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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20Bandit
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Time Bandit is a maze shoot 'em up written for the TRS-80 Model I by Bill Dunlevy and Harry Lafnear and published by MichTron in 1983. It was ported to the TRS-80 Color Computer and Dragon 32, but enjoyed its greatest popularity several years later as an early release for the Atari ST. It was also released for the pseudo-PC-compatible Sanyo MBC-55x with 8-color display. Amiga and MS-DOS versions were ported by Timothy Purves.
Gameplay
In each overhead-view level, the player must gather keys to open locks which allow access to the exit. Between levels, the player chooses the next level from one of 16 different "Timegates", each leading to a different world, and each of which must be completed sixteen times, each time being progressively more difficult than the last. The worlds vary in character and difficulty. Some worlds incorporate elements of text adventure games, and most contain gameplay references to other popular games of the time, such as Pac-Man and Centipede. In addition to the primary objective of exiting each level, optional side quests become available in the later stages of some worlds, usually awarding the player with one of several "artifacts" upon completion.
The game also features a "Duel Mode" for two players. In this mode, a split screen is used for simultaneous play in the same worlds, allowing direct cooperation or combat between players.
Development
According to Harry Lafnear, Time Bandit was based on Konami's 1982 arcade game Tutankham and was originally called Pharaoh. The Atari ST and Amiga versions have visual similarities to Gauntlet, but Gauntlet was released in late 1985 after development of Time Bandit was complete. According to Lafnear, he found out about Gauntlet from friends who saw it at an arcade and called it "a Time Bandit clone". However, he believes neither game copied each other, but that the similarities stem from earlier "maze shoot 'em ups" such as Tutankham.
Reception
Lafnear estimates that 75,000 copies were sold, mostly for the Atari ST.
Jerry Pournelle of BYTE named Time Bandit his game of the month for September 1986, stating that the ST version "is the best arcade-type computer game I have ever seen". The game was well received by reviewers in Antic, COMPUTE!, and BYTE for its gameplay and graphics, though reviews also noted that the game includes no music and has minimal sound effects.
The Amiga version of the game was reviewed in 1990 in Dragon #158 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 4½ out of 5 stars.
Reviews
Génération 4 (1987)
Zzap! (Apr, 1988)
The Games Machine (Apr, 1988)
ATARImagazin (Mar, 1987)
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) (Apr, 1988)
Power Play (Mar, 1988)
Power Play (Mar, 1989)
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) (Mar, 1988)
Info (May, 1988)
Commodore User (Mar, 1988)
Amiga User International (Mar, 1988)
Legacy
The Timelord's Handbook, a clue book and companion manual for the game, was released in
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link%20Layer%20Discovery%20Protocol
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The Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) is a vendor-neutral link layer protocol used by network devices for advertising their identity, capabilities, and neighbors on a local area network based on IEEE 802 technology, principally wired Ethernet. The protocol is formally referred to by the IEEE as Station and Media Access Control Connectivity Discovery specified in IEEE 802.1AB with additional support in IEEE 802.3 section 6 clause 79.
LLDP performs functions similar to several proprietary protocols, such as Cisco Discovery Protocol, Foundry Discovery Protocol, Nortel Discovery Protocol and Link Layer Topology Discovery.
Information gathered
Information gathered with LLDP can be stored in the device management information base (MIB) and queried with the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) as specified in RFC 2922. The topology of an LLDP-enabled network can be discovered by crawling the hosts and querying this database. Information that may be retrieved include:
System name and description
Port name and description
VLAN name
IP management address
System capabilities (switching, routing, etc.)
MAC/PHY information
MDI power
Link aggregation
Applications
The Link Layer Discovery Protocol may be used as a component in network management and network monitoring applications.
One such example is its use in data center bridging requirements. The (DCBX) is a discovery and capability exchange protocol that is used for conveying capabilities and configuration of the above features between neighbors to ensure consistent configuration across the network.
LLDP is used to advertise power over Ethernet capabilities and requirements and negotiate power delivery.
Media endpoint discovery extension
Media Endpoint Discovery is an enhancement of LLDP, known as LLDP-MED, that provides the following facilities:
Auto-discovery of LAN policies (such as VLAN, Layer 2 Priority and Differentiated services (Diffserv) settings) enabling plug and play networking.
Device location discovery to allow creation of location databases and, in the case of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Enhanced 911 services.
Extended and automated power management of Power over Ethernet (PoE) end points.
Inventory management, allowing network administrators to track their network devices, and determine their characteristics (manufacturer, software and hardware versions, serial or asset number).
The LLDP-MED protocol extension was formally approved and published as the standard ANSI/TIA-1057 by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) in April 2006.
System Capability Codes
Frame structure
LLDP information is sent by devices from each of their interfaces at a fixed interval, in the form of an Ethernet frame. Each frame contains one LLDP Data Unit (LLDPDU). Each LLDPDU is a sequence of type–length–value (TLV) structures.
The Ethernet frame used in LLDP typically has its destination MAC address set to a special multicast address that 802.1D-compliant bridges
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chash
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Chash may refer to:
In computing
C Sharp (programming language)
cHash, a hash value
Places
Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, which was known as "Chach" in medieval times
See also
Cash (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20partition%20and%20boot%20partition
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The system partition and the boot partition (also known as the system volume and the boot volume) are computing terms for disk partitions of a hard disk drive or solid-state drive that must exist and be properly configured for a computer to operate. There are two different definitions for these terms: the common definition and the Microsoft definition.
Common definition
In context of every operating system, except those developed by Microsoft, the system partition and the boot partition are defined as follows:
The boot partition is a primary partition that contains the boot loader, a piece of software responsible for booting the operating system. For example, in the standard Linux directory layout (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard), boot files (such as the kernel, initrd, and boot loader GRUB) are mounted at /boot/. Despite Microsoft's radically different definition (see below), System Information, a utility app included in Windows NT family of operating systems, refers to it as "boot device".
The system partition is the disk partition that contains the operating system folder, known as the system root. By default, in Linux, operating system files are mounted at / (the root directory).
In Linux, a single partition can be both a boot and a system partition if both /boot/ and the root directory are in the same partition.
Microsoft definition
Since Windows NT 3.1 (the first version of Windows NT), Microsoft has defined the terms as follows:
The system partition (or system volume) is a primary partition that contains the boot loader, a piece of software responsible for booting the operating system. This partition holds the boot sector and is marked active.
The boot partition (or boot volume) is the disk partition that contains the operating system folder, known as the system root or %systemroot% in Windows NT.
Before Windows 7, the system and boot partitions were, by default, the same and were given the "C:" drive letter. Since Windows 7, however, Windows Setup creates, by default, a separate system partition that is not given an identifier and therefore is hidden. The boot partition is still given "C:" as its identifier. This configuration is suitable for running BitLocker, which requires a separate unencrypted system partition for booting. As of Windows 11, this nomenclature is still used by the "Disk Management" utility.
See also
NTLDR
Windows startup process
Windows NT startup process
Windows Vista startup process
Windows To Go
References
Booting
Disk partitions
Windows administration
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heap
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Heap or HEAP may refer to:
Computing and mathematics
Heap (data structure), a data structure commonly used to implement a priority queue
Heap (mathematics), a generalization of a group
Heap (programming) (or free store), an area of memory for dynamic memory allocation
Heapsort, a comparison-based sorting algorithm
Heap overflow, a type of buffer overflow that occurs in the heap data area
Sorites paradox, also known as the paradox of the heap
Other uses
Heap (surname)
Heaps (surname)
Heap leaching, an industrial mining process
Heap (comics), a golden-age comic book character
Heap, Bury, a former district in England
"The Heap" (Fargo), a 2014 television episode
High Explosive, Armor-Piercing, ammunition and ordnance
Holocaust Education and Avoidance Pod, an idea in Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon
See also
Skandha, Buddhist concept describing the aggregated contents of mental activity
Beap or bi-parental heap, a data structure
Treap, a form of binary search tree data structure
Heapey, a village and civil parish of the Borough of Chorley, in Lancashire, England
Pile (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap%20%28computer%20worm%29
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The Oompa-Loompa malware, also called OSX/Oomp-A or Leap.A, is an application-infecting, LAN-spreading worm for Mac OS X, discovered by the Apple security firm Intego on February 14, 2006. Leap cannot spread over the Internet, and can only spread over a local area network reachable using the Bonjour protocol. On most networks this limits it to a single IP subnet.
Delivery and infection
The Leap worm is delivered over the iChat instant messaging program as a gzip-compressed tar file called . For the worm to take effect, the user must manually invoke it by opening the tar file and then running the disguised executable within.
The executable is disguised with the standard icon of an image file, and claims to show a preview of Apple's next OS. Once it is run, the worm will attempt to infect the system.
For non-"admin" users, it will prompt for the computer's administrator password in order to gain the privilege to edit the system configuration. It doesn't infect applications on disk, but rather when they are loaded, by using a system facility called "apphook".
Leap only infects Cocoa applications, and it does not infect applications owned by the system (including the apps that come pre-installed on a new machine), but only apps owned by the user who is currently logged in. Typically, that means apps that the current user has installed by drag-and-drop, rather than by Apple's installer system. When an infected app is launched, Leap tries to infect the four most recently used applications. If those four don't meet the above criteria, then no further infection takes place at that time.
Payload
Once activated, Leap then attempts to spread itself via the user's iChat Bonjour buddy list. It does not spread using the main iChat buddy list, nor over XMPP. (By default, iChat does not use Bonjour and thus cannot transmit this worm.)
Leap does not delete data, spy on the system, or take control of it, but it does have one harmful effect: due to a bug in the worm itself, an infected application will not launch. This is helpful in that it prevents people from continuing to launch the infected program.
Protection and recovery
A common method of protecting against this type of Computer Worm is avoiding launching files from untrusted sources. An existing admin account can be "declawed" by unchecking the box "Allow this user to administer this computer." (At least one admin account must remain on the system in order to install software and change vital system settings, even if it is an account created solely for that purpose.)
Recovering after a Leap infection involves deleting the worm files and replacing infected applications with fresh copies. It does not require re-installing the OS, since system-owned applications are immune.
References
External links
Intego Analysis - OSX/Leap.A aka OSX/Oompa-Loompa
Macworld- Mac Security: Antivirus
Macworld test of Leap A, with recovery tips
Leap-A malware: what you need to know
Computer worms
MacOS malware
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucky%20Covington
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William Joel "Bucky" Covington III (born November 8, 1977) is an American country music singer. He placed eighth on the 5th season of the Fox Network's talent competition series American Idol. In December 2006, he signed a recording contract with Lyric Street Records. His self-titled debut album, produced by Dale Oliver and Mark Miller of the band Sawyer Brown, was released on April 17, 2007. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, and produced three hit singles on the Hot Country Songs charts: "A Different World" at number six, "It's Good to Be Us" at number eleven, and "I'll Walk" at number ten. Three more singles: "I Want My Life Back", "Gotta Be Somebody", and "A Father's Love (The Only Way He Knew How)", were released for an unreleased second album, titled I'm Alright, and later included on his 2012 album, Good Guys.
Biography
Personal life
William Joel “Bucky” Covington was born in Rockingham, North Carolina, to Gene Covington and Deborah Gates on November 8, 1977 - along with his identical twin brother, Robert David "Rocky" Covington.
Bucky is the nickname derived from his grandfather "Buck". He graduated in the class of 1996 from Scotland High School in Laurinburg, North Carolina. He worked at Covington's Body Shop in Rockingham, North Carolina.
At the age of 18, Covington taught himself how to play the guitar and began performing at clubs. He is also a bassist, drummer, and songwriter. Over the years, Covington has expanded his talents, both country and rock. After some time, he elected to perform both original and cover material in a cross-genre vein. Rocky is also a musician and is the former lead singer of the North Carolina band Swamp Cat.
In 1998, when the Covington twins were 20 years old, they were in a minor automobile mishap. Bucky allegedly pretended to be Rocky. They were arrested for confusing the authorities. The plaintiff failed to identify which twin was driving, since the twins were identical.
After Idol, Bucky bought a house in Franklin, Tennessee, near Nashville, which he shared with Rocky and his wife Terra. Rocky also joined Bucky's band as a drummer. On February 13, 2007, he and his wife Crystal separated after more than seven years of marriage. Covington became engaged to Katherine Cook in 2011.
On October 10, 2014, Covington's fiancee, Katherine Cook, gave birth to their daughter, Kennedy Taylor Covington.
American Idol
In the 2005-06 season, the Covington twins auditioned for American Idol in Greensboro, North Carolina, individually. Of the two, Bucky advanced to the final twelve. On March 22, Bucky remained in the bottom three, along with Lisa Tucker and Kevin Covais. On April 12, when Covington was in the bottom three with Ace Young and Elliott Yamin, the votes went to the latter two. In the Top 8 results show of season six of American Idol, he appeared in one of the front rows.
Performances during Idol
Semi-finals
February 22, 2006: "Simple Man" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Race%20Machine
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The Human Race Machine (HRM) is a computerized console composed of four different programs. The Human Race Machine program allows participants to see themselves with the facial characteristics of six different races: Asian, White, African, Middle Eastern, and Indian, mapped onto their own face. The Age Machine allows viewers see an aged version of his or her face. A version of this methodology has been used for over twenty years by the FBI and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to help locate kidnap victims and missing children.
The Couples Machine combines photographs of two people in different percentages to show the appearance of their child.
The Anomaly Machine lets viewers see themselves with facial anomalies. The HRM was created by artist Nancy Burson and David Kramlich; it uses morphing technology. It was shown on Oprah on 2006-02-16.
External links
The Human Race Machine
Digital art
Computer graphics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20CS6400
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The Cray Superserver 6400, or CS6400, is a discontinued multiprocessor server computer system produced by Cray Research Superservers, Inc., a subsidiary of Cray Research, and launched in 1993. The CS6400 was also sold as the Amdahl SPARCsummit 6400E.
The CS6400 (codenamed SuperDragon during development) superseded the earlier SPARC-based Cray S-MP system, which was designed by Floating Point Systems. However, the CS6400 adopted the XDBus packet-switched inter-processor bus also used in Sun Microsystems' SPARCcenter 2000 (Dragon) and SPARCserver 1000 (Baby Dragon or Scorpion) Sun4d systems. This bus originated in the Xerox Dragon multiprocessor workstation designed at Xerox PARC. The CS6400 was available with either 60 MHz SuperSPARC-I or 85 MHz SuperSPARC-II processors, maximum RAM capacity was 16 GB.
Other features shared with the Sun servers included use of the same SuperSPARC microprocessor and Solaris operating system. However, the CS6400 could be configured with four to 64 processors on quad XDBusses at 55 MHz, compared with the SPARCcenter 2000's maximum of 20 on dual XDBusses at 40 or 50 MHz and the SPARCserver 1000's maximum of 8 on a single XDBus.
Unlike the Sun SPARCcenter 2000 and SPARCserver 1000, each CS6400 is equipped with an external System Service Processor (SSP), a SPARCstation fitted with a JTAG interface to communicate with the CS6400 to configure its internal bus control card. The other systems have a JTAG interface, but it is not used for this purpose. While the CS6400 only requires the SSP to be used for configuration changes (e.g. a CPU card is pulled for maintenance), some derivative designs, in particular the Sun Enterprise 10000, are useless without their SSP.
Upon Silicon Graphics' acquisition of Cray Research in 1996, the Superserver business (by now the Cray Business Systems Division) was sold to Sun. This included Starfire, the CS6400's successor then under development, which became the Sun Enterprise 10000.
References
External links
"Cray: Faster Than A Bottleneck Bullet", Byte, January 1996
Enthusiast photographs
Running system (circa 2004)
More board-level photographs
Alternative location for some of above
Cs6400
Sun servers
Supercomputers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM%20Networks
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MGM Networks was a subsidiary of AMC Networks International. They held AMC Networks International's interests in the MGM branded cable television, satellite television, other television channels and services that reached nearly 120 countries and territories.
These included the film-driven MGM Channel, the Casa Club home and lifestyle channel which targets viewers in Latin America and several Pay TV movie networks run in conjunction with other motion picture studios, in Latin America, and Japan.
History
In 1998, Liberty Media and MGM formed a 50/50 ownership in MGM Latin America.
On April 21, 2008, after negotiations between Paramount Pictures, MGM and Lionsgate with Showtime on new film output deals broke down, the trio of production companies formed a joint venture, Studio 3 Partners, to start a new premium movie channel, Epix. MGM and Weigel Broadcasting announced the formation of This TV on July 28, 2008, with a planned launch that autumn. The network had a formal on-air launch date of November 1, 2008, The Epix television service officially launched on October 30, 2009
In 2011, MGM was attached to a new multicast African-American focused network called, KIN TV, in conjunction with Lee Gaither, a former TV One founding executive, and his Basil Street Media, a production and consulting company. MGM role wasn't defined, as TV News Check indicated just of MGM of "shopping" and distributing the network while Radio & Television Business Report indicated KIN TV as a joint venture between the two companies. KIN was original planned to be launched in Summer 2011. Some of Fox MyNetworkTV O&O TV Stations, including WWOR and KCOP, were slated as of December 6, 2011 by Fox to air KIN TV when launched. By December 2012, KIN TV missed multiple launched dates and Gaither left KIN TV to be named the Africa Channel executive vice president and general manager thus calling the network into question.
In May 2012, MGM sold its minority non-voting shares of LAPTV to Fox International Channels while signing a long term contract for content with LAPTV. On July 31, 2012, MGM sold MGM Networks to Chellomedia, while retaining their television channels in the United States, Canada (North America), the United Kingdom and Germany as well as their joint venture territories in Brazil and Australia, to raise fund to buy out Carl Icahn and prepare for an IPO. Since then, Chellomedia had licensed the MGM brand and content to continue on the purchased MGM channels.
In 2014, AMC Networks purchased then renamed Chellomedia AMC Networks International, as part of their entry into international broadcasting. As a result, in November 2014, AMC Networks International started to rename their European and Latin American MGM channels under the name AMC. Also, at the end of 2014, they also renamed their Asian MGM channel AMC, and on either June 30, 2015 or July 1, 2015, renamed Casa Club TV (which they had acquired from MGM earlier) Más Chic.
Units
channels in:
United States
Sp
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyone%27s%20a%20Critic
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Everyone's a Critic (EaC) was a film community website. It began as an experiment using a collaborative filtering algorithm to obtain film recommendations from people who share similar tastes in film. Over time, this recommendation system website grew into an internet community of cinephiles, critics and reviewers.
History
In 2002 Dan Seidner, a software developer from suburban Philadelphia, created a website where people could get film recommendations from other people who share their tastes in movies. Site members (hereforth referred to as critics) grade movies and get a list of all other critics from the site, in order of how close individual ratings are to theirs. From there, a critic can look through their closest critic's ratings to get film recommendations.
By clicking on the name of critics closest to your film tastes, you get a list of the movies they've seen that you haven't; in order from their highest rated films, down to the lowest rated. This method allows critics to not only use recommendations for what movies to go see, also what movies to avoid seeing.
EaC has evolved from a place to get film recommendations, to a community of film critics and cinephiles who write in-depth reviews, participate in film discussion, polls, contests and games. EaC has grown to over 2,900 critics, over 900,000 film ratings, over 19,000 film reviews, and over 170,000 films in the database.
Grading films
EaC critics grade films using a scale similar to United States School Systems. A+ at the top of the scale and F at the bottom. The average ratings of the community generally fall between C+ and B−.
Critics can also give films Anticipation Ratings before the films are released. These grades are on a scale of 1 to 5. Rating an upcoming film a 5 represents a high expectation and excitement level, while a rating of 1 represents the opposite. Critics can view a list of upcoming films in order of the community's anticipation for the release of those films.
Lists
EaC allows critics to create and maintain various lists.
My Critics
EaC critics can flag other critics for various reasons such as critics who share similar tastes, critics who write exceptional reviews, critics who are also friends, etc. EaC allows critics to filter some of the lists (described below) to show results based only on site members who have been flagged as My Critics.
Active Critics
EaC automatically flags critics that log into the site on a regular basis as Active Critics. Active Critics filters can be applied to some of the EaC lists (described below).
Comprehensive Film List
Critics can keep a list of every film they've ever seen. If there are films critics have seen that are not currently in the EaC database, critics can instantly add those films to the EaC database. This list can be ordered by the grade the critic assigned the films, alphabetically by title, and by the year released. This list can also be filtered by genre.
Top/Bottom 100 Lists
Critics can create hierar
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sort%20%28Unix%29
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In computing, sort is a standard command line program of Unix and Unix-like operating systems, that prints the lines of its input or concatenation of all files listed in its argument list in sorted order. Sorting is done based on one or more sort keys extracted from each line of input. By default, the entire input is taken as sort key. Blank space is the default field separator. The command supports a number of command-line options that can vary by implementation. For instance the "-r" flag will reverse the sort order.
History
A command that invokes a general sort facility was first implemented within Multics. Later, it appeared in Version 1 Unix. This version was originally written by Ken Thompson at AT&T Bell Laboratories. By Version 4 Thompson had modified it to use pipes, but sort retained an option to name the output file because it was used to sort a file in place. In Version 5, Thompson invented "-" to represent standard input.
The version of bundled in GNU coreutils was written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert. This implementation employs the merge sort algorithm.
Similar commands are available on many other operating systems, for example a command is part of ASCII's MSX-DOS2 Tools for MSX-DOS version 2.
The command has also been ported to the IBM i operating system.
Syntax
sort [OPTION]... [FILE]...
