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Where to stay near Nove Mesto (New Town)

Founded in 1348, Nove Mesto, or New Town, isn't exactly new. However, it is the newest and largest of the 5 districts that make up the historic center of the city of Prague. Renowned for its Gothic churches and beautiful 19th- and early 20th-century architecture, this historic quarter’s focal point is the broad boulevard of bustling Wenceslas Square. Together with Charles Square and Republic Square, this area forms the cultural heartland of a district offering a wealth of theaters, museums, and entertainment venues, not least the sumptuous Prague State Opera.

Hotels in Nove Mesto

There's a good selection of accommodation in Nove Mesto, with a range of hostels, apartments, apart-hotels, and hotels on offer. Prices are reasonable, and if you're on a budget you can stay in the historic New Town for just a few dollars a night. For a flexible vacation, book into a self-catering apartment at Picasso Apartments Prague, just a short stroll from the Czech National Museum. Travelers looking for budget accommodation in Nove Mesto will enjoy the unique natural wood and stone setting of The Artharmony Pension & Hostel - Prague. For luxury, try the lavish Art Deco interior of the 5-star Radisson Blu Alcron Hotel right in the heart of the New Town.

Things to see in Nove Mesto

There's no better place to start your vacation in Nove Mesto than Wenceslas Square. Browse boutiques and craft shops for souvenirs of your visit to Prague, and look up to snap photos of the stunning Art Nouveau and Gothic architecture. Head to the National Museum to discover Czech art and sculpture, historical artifacts, and natural history exhibitions. Enjoy a meal in the French restaurant at the top of the quirky Dancing House, with its surreal curves of glass, nicknamed “Fred and Ginger” for its resemblance to 2 swaying figures. If you're looking for evening entertainment, absorb some Czech culture with a night of opera in the extravagant surroundings of the State Opera. Keen to shop? Take an afternoon out to explore the stores and cafés of the Palladium shopping center on Republic Square, the largest in the city center.

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With its soaring church spires, landmark squares, and opulent theaters and museums, Nove Mesto is an ideal spot from which to experience Prague's historic architecture and celebrated sights. Visitors in search of Prague's legendary beauty will find plenty of photo opportunities in the squares and side streets of Nove Mesto, many scattered with reminders of the city's long history of war, commerce, and revolution. Whether it’s a relaxed evening in a low-key jazz club or dancing the night away in an underground rock venue, this neighborhood has plenty on offer to keep lovers of music and the arts roundly entertained.

How to get to Nove Mesto

Getting to Nove Mesto is easy. If you're arriving by air, it'll take you about 30 minutes to travel by car from Vaclav Havel Airport to your hotel in Nove Mesto. Alternatively, take bus 100 from the airport to Zlicin, then the metro (line B) to Nove Mesto. Prague's main train station is Hlavni Nadrazi, which is on the edge of the district, and just 10 minutes on foot from Wenceslas Square. Once in the neighborhood, it's easy to get around on foot, by bike, or by taxi. Travelers looking to venture further afield can make use of Prague's comprehensive metro, bus, and tram network.

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Fyfe to miss two games

Nat Fyfe has had his bid to reduce his two-match ban dismissed at the AFL Tribunal this afternoon.

General manager of football operations Chris Bond confirmed in the wake of the verdict that the club would consider its options.

Fyfe’s two game ban will stand, ruling him out until the club’s first final.

He also now has 76.25 carryover points hanging over his head, as well as a 40 per cent bad record loading for having six games suspension within in the past two years.

Fyfe was charged by the match review panel yesterday for striking Hawthorn’s Jordan Lewis in the first quarter of Fremantle’s 19-point win at Patersons Stadium on Sunday.

The panel graded the incident as intentional, high contact and low impact but Fyfe’s lawyer, Melbourne-based Nick Tweedie, tried to argue it was a reckless action, rather than intentional because Fyfe had intended to hit Lewis’ body.

But chairman Ross Howie almost immediately indicated that the fact Fyfe admitted he intentionally struck Lewis meant it could not be re-classified as reckless.

Fyfe gave evidence that he was playing on Lewis at the time on the incident and was attempting to stop him getting goal side of him by checking him with a “bumper bar maneuver “ to the chest.

The 22-year-old star midfielder conceded his bicep had connected with Lewis’ shoulder in an “aggressive action” and the contact had slipped high into the Hawks’ neck area.

A medical report from Hawthorn revealed Lewis had been checked at the time of the incident and cleared to return to the field. He has no ongoing issues as a result of the contact.

Tweedie repeatedly tried to argue the offence down from a level three to a level two, which would have reduced the ban to just one game.

But Howie directed the jury of Wayne Henwood, David Neitz and David Pittman to find Fyfe guilty of the initial charge.

Bond admitted it had been a “little bit” of an unusual hearing.

“Obviously we’re really disappointed with the outcome,” he said.

“But I think it’s just a good chance to sit down tonight and tomorrow morning and just assess what our options are.

“The AFL and our club have an enormous amount of respect for Nat as a ball player. I think it’s important for us just to get all the information and go from there.”

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Police are attending the scene of a suspected murder in Ellenbrook this afternoon.

Authorities were called to a Pinea Turn address about 3pm after reports of an injured man.

The man was taken to Swan Districts Hospital with possible stab wounds but has since died.

Several people were at the house at the time of the incident and are now being questioned by police.

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Huguette Clark was a mysterious figure.

A homeless man has died in a cold snap, seemingly unaware that he was the potential heir to a $300 million fortune.

The body of 60-year-old Timothy Gray was found by children on a holiday sledding jaunt in a small Wyoming mining town.

The man, who died of hypothermia, was found to have been a long-lost relative of reclusive New York railroad heiress Huguette Clark.

According to the Huffington Post, the man would likely have been entitled to around $19 million of Clark's $300 million fortune.

Gray's siblings had lost touch with their brother, who they said disappeared after their mother's death in 1990, according to the Associated Press.

Huguette Clark herself was also a mysterious figure.

In the 1930s, she removed herself from Manhattan society and lived in solitude for the next quarter-century in her Fifth Avenue apartment 'surrounded by her dolls', the Huffington Post reports.

Legal disputes over her will have raged since her death.

An original will leaving her estate to her family members was superceded six weeks later by another will leaving them nothing.

The heiress's later will included $28 million in gifts to her nurse and $3 million for her doctors.

Lawyers for the family claimed Huguette Clark had been manipulated by the health professionals.

She died in 2011 aged 104.

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Mattar Gosht

Mattar gosht is one of the famous dishes of Pakistani Home Cooking, do try this and make your meal nutritious by consuming the protein of meat and vitamins of peas ……

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  • 1 kg meat (mutton, curry meat)
  • 1 kg fresh green peas
  • 2 onions large
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-In a pressure cooker, combine meat, 2 cups of water, ginger garlic paste, onion, whole garam masala and green chillies and pressure cook it for 4 whistles. If not using pressure cooker, combine the same ingredients in a non-stick pan and add 4 cups of water and cook covered until the meat is tender.

-When the meat is tender, wait for the water to get dry.

