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September 4, 2012
Test your vocabulary
91 comments:
Italy higher than Switzerland in English vocabulary?
It seems half the people in Switzerland speak good English.
I didn't notice that in Italy.
Every time I bought a train ticket the person spoke English well. They didn't in Italy. - 9/4/12, 8:36 PM
Perhaps SAT-V, controlling for vocab size, is an even better proxy for IQ? Since vocab is mainly crystallized intelligence, and vocab contributes positively, both directly and indirectly, to a good SAT-V performance, a high score despite relatively limited vocabulary is a sign of high fluid intelligence.
At least that's the story I'm sticking to =) ... 710 verbal / 800 math / 23K estimated vocabulary in late 20s. - 9/4/12, 8:52 PM
720 verbal before SAT renorming; 39,200 vocab score. I'm in my mid-40s.
They didn't adjust the SAT scores--which they really could have done, since they collected age. So the average of 700 is incorrect. It's higher than that.
I've taken it two or three times; the difficult words that show up on the first group seem to have a big impact. One time, I didn't know two of the words and got 40,500. Another time, I did know all the words on that first page, and my score was 41,300. Has anyone tried the theoretical max, by selecting all the words? - 9/4/12, 8:58 PM
- Luke Lea said...
I got 39,900 which is not bad considering I only got a 615 on my verbal SAT. I didn't read back then.
GRE* verbal of 730. Vocab score of 41,400.
*Frankly, I don't remember my SAT score; what is the SAT verbal equivalent of a 730 GRE verbal?
Syon - 9/4/12, 9:09 PM
"It seems half the people in Switzerland speak good English. "
In his book Who Are We? while warning of the perils of a bilingual society, Samuel Huntington noted that Switzerland's 4 language populations were so averse to learning or at least having to use the other's language that if two Swiss of different ethnicities were conversing, they would often just communicate in English rather than one switching to German or the other switching to French, etc.
Anybody here who can verify Huntington's statement? - 9/4/12, 9:27 PM
37,900 words.
Which correlates w/my 750 verbal SAT (pre norming).
I think it is interesting the question about how much fiction do you read.
I don't read much anymore, haven't for years, but I think that is where one acquires/exercises a lot of uptown words. I think were I reading more fiction in recent years, or even decades, my score would be higher.
But in recent years/decades, I've been working on some foreign languages, and speaking them around the house, and I"m not sure that can start depressing your English vocab - there were definitely more than a couple of the words on the list that I thought, geez, I used to know that, like tenebrous, but I kept it honest.
It is statistically unlikely, is it not, that so many people on this site would have vocabularies in excess of 35,000, much less 40,000?
Obviously, I'm suggesting as at least possible that all the commenters are not, er, being truthful. And of course, also obviously, anyone could suggest the same about me (except my GRE score is a matter of public record and Steve Sailer knows my name, unless he's forgotten).
Another of course: Sailer commenters might be stratospherically more vocabularied than a population with an average verbal SAT score of 700.
Or perhaps the average 700 SAT verbal scorer is nearly illiterate in comparison of the commenters here?
Final of course to consider--while I'm a math teacher, I'm much stronger at verbal, so maybe this isn't as statistically unlikely as it seems. - 9/4/12, 9:40 PM
off topic -- look at this: http://statsquatch.blogspot.com/2012/09/mald-function.html
holy crap! that's a 6.5 on the HBD seismic scale.
it might be possible to impute the overall linear regression from the data they present and get an estimate of the between group heritability of SES. - 9/4/12, 9:50 PM
- AKarlin said...
33,700. 24 y/o. 720 on the SAT-V.
Maybe the Turkish immigrants are bringing the numbers down in Germany? East Germans are probably depressing the numbers as well - the older generation does not know English. My impression is that anyone in Germany who should speak English (businessmen, scientists, anyone in the tourist industry) speaks English pretty well. German has been infected by so many English words I sometimes wonder if German will even survive into the 22nd century.
800v SAT and 800v GRE, got a 38k
40,800 words, Verbal SAT 750 but Verbal GRE 800 (took those tests in 1978/1982)
I think that a test like this lends itself to inflation in the grey areas. The temptation to click on words that one recognizes, and has some sense of, but cannot define exactly, is immense. The sort of people who comment on IQ-centric blogs probably do a bit more of this than the average person would. I decided to err on the side of extreme scrupulousness and got a 33,2.
The Dutch are a lot more open to foreigners and foreign languages than the Germans. I once dated a chick who's family lived about a half mile from the Dutch border. The Dutch would have signs in English everywhere as well as German. There were even some signs in Dutch. The Germans had none of that. As soon as you crossed the border, you could have been anywhere in Germany. The wierd thing about Europeans is that they do not move around much. They either emmigrate or stay in whatever little stadt they were born in. In general, Europeans are very good at detecting minor variations in accents and they can often quickly pin down where the auslander is from.
people need to post their ages with their scores
"Every time I bought a train ticket the person spoke English well. They didn't in Italy."
Only the highly educated in Italy read enough English to bother with the test, while the Swiss sales person might give it a go?
I do agree that some of the reason Scandinavia and the low Countries score so well, has to do with anglo saxons, Vikings, Danes etc, but I suspect low German from the 1300-1700 century is the underreported influence in English.
Except Icelandic, the Scandinavian languages was very influenced by low German during this period, and at the same time English also changed a lot.
An additional explanation as to why Germany and France score so low, is that the north most of these nations, have been forced to learn High German and French, rather than keeping their old dialect, that was more similar to English.
There used to be a dialect continuum in the Germanic nations, in that everybody could speak and understand those who lived near to them.
This is still the case in Scandinavia, but has broken down on the Danish-German border, and are breaking down on the Dutch-German border. The Dutch and the Flemings can understand each other again. As for the German speakers in France, they have mostly lost their language a long time ago.
By the way, I scored 23.300.
- Aaron B. said...
35,800, 43 years old, no SAT, 32 ACT back when it went to 35.
I'd like to see a test like this with multiple choice answers. There were quite a few words that I recognized and thought I'd probably know if I read them in context or could pick the meaning from a group, but just seeing it cold in a list, I couldn't define it for sure. So just how strictly you applied "know one definition" could make a pretty big swing in your score.
For what it's worth, I don't think my vocabulary is expanding much these days. I doubt I run across many new words that I never encountered in my younger days when I had a lot more time to read. At best, I might see a word in a different context that gives me a better understanding of it or makes it sink into memory better. I doubt it's anywhere near one a day, though; maybe one a month. - 9/4/12, 11:22 PM
"The Germans had none of that. As soon as you crossed the border, you could have been anywhere in Germany."
That is anything but accidental, as the High Germans have worked hard to get the Low Germans in Germany to loose their local identity and have them think of themselves as Germans. It is the same with the Germans in France.
"The wierd thing about Europeans is that they do not move around much. They either emmigrate or stay in whatever little stadt they were born in."
It is completely natural to want to stay near your parents and family once you get children.IIRC, the average grandparent in Norway babysits grandchildren 10 hours per week.
To take the opportunity away for grandparents and grandchildren to spend time together is borderline evil unless something else is gained, but to create a society where you are expected to move long away from your parents, is outright evil.
- Aaron B. said...
