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If you're an outdoor adventurer who shoots video while skiing, snowboarding or mountain biking, Highlight Hunter might just save you a few hours when you get back in front of your computer. And that means you can devote even more time to your favorite pursuits.
The Seattle company, led by 28-year-old former Microsoft project manager Noah Spitzer-Williams, allows video hounds to easily bookmark the best clips as they record hours and hours of raw footage.
With Highlight Hunter, snowboarders, skiers or other outdoor enthusiasts simply cover the camera lens for about a second after a memorable moment. That means you don't have to fumble around on the slopes, or at the computer trying to recover the best clips.
We caught up with Spitzer-Williams to learn more for the latest installment of Startup Spotlight.
Explain what you do so our parents can understand it: "Highlight Hunter finds the highlights in your videos eight times faster than you can yourself. This means you can spend more time recording highlights of the activities you love, and less time searching for them."
Inspiration hit us when: "We tried to create a highlight reel from raw snowboarding footage on our GoPro camera and realized it would take hours to find the highlights worth sharing. A few beers and brainstorms later, the concept for Highlight Hunter was born."
VC, Angel or Bootstrap: "Bootstrapped. Read Tim Ferriss' 4-Hour Work Week and you'll know why."
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The biggest mistake we've made so far: "Starting with a fancy operating agreement that was too complex to be useful. Keep it simple otherwise you'll spend more time reviewing legal docs than actually building your business. Fortunately, our team quickly noticed this mistake and resolved it without collateral damage."
Would you rather have Gates, Jobs, Zuckerberg or Bezos in your corner: "Jobs. Ultimately our vision for helping people find and share the moments they care about is best realized when the hardware, software, and services work together in perfect harmony. No one knew how to orchestrate that harmony better than Jobs."
Our world domination strategy starts: "When people can easily relive and share the best moments from the activities they love, without technology getting in the way. We want to go far beyond extreme sports–highlights from your kid's soccer games, a child's first steps, etc. One day people will no longer look at their cameras and say to them:"Every time I bring you out to record, it's more tedious boring work for me." (Yes, we also believe people talk to their cameras.)"
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What's the one piece of advice you'd give to other entrepreneurs just starting out: "Understand precisely what your personal and product goals are. What do you and your users truly value? Focus on delivering something core to your users' needs that enables you and your team to realize long- and short-term goals. Lifestyle design shouldn't be separate from product design. They should be deeply intertwined to ensure your happiness and success."


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New group gives fellow carrot tops forum in which hair color is bond
Tonight, I will be with my people at Bootleggers in Troy. I've joined the League of Extraordinary Red Heads. Of course we will plot to steal your souls. We'll follow it up with a brawl, then the men in our group will retire with their stamp collections and other nerdy endeavors while the women set out on a lusty path of seduction through Troy.
Carrot Top. Volcano. Rusty. Red.
It's just hair, but it sets us apart in a way no other hair color does. I was called Little Orphan Annie throughout my childhood — conveniently the movie came out in 1982, when I was 7. In high school, one clever boy called me "Carrot Bottom," because carrot tops are green. Everyone assumed I must have a hot temper. And whaddya know – I do. I was a serial hurler — phones, beer bottles, a bottle of dog shampoo. Then there's the rest of the package — the white, white, why-don't-you-get-some-sun skin, and the freckles. With the League, I'm looking forward to being among men and women who have been identified by their hair color their whole lives. It's comforting to spot another redhead in a room. We make our way to one another, spilling compliments. "Your hair is beautiful. No, your hair is beautiful."
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Do you think brunettes are asked "if the carpet matches the drapes?" And when two blonds go on a date, does anyone ask them if they are brother and sister? I think not, but it happened to Crary when he dated a redhead.
"These days I'm more comfortable in my own skin; I'd probably say 'yes,' and kiss her," he says.
Crary says outside of some teasing he didn't have it all that bad, growing up redhead. I think I had it worse.
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Now a geriatric with bad form was telling me I was hot. I retreated to the car steaming. Naturally.
As I approach 40, my hair is going white, and I'm using dye to keep it honey-and-copper red (we do come in all shades). As an adult, I embraced my red hair and my freckles, although I still wish my skin turned brown in the sun, not red. I love my hair as much as I hated it as a kid.
Research by redhead Marion Roach, author of "The Roots of Desire: The Myth, Meaning and Sexual Power of Red Hair" and wife of Times Union Editor Rex Smith, uncovered visceral reactions to red hair throughout history. The Bible's Judas and Mary Magdalene are portrayed as redheads, Roach wrote. During the Spanish Inquisition, redheads were burned at the stake as witches. Hitler reportedly banned intermarriage between redheads for fear of deviant offspring. We were revered, too. See the loving depiction of redheads by the Pre-Raphaelite painters, and take note of the boldfaced names throughout history whose hair was bold, too. Queen Elizabeth I, Thomas Jefferson, a young Winston Churchill.
Plus, all that ginger-hate was in olden times, right? Surely we've set aside our irrational fears by now.
Ask my husband, who put his status in peril before we were married by saying "I hope our children have your hair. But only if they're girls." Alas, neither of our boys have red hair. Darn recessive gene.
Earlier this month, under the heading "should ginger-bashing be considered a hate crime?," a British magazine listed a bunch of violent acts that were apparently provoked by the color of the victim's hair. In 2008, the Vancouver Sun covered the fallout at a local school from "Kick a Ginger Day," which left a few red-haired kids (no word on whether or not they were stepchildren) with bruised shins.
Even men who break through the nerdy, Howdy Doody stereotype with muscles and good looks are not exempt from the prejudice.
That's the unfortunate side of being a redhead. If you're a woman, you're a sex goddess. If you're a man, you're a dweeb. Your mascot is Ron Howard.
In 2011, when quarterback Andy Dalton was entering the draft, an unnamed coach asked a reporter, "has there ever been a redheaded quarterback in the NFL who's really done well? It sounds idiotic, but is there any way that could be a factor? We've wondered."
Dalton has had two solid seasons with the Bengals, I'd like to point out.
Then there's the final insult. In 2011, the world's largest sperm bank, Cryos International in Denmark, announced it was overstocked with redhead sperm. No offense, gingers, they said, but supply overwhelms demand.
For all these reasons and more, we redheads need each other. The League is our forum. Gingerphiles welcome.
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An ever popular musical celebrating some famous rock and roll tunes will be returning to Milton Keynes Theatre at the beginning of next month.
Packed with music from the 50s and 60s, Dreamboats and Petticoats can be seen from Monday to Saturday, July 3 to 8.
Set in 1961, emotions are running high as young musicians Norman and Bobby compete to win a national song writing competition – and, more importantly, the attention of the gorgeous Sue.
