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Pokémon Black and White Versions 2
Pokémon Black Version 2 ポケットモンスター ブラック 2 | |
Pokémon Black Version 2's boxart, featuring Black Kyurem | |
Pokémon White Version 2 ポケットモンスター ホワイト 2 | |
Pokémon White Version 2's boxart, featuring White Kyurem | |
Basic info
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Platform: | Nintendo DS (enhanced for the Nintendo DSi) |
Category: | RPG |
Players: | 1-4 players simultaneous |
Connectivity: | DS Wireless, Wi-Fi, IR |
Developer: | Game Freak |
Publisher: | Nintendo The Pokémon Company |
Part of: | Generation V core series |
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Release dates
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Japan: | June 23, 2012[1] |
North America: | October 7, 2012[2] |
Australia: | October 11, 2012[3] |
Europe: | October 12, 2012[4] |
South Korea: | November 8, 2012[5] |
Hong Kong: | June 23, 2012 |
Taiwan: | June 23, 2012 |
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Japanese: | Nintendo.co.jp Official site |
English: | Pokémon.com Nintendo.com (Black 2) Nintendo.com (White 2) Official site |
Japanese boxart
Pokémon Black Version 2 (Japanese: ポケットモンスター ブラック 2 Pocket Monsters Black 2) and Pokémon White Version 2 (Japanese: ポケットモンスター ホワイト 2 Pocket Monsters White 2) are Nintendo DS games that are the second and final paired versions of Generation V. They are sequels to Pokémon Black and White, respectively. These games are enhanced on the Nintendo DSi and Nintendo 3DS families.
Both games were revealed on Pokémon Smash! by Junichi Masuda, and subsequently the official Japanese and international[6] Pokémon websites, on February 26, 2012. They were released in Japan on June 23, 2012, in North America on October 7, 2012, in Australia on October 11, 2012, in Europe on October 12, 2012 and in South Korea on November 8, 2012.
The games feature two new forms of Kyurem that serve as the game mascots of the games: Black Kyurem for Black 2 and White Kyurem for White 2.
Pokémon Black and White 2 takes place two years after the events of Pokémon Black and White. Many changes have taken place in Unova over this period: new locations are accessible in the southwest and northeast of the region, and some previously existing locations cannot be visited or are restricted until later in the game. Three new Gym Leaders and a new Champion are introduced, while the Unova Pokédex is expanded to include Pokémon that are foreign to the region, much like in Pokémon Platinum.
The player—named, by default, Nate if male or Rosa if female—begins in the southwestern city Aspertia City. After receiving their first partner Pokémon from Professor Juniper's assistant Bianca, they are encouraged to battle in Pokémon Gyms and aim for the Pokémon League. A boy from the player's hometown, Hugh, will travel with the player at certain times. Though filling the traditional rival role, Hugh is not pursuing the Pokémon League challenge: it is revealed that he is trying to recover a stolen Pokémon from Team Plasma, who were not disbanded two years prior as expected.
Over the course of their journey, the player and Hugh will have numerous encounters with both current and former members of Team Plasma, as well as the mysterious scientist Colress. One of the Seven Sages, Zinzolin, appears in an antagonistic role, yet former sage Rood will help the player. The plot comes to a head when Zinzolin freezes Opelucid City in ice with a combination of technology and the legendary dragon Kyurem, which Team Plasma has captured. The player must defeat Team Plasma including its new leader Ghetsis to free Kyurem. Ghetsis will combine the power of Kyurem with the power of the legendary dragon befriended by his son two years earlier and force Kyurem to fuse with ZekromB2 or ReshiramW2. Only once Kyurem is safe and Team Plasma has been disbanded can the player continue their journey to the Pokémon League.
After the main plot of the game has been completed, many inaccessible parts of Unova, including the Skyarrow Bridge, will be unlocked. Further Pokémon not native to Unova will be available, and the legendary Pokémon ZekromB2/ReshiramW2 and Kyurem will reveal themselves to the player. When they are caught, the player will be able to fuse the Pokémon and change Kyurem's form at will.
Two powers combine... A new legend arises!
Set off on a new Pokémon adventure to save the Unova region! You and your Pokémon can accomplish anything together!
Changes from Pokémon Black and White
- The new Unova Link is introduced, which makes way for new features.
- Challenge Mode and Easy Mode are introduced, which raise and lower the strength of opposing Trainers respectively.
- A new feature called the Memory Link is introduced, which reveals flashbacks from the NPCs that shed light on events that happened between Black and White and Black 2 and White 2.
- Many TMs and all but one HM are received in different locations.
- The Xtransceiver adds two new mini-games called Balloon Catch, where the player needs to catch balloons of their face or an NPC's, and Balloon Smash, where the player needs to inflate the balloons as large as possible without bursting them.
- The Move Tutors are back, and as with Pokémon Platinum, they teach most of the moves that were in that game for Shards, but here they all ask for shards of a specific color. They also teach many moves that lost their TM status, such as Dark Pulse, Roost, and Stealth Rock.
- If the player has used a Repel, after its effect wears off, and if the player has more Repels in their Bag, they will be asked if they would like to use another immediately without having to go into the menu.
- A number of legendaries from Hoenn and Sinnoh (excluding the super-ancient Pokémon and the Pokémon of Myth) can be found in the post-game.
- Zorua, Zoroark, and TM95 (Snarl), which were previously accessible through Nintendo events only, can now be found within the game without any special requirements.
- The Forces of Nature are notably the only Unova regional Pokémon absent from either game and must be obtained through the Pokémon Dream Radar and then transferred (or, alternatively, they can be traded from Black and White). The Dream Radar is also necessary to obtain their new forms.
- Breeding was changed—the Everstone now always passes down Nature (if both parents hold Everstone, one parent's Nature is randomly picked).
- All Pokémon Breeders will now challenge the player again every time the player crosses their line of sight after exiting and re-entering the areas in which they are found.
- Hidden Grottos are introduced and scattered all over Unova, giving access to many items and Pokémon with their Hidden Abilities, many of which were previously unobtainable.
- Watchog's EV yield is changed from 1 Attack to 2 Attack.
- Players can now move held items between Pokémon in their party.
- The player no longer starts in Nuvema Town, instead starting in Aspertia City.
- Instead of the usual 5 Poké Balls, the player is given 10 at the start of their journey.
- Chili, Cress, Cilan; Lenora and Brycen are replaced by Cheren, Roxie and Marlon as Gym Leaders, respectively.
- Bianca gives the player a first partner Pokémon in Aspertia City.
- A new Team Plasma has formed, and is run by Colress, who battles the player frequently throughout the story. Ghetsis is once again the secret mastermind behind the Team, now planning to freeze Unova with Kyurem.
- Rood, Zinzolin, and the Shadow Triad are battled as part of the story.
- The Gym Leader order has changed to Cheren, Roxie, Burgh, Elesa, Clay, Skyla, Drayden, Marlon.
- Alder is replaced by Iris as the Champion of Unova.
- N returns to Unova with either ZekromB2 or ReshiramW2, who is then fused with Kyurem to form either Black KyuremB2 or White KyuremW2.
- Unlike Pokémon Black and White, neither the game mascots Black KyuremB2 or White KyuremW2 can be caught within the story, but can be obtained post-game by following certain requirements.
- Cobalion and Virizion interact with the player, making it possible to catch them during the storyline, although it is possible to catch all three Pokémon including Terrakion.
- Several tag battles take place throughout the game: one with the other player character, two with Cheren, four with Hugh, one with Bianca, and a daily tag battle with one of either Chili, Cress, or Cilan against the other two brothers.
- A new attraction known as the Pokémon World Tournament opens up in Driftveil City, where the player battles Gym Leaders and Champions from all five regions, among others.
- Another new attraction introduced is the Pokéstar Studios, located in Virbank City, where the player takes part in many different movies. Brycen and Sabrina appear here.
- Lenora revives the player's Fossils.
- Several new Key Items exclusive to Black and White 2 are introduced.
- During the post-game, the player may find N at his castle and on the first visit, battle his ZekromB2 or ReshiramW2, who is free for capture after defeating N. Subsequent battles can be done once a season and feature N using a team of Pokémon centered around that season.
- Several areas that were previously limited to the post-game of Black and White are now part of the main story. In contrast, some of the areas that were formerly part of the main story are now limited to the post-game.
- The opening is drastically different from the one in Black and White, now featuring the new game characters, the Tao trio, and the Swords of Justice. Also, the title screen shows either Black Kyurem or White Kyurem, depending on the version.
- The bar that shows a Pokémon's level, experience points, and HP has been redesigned. It is black in Black 2 and white in White 2.
- The area change indicator has also been redesigned and shows the location in the top left of the screen and season in the bottom right. It is black in Black 2 and white in White 2.
- New locations such as Aspertia City, Virbank City, Floccesy Town, Lentimas Town, and Humilau City have been added to the game.
- New characters are introduced, such as Hugh, Colress, Roxie, Marlon and Benga.
- Cheren, Bianca, Elesa, Ghetsis, and Iris all receive redesigns.
- All Unova Gyms receive redesigns, including newly remixed music in all but the Aspertia Gym.
- Most of the Black and White music has been slightly remixed, in addition to the Gym Leader and Champion music from Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh.
- There have been several changes made to existing locations, such as Driftveil City and Nimbasa City.
- Every Trainer has their own fully animated sprite. They have more frames, allowing for smoother animations.
- Several moves have received new battle animations.
- The battle menu has been redesigned.
- The C-Gear has been redesigned.
- The Unova Pokédex has been expanded tremendously to accommodate older Pokémon.
- It also receives a slight aesthetic change, now having a red background instead of green.
- The Pokédex also receives an upgrade in the form of the Habitat List. It consists of a list of all visited places, with the Pokémon found there listed (if they have been seen). The player will sometimes receive prizes from certain NPCs when a certain area is filled.
- All returning Gym Leaders and Champions receive new sprites. This also applies for the overworld sprites.
- Route 4 has changed drastically and also differs between Black 2 and White 2.
