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Today, I felt compelled to collect and share my thoughts on the topic of cloud building and open source software. I'm currently working on OpenStack related projects for Rackspace Cloud Builders, but I have other experiences from my roles at Puppet Labs and Cloudscaling, which provide perspective that some might find useful.
It turns out building clouds is hard.
If it was easy, everyone would have one. A cloud in every driveway!
The basic idea of an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud is simple: put some http APIs in front of a hypervisor. After that, the exercise quickly turns into a bunch of hard networking and storage puzzles; balancing cost, performance and failure characteristics. Accounting for scale, the happy path proof of concept solution quickly becomes a twisting maze of corner cases that ignored all the hard distributed systems problems.
The control plane provided by something like OpenStack is really the tip of the iceberg to deploy a cloud, let alone to operate the infrastructure. OpenStack has made certain architectural choices. Other people have made different choices. Some lessons have to be learned the hard way and there is an inevitable tension between good enough and good at all. There is also an intrinsic tension between flexibility and usability. If an organization isn't accustomed to building and managing web infrastructure, and is not well versed in practical devops tools and practices, then deploying and operating a significant cloud is going to be overwhelming. That's true no matter which stack is chosen.
Does that mean I think OpenStack is perfect? No. Do I think the Linux kernel is perfect? No. Can I have an honest discussion about the strengths and weaknesses of different technology choices? Yes. Can I build and operate a production service on OpenStack and Linux? Yes. People are, and more and more they will. I'm not at liberty to disclose all the details, but the last hurdles to opening the Rackspace OpenStack cloud to the public are not issues with OpenStack. If you are going to be an IaaS service provider, there is plenty of work around the edges that aren't the core IaaS feature set.
Is it a misrepresentation and intellectually dishonest to say there are no major production OpenStack deployments? I'll let someone else decide.
Another thing that can be difficult to build and nurture is an open source community.
There are patterns of success but there is not a single formulaic way to build community. Communities form around projects due to the dynamics of personalities, sensibilities and needs. Open source creates a whirling mix of people and technology.
There is an 'Open Source' spectrum, ranging from consortiums focused on solving shared problems to projects created by the work of a single author scratching an itch. That's not a bad thing.
Do I agree with everything that has been done in OpenStack? No. And I have raised these issues publicly and privately. On one hand, I think the project has been too inclusive, in the sense that membership came with little or no commitment. On the other hand, the governance has probably been somewhat over engineered and the dialog around issues like the foundation has tended to submarine for periods. There has definitely been a lot for different organizations to absorb as they got caught up in the fastest growing open source project, which has literally captured global imaginations and resources. There is no handbook on how to manage the interests of so many organizations, developers and users.
On balance, you will have a hard time convincing me the credit shouldn't far outweigh the criticisms.
Some might question why OpenStack needs a foundation, but does throwing a project into the Apache Software Foundation fix all governance issues and build a community? The facts don't unequivocally support that conclusion. For every successful software project you can point to as a vibrant top level Apache project, the incubator is littered with orphans. The most successful projects tend to be developed by a consortium solving the same problem or an organization solving a problem really well for itself. Projects originally developed as products have not fared well in Apache.
I have to assume there are people at the long list of companies deploying OpenStack that are capable of evaluating technology. I have to assume they surveyed some of the available options. I have deployed and evaluated a number of open source alternatives, and for what I hope to accomplish a distributed message passing service oriented architecture is superior to a single monolithic service. Your use cases and mileage may vary. If there was a clearly superior alternative available, OpenStack would not have the support that it does.
There is ultimately only one business model: solve problems and create value that people want to pay for. Markets are not won or lost on press releases. The days of old style enterprise software sales based on asymmetric access to information are becoming harder and harder to sustain in a world where that information moves without friction. That is the promise of open solutions. Not everyone is comfortable with openness, including vendors and customers. We're all learning what open means together. It doesn't mean the same thing to everyone and the meaning is evolving.
Cloud is a nascent market that will be won by those who solve real problems. No project or product should expect to be handed the crown this early in what will be a long race. Sometimes the best thing that can happen in a contest is to be reminded that you are in one.
Three cheers for open source, now let's get back to work.


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|The interior of Parson's quarters in the Temple of the Thinkamancers. Parson is sitting on his desk, while Wanda holds her head down and clutches the Arkenpliers.
"Jack told me about your deal with Charlie," said Parson, sitting on his desk. It turned out to be the most comfortable seat in the room, but his head grazed the ceiling if he sat up straight. "About Faq and all that. I assume there's more to that story. What can you tell me? Anything?"
Wanda, sat perched on the foot of Parson's little bed. She'd resized her Arkentool to barely bigger than an ordinary set of needle nose pliers, and held them in her lap, looking down and fidgeting with them absently. She looked even more distant than usual. Haunted.