-Add oil and stir fry the meat and add tomatoes and other spices. Mix well until the tomatoes tend to lose their stiffness.

-Now add peas and 2 cups of water and let it cook on low heat for about 15 minutes or until the peas are tender and cooked. Add more water if you want shorba.

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I’m alive

But I’ve been very, very busy. I’m currently in limbo at my mom’s house in Folsom, getting ready to move into my new apartment on Wednesday—more on that later. The move from Japan to the States, needless to mention, was hellish and stressful and full of mixed-up emotions and bureaucratic loose ends, but it’s almost (almost!) done, and then I can start getting to know my city again.

As a peace offering, here are some links I’ve collected during the past few weeks. Most of them are a bit out of date by now, but they’re definitely worth a look.

First up, two new offerings from Litquake: They’ve recently launched the LitCast podcast and released a summer reading list populated with new Bay Area fiction.

7×7 has a nice article about City Lights Books, in which founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti looks back on the bookstore’s beginnings and its evolution through the last half-century. It’s the first in a series called “The Most Creative Spaces in San Francisco History,” which also covers the Fillmore, the Castro Theatre, Stern Grove, and more.

The SF Agenda has an Insider Tips Q&A with Valencia author Michelle Tea about her restaurant , shopping, and sightseeing recs. Read all the way to the end for info on the Columbarium, the only non-denominational burial place still in use in San Francisco, and to hear her tell it, one of the city’s hidden gems.

The Millions‘s #LitBeat takes a look at a recent event at the Mission’s Makeout Room. It gives a pretty good feel for San Francisco’s literary scene and the kind of events that form its backbone. It’s also timely for me—the article’s author has also just arrived back in SF after several years away.

And finally, Alejandro Murguía has been named San Francisco’s new Poet Laureate (SFGate, Mission Loc@l). From the SFGate article: “If Murguía has his way, the Board of Supervisors might follow up roll call with a haiku at its next weekly meeting.” He has a lot of really interesting ideas—check out the articles to read more. Murguía had several readings and appearances at the San Francisco International Poetry Festival, which ended yesterday.

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Guest Editorial by Rev. Irene Monroe

CNN’s Don Lemon has penned a memoir titled “Transparent” that will come out in September. In writing his book, Lemon said “the decision to come out happened organically.”

One of the motivating reasons for Lemon, 45, now revealing his sexual orientation is because of the suicide of 18-year-old Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi. Clementi, if your remember, jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge after finding out that his college roommate and another classmate used a webcam to secretly broadcast his sexual encounters with another male, highlighting the dangers of “cyberbullying” — teasing, harassing, or intimidating with pictures or words distributed online or via text message. Clementi’s suicide along with the other eight lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth and young adults went viral in September 2010 and they saturated the media.

In this era of acceptance of LGBTQ people in news broadcasting like Lemon’s colleague Anderson Cooper, ABC’s Good Morning America weather anchor Sam Champion, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and her colleague Thomas Roberts, to name a few, one would wonder about the source of the media brouhaha with Lemon’s disclosure, especially since it was not secret at work about his sexual orientation.

“It’s quite different for an African-American male,” Lemon told Joy Behar on her HLN show. “It’s about the worst thing you can be in black culture. You’re taught you have to be a man; you have to be masculine. In the black community they think you can pray the gay away.”

And Lemon is right. With homophobia running as rampant in historically black colleges and universities as it is in black communities, there are no safe places for GBTQ brothers of African descent to safely acknowledge their sexuality or to openly engage the subject of black GBTQ sexualities.

“I was born gay, just as I was born black,” Lemon told Behar.

But black GBTQ sexualities within African American culture are perceived to further threaten not only black male heterosexuality, but also the ontology of blackness itself.

With certain aspects of hip-hop culture displaying a hyper-masculinity, this male-dominated genre is aesthetically built on the most misogynistic and homophobic strains of Black Nationalism and afrocentricism.

Lemon courageously goes on to explain to Behar another reason why it took him so long to come out.

“And our community is steeped in religion, with the church preaching against homosexuality. I prayed a lot growing up that I would change, that I would be straight,” he said. “But no matter how good I was, how much I prayed and denied what I was, it [being gay] was always there.”

According to the PEW Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life, 87 percent of African Americans identify with a religious group and 79 percent say that religion is very important in their lives. The Pew report also showed that since 2008, African-American Protestants are less likely than other Protestant groups to believe that LGBTQ people should have equal rights. And since hot-button issues like gay adoption and marriage equality have become more prominent, support for LGBTQ rights among African-American Protestants has dipped as low as 40 percent.

A groundbreaking study in July 2010 came out titled “Black Lesbians Matter” examining the unique experiences, perspectives, and priorities of the Black Lesbian Bisexual and Trans community. One of the key findings of the survey revealed that there is a pattern of higher suicide rates among black LBTs. Scholars have primarily associated these higher suicide rates with one’s inability to deal with “coming out” and the Black Church’s stance on homosexuality.

With the “No Hope Baptist Church of God and Christ” and the “Apostolic Church of Hell” standing front and center in our black communities espousing religion-based bigotry as the word of God, these places of worship are the reasons why Lemon — and we as an African American community — can’t tell the truth about our sexuality.

It’s because African Americans don’t address the homophobic role the Black church plays in creating a “down-low” (DL) culture — not only among its worshippers but also among its “down low” ministers who espouse damning messages about homosexuality — that both Bishop Eddie Long and Pastor Donnie McClurkin can tell their truths.

Pastor Donnie McClurkin, the poster boy for African American ex-gay ministries “testi-lies” that his homosexuality is from being raped; thus confusing same-gender sexual violence with homosexuality. Bishop Eddie Long, one of the Black Church’s prominent pastors of “prosperity gospel” and “bling-bling” theology “testi-lies” that the pubescent boys he nurtured were “spiritual sons” rather than what many of us perceived as one of his many lies stashed in his stained-glass closet.

Lemon resides in Atlanta, and it’s not the old Atlanta of MLK days. It’s the new black Mecca and the new “Black Hollywood” that it’s fondly called “Hot-lanta.” And African-American stars flocks to this entertainment Mecca-in-training as do black urban professionals (Buppies).

But if you’re LGBTQ in “Hot-lanta” you stay in the closet, as Lemon once did.

Rev. Irene Monroe is a nationally-known writer, speaker, and theologian.  She  has been profiled in O, Oprah Magazine, and is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post.  (The views expressed in this essay are solely those of the author.)

