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From cruller-sized pygmy rabbits to slam-dunking sea otters, 2013 was a big year for conservation, animal welfare and general adorableness at the Oregon Zoo. Here’s a look back at the year’s 10 most memorable zoo stories.

1. Eddie ups his game

When marine life keeper Jenny DeGroot trained sea otter Eddie to dunk a toy basketball for arthritis therapy, she didn't expect Oprah and Ellen's people to get in touch. A video about this behind-the-scenes elbow exercise went viral, clocking more than a million views and propelling Eddie to international stardom. (He's big in Japan.)

2. Mo learns to swim

River otter pup Molalla started taking swim lessons just four months after he was born, and the instructor — his mother, Tilly — didn't go easy on him. Mo's water trials made a big splash on YouTube, and offered a rare glimpse of this major milestone on a pup's journey to otterhood.

3. Neka has triplets

In September, African lion Neka gave birth to a trio of female cubs. The community followed closely as the runt of the litter, Kamali, struggled to keep up with her sisters. Four months and a few pounds later, all three cubs are doing well and getting daily lessons in how to be a lion.

4. Homes found for 9 cougar orphans — and the Cougarciser

As species coordinator for cougars, the zoo's Michelle Schireman has placed more than 90 orphaned cougars in AZA-accredited zoos. This year she found homes for another nine cubs that would not have survived in the wild. In August, Michelle also unveiled the "Cougarciser," an enrichment device designed to bring out the explosive predatory instincts of the zoo's own orphaned cougars, Paiute and Chinook.

5. Rare bumblebee found on Mt. Hood

August brought positive buzz for bees with the discovery of a rare western bumblebee population on Mount Hood. A Xerces Society survey, supported by the Oregon Zoo Foundation's Future for Wildlife program, will help protect this rare and important pollinator, which mysteriously vanished from much of its range during the mid-1990s.

6. Bald eagle, unleaded

After more than three months of intense treatment, a bald eagle in the care of the Audubon Society of Portland made a full recovery from severe lead poisoning and was released in southwest Washington. The eagle was one of many raptors tested for lead as part of a zoo-supported study aimed at reducing lead poisoning in Oregon wildlife.

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In July, female polar bear Tasul helped scientists tackle a climate change mystery by wearing a high-tech collar to track her movements. Because polar bears are extremely difficult to study in the wild, Tasul offered researchers a rare opportunity to investigate how these mega-predators are responding to the retreat of sea ice.

8. Pygmy rabbit romance and panda passion

Coaxing endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits into "breeding like rabbits" has never been a simple task. But a research breakthrough at the Oregon Zoo may have revealed the secret to pygmy rabbit chemistry. These findings could also advance breeding programs for the world's most famous endangered species: the giant panda.

9. Half-pint to half-ton: Lily's first year

She was born big — with an outsize personality to match — and she's had a big impact on the Oregon Zoo's world-famous Asian elephant herd and visitors alike. Lily, the zoo's youngest elephant, turned a year old on Nov. 30. She is described as a "spitfire" by zoo animal-care staff, who say she has energized the rest of the herd.

10. Superfrog study advances amphibian recovery

Invasive bullfrogs have managed to outcompete — and gobble up — every Oregon spotted frog population they've encountered, except for the one at Conboy Lake. A zoo investigation into the secrets of this "bullfrog-proof" population is helping conservationists devise more successful captive rearing programs, and stave off the extinction of this rare Northwest amphibian.


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The Garden Of…

That’s the name of Shu Takikawa’s farm. The dot, dot, dot is very much a part of the title. With a thick Japanese accent and a permanent eye twinkle, Shu said the name made him feel free. Like he didn’t have to farm this land forever if he didn’t feel like it. He could leave at anytime or maybe (my interpretation) that the land could continue being farmed for many generations, simply plug a name into the dot dot dot. I met Shu when I was calling around for farms to feature on the pilot of Farm to Table. I visited a couple of great farmers, but narrowed it down to Shu and serendipitously enough, a man who apprenticed with him, Jacob Grant. Both fit the small-medium size “farm with soul” bill.

Shu’s wife, Debby, refers to Shu as a farming elf. Aptly put, I feel. Shu is quiet, sometimes. He’s wise. You become quickly aware of his other-worldliness. Shu feels the farm. His wife tells farm stories, about pests or heat, that include finding Shu missing mid-a night’s sleep before making out the glow of Shu’s headlamp dancing across the sleeping field. His farming partner and step-daughter Noey recalls many long hours spent with Shu simply starring at the field. Pondering the next crop to plant or determining when to water, but doing so by silently absorbing his land. Water is not taken lightly at The Garden Of… Shu does not have a heavy watering hand, part of the secret, I suppose. He traveled to Japan to simply meet a man rumored to grow incredible tomatoes and brought those gifts back, among others.

Shu and Noey fundamentally do not understand pesticides. It is not a decision of whether or not to use them. Shu is hard-wired to understand the cyclical process of good bugs and bad bugs and rain and drought… teetering constantly around the balance of his land. He’s got a mischievous heart. He likes to laugh. He cooks phenomenally, and I got to eat it. Noey says that Shu’s dinner’s begin when he selects the seed variety to plant. And I believe it. The true meaning of “Farm to Table” came to life at the Takikawa dinner table. I am not lying that I don’t think I have ever had a better meal. Pasta, and I don’t eat pasta. But, I did there. I would eat anything that Shu fed me, and you know what? I would be healed by it. I swear. He’s a magic man. I crave going back for another…

Although I have yet to try Shu’s famous carrots because he only grows them in the winter when carrots are supposed to be grown, I can’t imagine that they could top his lettuce. Oh my, his lettuce. His Lettuce. Holy cow. My neighbor Danette and I drove up to the Santa Barbara Farmers’ Market last weekend so that Danette could see first-hand this fantastic market, but also so that she could put to rest my incessant chatter about Shu’s lettuce. I think she was quietly expecting to say, “Yes Molly, it’s real nice,” but inside, “not all THAT though, geez.” But, she’s converted. If I hadn’t already done it with daisies, I would walk down the aisle with a beautiful head of Shu’s butter lettuce. I would put a vase of his crispy romaine in the center of any formal dinner table. It’s really worth taking a trip to Santa Barbara to try. And you would have to go there, too, because Shu & Noey don’t take their produce to LA, or anywhere else for that matter. The Wednesday and Saturday Farmers’ Market for them… that’s it. But why travel? When you got the best lettuce in town… you can just do what you wish.

Shu says he likes to grow “normal” things, but make them the best of the normal. Like lettuce. Everyone grows lettuce, but he grows the best lettuce. On my visit to their farm, Debby made a salad for us to accompany Shu’s vegetable pasta dish. First, we went out and picked our salad lettuce together. I walked back towards the house, arms full of one of every variety, using my semi-spare hand to shove leaves of lettuce in my mouth with no shame. Then, Debby made a great dressing with simply fresh garlic, nama shoyu (traditional japanese soy sauce), lemon juice and extra virgin olive oil. It was delicious, simple and a perfect compliment to beautiful greens. She asked me to squeeze the garlic through the press, and I did so, relishing how they involved me in the kitchen chores which also included running out to pull a few onions from the California dirt.