"You can't say anything," said Parson.
Wanda shook her head, only just slightly.
"Can I make an appeal to your Duty?" tried Parson. "You said your Duty is to Fate, right? Well, I'm fated to take down Charlie and I need this information. Can you share it with me?"
Wanda only winced, puckering her lips sourly.
"All right, I'll drop it," said Parson, clapping his hands on his knees. "Let's talk about the battle, then. 'Cause I got a million questions. First, who gave the order to use siege dwagons on the tower?"
"I did," said Wanda, looking him in the eye now.
"That was not part of the plan," said Parson. "Intentionally."
"You were delayed. Jack raised the possibility of ending Jetstone with one stroke. It seemed sound, so I authorized it."
"It would have closed the portal on me, one way or the other," Parson pointed out. "Did you think of that?"
"I left that to Fate magic," shrugged Wanda, looking away. "And Fate oversaw it."
Parson rolled his eyes. Same dead end he and Wanda always got to. "Well, it was the wrong call. It made things messier. Speaking of messy, who ordered the fire started?"
"Lady Sylvia, I assume," said Wanda.
"On your order?"
"No," said Wanda, looking at him and cocking her head. "Burning the Garrison while we had no move was never discussed. Why would that be considered sound?"
Parson raised his eyebrows. "Yeah. Exactly, so why'd she do it?"
Wanda took a deep breath through her nose. "I would not care to speculate."
"I'd care to hear you speculate," said Parson, stopping just short of implying an order.
They sat in silence for several more seconds, but Parson let it go. It was getting late. "I've learned to ask these questions broadly, Wanda," he said, "because you like to hold things back and tell me that I didn't ask. So let me just say, is there anything else that happened today that I should know about?"
Wanda's mouth crinkled strangely. "Yes. Two things," she said. "An Archon was captured by Jetstone."
Parson thought about that. He couldn't immediately see why it mattered much, but the way she said it made him pause. "Okay..."
"And I...can see through her eyes," said Wanda, closing her eyes. "Hear through her ears. At this moment, she is inside a tent, in shackles, under heavy guard."
Parson stared at her for a long moment. "Can you...um, do that with all Decrypted, Wanda?""No," she said, a little sadly. "Only the Archons, with their natural Thinkamancy. And only when I concentrate. It's reminiscent of a trick of Dollamancy I once employed. They've been invaluable on the battlefield. But now only Lilith remains, and she is a prisoner."
|Closeup of Wanda's face, she looks needing and plainly earnest.
|Wanda leaned forward and looked at him earnestly. "You must get me some more."
Special Note
This page was the subject of a Retconjuration. Balder's notes indicated that this page was to reveal a revelation about the Decrypted Archon, and he forgot which revelation he intended to reveal, resulting in a repeat of LIAB 81, when Wanda told Parson about the Decrypteds' ability to turn.
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Parson thought about that. He couldn't immediately see why it mattered much, but the way she said it gave him chills. "Okay..."
"And I...lost a Decrypted unit," said Wanda, looking at her lap and turning the Arkenpliers over. "Lost..."
She looked up, and gave Parson a look of shame and puzzled horror. "Ossomer turned back to Jetstone, just before he perished."
Something from breakfast decided to kick up a fight in Parson's stomach. "Um... Decrypted can turn, Wanda?"
"I did not know..." whispered the Croakamancer.
The full implication hit him. "We have our former Chief Warlord and one of Charlie's Archons in enemy hands. And either or both might turn?"
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For the illustrated audiobook of this comic, please follow this external link to youtube: Epilogue 08 - Parson and Wanda Dissect the Battle


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Update please note we have changed the date for the Opouahi and Tutira Lakes Walk n Talk to Saturday 23 March (Kiwi health Check) Media Release 17 January 2013 Walk and Talk Series still popular A series of free guided walks are planned throughout …Update – please note we have changed the date for the Opouahi and Tutira Lakes Walk n Talk to Saturday 23 March (Kiwi health Check)
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17 January 2013
Walk and Talk Series still popular
A series of free guided walks are planned throughout Hawke's Bay during the next three months as part of the popular Walk and Talk Series.
The walks are a joint initiative between Hawke's Bay Regional Council and the Department of Conservation, giving people the opportunity to get out and exercise, while learning a little more about the region's unique environment.
The Walk and Talk Series has been running for more than six years and each year receives strong support from locals and visitors keen to explore a little more of Hawke's Bay.
The walks this year include visiting the home of the native longtail bat and the Pan Pac Kiwi Crèche, to Hawke's Bay's only marine reserve and a chance to feed Cooks Petrel chicks at Cape Sanctuary.
