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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20numerical-analysis%20software
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Listed here are notable end-user computer applications intended for use with numerical or data analysis:
Numerical-software packages
General-purpose computer algebra systems
Interface-oriented
Language-oriented
Historically significant
Expensive Desk Calculator written for the TX-0 and PDP-1 in the late 1950s or early 1960s.
S is an (array-based) programming language with strong numerical support. R is an implementation of the S language.
See also
References
Lists of software
Mathematics-related lists
Software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDISwrapper
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NDISwrapper is a free software driver wrapper that enables the use of Windows XP network device drivers (for devices such as PCI cards, USB modems, and routers) on Linux operating systems. NDISwrapper works by implementing the Windows kernel and NDIS APIs and dynamically linking Windows network drivers to this implementation. As a result, it only works on systems based on the instruction set architectures supported by Windows, namely IA-32 and x86-64.
Native drivers for some network adapters are not available on Linux as some manufacturers maintain proprietary interfaces and do not write cross-platform drivers. NDISwrapper allows the use of Windows drivers, which are available for virtually all modern PC network adapters.
Use
There are three steps: Creating a Linux driver, installing it, and using it. NDISwrapper is composed of two main parts, a command-line tool used at installation time and a Windows subsystem used when an application calls the Wi-Fi subsystem.
As the outcome of an NDISwrapper installation should be some sort of Linux driver to be able to work with Linux applications, the first action the user does is to "compile" a couple or more of Windows files, and the NDISwrapper's version of Windows DDK into a Linux Kernel Module. This is done with a tool named "ndiswrapper". The resultant linux driver is then installed (often manually) in the OS. A Linux application can then send request to this Linux driver that automatically does the needed adaptations to call its—now—internal Windows driver and DDK.
To achieve this "compilation" NDISwrapper requires at least the ".inf" and the ".sys" files invariably supplied as parts of the Windows driver. For example, if the driver is called "mydriver", with the files mydriver.inf and mydriver.sys and vendorid:productid 0000:0000, then NDISwrapper installs the driver to /etc/ndiswrapper/mydriver/. This directory contains three files:
0000:0000.conf, which contains information extracted from the inf file
mydriver.inf (the original inf file)
mydriver.sys (the driver file)
Graphical frontends
There are graphical frontends to NDISwrapper, such as Ndisgtk and NdisConfig, which allow NDISwrapper to be installed using a graphical user interface rather than console commands.
Architecture
NDISwrapper enables a Unix-like system to use Windows drivers of type NDIS and WIFI.
It was useful at a time where there were no Linux Wi-Fi drivers for common Wi-Fi cards.
It is composed of:
An NDIS driver, which is a kind of overlay for Ethernet device drivers.
A Wi-Fi manager, to control the radio and security part of the Wi-Fi card. It exposes a "wireless extension" interface.
A USB manager and a PnP manager to make it possible to use Wi-Fi card embedded in USB sticks. The USB manager is composed of two parts, first a tiny USBD implementation (USB stack) then a simple Windows Driver Model (WDM) USB driver that is itself composed of two parts: The front part will receive calls from the NDISwrapper USB
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In computer-generated imagery and real-time 3D computer graphics, portal rendering is an algorithm for visibility determination. For example, consider a 3D computer game environment, which may contain many polygons, only a few of which may be visible on screen at a given time. By determining which polygons are currently not visible, and not rendering those objects, significant performance improvements can be achieved.
A portal system is based on using the partitioning of space to form generalizations about the visibility of objects within those spaces. Regions of map space are divided into polygonal, generally convex, areas called zones, or sometimes sectors. Adjacent zones are linked to one another via shared dividing polygons termed portals. Approaches that precompute visibility for zones are referred to as potentially visible set or PVS methods.
For example, in a computer game such as Descent, the game area might be divided into several zones. These zones would then be connected to each other by small openings such as doors or windows. These openings are referred to as portals. When the zone behind a portal needs to be drawn, the only parts that are visible are the parts that can be seen through the portal. Therefore, the zone can be clipped against the portal boundaries to remove overdraw.
The use of portals simplifies the game engine's task of determining visible areas and objects from any given point of view of the level, and simplifies rendering by allowing it to use each portal as a viewing frustum for the area it leads to. Ideally, portals are formed of confined areas (like doors or tunnels), connecting two complex areas of the scene, where each of these areas would be enclosed in such a polygonal body.
Portals are best suited for indoor scenes such as mazes. Outdoor scenes do not usually have door-like objects that would clearly separate one zone from another.
