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Need a suitable substitute motherboard…

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By CMil

After finally having the chance to do some diagnostic work, I’ve come to the conclusion that the motherboard in my old office computer is done. It’s a Hewlett Packard xt973 with the ASUS A7V8X-LA motherboard and an AMD Sempron CPU. Pretty sure it’s a micro-ATX form factor board; measures 9.6″ x 9.6″, has 3 PCI expansion slots and 1 AGP slot. It also suppports a multi-format SIM card/memory card reader in the front panel of the computer and a host of USB ports front and back. Lastly, there are ethernet and 1394(?) ports on the back, as well as PS2 mouse and keyboard ports. Is there a reasonably affordable replacement motherboard that would pretty much be plug-and-play? I’m not married to the AMD processor, as this will not be primarily a gaming computer. But that’s not to say I would prefer an Intel, either. I just want to put in the board, plug all the stuff in, install windows on a new hard drive and get to work. I’m not running any cards inside the box, so expansion slot format is not an issue, although I think I would like PCI and PCI-E. Also, if the board came with or would accomodate a faster CPU, That would be fine, too. I’ve put a lot on the plate with this post – I hope someone with a LOT of patience AND knowledge picks it up! Thanks in advance – Chris:coffee:

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Walter Energy Provides Preliminary First Quarter 2013 Operating Results

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Walter Energy Provides Preliminary First Quarter 2013 Operating Results

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Walter Energy, Inc. (NYS: WLT) (TSX: WLT) today said that performance for the first quarter 2013 has improved compared with fourth quarter 2012, driven largely by increased metallurgical coal sales volume and pricing, increased production and lower costs.

“Improvements across our operations over the past several months reflect the success of our ongoing initiatives,” said Walt Scheller, Chief Executive Officer. “Along with the progress we continue to make in our operations, we are also pleased with the recent actions taken to increase our financial flexibility. As to the current market, we have seen stronger demand and improved pricing, with second quarter benchmark prices of $172 per metric ton for hard coking coal and $141 per metric ton for low vol PCI. We believe all these factors position us well as we look ahead to the remainder of 2013.”

Metallurgical Coal Sales

Walter Energy expects to report first quarter 2013 metallurgical coal sales volume of approximately 2.8 million metric tons, up approximately 9% compared with fourth quarter 2012. Average realized metallurgical coal sales prices are also expected to improve slightly compared with fourth quarter 2012, primarily due to a higher sales volume of low vol hard coking coal and a slight strengthening in the market. The improvement in pricing in the quarter was tempered by approximately 700,000 metric tons of carryover sales at fourth quarter 2012 pricing.

The Company also expects to report that metallurgical coal cash cost of sales declined by over $10 per metric ton as compared with the fourth quarter 2012, primarily driven by the higher proportion of low vol hard coking coal sales from our Alabama operations and a substantial improvement in cash cost of sales for low vol PCI.

Metallurgical Coal Production

First quarter 2013 metallurgical coal production is expected to total approximately 2.8 million metric tons, up approximately 12% compared with fourth quarter 2012. While production volumes early in the first quarter reflected the impacts of planned long wall moves in the Company’s Alabama operations, production performance improved in the latter part of the quarter. Metallurgical coal cash costs of production is expected to improve by approximately 5% compared with the fourth quarter.

From: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2013/04/11/walter-energy-provides-preliminary-first-quarter-2/

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Taking stuff apart

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Last Saturday, I took apart an old and broken laptop of mine: a Sony Vaio VGN-TZ31XN. That was once a top of the line executive laptop. I bought it in 2009 when the model had just been discontinued and superseded by a new one, so it wasn’t too expensive.

The laptop had an 11″ 1366×768 screen, a 1.2 ghz Core2duo, 2GB of ram and 120 GB hard drive. The reason I paid 1000 Euro for such lowly specs is that it had a weight of 1.25 kg, doing about 6 hours on a battery charge.

Impressive piece of tech

I’ve been wanting a new laptop since I started to bump into performance issues during 2011. 2 GB of ram is not sufficient in a time of HTML5 – there are web pages which eat several hundreds mbs of ram. And unfortunately the Linux desktop isn’t getting lighter either (it’s part of why I decided to help Will and Klaas with Klyde for hackweek). And I’ve been doing some light video editing lately as well as more image editing. So when the screen of my laptop finally gave beginning of last year, I simply ordered my new Samsung Series 9. That Series 9 was actually more expensive than the Sony (prices have gone down since then). It is a step forward, but it is sad that it took the IT world over 5 years to finally eclipse what Sony did in 2007. And not even on every level – my Sony included a DVD burner, 3-antenna wifi, TWO card readers, mini-PCI-express, 120 GB spinning rust, FULL ethernet and VGA ports, Firewire and a removable battery in barely 100 gram more!

