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I have just finished creating a PHP Phonebook that runs from our AD and noticed that a lot of people's job titles and the like are wrong.
Is there anyway to run a find and replace on the AD? To replace strings such as "Rental Assistant" to "Rental Agent".
I can possibly create a PHP script to do it, but I would rather know if there is some built in function to do it.
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There is nothing that I'm aware of, although this sounds like a great idea. There is a tool on sourceforge called YAADE i think, perhaps it would do the job for you, but I haven't played with it enough to be sure.
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YAADE does not search.
I'm not sure how many records you are talking about but have you tried to add the description column to the AD U&C view and sort by it? (sorry if I'm stating the obvious) You could then multi-select the ones that are mis-typed and right click and choose properties, go to the Organization Tab and change the "Title" for all of them.
If that won't work for you, there is also a package called, ... "Active Directory Find and Replace" by Dovestone Software, but it will set you back $100. Unless you are talking about thousands of records it may not be worth the time/$.
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A few months after moving in with my roommates, one of the three began smoking pot. Within a few months time span the remaining two began smoking as well. It has turned into a nightly occurrence with their friends staying over for weeks on end, and now it has escalated to other illicit drugs being consumed on the property. We are renting a house and I am stuck on the lease for 4 more months. I do not want to suffer the cost of breaking my lease nor do I want any legal trouble. What can I do to protect myself?
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As the previous atty stated, you cannot completely protect yourself. However, you should insist that no drugs or accessories are in any common areas-living room, kitchen, etc.--but are kept only in private bedrooms. If those bedrooms lock, they should keep them locked and be sure you don't have a key or access. Insist that no one uses drugs in your presence or in common areas. If there are telephone calls relating to sale/purchase of drugs, do not take those calls and do not agree to relay messages to your roommates. Do not allow any such transactions to take place in the apartment. Do not give your roommates rides in your car or accept rides from them for any purpose. Do not do anything that could be perceived as assisting in drug transactions, however small. Then, when you can, move out.
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Whatever you do is going to cost money. If you inform the landlord they may be kicked out but you are stuck with the lease payments. if you leave you have to put down new security and may be sued. You can defend but it costs. I would inform the landlord and leave. If the place gets busted you will be charged with them.Ask a similar question
I agree. The "cost" associated with getting arrested will be much greater, and affect you far longer, than the cost of breaking the lease. I would add that as long as you are in that environment, you should keep a lock on your bedroom door to keep them & their illegal stuff out. (Frankly, I would record myself telling them that I want them to stop all illegal activity in the apartment immediately; that you want no part of it or the trouble that could ensue; and that you may have to notify the apartment complex <as well as the police> of the goings on. {Depends on the personalities of you & them. Me - I'd be tossing the jerks.} Good luck!
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You need to have either the BG2 ToB cd in or the CD2 to get into the game. Just like with normal BG2. Or what ever cd it asks. Of course you also had better have the game fully installed... but that doesn't prevent the game from asking for the CD, as it's a check that you haven't rented and thus returned the CD. Aka, it's a CD check, not actual useful feature of having the CD in the drive. So it's the old type DRM test.
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that was somewhat surprising, but WVU never fails to amaze me in their Conference Tourneys
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Oklahoma also lost. Clemson lost, Kansas lost. This is a weird freaking bubble now, it went from being underwhelming to being possible stupid crazy.
