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Areas of support needed when attempting to roll out a new software system

In general, I think most people tend to be resistant to new systems or even change because they fear the unknown. Change means that their normal routine will be interrupted until they can learn to conform to the new routine due to the fact that it has transformed to the old routine. In addition, the feeling of failure is also generates a resistance to change. Why would a worker want to move from a process that has worked successfully for them in the past? Their fears over shadow any benefits a change in a new system or business process will bring to their work life. Areas of support needed when attempting to roll out a new software system: Executive/Upper Management Support If there is no support from the top of an organization how will employees be supportive of the new system? Proper Training Employees need to train on a new system prior to its rollout. The more training employee’s receive on any new system will directly impact how comfortable they will be with the system and are more accepting of the change because they can see how the changes will benefit them. Employee Incentives One way to re-enforce the need for employees to use a new system is to offer incentives to ensure that the system will be used. Employee Discipline/Termination If employees are adamantly refusing to use the new system after several warnings then they need to be formally reprimanded. If this does not work the employer is forced to replace the employees.

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Trouble with backup on SBS2008

- by MemLeak

We have an SBS2008 installation, which has a backup task. It creates a backup twice a day onto external storage. This worked for a long time. But the backup can't be performed now. The last valid backup was before some Exchange updates, SBS Update Rollup 8 and SharePoint updates were installed. The only error in Event Logs is for VSS (the Volume Shadow Service), which I only have in German. Things I've done: restart the server chkdsk /r /f for all volumes restart the VSS service googling manual backup Nothing's helped. How can I set up the backup again?

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How do I improve terrain rendering batch counts using DirectX?

- by gamer747

We have determined that our terrain rendering system needs some work to minimize the number of batches being transferred to the GPU in order to improve performance. I'm looking for suggestions on how best to improve what we're trying to accomplish. We logically split our terrain mesh into smaller grid cells which are 32x32 world units. Each cell has meta data that dictates the four 256x256 textures that are used for spatting along with the alpha blend data, shadow, and light mappings. Each cell contains 81 vertices in a 9x9 grid. Presently, we examine each cell and determine the four textures that are being used to spat the cell. We combine that geometry with any other cell that perhaps uses the same four textures regardless of spat order. If the spat order for a cell differs, the blend map is adjusted so that the spat order is maintained the same as other like cells and blending happens in the right order too. But even with this batching approach, it isn't uncommon when looking out across an area of open terrain to have between 1200-1700 batch count depending upon how frequently textures differ or have different texture blends are between cells. We are only doing frustum culling presently. So using texture spatting, are there other alternatives that can reduce the batch count and allow rendering to be extremely performance-friendly even under DirectX9c? We considered using texture atlases since we're targeting DirectX 9c & older OpenGL platforms but trying to repeat textures using atlases and shaders result in seam artifacts which we haven't been able to eliminate with the exception of disabling mipmapping. Disabling mipmapping results in poor quality textures from a distance. How have others batched together terrain geometry such that one could spat terrain using various textures, minimizing batch count and texture state switches so that rendering performance isn't negatively impacted?

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Realtime file-level mirroring from local NTFS to network drive

- by hurfdurf

We have some data collection machines running WinXP. After a new file is written, we would like to immediately copy the new file to network storage (a NetApp CIFS share) automagically. We need realtime or near realtime copies generated (copy upon filehandle close would be fine -- these are not long-running system logs). Two commercial applications I've found so far are MirrorFile and IBM's Tivoli CDP. Are there any reliable open source programs or simple ways to get Shadow Copy to do something similar? Bonus points if it runs as a service.

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Creating disk snapshots in Windows 7

- by Puneet Arora

Does anyone know of a command or tool to create disk snapshots on Windows 7 (client SKU)? I see vssadmin.exe has a "create shadow" option, but that's available only on server SKUs: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc788055(v=ws.10).aspx I've a backup tool that replicates changes (creations, modifications and deletions to files and directories) since last backup, to my backup volume. Before each time this happens I want to create a persistent snapshot on my backup volume. I could then mount previous snapshots to view previous backups achieving a behavior similar to that of TimeMachine in OS X. This question has been asked before but unfortunately there weren't any good answers: Taking snapshots of filesystem/volume in Windows 7?

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Rendering design. How can I effectively deal with forward, deferred and transparent rendering?

- by user1423893

I have many objects in my game world that all derive from one base class. Each object will have different materials and will therefore be required to be drawn using various rendering techniques. I currently use the following order for rendering my objects. Deferred Forward Transparent (order independent) Each object has a rendering flag that denotes which one of the above methods should be used. The list of base objects in the scene are then iterated through and added to separate lists of deferred, forward or transparent objects based on their rendering flag value. The individual lists are then iterated through and drawn using the order above. Each list is cleared at the end of the frame. This methods works fairly well but it requires different draw methods for each material type. For example each object will require the following methods in order to be compatible with the possible flag settings. object.DrawDeferred() object.DrawForward() object.DrawTransparent() It is also hard to see where methods outside of materials, such as rendering shadow maps, would fit using this "flag & method" design. object.DrawShadow() I was hoping that someone may have some suggestions for improving this rendering process, possibly making it more generic and less verbose?

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Accessing a storage-side snapshot of a cluster-shared volume

- by syneticon-dj

From time to time I am in the situation where I need to get data back from storage-side snapshots of cluster shared volumes. I suppose I just never figured out a way to do it right, so I always needed to: expose the shadow copy as a separate LUN offline the original CSV in the cluster un-expose the LUN carrying the original CSV make sure my cluster nodes have detected the new LUN and no longer list the original one add the volume to the list of cluster volumes, promote it to be a CSV copy off the data I need undo steps 5. - 1. to revert to the original configuration This is quite tedious and requires downtime for the original volume. Is there a better way to do this without involving a separate host outside of the cluster?

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What is needed for 'Previous Versions' to be visible on the client OS?

- by Zoredache

I have servers with Shadow Copies enabled taking snapshots a couple times a day. From the server, if you look at the local devices you can see the Previous Versions being populated reliably. But from remote clients, the ability for an end-user to see the Previous Versions seems to be very hit-or-miss. For the sake of this question you can assume that all my clients are Windows 7 and the Servers are Windows Server 2008 R2. Is there an exhaustive list of everything that is required for end user to see Previous Versions? Are their any requirements for a certain level of share or filesystem permissions, other then read access? Does something need to be open on the firewall, other then what is already in-place for normal Windows networking?