Opening up

When you open up the Sony, it becomes apparent how they managed to cram so much functionality (essentially everything a ‘normal’ laptop offers) in such a thin enclosure: they must have worked with the assumption of an unlimited budget. Seriously, it is clear why this laptop was over 2K: the target user group seemed to be entirely unwilling to compromise on features. This thing is far more complicated inside than modern ultrabooks. My Samsung S9 is mostly battery inside: it has a single, laptop-wide motherboard with 2 boards (wifi and mSATA) attached to it.

Nothing compared to the Sony: taking it apart reveals a square motherboard, a battery-power related board inside a casing, wifi board (the usual), blue-tooth board (tiny), audio board (2 chips & capacitors, audio in/out, 2 speakers, microphone all attached), 2xUSB+card reader board, touchpad board (the touchpad itself also has logic, of course), quick function keys board, 2 more small board I can’t identify. Then the DVD burner has its own internal boards (2) and one on the outside, apparently to interface between the mobo and the dvd burner. Oh, and of course, memory is separate and can be replaced. The webcam also has its own 4 cm long/half wide/double sided board.

Crazy, huh? All that is connected via a

From: http://blog.jospoortvliet.com/2013/04/taking-stuff-apart.html

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Info Security Products Guide Names Black Box EncrypTight a Silver Award Winner for its 2013 Global E

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Winners were honored in San Francisco during the annual awards dinner and presentation

PITTSBURGH–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Black Box Corporation (NAS: BBOX) , a leading communications system integrator, announced today that Info Security Products Guide, the industry’s leading information security research and advisory guide, has named Black Box EncrypTight™ a silver award winner for its 2013 Global Excellence Awards in the Encryption/Smart Cards category. These prestigious global awards recognize security and IT vendors with advanced, ground-breaking products and solutions that are helping set the bar higher for others in all areas of security and technologies.

EncrypTight provides transparent, wire-speed encryption without the hassle of setting up VPN tunnels. (Photo: Business Wire)

EncrypTight is a family of encryption appliances from Black Box that provides transparent Layer 2, 3 and 4 WAN encryption with no VPN tunnels. EncrypTight eliminates the need to establish point-to-point VPN tunnels between each pair of remote sites to secure data, and creates an instant encrypted connection to every other site. EncrypTight is highly scalable to enterprises of every size and is centrally managed through a simple drag-and-drop interface. For more information, visit www.blackbox.com/go/EncrypTight.

“Having Info Security Products Guide choose EncrypTight as a silver award winner recognizes the Black Box commitment to providing IT professionals with the right solutions for their most challenging security issues. Secure data encryption is important to protect against data theft and is vital for any organization that must comply with privacy and security standards such as HIPAA/HITECH or PCI,” said Keith Ross, Black Box Networking Product Manager. “We are honored that Info Security Products Guide recognized the EncrypTight security solution and believe that this nomination underscores our commitment to our customers and their security needs.”

About Black Box

Black Box is a leading communications system integrator dedicated to designing, sourcing, implementing and maintaining today’s complex communications solutions. Black Box services more than 175,000 clients in approximately 150 countries with approximately 200 offices throughout the world. To learn more, visit the Black Box Web site at http://www.blackbox.com.

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From: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2013/04/11/info-security-products-guide-names-black-box-encry/

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Tru64 Tu(x) incrementing with DE500 move

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By unimorpheus

Hello all,

I am new around here with this being my first post. I am not sure if this group also discusses Tru64 but since I did not see a Tru64 section I will ask here. Let me know if I am posting in the wrong area. 😮 Here is my issue, well one of them anyway. :rolleyes:

I have an AlphaServer 1200 running Tru64 5.1B non-commercial. After the initial install of the OS the sole NIC, a DE500-21143-PC installed as Tu0 as expected. After the install and network configuration I needed to install a different video card that required I relocate the DE500 to a different PCI slot. Upon restart the network services were not running and I found Tu0 had incremented to Tu1. To confirm this behavior I moved the card back to its original PCI slot and restarted. Tu1 has now become Tu2. Tu0 and Tu1 are not recognized by Tru64 and are reported as unavailable, as they should be since there is no physical interface, but I cannot figure out how I can force the DE500 Tu2 back to being Tu0 or Tu1. I have looked at all the SRM environment variables as well as all network related config files. I cannot find where ewa0 get mapped to Tu(x). SRM has not incremented the DE500 which remains ewa0 regardless of slot position. Has anyone seen this behavior? Thanks.