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, the command reads from standard input.
Parameters
Examples
Sort a file in alphabetical order
$ cat phonebook
Smith, Brett 555-4321
Doe, John 555-1234
Doe, Jane 555-3214
Avery, Cory 555-4132
Fogarty, Suzie 555-2314
$ sort phonebook
Avery, Cory 555-4132
Doe, Jane 555-3214
Doe, John 555-1234
Fogarty, Suzie 555-2314
Smith, Brett 555-4321
Sort by number
The -n option makes the program sort according to numerical value. The command produces output that starts with a number, the file size, so its output can be piped to to produce a list of files sorted by (ascending) file size:
$ du /bin/* | sort -n
4 /bin/domainname
24 /bin/ls
102 /bin/sh
304 /bin/csh
The command with the option prints file sizes in the 7th field, so a list of the files sorted by file size is produced by:
$ find . -name "*.tex" -ls | sort -k 7n
Columns or fields
Use the -k option to sort on a certain column. For example, use "-k 2" to sort on the second column. In old versions of sort, the +1 option made the program sort on the second column of data (+2 for the third, etc.). This usage is deprecated.
$ cat zipcode
Adam 12345
Bob 34567
Joe 56789
Sam 45678
Wendy 23456
$ sort -k 2n zipcode
Adam 12345
Wendy 23456
Bob 34567
Sam 45678
Joe 56789
Sort on multiple fields
The -k m,n option lets you sort on a key that is potentially composed of multiple fields (start at column m, end at column n):
$ cat quota
fred 2000
bob 1000
an 1000
chad 1000
don 1500
eric 500
$ sort -k2,2n -k1,1 quota
eric 500
an 1000
bob 1000
chad 1000
don 1500
fred 2000
Here the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicraeosauridae
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Dicraeosauridae is a family of diplodocoid sauropods who are the sister group to Diplodocidae. Dicraeosaurids are a part of the Flagellicaudata, along with Diplodocidae. Dicraeosauridae includes genera such as Amargasaurus, Suuwassea, Dicraeosaurus, and Brachytrachelopan. Specimens of this family have been found in North America, Asia, Africa, and South America. In 2023, a dicraeosaurid fossil was discovered in India for the first time. Their temporal range is from the Early or Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous. Few dicraeosaurids survived into the Cretaceous, the youngest of which was Amargasaurus.
The group was first described by German paleontologist Werner Janensch in 1914 with the discovery of Dicraeosaurus in Tanzania. Dicraeosauridae are distinct from other sauropods because of their relatively short neck size and small body size.
The clade is monophyletic and well-supported phylogenetically with thirteen unambiguous synapomorphies uniting it. They diverged from Diplodocidae in the Mid-Jurassic, as evidenced by the diversity of dicraeosaurids in both South America and East Africa when Gondwana was still united by land. However, there is some disagreement among paleontologists on the phylogenetic placement of Suuwassea, the only genus of the Dicraeosauridae to be found in North America. It has been characterized as a basal dicraeosaurid by some and a member of the Diplodocidae by others. The placement of Suuwassea within Dicraeosauridae or Diplodocidae has substantial biogeographic implications for the evolution of Dicraeosauridae.
Classification
Dicraeosaurids are a part of Diplodocoidea and are the sister group to Diploidocidae. In the past two decades, the known diversity of the group has doubled. However, the classification of Suuwassea as a dicraeosaurid is not universally agreed upon. Some phylogenetic analyses have found Suuwassea to be a basal diplodocoid instead of a dicraeosaurid. One 2015 analysis has even found Dyslocosaurus as a member of Dicraeosauridae. A 2016 reappraisal of Amargatitanis has placed it into the Dicraeosauridae, as well. In 2018 a new genus, Pilmatueia, was described.
Dicraeosaurids are differentiated from their sister group, diplodocids, and from most sauropods by their relatively small body size and short necks. Dicraeosaurids are advanced sauropods within the monophyletic clade Neosauropoda, which is generally characterized by gigantism. The relatively small body size of dicraeosaurids make them an important outlier relative to other taxa in Neosauropoda.
Phylogeny
There have been several different proposed phylogenies of Dicraeosauridae and the intra-group cladistics are not resolved. Suuwassea is variably positioned as either a basal dicraeosaurid or a basal diplodocoid. The phylogeny published by Tschopp and colleagues in 2015 is as follows:
Tschopp includes Dyslocosaurus and Dystrophaeus as dicraeosaurids, two genera traditionally not considered to be part of Dicraeosauridae. The specim
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape%20from%20Mars
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Escape from Mars (1999) is a made-for-TV film produced for the UPN Network. The story concerns five astronauts who make the first crewed trip to Mars in 2015.
The film was filmed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Cast
Christine Elise as Lia Poirier, Sagan Cocommander
Peter Outerbridge as John Rank, Sagan Cocommander
Allison Hossack as Andrea Singer, Mission Chemist
Michael Shanks as Bill Malone, Mission Architect
Ron Lea as Jason, Mission Control Weasel
Kavan Smith as Sergei Andropov, Mission Biogeochemist
David Kaye as Steve Yaffe
Peter Kelamis as David Adams, Mission Control Weasel
Julie Khaner as Gail "Mack" McConnell, Mission Control
Tammy Isbell as Stephanie Rank, John's Ex-Wife
Arlene MacPherson as Remi
Aaron Pearl as Robert, Lia Poirier’s Fiancé
Jonathan Barrett as Richard Singer, Andrea's Husband
Darrell Nicholson as Andy Singer
Sophia Sweatman as Amanda Singer
Home Release
Released on VHS.
Reception
Radio Times gave the movie two out of five stars. Moria gave the movie the same rating, finding the scientific realism of the movie a plus, but that the direction and characters were lacking. TV Guide gave the movie one of four stars, finding the movie spends too much time in the Earth bound control room.
See also
List of films set on Mars
List of television films produced for UPN
Notes
External links
American science fiction television films
Mars in film
American science fiction action films
1999 television films
1999 films
1990s science fiction action films
Films about astronauts
Films set in 2015
Films set in 2016
Films set in the future
Films directed by Neill Fearnley
Hard science fiction films
1990s English-language films
1990s American films
UPN original films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KYFG
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KYFG 88.9 FM is an Omaha, Nebraska area radio station featuring Bible based programming from the Bible Broadcasting Network.
In 2009, the then-KVSS purchased KBZR 102.7 FM from Chapin Enterprises of Lincoln, NE for $4.5 million. On June 1, 2009, KVSS moved the signal from Lincoln to Gretna, renting space on a tower owned by TV station KPTM. (Jim Carroll, executive director of KVSS)
On August 24, 2009 KYFG began broadcasting programming from the Bible Broadcasting Network.
References
External links
YFG
YFG
Bible Broadcasting Network
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prism%20%28chipset%29
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The Prism brand is used for wireless networking integrated circuit (commonly called "chips") technology from Conexant for wireless LANs. They were formerly produced by Intersil Corporation.
Legacy 802.11b products (Prism 2/2.5/3)
The open-source HostAP driver supports the IEEE 802.11b Prism 2/2.5/3 family of chips.
Wireless adaptors which use the Prism chipset are known for compatibility, and are preferred for specialist applications such as packet capture.
No win64 drivers are known to exist.
Intersil firmware
WEP
WPA (TKIP), after update
WPA2 (CCMP), after update
Lucent/Agere
WEP
WPA (TKIP in hardware)
802.11b/g products (Prism54, ISL38xx)
The chipset has undergone a major redesign for 802.11g compatibility and cost reduction, and newer "Prism54" chipsets are not compatible with their predecessors.
Intersil initially provided a Linux driver for the first Prism54 chips which implemented a large part of the 802.11 stack in the firmware. However, further cost reductions caused a new, lighter firmware to be designed and the amount of on-chip memory to shrink, making it impossible to run the older version of the firmware on the latest chips. In the meantime, the PRISM business was sold to Conexant, which never published information about the newer firmware API that would enable a Linux driver to be written.
However, a reverse engineering effort eventually made it possible to use the new Prism54 chipsets under the Linux and BSD operating systems.
See also
HostAP driver for prism chipsets
External links
PRISM solutions at Conexant
GPL drivers and firmware for the ISL38xx-based Prism chipsets (mostly reverse engineered)
Wireless networking hardware
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOCV-CD
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WOCV-CD (channel 35) is a low-power, Class A television station in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, airing programming from the digital multicast network Catchy Comedy (formerly known as Decades). The station is owned and operated by Weigel Broadcasting, and maintains a transmitter in Parma, Ohio.
WOCV-CD has some cable carriage, most notably on Charter Spectrum – channel 15 in Cleveland and channel 13 in Akron.
History
Media-Com era
W29AI channel 29 was originally licensed on July 14, 1987, and did not sign on until 1990. It became WAOH-LP on August 21, 1995, and WAOH-CD on December 30, 2014. A translator of WAOH, W35AX channel 35, was licensed on November 30, 1989, and signed on in 1996. Both stations were owned and operated by Media-Com, a local radio broadcaster who also operated WNIR 100.1 FM and WJMP AM 1520 in the Kent/Akron area.
WAOH was affiliated with Retro TV since 2009. Before Retro TV, it was affiliated with the America One network, with the branding of "The CAT" (for "Cleveland Akron Television"). Prior to its America One affiliation, the station had carried Bloomberg Television, MuchMusic, and Network One. Under Media-Com's ownership, the station aired a few locally produced programs (such as the Son of Ghoul).
As part of the digital transition, WAOH-CD flash-cut their signal to digital in December 2014, remaining on channel 29. W35AX signed on their digital companion signal on channel 16 on March 16, 2015, with the calls W16DO-D. The new coverage area for W16DO-D overlapped most of viewing area formerly served by WAOH-CD. The station's branding made use of the new frequency allocation, changing from "29/35" to "16/29" on station IDs.
WAOH-CD went off the air on October 25, 2017 as part of the FCC's digital repack. This shifted W16DO-D's role from translator to the sole transmitter for the station. On June 28, 2020, W16DO-D transitioned to their repacked frequency of RF channel 27, with the new callsign W27EA-D. Its virtual channel reverted to the previous 35 allocation, rather than 16, 27, or 29.
Weigel Broadcasting era
In March 2022, Media-Com petitioned the FCC to allow a sale of the station to Weigel Broadcasting. The sale included only W27EA-D, not WNIR. On June 20, 2022, the sale was completed, and W27EA-D switched its primary affiliation to Story Television.
On September 1, 2022, Weigel Broadcasting filed to change the call letters from W27EA-D to WOCV-CD. The new call letters took effect on September 20, 2022.
On November 1, 2022, the Weigel owned Decades network began airing on 35.1, with Story Television moved to the newly activated 35.2. On March 27, 2023, Decades became Catchy Comedy, a classic sitcom focused network.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
Catchy Comedy affiliates
Story Television affiliates
OnTV4U affiliates
Kent, Ohio
Television channels and stations established in 1996
Low-power television stations in Ohio
OCV-CD
Weigel Broadcasting
1996 e
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%20D.%20Newell
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Lloyd David Newell (born 1956) is an American journalist, announcer and author, who is the current voice of Music and the Spoken Word (the oldest continuous nationwide network radio broadcast in America), He is also a professor of religion and family life at Brigham Young University (BYU). He was previously an anchor for CNN and WSEE-TV. He is a descendant of Susannah Stone Lloyd, a member of the Willie Handcart company.
Newell received a Ph.D. in Family Sciences from BYU in 1999.
He and his wife, Karmel, are the parents of four children.
Newell has written numerous books, including May Peace Be With You, The Divine Connection, Come Listen to a Prophet's Voice, The Healer's Art.
In 1990, Newell was appointed host of Music and the Spoken Word by Gordon B. Hinckley, who was then a counselor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Since May 2021, Newell has been serving as a counselor in a stake presidency.
References
External links
Biography at the official Music and the Spoken Word site
1956 births
American Latter Day Saints
Brigham Young University alumni
Brigham Young University faculty
Living people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20Thomas%20%28computer%20scientist%29
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Marc Phillip Thomas (1949–2017) was a professor of computer science and mathematics, retired chair and a system administrator of Computer Science department at CSU Bakersfield.
His successful research projects include the resolution of the commutative Singer–Wermer conjecture and construction of a non-standard closed ideal in a certain radical Banach algebra of power series and their quotients.
Exposition
The Relationship between C, ANSI C, and C++
(from Encyclopedia of Information Systems)
Remarks on Network Security
Typical Hacking Attempts
Typical Buffer Overflow Hack Attempts
Moronic Hacking
Efficient Hacking
Publications
Elements in the radical of a Banach algebra obeying the unbounded Kleinecke-Shirokov conjecture
Prime-like Elements and Semi-direct Products in Commutative Banach Algebras
Principal Ideals and Semi-direct Products in Commutative Banach Algebras
Single-Element Properties in Commutative Radical Banach Algebras:a Classification Scheme
Reduction of discontinuity for derivations on Frechet algebras
Radical Banach Algebrasand Quasinilpotent Weighted Shift Operators.
The image of a derivation is contained in the radical ()
Education
Degree: Ph.D. (Mathematics), UC Berkeley, 1976
Related work
Derivations with large separating subspace
External links
CSUB Computer Science Department
California State University of Bakersfield
1950 births
2017 deaths
People from Bakersfield, California
American computer scientists
American mathematicians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BQN
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BQN or bqn may refer to:
BQN, the IATA and FAA LID code for Rafael Hernández Airport, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
bqn, the ISO 639-3 code for Bulgarian Sign Language, Bulgaria
BQN, an array programming language
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBUP
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KBUP (1240 AM) is a radio station licensed to Olympia, Washington. Owned and operated by Sacred Heart Radio, Inc., it relays the Catholic religious programming originating at KBLE 1050 AM Seattle.
KBUP is one of the oldest radio stations in the United States, and received its first broadcasting license, as KGY in Lacey, Washington, on March 30, 1922. In addition, the station traces its origin to earlier activities conducted by Father Sebastian Ruth at Saint Martin's College in Lacey.
History
7YS
In early 1916, Saint Martin's College was issued a "Technical and Training School" radio license, with the call sign 7YS, for a station established by Benedictine monk Father Sebastian Ruth, O.S.B. After the entrance of the United States into World War I in April 1917, all civilian licenses were suspended, but following the war, 7YS was relicensed in late 1919. Initially this station was not used for broadcasting, although Ruth was very active within the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), handling relay traffic with other amateur stations, and in 1921 he was appointed an ARRL director representing the northwestern United States.
In the fall of 1920, it was reported that Ruth was broadcasting weather reports, using Morse code, every evening at 9:00. In July 1921, Ruth upgraded the station to use a small vacuum tube transmitter, which provided the ability to make audio transmissions, and he began a schedule of twice-weekly one hour programs transmitting phonograph records.
KGY
The Department of Commerce regulated radio stations in the United States from 1912 until the 1927 formation of the Federal Radio Commission (FRC). Originally there were no restrictions on which radio stations could make broadcasts intended for the general public. However, effective December 1, 1921, a regulation was adopted limiting broadcasting to stations operating under a Limited Commercial license. In keeping with the new standards, a broadcasting station license was issued in the name of "Saint Martin's College (Rev. S. Ruth)" on March 30, 1922, with the randomly assigned call letters of KGY, operating on the wavelength of 360 meters (833 kHz).
During the time it was operated by the college KGY had a very low power and a limited schedule, and its hours of operation were just 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. Following a series of frequency reassignments, on November 11, 1928, under the provisions of the FRC's General Order 40, the station was assigned to a "local" frequency of 1200 kHz, operating with just 10 watts of power, which was unusually small even for this time period. (Most "local" stations operated with 100 watts). KGY's original campus studio was in a shack, although there was a later move into a log cabin, with the resulting slogan "the log cabin station where the cedars meet the sea".
In 1932, the college decided it could no longer afford the expense of running a radio station, so KGY was sold to Archie Taft, who moved the station to Olym
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFXG
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WFXG (channel 54) is a television station in Augusta, Georgia, United States, affiliated with the Fox network and owned by Lockwood Broadcast Group. The station's studios are located on Washington Road/GA 104 in the Lamkin section of Martinez (with an Augusta mailing address), and its transmitter is located in Beech Island, South Carolina's Spiderweb section.
History
In July 1983, nine applications for a new TV station on channel 54 were received by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Augusta 54, LP was given approval in October 1989. The construction permit was sold to John Pezold (then owner of Columbus-based WXTX) in 1990. The station eventually signed-on in May 1991, and immediately picked up an affiliation with Fox.
It was Augusta's first full-power commercial station not aligned with a Big Three network, as well as the first full-power commercial station in Augusta since WATU (channel 26, later WAGT, now defunct) returned to the air in 1974. Prior to the sign-on of WFXG, Fox was previously seen on low-powered W67BE (now NBC affiliate WAGT-CD). The station was owned by Augusta Family Broadcasting, Inc. For the 1993 and 1994 season, WFXG was also affiliated with the Prime Time Entertainment Network. Retlaw Broadcasting (A company owned by the heirs of Walt Disney) purchased the station in May 1998. Fisher Communications purchased WFXG along with the other Retlaw owned stations in 1999. WFXG and WXTX became Fisher's only properties east of the Rocky Mountains.
Fisher, based in Seattle, decided to concentrate on its broadcast properties in the Pacific Northwest and California. WFXG and Columbus based WXTX (also on channel 54) were sold to the Atlanta-based Galleria Broadcast Group, L.P. which purchased the two stations for $40.1 million. In December 2003, Community Newspaper Holdings acquired WFXG and WXTX as well as WSFX-TV in Wilmington, North Carolina) through its Southeastern Media Holdings subsidiary. Community planned on selling all four of its television stations to Thomas Henson in January 2011.
Henson, upon approval from the FCC, would then operate all four properties under a company called Southeastern Media Acquisitions. When contacted about the proposed deal, WFXG's General Manager Barry Barth stated he could not confirm the specifics of the transaction but said the request was basically a licensing switch and would not affect the station's day-to-day operations. The deal was consummated April 5, 2011. During the next month, Henson folded the Southeastern Media Acquisition stations into American Spirit Media, LLC (one of his other companies) with the merger being finalized on May 25.
At that time, Raycom exercised its option to purchase WFXG outright from American Spirit Media through a newly created indirect subsidiary. Essentially, the station would be directly owned-and-operated by the company as opposed through a managing agreement. Raycom's acquisition of the station was completed on August 31. WFXG recently add
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek%20Business%20Channel
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Greek Business Channel or GBC was the first network in Greece devoted exclusively to business and finance. It provided up to the minute details on all the happenings from Greece, Europe and abroad. Programming aimed to deliver news and information that will appeal to all people including homeowners, consumers, businessmen and women, and investors. GBC was the first thematic channel launched in Greece, it is available via satellite on Nova. It was launched in April 2002, and for unknown reasons, GBC ceased operations as of December 1, 2006.
Schedule
It would first operate from 7 am till 5 pm and on weekends from 7am till 3pm. Starting September 7, it would operate from 6 am till 8 pm and on weekends from 6 am till 5 pm.
References
Defunct television channels in Greece
Television channels and stations established in 2002
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux%20balance%20analysis
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Flux balance analysis (FBA) is a mathematical method for simulating metabolism in genome-scale reconstructions of metabolic networks. In comparison to traditional methods of modeling, FBA is less intensive in terms of the input data required for constructing the model. Simulations performed using FBA are computationally inexpensive and can calculate steady-state metabolic fluxes for large models (over 2000 reactions) in a few seconds on modern personal computers. The related method of metabolic pathway analysis seeks to find and list all possible pathways between metabolites.
FBA finds applications in bioprocess engineering to systematically identify modifications to the metabolic networks of microbes used in fermentation processes that improve product yields of industrially important chemicals such as ethanol and succinic acid. It has also been used for the identification of putative drug targets in cancer and pathogens, rational design of culture media, and host–pathogen interactions. The results of FBA can be visualized using flux maps similar to the image on the right, which illustrates the steady-state fluxes carried by reactions in glycolysis. The thickness of the arrows is proportional to the flux through the reaction.
FBA formalizes the system of equations describing the concentration changes in a metabolic network as the dot product of a matrix of the stoichiometric coefficients (the stoichiometric matrix S) and the vector v of the unsolved fluxes. The right-hand side of the dot product is a vector of zeros representing the system at steady state. Linear programming is then used to calculate a solution of fluxes corresponding to the steady state.
History
Some of the earliest work in FBA dates back to the early 1980s. Papoutsakis demonstrated that it was possible to construct flux balance equations using a metabolic map. It was Watson, however, who first introduced the idea of using linear programming and an objective function to solve for the fluxes in a pathway. The first significant study was subsequently published by Fell and Small, who used flux balance analysis together with more elaborate objective functions to study the constraints in fat synthesis.
Simulations
FBA is not computationally intensive, taking on the order of seconds to calculate optimal fluxes for biomass production for a typical network (around 2000 reactions). This means that the effect of deleting reactions from the network and/or changing flux constraints can be sensibly modelled on a single computer.
