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I currently have a BM 3.8 server working fine with 1 public and 1 private
I'm testing a second internet provider and was hoping I could just hookup a
second public facing nic and setup say just the web browsing to use this
connection while having the other services continue to use the existing
public facing nic.
Is this possible with BM. If not can someone suggest the device I need to
put in front of BM to allow this.


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The annual R&B SummerFest, this year at the Rosemont Horizon, was an assortment of chart-topping acts that, through various styles, drip-dropped saccharine promises of love for eternity or, barring that, sex for one night.
Commanding an outfit that combined two frenetic deejays with an ample live band (horns, drums, bass, guitars and keyboards), rapper L.L. Cool J stalked the stage with a restlessness that added urgency to his steely voice. L.L. overwhelmed with his brawny presence in the 4 1/2-hour event Sunday.

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Hoping to continue a twitter conversation with @mikejang, Laura Lemay (@lemay on Twitter), and all comers here. My version of the twitter backstory (others' may vary):
TL;DR version: Laura tweeted some cool stuff about how it seems that traditional definitions of tech writing are dying out but the value that they add is being lost in the process, and needs to be brought back. A few of us continued the twitter conversation until it got out of hand, and Mike suggested we move it over here.
The I-tend-to-write-epics version:
Toward the end of day 2 of the conference, I did one of my only-occasional-during-the-conference checkins with twitter, to find a fantastic tweetstream from Laura, who I remembered from my early days as a tech writer as someone whose words are Worth Paying Attention To. I thought, this is great stuff, I must favorite so I can figure out how to reply (later) – only to realize at the end (which was really the beginning), that she was tweeting from Write The Docs. Too late in the day for me to figure out how to find her, but we sort of continued to discuss definitions and situations on twitter, until <see_above_content_reuse>.
Here are Laura's working definitions of traditional tech writing and new tech writing (please note the "old" in the topic title is my infelicity):
http://techwhirl.com/what-is-technical-writing/ (for the traditional)
The new:
(only one of Laura's great tweets on the topic - go read them all):
New tech writing: ad-hoc tools, process, structure, small numbers of writers integrated with engr using engr tools.
Gosh, Laura was there? I would have tried to seek her out too. Before I started writing about OSes, I listened to her on a book tour stop at some B&N around Seattle.
I think this tweet brings up a key question:
@lemay @WriteTheDocsPDX The catch is that a tech writer with dev skills has a lot more opportunity (pay/influence) as a dev.— laura lemay (@lemay) May 21, 2015
@lemay @WriteTheDocsPDX The catch is that a tech writer with dev skills has a lot more opportunity (pay/influence) as a dev.
If we as documentarians want to write for Devs, don't we need Dev skills?
I've been reading a bit around the interwebs, trying to get a better historical perspective. I'm not ready to write up this stuff more formally, but I found some of my assumptions about the history of technical writing and formal programs organized around it challenged by this:
… and I also thought it provided a useful frame for the techwri-l definition of technical writing.
"we changed the department's name from Technical Communication
to Human Centered Design and Engineering"
Is that related to our focus on (not related to JIRA) user story-driven docs? Was it also a preview of the current decline of the STC?
(If you're looking for historical info, I think Amelia Abreu talked about it at WTD 2014, with ref to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Briet )
Whoops. I realized just now I was deeply unclear on twitter – I was not at Write the Docs. (I couldn't get my act together, had a lot to do that week, long story, boring.) I was just following along on twitter via the #writethedocs hashtag – tons of livetweeters, lots of good info – and chimed in with my thoughts toward the end. Sorry to give the wrong impression!
I storified all the tweets in the convo here:
I'm actually conflicted about the value of traditional tech writers (even though I am one; I've been a tech writer (staff, contract, and freelance) my entire career). The tech writing profession can often seem stodgy and hidebound, and as I noted in my tweets there can be issues with a tech writing organization being a separate org from engineering.
BUT on the other hand traditional tech writing has a huge body of knowledge and research into how people learn, and read, and use documentation, which I think is getting lost with the new tech writing, where other roles are doing the writing, or writers without a TW background are being hired into TW roles. How to structure technical documents, how to write procedures, the differences between overview/task/reference docs – all of this is well-traveled ground amongst technical writers. And traditional tech writing is well ahead of the new tech writing when it comes to internationalization, content reuse, and other issues that you don't generally encounter until you have a very large or mature product.
I'm not so much calling for a return to traditional tech writing, but I think there could be a lot more cross-pollenization going on between our two communities. Maybe I am the bee.
I have to laugh. I've been wrestling with a blog post about this stuff. It's been on my mind for longer than this year's Write The Docs or the tweet storm, but they inspired me to try again. Alas, I am long-winded, and all too often deeply confused in my own writing, at least in the initial drafts.
Short version: Laura says in her final three paragraphs quite perfectly what I've been trying to say in many more paragraphs/planned series of posts/freakin' monograph. Thank you, and I couldn't agree more!
(Wrong impression? nah – I mostly thought, dang, it was too late to find you at the conference … And it's pretty cool that the twitters gave you some sort of virtual attendance. Never mind the fact that your tweets were dead on target. Although I'd like to think that Write The Docs is also part of the swarming hive …)
Hi, Joao Fernandes here.
I've presented at write the docs this year, and I feel I'm on the "new tech writing" field. Whatever that means .