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Duplication of Windows 7 Backup

- by Steven Pickles

I use the built in backup utility for Windows 7 because it's automated and flexible enough to allow me to schedule a daily shadow copy backup of particular files and folders directly to a separate internal RAID 0 array (2 x 1TB). It's also lightweight and stays out of the way. For off-site backup purposes, each week I copy the contents of the internal backup from the RAID 0 array to an external 1 TB drive. I then store move this drive to a different building. The copy from the internal backup to the external backup typically works like this: mount and erase contents of external drive highlight "file" on internal drive, hit CTRL+C CTRL+V on root directory of external drive Is there a better way to synchronize? Microsoft's SyncToy application does a pitiful job, and often leaves the folders not truly synchronized... which completely defeats the ability to use the backup's restore feature.

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Backup all plesk MySQL Databases to individual files

- by Michael

Hy, Because I'm new to shell scripting I need a hand. I currently backup all mydatabases to a single file, thing that makes the restore preaty hard. The second problem that my MySQL password dosen't work because of a Plesk bug and i get the password from "/etc/psa/.psa.shadow". Here is the code that I use to backup all my databases to a single file. mysqldump -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` --all-databases | bzip2 -c > /root/21.10.2013.sql.bz2 I found some scripts on the web that backup each database to individual files but I don't know how to make them work for my situation. Here is a example script: for db in $(mysql -e 'show databases' -s --skip-column-names); do mysqldump $db | gzip > "/backups/mysqldump-$(hostname)-$db-$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H.%M.%S).gz"; done Can someone help me make the script above work for my situation? Requirements: Backup each database to individual file using plesk password location.

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Moving cpanel backup of magento site to VPS

- by user2564024

I was having my site in shared hosting, I took the entire backup, its structure is like addons homedir mysql resellerpackages suspendinfo bandwidth homedir_paths mysql.sql sds userconfig counters httpfiles mysql-timestamps sds2 userdata cp locale nobodyfiles shadow va cron logaholic pds shell vad digestshadow logs proftpdpasswd ssl version dnszones meta psql sslcerts vf domainkeys mm quota ssldomain fp mma resellerconfig sslkeys has_sslstorage mms resellerfeatures suspended Now I have subscribed to vps, I have copied the files inside homedir/public_html to var/www/html of my new hosting, but am seeing the following error when I view it browser, There has been an error processing your request Exception printing is disabled by default for security reasons. Error log record number: 259343920016 I have just created database with name magenhto inside mysql. Previously I had cpanel and used one click installer. Hence am not aware of how to use that data inside mysql to this new system and are there any more changes.

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Pros and Cons of Facebook's React vs. Web Components (Polymer)

- by CletusW

What are the main benefits of Facebook's React over the upcoming Web Components spec and vice versa (or perhaps a more apples-to-apples comparison would be to Google's Polymer library)? According to this JSConf EU talk and the React homepage, the main benefits of React are: Decoupling and increased cohesion using a component model Abstraction, Composition and Expressivity Virtual DOM & Synthetic events (which basically means they completely re-implemented the DOM and its event system) Enables modern HTML5 event stuff on IE 8 Server-side rendering Testability Bindings to SVG, VML, and <canvas> Almost everything mentioned is being integrated into browsers natively through Web Components except this virtual DOM concept (obviously). I can see how the virtual DOM and synthetic events can be beneficial today to support old browsers, but isn't throwing away a huge chunk of native browser code kind of like shooting yourself in the foot in the long term? As far as modern browsers are concerned, isn't that a lot of unnecessary overhead/reinventing of the wheel? Here are some things I think React is missing that Web Components will care of. Correct me if I'm wrong. Native browser support (read "guaranteed to be faster") Write script in a scripting language, write styles in a styling language, write markup in a markup language. Style encapsulation using Shadow DOM React instead has this, which requires writing CSS in JavaScript. Not pretty. Two-way binding

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Blurred refurbished TFT

- by PeterMmm

I got 3 refurbished PC+TFT 19". All TFT shows a very blurry image. I estimate the TFT's are 2-3 yrs old. The PC's running Windows7 Pro. The resolution is set to the TFT native values. It could be possible that all TFT's are broken but I have similiar models that are up to 5 yrs old, without any issue. I still think it could be a config issue but from the hardware it is possible that a TFT get broken I shows up a very blurry image. Update TFT HP 2035, grafic Intel Q35/GMA 3100, analog D-SUB connector, Manuf. date Sep 2005. Config. resolution 1600x1200, PPP 150% Without ClearType it is worst. Desktop Icon titles seems to be good and clear. But in Notepad for example the effect is that on the right of the characters is a pinky shadow.

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How best to automatically deal with multiple site_ruby locations?

- by cclark

Is there a way to automatically append to $: variable in ruby to account for additional site_ruby locations? Ruby is installed in /usr/local/ and using gem_install will properly install the new ruby files in to /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby. However there are some RPMs for ruby bindings to tools like shadow which we'd like to install and they install to /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby (no local). Is there a standard way to tell ruby that this directory should also be included by default? I know scripts could dynamically update $: or they could be called with -I but it seems like this is something that should be handled in the install. Has anyone else found a clean way around this kind of problem? thanks, chuck

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Syncronize Linux /etc/ directory

- by entend

I have virtual machine with Linux (Ubuntu server) which is used as prototype for other machines. Sometimes I make changes in prototype system and want to import this changes at some other machine. I know about Puppet, cfengine and FAI but want something easy for example rsync script which will work through ssh when it needed. Main goal is /etc/ directory. But I don't want to syncronize some private files for example /etc/passwd /etc/shadow and so on. I don't know all of it. Are there tips for my task ? May be someone have such rsync script.

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Remote Assist Windows 2008 R2 Session

- by cbergman

As mentioned in this kb article, it is not possible to shadow a session with multiple monitors enabled. It does mention that "Remote Assistance supports multiple monitors, and is the presently recommended solution if you need this functionality." My question is, is it possible (and if so, how) to remote assist a terminal services session. We have a few Windows Server 2008 R2 Terminal Servers running with about 10 or so users that use 2 monitors. It would be ideal to be able to remote into their session but have yet to find a viable solution. Thank you.