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Rackspace Broadens Hybrid Cloud Ecommerce Vision Through Magento Partner Program

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Rackspace Broadens Hybrid Cloud Ecommerce Vision Through Magento Partner Program

Leading Open Cloud and Ecommerce Providers Team Up to Provide High Performance Solutions for Online Retail Businesses

SAN ANTONIO, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Today, Rackspace® Hosting (NYS: RAX) , the open cloud company, announced it has entered into the Magento Hosting Partner program as a platinum level partner. Rackspace and Magento, a division of X.commerce, an eBay Inc. company, will work collaboratively to serve both dedicated and open hybrid cloud customers with one of the fastest growing ecommerce platforms on the market.

For companies aiming to expand their global footprint, the collaboration between Rackspace and Magento will provide a low cost entry into new markets around the world without the cost of establishing a physical presence. Through a broad product portfolio that includes dedicated hosting, public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud, Rackspace is giving customers the flexibility to choose the right solution for their unique business needs.

Rackspace’s hybrid cloud in particular provides a differentiated and compelling customer experience, as it offers a dedicated infrastructure for managing day-to-day traffic, along with powerful open cloud solutions for sporadic spikes during peak times such as Cyber Monday, Black Friday and free shipping Thursday. In addition, Rackspace helps online retailers achieve PCI compliance by delivering a variety of products for its dedicated and cloud customers.

“Within three months of launching the new site built on the Magento platform, Gant’s online orders went up 340 percent. We also saw a 290 percent increase in conversion rates and 35 percent reduction in page load time,” said Anna Carlqvist, a global eCommerce manager at GANT Clothing in UK. “Thanks to the infinite scalability of the Rackspace Open Cloud, Gant can scale servers up and down to meet customer needs while only paying for what we actually use. This has lead to a 50 percent reduction in hosting costs.”

Rackspace is gaining traction within the ecommerce market; according to a study from ecommerce publishing authority Internet Retailer, Rackspace is currently ranked the number one hosting provider for the Internet Retailer Top 1,000 websites. Rackspace now hosts a greater percentage of the world’s Magento deployments than any other hosting provider.[1]

“Over the past five years, Rackspace and Magento have developed a strong, lasting relationship with the shared goal of providing an optimal, end-to-end ecommerce solution,” said Suaad Sait, chief marketing officer at Rackspace. “The ecommerce space …read more

Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance

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Is There A Single Example Of A Company That Started In Stealth Mode And Launched To Success?

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By Quora, Contributor

2013 Lincoln MKZ front three-quarter view, deep red

Siri started out as www.stealth-company.com. I’m convinced that staying in stealth mode was critical to our success. Why? We were based on some fairly heavy technologies (natural language understanding, conversational dialog, context, local search, plan-based service delegation, PCI-compliant data stores, machine learning), and it took us two years to go from our initial prototype to something ready to deploy and scale. A few weeks after we launched, Steve Jobs called the office and the rest is history. As a startup, we were potentially competing with large companies with lots of resources (e.g. Google, Microsoft), and we needed a good running head start before anyone knew precisely what we were trying to accomplish. …read more

Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest

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USA Technologies Adds 85th Patent to Technology Portfolio

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USA Technologies Adds 85 th Patent to Technology Portfolio

MALVERN, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– USA Technologies, Inc. (NAS: USAT) (“USAT“), a leader of wireless, cashless payment and M2M telemetry solutions for small-ticket, self-serve retailing industries, today announced that the U.S. Patent Office has granted USAT its 85th patent, further extending USAT‘s portfolio of intellectual property in the area of cashless payment and remote diagnostics.

“This latest patent, which describes devices and methods for generating an alert for a vending machine, is an example of how USAT has focused on providing value-added diagnostics for our customers as part of our comprehensive ePort Connect® cashless payment and telemetry service,” said Stephen P. Herbert, USAT‘s chairman and chief executive officer. “Our customers, all traditionally cash-based businesses, are increasingly embracing technology to help improve their business results and customer satisfaction. As these customers move further into implementation of cashless payment, remote data monitoring and consumer engagement services, we believe our IP Portfolio offers them distinct added value.”