I'm glad I found this discussion. I was following on twitter all the discussions with the #writethedocs tag, but I seem to have missed this one.
After reading @lemay 's story line, I think I somewhat understood her definition of "traditional tech writing". Also, one of my colleagues has lots of experience on the field, and I think he clearly fits on the "traditional tech writer" definition. So I can experience in first hand and on a daily basis the clash between traditional and new tech writing mindsets.
I'll try to explain some of my core values as a "new tech writer", and will then explain why I feel they are most adequate, specially as you try to do continuous deployment.
I'll then try to argue on some points that @lemay on her tweet storyline tells that "traditional tech writing" got better results, and why I think "new tech writing" can achieve results that are just as good, or even better.
I value:
Some of these were probably the reason why "traditional" tech writing was so distant from the engineering, and as a side effect, getting information from the development team was a really difficult task.
I agree that having smaller teams, and sometimes ad-hoc processes might make it seam that it's difficult to create a mentorship culture, where knowledge and best practices are passed from seniors to juniors. But I don't think this is necessarily true.
For instance, "traditional" tech writing had a lot of focus on following best practices and style guides, so most times "mentoring" was just a misleading synonym for "go read the style guide before writing anything".
With "new" tech writing, if I've got a small team I don't feel the need for having style guides. And that forces me to do some real mentoring. I really need to sit, read, review, and share honest feedback with junior team members, if I hope to have consistent docs.
And about the career path and progression, I only see new opportunities emerging. As with "old" development, you could get away only knowing a single programming language, "new" development requires a more open approach and that you're willing to learn better tools for your job.
I think the same is happening to tech writing. The barrier of product and documentation is getting more fuzzy, so you'll need to acquire new skills to tackle new challenges.
I hope my view is a meaningful contribution to the discussion I'm continuing to learn so much, even after the conference has ended.
Joao, great contribution! If I'm reading correctly, your definition of "new tech writing" (I say "documentarian") follows Agile principles – and is not tied to the Agile process.
Spot on Mike.
I follow a set of principles that I feel deliver value to my users. My core values are very much aligned with the Agile manifesto (but I've got some others).
About Agile processes… at my company we use a mix of SCRUM and KANBAN, but my view is that there isn't a right way of doing agile. So you need to tweak your processes until you find the ones that make you fast and productive.
As an example, if you're doing daily SCRUM meetings, don't understand why, and can't extract any value from them, then you're not being agile (in the pure sense of the word). You are just mindlessly following something that's making you waste time.
Thanks for the link! It was fun to read Judy's history of the department.
I'm new to the forum, but I've been in and out of the UW's TC/HCDE department since 2007. During that time, I've watched the department evolve from inside and out. I got my MS in 2009 when they changed the name so I had the option to choose between an MS in TC or an MS in HCDE. I chose the latter because it seemed bigger, as in broader and a better representation of the program's scope. I thought it was slightly ironic that I took very few "technical writing" courses for my MS degree.
I went back in a year later to start work on a PhD (in HCDE) and I'll be "out" again (graduating), soon. Looking over the work of recent PhD graduates from the department, my dissertation is one of the few (the only?) to actually study some sort of [what I would characterize as traditional] technical communication (API documentation, to be specific). The recent dissertations also reflect the broader focus of the department (which, by the way, I think is very cool).
All of this is to say that TC/TW isn't what it used to be. It's much bigger, these days. More outlets, more publishing formats, more audiences, more levels of audience involvement and interaction.
Exciting times ahead!
Bob, as a onetime academic historian, I have to ask (after I thank you for joining the discussion and warn you that I want to pick your brain A LOT):
Does anybody do this kind of historical study anymore?
Summary: it's a 1983 annotated bibliography of the history of techcomm. I'd quote the abstract, but I don't want to scare away other contributors to this topic
Another "new tech writer" reporting in. I agree with @joaofn's points on speed, measurement, and delivering highest-value work per unit of effort trumping other concerns. I don't have anything to add to his well-made description of the values underlying that point of view.
Regarding dev skills for tech writers, I agree with @mikejang that having some programming or "scripting" skill is important if you are writing docs intended for engineers. For developer docs, dogfooding will often involve setting up a (minimal, toy) version of a system, whether it's a REST API, mobile SDK, whatever. It's not required to have dev skills for most of this, but it's very helpful since it lets you get further, faster, on your own before you need help from colleagues.
Not to mention that learning a bit of light programming can be extremely empowering for tech writers! If you work through a book like Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, you will have enough skills to write your own code. You will also have gained at least a minimal perspective on engineering work which will make you better at writing dev docs and better prepared to collaborate with engineering colleagues (because you will probably be able to ask better questions).
Re: having more opportunity in a development role, I don't think that is necessarily the case. I am a decent "scripter" but don't have the CS background to work as an engineer at the company I work for. Rather than struggle to be an average programmer, I prefer to focus on being a good tech writer who has higher than average technical skills (maybe) for my role.
As Scott Adams (the Dilbert guy) says in Career Advice: rather than trying to be the best at one thing, you should try to be in the top 25% at two or more things.
Hi all,
I'd like to point out, however, that the documentation that is most often discussed within Agile is not the documentation that is delivered to the customer. It is the internal documentation by which a product is created. And that is specifications or UI designs or whatever. So while it's important to value some documentation to none, it's not the documentation that your user ever sees (unless you are doing developer SDKs and the like and are eating your own dog food). Does that make sense?