- Victory Road changed drastically from Black and White to Black 2 and White 2 as well and differs in appearance between Black 2 and White 2. It has also changed location.
- Challenger's Cave's entrance collapsed, while Route 10 was blocked off due to a landslide on Victory Road, making both areas inaccessible.
- In place of Cold Storage, there is now the Pokémon World Tournament.
- Places marked on the map with green dots in Black and White are now marked with green squares. Also, now when they are tapped they become red (though they still cannot be flown to). This was only true of Liberty Garden in Black and White.
- During battles in tall grass, there are now visible tufts of grass around the platform, with varying colors depending on the season.
- Following the battle at Opelucid Gym, Team Plasma will freeze Opelucid City (along with a portion of the neighboring routes, Route 9 and Route 11), which will last until after the player has entered the Hall of Fame.
- The weather icons have been redesigned and are smaller.
Pokémon World Tournament
- Main article: Pokémon World Tournament
A new facility featured in Black 2 and White 2 is the Pokémon World Tournament, where the player is able to battle every Gym Leader and Champion (except Koga and Iris) from the core series games in various types of battles.
Pokéstar Studios
- Main article: Pokéstar Studios
Pokéstar Studios is a new feature in the games that allows the player to take part in making films involving Pokémon. The player chooses from various scenarios and acts them out.
- Main article: Medal (Black 2 and White 2)
Medals are a new type of achievement system. They are obtained from Mr. Medal at any Pokémon Center and are stored in the Medal Box.
- Main article: Season (game mechanic)
Seasons once again return to the games. In addition to covering the entire screen upon starting the games, a text box appears at the bottom of the screen presenting the current season every time a new area is entered.
Word filter
The filter that censors certain words in name inputs remains. The restriction on using four numerical digits is removed but only for Box names in the Pokémon Storage System.
Sprite animations
Just like in Pokémon Black and White, the Pokémon sprites are fully animated and move throughout battles. However, unlike Black and White, every Trainer in the game has battle animations, as well as more frames which allow for smoother animations.
The game also introduces new entry sprite animations for Pokémon, much as if it were a Shiny Pokémon.
- N's Pokémon, which are obtainable through Memory Link, (with the exception of N's Zorua, who is obtainable during the main plot) have a green/yellow diamond shine, along with their own sound.
- Also, in the Pokéstar Studios, when a player successfully completes a movie with their Pokémon in an unusual matter by deviating from the script, their Pokémon will become a star and during battles, when the Pokémon is summoned, a star will bounce upwards and then back downwards. This is the only entry animation that can be added manually by the player.
Each game features a Pokédex of 301 different Pokémon species, many of which are from previous generations such as Growlithe, Psyduck, and Marill.
Version-exclusive Pokémon
- Normally unavailable, Regice and Registeel can be caught in Black 2 and White 2, respectively, after trading respective keys from game which has unlocked them. Initially, Regice's key is unlocked in White 2, and Registeel's in Black 2.
Black 2 and White 2 can connect with the Pokémon Dream Radar, which transfers Pokémon found to the player's game. The Pokémon Global Link has also been updated to make way for the release of Black 2 and White 2. The games are compatible with Black and White, much as Platinum is to Diamond and Pearl. The games can connect as with games of the same generation, and they operate on the same Global Trade System server. Pokémon from Generation IV games (Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold, and SoulSilver) can be transferred to these games using the Poké Transfer.
However, they are not entirely compatible with Pokémon Black and White as the updated Black 2 and White 2 Entralink no longer features the ability to travel into another player's "world" and thus Pass Powers are instead earned through minigames that take place in the hubworld. Likewise, a player in Black or White cannot connect with a Black 2 or White 2 player via the Entralink system.
DSi features
Pokémon Black and White Versions 2 are DSi-enhanced games, meaning that they have certain features which are only enabled when played on a system in the Nintendo DSi or Nintendo 3DS family. These features include the following:
- These games can recognize and connect to routers with WPA connections.
- The user-facing camera can be used during Xtransceiver communications with other players.
- The C-Gear shows the system power using three bars in a battery icon, rather than two on older Nintendo DS systems.
- The game icon is animated when viewed on the Nintendo DSi or 3DS home screen—the Poké Ball inside the icon wiggles.
- Various menus scroll more quickly (such as the Pokédex and Bag), and they take slightly less time to load.
- Japanese versions of Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 are region-locked, so can only be played on Japanese-region Nintendo DSi and Nintendo 3DS systems; however, because the Nintendo DS and DS Lite do not support region-locking, they can be played on these systems regardless of region. The Korean and Western language releases are not region-locked, so can be played on any Nintendo DS or 3DS system regardless of region. Incompatible on iQue DSi and iQue 3DS XL systems.
Localization changes
- The lyrics for the Virbank Gym music differ between the Japanese and international releases. In Japanese versions, she spells out "Dogars" which is Koffing's Japanese name. In the international versions she spells out "Pokémon" and does not start the song by saying "1, 2, 3, 4!"
- After entering the Hall of Fame, there is a post-game story section where the player follows N's Zoroark to N's Castle. In Japanese versions, if the player exits out of the cave that Zoroark just went into instead of following them, it causes the game to softlock. This was fixed in international versions.
- Main article: Pokémon Black and White Versions → Localization changes shared by Pokémon Black, White, Black 2, and White 2
Gaming magazine Famitsu gave Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 a score of 36 out of 40,[7] lower than Black and White's perfect grade.[8] IGN rated the games an "Amazing" 9.6/10, calling them more "than just a slightly expanded repackaging of the latest generation's core titles (a la Pokémon Yellow, Crystal, Emerald or Platinum)" and saying that they feature "a stunning amount of fresh content" over their predecessors,[9] which received a 9.0/10 from the site.[10] Both Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 hold a rating of 80% on Metacritic.[11][12]
As of March 31, 2013, Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 have sold 7.81 million copies worldwide.[13]
Japanese sales
Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 sold 1,561,738 units on their first week on the Japanese market,[14] being 816,576 from Pokémon Black 2 and 745,162 from Pokémon White 2, with a sell-through of 82.91% and 77.43% respectively. By December 29, 2013, the end of their 80th week, they had sold 3,076,701 copies, being 1,629,125 from Pokémon Black 2 and 1,447,576 from Pokémon White 2.[15]
Week | Week ending | Ranking | Units sold | Total units sold |
1 | June 24, 2012 | 1st | 1,561,738 | 1,561,738 |
2 | July 1, 2012 | 1st | 420,780 | 1,982,518 |
3 | July 8, 2012 | 1st | 184,648 | 2,167,166 |
4 | July 15, 2012 | 1st | 122,242 | 2,289,408 |
5 | July 22, 2012 | 2nd | 92,178 | 2,381,586 |
6 | July 29, 2012 | 4th | 73,420 | 2,455,006 |
7 | August 5, 2012 | 3rd | 66,758 | 2,521,764 |
8 | August 12, 2012 | 3rd | 60,421 | 2,582,185 |
9 | August 19, 2012 | 2nd | 62,274 | 2,644,459 |
10 | August 26, 2012 | 3rd | 33,955 | 2,678,414 |
11 | September 2, 2012 | 8th | 29,186 | 2,707,600 |
12 | September 9, 2012 | 4th | 21,592 | 2,729,192 |
13 | September 16, 2012 | 6th | 18,266 | 2,747,458 |
14 | September 23, 2012 | 8th | 16,274 | 2,763,732 |
15 | September 30, 2012 | 12th | 13,427 | 2,777,159 |
16 | October 7, 2012 | 10th | 12,208 | 2,789,367 |
17 | October 14, 2012 | 13th | 10,100 | 2,799,467 |
18 | October 21, 2012 | 12th | 8,382 | 2,807,849 |
19 | October 28, 2012 | 16th | 7,402 | 2,815,250 |
20 | November 4, 2012 | 20th | 7,166 | 2,822,416 |
28 | December 30, 2012 | 26th | - | 2,919,977 |
80 | December 29, 2013 | - | - | 3,076,701 |
- Main article: Staff of Pokémon Black 2 and White 2
- Main article: Pokémon Black & Pokémon White: Super Music Collection
The soundtrack contains all of the background music used in Pokémon Black and White (the basis for a portion of the music in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2), composed by Shota Kageyama, Junichi Masuda, Hitomi Satō, Gō Ichinose, Morikazu Aoki, Minako Adachi, and Satoshi Nohara. The music is arranged by Shota Kageyama, Hitomi Satō, Gō Ichinose, and Minako Adachi.
The soundtrack contains all of the background music from the games (on Discs 1–3, with the exception of the music played within Hidden Grottoes), composed by Hitomi Satō, Gō Ichinose, Junichi Masuda, Shota Kageyama, Teruo Taniguchi, Satoshi Nohara, Minako Adachi, and Morikazu Aoki. The music is arranged by Hitomi Satō and Gō Ichinose, except for less than a tenth of the tracks, which are mostly short sound effects. Notably, Disc 4 of the soundtrack also provides an official release for several tracks exclusive to Pokémon Emerald and Pokémon Platinum.
Beta elements
- Main article: Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 beta
Pre-order bonuses
Players who pre-ordered the games from GameStop received a "Preview Guide" which hints at the new features and storyline, as well as explaining the TCG. It also includes parts of the animated trailer in a comic book-style format. The guide was released online in the UK.
Animated Trailer
A promotional trailer was made to promote Pokémon Black 2 and White 2. The first version was released in Japan on May 17, 2012. A complete version of the trailer incorporating additional footage that depicts Rosa battling Cheren was released on DVD at TSUTAYA on July 13, 2012, and later released on YouTube on August 10, 2012. The English-dubbed version was released on YouTube and Pokémon.com on August 8, 2012, integrating the additional footage of Rosa battling Cheren.
Title screens
- The localization period for these games was the shortest worldwide of the core series, having lasted about three and a half months for the majority of the translated versions, with 106 days for North America, 110 for Australia, 111 for Europe and 138 for South Korea.
- This would be the last time a core series game would have a staggered release like this due to localization, as every game from Pokémon X and Y onward would be released simultaneously worldwide.
