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|View Poll Results: Shakugan no Shana II - Episode 14 Rating
|Perfect 10
|9 out of 10 : Excellent
|8 out of 10 : Very Good
|7 out of 10 : Good
|6 out of 10 : Average
|5 out of 10 : Below Average
|4 out of 10 : Poor
|3 out of 10 : Bad
|2 out of 10 : Very Bad
|1 out of 10 : Painful
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|2008-01-21, 21:13
|Link #61
I'm the Showstopper!
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: A place where you can't find me.
Budget episode?
|2008-01-21, 21:21
|Link #63
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
She should have killed off everyone there while they relaxed their guard, and then thoroughly examined Yuuji and dissected the Reiji Maigo from him from relative safety, to find out exactly what was in it and then figure out a way to extract Johan while killing off Sakai and whatever else is mutating the Mystes.
Instead, she goes in and instead of taking advantage of what she calls the "perfect" opportunity, lets down her own guard (knowing that there's something strange about the Reiji Maigo), and gets punched, losing whatever advantage she had, and now being vulnerable to an outside attack from third parties that she wasn't planning on.
That's called a perfect opportunity 'wasted'.
Oh well, her 1-line descriptions of everyone else were still awesome
|2008-01-21, 21:25
|Link #64
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|2008-01-21, 21:45
|Link #65
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Join Date: Nov 2006
She had the will and the willingness to make the appropriate sacrifices to see her goals through - she just didn't have the presence of mind to recognize the dangers of it even after she had been warned by multiple clues - hence her blindness.
That's why I find her the most tragic of all the characters really - she's the only one with any decent willpower and the recognition that sacrifices are needed to achieve a greater goal, but her fatal flaws make it so she can't fulfill her potential. Whereas all the other characters lack that willpower (except maybe Wilhelmina, but she's a bit too wishy-washy too).
That's also part of the reason why I liked the original Shana (before she got converted by Yuuji), Corpse Retriever, and the members of the Bell - they actually have what it takes to get things done.
Of course I'm making a value judgment on which sort of goals are worth attaining here - for example, you could possibly argue that Yoshida also has some goal of some sort and that she has a lot of willpower in achieving it - but she's rather small in the grand scheme of things so I don't think she matters or is relevant in anything except as a physical manifestation of Sakai's weakness.
|2008-01-21, 22:52
|Link #66
Snape: "I hate Potter!"
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Australia
This ep was obviously not as good as the previous ep but still pretty good... I was just about to hate this ep for the cheesy lines spouted by Pheles at the end only to be shocked that she was actually an avatar! That was a big twist, then pheles gets stabbed by a huge silver arm out of Yuji's stomach! Those two scenes made me forget about the cheesy scenes in this ep! Finally Konoe makes a debut after several ep of absence and next ep looks to be very interesting.
|2008-01-21, 23:24
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Why is Yuji Near though? He doesn't have the intelligence, or calculating insight into human behavior, or the willpower to achieve his goals (or even have a goal to begin with for that matter) that Near does. Near is also not very selfish, although he's certainly not self-less, whereas Yuuji is selfish AND self-less (in the sense that he doesn't have a good valuation of self).
Yuuji reminds me more of Matsuda. Average, not very bright or strong (his strength is from something independent of himself, i.e. borrowed strength), not visionary, and not really particularly noteworthy - except for what's inside him. He's always in the right place at the right time, but none of it is by his own choice, and he's always being moved instead of being the mover, reacting instead of acting. He holds strongly onto his ideals, not because he believes in them for what they are, but because he clings to them like a life-raft so that he doesn't lose track of what he's fighting for (or even living for). As a result, he turns out hopelessly naive and optimistic in his sense of justice and morality without the power to back it up, but he doesn't even really understand what it is that he feels is right and why that is right, and blinds himself to any other possible truths. That seems to fit the stereotype of Matsuda almost perfectly.
|2008-01-21, 23:27
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|2008-01-21, 23:27
|Link #71
User of the "Fast Draw"
I agree that it felt odd how everyone just stood there and watched Pheles move to deal with Yuji. They are just floating up there and the others are just looking. As if the one lined descriptions of each of them were so piercing that they couldn't even move. Would have at least expected Shana to charge in there, since she'd been itching to take Pheles for a while.
Was surprising to find out that Pheles was using an avatar. But makes sense why not much happened most of the episode. Just holding back until her main body could arrive to take care of it. Besides got some interesting info.
I wonder how many times Shana and Kazumi are going to say they aren't going to lose. Just agree on a threesome or something and then you don't have to keep bringing it up. Both of you win and that's that.
|2008-01-21, 23:33
|Link #72
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Agreed about the whole Shana/Yoshida thing. At this point, I don't care if either of them wins or loses because neither of them are interesting anymore. Shana was interesting at one point, but that ended a season and half ago when she turned into the 2nd Yoshida.
I wonder if anyone from that setting ever considered that there are more important things out there to worry about instead of some teenage crush?
I mean, hey, the world's precariously balanced, hinging on the whims of a group of revenge-driven half-insane Flame Haze on one hand and an equally insane group of monsters on the other side, and now BOTH sides know exactly where a certain Mystes that can tip the balance is.
What do you do?
You stay right in the middle of a fairly populous city, among the people you care about and want to "protect", and spend everyday agonizing in idiotic bliss about who's lunch you're going to eat...somehow conveniently forgetting the fact that your very presence in effect makes everyone you care about a hostage to be used against you.
It's one thing if an obsessive immortal woman nicknamed the "eternal lover" flies around searching for her love for centuries - people expect her to be singleminded and strange.
Is it any wonder that Pheles laughed at them when she first appeared?
I'm glad Hecate's finally back into the fray though. She was interesting, at least before she turned into a girl.
|2008-01-22, 00:02
|Link #73
.: A bad doggy :.
Join Date: Jun 2007
God I was banking that Pheles was going to be an evil, selfish behotch, and thank god she was. I was gagging the entire freaking episode otherwise. Why isn't Yoshida dead yet? Why is Shana continuing this joke of an accepted rivalry with Yoshida? I'm going to confess my love to him! I won't lose to you! Guess what, NOONE BLOODY CARES ANYMORE. If it wasn't the constant close ups of Carmel (<3 <3 <3 <3 <3) I swear I'd be killing off the studio behind Shana, one by one. I mean Pheles becoming friends with Yoshida? Give me a break, seriously.
Speaking of which, this is the ONLY good thing Yoshida's contributed thus far (s1 and s2)
Chalk that up to my ex-gf getting me hooked on that look (jeans and no top + bra, or better yet, shirt, and no jeans + panties~).
Ironically enough, TANAKA HAS ROMANTICALLY PROGRESSED FARTHER in 5 minutes (the combined amount of time between his worthwhile scenes in this episode and the previous one) then Yuji has in 1 1/2 seasons. Go figure.
|2008-01-22, 00:02
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|2008-01-22, 00:08
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|2008-01-22, 00:17
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imho of course.
|2008-01-22, 00:44
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@MasterChibi: hmmm... what episode are those images from? I don't remember them...
|2008-01-22, 01:00
|Link #79
User of the "Fast Draw"
Nice that they respect each other and all, but it does get old watching them reaffirm that often. Maybe by not losing they mean just spend time talking to each other rather than getting together with Yuji and settling this. Since if they keep it like that they won't win, but they aren't going to lose either.
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USFWS National Digital Library
[Transcription note: this tape recording is flawed technically. There are many points at
which the tape skips forward and conversation is not recorded.]
MS. NORTON: What is your birthplace and date? Could also tell us your parent's
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: Lillian and Leal Hehn were my parents.
MS. NORTON: Did they have a High School education?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: Yes, but they didn't go any higher.
MS. NORTON: Where and how did you spend your early years?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: In Madison. We visited northwest Wisconsin where my
parents were born. And all of the relatives were up there. As I got a little older, I'd
spend my summers up there. I got a little farm life that way.
MS. NORTON: What hobbies, books or events influenced you the most?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: At the time I liked a lot of mystery novels. I liked to read
those. I always wanted to be a Secretary for some reason.
MS. NORTON: Even as a child?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: Not as a child, but as a teenager in High School I'd get let out
of school early so I could go [to work or training]. I first job I had, I didn't make
anything. I worked for an Insurance Company and I stuffed envelopes. But it was
experience. Then, the second one, I worked uptown in Madison on the Capital Square.
And I worked for Collections Company. He was a collector of unpaid bills, and that type
of thing. I also fished with my Dad.
MS. NORTON: What High School did you go to? And when did you graduate?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: Madison East High School. I graduated in 1943. I did take
some courses at the Vocational School. I took some brush-up courses on typing and
MS. NORTON: Who most influenced your education and your career tract?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: I guess because I enjoyed the studies that I took. My parents
didn't push me. Sometimes I wish they'd have pushed me to go on to Madison Business
College to become a Court Reporter. But they thought it was great if I graduated from
High School. They weren't brought up any different from that. I thought of becoming a
WAVE once, but I changed my mind. You don't have to put that in.
MS. NORTON: How about your husband, what are his birthplace and date?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: Deerfield, Wisconsin. He was born July 4, 1925.
MS. NORTON: What were his parent's names?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: Lydia and Irvine Christiansen.
MS. NORTON: What were their jobs and education?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: They were farmers. His father went to a Vocational School
and took up a class in farming but I can't what it was all about it. But it was quite an
opportunity at that time for him to do that.