U.S. Patent #8,373,558 describes devices and methods for generating an alert for a vending machine. It adds to a collection of USAT patents related to cashless payment, remote audit and interactive transaction capabilities in a vending machine accumulated by USAT as a market leader for cashless payment and telemetry serving the small-ticket, unattended market.

About USA Technologies:

USA Technologies is a leader of wireless, cashless payment and M2M telemetry solutions for small-ticket, self-serve retailing industries. ePort Connect® is the company’s flagship service platform, a PCI-compliant, end-to-end suite of cashless payment and telemetry services specially tailored to fit the needs of the small ticket, self-service retailing industries. USA Technologies also provides a broad line of cashless acceptance technologies including its NFC-ready ePort® G8, ePort Mobile™ for customers on the go, and QuickConnect™, an API Web service for developers. USA Technologies has been granted 85 patents; and has agreements with Verizon, Visa, Elavon, Isis and major customers such as Compass, Crane, AMI Entertainment and others. Visit the website at www.usatech.com.

Forward-looking Statements:

“Safe Harbor” Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: All statements other than statements of historical fact included in this release, including without limitation USAT‘s anticipated growth and business strategy, are forward-looking statements. When used in this release, words such as “anticipate”, “believe”, “estimate”, “expect”, “intend”, and similar expressions, as they relate …read more

Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance

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AmerisourceBergen Announces Sale of AndersonBrecon

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AmerisourceBergen Announces Sale of AndersonBrecon

VALLEY FORGE, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– AmerisourceBergen Corporation (NYS: ABC) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its contract packaging business, AndersonBrecon, to an entity formed by affiliates of an investor group led by Frazier Healthcare VI, L.P. for the purpose of acquiring AndersonBrecon. The purchase price for the transaction is $308 million in cash, subject to customary adjustments for, among other things, the working capital of the business. The investor group includes affiliates of Greenspring Associates, QIC Global Private Equity, and Thomas McNerney & Partners. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including receipt of certain regulatory reviews, and is expected to close in the third quarter of fiscal 2013, which ends June 30, 2013.

The results of operations of AndersonBrecon were previously and continue to be reported within discontinued operations. Therefore, the agreement has no impact on AmerisourceBergen’s financial performance expectations for fiscal 2013, which were revised on March 28, 2013. Any gain on the sale of AndersonBrecon would be recorded also within discontinued operations upon transaction closing, and is excluded from our fiscal 2013 revised financial expectations.

“We are pleased that AndersonBrecon will join well-established firms heavily invested in the healthcare services market, including the pharmaceutical contract packaging sector,” said Steven H. Collis, AmerisourceBergen President and Chief Executive Officer. “This transaction will help ensure that AndersonBrecon will continue to thrive in the years ahead, and allows AmerisourceBergen to focus on its distribution, specialty and manufacturer services businesses.”

In June 2012, Frazier Healthcare acquired the US commercial contract pharmaceutical packaging operation of Catalent Pharma Solutions, which it operates as Packaging Coordinators, Inc. AndersonBrecon will combine with Frazier Healthcare portfolio company, Packaging Coordinators, Inc (PCI). The combined companies represent an opportunity to provide healthcare services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies on a global scale. Nathan Every, Frazier Healthcare General Partner and PCI board member commented, “We are pleased to merge two stellar players within the pharmaceutical and biotech packaging business and believe that the combined company will deliver industry leading quality and service to our customers and a world-class environment for our employees.”


About AmerisourceBergen

AmerisourceBergen is one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical services companies serving the United States, Canada and selected global markets. Servicing both healthcare providers and pharmaceutical manufacturers in the …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance

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PCN, PTY, PGP, PHK, PKO, RCS, PCM, PFL, PFN, PDI, and PCI Declare Monthly Common Share Dividends

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  • PIMCO Corporate & Income Strategy Fund
  • PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund
  • PIMCO Global StocksPLUS® & Income Fund
  • PIMCO High Income Fund
  • PIMCO Income Opportunity Fund
  • PIMCO Strategic Global Government Fund, Inc.
  • PCM Fund, Inc.
  • PIMCO Income Strategy Fund
  • PIMCO Income Strategy Fund II
  • PIMCO Dynamic Income Fund
  • PIMCO Dynamic Credit Income Fund