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Late in the summer, Florida big man Schuyler Rimmer thought his recruitment was over with when he picked the home state Gators.
As it turned out, the Gators and the 6-foot-9 three-star center from Orlando (Fla.) Boone weren't meant to be.
So, Rimmer opened things up and after visits to Stanford, Virginia, Vanderbilt and USC he's decided to head to the Pac-12 and play for Johnny Dawkins and the Cardinal.
The commitment was confirmed by Rimmer's summer coach Reggie Tucker of the Q6 All-Stars. Tucker couldn't be more impressed with Rimmer's resolve and work ethic.
"I've been blessed to coach such a young man," Tucker told "He's been great to be around and it's been great to watch him grow up.
"Schuyler has the best work ethic I've ever been around and just loves to play the game."
A big and strong kid who doesn't mind playing physically, Rimmer is a solid interior player who has a tough mindset. He gets contested rebounds, runs the floor pretty well and also shows good scoring touch with either hand.
Rimmer joins a recruiting class that includes Las Vegas twins Marcus Allen and Malcolm Allen. An athletic off guard, Marcus currently ranks No. 135 in the nation while Malcolm is a clever combo guard who like Rimmer sits just outside of the current Rivals150 for the class of 2013.
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Like almost every other year, the greater Washington, D.C., area is loaded with talent for 2014. Friday morning, Mark Turgeon and Maryland locked up one of the area's best.
Six-foot-4 shooting guard Dion Wiley gave the Terps the nod, according to sources close to the situation.
Ranked No. 49 in the Rivals150, the senior to be at Oxon Hill (Md.) Potomac is a very good prize for Maryland.
Wiley is a pure scorer from the wing who specializes in knocking down deep jumpers. Pretty efficient with his touches, Wiley also has above-average strength and is tough to take the ball away from when he's driving to the hole.
A four-star prospect, Wiley joins point guard Romelo Trimble in the Terrapins 2014 recruiting class. Like Wiley, Trimble is a four-star prospect and he checks in at No. 56 nationally.
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August 16, 2011

if you decide you want to blog,
there will come a time when you won’t know how the fuck to start.
when this happens to me, i steal an idea from someone else.

today, i’m stealing from adrienne martini
and giving you many things
to make this post.

steven jr. is doing welland apparently likes the ladies man.

i was told i must share the booty from the summit.
i only bought three skeins of sanguine gryphon little traveller.but my most precious possession, a notions bag from splityyarn
has gone missing in the move.

i hope it turns up soon.

i warped my first loom (did i use the terminology correctly?)
and learned the important lesson, “don’t drop the cross!”
you weavers’ll know what i’m talking about.

now, i’m learning to weave.
i will not buy a loom.
i promise.

i got salty, delicious caramels in the mail from stephen a.k.a. hizKNITS
i am doling them out, savoring them.
as opposed to stuffing them all in my face.
thanks stephen; you’re a sweetie.

i think i might really be into these guys

or else, it’s wicked annoying.
maybe both.
i’m fickle.

i am (still) thoroughly jealous of helloyarn’s photostream and all its glory. i shake my jealous fist in your general direction!

another canadian is fighting squirrels. it’s amusing.

and finally, mo is still cute
in case you were wondering.

that is all for now.
thanks, adrienne.

10 Responses to “many things make a post”

  1. Sally at Rivendale Farms Says:

    In the spirit of the post:

    I’m assuming you learned “don’t drop the cross” the hard way – it’s a painful lesson but a good one to have out of the way. Love what you have going on the loom!

    Hope the notions bag shows up soon.

    Been a fan of ChrisThile for about 10 years, he’s a genius on the mando.

    Mo will always be cute. He’s got that cute-longevity gene.

    Steven Jr is living up to his name: he’s unique and funny as hell. He’s simultaneously a sweetie and a pistol. He sends his best.

  2. Trisha R Says:

    I took a weaving class from Nancy at Woven Art a few years ago. I SWORE to myself that I wouldn’t buy that loom! I SWORE, I TELL YOU! Every one of the students the last night of class bought their looms. I sold OTHER craft items to help fund it.

    It sits, in my basement on top of my craft cabinet, with the same project warped on it that I left class with.

    Shhh… don’t tell Nancy!

  3. Jenn Says:

    Awww, I love The Mo.

  4. Adrienne Says:

    What’s even more amusing is that you’re the second one this week to nick the “many things” idea. Genius is usually unappreciated in its time.😉

    Chris Thile/Punch Brothers/MIchael Daves/Nickel Creek will grow on you. Trust me.

  5. knitnat Says:

    Hmm. Salted caramels. I must send you some too, I think. But it is too humid to make candy!

  6. CarolP Says:

    Glad to hear you are doing well! Mo is the cutest. I also like
    what you are weaving! You are such a talented person!

  7. deedlelu Says:

    I find it hard to keep up on my blog because I either have too much to update and it becomes overwhelming, or not enough content to bother.😦

    And, you are so buying a loom. I said I would never buy a wheel and here I am going to pick it up tomorrow, hehe😀

  8. linda cannon Says:

    Hope you find the bag, moving can be a bitch when things go missing. It will probably turn up in some outlandish place, and you will say “I know why I put it there”.
    Your blog was fun and I am looking forward to hearing more of your endeavors, knitterly and scholarly. Hugs and kisses

  9. Anonymous, too Says:

    Your offsprung is quite the hunk. Are you sure it isn’t a case of the ladies having an eye for (or on) him??

    Yarn looks good. Hope you didn’t leave notions bag in the freezer with the ice cream you forgot about until after the power was turned off at the old place.

    Woodworkers would say you ruined the loom by warping it. Sci-fi fans would say you now need to warp the space-time continuum, or ask how you got a loom past the speed of light. I would say the colors are fantastic, and ask what the finished item will be.

    No opinion on the music, tho NPR’s morning newscasts are among the very few things to get my a** out of bed. It has to be at maximum db on the clock radio, but neither KISS nor the 1812 Overture can do that.

    And Mo? Always adorable. That look, however, clearly says you have to go through the modeling agency from now on because there will be no more free photo sessions.

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    Mo is still cute.
    Your posts are always a good read even when you think you have nothing to say.
    Caramels, yum.

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I hear a lot of talk about knitting stars (celebrities), but it’s geometric stars that I’m talking about today. A few years ago, when I just couldn’t stop knitting hexagons and pentagons, I expanded my explorations to include 3-D shapes. Celestine is made of 10 pentagons all knit on to each other forming a dodecahedron. Then, there’s a  twist, the triangular sides of each pentagon have been elongated, so it’s a stellated dodecahedron.  It’s a star.  If you put few straight rows between the decrease rows you can make a soccer ball shape (well, almost, soccer balls actually have mostly hexagons, but that’s another story).  If you put more rows in-between the dec rows, your star will have longer points.  Here it is shown as a tree topper.  I under-stuffed one point so it could be inverted to help it stay on the tree.

I think more knitters have made them as toys. Here is a link to the 467 projects in Ravelry and here are 434 more, files as Celestine Sox.  I love that you can make so many different versions from the same pattern. We have a crocheted version, too.
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Wouldn’t it be fun to make a bunch of white Starlets for the tree?  At 11″ across, it’s large, but still delicate.

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I had no idea this was happening, but it is fantastic news: according to this GamePC article, the latest 2005 version of Windows XP Media Center Edition will be released as a retail product within a few weeks:

Windows XP Media Center Edition was originally launched roughly two years ago, and was the first variant of XP designed to be run on home theater systems and to be controlled via remote. The OS itself was based upon Windows XP core, but ran Microsoft's Media Center application on top of the operating system, which was custom built to playback and record TV, movies, music, and videos. Since Microsoft was in complete control of the OS, the application, and the remote control hardware which was used, XP Media Center Edition had a higher level of integration and smoothness compared to other media center type applications.