See also
Antiportal
Binary space partitioning
References
External links
Building a 3D Portal Engine
Computer graphics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-ported%20video%20RAM
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Dual-ported video RAM (VRAM) is a dual-ported variant of dynamic RAM (DRAM), which was once commonly used to store the framebuffer in graphics adapters. Note that most computers and game consoles do not use this form of memory, and dual-ported VRAM should not be confused with other forms of video memory.
History
It was invented by F. Dill, D. Ling and R. Matick at IBM Research in 1980, with a patent issued in 1985 (US Patent 4,541,075). The first commercial use of VRAM was in a high-resolution graphics adapter introduced in 1986 by IBM for its RT PC system, which set a new standard for graphics displays. Prior to the development of VRAM, dual-ported memory was quite expensive, limiting higher resolution bitmapped graphics to high-end workstations. VRAM improved the overall framebuffer throughput, allowing low cost, high-resolution, high-speed, color graphics. Modern GUI-based operating systems benefitted from this and thus it provided a key ingredient for proliferation of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) throughout the world at that time.
Output port types
VRAM has two sets of data output pins, and thus two ports that can be used simultaneously. The first port, the DRAM port, is accessed by the host computer in a manner very similar to traditional DRAM. The second port, the video port, is typically read-only and is dedicated to providing a high throughput, serialized data channel for the graphics chipset.
Operation
Typical DRAM arrays normally access a full row of bits (i.e. a word line) at up to 1,024 bits at one time, but only use one or a few of these for actual data, the remainder being discarded. Since DRAM cells are destructively read, each row accessed must be sensed, and re-written. Thus, 1,024 sense amplifiers are typically used. VRAM operates by not discarding the excess bits which must be accessed, but making full use of them in a simple way. If each horizontal scan line of a display is mapped to a full word, then upon reading one word and latching all 1,024 bits into a separate row buffer, these bits can subsequently be serially streamed to the display circuitry. This will leave the DRAM array free to be accessed (read or write) for many cycles, until the row buffer is almost depleted. A complete DRAM read cycle is only required to fill the row buffer, leaving most DRAM cycles available for normal accesses.
Such operation is described in the paper "All points addressable raster display memory" by R. Matick, D. Ling, S. Gupta, and F. Dill, IBM Journal of R&D, Vol 28, No. 4, July 1984, pp. 379–393. To use the video port, the controller first uses the DRAM port to select the row of the memory array that is to be displayed. The VRAM then copies that entire row to an internal row-buffer which is a shift register. The controller can then continue to use the DRAM port for drawing objects on the display. Meanwhile, the controller feeds a clock called the shift clock (SCLK) to the VRAM's video port. Each SCLK pulse causes the VRAM to
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix%20Natural%20Gas
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Phoenix Natural Gas is the largest gas distribution business in Northern Ireland, being the owner and operator of the licence for the distribution network in the Greater Belfast area. The distribution business is responsible for the development of the pipeline network and also for providing a 24/7 operational and transportation service platform to suppliers under the rules of the company's network code. The ongoing investment within the Phoenix Natural Gas licence area does not attract any grant or support from local or UK government. The investment is a standalone private venture.
The Phoenix Natural Gas network currently extends to over 3,650 kilometres of intermediate, medium and low-pressure mains, which distribute natural gas throughout the licence area, representing around 50% of the population of Northern Ireland. Approximately 70% of the gas infrastructure has been completed using trenchless 'No Dig' technology.
Phoenix Natural Gas manages the construction, maintenance and operation of the network and is also responsible for the development of the market in Greater Belfast and Larne. Already some 218,000 customers have been connected to natural gas network in the 20 plus years it has been available to them. The business is regulated under licence by the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation (NIAUR).
History
In March 1992 Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Brooke announced the first stage of the privatisation of Northern Ireland Electricity, the province's monopolistic utility company. A major part of this was the sale of Ballylumford power station in Northern Ireland to British Gas for £132 million. This oil-fired power plant provided more than half of the power needs of the 600,000 customers in Northern Ireland. British Gas simultaneously announced its plans to set up Premier Transco to build and operate the Scotland-Northern Ireland pipeline (SNIP), a natural gas pipeline, to convert Ballylumford to natural gas, and to set up a commercial supply company for natural gas (what would become Phoenix Natural Gas).
The £250 million Scotland Northern Ireland Pipeline (SNIP) was completed in 1996, with the first gas delivered through it in September of that year. In 1997 BG Group sold a 24.5% stake in Phoenix to KeySpan. In early 2001 BG Group sold a further 24.5% to East Surrey Holdings plc (ESH) for £50 million. In November 2003 ESH purchased Phoenix outright, acquiring the other two shareholders' stakes for a total of £177 million. Terra Firma Capital Partners completed a protracted acquisition of ESH and its Phoenix subsidiary for £453 million in 2005; Terra Firma had attempted to withdraw its bid for ESH due to a "bitter and long-running dispute with Northern Ireland's energy regulator Douglas McIldoon over Phoenix Natural Gas, which represents more than half of East Surrey's sales."
