice welds and great post hopefully the turn of the month will leave me some spending $$ to make an investment, funny out of all the tools i have a decent compressor and welder i do not have, i do have an old 220v stick welder but as im not equipped to run 220 that option is out lol mayne my generator has the ooph to do it dunno ill have to look , ill update with pics shortly of how the project is coming along waiting on a couple deliveries of parts, just spend 2900 in tires the other day got the hitch cutout so it sits on the frame nice, just need to have bolt holes put in the frame and a weld along either side of the hitch rails and ill be good in that dept TBC
One last thing i want to verify for those "internet myths" about MIG and Fluxcore...
I see WAY too many people claim its just a fact of life that Fluxcore WILL leave a messy looking weld and spatter....apparantly ANY of thiose claiming this does NOT know how to run it right...i don't care if the president of Miller or Lincoln says it...i've ran miles and miles of fluxcore ,Mig and Dual Sheild in the past 30+ years and NEVER had a problem with spatter or messy welds..if i did..they'd tell me to put the shield down and go help out grinding,bolting up..etc etc..........
As in ANY process..you need to learn THAT process to run it right..not just say"well.i couldn't never get it to look good so its just something i live with"....its very EASY to run fluxcore and MIG to make it look nice and get good penetration WITHOUT a mess to clean up.......
Learn the right "stick out"..wire speed rate and pass speed and you'll lay down beautiful welds all day long..........
Just a quick example of what i mean..using my lil Lincoln 180T..035 NR211 on some old scrap from when we tore out all the plate in a coal bin at a coal burner power plant last fall.........i did this for those on a jeep forum claiming"i've been welding on nuclear subs since 1974 and you ALWAYS get spatter and crappy looking welds with wirefeed!.."..and he also layed claim that "pushing wire" will penetrate better than dragging....yesa..he's been welding on nuclear subs since 1974...gotta love the internet..be who you want to be!...lol
If you do decide to go with a TIG rig..seriously look at these machines..HTP welders...i am by far 1 to preach Miller,Lincoln and Hobarts but these machines have been around for 25 years and an excellent track record when it comes to everything from performance,reliability and customer service...do an internet search and find guys who have owned and used them for 10-20 years and have nothing but good to say about them...i ran into a Boilermaker outfit a few uears ago on a coal burner power plant welding the boiler tubes and they had a rack full of these machines using them for the TIG welds on the boiler tubes and they swear by them.
I sold my Miller Maxstar 200DX recently to a promising Pipefitter/welder apprentice because i am going to get an AC/DC TIG rig so i can also do a aluminum...i'll be buying the HTP Invertig 221...you get MORE features and adjustment capabilities for 1/2 the price of a Miller or Lincoln in the same ballpark as these machines..and they are made in Italy..some of them made in Denmark with german parts..NOTHING like the cheapo china units....
I called them already about one for myself and the guy said he'll have it ready for Weldcraft consumables since i have quite a few Weldcraft TIG Rigs i keep to take with me on jobs to use when needed,i'm used to my own rig and prefer to use it for a better quality job...
Here's just an example how fluxcore is SUPPOSED to be ran..
1st pic is 3 fluxcore passes(stringers)..no grinding after each pass..no "spatter"
2nd pic is 3 passes of MIG .035..same thing..no grinding,just wire brush after each pass........
All no weaving or "dip n move" like i see too many people do on the internet to try and make it look "perty"!..this causes spatter and poor uneven penetration and more stress in the weldment........one hot steady consistent pass.
3rd pic is the machine i used,,my Lincoln ProMig 180...
4th Pic is my Miller Maxstar 200DX TIG/Stick machine...if buying a TIG machine..make sure you get one with lift arc or high frequency start and foot pedal capability with the common 14 pin plug in........thats another thing will cost you a few hundred if not more..a foot control pedal or the TIG handle control........
Sorry about the long post..but iwas TRYING to cover all bases so the OP can get a "feel" for what he wants to invest in............i'm sure i missed alot...
Here is a look at the price end differences of TIG vs Wirefeed too...
I'll use Ebay as a reference but its not always the lowest prices anymore because the cost to use eBay has gone through the roof anymore....
Wirefeed(MIG/Fluxcore) machines...
about the cheapest route for one of these machines will be lowes,home depot or tractor supply....lowes and home depot have the Lincoln 180's for a common price of around 650.00..and tractor supply has the hobart handler 187 and 190 for around 650.00...but in all these 3 big stores you'll catch them on sale for around 550.00 at times ..then its time to JUMP on it...
All those stores carry all the consumable for the wirefeeds needed too..like different size tips..cups..wire..etc etc...which is a GREAT plus on a weekend or late hours if your in a bind and NEED it NOW because welding supply stores have limited hours and usualy never open on weekends...
Here's an example of the Prices of TIG machines from the "Big 3"(Lincoln,Hobart and Miller).........
Your not going to find TIG machines other than at the local welding supply store or online.
Oh..and before anyone "claims" that the wirefeed machines at lowes and home depot and tractor supply are different from the ones sold at weld supply stores or dealers?..NOPE..the ONLY difference is you can only get the "tap" machines there but at dealers you can pay about 100.00 more for the "continuous" settings..all it means is the "tap" only has so many settings on the amperage range,where "C" means it is infinite like a volume knob for the amperage range..but they all have infinite wire feed rate settings...if you don't beleive me..email Hobart and Lincoln yourself and ask if the machines are different and inferior at those stores like we did in a few jeep and 4x4 forums..you'll get the same answer right from the horses mouth..there is no difference.............
Oh..and do yourself a huge favor and don't waste your money on those cheap china machines like Longetivity,Giantech, and Everlast...those are all the same exact china manufactured machines with ALOT of problems in a short time and even some of them are dead on arrival..just do an online research of those 3..especialy weldingweb.com where they all have their own dedicated forum threads...but hey..they have GREAT customer serivice for everlast and longetivity "when"..(Not if) they break down...!