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How to pre-load all deployed assemblies for an AppDomain

- by Andras Zoltan

Given an App Domain, there are many different locations that Fusion (the .Net assembly loader) will probe for a given assembly. Obviously, we take this functionality for granted and, since the probing appears to be embedded within the .Net runtime (Assembly._nLoad internal method seems to be the entry-point when Reflect-Loading - and I assume that implicit loading is probably covered by the same underlying algorithm), as developers we don't seem to be able to gain access to those search paths. My problem is that I have a component that does a lot of dynamic type resolution, and which needs to be able to ensure that all user-deployed assemblies for a given AppDomain are pre-loaded before it starts its work. Yes, it slows down startup - but the benefits we get from this component totally outweight this. The basic loading algorithm I've already written is as follows. It deep-scans a set of folders for any .dll (.exes are being excluded at the moment), and uses Assembly.LoadFrom to load the dll if it's AssemblyName cannot be found in the set of assemblies already loaded into the AppDomain (this is implemented inefficiently, but it can be optimized later): void PreLoad(IEnumerable<string> paths) { foreach(path p in paths) { PreLoad(p); } } void PreLoad(string p) { //all try/catch blocks are elided for brevity string[] files = null; files = Directory.GetFiles(p, "*.dll", SearchOption.AllDirectories); AssemblyName a = null; foreach (var s in files) { a = AssemblyName.GetAssemblyName(s); if (!AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies().Any( assembly => AssemblyName.ReferenceMatchesDefinition( assembly.GetName(), a))) Assembly.LoadFrom(s); } } LoadFrom is used because I've found that using Load() can lead to duplicate assemblies being loaded by Fusion if, when it probes for it, it doesn't find one loaded from where it expects to find it. So, with this in place, all I now have to do is to get a list in precedence order (highest to lowest) of the search paths that Fusion is going to be using when it searches for an assembly. Then I can simply iterate through them. The GAC is irrelevant for this, and I'm not interested in any environment-driven fixed paths that Fusion might use - only those paths that can be gleaned from the AppDomain which contain assemblies expressly deployed for the app. My first iteration of this simply used AppDomain.BaseDirectory. This works for services, form apps and console apps. It doesn't work for an Asp.Net website, however, since there are at least two main locations - the AppDomain.DynamicDirectory (where Asp.Net places it's dynamically generated page classes and any assemblies that the Aspx page code references), and then the site's Bin folder - which can be discovered from the AppDomain.SetupInformation.PrivateBinPath property. So I now have working code for the most basic types of apps now (Sql Server-hosted AppDomains are another story since the filesystem is virtualised) - but I came across an interesting issue a couple of days ago where this code simply doesn't work: the nUnit test runner. This uses both Shadow Copying (so my algorithm would need to be discovering and loading them from the shadow-copy drop folder, not from the bin folder) and it sets up the PrivateBinPath as being relative to the base directory. And of course there are loads of other hosting scenarios that I probably haven't considered; but which must be valid because otherwise Fusion would choke on loading the assemblies. I want to stop feeling around and introducing hack upon hack to accommodate these new scenarios as they crop up - what I want is, given an AppDomain and its setup information, the ability to produce this list of Folders that I should scan in order to pick up all the DLLs that are going to be loaded; regardless of how the AppDomain is setup. If Fusion can see them as all the same, then so should my code. Of course, I might have to alter the algorithm if .Net changes its internals - that's just a cross I'll have to bear. Equally, I'm happy to consider SQL Server and any other similar environments as edge-cases that remain unsupported for now. Any ideas!?

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jQuery pop up problems

- by user327137

Hi all, I am creating a site from a template i purchased from TM for a beauty salon! I want to create an online booking form with the validations of name number service type but i'm having trouble getting a link to open that will pop up also using jquery NOT html how do i fix this... what is the code i have to insert so that when you click "BOOK NOW" a jquery pop up appears in the centre of the page and it has a booking form on it.... i have googled and googled but it is all new to me as in a NOOB at jquery.... here is a live demo of the template (template link for demo http://osc4.template-help.com/wt_31562/index.html#) and here is the code for where i am trying to place a pop up jquery <dt class="dt3"><a href="#"></a><img src="images/shadow.png" alt="" class="shadow"></dt> <dd id="page3"> <div class="inner"> <div class="content"> <section class="col-1"> <h2>our services</h2> <p>Vintage Beauty</p> <p class="dark">We offer Free Consultation for Botox, Fillers, Medical Skin Peels, Cosmetic Surgery <br> & also specialise n body and skin care. </p> <img src="images/page2-img1.png" alt="" class="p2"> <a href="#" class="more">view more</a> </section> <section class="col-2"> <h2>services</h2> <ul class="list p2"> <li><a href="#">Fish Pedicures</a></li> <li><a href="#">Manicures</a></li> <li><a href="#">Pedicures</a></li> <li><a href="#">Waxing</a></li> <li><a href="#">Threading</a></li> <li><a href="#">Tanning</a></li> <li><a href="#">Body Massage</a></li> <li><a href="#">Nail/Eye Extensions</a></li> <li><a href="#">Eye Lash/Brow Tinting</a></li> <li><a href="#">Twinkle Toes</a></li> <li><a href="#">Teeth Whitening Kits</a></li> <li><a href="#">Hot Wax Specialists</a></li> </ul> **<a href="#" class="more">BOOK ONLINE NOW</a> </section>** </div> </div> </dd>

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How to organize pictures on website using css? [on hold]