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The Boards of Trustees of PIMCO Corporate & Income Strategy Fund (NYS: PCN) , PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund (NYS: PTY) , PIMCO Global StocksPLUS® & Income Fund (NYS: PGP) , PIMCO High Income Fund (NYS: PHK) , PIMCO Income Opportunity Fund (NYS: PKO) , PIMCO Strategic Global Government Fund, Inc. (NYS: <a target=_blank class="tmf-ticker qsAdd …read more
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Spacenet® Adds New Communications Products and Services to GSA Schedule

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Spacenet ® Adds New Communications Products and Services to GSA Schedule

Managed Network Services Provider’s GSA Schedule Now Includes Expanded Managed Broadband Services, Emergency Communications Services, and Additional High-performance Satellite Modems

MCLEAN, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Spacenet Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (NAS: GILT) and a leading provider of managed network services, today announced the addition of a range of new communications services, solutions and products to its U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule 70 contract (Contract No. GS-35F-172AA). The new additions include: managed broadband network solutions, Emergency Communications Services (ECS) and two new high-performance satellite modems.

“In an increasingly network-dependent world, our government agencies demand and deserve the most reliable and cost-effective communications capabilities available,” said Glenn Katz, Spacenet’s CEO. “These new offerings on our GSA schedule showcase the latest in all forms of communication technologies that Spacenet now offers. This broad spectrum of services provides even greater availability and affordability than our previous schedule. For example, our new Connect Series product line brings clarity and ease in selecting managed broadband services. Spacenet’s managed services include, among others, broadband wired and wireless communications, PCI compliance services, data security services, installation and maintenance services, and proactive network monitoring and management. Similarly, our ECS series offers public safety agencies greater flexibility in acquiring and deploying vital emergency satellite communications solutions.”

The new Spacenet solutions available under Contract GS-35F-172AA include:

  • Spacenet Connect Series of managed network services:

    Spacenet’s Connect Series is a tiered suite of managed services that helps clarify and simplify network operations outsourcing. Offering customers a range of services packaged according to each customer’s internal capabilities, reliability needs and security requirements, the Connect Series includes:

    • Spacenet ManagedConnect™: High-speed connectivity, proactive monitoring & support.
    • Spacenet AssuredConnect™: VPN connectivity, proactive network monitoring & support.
    • Spacenet CompleteConnect™: Network Design, VPN connectivity, complete management & support.
  • Spacenet Emergency Communications Services (ECS) and ECS Flex:

    Spacenet’s pay-as-you-use ECS and ECS Flex solutions provide an affordable and flexible emergency communications solution that delivers readily available communications via satellite to virtually any U.S. location.
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    Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance
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PIMCO Dynamic Credit Income Fund Announces Partial Exercise of Over-Allotment Option

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PIMCO Dynamic Credit Income Fund Announces Partial Exercise of Over-Allotment Option

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– PIMCO Dynamic Credit Income Fund (the “Fund”) announced today that the underwriters of its initial public offering of common shares (the “Underwriters”), which was completed on January 31, 2013, have completed the second and final partial exercise of their over-allotment option. In total, the Underwriters purchased an additional 16,204,500 common shares of the Fund. Gross proceeds from these additional shares are $405,112,500, which brings the total amount raised in the Fund’s initial public offering to $3,430,112,500 (before deduction of the sales load and offering expenses). The Fund’s common shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “PCI.”

The closing of the second over-allotment option occurred today, entitling the shares to receive the Fund’s first declared dividend, payable to shareholders of record today, March 18, 2013. As previously announced, the Fund will pay an initial monthly dividend of $0.15625 per common share, representing an annualized distribution yield of 7.50% based on the $25.00 IPO price. The dividend will be payable on April 1, 2013.

The Fund is a non-diversified closed-end fund seeking current income as a primary objective and capital appreciation as a secondary objective. The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objectives by utilizing a dynamic asset allocation strategy among multiple fixed-income sectors in the global credit markets, including corporate debt, mortgage-related and other asset-backed securities, government and sovereign debt, taxable municipal bonds and other fixed-, variable- and floating-rate income-producing securities of U.S. and foreign issuers, including emerging market issuers. The Fund may invest in investment grade debt securities and below investment grade debt securities (commonly referred to as “high yield” securities or “junk bonds”), including securities of stressed issuers. The Fund is managed according to strategies that focus on credit quality analysis, duration management and other risk management techniques. The Fund may invest without limit in illiquid securities. The Fund utilizes leverage as part of its investment strategy.