Unfortunately, Microsoft's demanding control is what has held back this operating system for so long. XP Media Center Edition was never available as a retail product, nor was it available for end users to purchase directly from OEM's. The only way you could get XP Media Center Edition was to purchase a full PC with the operating system pre-loaded. Given the enthusiast-nature of the HTPC community, many balked at the thought of having to purchase an entire new PC just to get a copy of this operating system. Thus, an entire crop of home-brewed media center applications has sprung up with excellent products such as SageTV and Meedio, which can perform many of Media Center Edition's core functions on any PC. Even more threatening to Microsoft is that many HTPC users are switching over to Linux to meet their needs, as superb free software products like Freevo and MythTV have gained quite a following.

While these applications have worked quite well thus far, if given the choice, many would simply go with an easier to use Microsoft solution. Fortunately, Microsoft finally listened, and are opening up Windows XP Media Center Edition for everyone. Their latest version, Media Center Edition 2005, is now selling on the open markets, and is available to all. While the OS itself is not officially launching for another week, we were able to get our hands on this final product to give everyone a first hand glimpse of how Media Center Edition 2005 (Codenamed Symphony) works in an uncontrolled environment.

This rectifies a great wrong; the prior two editions of MCE were excellent mainstream products stymied into a tiny niche because nobody could get a copy! That is, unless you had a MSDN sub, or you were an OEM.

I'm something of an expert on HTPC related topics; I'm a long time Tivo user with modded Series 1 and Series 2 boxes, and I built up a specialized home theater PC box for MCE soon after that was released.. with 480gb of storage. In short, I'm a giant dork-- but you knew that already. The best source of information on MCE topics is The Green Button, so check there if you want to go in depth.

Even if you have no interest in, uh, media, MCE is still interesting from a programming perspective. Did you know that MCE was one of the first commercial products from MS developed entirely in .NET? It's a fanatastic proof of concept, and certainly does tons of hard-core interop for the DirectX Avalon style interfaces, hardware MPEG2 encoders, and media playback. And it works! Well, the initial version was a little rough around the corners, but the 2004 version works pretty darn well.

MCE also offers insight into another type of UI design. Putting together a usable "10 foot interface" is radically different from all my other GUI design experience. It's not easy to do, and although MCE is by far one of the best HTPC apps you'll find, Tivo still has a clearly superior UI. If you dig around on the Green Button programming forums (thread with screenshot), you'll find links to a sample VS.NET 2003 project I created containing WinForms user controls in the style of MCE. This was dishearteningly difficult to do. I spent about two weeks hacking alphablended user controls into WinForms and I made some decent progress, but I reached one inevitable conclusion: you really have to bite the bullet and develop against DirectX if you want something that looks like MCE and performs at a decent speed.

MCE's interface is very cool, though. If this is anything like what we'll get with Avalon, it will be impressive indeed. And, really, what other logical use is there for 300gb+ hard drives, other than to fill them with video?

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Celebrate the environment: My first holiday season in a radon-healthy, new home

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From finding the right house to signing on the dotted line, buying my first home was an exciting, scary and nerve racking process. It may have been months ago when I made a life changing investment, but getting ready for the holidays in a home that’s mine has brought back those memories.

One thing that stands out, not for how much it scared me, but for its simplicity and its importance is the radon test. It’s one of those steps you barely notice, it took about five minutes for the radon testing company to place the kit and one week to get the results, but knowing that my house didn’t have a radon problem meant more than just peace of mind

Now as I wrap up my holiday shopping and make sure everything’s crossed off my list, I want to pass on the gift of good health to my friends and family. Those little radon test kits, dressed up with some festive wrapping paper and bow (of course), make great stocking stuffers. The best way to know if a home has high radon levels is to test for it. Your loved ones may not immediately know what the test kit is, but they’ll thank you every day they are healthy and happy.

Builders are going the extra mile to make sure your home is safe from radon, even before you move in. Many encourage new homes to be built radon-resistant and existing homes with high radon to be fixed.

It’s easy to protect your family from this invisible radioactive gas that seeps up from underground. So this holiday season, when you’re thinking about stuffing those stockings, consider including a radon test kit. With radon action month just around the corner in January, you’ll be ahead of the game and your friends will be ready to test their homes in the new year.

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It’s Never Too Late To Go Back to School, and Scholarships Help

For years I thought perhaps my window of opportunity had passed to return to college and really finish my undergraduate degree. I had been dabbling in taking classes for a few years—one class here, another there—yet not making real progress toward a degree.

Attend school and work full time?!

My main reason for not committing to return to school full time was the thought that I couldn’t afford it. It was hard enough taking one or two classes on top of working full time, but I could not imagine attending school full time while also working full time to pay for it. It wasn’t until last year that I finally looked more in depth at the possibility of returning to school and found out about scholarship opportunities.

On my own as a first-generation college student.

Having grown up in Mexico, I was unfamiliar with the process of finding scholarships and applying for them. In addition, growing up with a single mother with only a high school education from a foreign country, and the fact that I was already an “adult,” I did not have a lot of support or guidance from my family.

In the spring, I remember receiving an email with information about scholarships for the upcoming year from Front Range, and from there, I learned of the many opportunities available to help me return to school. Not only were scholarships available locally, but also nationally.

Discovering scholarship opportunities.

I spent many hours filling out applications in categories that applied to my circumstances. Not only were scholarships available for older students going back to school, there were additional opportunities based on the fact I was Latino, the first person in my family to attend college here in the United States, and that I have hemophilia. I had never realized that there were so many opportunities for funding out there, and once I got the hang of filling out the applications, the process became easier.

Scholarships make return to college possible.

In early summer, I found out I would receive enough money to fund almost the whole year of studies with only taking out minimal loans! It really pays to take the time to think about your individual characteristics that may qualify you for scholarships. Also, know that funding is available, but a person needs to seek it out and learn about the process of applying for it. Without these scholarships, I could never have considered returning to school full time to complete my degree.

What’s holding you back from college?

If it’s the cost, consider starting at your local community college and seek out the numerous funding opportunities to assist you. I hadn’t known these resources existed before, and learning about them has made the world of difference for me.

If you grew up in another country, don’t have parents who “know the system” or to help you figure out the process, or are an adult considering taking the leap to return to college, it likely will take you more time and effort to learn how to find and apply for scholarships, but it can be worth it.

It’s worth the effort.

Having the chance to really focus on school, to do well and learn, and to not accrue massive debt to improve my life circumstances, is worth the time and effort it has taken to seek out these opportunities. I’m sure there are opportunities for you just as I found out there were for me.

What’s been your experience? Have you had success with scholarships? How have you paid for college?

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Guillermo Campillo is a student at Front Range Community College. After working in the food industry as manager and owner of two restaurants for over 14 years, he returned to school full time at the age 31 to study international business. Guillermo is an active board member and volunteer for the National Hemophilia Foundation Colorado Chapter. He's looking forward to expanding his non-profit business horizons in the future to help bridge the information and resource gap for Latinos with hemophilia.