- by user3624023

Here is my website without any CSS: http://www.wmcicompsci.ca/cs20/students/theglowcloud/Bare%20bones%20website/classics_bare.html I am new to CSS and I would like to organize pictures these pictures in this fashion: http://css-tricks.com/examples/SlideinCaptions/ I would just like this layout for the pictures but I do not need the sliding of the captions(although I would like to but it does not work my browser). I would like the captions to be like titles on top of the pictures. Here is my current html code: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title> My favourite Fantasy books</title> <meta charset = "utf-8"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css.css"> </head> <body> <nav id="main_nav"> <ul> <li><a href = " homepage_css.html"> Homepage</a></li> <li><a href="science_fiction_css.html">Science Fiction</a></li> <li><a href="classics_css.html">Classics</a></li> <li><a href="fantasy_css.html">Fantasy</a></li> </ul> </nav> <h1> Fantasy Genre</h1> <p> Here are my favourites:</p> <ul> <li> Goblet of Fire by J.K Rowling (4th book in the Harry Potter Series) </li> <li><img class= displayed src="pics/fantasy/goblet_of_fire.jpg" width="200" alt="Goblet of Fire book cover"></li> <li> Graceling by Kristan Cashore </li> <li><img src="pics/fantasy/graceling.jpg" width="200" alt = " Graceling book cover"></li> <li> Serpent's Shadow by Rick Riordan (3rd book in the Kane Chronicles) </li> <li><img src="pics/fantasy/serpents_shadow.jpg" width="200" alt="Serpent's Shadow book cover"></li> <li> The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein </li> <li><img src="pics/fantasy/the_hobbit.jpg" width="200" alt="The Hobbit book cover"></li> <li> The False Prince by Jennifer Neilson (1st book in the Ascendance Triology) </li> <li><img src="pics/fantasy/the_false_prince.jpg" width="200" alt="The False Prince book cover"></li> </ul>

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Editor's Notebook - Social Aura: Insights from the Oracle Social Media Summit

- by user462779

Panelists talk social marketing at the Oracle Social Media Summit On November 14, I traveled to Las Vegas for the first-ever Oracle Social Media Summit. The two day event featured an impressive collection of social media luminaries including: David Kirkpatrick (founder and CEO of Techonomy Media and author of The Facebook Effect), John Yi (Head of Marketing Partnerships, Facebook), Matt Dickman (EVP of Social Business Innovation, Weber Shandwick), and Lyndsay Iorio (Social Media & Communications Manager, NBC Sports Group) among others. It was also a great opportunity to talk shop with some of our new Vitrue and Involver colleagues who have been returning great social media results even before their companies were acquired by Oracle. I was live tweeting the event from @OracleProfit which was great for those who wanted to follow along with the proceedings from the comfort of their office or blackjack table. But I've also found over the years that live tweeting an event is a handy way to take notes: I can sift back through my record of what people said or thoughts I had at the time and organize the Twitter messages into some kind of summary account of the proceedings. I've had nearly a month to reflect on the presentations and conversations at the event and a few key topics have emerged: David Kirkpatrick's comment during the opening presentation really set the stage for the conversations that followed. Especially if you are a marketer or publisher, the idea that you are in a one-way broadcast relationship with your audience is a thing of the past. "Rising above the noise" does not mean reaching for a megaphone, ALL CAPS, or exclamation marks. Hype will not motivate social media denizens to do anything but unfollow and tune you out. But knowing your audience, creating quality content and/or offers for them, treating them with respect, and making an authentic effort to please them: that's what I believe is now necessary. And Kirkpatrick's comment early in the day really made the point. Later in the day, our friends @Vitrue demonstrated this point by elaborating on a comment by Facebook's John Yi. If a social strategy is comprised of nothing more than cutting/pasting the same message into different social media properties, you're missing the opportunity to have an actual conversation. That's not shouting at your audience, but it does feel like an empty gesture. Walter Benjamin, perplexed by auraless Twitter messages Not to get too far afield, but 20th century cultural critic Walter Benjamin has a concept that is useful for understanding the dynamics of the empty social media gesture: Aura. In his work The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Benjamin struggled to understand the difference he percieved between the value of a hand-made art object (a painting, wood cutting, sculpture, etc.) and a photograph. For Benjamin, aura is similar to the "soul" of an artwork--the intangible essence that is created when an artist picks up a tool and puts creative energy and effort into a work. I'll defer to Wikipedia: "He argues that the "sphere of authenticity is outside the technical" so that the original artwork is independent of the copy, yet through the act of reproduction something is taken from the original by changing its context. He also introduces the idea of the "aura" of a work and its absence in a reproduction." So make sure you put aura into your social interactions. Don't just mechanically reproduce them. Keeping aura in your interactions requires the intervention of an actual human being. That's why @NoahHorton's comment about content curation struck me as incredibly important. Maybe it's just my own prejudice, being in the content curation business myself. And it's not to totally discount machine-aided content management systems, content recommendation engines, and other tech-driven tools for building an exceptional content experience. It's just that without that human interaction--that editor who reviews the analytics and responds to user feedback--interactions over social media feel a bit empty. It is SOCIAL media, right? (We'll leave the conversation about social machines for another day). At the end of the day, experimentation is key. Just like trying to find that right joke to tell at the beginning of your presentation or that good opening like at a cocktail party, social media messages and interactions can take some trial and error. Don't be afraid to try things, tinker with incomplete ideas, abandon things that don't work, and engage in the conversation. And make sure your heart is in it, otherwise your audience can tell. And finally:

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What Counts For a DBA: Imagination