- These Pokémon games have many differences from the other core series games:
- They are the only games to officially be a direct sequel to a pair of games from the same generation, as well as the only core series games with a number in their title. (Pokémon Gold and Silver were initially advertised to be direct, numbered sequels to Generation I, originally dubbed "Pocket Monsters 2", but this was later changed.)
- They are the only games in which the player's hometown is a city rather than a town.
- They are the only core series games in which the Pokémon Day Care is inaccessible before entering the Hall of Fame.
- They are the first core series games in which the game mascot cannot be obtained without trading before entering the Hall of Fame.
- They are the first core series games where the player can obtain more than one Master Ball without luck-based lottery or multiplayer activity.
- These are the last core series Pokémon games with "Version" in their titles, including equivalent terms in other languages.
- Koga is the only current or former Gym Leader who is not presented in these games.
- The majority of moves with changed animations have a base power of 100 or higher.
- These are the first Pokémon games with a specific point at which the player is forced to save their game in the main story before entering the Hall of Fame. In this case, the player must save after creating their first movie at Pokéstar Studios.
- Black 2 and White 2 were the final core series games released for the Nintendo DS system and its redesigned models, the Nintendo DS Lite, the Nintendo DSi and the Nintendo DSi XL, as well as the final Pokémon games overall released for those systems.
- Black 2 and White 2 are also the final first-party games for the Nintendo DS family of systems.
- While the opening sequence is mostly the same in both games, there are a few differences. Black 2 has Black Kyurem's black silhouette on a dark screen with fog, while White 2 has White Kyurem's white silhouette on a bright screen with fog, after which the yellow crest on Kyurem's head glows and the game's respective logo appears. Later, during the part before Zekrom, there is blue light in the upper left corner in Black 2 and red light in the lower right corner in White 2.
- According to Tsunekazu Ishihara and Junichi Masuda, Black 2 and White 2 were created as paired games instead of the usual single follow-up game because the development team needed two games in order to implement the Key System.[16]
- Of every game in the core series to support online play, Black 2 and White 2 officially supported it for the least amount of time, at only 1 year, 10 months, and 27 days, due to the shutdown of Nintendo WFC in May 2014.
External links
- Official PDF-file manual for Pokémon Black Version 2 (English)
- Official PDF-file manual for Pokémon White Version 2 (English)
In other languages
See also
- ↑ Reputable Pokémon Merchandise site
- ↑ Nintendo of America pressroom[dead link]
- ↑ Nintendo of Australia
- ↑ Pokémon UK
- ↑ Pokémon Korea
- ↑ Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2
- ↑ Famitsu review scores (6/19/12) - Nintendo Everything
- ↑ Famitsu gives Black and White perfect score - Bulbanews
- ↑ Pokémon White Version 2 Review - IGN
- ↑ Pokémon White Review - IGN
- ↑ Pokémon Black Version 2 for DS Reviews - Metacritic
- ↑ Pokémon White Version 2 for DS Reviews - Metacritic
- ↑ Nintendo Co., Ltd. - Financial Results Briefing for Fiscal Year Ended March 2013
- ↑ Media Create Sales: 6/18/12 – 6/24/12 - 4Gamer.net (Japanese)
- ↑ Media Create Sales: 2013 CY {2012.12.31 - 2013.12.29} | NeoGAF
- ↑ Iwata Asks
- ↑ Images of B2W2 pamphlets (retrieved October 10, 2012)
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device rp For ISA cards, you must specify the port address in /boot/device.hints: hint.rp.0.at="isa" hint.rp.0.port="0x100"
This driver provides a kernel device driver for the RocketPort and RocketPort RA serial boards. These boards provide 8, 16, or 32 highspeed serial ports while requiring only 68 bytes of I/O space for all 8, 16, or 32 ports, and do not require an interrupt channel. This driver supports up to four RocketPort or RocketPort RA boards in one machine simultaneously. If you are using four 32 port RocketPort boards, you can put as many as 128 intelligent serial ports on your system. The rp driver supports the following speeds: 50, 75, 110, 134, 150, 200, 300, 600, 1200, 1800, 2400, 4800, 9600, 19200, 38400, 7200, 14400, 57600, 76800, 115200, and 230400. (You must use termios(4), rather than the old style ioctl interface to use non-traditional speeds.) An open on the rp driver will block until carrier is present, unless O_NONBLOCK or CLOCAL is set.
The first RocketPort or RocketPort RA card requires a 68-byte contiguous block of I/O addresses, starting at one of the following: 0x100h, 0x140h, 0x180h, 0x200h, 0x240h, 0x280h, 0x300h, 0x340h, 0x380h. The second, third, and fourth RocketPort cards require only a 64-byte contiguous block of I/O addresses, starting at one of the above address ranges. The I/O address range used by any of the RocketPort cards must not conflict with any other cards in the system, including other RocketPort cards. The starting range of the I/O ports used by each card must match with the I/O address specified in /boot/device.hints. Since the first RocketPort uses 68 I/O addresses, if the first card is set to use an I/O block starting at 0x100, it will occupy the I/O ports between 0x100 and 0x143. This means that the second, third, or fourth RocketPort board may not use the block of addresses starting at 0x140, since the first three I/O addresses of that range are used by the first board. This is an important point to keep in mind. If you have two ISA cards, one installed at 0x100 and the second installed at 0x180, then you should add the following to /boot/device.hints: hint.rp.0.at="isa" hint.rp.0.port="0x100" hint.rp.1.at="isa" hint.rp.1.port="0x180" The configuration of the RocketPort cards is done via the set of 8 DIP switches, labeled SW1 on the RocketPort card: +-------------------------------+ | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | +-------+-------+---------------+ | Unused| Card | I/O Port Block| +-------------------------------+ DIP switches 7 and 8 are unused, and must be left on. DIP switches 6 and 5 identify the card number of each RocketPort card. The first card installed in the system must have its DIP switches set as card number one; the second card installed in the system must have its DIP switches set as card number two; and so on. As shipped from the factory, DIP switches 6 and 5 are both on by default, indicating that this is the first card installed on the system: DIP Switches 6 5 =================== On On First Card On Off Second Card Off On Third Card Off Off Fourth Card DIP switches 4, 3, 2, and 1 indicate the I/O address range used by the first RocketPort card. If there are more than one RocketPort cards installed in a system, the second, third and fourth RocketPort cards must also be set to the I/O address range used by the first RocketPort card; all cards must have these DIP switches set identically for proper operation. As shipped from the factory, DIP switch 4 is on, and switches 3, 2, and 1 are off by default, indicating an I/O address range used by the first card which starts at 0x180 and extends to 0x1C3. DIP Switches I/O Address Range 4 3 2 1 Used by the First Card ===================================== On Off On Off 100-143 On Off Off On 140-183 On Off Off Off 180-1C3 Off On On Off 200-243 Off On Off On 240-283 Off On Off Off 280-2C3 Off Off On Off 300-343 Off Off Off On 340-383 Off Off Off Off 380-3C3
Theodore Ts'o <firstname.lastname@example.com> This driver was written under contract for Comtrol Corporation. For dealer, distributor and other information regarding Comtrol RocketPort, contact Comtrol Corporation at (800) 926-6876 or send email to <firstname.lastname@example.com>. To report bugs for this driver, please send email to <firstname.lastname@example.com>.
If incoming software flow control is enabled on a 486 or Pentium machine, and the flow control is very heavily exercised, on rare occasions a character will get dropped. This problem does not occur on a 386, and it is not currently known whether the bug is in the rp driver or in the BSD/OS tty layer. FreeBSD 5.2.1 November 15, 1995 FreeBSD 5.2.1


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While Britain's Supreme Court today said that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden to face accusations of sex assault, he was also given two weeks to appeal that ruling.
Assange's lawyer said that she needs that time to probe whether the court's decision was based in part on matters that weren't argued during the legal proceedings.
As the BBC's Dominic Casciani reports, "if this is so, the Supreme Court will find itself in the extraordinary position of having ruled against Mr. Assange on a point that his lawyers did not have a chance to consider or respond to. If true, that would mean the judgement is arguably unfair — and that is why in two weeks' time the court could be in the unprecedented position of having to reopen the case."
According to The Guardian, "the full judgment [issued today] makes several references to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties ... which was not discussed in court."
Even as Assange mounts another appeal in Britain, he can also appeal the decision to the European court of human rights, the Guardian says.
Assange, 40, has been wanted in Sweden since 2010. Two Swedish women, as the AP recounts, have "accused him of molestation and rape following a visit to the country." Assange has denied any wrongdoing and alleges that he's being persecuted because of WikiLeaks' high-profile leaking of classified information.
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The Nashville Symphony Spring 2011 Fashion Show featured the designs of the talented duo, Marchesa. Emceed by ABC reporter Deborah Roberts and presented by Marissa Collections, this was an extravagant and spectacular show that broke records with a sold out show of over 800 spectators. You have seen their gowns on red carpets worn by celebrities such as Halle Berry, Olivia Wilde, Blake Lively, Resse Witherspoon, and numerous others. See what styles hit the runway Tuesday night at this magnificent occasion. We've also got photos of some of the fashionable attendees. Faith Hill put on a stellar performance as entertainment for the night. (Interview with Marchesa coming soon!)
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There were 176,000 more jobs on private employers' payrolls in August than the month before, according to the latest ADP National Employment Report.
That's slightly slower growth than the 198,000 gained from June to July. But Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics, says in the ADP report that "it is steady as she goes in the job market. Job gains in August were consistent with increases experienced over the past two-plus years." Moody's works with ADP, a payroll processor, to produce the monthly report.
The ADP report is released each month just before the ' latest figures on the labor market. Economists expect to hear on Friday that BLS estimates there were 170,000 to 180,000 jobs added to payrolls last month, which would be a bit better than that survey's initial estimate of job growth in July ( 162,000 more jobs). The U.S. unemployment rate is expected to remain around July's 7.4 percent.