Debby sent me home with several bulbs of their garlic. And when I got back to Santa Monica, I experimented with measurements for my own take on Debby’s dressing. Once close, I proceeded to eat salad for lunch and dinner until my face broke out like a pizza. As I have mentioned, Debby’s dressing helped reveal that soy and Molly, regrettfully, don’t mix.

But that doesn’t take away from the simple pleasure of this dressing for the rest of you. Especially when a quality soy sauce is used, this recipe is delicious, easy and super healthy.

Debby’s Simple Soy Dressing

1 tbsp nama shoyu*
Juice of 1 large lemon
2 medium garlic cloves, minced **
3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

In a small bowl, combine all ingredients and whisk well.

* Unpasteurized soy sauce found in most health food stores. Because it has not been heated in order to pasteurize, it still retains all the good “bugs” (probiotics) created during fermentation of the sauce.

** A garlic press makes for a great texture, but chopping with a knife is fine, too.

P.S. Danette writes a great blog called Mad Organica, and she also provided me with the gorgeous lettuce photo. Click
here for her side of our Farmers’ Market story, including a beautiful collage of her bounty from the market.

xo – Organic Spark

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  • madness rivera

    Thanks Molly! And yes, utterly and convincingly converted. Whoa. I'd WALK to Santa Barbara for that lettuce. I'd become a lettuce disciple if there is such a thing; not farming it, just admiring and meditating on it.

    July 16, 2009
  • Ashlee Gadd

    Wishing I lived closer to Santa Barbara for some of that lettuce and a basket of those de-lish strawberries Danette mentioned on her blog. Have you seen Food Inc.? Pro organic farming documentary that exposes the truth behind the food industry…VERY interesting! I think you would love it!

    July 20, 2009
  • Molly

    Looking forward to the next trip Danette!

    And Ashlee – Thanks for stopping by, and yes, I have seen it. Saw it at Mountainfilm Telluride Film Festival. Holy cow. It's great, isn't it! Thanks for suggestion. You were right on!

    July 20, 2009
  • DARN IT! i saw them at the SB farmers market and was worried that the lettuce would be all wilty by the time I left Santa Barbara! :( will have to try next time!

    August 31, 2011
  • […] here is a beautiful story about Shu, his outstanding lettuce, and how his farm got his name. http://www.organicspark.com/featured-farmer-shu-takikawa/- And hear what the Santa Barbara Independent said about Meet the Farmer Dinner […]

    November 8, 2011
  • Good News! Shu and Debby are coming to the Mar Vista Farmers’ Market this Sunday. We are thrilled. Come see them in LA.

    April 18, 2012
  • […] Amazing butter lettuce from The Garden Of… […]

    February 5, 2013

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A South Carolina teen who identifies as gender non-conforming is upset after the local DMV made him remove his makeup for his license photo, according to WYFF 4.

Chase Culpepper, 16, was wearing makeup and clothes generally considered to be feminine when he went in to take his driving test. He passed the test but was told before he took the picture for his license that he would need to remove his makeup because, as DMV officials told him, that's not how a boy should look.

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Zebras are being reintroduced slowly to Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park, where they will be the new finale of the Kilimanjaro Safaris attraction that carries guests through an Africa-inspired savanna.

Fifteen Plains zebras have been adjusting to their Florida surroundings in backstage areas of Walt Disney World since arriving in February, said Matt Hohne, animal-operations director.

"Zebras are probably one of the most iconic of all the African mammals, and guests have repeatedly, through the years, told us that it's one of the animals they'd really like to see more of," Hohne said.

The herd was acquired en masse through the Associations of Zoos and Aquariums, a nonprofit organization that backs the conservation and science sides of animal studies.

"It was important for us to get a group that already knew each other so the transition would be easier," Hohne said.

They spend their days eating hay, resting in the shade, rolling in the dirt and sometimes frolicking, he said. Recently, the zebras have been in fields not far from — but not within sight of — the Kilimanjaro Safaris. The voices of the attraction's guides and the rumble of its open-air trucks are heard in the distance.

"I've heard them referred to as the watchdog of the savanna. They're always on the lookout," said Jonathan Miot, director of the Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo in Gainesville.

In a herd of zebras, one member is on constant watch — for lions and other enemies — even if everybody else is grazing, he said.

"When something happens, when something alerts them, the one who is paying attention will then alert the rest of the herd in a very subtle way," Miot said.

But the natural curiosity of zebras contributed to problems when the species previously appeared in the safaris. There were compatibility issues with small antelopes.

"Zebras are very inquisitive. When we introduce new animals to the safari, and they'll come over and those animals might not be used to it," Hohne said. "So it's just easier from our collection-management standpoint to have zebras by themselves." Zebra were removed from the attraction "a few years ago," he said.

Zoos frequently show off animals together in a "mixed-species exhibit," Miot said. After an initial adjustment, they start to cope with one another, he said.

"Typically, animals will learn their own niche in the area," Miot said. But zebras can be stubborn and "pushy" about their desires and habits, he said.

"I've worked in zoos where zebras have displaced giraffes," Miot said. "They're known to be pretty tough animals."

Disney's new animals will be stationed near the end of the Kilimanjaro Safaris, near the spot where an animatronic elephant called "Little Red" stood. The zebras will relocate there in phases. Disney officials have set no specific date as to when the zebras will be in their permanent home, Hohne said, but expects they'll be settled by the end of the month.

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Members of the herd are 5 to 10 years old, weigh between 650 and 800 pounds, and are all females. Disney has no plans to breed the Plains group, Hohne said.

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For the past 15 years, Oral Roberts University's 16 NCAA Division I teams have competed in The Summit League, claiming an incredible 140 regular season and tournament championships, and nine Commissioner's Cups. That averages out to more than nine championships per year.

With all of the success-on and off the field-in The Summit League, the only thing missing for ORU was a geographical fit. With 10 teams spanning eight states and three time zones, The Summit League is one of the widest-spread conferences in the NCAA. In October 2011, ORU President Dr. Mark Rutland and Director of Athletics Mike Carter announced that the Golden Eagles would pursue another opportunity and join the Southland Conference, effective July 1, 2012. With the addition of ORU, the Southland Conference will have 10 teams in four states (Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma).

"The Southland Conference has proven that it is a strong and historic mid-major conference, and we are excited about competing in the league," said Carter. "The geographical footprint of the Southland will help us in recruiting, both for athletics and for the university."

Rutland added: "Our number one consideration in this and all decisions is the well being of our student-athletes. We look forward to being a competitive member of such an excellent conference right here in our own neighborhood. This change in geography that the Southland Conference provides us will greatly benefit our athletes."

Two ORU programs completed their respective tenures in The Summit League having never lost the championship. Both women's golf and baseball captured all 15 tournament championships, marking two of the most impressive streaks in NCAA history. The women's golf run is the longest in NCAA history, surpassing Duke's run of 13 consecutive championships, while the baseball streak is one short of Oklahoma State's record 16-straight Big 8 Tournament championships.

The ORU baseball team will likely see the biggest change in competition with the move. The Summit League has never had more than one team in the NCAA Baseball Tournament, while the Southland had a pair of teams earn bids in 2012, with a third being considered as one of the top teams left out.

In 2011-12, ORU won three regular season championships (men's basketball, women's tennis and baseball), and three tournament championships (women's golf, women's tennis and baseball), and finished second in the Commissioner's Cup, winning the Dr. William Steinbrecher Men's All-Sports Award. Additionally, the Golden Eagles were the only school to finish in the top two in the men's all-sports award, the Dr. Helen Smiley Women's All-Sports Award and the overall Commissioner's Cup standings.