MS. NORTON: And how did Arlo spend his early years?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: On the farm, and enjoying that. He had his chores and things to
do, but when he became a teenager he got drafted at age 18 into World War II. He got out
in 1945. He always says that he didn't have teenage years.
[Ms. Norton asks a question about Mrs. Christiansen's children. Tape is erased or has
technical problems.]
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: …that's in Wisconsin, on June 10th, and that's all, Debra and
MS. NORTON: How are they all doing now?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: Cathy, due to health cannot work steady. [Tape skips]
…works for the, I don't know what it's called now, it was Wisconsin Power and Light
but it's been bought out by, I think, an Iowa firm.
MS. NORTON: Why did you want to work for the Fish and Wildlife Service?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: I lived next door to a gentleman that worked for the Agriculture
Department. He said that the office next to him, Marshall Stennent's office needed a
Secretary. So I called Marshall Stennent, and he said I had to take the test as soon as I
had an interview with him.
MS. NORTON: What was your first position, Secretary?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: Yes, I started right at the hunting season, working on the
hunting season. He have me the books and told me to go through them. I learned by the
book. He believed in learning by the book.
MS. NORTON: Are you talking about the manuals?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: Yes, the manuals. Then, at that time, we sent out those Bird
Pamphlets all over, so I was busy doing that.
MS. NORTON: Was this in Madison?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: Right. And it was always secretarial.
MS. NORTON: What were the pay and benefits like?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: They were all right for part-time work. I only worked part-time.
I started out with twenty hours a week. But then, I think it was when I worked for
Bob Thomas, I think he was the one who wanted me to work longer. And they let me
work for thirty-two hours.
MS. NORTON: Were there any promotion opportunities?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: No really, but they did give me an upgrade in pay. [Tape
skipping] I was a grade 5; I couldn't go up any higher than that. But I could go up in that
grade to step ten.
MS. NORTON: Did you socialize with the people that you worked with?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: A little bit, not a lot. Once in a while we'd get together and
we'd have them out to the house or something.
MS. NORTON: How did your career affect your family?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: They were all for it. It worked out very well.
MS. NORTON: Why did you leave the Service?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: I retired.
MS. NORTON: What sort of training did you receive for your job?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: Like I said, I learned from the manuals for one thing. And each
one that I worked for had their own way of doing the work. So I learned from each Agent
that I worked with.
MS. NORTON: What hours did you work? You said you worked part-time.
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: At first I think it was eight to twelve o'clock. Then, Marshall
thought it was better if I could come in the afternoon because in the morning he would be
in the office, where in the afternoon he'd be out in the field. So then I transferred from
one to … answering the phone and giving our certain information that I was taught that I
could give. And if I could give some, I could always refer them to the Agents when they
would back in the office. A little bit later on they let me go and pick out my own
MS. NORTON: That was great!
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: It was! It was a Panasonic, and I could just put that stuff in
there and I could type away. And if I made an error I could correct it, and it was great.
MS. NORTON: Did you come across in inventions or innovations?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: I think using LEMUS, and being taught that. I don't know if it
was a tool, but it was important. …Learning and using computers.
… only not with animals. Not with live ones. Occasionally I had to go and pick up the
dead ones that were shipped to Madison, Eagles.
MS. NORTON: How did you feel toward the animals.
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: …had a house full of animals.
MS. NORTON: What support did you receive locally or regionally?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: If I had a question I could always call Dorothy, or Barb
Anderson, or I could talk to whoever the SAC was at the time. I could call them if I had
to. And there were also the Agents that I worked with; I could get advice from them.
MS. NORTON: How do you think the Service was perceived by people who did not
work inside of our Agency?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: I think most of them approved of it. You'd have a few that
would say, 'oh yeah, the Federal Service' in a sarcastic way. But I think that basically
people approved of it and were happy that we had a Federal Service.
MS. NORTON: What projects, if any, were you ever involved with?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: …especially the [unintelligible] Goose Program. That was a
big item in the fall. That, and at one time, oh, what was it? Where they do those surveys
on certain birds. …I don't that, as much as it was given to the Refuges, or to some other
organization to do later on.
MS. NORTON: What do you think was the most pressing issue in your job?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: Trying to work for five Agents at one time!
MS. NORTON: Did your feeling about that change with time?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: Yeah. It didn't bother me; it's just that once in a while, it got a
little hectic.
MS. NORTON: Who were the Agents that you worked for?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: Stennent was the first one. Then it was Miles Camry, Gus
Bondy, Bob Thomas, and Ernie Mayer.
MS. NORTON: And Marshall Stennent was the one who hired you?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: Yes.
[Tape skips question]
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: …I think all of the, it would be all of the Agents that worked in
Eau Claire and Oshkosh and Milwaukee, because they were a big help.
MS. NORTON: What were some other people that you [could depend on?]
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: There was Barb Anderson. And there were some other gals in
the Regional Office that I knew. Right now I can't think of their names. And you'd get
acquainted with the other Secretaries in the other areas like in Missouri.
MS. NORTON: Do you think you could all still be able to work for the Service today?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: We probably could, but age-wise. Back when I was, or when
all of us were working all of us were about the same age. And this many years later, I
don't know if they'd want to.
MS. NORTON: Do you recall the names of the Presidents, Secretaries of the Interior of
Directors of the Fish and Wildlife Service?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: The ones in the office there, [tape skipping frequently,
conversation difficult to follow]
MS. NORTON: Tell me about the high point in your career.
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: Just the idea of being involved in the Law Enforcement part of
the Fish and Wildlife Service was very exciting. I really do. I looked forward to it. I
didn't go out with the Agents, or anything like that in the field, but I always waited for
them to come back. I'd type up the reports and everything.
MS. NORTON: Was there ever anything like a low point?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: I don't think so, really. Everybody has a low point once in a
while. It depends on your health, or your mood or something. But I think basically I
really enjoyed the job. I only intended to work for a year, to get out of the house after all
of the children were in school. I liked it so well, that I kept up.
MS. NORTON: How many years total? [tape skips, answer erased]
Do think you would have done anything differently in your job while
you were doing it?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: No, not really. Because the only way I could get a bigger
advancement was to move to Chicago or Minneapolis or one of those places. And after
MS. NORTON: What was your most dangerous or frightening experience while you
were working?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: I wouldn't call it 'dangerous', I just called it 'kind of weird'
when these people would come in because they wanted to have wild animals in their
yards; Lions and Tigers and things like that. I just didn't think that was right. I didn't
think they should do it. I guess that would be the thing. They were kind of rough looking
characters and I guess I was just a little leery of them. But I did tell them that I didn't
think it was right for them to have those animals!
MS. NORTON: Good! What was your most humorous experience?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: Oh shoot, what would that be? I guess when Dorothy called
me that I was supposed to wear a uniform. And I laughed and laughed. I had Bob
Thomas take a picture of me with my uniform. I was saluting and I sent it to Bob
MS. NORTON: Have you talked to many people about your career?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: Not exactly about my career, but I have tried to tell some
people that I have met down here in Missouri, 'go on to school'. And then I said to
apply for a…and go in and take the Federal test, or a State test, either one. But take the
Federal one. There is a lot of benefits and opportunities available. I don't think they
followed my advice. They were already in their forties when I was talking to them. They
were complaining that they were making enough money, and things like that. I told them
that it might be worthwhile to take the test and see if they could pass it.
MS. NORTON: What were some of the changes that you observed in the Service during
your twenty-two years?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: The money. I think they became stricter in their rules and
regulations. Which I guess is good.
MS. NORTON: Were there any changes in the personnel?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: Well there were a lot of changes in personnel, but I think that
in our office any way, they all worked out very well.
MS. NORTON: …in the environment?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: There is a lot of controversy over the environment. I think
that even today they are still complaining that we're cutting down too many trees and not
preserving areas for the future. [tape skipping]
MS. NORTON: Where do you see the Service heading in the next decade or so?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: I hope they will keep improving. I think they are doing a great
job. The organization started in different areas, all-pertaining to the betterment of our
wildlife and our environment.
MS. NORTON: Are that any documents, or anything that you would like to donate for
the Archives?
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: …my certificate that was signed by Harvey Nelson when I
retired. Otherwise, I have little certificates for advancement and things like that.
MS. NORTON: Thank you so much for allowing me in interview you. We will send
you a copy of the transcript.
MRS. CHRISTIANSEN: Well thank you for interviewing me. I thought that it was
rather interesting.
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Setting up a Secure Subversion Serverby Dru Lavigne, author of BSD Hacks
Recently a client hired a team of web developers to assist his overworked web administrator. They asked me to set up a revision-control system to ensure that no one on the team inadvertently overwrote another member's work and to give the administrator the flexibility of rolling back to any version of a file.
My first thought was Subversion, as it is the revisioning system I used with my editor when writing BSD Hacks A search for subversion in the Ports Collection indicated that there are also several related ports. For example, esvn looked like an excellent match for the client, as this GUI front end works from Unix, Mac OS X, and Windows. That's perfect for a web development team short on Unix skills who would be accessing data stored on a FreeBSD server from non-FreeBSD operating systems.
This week's article demonstrates how to create a secure repository using Subversion. The next installment will show how to train your users to access the repository using a GUI client.
Preparing the System
In my scenario, it was important that only the members of the development team have access to the repository. We also chose to have the repository on a system separate from the actual web server and left it up to the web administrator to copy over files from the repository to the web server as he saw fit.
To accomplish this, start by creating a backup of the existing directory
structure you wish to put under revision control, and send it securely to the
repository server. In my case, I backed up the
www data on the web server to an
internal server at 192.168.2.2.