(I've a long time tech writer, who's done both old and new school. Just FYI. It's fun sitting on that pointy spikey fence! Not! Ouch! )
FWIW, I think many of us write in the world of DevOps,
where the "end-user" is a developer / sysadmin who needs to do heavy-duty configuration – and that DevOps user ignores docs that look like they're made for beginners…
I'm not quite sure I like the traditional vs new dichotomy. I guess i can imagine more of a corporate (used a little derogatorily) vs the web/cloud/post-boom culture split, of which social media reflects so brightly. Let's not forgot that there's a lot of corporate work out there. And honestly, if you work in this sphere you're going to be paid well and you'll get a stable (FWIW) job. Second, I think the longer you're in the TC industry, the more you turn toward working with more structured, repeatable, and scalable processes. Being rigid wrt process definitely feels more corporate, but that's usually a choice - any senior executive would probably support a pro-customer move that may require an unexpected maneuver.
I think maybe we should define traditional versus new more finely? I realize while typing and deleting that I don't really know which one I am. Is making help systems totally old-school? Or having style guides? Or caring about style guides? Are you not new-school unless you can write your own scripts, or do you just have to not use Robo-Help anymore?
I mean, I write docs in XML and troubleshoot the build files, so I think of myself as all cutting edge [insert ironic emoji], but we still create Help systems and PDFs. We're style guide slackers though.
As I'm sure many people have noticed, there are at least two groups of documentarians here: those who create docs mainly for developers and internal customers, and those who write mostly for end users. Write the Docs is the first place I've encountered more of the first group than the second (and it's great)! The challenges faced by each group can differ, though, in ways that each group can learn from. And I see some conflation of new tech writing with the first group and of (so-called) traditional tech writing with the second group. Part of this, I suspect, is because user-focused writers are not usually well-integrated into engineering processes. Often their departments were established before leadership realized the value of this. Hey, it's not their fault!
I love the forward-thinking perspective that @joaofn and @rmloveland and other new-docs evangelists provide. Change is the only constant, and in an era when every year brings us something that would have been magic the year before, we can't rely on traditional processes to keep up. Let's not make the mistake of assigning every frustrating process to the traditional tech writing bucket, though, when often as not the problem is the result of institutional cruft, of the natural tendency of organizations to become less flexible as they age and grow.
My point is that if I were writing for a DevOps user as @mikejang explains, my process would be entirely different from my process were I writing for minimally tech-savvy end-user customers–and so certain of my professional values would be. For example, an internal DevOps reader is not affected at all by typos (much less grammatical flubs) in body text, as long as the code samples are flawless. A paying customer, especially one with a humanities mindset instead of an engineering orientation, is more likely to judge the quality of the product by the perceived professionalism of the text. When the audience is different, so must be the process and the values that guide it.
Thank you @johntheeditor! You have beautifully articulated my feelings on this subject! (To the point where I actually semi-shouted 'Yes!' out loud, in an empty room as I was reading your post.)
I think you've also hit the nail on the head of why participating in the Write The Docs community has been so powerful for so many of us. As a direct result of interacting with this group, I've been working very deliberately to incorporate tactics from both schools of tech writing into my own processes. I think so much of our success as documentarians relies on finding a way to write with precision, consistency, and structure, without sacrificing speed, responsiveness, and (above all) usefulness.
As @lemay suggested, the more we all interact with and learn from each other the more our craft will imrpove. Let's all be (those vital, cross-pollinating) bees!
WOW! So many good arguments here.
It's amazing to see how civilized this community is. If this were anywhere else on the web, I bet this discussion would certainly contain a few insults *high-fives everyone for being so awsome!*
I agree with @OBrienEditorial, I prefer hanging out on communities that are diverse (such as this one). You learn the most from people that don't share your opinions.
I also agree with @johntheeditor. Your values will depend a lot on your target audience, and your processes will tend to be slower and more rigid as you grow.
Huge corporations have rigid processes for a reason. Usually the reason is achieving global scale.
Let me share a bit more of my own experience.
Me and my team work inside the engineering department, and create customer-facing documentation and training. The amount of internal documentation we produce is very limited.
I agree with @Sue. We are in the engineering department, because our product is a development platform, so even though our audience is external, they are developers, DBAs, and operations.
But here's an interesting thing. The ultimate goal for our team is to "make our users proficient in 0 seconds". So if we don't have time for a feature, we prefer to use the few time we have helping the engineering team making a more usable product, than creating long docs.
Some teams that don't interact with us so often, have an hard time understanding where we spend most of our time. This is the case of the support team.
So we need to do some browbags and share with them and other teams what we're doing. Otherwise they see us as a documentation team that produces almost no documentation (so they feeling they get is that we're not very good at our jobs )
The only point I disagree with @johntheeditor is that if you're writing for DevOps, your users still get affected by typos. Lack of quality is not acceptable.
I'd argue the difference is that usually developers are hackers by nature, so even if they don't understand the docs, they'll try to find what they want by trial and error.
I also don't want to blame tradicional tech writing for every frustrating, cumbersome, and slow process. I just want to raise awareness for some practices that might not be healthy for your users and for you (independently of where you stand on this old-school/new-school thing).