I'd hate to be the one who sells these machines on the rep that we have the best customer service because it WILL break down.........
Very good read Chevymon
Bottom line is...
If you have an unlimited budget to buy and use TIG and alot of time to learn it to get acceptable results....than that'll be a good choice.
If you don't have an unlimited budget and want something that is easy to learn and in a short time being able to get more than acceptable results..Wirefeed(MIG/Fluxcore)
Here's just a few FACTS not opinions between the 2 processes..
Buying the equipment..MIG vs TIG=TIG is double if not more
Money to keep the machine running as in consumables=Again..TIG is more expensive..TIG needs expensive Tungsten that you will need different sizes and types for different types of applications..,different types and sizes of cups for different applications,different size collets and bodies...etc etc..You will also use twice if not more sheilding gas as you do with MIG...you can't just turn that flow meter down to 5 to try and compensate the usage for a slower process unless you want contaminated welds..be it TIG or MIG..you will run anywhere from 15-30 depending in the size and situation...
You will also have to get a decent flow meter with TIG,with the portable Wirefeed machines now a days everything is incuded,including the gauge and hose to the tank.
Here's just an example of all consumables needed for TIG..and this is just for the TIG torch..this does not include the other equipment needed to run the sheilding gas end...
A good wirefeed like Lincoln ProMig 180,Miller 180 autoset and Hobart handler 190 or 187 for anywhere from 550.00 to 800.00 you have EVERYTHING you need to get started and running from the sheilding gas tank all the way to the gun tip, Minus the sheilding gas tank which is what you will have to buy localy as with any machine or process you decide.<and these machines will do everything and more than needed in any auto fab from light sheetmetal using .023,024 or .025 wire and up to 1/4" or more with .035 wire.
The only thing needed to swap out the size wire is the feed rollers and gun tip..both VERY inexpensive...another consumable will be the liner for the MIG/Fluxcore hose/gun...my Lincoln 180 uses a Tweco setup..the liner is a whopping 19.95 at my local welding supply..so cheap i keep an extra around at all times but in the past 3 years i've had it..i've only had to replace it once....
A minumum TIG machine and needing more things to get running ..like the torch kit..flow meter..and depending on what machine you buy your different hoses and setup to run the shielding gas either through the machine(if its capable) etc etc..will run 1500.00 up to 4000.00 and more and depending on the deal you got,you may have to buy all the accesories to get started...
Miller Diversion 165 is a good Starter kit for TIG for AC/DC capabilities..and from what i seen is a minumum of around 1200.00.
They also have the Miller Maxstar 150STL for around 1000.00 but its limited to capabilities because of the low amperage and DC only..
I totaly agree a TIG weldment is much easier to hammer and dolly..but again as i said before..That is ONLY if you have total access the back of that panel,i've yet to do patch panels repair or replacement on a vehicle that i had total access to the back of the panel unless i was building the panel from scratch or cut out behind the panel to get access..the majority of patch panel work will be done on the car and there is no access to behind it...and TIG will warp it ALOT more than a good .023 MIG will when just totaly tacking it together at opposite ends as far away as possible and letting it air cool in between sessions.....like i said..i've tried both processes and MIG wins by far when wanting less hammer and dolly work...TIG spreads the heat too far because its impossible to be as quick with a TIG on the panel as you do MIG..you have to keep heat on the heat panel alot longer than MIG does and it spreads through the panel.I've tried both processes because i like TIG'n alot more than MIG..but MIG won by far for less warpage BEFORE grinding and hammering and dolly work..............
Now..if i'm in a brand new clean shop building a NASCAR or NHRA machine from scratch and all brand new parts from scratch where you will have THEE best case atmosphere and equipment and materials...hell yea i'll go with TIG in a heartbeat... Especialy if they are paying me by the hour TIG welding vs MIG welding to get the job done.
more to come in the next post..............
And please take note..i am BY FAR "disrespecting" TIG..as i've said..TIG is my favorite process..but all processes have their place in everything...i am just being un-bias here and i "wish" i could it all with TIG..but it just is not possible..
|Extremely good answer, Red. Not everything is black and white, there are also shades of gray. You don't hunt squirrels with an elephant gun.
|Well said Red, you're a good man. I guess if he didn't get enough information to make a decision then he wasn't listening.
Chevymon, No one was really arguing anything and the discussion has been about the pros and cons of the different processes, your last post was a really good one on that subject BTW. Basically the subject turned into a question of which welder (actually which welding process) is best overall but that's a question that's not got a practical answer, it's almost like asking which is better for working on an engine "Sockets or wrenches"? That certainly was not poking fun at the OP's question because he asked about which process would be better for the jobs he described and his question was a good one, what I said was just to make the point that each tool (or welding process in the OP's case) has it's place and one is not necessarily better than the other, just that some are better than others at a particular job. The bottom line is that it is going to be nearly impossible to give a meaningful answer to the question of "which welder is best" unless it also includes the description of what it's to be used for, The OP did this but then the discussion kind of drifted. The original question has started a good discussion that has pretty much explained a lot, most in fact, of the pros and cons of each of the common welding methods and it has been covered in a "plain English" way that even a novice can understand so I really don't think there has been any disagreement.
I really didn't intend to get into an argument over which welder is most preferred, and I made that clear in the beginning with the 20 to 1 comment, because there is no doubt which is more popular. To each his own, as they say, but the OP asked for information not popularity. The mig is a vital welding machine for the hot rod industry, and without it there would be a lot fewer people welding, so we owe a lot to the mig welder.
