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Good day to all,Can someone please help me out,Been trying to burn an audio cd to play back in my standard cd player.
I have tried all sorts of method with ImgBurn and totally failed,Would it be possible for some simple instructions ie.from 1 to 10 instructions Please,Running out of blank cd's.
Using windows 7 home premium.
Many Thanks in advance.
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Have just installed ImgBurn and want to burn a Vista ISO to a DVD.
Now I have got as far as looking for the downloaded file but when I click on downloads where it is stored nothing comes up in the ImgBurn window - only an old Ubuntu ISO.
So I don't know if I am doing something wrong?
Any help please?
Having re-read your post, I'm a little confused. Have you successfully installed Imgburn, or are you trying to find the actual SetupImgburn_184.108.40.206 exe?
I got it from here.
If the download won't work for you I can always e-mail you a copy.
hello there. this is my first post here after a bit of lurking. i seem to have a problem with vista64 that i just cant find a solution to.
i have a p35 chipset based mobo with the intel inf drivers installed and im running vista x64. im trying to burn images using imgburn and every image and type of media i try i get the same problem: during leadin i get an i/o hardware failure and then strangely enough after a random amount of retries it continues to burn the image and close the leadout just dandy. the burns work fine and everything seems peachy but those leadin errors are quite disturbing.
same hardware setup, same computer, running windows xp with imgburn and same media/image the burn is fine without any errors.
where do i start looking for troubleshooting this? imgburn is using the microsoft spti driver.
thanks in advance for any insight
Ok, i'm new to this CD Burning. I have Nero Express, and i'm having a little problem with it.
I've copied an Audio CD to a CD-R, and it plays fine, but there are still space on it, and i wanted to put a MP3 (it converts to CDA really nice also) together with the already burned tracks, but i can't. Everytime i put the same CD, i get the folloqing message:
"This midia cannot be recorded
Please Insert another midia."
(Sorry if it's not right, cuz i translated from portuguese)
Can i do what i want?? How??
Sorry if it is hard to understand, it is hard to explain.
Thank you
You cannot append any audio files to an disc that has been completed. Once a disc is completed it cannot access the remaining space. Especially with Nero Express. Once a disc is burned it is "closed (finalized)."
This is just a simple explanation.
I believe Roxio's Easy cd creator lets you add files to your disc as long as you don't "finalize" it. Until you finalize it you will not be able to listen to the music.
Hey,all. This is my first thread after joining this forum. Just to let u all know that this forum has been such a great help to me. Thank you tech maestros out there who shared your knowledge.
However, i have this problem that I don't think anyone has ever posted. I am using Nero burning ROM version 126.96.36.199. Nero Start Smart 184.108.40.206. i am using a Samsung combo Drive CDRW/DVD SM-352N 52x24x52x16x. I used a blank Imation CD-R to burn about 20 songs using Nero. The songs are in mp3 format and I believe Nero converts them to audio files because i chose the option >> make audio cd.
After burning the CD, I played it on my PC.It works fine with winamp and Windows Media Player. But when i play it on my discman, it skips. I could only listen to the first 4 songs and the rest was screwed up. Anyone who has a solution or who wants to share their same problem, just reply. Thanks in advance for the help.
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Hi there - I burned an Audio CD for the first time in years, and noticed when inserted into a CD player, it just reads the tracks as "track 1" there is no actual data of the album name, artist or track name.
How do I burn a CD, with all the data, so it can be read by a CD player?
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Good day to all.Maybe someone can help me out here.I have a fair amount of music on my pc,Now the problem I'm getting when trying to burn an album to a blank CD.I have tried using the windows media player and the CD BurnerXP Pro..CDBurnerXP Pro - Free download and software reviews - CNET Download.com .All goes well with the burning but the big bug is only one out of six will play on a CD player.
I did one for my pal the other day it was a CD of irish jokes,Didn't work so tried another one no joy so he brought it back for me to try and no joy on four cd players.What am I doing wrong is it the discs or the burning software that I'm using,If so what is the best software to achieve this cd burning.
PS have tried various burners over the month only problems I'm getting.
Any help please.
Many Thanks.
The CDs may have compatibility issues with the drive. Search for a firmware update for your model.
Drive may be going bad, can you check with another one?
Are you using verify option in burner software?
Windows Media Center
No Windows updates since owner purchased PC, Aug 2006.
Gateway GM 5091E desktop.
Will not burn using WMP 10.
Fails to burn files from playlist to CD.
WMP 10 will play songs in "my music"; & will play commercial CDs.
WMP 10 will rip songs to the HDD.
itunes also installed, but I didn't try to use it.
Will not burn using Cyberlink's Power2Go.
Fails copying commercial music CDs; 1 relatively new; 1 ~ 10 yrs old.
Fails to burn files from c:\docs & sets\un\my docs\my music\artist\album
CL P2G reports that the process has aborted. No other error message.
Nothing in event viewer.
I am able to burn data files [ .doc ] using XP's function, or using P2G.
Problem began about a month ago.
Using same Sony CD-R disks as before [ now a lot of coasters ].
Problem also using Verbatim CD - R disks.
The PC has 1 burner & 1 player.
Thanks for your help.
Clean boot troubleshooting has pointed me towards success.
In the system config utility, I hid all Microsoft services; then disable the remainder.
In the startup group, I disabled everything.
After rebooting, I was able to create an audio CD using WMP 10.
I recently wasted hours burning some audio files to CD-RW media only to discover that when I tried to listen to them on my car radio all I got was an error message. Can anyone assist me with directions on the best way to avoid the same problem again?
I used WMA, but also have Realplayer and Dell's Jukebox to burn from. I assume I'm copying the files in the wrong format for the CD-RW media, but I don't know how to change or designate a different foremat on these programs.
Try burning an Audio CD with a CD-R, instead of CD-RW. RW discs are sometimes unplayable in a regular CD player.
Hi Guys and Gals, I'm a new guy here so please be patient.
Like many others I seem to have an Audio CD burning issue.
I have a new HP g6 laptop with windows 8 and wish to create audio cd' of my old cassette tapes, I can create the CD having extracted the files I want using Audacity Software, The created CD runs fine on this laptop and even my very old Contessa PC Windows 98 OS but they will not run on my HIFi / Music Center. I have used Windows Media Player, Cyberlink and Torch to no avail. tried burning at slowest speed, still no luck.
(Running low on discs now)
The CD's are the same as I used on XP and on '98 which used the Sonic RecordNow burner and the CD's created all work on any CD player.
I would be very grateful for any useful guidance.
Thank you.
Here is my system information FYI
Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 220.127.116.11
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 8, 64 bit
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3210M CPU @ 2.50GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9
Processor Count: 4
RAM: 6036 Mb
Graphics Card: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000, -1984 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 932489 MB, Free - 877104 MB; D: Total - 20589 MB, Free - 2555 MB;
Motherboard: Hewlett-Packard, 183F
Antivirus: AVG Internet Security 2013, Updated and Enabled
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I want to create compilation Audio CD's to play on a regular stereo system & on an in-car CD player.
I use NTI 2000 Professional.
I do not want to burn a whole CD at once; I want to be able to add more tracks at a later date.
However, I still want to be able to play the unfinished CD on the regular CD players, that is, to listen to all the tracks already created.
Can this be done with NTI 2000 Professional & if so, what software settings do I use when burning tracks?
Thank you for any help you can give me.
Best wishes.
I do not think there is a way to play non closed cd's on a convetional player or for that matter on cdrom's. To make matters worse if you burn to a cdrw disk some players do not read those correctly.
Hope someone else has other ideas.