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January 11, 2012 at 9:38 am, Becca said:

I’ve heard a lot of stories of older generation that still continue their studies despite the fact that some of them are 60 to 70 years old already.
Learning is not only for young generation.

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January 11, 2012 at 1:48 pm, Guillermo said:

That’s right Becca! Some of the older individuals are still studying not only to change their careers, but to keep on learning, accomplish their goals, and perhaps just to obtain a Degree. In my case, I have always wanted to go to college full time, however, I did not have the opportunity until now. I feel very blessed ;-).

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January 20, 2012 at 1:12 pm, Winnie said:

I really enjoyed this article. I am in my late 50s and applying for a scholarship for the first time. I understand most of the requirements, but there are some questions that I have been unable to find assistance with. Is there a person or department that can offer assistance?


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When we released the Mac-only preview of DNSCrypt, we knew it was a game changer. The revolutionary piece of lightweight software encrypts all DNS traffic between you and our servers. We also knew it was our responsibility to get this fundamental improvement to Internet security ready for the masses as quickly as possible. That’s why last week we announced that we’re searching for a rockstar win32 hacker to build a Windows release. But the blog post catalyzed a frenzy of responses from Linux users asking when a version would be available for them.

The good news, is that the wait is over for Linux users. In fact, there was never a wait at all. We published the code for DNSCrypt on GitHub when we released the preview, so although there isn’t a user interface built just yet, Linux users can still experience the benefits of DNSCrypt in just a few steps. Here are simple step-by-step instructions for setting up DNSCrypt on your Linux machine:

  1. Download a package for your Linux distribution. i386 and amd64 packages in .deb (Debian, Mint, Ubuntu…), and .rpm (Openwall, CentOS, Fedora…) formats are supplied.
  2. Install the package using your package manager
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  4. Set your DNS settings to Confirm you’re using OpenDNS here.

Now that you’re using DNSCrypt, you can spread the word to other Linux users. We’d love to see your blog posts, videos and social media posts so don’t forget to tag @OpenDNS on Facebook and Twitter. If you want to help build a GUI to make this process even easier for Linux users, we’d be happy to work with you to get it right. If you’d like us to review your work, email us at dnscrypt at opendns dot com.

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PPI-SA Joins the Sport For Good World in Barcelona

The 2nd Annual Laureus Sport for Good Summit in Barcelona

Last week, PPI-SA  representatived at the annual Laureus Sport for Good Foundation Global Summit, which was held in Barcelona, Spain.  The Summit was hosted at Nou Camp Stadium, the home of one of the world’s most famous and successful soccer teams, FC Barcelona. The three-day programme, which included guest talks and interactive workshops, provided a valuable platform for networking and sharing best practices. Laureus Sport for Good Foundation is one of PPI-SA’s longest supporters and over the years, the relationship has matured from a funding relationship to a partnership approach as both PPI and Laureus share similar core values.

PPI-SA’s Marketing Manager and longest tenured employee, Ryan Douwie, attended the summit along with Nasiphi Khafu. Nasiphi was chosen among her peers and educators to represent the Laureus YES Program, in which she was a part of a 6 month pilot program developing the best youth leaders in SA.

Ryan Douwie representing PPI-SA in Barcelona at the Laureus Sport for Good Summit

The Laureus Global Summit brings together representatives from more than 100 sports-based community projects around the world which are supported by Laureus. In Barcelona, project leaders from 34 countries joined members of the Laureus World Sports Academy and representatives of other sport for good organizations to share knowledge and innovation around the use of sport to improve the lives of young people.

Laureus Chairman Edwin Moses added: “This is a unique gathering of experts on the use of sport as a tool for social change. Laureus-supported projects around the world are all pushing the barriers of what sport can achieve for young people and at Laureus we see the impact they are having year round, with young people moving out of gangs, gaining qualifications, moving into employment, and improving physical and mental health. The objective of this event is to strengthen the global network of Laureus Sport for Good projects by giving them a space where they can share ideas, knowledge and good practice with one another. Ultimately this translates into more impact for kids and communities as projects access cutting edge learning and approaches from around the world.”

“When I joined the sport industry, I had always wanted to find meaning in my life, to do something I loved. When I joined PPI-SA, I found that. PeacePlayers ignited a desire in me to do more for my community using sport, and Laureus is giving me that opportunity. Laureus made me believe I can impact kids worldwide and give hope, and my voice can be heard. I want to thank PPI-SA and Laureus for believing in me and for this amazing opportunity to learn. It was amazing to see where South Africa stands compared to everywhere in the world, how we all have a common goal.” – Nasiphi Khafu, PPI – SA youth leader

Nasiphi at Nou Camp Stadium in Barcelona

PPI-SA is very grateful to the many ways Laureus has contributed to our program, and the future is bright for South Africa and the sport for good movement. Laureus is giving more and more opportunities for young people in South Africa and PPI will be a front runner in developing leaders and exposing them to these opportunities.

Douwie was very pleased with the experience at the summit, adding that he was, “particularly happy with the workshops that were hosted. Many organizations had the opportunity to showcase their work and share best practices. I felt that scaling up and collaborating in a competitive environment suited to the essence of the summit perfectly as fundraising and sustainability becomes tougher. As PPI, we were able to showcase our global partnership with Laureus through hosting three hour-long sessions focused on teaching conflict resolution through basketball.”

Check out this amazing video that captures the true beauty of the Laureus summit, where Nasiphi, Ryan, and PPI Organizational Learning Specialist Gunnar Hagstrom are all featured!

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BHV’er / appointed safety person

Not sure of the best way to translate BHV’er, but I volunteered to be one where I work. This means I’ll be responsible to perform First Aid, tackle small fires (only when just starting) and alarm/ evacuate people during emergencies (ensure everyone actually leaves their desks, plus taking special care of people who need extra help, e.g. people with leg injury, etc). Depending on the size of the organization and some other criteria, every company within the Netherlands is required to have a predetermined number of BHV’ers. Seems this is even an European requirement (law).

I’m not sure yet what the various tasks are. I was mostly interested in the First Aid training; the person who asked for volunteers knew less about the tasks than I did. Currently I know I have to follow a 5 day first aid training. I know there are regular exercises where BHV’ers test evacuation plans. Plus help out during the yearly ‘walk down the stairs at an annoyingly slow pace’ (evacuation exercise involving the whole building and also fire brigade). This is what I’ll know I’ll be responsible for, for the rest I’ll have to get an explanation from our Health and Safety officer.

As volunteer I’ll get nice benefits such as First Aid training and the ability to walk around in a bright orange jacket.

2 thoughts on “BHV’er / appointed safety person”

  1. I think in Australia we have WHS (Workplace Health and Safety) officers. But your job sounds far cooler. I don’t think that they are trained to do anything in regard to fighting fires or handling evacuations…

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NH Vista Event – Software Association of New Hampshire – February 20

It was great to see everyone in Nashua, NH yesterday for the Vista/Office 2007/Exchange 2007 launch event!  Though I was (and still am) under the weather, I had a great time – and hope attendees did too.