Gene/reaction deletion and perturbation studies
Single reaction deletion
A frequently used technique to search a metabolic network for reactions that are particularly critical to the production of biomass. By removing each reaction in a network in turn and measuring the predicted flux through the biomass function, each reaction can be classified as either essential (if the flux through the biomass function is substantially reduced) or non-essential (if the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNBR
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WNBR may refer to:
World Network of Biosphere Reserves
World Naked Bike Ride
WZXL, a radio station (100.7 FM) licensed to serve Wildwood, New Jersey, United States which held the call sign WNBR from 1981 to 1986
WLXB, a radio station (98.9 FM) licensed to serve Bethel, North Carolina, United States, which held the call sign WNBR-FM from 2004 to 2015
WNBU, a radio station (94.1 FM) licensed to serve Oriental, North Carolina, United States, which held the call sign WNBR from 1992 to 2004
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20implementation
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In computing, open implementation platforms are systems where the implementation is accessible. Open implementation allows developers of a program to alter pieces of the underlying software to fit their specific needs. With this technique it is far easier to write general tools, though it makes the programs themselves more complex to design and use.
There are also open language implementations, which make aspects of the language implementation accessible to application programmers.
Open implementation is not to be confused with open source, which allows users to change implementation source code, rather than using existing application programming interfaces.
See also
Aspect-oriented programming for a successor concept in research
Metaobject protocol for the primary implementation means
Software architecture for organization of software in general
External links
Links pertaining to open implementation
Free software culture and documents
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands-free%20computing
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Hands-free computing is any computer configuration where a user can interface without the use of their hands, an otherwise common requirement of human interface devices such as the mouse and keyboard. Hands-free computing is important because it is useful to both able and disabled users. Speech recognition systems can be trained to recognize specific commands and upon confirmation of correctness instructions can be given to systems without the use of hands. This may be useful while driving or to an inspector or engineer in a factory environment. Likewise disabled persons may find hands-free computing important in their everyday lives. Just like visually impaired have found computers useful in their lives.
This can range from using the tongue, lips, mouth, or movement of the head to voice activated interfaces utilizing speech recognition software and a microphone or bluetooth technology.
Examples of available hands-free computing devices include mouth-operated joystick types such as the TetraMouse, the QuadJoy, the Jouse2, the QuadStick, and the IntegraMouse, camera based head tracking systems such as SmartNav, Tracker Pro, FreeTrack, HeadMouse Extreme, HeadMaster, KinesicMouse and Smyle Mouse, and speech recognition specialized for disabilities such as Voice Finger. The joystick types require no physical connections to the user and enhances the user's feeling of independence. Camera types require targets mounted on the user, usually with the help of a caregiver, that are sensed by the camera and associated software. Camera types are sensitive to ambient lighting and the mouse pointer may drift and inaccuracies result from head movements not intended to be mouse movements. Other examples of hands-free mice are units that are operated using switches that may be operated by the feet (or other parts of the body), such as the NoHands Mouse and the switch-adapted TetraMouse. Speech recognition specialized for disabilities and hands-free computing focus more on low-level control of the keyboard and mouse than on usual areas like dictation.
References
See also
Amazon Alexa
Section 508 Amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Footmouse
Eye tracking
Speech recognition
Touchless user interface
Tetraplegia
Assistive technology
User interface techniques
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Pictures%20Imageworks
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Sony Pictures Imageworks Inc. is a Canadian visual effects and computer animation studio headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia and Montréal, Québec, with an additional office on the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City, California. SPI is a unit of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Motion Picture Group.
The company has been recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with Oscars for their work on Spider-Man 2 and the computer-animated short film The ChubbChubbs!, and received many other nominations for their work.
SPI has provided visual effects for many films; most recent include The Meg, Men in Black: International, and Spider-Man: Far From Home. They also provided services for several of director Robert Zemeckis' films, including Contact, Cast Away, The Polar Express, and Beowulf.
Since the foundation of its sister company Sony Pictures Animation in 2002, SPI would go on to animate nearly all of SPA's films, including Open Season, Surf's Up, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and films in the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Smurfs and Hotel Transylvania franchises, in addition to animating films for other studios such as Arthur Christmas for Aardman Animations (co-produced by SPA), Storks and Smallfoot for Warner Animation Group (now known as Warner Bros. Pictures Animation), The Angry Birds Movie for Rovio Animation and its sequel (co-produced by SPA and Rovio), Over the Moon for Netflix and Pearl Studio, and The Sea Beast for Netflix Animation.
History
Sony Pictures Imageworks was formed in 1992 with five employees to use computers to help plan complicated scenes for live-action films. Located in the former TriStar building, their first work was a previsualization for the 1993 film Striking Distance.
To fill the gaps between VFX jobs, SPI decided to partake in a more profitable animation business. Its first independent animated effort was the 5-minute short The ChubbChubbs! directed by Eric Armstrong. In 2002, it won the Oscar for Best Animated Short. Early Bloomer, released in 2003, was the division's second short film and originally made as a storyboarding exercise. SPI completed its first feature animation project in 2006 with the release of Open Season, which was produced by sister company Sony Pictures Animation.
In 2007, SPI acquired Indian visual effects studio FrameFlow to take advantage of lower labor costs. Renamed to Imageworks India, a modern facility was opened in Chennai a year later. To leverage New Mexico's tax rebates and talent base, a satellite production facility was opened in 2007 in Albuquerque, becoming the largest post-production operation in the state. In 2010, SPI opened a production studio in Vancouver, British Columbia, in order to take advantage of the local talent pool and government film production incentives. Two years later, the studio doubled its Vancouver facilities. At the same time, the Albuquerque studio was closed down due to declining New Mexico's subsidies and diffic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20software
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Church software is any type of computer software specifically designed for use by a church. There are administrative packages tailored to handle membership databases and finances, and also worship presentation programs to generate images for video projectors.
Worship presentation software
A worship presentation program is a specialised presentation program designed for displaying images (primarily song lyrics, often with cinemagraphs video background) during some forms of Christian worship. Some programs include other features to help plan the service or schedule participants.
There are programs available both commercially, as shareware and as free open source software (for example OpenLP).
Church management software
Church management software is a specialized software that assists churches and other religious organizations in organization and automation of daily operations. These packages typically assist in the management of membership and mailings, fundraising, events, report generation, and bulletin publishing. Churches use the packages to reduce the cost of operations and track the growth in their congregations. The growth in the church management software business coincides with the growing trend of using computers for religious activity.
In the UK, increased usage of such software is attributed to data management requirements such as GDPR.
Larger systems allow multi-user access, with security options to protect confidentiality. Flexible features to keep and report information on attendance and pastoral visits can help church staff manage members.
Using a purpose-made package guards against relying on the knowledge of a specific individual to maintain a custom database. However, different church management applications vary significantly from one another, and what works well for one church may not fit the needs of another.
Free open source church management systems are also available.
See also
Bible software
Contemporary worship music
References
Administrative software
Christian software
Presentation software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle%20strip
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In computer graphics, a triangle strip is a subset of triangles in a triangle mesh with shared vertices, and is a more memory-efficient method of storing information about the mesh. They are more efficient than un-indexed lists of triangles, but usually equally fast or slower than indexed triangle lists. The primary reason to use triangle strips is to reduce the amount of data needed to create a series of triangles. The number of vertices stored in memory is reduced from to , where is the number of triangles to be drawn. This allows for less use of disk space, as well as making them faster to load into RAM.
For example, the four triangles in the diagram, without using triangle strips, would have to be stored and interpreted as four separate triangles: ABC, CBD, CDE, and EDF. However, using a triangle strip, they can be stored simply as a sequence of vertices ABCDEF. This sequence would be decoded as a set of triangles with vertices at ABC, BCD, CDE and DEF - although the exact order that the vertices are read will not be in left-to-right order as this would result in adjacent triangles facing alternating directions.
OpenGL implementation
OpenGL has built-in support for triangle strips. Fixed function OpenGL (deprecated in OpenGL 3.0) has support for triangle strips using immediate mode and the , , and functions. Newer versions support triangle strips using and .
To draw a triangle strip using immediate mode OpenGL, must be passed the argument , which notifies OpenGL a triangle strip is about to be drawn. The family of functions specify the coordinates for each vertex in the triangle strip. For more information, consult The OpenGL Redbook.
To draw the triangle strip in the diagram using immediate mode OpenGL, the code is as follows:
//Vertices below are in Clockwise orientation
//Default setting for glFrontFace is Counter-clockwise
glFrontFace(GL_CW);
glBegin(GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP);
glVertex3f( 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f ); //vertex 1
glVertex3f( 0.0f, 0.5f, 0.0f ); //vertex 2
glVertex3f( 0.5f, 0.0f, 0.0f ); //vertex 3
glVertex3f( 1.0f, 0.5f, 0.0f ); //vertex 4
glEnd();
Note that only one additional vertex is needed to draw the second triangle.
In OpenGL, the order in which the vertices are specified is important so that surface normals are consistent.
Quoting directly from the OpenGL Programming Guide:
GL_TRIANGLE_STRIPDraws a series of triangles (three-sided polygons) using vertices v0, v1, v2, then v2, v1, v3 (note the order), then v2, v3, v4, and so on. The ordering is to ensure that the triangles are all drawn with the same orientation so that the strip can correctly form part of a surface.
It's even clearer within the manual pages:
Draws a connected group of triangles. One triangle is defined for each vertex presented after the first two vertices. For odd , vertices , , and define triangle . For even , vertices , , and define triangle . triangles are drawn.
Note that starts at 1. The above code sample and diagram demons
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spafford
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Spafford may refer to:
People
Belle S. Spafford (1895–1982), American president of the Relief Society
Gene Spafford (born 1956), American professor of computer science at Purdue University
Horatio Spafford (1828–1888), American author of the hymn "It Is Well With My Soul"
Michael Spafford (1935–2022), American artist
Patricia Spafford Smith (1925–2002), American politician
Suzy Spafford (born 1945), American cartoonist, creator of "Suzy'z Zoo"
Places
United States
Spafford, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
Spafford, New York, a town
Other uses
Spafford (band), a band from Prescott, Arizona, United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taems
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Taems or TAEMS or TÆMS may refer to:
Atreyee D. A. V. Public School, a school in India
Task analysis environment modeling simulation (computer science), a multi-agent task modeling language
Terminal Area Energy Management, a guidance system used in the final phase of a Space Shuttle landing (referred to as the TAEMs).
See also
Pha Taem
Taema
Taemado
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Association%20of%20Public%20Transport
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The International Association of Public Transport (; UITP) is a non-profit member-led organisation for public transport authorities, networks and operators, policy decision-makers, scientific institutes and the public transport supply and service industry, that works to advance sustainable urban mobility.
Founded on 17 August 1885, the association is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, with 13 offices around the world. With more than 1900 members in over 100 countries, UITP advocates for sustainable mobility and produces publications, oversees projects, hosts global events and brings together all those with a vested interested in advancing public transport.
Organisation
UITP represents an international network of more than 1,900 member companies in over than 100 countries and covers all modes of public transport – metro, light rail, regional and suburban railways, bus, trolleybus, taxi and ride-hailing and waterborne transport. It also represents collective transport in a broader sense, with active committees and working bodies on digitalisation, I.T., sustainable development, design and culture, human resources, transport economics, security and more.
UITP is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium with thirteen regional and liaison offices worldwide, located in Abidjan, Casablanca, Dubai, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Johannesburg, New York, São Paulo, Singapore, Tehran, Mexico & Central America, New Delhi, and Auckland).
The General Secretariat is managed by Mohamed Mezghani, who has been working for more than 30 years in public transport and urban mobility related fields and became the association’s Secretary General in January 2018. He previously served in a number of internal positions, including as UITP Deputy Secretary General. His mandate was renewed for a second term, beginning in January 2023.
The President of UITP is Renée Amilcar, the General Manager of OC Transpo in Ottawa, who was voted into office in June 2023 as the association’s first female President. Joining the City of Ottawa as the General Manager in 2021, Renée oversees many projects in her daily role, including the electrification of Ottawa’s transit fleet, and the deployment of 350 zero-emission buses.
With a long-standing association to UITP through her role as Bus Division Chair and Executive Board member, Renée Amilcar has a reputation as a global leader in sustainability and innovation within the international transportation industry.
Renée’s career in transportation began in 2002 at the Société de transport de Montréal (STM), and with her new role as UITP President, she will work closely with the UITP Secretariat to advance UITP in the years to come.
Activities
UITP gathers and analyses facts and figures to provide quantitative and qualitative information on key aspects of public transport and urban mobility.
UITP manages an on-line information centre MyLibrary, which gives access to the full texts of UITP’s studies and conference papers, as well as references to book
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalle%20Molle%20Institute%20for%20Artificial%20Intelligence%20Research
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The Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research (, IDSIA) is a research institution based in Lugano, in Canton Ticino in southern Switzerland. It was founded in 1988 by Angelo Dalle Molle through the private Fondation Dalle Molle. In 2000 it became a public research institute, affiliated with the Università della Svizzera italiana and SUPSI in Ticino, Switzerland. In 1997 it was listed among the top ten artificial intelligence laboratories, and among the top four in the field of biologically-inspired AI.
In 2007 a robotics lab with focus on intelligent and learning robots, especially in the fields of swarm and humanoid robotics, was established.
Between 2009 and 2012, artificial neural networks developed at the institute won eight international competitions in pattern recognition and machine learning.
IDSIA is one of four Swiss research organisations founded by the Dalle Molle foundation, of which three are in the field of artificial intelligence.
See also
Science and technology in Switzerland
References
Artificial intelligence laboratories
Laboratories in Switzerland
Research institutes in Switzerland
University of Lugano
Schools in the canton of Ticino
Educational institutions established in 1988
Research institutes established in 1988
1988 establishments in Switzerland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca%20Maria%20Gambardella
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Luca Maria Gambardella (born 4 January 1962) is an Italian computer scientist and author. He is the former director of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research in Manno, in the Ticino canton of Switzerland.
With Marco Dorigo and others, he has published papers on the application of ant colony optimization theory to the traveling salesman problem and similar questions. Several of his papers have been extensively cited.
Beside working in research, Gambardella is also a novelist. The genres he approached broad from Bildungsroman of his first book "Sei vite" ("Six lives"), to romance of his second book "Il suono dell'alba" ("The sound of sunrise").
References
Gambardella
Gambardella
Machine learning researchers
Academic staff of the University of Lugano
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avahi
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Avahi may refer to:
Avahi (genus), a genus of woolly lemurs, which are primates that inhabit Madagascar.
Avahi (software), a zeroconf networking implementation.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How%20to%20Solve%20it%20by%20Computer
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How to Solve it by Computer is a computer science book by R. G. Dromey, first published by Prentice-Hall in 1982.
It is occasionally used as a textbook, especially in India.
It is an introduction to the whys of algorithms and data structures.
Features of the book:
The design factors associated with problems
The creative process behind coming up with innovative solutions for algorithms and data structures
The line of reasoning behind the constraints, factors and the design choices made.
The very fundamental algorithms portrayed by this book are mostly presented in pseudocode and/or Pascal notation.
See also
How to Solve It, by George Pólya, the author's mentor and inspiration for writing the book.
References
1982 non-fiction books
Algorithms
Computer science books
Heuristics
Problem solving
Prentice Hall books
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWME-CD
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WWME-CD (channel 23) is a low-power, Class A television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, which serves as the flagship station of multicast networks MeTV and Heroes & Icons. It is owned by locally based Weigel Broadcasting alongside fellow Weigel flagship properties, CW affiliate WCIU-TV (channel 26) and independent station WMEU-CD (channel 48). The stations share studios on Halsted Street (between Washington Boulevard and Madison Street) in the Greektown neighborhood, while WWME-CD's transmitter is located atop the Willis Tower on South Wacker Drive in the Chicago Loop.
Even though WWME-CD has a digital signal of its own, the low-power broadcasting radius does not reach the outer ring of Chicago proper or surrounding suburbs. Therefore, the station can also be seen through a 16:9 widescreen standard definition simulcast on WCIU's third digital subchannel, with Heroes & Icons being carried on WCIU-DT4 in order to reach the entire market. This signal is broadcast on channel 26.3 from the same Willis Tower transmitter site.
History
Early history
The station first signed on the air on October 28, 1987 as W23AT, originally operating as a translator of WFBT. In 2001, the station changed its callsign to WFBT-CA and shifted to a brokered-time ethnic programming format (coincidentally, this was the original programming format of sister station WCIU-TV from 1964 until it converted into an English-language, entertainment-based independent station on December 31, 1994).
Launch of MeTV as a programming format
On January 6, 2003, WFBT debuted a programming block called "Me-TV", which featured classic television series from the 1950s to the 1980s (such as The Jack Benny Program, Sergeant Bilko, The Carol Burnett Show, Maude and One Day at a Time) daily from 12:00 to 3:00 p.m. "Me-TV" underwent several lineup changes throughout its existence as a block, adding and removing shows and expanding the time periods during which it broadcast (eventually running from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. by 2004).
On December 31, 2005, Weigel rechristened channel 23 as WWME-CA, with MeTV becoming the station's full-time programming format and on-air branding. The station's former ethnic programming and WFBT call letters moved to W48DD (channel 48). On August 4, 2007, WWME introduced "Sí! Me-TV" (the first two parts of the moniker were based on the phrase "see me", although "Sí" is the Spanish word for "yes"), a weekend morning block which featured Spanish-dubbed versions of classic shows from the Universal Television library (such as Hercules, Xena, Miami Vice, Quantum Leap and The Incredible Hulk). Some programs that aired during the block were available to the station only in Spanish, due to syndicated restrictions imposed on the original English-language versions; "Sí! Me-TV" also offered a public affairs program targeted at Chicago's Latino population, which began at a later date. The block was discontinued on January 25, 2009.
On March 1, 2008, channel 48 – whic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encantadia%3A%20Pag-ibig%20Hanggang%20Wakas
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Encantadia: (International title: Avisala Encantadia: Love Until the End / ) is a 2006 Philippine television drama fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is the third instalment of the Encantadia franchise, and serves as a sequel to Etheria. Directed by Gil Tejada Jr., it stars Sunshine Dizon, Iza Calzado, Karylle, Diana Zubiri and Dingdong Dantes. It premiered on February 20, 2006 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Etheria: Ang Ikalimang Kaharian ng Encantadia. The series concluded on April 28, 2006 with a total of 48 episodes.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
The sang'gres of Encantadia - Amihan, Pirena, Alena, and Danaya return from the past after they successfully destroyed the kingdom of Etheria. In the midst of their celebration in Sapiro, Mine-a arrives and warns the Sang’gres about an impending danger that only they can solve.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Sunshine Dizon as Pirena
Iza Calzado as Amihan
Diana Zubiri as Danaya
Karylle as Alena
Dingdong Dantes as Ybrahim
Supporting cast
Alessandra de Rossi as Andora
Francine Prieto as Avria
Jopay Paguia as Juvila
Pauleen Luna as Odessa
Jackie Rice as Armea
Marky Cielo as Arman
Pen Medina as Hagorn
Angel Aquino as Ether
Benjie Paras as Wahid
Alfred Vargas as Aquil
Jay-R as Azulan
Marky Lopez as Wantuk
Justin Cuyugan as Arkrey
Michael Roy Jornales as Apek
Ella Guevara as Cassandra
Kristine Gonzales as Violeta
Katrina Gonzales as Luntian
Marnie Lapuz as Rosas
Arthur Solinap as Muros
Raul Dillo as Kahel
Noel Urbano as the voice of Imaw, Aegen and Dilawan
Guest cast
Dawn Zulueta as Minea
Cindy Kurleto as Cassiopea
Jennylyn Mercado as Lira / Milagros
Chinggoy Alonzo as Evades
Raymond Bagatsing as Emre
Cheska Iñigo as Galatea
Geneva Cruz as Sari-a
JM Reyes as young Arman
Richard Gomez as Raquim
Precious Lara Quigaman as adult Cassandra
Finale special
On April 23, 2006, a television special Avisala Encantadia! was aired. It was the first farewell special that GMA Network had created for a television series.
References
External links
2006 Philippine television series debuts
2006 Philippine television series endings
Encantadia
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Sequel television series
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounce%20Address%20Tag%20Validation
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In computing, Bounce Address Tag Validation (BATV) is a method, defined in an Internet Draft, for determining whether the bounce address specified in an E-mail message is valid. It is designed to reject backscatter, that is, bounce messages to forged return addresses.
Overview
The basic idea is to send all e-mail with a return address that includes a timestamp and a cryptographic token that cannot be forged. Any e-mail that is returned as a bounce without a valid signature can then be rejected. E-mail that is being bounced back should have an empty (null) return address so that bounces are never created for a bounce and therefore preventing messages from bouncing back and forth forever.
BATV replaces an envelope sender like mailbox@example.com with prvs=tag-value=mailbox@example.com, where prvs, called "Simple Private Signature", is just one of the possible tagging schemes; actually, the only one fully specified in the draft. The BATV draft gives a framework that other possible techniques can fit into. Other types of implementations, such as using public key signatures that can be verified by third parties, are mentioned but left undefined. The overall framework is vague/flexible enough that similar systems such as Sender Rewriting Scheme can fit into this framework.
History
Sami Farin proposed an Anti-Bogus Bounce System in 2003 in news.admin.net-abuse.email, which used the same basic idea of putting a hard to forge hash in a message's bounce address.
In late 2004, Goodman et al. proposed a much more complex "Signed Envelope Sender" that included a hash of the message body and was intended to address a wide variety of forgery threats, including bounces from forged mail. Several months later, Levine and Crocker proposed BATV under its current name and close to its current form.
Problems
The draft anticipates some problems running BATV.
Some mailing lists managers (e.g. ezmlm) still key on the bounce address, and will not recognize it after BATV mangling.
Greylisting requires BATV implementations to keep the same tag across retransmissions for a reasonable time. This may also cause each e-mail to be delayed unless the greylisting system ignores the tag, or whitelists sending hosts that successfully retry.