With seven All-Americans and one National Champion this year, ORU has now produced 75 All-Americans and three National Champions during its time in The Summit League. Dominque Morrison earned AP Honorable Mention All-American honors, the first men's basketball player to do so for ORU since Caleb Green in 2007, while Kevi Luper was again named an All-American for the women's basketball team. On the baseball diamond, Jose Trevino was a Louisville Slugger Freshman All-American and long jumper Clive Chafausipo and pole vaulter Jack Whitt each earned NCAA and USTFCCCA All-American honors in their respective sports in both indoor and outdoor track, with Whitt winning the outdoor national championship.

At the conference level, a total of 14 Golden Eagles were given top awards from the Summit League. Scott Sutton (men's basketball) and Chris Milliron (women's tennis) earned 2012 Coach of the Year honors, while Morrison (men's basketball), Luper (women's basketball), Jared Schlehuber (baseball) and Iryna Khatsko (women's tennis) were named the Player of the Year in their respective sports. Other honors included: Bruna Silva as the volleyball Defensive Player of the Year, Steven Roundtree (men's basketball) as Sixth Man of the Year, Drew Bowen (baseball) as the Pitcher of the Year and Tournament MVP, Trevino (baseball) as Newcomer of the Year, Scott Newell (men's golf) as Newcomer of the Championship, and track athletes Whitt and Kristen Radcliff as Indoor and Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year and Women's Track MVP, respectively. Additionally, Morrison and Whitt were each named Summit League Athlete of the Month during 2011-12.

With those, the Golden Eagles finish their time in the Summit League with 126 Player of the Year, 73 Coach of the Year and 47 Newcomer of the Year trophies.

Athletic Director Mike Carter also earned Under Armour Central Division I A.D. of the Year honors from the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics.

For their work in the classroom, ORU has had 1,244 athletes named to the Academic All-Conference teams, and have posted a GPA of 3.00 or better in 14 of the last 15 years, including a 3.15 mark during 2011-12, the highest over that span. In fact, after reaching 3.00 for the fourth year in a row in 2006-07, the overall GPA has risen in each of the last five years.

As the Golden Eagles begin to eye the Southland Commissioner's Cup, they will have to take down Stephen F. Austin, which won last year's honor after winning regular season championships in women's soccer, women's indoor and outdoor track and field, and women's tennis.

Although they become part of the conference on July 1, Southland Conference competition will officially begin on Thursday, September 13 as the ORU volleyball team faces Sam Houston State in Huntsville, Texas.


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On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 1.11.0. GDAL/OGR is a C++ geospatial data access library for raster and vector file formats, databases and web services. It includes bindings for several languages, and a variety of command line tools.

The 1.11.0 release is a major new feature release with the following highlights:

  • Significantly improved drivers: GML, LIBKML
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Google "Google invited developers to its London office for one of three workshops - the others being in Munich and Tel Aviv to spread the word and teach developers how to write for their new OS. Here's what they told us. The mantra for Android is that it's 'a complete and modern embedded OS, with a cutting edge mobile user experience, a world class software stack for building apps and open platform for developers users and industry'."
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Graphics, User Interfaces As I already explained in the first Usability Terms article, consistency goes a long way in ensuring a pleasurable user experience in graphical user interfaces. While some user interfaces appear to be more graphically consistent than others, Windows has always appeared to be worse than most others - probably because it carries with it stuff that dates back to the 16bit era. IStartedSomething agrees with this, and started the Windows UI TaskForce.
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RE[4]: Why?
by romang on Tue 3rd Jun 2008 09:26 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Why?"
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As a economist I have to correct you slightly: To develop software has *not* a marginal cost of zero. Because if you hand out more copies of your products you have a much larger user base to support and this produces costs. Even if you have the counter argument that they do not sell support -- which they certainly do -- you have to respect a larger user base because of existing competition and long term involvement in the market.
By the way a monopoly does not have to be bad. There are certainly some goods that profit from a monopoly. For example the production of money.
The real question that arises is: Is a monopoly in SW production bad, if it is done for free software or information in general as it is done for printing money. I find this somehow interesting.

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Intel On Friday, Intel engineers are detailing the inner workings of the company's first graphics chip in over a decade at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco - sending a signal to the game industry that the world's largest chipmaker intends to be a player. During a conference call that served as a preview to the GDC sessions, Tom Forsyth, a software and hardware architect at Intel working on the Larrabee graphics chip project, discussed the design of Larrabee, a chip aimed squarely at Nvidia and at AMD's ATI unit.
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RE[2]: About time.
by griffinme on Sun 29th Mar 2009 15:42 UTC in reply to "RE: About time."
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Intel ships far more graphics chips than ATI or nVidia. IIRC, around 50% of graphics cards shipped world wide are Intel.
Not sure I would really count them as graphics cards. Its like the old Yugo's. They would sorta get you from one place to another. But every moment you were in one you were wishing you had a different car.

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GNU, GPL, Open Source When Windows Vista was launched, the Free Software Foundation started its BadVista campaign, which was aimed at informing users about what the FSF considered user-restrictive features in Vista. Luckily for the FSF, Vista didn't really need a bad-mouthing campaign to fail. Now that Windows 7 is receiving a lot of positive press, the FSF dusted off the BadVista drum, and gave it a fresh coat of paint.
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RE[5]: Agreed
by gustl on Thu 27th Aug 2009 13:21 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: Agreed"
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Other than some well publicized, and rather old, attacks like Balmer's "cancer" quote, MS doesn't seem to do a whole lot of that publicly.

No, Microsoft is instead reverting to their old ways of forcing completely closed stuff onto us by getting the industry to accept it as "standard".

I just say exFAT.

Will the industry ever learn?

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GNU, GPL, Open Source The HURD was meant to be the true kernel at the heart of the GNU operating system. The promise behind the HURD was revolutionary -- a set of daemons on top of a microkernel that was intended to surpass the performance of the monolithic kernels of traditional Unix systems and in doing so, give greater security, freedom and flexibility to the users -- but it has yet to come down to earth.
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We shall see what is needed in the end.

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Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu Well, this is sure to raise a few eyebrows here and there. Today, at the Ubuntu Developer Summit, Mark Shuttleworth held his keynote speech, and in it, he announced that Ubuntu will switch to the Unity user interface come release, for both the netbook as well as the desktop, leaving the GNOME user interface behind (but keeping the GNOME platform).
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RE[5]: Comment by mrAmiga500
by mgl.branco on Tue 26th Oct 2010 14:23 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: Comment by mrAmiga500"
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Sure other mayor OS focused forums are full of well-informed, helpful and allways polite people.

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Windows And so the war on general computing continues. Were you looking forward to ARM laptops and maybe even desktops now that Windows 8 will also be released for ARM? I personally was, because I'd much rather have a thin, but fast and economical machine than a beastly Intel PC. Sadly, it turns out that all our fears regarding UEFI's Secure Boot feature were justified: Microsoft prohibits OEMs from allowing you to install anything other than Windows 8 on ARM devices (the Software Freedom Law Center has more).
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I could go on, about various braking systems that won't work together, but I think you get the point.
...and you find this to be a good thing?