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The dazzling success of the first five albums in the Dreamboats and Petticoats series saw more than four million copies sold and several weeks at the Number One spot in the compilation charts, the Great British public were saying that they didn't just want to listen to pure nostalgia: they'd love to see it as well.
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Pistons outmuscle Magic in 105-90 win
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[January 23, 2013]
AUBURN HILS, Mich.
(AP) -- Jason Maxiell, Andre Drummond and Greg Monroe combined for 38 points and 28 rebounds, and the Detroit Pistons pulled away to beat the undersized Orlando Magic 105-90 Tuesday night.
Brandon Knight led Detroit with 18 points, while Monroe scored 16 and Drummond and Maxiell each had 11 points and 11 rebounds.
The Pistons also finished with a 16-6 edge in offensive rebounds against the Magic, who had their size issues magnified when Glen Davis was benched for much of the second half after taking 15 first-half shots and grabbing just three rebounds. He attempted just one shot the rest of the way and finished with 11 points.
J.J. Redick was Orlando's biggest threat, scoring 26 points on 9-for-10 shooting -- including 5 for 6 on 3-pointers. Jameer Nelson added 14 points and nine rebounds.
After an even first half, the Pistons got a tiebreaking basket after a strange play to end the second quarter. Detroit had a foul to give, so Will Bynum grabbed Nelson 30 feet from the basket. Nelson, trying to draw a shooting foul, flipped the ball straight up into the air. Both teams froze, expecting a whistle, but when nothing was called, Kyle Singler grabbed the loose ball and Monroe finished the half with an uncontested dunk.
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That put the Pistons up 54-52 at the half despite 17 first-half points from Redick. He hit all six of his first-half shots, including three 3-pointers and a four-point play. Maxiell had nine points and 11 rebounds in the half for Detroit.
Monroe and Drummond combined for 16 points in the third quarter, including back-to-back dunks by Drummond in the last minute of the period, as Detroit built a 82-66 lead. By the fourth quarter, even 6-foot-5 Rodney Stuckey was dunking in traffic against the lethargic Magic defense.
NOTES: Busta Rhymes provided the six-minute halftime show, but also had a technical glitch. After his first song, he dropped the microphone, which then rolled off the makeshift stage. Luckily, a quick-thinking stagehand was able to retrieve it after a few seconds. ... Nelson had to be escorted off the court by teammates after continuing to argue the no-call at the end of the half. ... After missing his first shot of the second half, Davis picked up a technical foul from the bench and ended up with three teammates and an assistant coach surrounding him to prevent an ejection. He only returned briefly when the game was out of hand.
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Missoula Police Investigating Source of Midnight Shotgun Blast
Missoula residents near the 1500 block of South Fourth Street West heard a shotgun blast about 20 minutes after midnight on October 21. Missoula police appeared on scene shortly after the shot.
"The officers determined that there was a male on scene that had fired his shotgun from outside of his residence back into his residence," said Missoula Police Sergeant Scott Pastian. "Nobody was injured. There are as many as five known witnesses that will need to be interviewed before we can determine what charges to file against the person, if any."
According to Pastian, there was no one in the house or behind the front door that was pelted by the shotgun blast. It is still unclear why the suspect shot his own home.


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I'm looking for ways to typeset an ǚ.
This character is necessary for typesetting pinyin (汉语拼音, the most common way of transcribing Mandarin Chinese), as it contains syllables such as lǚ (Chinese 铝/鋁; "aluminum").
I've tried
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both of which produce a caron alone followed by ü - not what I want. If there's a way of getting the accents package to do what I want, I can't find it.
This seems like such a basic feature, I'm astonished it's proving so hard to find a way of doing it.


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Ninety-two ducks were dumped in New Jersey and are now in need of a home, according to officials.
The ducks were rescued by New Jersey State and Wildlife officials Friday after being dumped near the Mill Creek Mall Secaucus on Friday.
They were temporarily relocated to The Barnyard Sanctuary in Columbia, New Jersey, an organization that rescues pet farm animals.
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Tamala Lester, the sanctuary's managing director said they're young Khali Campbell ducks, a domesticated breed that does not fly. The group is now looking for help to care for the ducks, and hopes they can go to a good home.
Officials are looking for information about who dumped the ducks.


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Today HP announced the V1020h, a 720p-recording, SDHC card-reading pocketcam. It has a built-in USB plug and an HDMI port for sharing, but the real noteworthy tidbit here is the pricetag: $US109.
There's not much more info on the V1020h's specs quite yet, but at $US109 it's a good $US30 cheaper than the least expensive pocketcams we tested in our most recent Battlemodo. It's purple and it's slated to hit shelves this summer. [Nexus404]


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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
The Haunted Garden
Posted by Rot at 6:11 AM
Labels: atmosphere, devil, flames, flickr.com, lighting, pure energy team, satan, the haunted garden, torches, yard haunt, yard haunts
2 comments:
- Damian Michael AKA HalloweeNut said...
Beautiful. Just out of curiosity, Rot, where do you get such an interest in "Old Scratch" imagery?
- February 15, 2011 at 6:10 PM
- Rot said...
To me, the image of the Devil is as much a part of Halloween as a Witch, or Skeleton, or Black Cat. I guess that's where it comes from. And I suppose it's also a little bit of mystery, since it's a prop that's off-limits to a lot of haunters. The Satan Factor.
- February 16, 2011 at 5:59 AM
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Hamas forces in Gaza cracked down on journalists covering March demonstrations that called for Palestinian unity. Local journalists were attacked, media bureaus raided, and journalistic material confiscated. In April, three photographers were assaulted in the West Bank while covering skirmishes between Palestinians and Israeli settlers in a village south of Nablus. In May, an Israeli soldier shot and seriously wounded Palestinian photographer Mohammed Othman, who was covering clashes between the Israeli military and Palestinians near the Erez Crossing. New legal restrictions were introduced: In July, the Israeli parliament passed an "anti-boycott" law making it a civil offense to support any boycott, divestment, or sanction campaign aimed at Israel based on its Palestinian policies. Journalists could face legal action for even insinuating support of a boycott. Hamas, meanwhile, adopted a new requirement that international journalists obtain Interior Ministry permission before entering Gaza, news reports said. Israeli authorities were holding four Palestinian journalists without charge in late year; Hamas was imprisoning three others, also without charge.
Israeli forces boarded two ships carrying aid bound for Gaza in November. Among the 27 detentions were journalists Hassan Ghani, a correspondent for Iran's Press TV; Lina Attallah, of Al-Masry al-Youm's English edition; Jihan Hafiz, of Democracy Now; Casey Kauffmann of Al-Jazeera English; and Ayman al-Zubair of Al-Jazeera. Authorities confiscated equipment and footage. Israeli forces were heavily criticized in 2010 after they intercepted a Gaza-bound Turkish flotilla, killing nine passengers, injuring dozens, and arresting hundreds. News media were attacked and obstructed during the raids.