- by drsql

"Imagination…One little spark, of inspiration… is at the heart, of all creation." – From the song "One Little Spark", by the Sherman Brothers I have a confession to make. Despite my great enthusiasm for databases and programming, it occurs to me that every database system I've ever worked on has been, in terms of its inputs and outputs, downright dull. Most have been glorified e-spreadsheets, many replacing manual systems built on actual spreadsheets. I've created a lot of database-driven software whose main job was to "count stuff"; phone calls, web visitors, payments, donations, pieces of equipment and so on. Sometimes, instead of counting stuff, the database recorded values from other stuff, such as data from sensors or networking devices. Yee hah! So how do we, as DBAs, maintain high standards and high spirits when we realize that so much of our work would fail to raise the pulse of even the most easily excitable soul? The answer lies in our imagination. To understand what I mean by this, consider a role that, in terms of its output, offers an extreme counterpoint to that of the DBA: the Disney Imagineer. Their job is to design Disney's Theme Parks, of which I'm a huge fan. To me this has always seemed like a fascinating and exciting job. What must an Imagineer do, every day, to inspire the feats of creativity that are so clearly evident in those spectacular rides and shows? Here, if ever there was one, is a role where "dull moments" must be rare indeed, surely? I wanted to find out, and so parted with a considerable sum of money for my wife and I to have lunch with one; I reasoned that if I found one small way to apply their secrets to my own career, it would be money well spent. Early in the conversation with our Imagineer (Cindy Cote), the job did indeed sound magical. However, as talk turned to management meetings, budget-wrangling and insane deadlines, I came to the strange realization that, in fact, her job was a lot more like mine than I would ever have guessed. Much like databases, all those spectacular Disney rides bring with them a vast array of complex plumbing, lighting, safety features, and all manner of other "boring bits", kept well out of sight of the end user, but vital for creating the desired experience; and, of course, it is these "boring bits" that take up much of the Imagineer's time. Naturally, there is still a vital part of their job that is spent testing out new ideas, putting themselves in the place of a park visitor, from a 9-year-old boy to a 90-year-old grandmother, and trying to imagine what experiences they'd like to have. It is these small, but vital, sparks of imagination and creativity that have the biggest impact. The real feat of a successful Imagineer is clearly to never to lose sight of this fact, in among all the rote tasks. It is the same for a DBA. Not matter how seemingly dull is the task at hand, try to put yourself in the shoes of the end user, and imagine how your input will affect the experience he or she will have with the database you're building, and how that may affect the world beyond the bits stored in your database. Then, despite the inevitable rush to be "done", find time to go the extra mile and hone the design so that it delivers something as close to that imagined experience as you can get. OK, our output still can't and won't reach the same spectacular heights as the "Journey into The Imagination" ride at EPCOT Theme Park in Orlando, where I first heard "One Little Spark". However, our imaginative sparks and efforts can, and will, make a difference to the user who now feels slightly more at home with a database application, or to the manager holding a report presented with enough clarity to drive an interesting decision or two. They are small victories, but worth having, and appreciated, or at least that's how I imagine it.

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Dissing Architects, or "What's wrong with the coffee?"

- by Bob Rhubart

In my conversations with people in architect roles, tales of animosity, disrespect, and outright hostility aren't uncommon. And it's clear that in more than a few organizations architects regularly face a tough uphill climb. For architects with the requisite combination of technical, organizational, and people skills, that rough treatment is grossly undeserved. But tales of unqualified people in positions up and down the IT food chain are also easy to come by. So what's the other side of the architect story? Are some architects tarnishing the role and making life miserable for their more qualified colleagues? The various quotes included below were culled from a variety of sources. The criticism is harsh, and the people behind these quotes clearly have issues with architects. Still, whether based on mere opinion or actual experience, the comments shed some light on behaviors that should raise red flags for anyone pursuing a career as an architect. If you're an architect, and you've ever noticed that your coffee tastes like window cleaner, or your car is repeatedly keyed, or no one ever holds the elevator for you, maybe you need to do a little soul searching... Those Who Can, Code; Those Who Can't, Architect | Joe Winchester [May 18, 2007] "At the moment there seems to be an extremely unhealthy obsession in software with the concept of architecture. A colleague of mine, a recent graduate, told me he wished to become a software architect. He was drawn to the glamour of being able to come up with grandiose ideas - sweeping generalized designs, creating presentations to audiences of acronym addicts, writing esoteric academic papers, speaking at conferences attended by headless engineers on company expense accounts hungrily seeking out this year's grail, and creating e-mails with huge cc lists from people whose signature footer is more interesting than the content. I tried to re-orient him into actually doing some coding, to join a team that has a good product and keen users both of whom are pushing requirements forward, to no avail. Somehow the lure of being an architecture astronaut was too strong and I lost him to the dark side." Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You | Joel Spolsky [April 21, 2001] "It's very hard to get them to write code or design programs, because they won't stop thinking about Architecture. They're astronauts because they are above the oxygen level, I don't know how they're breathing. They tend to work for really big companies that can afford to have lots of unproductive people with really advanced degrees that don't contribute to the bottom line. Remember that the architecture people are solving problems that they think they can solve, not problems which are useful to solve." Non Coding Architects Suck | Richard Henderson [May 24, 2010] "If a guy with a badge saying 'system architect' looks blank on low-level issues then he is not an architect, he is a business-analyst who went on a course. He will probably wax lyrical on all things high-level and 'important.' He will produce lovely object hierarchies without a clue to implementation. He will have a moustache and play golf." Architects Play Golf | Sunir Shah [August 15, 2012] "Often arrogant architects are difficult to get a hold of during the implementation phase because they no longer feel the need to stick around. Especially around midnight when most of the poor sob [sic] developers are still banging away. After all, they've already solved the problem--the rest is just an implementation exercise." Engineer vs Architect(Part of a discussion on the IT Architect Network Group on LinkedIn) "[An] architect spends his time producing white papers full of acronyms he does not understand but that impress his boss [while the] engineer keeps his head down and does the actual job." Architects Don't Code | [Author Unknown] "Faulty belief: System Architects don't need to code anymore. They know what they are talking about by virtue of the fact that they are System Architects."

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MINSCN?Cache Fusion Read Consistent

- by Liu Maclean(???)