Pacific Investment Management Company LLC (“PIMCO”), the Fund’s sub-adviser, employs an active approach to allocation among multiple fixed-income sectors based on, among other things, market conditions, valuation assessments and economic outlook, credit market trends and other economic factors. The Fund focuses on seeking the best income generating investment ideas across multiple fixed income sectors, with an emphasis on seeking opportunities in developed and emerging global credit markets.

Allianz Global Investors Fund Management LLC (“AGIFM“) is the Fund’s investment manager, responsible for managing the Fund’s investment activities, business affairs and other administrative matters. AGIFM is an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Allianz …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance

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24 bit graphics for Ultra 10?

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By Michele31416

I recently installed a PGX-32 graphics card on my Sparc 10 Ultra. I was under the impression that it would give me 24 bits at 1600×1200, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. It’s 8 bits only at that res.

So does anyone know of a Sun-compatible PCI graphics card that will run on the Sparc Ultra 10 running Solaris 10 (and has drivers available) that will let me run in 1600x1200x24?

You’d think that wouldn’t be hard to find, but you’d be wrong. There is a confused and confusing welter on information and misinformation out there about these cards. And every card seems to have three different names. For example, the Sun PGX-32 is really a Raptor PGX-32 but comes up as a GFX8Pand is also an m640. Foo.

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Digital River World Payments to Sponsor, Exhibit and Speak at the 2013 Annual E-Commerce Payments an

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Digital River World Payments to Sponsor, Exhibit and Speak at the 2013 Annual E-Commerce Payments and Risk Conference

MINNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRIV), the revenue growth experts in global cloud commerce, announced that it will be sponsoring, speaking and exhibiting at the 2013 Annual E-Commerce Payments and Risk Conference. The conference takes place Mar. 25-28, 2013, at the Aria Resort in Las Vegas. Attendees can visit the company in booth 1136, which will showcase its Digital River® World Payments™ solutions. Today, Digital River manages more than $22 billion in global online transactions.

During two panel presentations, Digital River World Payments experts will talk about how to manage e-payments in Brazil. The first session titled, “Ok, You Are in Brazil, Now How Do You Optimize?” will take place on Tuesday, Mar. 26 at 3:00-3:45 p.m. PDT. The second session, “Exploring BRIC,” is slated for Wednesday, Mar. 27 at 2:45-3:45 p.m. PDT.

“More and more of our clients are looking to Brazil and the other BRIC countries as high potential markets for future e-commerce growth,” commented Souheil Badran, Digital River World Payments‘ senior vice president and general manager. “While growth is one of the key drivers in the decision to expand into these geographies, companies also have to make sure they have the right fraud solutions in place. When you sell globally over the Internet, even one weak link in the risk management chain can jeopardize your revenue. This year’s Annual E-Commerce Payments and Risk Conference offers attendees a perfect opportunity to explore fraud prevention as a critical component of a global online payments program.”

The 2013 Annual E-Commerce Payments and Risk Conference is hosted by the Merchant Risk Council (MRC), a globally focused trade association that aims to make online and mobile payments efficient and safe. Badran is a member of the Merchant Risk Council’s Americas Advisory Board.

Conference attendees are encouraged to visit Digital River‘s booth (#1136) to participate in a survey about online payments and fraud. Survey results will be published after the conference. To receive a copy of the report, sign up for the Digital River World Payments newsletter at www.digitalriverpayments.com/newsletter.

Digital River World Payments offers relevant payment options in more than 190 countries and over 170 transaction and display currencies. The solution features a wide range of customizable services for managing the complete payment lifecycle. These services, which work through a single payments connection, include checkout page optimization, A/B testing, real-time fraud detection, solutions to manage PCI exposure and currency risk, as well as …read more
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Clot Busters May Benefit Tardy Heart Attack Patients

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By Larry Husten, Contributor Although primary PCI has emerged as the best treatment for patients with STEMI, most patients don’t receive this treatment within the early time frame when it is known to be most beneficial. Patients delay is one important factor. Another is that most patients don’t arrive at a PCI-capable hospital and can not be transferred fast enough to a PCI hospital. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest

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New Antiplatelet Drug May Improve Stent Outcomes

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By Larry Husten In the Cangrelor versus Standard Therapy to Achieve Optimal Management of Platelet Inhibition (CHAMPION PHOENIX) trial, the intravenous platelet inhibitor cangrelor was tested for its effect on ischemic events associated with PCI. Cangrelor is a potent, fast-acting and reversible agent. Results of the trial were presented at the ACC in San Francisco and published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine. …read more
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Elavon Establishes Global Professional Services Business

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People, Processes and Technology help lower the total cost of accepting payments

ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Elavon, a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYS: USB) and a leading global payment solutions provider, announced that it has formed a division to work with enterprise clients in the pursuit of uncovering opportunities to help them lower costs centered around the “three big things” impacting the costs of accepting payments: rates, fraud, and data security.