# tar czvf - /usr/local/etc/www/data | ssh email@example.com "cat > www.tar.gz"
Next, on the repository system, create a new group called
and add to it any existing user accounts that need access to the repository.
For example, I added my existing web administrator as I created the group by
adding this line to /etc/group:
# vi /etc/group
Then, create a new user called
svn and, if necessary, any
missing user accounts that need access to the repository. Make sure each
account is a member of the
svn group and has a password and a
valid shell. I used
sysinstall to create user accounts for the new
web developers. When I finished, I double-checked the membership of the
svn group. It looked something like this:
# grep svn /etc/group
Dealing with
Before installing Subversion, take a close look at the existing
umask for the
svn user. On my FreeBSD system it was:
# su -l svn
% umask
In Unix, the
umask value determines the default permissions of
a newly created directory or file. It does this by defining which permissions
to disable. If you remember:
r = 4
w = 2
x = 1
you'll see that this
umask doesn't turn off any (0) permissions
for the user (
svn); it turns off write (2) for the group
svn); and it turns off write (2) for world.
Because the members of the
svn group should be able to write to
the repository, change that group
2 to a
0. If you don't want nongroup members
even to be aware of the existence of the repository, also change the world
2 to
The easy part is changing the
umask for the
user's shell. If it uses
% vi ~svn/.cshrc
then find the existing
umask line and change it to either
002 or
If your
svn user has a shell other than
csh, make
your edit in your chosen shell's configuration file.
Once you've saved your changes to ~svn/.cshrc (or wherever), don't forget to tell the shell:
% source ~svn/.cshrc
Repeat the
umask command to verify that your changes have taken
Installing Subversion with the correct
If you chose a
umask of
002, you can compile a wrapper into
Subversion when you build it from the ports collection. If you chose a
umask of
007 or prefer to install the precompiled version of
Subversion, create a wrapper script to ensure that the Subversion binaries use
umask value.
To compile in a wrapper that sets a
umask of
# cd /usr/ports/devel/subversion
# make -DWITH_SVNSERVE_WRAPPER install clean
Alternatively, to install the precompiled binary:
# pkg_add -r subversion
Note: before installing by either method, finish reading the article. You may find some additional compile options that interest you.
If you didn't compile in your wrapper, move your existing binary and create your own wrapper script:
# mv /usr/local/bin/svn /usr/local/bin/svn.orig
# vi /usr/local/bin/svn
#wrapper script to set umask to 007 on subversion binaries
umask 007
/usr/local/bin/svn.orig "$@"
Set your
umask to either
002 or
007 so that it is the same as
umask for your
svn user.
Don't forget to make your wrapper script executable:
# chmod +x /usr/local/bin/svn
Creating the Repository
Now that your environment is set up properly, you're ready to create the
repository itself. Log in as the user
svn to ensure that both the
svn user and the
svn group own the files you create
in the repository. From /usr/home/svn/, type:
% svnadmin create repository
In this example, I've called my repository
repository. You can
choose any name that is useful to you.
svnadmin create simply creates the directory infrastructure
required by the Subversion tools:
% ls -F repository
README.txt dav/ format locks/
conf/ db/ hooks/
Notice that
db directory? By default, Subversion uses
databases to track changes to the files that you place under revision control.
This means that you must import your data into those databases.
At that point, I untarred my backup so that I had some data to import. If you do this, don't restore directly into the ~svn/repository directory. (It's a database, remember?) Instead, I first made a new directory structure:
% pwd
% mkdir www && cd www
% mkdir branches tags trunk
% cd trunk
% tar xzvf /full/path/to/www.tar.gz .
% cd
That made the
svn user's home directory look like:
% ls -F ~svn
repository/ www/
Importing the Data
Next, it's time to import the information from
~svn/www/ into
the Subversion databases. To do so, use the
svn import command:
% svn import www file:///usr/home/svn/repository/www -m "initial import"
svn import is one of many
svn commands available
to users. Type
svn help to see the names of all the available
commands. If you insert one of those commands between
svn and
help, as in
svn import help, you'll receive help on
the syntax for that specified command.
svn import, specify the name of the directory containing
the data to import (
www). Your data doesn't have to be in the same
directory; simply specify the full path to the data, but ensure that your
svn user has permission to access the data you wish to import.
Note: once you've successfully imported your data, you don't have to keep an
original copy on disk. In my case, I issued the command
rm -Rf
Next, notice the syntax I used when specifying the full path to the
repository. Subversion supports multiple URL schemas or "repository access" RA
modules. Verify which schemas your
svn supports with:
% svn --version
svn, version 1.1.3 (r12730)
compiled Mar 20 2005, 11:04:16
Copyright (C) 2000-2004 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
This product includes software developed by CollabNet (http://www.Collab.Net/).
The following repository access (RA) modules are available:
* ra_dav : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV (DeltaV) protocol.
- handles 'http' schema
- handles 'https' schema
* ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
- handles 'file' schema
* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
- handles svn schema
Because I wished to access the repository on the local disk, I used the
file:/// schema. I also appended
www at the very end
of the URL, as I wish that particular part of the repository to be available by
that name. Yes, you can import multiple directory structures into the same
Subversion repository, so give each one a name that is easy for you and your
users to remember.
Finally, I used the
-m message switch to append the comment
"initial import" to the repository log. If I hadn't included this switch,
svn would have opened the log for me in the user's default editor
vi) and asked me to add a comment before continuing.
This is a very important point. The whole reason to install a revision
control system is to allow multiple users to modify files, possibly even
simultaneously. It's up to each user to log clearly which changes they made to
which files. It's your job to make your users aware of the importance of adding
useful comments whenever an
svn command prompts them to do so.
Deciding Upon a URL Schema
Congratulations! You now have a working repository. Now's the best time to take a closer look at the various URL schemas and choose the access method that best suits your needs.
Chapter 6 of the freely available e-book Version Control with
Subversion gives details about the possible configurations. You can choose
to install the book when you compile the FreeBSD port by adding
-DWITH_BOOK to your
make command.
If all of your users log in to the system either locally or through
ssh, use the
file:/// schema. Because users are
"local" to the repository, this scenario doesn't open a TCP/IP port to listen
for Subversion connections. However, it does require an active shell account
for each user and assumes that your users are comfortable logging in to a Unix
server. As with any shell account, your security depends upon your users
choosing good passwords and you setting up repository permissions and group
memberships correctly. Having users
ssh to the system does ensure
that they have encrypted sessions.
Another possibility is to integrate Subversion into an existing Apache
server. By default, the FreeBSD port of Subversion compiles in SSL support,
meaning your users can have the ability to access your repository securely from
their browsers using the
https:// schema. However, if you're
running Apache 2.x instead of Apache 1.x, remember to pass the
-DWITH_MOD_DAV_SVN option to
make when you compile
your FreeBSD port.
If you're considering giving browser access to your users, read carefully through the Apache httpd configuration section of the Subversion book first. You'll have to go through a fair bit of configuration; fortunately, the documentation is complete.
A third approach is to use
svnserve to listen for network
connections. The book suggests running this process either through
inetd or as a stand-alone daemon. Both of these approaches allow
either anonymous access or access once the system has authorized a user using
CRAM-MD5. Clients connect to
svnserve using the
svn:// schema.
Anonymous access wasn't appropriate in my scenario, so I followed the configuration options for CRAM-MD5. However, I quickly discovered that CRAM-MD5 wasn't on my FreeBSD system. When a Google search failed to find a technique for integrating CRAM-MD5 with my Subversion binary, I decided to try the last option.
This was to invoke
svnserve in tunnel mode, which allows user
authentication through the normal SSH mechanism as well as any restrictions you
have placed in your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file. For example, I could
use the
AllowUsers keyword to control which users can authenticate
to the system. Note that this schema uses
The appeal of this method is that I could use an existing authentication
scheme without forcing the user to actually be "on" the repository system.
However, this network connection is unencrypted; the use of SSH is only to
authenticate. If your data is sensitive, either have your users use
file:// after
sshing in or use
after you've properly configured Apache.
If you decide to use the
svnserve server and you compiled in
the wrapper, it created a binary called svnserve.bin. Users won't be
able to access the repository until:
# cp /usr/local/bin/svnserve.bin /usr/local/bin/svnserve
That's it for this installment. In the next column, I'll show how to start accessing the repository as a client.
Dru Lavigne is a network and systems administrator, IT instructor, author and international speaker. She has over a decade of experience administering and teaching Netware, Microsoft, Cisco, Checkpoint, SCO, Solaris, Linux, and BSD systems. A prolific author, she pens the popular FreeBSD Basics column for O'Reilly and is author of BSD Hacks and The Best of FreeBSD Basics.
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Sanyo, a $17 billion consumer electronics manufacturer, will be using TurboLinux as the base operating system in 20,000 Newve medical workstation products it expects to ship over the next four years.
The workstations replace PA-RISC Hewlett-Packard workstations running HP (UX).
Keeps PHBs and marketroids busy creating slide shows for each other. The only up side to this is that they then have less time to bother us hackers.What does powerpoint DO??
Other than that, it's Concentrated Evil. I'm thinking about writing a commentary called "PowerPoint Considered Harmful":
Mmmm yes, makes perfect sense to me. Next week : how we'll all be living on Mars in five years time, the moon is made of blue cheese and Bill Gates is a visionary leader
The point is, Linux (and unices in general) gives you as much or as little control as you want over what users are allowed to do.