For more details or to register for walks contact Hawke's Bay Regional Council during business hours on 0800 108 838 or visit HBRC reception at 159 Dalton St, Napier.
Walk and Talk Series 2013
Bats at Ball's Clearing, Puketitiri – 12 February
Come and learn more about our only native land mammal, the secretive longtail bat. This is an evening experience at Ball's Clearing Scenic Reserve, 5km from Puketitiri on Pakaututu Road. Carpooling from National Aquarium at 4.30pm (sharp) – bring picnic tea, warm clothing and shoes suitable for a nice easy walk. Meeting at Ball's Clearing at 6pm.
Opouahi and Tutira Lakes – 23 March (Kiwi health Check)
Walk around Lake Opouahi. Learn about the Pan Pac Kiwi Crèche and meet one of Kaweka's wild North Island Brown Kiwi chicks. On the way home we will stop at Lake Tutira to discuss water quality issues, followed by an easy walk around Lake Waikopiro. Bring a packed lunch and shoes for easy track walking.
Bus leaving Napier at 9am (sharp) depart 1.50pm, back 2.30pm.
Te Angiangi Marine Reserve – 3 March (Seaweek)
Come and visit Hawke's Bay's only Marine Reserve, Te Angiangi. Learn about the important role marine reserves play and how they protect our marine ecosystems. This involves a 3km walk from Blackhead Beach finishing with afternoon tea at the Aramoana Historic Woolshed.
Bus leaves Waipukurau Information Centre at 9am (sharp) arriving back to Waipukurau 2.30pm
Booking necessary – limited spaces available.
Cape Sanctuary – March (date to be confirmed)
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Maungahaururu Range – April (date to be confirmed)
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While the workshop was more fun than a basket of kittens, I was only able to get through the traditional aspects of my work (Cory hogged all the digital glory for himself). So I am posting a follow-up here to shed some light on the digital method I used to finish mine.
...Just in case there is anyone who plans to finish the one they started in at the workshop... *
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The final surface textures and rendering was done largely with Photoshop's new "Mixer Brush Tool." I don't actually understand the tool, but it allows me to push and pull areas on the image that need a little more softness in the transitions and a little more sharpness in the details. It can be tedious to work with, (mostly because I am still figuring it out) but I like the visual result.
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KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - A suicide bomber drove a jeep full of explosives into a Catholic church during morning mass in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing at least eight people, wounding more than 100 and triggering reprisal attacks that killed at least two more.
There was no claim of responsibility but Islamist sect Boko Haram has bombed several churches in the past in its fight to create an Islamic state in Nigeria where the 160 million population is evenly split between Christians and Muslims.
The bomber drove the car into the wall of the packed St Rita's church in the Malali area of Kaduna, a volatile ethnically and religiously mixed city, witnesses said.
A wall of the church was blasted open and scorched black, with debris lying around.
"The heavy explosion also damaged so many buildings around the area," said survivor Linus Lighthouse.
A spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Yushua Shuaib said eight people had been confirmed killed and more than 100 wounded.
Church attacks often target Nigeria's middle belt, where its largely Christian south and mostly Muslim north meet and where sectarian tensions run high. Kaduna's mixed population lies along that faultline.
Shortly after the blast, angry Christian youths took to the streets armed with sticks and knives. A Reuters reporter saw two bodies at the roadside lying in pools of blood.
"We killed them and we'll do more," shouted a youth, with blood on his shirt, before police chased him and others away. Police set up roadblocks and patrols across the town in an effort to prevent the violence spreading.
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At least 2,800 people have died in fighting since Boko Haram's insurrection began in 2009, according to Human Rights Watch. Most were Muslims in the northeast of the country, where the sect usually attacks politicians and security forces.
Another witness to the bombing, Daniel Kazah, a member of the Catholic cadets at the church, said he had seen three bodies on the bloodied church floor in the aftermath.
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A spokesman for St Gerard's Catholic hospital, Sunday John, said the hospital was treating 14 wounded. Another hospital, Garkura, had at least 84 victims, a NEMA official said.
Many residents of Kaduna rushed indoors, fearing a resurgence of the sectarian killing that has periodically blighted the city.