I took it again, marking every word that I was sure I'd seen before and thought I would know if I read it in a sentence, and my score jumped up to 39,100. Pretty big swing, as I figured.
- Mr X said...
28,700. But I'm not a native. No SAT, but GRE Verbal was in the 94% percentile. A lot of words I knew vaguely the meaning but couldn't be sure. Others I had no freaking idea. Interesting...
36K. Disappointing relative to verbal SAT. But I'm out of country for large stretches. Both physically and psychologically.
So what happens at about 45 when the vocabulary size levels off until the final exit?
Does the mind lose memory or the ability to learn new words? Is it like a leaking cup continually being filled or is the cup simply full?
I'd like to think that people just lose interest in verbal thinking and move on to better things.
- ogunsiron said...
28900 words here.
I'm a non-native english speaker and I took my SATs a long time ago.
I could sense that I was relatively weak when it came to the purely anglo-saxon words.
I should read some Tolkien!
- ogunsiron said...
About Switzerland :
"...that if two Swiss of different ethnicities were conversing, they would often just communicate in English rather than one switching to German or the other switching to French, etc ..."
From my experiences, the German Swiss are much, much more likely to know french than vice-versa, even though the french are the junior partner in Switzerland. French speaking Swiss feel nothing but conptempt for the swiss deutsch dialect and they don't much like regular german either.
- Ray Sawhill said...
FWIW, during a recent trip to Berlin (my first) I was surprised by how few people there spoke good English. I was expecting a city where English was everyone's second language. The reality was very different. (Loved Berlin, btw -- very cool city.)
Some perfectly cromulent words!
Age 33, score of 31200, post-normed SAT score 700+ (which puts me about 3000 words above the 700 SAT verbal average for my age). I kept it honest, too. There were quite a few words that I would probably get from context and were familiar but I could not put my finger on. I read a lot of fiction in my youth, now read almost exclusively non-fiction (blogs, books, forums).
I don't make any effort to improve my vocabulary other than read an occasional word I don't know the meaning of. But I tend not to encounter new words in what I read on a daily basis, so my vocabulary works for me. If I study a new discipline, I learn the vocab that goes along with that.
It seems like vocab would be a very easy area to bump up your IQ or SAT score in, without having much real world effect past a certain point. If other writers in fields you are interested in aren't using $20 words, there aren't concepts going over your head. And unless you are playing scrabble, using words that most people don't understand won't help you in life.
IMHO, raising your vocab is raising your vocab, not raising your IQ. Someone with a high IQ will tend to be a bookworm and so will absorb a good vocab from that. If they become comparative literature majors or have a hobby that involves reading literature with $20 words, they will have a large vocabulary. However someone equally intelligent might exercise their intelligence learning a new programming or foreign language, which may not increase their score in a vocabulary test like this, for example.
It seems like in this age of google, those with high fluid intelligence are especially enabled. Google acts as a superior store of easily accessible knowledge, and the high fluid IQ person can just learn what they wish, when they wish (dumping their cache after the job is done). - 9/5/12, 12:34 AM
I agree that reading makes a big difference. (I'm the anon from 8:56.) My SAT verbal score was good but not stratospheric, but I know I've added a lot of vocab in the almost three decades since I took the test. I'm a life-long, voracious reader of both fiction and non-fiction, with eclectic interests in both. And I do often check meanings of words I don't know. I'm 46 now, and I think I'm still adding words pretty steadily.
28,000. I'm not a native English-speaker.
23,600, 50 y/o, Dutch, academic background. According to the website, anything above 10,000 should be considered very good for a non-native speaker. It does seem that the readership of the blog scores well above the general population. Even the scores on that website are probably inflated due to self-selection.
Here is another table which more or less confirms my own impressions:
http://www.ef.nl/epi/ef-epi-ranking/ - 9/5/12, 1:40 AM
30,300. I'm 23.
What interests me more, for obvious reasons, is what you can reasonably expect from people of differing ages. If increases in vocabulary with age are real, then I'd really like to see how people of the same age compare to each other, and whether or not it relates to IQ. - 9/5/12, 1:44 AM
"At the top of the list, not surprisingly, are Danes, Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Belgium."
In Scandinavia, American and English tv programs/movies are subtitled (on television and in the movie theaters), while in Germany tv shows are dubbed into German (not sure about the movies). This probably helps. - 9/5/12, 1:47 AM
LOL some people are obv not following instructions to only check words they can define. No guessing or "I think I know it." I know this because i had a 800 on both the SAT and GRE without study (I did study, just for the math parts). I also have post graduate education and have spent 10 hours a day reading most of my life, including a lot of ornate writers who use the sorts of words on this test. I also write for part of my living towards an educated audience.
I was scrupulous with the directions and got 35000. - 9/5/12, 1:53 AM
700 verbal SAT
42 years old
They should have asked peoples' races. I bet if they did, they would make the surprising discovery that blacks actually have better vocabularies than whites. Just like blacks are more likely to engage in acts of heroism than whites.
I scored well on the SAT verbal - but can't hold a candle to Mr Sailer. - 9/5/12, 2:42 AM
35 years of age. 31,500 with checking the definitions of words I thought I knew but after reading the definition decided I didn't and thus not counting them. (Eg I had a feeling "mawkish" meant something like "timid" but it turns out it doesn't.) I went back and added the words I knew I'd definitely seen and had even once known but forgotten and my score only went up to 35,000, which felt a bit disappointing.
Tom Wolfe had a bit of fun with people's trouble producing definitions for words they think they know in "I Am Charlotte Simmons." Reading that really spurred to me start looking up definitions and occasionally attempting to provide definitions for words on my own. I wonder what the scores would look like if we all had to provide something close to a dictionary definition for the words we claim to know.
Every time I bought a train ticket the person spoke English well. They didn't in Italy.
At the Frankfurt airport baggage storage counter (where you can store your baggage if you have long hours to wait for your flight and don't want to lug it around with you) the black attendant was speaking what seemed like fluent enough French to the lady in front of me, and then spoke fluent enough English to me. I thought to myself wow, that's pretty cool, three languages and all important ones. (That was in 2004. Nowadays I'd add: and he's black too, bonus cool points.)
In Zurich one of the staff explained a delay and change in route to us in English, French and German. I overheard an elderly Spanish woman asking in Spanish whether the staff member could repeat that in Spanish and I thought to myself "yeah right, as if" but to my amazement the staff member could. Pretty cool.
56 year old, French native, some college (in France). First time I tested: 40,900 words. I couldn't believe it.
I tested myself a second time, more strictly: for instance, I only have a vague idea of what the word "fuliginous" means. There's a French word, fuligineux, but I never use it either, and I always forget what it means. The new result was: 39,500 words.
Being a native French speaker and having studied Latin helps a lot with understanding rare English words such as uxoricide, actually.
Besides, I'm a language geek: artificial languages are one of my hobbies. My interest in languages and my more specific interest in the American culture may explain my inflated English vocabulary (for a non-native). - 9/5/12, 2:51 AM
28,600 on the vocab test, I´m a Finn in my early forties. English is my third language. Not college educated but have read a lot.
Parts of Belgium can receive BBC TV and radio broadcasts. That probably helps.
They also print English vocabulary sizes for non-native speakers of English by country. At the top of the list, not surprisingly, are Danes, Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Belgium.