Also Thursday morning, the Employment and Training Administration reported there were 323,000 first-time claims for jobless benefits filed last week. That was down by 9,000 from the week before and kept claims near their lowest level since January 2008.
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When presidents give major set-piece speeches, they're mainly engaged in exercises in futility since a commander-in-chief's high-flown rhetoric rarely shifts voter attitudes for long.
Indeed, the exercise could even be more negative than neutral since speeches by presidents advocating specific policy not only leave citizen unswayed but can fire up political opponents in the other party, according to Ezra Klein in an essay in the New Yorker.
Indeed, after reading Klein, who also blogs for the Washington Post, it seems like presidential speeches are often the rhetorical equivalent of the old and discredited medical practice of bleeding patients; not doing much good in most cases, definitely harmful in many others.
Still presidents continue to do what they do in the speechifying department, just like the doctors of old who drained their patients of their precious life stuff. Maybe it's because presidents like the physicians of past centuries can't apparently think of a better alternative.
Actually, Klein cites political scientist George Edwards who says the prevailing state of affairs has more to do with the differences between campaigning and governing.
" Edwards believes that by the time Presidents reach the White House their careers have taught them that they can persuade anyone of anything. 'Think about how these guys become President," he says. "The normal way is talking for two years. That's all you do, and somehow you win. You must be a really persuasive fellow.'
"But being President isn't the same as running for President. When you're running for President, giving a good speech helps you achieve your goals. When you are President, giving a good speech can prevent you from achieving them."
Klein provides several examples where presidential rhetoric appears to have hardened an Oval Office occupant's opponents against him, including George W. Bush's speeches for reforming Social Security and Obama's for health care reform.
It's really a fascinating problem to consider. No matter how excellently crafted and delivered are a president's speeches, it's the real lives of voters that matter most even if voters' perceptions are arguably unfair.
That's borne out in the latest Washington Post/ABC News polling that shows Obama's approval ratings falling as gas prices rise.
The difficulty was captured aptly by Democratic political strategist and pundit, Paul Begala, who Klein quotes:
" 'The Titanic had an iceberg problem. It did not have a communications problem. Right now, the President has a jobs problem. If Obama had four-per-cent unemployment, he would be on Mt. Rushmore already and people would look at Nancy Pelosi like Lady Gaga.' "
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[ 001 ] Immense was the delight and diversion which this story afforded to all the company alike, and great and general was the laughter over Fra Cipolla, and more especially at his pilgrimage, and the relics, as well those that he had but seen as those that he had brought back with him. Which being ended, the queen, taking note that therewith the close of her sovereignty was come, stood up, took off the crown, and set it on Dioneo's head, saying with a laugh: [ 002 ] " 'Tis time, Dioneo, that thou prove the weight of the burden of having ladies to govern and guide. Be thou king then; and let thy rule be such that, when 'tis ended, we may have cause to commend it. " [ 003 ] Dioneo took the crown, and laughingly answered: " Kings worthier far than I you may well have seen many a time ere now--I speak of the kings in chess; but let me have of you that obedience which is due to a true king, and of a surety I will give you to taste of that solace, without which perfection of joy there may not be in any festivity. But enough of this: I will govern as best I may. " [ 004 ] Then, as was the wont, he sent for the seneschal, and gave him particular instruction how to order matters during the term of his sovereignty, which done, he said: " Noble ladies, such and so diverse has been our discourse of the ways of men and their various fortunes, that but for the visit that we had a while ago from Madam Licisca, who by what she said has furnished me with matter of discourse for to-morrow, I doubt I had been not a little put to it to find a theme. [ 005 ] You heard how she said that there was not a woman in her neighbourhood whose husband had her virginity; adding that well she knew how many and what manner of tricks they, after marriage, played their husbands. [ 006 ] The first count we may well leave to the girls whom it concerns; the second, methinks, should prove a diverting topic: wherefore I ordain that, taking our cue from Madam Licisca, we discourse to-morrow of the tricks that, either for love or for their deliverance from peril, ladies have heretofore played their husbands, and whether they were by the said husbands detected or no. " [ 007 ] To discourse of such a topic some of the ladies deemed unmeet for them, and besought the king to find another theme. But the king made answer: [ 008 ] " Ladies, what manner of theme I have prescribed I know as well as you, nor was I to be diverted from prescribing it by that which you now think to declare unto me, for I wot the times are such that, so only men and women have a care to do nought that is unseemly, 'tis allowable to them to discourse of what they please. [ 009 ] For in sooth, as you must know, so out of joint are the times that the judges have deserted the judgment-seat, the laws are silent, and ample licence to preserve his life as best he may is accorded to each and all. [ 010 ] Wherefore, if you are somewhat less strict of speech than is your wont, not that aught unseemly in act may follow, but that you may afford solace to yourselves and others, I see not how you can be open to reasonable censure on the part of any. [ 011 ] Furthermore, nought that has been said from the first day to the present moment has, methinks, in any degree sullied the immaculate honour of your company, nor, God helping us, shall aught ever sully it. [ 012 ] Besides, who is there that knows not the quality of your honour? which were proof, I make no doubt, against not only the seductive influence of diverting discourse, but even the terror of death. [ 013 ] And, to tell you the truth, whoso wist that you refused to discourse of these light matters for a while, would be apt to suspect that 'twas but for that you had yourselves erred in like sort. [ 014 ] And truly a goodly honour would you confer upon me, obedient as I have ever been to you, if after making me your king and your lawgiver, you were to refuse to discourse of the theme which I prescribe. [ 015 ] Away, then, with this scruple fitter for low minds than yours, and let each study how she may give us a goodly story, and Fortune prosper her therein. "
[ 016 ] So spake the king, and the ladies, hearkening, said that, even as he would, so it should be: whereupon he gave all leave to do as they might be severally minded until the supper-hour. [ 017 ] The sun was still quite high in the heaven, for they had not enlarged in their discourse: wherefore, Dioneo with the other gallants being set to play at dice, Elisa called the other ladies apart, and said: [ 018 ] " There is a nook hard by this place, where I think none of you has ever been: 'tis called the Ladies' Vale: whither, ever since we have been here, I have desired to take you, but time meet I have not found until today, when the sun is still so high: if, then, you are minded to visit it, I have no manner of doubt that, when you are there, you will be very glad you came. " [ 019 ] The ladies answered that they were ready, and so, saying nought to the young men, they summoned one of their maids, and set forth; nor had they gone much more than a mile, when they arrived at the Vale of Ladies. They entered it by a very strait gorge, through which there issued a rivulet, clear as crystal, and a sight, than which nought more fair and pleasant, especially at that time when the heat was great, could be imagined, met their eyes. [ 020 ] Within the valley, as one of them afterwards told me, was a plain about half-a-mile in circumference, and so exactly circular that it might have been fashioned according to the compass, though it seemed a work of Nature's art, not man's: 'twas girdled about by six hills of no great height, each crowned with a palace that shewed as a goodly little castle. [ 021 ] The slopes of the hills were graduated from summit to base after the manner of the successive tiers, ever abridging their circle, that we see in our theatres; [ 022 ] and as many as fronted the southern rays were all planted so close with vines, olives, almond-trees, cherry-trees, fig-trees and other fruit-bearing trees not a few, that there was not a hand's-breadth of vacant space. [ 023 ] Those that fronted the north were in like manner covered with copses of oak saplings, ashes and other trees, as green and straight as might be. [ 024 ] Besides which, the plain, which was shut in on all sides save that on which the ladies had entered, was full of firs, cypresses, and bay-trees, with here and there a pine, in order and symmetry so meet and excellent as had they been planted by an artist, the best that might be found in that kind; wherethrough, even when the sun was in the zenith, scarce a ray of light might reach the ground, which was all one lawn of the finest turf, pranked with the hyacinth and divers other flowers. [ 025 ] Add to which--nor was there aught there more delightsome--a rivulet that, issuing from one of the gorges between two of the hills, descended over ledges of living rock, making, as it fell, a murmur most gratifying to the ear, and, seen from a distance, shewed as a spray of finest, powdered quick-silver, [ 026 ] and no sooner reached the little plain, than 'twas gathered into a tiny channel, by which it sped with great velocity to the middle of the plain, where it formed a diminutive lake, like the fishponds that townsfolk sometimes make in their gardens, when they have occasion for them. [ 027 ] The lake was not so deep but that a man might stand therein with his breast above the water; and so clear, so pellucid was the water that the bottom, which was of the finest gravel, shewed so distinct, that one, had he wished, who had nought better to do, might have counted the stones. Nor was it only the bottom that was to be seen, but such a multitude of fishes, glancing to and fro, as was at once a delight and a marvel to behold. [ 028 ] Bank it had none, but its margin was the lawn, to which it imparted a goodlier freshness. So much of the water as it might not contain was received by another tiny channel, through which, issuing from the vale, it glided swiftly to the plain below.