But it does have its limitations, like all things, and I keep hearing that the mig is more versatile, so I did a little research to find out what some of the pro's say.
Rouch Racing
Rich Reichenbach, manager of the fabrication and design shop in Livonia, Mi. prefers TIG welding with Miller's Dynasty 300 DX.
The Dynasty 300 DX has a 5 to 300 amp output range (250 amps at 40 percent duty cycle) and, similar to the Aerowave, produces code-quality TIG welds. The Dynasty's advanced squarewave technology gives an optimal arc for various joint configurations, regardless of a material's thickness.
"The Dynasty is my favorite machine," Reichenbach says. "The unit is very small and versatile, and it has excellent arc control at low amperages. It keeps the tungsten a lot cleaner, you can weld very thin materials found on radiators and mufflers, and it is very stable."
Reichenbach uses the 90 lb. Dynasty 300 DX to weld all the upper and lower control arms, the suspension components in the steering, spindles and steering arms and aluminum brake drops. He uses 4130 chrome-moly on the control arms and between schedule 80 and schedule 120 when welding tubes.
At Joe Gibbs Racing a Lincoln Electric-only shop Love and his team try to incorporate as much TIG welding into chassis construction as possible. We want the best-penetrating, most-consistent weld we can make, he says. Obviously there is a time issue in motorsports, but we want everything to be perfect, too. TIG is my preference, but I also think the highest form of motorsports should perform with the highest form of welding. The crew uses MIG welding a number of Lincolns MIG welders, including the Power MIG 215 and Power MIG 255 for support tube and body fabrication
Miller Electric
A brief comparison of the welding processes by Miller Electric
Farmers like Al Hoffmann wouldn't give up their MIG welders for anything. While an old Stick welding pro may disagree, learning to MIG weld is easier. With a little practice, even a first-time MIG user can achieve a good-looking weld. This means that anyone can use it.
For the farm or ranch, a MIG welder probably offers more advantages than any other welding process. The advantages of MIG welding are:
1) Easiest welding process to learn. 2) Welds light gauge material or thick plates. 3) Welds all common metals carbon steel, stainless steel and aluminum. 4) High welding speeds can be obtained up to four times faster than Stick welding reducing repair or construction time. 5) Increased efficiency 50 lb. of MIG welding wire yields 49 lb. of metal deposition, where 50 lb. of Stick electrode rods yields approximately 30 lb. of deposition.
A further advantage is that the same equipment used for MIG welding also performs flux cored welding. Rather than running a solid wire coupled with a shielding gas, flux cored welding uses self-shielded wire with flux inside.
The advantages of flux cored welding are:
1) Less affected by drafts, so better suited for outdoor work. 2) Works as well as Stick on rusty or dirty material. 3) Continuous wire feed, which minimizes starts and stops. 4) Deep penetration for welding thick sections. 5) Increased metal deposition (two or three times that of Stick welding), which is beneficial for hardfacing. 6) Can eliminate need for a shielding gas bottle, which increases portability.
Between its MIG and flux cored capabilities, a wire welder can perform any task a Stick welder can, and do it more efficiently. While a good quality wire welder costs $450 to $2,000 (depending on its size), the costs for wire and gas are much less than that for Stick welding rods. Coupled with the ability to weld aluminum and sheet metal, a wire welder can pay for itself very quickly.
This welding process uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode and a shielding gas which protects the welding area from contamination. The concentrated heat and precise control of the TIG arc allows thin material (.010 in.) to be welded. The advantages of TIG welding are:
1) Precise welding on thin materials is easily accomplished, plus there is less distortion overall. 2) Provides the highest quality work, as well as highly aesthetic weld beads. 3) Allows the welder to adjust heat input while welding by using a foot or hand amperage control. 4) Welds steel, aluminum and other metals with just a single gas, argon.
Although TIG welding is a relatively slow process, it provides high quality welds. Typical applications are for aluminum irrigation pipes, stainless steel sprayer tanks and aluminum engine parts.
Another factor to consider is that TIG machines also have Stick welding capabilities (they are often referred to as TIG/Stick welders). While costing more than MIG or Stick-only welders, a single TIG/Stick machine gives the user greater flexibility. Miller's Econotig® TIG/Stick welder provides this flexibility and offers features found on industrial-class equipment, but with a price tag geared for the do-it-yourself welder.
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Advantages of TIG Welders
While using a TIG welder requires that separate filler material be used when additional material is needed, TIG welding has a number of advantages over other welding processes.
The sharp and rigid tungsten allows for high precision welding.
The small arc produced by TIG welding is ideal for welding thin materials.
No material is added to the weld unless it is required.
The inert gas shielding the weld creates no slag or splatter, making TIG welding a much cleaner and time-efficient process
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GMAW or GTAW?
While many fabricators and engineers have their preferences, gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) or tig, and gas metal arc welding (GMAW) or mig, are the two primary welding processes used in motorsports fabrication. In years past roll cages were welded using shielded metal arc welding (SMAW).
Like most racing fabrication shops, Roush uses both processes, but Moore said he favors GTAW because of its cleanness and precision.
Holmes said that GTAW has its benefits for motorsports fabrication.
"With TIG you get better control over your quality and less heat distortion," he said, adding that he's seen GTAW use increase in NASCAR. "The heat-affected zone is a little bit smaller so your chances of cracking lessen. It takes a lot more time, but you get less distortion, so it will hold tolerances better and the quality is higher."
Despite motorsports fabricators' preferences, each process is suited for different parts of a race car.
"Typically, as far as NASCAR goes, they use MIG to hang the sheet metal on the bodies. In the NHRA [National Hot Rod Association] and IRL [Indy Racing League], the majority is TIG-welded, [and] the chassis and everything in IRL is TIG-welded," Holmes said, adding that each racing league has its own fabrication rules.