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Windows Robert Love, a famous Linux kernel hacker, has written a blog entry with his thoughs on the recently posted Vista's network slowdown issue and the explanation given by Mark Russinovich: "Unlike DPCs, however, the Linux parallel does not consume nearly half of your CPU. There is no excusable reason why processing IP packets should so damagingly affect the system. Thus, this absolutely abysmal networking performance should be an issue in and of itself, but the Windows developers decided to focus on a secondary effect."
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by Robert Escue on Wed 29th Aug 2007 12:58 UTC
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Reading the posts on 2CPU you find that several of the people complaining about poor performance (including dloneranger) use motherboards with integrated Gigabit Ethernet controllers. And while the integrated controllers are convenient and save precious PCI slots, most of them are not in the high performance category.

One thing that I know from experience is that drivers and driver settings greatly affect the performance of a NIC, whether it be integrated or a separate card. Zlynx is right in saying that the driver could be the culprit. We had a problem where database exports between a SunFire 4800 and a Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2003 Server machines (HP/Compaq DL380's) would take in excess of 30 minutes to complete (and the Gigabit Controllers on a DL380 are a little more powerful than those on your typical PC motherboard). We upgraded the NIC drivers and beefed up the TCP Transmit Descriptors and the same exports completed in 5 minutes. The one thing we noticed is that the updated driver had more tuning options than the older version, particularly the Transmit and Receive Descriptors.

And while there are plenty of people who are trying to paint this as a Microsoft problem, when you are dealing with drivers, my experience has been to update and tweak to see if the performance improves before you start complaining.

It would also be interesting to see whether this performance issue shows up using a quality PCI/PCI-X/PCI Express NIC or is it limited to motherboard integrated NIC's.

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PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless Microsoft has Windows Mobile 6.x (on the way out) Windows Phone 7, Windows Embedded Standard 7, Windows Embedded Compact 7 and then Windows 7 for tablet PCs and netbooks. What this bevy of systems is missing is a coherent answer for the tablet form factor. Windows Embedded Compact 7, which is the OS aimed at the mobile sector, isn't yet released, and when it is, it won't have a uniform UI, but will depend on hardware vendors to customize. It's an appealing strategy from the vendors point of view, I guess because they get to differentiate their products from their competitors, but it's not a recipe for success.
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RE[5]: Form factor
by Bill Shooter of Bul on Mon 21st Jun 2010 19:20 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: Form factor"
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Stock price is all about rumors and spotty news, has nothing to do with value or growth anymore.

I completely disagree. If that's what you truly believe then you would buy stock every time you got a hot penny stock spam email.

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Hardware, Embedded Systems Herb Sutter, a software architect from Microsoft, gave a speech yesterday at In-Stat/MDR's Fall Processor Forum. Addressing a crowd mostly consisting of hardware engineers, he talked about how the software world was ill-prepared to make use of the new multicore CPUs coming from Intel and AMD.
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On Linux, you can SERIOUSLY exploit multi-core processors already. What Microsoft is really saying is that their OS and development model doesn't.

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General Development "In this tiny ebook I'm going to show you how to get started writing 6502 assembly language. [...] I think it's valuable to have an understanding of assembly language. Assembly language is the lowest level of abstraction in computers - the point at which the code is still readable. Assembly language translates directly to the bytes that are executed by your computer's processor. If you understand how it works, you've basically become a computer magician." More of this, please.
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RE: Why 6502 vs x86?
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D'oh! RTFA, Sorry all.

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PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless "The Lumia 928 sports a 4.5-inch AMOLED display (PureMotion HD+), 8.7MP camera (PureView, Carl Zeiss, OIS and Xenon flash), 4G LTE connectivity, wireless charging, three HAAC microphones and a loud speaker. It's an improved Lumia 920." This is the Lumia that will turn Nokia and Windows Phone around. I'm super-serious you guys!
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* Non-removable battery.
* No microSD slot.

Sadly it seems to be a trend even in the other mobiles to have those "features".

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Edward Medard Park Opens Reservoir for Fishing, Boating

After a little over two years of being closed for maintenance and repair one of the county’s most popular parks, Edward Medard Park and Reservoir is now open for boating and catch and release fishing.

The start of the New Year began on a high note for many who enjoy fishing and boating in the area’s county and state parks after a recent announcement by Hillsborough County Parks Department officials that the 1,284-acre Edward Medard Park, located at 6140 Turkey Creek Rd. in Plant City, is now open.

The park’s 700-acre reservoir has been closed to boating and fishing since November 2009 due to a reservoir maintenance and repair project under the direction of the Southwest Florida Water Management District, which required the water to be drained down.

With the project reaching completion, and giving visitors a chance to once again enjoy all that the park has to offer, the county held a public meeting attended by close to 30 residents,\ for proposed fish management area for Edward Medard Park in mid-November at the Turkey Creek Recreation Center, 5936 Connell Road in Plant City.

Jeff Mauch, of the Hillsborough County Parks Department, explained that the Fish Management Area (FMA) status is a designation the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission assigns to a publicly accessible water body to improve its populations of game fish.

“One of the benefits of an FMA designation is increased enforcement of fisheries and wildlife conservation measures,” Mauch said.

“The FWC will be monitoring the fish population, as well as health and size,” Mauch said adding that the reservoir is currently at full or 60 percent capacity, which is where it will remain.

Located on what was once a phosphate mining site, the Park also offers unique topography with elevation changes that have become very popular for children’s play.

For overnight stays, the Park has 40 campsites to accommodate both RV and primitive camping. Park entry fee is $2 per vehicle carrying up to eight people, while the boat launching fee is $5 per boat per day. Annual passes are also available.

For additional information, contact Hillsborough County Parks, Recreation and Conservation at 757-3802.


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OSTI's Efforts Advance Energy Secretary Goals

by Sol Lederman on Wed, 25 Mar, 2009

Energy Secretary Steven Chu

Energy Secretary Steven Chu aims to better integrate basic and applied sciences.[1] OSTI's mission [2], products, and services support this goal. Secretary Chu sees the need to build networks to connect research within national labs, universities, and industry. A number of OSTI's research offerings directly facilitate open communication. Secretary Chu seeks to expand international science collaboration. WorldWideScience.org, conceived at OSTI, promotes such collaboration. Secretary Chu wants to link research with solutions to our nation's pressing problems. OSTI, through the DOE SBIR program, encourages small businesses to develop and commercialize technologies that advance the acceleration of science. Secretary Chu values development of engineering talent. OSTI is developing technology that will improve science education.

As Walt Warnick explained in a previous article, "Science Depends on the Diffusion of Knowledge," [2] the fabric of science is constructed from the billions of knowledge transactions that transpire every year. Science advances to the extent that we can increase the number of such transactions and their contact rate with scientists new to particular transactions. Secretary Chu's goal is identical to OSTI's: connect researchers regardless of the type of facility -- national lab, academic, or commercial -- anywhere in the world. WorldWideScience.org serves as a global gateway to science. WorldWideScience.org is built upon a foundation of global government and government-approved scientific databases that are mined through federated search technology. This technology, advanced by OSTI, penetrates the deep Web, where this high quality content resides, and makes global discovery, the diffusion of important science ideas, possible, practical, and efficient. Participating nations freely share their science with the world, ensuring the vital cross-fertilization of ideas needed to solve the world's pressing science problems.