I want to burn music CDs that can play on my CD Player. Just wanted to ask if the player can play the songs if I just put them normally onto the CD, like you do with normal files, so about 300 songs can fit on one CD. Or do I HAVE to use the audio CD option, which counts by the audio length, and can only fit around 16.
Only if the CD player is MP3 compatible like some of the portable ones are now. If it's on your PC you can play it no problem.
Tech-support of a particular cd player I am using recommends I burn all my cds at 8x. WMP unfortunately does not use numbers in burning speeds but the terms slow-medium-fast-fastest. Can anyone please tell me which one is equivalent to 8x? I cannot use my Power2go because 10x is its minimum so I am stuck with WMP.
Thanks in advance for all assistance.
The burner drive's available burn speeds will determine what speeds to burn, not WMP or any other burning program. All that program does is allow you to select an available burn speed.
I have a recording studio and do a lot audio CD burning. I use 8X as my "standard" so the CD's will play in almost all audio CD players. Above 8X and some will not play the CD or will skip.
Almost all SATA CD/DVD burners will only go down to 8X (there is one LG model that will go to 8X but that's all I've found). I have a bank of 5 PATA (IDE) interface drives (USB connected) and they will burn at 8X. I use Nero Burning ROM. The free CDBurnerXP will allow you to select an actual available burning speed if you don't want to buy Nero. Roxio will allow you to select a speed too but I abandoned Roxio due to all the buggy problems they have had over the years.
Does anyone know what the problem is with the Burn Process Faled: Unspecified Target Error means? I use Nero and i've been using the same brand CD always and i just burnt a cd just before this happened it turned out fine. I have wasted 3 CDs and i don't want to waste anymore.
P.S. This happenes 12% into the burn.
Nero 184.108.40.206 Log:
Windows XP 5.1
WinAspi: -
ahead WinASPI: File 'C:\Program Files\Ahead\nero\Wnaspi32.dll': Ver=220.127.116.11, size=164112 bytes, created 26/10/2004 6:35:34 PM
Nero Version: 188.8.131.52
Internal Version: 6, 6, 0, 18e
(Nero Express)
Recorder: <TSSTcorp CD-R/RW TS-H292A>Version: TS02 - HA 1 TA 0 - 126.96.36.199
Adapter driver: <atapi> HA 1
Drive buffer : 2048kB
Bus Type : via Inquiry data (1) -> ATAPI, detected: ATAPI
Connected to MMC as unknown drive with class-nr : 1
Drive is autodetected - recorder class: Std. MMC recorder
CD-ROM: <TSSTcorp CD-R/RW TS-H292A>Version: TS02 - HA 1 TA 0 - 188.8.131.52
Adapter driver: <atapi> HA 1
=== Scsi-Device-Map ===
DiskPeripheral : WDC WD800BB-00JHC0 atapi Port 0 ID 0 DMA: On
CdRomPeripheral : TSSTcorp CD-R/RW TS-H292A atapi Port 1 ID 0 DMA: On
=== CDRom-Device-Map ===
TSSTcorp CD-R/RW TS-H292A D: CDRom0
AutoRun : 1
Excluded drive IDs:
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Hi Izzy,
I just had this happen to me a couple weeks ago, I use Nero 6 , and after the big update day, I was going about my business, messing around with my media library, and I kept getting the same error.
It seems to me like that error comes from using the wrong format for the program opperation, or that the output path for the file is in use.
Anyway, after a half of an hour, I got mad, and reinstalled it......problem solved, in my case anyway. I use the K-Lite Codec Pack, and although I love it's universal quallities, for some reason, it's the buggiest program I use, and find myself reinstalling it once a week or so.
Although, it also could just be something as simple as two programs stepping on eachothers toes, maybe you have another media player that shares the target .extension, and there is a conflict, I think that is my problem, the only thing is, I have to many media players with odd settings to mess up.
Hope this helps,
For some unknown reason, after I burn some CD's, many at first sound great; but, after a while, they mysteriously develop unwanted and annoying crackles and pops in playback, almost as an old vinyl recording. Many are like that immediately, and some never do it at all. To explain further, it's almost like a scratch in a record. Is there a reason for this? And, if so, can it be prevented.
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I use Nero 6 Ultra to burning audio CD's. Lately, I have been having a problem when burning mp3 audio. It seems to burn fine but some cd's I burned will not play on a cd player or car stereo. I have tried cd-r and cd-rw media but it seems not to make a difference.
Is there another type of mp3 format i can use?
Are you sure that you are burning audio CDs from the MP3 files and not creating Data CDs with MP3 files on them? Most older home and car CD players will only play Audio CDs and not recognize any kind of Data CDs. Some newer players may be able to play MP3 files from Data CDs.
Real old players may have problems with burned Audio CDs.
I downloaded the moie "The Queen", however, when I got the entire movie, I was able to view it perfectly on my computer in Real Player ONLY!!!
But, when I burn it to a disc, I get no audio.
I tried copying it to DivX, but it says that it is not supported. Same results with other players.
Any suggestions??? Thx
I know this is an old thread, but, I'm going to close this one as well since I just saw your latest question.
I Just Bough A New Hp With Vista. I Tried Burning A Cd With Songs From Limewire. It Plays In The Tower But Not On My Cd Player. Whats Up?
Hello McFly,
Just to be clear with the forum rules here, we do not offer assistance with anything that involves P2P programs, like LimeWire.
As to the problem, it sounds like your CD was not finalized.
I have been trying to burn a couple of my rm videos to dvd using winavi 8.0 but there is no sound in any of them. I've tried to burn new ones with the 7.7 version along with dvdsanta and still get the same results. Then reinstalled ac3Filter and K-Lite codec, burning with nero and there is still no sound. I am currently using a windows vista, any help?Read other answers
Please help me as I cannot burn any audio. My OS is XP. The programme used for the burn is "Record Now" but thats irrelevant because I now cannot use any other burn programme ie. Nero or Windows Media Player. What happens is that it starts converting and when the time comes for the burn it proceeds to 5% and then closes the disk. I replaced the drive (thinking it was a drive problem) still the problem persisted. I then did a full scrub of master and slave HDD thinking it was a virus. This fixed the problem short term. Three months later the problem arises again. Before I do a full scrub again, I wanted to know whether anybody else has run accross this problem. For extra information I can still burn DVD with full audio, pictures any other documentation just not audio. and for those who think its a licencing problem, there are no licenses on the music I am burning, just band stuff.
Hold on a second--you are burning music to DVD's or are you burning music to CD's?
Im having a problem burning audio cds.
Iv burnt 100s of cds before and now it just wont.
My cd/dvd rom drive will play dvd ,cds and cd roms ,but it wont burn a cd now.
Any help pleases.
Heres a log text.
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 12:59:17 p.m., on 26/03/2006
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)
Running processes:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccProxy.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccSetMgr.exe
C:\Program Files\Norton Internet Security\ISSVC.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\SNDSrvc.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\SPBBC\SPBBCSvc.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr.exe
C:\Program Files\ewido\security suite\ewidoctrl.exe
C:\Program Files\Ahead\InCD\InCDsrv.exe
C:\Program Files\Norton Internet Security\Norton AntiVirus\navapsvc.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\CCPD-LC\symlcsvc.exe
C:\Program Files\Thomson\SpeedTouch USB\Dragdiag.exe
C:\Program Files\Ahead\InCD\InCD.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB\realsched.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccApp.exe
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Turn off InCD, and see if that makes a difference, or try a different cd writing program. If that doesn't work, the drive is probably going bad and will have to be replaced
Was trying to make an Audio CD of MP3's,
15 tracks totalled 180mb;However, the running
time was 78mins, and thus no more tracks fit.