????? ???Ask Maclean Home ??? RAC ? Past Image PI????, ?????????,???11.2.0.3 2 Node RAC??????????: SQL> select * from v$version; BANNER -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production PL/SQL Release 11.2.0.3.0 - Production CORE 11.2.0.3.0 Production TNS for Linux: Version 11.2.0.3.0 - Production NLSRTL Version 11.2.0.3.0 - Production SQL> select * from global_name; GLOBAL_NAME -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.oracledatabase12g.com SQL> drop table test purge; Table dropped. SQL> alter system flush buffer_cache; System altered. SQL> create table test(id number); insert into test values(1); insert into test values(2); commit; /* ???? rowid??TEST????2????????? */ select dbms_rowid.rowid_block_number(rowid),dbms_rowid.rowid_relative_fno(rowid) from test; DBMS_ROWID.ROWID_BLOCK_NUMBER(ROWID) DBMS_ROWID.ROWID_RELATIVE_FNO(ROWID) ------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ 89233 1 89233 1 SQL> alter system flush buffer_cache; System altered. Instance 1 Session A ??UPDATE??: SQL> update test set id=id+1 where id=1; 1 row updated. Instance 1 Session B ??x$BH buffer header?? ?? ??Buffer??? SQL> select state,cr_scn_bas from x$bh where file#=1 and dbablk=89233 and state!=0; STATE CR_SCN_BAS ---------- ---------- 1 0 3 1227595 X$BH ??? STATE????Buffer???, ???????: STATE NUMBER KCBBHFREE 0 buffer free KCBBHEXLCUR 1 buffer current (and if DFS locked X) KCBBHSHRCUR 2 buffer current (and if DFS locked S) KCBBHCR 3 buffer consistant read KCBBHREADING 4 Being read KCBBHMRECOVERY 5 media recovery (current & special) KCBBHIRECOVERY 6 Instance recovery (somewhat special) ????????????? : state =1 Xcurrent ? state=2 Scurrent ? state=3 CR ??? Instance 2 ?? ????????????? ,???? gc current block 2 way ??Current Block ??? Instance 2, ?? Instance 1 ??”Current Block” Convert ? Past Image: Instance 2 Session C SQL> update test set id=id+1 where id=2; 1 row updated. Instance 2 Session D SQL> select state,cr_scn_bas from x$bh where file#=1 and dbablk=89233 and state!=0; STATE CR_SCN_BAS ---------- ---------- 1 0 3 1227641 3 1227638 STATE =1 ?Xcurrent block???? Instance 2 , ??? Instance 1 ??? GC??: Instance 1 Session B SQL> select state,cr_scn_bas from x$bh where file#=1 and dbablk=89233 and state!=0; STATE CR_SCN_BAS ---------- ---------- 3 1227641 3 1227638 8 0 3 1227595 ???????, ??????Instance 1??session A????TEST??SELECT??? ,????? 3? State=3?CR ? ??????1?: Instance 1 session A ?????UPDATE? session SQL> alter session set events '10046 trace name context forever,level 8:10708 trace name context forever,level 103: trace[rac.*] disk high'; Session altered. SQL> select * from test; ID ---------- 2 2 select state,cr_scn_bas from x$bh where file#=1 and dbablk=89233 and state!=0; STATE CR_SCN_BAS ---------- ---------- 3 1227716 3 1227713 8 0 ?????????v$BH ????CR????,?????SELECT??? CR????????,???????? ?????????? ??X$BH?????? , ?????CR??SCN Version???: 1227641?1227638?1227595, ?SELECT?????? 2???SCN version?CR? 1227716? 1227713 ???, Oracle????????? ?????????SELECT??????event 10708? rac.*???TRACE,??????TRACE??: PARSING IN CURSOR #140444679938584 len=337 dep=1 uid=0 oct=3 lid=0 tim=1335698913632292 hv=3345277572 ad='bc0e68c8' sqlid='baj7tjm3q9sn4' SELECT /* OPT_DYN_SAMP */ /*+ ALL_ROWS IGNORE_WHERE_CLAUSE NO_PARALLEL(SAMPLESUB) opt_param('parallel_execution_enabled', 'false') NO_PARALLEL_INDEX(SAMPLESUB) NO_SQL_TUNE */ NVL(SUM(C1),0), NVL(SUM(C2),0) FROM (SELECT /*+ NO_PARALLEL("TEST") FULL("TEST") NO_PARALLEL_INDEX("TEST") */ 1 AS C1, 1 AS C2 FROM "SYS"."TEST" "TEST") SAMPLESUB END OF STMT PARSE #140444679938584:c=1000,e=27630,p=0,cr=0,cu=0,mis=1,r=0,dep=1,og=1,plh=1950795681,tim=1335698913632252 EXEC #140444679938584:c=0,e=44,p=0,cr=0,cu=0,mis=0,r=0,dep=1,og=1,plh=1950795681,tim=1335698913632390 *** 2012-04-29 07:28:33.632 kclscrs: req=0 block=1/89233 *** 2012-04-29 07:28:33.632 kclscrs: bid=1:3:1:0:7:80:1:0:4:0:0:0:1:2:4:1:26:0:0:0:70:1a:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:4:3:2:1:2:0:3f:0:1c:86:2d:4:0:0:0:0:a2:3c:7c:b:70:1a:0:0:0:0:1:0:7a:f8:76:1d:1:2:dc:5:a9:fe:17:75:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:63:e5:0:0:0:0:0:0:10:0:0:0 2012-04-29 07:28:33.632578 : kjbcrc[0x15c91.1 76896.0][9] 2012-04-29 07:28:33.632616 : GSIPC:GMBQ: buff 0xba1e8f90, queue 0xbb79f278, pool 0x60013fa0, freeq 1, nxt 0xbb79f278, prv 0xbb79f278 2012-04-29 07:28:33.632634 : kjbmscrc(0x15c91.1)seq 0x2 reqid=0x1c(shadow 0xb4bb4458,reqid x1c)mas@2(infosz 200)(direct 1) 2012-04-29 07:28:33.632654 : kjbsentscn[0x0.12bbc1][to 2] 2012-04-29 07:28:33.632669 : GSIPC:SENDM: send msg 0xba1e9000 dest x20001 seq 24026 type 32 tkts xff0000 mlen x17001a0 2012-04-29 07:28:33.633385 : GSIPC:KSXPCB: msg 0xba1e9000 status 30, type 32, dest 2, rcvr 1 *** 2012-04-29 07:28:33.633 kclwcrs: wait=0 tm=689 *** 2012-04-29 07:28:33.633 kclwcrs: got 1 blocks from ksxprcv WAIT #140444679938584: nam='gc cr block 2-way' ela= 689 p1=1 p2=89233 p3=1 obj#=76896 tim=1335698913633418 2012-04-29 07:28:33.633490 : kjbcrcomplete[0x15c91.1 76896.0][0] 2012-04-29 07:28:33.633510 : kjbrcvdscn[0x0.12bbc1][from 2][idx 2012-04-29 07:28:33.633527 : kjbrcvdscn[no bscn <= rscn 0x0.12bbc1][from 2] *** 2012-04-29 07:28:33.633 kclwcrs: req=0 typ=cr(2) wtyp=2hop tm=689 ??TRACE???? ?????????TEST??????, ???????Dynamic Sampling?????,???????TEST?? CR???,???????’gc cr