OSTI advances the kind of collaboration networks that Secretary Chu cares about via a three-step model:

  1. Conceive and develop wonderful tools that foster global discovery of R&D results in any area of interest. Science.gov, WorldWideScience.org, the E-print Network, and the Conferences Proceedings portal are prime examples, all built by OSTI.

  2. Create the network by allowing any researcher to find and identify other researchers from around the world in any area of interest.

  3. Grow and sustain the network by enabling any researcher to create and tailor alerts for new developments and new people to join the network.

Secretary Chu believes it's critical to invest in science education:

"Developing Science and Engineering Talent: Several years ago, I had the honor and privilege of working on the "Rising Above the Gathering Storm" report commissioned by Chairman Bingaman and Senator Alexander. One of the key recommendations was to step up efforts to educate the next generation of scientists and engineers." [4]

OSTI has taken the lead to develop an inter-agency science education portal specifically to connect students and teachers with the very best material to stimulate learning and to produce that next generation of scientists.

OSTI understands the challenges of advancing science. OSTI's mission of advancing science goes far beyond making R&D findings available to DOE researchers and to the public. The mission aims at nothing less than accelerating the spread of important ideas through the fabric that is science.

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[1] DOE: Chu pledges R&D overhaul, Ben Geman, March 5, 2009

[2] OSTI Mission

[3] Science Depends on the Diffusion of Knowledge, Dr. Walter Warnick, OSTIblog, March 10, 2009

[4] Statement of Steven Chu Secretary of Energy before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, March 5, 2009

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WorldWideScience.org is an interesting website, thanks for the heads up.

"Participating nations freely share their science with the world, ensuring the vital cross-fertilization of ideas needed to solve the world's pressing science problems."

I totally agree! This is a great site, and a marvelous idea. I remember doing science reports in school and having to find answers with an old set of encyclopedias that were fifteen years out of date. But this site is doing something pretty remarkable, linking the scientific progress of many nations together. Very awesome, not only for the scientists, but for young minds trying to figure out how this world works. What a cool project.

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Phoenix Center offering AMA courses

The SUNY Oswego Phoenix Center’s fall American Management Association professional certificate series is under way. These world-famous courses are designed to build or enhance professional knowledge, skills and leadership.

Interested individuals may enroll in the courses, which are recognized benchmarks of professional achievement, on a certificate or non-certificate basis. All courses carry continuing education units (CEUs) that may be applied to satisfy ongoing professional requirements.

“Providing these courses at the SUNY Oswego Phoenix Center allows us to assist local organizations by offering excellent training in a location that’s close to home,” SUNY Oswego Dean of Extended Learning Yvonne Petrella said. “With local training, employers can continue to improve their organizations and retain employees without having to pay for travel expenses for out-of-town programs.”

Upcoming courses include:
- “Project Management” meeting from 6 to 9 p.m. Nov. 5, 12, 19 and Dec. 3 and 10
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- “A Manager’s Guide to Hiring, Firing and Employee Rights” meeting from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 12 and 19

The course fee of $319 includes tuition, books and materials. The courses can be applied to earn a certificate in leadership and management or a certificate in human resources management. Each certificate program requires participants to complete four core courses and two electives.

Customized courses can be provided to groups on site at individual companies. For more information about this option, contact Barb Metcalf, the business manager at the Phoenix Center, at 934-4900 or

To register, or for more information about the current programs, visit or call 934-4900.

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Within the Department of Surgery, Jane co-ordinates the CVPD timetable for the 4th Year CVPD/CR module, and the Otolaryngology, Ophthalmology, and Urology components of the Orthopaedics and Advanced Medicine module for 5th Years.

She has an extensive background in University administration which began in 1973 as a foundation member of staff in the Department of the Dean at the University of Otago, Christchurch, and subsequently with the Academic Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Academic Department of Population Health, and MIHI.

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United Nations Charter (1945)

The name United Nations originated with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1941 when he described the countries fighting against the Axis in World War II. FDR’s “Four Freedoms” also made their way into the resulting charter of the United Nations Organization in 1945. The name was first used officially on January 1, 1942, when 26 states joined in the Declaration by the United Nations, pledging to continue their joint war effort and not to make peace separately. The United Nations was established after World War II in an attempt to maintain international peace and security and to achieve cooperation among nations on economic, social and humanitarian problem. Its forerunner was the League of Nations, an organization conceived under similar circumstances during the First World War and established in 1919 under the Treaty of Versailles "to promote international cooperation and to achieve peace and security." The League of Nations, however, ceased its activities after it failed to prevent the Second World War.

The need for an international organization to replace the League of Nations was first stated officially on October 30, 1943, in the Moscow Declaration issued by China, Great Britain, the United States, and the USSR. At the Dumbarton Oaks Conference in 1944, those four countries drafted specific proposals for a charter for the new organization. Later, at the Yalta Conference, in February of 1945, further agreement was reached on the framework and structure of the organization. Later that year, representatives of 50 nations attended the founding conference in San Francisco, where they drafted and later signed the UN charter. The required number of nations ratified the charter on October 24, 1945 (officially United Nations Day).

As outlined in the charter, the two main bodies of the United Nations are the General Assembly, composed of all member nations, and the Security Council. The Council consists of the five victors from World War II (known as “The Big Five”) as permanent members—China, France, the United Kingdom, the USSR (now Russia), and the United States—and 10 other countries, elected by the General Assembly, that serve 2-year terms. The Security Council is the principal UN organ responsible for ensuring peace, and its decisions are binding on all member states. The five permanent members were given individual veto power over issues brought before the Council. Other special agencies like the WHO (World Health Organization), UNICEF (UN International Children's Emergency Fund), UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization), and the World Bank provide needed help across the world and have improved the lives of millions. Today, nearly 200 nations are members of the United Nations.

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A few mishaps with home treatments have left us less than confident in our hair color DIY skills, but we've been hearing amazing things about Garnier's Olia Oil-Powered Permanent Color ($10). It's an oil-based color system, which means it's formulated without scalp-burning ammonia. We're not sure it'll perform miracles, but it sure will give us color without stripping our hair of its moisture.

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The proposed 'Protection of Women against Sexual Harassment at Workplace Bill', introduced in the Lok Sabha has been termed as an "anti-men" legislation by an NGO here.

The proposed inquiry proceedings in the 2010 Bill are designed to deny justice to men. The proposed Internal Complaints Committee, as provided in Section 4 of the proposed Act, shall be headed by a woman, according to All India Men's Welfare Association (AIMWA).

Its members shall consist of at least two women employees “committed to the cause of women”. The term has not been explained in the proposed Act, but in common parlance, it means "a feminist woman". Thus the basic constitution of the internal complaints committee has been designed to be anti-men.

Similarly, Local Committee constituted under Section 7 of the proposed Act is chaired by "eminent woman in field of social work committed to the cause of woman" and representatives of NGOs "committed to the cause of woman," AIMWA said.

Civilized jurisprudence of any society requires unbiased judges, whereas the proposed Act provides of anti-men jury, it said.

No man respondent can expect any justice from such biased jury, where it knows that they hold office because “they are committed to the cause of women”.

"Also, there is a provision for settlement under Section 10 of the proposed Act. A man respondent shall be aware in the settlement proceeding that if he doesn't agree to the settlement proposal by the inquiry committee, the same inquiry committee shall inquire into the charges."