I want to raise awareness for the fact that rotten docs can sometimes be worse than no docs at all. And rotten docs usually appear because we decided to document everything to exhaustion, never thinking that two years from now, we'll probably have the same (or fewer) resources to continue documenting new features, and maintaining old ones.
This topic is very important to me, because I've inherited lots of docs that my users tell me they don't use. And after surveying they, I understood that it's mostly due to bad experiences they had in the past, like:
I feel that attention to detail, style guides, good content organization are of paramount importance. But sometimes, we need to think strategically and think about why we have them in the first place.
And if we find that they are shackling us, and stopping us from delivering value to our customers, then we need to rethink them.
Finally, @Marya I wouldn't stress too much about defining old-school/new-school. We need to deliver value to our end-users. As long as you do that, who cares about how you're doing it?
I don't know. I've seen these occasionally and, when they are on a topic I'm working on, appreciate them greatly.
I get the impression, however, that these days, the preferred method is to use http://scholar.google.com or something similar. My research method was to use Google scholar to find some interesting papers, read their lit reviews and bibliographies and then follow the rabbit trail where it took me. With access to every published article in the last 20 years, it's easy to collect a lot of references quickly. Where it gets challenging (and comparatively tedious) is when you run into older references that haven't been scanned and put online. Then summaries such as that one are appreciated!


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@Flying_Pig The model I got replacement bricks for was over 3 years old and Lego didn't ask for proof of purchase.
That said, you have to give a reason why you need the replacement bricks. Mine had cracks in them (I've never dropped or otherwise damaged the model) but simply losing the bricks may not be a good enough reason to warrant replacements. May be worth a try regardless though.
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Lego are pretty good at replacing parts, even from older kits, but I'm guessing they will figure out what's going on when you ask for a 3rd of a kit
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Half heard something on the radio this morning about people making a tidy packet splitting boxes and selling individual parts.
That 60 year celebration gift from the LEGO shop looks amazing. Really cool mini builds of the old space ship, the original pirate ship, the yellow castle and... WTF is that third one?
Monorail station? Da fuq...
I think it's the 6399 airport shuttle on closer inspection. Can't help but feel they flubbed that one. Should have gone for the old TECHNIC car.
It is indeed the 6399 Airport Shuttle.
Details Here.
The airport shuttle was such a cool set.
It's the only one I can't remember. Could it be after my time?
Nope, leafing through the old catalogue there are plenty of kits I remember. My younger brother had some of them.
God, looking in old LEGO catalogues really bring out a warm fuzzy feeling in my chest.
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I always lusted after that one as a kid. I had the airport.
This one
Edited by THFourteen at 08:07:48 29-01-2018
It's a super cool set. Surprised I missed it back then.
Due to a relationship break-up and having to find a new place to live, it's likely I'm going to be selling a huge amount of my LEGO this year.
I'll be keeping the Falcon, obvs.
Once I've figured out what I'm doing I'll post up anything that's going in here but as it's all UCS/large sets I'm not sure it'll be worth anyone's time factoring in shipping from Stockholm.
Sorry to hear it Derbs
She got over her Stockholm syndrome then?
/here all week
Doesn't feel like the sort of material we should be making jokes out of.
Yeah you might be right, sorry Derblington.
Sad to hear about your situation Derblington
As for selling your USC LEGO and shipping I'd say there are enough connoisseurs in Stockholm so that you'd probably be able to sell it all on Blocket.
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Yeah, Lukus. You're fucked now!
Tonka, I'm not worried about being able to pass it on - I know enough people that'd be interested at work. It was more that people here may be interested in the specific sets. But we'll handle it when the time comes.
Have you got an R2D2 now that�s the question.
Sorry to hear your news mate, hope things work out for the best for you.
I do have the D2. I think Kent wants a new one, regardless.
Cheers for the support. I�m actually alright though, just not looking forward to moving again.
Did someone say .... nah, surely not.
(I would prefer a new one but beggars can�t be choosers and all that)
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Those free Lego 60 year sets are going for �35 on ebay. Might offset a new purchase nicely!
I wanted the Lego Pirate Ship so bad when I was a kid. I had the Governors Fort but never got the Pirate Ship. I used to look at the photos of it in the catalogue for hours
Bugatti Chiron is this years Technic supercar, following the Porsche from a couple of years ago. I reckon I'll probably purchase that one, depending on the look of the final model. I'll be keeping the porsche so they'll be nice together, and my purchasing will be much more limited than it has been so it will be nice to get big, limited sets.
That 60th anniversary set is already sold out in the US, kind of need to buy it now if i want it at all.
Not much i really want for �100 at the moment though. The latest Star Wars sets are all rubbish, i quite fancy the ship in a bottle but �70 is stupid for that set, and i'd buy a technic set but i have no where to display it.
kentmonkey wrote:That's right, the only material that we should be making stuff out of is lego!
Doesn't feel like the sort of material we should be making jokes out of.
Really sorry to hear what you're going through Derbs, especially if you have to sell loads of your Lego too, hope you're holding up ok?
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I've ordered the ucd Falcon from JL today and it's waiting for collection from tomorrow afternoon. The problem is I've got massive buyers remorse and I'm not sure I can justify the cost. Anyone got one who thinks it's worth it?
Think the question really is what else would you do with that �650.