Challenge-response spam filtering and systems that sort mail based on the bounce address (e.g. for removing duplicates) may work less smoothly with BATV-tagged addresses.
There are also problems that prevent BATV systems from eliminating all backscatter.
Some legitimate e-mail gets sent with empty return address that is not a bounce and therefore will not have the special tokens. For example, the Delivery Status Notification extension defined in requires a null return path when sending email with a "NOTIFY=NEVER" option to a non-conforming server.
Some e-mail bounces (incorrectly) get sent not to the return address, but to the e-mail address on the From: header.
Some mail systems that implement Callback verification use "post
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IIf
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In computing, IIf (an abbreviation for Immediate if) is a function in several editions of the Visual Basic programming language and ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML), and on spreadsheets that returns the second or third parameter based on the evaluation of the first parameter. It is an example of a conditional expression, which is similar to a conditional statement.
Syntax
The syntax of the IIf function is as follows:
IIf(expr, truepart, falsepart)
All three parameters are required:
expr is the expression that is to be evaluated.
truepart defines what the IIf function returns if the evaluation of expr returns true.
falsepart defines what the IIf function returns if the evaluation of expr returns false.
Many languages have an operator to accomplish the same purpose, generally referred to as a conditional operator (or, less precisely, as a ternary operator); the best known is ?:, as used in C, C++, and related languages. Some of the problems with the IIf function, as discussed later, do not exist with a conditional operator, because the language is free to examine the type and delay evaluation of the operands, as opposed to simply passing them to a library function.
Examples
These examples evaluate mathematical expressions and return one of two strings depending on the outcome.
result = IIf(5 < 10, "Yes it is", "No it isn't") ' Returns "Yes it is"
result = IIf(2 + 2 = 5, "Correct", "Wrong") ' Returns "Wrong"
Criticisms
Efficiency
Because IIf is a library function, it will always require the overhead of a function call, whereas a conditional operator will more likely produce inline code.
Furthermore, the data type of its arguments is Variant. If the function is called with arguments of other types (variables or literals), there will be additional overhead to convert these to Variant. There may also be additional overhead to check the argument types and convert one of them if they do not have the same type.
Side effects
Another issue with IIf arises because it is a library function: unlike the C-derived conditional operator, both truepart and the falsepart will be evaluated regardless of which one is actually returned. In the following code snippet:
value = 10
result = IIf(value = 10, ''TrueFunction'', FalseFunction)
although TrueFunction is the function intended to be called, IIf will call both TrueFunction and FalseFunction. Similarly,
a = 10
b = 0
result = IIf(b <> 0, a / b, 0)
While the intent may be to avoid a division by zero, whenever b is zero the error will actually happen. This is because the code in the snippet is executed as if by
a = 10
b = 0
_temp1 = b <> 0
_temp2 = a / b ' Error if b = 0
_temp3 = 0
If _temp1 Then
result = _temp2
Else
result = _temp3
End If
This issue makes the IIf() call less useful than the conditional operator. To solve this issue, Microsoft developers had considered converting IIf to an intrinsic function; had this happened, the compiler would have been able to perform t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAC%20%28disambiguation%29
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Trac is a software tool for project management.
Trac or TRAC may also refer to:
TRAC (programming language)
Telsiz ve Radyo Amatörleri Cemiyeti, an amateur radio organization in Turkey
Former Team Racing Auto Circuit
United States Army Training and Doctrine Command Analysis Center
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, at Syracuse University
Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification
Three Rivers Athletic Conference, Ohio, US
trac: Music Traditions Wales, for folk music
Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference
Cirrus TRAC Trainer version of the Cirrus SR20 aircraft
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest%20for%20Glory%20V%3A%20Dragon%20Fire
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Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire is the fifth and final game in the Quest for Glory computer game series by Sierra FX, a former "sub brand" of Sierra On-Line. Unlike the first four games, Dragon Fire is primarily an action role-playing game with some elements of graphical adventure.
Gameplay
Dragon Fire retains its point-and-click graphical interface and introduces a new combat system. Previous entries had moved combat encounters to a separate, isolated combat screen, but Quest for Glory V'''s interface allows for these battles to take place in the same environment as the rest of the gameplay.Quest for Glory V provides more variety in the form of story paths, sidequests, and puzzles than its predecessors.
Plot
The wizard Erasmus introduces the player character, the Hero, to the Greece-like kingdom of Silmaria, whose king was recently assassinated. Thus, the traditional Rites of Rulership are due to commence, and the victor will be crowned king. The Hero enters the contest with the assistance of Erasmus, Rakeesh, and many old friends from previous entries in the series. The Hero competes against competitors, including the Silmarian guard Kokeeno Pookameeso, the warlord Magnum Opus, the hulking Gort, and the warrior Elsa Von Spielburg, who played a significant role in the first game.
As the Rites commence, an unknown assassin begins systematically picking off the contestants. Each contestant is murdered by a poison dagger, and they all are murdered near Dragon Pillars, the objects used to keep the Dragon of Silmaria locked up. After completing the second Rite, defeating the General of the Mercenaries, Rakeesh is attacked by the assassin and, depending on the course of action chosen by the player, either lives or dies. The conspiracy is eventually unraveled and the Dragon, having been released due to the destruction of the Dragon Pillars, is defeated.
The characters Katrina and Erana make a return in this installment, as assistance for defeating the Dragon.
This installment also marks the return of Bruno, a character from the first Quest for Glory game. He is revealed to be the assassin who has been terrorizing the streets of Silmaria, characterized as a quiet, shady character until he reveals himself to the player.
Development
The first four games were intended to indicate the four elements and the four wind directions: in the first game, the player is the Hero from the East, in the second, the hero from the North, etc. Dragon Fire was always planned to be part of the series (whereas Wages of War originally was not), but it would not have been produced if not for fans' enthusiasm and their pleas to Sierra On-Line.
The game originally had a voxel engine, which was later changed to a 3D engine because of hardware limitations. According to Corey Cole, Lori Cole was predominantly responsible for the game's design, as he was preoccupied with programming on the game.
Because of deadline issues and financial pressures, several features were dropped
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest%20for%20Glory%3A%20Shadows%20of%20Darkness
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Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness is an adventure game/role-playing video game hybrid. It is the fourth installment of the Quest for Glory computer game series by Sierra On-Line. It was the first and only game of the series to drop the numerals from the title.
Plot
Shadow of Darkness follows directly on the events of Quest for Glory III: Wages of War. Drawn without warning from victory in Fricana, the Hero arrives without equipment or explanation in the middle of the hazardous Dark One Caves in the distant land of Mordavia, a world full of undead that is "a mix of Slavic folklore and Lovecraftian horror". Upon escaping from the closing cave mouth, he meets a mysterious young woman named Katrina who assists him again several times in his journey. The Hero helps the townspeople with their problems. He encounters several old foes, including the not-quite-dead Ad Avis and the ogress Baba Yaga, and makes several bizarre new allies. The Hero is ultimately coerced into assisting Ad Avis' Dark Master in collecting the Dark Rituals that will allow Avoozl the Dark One (an obvious Cthulhu pastiche, and most likely a reference to the Slavic deity Chernobog) to manifest in Mordavia's world. Naturally, the Hero escapes this control and thwarts their plan, destroying Ad Avis in the process. During the celebration of the Hero's somewhat pyrrhic victory, the wizard Erasmus appears, along with his familiar Fenrus, summoning the Hero to the land of Silmaria.
Gameplay
The gameplay continued with Quest for Glory III'''s graphical, point-and-click interface, and also introduced a new combat system, which introduced a sideways perspective of the fights, and allowed players to check an option to let the computer fight the battles for them.
DevelopmentQuest for Glory IV features darker themes while maintaining the humor of previous games through such methods as incorporating Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre parodies. Revolving around a dark cult summoning an unfathomably large evil, the game was a far cry from earlier villains such as Baba Yaga. Additionally, the undead and Lovecraftian monsters differed significantly from the lighter monsters of earlier games (there were, however, vampiric rabbits reminiscent of Monty Python and the Holy Grail). The game was inspired by gothic fiction, "old horror movies and books about vampires and werewolves".
Development for the game ran late, which forced Sierra to ship the game with inadequate testing. The first version of the game, which appears on floppy discs, is "almost unplayable"; however, the following year's re-release of the game on CD was much improved because a programmer had had a year to address the problems. The GOG digital re-release has since resolved many of the remaining bugs. According to one of the game's directors, Corey Cole, Quest for Glory IV was developed with a budget of $750,000.
A particularly detailed sequence in the game involved the Gypsy Magda gathering information about the hero's future and h
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant%20altitude%20plan%20position%20indicator
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The constant altitude plan position indicator, better known as CAPPI, is a radar display which gives a horizontal cross-section of data at constant altitude. It has been developed by McGill University in Montreal by the Stormy Weather Group to circumvent some problems with the PPI:
Altitude changing with distance to the radar.
Ground echoes problems near the radar.
Definition and history
In 1954, McGill University obtained a new radar (CPS-9) which had a better resolution and used FASE (Fast Azimuth Slow Elevation) to program multi-angle soundings of the atmosphere.
In 1957, Langleben and Gaherty developed a scheme with FASE to keep only the data at a certain height at each angle and scan on 360 degrees. If we look at the diagram, each angle of elevation or PPI has data at height X at a certain distance from the radar. Using the data at the right distance, one forms an annular ring of data at height X. Assembling all the rings coming from the different angles gives you the CAPPI.
The CAPPI is composed of data from each angle that is at the height requested for the cross-section (bold lines in zig-zag on the left diagram). In the early days, the scan data collected where shown directly on the cathodic screen and a photo sensitive device captured each ring as it was completed. Then all those photographed rings were assembled. By 1958, East developed a real time assembly instead of a delayed one. By the mid-1970s, computer developments made it possible to gather data in electronic form and make CAPPIs more easily.
Today, weather radars collect in real-time data on a large number of angles. Many countries such as Canada, UK and Australia, scan a large enough number of angles with their radars to have an almost continuous vertical view (taking into account the radar beam width) and produce CAPPIs. Other countries, like France and United States, use fewer angles and prefer PPIs or composite of maximum reflectivities above a point.
Usage
Above right is an example of a CAPPI at 1.5 km altitude. Looking at the diagram of angles, that depending on the height of the CAPPI, there comes a distance where no data is available. The portion beyond this distance on a CAPPI is then showing data from the lowest PPI. The higher is the CAPPI above ground, the smaller is that PPI zone.
References
Bibliography
David Atlas, Radar in Meteorology: Battan Memorial and 40th Anniversary Radar Meteorology Conference, published by American Meteorological Society, Boston, 1990, 806 pages, , AMS Code RADMET.
Yves Blanchard, Le radar, 1904–2004: histoire d'un siècle d'innovations techniques et opérationnelles , published by Ellipses, Paris, France, 2004
R. J. Doviak et D. S. Zrnic, Doppler Radar and Weather Observations, Academic Press. Second Edition, San Diego Cal., 1993 p. 562.
Roger M. Wakimoto and Ramesh Srivastava, Radar and Atmospheric Science: A Collection of Essays in Honor of David Atlas, publié par l'American Meteorological Society, Boston, August 2003
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queue
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Queue (; ) may refer to:
Queue area, or queue, a line or area where people wait for goods or services
Arts, entertainment, and media
ACM Queue, a computer magazine
The Queue (Sorokin novel), a 1983 novel by Russian author Vladimir Sorokin
The Queue (Abdel Aziz novel), a 2013 novel by Egyptian author Basma Abdel Aziz
Mathematics and technology
Queue (abstract data type), a type of data structure in computer science
Circular queue
Double-ended queue, also known as a deque
Priority queue
FIFO (computing and electronics)
Load (computing) or queue, system load of a computer's operating system
Message queue
Queueing theory, the study of wait lines
Specific queues
Queue for the lying-in-state of Elizabeth II, often referred to as "The Queue"
Other uses
Queue (hairstyle), a Manchurian pigtail
See also
Cue (disambiguation)
FIFO (disambiguation)
First-come, first-served
Q (disambiguation)
Q, the letter
Que (disambiguation)
ja:待ち行列
pl:Kolejka
sv:Kö
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Cox
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Alan or Allan Cox may refer to:
Alan Cox (computer programmer) (born 1968), British computer programmer and Linux developer
Alan Cox (actor) (born 1970), English actor
Alan Cox (footballer) (1920–1993), footballer for Tranmere Rovers
Alan Cox (radio personality) (born 1971), radio host
Allan Cox (author) (1937–2016), American consultant and author
Allan Cox (cricketer) (1873–1896), Barbadian cricketer
Allan Leslie Cox (1927–1996), Canadian politician in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
Allan V. Cox (1926–1987), American geophysicist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH1
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Asian Highway 1 (AH1) is the longest route of the Asian Highway Network, running from Tokyo, Japan via Korea, China, Southeast Asia, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Iran to the border between Turkey and Bulgaria west of Istanbul where it joins end-on with European route E80, running all the way to Lisbon, Portugal.
Japan
The 1200-kilometre section in Japan was added to the system in November 2003. It runs along the following tolled expressways:
Shuto Expressway C1 Inner Circular Route, Edobashi JCT to Tanimachi JCT via Takebashi JCT
Shuto Expressway Route 3 Shibuya Line, Tanimachi JCT to Yoga Exit (Tokyo Interchange)
, Tokyo Interchange to Komaki
, Komaki to Suita via Kyoto
, Suita to Kobe
, Kobe to Hatsukaichi via Hiroshima
Hiroshima Expressway (urban expressway), Hatsukaichi to Hatsukaichi Route 1
Hatsukaichi to Iwakuni
, Iwakuni to Yamaguchi
, Yamaguchi to Shimonoseki
, Shimonoseki to Kitakyushu
, Kitakyushu to Fukuoka
Fukuoka Expressway Route 4
Fukuoka Expressway Route 1
Camellia Line ferry to Busan, South Korea.
From Fukuoka, the Japan–Korea Undersea Tunnel has been proposed to provide a fixed crossing.
South Korea
The section in South Korea mainly follows the Gyeongbu Expressway. The Highway Boundary of South and North Korea.
: Busan-Centre - Busan-Dong-gu
Busan City Route 11: Busan-Dong-gu - Busan-Geumjeong-gu
Gyeongbu Expressway: Busan-Geumjeong-gu - Gyeongju - Daegu - Daejeon - Seoul-Seocho-gu
Seoul City Route 41: Seoul-Seocho-gu - Seoul-Gangnam-gu - Seoul-Yongsan-gu
Namsan 1st tunnel: Seoul-Yongsan-gu - Seoul-Jung-gu
Seoul City Route 21: Seoul-Jung-gu - Seoul-Eunpyeong-gu
National Route 1: Seoul-Eunpyeong-gu - Panmunjeom
North Korea
P'anmunjŏm - Kaesŏng
Pyongyang-Kaesong Motorway: Kaesŏng - P'yŏngyang
Pyongyang-Sinuiju Motorway (Under Construction): P'yŏngyang - Sinŭiju
China
Within Dandong: New Yalu River Bridge - Guomen Avenue - (Dandong Xinqu IC) - Zhangjiabao JCT - Dandong JCT
: Dandong - Shenyang
Within Shenyang: : Xiashengou JCT - Jinbaotai JCT - Beiliguan JCT
: Shenyang - Jinzhou - Beijing
Within Beijing: : Shiyuan JCT - Maju JCT - Shuangyuan JCT - Fangshan Liyuan JCT
: Beijing - Shijiazhuang - Zhengzhou - Xinyang - Wuhan - Changsha - Xiangtan - Guangzhou
Within Guangzhou: : Taihe JCT - Longshan JCT - Leping JCT - Hengjiang JCT
: Guangzhou - Nanning
: Nanning - Youyiguan
Guangzhou - Hong Kong branch
: Taihe JCT - Huocun JCT
: Guangzhou - Shenzhen (Huanggang Port)
Hong Kong
Guangzhou - Hong Kong branch
: Shenzhen Bay Port - Shenzhen Bay Bridge - Lam Tei
: Lam Tei - Yuen Long Highway - San Tin Highway - Lok Ma Chau Control Point
Vietnam
: Hữu Nghị Quan - Đồng Đăng
: Bắc Giang - Hanoi - Thanh Hoá - Diễn Châu
: Vinh - Hà Tĩnh - Đồng Hới - Đông Hà
: Đông Hà - Huế - Đà Nẵng - Hội An - Quảng Ngãi
: Quy Nhơn - Tuy Hòa - Nha Trang
: Nha Trang - Cam Ranh
: Cam Ranh - Tuy Phong
: Tuy Phong - Phan Thiết - Dầu Giây
: Dầu Giây - Long Thành - Phú Hữu
Connection
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20H.%20Cormen
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Thomas H. Cormen is the co-author of Introduction to Algorithms, along with Charles Leiserson, Ron Rivest, and Cliff Stein. In 2013, he published a new book titled Algorithms Unlocked. He is an emeritus professor of computer science at Dartmouth College and former Chairman of the Dartmouth College Department of Computer Science. Between 2004 and 2008 he directed the Dartmouth College Writing Program. His research interests are algorithm engineering, parallel computing, and speeding up computations with high latency. In 2022, he was elected as a Democratic member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
Early life and education
Thomas H. Cormen was born in New York City in 1956. He grew up in Oceanside, New York.
He received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University in June 1978.
He then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned his master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in May 1986 with a thesis on "Concentrator Switches for Routing Messages in Parallel Computers" and his PhD with a thesis on "Virtual Memory for Data-Parallel Computing" in February 1993.
From July 2004 through June 2008, he was the director of the Dartmouth Institute for Writing and Rhetoric.
Honors and awards
During his career he received several honors and awards:
Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu.
National Science Foundation Fellowship.
Best Presentation Award, 1986 International Conference on Parallel Processing, St. Charles, Illinois.
Distinguished Presentation Award, 1987 International Conference on Parallel Processing, St. Charles, Illinois.
Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award in Computer Science and Data Processing, Association of American Publishers, 1990.
Dartmouth College Class of 1962 Faculty Fellowship, 1995–1996.
Jacobus Family Fellow, Dartmouth College, 1998–1999.
McLane Family Fellow, Dartmouth College, 2004–2005.
Bibliography
Notes
External links
Home page of Thomas H. Cormen
Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. Cormen
Living people
American computer scientists
Dartmouth College faculty
Computer science educators
1956 births
MIT School of Engineering alumni
People from Oceanside, New York
Scientists from New York (state)
Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
American textbook writers
21st-century American politicians
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The Department of Transportation is a part of the Government of New Brunswick. It is charged with the maintenance of the provincial highway network and the management of the province's automobile fleet.
The department was established in 1967 when Premier Louis Robichaud split the Department of Public Works and Highways. In 2012, it returned to these roots when it was merged with most of the Department of Supply and Services to form a new Department of Transportation and Infrastructure.
Ministers
* Williams continued with responsibility for this department when it was merged into the new Department of Transportation & Infrastructure.
References
External links
Department of Transportation
Transportation
1967 establishments in New Brunswick
Defunct transport organizations based in Canada
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataMirror
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DataMirror Corporation, founded in 1993, is a computer software company based in Markham, Ontario, Canada with offices in several countries. The company provides real-time data integration, protection, and Java database products, and in 2006 claimed to have over 2100 business customers in industries including healthcare, retail, telecommunications, and financial services. As of 2007, the company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the IBM Corporation.
History
1993 - DataMirror was founded
1996 - DataMirror had its initial public offering
1997 - DataMirror acquired SQLPump from SoftQuest Corp.
1998 - DataMirror acquired mpc-Software GmbH, a software distributor located in Frankfurt, Germany
2000 - DataMirror purchased assets of Constellar Corp, makers of Constellar Hub
2001 - DataMirror acquired BDI Systems, Inc. which builds bi-directional, Java-based, data transformation software that exchanges data between XML, relational database and text formats.
2003 - DataMirror completed acquisition of PointBase, makers of a Java database
2003 - DataMirror acquired assets of bankrupt SmartSales, maker of sales force automation products
2004 - DataMirror divested interest in Idion Technology Holdings, of South Africa
2007 - On 16 Jul 2007, IBM purchased all of the outstanding DataMirror common shares at a price of C$27.00 per common share payable in cash, amounting to total consideration of approximately C$170 million (approximately US$161 million).
2007 - 04 Sept 2007, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced it had completed its acquisition of DataMirror.
2012 - 04 Jan 2012, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced it had completed its sale of its iCluster software business to Rocket Software, a privately held company based in Waltham, MA. iCluster software was originally acquired by IBM when it acquired DataMirror Corporation in 2007.
Products
Transformation Server - Real-time bi-directional replication for loading a data warehouse, synchronizing data between existing systems and Web applications, or distributing data between different applications for decision-making
iCluster - aims to ensure high availability of business applications and provide disaster avoidance and protection for IBM i systems
LiveAudit - provides an audit trail of data changes aimed at reducing fraud, improving customer service and accountability, ensuring compliance with industry regulations, and managing and protecting data assets
iReflect - provides a consistent, updated view of information by distributing and consolidating data in real-time between Oracle databases
Transformation Server/Event Server – detects events as they occur in production applications and creates business information to feed into the message queues of several enterprise application integration (EAI), business process management (BPM) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) environments
PointBase - a SQL92/99 JDBC-compliant Java relational database.