Local and foreign journalists covering demonstrations in Gaza calling for political reconciliation between Palestinian factions were attacked on three separate days in March by Hamas security forces, CPJ research shows.
Three days of anti-press violence:
4 journalists assaulted on March 16:
--Ahmed Hethat, correspondent for the independent radio station Sawt Al-Watan
--Mahmoud Abu Taha, presenter for Sawt Al-Watan
--Akram Atallah, reporter for the West Bank-based daily Al-Ayyam
--Mohamed al-Baba, photographer for Agence France-Presse
2 journalists assaulted on March 19:
--Two unidentified Reuters staff members, one of whom was struck with an iron bar
5 journalists assaulted on March 30:
--Wissam Mohamed Yasin, correspondent for U.S. government-funded Al-Hurra
--Ayyad Talal Taha, reporter for Radio Watan
--Mohamad al-Hassoun, reporter for Radio Watan
--Mamdouh al-Sayyid, cameraman for Al-Arabiya
--Wajih al-Najjar, reporter for the Palestinian News Agency
Security forces targeted international news outlets in reprisal for their coverage of a March demonstration in Gaza calling for Palestinian national unity, CPJ research shows.
In a move likely to restrict news coverage and commentary, the Israeli parliament passed an "anti-boycott" law in July, making it a civil offense to support any economic, cultural, or academic boycott of Israel, Israeli settlements, or Israeli institutions. Violators were subject to civil lawsuit and fines. The measure generated criticism from several domestic groups, the BBC reported.
Israeli groups speaking out:
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel
Gush Shalom
Physicians for Human Rights Israel
Public Committee against Torture
Coalition of Women for Peace
Peace Now
Imprisonments reached the highest level in more than a decade, as both Israeli and Hamas authorities jailed journalists without charge.
Imprisoned over time by either Hamas or Israeli authorities:
2007: 2 (Both in Israeli custody)
2008: 4 (One in Israeli custody; three in Hamas custody)
2009: 0
2010: 0
2011: 7 (Four in Israeli custody; three in Hamas custody)


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Greinke receives little support in loss to Crew
Righty allows two homers vs. former club; Dodgers held to four hits
MILWAUKEE -- Awaiting word on the severity of shortstop Hanley Ramirez's injury, the Dodgers got a glimpse of what their offense in August could be like without him as they lost to the Brewers, 4-1, on Saturday night at Miller Park.
Zack Greinke wasn't sharp enough to do it alone, charged with four runs in six innings while allowing home runs to Khris Davis and Carlos Gomez. It was a rare loss for Greinke at Miller Park, his home stadium for 1 1/2 seasons, where his teams have gone 25-3 with him on the hill in his career. But his explanation for that record tells a lot about his old team and his current one.
"When I was with the Brewers, we scored like 11 runs a game," he said. "It doesn't matter what you do. My ERA here is 3.20, which is OK, but not anything amazing. It's just the team was so good."
He's on another good team now, a first-place team, but it doesn't score 11 runs a game. That's part of the reason he has only one win in his last six starts dating back to July 3, for a 12-8 overall record.
Greinke also had cautionary advice for Ramirez, who has been in and out of the Dodgers' lineup all season with various ailments, without a disabled-list stint to allow complete healing.
"I just want him to be healthy eventually, if it's four days or 30 days, or at least close to healthy," Greinke said. "You can't be hurt the whole year. Every year is a grind. I hope he takes the time and heals up completely, instead of grinding, grinding, grinding."
Greinke bowed out after grinding through six innings and 83 pitches, so he will be ready to go again in five days, the only obvious concession to typical midseason arm weariness that he says is manageable. A fastball that sat at 93 mph throughout his outing supported his claim of soundness.
"I'm fine," he said, although after the game the Dodgers traded for pitcher Kevin Correia, just in case Greinke or any other starter turns out not to be fine.
Not so much the Dodgers after losing the first two games of this series. They had to trade for Friday night starter Roberto Hernandez to replace the injured Josh Beckett, but the Brewers dipped into their farm system and called up Mike Fiers to replace the injured Matt Garza and Fiers allowed three hits over eight innings.
"We just didn't do anything with him," said Dodgers manager Don Mattingly. "Not a lot of action out there. We've seen him before. Wasn't like a total mystery. Can't blame it on that. He came right after us, attacked. Didn't seem afraid of us at all. He was better than us today."
Hot-hitting Adrian Gonzalez accounted for the only Dodgers run with a fourth-inning home run. They had only two other singles off Fiers. One was erased on a caught stealing, the other on a double-play grounder. Fiers' start was similar to his first Major League win in 2012, when he limited the Dodgers to one run on five hits for seven innings.
"He's got a lot of deception," said Milwaukee manager Ron Roenicke. "You saw tonight, most of his pitches are 90, 91 mph. There's a lot of 89s but they all have a lot of life on them. When he's feeling good physically and mentally, that ball really comes out well. That's a good-hitting team. He threw a lot of fastballs that were getting by guys."
With one out in the second inning, Scooter Gennett singled off Greinke and Davis powered a high fastball into the Dodgers' bullpen in right-center for his 19th home run of the year. Hours later, Greinke still didn't know how that happened.
"I made a lot of mistakes today, but that was exactly where I wanted it to be," Greinke said. "I know he's really strong if he gets to it. I thought that was a pretty safe place to go. It surprised me and [catcher] A.J. [Ellis]. That was upsetting."
Gonzalez cut the lead in half one out into the fourth inning with the Dodgers' first hit, taking Fiers deep for his 17th home run, second in as many games and ninth at Miller Park.
But Gomez countered leading off the bottom of the sixth, pulling a first-pitch curveball off the left-field foul pole for his 18th home run. Jonathan Lucroy followed with his third single of the night to left field, Ryan Braun walked and Aramis Ramirez singled home Lucroy.
"The Gomez pitch was equally as bad as the Josh Hamilton pitch in the last start," Greinke said, referring to a pitch he threw to the Angels' outfielder that he called one of the worst pitches he's ever thrown.


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The Daily Word: Giffords, Libya defections, bug-eating
A woman who let her friend drive drunk is being charged with a DWI.
Rep. Pearce says something something "constitutional" something "don't' give money to public broadcasting."
Charges against the local nonprofit that sent human heads to a Kansas medical waste facility were dropped.
Someone put an explosive near an APD car this morning.
Do you know this guy? He stole a computer from UNM by picking it up and walking away.
Secretary of State says the guv may have breached campaign law.
Gaddafi's foreign minister split. (Meet his lovely daughter, who he hopes will inspire his troops.
Arizona outlawed abortions that are performed because of the sex or race of the fetus.
Maybe we will eat bugs when there's no more meat.
Is it too soon to ask: Will Giffords run for Senate?
Spoiler: The "Top Chef All Stars" winner.