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I figured it out. It looks like the context.xml file must now go in $CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost, rather than $CATALINA_HOME/webapps. Doh! Now I have to figure out a way to modify my "setup-tomcat" task to detect and deploy appropriately for Tomcat 5. Here is the relevant part: <echo level="info">Copying ${webapp.name}.xml to ${tomcat.home}/webapps</echo> <copy tofile="${tomcat.home}/webapps/${webapp.name}.xml" file="metadata/web/tomcat-context.xml" /> Matt -----Original Message----- From: Raible, Matt Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 3:17 PM To: 'email@example.com' Subject: RE: cannot load db driver in Tomcat 5.0.4 I found that adding log4j.jar to $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib solved my problem, but now I get the following error when I start Tomcat and there is no logging to catalina.out: log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.catalina.startup.Embedded). log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. Any help is appreciated. Matt -----Original Message----- From: Raible, Matt Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 2:53 PM To: 'firstname.lastname@example.com' Subject: cannot load db driver in Tomcat 5.0.4 I'm trying to upgrade to Tomcat 5.0.4 and I'm getting the lovely error that I love so much: java.sql.SQLException: Cannot load JDBC driver class 'null' This app works beautifully in Tomcat 4.1.24 and I can put the exact same directory, app.xml and jdbc driver in common/lib and it works. Has anything changed configuration-wise in 5.0.4? Thanks, Matt --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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For a tasty meal, serve the meatloaf with homemade mashed potatoes and peas or your favorite vegetables. Feel free to use plain ketchup to top this delicious, simple meatloaf or serve it with ketchup on the side.
The flavor of 85% ground beef is good, but 90% would be fine, too. Baking the meatloaf in a specialty meatloaf pan or on a rack will help drain away some of the excess fat, or make a free-form loaf on a foil-lined rimmed baking sheet or 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking pan.
What You'll Need
- 2 pounds ground beef, 85% to 90%
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 cup fine dry bread crumbs, plain
- 2 tablespoons dried minced onion or 1/2 cup finely minced onion
- 1 1/2 teaspoons burger seasoning or 1 1/4 teaspoons salt and 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1/2 cup ketchup (plus more for topping, if desired)
- Optional Glaze/Topping:
- 4 tablespoons ketchup
- 4 tablespoons maple syrup
- 2 tablespoons Dijon or similar mustard
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
How to Make It
- Heat oven to 350 F. Spray a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray.
- In a large bowl, combine the ground beef, eggs, milk, bread crumbs, onion, seasoning, and 1/2 cup ketchup. Mix until well blended and pack into the prepared loaf pan.
- If using the optional topping, combine the topping ingredients in a bowl and set aside.
- Bake the meatloaf for 1 hour and 10 minutes. Carefully drain off any excess fat and then top the loaf with about 4 tablespoons of ketchup or the optional topping mixture, if desired. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes longer.
Meatloaf Tips
- Experiment with meat mixtures in meatloaf. While beef gives excellent flavor and holds together well, some ground pork will provide juiciness. Ground veal would add lightness to a loaf, and part chicken or turkey would reduce some of the fat and calories.
- Use cracker crumbs or soft bread crumbs in the meatloaf instead of fine dry bread crumbs.
- Line the loaf pan with parchment paper or foil, like a sling. Just grab the ends of the paper or foil and lift the meatloaf out of the pan when it's done.
- Bake the meatloaf in individual muffin cups. Use about 1/4 cup of meatloaf mixture for each muffin cup.
- Pack the meatloaf mixture into individual oiled ramekins, and then invert them onto a rimmed baking sheet for perfectly shaped individual meatloaves.
- Instead of bread crumbs, use crushed cheese crackers in the meat mixture.
- Top a meatloaf with strips of bacon before baking, or add crumbled cooked bacon to the meat mixture.
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The High Court said when a public examination had been conducted and the student had been given 78% in it, the bank cannot arbitrarily reduce the same to 38 marks and deny education loan
Madurai: Maintaining that guidelines of Union Bank of India for granting education loans was "arbitrary, without rationale and cannot be accepted by any reasonable and prudent man", the Madras High Court has directed the lender to provide Rs15,000 as education loan to enable a student of diploma in mechanical engineering to pursue his studies, reports PTI.
Justice S Tamilvanan, allowing a petition filed by Kumar, father of the student Naveenkumar, said though the student had scored 78% in the SSLC examination, the bank had awarded him only 15 marks for academic performance.
For other parameters, including branch of study, selection process followed by the polytechnic, monthly income of parents, period of stay of the student at the current place, and selection process followed by the polytechnic, the bank had allocated 23 marks.
The student had been informed that he could not be granted the education as he had scored only 32 marks, though he was expected to score 50 out of 100 marks, as per the bank guidelines.
The judge said when a public examination had been conducted and the student had been given 78% in it, the bank cannot arbitrarily reduce the same to 38 marks.