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Annual to trees, some dioecious
Stem: nodes often swollen
Leaves simple, basal or cauline, alternate, opposite, or whorled, generally entire; stipules 0 or obvious and fused into a generally scarious sheath around stem
Inflorescence: small cluster, axillary or arrayed in cymes or panicles; involucres sometimes subtending 1many flowers
Flower generally bisexual, small, ± radial; perianth generally 56-lobed, base ± tapered, often jointed to pedicel; stamens 29, often in 2 whorls; ovary superior, styles generally 3, generally fused at base
Fruit: achene, generally enclosed by persistent perianth, generally 3-angled, ovoid, and glabrous
Genera in family: 50 genera, 1100 species: worldwide, especially n temp; some cultivated for food (Fagopyrum ; Rheum , rhubarb; Rumex , sorrel) or ornamental (Antigonon , coral-vine; Muehlenbeckia ; Polygonum )
Reference: [Ronse Decraene & Akeroyd 1988 Bot J Linn Soc 98:321371; Reveal et al. 1989 Phytologia 66(24):83414]
Treatments of the 15 eriogonoid genera are based on the monographic work of James L. Reveal, who is gratefully acknowledged.
Annual, glandular, glaucous
Leaves basal; stipule 0; petiole indistinct; blade linear to obovate, hairy
Inflorescence open; bracts generally 3 per node, generally linear-lanceolate, generally fused at base, awned; involucre 1 per node, generally stalked, narrowly funnel-shaped to bell-shaped, teeth 336, awned; flowers 220 per involucre
Flower: perianth white to rose or pale yellow, hairy, lobes 6; stamens 9
Fruit golden-brown to dark brown. w North America., s South America
Etymology: (Latin: sharp box, from involucre)
Reference: [Ertter 1980 Brittonia 32:70102]
Plant 560 cm
Leaf 17 cm, oblanceolate to widely obovate; margin ciliate
Inflorescence glandular on lower half of internodes; involucre funnel-shaped, glabrous; involucral bracts 436, 1.52 mm, generally > half fused (except awns), awns generally 25 mm; flowers 320 per involucre
Flower: perianth 22.5 mm, white to pink, generally strigose; lobes entire
Fruit 1.72 mm
Ecology: Dry, rocky or sandy soils
Elevation: 13002500 m.
Bioregional distribution: s Outer South Coast Ranges, Transverse Ranges.


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Kevin Pietersen, the head honcho of England, who ruled once again on fourth day, at Adelaide, where he converts the title of battle as Pietersen Vs Australia. Pietersen career best 227 runs was the reason behind England declaration with illustriously on 620/5, Pietersen victorious attack on Shane Watson was the reason behind Aussie's unbearable impairment.
England started today with 551/4, and their field marshal was 13 runs behind his previous best score. Pietersen broke his own record this morning and made 227 runs, later finished his vigorous and memorable inning by losing his wicket by Doherty. He gave not only an ocarina of historic win to England, but also he relegates Shane Watson from the field.
Australia began their second after catastrophic English bating, Shane Watson and Simon Katich produced 84 runs opening partnership to re-arrange Aussie's momentum. Watson made elegant 57 with 10 boundaries around the ground, his partner Katich, although missed his half century but his 42 crucial runs was the great display of steady bating in tense.
Pitersen devastated Aussies by both departments
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TORONTO — About 3,000 Ontario middle and high school students gathered last week at Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto to celebrate Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies' (FSWC) third annual Freedom Day.
Freedom Day, held each year on Sept. 20, the anniversary of Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal's death, aims to promote the need to share Canadian values of democracy, human rights and freedom with others around the world.
FSWC president and CEO Avi Benlolo took to the stage to welcome the students, saying he was thrilled to see so many people gathered "in the name of freedom and in the name of democracy and in the name of improving the world one step at a time.
"We must all work hard to try to spread freedom and spread knowledge and understanding, fight oppression, fight hate and fight intolerance wherever it persists," Benlolo added.
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Award-winning composer Zane Zalis was joined on stage by two soloists who performed his Holocaust-themed oratorios I Believe and I Have a Name.
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During one of her visits to Darfur with her organization, War Child Canada, Nutt said that she, too, wrestled with thoughts of helplessness and powerlessness.
She spoke about the current situation in Darfur, where over the past eight years, 300,000 people have been murdered and two million more have been forced from their homes to live in overcrowded, disease-ridden refugee camps.
"When you're meeting people who live in Darfur… it is easy for anyone to feel overwhelmed and feel like anything you will ever do will never make that much of a difference… I think we are too often paralyzed by our unwillingness to even try," Nutt said.
"But it is possible, by questioning our assumptions and challenging the status quo and steadfastly refusing to be silent in the face of injustice, to speak up, speak out and to defy those who seek to perpetuate hate and resentment and animosity and crimes against humanity."
Franco Ntazinda, a Rwandan-born refugee who immigrated to Canada in 1986, spoke about the Rwandan genocide in 1994 that killed most of his extended family that chose to stay behind in Rwanda.
As someone who experienced life in an oppressive country, and now thrives in a free country, Ntazinda expressed how much he cherishes the freedoms most Canadians take for granted.