Fess up, you weren't expecting to see Croatia in sixth spot.
I don't have an SAT or ACT or GRE score, but I scored 48 on Charles Murray's "Coming Apart" test, and that's without watching TV or movies. (I like sport though. I knew who Jimmie Johnson was. Matter of fact, I knew who Jimmy Johnson was too, which isn't bad for an Australian.)
- Jeff Burton said...
Thank God you've presented us with another opportunity to post our SAT scores. It's been at least two weeks.
It's either a very stupid vocabulary test or a very clever test of self-deception.
When i read someone like Conrad banging on about 'tenebrous boughs' and 'pellucid shallows'; I think: 'well that's just Conrad being Conrad. I get general idea, now what happens next?'
Gilbert Pinfold.
Honest American prole here: 22,600 words, 25 years old. I never took the SAT.
Sometimes I feel like I'm among the dumbest readers here at iSteve, but hey, at least I'm trying.
"If there is hope, it lies in the proles." - 9/5/12, 5:05 AM
The really impressive ones to me is the Finns, as they don't even speak an Indo-European language, and still score so high.
That the Finns score so high, is thus proof that English proficiency is to a large part a political choice, even though it is not unexpected that you find the ones speaking the closest related languages to English on top.
That they are small nations, and thus forced to learn German,English or French in order to have access to specialized information or to be able to trade, have probably also helped a lot.
It also seems to me that the top nations in English, are also those that feel the least threatened from the English dominance.
You for instance don't hear Norwegian academics talk about Norwegian going extinct in the future, like the Germans are talking about how German are now going extinct because of all the English loanwords.
Enough of the Germans and the French are scared if their population should start to speak English too well, as they think it would make everybody start speaking English rather than German or French, or in a milder version, that only most of the vocabulary would change.
From experience, the opposite seems to be true, as when only the cultural elite speak a language like English, humans will start to use English loanwords as a way to signify high status.
When even the dishwasher knows English, using an English word where a native one exists, becomes rather childish and low class.
What seems to kill a language in the end, and not only change it a bit, is when the government no longer use the local language to do daily business, but use the foreign language of the elite. As long as this fate is avoided, the native language isn't really threatened at all. - 9/5/12, 5:09 AM
Yes, this recent batch of scores seems much more realistic!
On the GRE: Has anyone who took the computer-based GRE gotten an 800?
The reason I ask: only 2% of the population gets higher than 700 on the verbal section, which has been true for years.
However, the computer-based version escalates in difficulty. By 4 or 5 questions on the math section, your score is above 600. That's 60% of the population elimated. The remaining questions are left to sort out 600 to 800. (This is a simplification of the process, but close enough). 4% of the GRE population gets an 800 on the quant.
In verbal, the same 4 or 5 questions eliminates 90 or more percent of the population. The next two questions get rid of 98% of the population, meaning that those in the top 2% are getting the bulk of the test sorting out differences that are picayune.
Since the GRE has never been terribly important except in broad form (can the applicant read, write, and add), it's quite possible that no one has ever gotten an 800 since the computer version. It's certainly very rare.
I got a 790 the first time I took it, and I remember one word I wasn't sure of. The second time I took it, I aced the vocabulary but was completely distracted because I was worried about my math score (needlessly, I was obsessing about the experimental section) and noticed one or two insanely, ridiculously difficult reading questions. The distinction between the answers was pointless. Unlike the first time I took it, I wasn't worried about verbal, so instead of figuring out the differences, I clicked, irritatedly, on the most likely answer. Second time, I got a 780.
Had I taken a paper version, I'd have gotten an 800. It is simply not possible for the paper-based test to put so many high difficulty words and questions in a test that is crafted for everyone. In fact, on a paper version I almost certainly would have gotten every single question right. I've taken any number of old GREs--real ones--and had exactly that happen.
So I'm curious to know exactly how many people ever got an 800 on the CAT version of the GRE. Regardless, the ETS, until a year ago, offered a really weak test that cost a lot of money. Someone should have called them on it. - 9/5/12, 6:56 AM
The cousin of my German ex-girlfriend once told me a story about how he once watched a Swiss television program. The lower German accent of the Swiss was so unrecognizable they had to dub the program so the German audience could understand it. He was still laughing out loud years afterwards.
Its annoying that all of you old dudes got high scores. Shouldn't your brains have shrunk by now or something?
I remember a Danish* panhandler on the streets of Copenhagen who spoke pitch-perfect English. He refused the small quantity of change I offered him ("Don't embarrass me"), then told me that Denmark was a very safe country and wished me a pleasant stay. Some people would tout this as another example of wonderful Scandinavian "progress", but I thought there was something seriously off about a country where the panhandlers are better educated than most countries' politicians.
From what I heard when I was there, Scandinavian countries mostly emphasized German as a foreign language before World War II. Afterward, they switched to pushing English. I guess you can't fault those Nordics for sensing which way the winds were blowing.
*He was obviously Danish by upbringing and had Danish as his first language, but judging from his looks, I suspect he may have been of Middle Eastern descent. - 9/5/12, 7:52 AM
38,000 words at 22. Not bad. I took the ACT instead of the SAT but the conversion charts put my equivalent verbal score at 750. Scored 94th percentile GRE verbal recently; studying for that is probably part of the reason I knew a few of these words :)
30,500 for words I could easily define on paper; 35,000 if including fairly familiar words I'd grok in context. Reading Gene Wolfe with a dictionary (is there any other way?) accounts for a fair chunk.
760/760 on the pre-essay SAT, late 20s, nonnative speaker. - 9/5/12, 8:11 AM
Wow, this place is making me feel stupid.
28 years old, male, 760 SAT Verbal
25,100 words. - 9/5/12, 8:25 AM
So what happens at about 45 when the vocabulary size levels off until the final exit?
Does the mind lose memory or the ability to learn new words? Is it like a leaking cup continually being filled or is the cup simply full? I'd like to think that people just lose interest in verbal thinking and move on to better things.
At the age of 45, most people are more interested in career, money, power, family, society, and even hobbies, than in learning new words or other instances of pure intellectual curiosity. For "normal" people, intellectual curiosity peaks at age 6, declines in puberty, makes a comeback and peaks again at 21. Then it dies off usually for good; though some people rediscover it in retirement. - 9/5/12, 10:38 AM
I was very honest and I got consistent scores, well below what my SATs would have predicted. I blame it on the booze, TV, and all those shitty Scifi/fantasy authors. I'm mildly tempted to google vocabulary improvement web-sites.
Speaking of consistent scores, it is interesting to see what words recur (certainly noticed many of the ones that I don't know)
Also, I wonder if they throw in made up words to try to catch people cheating. - 9/5/12, 10:53 AM
- Ali said...
35,300 and I'm 32.
- Bobcat said...
35,500 words, 660 SAT verbal (took the SAT in 1993; I think that was before it was normed), 36 years old.
rack would be the correct verb here. in the context of this particular sentence, rack indicates stacking up or accumulating. wrack would imply damaging or hurting.
"I racked up big gains on that AAPL buy."