It was clear from the IBA Model Loan scheme that diploma students were eligible for loan. The petitioner's son with 78% was a meritorious student and could not be denied the loan, the judge said.
The student was undergoing a recognised DME course and hence he should be granted the loan. However, though the petitioner had applied for a loan Rs28,000, the maximum limit fixed by the bank was Rs15,000.
The judge directed the bank to sanction the loan within four weeks after verifying testimonials.
Central banks cannot fix economies by themselves and the governments too need to act from the fiscal side and both monetary and fiscal policies have to act in harmony
Mumbai: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor D Subbarao has said there is a need to preserve the independence of central banks as their mandate has expanded in recent times, reports PTI.
"The issue of monetary policy independence has acquired greater potency following the expansion of mandates of central banks and their more explicit pursuit of real sector targets such as growth and unemployment," he said.
Subbarao cited Japan, where there is political pressure on the Bank of Japan to adopt a higher inflation target so as to create more room for growth stimulus, and said the case is "by no means an exception".
His comments come weeks ahead of the RBI's third quarter policy review scheduled for 29th January in which it might go for a cut in interest rates.
Subbarao said government and RBI need to act in harmony as the central banks on their own cannot fix economic woes.
"Central banks cannot fix economies by themselves. Governments need to act too from the fiscal side and monetary and fiscal policies have to act in harmony," Subbarao said.
Welcoming Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz at the CD Deshmukh Memorial Lecture, he said the monetary and fiscal policies should "act in harmony" to achieve common goals.
The comment comes in the backdrop of growing instances of apparent divergent views between the RBI and the Finance Ministry on a string of issues, including lowering interest rates and issuance of new bank licences.
The RBI had not lowered interest rates despite nudging to do so by Finance and Commerce Ministries. The central bank did not initiate the process of issuing bank licences despite assurance from Finance Minister P Chidambaram that government would amend the Banking Act in time.
Although PNB provides services to MetLife India as a distribution agent, the share of MetLife India in the business of life insurance is relatively insignificant and is not likely to raise any adverse effect on competition in India says CCI
New Delhi: Fair trade regulator Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved 30% stake purchase by state-owned Punjab National Bank (PNB) in MetLife India Insurance Company, reports PTI.
CCI said the deal would not have any adverse impact on the competition scenario.
In its order on 26th December, CCI noted that operations of PNB and MetLife India are not similar or identical.
"Although PNB provides services to MetLife India as a distribution agent, the share of MetLife India in the business of life insurance is relatively insignificant and is not likely to raise any adverse effect on competition in India," CCI said.
In 2011, PNB had announced picking up of 30% stake or about 60.38 crore shares in MetLife India for an undisclosed amount.
Besides, the two entities had reached an agreement following which PNB is acting as an agent of MetLife India for the distribution of its insurance products.
MetLife India is a joint venture between MetLife International (an affiliate of US-based MetLife Inc) and group of Indian investors.
Both PNB and MetLife India had approached the fair trade regulator for approval on 7 December 2012.


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My Externship at the To Do list: What I learned... The Team "The Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia advances mutual trust, understanding and cooperation among faith communities, in order to work together for the common good of the region." Day of Service wrap-up
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How to write formal thank you letters
Charisma matters in a job interview
Time management
Be creative and take some risks---you will impress people
How to use public transportation --- don't trust it too much
Even though I'm majoring in CBE, it's somehting I believe in
- I learned some about what it takes to run an organization, and important skills for any job: phone calls, letters, etc. They really valued my opinion for the report and trusted my with the work Margie seemed to be really moved by my story
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text: A list of items found in Castlevania: Dracula X. Contents[show] Primary weaponEdit Sacred Whip Item listEdit Normal itemsEdit Small Heart Large Heart Pendant Mystic Sphere 1 Up Food Transparency Elixir Sub-weapon itemsEdit Dagger Axe Boomerang Watch Holy Water Key External linksEdit American manual in Castlevania Realm Retrieved from "http://castlevania.wikia.com/wiki/Dracula_X_Inventory?oldid=200680" Ad blocker interference detected! Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising. We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers Wikia is not accessible if you've made further modifications. Remove the custom ad blocker rule(s) and the page will load as expected. Categories: Game Specific Inventories Dracula X Add category Cancel Save


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The Aquasana AQ-4000 Countertop Water Filter reduces 10X the contaminants than the leading drip pitcher filter and is the easiest way to get on-demand, clean, healthy water right from your tap.