Birth rate in the U.S. dropping fast.
Google makes baby steps toward social networking and "liking."
The cosmonaut who fell to earth.


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The Vampire Killing Kits of Matt Shirley.
Thanks so much for the link, Ghastly.
These are really cool. I love the stake design in the top photo.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Ready To Do Battle With The Undead
The Vampire Killing Kits of Matt Shirley.
8 comments:
- JD said...
Very useful, but crosses don't work. What you need is wood bullets to drop him, then finish him with the steak. And what's with the candles and jars?
- October 25, 2010 at 6:02 PM
- Rot said...
I'm imagining this being a vintage kit and the candles would be for around the coffin in the dark crypt...and I've heard tales where vampire organs would be cut out and placed into containers.
Or for holy water?
- October 25, 2010 at 6:13 PM
- JD said...
Or maybe the candles are for burning the body afterwards to make shure their dead. Don't see why keeping vamp organs around would help, other than bragging rights XD
- October 25, 2010 at 6:24 PM
- Rot said...
I see Vampire Killers as pretty unstable folk. I bet they collect all sorts of weird things from a kill. Soil from the coffin. Wood chips from the coffin. Larvae found inside the crypt. Even vampire blood might be collected I'd imagine. And I bet they all would be collectors - cataloging their kills.
There's just no way they'd be normal and balanced.
- October 25, 2010 at 7:35 PM
- Sara said...
LOL to every comment here, and I especially love the very last sentence of the very last comment.
I agree the candles are prolly to see the coffin and the jar for holy water....crosses *don't* work, but crucifixes do! Maybe the creator is trying to be tactful by not including one?
I'd love to see other kits as well: zombies, werewolves...
- October 25, 2010 at 7:51 PM
- JD said...
@ sara all you need for zombies are: machete, big suv, an AK-47, and a barret m82A1 .50 cal sniper rifle! (Look it up on you tube, there on my z-day shopping list) werewolves are actually nice most of the time, but occasionaly you get a bad egg.(time to crack out the m82A1) XD
- October 25, 2010 at 8:18 PM
- crudedoodle.com said...
I think you're better off using a broken baseball bat or some sharp branch instead of this kit. This thing would just make a vampire want to kill you slowly. it would be so insulting.
- October 26, 2010 at 3:05 PM
- The Creeping Cruds said...
All this debate over how to kill vampires.. Just do like Captain Kronos and put a mirror over your blade so they accidentally hypnotize themselves then you can have your way with them...
These kits are cool - they've been popping up alot lately. I bought one years ago - but with all the tool displayed in a shadow box. Everyone seems to be transfixed by it when they come over, like I might just end up using it on them!
- October 26, 2010 at 6:29 PM


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Switch to PC gaming
Some people don't like video game consoles for whatever reasons. These might include lack of variety due to restrictive developer criteria and major publishers' focus on sure bets, the lack of mods, or just the lack of games that use a keyboard and mouse. So to ease a family's transition from console gaming to PC gaming, it's useful to find PC equivalents to popular games for other platforms.
What GPU do I need?
The characters and props in a video game are made out of a mesh of triangles. In modern PCs, the CPU doesn't do the entire job of turning these triangles into the dots that make up images on your screen. A separate chip called the GPU (graphics processing unit), which is specialized for handling lots of dots at once, does most of the work. In laptop PCs, video game consoles, and low-end desktop PCs, the GPU is usually "integrated", or included in the memory controller on the motherboard. Most integrated GPUs don't have dedicated RAM for graphics; instead, they use part of the main memory, and the CPU and the GPU have to take turns accessing it. You can upgrade a PC's GPU by buying a "discrete" GPU that comes on a card, opening the PC's case, and inserting the new card. All discrete GPUs have a separate VRAM, or video memory.
When you play the PC version of game that also came out on consoles, you will want to have a GPU whose capability is at or above the corresponding console's GPU. Intel chipsets include the Intel GMA GPU, which can run Flash games and emulated handheld games but really isn't qualified to run most 3D games from the past six years. An AMD or NVIDIA chipset comes with a far more capable integrated GPU.
A ranking of GPU capabilities published by Tom's Hardware[1] may confuse console fans new to PC gaming, so here are some points of reference: The original Xbox (2001) used a GPU based on NVIDIA's GeForce 3, and the Wii's AMD Hollywood GPU has fillrate close to that of the Radeon 9000 per the chart at Wikipedia. According to the chart, the GeForce 3 and Radeon 9000 are roughly on par with Intel's GMA X-series integrated graphics from 2010. Among the batch of consoles that came out in 2006, the PLAYSTATION 3's RSX GPU is based on a GeForce 7800 (Ars describes it as a "cut-down G71"[2]), and the Xbox 360's GPU is about the same as a Radeon X1900.
If you're buying a small-form-factor PC to play video games, the best option is probably anything with an AMD CPU. AMD motherboards have integrated GPUs made by AMD or NVIDIA, which are far more powerful than Intel integrated GPUs. AMD nettops like this ER1402-55 slim PC by eMachines are fine for games with graphics roughly as complex as World of Warcraft. A GameCube-sized Dell Inspiron Zino can be customized with a discrete GPU for more graphically intense games and a Blu-ray Disc drive for watching high-definition movies. (See also discussion with hairyfeet on Slashdot.) Gigabyte has the Brix devices.[1].
Some desktop PC owners who regularly upgrade their PCs might be able to build a secondary gaming PC out of spare parts.[2] Or for people who lack the time to build a PC themselves, one option is to find a kit you like on TigerDirect or someone's blog, like Jeff Atwood's 2013 build, take the parts list into your local mom-and-pop PC shop, and pay someone to build it for you.[3]
As of the fourth quarter of 2012, guides for how to build a PC for use with Steam games have emerged.[3] In April 2014, Hairyfeet of Slashdot gave a $500 parts list for an AMD hexacore with Windows and a Radeon HD 7790,[4] though it might not be as powerful as a PS4.[5] GameSpot has videos about Intel or NVIDIA or AMD. An anonymous contributor recommends a NewEgg combo. In February 2017, Rich of ReviewTechUSA explained how to build a $250 gaming PC: start with an off-lease quad-core desktop off eBay ($96 shipped), then add 8 GB RAM ($40) and a GeForce GTX 1050 mini GPU ($110).
Or you could buy a "desktop replacement" laptop with both an Intel GMA and an NVIDIA GPU supporting Optimus: the GMA runs most of the time, and the NVIDIA GPU turns on when you play a game. This way, you get playable graphics performance in Windows games when the laptop is docked to your TV, USB game controllers, and AC power, while retaining decent battery life while unplugged. But one obvious advantage of a dedicated PC by the TV is that one gaming laptop won't support one person playing a game and another doing homework or Facebook at the same time.
|Q: What does Intel GMA stand for?