I�m not short of money and buying it would not mean I couldn�t eat or take my family on holiday or anything but equally I would quite like a new iPad and �650 would pay for that and I�d get more use out of it.
But then if it was all about usefulness nobody would ever buy a Rolex and people do
I really wanted it. Now it's readily available I just can't do it. The cost isn't a massive deal breaker, I've just got nowhere to put the fucking thing. And it's ALWAYS going to be there. Fuck breaking it back up to box away.
I couldn't justify it myself, that's a a fair overpayment on my mortgage
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Business & Markets 2014
Written by Ahmad Naqib Idris Adzman Shah of theedgemalaysia.com
Thursday, 03 July 2014 20:00
KUALA LUMPUR (July 3): Based on corporate news today, the stocks in focus tomorrow could include CIMB Group Holdings Bhd, China Stationeries Ltd, Landmarks Bhd, Pestech International Bhd, Censof Holdings Bhd, Ipmuda Bhd and MAS.
CIMB Group Holdings Bhd has announced that Datuk Seri Nazir Razak will be taking over as chairman of CIMB Group and relinquishing his position as group CEO, with effect from Sept 1, 2014.
In a statement released today, CIMB Group said that Nazir will be taking over from Tan Sri Md Nor, who has led the group as chairman since July 2006.
It also added that Nazir will chair an Executive Committee of the board (to be established), that will focus on "key strategic matters and enhance the board's oversight functions".
The statement added that Nazir will continue to serve as President Commissioner of PT Bank CIMB Niaga and Deputy Chairman of CIMB Bank, and will be nominated Chairman of CIMB Investment Bank, with effect from Sept 1, 2014.
Meanwhile, Khazanah Nasional Bhd had also announced today, that Nazir will joint its board as a director.
CIMB Group fell 5 sen to close at RM7.30 today, with a market capitalisation of RM60.86 billion.
Landmarks Bhd has announced that it has formed a joint venture (JV) with an Indonesian firm, to produce concrete and mortar for construction works on the Bintan Island.
According to its announcement to Bursa Malaysia, Landmarks and its Indonesian partner, PT Ekasurya Mandiri, will be setting up a 51:49 JV entity, known as PT Pesona Lagoi Mandiri.
PT Pesona will be setting up a batching plant on Bintan Island, to supply concrete for the construction works related to Treasure Bay Bintan — a multi-billion ringgit resort destination, being developed by Landmarks.
In an interview with The Edge Financial Daily, which will be published on July 4, Landmarks' management had said that the initial phase of its Treasure Bay Bintan resort project will start operation over the next few months.
They also shared that more announcements will be made concerning tie-up and joint ventures with major resort/ hotel operators, for the first phase, that will have a gross development value of US$650 million.
Landmarks ended 2 sen or 1.82% higher today at RM1.12, with a market capitalisation of RM538.51 million.
China Stationeries Ltd (CSL) expects only a "temporary" suspension in the trading of its shares, for the period July 9 to 31, according to Chief Financial Officer, Chin Siew Weng.
Chin said that the temporary suspension could even be shorter, as the company was confident of submitting its FY13 audited accounts before July 31.
Speaking at a press briefing today, Chin said: "We are trying our best to talk to our auditor, to pass us the FY13 audited report soon."
He noted, however, that a suspension of the stock would still be inevitable, come July 9.
CSL has yet to submit its audited financial statements for the 2013 financial year, on the extended deadline of June 30, prompting Bursa to announce that failure to do so by July 8, would lead to a suspension in trading of CSL's shares on July 9.
According to Chin, CSL was not aware of Bursa's requirement that companies seeking an extension, had to apply two weeks before the submission due date.
CSL fell 1 sen or 11.76% today, to close at 7.5 sen, with a market capitalisation of RM92.46 million.
Pestech International Bhd is forming collaboration with Trax Llc, for business development, marketing, sales and project execution for power plant operator training simulator, engineering analysis and training solutions.
Under the agreement, Pestech will be the system integrator and value provider for Trax's power plant operator training simulator, engineering analysis and training solutions.
"The MOU will have no material effect on earnings, revenue and net assets per share of the group, for the financial year ending Dec 31, 2014, but is expected to contribute positively to the future earnings of the company," said Pestech.
Pestech rose 18 sen or 2.99% to end at RM6.20 today, with a market capitalisation of RM610.5 million.
The stock has gained over 60% since February, following the initiation coverage by Kenanga Investment Bank, which likes the firm's encouraging contract flow.
Pestech provides power system engineering and technical solutions for electric power assets.
Censof Holdings Bhd has proposed a free warrants issue, on the basis of one new warrant for every four existing ordinary shares of 10 sen each, to reward its existing shareholders.
The exercise price of the free warrants is fixed at 46 sen each, at a discount of 6.62% to the 5-day volume weighted average market price of Censof of 49.26 sen up to June 26, 2014. The entitlement date for the new warrants will be determined and announced later.
Censof rose 1 sen to close at 48.5 sen today, with a market capitalisation of RM199.5 million.
Ipmuda Bhd has been issued an unusual market activity (UMA) query by Bursa Malaysia, after its share price rose 33 sen or 30%, to hit limit up today.
At 5.00pm market close, the company closed at its intraday high of RM1.43, which gave it a market capitalisation of RM103.63 million.