So there is a 80min not 700mb limit on Audio CDs.
I converted from WAV to MP3 for the purpose of fitting
50 songs on a CD. Apparently, in audio burn mode, it is
not the file sizes but the running time that matters.
Thus, I could've set to 8kb/s low quality, but the running
time remains, and so I cant fit 3 studio CDs unto 1 CD.
Ifcourse, I could play my MP3&WAV CDs in the PC, or in the DVD player,
but the CD player doesnt play WAVs. Then whats the point of
burning MP3's on Audio CD's?
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Do I have to have my audio files in a particular format to burn them to cd? For example, if I compile MP3's to a cd and burn it with a program like easy cd creator, will it play on my car cd player?
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A friend of mine used his digital recorder to record some audio and burnt it on a cd. It took 10 cd's took to capture all the audio!
Is it possible to burn it onto a DVD so that you don't have to waste all those cd's? If it is possible to do this, is a dvd-r ok to use? Also, can I play the dvd in my dvd player?
Yes you can burn them in a DVD disc as long as you have a DVD burner drive, appropriate burning software that support DVD burning. If you will use the DVD on your DVD player that will depend on what file type your player supports.
Not sure if this the right spot to post this but here goes anyways.
I tried burning a an .AVI file to a DVD-R using "Cheetah DVD Burner" I've wasted two DVD-R's because both times there's no audio on the DVD-R.
The video plays fine but both times there was no audio. the first DVD-R I played on several different mediums such as an XBox a standard DVD player and a laptop.
The second DVD-R I downloaded several Audio and video codecs (that were recommended by "Cheetah DVD Burner".) then proceeded to burn a second time but still the same result video works but no audio.
hi there!
i have a problem to burn audio cd from mp3 or other audio files.
i just installed 2 operating system vista 64 on one and win xp on the other harddrive.
i installed nero 6 on xp and nero 8 on vista,can not burn audio cd's on both of them.
when i drag and drop in nero (mp3 or other audio files) i only get wma files and can not
play the cd's in my cd deck or car radio.do i missing a codec or something?
please help me how to get audio cd's burnt.
Are you selecting the 'Audio CD' option in Nero ? If so does Nero go through the transcoding process ("Preparing Files, IIRC) or straight to burning the disc ?
I successfully burned 30 or so mp3's or maybe m4a's to a DVD last year and it works fine in a Subaru CD player but can't seem to do it again and did not take notes. yesterday I burned a disc with WMP 12.0 and it all seemed to go well, but the player in the car says "check disc". The old one still works fine.
Since I have the compilation in WMP 12.0, I'd prefer to use that, but iTUnes is ok to, but can't figure out how to burn with it. When I open it up, I get an error saying reinstall, something is missing re/ CD/DVD burning functionality. The last time I did an install, I think it broke my burner forcing me to delete the upper/lower filters from registry to get it working again, thus prefer to stick with WMP. iTunes still works fine for buying music.
I could do a CD, but have more files than will fit, thus the DVD.
Any do's or don'ts I need to be aware of with burning a DVD? It's a Sony DVD-R BTW, and I believe the same ones I used before with no problem. There is no paper label which I found the hard way will destroy a video DVD over time.
thanks for any advice.
More info: files are in m4a format vs mp3 in the earlier disc plus wmp wrote them in the original iTunes nested folder format. that is the old disc that played was just a plain list of files. my Subaru player either won't read m4a or can't handle the folders, sound right?
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Can someone please confirm (or otherwise) that if I just want to copy some mp3's and wma's that are on my hard-drive onto a cd for back-up purposes (and not to play on another cd player) I can just do it via a data cd and don't have to do an audio cd. I have done this and can play it back via Winamp or WMP from the D drive so I think this is OK.
Also have done the same with my image files (photographs) which seem to be accessible via the D drive and then got a bit confused reading Nero's help file about creating image files etc.
Why would one need to create an image file via Nero just to copy some graphic files onto a cd for backup purposes?
Graphics files and mp3 files are just data files.
Audio relates to .wav or .cda files when you intend playing them on a normal stereo. In that case tell Nero to make an Audio CD and it will convert the files anyway.
I was wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction on this on, I'm don't burn audio CD's that much.
I converted my computer into a makeshift recording studio and decided to burn a few mini-cd's I had laying around. When I play a track I recorded into my computer back it sounds perfectly fine. But, after I burn it to a mini-cd and played it on a cd player is sounds bit distorted, especally when the volume is turned up.
Can anybody know of any good books or websites that cover CD recording or have any ideas as what's going on?
Are you trying to record them as MP3's or CD audio?
I use WMP to burn an audio CD, which is 700M. Each song is 23.5M. I drag about 20 songs to the burn list under WMP. It seems each song is in one track. But, when i hit start burn button, there is ONLY song being burned. Why? Why I cannot burn all 20 songs in the one CD? Thanks.
I looked at the options available for WMP but it doesn't make sense. I do a lot of Audio CD burning as I have a recording studio but I use Nero.
There are a couple of other free CD burning programs, CDburnerXP is one. Click Me Imgburn is anoher one that's popular HERE
When I burn audio CD's, I burn at a slow speed (I use 8X as my audio CD Burning speed standard) so they will play in most Audio CD players (CD's burned at high speed may not play or skip). I also burn "Disk at Once" which allows adding text (titles) to the CD's.
I know this doesn't fix your problem with WMP, but it does give you some options.
Does anyone know of a burning software that I can burn MP3 albums to disc without it placing the files in alphabetical order? Basically I want the tracks to stay in track listing order. It's driving me mental as I have tried around 15 different burning software programs.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
How are the songs named? If it has song title before track number, then you have to manually sort them, either in the program or drag them in one at a time, if you are burning an audio cd.
If you are burning a data cd with a bunch of mp3's, then there is nothing you can do if the track number is after the song title or there is no track number in the file name. You will have to manually add or move the track number in the file name.
Album title.song title.track number.mp3. This will sort alphabetically by song title.
Album title.track number.song title.mp3. This will sort them by track number
hey...bought an ideapad 330...it plays cd's and dvd's but can't burn cd-r's...have tried in itunes and mediaplayer...took it to best buy they couldn't figure it out (not hardware as the external drive they tried didn't work either)...lenovo support absolutely no help...any ideas appreciated...thanksRead other answers
Can you burn Kazza audio files onto a cd. If so how do you do it? I am not sure how and would like to know. I want to be able to listen to the files on my cd player. Thanks for the help.
Welcome to TSG.
Audio files usually download as MP3 files which are compressed. Any modern CD writing program will convert them to CDA wave files that entertainment players will play. Select audio for the type of recording and drag the MP3 files into the record box. When you select record they will be decompressed and recorded.
Don't know where else to post this... so I do it here
Does anyone know a decent CD burner, that burns tracks correctly? I'm looking for one that lets tracks flow over without notice. Windows Media Player and iTunes don't work, just like Express Burn.
What do you mean by flow over? As in, the tracks play nonstop without having to pause in between?
If that's what you mean, there's not much your CD burning software can do, it's more about hardware. It's your CD player that plays the disc. After 1 track finishes, it has to pause a bit before reading and playing the next track.
So far I don't really know of any CD player that can read the next track before the previous finishes.
If you really don't want the pause, you can just manually edit the music and join into one big music track.
I need an audio cd burning app that takes audio from videos and audios, supports cd-text, saving project,
and normalization and burns audio cd. Not NCH Express Burn app.
I'm not an audio expert but I've heard a lot of people say that the free program called Audacity offers a wide range of features. Perhaps it can help you achieve your desired results. If not, I apologize for wasting your time and hopefully others will jump in with other suggestions.