"I got wracked up when I crashed my bike." - 9/5/12, 11:50 AM
25yrs. 800 GRE. 44300 words
(I sent this to Steve) - 9/5/12, 11:58 AM
I did this twice. The first time checking any words I was pretty sure I knew; the second checking only words that I absolutely knew. I looked up the meanings of all questionable words afterwards in Wiktionary. There were 16 words I was unsure of. Of these I was pretty confident I knew 4 and I was right about 3 of these. My scores were 44,500 and 39,900. A friend who is a lot smarter than I am got a score of 31,900. He's more of a math guy so that may explain things. I've also noticed that tests like these do not seem to be very good at ranking people in the extreme tails.
I'm 65 now. I can't remember my SATs at all But I got an 857 in the verbal GRE (I remember the precise score because my friends and I all thought it was a misprint. It was certainly somewhat of a "black swan".) and a high 700s in the math GRE. My scores on the GRE math achievement and the GRE sociology achievement put me at the 95th percentile in each. At least at test taking I'm no intellectual slouch. - 9/5/12, 12:48 PM
- pat said...
English is not a normal language. It is in a sense a double language. In 1066 the French speakers defeated the natives who spoke a germanic language. Most Western European languages have about 30,000 words. This size vocabulary seems to be the about the maximum size that a 100 average IQ population can handle.
So proper English useage seems to be in decline. English seems to be shrinking as it has for the last thousand years.
Albertosaurus - 9/5/12, 12:53 PM
80,000 words. Nah, just kidding.
33,200; 44 years old; 600 verbal sat (in 1984 or 1985, can't remember which).
By the way, all these people that report two scores - one for words you absolutely could define and one counting words you think you could define if given multiple choice or in context - irritate me: the instructions were quite clear to count words you absolutely could define. - 9/5/12, 2:04 PM
29 680-700 verbal, 26300 words.
I remember seeing that wordum was only moderately well correlated with IQ. And my assumption would be that reading is the primary determinant there, with smarter individuals on average reading more than dumber individuals. - 9/5/12, 2:23 PM
55 y/o
780 Verbal GRE (when I was 30 or so, it was the top 2 %) ... today 34,900 words at 53. Regression is not fun.
Mitch said,
"Obviously, I'm suggesting as at least possible that all the commenters are not, er, being truthful. And of course, also obviously, anyone could suggest the same about me (except my GRE score is a matter of public record and Steve Sailer knows my name, unless he's forgotten).
Another of course: Sailer commenters might be stratospherically more vocabularied than a population with an average verbal SAT score of 700."
I would go with the latter theory.
My LSAT and GRE scores are almost off the charts placing me in fairly rarefied company.
There are a lot of smart people who read Steve and post here.
I have been visiting for about 3 years off and on and have been overall impressed with many (not all) of the commenters including those who often post anonymously.
I think smart people, in particular, are probably curious by nature.
I have found low intelligent people are usually not curious. because investigating and thinking about things requires too much effort (and their results from these activities are not proportionate to their efforts).
It is natural for highly intelligent people to be curious about HBD and other taboo topics that Steve usually handles with humor, aplomb, and insight. - 9/5/12, 3:32 PM
57 y/o
790 verbal SAT
38,2000 score on test
Pitiful. - 9/5/12, 3:57 PM
- Aaron B. said...
A mildly off-topic question that I'm sure several commenters here can answer: is there a free/cheap but reasonably accurate IQ test that you can give at home, especially to kids?
The problem for most people is not vocabulary but diction--recall of right words at the right moment.
We know a lot of words, but the right words don't pop into our heads when we need them. THAT is the problem. - 9/5/12, 6:07 PM
32 y/o. High school grad. Never took the SAT.
- TGGP said...
I'm surprised that Japan, which is notorious for its aversion to learning other languages (kind of like Americans!), scored higher than former British colony Hong Kong.
Test is flawed. A word that is not encountered several times in the lifetime of a fluent and relatively non-boring native speaker is not a part of the language. Such a word is, at best, a specimen of far-flung imperial dialect, or a foreign borrowing that some interest group foisted into print a few times, thereby fooling the drudges who write dictionaries. In my opinion, 30 to 35 thousand words is the limit on a genuine non-eccentric human language at any given point in time.
Anonymous:'I'm 65 now. I can't remember my SATs at all But I got an 857 in the verbal GRE (I remember the precise score because my friends and I all thought it was a misprint. It was certainly somewhat of a "black swan".)"
When did the GRE verbal allow for scoring over 800?
Syon - 9/5/12, 8:07 PM
Hey Mitch, I am impelled to write as a regular readers of Sailer's from Australia who scored 36, 200 without cheating.
I don't doubt that many who read and respond have high scores- independent thinkers do tend to be on the RH tail of the bell curve.
To discuss HBD does unfortunately require independent thought. Marina - 9/5/12, 9:09 PM
Hey Mitch, I am impelled to write as a regular readers of Sailer's from Australia who scored 36, 200 without cheating.
I don't doubt that many who read and respond have high scores- independent thinkers do tend to be on the RH tail of the bell curve.
To discuss HBD does unfortunately require independent thought. Marina - 9/5/12, 9:16 PM
Although one should be strongly suspicious of self-serving explanations, I do think that iSteve readers really are a very smart bunch.
Delving into the ideas here is really a lot like espousing atheism during the Great Age of Faith, in terms of the negative social consequences.
This site weeds out all the people who don't really want to reason, and would rather engage in tribal status-raising. It asks you to examine evidence and reason from it.
If you look at the comment sections of any "high-IQ" media website, i.e. The Economist, Slate, The Atlantic, etc., it's no comparison. The iSteve comments are way sharper. Marginal Revolution is in the same league. These are the only two comments sections that I bother to read.
I have a bunch of friends who did well at the #1 college, #1 med school, #1 law school (per US News), Wall Street, etc. I would put iSteve commenters at their level.
I had an 800 v-SAT (pre-recentering), and scored 39,600 with the correct "scrupulously honest" method. I am a professor and spend all my time reading.
My vocabulary is acquired entirely from reading, not from vocab study. What really impresses me about Updike, WFB, etc., is their use of many words I've never seen anywhere. With most other "highbrow" writers, I can get through the whole book without any unknown words.
So: where is it that "super-vocabs" like WFB and Updike learn their super-words from? Obviously, it's not from reading the books that I read, or the same words would show up there. But they don't. They must read a better class of book.
Honest American Prole, statistics say you probably have a higher household income, more/better children, and a better-looking wife than many of us high-GRE types, so don't be downcast. - 9/5/12, 9:31 PM
- elliot gould said...
I don't believe steve scored higher than kylie
The scores came down to a more reasonable level after I posted my first comment. At the time I posted, every score but one was higher than 39,000. I'm certainly prepared to believe that iSteve commenters are in the 30K+. It just seemed at the time that everyone was going to chime in with 40000+ scores, which seemed a tad unlikely.
Incidentally, I think iSteve posters are as smart as any, but no more intelligent than the ones at the Atlantic, Mother Jones, Slate, Gene Expression, any other online webzine designed to appeal to smart folks. Let's not get too cocky. - 9/5/12, 10:17 PM
- Steve Sailer said...
Took it again, got 40,300. Mostly the same words, though. Didn't give myself credit for any I'd looked up while taking the first test. Seems like a pretty good test. It's not that easy to test out in the right hand side of the bell curve.