In its response to Bursa's UMA query, the company said that it was not aware of any developments that could have contributed to the unusual activity in its stock.
Malaysian Airline System Bhd said that it is 'not aware' of any decision on the privatisation of the company, for the restructuring of the loss-making airline.
The announcement was made, in response to a foreign news report yesterday, entitled: "MAS may be taken private for restructuring".
However, the airline did state that such a decision is in the hands of MAS major shareholder and the government of Malaysia. But as of now, it is "not aware of any decision that has been made by both of them, on this matter".
MAS rose 2 sen or 9.52% to close at 23 sen, with a market capitalisation of RM3.84 billion.


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Avoid using public computers when accessing your personal data. There may be malware that takes your personal info.
Losing your child in a foreign place can be very stressful and you probably do not even want to think about it.
Be flexible when choosing your vacation destination. While planning is good, maintaining some variety in destinations makes your vacations more memorable and relaxing. You can even save money on a tight vacation budget.
Take clothespins when you on your trips. They can be a useful item when you go on a trip, and since they are small they take up hardly any room.
Check the websites of your airline to get the best price.Sometimes they have the discount travel websites.
Travel can be a great educational experience for your family. As long as you are careful, you should feel confident about visiting developing nations, and it can show your kids how life outside of your home country is.
Cash your traveler's checks before shopping or eating. Be safe and make sure you may see that you don't get shorted.
Use environmentally responsible services on your trip. A lot of hotels have a program for reusing linens, recycling bins, energy efficient lights, utilize alternative sources for energy, and feature plumbing with low flow. Tour companies, car rental companies, restaurants and many other travel service providers are also finding and implementing new ways to allow travelers to travel green.
You can also write on the mirror. You can do this because dry-erase markers and easily wipe off of mirrors with just a little bit of tissue paper.
Booking travel online is a one stop shop for your vacation planning. Travel websites can assist you plan your travel itinerary with minimal effort. You can book flights, rental cars, all from the comfort of your computer. You can even find photos and critiques of potential hotels on the Internet.
If you want to adjust faster to a different time zone, keep yourself awake until around 8pm or later in the new time zone in order to help you adjust. Though you may be exhausted, it's best to not go to bed early so you don't exacerbate jet lag.
Your dream vacation can go horribly wrong if not carefully planned. Check online for reviews from real customers who've already visited the Internet review sites to see what people have experienced at locations you are planning to visit. Their experience could help you avoid bad places.
Airports are typically filled to capacity; if the first plane is delayed there is a domino effect, so the delay of one plane causes the planes scheduled to depart thereafter to be delayed as well.The first flight in the morning is very limited reasons for a delay.
Try to get a hotel room that is on a high floor. You should also opt for a room without sliding doors.Rooms with sliding doors are much easier for thieves to break into.
Pack snacks if you will be traveling with kids. You might want to pack twice as much as you were originally thinking. This will maintain them happy and busy so that they don't cause a ton of issues when traveling. Even a little junk food won't hurt just this one time.
Be candid when you take out travel insurance. Tell the provider when you are sick. You can stuck with the bill to pay on your own.
A great travel tip for travelers is to always allow yourself sufficient time for hotel check-outs. Many hotels will charge high fees for not checkout by the specified time. Always allow plenty of time.
Long flights can certainly be taxing.You can avoid this by taking a flight that gets to your destination at the same time of morning you usually get up. ) and sleep during the way to your destination. You will feel refreshed and better prepared to deal with the day!
This can help provide insurance when it comes to lost luggage experiences. If one person's luggage is lost, at least some of their things can be found in another bag. Another way to guard against disaster is to have an outfit of clothes on you with your carry-on bag.
When traveling, even for business, there will be many food temptations. Rather than checking out the buffet, visit the complementary exercise facilities the hotel provides. This can keep you feeling great while on you are traveling.
Be sure to take everything with you during bus stops for maintenance or for a layover.
Keep in mind that you are not the only person staying in hotels. Be sure to keep the noise level down so you do not disturb your neighbors. Even mid-day, overcoming jet lag or feeling unwell. You do not need to overdo it, but everyone will appreciate it if you keep your noise to a minimum.
Label your cords when traveling. It can be difficult to track of multiple cords for your items like cell phone chargers and laptops. Label each with colors to make it easy. You can also wrote a list of which cords and colors that details each one.
Traveling isn't complicated. Research and packing may be a pain, but it'll help you have a good trip. Using these tips will help you travel smarter.


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i have a sweet tooth. and whenever i finish my meal, i need something sweet. or else i'll feel imperfect. and the highest consequences is that i will get paranoid. cupcakes so drive me crazy occasionally. i googled cupcakes. and i saw this. bisou. a shop of cupcakes, sinfully rich brownies, moist carrot cake and giant-size soft cookies. its plain paradise to me! i mean. cupcakes cupcakes and more cupcakes. dont it makes u crazy??! it works to me.. and for those clubbing kaki's what is nicer than having ur desert after sweating in the club? its definitely a place that you can enjoy, sit and talk.
imagine those cupcakes in a box with a happy birthday or i love you. argh it so nice! after seeing that, i thought that my birthday wish will be having the cupcakes in those box with happy birthday in it. something like this..