For those of you in the area, the Software Association of New Hampshire will be holding a Vista event next Tuesday (2/20) from 6:00 to 8:30 PM at the Courtyard Marriott in Nashua.  There are two main sessions:

  • “What does Windows Vista bring to my business” with Ron Zuckerman from Microsoft and Thomas Murphy from Intel
  • “What do I need to do to make my application Vista compatible?” with Microsoft SWAT Team member Caio Chaves Garces.

The event is free to SwANH members, and carries a $25.00 fee for non-members.

The SwANH site has details and registration.

[Update – Corrected date to 2/20]

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Programming for Beginners

Last week, I had the opportunity to speak in Denver at our Visual Studio 2012 Launch Roadshow. If you don’t know what they are, check out my earlier blog post to find out when the next one is. It might be in your area.

During one of the Q&A sessions we had, one of the attendees mentioned that they were for an Office support person and would like to more about programming. I was a bit surprised when she said that, but I realized that not everyone’s a developers.

Channel 9 Content

With that said, I’ve been gathering material so I can teach my kids how to program and during my search, I came across some great material on Channel 9 called “Channel 9 Content for Beginners”. At the moment, it covers five different areas for aspiring developers to learn: Visual Basic, C#, HTML 5 & CCS3, JavaScript, and how to build apps for Windows Phone 7.

Each series has a number of videos to watch and source code for you to practice with. The videos are not long and the presenters are very engaging so you won’t get bored watching them.

Virtual Labs

A lot of times when you’re learning something new, you might not have the time to set up your machine just the way you want to learn the technology. No problem. Microsoft has taken many of the Hands-On Labs we release as kits that you can download and created a number of virtual labs that you can use. You try them out at MSDN Virtual Labs. This really helps create a friction free experience for you to jump right in and test any segment of the Microsoft platform, from Windows 8 to BizTalk to SQL Server to Team Foundation Server.

Just select the hands on lab you want to check out, a virtual machine gets provisioned for you to you online.

Hands-On Labs

Speaking of hands-on labs, if you’d like to get familiar with Visual Studio 2012 and TFS 2012, check out the Visual Studio 2012 Application Lifecycle Management Virtual Machine with Hands-On Labs. Brian Keller did an amazing job putting this together so you can learn all the different areas of Visual Studio 2012 and TFS 2012. His blog talks about an easy way to download all the content and get started using it.

Hope this can help you get excite about development.

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  1. Its Really useful for beginner


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Some of you have encountered problems successfully downloading, registering or installing Beta 2. As you know, Microsoft just released two of the biggest betas in our history simultaneously and we’ve encountered a couple problems.

  • Our download capacity has been expanded, so downloading shouldn’t be a problem anymore.
  • At this point the load on the activation servers is the bottleneck.

We are working on a fix and that should address the problem and folks should keep trying to get through.

Sorry for the trouble!

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  1. Congratulations to the genius who came up with the idea of releasing those two betas at the same time. Any beta tester could have told you that that is a really bad idea.

  2. Jfriend says:

    But it sounds soooo cool!

  3. akashra says:

    It’s unfortunate that this bombardment won’t be enough to have them do away with this ‘activation’ crap 🙁

    I had absolultely no problems downloading Office 2k7 though – I’m only using Outlook, but so far I’m very happy with what I see.  A few things missing and able to be improved on, but so far so good.  Have submitted four bugs so far today which I’m sure will get fixed.

    I’m having a bit of a hard time trying to find out who’s on the Outlook dev team though, so I can find out more and report any feedback I have to give.

  4. Jfriend says:

    See today’s post about Send a Smile (or frown).

    This tool is the best way to get feedback to the teams.


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What this batch file needs is more escape characters

(Employing the snowclone "What this X needs is more Y.")

Each time you add a parsing pass to the batch processor, you have to add another layer of escaping. This is just a special case of the more general rule of thumb: any problem in quoting can be solved by adding another layer of escaping.

(Okay, it's not actually true, nor is it a rule of thumb, but it's still something to keep in mind.)

When you enable delayed variable expansion, you add another parsing pass to the batch processor. It used to expand % variables at the time the line is ready, but now you told it that, oh wait, just before executing the command, expand it a second time (this time looking for ! variables.)

Which means that if you want to echo an exclamation point, you have to protect the exclamation point so the parser won't treat it as a delayed expansion.

echo Error^^!

The ^^ collapses to a ^ during the first parsing pass. On the second parsing pass, the ^! turns into a !

Remember, the batch language was not designed; it evolved. I admire the approach taken by commenter Nick, in a tip of the hat to Douglas Adams:

Much like the universe, if anyone ever does fully come to understand Batch then the language will instantly be replaced by an infinitely weirder and more complex version of itself. This has obviously happened at least once before ;)

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  1. Anonymous says:

    Is there a reason why PowerShell is only included in Windows Server 2008 but not any other versions of Windows?  I would imagine if it were, it would people (slowly) migrate away from batch scripts.

  2. Anonymous says:

    Powershell is available as a download for XP SP2 and up.  Heck, I think it shows up in Windows Update (as an optional update) for some of them.  What more do you want?  If MS marked it as a critical update to get full deployment, people would complain that MS was "taking over their machines" or otherwise imposing itself on them.

  3. Anonymous says:

    PowerShell is also part of Windows 7. But it’s not, after all, something you’d want to bother granny with.

    And it needs more cowbell.

  4. Anonymous says:

    Before I knew that trick, This is what I use:

    (ECHO DONE!) | FIND "D"

    Parentheses are required, I don’t know why..

  5. Anonymous says:

    Strange, running Vista, it appears that a batch file containing:

    echo Error!

    …in fact does print:

    So, what gives?

    [You skipped ahead to the punch line without reading the set-up. And then the phrases “delayed expansion” and “second parsing pass” make no sense because you didn’t read paragraph 4. -Raymond]
  6. Anonymous says:

    If you want to rip your hair out over expansion, attempt to setup a scheduled task using the command line, where the task

    (a) is in a directory with spaces in the path

    (b) takes command line arguments

  7. Anonymous says:

    For all readers, including me, who didn’t know what exactly "delayed environment variable expansion" is supposed to be for:

    "Enabling delayed environment variable expansion: If you enable delayed environment variable expansion, you can use the exclamation character to substitute the value of an environment variable at run time."

  8. Anonymous says:

    There is also a big text about "delayed environment variable expansion" written by Raymond three years ago:

    "Environment variable expansion occurs when the command is read"

  9. Anonymous says:

    Powershell 2.0 for everything from XP was released a few days ago

  10. Anonymous says:

    The problem with Powershell is that now you have to install Powershell. And before you can install Powershell, you have to install the .Net framework. That means you can’t ship a simple Powershell script with your app unless you want the user to possibly have to download hundreds of MB of almost-unnecessary utilities. It also means that you can’t do casual scripting on arbitrary (i.e. other people’s) computers with it.