I wouldn't use a lot of these words, such as "tenebrous," except in, say, a Nabokov parody.
I took it again, and got about the same score also, i.e. about 39k. I'm the 720-SAT 46-year-old.
One other note on reading as a vocab builder: I mentioned above that I've always been a high-volume leisure reader, reading both fiction and non-fiction in about equal measure, and on widely-varying topics.
But I neglected to mention that, like anon at 9:31, I also spend my working days reading or editing academic material almost non-stop; I'm an instructional designer working on university course materials. This has helped me acquire technical vocabulary from many fields I ordinarily wouldn't get into, at least not at any great depth.
And with regard to the level of comments here: I sometimes read comments at Slate and The Atlantic, and I'd be embarrassed if I were compared to the former; I find Slate's comments section dull and partisan, barely above the level of Salon's comments. The Atlantic does get some good commenters, but their threads are often so long they're impossible to read. I do think they're at a level comparable to comments here, at least sometimes, although there's more here that demonstrate independent thinking.
Which publication has the most disappointing comments section (although, not really, I guess, if you think about it)? The Chronicle of Higher Ed, of course. Gosh, there are some humorless drones infesting the threads there . . . . - 9/5/12, 10:58 PM
"The cousin of my German ex-girlfriend once told me a story about how he once watched a Swiss television program. The lower German accent of the Swiss was so unrecognizable they had to dub the program so the German audience could understand it."
Swiss German is certainly difficult for non-Swiss to understand. Most Swiss Germans can, however, switch to Hochdeutsch (High German) when required. - 9/5/12, 11:04 PM
"Honest American prole here: 22,600 words, 25 years old. I never took the SAT.
Sometimes I feel like I'm among the dumbest readers here at iSteve, but hey, at least I'm trying."
I feel like that most of the time, except when a hot-button topic causes the lefty trolls to amass here. - 9/6/12, 12:40 AM
35,500. Scrupulous about scoring.
53 years old. I took the SAT in 1974 and got 730 verbal. - 9/6/12, 5:05 AM
Seems like a pretty good test. It's not that easy to test out in the right hand side of the bell curve.
I agree, and it's particularly hard in verbal.
I find Slate's comments section dull and partisan, barely above the level of Salon's comments.
Partisan != stupid, or even less intelligent than skeptic. That's something skeptics always find hard to accept. (I certainly do, anyway).
I don't think an IQ test of readership would reveal any great discrepancies between the readerships of these various magazines.
One of my blog entries got picked up by Word Press for their front page, and I got a substantial (for me) number of comments. COnsider that every blogger on word press has some minimal technology skills, and the desire to express him or herself verbally, so almost everyone commenting was certainly above average IQ. It was still like reading the comments on a USA Today article. - 9/6/12, 5:47 AM
Steve, I can't help wondering how someone could rack up 40,000 on this test and yet wrack his brains...
Gilbert P. - 9/6/12, 6:11 AM
- Truth said...
"I feel like that most of the time, except when a hot-button topic causes the lefty trolls to amass here."
Yeah those are the worst.
"Steve, I can't help wondering how someone could rack up 40,000 on this test and yet wrack his brains..."
Steve-O, he got you.
Took test twice. Results were 34,100 and 34,900.
35 years old. Bilingual (English and German), but grew up in US. SAT-V 720 taken in 1994 (pre-recentering).
In my 20s I worked in Germany and would astound my co-workers because I almost always knew the English equivalent of any German word they could think of. They'd think of a word, then look up the English translation at leo.dict.org. They started calling me "Leo" because my answers virtually always concurred with the on-line dictionary.
I'd be interested to know how I'd do on a German version of this vocabulary test. I find that most of the non-fiction I read (economics, biosocial science, etc.) I read is in English and most of the fiction I read is in German (usually by English authors - for instance, I've read most of Tom Wolfe's novels and essay collections in German, but have never read anything he has written in English). - 9/6/12, 8:06 PM
- Pablo said...
Probably Belgium would have a much better score if Wallonia was not counted...
I thought I'd see whether my intuition about how common these words are matches the reality, as measured by Google.
Most of the ones I missed have relatively few hits:
caitiff: 42,600
opsimath: 47,500
fuliginous: 58,700
uxoricide: 75,700
funambulist: 105,000
hypnopompic: 106,000
estivation: 118,000
vibrissae: 178,000
williwaw: 242,000
But I also missed pule (7.9m hits)
Then there were ones that seemed really easy, i.e. I've read them many times before, yet they were not so common:
tatterdemalion: 168,000
epigone: 56,200
Conclusion: less correlation than I thought. This would be a good way to come up with vocab lists to study though. Based on your score, ask Google to give you words that occur between 50,000 and 100,000 times on the web (or more, or less, depending on your score), i.e. words at the frontier of your vocabulary. Then move on to less frequent ones. - 9/7/12, 6:03 AM
40,800 words. 800 Verbal GRE in 1990. Took the vocab "test" after four shots of Glenmorangie. I read a shitload of stuff.
I had a 770 on the Critical Reading on the SAT, but my estimated vocabulary is a paltry 28,000. But keep in mind that I never read much.


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hope someone can help me out. I have installed UDS and could activate an Android device.
But I am unable to activate an IOS device.
I am using a self signed certificate. So I have installed the the signed certificate plus the root certificate from the CA which has signed the certificate. Both have status: trusted
But when I type the compay server name in the mobile fusion client on the IOS then the device gives me the error:
"Your device cannot be activated at this time. Please try again later or contact your administrator".
From the Network traffic logs I know the the IOS device connects to the UDS server. So I am wondering if this is an certificate issues as descriebed here in the KB:
I am wondering if anyone has successfull activated an IOS device in Mobile Fusion.
Any help would be appreciated
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I've had issues with this in the past when my wireless was on and connected on the iphone while trying to get the mobile fusion client activated... Try disabling wireless or make sure you aren't connected to any wireless networks.
Thanks for reply.
I've already disabled WIFI and tested. Same error.
Tested on two different devices and receive the same error.
and the devices have fully access to internet?
And since internet is it possible to access to the uds server throuhg port 443?
Hi hinojosa89,
yes internet is available. I could see in our gateway logs that the IP of my ios device was routed to de UDS server.
So I don't think that this is a device certificate issue as described in the above KB I already provided.
Our company will stop testing Mobile Fusion for now. It does not make sense to spend days and weeks on a product to get it running by troubleshooting.
I am realy deeply disappointed of Mobile Fusion and what RIM has presented.

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couldnt find the headphone sighting thread..
but i thought this was pretty cool..
watching covert affairs (mostly for piper perabo) anyway they jumped on a plane together and auggie pops on his ps1000's! was awsome that grado made it mainstream.. i bet only head-fiers would notice it, but i did! haha..
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ZFS is an advanced filesystem created by Sun Microsystems (now owned by Oracle) and released for OpenSolaris in November 2005. Features of ZFS include: pooled storage (integrated volume management -- zpool), Copy-on-write, snapshots, data integrity verification and automatic repair (scrubbing), RAID-Z, and a maximum 16 Exabyte volume size. ZFS is licensed under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL).