See also
List of mergers and acquisitions by IBM
External links
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The on-board data handling (OBDH) subsystem of a spacecraft is the subsystem which carries and stores data between the various electronics units and the ground segment, via the telemetry, tracking and command (TT&C) subsystem.
In the earlier decades of the space industry, the OBDH function was usually considered a part of the TT&C, particularly before computers became common on board. In recent years, the OBDH function has expanded, so much that it is generally considered a separate subsystem to the TT&C, which is these days concerned solely with the RF link between the ground and the spacecraft.
Functions commonly performed by the OBDH are:
Reception, error correction and decoding of telecommands (TCs) from the TT&C
Forwarding of telecommands for execution by the target Avionics
Storage of telecommands until a defined time ('time tagged' TCs)
Storage of telecommands until a defined position ('position tagged' TCs)
Measurement of discrete values such as voltages, temperatures, binary statuses etc.
Collection of measurements made by other units and subsystems via one or more data busses, such as MIL-STD-1553
Real-time buffering of the measurements in a data pool
Provision of a processing capability to achieve the aims of the mission, often using the data collected
Collation and encoding of pre-defined telemetry frames
Storage of telemetry frames in a mass memory
Downlinking of telemetry to the ground, via the TT&C
Management and distribution of time signals
Telecommand reception
The OBDH receives the TCs as a synchronous PCM data stream from the TT&C
Telecommand execution
The desired effect of the telecommand may be just to change a value in the on-board software, or to open/close a latching relay to reconfigure or power a unit, or maybe to fire a thruster or main engine. Whichever effect is desired, the OBDH subsystem will facilitate this either by sending an electric pulse from the OBC, or by passing the command through a data bus to the unit which will eventually execute the TC. Some TCs are part of a large block of commands, used to upload updated software or data tables to fine tune the operation of the spacecraft, or to deal with anomalies.
Time-tagged telecommands
It is often required to delay a command's execution until a certain time. This is often because the spacecraft is not in view of the ground station, but may also be for reasons of precision. The OBC will store the TC until the required time in a queue, and then execute it.
Position-tagged telecommands
Similar to time-tagged commands are commands that are stored for execution until the spacecraft is at a specified position. These are most useful for earth observation satellites, which need to start an observation over a specified point of the Earth's surface. The spacecraft, often in sun-synchronous orbits, take a precisely repeating track over the earth. Observations which are taken from the same position may be compared using interferometry, if they are in clos
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Rami Said Malek (; , ; born May 12, 1981) is an American actor. He is known for portraying computer hacker Elliot Alderson in the USA Network television series Mr. Robot (2015–2019), for which he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and as Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury in the biographical film Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), for which he won numerous accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, becoming the first actor of Egyptian heritage to win in that category. Time magazine named Malek one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019.
Born in Torrance, California, to Egyptian immigrant parents, he studied theater before acting in plays in New York City. He had supporting roles in film and television, including the Fox sitcom The War at Home (2005–2007), the HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), and the Night at the Museum film trilogy (2006–2014). Since his breakthrough, Malek has starred in the crime film The Little Things (2021), played the main antagonist Lyutsifer Safin in the James Bond film No Time to Die (2021), and portrayed David Hill in Christopher Nolan's biographical film Oppenheimer (2023).
Early life and education
Rami Said Malek was born in Torrance, California, on May 12, 1981, the son of Egyptian immigrant parents Nelly Abdel-Malek and Said Malek (d. 2006). He has said he is also "an eighth Greek". His parents and older sister left Cairo in 1978 after his father, a travel agent and tour guide, became intrigued with Western visitors. They settled in Sherman Oaks, mostly staying in the San Fernando Valley. As a child, Malek rarely ventured into Hollywood, saying "I grew up in the San Fernando Valley in LA, but somehow, I had no idea that I lived right next to Hollywood... I truly thought that that was a million miles away, and it's just a 10-minute drive". His father sold insurance and was a travel agent, while his mother worked as an accountant. Malek was raised in his family's Coptic Orthodox Christian faith, and spoke Egyptian Arabic at home until the age of four. He has an identical twin brother named Sami, who is younger by four minutes and later became an ESL and English teacher. His older sister, Yasmine, is an ER doctor. His parents emphasized to their children the importance of preserving their Egyptian roots, and his father would wake him up in the middle of the night to talk on the phone to his Arabic-speaking extended family in Samalut.
As a first-generation American, Malek found it difficult to assimilate during his childhood because of cultural differences, even spending most of his childhood having his name mispronounced: "It only took me 'til high school where I found the confidence to tell everybody, 'No, my name is Rami.' It's a very upsetting thing to think about, that I didn't have the confidence to correct anyone at that point." As a result, he said it was difficult to form a self-identity as a child and gravitated towards "creating characters
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Monte Cristo was a French computer game developer and publisher, based in Paris. It was established in 1995 by former Credit Suisse First Boston vice-president Jean-Marc de Fety and former Mars & Co strategy senior consultant Jean-Cristophe Marquis. The company was led by Jean-Christophe Marquis and Jérome Gastaldi since 2002. Monte Cristo declared bankruptcy in May 2010 following poor sales of Cities XL.
The first training program was followed by Wall Street Trader, which was named "best educational software" by the European Commission, among others, for its accurate simulation of international stock market conditions, and is one of the most successful games in this genre. Next, the company developed Start Up 2000, which allows players to realistically start and run their own business.
Games developed and published
References
External links
Monte Cristo Multimedia at MobyGames
Video game companies established in 1995
Video game companies disestablished in 2010
Defunct video game companies of France
Video game development companies
Companies based in Paris
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vouli%20Tileorasi
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Voulí Tileórasi (, Parliament TV) is a Greek network dedicated to airing non-stop coverage of government proceedings and public affairs programming. The name comes from Greek Βουλή Voulí, meaning 'assembly', 'council', or 'parliament'; and Tileórasi, meaning television.
Overview
The primary aim of the channel is to give each citizen direct access to the inner workings of the Hellenic Parliament. It broadcasts live all sessions of parliament and the meetings of the department of parliamentary recess. Also broadcast recorded not live, the work of the various permanent parliamentary committees. Voulí TV broadcasts a daily parliamentary newscast that gives briefings on the day-to-day business of parliament, as well as information on democratic institutions and the parliamentary history of Greece.
It also features updates on the European Parliament with special emphasis on the Greek members of parliament. The network also features non-political type programming, a block of cultural programming airs daily from 6pm-Midnight, with documentaries (covering various topics such as the arts, society, nature, history and science), films, theatre, dance, opera and classical music.
Voulí TV is the only channel of its kind in Europe that broadcasts terrestrially, FTA without the need for any special equipment or subscription fees. The signal is transmitted from 19 broadcast centres on the country which enable it to reach over 50% of the population. Efforts are underway to increase transmission so that the entire country can receive the signal. Voulí is also available on satellite, the signal transmits on Hotbird 3 and HellasSat.
Programming
The main objective of the TV channel is to give every citizen, direct access to the inner workings of the Greek Parliament. Broadcast live, all sessions of Parliament, and the part of the parliamentary progress. Also on the broadcast channel, but no live recordings works of various standing committees.
Morning Reading - Information broadcast on the parliamentary activities of the day. Airs Monday to Friday at 9-10am.
Notebooks of parliamentary speech - Emission series based on the eponymous edition of the Foundation of the Hellenic Parliament. Presented and discussed major Greek political speeches of our modern history.
Parliamentary Stories - Documented facts of modern and contemporary history since the foundation of the Greek state as today, that took place in the Parliament.
What the law says - Discussion with parties rapporteurs for the legislative work.
Membership Card - Information series programs for lives in the European Union.
External links
Official Site
Hellenic Television
Television channels in Greece
Greek-language television stations
Legislature broadcasters
Hellenic Parliament
Television channels and stations established in 1999
1999 establishments in Greece
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krugle
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Krugle is a search engine that allows computer programmers and other developers to search Open Source repositories to locate open source code, and quickly share the code with other programmers on the internet. It finished its beta phase and went live on June 14, 2006.
The engine searches Apache, JavaDocs, SourceForge, and Wikipedia, amongst other sources. Repositories can be browsed, as well as project overviews being available.
Plugins to assist user searches are available for Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer, as well as user tools such as bookmarking and tagging.
On February 17, 2009, it was announced that Aragon Consulting Group would acquire the Krugle assets and technologies although the Krugle website would remain as a free resource.
See also
Koders
Ohloh
Notes
External links
Wired Article about Krugle (February 2006)
Code search engines
Internet search engines
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holidays%20in%20Greece%20TV
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Holidays in Greece TV is a Greek satellite network, launched in the fall of 2004, focusing on travel and tourism. Its aim is to promote the Greek tourism industry, which is one of the main industries in Greece along with shipping.
Holidays in Greece TV is the first FTA satellite channel launched in Greece. It is available on Hotbird 6 and Hellas Sat 2 which cover all of Europe and parts of Africa and Asia. It is also available online through jumptv.com, a subscription-based service. Various local TV channels all around Greece broadcast parts of the programming from Holidays in Greece TV, including Crete, Messinia, Korinthos, Rhodes, Kefalonia, Serres, and Drama. In addition, the channel is available on local cable in Skiathos, Skopelos, Ios, Fthiotida, and Arahova.
Programming
Programming includes documentaries and programmes covering specific topics such as nightlife and dining. The network provides information about cultural hotspots such as caves, monasteries, museums, traditional villages and ancient sites. Holidays in Greece TV also delivers a daily tourist news program providing up to date information from all around the country.
Specific programs include:
Aroma Elladas - Daily lifestyle program.
Discovering Greece - Documentary program showcasing tourist destinations in Greece.
Η Gh Tis Eυforias - Agricultural news and information.
Where to Stay - Program gives information on hotels, restaurants and bars for the specific area mentioned in the Discovering Greece episode that precedes the show.
References
Television channels in Greece
Television channels and stations established in 2004
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ConnNet was a packet switched data network operated by the Southern New England Telephone Company serving the U.S. state of Connecticut.
ConnNet was the nation's first local public packet switching network when it was launched on March 11, 1985. Users could access services such as Dow Jones News Retrieval, CompuServe, Dialcom, GEnie, Delphi, Eaasy Sabre, NewsNet, PeopleLink, the National Library of Medicine, and BIX. ConnNet could also be used to access other national and international packet networks, such as Tymnet and ACCUNET. Large companies also connected their mainframe computers to ConnNet allowing employees access to the mainframes from home. The network is no longer in operation.
Hardware
The X.25 network was based on hardware from Databit, Inc. consisting of three EDX-P Network Nodes that performed switching and were located in Hartford, New Haven and Stamford. Databit also supplied 23 ANP 2520 Advanced Network Processors each of which provided the system with a point of presence, a network control center and modems. Customers would order leased line connections into the network for host computers running at 4,800 to 56,000 bits per second (bit/s). Terminals would connect over a leased line from 1,200 to 9,600 bit/s synchronous, 300 to 2,400 bit/s asynchronous or using dial-up connections from 300 to 1,200 bit/s. The connection to Tymnet was established over an X.75 based 9,600 bit/s analog link from the ConnNet Hartford node to Tymnet's Bloomfield node.
See also
Southern New England Telephone (SNET)
References
Southern New England Telephone (Mar 13, 1985). SNET; Offers its Connecticut customers the first local packet switched data network in the nation. Press Release
ConnNet Online Help. Accessed Jan 07, 1991
AT&T (Jan 29, 1986). Untitled. Press Release
SNET / Packet/PC (Nov 12, 1987). PC users can link to IBM mainframes with Packet/ PC software and SNET's Connect. Press Release
Scully, Sharon (June 2, 1986). "Protocol Conversion; SNET heralds services". Network World, p 4.
Databit (May 27, 1986). DATABIT; Announces point-of-sale terminal application with Southern New England Telephone. Press Release
Strauss, Paul R. (Jan 1 1987). "Feature 1986: Information networking's quiet watershed year in review". Data Communications, p 169.
1985 establishments in Connecticut
Communications in Connecticut
History of the Internet
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X.75 is an International Telecommunication Union (ITU) (formerly CCITT) standard specifying the interface for interconnecting two X.25 networks. X.75 is almost identical to X.25. The significant difference is that while X.25 specifies the interface between a subscriber (Data Terminal Equipment (DTE)) and the network (Data Circuit-terminating Equipment (DCE)), X.75 specifies the interface between two networks (Signalling Terminal Equipment (STE)), and refers to these two STE as STE-X and STE-Y. This gives rise to some subtle differences in the protocol compared with X.25. For example, X.25 only allows network-generated reset and clearing causes to be passed from the network (DCE) to the subscriber (DTE), and not the other way around, since the subscriber is not a network. However, at the interconnection of two X.25 networks, either network might reset or clear an X.25 call, so X.75 allows network-generated reset and clearing causes to be passed in either direction.
Although outside the scope of both X.25 and X.75, which define external interfaces to an X.25 network, X.75 can also be found as the protocol operating between switching nodes inside some X.25 networks.
Further reading
External links
ITU-T Recommendation X.75
Network layer protocols
Wide area networks
ITU-T recommendations
ITU-T X Series Recommendations
X.25
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netfrastructure
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Netfrastructure is both a web application development and database tool for Java and the name of the company which produces it. It was founded by Jim Starkey, a database architect. In 2006, MySQL AB acquired Netfrastructure.
Netfrastructure database was the basis for the Falcon storage engine of the MySQL database.
References
External links
Netfrastructure web site [dead]
Netfrastructure web site [archive]
Programming tools
Information technology companies of the United States
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Ohio Scientific, Inc. (OSI, originally Ohio Scientific Instruments, Inc.), was a privately owned American computer company based in Ohio that built and marketed computer systems, expansions, and software from 1975 to 1986. Their best-known products were the Challenger series of microcomputers and Superboard single-board computers. The company was the first to market microcomputers with hard disk drives in 1977.
The company was incorporated as Ohio Scientific Instruments in Hiram, Ohio, by husband and wife Mike and Charity Cheiky and business associate Dale A. Dreisbach in 1975. Originally a maker of electronic teaching aids, the company leaned quickly into microcomputer production, after their original educational products failed in the marketplace while their computer-oriented products sparked high interest in the hobbyist community. The company moved to Aurora, Ohio, occupying a 72,000-square-foot factory. The company reached the $1 million revenue mark in 1976; by the end of 1980, the company generated $18 million in revenue. Ohio Scientific's manufacturing presence likewise expanded into greater Ohio as well as California and Puerto Rico.
In 1980, the company was acquired by telecommunications conglomerate M/A-COM of Burlington, Massachusetts, for $5 million. M-A/COM soon consolidated the company's product lines, in order to focus their new subsidiary on manufacturing business systems. During their tenure under M-A/COM, Ohio Scientific was renamed M/A-COM Office Systems. M-A/COM struggled financially themselves and sold the division in 1983 to Kendata Inc. of Trumbull, Connecticut, who immediately renamed it back to Ohio Scientific. Kendata, previously only a corporate reseller of computer systems, failed to maintain Ohio Scientific's manufacturing lines and subsequently sold the division to AB Fannyudde of Sweden. The flagship Aurora factory, by then only employing 16 people, was finally shut down in October 1983.
Beginnings (1975–1976)
Ohio Scientific was founded in Hiram, Ohio, in 1975 by Dale A. Dreisbach ( 1909 – June 16, 1987) and husband and wife Michael "Mike" Cheiky (January 1, 1952 – December 7, 2017) and Charity Cheiky (born 1954). Mike Cheiky had worked at the Solon-based Ohio Nuclear Company—makers of medical equipment—as director of engineering, while Charity Cheiky had been employed at Western Reserve Academy as a professor of math and computer science. Dreisbach meanwhile was a chairman and professor emeritus of Hiram College's chemistry department; the Cheikys had met at Hiram College. The three founded Ohio Scientific with between $5,000 and $25,000 of start-up capital.
The company was originally outfitted from the Cheiky's garage and was dedicated to the production of electronic teaching aids. The company's original name—Ohio Scientific Instruments, Inc.—reflected this initial purpose. The first products the company released included a calculator that also taught the basics of statistics and a single-board microcomput
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Jim Starkey (born January 6, 1949 in Illinois) is a database architect responsible for developing InterBase, the first relational database to support multi-versioning, the blob column type, type event alerts, arrays and triggers. Starkey is the founder of several companies, including the web application development and database tool company Netfrastructure and NuoDB.
Education and career
Jim Starkey graduated from University of Wisconsin at Madison, Wisconsin, with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics. After graduating, Starkey worked at Computer Corporation of America on a research project to build a database machine for ARPAnet.
Starkey's first major computer language was STOP, an assembler emulator
written in 1965 and used by IIT for undergraduate instruction. Starkey joined Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1975. At DEC, he created the DATATRIEVE family of products, the DEC Standard Relational Interface, VAX Rdb/ELN, and designed the software architecture for DATATRIEVE'S database. He released DATATRIEVE Version 1 for the PDP-11 in 1977, VAX DATATRIEVE in 1981 as part of the VAX Information Architecture, Rdb/ELN, the Digital Standard Relational Interface, and a variety of uncommercialized database-centric and 4GL proofs of concept. Also at DEC, Starkey invented the BLOB, a “binary large object.”
In 1984 he founded Groton Database Systems which became InterBase Software Corporation in 1986. Interbase was sold to Ashton-Tate in 1991, which in turn was sold to Borland. Borland subsequently incorporated InterBase in its Delphi product. After leaving Interbase, Starkey began a series of attempts to productize innovative database technology, including Netfrastructure. He is known fondly as "The Wolf" to Firebird SQL developers (which is an open source branch from InterBase v6.0).
In 2000, Starkey founded Netfrastructure, Inc., a platform for web applications including a relational database, integrated search, a Java virtual machine, and a context-sensitive page generator. Netfrastructure was acquired by MySQL and Starkey became a senior software architect at MySQL, where he started work on Falcon - a new transactional database engine based on the Netfrastructure codebase. He left MySQL in June 2008, a few months after Sun purchased MySQL AB, and Falcon never went beyond beta release.
In 2008, Jim Starkey incorporated a database company called NimbusDB. The name was formally changed to NuoDB in 2011. He is currently working on a new database model called AmorphousDB.
Patents
Jim Starkey has been issued the following United States patents:
“Database management system,” patented in 2012.
“Database server system with methods for alerting clients of occurrence of database server events of interest to clients.”
“Method and apparatus for generating web pages from templates”
Personal life
Starkey is married to Ann Harrison, who is “a contributor to InterBase’s development.”
External links
See Dr. Dobb's Portal for a November 2007 interview
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Context management is a dynamic computer process that uses 'subjects' of data in one application, to point to data resident in a separate application also containing the same subject.
Context management allows users to choose a subject once in one application, and have all other applications containing information on that same subject 'tune' to the data they contain, thus eliminating the need to redundantly select the subject in the varying applications.
An example from the healthcare industry where Context Management is widely used, multiple applications operating "in context" through use of a context manager would allow a user to select a patient (i.e., the subject) in one application and when the user enters the other application, that patient's information is already pre-fetched and presented, obviating the need to re-select the patient in the second application. The further the user 'drills' into the application (e.g., test, result, diagnosis, etc.) all context aware applications continue to drill-down into the data, in context with the user's requests.
Context management is gaining in prominence in healthcare due to the creation of the Clinical Context Object Workgroup standard committee (CCOW) which has created a standardized protocol enabling applications to function in a 'context aware' state.
Context management is gaining in the Business Rule market as well. Knowing the context of any information exchange is critical. For example, a seller may need to know such things as: is this shipment urgent, is this a preferred customer, do they need English or Spanish, what model is the part for? Without context, mistakes and run-on costs rapidly ensue.
In automating information integration, knowing and defining context of use is the single most pervasive and important factor. This context mechanism is at the heart of allowing users to quantify what their context factors are precisely, this removes the guesswork from business transaction exchanges between business transaction information management partners and allows them to formalize their collaboration agreements exactly.
References
External links
OASIS Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM) TC
CCOW Resources
Standards
Computer file formats
XML-based standards
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DCB (Digital Control Bus, Digital Connection Bus or Digital Communication Bus in some sources) was a proprietary data interchange interface by Roland Corporation, developed in 1981 and introduced in 1982 in their Roland Juno-60 and Roland Jupiter-8 products. DCB functions were basically the same as MIDI, but unlike MIDI (which is capable of transmitting a wide array of information), DCB could provide note on/off, program change and VCF/VCA control only. DCB-to-MIDI adapters were produced for a number of early Roland products. The DCB interface was made in 2 variants, the earlier one used 20-pin sockets and cables, later switching to the 14-pin Amphenol DDK connector vaguely resembling a parallel port.
Supporting equipment
DCB was quickly replaced by MIDI in the early 1980s which Roland helped co-develop with Sequential Circuits. The only DCB-equipped instruments produced were the Roland Jupiter-8 and JUNO-60; Roland produced at least two DCB sequencers, the JSQ-60 and the MSQ-700. The latter was capable of saving eight sequences, or a total of 3000 notes, and was capable of transmitting and receiving data via MIDI (though it could not convert signals between DCB and MIDI, nor could it use both protocols simultaneously). Roland later released the MD-8, a rather large black box capable of converting MIDI signals to DCB and vice versa. While this allows note on/off to be sent to a JUNO-60 by MIDI, the solution pales in comparison to the full MIDI implementation on the JUNO-60's successor, the Roland Juno-106. A few other companies offer similar conversion boxes to connect DCB instruments to regular MIDI systems for the support of vintage synthesizers in modern sound production environments; one of the more fully-featured devices being the Kenton PRO-DCB Mk3 which has some bi-directional control limited to a few parameters.