In 2008 Phoenix sold the Belfast Gas Transmission Pipeline system to Northern Ireland Energy Holdings for £99.3 million. The pipeline carries
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%20Papadopoulos
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Gregory Michael Papadopoulos (born 1958) is an American engineer, computer scientist, executive, and venture capitalist.
He is the creator and lead proponent for Redshift, a theory on whether technology markets are over or under-served by Moore's Law.
Biography
Papadopoulos received a B.A. in systems science from the University of California, San Diego in 1979, and an S.M. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1983 and 1988. At some time he held positions at Hewlett-Packard and Honeywell.
While a graduate student, he worked at the MIT spinoff PictureTel in its early days.
His dissertation was on a dataflow architecture microprocessor, under his advisor Arvind. Along with David E. Culler, he developed a simplified approach to dataflow execution in a project named Monsoon.
Papadopoulos became assistant professor at MIT in 1988 and associate professor in May 1993. He helped start Ergo Computing in 1988, and Exa Corporation in 1991.
He was chief architect at Thinking Machines Corporation starting in 1992.
His research applied massively parallel techniques to high-performance computing.
He joined Sun Microsystems in September 1994. After serving as chief scientist for the server division, in December 1995 he became chief technical officer (CTO) of SMCC (Sun's hardware division), and CTO of the entire company in April 1998.
He left Sun in February 2010.
Papadopoulos co-authored (with David Douglas and John Boutelle) the book Citizen Engineer: A Handbook for Socially Responsible Engineering, published in 2009.
At the time he lived in Los Gatos, California.
In 2010 Papadopoulos joined the venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA) as an executive in residence and the Computer History Museum as a director. In April, 2011, Papadopoulos became a partner at NEA.
At some time, he was chairman of the board of trustees for the SETI Institute.
References
Living people
Sun Microsystems people
University of California, San Diego alumni
MIT School of Engineering alumni
MIT School of Engineering faculty
American chief technology officers
American business executives
American people of Greek descent
1958 births
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic%20network
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A metabolic network is the complete set of metabolic and physical processes that determine the physiological and biochemical properties of a cell. As such, these networks comprise the chemical reactions of metabolism, the metabolic pathways, as well as the regulatory interactions that guide these reactions.
With the sequencing of complete genomes, it is now possible to reconstruct the network of biochemical reactions in many organisms, from bacteria to human. Several of these networks are available online:
Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG), EcoCyc, BioCyc and metaTIGER.
Metabolic networks are powerful tools for studying and modelling metabolism.
Uses
Metabolic networks can be used to detect comorbidity patterns in diseased patients. Certain diseases, such as obesity and diabetes, can be present in the same individual concurrently, sometimes one disease being a significant risk factor for the other disease. The disease phenotypes themselves are normally the consequence of the cell's inability to breakdown or produce an essential substrate. However, an enzyme defect at one reaction may affect the fluxes of other subsequent reactions. These cascading effects couple the metabolic diseases associated with subsequent reactions resulting in comorbidity effects. Thus, metabolic disease networks can be used to determine if two disorders are connected due to their correlated reactions.
See also
Metabolic network modelling
Metabolic pathway
References
Metabolism
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Canepa
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Mark Canepa is an American computer technology executive.
Biography
Canepa's educational background includes both a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and he completed the University of Pennsylvania's advanced management program at the Wharton School.
Canepa held several manager positions in Hewlett-Packard from 1992 though 1996, including development and marketing.
In 1995 he led HP's new workstation division in Chelmsford, Massachusetts formed after the acquisition of Apollo Computer.
He joined Compaq to lead its newly formed workstation division, in October 1996, but left after only a few weeks.
Canepa joined Sun Microsystems in October 1996.
He served in multiple vice president and general manager roles, such as general manager of the workgroup server product group.
He became executive vice president in April 2001 of a network storage products group, which became a data management group.
His storage group leadership included the acquisition of Storage Technology Corporation (StorageTek) in 2005.
He left Sun on May 15, 2006 and was replaced by David Yen, in a reorganization by Jonathan I. Schwartz.
He joined Extreme Networks as CEO on August 30, 2006.
Canepa resigned as chief executive officer and as director of Extreme Networks on October 22, 2009.
He joined the board of directors of GreenButton in September 2011.
In 2013 he joined DataDirect Networks, including serving as a vice president.
Very all known around the world as a Poet on Middle Ages themes, and professional Violinist with multiple representations in Italy.