"Thus the proposed settlement mechanism is nothing but an extortion mechanism to rob men of property and self esteem. Such feminist dominated inquiry committee has also been given power to transfer respondent during inquiry. Such power is likely to be used in such manner to deny justice to man," AIMWA Central India chief Rajesh Vakharia alleged.

Further, all proceedings under the proposed Act is treated as secret. No information about enquiry/conciliation proceedings etc can be divulged not even under the Right to Information Act. It is seen that name of complainant/respondent could have easily been kept secret, he said.

Such secrecy has been proposed to conceal the wrong doing and blatant injustice to men by the inquiry committee, he alleged.

AIMWA said that recent development have shown that Right to Information Act has been used successfully by Mens Rights activists all over the country to expose various injustices done to men through other Gender-biased laws.

In order to conceal wrong doings such laws, Section 16 of the proposed Act conceal all proceedings under the Act from the purview of the Right to Information Act. Rule 26 provides that court shall take cognizance under this Act only on a complaint of a woman or committee.Thus men have been barred from making any complaint against anybody before a court of law for any wrong doing done to them under the proposed Act, it said.

The Bill aims at enslaving men by making them an easy target of extortion and dismissal from service through biased procedure and at the same time deny men any remedy against such wrong doings in the court of law. This is a bill to humiliate men, subjugate men and facilitate ransom and extortion from men, Vakharia alleged.

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Lighten up a little. Yes, the second sentence (#3) was a mild dig at your propensity to indulge in a rant on every subject no matter how irrelevant

However, the first sentence was serious. See the movie if you haven't already. It is about a woman who (mis)uses sexual harassment laws to get rid of an inconvenient colleague.

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If you're currently on the Outside Blog reading this, then it's more than likely that at one point in your life you've happened upon Dick Proenneke's Alone In The Wilderness on PBS. (Or you've seen it on all those blogs and Tumblrs on the ol' Internets.) My favorite part about Proenneke's adventures are the things he makes—which is basically everything—but more specificially, the spoons and bowls and forks for his cabin. Why? Because if I were to learn the craft, it would probably take me many many years to work my way up to a cabin. A bowl seems more realistic and relatable, but even I know that's far off.

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Despite many attempts by AMD to plant their flag at the top of the mountain, the high-end marketplace is completely dominated by Intel at the moment. However, the actual marketplace, in terms of units shipped, is all about the low-price, good performance, office-spec machines.

Any trip to your local PC emporium will show how the shops take advantage of the lack of knowledge from the average consumer to sell them a £300 PC that's "capable of gaming". Of course Freecell is a game, and so in a lot of ways that's accurate, albeit economical with the truth.

Speaking of economical, welcome to the Gigabyte F2A85XM-D3H, hereafter the D3H. An mATX motherboard that's available for the bargaintastic price of £60. We loved the Z77 D3H when we reviewed it and consider it one of the best value motherboards around. Even with the apparent limitations of the AMD processors, have Gigabyte have pulled another winner out of the bag?

Technical Specifications

For such a compact motherboard the D3H is actually rich with features for the price-point, including a whopping 8 SATA6 connectors, Gigabit LAN, support for some (for AMD at least) speedy RAM.

APUFM2 Socket:
  1. AMD A series processors
  2. AMD Athlon™ series processors
  1. AMD A85X
    1. 4 x 1.5V DDR3 DIMM sockets supporting up to 64 GB of system memory
  1. Dual channel memory architecture
  2. Support for DDR3 1866/1600/1333/1066 MHz memory modules
  3. Support for AMD Memory Profile (AMP)/ Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) memory modules
Onboard GraphicsAPU:
    1. 1 x D-Sub port
    2. 1 x DVI-D port, supporting a maximum resolution of 2560x1600
* The DVI-D port does not support D-Sub connection by adapter.
  1. 1 x HDMI port, supporting a maximum resolution of 1920x1200
  1. Realtek ALC887 codec
  2. High Definition Audio
  3. 2/4/5.1/7.1-channel
  4. Support for S/PDIF Out
  1. Realtek GbE LAN chip (10/100/1000 Mbit)
Expansion Slots
    1. 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16 (PCIEX16)
  1. 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x4 (PCIEX4)
  2. 1 x PCI Express x1 slot
  3. (All PCI Express slots conform to PCI Express 2.0 standard.)
  4. 1 x PCI slot
Multi-Graphics Technology
    1. Support for AMD CrossFire™ technology
    2. Support for AMD Dual Graphics technology
Storage InterfaceChipset:
  1. 8 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors supporting up to 8 SATA 6Gb/s devices
  2. Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, and JBOD
  1. Up to 4 USB 3.0/2.0 ports (2 ports on the back panel, 2 ports available through the internal USB header)
  2. Up to 8 USB 2.0/1.1 ports (4 ports on the back panel, 4 ports available through the internal USB headers)
Internal I/O Connectors
  1. 1 x 24-pin ATX main power connector
  2. 1 x 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
  3. 8 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors
  4. 1 x APU fan header
  5. 2 x system fan headers
  6. 1 x front panel header
  7. 1 x front panel audio header
  8. 1 x S/PDIF Out header
  9. 1 x USB 3.0/2.0 header
  10. 2 x USB 2.0/1.1 headers
  11. 1 x serial port header
  12. 1 x parallel port header
  13. 1 x Clear CMOS jumper
  14. 1 x Trusted Platform Module (TPM) header
Back Panel Connectors
  1. 1 x PS/2 keyboard/mouse port
  2. 1 x D-Sub port
  3. 1 x DVI-D port
  4. 1 x optical S/PDIF Out connector
  5. 1 x HDMI port
  6. 2 x USB 3.0/2.0 ports
  7. 4 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports
  8. 1 x RJ-45 port
  9. 3 x audio jacks (Line In/Line Out/Microphone)
I/O Controller
  1. iTE I/O Controller Chip
H/W Monitoring
    1. System voltage detection
    2. APU/System temperature detection
    3. APU/System fan speed detection
    4. APU overheating warning
    5. APU/System fan fail warning
    6. APU/System fan speed control
  1. 2 x 64 Mbit flash
  2. Use of licensed AMI EFI BIOS
  3. Support for DualBIOS™
  4. PnP 1.0a, DMI 2.0, SM BIOS 2.6, ACPI 2.0a
Unique Features
    1. Support for @BIOS
    2. Support for Q-Flash
    3. Support for Xpress Install
    4. Support for EasyTune
  1. Support for Smart Recovery 2
  2. Support for Auto Green
  3. Support for ON/OFF Charge
  4. Support for 3TB+ Unlock
  5. Support for Q-Share
Bundle Software
  1. Norton Internet Security (OEM version)
Operating System
  1. Support for Microsoft® Windows 8/7/Vista/XP
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  1. Micro ATX Form Factor; 24.4cm x 24.4cm

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Up Close

As you'd expect from such a small, and cheap, motherboard the D3H is lacking refinement almost everywhere. It's not to say that it's an ugly thing, but it's utilitarian. Everything is roughly where you'd expect, and does the job it's supposed to. It just does it without any flair or style. Even the SATA ports are vertical.