A: Inside Intel, "Graphics Media Accelerator". Outside Intel, "Graphics My Ass".
How to connect the PC to your TV
PCs need not be stuck at a desk; they can also use a modern television as a monitor. Even columnists for parenting web sites have begun to recognize the value of connecting a PC to a TV.[4]
First, you'll need cables: see Cable finder. Then you'll need to change the size of text for a comfortable reading distance: see Setting DPI.
Alternatives to console games
Some people might resist switching due to lack of PC games with similar game play to console franchises. But some have been suggested:
- Classic arcade-style games such as those available on Virtual Console or Xbox Live Arcade
- Midway Arcade Treasures, Namco Museum, and other publishers' similar compilations
- First-person shooters such as Halo
- These are plentiful on the PC; they're just less likely to support gamepads or split-screen cooperative play. However, see Serious Sam and Left 4 Dead.
- Weapon racing like Mario Kart
- Sega and Sonic All Stars Racing, Blur
- One-on-one karate in a flat ring
- Street Fighter IV and V
- Platform fighting like Power Stone or Super Smash Bros.
- Multi-Hero, Liero, billybacs recommended Soldat, AC recommended Jedi Academy, and AC recommended Teeworlds, Soldat, TowerFall Ascension, Brawlhalla, Megabyte Punch, Rivals of Aether (none of these have been evaluated)
- Platform puzzle using team members' individual skills like The Lost Vikings
- Trine
- Cartoonish social simulation like Animal Crossing
- MySims
- Cartoonish platformer like Super Mario
- Rayman, Giana Sisters
- Minigame collection like Mario Party
- Rabbids
- Beat-em-up
- Castle Crashers[6]
Hairyfeet on Slashdot claims that the Steam service by Valve Software has plenty of games supporting single-screen multiplayer, including a large selection of indie games. The infrastructure to search for these games was not quite in place as of the fourth quarter of 2012. But by 2014, once Valve had made progress on Big Picture mode, SteamOS, and Steam Machine hardware, Steam's search had progressed to add a category for indie local co-op.
- ChoGGi recommended blur, split second, shadowgrounds, dynasty warriors 6
- KahabutDieDrake recommended RAG DOLL KUNG FU (4 to 6 mice) or Cortex Command
- Anonymous Coward recommended Dungeon Defenders
- Another AC recommended Trine series, Jamestown, and Shank
- Yet another AC recommended the LEGO $MOVIE series
- wikthemighty recommended several more
- Endo13 recommended lists of controller-friendly PC games on Giant Bomb and Overclock.net
- RivenAleem recommended Castle Crashers and Magica
- Pubstar recommended a bunch of games that support XInput (Xbox 360 wired controllers on Windows)
- nschubach recommended a list at co-optimus, but someone else disagrees that it's extensive enough
- Anonymous Coward recommended lists on reddit and co-optimus
- Another Slashdot AC's favorite controller-friendly games
- q4fry recommended Crawl
Got Ubuntu?
Check out PlayDeb, a repository with games.
- ↑ Don Woligroski. "Graphics Card Hierarchy Chart". Tom's Hardware. 2010-04-19. Accessed 2012-05-03.
- ↑ Peter Bright. "An x86 PlayStation 4 could signal a sea-change in the console industry". Ars Technica. 2012-04-02. Accessed 2012-05-03.
- ↑ Evan Rodgers. "Forget the PS4 and the Xbox 720, build your own Steambox on the cheap". The Verge, 2012-11-30. Accessed 2012-12-03.
- ↑ Jo Harris. "Technology needs for school". Kidspot, ca. 2011. Accessed 2013-12-25.
External links
- Partial list of split-screen PC games at Freehostia
- Reddit: Kill Your Console
- List of Local Multiplayer Games on PC Gaming Wiki
- From /r/PCMasterRace on reddit: Why PC? and Sample builds


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By Caroline McGraw [1] Feb 25, 2013 0 [2]
Lettuce Work: Sowing Seeds and Harvesting Hope
Lettuce Work, [4] a nonprofit vocational program and service provider for young adults on the autism spectrum near New Albany, Ohio, is growing something new within the autism community. As is the case with many nonprofits that serve individuals with autism, the organization began with the efforts of dedicated parents. However, what makes Lettuce Work special is the way in which essential resources—trained teachers, a business plan, and a supportive local economy—converged. Yet these things didn't come together by chance; hard work came first.
The story starts with Doug and Julie Sharp and their two young sons. Julie Sharp is a teacher at Oakstone Academy [5], a school in Westerville, Ohio that welcomes students with ASD. She has taught there for 10 years. Oakstone is unusual in that approximately 50 percent of its students have autism spectrum diagnoses, and the other 50 percent do not. Both of the Sharp's sons attend Oakstone; their 12-year-old son is on the autism spectrum. Doug Sharp served on the Oakstone school board for six years, and was board president as well.
But how did involvement at Oakstone lead to Lettuce Work? Doug Sharp recalls, "We saw that some individuals were able to go on to college, yet some just were not ready for college after Oakstone. Either the maturity level is not there, or social and communication skills are not ready …." The environment at Oakstone Academy is inclusive and supportive; teachers are trained to work with individuals on the autism spectrum. For many students, a transition directly from Oakstone Academy to a "typical" university can be difficult.
Lisa Wenzke, a Lettuce Work board member, parent of an individual on the spectrum and math teacher at Oakstone Academy, sees the same issue. She says, "When you're focused around kids with autism, you're constantly thinking ahead. You're thinking, 'What are we going to do after school's done?'"
Start-Up and Vocational Challenges
What about students who are ready for employment after high school? Lettuce Work seeks to "fill in the gap" for them as well. As Doug Sharp notes, "More individuals are eligible for funding each year; there's a need for vocational training and a safe harbor for [individuals] who might move on to college." Wenzke agrees: "Even in this age of non-discrimination, there are many things that those with autism aren't invited to do."
Lettuce Work is designed specifically for individuals with autism to be employees and the organization measures success based on each person. Doug Sharp says, "Everyone [on the spectrum] is unique, and progress can be slow. We often measure in years, not days or weeks. And there are not a lot of programs out there built for that kind of time frame."
Lettuce Work is certified to offer adult vocational rehabilitation, adult day habilitation, transportation services, and community employment. It has begun by working with the vocational education program at Oakstone Academy, enlisting students to help run the business. As of now, Oakstone students are awaiting their chance to contribute "finish work" to the greenhouses. Winter weather has delayed construction timetables; framing, HVAC, and electrical work are underway on both main building and greenhouse structures. "As soon as we get heat into the greenhouse," laughs Doug Sharp, "[students] are coming in to help finish the construction, and then they'll start working on the growing site."