Audacity: Features
i am new here coz i have got a problem that couple of hourse ago i was making audio cd when i was made i put another cd in my dvd rom and it stopped reading and i tried different cd's but my dvd does not read them none at all it happend after writing cd i burn cd on nero 8 which i uninstalled now, restore my system 15 days back still dvd rom does not read i do not what happend i uninstall the dvd rom driver and shut down my pc it detected driver and load it but still not reading cd can any body help me ASAP.
Hi ..... I have lots of precious old audio cassettes and wonder if and how to put those tapes on CD using the computer? Some "tech guys and gals" out there probably know the answer and am hoping it can be done. Thanks Grammeo
Have a look here
I have some avi video files and they play on my computer, video & audio are good. A few files that I have burnt come out having no audio when I play them back on my DVD player. I am thinking this is a codec problem, but I have downloaded a good codec pack and most of my video/avi files burn ok. Any suggestions?
You need to provide more details.
Run the problematic AVIs through GSpot and see what it says.
I've recently bought a new laptop. It's an ASUS x54c. I have a bunch of videos on my external hard drive that I'm trying to burn to DVDs. I've used the Windows DVD Maker and also I've used Nero 7, which I've used both on my old computer and they both have worked fine, but both programs on this computer burn the video with no audio. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, I've tried updating the drivers, and I've tried also using an external DVD drive. In fact, the last time I tried it using Nero 7, I clicked on the preview button, before burning the disc, and the preview doesn't even have sound.
Have a file that's 1hr 20min 07 sec. When I try to burn with Nero I'll get the "Overburn" option where it will state possible damage to my computer if selected. Will it really screw things up if I try it?
I have read all the current burning cd problems hoping my problem would surface, but it did not show. I installed a Data Becker audio disk and have been burning mp3 audio disks successfully. But have hit a problem; when I load the burn catalog and click the burn key the screen says preparing to burn but nothing happens. The screen freezes and I cant get out of the program: have to turn off the power. Anybody familiar with Data Becker? Please help
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I have some audio books on 12 different cds I'd like to boil down to one. I can convert those cds to just under 700mbs. However when I go to burn it in nero as an audio cd, for every 80 minutes it wants me to put in a new blank cd. I really want to get them all to just one cd and I fail to see why less then 700mb can't fit on a 700mb audio cd. Does anyone know how I can do this?
For a bit more back ground I have tested to see if my conversion of the bigger wave files to the smaller one works on my cars cd player and it does. I have also noticed verry littel of the space for the data on the bottom of the cd has been used.
If you are going by audio cd, then the MB is moot, only the minutes. There are CDs out there that have the extra space, but not widely sold.
I made a movie that I want to burn. The movie is on DVD, and I want to put it into my computer so I can burn my friends copy. I put the movie is two separate files cd1 and c2, and like 5 minute scenes each in the two CD files. Now when I burn, I can see the picture, but the audio doesnt work. The movie is 100mb (Small yet funny), but when i put it into Nero, it goes to 50mb because it can't find the audio. How do I get it to read the audio?
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I made a movie that I want to burn. The movie is on DVD, and I want to put it into my computer so I can burn my friends copy. I put the movie is two separate files cd1 and c2, and like 5 minute scenes each in the two CD files. Now when I burn, I can see the picture, but the audio doesnt work. The movie is 100mb (Small yet funny), but when i put it into Nero, it goes to 50mb because it can't find the audio. How do I get it to read the audio?Click to expand...
Probably because you dont have the correct codecs to read the audio. Download GSpot to see what type of codec the audio is using (probably AC3) and download the corresponding codec from www.freecodecs.com
For some reason i can not get mp3's to burn at there set quality (usually 320k) to cd at it's set quality. Ill burn a cd and check it with winrip or realplayer and its always plays at 144100 (or 140k). For some reason it will not burn anywhere near cd quality or the set quality.
Could anyone suggest any programs that will burn at 320k or more for mp3 to a audio cd?
Ive searched the net and i still haven't found one.
It seems that all programs only burn to cd 140k or lower, which greatly dimishes the cd to about half the mp3's true quality.
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Hi guys I have a problem, I am doing some video capture from my TV via RCA cales. I have the Vid cale and both audio cables running from my TV out to my capture device. I can do the capture, edit a movie and burn it to DVD no sweat, the problem being when I play the DVD in my DVD player the sound seems very low. It sounds ok on my comp when I make the video but the audio is just very quiet when I play it in the DVD player. any way to really boost up the sound I need it to be VERY loud. Thanks guys!
Capture device : DAZZLE digital video creator 150
Sound card : Creative SB audigy 2 platinum
Software : pinnaclle studio 9 and bundled software/windows movie maker / all audigy bundled software
DVD player is a real cheapo though don't know if that mnakes a difference.
Thanks guys!


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1 Juillet 2015
Testree extends its Migration-as-a-Service offering to include the leading performance testing tool Neotys' NeoLoad
23 Janvier 2013
Neotys Announces Super Sunday Service Packages to Enhance Performance of Web and Mobile Applications
5 Septembre 2012
Neotys Expands Partner Ecosystem with Independent Tester Program for Load and Testing Professionals
4 Janvier 2012
Neotys and Blue Sands Technologies Partner to Provide Cloud and In-house Performance Testing for Web Applications with High Uptime Requirements
27 Avril 2011
Meet us at the StarEast software testing conference, StarEast 2011, in Orlando, Florida. May 1-6, Booth #32. See our presentation on tips for web application performance testing.
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Neotys Partners with Global Quality Partners to Provide Stress Testing of Internet Applications for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses
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Neotys Announces Partner Program for Companies Looking to Expand in Web Application Quality and Performance Testing
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Who we are
At the heart of LBMA is the expertise and dedication of a select group of staff, collectively referred to as The Executive.
The Executive's role is to carry out the work which has been agreed by the Board and its Sub-Committees to ensure the efficient running of the association. The Executive benefit from the knowledge, experience and dedication of senior representatives drawn from its membership who reside on these committees. Welcome to LBMA's Executive team.
- Ruth Crowell, Chief Executive
Ruth was appointed Chief Executive of the LBMA in January 2014. She is responsible for the success and strategic development of the LBMA, in partnership with the Chairman and the Board. She is also responsible for maintaining accountability to and the quality of, the Association's Membership and Good Delivery Refiners as well as representing the interests of the Association in relation to regulators, investors, media and international precious metals markets.
Before being appointed Chief Executive, she spent seven years working in the Association, initially as Commercial Director and then as Deputy Chief Executive, where she acted as the main lead on Governmental Affairs. She was also responsible for the Association's work on supply chain due diligence, with particular regard to the creation and implementation of the LBMA's Responsible Gold Guidance. She has represented the Association at industry, governmental and multi-stakeholder regulatory forums. She continues to serve as Vice Chair of the OECD Multi-Stakeholder Governance Group for Responsible Minerals. As Commercial Director, she oversaw the development of the LBMA Conference, the LBMA's quarterly publication the Alchemist and the LBMA website.
Prior to joining the LBMA, she worked in bank finance and US corporate law at the law firms of White & Case and Norton Rose, and also acted as a monitor at the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva. She has an MSc in History of International Relations from the London School of Economics and a degree in English Literature from Kenyon College in Ohio.
- Stephanie Bennell, Financial Controller
Stephanie is responsible for all finance related issues including preparation of management accounts, budgets, invoicing and payments.