    I frequently remote into other people’s computers to do work, but I’ve never seen one that had Powershell installed, so I am stuck doing all my scripting in batch files.

  11. Anonymous says:

    Anyone who wants to do serious, principled, and robust batch file scripting should keep Tim Hill’s "Windows NT Shell Scripting" close at hand, although (as the title implies) it doesn’t cover newer features like delayed variable expansion.  I occasionally have to write complex batch files for colleagues and have found the book indispensible — what’s more, it actually gives me a twisted appreciation for the language.  Like watching a dancing bear, the joy of writing .bat scripts comes from the mind-boggling fact that you’ve made it perform at all.

  12. Anonymous says:

    What’s wrong with using VBScript?  It is essentially universally available on Windows, and much easier to write (and read, for that matter) than batch files.

  13. Anonymous says:

    I love how Raymond’s blog is a kind of time capsule.  You can post something a year ago, or two or three years ago, and then long after it’s been completely forgotten, bam! there it is again :)

    I agree.  I regularly find myself drawn towards Windows Scripting Host (whether via VBScript or JScript) when I need to automate or script some function in Windows that isn’t mind-numbingly trivial to do in Batch.  When combined with WMI and other COM objects (especially ADSI and IE), it is surprisingly powerful and capable. I’ve got a "Scripts" folder on my work machine with about 30 somewhat complex scripts (i.e., more than 40 or so lines) I’ve written and anticipate using again.

    I keep meaning to look into PowerShell more as it’s becoming more and more ubiquitous on Windows — Win7, and Server 2008 both have it by default.  The .NET framework is getting hard to find not installed on computers as more and more software is written with it, and having direct access to that whole framework from a script is pretty awesome. Overall PS will be a good thing to have.

  14. Anonymous says:

    Indeed. VBScript is the tool of choice for any desktop management function in any reasonably large environment I’ve been in. Everyone who performs these functions talks about PowerShell, ranging from wanting to learn it to they are actively doing things with it on a small scale, but it’s not the method used for enterprise deployments yet.

    Give it a few years- it’s an excellent tool, but too few machines can run it, and it’s difficult to justify the business case for deploying PowerShell to the Enterprise.

  15. Anonymous says:

    > VBScript is the tool of choice

    Tool of last resort perhaps? Billy G is having his revenge, BASIC *will* survive, it *will* survive….

  16. DWalker59 says:

    What this X needs is more Y.

    X = song, Y = cowbell…

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StarWind iSCSI vs. Microsoft iSCSI – Part 1

*NEW* StarWind V8 [BETA] is here!! and it looks VERY promising!!

For some small to medium sized businesses and even some home power users, shared storage is a must-have. Unfortunately, standard high performance SANs carry with them a hefty price tag and a massive administrative overhead – so an EMC or NetApp filer is often out of the question. What is the answer? Turn an everyday server into an iSCSI storage server using iSCSI software target software.

Microsoft’s iSCSI target software was originally part of the Windows Storage Server SKU and only available to OEMs. When Windows Storage Server 2008 was released, it was also included in Technet subscriptions making it readily available for businesses and home users to test and validate. Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 was different – it was released as an installable package to any Server 2008 R2 install – but again, it was available through Technet. Then, in April of 2011, Microsoft released the iSCSI target software installer to the public (in this blog post).

Enter Starwind. They have had a software target solution around for quite some time – the current release version is 5.8. The free-for-home-use version is becoming very feature rich – features include thin provisioning, high speed cache, and block level deduplication. The pay versions add multiple server support, HA mirroring, and failover – the full version comparison can be found here.

The Test Setup
I first want to compare both solutions side by side – first testing general OS performance, then more specialized workloads, etc. All network traffic is carried on a Catalyst 2970G switch, on the native VLAN with all other traffic – this is not an optimal configuration, but I want to start with the basics and try to improve performance from there.

iSCSI Target Server

  • Whitebox Intel Xeon 5160 Dual Core 3.0GHz
  • 3GB RAM, single GbE link
  • 60 GB iSCSI LUN presented from standalone 80GB 7200RPM SATA disk

ESXi 5.0 Host Server

  • Whitebox AMD Athlon X2 3.0 GHz
  • 8GB RAM, single GbE link

Windows 7 Test VM

  • 2 vCPU, 2GB RAM
  • Windows 7 SP1 x86
  • 20GB system volume – *Thick provisioned, eager zeroed

Comparison 1: Installing OS

The StarWind target was installed, and a virtual volume presented over iSCSI – 60GB, with deduplication turned on and a 1.5GB cache enabled. First impressions: OS installation is very quick – I did not time it, but it was remarkably quick. During the install, the iSCSI server was clearly using most of its resources for iSCSI operations – the single 1GbE link was saturated at 95%:

The high speed cache feature is very clearly a factor as it allocates the RAM immediately, and the CPU load is all from the StarWind process:

Microsoft iSCSI

The Starwind software was uninstalled and the Microsoft target software installed in its place. A 60GB LUN was presented to ESXi – and OS installation began (the VM was created with the same specs). Immediately, it was obvious that the installation was going much slower than with the StarWind target software. The resources in use by the iSCSI server clearly show this:

Average network use is around 30%:

Same story with CPU use and allocated RAM:

Comparison 2: IOMeter Test

Here is the configuration used for the tests:

This test may be a bit one sided due to the fact that this test VM is the only running on this datastore, and thus the entire IOMeter test file is likely coming from the RAM cache. Either way, here are the results:

It will be interesting to see if this performance scales with more VMs (containing similar blocks – in the kernel, etc) and with more RAM in the iSCSI server.

Microsoft iSCSI

The results while using the Microsoft software target:

Part 1 Results

IOMeter clearly shows a 10X improvement in performance – these results will need to be verified with a heavier load, but I can only imagine that more RAM and faster base storage disks will only improve these results.

In part 2 I will see if these results will scale with multiple server VM workloads – and also how effective the StarWind deduplication engine is.

7 thoughts on “StarWind iSCSI vs. Microsoft iSCSI – Part 1

  1. Jake, thank you for this one! If you'll need anything from StarWind Software to run your tests please let us know.

    Best wishes,
    Anton Kolomyeytsev

    P.S. Do a test run MS Vs. StarWind Vs. ZFS-based iSCSI and people will LOVE you and twit your blog all-over-the-world!

  2. Anton-

    I was planning on comparing the results of both of these vs. FreeNAS – NFS and iSCSI. While I can't provide the same storage server performance metrics, I was planning on using simple VM based metrics such as OS install times, boot times, vm local disk queue – and IOMeter. Thanks!

  3. Excellent articles Jake.

    We actually just went thru something similar to what you posted here, and it confirms our findings.

    We gave Microsoft 2008 R2 NFS a try, and put about 25 VM's on it with around 125 users total in our organization. The NFS performance was horrible, we had to fall back to local storage and come up with a new plan.

    We switched to Starwind, and what a difference! Our VM's are running great, and the deduplication really saves on our storage space on the backend. We could barely fit all of our VM's across the local storage on the ESXI hosts, and on our shared storage we have just about the same amount as all our ESXi local storage combined. While we were 90% full on local storage, each of our lun's aren't even 50% full.