Based on my experiences supporting Winnders users ("Er, I deleted all the files in C:\lotus, now my typewriter thingy won't work!"), and with the potential for litigation if the wrong (politically incorrect) images appear on a workstation display, I'd lock down everything and only permit users to choose from an approved set of desktop configurations (e.g. benign tiled bitmaps, or company-oriented images).
Users would not be permitted to install their own programs, no way. This would open the door for too many potential problems.
Clamping down on user configuration may not make one popular in the lunchroom, but corporations don't spend millions of dollars on IT to make their admins popular in the lunchroom.
But Microsoft is wrong that Linux has not affected sales of NT. A lot of historical UNIX workstation users such as myself switched to NT in order to take advantage of the cheap PC hardware and easy software availability. I jumped onto NT almost immediately because it was good enough and a lot cheaper than your typical RISC workstation. It took a lot of effort to make a usable development environment, but you could do well enough.
Over the last few months, however, Linux has started to make significant inroads into our engineering department. Today roughly a quarter of all engineers run Linux rather than NT -- up from just two in the spring (that's about 700% growth). Microsoft can't see that in their sales yet because IT is still buying NT licenses whether or not we use them, but the transition is happening remarkably fast -- far faster than the RISC->PC movement that brought in NT. It will not be long before new NT purchases are curtailed to some degree.
There have certainly been some NT sales lost to Linux, however. I recently purchased a new laptop and I chose to go with Linux rather than NT despite running NT exclusively for the last four years. That's a sale NT would have gotten only a few months ago.
Generally speaking Gartner is correct that the people jumping onto Linux are traditional UNIX users. That means that on the desktop Microsoft is pretty safe -- there never were that many UNIX users.
But on the server, well, that's another thing entirely. Microsoft is not particularly well-entrenched; they're competing well against the commercial UNIXen at the low-end but that's largely because the hardware is cheaper. Linux uses the same hardware, costs less, and doesn't have client license issues. That 3.5% market that is dismissed in the article was statistically insignificant only a year ago!
Gartner is right that the traditional UNIX vendors are in the most trouble, but they were already in trouble. Their problem isn't and never was Microsoft, it was the PC. Linux gives those UNIX people a lower-cost solution without giving up UNIX. For small servers it's a very interesting solution to an IT department that is UNIX-savvy.
Microsoft makes great noise about how Linux isn't hurting them in that market, but the truth of the matter is that it's taking sales away from traditional UNIX vendors that Microsoft would otherwise have gotten. It has noticably slowed the impact of NT, and that definitely has their attention. Why else are they running benchmarks all over the place? They have to prove that NT is worth spending the money.
A lot of Linux people believe that Linux will beat NT by outperforming it. That might be true in a couple of years, but it's not true now except on the lowest-end hardware. Linux will beat NT in two respects:
Microsoft is worried about the server market and they should be. Linux is cheap and reliable and if there's any two things that IT departments like in a server those are the things.
jim frost
email@example.com [mailto]
The Gartner Group doesn't seem to be doing the slamming. IDG has interpreted this as a "kiss of death" when what Gartner seems to have addressed is the "desktop productivity" side of Linux. Is that a surprise to anybody? Linux isn't quite there yet on the desktop.
I'm glad they were careful to ask Microsoft if Linux was making a dent in NT sales. Glad to see the Linux threat we heard about in the DOJ case has already been vanquished and it's business as usual for the red-blooded innovators of Redmond.
Michael Hall
Frankly, mature managers, may they be Health Care managers reading a report on new drug therapy which is sponsered by a major drug
company, or IT managers reading a report on an OS sponsored by a Microsoft endowment, realize that any reprt or research is an attempt to frame data to someones personal agenda. What is left of value in the report is a criticle look to see
if that data contained within it seems valid or if it's quakery.
Unfortunately, there are for too many IT Managers unwilling to do their jobs correcly, or to look fully at the research. BTW - there are far to many Health Care Providers, Researcher, and Governement Beuracrats that suffer the same problem. How do you think we got into
this Microsoft mess in the first place?
The problem is, that's not true. We have RFCs, just like everything else. Some stuff implemented on linux doesn't live up to the RFCs in question (dhcpd 2, for example, doesn't implement DHCPINFORM), but then again it also implements some stuff far better than mere standards-compliance (gnutar, bzip2, a whole gamut of decent shells).
This is a key point I missed commenting on earlier. It is very true that Linux and other open source OS's have a great track record for following networking and Internet standards, as well as some UNIX standards. (And I must admit I like reading some of Linux's manpages when it comes to having to deviate from a standard or explain why a standard is silly -- the attitude is very refreshing.)
For example, as far as filesystems go, there's the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard [pathname.com], but beyond the distribution-makers, who really follows it? (Don't even get me started on how StarOffice installs... groan.) Maybe that has something to do with the fact that Linux users are so grateful for certain kinds of applications that they don't even concern themselves with whether or not they follow established standards...?
Also consider that there are now countless ways of running your desktop. The unification efforts behind KDE and GNOME (and the nonexistent efforts between these guys and anyone else) are not anywhere near mature enough for me, as an application developer, to even say "ok, regardless of what environment Joe Blow has here, I want to register this mime type as mine, this icon, put this on the launch menu, etc." That's just as an important part of standards than sending the right bytes over your network wire.
Do I personally care so much about whether or not an application can install its own file associations and launch menu icons? Nah. I still like the power. But it sure would be nice.
according to Microsoft, Linux has not
affected sales of Windows NT.
Yeah, they forgot to mention that according to Microsoft:
The NT market is so huge and powerful, it
could drop a few thousand seats and
Microsoft wouldn't notice,"
The Party is all powerfull. You must conform to the Party. There is no other choice. Follow the lead of the Party.
HP said "it is not ready for
mission-critical heavy database and
transaction serving functionality".
Yes, so on your way out make sure you buy your copy of Windows 2000 Supreme Platinum Developer Professional Enteprise Data Center Software Solution Gold Edition.
Anyway, it seems the Gartner group is just spewing the same old hash. I thought they were one of the groups to be trusted. I guess I was wrong.
tar xzvf name.tar.gz;cd name;./configure;make all install
Perhaps you should amend "hope it works" to the build process as well... I have compiled one too many things to have blind faith in that combination.
Check it out. It's nowhere near a kiss of death.
Mike Hoye
"A man without a
While we were waiting for the NT server to reboot multiple times (he was hired to help us with a specific M$ product) I probed his thought on Linux/Unix related matters to see what kind of person I was dealing with. He said a few things that clued me in to the extent of his brainwa$hing. Here are a few comments he made:
The Point:
Many NT users think standards are created by Microsoft and since *nix does not find it necessary to incorporate some of the same bells'n'whistles then they are falling behind and not "innovating". Unfortunately M$ marketing uese these same, so called, examples to prove NT is so much better.
Case Study:
I used to be an NT zealot, it's not something I am proud of, but we all have our pasts. As I made my way through my CS degree my mind changed a little bit but it was once I got to the "real world" that I did a total 180. I work in a mid sized company we have 6 Unix servers 2 Linux servers and 7 NT servers. We have 1 guy who administrates all of the Unix servers which are all mission critical and 4 people administrating the NT servers which are not mission critical (except for maybe 1).
NT Admins:
NT admins are not programmers, or at least VERY few of them are. That's why there is only one very limiting shell script. They are programmed to memorize things. There problem solving skills are relatively moot as a result. A saying we have around here is "In windows, if there is not a button or a checkbox for it it can't be done.".
No $TANDARD$
So it's true Linux has no $tandard$, it has something far greater StandardS that work, and a boatload of intelligence maintaining it.
* Education
* Enterprise Integration
* Support
I click on the hotlink, and find that their mission statement is served up as a PowerPoint file.
I guess PowerPoint is an ANSI standard, then.
Incoming !
Expect hordes of knee-jerking Slashdot readers flaming this article without even reading it. The Sacred Penguin is insulted and so its acolytes must rush to its defence.
What the article actually says is that Linux is taking its market share from the nasty old dinosaurs like SCO and building new share in the home geek market. Desktop Windows in offices, where the vast majority of suit-and-tie wearing people work, isn't affected, nor will it be until Word runs under Linux (and Hell freezes over and and Puget Sound runs with molten lava).
People are running Linux on net-connected servers with little or no interactive desktop usage. So when was this ever a big NT stronghold ?
I have participated in a number of IDG surveys before I refused to answer any more. IDG is the most biased suvey that I can imagine. At that point in time, I was already extreemly weary of ZD stuff, but still hoped that other groups would do the right thing. Their suveys would not allow for anything out of the box (OS/2, Linux, lesser brand UNIX, e.g. Consensys). When they report their findings, they make bold statements like, "NT clearly is building up steam. Other OS's are not even a blip on the screen." Well, of course they are not, you never even checked for them.
Having said that, I must admit that I too play the survey game with people. No matter how irritating it is, people seem to beleave something that in print even if the should know better. So, when I find something that supports common sense of experience, I point at it. This is very annoying.
I know people that consider me to be extreemly Linux biased. I explain to people this is because I've used both (Microsoft products even longer) and have nightmares getting the same results with more downtown from NT. I honestly don't have a problem with NT in a departmental role. On the other hand, I'm happy to supply bullets for people that want to use it for an enterprise solution.
Why is this relevent? Well, questions like, "Does NT crash more of less often than Win95?" Then, they report, "NT is preceived as extreemely relable my IT departments and managers."