In preparation, Oakstone students are taking plumbing classes, and studying heating and cooling systems. A small group of students is scheduled to work at the greenhouse three days a week for several hours each day, along with Lettuce Work's full-time staff members. Since program participation will carry school credit for these students, they will not receive wages. However, the organization plans to hire individuals as they graduate from Oakstone and other local high schools. The estimated potential wage will begin at the Ohio state minimum of $7.85 per hour. Notably, Lettuce Work has chosen not to file with the state of Ohio to pay less than minimum wage (or pay associates based on a "piece rate," a common practice for supported employment centers). As Doug Sharp says, "Our expectation is we will pay minimum wage at the beginning, with increases based on performance."
The Lettuce Work Model
Lettuce Work's primary focus is on helping autistic individuals develop workplace skills. To this end, Doug Sharp says, "The idea is to have them involved in every type of activity within the business, from sales delivery to customers to greenhouse work, all based on their abilities." And now, with greenhouse construction nearly complete, they'll have an opportunity to do so. But how, exactly, will the organization support itself? Is there a market for their product? Are they prepared for the challenges associated with training adults on the spectrum?
Doug Sharp answers these questions with precision. As the driving force behind Lettuce Work, he's well-versed in all aspects of its business model. But this didn't happen overnight. He recalls, "It took a long time to get to this point [with our business model]. We had to do a lot of market research locally. We were worried about ... what if we start growing and nobody buys?" To allay this fear, Doug Sharp and his team approached a group of independent restaurants who have banded together as Dine Originals [6]. Dine Originals supports locally-grown produce, and when Lettuce Work asked to partner with local chefs to create a custom salad blend, Dine Originals said yes. As such, Lettuce Work has a built-in local market for its greens. (The retail price of the lettuce blend will vary based on wholesale prices for pre-packaged salad.)
Doug Sharp observes, "We have a wholesale market that way. With grocery stores, you're up against big vendors. If we stay in a specialty niche, we get a little better margin, and that's important. Yes, we're running a social agency; yes, we're a state vocational rehabilitation provider, but we're also running a business." Lettuce Work also receives funding from numerous private and corporate donors, and it participates in the Kroger Community Rewards [7] program. The organization thus pulls together a number of different potential revenue sources, including donations, Medicaid [8], corporate partnerships and sales. However, Lettuce Work is not expecting any state funding initially. The business income for the first year is projected to be $250,000, with annual donations estimated at $50,000, giving the organization an estimated total revenue of $300,000. If these predictions are accurate, Lettuce Work will have resources to expand in addition to covering operating costs. "Our goal is to keep building more greenhouses," Doug Sharp notes.
Hydroponic Gardening
Lettuce Work has sought to turn over a new leaf when it comes to work environment, as most jobs available to adults on the autism spectrum are located in warehouse settings. As Doug Sharp says, "There aren't a lot of [employment] choices, so we said, let's try to figure out if we could do something more agricultural." Though Lettuce Work seeks to be self-supporting, the organization is partnering with the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities [9] for both potential funding and program input. In fact, Ohio DDD gave the Sharps the idea for hydroponic gardening. Doug Sharp recounts, "We talked to Ohio state [DDD], and we told them about the group of people we wanted to serve, with their wide variety of skill sets, and they suggested hydroponics."
Why hydroponics? First, Doug Sharp notes that hydroponic gardening systems require knowledge of math, science, chemistry, and computers. Hydroponics involves monitoring the soils' growth environment, adding fertilizer solution through troughs. To make matters more complex, the amount of fertilizer needed for different varieties of greens changes as the plants move through their life cycles. Employees of Lettuce Work will continue to develop math and science skills as they calculate what amount of solution needs to be administered to which plants, and when. But there are also a variety of labor-intensive tasks in the model, allowing for a diversity of ability levels. Furthermore, the organization selected lettuce as their crop because, as Doug Sharp observes, there is, " … a constant demand for it, and a lot of routine within the growing process. We plan to produce 5,000 heads [of lettuce] per week, so there will be stuff to do every day."
Challenges to Come
The Lettuce Work model isn't without its challenges, though. The biggest hurdle thus far has been start-up funding. As Doug Sharp recalls, "Initially, we spent a lot of time talking to large companies. And we saw a theme; people said, 'We'd like to see [the program] in action before we jump in and invest.'" Doug Sharp recites the questions he received: "'How will people interact? Do you have marketing and sales nailed down?' People want to see those addressed before they make an investment."
Given this, the Sharps made the decision to fund a sizable portion of Lettuce Work's initial operations themselves. To date, they (along with other supportive donors) have invested over $500,000 in capital development. This includes the land, buildings, excavation, labor, hydroponic equipment, and delivery truck needed for Lettuce Work to operate. Doug Sharp says, "We want to be able to have this as a prototype, to say, here's the model, and it works. That way, we can get more [donors] engaged." Lettuce Work has received a few grants, but most of the start-up funding has come from private donations like the Sharp's. (Going forward, the organization hopes to fall back on its state funding as a Medicaid provider to defray operating costs, as needed.) Furthermore, schools and businesses have been generous, helping to defray the program's construction and startup costs. Specifically, Doug Sharp mentions donations from the American School of Technology [10] (which donated HVAC installation), Carrier [11] (furnace and air conditioning equipment), Home Depot [12] and CropKing [13] (materials and employee volunteer time). These contributions have already saved Lettuce Work thousands of dollars.
When it comes to job supports for employees, Lettuce Work is banking on self-management skills students have learned at Oakstone Academy. As Doug Sharp notes, "The teachers that we're working with are very familiar with how to manage behaviors. The challenge will be to get [individuals on the spectrum] to do that themselves, after teachers are gone. That's the struggle." That transition could be tricky; both Doug Sharp and Wenzke say that Lettuce Work will need to focus on teaching employees on the spectrum to manage behaviors on their own. Wenzke says, "There will be this huge learning curve. Fortunately, we all have experience with students with autism." Even so, Doug Sharp doesn't mince words: "It's going to be tough."
Resume Building
Nevertheless, Lettuce Work's staff believes that the difficulties will be worth it in the end. The Sharps founded Lettuce Work hoping that the program will help young adults learn how to move into a work environment. "The goal is that the individuals we work with move on to something bigger and better ... but we also understand that some may be working for us for a long time," says Doug Sharp. So, our goal is to have 25 percent [of Lettuce Work program attendees] move on every year." Put more succinctly: "We're just a resume builder."
But being a "resume builder" doesn't mean moving people through the program at breakneck speed. Lettuce Work emphasizes progress at an individual's pace; the organization's goal to have 25 percent of participants move on to new employment each year also means that 75 percent of adults will likely remain in the program. And Lettuce Work is excited about that 75 percent who remain each year; after all, many of those individuals on the spectrum would be out of a job otherwise. As Wenzke states, "Yes, it costs money to do this, but people don't realize: an unemployed adult costs money, too."