  4. Jake, all interesting stuff here.

    I'd like to see a NexentaStor based hardware appliance in optimal configuration against both MS and Starwinds targets. Would be intereresting to compare that to something running under the latest illumos builds (OpenSolaris replacement).

    I'd also like to see a comparison of VMware vSphere5 VAAI support (including UNMAP) as that could make a huge difference in terms of perceived throughput on deploying new VMs etc. The real test of any iSCSI target in a VMware environment is how well it handles under heavy load dealing with large amounts of random I/O.

  5. Ashley-

    I think that would be a great comparison…but it would be difficult to compare apples to apples. For example, to optimize NexentaStor (and FreeNAS) one would be inclined to throw an SSD into the server for the ZIL and\or L2ARC.

    To be honest, I'm not sure how best to compare this to the other products. For example, an Adaptec series 6 card could be used with MaxCache ( – but this could be applied in all comparisons.

    Would a better comparison be to use a single SSD for the Windows Server based software targets? This is partly why I am storing the datastores on a single spindle, without trying to 'optimize' each solution, as this presents a baseline of sorts. My idea was "here's the base performance…throw in a decent hardware controller, put your storage accross several spindles – then you should really be cooking with fire".

  6. The MS iSCSI target is downright retarded. It doesn't support VHDX and it doesn't support disks as LUNs. Your LUNs can only be VHD files. Their explanation is that SMB Direct makes SAN irrelevant so they didn't focus much on it. Good job guys.

  7. This article is outdated and doesn't apply anymore. I'm running comparisons now between StarWind iSCSI SAN & NAS Free V6 vs Microsoft 2012 R2 iSCSI Target Server. The new MS product is just as fast as StarWind's product and has support for a myriad of features that didn't exist previously such as DeDupe, iSCSI Boot and more. In fact, the same performance numbers are achieved without the server-side caching functionality.

    Storage Server:
    Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 using native iSCSI Target role
    AMD x4 640, 8GB RAM
    LSI Logic 9260-8i, 512MB cache, write-back cache enabled
    8x WD 1GB Black, Raid 10
    2x Intel PRO 1000/PT NICs for iSCSI MP network

    ESXi Host:
    AMD FX8350, 32GB RAM
    Intel I350 QuadPort NIC, 2 port for iSCSI MP network using RoundRobin

    Test Example:
    Single VM running Windows Server 2012 R2
    2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM
    VMXNET3 Adapter

    Using both Starwind and MS iSCSI Targets, I'm able to nearly fully saturate 2 1GbE NICs pushing an average of 193MB/S using the following test for example:

    Max Throughput-50%Read,ALL
    'size,% of size,% reads,% random,delay,burst,align,reply

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IT Camp: System Center 2012 In-Person Events Coming To Your Town…

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Being What’s Next in IT
The year 2012 is an exciting one for IT professionals, and it’s a banner year for Microsoft. We’ve got valuable new products and solutions on the horizon, such as System Center 2012 and Windows Server 8, and we’re developing fresh, innovative ways to help you manage your infrastructure.

Gearing up for the Future (Camp Part 1)
You’ve probably heard Microsoft’s new slogan: "Be What’s Next." For IT pros, however, it can be tough to simply keep up with what’s happening today. Maybe you’d like to replace older versions of server operating systems and technologies, but you’re losing sleep over the potential service disruptions.

In this session, we’ll look at migration technologies that will help you transition to the latest versions of our solutions and take full advantage of Windows Server 2008. You’ll also get a chance to play and tinker with these useful technologies. Making the transition to current products isn’t always easy, but we have ways to help you get there – and get you ready for the future of IT and business productivity.

The Future is Sooner Than You Think (Camp Part 2)
Now that you’re ready for what’s next, aren’t you eager to see it in greater detail? There’s a new wave of IT organizations and professionals who are moving closer to true cloud computing. At the same time, many of us are still wondering how the cloud fits our IT environment, or how it will benefit our businesses.

In this camp session, we’ll explore the future of the cloud. Together, we’ll discover what System Center 2012 will bring to IT organizations – both in overall manageability and support for private, public and hybrid clouds. We’ll also introduce and demonstrate the next version of Windows Server (codename Windows Server 8).

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Small Grants for CS Education

If you are involved in K-12 computer science education you really owe it to yourself to join the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) And if you are a member of CSTA than you received this announcement in the last week or so. But just in case you are not a CSTA member (yet right?) I thought I should post this CSTA Blast for your information.

ACM’s SIGCSE (Special Interest Group for Computer Science Education) has a small grants program (up to $5000) for member projects in CS education, and that this is a good time to think about it.

Almost any material development, study, or other work likely to be of interest to the SIGCSE community is eligible for consideration.

You can see examples of past projects, as well as details of the proposal process, at

The next round of proposal reviews is slated for mid-August, so if you have something in mind this is the time to start fleshing out a proposal (on your way home from ITiCSE, but before you start writing your Symposium papers :-). Submit proposals via email to; anything received by August 15 will be reviewed in the mid-August round.

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How to find your stuff on the TechNet Wiki

The TechNet wiki shows two RSS feeds:

There is also a feed for a tag in the the tag cloud:

I use Outlook 2010 to feed each of these into a folder. I then write filter rules on the folders to show me stuff that has keywords I am interested in tracking.

However, you can hack the articles feed to show you a specific tag, like this:

Which gets you your custom-feed:

If you want to make your own categorization/table of contents/custom navigation scheme through the wiki, just start a new tag, tag the articles you want with that tag, and then subscribe to the custom tag feed.

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Indefensible weapons: the political and psychological case against nuclearism

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A distinguished professor of psychology and psychiatry at John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Robert Jay Lifton is the author of many important works, including "The Nazis' Doctors," winner of the "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize, and "Death in Life," winner of the National Book Award.

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Myth & Middle-Earth

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J.R.R. Tolkien's fiction, especially The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, made him a world-renowned fantasy writer. These tales were based on Tolkien's personal mythology of a place he called Middle-Earth, but Middle-Earth was strongly influenced by the myths and legends of Dark Age Europe that Tolkien studied professionally as a professor at Oxford University. This title takes a popular - not academic - look at the mythic world and mythic themes that inspired Tolkien, not only the Germanic and Norse mythology that most experts discuss, but also Celtic and Finnish myths. It talks of the journeys and quests that inspired Tolkien, dragon myths, beliefs in supernatural, non-human races such as dwarves and elves, the role and function of the warrior, the nature of heroism and more.

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LESLIE ELLEN JONES received her Ph.D. in Folklore and Mythology Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1992. She has published essays on many aspects of Celtic mythology, and the representation of folklore and mythology in film and television. She is the author of Happy Is the Bride the Sun Shines On: Wedding Beliefs, Traditions, and Customs (Contemporary Books) and Druid Shaman Priest: Metaphors of Celtic Paganism (Hisarlik Press), and the forthcoming Myth and Middle-earth: Exploring the Medieval Legends Behind J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings (Cold Spring Press).

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