Implementation
Following information comes from the Roland JUNO-60 Service Notes, First Edition, page 17–19.
Physical connection
DCB uses a special 14-wire connection. The first 7 consist of 3 wires in each direction plus a shared ground. The signals are standard TTL 0-5V, except the Rx Busy output, which is an open collector pulldown.
1. Rx Busy
2. Rx Data
3. Rx Clock
4. Ground
5. Tx Busy
6. Tx Data
7. Tx Clock
The remaining 7 wires may be used for special purposes.
8. Unreg
9. VCA Lower
10. VCA Upper
11. VCF Lower
12. VCF upper
13. VCO-2
14. VCO-1
These are not used in the JUNO-60.
Pinout
View from rear panel. Amphenol DDK connector.
7 6 5 4 3 2 1
14 13 12 11 10 9 8
Serial data
The DCB is a standard asynchronous serial stream (using an 8251A IC in the JUNO-60), LSB first, 8 data bits, 2 stop bits, odd parity, and a Baud rate of 31.25 kHz.
Message (Block) Structure)
DCB data is sent in short blocks messages consisting of an identifier, one or more data codes, and an end mark. Blocks may be sent intermittently (JP-8, OP-8) or continuously (JUNO-60), in which case end marks are not used.
Ide
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Alick Edwards Glennie (1925–2003) was a British computer scientist, most famous for having developed Autocode, which many people regard as the first ever computer compiler.
Glennie worked with Alan Turing on several projects, including the Manchester Mark 1.
Glennie subsequently worked at Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE) where he was responsible in the early 1960s in developing FORTRAN compilers for several large computers inc. IBM 709, IBM 7090, IBM 7030 ("Stretch") and also ICT Atlas. He pioneered a method of developing the compiler for the Atlas on the IBM 7030 in advance of delivery of the Atlas, using an interpretive technique.
References
External links
A move by move version of Turing and Glennie's chess game
British computer scientists
1925 births
2003 deaths
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltech%20Cosmic%20Cube
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The Caltech Cosmic Cube was a parallel computer, developed by Charles Seitz and Geoffrey C Fox from 1981 onward. It was the first working hypercube built.
It was an early attempt to capitalise on VLSI to speed up scientific calculations at a reasonable cost. Using commodity hardware and an architecture suited to the specific task (QCD), Fox and Seitz demonstrated that this was indeed possible.
In 1984 a group at Intel including Justin Rattner and Cleve Moler developed the Intel iPSC inspired by the Cosmic Cube.
In 1987 several people in the group formed a company called Parasoft to commercialize the message passing interface developed for the Cosmic Cube.
Characteristics
64 Intel 8086/87 processors
128kB of memory per processor
6-dimensional hypercube network, i. e. each processor can directly exchange data with six other processors.
References
The Torus Routing Chip
Parallel Computer Archival Documents
John Apostolakis, Clive Baillie, Robert W. Clayton, Hong Ding, Jon Flower, Geoffrey C. Fox, Thomas D. Gottschalk, Bradford H. Hager, Herbert B. Keller, Adam K. Kolawa, Steve W. Otto, Toshiro Tanimoto, Eric F. van de Velde, J. Barhen, J. R. Einstein, and C. C. Jorgensen. 1989. "Supercomputer applications of the hypercube"—In Supercomputing systems: architectures, design, and performance, Svetlana P. Kartashev and Steven I. Kartashev (Eds.). Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York, NY, USA:1989 Pages 480–577.
External links
The C Programmer's Abbreviated Guide to Multicomputer Programming
Parallel computing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelving%20buffer
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A shelving buffer is a technique used in computer processors to increase the efficiency of superscalar processors. It allows for multiple instructions to be dispatched at once regardless of the data dependencies between those instructions. This allows for out-of-order execution to occur which increases the throughput of the microprocessor.
Background
A superscalar processor allows the execution of a number of instructions simultaneously in the core of the processor itself, although this behavior is not to be confused with a multi-processor system. Most modern processors are superscalar. In a superscalar processor multiple instructions are dispatched from the same thread. Multi-core processors contain multiple processors all executing separate threads.
Problems with data dependencies
Executing instructions in parallel (i.e. simultaneously) raises problems with data dependencies, meaning that some instructions may be dependent on the results of others, and hence care must be taken to execute in the correct order.
Take for example these sequence of instructions:
r1 = r2 + r3
r7 = r1 + r4
The update to r7 introduces a (Read After Write) data dependency. The first line of instructions must complete before the second begins execution, as r7 requires the correct value of r1 (register 1) to be known prior to execution. This type of instruction cannot be executed concurrently or simultaneously, the order-of-operations is implicitly serial.
How it works
With a superscalar processor, the instruction window of the processor fills up with a number of instructions (known as the issue rate). Depending on the scheme that the superscalar processor uses to dispatch these instruction from the window to the execution core of the CPU, there may be problems if there is a dependency not unlike the one shown above.
Consider an instruction window 3 instructions wide, containing i1, i2, i3 (instructions 1,2 & 3). Suppose that i2 is dependent on an instruction that has not yet finished executing, and it cannot be executed yet.
Without the use of a shelving buffer, the superscalar processor will execute i1, wait until i2 can be executed and then execute i2 and i3 simultaneously.
However, with the use of a shelving buffer, the instruction window will be emptied into shelving buffers regardless of contents. The processor will then search for an appropriate number of instructions in the shelving buffers that can be executed in parallel (i.e. with no dependencies).
Hence the processor has a greater chance of running the maximum number of instructions simultaneously, and maximising throughput.
References
Parallel computing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCM
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The word FCM may refer to:
Science and technology
FCM (chemotherapy), a chemotherapy regimen
Flow cytometry
Food contact materials
Fuel-containing material
Flight control module, a computer that assists in the control of an aircraft
Computing
Firebase Cloud Messaging
Flash cache module
FlashCopy Manager
Flash Core Module
Fuzzy C-means clustering, an algorithm
Fuzzy cognitive map
Organizations
Federation of Canadian Municipalities
First Congregational Methodist Church, a Christian denomination
Florida Citrus Mutual, an American trade group
Friends of Cathedral Music, a British organisation
Mexican Railway (Spanish: )
, a French shipbuilder
Sport
1. FC Magdeburg, a German football club
FC Metz, a French football club
FC Midtjylland, a Danish football club
FC Mulhouse, a French football club
Moldavian Cycling Federation (Romanian: )
Other uses
Futures commission merchant
Flying Cloud Airport (IATA and LID codes), in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, US
Food Chain Magnate, 2015 strategy board game
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Edyvean
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John Edyvean was a British engineer from Cornwall who developed an inclined plane system, to reduce the necessity for locks on the UK canal network.
In 1773, during the reign of George III, a plan was made to create a canal from Mawgan Porth, through various parishes including St Mawgan, St. Columb Major, Little Colan, and St. Columb Minor, to Porth. The project was meant to convey goods from the coast inland and eventually to the south coast.
However, Edyvean died before the project was completed at a cost of £100,000. An attempt to revive the scheme was made in 1829 by a Mr Retallick of Liskeard, but this too amounted to nothing.
Edyvean died in the 1780s. An obituary of the time in a monthly review related:
"In the year 1779 he had finished the canal up to the town of St. columb..... in that year I went with some friends to visit this work. We overtook this poor old man groping his way up the inside of his canal, and leading a miserable little horse in his hand. We joined him and he conducted us to all the parts of his ingeneous work with the intelligence of one who had formed the whole, inch by inch, and this alone can account for the ease and safety with which in his blind state he passed through every part of it. We dined together and he gave us a little history of his life"
See also
Bude Canal.
St. Columb Canal
Canal inclined plane
References
'The Canals of South West England' by Charles Hadfield ()
External links
History of Bude Canal
British inventors
Engineers from Cornwall
Inventors from Cornwall
1780s deaths
Year of birth unknown
English civil engineers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LysKOM
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LysKOM is a KOM-based conferencing system developed by the Lysator Academic Computer Society at Linköping University and Linköping Institute of Technology. It can be seen as a cross between news and e-mail, but with the presence and speed of IRC or IM-networks. The most common client is the LysKOM Emacs Lisp Client, but among others a WWW-based client also exists. The server and most clients are released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, and thus free software. The LysKOM protocol uses port 4894.
Protocol implementations exist for Python, Perl and Pike. Based on these frameworks, a number of programs for bridging LysKOM with other systems have been written. Notable among these is the Python software for importing and exporting e-mail. Used as a whole, it enables the LysKOM system to act as a primitive list manager. By configuring the exporter to not reexport imported e-mail it is also possible to use LysKOM more like a multi-user e-mail client for posting to mailing lists.
External links
The LysKOM system
The LysKOM Emacs Lisp Client
Note: This page is about the old distribution system. If you want to get a modern client which is being kept up to date with the changes in the servers, use the Daily Build link on the page, referring http://magnus.gustavsson.se/lyskom/beta/src/
LysKOM Protocol A
The Python LysKOM Protocol implementation
Application layer protocols
Linköping University
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid%20Meier%27s%20Antietam%21
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Sid Meier's Antietam! is a real-time computer wargame designed by Sid Meier, the co-founder of Firaxis Games, then released in December 1999. It is the sequel to the 1997 Sid Meier's Gettysburg!.
Gameplay
The game allows the player to control either the Confederate or Union troops during the Battle of Antietam of the American Civil War. It can be played as a single scenario, or as a campaign of linked scenarios, either recounting the original history or exploring alternate possibilities.
Development
The game was not released through retail stores. The staff of Computer Gaming World summarized it as "a grand experiment by Firaxis to test the popularity of online-only distribution for commercial releases."
Reception
Antietam! received "favorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
The game was a runner-up for Computer Games Strategy Plus 1999 "Wargame of the Year" award. The staff wrote, "Another battle, another victory for this thoroughly entertaining wargame 'for the masses.'" Conversely, the staff of Computer Gaming World named it the best wargame game of 1999. They wrote, "Antietam is the epitome of a Sid Meier design: intensely absorbing and wickedly punishing."
See also
Battle of Antietam (video game)
References
External links
1999 video games
American Civil War video games
Computer wargames
Firaxis Games games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Real-time tactics video games
Antietam!
Video game sequels
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in the United States
Windows games
Windows-only games
Battle of Antietam
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neovascularization
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Neovascularization is the natural formation of new blood vessels (neo- + vascular + -ization), usually in the form of functional microvascular networks, capable of perfusion by red blood cells, that form to serve as collateral circulation in response to local poor perfusion or ischemia.
Growth factors that inhibit neovascularization include those that affect endothelial cell division and differentiation. These growth factors often act in a paracrine or autocrine fashion; they include fibroblast growth factor, placental growth factor, insulin-like growth factor, hepatocyte growth factor, and platelet-derived endothelial growth factor.
There are three different pathways that comprise neovascularization: (1) vasculogenesis, (2) angiogenesis, and (3) arteriogenesis.
Three pathways of neovascularization
Vasculogenesis
Vasculogenesis is the de novo formation of blood vessels. This primarily occurs in the developing embryo with the development of the first primitive vascular plexus, but also occurs to a limited extent with post-natal vascularization. Embryonic vasculogenesis occurs when endothelial cells precursors (hemangioblasts) begin to proliferate and migrate into avascular areas. There, they aggregate to form the primitive network of vessels characteristic of embryos. This primitive vascular system is necessary to provide adequate blood flow to cells, supplying oxygen and nutrients, and removing metabolic wastes.
Angiogenesis
Angiogenesis is the most common type of neovascularization seen in development and growth, and is important to both physiological and pathological processes. Angiogenesis occurs through the formation of new vessels from pre-existing vessels. This occurs through the sprouting of new capillaries from post-capillary venules, requiring precise coordination of multiple steps and the participation and communication of multiple cell types. The complex process is initiated in response to local tissue ischemia or hypoxia, leading to the release of angiogenic factors such as VEGF and HIF-1. This leads to vasodilatation and an increase in vascular permeability, leading to sprouting angiogenesis or intussusceptive angiogenesis.
Arteriogenesis
Arteriogenesis is the process of flow-related remodelling of existing vasculature to create collateral arteries. This can occur in response to ischemic vascular diseases or increase demand (e.g. exercise training). Arteriogenesis is triggered through nonspecific factors, such as shear stress and blood flow.
Ocular pathologies
Corneal neovascularization
Corneal neovascularization is a condition where new blood vessels invade into the cornea from the limbus. It is triggered when the balance between angiogenic and antiangiogenic factors are disrupted that otherwise maintain corneal transparency. The immature new blood vessels can lead to persistent inflammation and scaring, lipid exudation into the corneal tissues, and a reduction in corneal transparency, which can affect visual acuity.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadena%20SER
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La Cadena SER (the SER Network) is Spain's premier radio network in terms of both seniority (it was created in 1924) and audience share (it had a regular listenership in 2018 of 4,139,000). The acronym SER stands for Sociedad Española de Radiodifusión (Spanish Broadcasting Company).
Cadena SER's programmes – which includes news, sport, talk, entertainment and culture – can be received throughout Spain. The network's main studios are located on the Gran Vía in Madrid; In addition, studios across the country contribute with local and regional news and information, and local programming in each location amounting between 2 and 3.5 hours daily.
Cadena SER is owned by Unión Radio, the majority shareholder in which is currently the PRISA group, a major player in the Spanish media market which also controls, music radio stations such as LOS40, Cadena Dial, Radiolé and a number of newspapers (including the influential national daily El País), as well as other media in Spanish-speaking countries around the world.
History
At 18:30 on Friday, 14 November 1924, station EAJ-1 Radio Barcelona, the first Spanish radio station to receive an official license from the government of General Miguel Primo de Rivera, began regular broadcasting. Seven months later, on 17 June 1925, Unión Radio – a company which had the backing of the leading manufacturers of electrical and broadcasting equipment in Spain, Germany, and the United States – opened station EAJ-7 Radio Madrid, and when the foundations were in place for the formation of Spain's first national radio network on 10 November 1926, this same company also took over the ownership of Radio Barcelona. By 1927 Unión Radio was operating not only Radio Madrid and Radio Barcelona, but also EAJ-5 Radio Sevilla, EAJ-9 Radio Bilbao, and EAJ-22 Radio Salamanca, enabling all of these stations to broadcast simultaneous, i.e. networked, programming for most of their time on air, with Radio Madrid as the chief production center.
Through the remaining years of the monarchy (until 1930), and during the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1939), Unión Radio continued to be Spain's only nationwide radio network. Unión Radio created Spain's first national radio news programme La Palabra ("The Word"), broadcast several times daily. However, from 1939 until 1977, under the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco and the initial part of the transition to democracy, the network was forbidden from carrying any national news programming other than the compulsory twice-daily relays of the official news bulletins prepared by the government-controlled Radio Nacional de España.
On 25 September 1940, ownership of Unión Radio was transferred to the newly constituted Sociedad Española de Radiodifusión ("Spanish Broadcasting Company"), and the network renamed itself Cadena SER. In 1975, 25% of the shares in the network were compulsorily acquired by the Spanish state, and in 1984 most of the remaining shares were purchased by the PRISA media conglo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20dependency
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A data dependency in computer science is a situation in which a program statement (instruction) refers to the data of a preceding statement. In compiler theory, the technique used to discover data dependencies among statements (or instructions) is called dependence analysis.
There are three types of dependencies: data, name, and control.
Data dependencies
Assuming statement and , depends on if:
where:
is the set of memory locations read by
is the set of memory locations written by and
there is a feasible run-time execution path from to
This Condition is called Bernstein Condition, named by A. J. Bernstein.
Three cases exist:
Anti-dependence: , and reads something before overwrites it
Flow (data) dependence: , and writes before something read by
Output dependence: , and both write the same memory location.
Flow dependency (True dependency)
A Flow dependency, also known as a data dependency or true dependency or read-after-write (RAW), occurs when an instruction depends on the result of a previous instruction.
1. A = 3
2. B = A
3. C = B
Instruction 3 is truly dependent on instruction 2, as the final value of C depends on the instruction updating B. Instruction 2 is truly dependent on instruction 1, as the final value of B depends on the instruction updating A. Since instruction 3 is truly dependent upon instruction 2 and instruction 2 is truly dependent on instruction 1, instruction 3 is also truly dependent on instruction 1. Instruction level parallelism is therefore not an option in this example.
Anti-dependency
An anti-dependency, also known as write-after-read (WAR), occurs when an instruction requires a value that is later updated. In the following example, instruction 2 anti-depends on instruction 3 — the ordering of these instructions cannot be changed, nor can they be executed in parallel (possibly changing the instruction ordering), as this would affect the final value of A.
1. B = 3
2. A = B + 1
3. B = 7
Example :
MUL R3,R1,R2
ADD R2,R5,R6
It is clear that there is anti-dependence between these 2 instructions. At first we read R2 then in second instruction we are Writing a new
value for it.
An anti-dependency is an example of a name dependency. That is, renaming of variables could remove the dependency, as in the next example:
1. B = 3
N. B2 = B
2. A = B2 + 1
3. B = 7
A new variable, B2, has been declared as a copy of B in a new instruction, instruction N. The anti-dependency between 2 and 3 has been removed, meaning that these instructions may now be executed in parallel. However, the modification has introduced a new dependency: instruction 2 is now truly dependent on instruction N, which is truly dependent upon instruction 1. As flow dependencies, these new dependencies are impossible to safely remove.
Output dependency
An output dependency, also known as write-after-write (WAW), occurs when the ordering of instructions will affect the final output value of a variab
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional%20random%20field
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Conditional random fields (CRFs) are a class of statistical modeling methods often applied in pattern recognition and machine learning and used for structured prediction. Whereas a classifier predicts a label for a single sample without considering "neighbouring" samples, a CRF can take context into account. To do so, the predictions are modelled as a graphical model, which represents the presence of dependencies between the predictions. What kind of graph is used depends on the application. For example, in natural language processing, "linear chain" CRFs are popular, for which each prediction is dependent only on its immediate neighbours. In image processing, the graph typically connects locations to nearby and/or similar locations to enforce that they receive similar predictions.
Other examples where CRFs are used are: labeling or parsing of sequential data for natural language processing or biological sequences, part-of-speech tagging, shallow parsing, named entity recognition, gene finding, peptide critical functional region finding, and object recognition and image segmentation in computer vision.
Description
CRFs are a type of discriminative undirected probabilistic graphical model.
Lafferty, McCallum and Pereira define a CRF on observations and random variables as follows:
Let be a graph such that , so that is indexed by the vertices of .
Then is a conditional random field when each random variable , conditioned on , obeys the Markov property with respect to the graph; that is, its probability is dependent only on its neighbours in G:
, where means
that and are neighbors in .
What this means is that a CRF is an undirected graphical model whose nodes can be divided into exactly two disjoint sets and , the observed and output variables, respectively; the conditional distribution is then modeled.
Inference
For general graphs, the problem of exact inference in CRFs is intractable. The inference problem for a CRF is basically the same as for an MRF and the same arguments hold.
However, there exist special cases for which exact inference is feasible:
If the graph is a chain or a tree, message passing algorithms yield exact solutions. The algorithms used in these cases are analogous to the forward-backward and Viterbi algorithm for the case of HMMs.
If the CRF only contains pair-wise potentials and the energy is submodular, combinatorial min cut/max flow algorithms yield exact solutions.
If exact inference is impossible, several algorithms can be used to obtain approximate solutions. These include:
Loopy belief propagation
Alpha expansion
Mean field inference
Linear programming relaxations
Parameter Learning
Learning the parameters is usually done by maximum likelihood learning for . If all nodes have exponential family distributions and all nodes are observed during training, this optimization is convex. It can be solved for example using gradient descent algorithms, or Quasi-Newton methods such as the L-BFGS algorithm
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demons%20Don%27t%20Dream
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Demons Don't Dream is a fantasy novel by American writer Piers Anthony published in 1993, the sixteenth book in the Xanth series.
The Companions of Xanth computer game was marketed in a box set along with the novel. The game and novel share a storyline in which Kim and Dug, two Mundane teenagers, play a mysterious computer game that magically transports them to the realm of Xanth to compete for a one-of-a-kind prize: a magical talent. In the actual computer game, the player assumes the role of Dug.
Plot summary
Dug, a Mundane, is transported in to the magic land of Xanth when he plays a computer game introduced to him by his friend for a bet. The game consists of the player having a companion, who is usually a well known Xanth character, and being led through the magical world of Xanth, defeating challenges along the way and eventually winning the ultimate prize of a magic talent. The catch with the companions is that there is a chance that your companion is false, meaning that at the point where you might finally win, the companion will cause your ultimate downfall. The game also has a way of becoming 3D to the player, and, if the player believes in magic, eventually real.
Dug, being a mundane boy of sixteen, picks Nada Naga as his partner, because of her beauty. Nada Naga begins to lead Dug in the world of Xanth, at first trying to convince him that the magical world is real, but giving up after realizing that Dug stubbornly refuses to believe in magic. Dug travels to the Isthmus village, where he learns the town is being controlled under a horrible censorship. He sets out to destroy the ship. After defeating the censorship, he is kicked out of the game twice, once only temporarily from trying to look at Nada's panties, the second time for good after being defeated by Com Pewter. He comes back to the game and picks Nada to be his partner again but fails to remember that there is a chance that Nada will be a False Companion, which she is. He again has to go through the first part of his adventure, but this time his starting point has changed to the Black Village, home to the new Black Wave. Sherlock, one of the members of the Black Wave, joins Nada and Dug on their journey.