In the end, perhaps there is no better metaphor for Lettuce Work than a community service project that Wenzke herself set up. "I was educating [students] on the lack of availability of jobs for people with autism," she says. "I had them do research and write essays on someone they know, and what job placements they've found. And as the [Lettuce Work] greenhouses were being built, we gave those same students seedlings. I told them, 'Grow them and care for them. You may start small, but you can grow something great.'"


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The new breed of RAID controllers
Whether you're selecting a RAID controller for a PC or Unix server, choosing a controller for a home-grown NAS box, or evaluating the controllers in a midrange or low-end array, or building your own NAS, you have to consider several features of the card:
Networked storage gets all the headlines, but DAS is still a part of most companies. Deploying and maintaining it usually means picking RAID controllers. For more than a decade, that's meant buying a parallel SCSI RAID controller. But now, IT managers face some unfamiliar choices when considering what RAID controllers to use for DAS. With the arrival of SAS and SATA, and significantly faster PCI-X and PCIe busses, the game has changed. You have a range of choices, ranging in price from a few hundred dollars for simpler cards to as much as $1,000 for the most sophisticated and powerful cards.
Whether you're selecting a RAID controller for a PC or Unix server, choosing a controller for a home-grown NAS box, or evaluating the controllers in a midrange or low-end array, or building your own NAS, you have to consider several features of the card:
- Disk support
- Expansion slot requirements
- RAID features
- Port count
- Onboard cache
Server-based RAID controller issues
Disk support, drive ports and port speed. The big change in controller requirements is the diversity of disk interconnects that you might want to utilize. As you take advantage of the cost/performance advantages of a tiered storage approach, you'll have to decide whether you want to mix and match disk types within a server. RAID controllers, such as Adaptec Inc.'s SCSI RAID 2200S ($799) offer two SCSI channels for traditional SCSI drives (up to UltraSCSI 320). However, many RAID controllers offer up to eight or more ports for SATA, SATA II and emerging SAS hard disks. One common example includes Adaptec's SATA RAID 21610SA card ($995) with 16 internal SATA drive ports. As SAS drives emerge, SAS controllers and dual-use SAS/SATA controllers are becoming more common. This includes the Adaptec 4805SAS PCIe card supporting up to eight SAS, SATA or SATA II drives. If so, even if you don't want to mix and match drive types within a cabinet, you may want to standardize on a single card that can be used for any drive type in any cabinet.
SAS controllers, like the LSI Logic Corp.'s MegaRAID 8408E, support both SAS and SATA II drives simultaneously, possibly enabling a small amount of storage tiering on the same RAID card.
Ashish Nadkarni, senior consultant at GlassHouse Technologies Inc., agrees that the practice is technically possible, but not always desirable. "Mixing and matching different drives on the same controller may not be a good idea," he says, "since the performance characteristics of each drive type may differ greatly -- causing imbalance in [overall RAID controller] performance."
As a rule, always verify support for mixed drive types with the controller's manufacturer. Check the transfer rate per port to ensure that the card can pass an adequate volume of data at each port. For example, the LSI Logic MegRAID SATA 300-8X and Adaptec SAS 4805SAS cards can handle up to 3 Gbps at a drive port.
Your next consideration is whether all your storage is going to be internal or some will be externally direct attached. Some of the new crop of controllers offers external ports, allowing drives (and drive racks) to be attached outside of the server. The new serial interconnects give you more flexibility and distance with externally attached devices.
Expansion slot requirements. RAID controllers must be inserted into an available PCI, PCI Express (PCIe) or PCI-X slot in the server itself. Consequently, the RAID card must match the slots available in a given server. PCI-X 2.0 has become a popular expansion architecture for servers, offering a 64-bit data bus operating up to 533 MHz (resulting in a maximum theoretical throughput of 4.3 GBps, compared to 132 MBps transfers for conventional 32-bit PCI slots at 33MHz).
PCI-X products are backward compatible with conventional PCI slots. This allows newer PCI-X controllers to reside on older servers, though the controller's performance is limited by the older expansion slot until the server can be upgraded. PCIe is an alternative high-performance expansion bus technology using between one and 32 serial data lines (dubbed "lanes") to carry data at bandwidth rated to 16 GBps.
Today, you'll find RAID cards available for all three expansion bus architectures.
RAID levels and total array size. RAID controllers are also differentiated by the variety of RAID implementations (or "RAID levels") they support. Most RAID controller cards will support common RAID levels including RAID-0, 1, 5, 10 (1+0) and 50 (5+0).
More current controllers will handle the emerging RAID-6 and 60 (6+0) levels intended to protect against dual/simultaneous drive failures and is strongly encouraged when large arrays must be protected. Cards like Adaptec's SAS RAID 4805SAS ($995) card will support RAID-6/6+0 as an optional feature.
The overall size of a RAID array should also be considered against storage needs. LSI Logic's MegaRAID SAS 8408E card supports RAID arrays to 2 terabytes (TB), which is typical of current SAS and SATA offerings.
Onboard cache and battery. Cache is typically used to hold data from the server until it can be written to the respective RAID drives. Controllers with 128 MB of cache are common. Both Adaptec's SAS RAID 4805SAS card and LSI Logic's MegaRAID SATA 300-8X card ($520) include 128 MB of ECC-protected DDR2 memory. By comparison, LSI Logic's MegaRAID SAS 8408E card provides 256 MB of DDR2 memory for cache.
Cache does not require a battery backup, but unwritten cache data will be lost in the event of a power failure. For best data protection, battery backup modules are typically available as an option and are often purchased with RAID controllers. Battery backups can work from 24 to 72 hours depending on the card and backup module selected.
RAID controllers for storage arrays
"You don't call them 'RAID controllers' in a storage array," explains Ashish Nadkarni, senior consultant at GlassHouse Technologies Inc. "But they give you a much broader reach of what we can do with the controller itself with the amount of memory [cache], the performance and the features of the controller, such as snapshots."
A storage array can implement RAID for hundreds of disks using an array of RAID controllers that each provide their own level of redundancy -- when one controller fails, another will take over seamlessly. This is very different from single server-based controllers where a controller failure will disable the entire RAID system, possibly resulting in data loss.
"Storage array vendors tend to OEM from different vendors," Nadkarni says. "LSI and Adaptec are the most commonly used cards [in storage arrays] that I know."
Cache sizes are also much larger. A single controller card may only offer a few megabytes of cache, but RAID controllers used for storage arrays may offer hundreds of gigabytes. Memory allows a fast data transfer from the network, allowing the user to continue working while the data is transferred to disk later. Cache is commonly operated with a battery backup to prevent data loss in the event of a disk/controller fault.
Nadkarni explains that fan-in and fan-out ratios are extremely important in storage array planning, representing the very best and worse connection scenarios that the array will handle.
"If you want to connect 100 hosts to a single array, you had better make sure that the array can support that number of hosts," he says.