It is a story about, good, bad and evil! It is a story about how those with power and wealth feel they are above the law,
Giant the Movie
The first part of the picture was shot in Albemarle County, Virginia, doubling for Maryland, and utilizing the Belmont estate near the Keswick railroad station, which depicted the "Ardmore, Maryland" railway depot. The film begins with Jordan "Bick" Benedict, played by Hudson, arriving at Ardmore to purchase a stallion from the Lynton family.
Much of the subsequent film, depicting "Reata," the Benedict ranch, was shot in and around the town of Marfa, Texas, and the remote, dry plains found nearby, with interiors filmed at the Warner Brothers studios in Burbank, California. The "Jett Rink Day" parade and airport festivities were filmed at the nearby Burbank Airport.
The fictional character Jett Rink was based in part on oil tycoon Glenn Herbert McCarthy (1907–1988). Author Edna Ferber met with McCarthy when she booked a room at the Shamrock Hotel, on which the novel and film were based. In the film, the fictional Emperador Hotel was based on the former Shamrock Hotel (known as the Shamrock Hilton after 1955) in Houston, Texas.
The film was premiered in New York City in November 1956 with the local DuMont station televising the arrival of cast and crew, as well as other celebrities and studio chief Jack Warner. Warner Brothers has included the vintage kinescope of the premiere festivities in New York, as well as interviews with cast members, in their special 50th anniversary DVD set.
Capitol Records, which had issued some of Dimitri Tiomkin's music from the soundtrack (with the composer conducting the Warner Brothers studio orchestra) on an LP, later digitally remastered the tracks and issued them on CD, including two tracks conducted by Ray Heindorf. There's a prevailing view expressed by some critics that Tiomkin reworked or "cannibalized" much of the Giant music for the soundtrack of John Wayne's movie The Alamo 7 years later.
Director George Stevens wanted to cast fading star Alan Ladd as Jett Rink, but his wife advised against it. The role went to James Dean. William Holden was a leading candidate for the role of Bick Benedict before Rock Hudson was eventually signed. Stevens gave Hudson a choice between Elizabeth Taylor and Grace Kelly to play his leading lady, Leslie. Hudson chose Taylor.
Giant was Barbara Barrie's first film. Carroll Baker, who plays Elizabeth Taylor's daughter, was older in real life than her screen mother.
After James Dean's death late in production, Nick Adams provided Rink's voice for a few lines. The film spent an entire year in the editing room.
It was the highest grossing film in Warner Bros. history until the release of Superman.
Original Movie trailer
Hotal Pasaon - Home of the Stars
Hotel Pasano - Hotel of the Stars
(At the time is was the only hotel in town)
The Historic Pasano Hotel, Marfa, Tx - The Hotel Paisano was built by Charles Bassett of El Paso and opened in June 1930. It was one of five hotels that he built in west Texas and eastern New Mexico of the Gateway Hotel chain. He commissioned notable architect Henry Trost of Trost and Trost in El Paso for the architectural design.
The construction company was McKee Construction out of El Paso that had built most of the early Hilton Hotels around Texas in the 1920's and 1930's as well as most of the office buildings in downtown El Paso of that era.
The Paisano was for the most part a cattleman's hotel for its first 40 years. Ranchers from all over the area had business meetings here and bought and sold their herds from the lobby of the hotel. The railroad depot was two blocks away so many rail travelers stopped in for a night in their travels between California and San Antonio. The hotel was also the prime location for social events within a 100 mile radius of Marfa. Many weddings, parties, receptions, proms and meetings were held at the Paisano.