- Ed Blight, Chief Finance Officer
Ed Blight joined the LBMA in September 2015 as the Operations Director. He is now the Chief Finance Officer and is responsible for directing and overseeing the general administration of the Association including overall responsibility for issues relating to Finance, Human Resources, IT systems, contractual arrangements, commercialisation opportunities and Office Management.
- Aelred Connelly, Public Relations Officer
Aelred provides support to the Chief Executive in the administration and organisation of the Association's Public Affairs. This includes working closely with the Marketing and Communications Lead on publications, marketing material, the website and events. He is responsible for Press enquiries and is the editor for the LBMA's quarterly publication, the Alchemist.
Prior to joining the LBMA, he worked at the Bank of England for more than twenty five years. During the last five years of his career at the Bank he gained specific bullion market experience in his role as a Gold Bullion analyst, supporting senior management in the Bank's Customer Banking Division. He previously acted as a relationship manager for a portfolio of the Bank's customers including central banks and government departments. During his time at the Bank he studied part-time for a BA Honours degree in Business Studies.
- Neil Harby, CChem – Chief Technical Officer
As Chief Technical Officer for the LBMA, Neil's responsibilities include acting as the Executive's main contact for the Good Delivery system for GD Refiners, applicants and LBMA Committees. His duties include managing the LBMA Good Delivery accreditation system, including applications, Pro-Active Monitoring, Proficiency Testing and other GD related projects. The role also involves overseeing the work of the GDL Officer in the administration of the Good Delivery system as well as managing the implementation by gold Good Delivery refiners of the LBMA's Responsible Gold Guidance and ensuring the efficiency and effectiveness of the Good Delivery work carried out by the LBMA.
He brings to the role a wealth of experience having previously been Head of Evaluation at the Rand Refinery in South Africa. He represented the Rand Refinery at the LBMA as the only Referee in the Southern Hemisphere. As one of only five Referees appointed by the LBMA to oversee the maintenance of the LBMA's Good Delivery List, he has been involved in many initiatives to ensure and develop the integrity of the gold industry. He contributed to the steering committee which produced the "Conflict-Free" Gold Standard of the World Gold Council as well as the development of the LBMA's Responsible Gold Guidance and presented the Rand Refinery "Artisanal gold" Model at the OECD in Paris. He was a Board Member of the Responsible Jewellery Council representing the Gold and/or Platinum Metals, Refiners and/or Hedgers Forum as well as sitting on the Membership Committee. His work experience included nine years in the Platinum Industry and held the position as a member of the South African Organising Committee of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
- Rachel Hart, Trainee Lawyer
Rachel supports the LBMA's General Counsel with legal and compliance matters affecting the precious metals market, including financial regulation, market development and the Responsible Sourcing Programme.
- Simon Houghton-Dodd, Compliance Officer
Simon looks after Responsible Sourcing and Due Diligence processes for membership applications and on-going management.
- Jamilah Leigh, Marketing Executive
Jamilah supports the Head of Marketing and Public Relations officer in the administration and organisation of the Association's Marketing and Communications strategy. Her responsibilities include conducting the execution of member communications, the design, integration and configuration control of the LBMA Web presence and publications relations support. She also supports the coordination and delivery for LBMA events, conferences, seminars, forums, webinars and social events.
- Jade Maisey, Executive Assistant to Chief Executive and General Counsel
Jade supports the Chief Executive in the running of the Association in an executive and administrative role. Acting as overall trouble-shooter and strategist in support of the General Counsel and Chief Executive, she is responsible for complex and confidential administrative, secretarial, analytical and research duties.
- Sakhila Mirza, Executive Board Director & General Counsel
In her role as General Counsel of the London Bullion Market Association and also an Executive member of the LBMA Board, Sakhila has been involved in, and taken the lead on a number of projects of the Association. This has included, but not limited to: working closely with the CEO on the strategic direction of the LBMA; transitioning all of the four precious metals benchmarks onto electronic platforms by working with the service providers as well as regulators; leading the draft and launch of the Precious Metals Code; working with external service provider to enhance transparency in the precious metals market by launching the LBMA trade reporting initiative; and providing for lobbying efforts on behalf of members on a number of issues, for example EU Conflicts Minerals regulation, Net Stable Funding Ratio amongst other regulations.
In addition to this, Sakhila takes responsibility for all the legal and regulatory work of the Association and that of London Precious Metals Clearing Limited (LPMCL). She is involved in setting policies and leading the incident management process within the LBMA by working with various external stakeholders to help with decision making. She has also focused on meeting and building relationships with governmental officials and regulators and continues to educate all such stakeholders on the dynamics of the bullion market and all the work undertaken by the LBMA.
Sakhila brings with her a wealth of experience having previously worked in the energy and commodities industry where she dealt with compliance, legal and regulatory matters. Sakhila read law at the London School of Economics and went onto qualify as a solicitor.
- Varsha Peiris, Good Delivery List Officer
Varsha is the GDL Officer, and is primarily responsible for the administration of the LBMA Good Delivery System, including all GD applications, Proactive Monitoring, the Proficiency Testing Scheme and Reference Material. She is responsible for maintaining strong working relationships with vaults, members, refiners and others on issues relating to Good Delivery. She joined the LBMA in September 2009.
- Emmy Richardson, Office Coordinator
Emmy provides support in the administration and organisation of the Executive Office. Her responsibilities include office management, business support processes, and other administrative support for the Executive team.
- Emily Brough, Events Executive
Emily supports the Head of Communications with the coordination of LBMA events including the conferences, seminars, forums, webinars and social events. She is responsible for ensuring that these are delivered to a high standard and not only meet but surpass members' expectations as well as incorporate the Communication Teams' objectives.


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Stanford alumna and astronaut Mae Jemison talks about the universe
Mae Jemison participates in "Imagining the Universe," a yearlong series of events that includes speakers, performances and an exhibition at the Cantor Arts Center.
Stanford graduate Mae Jemison, the first woman of color to go into space, will be on campus Wednesday, Dec. 3, as part of Stanford's Imagining the Universe: Cosmology in Art and Science series.
Jemison's talk will be about exploring the frontiers of science and the human potential.
"We're thrilled to welcome Dr. Jemison to campus, a natural fit for this series," said Sarah Curran, program director of the Stanford Arts Institute and curator of the Universe speaker series. "A leader in space exploration, she can offer first hand insight into the cosmos, and describe realms that most of us can only imagine."
The talk is at 6 p.m. at the Cemex Auditorium at the Knight Management Center and is free and open to the public.
From astronaut to advocate
Jemison, who graduated from Stanford in 1977with a degree in chemical engineering and in African and Afro-American studies, served six years as a NASA astronaut. In that time, she flew aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, STS-47 Spacelab (Japan) mission in September 1992 and was NASA's first science mission specialist performing experiments in material science, life science and human adaptation to weightlessness.
Jemison started The Jemison Group after she left NASA, to explore and develop stand-alone science and technology programs and companies such as BioSentient Corp., a medical technology devices and services company focused on improving health and human performance through physiologic awareness and self-regulation.
A strong, committed global voice for science literacy, Jemison founded the international science camp The Earth We Share (TEWS) in 1994 for students 12-16 years old from around the world. In 1994, she founded the Dorothy Jemison Foundation for Excellence. TEWS-Space Race launched in the summer of 2011 to improve science achievement in Los Angeles-area students underserved and underrepresented in the sciences.
In October 2006 the foundation developed the program Reality Leads Fantasy –Celebrating Women of Color in Flight that highlighted women in aviation and space from around the world.
Launching "Imagining"
Standing in front of a slide of the Cat's Eye Nebula in Pigott Hall in October, poet Tracy K. Smith considered the title of the series, Imagining the Universe: Cosmology in Art and Science series. "I love the vastness of the topic," she told the audience.