Robo Worx Welding Division
TIG and MIG seem similar, but they aren't. Take a look at the pros and cons of TIG and MIG welding and you'll know which one to choose.
Metal Inert Gas (MIG) welding is a very common arc welding application. Typically utilized for automotive applications, it uses a continuous and consumable wire electrode and shielding gas to create the weld.
The Advantages of MIG Welding:
MIG is Faster: If you're looking for speed, MIG provides a fast welding answer. It is a very easy process to automate.
MIG Welding is User-friendly: MIG is typically more user-friendly and easy to set up. The process tends to be more forgiving.
MIG is More Affordable: MIG equipment is less costly and more accessible than other welding equipment.
MIG Disadvantages:
MIG Doesn't Always Work: MIG welding is not the best solution for every type of metal or every type of weldment.
MIG is Messy: The MIG process creates more spatter and smoke than TIG.
Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) welding is used primarily in the aerospace industry. More complicated than MIG welding, this process combines a non-consumable tungsten electrode, a shielding gas (MIG) and typically a filler metal.
The Advantages of TIG Welding:
TIG is Clean: TIG welding doesn't create as much spatter and sparks as MIG. It creates a better work environment with less smoke and fumes.
Autogenous TIG Welds: TIG welding can create autogenous welds - those that do not involve any filler material. The weld is created when the part melts together. This type of weldment is commonly used for parts in the aerospace community.
TIG is Precise: TIG welding offers more precision when it comes to thin materials. It produces welds without contamination.
TIG Disadvantages:
Cost: TIG equipment is more sophisticated, so it is also more costly.
Time: If you're looking for fast installation, robotic TIG welding isn't your best bet. It takes a while to set up and performs a bit slower than MIG.
Complications: TIG tends to be less forgiving and not as user-friendly as MIG. Parts and components must be in pristine condition for TIG welding
TIG WELDING for AUTOMOTIVE FABRICATION
Because of the higher welding speeds of the MIG process, the chance of producing porosity is higher. A common mistake with novice welders utilizing the MIG process is the possibility of producing a good looking weld with little penetration. A MIG can produce an arc into the puddle, allowing one to create a nice looking weld while the base metal underneath is not being properly melted. This cannot be detected before failure without either destructive or non-destructive testing. In the TIG process, the base metal is melted to produce a puddle before any filler is introduced into the weld. This allows the operator to see the penetration during the welding process. Another drawback in MIG welding in restoration of automobiles is the workability of the weld. The wire used in MIG cools harder than in TIG welding, making it harder to hammer and dolly the weld afterwards. Because MIG welding uses a constant fed wire to produce the arc, some buildup of material usually occurs that has to be ground off. This also generates heat in the panel that can cause warpage. With TIG, filler is only added when needed, and the thickness of the filler can be changed by picking up a different size rod. This reduces post weld finishing. While TIG welding requires greater skill, the results are far better than other welding methods.
Due to the slow speed of the TIG process, gases and other impurities escape to the surface of the puddle before solidification occurs, eliminating pockets called "Porosity" common in weld processes that employ gas shielding but have greater travel speeds than the TIG process. TIG also produces a welding heat is that is confined between the weld and base metal at the point of fusion and produces a narrow heat affected zone. This reduces stress, cracking and distortion in the finished weld. Spatter is not produced by this process, leaving the weld and surrounding metal clean. Because of the lack of spatter and flux smoke, the TIG process allows the operator a clear view of the weld puddle.
Best Practices for TIG Welding 1/4-inch (or thinner) Materials
From light fabrication to processing pipe and aerospace, thin is infor materials that is. Due to certain weight, space and design requirements, applications in these industries frequently call for materials like stainless steel and mild steel or aluminum that are ¼ inch and thinner.
These applications, too, often require the TIG process. TIG creates a narrower heat-affected zone (or HAZ, the area between the weld deposit and the base metal ) compared to other welding processes. This is important, because the less heat generated when welding thin materials, the less chance of problems like burn through or warping.
Welding on 1/4 inch and thinner
metal requires caution to prevent
burn-through and other problems.
Other issues that can arise when welding ¼ inch or thinner materials include starting or stopping porosity and pinholes, small areas in the weld caused by gas entrapment from either the atmosphere or the shielding gas. Some materials, like stainless steel tend to buckle and crack if there is too much heat.
While there are solutions to the above issues, the goal in TIG welding thin materials is to prevent the problems in the first place.
|Mr. Fixit
|Mr. Fixit
Exactly, there's a lot of wisdom in the often quoted saying that you can turn down the heat on a big welder but you can't turn up the heat on a small one!
|This comes up sometimes over on Weld Talk and it usually gets shot down quickly. ITW is a big outfit and they not only own Hobart and Miller but some of the smaller outfits that make components. Hobart and Miller I suppose could be considered the same company if they are called different models of ITW welders but Miller no more owns Hobart than Chevrolet owns Cadillac! They are different companies and Miller is aimed at the industrial market while Hobart is aimed more at the farmer and small shop owner. When ITW bought out the welder division of Hobart Electric they halted production of the larger Hobart welders, that's why you don't see the large diesel Hobarts anymore or at least it's been a long time but I heard a rumor they may be produced again.
I'll start out by saying I am a self taught novice welder, but have owned and operated a few different units over the years. Some were the finest pieces of equipment money could buy. My TIG experience was limited until my son and I bought one about 6 months ago. I can do beautiful work after finally getting it set correctly. The computerized controls are eating my lunch. My son can set the controls, but flounders when it comes to putting the fire to the metal. My latest Mig is a big Thermal Arc Fabricator and will say it is the finest unit I have used. Price is right up there with the Miller, but in my opinion, it is a better machine and deserves looking at. My TIG unit is a combination TIG/ARC unit and is also Thermal Arc. The Arc function is also the easiest to use of all the units I have owned or operated.