In 1955 Warner Brothers chose Marfa as the location for the filming of the epic movie Giant. In June of that year the cast and crew including James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson made the hotel their headquarters. Today, the hotel still has many visitors that come to see and remember Giant. James Dean's hotel room here is one of the most popular that we have to offer. In July 2005 the Chamber of Commerce is having a 50th anniversary celebration of the movie with hopes to attract some of the stars from the movie.
The hotel closed in the late 1970's as a working hotel. In 2001 the building was purchased with plans to be restored back into its 1930's splendor. After three years of renovations we now have 33 rooms and suites available for the public. Like in the 1930's the Hotel Paisano is again becoming a destination in and of itself in far west Texas for guests visiting local art foundations, (The Chinati Foundation), the Marfa Mystery Lights , Big Bend National Park, Mexico, and attractions such as McDonald Observatory, Fort Davis National Historic Site, and the Davis Mountains Scenic Loop Highway .
While we visiting the hotel the clerk told us that there had been reports from various guest who have experienced strange things happening in James Deans suite as well as Rock Hudson. We cannot confirm any of this but it would be fun to try! I had heard this rumor from several people several months prior to our visit.
If you get hungry, there is a great restaurant in the hotel, Jets Grill. We will have a restautant review by our food editor in the section Best Texas Restaurants.


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1 Metrics for the Internet Age: Quality of Experience and Quality of Business 1 Aad van Moorsel, E-Services Software Research Department Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Palo Alto, California, USA Abstract The primary topic of this report is `metrics.' More specifically, we discuss quantitative metrics for evaluating Internet services: what should we quantify, monitor and analyze in order to characterize, evaluate and manage services offered over the Internet? We argue that the focus must be on quality-of-experience and, what we call, quality-of-business metrics. These QoE and QoBiz metrics quantify the user experience and the business return, respectively, and are increasingly important and tractable in the Internet age. We introduce a QoBiz evaluation framework, responding to the emergence of three types of services that impact quantitative evaluation: business to consumer services, business to business services, and service utility through service providers. The resulting framework opens avenues for systematic modeling and analysis methodology for evaluating Internet services, not unlike the advances made over the past two decades in the area of performability evaluation. Keywords: Quality of Service, Quality of Experience, Quality of Business, QoS, QoE, QoBiz, management, e-services, web services, performability, metrics, analysis 1. Quantitative Evaluation in the Internet Age: What is Different? Who cares if your web shopping site has an availability of three nines? 99.9% availability corresponds to a little over eight hours of total down time in a year, but most customers do not care, nor do line-of-business managers. The customer only cares if the site is up when she wants to shop. Moreover, if the site is down for a few seconds during a shopping session, she will only care if it makes any difference for the execution of her ongoing tasks. The business manager only cares if she loses business because of down time, and for how much money this could have been prevented. From the above example, it follows that system metrics such as availability are not sufficient to evaluate an Internet service. Instead, user experience metrics and business metrics are necessary. Surely, this is not a new realization at any point in computing system history, there have been implicit considerations about user and business requirements when evaluating systems and services. For instance, decisions about upgrading computer equipment routinely consider user needs and costs. However, the problem has always been that the relationship between system quality, user experience, and business cost is hard to make concrete. QoS, QoE and QoBiz analysis has therefore never been done in systematic and integrated fashion. 1 A full version of this report (including detailed xsp, B2B and B2C discussions) is available as HP Labs technical report from under report number HPL
2 In the Internet age this must change. The relation between QoS, QoE and QoBiz has become very apparent, and more easily to discern. In the web shopping scenario, the user experience directly influences how much shopping the customer does, and how much money the business makes as a consequence. Results are available that relate response times with user behavior [1] and business loss [13]. In the Internet age, not only are QoBiz metrics increasingly important, they are also more directly measurable and therefore better tractable. The crucial difference in the Internet age is that people, processes and institutions play roles that are closely integrated with the system (that is, the Internet) itself. They form ecosystems in which Acronyms: QoS: Quality of Service QoE: Quality of Experience QoBiz: Quality of Business B2C: Business to Consumer B2B: Business to Business xsp: any Service Provider ISP: Internet Service