Described as "The last word in filesystems" ZFS is stable, fast, secure, and future-proof. Being licensed under the GPL incompatible CDDL, it is not possible for ZFS to be distributed along with the Linux Kernel. This requirement, however, does not prevent a native Linux kernel module from being developed and distributed by a third party, as is the case with zfsonlinux.org (ZOL).
ZOL is a project funded by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to develop a native Linux kernel module for its massive storage requirements and super computers.
Playing with ZFS
The rest of this article cover basic setup and usage of ZFS on physical block devices (HDD and SSD for example). Users wishing to experiment with ZFS on virtual block devices (known in ZFS terms as VDEVs) which can be simple files like ~/zfs0.img ~/zfs1.img ~/zfs2.img etc. with no possibility of real data loss are encouraged to see the Playing_with_ZFS article. Common tasks like building a RAIDZ array, purposefully corrupting data and recovering it, etc. are covered.
Building from AUR
The ZFS kernel module are related utils are available in the AUR; all are required:
Should you wish to update the core/linux package before the AUR/zfs and AUR/spl packages' dependency lists are updated, a possible work-around is to remove (uninstall) spl and zfs packages (the respective modules and file system may stay in-use), update the core/linux package, build + install zfs and spl packages - just do not forget to edit PKGBUILD and correct the core/linux version number in "depends" section to match the updated version). Finally, the system may be rebooted. [ This is only for the situation, when ZFS is not used for root filesystem. ]
Unofficial repository
For fast and effortless installation and updates, the "archzfs" signed repository is available to add to your pacman.conf
[demz-repo-core] Server = http://demizerone.com/$repo/$arch
The repository and packages are signed with the maintainer's PGP key which is verifiable here: http://demizerone.com. This key is not trusted by any of the Arch Linux master keys, so it will need to be locally signed before use. See pacman-key.
Add the maintainer's key,
# pacman-key -r 0EE7A126
and locally sign to add it to the system's trust database,
# pacman-key --lsign-key 0EE7A126
Once the key has been signed, it is now possible to update the package database,
# pacman -Syyu
and install ZFS packages:
# pacman -S archzfs
Archiso tracking repository
ZFS can easily be used from within the archiso live environment by using the special archiso tracking repository for ZFS. This repository makes it easy to install Arch Linux on a root ZFS filesystem, or to mount ZFS pools from within an archiso live environment using an up-to-date live medium. To use this repository from the live environment, add the following server line to pacman.conf:
[demz-repo-archiso] Server = http://demizerone.com/$repo/$arch
This repository and packages are also signed, so the key must be locally signed following the steps listed in the previous section before use. For a guide on how to install Arch Linux on to a root ZFS filesystem, see Installing Arch Linux on ZFS.
ZFS is considered a "zero administration" filesystem by its creators; therefore, configuring ZFS is very straight forward. Configuration is done primarily with two commands: zfs
and zpool
mkinitramfs hook
If you are using ZFS on your root filesystem, then you will need to add the ZFS hook to mkinitcpio.conf; if you are not using ZFS for your root filesystem, then you do not need to add the ZFS hook.
You will need to change your kernel parameters to include the dataset you want to boot. You can use zfs=bootfs
to use the ZFS bootfs (set via zpool set bootfs=rpool/ROOT/arch rpool
) or you can set the kernel parameters to zfs=<pool>/<dataset>
to boot directly from a ZFS dataset.
To see all available options for the ZFS hook:
$ mkinitcpio -H zfs
To use the mkinitcpio hook, you will need to add zfs
to your HOOKS
in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
... HOOKS="base udev autodetect modconf encrypt zfs filesystems usbinput" ...
It is important to place this after any hooks which are needed to prepare the drive before it is mounted. For example, if your ZFS volume is encrypted, then you will need to place encrypt before the zfs hook to unlock it first.
Recreate the ramdisk:
# mkinitcpio -p linux
Automatic Start
For ZFS to live by its "zero administration" namesake, the zfs daemon must be loaded at startup. A benefit to this is that it is not necessary to mount your zpool in /etc/fstab
; the zfs daemon imports and mounts one zfs pool automatically. The daemon mounts a zfs pool reading the file /etc/zfs/zpool.cache
, so the zfs pool that you want to automatically mounted must write the file there.
Set a pool as to be automatically mounted by the zfs daemon:
# zpool set cachefile=/etc/zfs/zpool.cache <pool>
Enable the service so it is automatically started at boot time:
# systemctl enable zfs.service
To manually start the daemon:
# systemctl start zfs.service
Create a storage pool
Use # parted --list
to see a list of all available drives. It is not necessary to partition your drives before creating the zfs filesystem, this will be done automatically. However, if you feel the need to completely wipe your drive before creating the filesystem, this can be easily done with the dd command.
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<device>
It should not have to be stated, but be careful with this command!
Once you have the list of drives, it is now time to get the id's of the drives you will be using. The zfs on Linux developers recommend using device ids when creating ZFS storage pools of less than 10 devices. To find the id's for your device, simply:
$ ls -lah /dev/disk/by-id/
The ids should look similar to the following:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 12 16:26 ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0JKRR -> ../../sdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 12 16:26 ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0JTM1 -> ../../sde lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 12 16:26 ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0KBP8 -> ../../sdd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 12 16:26 ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0KDGY -> ../../sdb
Now, finally, create the ZFS pool:
# zpool create -f -m <mount> <pool> raidz <ids>
- create: subcommand to create the pool.
- -f: Force creating the pool. This is to overcome the "EFI label error". See #does not contain an EFI label.
- -m: The mount point of the pool. If this is not specified, than your pool will be mounted to
- pool: This is the name of the pool. Change it to whatever you like.
- raidz: This is the type of virtual device that will be created from the pool of devices. Raidz is a special implementation of raid5. See Jeff Bonwick's Blog -- RAID-Z for more information about raidz.
- ids: The names of the drives or partitions that you want to include into your pool. Get it from
Here is an example for the full command:
# zpool create -f -m /mnt/data bigdata raidz ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0KDGY ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0JKRR ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0KBP8 ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0JTM1
In case Advanced Format disks are used which have a native sector size of 4096 bytes instead of 512 bytes, the automated sector size detection algorithm of ZFS might detect 512 bytes because the backwards compatibility with legacy systems. This would result in degraded performance. To make sure a correct sector size is used, the ashift=12
option should be used (See the ZFS on Linux FAQ). The full command would in this case be:
# zpool create -f -o ashift=12 -m /mnt/data bigdata raidz ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0KDGY ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0JKRR ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0KBP8 ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0JTM1
If the command is successful, there will be no output. Using the $ mount
command will show that you pool is mounted. Using # zpool status
will show that your pool has been created.
# zpool status
pool: bigdata state: ONLINE scan: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM bigdata ONLINE 0 0 0 -0 ONLINE 0 0 0 ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0KDGY-part1 ONLINE 0 0 0 ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0JKRR-part1 ONLINE 0 0 0 ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0KBP8-part1 ONLINE 0 0 0 ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0JTM1-part1 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors
At this point it would be good to reboot your computer to make sure your ZFS pool is mounted at boot. It is best to deal with all errors before transferring your data.