But my advise to the OP is get the largest machine you can afford because as you get more experience, you will find yourself branching out and doing more and more with it. It is the pits to be restricted when you find the machine you bought for sheet metal is just not big enough.
|.....Yea but Ford owns Cummins, right??? Ok thats also a myth, Oldred is 10000% on the money, Miller DOES NOT own Hobart......Illinois Tool Works owns both of them.
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I work for a software company that uses Ricoh cameras to take photos of cars. Based off of a file we are able to manipulate and load to the camera, we can have the files extracted to the correct file path based off of "Text Memo" fields. I don't like the camera or this method. Is there a way to say... "Allow access to Mass Storage, Manipulate the SD card to load folders, have the folders accessible from the menus of the camera, and load the pictures taken into the specific folder on the SD Card?" I use a Sony A65 but I think this approach should be applicable to Canon, Nikon, Samsung, Sony, Ricoh, Pentax, etc. As long as the camera is capable of taking pictures and assigning them to a "Pre-Named" folder (Not one the camera creates). Thanks for the support and your feedback is greatly appreciated.
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When youre ready to start taking pictures for a time-lapse sequence create a new folder. Scroll down to CREATE FOLDER and select it by pushing the SET button. Now your screen will resemble the example below, showing your newly created folder. The fact that you have not taken any pictures or video yet is indicated by the zero next to the folder name 101EOS7D. By default as soon as you create a folder you will automatically be saving all pictures and video to that folder. If you want to start taking pictures or video in a different folder without creating a new one, just highlight it and select it in your menu.
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Talk about the novels, new and used books that Fairbanks has written!
Author Fairbanks's Book Reviews
Chocolate Quake
Berkley, April 2003, 5.99, 304 pp. ISBN 0425189465 Food columnist Carolyn Blue accompanies her husband Jason to San Francisco where he is going to attend a scientific convention on toxins. She, being a dutiful daughter-in-law, gives Jason's mother a courtesy call, but only gets her answering machine stating that she is in the San Francisco Jail on a charge of first degree murder. When she tells Jason about it, he doesn't take it seriously since...
Death a L'Orange
Berkley, June 2002, 5.99, 288 pp. ISBN 0425185248 Who can turn down a journey to France at greatly reduce rates? Certainly not the Blue family, especially Carolyn who is writing a book about New Orleans cooking and hoping to get another book on French cuisine out of this trip. She is also a syndicated food columnist who writes pithy little comments on each day of her trip and faxes them back to her boss in New York City. She can't wait to ...
Holy Guacamole!
Berkley, Nov 2004. 5.99, 276 pp. ISBN: 0425199223 After traveling through several American states and quite a few foreign nations solving homicides along the way, Caroline finds a murder investigation in her own back yard in El Paso. She is attending the opera seeing a contemporary version of a Macbeth dealing in modern day illegal drug trafficking. Many are appalled at the changes artistic director Vladislav Gubenko made to the Bard's classic. ...
The Perils of Paella
Berkley, Jan 2004, 25.99, 304 pp. ISBN 042519390x Ever since her children have grown up, Carolyn Blue is doing things that she wants to do. She is a syndicated food columnist, published writer and jets around the world, accompanying her husband to science conferences. Of course she always finds time to solve murder investigations along the way. Carolyn is currently in Barcelona visiting her friend Roberta Hecht, who is working in the researc...
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Truffled Feathers
Berkley, Dec 2001, 5.99, 272 pp. ISBN: 042518272X Scientist Jason Blue specializes in how to clean toxins from the environment while his wife Carolyn is a gourmet chef. Carolyn receives an advance to write a cookbook on New Orleans cuisine. They travel to New York because Hodge, Bruce & Byerson want to hire Jason to help them with their �Cleaning the Environment Through Chemistry� mission while Carolyn meets with her editor. Upon the...


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Anyone got ideas on what I should ask for a pristine 308, 16" saiga with 3 8round factory mags?? I've seen them all over the place price wise,, but totally unavailable most every where.
I have no clue what there going for now,,but I want to get max $ for it if possible from the dumb ass's out there on the gun broker type sites. Hate to be a gouger but if people are selling them for a grand,, like some I've seen,, I'll do it.
I can use the bucks. And If people are that stupid,, I'll just have to do it!!!
Hell around here there selling the 410 shotguns for 1150 and there flying out the door,,,, WTF????
Also have a Egyptian 1997 manufactured Maadi AK platform I can't figure out what it's worth either.
Any ideas guys??? I don't have a clue ???? I haven't been to any shows so I can't tell what there going for now, How about steel 30 rnd mags and Romanian drums, one Chinese design and one closed one ,, both new??


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By Joe Brewin
Alex Scott believes Ellen White's crucial late strike has relieved some of the pressure ahead of Arsenal Ladies' second leg in Gothenburg next week.
Second-half goals from Kim Little and White ensure Laura Harvey's side travel to Sweden with a two-goal cushion in their Champions League quarter-final tie.
Scott made her first start since returning to the Club from Boston Breakers last week and says the team are in a strong position.
"It [the third goal] is definitely crucial," she told Arsenal Player. "Talking to the girls in the dressing room after the game we could have scored even more goals. But we are in a comfortable position going into the away leg now and it is all on us.
"We didn't start too well but in the end we just showed the character of this team. In the end we got the three goals, which is good going into the second leg.
"I thought we had most of the possession, but it was just what we were not doing with it. We started off a bit dead and needed a bit of urgency. That is what we said at half time and that is what we did in the second half.
"Now we need to go into the second leg like that and start the game in that way instead of waiting to go a goal behind and then trying to step it up.