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1. Re: Fine Tuning Bladelogic Help requiredNeeran Karnik Apr 25, 2013 1:38 AM (in response to Tony Harding)
The recommended settings generally depend on the workload -- the types of jobs, their frequency of execution, how many target servers they run against, and how much time is available to complete them (i.e., your maintenance window). It would also be good to know if you're experiencing performance issues, on the GUI consoles for example, or jobs taking longer than you'd expect..
But even without this information, a couple of settings that could be tweaked:
- Looks like your max. work item threads is set to 5? That's too low. You can easily set it to 50, and possibly higher (100) if that helps performance. But that has to be in conjunction with...
- ... the max heap space allocated to the app server JVM. Given that you have 16GB of RAM on the machine, you could easily allocate 4GB to the JVM heap. I'm assuming that apart from the Bladelogic app server, there's no other app hosted on this machine.
2. Re: Fine Tuning Bladelogic Help requiredJim Wilson Jun 17, 2013 8:47 AM (in response to Tony Harding)
Hi Tony Harding
How is your tuning going?
Did this get resolved?
If so, please can you update the discussion thread with details so that is can be marked as answered.
In addition to Neeran Karnik comments, you should be
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With a brat like this always on your back
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Our previous post concerned Ranger's Jump School days and his transfer immediately thereafter to Jumpmaster school. He is not alone in this progression, but there is an online group, SOCNET.com, billing themselves "The Special Operations Community Network," which has been a thorn in Ranger's side from the start, and which questions the validity of this progression.
What once was a proud Band of Brothers has devolved with SOCNET into a Band of Brats.
Kirk -- leader of the Socnet.com hogsheads due to his more capable verbal skills -- has never seen fit to retract the baseless accusations made on their site against Ranger's credibility (nor has he bothered to file a Stolen Valor complaint, as that is what his band is alleging.) In addition, not one SOCNUT has accepted Ranger's offer to meet at the Ranger Training Brigade to verify my status.
All bark, no bite, the SOCNET dogs happily while away their days yipping and nipping at the heels of their chosen opponent, incapable are they of engaging in reasoned dialogue, the right to which they supposedly fought for.
They will attack, but they will not retract their errors. These brats are only interested in herd-like feeding frenzies devoid of reality-based considerations. They act out like children, vying for pats on the head by ringmaster Kirk. Their tabs and scrolls cannot cover their moral cowardice.
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SB: To illustrate your point, I had a conversation recently with a very senior mining industry executive who said that it's easier for him to go to his board and say "can we spend $2 billion or $3 billion dollars in Africa?" than it is to say "can we spend $2 billion or $ 3 billion in Australia?" I assume that you've had those sorts of conversations.
MH: I have. And I've also had many discussions with the financial markets offshore and only the other day, if I get the quote right, it was, you know, "what you guys doing down there? I'm seriously thinking about redirecting my investment." Now, you know, this is a major player.
AK: From Texas.
MH: Yeah. How was my accent – alright?
AK: Excellent.
MH: Thought I'd lighten it up a bit for you. But if you're a start-up, small or mid cap, you're trying to get project financing and it's very tough, very tough. People are not making the distinction between debt and equity. You can see the papers are all putting pressure back onto companies – saying, you know, is this really what you want to be doing?
AK: Do you get the feeling that this budget coming up in May could be a pivotal moment?
MH: I do.
AK: I mean, given the fact that Wayne Swan has promised a surplus, he's got a long way to go from where he is now in deficit terms for the surplus. This could be a big budget.
MH: Yeah. I think it is. I think it's quite pivotal and I think it's pivotal because it actually goes to a manifestation of what is a fundamental problem we have in the Australian economy. And that is that most of the circumstances we're facing are structural; they're not a normal economical business cycle. We're not at that sort of a…
RG: What do you mean they are structural?
MH: Well, what I mean is that the shift in the policy focus in Australia is more on redistribution than it is on building the pie. It's not about actual national capacity building. It's about how you carve it up. So we need to shift gears about focus on spreading the benefits of the boom: higher taxes, increased spending, increased regulation to actually tackle the issues that are fundamentally and structurally flawed in terms of where we're going in Australia.
The budget is in deficit. We've got a reinstitutionalisation of third party intervention into the workplace. Productivity is a structural problem. It shows no sign of waning. So too the infrastructure constraints, social and physical across Australia, they show no signs of cyclical abatement. The sort of emerging protection of some sectors – the idea that you know we've got to look after industries that are facing structural adjustment because of the changes in the global economy or that we've got to prop them up and we've got to assist them – and it's not even transitional assistance, it's actually just ongoing. This is what I mean about structural.
So, the budget is in structural deficit. I mean, with the $260 odd billion dollars that we've slipped into the economy over the sort of decade of the boom, there should be one per cent of GDP in surplus, not in massive debt, and we continue to get a belting from manufacturing and others because of the dollar. Well, have a look at what the dollar was doing in the first few years of the boom when up to 2007/2008 and the global financial crisis when the budget was in surplus and we didn't have a massive foreign debt. It was running at, what, eighty cents or something? The thing that's driving the dollar is not just that it's a commodities denominated currency, but it's that $250 odd billion dollars of sovereign debt, where 75 per cent is held in foreign securities, has a fair bit to do with pressure on the dollar. The fact that the economy has speed limits to growth. I mean it's a point that the Reserve Bank and others have made. If you lift the speed limits to growth in the economy as a whole, then you reduce the inflationary pressures on the basic factors of productivity, labour and capital.