Later in Xanth he meets Kim, another Mundane playing the game. Kim is with Bubbles—a dog she found in a bubble—Sammy Cat, and Jenny Elf (her companion). While Dug was completing the first part of his adventure, Kim was having her own. She first was captured by ogres and had to play a mind game with them in order to escape. She then traveled to the Water Wing, where her and Jenny met Cyrus Merman, who is trying to find a wife. He accompanies them on their journey in hopes of finding a wife on the way. When Kim and Dug meet, Kim develops a crush on Dug, but at first Dug does not return the feeling. The two parties attempt to cross the Gap Chasm, but split up, after Dug and Kim decide to switch companions. Kim, Nada, Cyrus, and Bubbles go toward the ocean wh
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A9rica%20Televisi%C3%B3n
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América Televisión is a Peruvian television network, founded in 1958. The network is owned by Plural TV, which is a joint venture of the El Comercio and La República daily newspapers. It was the second television channel to be founded in Peru, the first commercial station with regular broadcasts, and Peru's highest-rated network.
Productions Channel
Programming
Services
América tvGO
Created in 2012. Is an OTT platform with composed program of series, magazine and exclusive contents. The service is paid and the user must subscribe to be able to watch the network's productions and transmedia interactions such as receiving communication from some characters and voting in game shows.
External links
Official Site
References
Television stations in Peru
Television channels and stations established in 1958
Spanish-language television stations
Television networks in Peru
Mass media in Lima
1958 establishments in Peru
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xone%20of%20Contention
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Xone of Contention is the twenty-third book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.
Plot introduction
Dug, the Mundane who had had an adventure in Xanth through the Companions of Xanth computer game, is now happily married to Kim. His friend Edsel on the other hand is on the rock with his marriage to Pia, Dug's old girlfriend, who wants a divorce. Edsel, not wanting to lose her strikes a deal with her, they take a two-week vacation in Xanth, switching with Nimby and Chlorine who want to learn about Mundania, and if she doesn't change her mind, he won't fight it.
References
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American fantasy novels
American science fiction novels
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Descriptor%20Table
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The Global Descriptor Table (GDT) is a data structure used by Intel x86-family processors starting with the 80286 in order to define the characteristics of the various memory areas used during program execution, including the base address, the size, and access privileges like executability and writability. These memory areas are called segments in Intel terminology.
Description
The GDT is a table of 8-byte entries. Each entry may refer to a segment descriptor, Task State Segment (TSS), Local Descriptor Table (LDT), or call gate. Call gates were designed for transferring control between x86 privilege levels, although this mechanism is not used on most modern operating systems.
There is also a Local Descriptor Table (LDT). Multiple LDTs can be defined in the GDT, but only one is current at any one time: usually associated with the current Task. While the LDT contains memory segments which are private to a specific process, the GDT contains global segments. The x86 processors have facilities for automatically switching the current LDT on specific machine events, but no facilities for automatically switching the GDT.
Every memory access performed by a process always goes through a segment. On the 80386 processor and later, because of 32-bit segment offsets and limits, it is possible to make segments cover the entire addressable memory, which makes segment-relative addressing transparent to the user.
In order to reference a segment, a program must use its index inside the GDT or the LDT. Such an index is called a segment selector (or selector). The selector must be loaded into a segment register to be used. Apart from the machine instructions which allow one to set/get the position of the GDT, and of the Interrupt Descriptor Table (IDT), in memory, every machine instruction referencing memory has an implicit segment register, occasionally two. Most of the time this segment register can be overridden by adding a segment prefix before the instruction.
Loading a selector into a segment register reads the GDT or LDT entry at the time it is loaded, and caches the properties of the segment in a hidden register. Subsequent modifications to the GDT or LDT will not take effect until the segment register is reloaded.
GDT in 64-bit
The GDT is still present in 64-bit mode; a GDT must be defined, but is generally never changed or used for segmentation. The size of the register has been extended from 48 to 80 bits, and 64-bit selectors are always "flat" (thus, from 0x0000000000000000 to 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF). However, the base of FS and GS are not constrained to 0, and they continue to be used as pointers to the offset of items such as the process environment block and the thread information block.
If the System bit (4th bit of the Access field) is cleared, the size of the descriptor is 16 bytes instead of 8. This is because, even though code/data segments are ignored, TSS are not, but the TSS pointer can be 64bit long and thus the descriptor needs more spac
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RATP%20bus%20network
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The RATP bus network covers the entire territory of the city of Paris and the vast majority of its near suburbs.
Operated by the Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP), this constitutes a dense bus network complementary to other public transport networks, all organized and financed by Île-de-France Mobilités.
Other suburban bus lines are managed by private operators grouped in a consortium known as Optile (), an association of 80 private bus operators holding exclusive rights on their lines. There are approximately 9500 buses serving public transportation across the Paris region, all operators included.
Network
RATP operates:
70 lines with a route exclusively or mainly on the territory of the city of Paris including :
64 lines numbered from to ;
the line completing (with ) a circular transport service surrounding Paris's borders along the Boulevards des Maréchaux ;
5 out of the 6 specially identified parisian circular bus lines designated as "Lignes Traverse" : , , and .
194 lines with a route exclusively or mainly in the near suburbs of Paris including:
89 lines numbered from to ;
57 lines numbered from to ;
49 lines numbered from to .
a dozen lines (numbered in the 400 series) subcontracted by local public transport companies belonging to the Optile group ;
several "urban" line services numbered in the 500 series but generally designated by a trade name, covering small suburban shuttle services and often subsidized by covered cities ;
2 direct bus lines from Paris to CDG and ORY airports : &
the "Opentour" tourist lines ;
the lines of the "Titus" and "Valouette" networks ;
several temporary lines created to cover passenger shifts along a future subway or tram line extension (such as line before northern extension of towards the town hall of Aubervilliers or now-former line before northern extension of from Saint Lazare train station to the town hall of Saint Ouen.
several lines kept in service to cover passenger shifts prior to subway or tram line extensions or creations (such as line before southern extension of from Orly Airport to Juvisy train station, or before extension of towards said airport).
32 night shift lines (including two subcontracted) grouped in the Noctilien night bus network.
Routes
RATP bus lines operating mainly in the city proper of Paris, are named with a two-digit code number called "indice". Bus lines operated mainly in the suburbs are named with a three-digit number code.
RATP uses the numbers 20 to 96 for lines operated mainly in the city proper (1 to 19 are unused to avoid confusion with Metro lines) ; along with bus line (line 100) which runs along the Boulevard des Maréchaux section that is not yet covered by (Tramway lines 3a & 3b) . All this according to an organized scheme used since public transportation reorganization post-WWII.
The first digit represents the sector in Paris where the line's starting point is located:
2x representing Gare Saint-Laza
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm%20Credit%20System
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The Farm Credit System (FCS) in the United States is a nationwide network of borrower-owned lending institutions and specialized service organizations. The Farm Credit System provides more than $343 billion (as of 2021) in loans, leases, and related services to farmers, ranchers, rural homeowners, aquatic producers, timber harvesters, agribusinesses, and agricultural and rural utility cooperatives.
Congress established the Farm Credit System in 1916 to provide a reliable source of credit for farmers and ranchers. As of 2020, the Farm Credit System provides more than one-third, 44.4%, of the total market share of US farm business debt.
The Farm Credit System function is to provide a source of credit for American agriculture by making loans to qualified borrowers at competitive rates and providing insurance and related services.
Authority
Congress established the Farm Credit System as a government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) when it enacted the Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916. Current authority is granted by the Farm Credit Act of 1971. The Farm Credit System is considered the first GSE chartered by the United States.
Oversight
The Farm Credit Administration (FCA), an agency of the federal government created in 1933, provides regulatory oversight for the Farm Credit System. The Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation (FCSIC), established by the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987, insures the timely repayment of principal and interest on FCS debt securities.
Wholesale system banks
Farm Credit Bank (FCB)
Three Farm Credit Banks (FCBs) provide loan funds to 50 Agricultural Credit Associations (ACAs) and one Federal Land Credit Association (FLCA). In turn, ACAs make short-, intermediate-, and long-term loans, while FLCAs make long-term loans, to farmers, ranchers, producers and harvesters of aquatic products, rural residents for housing, and certain farm-related businesses.
There are three FCBs:
AgFirst
AgriBank
Farm Credit Bank of Texas
There is also one Agricultural Credit Bank, with the authority of a FCB (and a Bank for Cooperatives):
CoBank
FCBs were created on July 6, 1988, in 11 of the 12 then-existing FCS Districts, by merging the Federal Land Bank (FLB) and the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank (FICB) in each of those districts. Those mergers were required by the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987.
Bank for Cooperatives (BC)
A Bank for Cooperatives (BC) provides lending and other financial services to farmer-owned cooperatives, rural utilities (electric and telephone), and rural sewer and water systems. A BC is also authorized to finance U.S. agricultural exports and provide international banking services for farmer-owned cooperatives.
CoBank is an Agricultural Credit Bank (ACB) and has the authority of a Farm Credit Bank and a BC. The last standalone BC, the St. Paul Bank for Cooperatives, merged into CoBank on July 1, 1999.
Retail lending associations
Agricultural Credit Association (ACA)
An Agricultural Credit Association (ACA) is the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosha%20Pasumansky
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Mosha Pasumansky is one of the inventors of the MultiDimensional eXpressions (MDX) language, a query language for online analytical processing (OLAP) databases. Pasumansky is also one of the architects of the Microsoft Analysis Services, and an OLAP expert.
Mosha Pasumansky is well known in the OLAP community for his Microsoft OLAP information website which contains a collection of technical articles and other resources related to Microsoft OLAP and Analysis Services. He also has a blog dedicated to MDX and Analysis Services. He spoke at Microsoft conferences such as TechEd and PASS, and he published the book Fast Track to MDX.
In December 2009, Pasumansky shifted his focus to Bing, the Microsoft Search Engine, and is no longer maintaining his active stewardship of the BI Community.
From May 2011, Pasumansky works at Google on the Dremel and BigQuery systems.
External links
Mosha Pasumansky's weblog (archived from http://sqlblog.com/blogs/mosha/default.aspx)
References
Microsoft employees
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AgriBank
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AgriBank, part of the US Farm Credit System, serves as a wholesale lender and a farm credit bank (FCB) to a 15-state network of local farm credit associations in a district that stretches from Ohio to Wyoming and Minnesota to Arkansas. AgriBank is the second largest of the four banks in the Farm Credit System and has over $100 billion in assets. Like AgFirst Farm Credit Bank and Farm Credit Bank of Texas, Agribank is organized as an FCB while CoBank, the fourth bank in the system, is organized as an agricultural credit bank (ACB).
AgriBank is owned by member associations, which are owned by agricultural borrowers. In 2011, it relocated its headquarters to Wells Fargo Place in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota.
Leadership includes an 18-seat board of directors and an executive team based in St. Paul. Directors serve 4-year terms.
History
AgriBank is the product of mergers of several regional Farm Credit Banks:
1992 merger of the Farm Credit Bank of Saint Louis and Farm Credit Bank of Saint Paul to form AgriBank.
1994 merger with the Farm Credit Bank of Louisville.
1994 merger of the Farm Credit Bank of Spokane and Farm Credit Bank of Omaha to form AgAmerica Farm Credit Bank.
2003 merger with AgAmerica Farm Credit Bank.
References
Further reading
External links
Farm Credit Administration in the Federal Register
Farm Credit System
Companies based in Saint Paul, Minnesota
Banks based in Minnesota
Government-owned banks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology%20of%20programming
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The psychology of programming (PoP) is the field of research that deals with the psychological aspects of writing programs (often computer programs). The field has also been called the empirical studies of programming (ESP). It covers research into computer programmers' cognition, tools and methods for programming-related activities, and programming education.
Psychologically, computer programming is a human activity which involves cognitions such as reading and writing computer language, learning, problem solving, and reasoning.
History
The history of psychology of programming dates back to late 1970s and early 1980s, when researchers realized that computational power should not be the only thing to be evaluated in programming tools and technologies, but also the usability from the users. In the first Workshop on Empirical Studies of Programmers, Ben Shneiderman listed several important destinations for researchers. These destinations include refining the use of current languages, improving present and future languages, developing special purpose languages, and improving tools and methods. Two important workshop series have been devoted to psychology of programming in the last two decades: the Workshop on Empirical Studies of Programmers (ESP), based primarily in the US, and the Psychology of Programming Interest Group Workshop (PPIG), having a European character. ESP has a broader scope than pure psychology in programming, and on the other hand, PPIG is more focused in the field of PoP. However, PPIG workshops and the organization PPIG itself is informal in nature, It is group of people who are interested in PoP that comes together and publish their discussions.
Goals and purposes
It is desirable to achieve a programming performance such that creating a program meets its specifications, is on schedule, is adaptable for the future and runs efficiently. Being able to satisfy all these goals at a low cost is a difficult and common problem in software engineering and project management. By understanding the psychological aspects of computer programming, we can better understand how to achieve a higher programming performance, and to assist programmers to produce better software with less error.
Research methods
Some methods which one can use to study the psychological aspects of computer programming include introspection, observation, experiment, and qualitative research.
Cognitive biases
Cognitive biases are systematic differences from an optimal way of reasoning about something. Research has suggested there are a number of biases involved in programming. Anchoring bias have been identified for estimation and the reuse of ideas. There is an optimism bias applies to work being carried out.Availability bias can cause programmers to use incorrect keywords when searching documentation and not find relevant information and prevent programmers from applying lessons learned from previous projects in an organization.
Confirmation bias can apply to
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech%20Data
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Tech Data Corporation (commonly referred to as Tech Data) was an American multinational distribution company specializing in IT products and services headquartered in Clearwater, Florida. It merged with competitor Synnex to form TD Synnex. Synnex is to be the primary owner (55% share). Tech Data provided a broad range of product lines, logistics capabilities and value-added services that enable technology manufacturers and resellers, such as Google, Apple, Cisco, Dell, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP Inc., IBM, Lenovo, LG, Microsoft, Sony, Trend Micro, Viewsonic, TP-Link and VMware, to deploy IT solutions.
Tech Data is now one of the world's largest distributors of IT products and services, generating $37.7 billion in net sales for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2017. The company ranked No. 83 on the 2018 Fortune 500 and one of Fortune's "World's Most Admired Companies."
History
Founded in Clearwater, FL by Edward C. Raymund in November 1974, Tech Data Corporation marketed data processing supplies for mini and mainframe computers. In 1983, Tech Data began to transition from a reseller to full-line national distributor of personal computer products, a transition led by Steven A. Raymund, Edward's son.
Steve A. Raymund succeeded Edward C. Raymund as Chief Executive Officer in 1986, the same year Tech Data announced its initial public stock offering on NASDAQ (ticker symbol: TECD).
Over the past 20 years, Tech Data expanded its business into Canada, Mexico and Europe by acquiring 18 companies. Some companies acquired included Canada-based ParityPlus, Paris-based Softmart International, Munich-based Computer 2000 AG, Globelle Canada, UK-based Azlan Group PLC, Actebis AG Switzerland, Nordics-based IT distributor Scribona, Netherlands-based Triade Holding B.V., Specialist Distribution Group (SDG), and Signature Technology Group (STG).
In 2013, Tech Data lost out on nearly 27 million euros in profit following an accounting error by their former financial comptroller.
On August 25, 2015, Talkin' Cloud ranked Tech Data one of the world's top cloud service providers for the second consecutive year, naming Tech Data No. 24 on the annual list.
In the second quarter of 2015, Tech Data posted record earnings, increasing net income by 22.4% and sales by 8%. Tech Data's data-center business is attributed with the record earnings.
In September 2016, Tech Data announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire the Technology Solutions operating group from Avnet, Inc. in a stock and cash transaction valued at approximately US$2.6 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, Avnet received at closing approximately US$2.4 billion in cash and 2.785 million shares of Tech Data common stock, representing an approximate 7 percent ownership position in Tech Data. The acquisition was closed in February 2017.
ExitCertified is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tech Data Corporation with head offices in Canada (Ottawa) and the USA (Sacramento).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Mobility%20Center
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Windows Mobility Center is a component of Microsoft Windows, introduced in Windows Vista, that centralizes information and settings most relevant to mobile computing.
History
A mobility center that displayed device settings pertinent to mobile devices was first shown during the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference of 2004. It was based on the Activity Center user interface design that originated with Microsoft's abandoned Windows "Neptune" project, and was slated for inclusion in Windows Vista, then known by its codename Longhorn.
Overview
The Windows Mobility Center user interface consists of square tiles that each contain information and settings related to a component, such as audio settings, battery life and power schemes, display brightness, and wireless network strength and status. The tiles that appear within the interface depend on the hardware of the system and device drivers.
Windows Mobility Center is located in the Windows Control Panel and also be launched by pressing the keys in Windows Vista and 7. By default, WMC is inaccessible on desktop computers, but this limitation can be bypassed if one modifies the Windows Registry.
Windows Mobility Center is extensible; original equipment manufacturers can customize the interface with additional tiles and company branding. Though not supported by Microsoft, it is possible for individual developers to create tiles for the interface as well.
See also
Features new to Windows Vista
References
Mobile computers
Mobility Center
Windows Vista
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC%206000%20series
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The CDC 6000 series is a discontinued family of mainframe computers manufactured by Control Data Corporation in the 1960s. It consisted of the CDC 6200, CDC 6300, CDC 6400, CDC 6500, CDC 6600 and CDC 6700 computers, which were all extremely rapid and efficient for their time. Each is a large, solid-state, general-purpose, digital computer that performs scientific and business data processing as well as multiprogramming, multiprocessing, Remote Job Entry, time-sharing, and data management tasks under the control of the operating system called SCOPE (Supervisory Control Of Program Execution). By 1970 there also was a time-sharing oriented operating system named KRONOS. They were part of the first generation of supercomputers. The 6600 was the flagship of Control Data's 6000 series.
Overview
The CDC 6000 series computers are composed of four main functional devices:
the central memory
one or two high-speed central processors
ten peripheral processors (Peripheral Processing Unit, or PPU) and
a display console.
The 6000 series has a distributed architecture.
The family's members differ primarily by the number and kind of central processor(s):
The CDC 6600 is a single CPU with 10 functional units that can operate in parallel, each working on an instruction at the same time.
The CDC 6400 is a single CPU with an identical instruction set, but with a single unified arithmetic function unit that can only do one instruction at a time.
The CDC 6500 is a dual-CPU system with two 6400 central processors
The CDC 6700 is also a dual-CPU system, with a 6600 and a 6400 central processor.
Certain features and nomenclature had also been used in the earlier CDC 3000 series:
Arithmetic was ones complement.
The name COMPASS was used by CDC for the assembly languages on both families.
The name SCOPE was used for its operating system implementations on the 3000 and 6000 series.
The only currently (as of 2018) running CDC 6000 series machine, a 6500, has been restored by Living Computers: Museum + Labs It was built in 1967 and used by Purdue University until 1989 when it was decommissioned and then given to the Chippewa Falls Museum of Industry and Technology before being purchased by Paul Allen for LCM+L.
History
The first member of the CDC 6000 series was the supercomputer CDC 6600, designed by Seymour Cray and James E. Thornton in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. It was introduced in September 1964 and performs up to three million instructions per second, three times faster than the IBM Stretch, the speed champion for the previous couple of years. It remained the fastest machine for five years until the CDC 7600 was launched. The machine was Freon refrigerant cooled.
Control Data manufactured about 100 machines of this type, selling for $6 to $10 million each.
The next system to be introduced was the CDC 6400, delivered in April 1966. The 6400 central processor is a slower, less expensive implementation with serial processing, rather than the 6600's para
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The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie is a 2008 American computer-animated family adventure comedy film directed by Mike Nawrocki, written by Phil Vischer, produced by Big Idea and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is the second of the two theatrical films to feature characters from the VeggieTales video series following Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie in 2002, and is the only VeggieTales media that deviates from its usual messages about Christianity and biblical morals.
The film was released in theaters on January 11, 2008, and received mixed reviews from critics, who criticized the script but praised the animation. The film was also a box office bomb, grossing only $13 million worldwide on a $15 million budget.
Plot
In the past, the pirate Robert the Terrible attacks and boards one of the Kingdom of Monterria's ships, capturing Prince Alexander. Eluding the pirates, Princess Eloise and her servant Willory (played by Archibald Asparagus) send a device that the king made, called a "Helpseeker," to find heroes to save Alexander.
In modern times, three misfits: the "yes man" George (Pa Grape), the lazy Sedgewick (Mr. Lunt), and the timid Elliot (Larry the Cucumber) are employees at a dinner theater. Although they want to be seen as heroes by their loved ones, as lowly cabin boys they believe their dream is unattainable. After wrecking the show one night, they are fired and thrown into an alley. The Helpseeker locates them and, after Elliot activates the device, transports the trio to Monterria.
Meeting the Princess and Willory, the group sets off to Jolly Joe's Tavern where they learn that Pirate Robert, the brother of the king before being banished, has kidnapped Alexander in the hopes of exacting revenge on the king. Setting sail in search of the whereabouts of Robert's hideout, the pirate's men capture Eloise and Willory. As George and Elliot continue on their quest, a cowardly Sedgewick decides to stay behind in a cave filled with "cheese curls". After the two leave, Sedgewick discovers the curls are instead living worm-like creatures which chase him out of the cave, forcing him to overcome his fear and laziness.