[ 029 ] To which pleasaunce the damsels being come surveyed it with roving glance, and finding it commendable, and marking the lake in front of them, did, as 'twas very hot, and they deemed themselves secure from observation, resolve to take a bath. [ 030 ] So, having bidden their maid wait and keep watch over the access to the vale, and give them warning, if haply any should approach it, they all seven undressed and got into the water, which to the whiteness of their flesh was even such a veil as fine glass is to the vermeil of the rose. [ 031 ] They, being thus in the water, the clearness of which was thereby in no wise affected, did presently begin to go hither and thither after the fish, which had much ado where to bestow themselves so as to escape out of their hands. [ 032 ] In which diversion they spent some time, and caught a few, and then they hied them out of the water and dressed them again, and bethinking them that 'twas time to return to the palace, they began slowly sauntering thither, dilating much as they went upon the beauty of the place, albeit they could not extol it more than they had already done. [ 033 ] 'Twas still quite early when they reached the palace, so that they found the gallants yet at play where they had left them. To whom quoth Pampinea with a smile: " We have stolen a march upon you to-day. " [ 034 ] " So, " replied Dioneo, " 'tis with you do first and say after? " [ 035 ] " Ay, my lord, " returned Pampinea, and told him at large whence they came, and what the place was like, and how far 'twas off, and what they had done. [ 036 ] What she said of the beauty of the spot begat in the king a desire to see it: wherefore he straightway ordered supper, whereof when all had gaily partaken, the three gallants parted from the ladies and hied them with their servants to the vale, where none of them had ever been before, and, having marked all its beauties, extolled it as scarce to be matched in all the world. [ 037 ] Then, as the hour was very late, they did but bathe, and as soon as they had resumed their clothes, returned to the ladies, whom they found dancing a carol to an air that Fiammetta sang, which done, they conversed of the Ladies' Vale, waxing eloquent in praise thereof: [ 038 ] insomuch that the king called the seneschal, and bade him have some beds made ready and carried thither on the morrow, that any that were so minded might there take their siesta. [ 039 ] He then had lights and wine and comfits brought; and when they had taken a slight refection, he bade all address them to the dance. So at his behest Pamfilo led a dance, and then the king, turning with gracious mien to Elisa: [ 040 ] " Fair damsel, " quoth he, " 'twas thou to-day didst me this honour of the crown; and 'tis my will that thine to-night be the honour or the song; wherefore sing us whatsoever thou hast most lief. " [ 041 ] " That gladly will I, " replied Elisa smiling; and thus with dulcet voice began:
[ 042 ] If of thy talons, Love, be quit I may,I deem it scarce can beBut other fangs I may elude for aye.
[ 043 ] Service I took with thee, a tender maid,In thy war thinking perfect peace to find,And all my arms upon the ground I laid,Yielding myself to thee with trustful mind:Thou, harpy-tyrant, whom no faith may bind,Eftsoons didst swoop on me,And with thy cruel claws mad'st me thy prey.
[ 044 ] Then thy poor captive, bound with many a chain,Thou tookst, and gav'st to him, whom fate did callHither my death to be; for that in painAnd bitter tears I waste away, his thrall:Nor heave I e'er a sigh, or tear let fall,So harsh a lord is he,That him inclines a jot my grief to allay.
[ 045 ] My prayers upon the idle air are spent:He hears not, will not hear; wherefore in vainThe more each hour my soul doth her torment;Nor may I die, albeit to die were gain.Ah! Lord, have pity of my bitter pain!Help have I none but thee;Then take and bind and at my feet him lay.
[ 046 ] But if thou wilt not, do my soul but looseFrom hope, that her still binds with triple chain.Sure, O my Lord, this prayer thou'lt not refuse:The which so thou to grant me do but deign,I look my wonted beauty to regain,And banish miseryWith roses white and red bedecked and gay.
[ 047 ] So with a most piteous sigh ended Elisa her song, whereat all wondered exceedingly, nor might any conjecture wherefore she so sang. [ 048 ] But the king, who was in a jolly humour, sent for Tindaro, and bade him out with his cornemuse, and caused them tread many a measure thereto, until, no small part of the night being thus spent, he gave leave to all to betake them to rest.
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I made these cookies for one of my co-workers – she's a secretary, too, and such a sweet person!
I was flipping through the book and couldn't decide which recipe to bake for her – should I go with ginger? Walnuts? Peanut butter, perhaps? So many options…
Then I thought that one just can't go wrong with chocolate, especially when it comes with more chocolate. :D
Totally chocolate chocolate chip cookies
from Big Fat Cookies
2 2/3 cups (450g/16ounces) semisweet chocolate chips*
1 cup (140g) unbleached all-purpose flour
¼ cup (23g) unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup (113g/1 stick) unsalted butter, slightly softened
½ cup (85g) packed light brown sugar
¼ cup (60g) granulated sugar
1 large cold egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Position a rack in the middle of the oven. Preheat the oven to 165ºC/325ºF.
Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
Put 2/3 cup (112g/4 ounces) of the chocolate chips in a heatproof container or the top of a double boiler and place it over, but not touching, a saucepan of barely simmering water (or the bottom of the double boiler). Stir the chocolate chips until melted and smooth. Remove from the water and set aside.
Sift the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt into a medium bowl and set aside. In a large bowl, using an electric mixer on medium speed beat the butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar until smoothly blended, about 1 minute.
Stop the mixer and scrape the sides of the bowl as needed during mixing. On low speed, mix in the melted chocolate chips until blended. Add the egg and vanilla, mixing until blended, about 1 minute. Add the flour mixture, mixing just until it is incorporated. Mix in the remaining 2 cups (338g) chocolate chips.
Using an ice cream scoop or measuring cup with a ¼-cup capacity, scoop mounds of dough onto the prepared baking sheets, spacing the cookies 3 inches apart.
Bake the cookies one sheet at a time until they crack slightly on top and a toothpick inserted in the center of a cookie comes out with moist crumbs, not wet batter, about 18 minutes (if the toothpick penetrates a chocolate chip, test another spot).
Cool the cookies on the baking sheet for 5 minutes, then use a wide metal spatula to transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely. The outsides of the cookies will become crisp as the cookies cool.
The cookies can be stored in a tightly covered container at room temperature for up to 4 days.
* I used 112g/4 ounces of chopped semisweet chocolate for the cookie dough and then only 220g chocolate chips (instead of 338g) – they were pretty chocolatey to me.
Makes 12 – I used a tablespoon to measure the cookie dough and got 38 cookies


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On Friday (May 18), CalArts held its 2012 graduation ceremony, dispatching the usual pomp and circumstance of other college graduations, instead bringing creativity, levity—and pyrotechnics.
The afternoon's festivities began with a traditional Gamelan music and dance ensemble to greet guests arriving for the ceremony. Bulgarian-born performer-composer and now one of CalArts' first Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) graduates Milen Kirov led the Balkan brass band Orkestar MÉZÉ in the processional to begin the ceremony and entertain guests in the Main Gallery at the end of the evening.
One of the most touching moments occurred at the end of the ceremony, when the School of Art paid tribute to artist and longtime faculty member Martin Kersels, who is leaving CalArts to begin a new post at Yale University in the fall.
Special guests at graduation included Thomas L. Lee, vice chairman of CalArts' Board of Trustees; student speaker Charles Levin, who earned his MFA in Jazz Studies at the age of 60 after leaving a career in journalism; and theater artist Peter Sellars, who received an honorary degree from CalArts.
In his remarks to the CalArts' graduating class, Sellars applauded the students for bringing their "coolness" factor into the real world and challenged them to come up with creative solutions to solve the world's problems.
"Look around you," Sellars said. "And what is missing from the picture, put it there."
We've posted a photo gallery of candid shots from the day's events. We'll post additional photos tomorrow from Institute photographer Scott Groller and videos later this week.


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A development blog of what Con Kolivas is doing with code at the moment with the emphasis on linux kernel, MuQSS, BFS and -ck.
Saturday 24 March 2012
Changes since 3.2.0-ck1:
New BFS version 0.420 AKA smoking as discussed here:
Includes one build bugfix for UP compared to that first release candidate.
Other changes:
These patches have been dropped:
The Virtual Memory subsystem has changed so much it's hard to know if these patches do what they originally intended to do, nor if they are helpful any more. In the absence of being able to test their validity, it seems safer to just drop them.
The rest of the patchset is just a resync.
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Thanks, CK. I wanted to see if a high number of replicates would eventually show a separation in the bfs v0.416 vs bfs v0.420 make test for the quad core chip. It didn't even going out to n=72. Nor did it on a dual HT chip. Only the dual quad HT machine seemed to give a statistically significant difference between the two bfs versions.
ANOVA-Three Machines
The 'make benchmark' is compiling the linux 3.3.0 via 'make -jx bzImage' and timing the result. The "x" corresponds to the number of cores on the box. In this case, n=x for the quad and dual core chip (HT) and n=x for the dual quad (HT). This is done via a bash script.Thanks for the ck patch for 3.3. It's working very nicely for me. By the way, would it be possible for you to change the timer frequency patch to allow a numeric value to be set in the kernel config file instead of having to chose from a list of preselected values? I'm curious as to whether or not 30Hz could give better throughput on a server without making it unresponsive and if 500Hz or 700Hz could could improve throughput on the desktop without any noticeable loss of responsiveness. It could also allow people that want to tweak their system to the max for responsiveness to try 1050Hz or 1100Hz.
ReplyDeleteThanks Tux. In principle it's a reasonable idea however lots of code in the kernel breaks with values below 100 (divide by zero errors etc.), and to be perfectly honest no one would be able to distinguish anything between 1000, 1050 or 1100 either perceptibly or with any benchmarks. Only coarser increments make sense I'm afraid. Maybe 500 as extra.
ReplyDelete- Anonymous26 March 2012 at 03:19
Heh. Mike Galbraith, as usual: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/25/38
"For normal desktop use, I don't see any real difference with BFS vs CFS"RepliesIf he were to try compiling something or doing video encoding in the background while playing a game like Unreal Tournament 2004 or Team Fortress 2, he would have noticed a big difference. When I do this with CFS, I can really notice it in the game. With BFS, I have to quit the game every once in a while to check if it finished because I can't tell otherwise. Perhaps this isn't "normal desktop use." I wonder if he also set all the right kernel config options (no tickless, 1000Hz, no cgroups, full preemption).
DeleteBe aware that Mike was responsible for the "interactive tuning" of CFS. This may help you understand his comment. There will be no flamewar as I never respond to him. There's a special game people play unwittingly on mailing lists called "If I get the last word in and the other person stops responding that means I won". I stopped playing it years ago.
Delete- Anonymous27 March 2012 at 08:18
I agre that Mike's comment is flawed. Nobody cares about top loading snapshot at any given moment, we are interested in a larger window averages. Also reporting the real time for one program and conviniently hiding the share that the massive_intr was getting is a shell game.
However, I see that the heterogenopus loading is never tested with only make -j. Show me make -j competting with x264 encoding and I will be convinced. Since people are querying the fairness aspect of BFS, I felt obliged to post a rebuttal, more for the users than Mike.