As you can tell, I have a very low opinion of the big survey companies (IDG, Gartner, etc). As one person pointed out their studies are paid for by someone. The end result is that the results are not tarnished, rather, the questions and stated results are. Enough said.
Installation and configuration of computer systems for Joe Public are the job of computer manufacturers (sp?) like Dell, etc. Distros do not need to be "point-and-drool" right out of the box. Honestly, when's the last time you saw Joe Public buy a computer and Windows separately, then try to install Windows? All the free software community has to do is put together all of the different tools. It's up to computer companies to sell preinstalled, preconfigured systems (which would include setting defaults.. wow, look ma, I don't have to think anymore..! possibly setting up aliases so if Joe Clueless Newbie really does have to use a Unix shell he might not get so scared.. or maybe he'll actually like the original commands.. who knows?). Other than that, I doubt that the community as a whole particularly cares all that much about slamming down the gauntlet in front of M$ with regards to the desktop. Hackers tend to make things they feel to be particularly useful to them, or else things they feel the community at large could benefit from, whatever. That said, I don't think anything you said is anything that hasn't been mentioned a few million times or so now, and I rather doubt a call for "making GNU/Linux point-and-drool!" on Slashdot is going to have any kind of positive effect whatsoever.
By the way, with regards to your complaints about X: refer yourself to this site [berlin-consortium.org].
Take a look at the bottom of this page [gartner.com]. This is one of the original papers from the "Gartner" people.
The disclaimer at the bottom reads:
Microsoft Web Letter is published by Microsoft. Additional editorial material supplied by Gartner Group, Inc. © 1999. Editorial supplied by Microsoft is independent of GartnerGroup analysis and in no way should this information be construed as a GartnerGroup endorsement of Microsoft's products and services. Entire contents © 1999 by Gartner Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction of this publication in any form without prior written permission is forbidden. The information contained herein has been obtained from sources believed to be reliable. GartnerGroup disclaims all warranties as to the accuracy, completeness or adequacy of such information. GartnerGroup shall have no liability for errors, omissions or inadequacies in the information contained herein or for interpretations thereof. The reader assumes sole responsibility for the selection of these materials to achieve its intended results. The opinions expressed herein are subject to change without notice.
So... in reality... this is bought and paid for FUD from M$.
No denying that...
This article addresses many temporal issues, things that are relevent now, but are bound to change over a given period of time (evolution). It is inevitable that a consistently improving operating system will evolve, when compared to a legacy operating system, which by definition, remains stagnant.
There are issues to be dealt with, and industry spokespeople from magazines and publications provide excellent points, in roundabout ways. Largely, however, the we must be thankful for the time that industry critics provide in giving leverage against corporate dominance of this system.
Everyone should be aware: When Linux reaches a certain level of corporate involvement, it loses the development model.
Okay, sure, Linux may not have MS Office, nor does it have Corel Office, but it does have Wordperfect and Star Office. Isn't this mainly what the typical business person needs?"
Depends on the typical business. I think a business that started on Linux from the ground up could do very well. The business that I'm working at now couldn't make such a switch, though: critical business applications are running on Access, and Excel spreadsheets that Star Office can't handle aren't uncommon.
(For those of you wondering what kind of spreadsheets Star Office can't handle: ones with embedded Visual Basic, for starters. For those of you wondering why we'd use Access for critical business applications: I didn't write it! Don't blame me! It's not my fault!...)
Ah, true, for mom n pop desktops, but in the corporate setting, the admin configures the desktop once, puts all the homes on a server, and users don't have to configure squat.
In addition, this type of setup makes adding new workstations very quick and easy.
Maybe this could be done with Winnders, but at what cost?
I don't know offhand how much MS revenue comes from server sales, but its pretty significant. NT server costs a bundle just to install, and on top of that you have the client license charges for everyone who can log on. Eroding server market share hurts MS far more than eroding desktop share.
In addition Linux is now usable on the desktop, and its use on servers should create an acceptance of its use on corporate desktops as well. These people understand Total Cost of Ownership, and they are getting tired of writing huge cheques to MS every year and then watching their machines fall over every day.
Linux users account for approximately 0.08% of the hits to my website
Interesting. Do you have any trend information? I'd really like to see it.
Since you don't know his purpose, you don't let them know you are scared. This fear comes from a lack of knowledge of this person.
You immediately tense up, and try to look fierce to ward off a possible attack.(READ: FUD)
When you realize that you would be pummelled by this large hulk-of-a-man, you attempt to make peace. (READ: Carving up the market w/ Netscape)
If you can't beat them, you join them. (READ: MS-Linux)
These concepts are straight out of a street fight, and they definately fit Microsoft's business practices.
The problems that you describe are not only in the report-writing consulting world, but exist throughout the entire discipline of managment consulting. Recommendations are constantly made about where an industry or company should be going with NO knowledge of the underlying technical details of the industry or product. Analysts spend a few miniutes looking at Yahoo! Technology news and then make sweeping generalizations about an industry that sound eerily like the press release that was used to write the story. This has only gotten worse as the rise of the Interent and the web has increased the demand for "knowledgeable professionals" and misguided people have stepped in to fill a role that they are not qualified for.
The worst part of the Gartner, etc. knowledge deficit is that they ask the wrong people and accept their answers as true, because they don't have any idea how to check the truth in them. So they listen to some executive complain that he couln't get a video conference because of the firewall configuration and write a report that the firewall is dead and that we need a more "open" computing infrastructure and that firewalls are getting in the way of the flow of information (which they are, but probably for the right reasons).
The Economist had a great bit last week about consultants:
"HERE is a cautionary tale about a telephone giant and a management consultancy. In the early 1980s AT&T asked McKinsey to estimate how many cellular phones would be in use in the world at the turn of the century. The consultancy noted all the problems with the new devices-the handsets were absurdly heavy, the batteries kept running out, the coverage was patchy and the cost per minute was exorbitant-and concluded that the total market would be about 900,000. At the time this persuaded AT&T to pull out of the market, although it changed its mind later."
Finally, I would caution you about banging on a liberal-arts degree. A good liberal arts degree (mine is in history) should mean that the person has some critical thinking and reasoning skills and should be able to learn. Unfortunately, too many analysts have never spent any time on the business end of malfunctioning or poorly designed hardware or software to be able to separate the wheat from the chaff. Then again, I'm probably unusual in that I'll admit when I don't know something and I'll go ask or figure it out before giving an answer.
What the article actually says is that Linux is taking its market share from the nasty old dinosaurs like SCO and building new share in the home geek market.
I can't help but wonder.. are you insinuating that many (most?) geeks who now use Linux at home used to use SCO stuff at home..? What, no one who uses Linux on their boxen at home today ever used Windows there in its stead? Or was this just an incredibly badly worded assertation? (yes, I'm honestly confused) =P
Expect hordes of knee-jerking Slashdot readers flaming this article without even reading it. The Sacred Penguin is insulted and so its acolytes must rush to its defence.
I also found it interesting that you chose to preempt any inflammatory comments with an offensive remark of your own. Perhaps you should consider being, more, ah, polite?
For those who aren't aware of the power of Gartner:
Garner is one of the 5 largest consultancy organisations around and alot of PHB's are in fact using their advise. Organisations rely on these reports for their IT planning. If Gartner says: "Novell Netware 5 is good" then Microsoft has really something to worry about.
IBM (big blue) felt the power of Gartner. IBM reorganised and drasticly changed their business plans because of a single Gartner report (IBM Mainframes will die was the outcome of that report). IBM was doing well but many jobs were lost.
The only right thing to do is to do nothing about this paper. Don't fight it, don't counter it. Just keep on using Linux and all will be well. Someday Gartner will see it's mistake.
So the bottom line for Gartner is...
Microsoft Web Letter is published by Microsoft. Additional editorial material supplied by Gartner Group, Inc. © 1999. Editorial supplied by Microsoft is independent of GartnerGroup analysis and in no way should this information be construed as a GartnerGroup endorsement of Microsoft's products and services. Entire contents © 1999 by Gartner Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction of this publication in any form without prior written permission is forbidden. The information contained herein has been obtained from sources believed to be reliable. GartnerGroup disclaims all warranties as to the accuracy, completeness or adequacy of such information. GartnerGroup shall have no liability for errors, omissions or inadequacies in the information contained herein or for interpretations thereof. The reader assumes sole responsibility for the selection of these materials to achieve its intended results. The opinions expressed herein are subject to change without notice.
I don't. I'm having plenty of fun with Linux even if I do have to engorge BillG's wallet some more when I'm at work. (And sometimes at home...)
Why should we care or want to be "mainstream"? Linux need only be useful (which it is) to those that like that sort of thing. Why care about those that don't!
Hatred, even directed at those worthy of it (MS), is a poor choice of motivation.
It was a shock to me when I had to agree with the Gartner Group's analysis of anything. They have been so steadily wrong for so long that I had to double-check outside for any horsemen of the apocalypse.
Gartner's piece states that Linux is to be avoided for business-productivity applications. Let's not forget what a "business-productivity" application is. It's Word, it's Excel, it's Access, it's PowerPoint. All of these are targeted at single-user applications. (Some might try to say that Access can be used for multiuser applications; let me tell you from experience that you can only get up to about five people before it really starts bombing out. Where I used to work, an Access-based application was totally corrupted by someone leaving their computer on overnight. I don't consider that a multiuser application.)