He recalled the first time he voted in a Canadian election.
"It was like yesterday… I was the first in line to vote. To know that my vote would count made me feel like I was somebody. Ever since, I have never missed a chance to cast my ballot," he said.
Mario Silva, chair of the 2012 Task Force for International Co-operation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research, also addressed the gathering, focusing his speech on the legacy of Simon Wiesenthal and the importance of carrying on his mission to keep the memory of the Holocaust and all other genocides alive.
Frank Chalk, founding co-director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, and a history professor at Concordia University, used poetry to emphasize the importance of promoting human rights.


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College Student Pays $14,000 Tuition In Singles
A student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is making headlines after deciding to pay for all $14,300 of his semester's tuition in $1 bills.
"You're looking at all this money and you're thinking 'Wow, this is for one semester of school," the out-of-state student told a Colorado news station about toting the cash to the bursar's office in a duffel bag. "It was quit a sight and they said that nobody had even payed in ones before…. I just hope that it kind of stirs some conversations and people talk about it."
His mom says she hopes her son's stunt will bring some attention to the rising cost of an education. "Tuition has gone up so much and there are a lot of kids who don't have a family who can send them to school," she explains. "There are a lot of children who have to pay for their own education, who have to take out loans."
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Cofounded by roller hockey legend Joe Cook and designer Justin Hoffman in early 2011, together they bring over 20+ years of roller hockey industry knowledge to the table. Using what they call "Lithium Science" in the design and construction of all their products, they aim to bring the most advanced materials and construction techniques to maximum the energy yield by each and every player.
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International Conference of Young Chemists (ICYC) Fatima Mustafa | added on Jan 27, 2012 | Jordan The main aim of this conference is to "encourage interest in chemistry among young people, and to generate enthusiasm for the creative future of chemistry" which is one of the IYC goals.
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) The biggest question when two-time BCS buster TCU made the move to the Big 12 was whether the Horned Frogs could handle the week-to-week grind of playing in a major conference.
Well, coach Gary Patterson and his young, bowl-bound Frogs (7-4, 4-4 Big 12) have done just fine in their inaugural Big 12 season, even though they won't win at least 11 games for the fifth year in a row, claim their fourth consecutive conference title or be part of the Bowl Championship Series.
They can finish in the upper half of the only league sending 90 percent of its teams to bowl games (nine of 10) and have won four Big 12 road games, including Thanksgiving night at Texas. All while playing an FBS-high 28 freshmen, plus 20 sophomores, having to make an unplanned quarterback switch a month into the season and with only one senior starter on defense.
``Very, very proud of this group of kids the way they've fought, the way they've played, how they've done things, found ways to win,'' said Patterson, TCU's winningest coach at 116-34 in his 12th season. ``Now you're looking at having a chance to be 8-4 and get to a bowl game and do the things you need to do and kind of get a jump start for next season.''
TCU plays its regular-season finale Saturday at home against 12th-ranked Oklahoma (9-2, 7-1). The Sooners can clinch at least a share of the Big 12 title with a win, and then would be headed to a BCS game if seventh-ranked Kansas State loses later that night at home against No. 23 Texas.
The Sooners were already set to play at TCU this season in one of the first games at the Frogs' completely redone stadium. That instead became the regular-season finale for both teams when they became conference foes.
``Gary's done a great job for a long, long time. They've been a good football team,'' Sooners coach Bob Stoops said. ``What was it, just two or three years ago they win the Rose Bowl, beating Wisconsin over there? Gary is an excellent coach. His guys play, you can see, with great technique, discipline, all of that. He's been building that program for quite a while and done it in a great way.''
That Rose Bowl victory came two seasons ago, when the Horned Frogs finished 13-0 and No. 2 in the final AP poll.
The Frogs won their 2005 opener at Oklahoma, a year after their only losing season under Patterson. The Sooners won four years ago in their only other game against TCU under Stoops.
Patterson's name, as has been the case around this time of the season the past few years, is at least being mentioned for pretty much every major coaching vacancy.
``My actions show that I love this job, and right now I'm trying to beat Oklahoma,'' Patterson said. ``I can't control what other people do. It's pretty simple.''
TCU entered the Big 12 as the only FBS team with six 11-win seasons the past seven years. They had won 16 of their last 20 games against teams from leagues like the Big 12 with automatic bids into the Bowl Championship Series.
The Frogs won their four September games, including the Big 12 debut at Kansas for their 25th conference victory in a row. Then second-year starting quarterback Casey Pachall was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and withdrew from school to enter a rehabilitation program.
Redshirt freshman Trevone Boykin, the dual-threat quarterback who was practicing at running back to fill in for injuries there, was suddenly thrust into the role as starting quarterback only two days before the Big 12 home debut against Iowa State.