Consider the protocols supported by the RAID controller, such as Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI, NFS, and so on. As an example, Adaptec's 7211C host bus adapter is designed for iSCSI SAN applications. Although drive selection has no direct impact on RAID protection, the choice of FC, SATA, SATA II or SAS drives will influence the cost/performance tradeoff of enterprise RAID implementation -- especially in large storage arrays.
Finally, RAID implementations will require some amount of IT management. While management is usually light for limited server-based controllers, storage arrays with many hundreds of disks may demand significant management effort. Before selecting an array RAID controller, understand how management tools and tactics may vary with your choice of controller.
Consider enhanced controller features
In addition to the four key issues of slot, RAID level, ports/drives and cache, there are other powerful RAID features being routinely integrated into current RAID controllers. Hot spare support (dubbed RAID-5EE) allows a fully functional drive to reside in an existing RAID group, but is left unwritten. When a drive fault occurs, that drive's data is automatically reconstructed on the hot spare. The faulty drive can then be replaced later, becoming the new hot spare. Hot swap capability minimizes maintenance and repair downtime by allowing faulty drive replacement without powering down the server or storage array.
RAID controllers are also increasingly scalable and multiple cards can sometimes be installed in tandem for additional capacity, performance and redundancy. For example, the 3ware (AMCC) 8000 family of RAID controllers can scale to 12 TB of capacity by using 12 drives at 250 GB each across four RAID controllers in the system.
Multiple controllers can support tiering if desired by dedicating a particular drive type to each controller. Although it is possible to install multiple RAID controllers in a single server (Broadcom Corp. calls this "controller spanning"), the choice to do so depends on your storage objectives.
"Sometimes [a server's expansion] slot capacity may dictate that only one card be used," Nadkarni says. "But in general using two cards instead of one will help from a performance and redundancy perspective."
Don't forget management software
Analysts note that management tools play an important role in RAID implementations, allowing storage managers to configure, monitor and manage RAID systems locally (even remotely over the enterprise network). It's common to find RAID management tools bundled with the RAID controller at the controller level and operating system level. For example, LSI Logic bundles four tools with its MegaRAID SATA 300-8X card. The MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility and WebBIOS allow local and remote hardware-based configuration, the MegaManager provides a command-line interface for RAID management and the Power Console Plus supplies a GUI-based monitoring and management interface.
Management tools also support increasingly powerful features appearing in new RAID controllers, making RAID arrays far more dynamic and versatile. A move toward online capacity expansion lets users grow their RAID groups as needed without a disruptive upgrade and recreation of the entire RAID group.
Native command queuing is found in SATA II controllers, allowing higher performance by reordering disk commands more efficiently. RAID level migration is another notable feature that allows RAID protection to be changed on the fly -- again without the need to disrupt data in the current group.
Brian Garrett, analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, notes that "background RAID initialization" reduces the time-consuming process of preparing the parity for RAID-5 and RAID-6. "Historically, you've always had to wait for that [zeroing] operation to happen, he says. Vendors have gotten clever, and they'll do it in the background as a low-priority task -- giving you access to the system right away." However, disks can also be zeroed out at the factory to reduce RAID configuration times.
Looking to the future of RAID
Today, RAID requires hands-on management to organize disks, migrate RAID levels, handle spare drives, perform snapshots and so on. But analysts agree that traditional RAID technologies are likely to change as storage assumes a more ubiquitous role in the enterprise -- requiring less conscious thought and attention.
"I believe that RAID will mature into something that is no longer called RAID," Nadkarni says. He explains that the basic storage virtualization offered by RAID is systematically converging with the idea of storage as a corporate resource. The protections offered by RAID will become automatic, adapting to suit the unique needs of each business. "It may dynamically change its nature based on the performance and capacity requirements of the server." Eventually, Nadkarni expects that RAID will be a self-managing feature of the storage environment, probably tied to storage provisioning activities.
In the nearer term, analysts expect SAS drives to assume a larger role in RAID applications.
"The SAS ecosystem is just coming alive," Garrett says. "There are SAS RAID controllers and SAS drives available, but its adoption hasn't taken off yet."
He expects to see SCSI RAID features on the motherboard eventually shift to SAS as a natural evolution. Over the longer term, analysts predict additional intelligence at the hardware level.
"The electronics designed in a [RAID] controller will become smaller and eventually make its way into the disk," Nadkarni says. "The controllers themselves may become part of a fully virtualized multiprotocol environment where you won't talk about controllers or arrays. You'll just talk about a 'resource.' "
RAID controller manufacturers (alphabetical)
Adaptec, Inc. [Server and array cards]
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (acquired 3Ware) [Server cards]
Broadcom Corporation (acquired RAIDcore) [Server cards]
Emulex [Array cards]
EqualLogic Inc. [Array cards]
Intel Corporation [Server cards]
Intelligent Computer Peripherals (ICP Vortex owned by Adaptec) [Server cards]
LSI Logic Corporation [Server cards]
Promise Technology Inc. [Server cards]


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Rioja re-organisation
Sun 23 May 2004
The Rioja Regulatory Council (RRC) has announced the creation of a new professional body which now involves both the growers and the producer. This new body will be known as the Organisacion Interprofessional del Vino de Rioja (OIPVR). The RRC will maintain the day-to-day management of the DO but by involving both the wineries and growers in the decision making for the region it is hoped that the RRC can ensure long stability and regulate fluctations in supply and demand.


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Experience four brand new single-player levels in this additional DLC campaign for F.E.A.R.2! Coinciding with the events seen in the full game, you will experience the chaos of Alma's aftermath from an entirely new point of view: that of Replica Soldier 813. Your mission begins with an orbital Powered Armor drop to reinforce your fellow Replica squad But not everything is as it seems. Supernatural events run wild in the apocalyptic remains of Auburn. Another voice is beckoning you; contradicting orders from Replica command. Find out the answer to this, and many new questions, in the DLC campaign F.E.A.R.2: Reborn!
TIPO DE JOGO: Tiro
Nº DE DISCOS: 1 DVD
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Just in case you aren't already spending too much time on the internet there is an extremely promising looking site for those who are fans of photographic ephemera. This is a site that will be posting a couple times a week featuring old gallery announcements and other paper goods that usually wind up in the dustbin.
His first posting is on various Ansel Adams Christmas cards which some were actual gelatin silver prints mounted onto personalized letterpress cards. More interesting to me is the Bernd and Hilla Becher announcement from 1973. He also includes interesting anecdotes about each piece that weaves a tighter web around this medium's history.
I know the guy who started it and I have to say that he saves gallery announcements even more obsessively than I have. He literally has thousands of them. That said we'll see if he has a copy of the Another Country exhibition card of Graham Smith and Chris Killip from 1985. How about the 'pig cakes' announcement poster from Martin Parr's Common Sense exhibitions. Check it out and I guess we'll see.