"Imagining, for me, is an act that allows for a different engagement with things, be they real or invented, than that which the rapid forward movement of real time affords," she said. Thinking about the second half of the series title, the universe, Smith added that specific images and correlating ideas came to mind, "images and ideas that set my collection of poems, Life on Mars, into motion."
Smith's conversation and readings from her Pulitzer Prize-winning book Life on Mars launched the Universe series, and the next event imagined the universe through the lens of music, spirituality and tradition with the Venerable Khenpo Sodargye Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist scholar and director of the Larung Gar Five Sciences Buddhist Academy in Sichuan province, China. Khenpo gave a talk in November followed by chanting and a concert in his honor.
The standing-room-only concert was an international collaboration in real time that was broadcast live via the Internet from the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford (CCRMA) Stage at The Knoll on campus. It included simultaneous performances from CCRMA Director Chris Chafe on celletto (an electronic cello) and other performers in Virginia, Santa Barbara, Calif., and Mexico.
The Imagining the Universe series provides opportunities to expand on existing collaborations. Stanford alumna Cecilia Wu, now a doctoral student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, conceived and produced the November event. It developed compositions and musical connections begun during her Stanford studies as well as pulling together performers familiar to CCRMA and Pan Asian Music Festival audiences.
Sarah Weaver, composer and conductor, is offering the next installment of her Universal Synchrony Music project in January. A version that premiered last year involved students working with partners distributed in space and time.
Scientists, artists, humanists
Imagining the Universe brings together scientists, artists and humanists to explore the nature of the universe. Organized by an interdisciplinary consortium drawing on departments and programs from across the university, the series reflects Stanford's commitment to campus-wide connections among the sciences and arts.
Goals include deepening an understanding and appreciation for the richness of the universe, and appreciating what can be learned about ourselves from the way we depict the cosmos.
"The idea for the collaboration came from Peter Michelson, chair of the Department of Physics, who was present at the premiere of Cosmic Reflection, a symphonic composition by Stanford alumnus Nolan Gasser [PhD '01], accompanied by a video created in collaboration with NASA Goddard," said Matthew Tiews, the executive director of arts programs. "Peter's idea of bringing that piece to Stanford sparked a wide-ranging conversation about art, science, how we seek to understand our cosmos, and what that tells us about being human. This collaboration reflects contributions from numerous individuals and at least a dozen departments and programs from across campus."
Imagining continued: performances and more
Stanford freshmen will ponder the cosmos in the winter quarter course Thinking About the Universe: What do we know? How do we know it? This Thinking Matters freshman introductory course is taught by two physicists, Peter Graham and Peter Michelson, and a philosopher, Thomas Ryckman.
The Cantor Arts Center hosts the exhibition Loose in Some Real Tropics: Robert Rauschenberg's "Stoned Moon" Projects, 1969–70, from Dec. 20 through March 15. In 1969, Rauschenberg was invited by the NASA Art Program to document the launch of Apollo 11, the first manned spaceflight to the moon. He produced "Stoned Moon," a series of 34 large-format lithographs replete with scenes of astronauts and complex machinery. The exhibition features a number of the lithographs together with 20 rarely seen collages and drawings, photographs of the artist visiting NASA's facilities, and correspondence between the artist and the NASA Art Program.
Imagining the Universe performances include Stanford Symphony Orchestra multimedia productions of Gustav Holst's The Planets, Jan. 30–31, 2015, and Gasser's Cosmic Reflection, May 16–17, 2015. The Department of Theater & Performance Studies will stage a reading of Bertolt Brecht's Life of Galileo in the Bing Concert Hall Studio, May 14–16, 2015.
Public conversations throughout the academic year continue with Alyson Shotz, visual artist and former Sterling Visiting Scholar in Stanford's Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, on Jan. 22, 2015; interdisciplinary installation artist Matthew Ritchie on Feb. 26, 2015; and Andrei Linde, Stanford professor of physics and one of the authors of the big bang inflationary theory, who will address the question, "Universe or multi-universe?" on April 21, 2015.


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so the morning of our 19th week bump picture we had an ultra sound for baby Sweet Pea! {can i just say, i think this dress makes my bump look bigger than other clothes do… but i feel huge already!}
it was fun to see little Sweet Pea dancing around, waving and wiggling. they measured every little part, checked to make sure all was normal and we got an approximate weight of 9 oz.
we are SO very excited to meet our little…
hee hee, doesn't Husbuddy look excited? i know she's going to be such a little daddy's girl 🙂
she is so beautiful already! we are praying that God protects her and grows her these next few weeks. we are also praying that God grows us in wisdom and guides us in every.single.step as we get closer and closer to meeting her.
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Understanding FCoE and TRILL, The Easy Way
Here we go again.
I've put it off, and put it off, and put it off, because every time I think about writing a piece about FCoE and TRILL I think to myself, "Okay, is this really something that enough people are going to care about to make a difference?" And then one day someone pipes up and brings up TRILL again, and thus the cycle begins anew.
I wonder if it's related to the new zodiac signs or something.
Because I'm a person who likes to think in visual pictures, I'm going to include some pretty pictures here to help make sure I don't miss anything along the way. I'll also try to avoid some of the technical jargon and make it more approachable. Sometimes ya just gotta bring things back to basics.
What's the Problem, Officer?
By this point you probably already know that TRILL is a working proposal to replace the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP).
There are enough materials available on the web that a Google search will overwhelm you, so I won't go too in-depth here, but the idea is that STP was designed to prevent switches that are connected together from creating loops.
As South Park's Mr. Mackey might say, "Loops are bad, m'kay?"
I remember when I was living in England and trying to get to Stansted airport, which meant driving on the M25 (bear with me, it's relevant). Apparently they were doing roadworks and so they diverted (detoured) the traffic. What was frustrating was that the people who were in charge of diverting the traffic managed to send me back around to exactly the place I started from.
I thought I had taken a wrong turn (user error, and all that), so I went around again. Sure enough, this wasn't my fault, but rather the administration-in-charge had actually set up diversions that looped me around in circles.
This was frustrating beyond words (your duh moment of the day), and when the same thing happens in switches in your network the results can be catastrophic, with frames going around in circles, locking down your switches as the CPUs attempt to handle the traffic.
This is a Bad Thing™.
STP prevents this issue by blocking one of the links. While it solves one potential issue, it creates others.
In particular, there are two basic problems with STP. First, there can only be one active path, meaning that you waste the potential capacity of your network. Having full use of all your links is obviously a preferred method of running traffic over the network, and you don't get that with a blocked link.
The second problem is that when one of the links goes down and STP needs to re-calculate paths, the time it takes can be pretty long.
Routing protocols – such as TRILL (for Ethernet) and Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF, for Fibre Channel) – address these problems by providing mechanisms for creating multiple paths, and shorter (or no) time penalty for recalculation.
Close, but No Cigar
The common misconception is that because FCoE runs over Ethernet, you abso-positively-lutely need to have a better Ethernet forwarding in order to run FCoE. That is, if Ethernet is all screwed up, it's going to screw up your FCoE traffic by default, right? Your FCoE traffic will suffer because of STP, right? That's why you need TRILL, right?
Slow down there, killer.
Let's not forget that Ethernet isn't just simply a container for traffic that is thrown willy-nilly about with no organization. One of the greatest misunderstandings is that FCoE traffic somehow intermingles with Ethernet traffic, or that by PAUSE-ing one type of traffic it affects the others.
This isn't how it works. We separate out our LAN traffic using VLANs, and we keep our FCoE traffic dedicated inside of a specific VLAN. That's how we can apply Priority Flow Control (PFC) and other enhancements to Ethernet.