That 37-23 loss to the Cyclones ended the FBS' longest winning streak at 12 games and was the Frogs' first conference loss since November 2008, a span when they won three consecutive Mountain West titles.
They bounced back to win at Baylor before a triple-overtime loss to Texas Tech. After blowing a halftime lead at Oklahoma State, the Frogs won the meeting of Big 12 newcomers with a 39-38 double-overtime victory at West Virginia. Before going to Texas, they lost 23-10 at Kansas State, which then briefly took over the No. 1 spot in the BCS standings.
``We knew what it was going to be like at the end of the season. ... The last four (games), we're 2-2,'' Patterson said. ``Probably if everybody here was a betting person, they probably wouldn't bet we were 2-2. Because I listened to (media) talk at the beginning of the season about, `Well, you had a chance to be 7-0, but I don't think those last five, you win any of them.' ... We've gotten better, we've still got a long way to go.''
TCU will end its first Big 12 season playing in a bowl for the eighth consecutive season, and the 14th time in 15 seasons - since Patterson arrived as defensive coordinator with coach Dennis Franchione's staff in 1998. The Frogs will open the 2013 season at Cowboys Stadium against LSU.
``We have so many young guys, so many freshman playing,'' senior tight end Corey Fuller said. ``It's going to be amazing the next couple of years watching them grow up, and they've been doing a phenomenal job with that they've accomplished this year.''


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Ten Years After
And now, a word from Hank Kwiatkowski, another dyed-in-the-wool hot rodder who builds his rides out of his two-car garage:
"Here are a few pictures of my 1950 F-1; I'm finally finished after almost 10 years. (I'm 65 years young.) I put in a modified Mustang II frontend, a homemade rear frame with a four-bar suspension, and a 9-inch rear. I chopped the top 3 1/2 inches and made the doors suicide-style without a kit. It has a high-horsepower Ford 460 with a C6 tranny. I did all the welding on the body and frame, but I had a professional finish and paint it Flame red. It has an Isuzu front seat, and the interior is half professional and half home-done."
Well, Hank, I guess all we can say is that Rome wasn't built in a day, so why should your truck have been! And the good news is the truck may have taken a year or two, but it turned out killer.
Back To The Future
When Howard Hunt retired after 45 years of work, he needed something to keep him occupied. What better way than to restore the '57 Chevy truck he had at 17 years old? He started with the mechanics. He freshened up the 235 straight-six and installed a new clutch in the three-speed transmission. Next up, he purchased a '57 GMC parts truck and yanked the GMC rearend with 3.07:1 gears. When the truck first hit the road, it used to cruise at 55 or 60 down the freeway, and now it glides comfortably at 75.
A friend of Howard's asked if he could paint the truck, and Howard was in no way going to argue with that. So he began sanding the truck down and found three coats of paint consisting of blue, gray, and white. For the most part, the body was in good shape, but he did have to replace the right front fender. Since the original coat of paint was white, he decided to paint the truck back to white. He also powdercoated the grille, and the wood in the bed is from the old oak tree in the front yard.
As for the rear bumper, Howard called Hudiburg Chevrolet to check if it was original, and he found out it was a dealer option accessory at the time of purchase. The person also told him that since then the bumper had moved from Grapevine, Texas, to Fort Worth, Texas, in '64. The interior kept its original color, but Howard did add turn signals and seatbelts. He even installed a set of original wheels that he eventually found on a nearby horse trailer.


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There are several ways to backup DVD videos. The quickest and simplest is to copy the ISO image as is. Many other methods are slow, and require several steps to accomplish. dvdbackup provides one of the simpler methods to rip a DVD (with some help from dvdauthor). The
dvdbackup program is elegant because it does not demux/remux/transcode/reformat the movie. This means the backup process is done in one step. But it can be tricked into copying much more than necessary by a DVD reporting incorrect size data.
Install the dvdbackup package.
dvdauthor is only required if backing up specific titles or title sets.
libdvdcss is required to read encrypted DVDs.
Examining the DVD
First, determine which title to backup. The following command retrieves information about the DVD:
$ dvdbackup -i /dev/dvd -I
After some less useful information,
dvdbackup will display something similar to the following:
$ dvdbackup -i /dev/sr0 -I
[...] Main feature: Title set containing the main feature is 1 The aspect ratio of the main feature is 16:9 The main feature has 1 angle(s) The main feature has 1 audio_track(s) The main feature has 2 subpicture channel(s) The main feature has a maximum of 28 chapter(s) in on of it's titles The main feature has a maximum of 6 audio channel(s) in on of it's titles
This indicates that the main feature is in title set 1. Next a list of title sets is displayed:
$ dvdbackup -i /dev/sr0 -I
[...] Title Sets: Title set 1 The aspect ratio of title set 1 is 16:9 Title set 1 has 1 angle(s) Title set 1 has 1 audio_track(s) Title set 1 has 2 subpicture channel(s) Titles included in title set 1 is/are Title 1: Title 1 has 28 chapter(s) Title 1 has 6 audio channle(s)
The main feature in this example is title 1. Sometimes a title set will include more than one title, sometimes not. Title sets can also include menus, which will no longer work if not backing up the entire DVD.