"It just shows you the strength of this squad. We believe we can go on and win all four trophies this year and that is what we are hoping to achieve. We won this competition in 2007 and the aim of the Club is to win it again this year."
Scott featured in an unfamiliar advanced role on the right side of midfield and she is delighted to be back in action for the Club.
"It's just great to be back in the Arsenal shirt," said the England international. "I played as a winger today and just had to do a job for the team.
"I am hoping to get back into my normal position at right back and see where I can go on from there, but it is great to be back in Arsenal colours."
Watch the full interview with Alex on Arsenal Player now.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Hey this is a great thread very helpfull I'm doing a swap 1.8l 16v into a 8v 89 GL just got the 16v from a friend with the tranny and i was wondering if anyonehad (I have an 89 gl swapping 85 GLI 16v)
done the 16v 1.8l swap?
had any advice on swaping trannys?
know any good threads that had advice or info on tranny swaps (from 8v tranny to 16v tranny?
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CRM, AKAM: CLSA Ups Targets as Cloud Changes Technology
CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets's Ed Maguire today penned a think piece on how cloud computing is a "soft machine" that is transforming "the technology landscape" and changing economic models and strategies, with Microsoft (MSFT), Google (GOOG), the "Pivotal" joint venture of EMC (EMC) and VMware (VMW), and Salesforce.com (CRM) leading the charge.
"Cloud computing changes IT from a bespoke to utility model," writes Maguire.
"Commoditization of IT will accelerate demand and innovation Adoption has passed the inflection and signs point to the hybrid public/private cloud as the preferred approach."
"As a wave of new social, mobile and analytic applications emerges, custom software development becomes a key competitive weapon."
Maguire offers the following schematic of how the cloud plays into technology's evolutionary path:
He also offers the following graphic of how the new "platform" of the cloud is commoditizing components such as databases and servers and routers:
Maguire raises his price target on Salesforce, whose shares he rates a Buy, to $64 from $52, dubbing it the king of the "platform-as-a-service" movement.
He is encouraged by deals Salesforce has struck with fellow cloud company Workday (WDAY), announced earlier this week, and a deal with Oracle (ORCL) earlier this year:
With the recent Connections conference providing greater clarity into the technology, market and operating synergies from the ExactTarget acquisition, we are more confident that the company is positioned for the next leg of growth. We'd also note that recent partnership agreements with Oracle and now Workday reinforce Salesforce.com's prominence as a de facto CRM standard, which effectively translates into a platform effect on the ecosystem. The Workday partnership is focused on engineering integration between the two companies' clouds so that customers can buy the services together. We've heard anecdotally of at least one competitive engagement where a customer chose Oracle over Workday because Workday's integration with Salesforce.com's cloud did not fit the customer's internal security and governance policies. We think this is one of several reasons for the alliance, as there are a number of high-profile customers that have selected both Salesforce.com and Workday as corporate standards. With the recent Oracle integration announcement, the Workday partnership muddies the waters a bit (as the Oracle announcement implied Salesforce.com would standardize on Oracle HR in addition to the financial/general ledger apps). The more integration agreements with independent software vendors (ISVs) around Salesforce.com, the more the company becomes a de facto platform, which brings enormous synergies and economic benefits over time.
A big part of Salesforce's appeal, he writes, is that it is exploiting a power shift inside enterprise, whereby heads of marketing departments are increasingly decision makers for tech, not the traditional chief information officer:
In February 2012, Gartner forecast that by 2017 the largest portion of corporate IT spend would be controlled by the chief marketing officer, outpacing even the chief information officer. Gartner estimates that marketing departments control from a third to up to half of the budget for purchasing marketing software. The processes of marketing, like other business processes, are undergoing a digital transformation as technology increasingly encapsulates specific functions. According to the US Census Bureau, total ecommerce sales for 2Q12 grew 3.3% YoY to $54.8bn, while total retail sales declined 0.4% YoY. Ecommerce now represents over 5% of total retail sales. Within the past three years, enterprise software companies including IBM, Salesforce.com and Oracle have significantly increased mindshare with CMOs through acquisitions and partnerships - with the goal of capturing more share of the marketing budget. The $2.5bn acquisition of ExactTarget (Salesforce.com's largest to date and first public acquisition target) filled a key gap and advances the footprint of the Marketing Cloud. ExactTarget's suite of cloud-based email, social and mobile marketing offerings provides marketing automation as a SaaS business mainly for business-to-consumer companies.
Another of Maguire's favorites is Akamai (AKAM), whose shares he also rates a Buy. He raised his price target to $66 from $56, "as the company is increasingly well posed to capitalize on robust gorwth in mobile e-commerce and video."
Maguire uses the all-important buzz-jargon "big data" to encapsulte all the various forms of media -- video, music, television, etc. -- that the company moves across the Web:
Management has a near-term goal of 18% revenue growth over the next
three to five years, and with current forecasts modeling low-teens growth, there's an inflection in the works. Since mid-2012, Akamai has pursued an aggressive sales-force expansion after several years of conservative hiring. The plan will increase total sales headcount by roughly 80% through the end of 2013, and with roughly five quarters for new hires to become productive, we are expecting the fruits of this expansion to manifest in 2H13. Moving big data across the cloud Akamai's core competency is moving bits (media, images, software, games etc) across the public internet. The business benefits from periodic inflections in data traffic – the rise of YouTube in 2005-06, proliferation of HD Video in 2009-10. The current surge of streaming content, mobile and social applications is driving further growth in demand. An expanding product portfolio Akamai has a healthy pipeline of new services offerings that complement its existing Media Delivery and Web Performance and Security businesses. Security launched as an independent unit in 2012 with a range of anti-DDoS (distributed denial of service) related offerings. Late in 2012, the company announced deals with carriers AT&T and Orange to license its CDN software, and this segment is seeing strong momentum. Slated for 2014 are hybrid cloud offerings that will target location-based ecommerce opportunities.