Elavon’s global reach and award-winning international processing platform, best-in-class solutions and knowledgeable teams of local experts, combines to result in the delivery of solutions and services that help companies lower the total cost of acceptance payments. To date, its Professional Services team has created savings of more than $50 million to clients worldwide.

“Companies often focus their attention on negotiating rates and fees in an attempt to shave a few basis points off their costs,” said James Ray, senior vice president, Global Accounts at Elavon. “The truth is that every payments-related expense analyzed for efficiency and brought under management drives money straight to the bottom line, providing companies with a tremendous opportunity to unleash savings and redirect spending at initiatives that drive growth. Our Professional Services team is uniquely qualified to consult with companies and uncover cost-saving opportunities.”

Elavon leverages its people, processes and technology on three major areas of payment acceptance:

  • Interchange Advisory & Optimization Solutions that provide a view into how transactions are handled, and advise on remedies to qualify for better rates;
  • Advanced Fraud & Chargeback Management Tools that lower fraud and improve revenue; along with business processing outsource services that optimize the costs associated with managing chargebacks and fraud;
  • End-to-End Security & PCI Compliance Solutions that combine advanced point-to-point encryption and tokenization to protect data and mitigate the cost and complexities of PCI compliance.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance

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[solved] Sun Netra X1 – Adding a Second Hard Drive

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By Smiling Dragon

As the title suggests, I’m trying to install a second drive (really want an OS mirror) on a Sun Netra X1.

I’ve taken the spacer out, and had a go at with the drill-press so now I have a nice HDD tray. Have installed an IDE drive in the tray, plugged in the power and data cables that were dangling handily in the right spots already and powered up.

No sign I’d done a thing, one drive only still, working as before, no indication of a new drive.

Exploring the device tree at the OK> prompt shows one PCI directory, one harddrive in it. No cdrom or other indicators that it’s seeing a thing.

A boot -r changes nothing

From the OS, “disks” does nothing, “devfsadm” does nothing (also tried with -C out of superstition).
dmesg shows no errors, and no indication there’s anything plugged in.

I was careful of metal shavings, shorts, physical damage etc so I don’t think I borked anything while making my hardware modifications.

Drive jumpers are default (ie master/primary)

Have I forgotten something obvious here?

———- Post updated 02-03-13 at 06:08 PM ———- Previous update was 01-03-13 at 06:24 PM ———-

Ok, this was just a silly-me thing.
Took it all apart again, and noticed in better light that the power molex was just a little crooked, gave it a wiggle and it snapped home. Suddenly everything works :rolleyes:
🙂

For anyone else wanting to try this, it’s actually as simple as you’d hope. Just plug (properly) and go.

To do my modification on the drive slide spacer (to buy a proper one costs $$$), just drill out the four rivets holding the centre bar in place, taking care not to drill the metal frame at all. You might need to lever the frame open slightly against the bar to pop off the rivet head. I had to, but I was working with a limited range of drillbits and one size up was too big.

The holes that the rivets were in happen to line up just nicely with the mounting screw holes on modern standard 3.5″ IDE harddrives. One each side and everything sits pretty well.

Once done, a devfsadm got it to show up in format, assign partition table and enjoy.

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The relative value of PCI (stents) and bypass surgery for the treatment of people with blocked coronary arteries has been a topic of intense interest and debate for more than a generation now. Over time, the less invasive and more patient-friendly (and less scary) PCI has become the more popular procedure, but the surgeons (who perform bypass surgery) and cardiologists (who perform the less invasive PCI) have argued furiously about which procedure is safest and will deliver the most benefit in specific patient populations. In general, the most complex cases require the more thorough revascularization provided by surgery, while the more simple cases do well with PCI and can therefore avoid the trauma of surgery. But the specific criteria have remained murky, and interventional cardiologists have aggressively sought to take on increasingly more complex cases. …read more
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