Ripping the DVD
dvdbackup reads the name of the DVD and creates a working directory for it. If
dvdbackup decides the name of the DVD is too generic (like "MOVIE", for instance), the user must specify a name, as it will refuse to run otherwise. Just use
-n movie_name to specify.
ERR: no video format specified for VMGM" you must set the video format variable. An easy way to do this is to add
export VIDEO_FORMAT=NTSC (for NTSC regions) to your
A single title
-t option allows you to extract a specific title:
$ dvdbackup -i /dev/dvd -o ~ -t 1
You will now see a number of VOB files on the hard drive (in
~/movie_name/VIDEO_TS). These files can be played in MPlayer or VLC, but are insufficient to create a DVD copy. This is where
dvdauthor is useful.
A title set must now be created (e.g.
VTS_01_0.IFO and
VTS_01_0.BUP). Be aware that the following command will make a copy of the entire movie. The original can be deleted right afterwards.
$ mkdir ~/dvd $ cd ~/movie_name/VIDEO_TS $ dvdauthor -t -o ~/dvd *.VOB
dvdauthor will create a copy of the movie. If it outputs anything like "SCR moves backwards, remultiplex input" there might be trouble. Before deleting any files, check the file sizes of the original VOB files compared to the copied ones. If all roughly the same size, you may be alright. You can use MPlayer to test the affected VOB files to see if anything is missing.
Now, table of contents files must be created (e.g.
VIDEO_TS.IFO and
VIDEO_TS.BUP). This is much less time-consuming, and does not waste hard drive space:
$ cd ~/dvd/VIDEO_TS $ dvdauthor -o ~/dvd -T
The main feature
-F option automatically detects the main feature, though not always correctly, and copies the entire title set:
$ dvdbackup -i /dev/dvd -o ~ -F
Now, table of contents files must be created (e.g.
VIDEO_TS.IFO and
$ cd ~/movie_name/VIDEO_TS $ dvdauthor -o ~/movie_name -T
The whole DVD
-M option will backup the entire DVD structure, including menus, special features, etc. This requires approximately 7 GB of disk space for most DVDs:
$ dvdbackup -i /dev/dvd -o ~ -M
Writing to disc
See DVD Writing.
Creating an ISO
The advantage of creating the ISO file is that you can test that everything works fine with MPlayer before continuing. The disadvantage is that the ISO consumes hard drive space.
$ mkisofs -dvd-video -udf -o ~/dvd.iso ~/dvd # if a single title was extracted
or the following if the whole DVD was extracted:
$ mkisofs -dvd-video -udf -o ~/dvd.iso ~/movie_name
To test the image with MPlayer, simply:
$ mplayer dvd:// -dvd-device ~/dvd.iso
If everything seems fine, burn the image:
$ growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=~/dvd.iso
growisofs is part of the dvd+rw-tools package.
Burning straight to DVD
If confident in our skills, creating and testing an image is a waste of time and hard drive space! Basically, one can merge the mkisofs with the growisofs command listed above:
$ growisofs -dvd-video -udf -Z /dev/dvd ~/dvd # if a single title was extracted
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Even Toyota's top American exec needed a do-over to explain his testimony in this week's Congressional hearings on sudden acceleration in Toyotas.
On Tuesday, Jim Lentz told the House Commerce Committee that fixing floor mats and "sticky" gas pedals would "not totally" solve alleged problems with sudden acceleration in Toyotas. It seemed to be the first admission by a company official that there might be some other explanation, like an electronic malfunction, for the thousands of incidents of sudden acceleration reported to federal officials.
Toyota has now released a 'clarification' of Lentz's testimony that says his statement does not reflect any change in the company's official stance.
"Contrary to some press reports," said the statement, "Jim Lentz's testimony to Congress did not reflect a change Toyota's position regarding whether its recalls effectively address unintended acceleration issues in certain Toyota and Lexus vehicles."
The statement also said the company is "confident that no problems exist with the electronic throttle control system" in Toyotas. "We have designed our electronic system with multiple fail-safe mechanisms to shut off or reduce engine power in the event of a system failure. We have done extensive testing of this system and have never found a malfunction that has caused unintended acceleration."