Gigabyte F2A85XM-D3H Review     Gigabyte F2A85XM-D3H A8-5600K

Despite its compact nature though, Gigabyte have packed a load of connection options onto the little D3H. There isn't much missing that you would expect to find. If you consider this is aimed squarely at the internet/social media/very-light-gaming brigade, then it wants for nothing. We'd love to see a few more USB ports, but you can never have too many of those.

Gigabyte F2A85XM-D3H Trinity Review     Gigabyte F2A85XM-D3H Review

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Test Setup

We're mainly running the D3H using the AMD A8-5600K APU. Our early experience with this has shown it to be a very willing performer with some of the best integrated graphics around. We'll test with a HD7770 for our gaming benchmarks, but our main comparisons will be against the earlier Llano A4, and the bIntel i3s on both Sandy and Ivy Bridge.

Gigabyte F2A85XM-D3H
AMD Trinity A8-5600K
AMD HD7770
8GB Corsair Dominator
Corsair H100
Corsair HX650 PSU
Corsair Force 3 SSD
Windows 7 x64

Power Consumption

With a small form-factor system, power consumption is very important. You wouldn't want to run a Crossfire HD7970 setup and only browse the internet or watch films with it as both the planet and your electricity bill would suffer. The D3H/A8 combination is extremely frugal considering how much performance it has, topping out at just over 65W at full load.

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Gigabyte F2A85XM-D3H Review

Demonstrating how much performance is available the D3H demolishes the AMD A4, and both the cryptography and compression tests are miles better than anything else. Only in the PhotoWorxx and CPU Queen tests are the results close, although it's by no means lagging behind.

Memory bandwidth has been a weak point in the AMD armoury for as long as we can remember. Although the D3H isn't capable of matching the Intel offerings we'd never expect it to be. The big factor is how superior it is to the previous generation of AMD chipsets and processors. A great start.

CPU Benchmarks

Memory Benchmarks

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SiSoft Sandra

Similar to the AIDA64 memory results, realistically we're not looking for the A8-5600K and F2A85XM-D3H to match the Intel offerings. However, it's a lot closer than we would have expected, and certainly there is no comparison between the A8 and A4 CPUs.

Processor Arithmetic

Processor MultiMedia

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PC Mark

Given the pricing similarities between the i3-2120 and A8-5600K, and the knowledge that the Intel option has far better memory performance, it's good to see how close the D3H runs the Intel chip. The i3-3220 is only ahead on the productivity, a test that's again reliant upon the memory bandwidth.

PC Mark 7 shows a much greater advantage to the Intel options, and indeed the lowly A4 attains a higher score than our A8/D3H test setup, even if just by a handful of points.

PC Mark Vantage

PC Mark 7

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CineBench R11.5

In case you ever doubted the power of the AMD APU when compared to the Intel HD4000 iGPU, CineBench R11.5 dispels any such worries. The CPU scores are nearly identical, but the combination of the Trinity A8-5600K and the Gigabyte F2A85XM-D3H wallops the Intel offerings in the OpenGL benchmark. Nearly triple the performance. Spectacular.

x264 HD Benchmark v5

As the quality of the cameras on our phones becomes ever greater, and the ability to share snippets of our daily lives is easier, then video encoding is a larger part of our lives than it's ever been before. The x264 codec is one of the best around and the D3H performs well in both the first and second pass of the x264 Benchmark.

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For our gaming tests we're running the A8/D3H at both resolution and image quality settings we'd expect the kind of purchaser of this setup to run. 1600x900 and choosing the settings just below the top of the relative game should give us a good balance between eye-candy and playability. We're comparing the APU of the A8-5600K, a HD7560D, with the AMD HD7770. The HD7770 is cheap enough to come within the range of the budget conscious. Either option provides a playable experience, and certainly if you're careful with your setting choices then you can have no complaints.

Clearly the D3H with an A8 installed is a vast improvement upon the Llano A4, even if it's not quite the calculating behemoth that is available on the Intel options.

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So have AMD finally brought themselves up to the level where they provide a good alternative to an Intel based system, and is the Gigabyte F2A85XM-D3H the motherboard to place at the foundation of the system?

The Trinity/D3H combination is much better than the AMD results of old. We're so used to seeing the AMD offerings continually disappoint that to find a setup that provides a genuine option for the budget conscious is, truth be told, a joy. We all grew up on AMD CPUs here at OC3D, and the lack of competition is bad for companies and consumers. However with the Trinity A8-5600K AMD are back. An £80 CPU that has the guts to perform nearly anything the average user will throw at it can't be sniffed at. Of course in pure benchmark terms the Intel options usually win out, but in use you'll barely notice the difference.

As for the D3H itself, it nicely follows the Z77 D3H by being a compact motherboard offering everything you can reasonably expect for £60. In fact the only area we'd like to see improved is the amount of USB connectors. Just with a Phone, iPod, Camera, headset, USB Stick etc you'll rapidly run out, but this is problem with nearly every motherboard around. Yes we'd have preferred to have horizontal SATA ports for cleanliness, and the lack of heat generated means a lack of good looking heatsinks, but it's £60, and everything is there that you can need. To complain that it's a bit plain looking and lacking any artistic flourishes would be churlish.

Two things are immediately clear from our gaming results. Firstly Unigine clearly stressed the graphical capabilities of your system far harder than the average game would. Benchmarks are always a dangerous guide to real-world performance. Secondly, the Trinity APU is very handy, giving over 30FPS in our games of choice. Finally, paying a little extra for the HD7770 brings solid 60FPS gaming at sensible resolutions and image quality settings.

Considering that you can buy the Gigabyte D3H and the AMD A8-5600K for £140, we think it's one of the best bargains at the moment. Adding a HD7770 transforms the gaming side, but that isn't to say that the AMD APU isn't good quality. It demolishes the Intel HD4000, and will happily chomp through Blu-Ray movies or your average Sims/Farmville/Football Manager games without missing a beat. Even the more demanding titles are playable with some judicious settings choices.

If you're in the market for a motherboard that has a small footprint, a very low power draw, and yet still has enough to handle the tasks of all but the most power-hungry gamer, then we can highly recommend the Gigabyte F2A85XM-D3H. It's a little rough around the edges, and very much a plug-and-play solution rather than a tweakers paradise, but it's still worthy of our OC3D Silver Award, and for that low price our Value For Money Award too.

Thanks to Gigabyte for supplying the F2A85XM-D3H for review. Discuss our findings in the OC3D Forums.


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CISPA Bill Passed in the House, Moves to Senate - Anonymous Urges Websites to Go Dark

bp9801 - April 22, 2013 09:43AM in General News

The other day, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) was passed in the House of Representatives by a vote of 288 to 127. At this point it's moved along to the Senate where it's unknown if it'll pass or die out. You may remember last year when the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) were stalled and then ultimately delayed. CISPA shares some traits with both to accomplish similar goals, namely that it allows for IPs to share emals and texts with the government if there's a security risk. All information is to be handled by a civilian group to "ensure Americans' civil liberties are protected," if CISPA becomes reality. The White House has threatened to veto CISPA if it passes both the House and Senate, so if it does then hopefully it's vetoed.

Yesterday, Internet hacktivists Anonymous urged websites to go dark today in protest. It's a similar call to the SOPA and PIPA protests last year, so if you happen to notice some of your favorite websites, Facebook pages, or Twitter accounts with a black color scheme, a protest page, or even silent, you know why. There are also petitions to sign to add your voice to the growing numbers.