- Anonymous28 March 2012 at 00:10
Regarding fairness: Once the United Nations will declare human rights to computer programs then Con Kolivas ends up on some watch list ...
If we had the scheduler plugin infrastructure in place, we could dry-run the other scheduler in paralel to see what other decisions it would make at the same point ...
A question to the other mm ck1 patches: If you have transparent huge pages enabled there is a kind of defrag background process going on. If you then minimize swap behavior wouldn't this harm? Also idling these tasks too much, could this provoke a race condition when using virtualbox for example?
Ralph Ulrich CK - I have been running a `nice -19 make -j16 bzImage` looped on that dual quad system for a while now logging the output of `top -b` to a text file. I cannot locate any PR values >41 in the log and thus cannot reproduce that unusual bug. I have given up :)
$ wc -l log.txt
8826530 log.txt
$ awk '{ print $3 }' log.txt | sed -e '/RT/d' -e '/total/d' -e '/PR/d' -e '/sy/d' | sort -rn
...- Anonymous8 April 2012 at 03:01
one thing I noticed is that it does this all the time
1183 ? S 0:00 \_ [xfsaild/sda10]
2168 ? S 0:06 \_ [cifsd]
2243 ? S 0:01 \_ [flush-8:0]
27126 ? S 21114581:29 \_ [kworker/1:0]
461 ? S 0:00 \_ [kworker/0:2]
17004 ? S 0:00 \_ [kworker/1:2]
17501 ? S 0:00 \_ [kworker/0:1]
seems when there is something that bogs the kernel down some processes do this. it has been doing it for a few versions now. - Anonymous13 April 2012 at 02:55
I've been compiling kernel since version 2.3.32 always with bfs, 1000hz, removing swap and usng liquorix .config, and, this BFS version with kernel 3.3 I think it's the best I've ever seen, faster, no lags in any software I run, faster boot time, also with kernel 3.3 came with some drivers fixs and some tweaks on networking, that you can feel, so best version till now...
I tested without BFS (but using a lower dirt ratio, 1000hz, prempt desktop), you can really feel the difference using BFS or CFS, probabaly this last fixes from BFS helped a lot, in performance therms, nice work! - Anonymous3 May 2012 at 00:58
This might help: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=122946
ReplyDelete - Anonymous14 May 2012 at 05:38
Hi CK & BFS-Community!
Has someone of you already tried to review / test the new RIFS V2 (Rotary Interactivity Favor Scheduler) from Mou Chen? (See http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=133675617620526&w=2 for the announcement + patch)
Although the patch even contains many unneeded things that irritate -- it looks to me like a somehow "enhanced" version based on or including much of the most recent CK patchset. Mou Chen has written he wanted to clean up his patch (what didn't happen so far?). I've uploaded the patch after cleaning up the trivial things: http://pastebin.com/XfZ0A4mi
Best regards,
Manuel Krause - Anonymous15 May 2012 at 15:45
This is from the comments thread @ Phoronix:
"It's true that it handles interactivity under heavy load better than bfs, but almost every cpu intensive task seems to be slower with the patch. i'm going to this patch again tomorrow."
"Well, that is the price you pay for interactivity or low latency.
Seems like the main problem is that io kthreads aren't preemptible with the kernel most desktops use. Please Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Fedora, and Suse, make the preempt kernel default.
If someone is running a server then either offer a server spin, or the less preemptive kernel for them in the repos.
Without these more strongly preemptive kernels schedulers just don't matter very much. Sure, you'll see some differences, but you'll see more differences between them if you change kernels. This is why I think Android didn't go with bfs(or some other scheduler than cds)." Con, are you aware there is a person named Hillf Danton posting patches to BFS 4.20 on the LKML? I seem to remember he comes from an Android background but i may be wrong.
ReplyDeleteRepliesI'm completely swamped by real life and not remotely paying attention to LKML and he hasn't cc'ed me.
Deletehttps://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/18/178 - Re: BFS 420: fix ttwu stat
http://www.kernelhub.org/?msg=68547&p=2 - BFS 420: nuke the sticky bits
http://www.kernelhub.org/?msg=71247&p=2 - BFS 420: cleanup in tick handling
http://www.kernelhub.org/?msg=69901&p=2 - BFS 420: cleanup try_preempt
http://www.kernelhub.org/?msg=67745&p=2 [1/3] BFS 420: correct getting rr interval
http://www.kernelhub.org/?msg=67747&p=2 [2/3] BFS 420: compact enqueue_task
http://www.kernelhub.org/?msg=67748&p=2 [3/3] BFS 420: cleanup the default root domain
(Some of the threads were inaccessible via lkml)
Mike BrownWith real life commitments, I don't even have time to review them right now.
Delete- Anonymous25 May 2012 at 18:56
I'd like to see an "unofficially mantained" BFS (perhaps including Danton's patches) for those of us who want/need to stay up-to-date with recent kernel versions... both BFS and BFQ are mantained by one or a couple of persons at max.
Delete i dont see any value.. bfs is a component/algorithm. If there is anything relavent to its goal(s) then it would be unproductive having that information elsewhere.
If dantons patches are corrections/bugfixes. its important to give them to everyone. If they are policy changes, then we are no longer 'bfs'.
if you are willing to review the patches and/or bfs code and specifically suggest bugfixes then im more than positive ck will acknowledge any improvements.
Mike Brown
- Anonymous24 May 2012 at 10:17
Keep up the good work and do what you love !
Thanks for the patches ! - Anonymous27 May 2012 at 17:08
save everyone a few minutes of time if they want to test the unofficial patches
wget https://lkml.org/lkml/diff/2012/5/25/233/1 -O bfs_patch_1.patch
wget https://lkml.org/lkml/diff/2012/5/25/235/1 -O bfs_patch_2.patch
wget https://lkml.org/lkml/diff/2012/5/25/217/1 -O bfs_patch_3.patch
wget https://lkml.org/lkml/diff/2012/5/25/231/1 -O bfs_patch_4.patch
wget https://lkml.org/lkml/diff/2012/5/25/312/1 -O bfs_patch_5.patch
wget https://lkml.org/lkml/diff/2012/5/25/200/1 -O bfs_patch_6.patch
wget https://lkml.org/lkml/diff/2012/5/22/154/1 -O bfs_patch_7.patch - Anonymous28 May 2012 at 01:03
Very,very thank you, I tried by copying from kde-knode but got a lot of bad and missing white spaces ...
Do you think these are all Hillf patches?
I am very curious if my linx-3.3.7-bfs420patched kernel will run better than before: I had a slowing down after some hours - not much though.
Ralph Ulrich, Germany - Anonymous28 May 2012 at 02:55
No, no
These seven patches dont work: First screen is a stacktrace, something like
Bfs exciting
Ralph Ulrich, Germany - Anonymous28 May 2012 at 04:09
Hillf Danton posted 22 patches to lkml in total (as of today). Not very easy to fetch. Some of them seem to me to be simple cleanups. But I don't have enough knowledge to determine if they're useful or complete or which ones are needed at all or should be excluded.
Would be glad if someone 'who knows' posted some hints about it. ^^
Manuel Krause Hi Con
I have find a method to let the earliest deadline task choosing become O(1).(I have spent some time to post this because I m using Tor to crawl out from GFW. The chinese gov has blocked us from Blogspot)
I 'll send you a copy of this by email.
We can use 40 list_head instead of the single list for time sharing scheduling policy. Then for task selection we will select the task from these 40 list_head(actually is less than 40, just decide by next_sched_bit), then make a comparsion of these tasks(actually in the worse case we just need to do 40 times of comparsion) and pick the lowest task. If a task wake, it would be the first node of (queue + p->static_prio). If a task run out of its timeslice, it will become the last node of(queue + p->static_prio). This is a concept of BFS deadline presort algorithm and the time complexity is O(1)
Why we just need to compare 40 times is because the value of PRIO_RANGE is 40.
For example , in the following case: 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 (bitmap)
We just need to compare 3 times. Because PRIO_RANGE is a constant, the algorithm is O(1). We just need to compare the first task of q1, q4 and q5.
ChenReplies- Anonymous31 May 2012 at 01:07
btw instead of tor you can also try freegate, it's a lot faster: www.dit-inc.us/freegate
- Anonymous31 May 2012 at 07:34
Hillf Danton just has published a summury patch of his previous 21 patches which he calls bfs-421
I wonder how this is received by Con ...
Ralph Ulrich
from HamburgReplies- Anonymous31 May 2012 at 08:36
At least he did this:
- printk(KERN_INFO "BFS CPU scheduler v0.420 by Con Kolivas.\n");
+ printk(KERN_INFO "BFS v0.421 derived from v0.420 by Con Kolivas\n");
Doesn't work for me for now anyways. I suspect it has something to do with my single CPU, single core PIII CPU. Bootup hangs after CPU initialisation.
Manuel Krause
- Anonymous31 May 2012 at 08:32
But this summury patch terribly fails to patch
Applying patch patches/zfeatures/patch_BFS_420_a_tiny_step_forward.patch
patching file include/linux/sched.h
patching file kernel/sched/bfs.c
Hunk #4 succeeded at 716 with fuzz 2.
Hunk #5 succeeded at 1074 with fuzz 2.
Hunk #7 succeeded at 1427 with fuzz 1.
Hunk #8 FAILED at 1444.
Hunk #10 FAILED at 1488.
Hunk #11 FAILED at 1537.
Hunk #12 succeeded at 1582 with fuzz 1.
Hunk #13 FAILED at 1598.
Hunk #15 FAILED at 1630.
Hunk #16 FAILED at 1725.
Hunk #17 FAILED at 1777.
Hunk #18 FAILED at 2770.
Hunk #19 succeeded at 2814 with fuzz 2.
Hunk #20 FAILED at 2826.
Hunk #21 FAILED at 3069.
Hunk #24 succeeded at 4573 with fuzz 1.
Hunk #25 FAILED at 4829.
Hunk #26 FAILED at 4956.
Hunk #27 succeeded at 5122 with fuzz 1.