It also means that we can apply the appropriate forwarding (i.e., routing) mechanisms to the type of traffic it's suited to. See, different protocols use different forwarding methods. Fibre Channel uses FSPF, which calculates the best path between switches (sound familiar?) and determines alternate routes in the event of a link failure or topology change. FSPF is designed to guarantee in-sequence delivery of frames, which is a requirement for FCoE, but not of traditional LAN traffic.
If you look at the pretty picture below, you'll see that within a FCoE-capable switch, the LAN traffic has its own forwarding mechanism (STP), and the FCoE traffic has its own forwarding mechanism (FSPF). The separation of these traffic types onto different VLANs means that the storage traffic is independent of how LAN traffic is forwarded or blocked.
Because FCoE uses FSPF to determine its own forwarding and routing routes, FCoE has the ability to use all the links necessary without closing off for loops, and it avoids the issues of recalculation. Because FCoE has another system to do this, it doesn't need TRILL.
This means that even if you have multiple traffic types running in a single Ethernet link, you can have different methods applying to the traffic types within that link. Now, of course this diagram doesn't represent an actual network topology, as I've ignored the servers and storage that would normally be included.
The point here is to discuss what happens within switches, which is exactly where TRILL, STP, FSPF, etc., are designed to work. Critics might complain that I'm only showing three switches, but the principles here are just as relevant when dealing with more.
Bottom Line
With a modern FCoE switch, you can have more than one way to forward traffic even if you are using common technology to transport that traffic. By allowing each side to play to its strengths, you do not need to have TRILL (an Ethernet forwarding mechanism) replace FSPF (a Fibre Channel forwarding mechanism).
Ultimately, the point here is to address the incorrect notion that you need TRILL in order to run multihop FCoE. Even when you start getting into more complex diagrams and topologies all you need is an appropriate routing mechanism to get from point A to point B, which FCoE has without requiring the use of new technologies such as TRILL.
In the future, if there's enough interest, I will expand this to include some more technical discussions with some more practical examples of how networks with FCoE can be designed.
For now, though, the key thing to remember is that you do not "need" TRILL, it is not required, and you can safely implement multihop FCoE without worrying about TRILL anywhere in your system.
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I'm dubious. While I believe that you think this is true, I wonder what is the exact use case that you attempting to describe here ? All the material I've researched does not explain or confirm your claim here. So, what have I missed ?
I'd like to see some references to design material that explains the design and use case. Hard data to put some meat on these bones.
Hi Greg,
Thanks for taking the time to reply to my little post.
When referring to "we", I was simply referring to b) "we" in the industry as its generally implemented. 🙂
Re: BTW1 I'll have to take a look at your PDF file. Thanks for passing it along.
Re: BTW2 Thanks for raising the point about loops adding latency. You are, of course, absolutely correct and it is yet another reason why proper design for storage networks is paramount. One of the key elements of converging networks is that the basic assumptions for developing Ethernet networks are not always the same as the assumptions for storage network. Obviously, exploring the nature of proper design, using the proper technologies appropriate to the architecture, is beyond the scope of this blog article. It is, however, worthy of a much more focused piece.
As far as the history of FSPF, others more familiar than I with its story should probably address that question. 🙂
Can you clarify on a couple of points, specifically, in the following paragraph, you use the word "We".
Is "We" in the context of a) how Cisco implements within your products, or b) are you referring to "We" as in the industry implements or c) what is in approved or pending standards?
You also mention FSPF, care to comment on what FSPF is based upon or very similar to (caution, may open old wounds for some).
BTW1, came across this piece that looks back at what could be the next dimension to the FCoE/DCB/TRILL discussion which is PIM or protocol intermix mode.
BTW2, whether loops are good or bad, they can add latency which is not a good thing for data and storage networks. Likewise hops are great in beer, however they can add latency to networks, not to mention slowing down those who consume too much of it as well.
Cheers gs
Greg Schulz – Author The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC), Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier) and coming summer 2011 Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC)
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7:00 AM | Looks like a warm start to November after October ends on the chilly side
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Mostly sunny, breezy, much cooler, highs in the upper 50's
Mostly clear, cold, lows in the lower 40's; 30's likely in outlying locations
Mostly sunny, still quite cool, mid-to-upper 50's
Saturday Night
Becoming mostly cloudy, chilly, mid-to-upper 40's
Mostly cloudy, a bit milder, chance of showers, low 60's
Mostly cloudy, mild, chance of showers, low 60's
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Friday night dinner: a satisfying, yet fun meal to end a week of work and kick off a weekend.
That said, I work Friday night and early Saturday morning, so in our home "Friday night dinner" also has to be quick and easy, yet enjoyable. By the time I get in the door on Friday nights I'm too tired to cook, so dinner is usually prepared earlier in the day so we can eat when I get home (and then go to bed, because 5:30am Saturday comes around mighty quick).
I made this tuna dip a few weeks ago when we were low on groceries, and it was a big hit! Such a big hit, in fact, that I'll be making it again this weekend for Super Bowl festivities. This recipe was inspired by my mother's Buffalo Chicken dip (known in our family as "Mad Awesome Chicken Dip"), with a few modifications to make it vegequarian-friendly. It's very easy to make; and my darling husband put it in the oven as my classes were ending so it was ready when I got home. 🙂
2 5oz cans of tuna, drained and chopped
8oz cream cheese, softened to room temperature
1/2 cup of Chipotle ranch dressing
1/2 cup of finely diced bell pepper (whatever color you have handy, though red seems to work best)
2 Tablespoons Chipotle Hot Sauce
Mix all ingredients together. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes. For best results, serve with "scoop" tortilla chips (you can use any chip, of course, but if you want the perfect tuna-dip-eating experience, I strongly suggest Tostito's Scoops). Enjoy!
It doesn't get much easier than that, folks. Have a great weekend!


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Andrew Stanton Steps Back Into Directing Spotlight With 'Finding Dory'
At the world premiere of the latest Pixar feature, John Lasseter called the director "one of the best storytellers of our time."
Andrew Stanton's latest endeavor Finding Dory is the fourth time he has found himself in the director's chair for Pixar.
"It was like getting to do a second season of your favorite TV show," the director told The Hollywood Reporter at the world premiere of the animated feature.
He added: "It's like you are on a car trip with somebody you know, and you have driven long enough where you are through with all the stuff you know and you start learning new stuff."
Finding Dory is the sequel to his 2003 oceanic tale Finding Nemo. The movie focuses on Dory, the blue tang fish with short-term memory loss voiced by Ellen DeGeneres as she tries to find her parents, with the help of old pals Nemo and Marlin and new friends like a octopus who's seen some stuff and a near-sighted whale shark.
"When we choose to do a sequel, it is because we have come up with a story that is as good or better than the original," said Pixar patriarch John Lasseter.
Of the inception of the sequel, he said, "We love in the first movie when she goes 'It runs in my family ... Where are they?' and Andrew said, 'I want to dig into that.'"
The last film Stanton directed was the live-action action adventure John Carter, his first feature made outside of Pixar's Emoryville campus.
Lasseter is happy to have him back helming a Pixar film for the first time since 2008's Oscar-winning Wall-E, saying, "He's my brother, he is one of the founders of Pixar with me. Every movie made has his touch with it. … I think he is one of the best storytellers of our time."
The Wednesday night premiere shut down Hollywood Boulevard with the screening taking place at Disney's El Capitan theater. An enclosed aquarium sat at one end of the carpet with a touch tank, complete with starfish, sea urchins and sea anemones (or, as Nemo would put it, amnemonemomnes).