block 2-way’ ??: 2012-04-29 07:28:33.632654 : kjbsentscn[0x0.12bbc1][to 2] 12bbc1= 1227713 ???X$BH????CR???,kjbsentscn[0x0.12bbc1][to 2] ????? ? Instance 2 ???SCN=12bbc1=1227713 DBA=0x15c91.1 76896.0 ? CR Request(obj#=76896) ??kjbrcvdscn????? [no bscn <= rscn 0x0.12bbc1][from 2] ,??? ??receive? SCN Version =12bbc1 ???Best Version CR Server Arch ??????????????????SELECT??: PARSING IN CURSOR #140444682869592 len=18 dep=0 uid=0 oct=3 lid=0 tim=1335698913635874 hv=1689401402 ad='b1a188f0' sqlid='c99yw1xkb4f1u' select * from test END OF STMT PARSE #140444682869592:c=4999,e=34017,p=0,cr=7,cu=0,mis=1,r=0,dep=0,og=1,plh=1357081020,tim=1335698913635870 EXEC #140444682869592:c=0,e=23,p=0,cr=0,cu=0,mis=0,r=0,dep=0,og=1,plh=1357081020,tim=1335698913635939 WAIT #140444682869592: nam='SQL*Net message to client' ela= 7 driver id=1650815232 #bytes=1 p3=0 obj#=0 tim=1335698913636071 *** 2012-04-29 07:28:33.636 kclscrs: req=0 block=1/89233 *** 2012-04-29 07:28:33.636 kclscrs: bid=1:3:1:0:7:83:1:0:4:0:0:0:1:2:4:1:26:0:0:0:70:1a:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:4:3:2:1:2:0:2:0:1c:86:2d:4:0:0:0:0:a2:3c:7c:b:70:1a:0:0:0:0:1:0:7d:f8:76:1d:1:2:dc:5:a9:fe:17:75:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:63:e5:0:0:0:0:0:0:10:0:0:0 2012-04-29 07:28:33.636209 : kjbcrc[0x15c91.1 76896.0][9] 2012-04-29 07:28:33.636228 : GSIPC:GMBQ: buff 0xba0e5d50, queue 0xbb79f278, pool 0x60013fa0, freeq 1, nxt 0xbb79f278, prv 0xbb79f278 2012-04-29 07:28:33.636244 : kjbmscrc(0x15c91.1)seq 0x3 reqid=0x1d(shadow 0xb4bb4458,reqid x1d)mas@2(infosz 200)(direct 1) 2012-04-29 07:28:33.636252 : kjbsentscn[0x0.12bbc4][to 2] 2012-04-29 07:28:33.636358 : GSIPC:SENDM: send msg 0xba0e5dc0 dest x20001 seq 24029 type 32 tkts xff0000 mlen x17001a0 2012-04-29 07:28:33.636861 : GSIPC:KSXPCB: msg 0xba0e5dc0 status 30, type 32, dest 2, rcvr 1 *** 2012-04-29 07:28:33.637 kclwcrs: wait=0 tm=865 *** 2012-04-29 07:28:33.637 kclwcrs: got 1 blocks from ksxprcv WAIT #140444682869592: nam='gc cr block 2-way' ela= 865 p1=1 p2=89233 p3=1 obj#=76896 tim=1335698913637294 2012-04-29 07:28:33.637356 : kjbcrcomplete[0x15c91.1 76896.0][0] 2012-04-29 07:28:33.637374 : kjbrcvdscn[0x0.12bbc4][from 2][idx 2012-04-29 07:28:33.637389 : kjbrcvdscn[no bscn <= rscn 0x0.12bbc4][from 2] *** 2012-04-29 07:28:33.637 kclwcrs: req=0 typ=cr(2) wtyp=2hop tm=865 ???, “SELECT * FROM TEST”??????’gc cr block 2-way’??:2012-04-29 07:28:33.637374 : kjbrcvdscn[0x0.12bbc4][from 2][idx 2012-04-29 07:28:33.637389 : kjbrcvdscn[no bscn ??Foreground Process? Remote LMS??got?? SCN=1227716 Version?CR, ??? ?????X$BH ?????scn??? ??????????Instance 1????2?SCN???CR?, ???????????Instance 1 Buffer Cache?? ??SCN Version ???CR ??????? ?????????: SQL> alter system set "_enable_minscn_cr"=false scope=spfile; System altered. SQL> alter system set "_db_block_max_cr_dba"=20 scope=spfile; System altered. SQL> startup force; ORA-32004: obsolete or deprecated parameter(s) specified for RDBMS instance ORACLE instance started. Total System Global Area 1570009088 bytes Fixed Size 2228704 bytes Variable Size 989859360 bytes Database Buffers 570425344 bytes Redo Buffers 7495680 bytes Database mounted. Database opened. ???? “_enable_minscn_cr”=false ? “_db_block_max_cr_dba”=20 ???RAC????, ??????: ?Instance 2 Session C ?update??????? ?????Instance 1 ????? ,????Instance 1?Request CR SQL> update test set id=id+1 where id=2; -- Instance 2 1 row updated. SQL> select * From test; -- Instance 1 ID ---------- 1 2 ??? Instance 1? X$BH?? select state,cr_scn_bas from x$bh where file#=1 and dbablk=89233 and state!=0; STATE CR_SCN_BAS ---------- ---------- 3 1273080 3 1273071 3 1273041 3 1273039 8 0 SQL> update test set id=id+1 where id=3; 1 row updated. SQL> select * From test; ID ---------- 1 2 SQL> select state,cr_scn_bas from x$bh where file#=1 and dbablk=89233 and state!=0; STATE CR_SCN_BAS ---------- ---------- 3 1273091 3 1273080 3 1273071 3 1273041 3 1273039 8 0 ................... SQL> select state,cr_scn_bas from x$bh where file#=1 and dbablk=89233 and state!=0; STATE CR_SCN_BAS ---------- ---------- 3 1273793 3 1273782 3 1273780 3 1273769 3 1273734 3 1273715 3 1273691 3 1273679 3 1273670 3 1273643 3 1273635 3 1273623 3 1273106 3 1273091 3 1273080 3 1273071 3 1273041 3 1273039 3 1273033 19 rows selected. SQL> select state,cr_scn_bas from x$bh where file#=1 and dbablk=89233 and state!=0; STATE CR_SCN_BAS ---------- ---------- 3 1274993 ????? ???? “_enable_minscn_cr”(enable/disable minscn optimization for CR)=false ? “_db_block_max_cr_dba”=20 (Maximum Allowed Number of CR buffers per dba) 2? ??? ????? Instance 1 ??????????? ?? 19????CR?? “_enable_minscn_cr”?11g??????????,???Oracle????CR????SCN,?Foreground Process Receive????????????(SCN??)?SCN Version CR Block??????CBC?? SCN??????CR? , ?????????Buffer Cache??????? ????SCN Version?CR????,????? ?????????? ?????Snap_Scn ?? SCN?? ?????????Current SCN, ??????CR??????????????????????, ????Buffer Cache? ?????????? CR?????????, ?????? “_db_block_max_cr_dba” ???????, ???????????20 ,??????Buffer Cache?????19????CR?; ???”_db_block_max_cr_dba” ???????6 , ?????Buffer cache????????CR ???????6?? ??”_enable_minscn_cr” ??CR???MINSCN ??????, ?????????CR???????, ????? Foreground Process??????CR Request , ?? Holder Instance LMS ?build?? 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Screen Aspect Ratio