text: I thought of this when I read the thread about Gary Beacom, who was so creative that he seemed to defy the laws of physics in his skating. There are are other skaters that may not have been That creative, but even while competing as eligible skaters their creativity set them apart. Ice dance already has a lot of creativity built into it. For other disciplines it is hard to satisfy the traditional requirements and yet be extraordinarily creative. Win or lose, they were never boring. I never watched Beacom as an eligible skater, so I don't know if he became creative only as a pro. May be someone can help me out here. BTW many eligible skaters turned very creative once they turned pro. Other skaters whose creativity (I am not referring to just doing harder jumps or getting into difficult positions while spinning)- Men: Toller Cranston Philip Candeloro Gary Beacom (already mentioned) Ryan Bradley Pairs: Mishketenok-Dmitriev, with their unique choreography, which was unusual those days in pairs skating Berezhnaya-Sikharulidze, with their Chaplin LP and other unusual moves like spiral into throw 2R, and spiral-spread eagles Chinese pairs with their high flying split triple twists and throws Kazakova-Dmitriev (similar creativity to M&D, using her flexibility) Savchenko-Szolkowy: their style is very different from the traditional one Ladies: Olga Markova Michelle Kwan in her young years was very creative (COE spiral, spin in two directions, 2 falling leaves in a row, etc.), including the music she chose (there is a separate thread about her & Lori's choreo) Sasha Cohen created many different looks due to her extraordinary flexibility I am forgetting the name of the young lady that had two very creative programs at the 2006 US nationals. Need help here.


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"Superstorm Sandy" surged over the beaches of New Jersey and New York on the night of October 29, 2012. As the one-year anniversary of the storm approached, news media marked the occasion with a survey of the progress—and the lack of progress—of recovery efforts in the affected coastal communities.
A set of before-and-after photo montages at the Atlantic's In Focus blog shows the dramatic difference a year can make: ("Hurricane Sandy, Before and After, One Year Later") and ("Hurricane Sandy, One Year Later, Part II"). But scenes of ruined buildings and cars still lying where the storm left them are a sad reminder that for some people, recovery will come slowly—or perhaps not at all. The same lesson reverberates through another retrospective photo set on the Boston Globe Big Picture blog ("One year after Superstorm Sandy: A mixed recovery").
In New Jersey, press reports focused on segments of the community still struggling to get back what the storm took away. Resident's of the New Jersey's "other shore"—the shoreline that faces south and west across the Delaware Bay toward Delaware—say they are still in deep trouble, reported the Newark Star-Ledger ("One year after Hurricane Sandy, New Jersey's forgotten western shore struggles to rebuild," by Amy Ellis Nutt).
"A year ago this week, Hurricane Sandy slammed into the Mid-Atlantic, and while much of the evidence has been razed and removed from gleamingly rebuilt towns all along the eastern shore, along the western shore it's like Sandy never moved on at all," the Star-Ledger reports. ""On the Atlantic coast, there's a $40 million boardwalk, huge beach replenishment, waterways cleaned. Down here, it's a dead zone," Bob Campbell, mayor of Downe Township, told the paper. "We don't qualify for anything."
And even in parts of New Jersey that are at the center of rebuilding efforts, lower-income residents have gotten short shrift, the Star-Ledger reports ("N.J.'s low-income households still reeling from Hurricane Sandy: Study," by Stephen Stirling).
"Low-income ... families were disproportionately impacted by Sandy," said Stephanie Hoopes-Halpin, author of a Rutgers study, "incurring more than half of all residential damage, but receiving less than 30 percent of the recovery assistance."
"Halpin found just 11% of poor households even applied for individual assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which she suggested may have been attributed to a very complicated application process as well as a lack of information distributed on what assistance was actually available to those affected," reports the Star-Ledger. "FEMA held scores of workshops and town halls across the state following the storm, however, so it remains somewhat unclear why so few applied for assistance."
At the same time, second-home owners—many of them middle-class owners who inherited small beach bungalows—are finding it hard to bounce back. The Boston Globe carries this Associated Press report: ("After Sandy, second homes in N.J. are left out," by Katie Zezima). "While billions of dollars in federal relief have helped primary-home owners rebuild after the storm, second-home owners find themselves stuck in limbo: not eligible for enough money to rebuild or even demolish their homes while they remain on the hook for mortgage payments and higher flood insurance for houses they can't even use."
As owners financially overwhelmed by the storm's impact sell out or walk away, the face of the shore is changing. The Wall Street Journal reports that the middle class is being priced out of the shore, replaced by upscale newcomers ("Sandy's Legacy: Higher Home Prices," by Josh Dawsey). "In more-modest communities, Sandy has accelerated a trend that real-estate experts see in many waterfront communities elsewhere in the U.S.: The rising cost of housing, insurance, and taxes has already turned many vacation spots into havens affordable mainly to the more affluent," the Journal reports. "After a storm's damage, many less-wealthy longtime owners find the only financially viable option is to sell. That moves many such properties further up the economic ladder, as buyers … build bigger, more luxurious homes where bungalows once stood."
In New York, the picture is similar. Breezy Point, struck by a one-two punch of flood and fire, is still in rough shape, reports Yahoo News: ("Burned and flooded Breezy Point still trying to rebuild after Sandy," by Holly Bailey. "Most of Breezy Point's homes are densely packed together, linked to the road only by a sidewalk that also connects to the oceanfront," notes Yahoo. "Within those clusters are houses damaged in the storm that have remained largely untouched ever since. Some still have the 'restricted' stickers that were slapped on their front doors by city inspectors in the weeks after the storm. Some are for sale, some are still in limbo as residents wait for insurance money for repairs, and some are just empty—and have been for the past year. No one really knows who is coming back and who is not."