AK: So, do you think the budget should be got back into surplus in this budget?
MH: I'm more inclined to there being a structural framework. You know, a systemic approach to addressing the structural problems rather than a small sort of token gesture of it being in surplus this time around. You know – and you've been talking to companies – you know that the markets and the companies are not going to be too particularly seduced by a small surplus on budget night. They're going to be looking at what is the long-term and medium-term fiscal strategy of getting the budget back into fiscal repair. And they're not going to be particularly enamoured with any prospect that we're going to tax our most productive wealth generating industries to the point where they are seriously disinclined to invest.
RG: If on budget night we see a series of major taxes in the mining area along the lines you talked about or some of them, do you think we'll see a large number of projects pulled out of Australia?
MH: Yes, I do. People said to us through the super profits tax oh you're just gaming it, you know, 'oh, I think with hindsight and with the benefit of the Freedom of Information documents from Treasury, throughout that entire campaign'. And nobody has yet come up with something that we said that wasn't accurate in terms of the figures. We were told we weren't paying our way. We were told that our effective tax rate was very low. I think they used an undergraduate study from a university in the United States rather than their own ATO data.
The facts show quite clearly that our effective tax rate through that period was somewhere in the order of forty-two per cent. It was north of forty per cent. When you put in royalties as well, the massive, massive amount of tax we're paying – and it showed quite clearly the rate of growth that as the industry profited – so too did the coffers of governments in terms of royalties and company taxes paid. So, the deliberate misrepresentation of the industry's contribution held up, so too did our arguments about the potential risk to projects on the destruction of their present value and through that debate. As you will recall, a number of companies came out and said these are the projects that are at risk. Now, it's very difficult for companies to come out and put on the table – and you guys know better than I do about the disclosure laws – what they have and can't and can say, but people in my position can say quite honestly, without obviously naming projects, that I am well aware of the exposure and the vulnerability for many of our projects particularly those that are operating in the third quartile of the cost curve.
SB: You've started a new ad campaign. I assume it's partly in response to some of the issues you've already referred to, but there's also however this kind of growing, community wide anti-mining sentiment and we see I suppose most graphically in the CSG discussions and the Greens opposing the CSG industry. Are you concerned about that? I mean, is that sort of anti-mining sentiment a threat to the industry?
MH: Yeah. There are two sources to it. The first is in demonising the industry as being the root cause of a lot of the structural adjustment pressures on other parts of the economy. If we were back in the '70s, the last time we had a commodities boom, where just about every aspect of economic policy was under the control of government, you know, we had a fixed exchange rate. We had a controlled labour market. We had tariffs and subsidies protecting industries. Agricultural marketing arrangements were all under the collective. Governments owned energy and water utilities, ports, railways, airlines. We all had defined super benefits.
That was a rigid economy protected, not going anywhere and that boom ended in tears, double digit inflation, unemployment and interest rates. Fast forward thirty years, to two-and-a-half decades of remarkable reforms that have opened up the economy. It's meant that the benefits of this boom have been able to flow through the community far more than they did previously. It's not just our view. It's the view of the Reserve Bank and a whole stack of other commentators. But if you're sitting having your latte or your chardonnay or whatever it is downtown in Sydney, it's a bit hard to see it. Opportunity costs are not something you can touch and feel and kick and sometimes people actually don't realise what they've got until it's gone. And so the benefits of the mining boom flowing through the economy on a whole are quite palpable.
And some two-thirds of the increase in the national revenue from the hundred-and-fifty-year high terms of trade is running through the economy as a whole. Of the other third, about 98 per cent of that has been reinvested back into the economy. But then you have a treasurer who says or deliberately misconstructs the argument about how much tax we're paying as a share of profits and just gets it wrong. It's a silly argument anyway that we're not paying as much tax as we could because we've got deductions on investments. Well, I mean investments today are the taxes of tomorrow, so that's a pretty dumb argument to be running, but even the fact is he's just got it wrong. Our share of all company taxes is running at about 25 per cent. And our share of profits, or taxable income, is about 20 per cent.
So, we're in fact paying more tax and when you put it as a percentage of GDP, we're only about 8 per cent of GDP and yet our tax rates are about 23, 24 per cent of all taxable income for companies and that's without including royalties. So the point I'm trying to make is that of course the community sentiment is going to be pitched that way when people keep continually harping on. Even the Secretary of Treasury said that the benefits of the mining boom were solely being distributed to foreign shareholders. I mean, I don't actually understand how anybody could make that kind of a statement.
The second part of your question is the tensions on land use and there's no question that ten years ago – and even longer than that, but certainly as recently as ten years ago, the mining industry was perceived as the neighbour from hell. It got its act together. It understood what environmental and social stewardship is actually all about. It understood what a commitment to sustainable development is all about and it's working through that process.
There is a distinction between the industries: the new entrants, coal seam gas and those that have been in the business a long time. The coal seam gas guys, we don't represent them, but they'll work their own way through that equation. But there's no question that the tensions over land use have transcended the conservation estate and they're now with the farmers. And being an old farmer, I understand those tensions and I understand the sheer power and importance of engagement, of listening and learning, not pontification. Facts are not your advance case, engagement is.
AK: Thanks very much, Mitch.
MH: You're welcome.
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