Although many knobs are available on a zfs pool, there are two major ones user can consider:
- atime
- compression
Atime is enabled by default but for most users, it represents superfluous writes to the zpool and it can be disabled using the zfs command:
# zfs set atime=off <pool>
Compression is just that, transparent compression of data. Consult the man page for various options. A recent advancement is the lz4 algorithm which offers excellent compression and performance. Enable it (or any other) using the zfs command:
# zfs set compression=lz4 <pool>
Other options for zfs can be displayed again, using the zfs command:
# sudo zfs get all <pool>
To see all the commands available in ZFS, use :
$ man zfs
$ man zpool
ZFS pools should be scrubbed at least once a week. To scrub your pool:
# zpool scrub <pool>
To do automatic scrubbing once a week, set the following line in your root crontab:
# crontab -e
... 30 19 * * 5 zpool scrub <pool> ...
Replace <pool>
with the name of your ZFS storage pool.
Check zfs pool status
To print a nice table with statistics about your ZFS pool, including and read/write errors, use
# zpool status -v
Destroy a storage pool
ZFS makes it easy to destroy a mounted storage pool, removing all metadata about the ZFS device. This command destroys any data contained in the pool:
# zpool destroy <pool>
And now when checking the status:
# zpool status
no pools available
To find the name of your pool, see #Check zfs pool status.
Export a storage pool
If a storage pool is to be used on another system, it will first need to be exported. It is also necessary to export a pool if it has been imported from the archiso as the hostid is different in the archiso as it is in the booted system. The zpool command will refuse to import any storage pools that have not been exported. It is possible to force the import with the -f
argument, but this is considered bad form.
Any attempts made to import an un-exported storage pool will result in an error stating the storage pool is in use by another system. This error can be produced at boot time abruptly abandoning the system in the busybox console and requiring an archiso to do an emergency repair by either exporting the pool, or adding the zfs_force=1
to the kernel boot parameters (which is not ideal). See #On boot the zfs pool does not mount stating: "pool may be in use from other system"
To export a pool,
# zpool export bigdata
Swap volume
ZFS does not allow to use swapfiles, but you can use a ZFS volume (ZVOL) as swap. It is importart to set the ZVOL block size to match the system page size, which can be obtained by the getconf PAGESIZE command (default on x86_64 is 4KiB). Other options useful for keeping the system running well in low-memory situations are keeping it always synced, turning off compression, and not caching the zvol data.
Create a 8GiB zfs volume:
# zfs create -V 8G -b $(getconf PAGESIZE) \ -o compression=off \ -o primarycache=metadata \ -o secondarycache=none \ -o sync=always \ -o com.sun:auto-snapshot=false <pool>/swap
Prepare it as swap partition:
# mkswap -f /dev/zvol/<pool>/swap
To make it permament you need to edit your /etc/fstab
. ZVOLs support discard, which can potentionally help ZFS's block allocator and reduce fragmentation for all other datasets when your swap is not full.
Add a line to /etc/fstab
/dev/zvol/<pool>/swap none swap discard 0 0
Automatic snapshots
The zfs-auto-snapshot-gitAUR package from AUR provides a shell script to automate the management of snapshots, with each named by date and label (hourly, daily, etc), giving quick and convenient snapshotting of all your ZFS datasets. The package also installs cron tasks for quarter-hourly, hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly snapshots. You may want to adjust the --keep parameter from the defaults depending on how far back you'd like to go (the monthly script by default keeps data for up to a year).
To prevent a dataset from being snapshotted at all, set com.sun:auto-snapshot=false on it. Likewise, you can set more fine-grained control as well by label, so if you don't want any monthlies on a snapshot, for example, set com.sun:auto-snapshot:monthly=false.
does not contain an EFI label
The following error will occur when attempting to create a zfs filesystem,
/dev/disk/by-id/<id> does not contain an EFI label but it may contain partition
The way to overcome this is to use -f
with the zfs create command.
No hostid found
An error that occurs at boot with the following lines appearing before initscript output:
ZFS: No hostid found on kernel command line or /etc/hostid.
This warning occurs because the ZFS module does not have access to the spl hosted. There are two solutions, for this. You can either place your spl hostid in the kernel parameters in your boot loader. For example, adding spl.spl_hostid=0x00bab10c
The other solution is to make sure that there is a hostid in /etc/hostid
, and then regenerate the initramfs image. Which will copy the hostid into the initramfs image.
# mkinitcpio -p linux
On boot the zfs pool does not mount stating: "pool may be in use from other system"
Unexported pool
If the new installation does not boot because the zpool cannot be imported, you will need to chroot into the installation and properly export the zpool. See ZFS#Emergency chroot repair with archzfs.
Once inside the chroot environment, load the ZFS module and force import the zpool,
# zpool import -a -f
now export the pool:
# zpool export <pool>
To see your available pools, use,
# zpool status
It is necessary to export a pool because of the way ZFS uses the hostid to track the system the zpool was created on. The hostid is generated partly based on your network setup. During the installation in the archiso your network configuration could be different generating a different hostid than the one contained in your new installation. Once the zfs filesystem is exported and then re-imported in the new installation, the hostid is reset. See Re: Howto zpool import/export automatically? - msg#00227.
If ZFS complains about "pool may be in use" after every reboot, you should properly export pool as described above, and then rebuild ramdisk in normally booted system:
# mkinitcpio -p linux
Incorrect hostid
First of all double check you actually exported the pool correctly. Exporting the zpool clears the hostid marking the ownership. So during the first boot the zpool should mount correctly. If it does not there is some other problem.
Reboot again, if the zfs pool refuses to mount it means your hostid is not yet correctly set in the early boot phase and it confuses zfs. So you have to manually tell zfs the correct number, once the hostid is coherent across the reboots the zpool will mount correctly.
Boot using zfs_force and write down your hostid. This one is just an example.
% hostid 0a0af0f8
You can always ignore the check adding zfs_force=1
in your kernel parameters, but it is not advisable as a permanent solution.
Tips and tricks
Embed the archzfs packages into an archiso
It is a good idea make an installation media with the needed software included. Otherwise, you will need the latest archiso installation media burned to a CD or a USB key.
To embed zfs
in the archiso, from an existing install, download the archiso
# pacman -S archiso
Start the process:
# cp -r /usr/share/archiso/configs/releng /root/media
Edit the packages.x86_64
file adding those lines:
spl-utils spl zfs-utils zfs
Edit the pacman.conf
file adding those lines (TODO, correctly embed keys in the installation media?):
[demz-repo-archiso] SigLevel = Never Server = http://demizerone.com/$repo/$arch
Add other packages in packages.both
, packages.i686
, or packages.x86_64
if needed and create the image.
# ./build.sh -v
The image will be in the /root/media/out
More informations about the process can be read in this guide or in the Archiso article.
If you are installing onto a UEFI system, see Unified Extensible Firmware Interface#Create UEFI bootable USB from ISO for creating UEFI compatible installation media.
Emergency chroot repair with archzfs
Here is how to use the archiso to get into your ZFS filesystem for maintenance.