- by Bill Evjen

Jeffrey Dean, Pixar Aspect Ratio is very important to home video. What is aspect ratio – the ratio from the height to the width 2.35:1 The image is 2.35 times wide as it is high Pixar uses this for half of our movies This is called a widescreen image When modified to fit your television screen They cut this to fit the box of your screen When a comparison is made huge chunks of picture is missing It is harder to find what is going on when these pieces are missing The whole is greater than the pieces themselves. If you are missing pieces – you are missing the movie The soul and the mood is in the film shots. Cutting it to fit a screen, you are losing 30% of the movie Why different aspect ratios? Film before the 1950s 1.33:1 Academy Standard There were all aspects of images though. There was no standard. Thomas Edison developed projecting images onto a wall/screen He didn’t patent it as he saw no value in it. Then 1.37:1 came about to add a strip of sound This is the same size as a 35mm film Around 1952 – TV comes along NTSC Television followed the Academy Standard (4x3) Once TV came out, movie theater attendance plummets So Film brought forth color to combat this. Also early 3D Also Widescreen was brought forth. Cinema-Scope Studios at the time made movies bigger and bigger There was a Napoleon movie that was actually 4x1 … really wide. 1.85:1 Academy Flat 2.35:1 Anamorphic Scope (aka Panavision/Cinemascope) Almost all movies are made in these two aspect ratios Pixar has done half in one and half in the other Why choose one over the other? Artist choice It is part of the story the director wants to tell Can we preserve the story outside of the theaters? TVs before 1998 – they were very square Now TVs are very wide Historical options Toy Story released as it was and people cut it in a way that wasn’t liked by the studio Pan and Scan is another option Cut and then scan left or right depending on where the action is Frame Height Pixar can go back and animate more picture to account for the bottom/top bars. You end up with more sky and more ground The characters seem to get lost in the picture You lose what the director original intended Re-staging For animated movies, you can move characters around – restage the scene. It is a new completely different version of the film This is the best possible option that Pixar came up with They have stopped doing this really as the demand as pretty much dropped off Why not 1.33 today? There has been an evolution of taste and demands. VHS is a linear item The focus is about portability and not about quality Most was pan and scan and the quality was so bad – but people didn’t notice DVD was introduced in 1996 You could have more content – two versions of the film You could have the widescreen version and the 1.33 version People realized that they are seeing more of the movie with the widescreen High Def Televisions (16x9 monitors) This was introduced in 2005 Blu-ray Disc was introduced in 2006 This is all widescreen You cannot find a square TV anymore TVs are roughly 1.85:1 aspect ratio There is a change in demand Users are used to black bars and are used to widescreen Users are educated now What’s next for in-flight entertainment? High Def IFE Personal Electronic Devices 3D inflight

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Red Meat's Music is Rare - and Well Done

- by Oracle OpenWorld Blog Team

By Karen Shamban The blogger has questions; San Francisco-based country band Red Meat has answers. Although we forgot to ask how they got their band name, dang it. Read on and enjoy the honesty and insight. Q. What do you like best about performing in front of a live audience?A. Probably just having fun and entertaining the audience. We've been together for almost two decades, and in that time we've played for crowds of five people, and for crowds of more than 15,000. Both are equally important to us, and just as fun. We turn Jill and Smelley loose on the between-songs repartee, and let the songs shine through. On the best night, we feed on the audience's love and vice-versa. It's emotional vampirism of the best sort. [Blogger's note: now that whole "red meat" thing is starting to make sense ...] Q. Do you prefer smaller, intimate venues or larger, louder ones? Why?A. We love both. Whether it's a chance to connect with a small room or huge audience, we always try to hit 'em between the eyes! Q. What about your fans surprises you?A. Since we've been together for so long, we're pretty much on our third generation of fans now. We're excited that the Bakersfield sound has that same effect on the new, younger fans as it did on the punk rockers that we played to 20 years ago. And we still see them at our shows too! Q. What about your live act surprises your fans?A. For people who haven't seen Red Meat before, they may be dragged to a show thinking they don't like country music. But they're surprised to hear it done in a way that excites them so much. We get a lot of first-timers coming up to us after a performance and asking, "Wait, THAT'S what country music can sound like?" Q. There are going to be a lot of technical people (you could call them geeks) in the Oracle crowd - what are they going to love about your performance?A. Just what everyone loves about a Red Meat show - the chance to drink beer, dance, get rowdy, and have a great time. Q. Have you been on tour recently? If so, what do you like about touring, and what do you dislike?A. Actually, we're going to be coming off the road immediately into the Oracle OpenWorld Music Festival, having just played some Texas dates. On tour, we love playing for fans who don't get to see us as often as our California fans do. And food. Most of our conversations in the van center around food. Q. Ever think about playing another kind of music? If so, what, and why?A. Our tastes and influences in the band run all over the place. Obviously we love the Bakersfield artists - Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Dwight Yoakam - but we love other types of roots music as well, along with the Beatles, NRBQ, MC5, punk/new wave, and countless bar bands that we've had the privilege of playing with through the years. But as far as playing a different kind of music as Red Meat? Nah. We love what we're doing. Q. What are the top three things people should know about your music?A1. Country music, done right, has unlimited soul.A2. Red Meat is a modern band, playing original material, with a great debt to the Bakersfield sound of Buck Owens and Merle Haggard.A3. It's FUN. More details on the Festival and the band: Oracle OpenWorld Music Festival Red Meat

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