Meanwhile, George and Elliot arrive on an island populated by a rock giant family, who help them make it to Robert's fortress. Sedgewick meets up with them, having swum the ocean being chased by the living worm-like creatures. Arriving at a hidden bay outside of the fortress, the trio are attacked by a giant serpent. However, Elliot realizes the guardian is actually a mechanical device and is able to shut the machine down from inside and save the two. Once inside, George, Sedgewick, and Elliot rescue the prince and princess but are confronted by Robert who demands to know when the king is coming back. With no other choice, George, Sedgewick, and Elliot admit that they are "only cabin boys," and not heroes. But, suddenly, finding his self-respect, George uses a chandelier to knock the pirate down and the group esc
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The SS-50 bus was an early computer bus designed as a part of the SWTPC 6800 Computer System that used the Motorola 6800 CPU. The SS-50 motherboard would have around seven 50-pin connectors for CPU and memory boards plus eight 30-pin connectors for I/O boards. The I/O section was sometimes called the SS-30 bus.
Southwest Technical Products Corporation introduced this bus in November 1975 and soon other companies were selling add-in boards. Some of the early boards were floppy disk systems from Midwest Scientific Instruments, Smoke Signal Broadcasting, and Percom Data; an EPROM programmer from the Micro Works; video display boards from Gimix; memory boards from Seals. By 1978 there were a dozen SS-50 board suppliers and several compatible SS-50 computers.
In 1979 SWTPC modified the SS-50 bus to support the new Motorola MC6809 processor. These changes were compatible with most existing boards and this upgrade gave the SS-50 Bus a long life. SS-50 based computers were made until the late 1980s.
The SS-50C bus, the S/09 version of the SS-50 bus, extended the address by four address lines to 20 address lines to allow up to a megabyte of memory in a system.
Boards for the SS-50 bus were typically 9 inches wide and 5.5 inches high. The board had Molex 0.156 inch connectors while the motherboard had the pins. This arrangement made for low cost printed circuit boards that did not need gold plated edge connectors. The tin plated Molex connectors were only rated for a few insertions and were sometimes a problem in hobbyist systems where the boards were being swapped often. Later systems would often come with gold plated Molex connectors.
The SS-30 I/O Bus had the address decoding on the motherboard. Each slot was allocated 4 address (the later MC6809 version upped this to 16 address.) This made for very simple I/O boards, the Motorola peripheral chips connected directly to this bus. Cards designed using the SS-30 bus often had their external connectors mounted such that they were accessible outside the computer chassis when installed in SWTPC motherboards.
SS-50 and SS-30 gallery
Click the images to enlarge.
References
Computer buses
SS-50
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20highways%20of%20Pakistan
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National Highways of Pakistan () are a network of toll highways in Pakistan, which are owned, maintained and operated by the National Highways Authority under the Ministry of Communications. It maintains of roadways organized into various classifications which crisscross the country and provide access to major population centers. National Highways are not to be confused with provincial highways, which are roads maintained by the respective provinces. Pakistan's national highways include the famous Grand Trunk Road, Indus Highway, Karakoram Highway and Makran Coastal Highway. All national highways in Pakistan are pre-fixed with the letter 'N' (for "national") followed by the unique numerical designation of the specific highway (with a hyphen in the middle), e.g. "N-5". Each numerical designation is separated by five numerals, i.e. N-5, N-10, N-15, etc. National Highways are distinct from Strategic Highways, which begin with the prefix 'S' and are controlled and operated by the Ministry of Defence.
National Highway Network Map
List of National Highways
List of Provincial Highways
Gilgit-Baltistan
Provincial Highways of Gilgit-Baltistan
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Provincial Highways of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Punjab
Provincial Highways of Punjab
Sindh
Provincial Highways of Sindh
List of Strategic Highways
See also
Roads in Pakistan
National Highway Authority
Speed limits in Pakistan
Motorways of Pakistan
External links
National Highway Authority
Highways in Pakistan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inukshuk%20Wireless
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Inukshuk Wireless Inc. is a joint venture of BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications, created in 2005 to establish a Canada-wide network for wireless Internet connectivity in 45 major cities and over 120 rural communities, throughout the ten Industry Canada licensed areas. Bell and Rogers separately market the service to their customers as Portable Internet, although Bell also offers a Rural Internet service.
History
Inukshuk Internet, a predecessor to Inukshuk Wireless, was originally formed in 1999. Inukshuk was acquired by Microcell in 2001, which was acquired by Rogers in 2004. The spectrum and technology was merged into the joint venture with Bell in 2005.
Until November 7, 2008, Bell Internet Portable was referred to as Sympatico High Speed Unplugged or Bell WiMAX Unplugged. Likewise, Bell Internet Rural was referred to as Bell WiMAX In-home.
Bell had announced termination of its Portable Internet service on February 14, 2012.
Rogers had announced termination of its Portable Internet service on March 1, 2012.
The 30Mhz slice of 2300Mhz spectrum was transferred to Orion Wireless Partnership, for a fixed wireless LTE national network.
Network
The Inukshuk network was built using pre-WiMAX technology provided by Expedience solution from Motorola, now Nexpedience Networks.
Coverage
The network provides connectivity to 45 major cities and more than 120 rural communities throughout the ten Industry Canada licensed areas.
Activation, however, is only available in certain rural regions. Bell only allowed customers in the following regions of the province of Ontario to subscribe to Portable or Rural Internet:
Bruce County
Dawn-Euphemia
Dufferin County
Laurentian Valley
Middlesex County
Simcoe County
South Glengarry
Services
Wireless Internet
Monthly bandwidth limits for customers were not tightly enforced, and simply existed to protect against network abuse. Bell's Rural ("In-home") service used the same technology as the portable ("Unplugged") product, except the modem itself was mounted to a user's home in the direction of the tower it would have connected to. Hence, it was not designed to be portable.
Bell also offered "Unplugged" service for businesses.
Peer-to-peer throttling
Inukshuk Wireless throttled peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic on its network during peak times of the day.
For Bell customers, downloads and uploads were throttled to 512 kbit/s from 16h30 to 17h59 EST, then to 256 kbit/s from 18h00 to 23h59 EST, and again to 512 kbit/s from 0h00 to 1h00 EST every day. No throttling occurred from 1h00 to 16h30.
References
External links
Bell Canada
Internet service providers of Canada
Rogers Communications
Telecommunications companies established in 1999
1999 establishments in Canada
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Modularity refers to the ability of a system to organize discrete, individual units that can overall increase the efficiency of network activity and, in a biological sense, facilitates selective forces upon the network. Modularity is observed in all model systems, and can be studied at nearly every scale of biological organization, from molecular interactions all the way up to the whole organism.
Evolution of Modularity
The exact evolutionary origins of biological modularity has been debated since the 1990s. In the mid 1990s, Günter Wagner argued that modularity could have arisen and been maintained through the interaction of four evolutionary modes of action:
[1] Selection for the rate of adaptation: If different complexes evolve at different rates, then those evolving more quickly reach fixation in a population faster than other complexes. Thus, common evolutionary rates could be forcing the genes for certain proteins to evolve together while preventing other genes from being co-opted unless there is a shift in evolutionary rate.
[2] Constructional selection: When a gene exists in many duplicated copies, it may be maintained because of the many connections it has (also termed pleiotropy). There is evidence that this is so following whole genome duplication, or duplication at a single locus. However, the direct relationship that duplication processes have with modularity has yet to be directly examined.
[3] Stabilizing selection: While seeming antithetical to forming novel modules, Wagner maintains that it is important to consider the effects of stabilizing selection as it may be "an important counter force against the evolution of modularity". Stabilizing selection, if ubiquitously spread across the network, could then be a "wall" that makes the formation of novel interactions more difficult and maintains previously established interactions. Against such strong positive selection, other evolutionary forces acting on the network must exist, with gaps of relaxed selection, to allow focused reorganization to occur.
[4] Compounded effect of stabilizing and directional selection: This is the explanation seemingly favored by Wagner and his contemporaries as it provides a model through which modularity is constricted, but still able to unidirectionally explore different evolutionary outcomes. The semi-antagonistic relationship is best illustrated using the corridor model, whereby stabilizing selection forms barriers in phenotype space that only allow the system to move towards the optimum along a single path. This allows directional selection to act and inch the system closer to optimum through this evolutionary corridor.
For over a decade, researchers examined the dynamics of selection on network modularity. However, in 2013 Clune and colleagues challenged the sole focus on selective forces, and instead provided evidence that there are inherent "connectivity costs" that limit the number of connections between nodes to maximize efficiency of tra
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A computer network is a set of computers sharing resources located on or provided by network nodes. Computers use common communication protocols over digital interconnections to communicate with each other. These interconnections are made up of telecommunication network technologies based on physically wired, optical, and wireless radio-frequency methods that may be arranged in a variety of network topologies.
The nodes of a computer network can include personal computers, servers, networking hardware, or other specialized or general-purpose hosts. They are identified by network addresses and may have hostnames. Hostnames serve as memorable labels for the nodes and are rarely changed after initial assignment. Network addresses serve for locating and identifying the nodes by communication protocols such as the Internet Protocol.
Computer networks may be classified by many criteria, including the transmission medium used to carry signals, bandwidth, communications protocols to organize network traffic, the network size, the topology, traffic control mechanisms, and organizational intent.
Computer networks support many applications and services, such as access to the World Wide Web, digital video and audio, shared use of application and storage servers, printers and fax machines, and use of email and instant messaging applications.
History
Computer networking may be considered a branch of computer science, computer engineering, and telecommunications, since it relies on the theoretical and practical application of the related disciplines. Computer networking was influenced by a wide array of technology developments and historical milestones.
In the late 1950s, a network of computers was built for the U.S. military Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) radar system using the Bell 101 modem. It was the first commercial modem for computers, released by AT&T Corporation in 1958. The modem allowed digital data to be transmitted over regular unconditioned telephone lines at a speed of 110 bits per second (bit/s).
In 1959, Christopher Strachey filed a patent application for time-sharing and John McCarthy initiated the first project to implement time-sharing of user programs at MIT. Stratchey passed the concept on to J. C. R. Licklider at the inaugural UNESCO Information Processing Conference in Paris that year. McCarthy was instrumental in the creation of three of the earliest time-sharing systems (the Compatible Time-Sharing System in 1961, the BBN Time-Sharing System in 1962, and the Dartmouth Time Sharing System in 1963).
In 1959, Anatoly Kitov proposed to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union a detailed plan for the re-organisation of the control of the Soviet armed forces and of the Soviet economy on the basis of a network of computing centres. Kitov's proposal was rejected, as later was the 1962 OGAS economy management network project.
In 1960, the commercial airline reservation system semi-automatic business r
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FoodRoutes%20Network
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FoodRoutes Network (FRN), headquartered in Arnot, Pennsylvania in the United States, is a national non-profit organization that provides support to a variety of other localized groups that encourage sustainable agriculture and community-based food systems.
Its goal is to re-introduce Americans to their food: the seeds from which it grows, the farmers who produce it, and the routes it takes from the farm to their tables. They are the national coordinator for the 'Buy Fresh Buy Local' chapter network, with over 50 chapters as of 2007.
Its most visible efforts have been a series of marketing campaigns designed to make consumers aware of the benefits of buying and eating local food. FRN also maintains a website where consumers nationwide can find farms in their areas that sell direct to the public as well as restaurants that buy and serve locally grown food.
External links
FoodRoutes Network
Non-profit organizations based in Pennsylvania
Agricultural organizations based in the United States
Rural community development
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai%20TV
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Dubai TV is a TV channel offered by the Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI). It replaced Emirates Dubai Television on June 14, 2004. Dubai TV broadcasts programmes predominantly in Arabic. The programming caters to family Arab audience specifically in the Arab World and is available in Australia, Europe, North America and the rest of Asia. A majority of its programming is produced locally in Dubai Media City. Dubai TV is a part of a four channel network owned by DMI. High-definition "HD" format is free and available on Nilesat and Yahsat.
Current programming
News and current affairs (Developed by Dubai News Center)' Madārāt (Danger)
Al Akhbar Al Emarat (Emirates News)- A Late night Flagship Newscast currently aired on Dubai TV, Sama Dubai TV and Noor Dubai TV.
Qabil Lailnaqash (Debate)
Kharitat Al Maal (Economic Update)
Dubai Hadza Al Sabah (Dubai This Morning)- Morning Program
The Insider- A Showbiz News Program that gives news and happenings in local and international artist.
Al-Akhbar (The News)- is a two editioned newscast that gives news and information around the world in Arabic. These newscast has two editions- Midday (Mixed Local and International News) and Evening (International News).
Animated series
The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (27 March 2010 – present) currently aired on Dubai TV, Sama Dubai TV and Noor Dubai TV.
Kral Şakir (12 May 2018 – present) currently aired on Dubai TV, Sama Dubai TV and Noor Dubai TV.
Chowder (13 March 2010 – present) currently aired on Dubai TV, Sama Dubai TV and Noor Dubai TV.
Eliot Kid (13 March 2010 – present) currently aired on Dubai TV, Sama Dubai TV and Noor Dubai TV.
Teen Titans (20 March 2010 – 26 December 2019; 9 October 2023 - present) currently aired on Dubai TV, Sama Dubai TV and Noor Dubai TV.
Ben 10 (20 March 2010 – present) currently aired on Dubai TV, Sama Dubai TV and Noor Dubai TV.
The Powerpuff Girls (26 September 2009 – present) currently aired on Dubai TV, Sama Dubai TV and Noor Dubai TV.
Justice League Unlimited (14 April 2007 – 26 December 2019; 9 October 2023 - present) currently aired on Dubai TV, Sama Dubai TV and Noor Dubai TV.
Soap operas
The Golden Girls Reality and game shows
Arabic version of Mental Samurai Arabic version of Family Feud Arabic version of Fashion Star Carpool Karaoke
Dubai Cruise Chopped (Arabic version)
Arabic version of The Insider Fashion Star Arabia The Doctors (Arabic version)
Carpool Karaoke
Former programming
Animated shows
Crocadoo Freej (2006–2020)
Kim Possible (2004–2005)
Poochini Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat (2004–2020)
Reality & Game Shows
Arabic version of Mental Samurai (2020)
Arabic version of Millionaire Hot Seat (2013)
Arabic version of The Cube'' (2014)
References
External links
Television stations in Dubai
Arabic-language television stations
Publicly funded broadcasters
State media
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockman%20EXE%20Battle%20Chip%20Stadium
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Rockman EXE Battle Chip Stadium is an arcade game in the Mega Man Battle Network sub-series of Mega Man games from Capcom. This game was not released outside Japan. Under the name of "Battle Station", the arcade game was featured a number of times in episodes of the Rockman EXE Beast+ anime series.
Gameplay
The game features much of the same gameplay found in the Battle Network series and was updated near monthly with new characters and attacks, as well as updating the hardware. Machines could be linked to allow players to face each other in NetBattles, showing their abilities over NetNavis. NetNavis featured included the so-called "Link Navis" from Rockman EXE 6, with the inclusion of other, exclusive NetNavis like Colonel, Falzar-Beast Forte and Dark Rockman.
After inserting the play cost of 100 yen, battling was started by slotting up to three merchandise Battle Chips into the machine per turn. Attacking was engaged by pressing a button, with the chips inserted having a chance of being successful, unsuccessful or critical (inflicting extra damage); this was made so to not make the game too easy by using potentially overpowered chips. Winning a round of the game dispensed a new, randomly picked Battle Chip from stock contained inside the arcade machine. Battle Chips given as prizes changed over time in 'volumes' and later versions/revisions of the game; not surprisingly, most of the Battle Chip range was obtainable from the game, including an amount of exclusives. Battle Chips won during play could also have a different colour casing.
Although most characters were playable, another way to use Battle Chips was slotting in a different kind of chip, the Navi Data Chip, through a separately marked chip port. Navi Data Chips could be leveled by gaining experience inside the arcade game or through using the LiNK PET_EX from the Beast lineup of merchandise. Using a Navi Data Chip allowed play with a leveled and hence stronger version of that Navi, when compared to the default in character select, or characters not present on the roster. Levels in the PET were proportional to levels in the game and in use with specific features in Battle Network 6.
The Program Advance system seen in the Rockman EXE series was expanded upon greatly for Battle Chip Stadium, with over 125 different sequences available. Use of Program Advances were governed by the same rules as all other chips, in whether they were a successful attack or not. Program Advances in Battle Chip Stadium were grouped in Mega-, Giga- and Tera- classes. To facilitate for performing these combination's, Capcom and Takara Tomy released specialized booster packs for the game containing specific Battle Chips in order to perform specific Program Advances.
External links
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20060116/whf22.jpg
http://www.batosuta.net/ (Official site, dead link) (archive)
References
Role-playing video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Arcade video games
Arcade-only video games
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All TV () is a Canadian exempt Category B Korean language specialty channel. It is owned by Jang Sung Lee and was launched in September 2001.
All TV features a mix of local programming as well as foreign programming from Korea. The foreign programming that airs on All TV comes from MBC. Local programming is produced in All TV's state of the art broadcast centre which includes three studios, 10 video editing suites and sound recording facilities, and is located in the Korean Cultural Centre in Toronto. The programs that are produced include a daily newscast, talk shows, cooking shows and a real estate program.
On January 18, 2019, the CRTC approved All TV Inc's request to convert All TV from a licensed Category B specialty service to an exempted Cat. B third language service.
ALL TV K
In July 2009, All TV launched KBS World on Rogers Cable. Seabridge Media operated a similar service until early 2009 when the company shut down. At that point All TV stepped in and launched their KBS World channel allowing the service to remain on the air in Canada. In 2013, the channel was renamed All TV K.
Content agreement with SBS
In December 2010, All TV announced that they had signed a content agreement with Korean broadcaster SBS. Programming from SBS began airing on All TV on December 13, 2010.
As of 2018, All TV no longer airs any programming from SBS.
All TV HD
On July 18, 2013, All TV launched All TV HD, a high definition simulcast of the standard definition feed. It is currently available on Bell Fibe TV.
See also
All TV K
References
External links
MBC America
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Korean-Canadian culture
Multicultural and ethnic television in Canada
Korean-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2001
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20genealogy%20databases
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This is a list of genealogy databases and online resources that are not specifically restricted to a particular place, family set, or time period in their content.
List for general purposes
Comparison of notable databases for uploading family trees
Some of these also have social networking features.
See also
Family History Research Wiki, handbook reference information and educational articles showing how to find ancestors
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic%20Sea%20Trade%20Union%20Network
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The Baltic Sea Trade Union Network (BASTUN) is a regional trade union federation of 22 organizations with 20 million members from the Baltic Sea region. It was founded in 1999. BASTUN is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.
BASTUN encourages social debate, bargaining, tripartite structures and collaboration, as well as the social aspect of economic development and progress. In the Baltic Sea Region, BASTUN works to promote humane and equitable communities, social rights, decent working conditions, and fair wages for all.
Member countries
Member countries include:
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
Germany
Latvia
Lithuania
Norway
Poland
Russia
Sweden
References
External links
BASTUN official website.
BASTUN, European Economicand Social Committee
1999 establishments in Europe
Organizations established in 1999
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV5%20Qu%C3%A9bec%20Canada
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TV5 Québec Canada (abbreviated to TV5) is a Canadian French-language specialty channel that focuses primarily on programming from international French-speaking broadcasters.
The channel shares a broadcast licence with its sister network, Unis, a channel devoted to broadcasting programming primarily focusing on Canadian French-speaking communities, in particular, those living outside of Quebec.
History
The idea of a Canadian feed of TV5Monde, then known simply as TV5 Canada, was first proposed in 1986 when the Consortium de télévision Québec Canada (Television Consortium Québec Canada in English), comprising CBC/Radio Canada, Télé-Quebec, TFO and the Association des producteurs de films et de télévision du Québec, joined the TV5 consortium the same year. The proposed channel underwent a CRTC hearing on specialty channel applications in July 1987, and TV5 Québec Canada was launched on September 1, 1988, as the spiritual successor to the cable television channel TVFQ 99 , which was originally launched in 1979 as a joint venture between Vidéotron and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to rebroadcast TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3 programming in Canada.
Overview
TV5 Québec Canada has a partnership with TV5Monde, the second-most-widely distributed network in the world, reaching over 180 million households in over 200 countries. Unlike TV5Monde, which is based in Paris, France, and supervises the distribution of signals to all continents, TV5 Québec Canada is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, and is owned by the non-profit group Le Consortium de télévision Québec Canada inc. (CTQC), which distributes and manages the channel in Canada.
As with the TV5Monde consortium, CTQC is also a co-operative organisation currently structured as follows: one representative from each of the following, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (also known as Radio-Canada), Télé-Québec, TFO, and the Association des producteurs de films et de télévision du Québec (APFTQ) with two representatives appointed by the minister of Canadian Heritage, two others by Quebec's minister responsible for culture and communications and its minister responsible for international relations, and the remaining member of the board of directors is the president and CEO of CTQC.
Programming
TV5 broadcasts a variety of French-language programming from Canada and around the world, including drama, sports, documentaries and information programming among a variety of other genres.
Canadian content is provided primarily by Télé-Québec and TFO, while foreign programming comes from the France Télévisions group, Arte France, RTBF (French language public broadcaster in Belgium), RTS (French language public broadcaster in Switzerland) and CIRTEF (council representing French-speaking Africa).
Ici Radio-Canada Télé and TVA are also partners in TV5 and provide programming to the international parent channel, but as both are already widely available across Canada, most of their programming is replaced on the Can
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