Boot the latest archiso and bring up your network:
# wifi-menu # ip link set eth0 up
Test the network connection:
# ping google.com
Sync the pacman package database:
# pacman -Syy
(optional) Install your favorite text editor:
# pacman -S vim
Add archzfs archiso repository to pacman.conf
[demz-repo-archiso] Server = http://demizerone.com/$repo/$arch
Sync the pacman package database:
# pacman -Syy
Install the ZFS package group:
# pacman -S archzfs
Load the ZFS kernel modules:
# modprobe zfs
Import your pool:
# zpool import -a -R /mnt
Mount your boot partitions (if you have them):
# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/boot # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi
Chroot into your ZFS filesystem:
# arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash
Check your kernel version:
# pacman -Qi linux # uname -r
uname will show the kernel version of the archiso. If they are different, you will need to run depmod (in the chroot) with the correct kernel version of your chroot installation:
# depmod -a 3.6.9-1-ARCH (version gathered from pacman -Qi linux)
This will load the correct kernel modules for the kernel version installed in your chroot installation.
Regenerate your ramdisk:
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Book: Big Daddy's Rules: Raising Daughters Is Tougher Than I Look
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Steve Schirripa, who famously played 'Bobby Bacala' on The Sopranos and currently stars as 'Leo,' the world's calmest father on ABC Family's mega-hit The Secret Life of an American Teenager, brings a welcome dose of old-school advice (and new-school humor) to the parenting wars. The New York Times bestselling author of A Goomba's Guide to Life and father of two daughters offers his emphatically antiquated, always hilarious tough-guy stance on what it takes to raise kids today.
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Tickets go on sale to members at noon on Saturday April 6, 2013 and on sale to non-members Saturday April 20, 2013. Contact The Music Hall box office at 28 Chestnut Street, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, by phone at 603-436-2400, or online at www.themusichall.org
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The EACA sponsors the May Studio Tour and the October Fall Show each year to provide a venue for artists living in the Eldorado community. The Eldorado Studio Tour is Santa Fe's largest studio tour. In fact, the Eldorado Studio Tour is the largest in the state. Each year the artists open their home studios to show their amazing art representing a wide spectrum of art media. The Fall Show is held in a single venue, and lately that venue has been in the city of Santa Fe to open our art to a larger audience.
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What Else Do Employers Want?
Research from a project at Johns Hopkins University shows that good communication skills mean more than just being able to speak well. The SCANS 2000 Center is comprised of an interdisciplinary research group at the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). According to SCANS, employers want to hire individuals who can work on teams, teach others, serve customers, lead, negotiate, and work well with people from culturally diverse background. These and other job competencies are listed on the SCANS 2000 web site. (Note: this link will open a new browser window. Close the window to return to additudemag.com)
The Colorado Department of Education, like many other states, has developed a list of workplace competencies for students. Communication skills, defined as "the ability to receive and relay information clearly and effectively" is at the top of the list. These skills include:
- listening - receives, attends to, understands and responds to verbal and nonverbal messages
- speaking - clearly organizes and effectively presents ideas orally
- reading - locates, understands, and interprets written information in prose and documents to perform tasks
- writing - organizes and effectively presents ideas and information in writing
- interpreting - delineates and analyzes oral and written information and synthesizes information into a conclusion
- negotiating - works toward agreement while maintaining position
- persuading - communicates ideas to justify position, overcome resistance, and convince others
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- Medications help. Your medications may help you stay focused, but they can't make you an interesting conversationalist over night. Still, proper medication will allow you to control the impulsivity and lack of focus that tend to create problems with communication.
- Hire a Coach A coach can help you learn what is appropriate, how to present ideas and how to better interact with others.
- Cues from a friend If you're in a meeting or other situation where it is appropriate for a friend to be in the same conversation, ask him or her to give you clues if the topic gets off track or the conversation has run its course.
- Become aware of your communication style. You can video tape a conversation with a friend (get their permission first) to see how you interact with others. What you see may surprise you! Later, when you're in a conversation, remember those images. Don't just watch yourself - learn to look for signals that the other person is ready to change subjects or end the conversation.
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The English rock band Kaiser Chiefs have a new record out today, one that offers real drums, real guitars, real bass, real songs, and real vocals largely free of autotune.
So why should we care?
It would be easy to say, "Because the record happens to be good." But there's a much better, more complex reason for caring, even if the record happens to be good: Education, Education, Education & War offers those in the market for good rock music something like optimism; we should care because a real rock band might make it onto the charts in this otherwise One-Directionless One-Republic of Imagined Dragons. And if that were to happen, we might actually see this newest iteration of corporate rock depreciate in value.
Kaiser Chiefs are no strangers to charts, albeit mostly outside of this country. Over in the UK, they've occupied the number two position a few times. Same in Ireland. In America, they've only made it number to forty-five. However, a strange 2014 offers a shifting landscape for these overseas lads: people are starting to miss this kind of music again.
In a recent article entitled "Making The Bland" (called "Mock Stars" when posted online), Entertainment Weekly's Nick Catucci lamented the dearth of today's toothless rock, claiming the public has been "saddled with mock stars." "What's with the charisma deficit?" he asked, referring to Onerepublic, Imagine Dragons, Foster the People, Capital City, and other outfits in the mainstream—all of them consisting on unmemorable males. "They don't even give us a glimmer of the cherished emblems of the classic rockstar: turbulent souls, incendiary lyrics, boa-draped fashion statements, dangerous good looks."
Good words and pithy too, but more history is needed to contextualize the quagmire into which rock music has been slowly sinking. You see, Cartucci's not wrong, but he's a little late in posing a question like, "Where have all the rockstars gone?" Indeed, this is a phrase we're all used to uttering.
We asked the question in the 1970s, when certain rockers famously went disco (I'm looking at you, Mick and Keith). We asked the question in the 80s, when the trappings of rock and roll seemed, by and large, to eclipse the music (The rise of the dreaded "hair" bands).
Similar concerns abounded towards the end of the 90s too: In 1999, Scott Weiland boasted that he and his band, Stone Temple Pilots, would save rock and roll with their back-to-basics outing, No. 4. Even back then, I remember my peers and I responding with a somewhat forlorn, "good luck with that."
Yes, look through the backlogs and you'll find this question asked perennially, usually in a landscape similar to today's, in which dancier, bouncier music has taken over the mainstream: disco was king when we pined for rock in the 70s; new wave and mall pop were the media leaving those who loved rock cold; by the turn of the millennium, boy bands were the enemy.
Here we are fifteen years later, and despite a few indie upstarts in rock trends (The Strokes and all they begat; Likewise with Mumford and Sons), we're still asking the same question.
But it feels deeper now. Now it's not just "where have all the rock-stars gone", it's also, "where has all the rock music gone?" For these last fifteen years have not been kind to rock's most trusted staple: the electric guitar.
In the eighties, the preening machismo of the hair bands might have been faked, but at least the guitars were real. And, to counterbalance all that LA-based testosterone, we had authentic scenes throughout the country generating independent music of their own (R.E.M. out of Athens, Georgia; The Replacements out of Minneapolis).
But today, crunchy synthesizers have thoroughly replaced the function of guitars in pop music: we haven't seen so few guitars on the charts since the 1950s, since the days of bubblegum. To make matters worse, whatever indie scenes have popped up in answer to guitarless pop aren't so much artistic as they are artisanal (I'm looking at you, Brooklyn). St. Vincent's guitar sounds may be inventive, but they're hardly emblematic of the jutting middle finger that makes rock so appealing in the first place; solipsism is no replacement for rebellion.