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Palit 9800GX2 Review

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Someone once said that having two of something is usually better than one. I can't really remember who, but it sticks in my head to this day. Maybe it was during one of those long talks that generally are there just to pass the time and not have much in the way of meaningful conversation. In this case, the "two of something" would be the dual G92 GPUs on the 9800GX2 from Palit. What if you wanted to run in SLI mode but the motherboard you have does not support SLI, nor do you have the option of Crossfire because of the fact your motherboard has only one 16x PCIe slot. Of course there is the option of purchasing a new motherboard, but the funds are there for one and only one item. The 9800GX2 is a valid solution to this problem. It features two graphics processor cores mounted on two separate boards that interconnect and are output through just a single PCIe 16x interface. This card is your perfect solution... SLI performance in a single package. Some say the pricing of such a card when compared to the cost of two discrete video cards does not make a wise decision. In reality, the pricing does (kind of) equal out to the equivalent of two G92 based 8800 GTS video cards.

The Palit 9800GX2 features 256 stream processors (128x2) which is 16 more than the king of the hill GTX280's 240. The GPU core clock speed is set at 600MHz with the 1 gigabyte of GDDR3 memory (512MB x2) clocked to 1000MHz. Sporting those kinds of credentials, the 9800GX2 should provide some stout competition for the GTX280. With the recent price drops by Nvidia on the GT200 series of video cards, is the performance of the 9800GX2 still high enough to compete with a card that is priced in the same $450 range or has the X2 outlived its usefulness. Lets take a look and find out.

Closer Look:

The front of the retail packaging includes the product description showing that this is part of the Palit/Nvidia 9 series lineup. Over the traditional Nvidia green is the image of the Frobot (Frog/Robot) Kind of an interesting combination but he looks ready for war. The front also includes some of the specifications of the 9800GX2 such as PCIe 2.0 support, Dual link DVI and HDMI capabilities, 1GB of memory and the inclusion of the game "Tomb Raider Anniversary". The rear panel lists basic technical specifications in twelve different languages. As one of Nvidias larger partners in the "Global" market, this is a necessity. Our buddy the Frobot is again highlighted on the side panel along with a Vista certification.

Opening the package up leads to a nondescript white box and cardboard surround. Not to much to get excited about there. Under the box containing the Palit 9800GX2, you will find the bundled accessories. Included are a quick start/installation guide, the driver disk, Tomb Raider Anniversary game, a DVI to D-sub adapter and the HDMI sound input cable. Not a big bundle but what is there is useful.

Enough with the small talk lets look at the 9800GX2 and see what it has to offer.

  1. Introduction & Closer Look
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  3. Configuration (Drivers & Programs)
  4. Specifcations & Features
  5. Testing: Setup & Overclocking
  6. Testing: Crysis
  7. Testing: Knights of the Sea
  8. Testing: BioShock
  9. Testing: Call of Duty 4
  10. Testing: World In Conflict
  11. Testing: Call of Juarez
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Thursday, July 24, 2014

Audiences can cope if given the opportunity

In that photo senior Tibetan Buddhist monk Kenrap-la is introduced to Jonathan Harvey's Body Mandala for the first time. He is listening via my iPod as we approach his monastery at Thiksay at the end of the arduous 800 km drive from Kalka in the foothills of the Himalayas to Ladakh on the border of India and Tibet. When I took the photo we were 15,000 feet above sea level and more than 1000 km from the nearest concert hall, in a region where symphony orchestras are unknown and Western art music is culturally alien. Yet, despite this, Kenrap-la listened engrossed for the whole fifteen minutes of Body Mandala. Everyone involved in classical music should look again at my photo and ponder on the following: audiences can cope with challenging and the exalted music, they just need to be given the opportunity.

Also on Facebook and Twitter. Photo is (c) On An Overgrown Path 2014.

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Pliable said...

Anna Harvey - Jonathan's daughter - has tweeted a link to this post saying - "What happens when you play a Buddhist monk Body Mandala in the Himalayas?"


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Brother ImageCenter ADS-2000 Sheetfed Scanner

High-speed, desktop color scanner offers two-sided scanning in a single pass and a 50-sheet document feeder, making it ideal for home or small to medium-sized businesses. Fast one-pass color scanning runs one-sided documents through at 24 pages per minute and two-sided documents at 48 pages per minute. Professional scanning quality of color and monochrome originals offers a resolution up to 600 x 600 dpi (optical) 1200 x 1200 dpi (interpolated). Highly versatile scanning includes documents, business cards, plastic ID cards (insurance cards, drivers' licenses), receipts and photos up to widths of 8-1/2" and lengths up to 34". Scan to destinations including E-mail, file, image, OCR, USB flash memory drive, Android phone and tablet. ImageCenter ADS-2000 also provides capabilities of multi-feed detection, background removal, blank page removal, de-skew support, continuous scanning mode and 2-in-1 mode. Scanner also includes variety of software and USB cable for Hi-speed USB 2.0 interface.

General Information
Manufacturer Brother Industries, Ltd
Manufacturer Part Number ADS-2000
Manufacturer Website Address
Brand Name Brother
Product Line ImageCenter
Product Model ADS-2000
Product Name ImageCenter ADS-2000 Sheetfed Scanner
Packaged Quantity 1 Each
Product Type Sheetfed Scanner
Technical Information
Large Format No
Image Sensor CIS
Optical Resolution 600 dpi
Hardware Resolution 600 x 600 dpi
Interpolated Resolution 1200 x 1200 dpi
Scan Color Color
Color Depth 30-bit
Grayscale Depth 8-bit
Maximum Mono Scan Speed (ppm) 24
Maximum Color Scan Speed (ppm) 24
Maximum Mono Scan Speed (ipm) 48
Maximum Color Scan Speed (ipm) 48
Media Type Plain Paper
Media Size 8.50" x 34"
Maximum Scan Size 8.50" x 34"
Scanning Modes Duplex
ADF Capacity 50 Sheets
Automatic Document Feeder Included Yes
USB Standard USB 2.0
Software Included
  • Nuance PDF Pro 7
  • PaperPort 12SE
  • PageManager 9
  • BizCard 6 (Windows)
  • BizCard 5 (Mac)
  • WIA
  • ICA
  • ISIS
Operating System Supported Windows
Power Description
Power Source AC Supply
Physical Characteristics
Form Factor Desktop
Color Black
Height 5.2"
Width 11.8"
Depth 8.7"
Length 15"
Weight (Approximate) 7.30 lb
Package Contents
  • ImageCenter ADS-2000 Sheetfed Scanner
  • Power Supply Cord
  • USB Cable
  • Carrier Sheet
  • Quick Setup Guide
  • User's Guide DVD
  • Product Safety Guide
  • Plastic Card Carrier Sheet
  • Driver and Software CD
System Requirements Windows® 7, Vista, XP (SP2 or greater)
  • USB
  • 1.5GB Hard Drive
Mac® OS X v10.5.8, v10.6.x, v10.7.x
  • USB
  • 580MB Hard Drive
Certifications & Standards
  • WIA
  • ICA
  • ISIS
Platform Supported PC
Recycled No
Post-consumer-waste% 0%
Assembly Required No
Green Compliant Yes
Green Compliance Certificate/Authority ENERGY STAR
Country of Origin China

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