Provider ASP: Application Service Provider MSP: Management Service Provider CSP: Communications Service Provider HSP: Hosting Service Provider SLA: Service Level Agreement business is conducted through technological means (business-to-consumer as well as business-to-business). In addition, technology services are being provided and consumed in similar fashion as electricity and water (the service utility model). In particular, we identify the following trends as drivers for QoBiz management: Integration of the user in Internet ecosystems (B2C) Integration of enterprise business processes in web-service ecosystems (B2B) Emergence of the service utility model (service providers/xsps) In what follows we discuss the metrics that are suitable to evaluate the ecosystems that arise from these three trends. Intuitively, B2C naturally leads to QoE analysis, and B2B requires QoBiz analysis, as we discuss in Section 3. In Section 4, however, we introduce a more abstract notion of QoE and QoBiz, which allows us to construct a general framework in which every participant in an Internet ecosystem deals with QoS, QoE and QoBiz concerns at its own level of abstraction. That is useful for structured evaluation of service providers, which may have various participants interacting in a joined ecosystem (ISP, ASP, MSP, CSP, HSP, ). Eventually, we hope that the proposed framework is a useful steppingstone towards generic methodology and software support for QoBiz evaluation of Internet services. Before discussing Internet metrics in detail, however, we consider in Section 2 how metrics like QoE and QoBiz relate to the performability metric for fault-tolerant systems. 2. A Performability Perspective The introduction of the performability metric in 1978 was motivated by the growing acceptance of fault tolerant systems [6]. One characteristic that makes those systems different from the preceding generation is that they are able to operate in degraded mode. This implies that it is no longer sufficient to know that the system is up or down instead, one needs to know how much up it is (at what mode of degradation), and what the level of performance is in this mode. In other words, one needs to evaluate not only what the system is, but also what it does, thus combining reliability with performance evaluation [4]. The introduction of performability has its roots in the need of evaluating a new class of systems in a more systematic and meaningful manner than previously done. It is no surprise that a disruptive technology like the Internet requires something similar.
3 Performability provides a bridge between mathematical modeling and domain-specific system engineering. That is a very important aspect: there is a system engineering need to systematically classify and identify appropriate domain-specific metrics, since it leads to more powerful quantitative modeling approaches for the considered class of systems. As an example, in earlier work, we identified so-called system metrics and task metrics, and we showed that the latter, though arguably more relevant, are systematically harder to analyze [8]. This has lead to the insight that conversion laws (like Little s law for queuing systems) are critical, and ultimately made us propose the action model paradigm for task metrics [9]. The most convincing example demonstrating what can be achieved when tying mathematical modeling and system engineering is the performability evaluation approach based on reward models and (variations of) stochastic Petri nets [7]. This approach provides systematic modeling and software tool support for quantitative evaluation of fault-tolerant systems. It has taken quantitative modeling of fault-tolerant systems beyond solving case studies. This paper would serve its purpose well if it would instigate systematic approaches to QoE and QoBiz analysis for Internet services, comparable to those existing for performability evaluation of fault-tolerant systems. 3. QoS, QoE and QoBiz To create an intuition for the various quality metrics, let us consider for a moment a grocery store, and identify what quality of service (QoS), quality of experience (QoE) and quality of business (QoBiz) means in that context. Grocery store. QoS metrics of a grocery store are metrics that say something about the store itself, not taking the perspective of customer or business: is the store open or not, what is the average number of customers that pass through a counter every hour. These QoS metrics provide base info about the grocery store however, they do not tell anything important for customer or owner. For this we need QoE and QoBiz metrics, respectively. QoE metrics relate to the customer experience: is the grocery store open if I (the customer) want to visit. Another QoE metric is the actual time I spend at the register, and also if I consider the service slow or fast. Note that the mentioned QoE metrics have a counterpart in the QoS metrics mentioned above, but are different in that they take the customer angle (which may, indeed, be subjective in nature). QoBiz metrics, finally, relate very closely to dollars: will my business make more money if I add counters?, will my business make more money if I open my store between 10 pm and 5 am? and is the layout of my store optimal in guiding customers to the most profitable items? The above scenario can easily be transposed to Internet services. QoS metrics are metrics such as availability and performance; QoE metrics are response times and availability of a service as experienced by a customer [14] [15]; finally, the QoBiz metric is expressed in terms of money, such as the average amount of money received per executed transaction. Figure 1 shows some of the typical metrics. Note that QoS metrics are further divided in two: system metrics and task metrics [8]. QoS task metrics are very close to QoE metrics, with two exceptions: (1) QoE metrics may have a subjective element to it while QoS task measure do not, and (2) QoE metrics may be influenced by any system between the service provider and the customer, while task measure relate to the quality of the considered system and service only. An example of the latter is the QoE of a web site, which heavily depends on the ISP s network conditions, the speed of the modem, etc [3]