The problem is that there is really a pretty sad offering along the lines of single-user applications in Linux-based, and indeed other open source systems. I have a Linux workstation here and love it to death, but I'm an administrator and a developer. I have StarOffice for firing off memos, of course -- but there is simply no way I could effectively get the rest of the office to use Linux, even if I had the authority to send out a mandate from on high that Microsoft was to be abolished. (Now, perhaps I could get Macs in here...)
Where Linux as well as other UNIX clones and derivatives do excel is in multiuser applications. I don't care if you have figures showing that IIS performs better; I can do more and I can do it more effectively, and I can do it on an OS that was designed from the ground up to be shared among multiple users. To turn around a key point from that previous Microsoft piece (paraphrased: "Linux was not designed with a GUI in the core"), Windows NT was not designed with multiple users in mind. Its design is based on an OS that still really only can be effectively used by one person at a time. (Want proof? Go into \WINNT sometime and look at all the
Let's not also forget the key benefit of free or open source software. I can change it if I need to. I've done so on quite a few incidents, to fit my needs when the stock configurations didn't. My NT system on the other corner of my desk goes largely unused for several applications because I can't change its applications to do what I need them to.
What would it take to bring Linux to the desktop, or as Gartner puts it, the "business-productivity" market? Quite a bit. The latest round of GUI stuff is getting there but there are still so many key points to sweat out. Printing a memo off is still not a no-brainer on your typical Linux system unless it's been set up by someone with a clue. But in the meantime, Linux and other UNIX derivatives are what I and other administrators and engineers swear by for our desktops. We just can't get away from the power.
Personally, I didn't find learning the shell much more difficult than learning the Messy-DOS CLI. Maybe I'm just nutty like that. I wouldn't argue against temporary abstraction layers that would make it easier for newbies to get started, as long as they teach them how to use the CLI at the same time.
I'm not one of the type who think people shouldn't be allowed to touch UNIX if they don't know what they're doing, but I do think there is something to be said for an informed user base and the effect their input will have on the direction of future development. Growing a generation of folks who use Linux, but can't tell the difference between it and Windows or DOS would do little good for Linux.
If this is correct, then this represents a new low in astroturfing. They must have known this would look like a Gartner Group analysis.
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Oh, close, very close. The missing app is the
http://www.gartne r.com/webletter/microsoft/article3/article3.html [gartner.com]
http://www.gartne r.com/webletter/microsoft/article5/article5.html [gartner.com]
http://www.gartne r.com/webletter/microsoft/article6/article6.html [gartner.com]
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While we do not view Linux as a serious competitor for Microsoft at the desktop, Linux will not disappear from the computing landscape through 2004.
Core Topic
Client-Operating-System Technologies ~ Hardware & Operating Systems
Key Issues
How will IBM's, Apple's, Netscape's and others' competition with the Microsoft Windows family for market share on corporate desktops affect users?
How will the technology and markets for client operating systems evolve during the next five years?
With the recent initial public offering (IPO) of Red Hat and its current valuation as a multi-billion-dollar company, and with the growing hype in the press over Linux and its variants, the question of Linux's viability as a mainstream desktop operating system (OS) has arisen. While many feel that Linux is the heir to Microsoft's 32-bit Windows offerings and will soon surpass Windows in volume shipments, we are not nearly as sanguine about Linux's prospects. Windows has achieved a level of nonsubstitutable infrastructure (see Note 1) and is tightly linked with hardware and peripheral vendors as well as independent software vendors (ISVs). To displace Windows, Linux would have to offer some compelling feature or "killer application" that is so overwhelming that it justifies a migration. The problem is that any application that can be created under Linux can easily be ported to Windows, thus obviating any advantage. We currently see three potential scenarios for the future of Linux at the desktop.
Note 1
Nonsubstitutable Infrastructure
Nonsubstitutable infrastructure technologies support the following characteristics:
1. Linux will become a major success and will succeed in supplanting 32-bit Windows as the dominant desktop operating system (0.1 probability). For this scenario to be feasible, several things in the marketplace would need to occur. If we assume that Linux will gain measurable market share in the desktop audience, then the door will open for additional momentum. If this were to happen, it would be possible for the Linux distributors to leverage this with increased support from third-party hardware vendors to bundle Linux instead of or in addition to 32-bit Windows. As a result, third-party ISVs could view the Linux marketplace as profitable and support the platform with native applications. However, we think it is late in the game for this scenario to feasible. Some major force would be required to break the Windows inertia, and Linux does not offer a compelling force against 32-bit Windows. It remains a complex Unix variant that offers little advantage to mainstream users.
2. Linux will fail to supplant 32-bit Windows as the dominant desktop operating system and will fade from the market by 2004 (0.2 probability). It is very unlikely that Linux will vanish from the market during the next five years. Linux will continue to be supported and maintained by a core community that has embraced the OS with near religious fervor. We expect that future releases will focus on polishing the product but will not offer a major feature or enhancement that will be enough of an incentive to drive the installed Windows base to Linux.
3. Linux will fail to supplant 32-bit Windows as the dominant desktop operating system but will remain an alternative operating system, gaining no more than 5 percent of the installed desktop space by 2004 (0.7 probability). Despite the lack of appeal that Linux will have for mainstream users, other users will still flock to Linux as an alternative to 32-bit Windows. The Linux community has demonstrated long-term loyalty toward Linux that will continue to grow. While standards for such things as the user interface will remain poorly defined, homegrown applications at no cost, or almost no cost, will provide the minimum level of functionality to keep the OS alive. In addition, as PC vendors continue to look for ways to lower the costs of their systems, we expect that many "white box" systems will offer Linux as a lower-cost alternative to Windows and broaden acceptance in that segment of the market.
Bottom Line: Linux is the "hype du jour" that is thought by some to have the potential to upset Microsoft's dominance on the mainstream desktop. Despite the press hype, we believe that Linux deployments for desktops will not usurp OS dominance from Microsoft. The lack of standards in the Linux community, coupled with a lack of key productivity applications and with Unix complexity, will continue to make Linux a poor choice for the mainstream business productivity user. Linux, however, will continue to appeal to its devotees and, as it improves over time, to broader audiences.
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1. Command shell that doesn't involve a lot of learning. "move" should be the command to move a file, "copy" should be the command to copy a file, "delete" and "remove" should remove a file. Joe Blow doesn't care that when all we had was 6 letter commands, using "rm" for delete a good idea. We don't have those limits any more, we shouldn't be limited by them. (My suggestion is to call this DOS, for Dumb Old Shell, and make it work much like the MS-DOS command line.)
alias copy="cp"
alias move="mv"
alias delete="rm"
We call this a shell, and it's smart enough that it can accomodate just about any user.
Yes, Microsoft is *so* K-RAD. They are the elite of the marketing powers. A threat which threatened to doom them for eternity can be evaded by just posting an "'X' Myths" page.
What'll we see next?
So in another 2 doublings or so, say about nine months, Linux will have 10% of the NT Server market. This is a psychologically important figure. At that point lots of press stories will be printed pointing out that Linux has now started making significant inroads into M$ revenues.
The thing that keeps M$ on top now is its reputation for invulnerability. Its certainly not its reputation for quality or value. But this is a very brittle thing. Once it cracks it will crumble and collapse.
So I predict that Linux will reach 10% market share next July or so, and that this will be seen as a major event. Once you hit 10%, 80% is only three more doublings away. So Linux should achieve market dominance some time around mid-2001, and Bill Gates will no longer be the richest man on Earth. Microsoft will probably be taken over some time in 2002.
Writing a shell script to do anything that gets close to this is a relatively advanced problem -- and I don't believe it's possible without requiring some escaping/quoting/substituting to get the asterixes through the shell intact.
The article was a little confusing because the journalist was jumping rapidly from one market segment to another. One minute he was talking about low-end servers, the next minute high-end servers, with distinguishing between the thoughts.
The HP spokesperson was not saying that Linux was not viable at all. In that statement Linux was being compared to their HP-UX product. HP-UX is a high end enterprise OS, which doesn't even compare to Linux. Linux supplements HP-UX, it doesn't/shouldn't/will never replace HP-UX.
So Linux isn't robust enough to replace their HP-UX product. However, as you pointed out, they do believe it is robust enough to replace NT. It's all about markets. Linux has been designed to compete in the market that Microsoft has generally focused NT in, not the HP-UX market, or the Solaris market.-Brent
Desktop Windows acutally -is- being affected. If it weren't, you wouldn't be seeing sales of Applixware or Star Office. For that matter, Sun wouldn't have -bought- Star Office. They didn't do that out of the kindness of their heart, they did it because there's gold in dem dere hills! (KOffice is vastly superior to MS Office, anyway.) Besides, if you want to get technical, Word DOES run under Linux, if you have Wine installed.
Actually, most of the Linux installations I've seen are desktop, or combined desktop/server. I've seen VERY few dedicated Linux servers. Not because that's not a good configuration, but because Linux can handle both tasks extremely well.
Productivity software - methinks Oracle, Informix, IBM DB/2, Code Warrior, Star Office, Applixware, KOffice, Klyx, BMRT, PoV-Ray, The GIMP, URT, Emacs (!), the complete KDE suite, Enlightenment, the complete GNOME suite, GNU Plotutils, the various Linux PIM suites and FlightGear prove that all the bases that Microsoft claims for NT are covered by Linux. (FlightGear beats the socks off Excel's FS, any day!)
"Trouble is, just because it's obvious doesn't mean it's true"
Yes, I thought that was absurd logic also. Because Linux isn't "great" as a Desktop OS, it is not a viable solution anywhere? Come on, the real strength of Linux is in a server. The desktop really doesn't have anything to do with whether Linux "survives", if Linux *does* take over the desktop, it's just another market segment.