All along the Rockaway Peninsula, life is far from back to normal, reports Agence France-Presse: ("Sandy suffering still acute in the Rockaways"). A year on, the suffering wrought by Hurricane Sandy is still acute on the Rockaways, the narrow peninsula of Long Island once popular with day trippers and tourists. Supermarkets are boarded up, many homes are not repaired, and hundreds of people still rely on church handouts to survive."
One reason for the slow pace could be that most of the Federal aid promised to the victims of Sandy, and authorized by Congress after weeks of political bickering, has yet to be paid out. The New York Daily News has this report: ("Sandy victims see almost none of promised $60 billion in aid a year after storm," by Dan Friedman and Erin Durkin). "As of the end of August, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development reported that just $5.2 billion of the $60 billion aid package had actually been spent," the Daily News reports. "Another $6 billion had been set aside by federal agencies but had not yet reached the intended recipients."


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Minecraft 1.9
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Sandbox game of creativity and survival ...mode, it's perfectly family friendly Confused? Get online! What still makes Minecraft a bit unusual is how little is explained to you You appear in ...
- PROS: Immense worlds, Complete freedom of movement, Very creative
- CONS: Occasional connection problems, Lack of in-game instructions


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When you need an APV with some firepower and a thick skin, you whistle for the Plated Wolf.
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Perfect for scouting or getting personnel through hostile territory, this armored car can move quickly and defend itself with a small turret featuring both a heavy machine gun and a light cannon. This top-mounted system rotates a full 180 degrees and angles downward to give close support, or upward for long-range light artillery fire.
Plated Wolf has a low polygon count and comes in three paint skins for different types of terrain. Five poses for Michael are also included: driver, gunman, mechanic, soldier 1 and soldier 2.
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text: "The Acura ILX is an entry-level luxury car for Honda's luxury brand Acura. It replaces the Canada-exclusive Acura CSX and is a new model for the U.S. Like the preceding CSX, the Acura ILX is related to the Honda Civic." - Exactly what my definition of "tarted up Civic" means... It's cosemtics are different, but when you get down to the bones, it's a Civic. Are you trying to tell me that it's an entirely different car?


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As you may imagine, I spend quite some time installing new distros for my own tests or reviews. I have learnt that Dropbox is extremely handy for such activity. I use it to store my scripts, icon themes, wallpapers, emerald themes, etc., so I just need to synch the computer with Dropbox, as opposed to searching for files, downloading them, etc.
Unfortunately for KDE users, Dropbox is only available for Ubuntu and Fedora (GNOME), with a somewhat heavy Nautilus dependency. As a result, installing the application on KDE may prove tricky and frustrating. After researching a bit on the matter (and overcoming a few challenges), I decided to put together a brief article about it.
Let's start by downloading and extracting files. First, pick your architecture and click on the corresponding link below.
If you are using one of the popular browsers available, chances are the file will be downloaded under
~/Downloads/. Once the download is complete, double click on the
tar file and extract all files to your home folder. (Note that the folder extracted is hidden by default, so don't worry if you don't see right away!)
To start Dropbox, open Dolphin and browse to the
~/.dropbox-dist folder (use
alt + '.' without the quotes to view hidden files and folders). Right click on the file
dropbox and change its properties so that it becomes executable. Double click on it and the application will start .
Now, that's all cool, but it's only good for one use. In order to get Dropbox to start every time we start a new session, open KDE system settings > System Administration > Startup and Shutdown and then enter the Autostart section. Click on Add Program and select
You should now get dropbox running every time you start a new session.
Dropbox on Kubuntu 10.10!
Happy Dropboxing!


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Stonington police charge twin sisters with driving under the influence
Stonington — Police arrested twin sisters within 24 hours this weekend, both for driving under the influence and hitting something with their cars.
On Saturday at 1:49 a.m., police said Kathleen S. Murphy, 25, of 140 Latimer Point Road, backed into another car in the parking lot of Hootie's Good Times Cafe in Pawcatuck. She was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, unsafe backing, improper use of markers, driving without minimum insurance and failure to register a motor vehicle eligible for commercial registration.
On Sunday at 1:46 a.m., police arrested Hannah R. Murphy, 25, of 140 Latimer Point Road after they say she struck a sign near the intersection of Route 1 and Latimer Point Road and left the scene. She was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, evading responsibility and failure to drive right. The sisters are slated to appear in New London Superior Court on June 17.
Police added that the car Kathleen Murphy hit early Saturday was struck a short time later in the Hootie's lot by a car driven by another alleged drunk driver. In that case Gerald M. Dunn, 56, of 24 Meadow Road, Pawcatuck was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and unsafe backing.


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Postgraduate Coursework Units of Study
ECON6003 - Mathematical Methods of Econ Analysis
Semester 1, 2014 | Credit Points: 6
Coordinator: Suraj Prasad
This unit is an introduction to mathematical economics. It has three purposes. First, to introduce students to the mathematical concepts and methods that are central to modern economics. Second, to give a set of economic applications of the mathematical methods. Third, to develop the students' ability to formulate logical arguments with the degree of precision and rigour demanded in modern economics. The mathematical topics covered include introductory analysis and topology, convex analysis, linear algebra, calculus of functions of several variables, optimisation, and introduction to dynamic programming and dynamical systems. The particular economic applications presented may vary from year to year, but usually include demand theory, production theory, and growth theory.
assignments (10%), mid-semester test (30%) and 3hr final exam (60%)
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ECON5001 and ECON5002
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Students enrolled in award courses other than the Master of Economics must seek written permission from the School of Economics Postgraduate Coordinator to enrol in this unit.
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