4 [5]. In that case the QoS task metric for the web service would only consider the web site, while the QoE metric must take into account all the other elements as well. QoS system task QoE QoBiz availability reliability queue length processing capacity bandwidth error rate throughput capacity headroom memory capacity up at arrival successful completion probability waiting time response time achievable throughput memory used for task successful download completion probability end-to-end response time perceived speed of download customer friendly site transactions lost dollars per transaction cost of servers revenue of web site revenue per page visiting robots costs Figure 1 Examples of QoS (system and task), QoE and QoBiz metrics 4. QoBiz Evaluation Framework In Section 1, we identified various roles played by people, processes and institutions participating in Internet business. Together, conglomerates of these players create an ecosystem, consisting of customers, suppliers, partners, etc. Each player in such an ecosystem has QoS, QoE and QoBiz concerns, and the quality metrics of different parties depend on each other [11] [12]. By abstracting away the intuitive notions of customer and business used in Section 3, we now construct a framework for systematic quantitative evaluation of Internet services. Figure 2 depicts the quality concerns of any player or participant in an Internet ecosystem. The player has connections with service providers and with customers (bottom and top of Figure 2, respectively). A service is received from the service provider, and a service is offered to the customer. This service flow is depicted on the left-hand side of the figure. Each player has its own metrics of interest: an Internet service provider is interested in bandwidth, an application service provider is interested in number of customers supportable, and an end customer is interested in perceived response time. Using the participant s own metrics of interest, it receives a certain QoE level from the service provider (the QoE box in Figure 2). In addition, it exposes a service to the customer, possibly using some additional resources of its own these resources together with the received service have a certain QoS (the QoS box). This service will then be exposed to the customers.
5 service flow expose QoS to customer combine received QoE with system QoS QoS customer cost of system QoS QoBiz financial flow pay received for offered service QoE willingness to pay for service what s QoE of offered QoS? cost of received service and QoE Figure 2 service provider QoS, QoE and QoBiz for a single participant in an Internet ecosystem. The right-hand side of Figure 2 gives the financial flow, which directly relates to quality of business metrics. QoBiz is influenced by cost and revenue considerations. To achieve a certain QoS level, resources must be paid for ( cost of system QoS arc). In addition, each service provider must be paid for its delivered QoE (arc down to service provider). If the service provider delivers high QoE, the participant s willingness to pay for the service increases (as depicted by the dashed arc between the QoE and QoBiz box). These are all cost items for the considered participant. In addition to cost, there is revenue from the customers, which is depicted by the arc from the customer to the QoBiz box. Evaluation of QoBiz must take into account all these cost and revenue aspects. We now relate the building block for the QoBiz evaluation framework in Figure 2 with the three important trends for QoBiz evaluation identified in Section 1, in the following order: xsps, B2C and B2B. Because of space limitations, we must refer you for this discussion to the extended version of this paper, which is available as HP Labs technical report [10]. 5. Conclusion This paper introduces the concept of QoBiz (quality of business) metrics and evaluation. It builds up an evaluation framework for Internet services, relating QoS (quality of service), QoE (quality of experience) and QoBiz. The need to consider QoBiz metrics when evaluating Internet services has become increasingly apparent because of the emergence of three types of service models: business to consumer services, business to business services, and the service utility model using service providers. In all three cases, business and system considerations must be considered in unison. The developed evaluation framework is a steppingstone towards systematic support for QoBiz evaluation of Internet services. In the future, we may hope to see generic modeling methodology, solution algorithms and software tools to support such evaluation.
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