I wonder why we don't see reports like this in other markets. For instance, the automobile market. Will we tommorrow see a headline proclaiming "Ford fails again with the release of their new sub-compact car to make a vehicle that will stand up to the demands of hauling 40,000 lb loads across the US." Or how about "Chrysler see Kiss of Death with their new SUV which doesn't provide economic method of travel for weekday commuters." How about food, "Tony's makes a new Pepperoni Pizza which won't appeal to the vegetarian market." Or just about anything.
But I disagree about the Gartner Groups analysis of the desktop market. As if they've ever been right. Anyways, the consumer desktop market is changing. And with that change a new OS is poised to take over the Desktop. If Microsoft isn't ready to embrace the new desktop, then Linux (and others) will take the desktop market handily.-Brent
Hehe, that's easy. Xeyes didn't have Millions of Dollars spent in R&D to create it. Er, I mean they weren't developed by Microsoft.-Brent
To continue:
> Joe Blow does not want to mount and unmount CDs himself...
Perhaps you haven't seen KDE... double-click the CD-ROM icon on the desktop and the CDROM is mounted automatically. Get over it.
I can't tell you the last time I had to manually give an IRQ and an I/O address under Linux. My last install, my NIC card was autodetected without even prompting me for which one to look for, my video card the same way, and my monitor was right there on the list.
> A good GUI/WM combination that comes default with all Linux distros...
Pick one: Gnome or KDE. They're both great and free. Red Hat comes with both. As far as all distributions coming with them (I think most do), surely you can admit that "Joe Blow" isn't going to go out and get Debian. Let's concentrate on making a couple of distributions "good enough" for Joe. Hey, how about you come out with JBLinux? Never mind.
> Official suppourt from hardware vendors...
Well, that one's up to the hardware vendors, isn't it? Many do have it, finally.
> Just because M$ and Apple are the big commercial doesn't necessarily make all their ideas evil...
That's true, and I defend those operating systems based on the good they have done for the popularily of personal computing.
Gee, you haven't seen KDE, have you? Win, win, win! If it's not a blatant copy of Windows 95, I don't know what is. And I'm not saying that's an incredibly bad thing, either.
Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed. -- Neil Armstrong


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April 11, 2009
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Since dropping their Ivy League opener, the No. 44 Bulldogs have been on a role en route to winning four straight matches. Yale did not drop a single set and improved to 4-1 in the Ivy League with a 7-0 victory over Columbia Saturday at home. With the victory, the Bulldogs extended their home winning streak to 19 matches.
Yale swept its three doubles matches to claim the doubles point. At the No. 1 doubles spot, freshman Vicky Brook and sophomore Lindsay Clark made quick work of opponents Natasha Makarova and Nina Suda en route to an 8-1 victory. Senior Janet Kim and junior Jessica Rhee pulled out an 8-5 win at No. 2 doubles over Eliza Matche and Mariena Hall. Playing No. 3 doubles, senior Lilian Nguyen and sophomore Stevi Petrelli cruised to an 8-3 win over Carling Donovan and Natalia Christenson.
The singles matches were no different for the Bulldogs. With a large crowd on hand at the Cullman-Heyman Center on alumnae weekend, Yale rolled to straight set victories at No. 1 through No. 6 singles.
Kim, the 124th ranked singles player in the country, won 6-3, 6-3 over Makarova at No. 1 singles. Playing No. 2 singles, Rhee prevailed 6-2, 6-4 over Nicole Stanziola. Brook maintained her undefeated Ivy League record with a 6-1, 6-2 win over Matche at No. 3 singles.
At the No. 4 singles spot, Clark cruised to a 6-2, 6-0 win. Petrelli dropped only one game in her 6-1, 6-0 win at No. 5 singles over Suda. Nguyen rolled to a 6-0, 6-3 win over Christenson at No. 6 singles.
Fans were treated to a celebrity doubles match exhibition between the doubles and singles point. Yale basketball's Ross Morin and Chris Andrews defeated Yale football's Bobby Abare and Larry Abare 11-9 in a doubles tiebreaker.
Yale's victory over Columbia improved its overall mark to 13-5. The Bulldogs will be back in action for their home finale next Friday against Dartmouth.
Complete Results
1. No. 124 Janet Kim (Y) def. Natasha Makarova (C), 6-3, 6-3
2. Jessica Rhee (Y) def. Nicole Stanziola (C), 6-2, 6-4
3. Vicky Brook (Y) def. Eliza Matache (C), 6-1, 6-2
4. Lindsay Clark (Y) def. Carling Donovan (C), 6-2, 6-0
5. Stevi Petrelli (Y) def. Nina Suda (C), 6-1, 6-0
6. Lilian Nguyen (Y) def. Natalia Christenson (C), 6-0, 6-3
1. Brook / Clark (Y) def. Makarova / Suda (C), 8-1
2. Kim / Rhee (Y) def. Matche / Hall (C), 8-5
3. Nguyen / Petrelli (Y) def. Donovan / Christenson (C), 8-3
Report Filed by Steven Horn '10, Yale Sports Publicity
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June 8, 2010 > Livia Thomas, Fremont's Teacher of the Year
The excitement and energy emanating from Livia Thomas are hard to miss when she speaks with and about her students. But her students knew something special was happening in their classroom when several adult visitors appeared."We are here today to recognize someone very important," said Alameda County Superintendent of Schools, Sheila Jordan, who stopped by to congratulate Thomas. "We have the best teacher in Fremont; your teacher Livia Thomas is Teacher of the Year."Twenty-eight teachers were nominated for Fremont's Teacher of the Year. At the Fremont Unified School District Board meeting on May 12, Thomas was announced as this year's winner.She asked the students, "So, who would you vote for?" They all answered in unison, "Miss Thomas!"Thomas is the Title I Specialist at Grimmer Elementary, a "Distinguished school," and has been at Grimmer since 1989. Grimmer is one of two Title I schools in Fremont. Fifty-four percent of their students are socio-economically disadvantaged and approximately the same percentage are English learners.She has worked as the Title I Specialist for the past 11 years. "I work solely with underserved kids, students with the greatest need - those who are English learners and/or who are performing below grade level standards. I teach language arts intervention classes and English Language Development classes. This year, I am working primarily with 3rd, 4th and 5th graders. These students are my passion and my joy," said Thomas."We have amazing students and teachers and really the students in these classes have set many goals for themselves. They strive for excellence and take risks. They persevere when assignments are difficult. The students are curious and set goals for high achievement. They have only been here a short while and are learning English quickly.""This is fantastic," said Fremont Superintendent of Schools, Milt Werner. "I've known of Thomas for quite a while and what an outstanding teacher she is.""It's such a wonderful example when you can see the learning that has gone on in a relatively short amount of time," said Jordan. "The students are proud of their heritage and their new learning skills. Excellence at every level is so very exciting."Grimmer Principal Donna Tonry explained, "These boys and girls, had failed to strive and now they are interested and involved. These kids used to be the ones not seen or heard in class. Now they carry themselves with pride and speak up in class. Their regular classroom teachers say to Thomas, "You've transformed my student!"It's a mutual admiration society as Thomas expressed the support she has felt from Tonry and the school as a whole. "She's an amazing principal who has a wonderful relationship with the staff, teachers, parents and other administrators. We are lucky to have her and she makes the culture of school so supportive. Donna brought us together."Thomas added, "I am proud to say that the teachers at Grimmer look deeply at our beliefs surrounding the concept of equity and cultural proficiency, use best practices to allow access to the curriculum for all students, and collaborate regularly to inspire our students to be the best that they can be. And isn't that what quality public education is really all about? I have the best job in the world."


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After each of their homestays, students write a "Cultural Window" paper reflecting on their experience. This essay was written by Adrienne Peters.
Most children who grow up in the United States are told how lucky they are. There are children hungry in Africa after all. I grew up with the knowledge that I was privileged and take many things for granted. One thing I have taken unknowingly for granted is my own culture. In Tanzania I am obviously an outsider, but I did not realize how important belonging in one's culture is until our Mgeta homestay.
One of the main functions of culture is providing standardized communication, like what a handshake means. Everyone with the same cultural privilege understands cultural touchstones, and subtext of interactions, humor, innuendo and basically any meaning that extends beyond just literal words. It is so easy to navigate a culture – all you have to do is be born and raised in it.
In Mgeta I realized for the first time since being here how I was all right with studying in an alien culture only because I know I can eventually go back to the culture I can navigate and I have a solid identity in. While I was lying in my lumpy, shared bed, surrounded by a culture that saw me in an entirely different way than I have been told I am by my own culture, I realized several things. Here are two. First, there may be little I hold more vital for a happy life than my culture. Second, my entire belief system about myself is almost entirely dependent on cultural truths.
I realized that my culture is important for my happiness because no matter how long I live in another culture I may always be an outsider. Humor, nuances of words, symbols and other culturally privileged information may never be learned. In my homestay I was struggling to even understand commands, and I can't pretend I even understand how much of the Waluguru society I don't understand.
This entire semester has me questioning my assumptions about myself. Before this trip I believed I could be in almost any social situation and feel comfortable. I believed I could be funny to just about anyone, and I was universally friendly. Through my Mgeta homestay it was made clear to me I was only the image I had of myself in my own culture. Mgeta made me uncomfortable socially. Instead of charming my family with social easing humor I was awkward and formal. I was not the friendly person I always believed I inherently was. I've learned I am not inherently many of the positive things I believed I was.