Ralph UlrichReplies- Anonymous31 May 2012 at 08:46
Hi Ralph, where did you get the patch from? If you took it from lkml everyhing patches fine on top of kernel 3.3.7 & BFS_420.
Manuel Krause He had already hang himself up because of a list a of bug,that is.:D
Actually he doesn't not really want to help BFS to improve.He just wants himself to become famous.- Anonymous31 May 2012 at 08:52
You did insert whitespaces into the copied & pasted text document, did you?! ;-) MK
- Anonymous31 May 2012 at 09:29
Excuse my last message: Hillf D. summary diff patches. It was my bloody knode program which I use to watch the kernel mailing list. How to get that patch cleanly - I just wonder.
Ralph Ulrich
HamburgReplies- Anonymous31 May 2012 at 09:44
copy & paste
insert one whitespace to each empty newline
ready for patching
Manuel - Anonymous31 May 2012 at 22:58
Doesnt work, because copy-paste adds up a thousends of blanks and tabs into the copied text.
Saving the html page also doesnt work, because there are lots of html inserted characters.
Ralph Ulrich
- Anonymous31 May 2012 at 09:40
After hand editing a japanese in the bfs-421-patch I had it working. But compile fails for linux-3.3.7:
kernel/sched/bfs.c: In function 'try_preempt':
*kernel/sched/bfs.c:1450:2: error: incompatible type for argument 2 of 'cpumask_next_and' - Anonymous31 May 2012 at 09:58
Then your hand editing went wrong. Compiling worked here. Also I don't have a 'cpumask_next_and' in bfs.c
Please, check carefully! Manuel The danton patches remove the priority feature from bfs, with the possibility of a few bug fixes, Id recommend holding off on them for now.
ReplyDeleteReplies- Anonymous31 May 2012 at 22:09
As the scheduler runs often, really!
We need it error free. Now that there are maintained realtime kernels in every distribution easy to install, better a less capable BFS for the majority of people!
By the way, to me - not a developer - these H.D. patches just look like easy bug findings:
- rq = task_grq_lock(p, &flags);
+ rq = task_grq_lock(p->parent, &flags);
- BUG_ON(!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, rq->rd->span));
+ BUG_ON(cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, rq->rd->span));
But I admit to not know what BUG_ON does ... - Anonymous31 May 2012 at 22:21
... and if a feature less BFS brings a performance boost, I also would prefer to get rid of that feature! Wasn't this the philosophy of BFS in the first plase: Keep it simple and just going for the most of users?
Ralph Ulrich Alas the first does nothing since the first argument is there for consistency only and is optimised out and the 2nd part is not correct.
Delete- Anonymous31 May 2012 at 22:38
I don't want a "less capable BFS" just for the majority of people. Whatever you intended to say... Con Kolivas would make the best BFS anyways. :-)
Manuel Krause - Anonymous31 May 2012 at 23:04
Manuel, then we need a fork: Out there - mainline CFS - is highly configurable. And must be configured (as distributions do hopefully). We need a not-need-to-know Scheduler for the most people.
Delete - Anonymous31 May 2012 at 23:53
ck said: "Alas the first does nothing since the first argument is there for consistency only and is optimised"
The real bug is documentation then:
+ /* p->parent seems right, but we don't need p anyway */
Sure, documentation was not needed as long as there was a single developer
I've had a look over the combined patches and unfortunately I have to say there's little to nothing in it that I can use in the next real BFS. Unless he submits them all to me one by one I can't really comment on them, but I doubt I can use any of it as is at the moment as quite a few things are subtly broken in there.
ReplyDeleteReplies- Anonymous31 May 2012 at 22:02
Should I send the previous approx. 23 single patches to your mail addy? ;-)
I've collected them all. :-)
OMG. ~thunder~
Manuel Krause - Anonymous31 May 2012 at 22:12
The single patches from Hillf Danton have an introduction at the top at least. The summary is just for Emmanuel Benisty and comes out without desciption en detail. ^^
Manuel Krause
- Anonymous31 May 2012 at 21:03
No, not wrong editig, Emmanuel Benisty on LKML showed the same compile error! If compilation worked for you, could you just inspect a diff of your .config with Emmanuels?
Ralph UlrichReplies- Anonymous31 May 2012 at 21:51
Ähem... How deeply do I need to go into that .config diff??? Please advise me: I get 326 diffs. And many of them are not BFS related. "WHERE should I search for WHAT?!11": That's my opinion on .config diffs generally.
When Hillf Dantons patch fails to compile depending on .config diffs or the compiled kernel fails to pass CPU initialisation -- and hangs for me -- there's something going wrong.
Manuel Krause - Anonymous31 May 2012 at 22:00
"That's my opinion on .config diffs generally."
I for long advocate we need a web-service showing us the relevant pieces :(
Ralph Ulrich - Anonymous31 May 2012 at 22:57
@Ralph, that's not my job.
Where is the relevant diff? What do you assume?
Is it:
-# CONFIG_64BIT is not set
-# CONFIG_X86_64 is not set
+# CONFIG_X86_32 is not set
Manuel Krause - Anonymous31 May 2012 at 23:15
As turns out Con says below these H.D. patches dont fix anything. No need to work about that ...
I was hot about H.D. patches, because I had observed some retarding when running my linux-3.3.x-bfs420 gentoo system for hours. Ever less performance after some hours...
But such issues could be introduced by "tainting" proprietary software (nvidia,broadcom-wl)....
Ralph Ulrich
- Anonymous31 May 2012 at 21:08
Con, now would be the time a github account could help collaborating :)
Ralph UlrichReplies- Anonymous31 May 2012 at 22:23
I don't need github. WTH is github?
Cons released patches always came in time. And applied and compiled.
For now I'm still glad with openSUSE 3.3.7 + BFS_420 + mm-drop_swap_cache_aggressively.patch +BFQ.
Manuel Krause - Anonymous31 May 2012 at 23:26
Do you have TransparentHugePageTables activated, and don't you consider it's defragmentation feature needs some aggressivly space hold free, just in case you get out of free RAM space?
Ralph Ulrich - Anonymous31 May 2012 at 23:48
I don't have THP & Co. enabled, as I thought it to be too time consuming for my lowest-end CPU (in nowadays' measurements). Same for mem compaction, zcache, cleancache, frontswap, o. dgl.
I don't get out of RAM since some kernel revisions ago. (Can't say exactly.)
Manuel Krause
I think a lot of you are missing the point. I was being polite so I guess I should be more explicit. Virtually all of the code in that patch is naive and actually wrong and breaks BFS' behaviour...
ReplyDeleteReplies- Anonymous31 May 2012 at 23:33
But, dear Con Kolivas, you also should explain the "missed point", "naive" & "wrong" things to us -- at least to get a little more of insight.
Manuel Krause - Anonymous31 May 2012 at 23:37
Yes, doesnt boot. Emmanuel Benisty just showed:
But I hope Hillf Danton keeps trying,
because I would like to have a feature poor but error free and performant working BFS. Ralph Ulrich
Sigh... I've tried to be reserved and
He's made the hot path of the enqueue task slower by passing it more arguments and adding more compares thinking he cleaned up a rarely used function. He completely broke nice functioning at all. Preemption broke and would cause lots of unnecessary reschedules for the wrong tasks. A vast amount of cpu cache warmth effects were broken that would adversely affect throughput. He put extra code into the expensive task taking code path with schedstats that doesn't work that way on BFS from CFS. He put fixes in that fixed nothing and sometimes broke what works. He was inconsistent about removing features yet leaving parts of them behind.
But, if you don't believe what the code does and are quite happy to think it's going to be performant, be my guest and use it for yourself.
As much as I would like to encourage people to hack on BFS, this is not the way to go about it, and especially without even involving me. But if he wants to maintain a fork of BFS, then that's his business.
I've been busy preparing for a work interview, so to be honest, I've had trouble caring about code for a while. I will be syncing up BFS with 3.4 once I have more time, which is not far away.- Anonymous1 June 2012 at 13:56
I will also wait. Good luck on the interview, I have two myself tomorrow lol
ReplyDelete - Anonymous1 June 2012 at 17:47
If we now get 4 versions of a working Linux scheduler in place
perhaps there is a chance to get mainline a compile time plugin infrastructure. If not this was ridiculous once more ...
Ralph UlrichRepliesExcept Hilff's broken one, all of them work.
BFS is very fair, RIFS can treat the interactive task well even with big workload. Eh..I can't say anything that is good about CFS.If you really want to get something good comment about CFS, I would say CFS can support insane configuration(***IT IS NOT NECESSARY FOR DESKTOP***)
Chen- Anonymous2 June 2012 at 01:37
Cool: insanity feature rich
/me waiting still for a fix:
USE="bull" emerge cow
(in case you didnt know the oldest gentoo bug)
Con, please check the mailbox, thanks. ;-)
Subject: [PATCH 06/01]BFS O(1) improvement.The mail included a diff.I 'm trying it already.
Also I want to give an advice to Hilff here. Please check that your code ***REALLY WORK*** before posting it. Posting the ***BROKEN PATCH*** means wasting the others' time and sucking your head into a dish of shit, also you will lost your credit! If you want to post something and you say that your work is better, please, paste a benchmark result. No people want their box to become a tool for experiment. Scheduler is a critical part of any kind of OS!
Here I also want to post something that is interesting.
* Chen wrote:
> Totally about 17000 lines of code for RT sched, CFS sched, and MODULAR
As I said it's 20 KLOC, you are probably looking at an older
At 20 KLOC, as I explained, the scheduler is one of the smaller
kernel subsystems.
You must realise something from this mail. :D
Chen- Anonymous2 June 2012 at 01:26
Hillf thought he could grab some very easy fruits. But there are real documentation bugs in Cons code. Which didn't matter as long Con was a single "team". I hope he gets some motivation, if he reads Cons words.
Ralph Ulrich - Anonymous6 June 2012 at 19:21
@ Ralph Ulrich,
can you, please, explain more about the "slowing" you do experience? I experience it, too.
Please, feel free to post to my email posted earlier on here. I keep contact to Hillf Damon, as he's interested in this, too.