On Wednesday, New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo announced a deal with Toyota in which the automaker would provide free rental cars to New York drivers whose Toyotas had been recalled for fixes. During Wednesday's hearing of the House Oversight Committee, Toyota executive Yoshi Inaba was asked whether the company intended to offer that program to all Toyota drivers nationwide. Inaba seemed to say yes, leading some media outlets to report the program had been expanded from New York to the whole country.
Contacted by ABC News, Toyota spokesman John Hanson indicated that Inaba had not pledged to take the program nationwide.
Hanson said that Inaba's answer meant that many dealers nationwide are already offering similar dealers to customers. "They are accommodating the owners as best they can and many of things that are mentioned in the New York program are already being done by many dealers. That was his specific answer and he did not specify that there would be a national program that would mirror the New York program."
'Toyota's Car Is Safe'
After Wednesday's hearing, Toyota's top executive, Akio Toyoda, who had testified at the hearing with the help of a Japanese translator, held a forum with Toyota dealers, executives and employees at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Toyoda began his remarks to the crowd by saying the day's congressional hearings showed Toyota's commitment to quality and safety, then thanked "team members" in the audience and across the country. At one point, Toyoda choked back tears, saying, "Words don't express my gratitude."
He also said he was grateful for Wednesday's hearing because it allowed a dialogue that would let American customers see that Toyotas are safe, and that he hopes to keep up a good working relationship with the United States.
Toyoda took questions from the audience. When one Toyota employee asked, "What is the one thing you would say to President Obama?" Toyoda responded, "Toyota's car is safe."
On Thursday morning, Toyoda held a private 30-minute meeting with Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. They were joined by Inaba, DOT Deputy Secretary John Porcari, and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Administrator David Strickland.
Afterwards, LaHood called the meeting "productive." In a statement, the automaker said that during the meeting Akio Toyoda had reaffirmed his intent to improve safety and improve communications.
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Exploring the gestures and movements of calligraphy, nantes-based artist kaalam (aka julien breton) has created a body of work that uses hand-held light and long-exposure photographic techniques to capture the transient form within a real setting. often utilizing urban or historical sites as his three-dimensional canvas, the self-taught artist creates his own latin-based alphabet that heavily draws from traditional arabic and eastern calligraphy. arresting and provocative, the floating light forms are not mere superimposed subjects but display a direct engagement with the surroundings.
the capturing process, which can take as long as ten minutes, requires a choreographed movement which kaalam practices before hand in heavy repetition. different colours of 'ink' is achieved through pigmented gelatin which is applied directly onto the lamps. none of the photographs are retouched or edited, illustrating the laborious process in a single shot.


text: Hi! Yesterday I have changed the motherboard of my home NAS server(for 3rd time, but never reinstalled Debian after installed it for 1st time). So, my problem is that when I listen to the music from the Samba server, time to time the music just jumps about a second forward or backward and this is driving me crazy I don't know how to explain it better, but if you misunderstood or something - I can upload a recorded piece when this happens. In fact, in last 2 motherboards this problem doesn't exists, even if we say that last 2 has been reading from the HDD through SATA->USB controller, here in 3rd MoBo, the controller is integrated VIA 8237. Can this be from changing the hardware without reinstalling the Debian, or Samba related problem, or hardware related? Thanks! I must say that this thread is also posted in LQ, but noone gave me response, so I think here will receive replies for my problem.


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For reasons I can't quite remember, I agreed to take a Chrysler 200 Touring as a press car this week. It's a "filler" press car in between cars I actually wanted to drive. To its credit, I think it's the least bad version of the Chrysler 200 they could make, which leads me to wonder what other cars were the least bad versions of their platforms?
The Chrysler 200, as Chrysler itself is sometimes willing to admit, is terrible. The moment it debuted it was an also-ran (the proof of this is its ubiquity in car rental fleets). With not-great power, not-great handling, not-great style, not-great materials and not-great quality it was not great.
While the pre-facelift Chrysler Sebring Convertible is definitely the worst version of this car, the redesigned Chrysler 200 Touring is, at least, not terrible. They charge a reasonable $25,000 for a nicely loaded version of it (that no one will pay). It has the newer Pentastar V6 which, at 260 lb-ft of torque, manages to work with the six-speed automatic to pull a 0-to-60 mph time in the mid-6s while still churning out an ok 29 MPG highway.
It looks bad, but not awful, which is an improvement. I don't hate the 18-inch option wheels and the interior, while not as nice as the competition, isn't entirely uncomfortable. Short of turning this into an El Camino or Shooting Brake, this is probably the least-bad you could make this particular platform. Obviously, you still shouldn't buy it, but you may not despise renting it.