I've been thinking of some things differently with my new found respect for the connection between a person and their culture. When I was younger I remember not quite understanding why so many people stay in war-torn, poverty-ridden or politically unstable countries. I wondered why it really was such a big deal for settlers to come to America, they just rode in a boat after all. Feeling the loneliness in Mgeta when no one can understand my language, let alone how different their way of life is for me, made me understand a little better, definitely not fully, historical and current events relating to cross-cultural experiences.
I don't mean to under value the benefits of being exposed to other cultures. I believe, like I have been experiencing, your world view can be drastically expanded. During the homestay, though, I journaled that I imagined the USA disappearing before I returned and my heart hurt at the idea. Exposure is beneficial, but exile is unthinkable for me.
During my homestay these thoughts were not superfluous to my family's future. I believe that if Mgeta's practices of farming, high fertility and poor education continue, then the place the Waluguru call home may not support them in the future.
In a way the Waluguru society is as endemic as the species of birds that live in their forest. There is no culture just like theirs – anywhere. If they must leave the mountains due to poor soil fertility, overpopulation and desertification of the mountain they would not lose just their physical home but their cultural home, too. They could lose their culture.
To think of Shedi, my three year old host brother, at one point in the future feeling like I did when I lived with his family, but with no hope of the comforting return to his home culture, it upsets me more than I thought possoble. Everything he will believe about himself growing up could be taken away. I feel like I might partially understand better why alcoholism was and is an issue with indigenous Australians and Native Americans.
Environmental conservation of the Uluguru mountains, of the land outside Tarangire National Park and fringing reefs of the coast is not just about maintaining ecological health but preserving the places that cultures are "endemic" to also.


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July 10, 2012 > Senate approves postponing water bond to 2014
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP), Jul 05 - California lawmakers are trying to delay voters' consideration of an $11 billion water bond from this November until 2014 - making it the second time the measure is postponed. Senators on Thursday approved AB1422 on a 34-2 vote with bipartisan support. The bill by Assemblyman Henry Perea, D-Fresno, now moves to the Assembly.The bond was originally set for voters' consideration in 2010, but former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation delaying it until this year.Democrats want to delay the vote again to focus on Gov. Jerry Brown's tax hike to help state programs and cut the deficit. Democratic leaders have worried about the timing and cost of the proposal at a time they are relying on tax hikes to help cut the state's $15.7 billion deficit. The governor's tax hike seeks to increase the sales and income taxes individuals with incomes over $250,000 a year. The money would aid the state's general fund, public schools and universities, and public safety.Some lawmakers say the entire bond should be scrapped because it is filled with pork projects estimated at about $800 million. Others say it's a comprehensive plan that was the product of a bipartisan compromise. ``By all rights this bond should be repealed and the reason it should be repealed is because that is the only way we will have a serious discussion over the next year or two about what really ought to be funded in a water bond,'' said Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Davis. Although she objected to the water bond itself, she voted in favor of delaying the vote to 2014. Sen. Tom Berryhill, R-Modesto, said the bill isn't perfect, but there are a lot of good things in it. ``It was 10 years in the making,'' he said.Money from the bond would go to cleaning up contaminated groundwater, increasing conservation efforts, improving sewage systems, and researching construction of at least two dams.


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – Ryan Newman was hired Monday by Richard Childress Racing to drive the No. 31 Chevrolet next season.
Newman, a 17-race winner, will replace Jeff Burton, who announced last week he is leaving RCR at the end of the season.
"This is a great opportunity for our team," said team owner Richard Childress. "I am very proud to have Ryan in our No. 31 Caterpillar Chevrolet starting next year. We have high expectations for this No. 31 team. Ryan has proven himself to be a great driver and I'm looking forward to winning races with him."
Luke Lambert will remain with the team as crew chief, and Caterpillar was the only sponsor announced for the program Monday. Burton said in announcing his departure the CAT funding wasn't enough to run a proper program in 2014, and it's assumed Newman has additional backing to add to the deal.
"Ryan will be a great fit with CAT and RCR in many ways," Childress added. "He's an outdoorsman, a conservationist and is very familiar with CAT equipment as an owner of some of their products."
The announcement came on the heels of Newman's controversial miss of a spot in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.
He came up short Saturday night at Richmond in part because Clint Bowyer spun to bring out a caution that is now under investigation by NASCAR.
Newman was leading with seven laps remaining when Bowyer's spin set in motion a chain of events that cost Newman the victory that would have put him in the Chase. The final berth in the 12-driver field instead went to Bowyer teammate Martin Truex Jr.
Newman, who won the Brickyard this year, isn't being retained by Stewart-Haas Racing because team co-owner Tony Stewart said the organization didn't have room for him because Kevin Harvick is coming aboard next season. Harvick is leaving RCR.
But SHR has since done an about-face and is expanding to four cars with Kurt Busch.
"We're going to finish this season strong with the No. 39 team and give it our all to win races," said Newman, adding he first talked to Childress about a potential deal five years ago "before I signed with my current team but things just didn't work out. However, we were able to make it happen this time, and I'm looking forward to the next chapter of my career.
"RCR has a long history of winning races and championships, and I want to add to that tradition."
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Golf may not be the most physically demanding sport offered at local high schools, but its postseason can offer athletes some particularly unique and formidable challenges.
From mid-August through the end of September, prep golfers were treated to weather that was usually favorable and often spectacular. Shorts and short sleeves were common on the local links; rain was rare, and winds were generally tame by Illinois standards.
But the IHSA postseason doesn't begin until October, and as is often the case, golfers have had face significantly conditions than they've been accustomed to as they try to advance to state. Conditions were generally favorable when the area's boys golfers teed off in the regional round on Oct. 2. By the following day, when the girls postseason opened, temperatures were considerably cooler, and sporadic rain swept through the region.
The conditions didn't phase the Minooka girls team or Morris individuals Olivia Kief and Hailey Hoaglund, who all advanced to the sectional round.
"It wasn't really that bad," Minooka senior Rachel Herzberger said after shooting a team-low 80 at the La Salle-Peru Regional. "We didn't really get any (rain) this morning."
Other than Kief and Hoaglund, who were assigned to the one golf sectional in the state held on Tuesday, all of the area's sectional qualifiers had to turn around and compete on Columbus Day. If playing conditions were less than ideal during the regional round, they were significantly worse Monday. Temperatures were in the 30s when golfers teed off in the morning. Minooka golfers Kent Hudson, Jason Chobor and Jake Hogan had the start of their competition, the 3A Pekin Boys Sectional, delayed by an hour and a half due to heavy frost on the greens.
"It was cold this morning," Morris golfer Justin Larsen told me at a 2A boys sectional at The Links at Carillon in Plainfield Monday, "but for whatever reason, that's when I played my best golf."
Temperatures eventually warmed so that players were at least not seeing their breath by the afternoon. What never got any better was the wind, which wreaked havoc on anything hit in the air all day long.
"(The wind) was definitely a factor," senior Michael McPherson of Morris said. "You just had to adjust to it as best you could."
Larsen was in a group that finished before most of the field at Carillon Monday. With a 98, he knew his chances of advancing to state were slim to none. McPherson and another Morris player, Trevor Lines, finished a short time later, and with an 85 and an 86, Knowing how difficult the conditions had been, they could have been forgiven for being hopeful.
Of course, neither McPherson nor Lines had any real idea where they stood, because so many scores had yet to come in. So after playing several hours of golf, they were forced to wait — and rely on hearsay and speculation to try and gauge their chances.
"They just said everything over an 85 is out, so it doesn't look good," Lines told me maybe a half-hour after his round had ended. It wasn't until about two hours later that the final players finished and some finality was given to the bubble players.
Most sports offer instant feedback for an athlete after he or she is done competing; they've either won or they've lost. I suppose a diver might not know how his or her score is going to hold up at a sectional swimming meet for a period of time, or that track and field athletes may have to wait for other groups to finish to learn their fate at state. But it strikes me that no other sport can match the long days and the hours of waiting and wondering that come with the territory in golf's postseason.
Saturday Sentinel — Weather can be rough on area golfers
Golf may not be the most physically demanding sport offered at local high schools, but its postseason can offer athletes some particularly unique and formidable challenges.


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Practice SAT, ACT and PSAT exams offered at UH Mānoa on January 30University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Posted: Jan 5, 2010
The University of Hawai`i at Mānoa Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP), in partnership with Kaplan Testing and Admissions, will offer practice SAT, PSAT and ACT exams for students in grades 9-12 on Saturday, January 30, 2010, from 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Shidler College of Business.
Registration begins at 8:00 a.m., with testing to start at 9. To register, email the student's first and last name, current school, grade level, email address and contact phone number to firstname.lastname@example.com. Please indicate which test the student wants to complete.
A donation of $5, to cover the cost of testing materials, will be collected at the door. Checks may be made payable to Friends of Operation Manong.
On the same day, there will be a free informational workshop for parents and family members on the topic of college admissions and financing a college education. They will also be able to tour the UH Mānoa campus.
Register for the practice exams and parent workshops by contacting HCOP at 944-7632 or via email sent to email@example.com.
Practice test scores, which are unofficial and therefore will not be recorded, will be available the following Saturday, February 6, 2010, from 9:00 a.m. to noon at the UH Mānoa Shidler College of Business courtyard. Participants will have the opportunity to meet with Kaplan advisors to review their results, and learn how to improve their exam scores. Test scores can be mailed upon request.
On-campus parking costs $5.