Manuel Krause - Anonymous10 June 2012 at 03:44
Hi Manuel,
I cannot explain my slow down experience after some hours using linux-3.3-bfs. It is like a kind of resistance switching windows (kde-4.8).
Also linux-3.4-bfs doesn't gain much. This was different with previous versions: Using linux-3.2-bfs was "feelable" better than mainline linux-3.2.
If you are contacting to H.D. please tell him to use github. It is not feasable to guess what of his numerous patches in what special sequence need to be applied. Also there are problems with whitespace and special japanese characters (Easter Eggs in Con Kolivas code) when I tried to get H.D. patches through the web.
Ralph UlrichReplies- Anonymous11 June 2012 at 02:15
Hi, Ralph!
Many thanks for answering. (I already thought you got lost.^^ :-? )
For the slowdown experience - it's the same for me (window switching) but I also use the same GUI. KDE 4.8.3 ATM. Maybe that's the culprit. Or, just a moment, you also use firefox with more tabs open? Do you have a lag, over longer uptime, when switching from tab to another tab?! I have it.
Regarding H.D.s patches, I already proposed him the way Mou Chen went, posting his patches to a code.google.com page. I don't know anything about github nor how to use it. But I'll let him know about your proposal.
I never had any problems with reediting those patches and they did work well in the final stage (as of 3.3.8).
Manuel Krause
- Anonymous11 June 2012 at 04:51
sure there are Window Managers and other programs with flaws. But ever before linux-3.3 there was significant better behavior of the BFScheduler...
code.google is ok, we should open a google group for discussions about schedulers there!
Ralph Ulrich
PS: You can find me as ralul at siduction.orgReplies- Anonymous12 June 2012 at 04:00
@Ralph: I didn't like the 3.[0..2]ers.
And the 3.4.2 did me a complete system abort when reading from shm/tmpfs.
Best experience ever was 3.3.8 with D.H.s patches. But that did show this slowdown, too.
Have you re-tested with kernels & BFS prior to the 3.3 series that there's really no slowdown?
I already said, I only can see it after a longer uptime, say 12 to 48h. But it is fact.
And it doesn't imply, that the CPU scheduler is wrong
Manuel - Anonymous12 June 2012 at 09:58
Hi Manuel,
runs now for some hours: good experience!
We hat linux-3.2-bfs at siduction.org for some time without any complains from users. This one was a real difference to mainline!
Now linux-3.4-bfs is good. No slowdown for some hours. But mainline scheduler has improved also. I cannot feel the difference any more. As this was the case with linux-3.2-bfs.
I need to learn benchmarking ...
Greetings from Hamburg, Ralph Ulrich


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- "Looks like a quality resource that can only become more notable in the future." -Pmsyyz
- "This wiki is notable." - Yuckfoo
A list of Wikipedia articles linking to Wikipedia's article on OrthodoxWiki can be found here.
From WikiIndex
- "Vibrant" [1]
For criticism, please go here.
Recent Off-Site Buzz
More Off-site Discussion
- http://www.orthodoxchristianity.net/forum/index.php?topic=9243
- http://homepage.mac.com/gthurman/iblog/C735571802/E1743762675/
- http://www.christianforums.com/t1187900-orthodox-wikipedia.html
- http://p202.ezboard.com/ftheyorkforumfrm10.showMessage?topicID=51.topic
- http://www.chrysostom.org/andrew/
- http://www.livejournal.com/users/uncreatedlight/30648.html
- http://p066.ezboard.com/fnicholasforum88957frm3.showMessage?topicID=382.topic
- http://www.monachos.net/mb/messages/6555/18553.html
- There is an Orthodox Wiki - at TheologyWeb.com
- http://www.worldprayer.us/bible/christian/102948-Orthodox-Christianity-Wiki.html
- http://byzantinecalvinist.blogspot.com/2005_04_01_byzantinecalvinist_archive.html#111252983278750595 - "A new on-line encyclopaedia"
- http://thebereans.net/forum/index.php?topic=4668.msg131347#msg131347 - Causing confusion about the "Eighth Ecumenical Council"!
Simple Reverse Links / Listings
- http://www.warsaw-hotel.info/poland-guide/Eastern_Orthodoxy
- http://www.kettletoaster.com/blog/2005/02/writing-through-sleepaway-camp-angelas.html (rather hidden)
- http://www.ortodoks.dk/links.htm (also hidden in a link)
- http://www.livejournal.com/community/catholicism/1036114.html?thread=11592786#t11592786
- http://www.theopedia.com/User_talk:JoeyDay
- http://cs-people.bu.edu/butta1/ (Orthodox Spiritual Goodies)
- http://sarisburium.blogspot.com/
- http://homepage.mac.com/gthurman/iblog/
- http://pistevo.blogspot.com/ (s.v. March 12th)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Church#External_links
- http://karlthienes.blogspot.com/
- http://www.orthodoxlinks.info/search?text=orthodoxwiki&where=1
- http://xanthikos.blogspot.com/
- http://blogodoxy.typepad.com/
- http://southern-orthodoxy.blogspot.com/
- http://djproject.livejournal.com/friends/
- http://www.stjohnsroch.org/links.html - St. John the Baptist Orthodox Church, Rochester, NY
- http://www.annunciation.va.goarch.org/links.php - Fr. Poulos' recommended links, from Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Norfolk, VA
- http://www.greeklaws.com/fora/index.php?showtopic=17658&st=56&#entry167979 (in Greek)
- http://www.zeitun-eg.org/ThBibInformatics_idx.htm (under 'Selected Web URIs')
- http://stjrussianorthodox.com/miscellaneous.htm
- http://www.annunciation.va.goarch.org/links.php (A "Fr. Poulos recommended link")
- http://www.noeticspace.com/ ("Just because I like it")
- http://www.pashitta.com/
- http://thrustofgrace.blogspot.com/
- http://www.ntom.org/ - North Texas Orthodox Missions
- Solidarity and Sustainability
- Theological & Biblical Informatics
- Head full of sermons, mouth full of spiders
- http://www.stnicholaspunchbowl.org.au - Orthodox Education Links
- and many more...
References to OrthodoxWiki Articles
- http://www.kerygma.org/lee/2005/04/archbishop-iakovos-dead-at-93.htm - Ligonier Meeting
- Why is Orthodox Easter So Much Later This Year Than Western Easter? - Paschalion
- http://www.explore-biography.com/religious_figures/J/John_Climacus.html - The Ladder of Divine Ascent
- http://www.christianforums.com/t1481360-western-rite-orthodox.html&page=2 - Western Rite
- http://www.vita-religiosa.de/kirchita.htm - Timeline of Church History
- http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/orthlink.htm - Church of Alexandria
- http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/g/gr/greek_old_calendarists.htm - Lifted from Wikipedia
- http://www.stjamesok.org/ - Link to May_5!
- http://cblankens.blogspot.com - Protection_of_the_Holy_Virgin_Monastery_(Lake_George,_Colorado)
- [2] - Harold of England showing up in someone's del.icio.us links. Click here for more!
- The Dostoyevsky Forum - Apocatastasis and others (a discussion about purgatory)
- This list is by no means exhaustive!
OrthodoxWiki Statistics
This section has been moved to its own page: OrthodoxWiki:Statistics.
Search Rankings
I've been noticing lately that OrthodoxWiki often comes up in my Google searches - many times right on the front page. That's a great sign for the publicity and growth of the site. We finally have an Alexa Ranking too. As of this writing, we're number 2,079,901 on the web - up 1,777,947 from the last ranking. That's not at all bad, considering all the websites in the world! Don't be shy about writing a review over there if you have some spare time. Keep us the great work everybody! Fr. John
- Update: As of April 23, 2005 we're listed as # 1,156,383 on the web. That's great progress!
- Update: I just noticed that we're passed the half-million mark at 465,624. Looks like we're moving quickly through the ranks! Fr. John 23:49, November 23, 2005 (CST)
OrthodoxWiki is being used in many different ways
May 24, 2006
Just ran across a magazine news article which references OrthodoxWiki.
May 22, 2005
This month I'd like to comment on how people are using OrthodoxWiki. It seems that Heath at lamented_elegy.blogspot.com has taken to linking every possible OrthodoxWiki word in his blog posts. I'm sure our Google ranking will skyrocket as a result!
I've also been noticing cases of hotlinking. Now this isn't necessarily wrong or immoral, but if the site continues to grow this could eat up a lot of bandwidth and prove a headache for our host, OrthodoxInternet.com. I'd also like to respect those who have given us permission to use their images on this site. Therefore, I'm going to nip this in the bud - as of November 20, 2005 hotlinking has been disabled. Please see OrthodoxWiki:Hotlinks for details.
We continue to see OrthodoxWiki popping up on a lot of linklists (www.orthodoxytoday.org, http://stromata.typepad.com/, http://byzantinecalvinist.blogspot.com/), casually linked in blog posts (witness vandrona.blogspot.com/2005/05/christ-is-risen.html), and showing up in forum discussions (www.christianforums.com/t1648600-modern-nestorians.html&page=5).
I've been surprised to learn how many places there are who steal (well, it's public, so not exactly stealing) Wikipedia's content for their own financial gain (mongoose.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Christianity) or otherwise derive benefit from linking to OrthodoxWiki (www.religiousartifacts.com/exitpage/Religion.php?st=user&term=orthodoxwiki). On the other hand, OrthodoxWiki is also showing up in search engines which seem more reputable but are simply off the beaten track (such as Answers.com).
Given the nature of the internet, we shouldn't be suprised that OrthodoxWiki is being linked around the world - for example,in the French language Wikipedia, or on this Danish page. I was honored also to see a referral link from www.baghdadmuseum.org, which looks to be a well-skinned implementation of MediaWiki.
I haven't been keeping track of new memberships too closely (Rdr. Andrew does a wonderful job at that), but I've noticed a lot of new names popping up.
All (well, at least most) of these are very encouraging signs for OrthodoxWiki. All I can think of to say here is: Keep up the good work, everyone! - Fr. John