Nemo originals like DeGeneres and Albert Brooks walked the premiere's blue carpet, with newcomers Ed O'Neill and Ty Burrell and Pixar mainstays like Ed Catmull and Bob Peterson on hand for the carnival-like afterparty.
John Ratzenberger, who has famously voiced a character in every one of Pixar's now 17 features, was also in attendance.
"They work as hard on Finding Dory as they did on the first Toy Story. They are old-school Hollywood," he said when asked why Pixar sequels often avoid the dreaded sophomore slump. "It's like if you were making furniture or a car, in order to sustain your business, you have to make that first one as good as the 50th."
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After we left the camp site on Tuesday morning, we drove to Fitzroy Falls in Morton National Park. This mountainous countryside is located in the beautiful Southern Highlands of New South Wales and the scenery was breathtaking.
I've made a short video in an attempt to capture the expanse of this stunning natural bushland.
If you don't see the video above, click here to watch directly from YouTube.
I was also impressed by how well maintained Morton National Park was. The main scenic tracks were designed for visitors of all ages and only required average fitness levels. There are guard rails to help you along the steeper climbs and descents, rest areas and well-fenced lookouts for safety. Signs offered clear directions and also interesting information about native flora and fauna.
Morton National Park is a short 2 hour drive from Sydney CBD and for a small park fee of $3 per car, I think I'll be back here regularly. That was the best $3 I've spent in a long time.
In the end, I had a great time those short two days away and
This trip was to celebrate our 5th wedding anniversary. Five of the best years of my life. We didn't promise each other "forever" when we got married. We promised to stay together for as long as we're both happy. And we are. 🙂 Still very much in love like the first time we met.
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5 lessons I've learned from my first camping trip [Part 1] [Part 2]
This is the second part of '5 lessons I've learned from my first camping trip'. Click here to read from the beginning.
We went on a short 2 day trip to Canberra. It's a 5 hour drive there with a couple of mandatory breaks in small towns along the way. The scenery was mostly golden – rolling hills of dry, parched grassland in desperate need of rain. A reminder that we are indeed still deep in drought.
Car cricket amused us for hours as we made the rules up as we went along. Utes and trucks were 1 point, SUVs 2 points, hotted up cars were 4, emergency vehicles and luxury cars scored 6 points, and creeks and red or yellow cars got us out. It made the monotonous driving rather exciting for Richard as he strategically sped up and slowed down to get the best score. 🙂
The reason why we drove to Canberra brings me to my first lesson.
1. Grab the chance of a lifetime
'Masterpieces from Paris' is an extraordinary and rare exhibition as it is the first time that these impressive artworks have ever been displayed outside of Paris' Musee d'Orsay. There are 112 of some of the best-known works of modern art, including those from Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin, Picasso and Monet. You can view all the works on display here [link].
And it certainly did not disappoint. There were so many moments where we stood there in silence, hand-in-hand, in absolute awe of the beauty that greeted us. "I can't believe I'm looking at this in person," we whispered, nodding in agreement.
We have decided to make a return trip to the exhibition in a couple of month's time before these masterpieces leave for Tokyo and San Francisco. Just one more time to soak it all in again.
Well, after having our minds fully nourished and feeling a little bit more cultured, we head off to our campsite and to my second lesson.
2. Motor village ≠ Holiday park
No, it really does not. They might have the same things like cabins, camp site, swimming pool, tennis court, bbqs and shower amenities. On the surface, it sounds like Canberra Motor Village could be a holiday park but I think we were just naive and too much of an optimist.
Maybe it was because we were in Canberra. The grass isn't thick and lush due to poor rainfall, and our camp site looks more like a fenced in dirt patch. Whoever wrote the awesome reviews for this place on Google were probably in cahoots with the owners!
On the upside, the amenities were clean, modern and everything looked rather new. Not too bad, if you don't mind setting up camp on dirt, by the fence, with the endless drone of traffic in the background. Not too bad… I guess.
3. Don't ignore the warning signs
The reason why we chose a site near the fence was we both listened to our instincts. We were actually designated a powered camp site next to something that looked like this:
Photo from ontheroad.buy.co.uk
The music emitting from within the tent was rather loud and unfriendly. There was a dirt bike parked in front of the tent too. Our two sites were seperated by towels and clothes hanging from a make-shift clothesline between a pair of skinny trees.
There was no way I wanted to spend an entire night next to that. I'm glad we didn't ignore the signs and moved as far away as possible from them. The events that unfolded through the night will surprise you.
But I will tell you more about that tomorrow and I will share my last 2 lessons from the trip with you too. See you then!
Update: Click here to read Part 2
A view like that never gets old. Location: Warrah Trig to Patonga Beach, Brisbane Water National Park
Not bad for photos taken from a mobile phone and joined in Photoshop. I'm rather proud of it.
I haven't been knitting much but I'm meeting up with the girls from the Central Coast Knit & Crochet Ravelry group tomorrow and I thought I should warm up. 😛 I've finally reached the mid-point of the Baktus scarf (pattern).
Anyone recognise the yarn from a previous project?
Our attempt to bake this condensed milk pound cake (recipe). Hmm… not as light and airy as the recipe's pictures. I'm lousy at baking anything that requires creaming butter and sugar together.
But you know what? It tasted alright despite not tasting nearly sweet enough. I thought it was going to be sickly with the condensed milk so I cut the sugar back a little. Oh well. Most importantly, we both had fun making it together. 😀
I watched the making of the new Qantas ad tonight and I LOVED it! I'm so thrilled to see an Australian indigineous boy leading the song. It's a small but significant step in recognising the owners of this land.
If you don't see the video above, CLICK HERE to watch the Qantas ad directly in YouTube.
If you haven't heard already, graffiti knitting is the most inoffensive graffiti. But instead of tagging in the urban setting, I chose to tag somewhere deep in a national park. I quickly knitted a little something the morning we left and I was finishing it up in the car on the way to Bobbin Head. This it the track we walked. It's called the Bobbin Head Loop.
I was deciding where to leave my knitted tag and 4 hours of walking (and sometimes climbing) through slippery and rocky terrain, crossing creeks and down into the depths of mangroves and rainforests, had left me feeling beaten. I wanted desperately to see the side track that would take me back up into civilization. The sun was quickly disappearing over the ridge and thoughts of being lost loomed in my mind.
And then it appeared. It was clearly marked and not just a white dot on the tree as described in Wild Walks. Thank god! This is the where I will leave my mark as my spirit felt uplifted again.
Can you see my fluorescent orange knitted tag on the tree?
Ironic that I embroidered a smile on it cos that's how we felt at that very moment. Absolutely elated! We were giggling and looking around as if someone was going to come by this way soon, despite not having seen anyone for more than an hour!
The happiness was short lived as we started our climb out of the valley. It was steep. God, it was so steep. We climbed up for a good 30mins and it took us another half hour to get back to the car. You can see the elevation profile of our walk here on Trail Guru.
But here I am, extremely proud of what I've achieved that day. I conquered a hard 5 hour, 15km bushwalk and I left a knitted graffiti on a tree, which I hope will bring a smile to other bushwalkers doing that track. 🙂 I'm planning my next one for this weekend already. *giggles*
For those who play geocaching, the coordinates are latitude 33.683313327 and longtitude 151.138348561. Leave a comment if you find it!
**Edit: The knitted tag is not made of cotton. I've used acrylic and wool yarn. But the back of the knitted tag is "open" with a piece of yarn criss-crossing the back to hold it in place loosely. Only half of the trunk is actually covered. I've sewn it this way so that the rangers can easily snip it off if they feel it's damaging the tree in some way.**