References
Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbounded%20nondeterminism
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In computer science, unbounded nondeterminism or unbounded indeterminacy is a property of concurrency by which the amount of delay in servicing a request can become unbounded as a result of arbitration of contention for shared resources while still guaranteeing that the request will eventually be serviced. Unbounded nondeterminism became an important issue in the development of the denotational semantics of concurrency, and later became part of research into the theoretical concept of hypercomputation.
Fairness
Discussion of unbounded nondeterminism tends to get involved with discussions of fairness. The basic concept is that all computation paths must be "fair" in the sense that if the machine enters a state infinitely often, it must take every possible transition from that state. This amounts to requiring that the machine be guaranteed to service a request if it can, since an infinite sequence of states will only be allowed if there is no transition that leads to the request being serviced. Equivalently, every possible transition must occur eventually in an infinite computation, although it may take an unbounded amount of time for the transition to occur. This concept is to be distinguished from the local fairness of flipping a "fair" coin, by which it is understood that it is possible for the outcome to always be heads for any finite number of steps, although as the number of steps increases, this will almost surely not happen.
An example of the role of fair or unbounded nondeterminism in the merging of strings was given by William D. Clinger, in his 1981 thesis. He defined a "fair merge" of two strings to be a third string in which each character of each string must occur eventually. He then considered the set of all fair merges of two strings , assuming it to be a monotone function. Then he argued that , where is the empty stream. Now }, so it must be that is an element of , a contradiction. He concluded that:
It appears that a fair merge cannot be written as a nondeterministic data flow program operating on streams.
On the possibility of implementing unbounded nondeterminism
Edsger Dijkstra argued that it is impossible to implement systems with unbounded nondeterminism. For this reason, Tony Hoare suggested that "an efficient implementation should try to be reasonably fair."
Nondeterministic automata
Nondeterministic Turing machines have only bounded nondeterminism. Likewise sequential programs containing guarded commands as the only sources of nondeterminism have only bounded nondeterminism. Briefly, choice nondeterminism is bounded. Gordon Plotkin gave a proof in his original paper on powerdomains:
Now the set of initial segments of execution sequences of a given nondeterministic program , starting from a given state, will form a tree. The branching points will correspond to the choice points in the program. Since there are always only finitely many alternatives at each choice point, the branching factor of the tree is always
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SNY is a TV network in New York City, United States.
SNY, or sny, may also refer to:
SNY, the IATA code for Sidney Municipal Airport in the state of Nebraska, US
sny, the ISO 639-3 code for the Sanio language spoken in Papua New Guinea
SNY, the Nasdaq ticker symbol for Sanofi, multinational pharmaceutical company based in Paris, France
SNY, the National Rail code for Sunnymeads railway station in the county of Berkshire, UK
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DASK
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The DASK was the first computer in Denmark. It was commissioned in 1955, designed and constructed by Regnecentralen, and began operation in September 1957. DASK is an acronym for Dansk Aritmetisk Sekvens Kalkulator or Danish Arithmetic Sequence Calculator. Regnecentralen almost didnot allow the name, as the word dask means "slap" in Danish. In the end, however, it was named so as it fit the pattern of the name BESK, the Swedish computer which provided the initial architecture for DASK.
DASK traces its origins to 1947 and a goal set by Akademiet for de Tekniske Videnskaber (Academy for the Technical Sciences or Academy of Applied Sciences), which was to follow the development of the modern computing devices. Initial funding was obtained through the Ministry of Defence (Denmark) as the Danish Military had been given a grant through the Marshall Plan for cipher machines for which the military saw no immediate need.
Originally conceived to be a copy of BESK, the rapid advancement in the field allowed improvements to be made during the development such that in the end, it was not a copy of BESK. The DASK was a one-off design that took place in a villa. The machine became so big that the floor had to be reinforced to support its mass of 3.5 metric tons.
DASK is notable for being the subject of one of the earliest ALGOL implementations, referred to as DASK ALGOL, which counted Jørn Jensen and Peter Naur among its contributors.
Architecture
The DASK was a vacuum tube machine based on the Swedish BESK design. As described in 1956, it contained 2500 vacuum tubes, 1500 solid-state elements, and required a three-phase power supply of at least 15 kW.
Fast storage was 1024 40-bit words of magnetic-core memory (cycle time 5µs), directly addressable as 1024 full or 2048 half-words. This was complemented by an additional 8192 words of backing store on magnetic drum (3000 rpm). A full word stored 40-bit numbers in two's-complement form, or two 20-bit instructions.
In addition to two accumulators, the DASK had three index registers, which could be used to modify the address of most instructions. An instruction word consisted of 11 bits for an address, two bits for index register selection, and seven bits for the operation code and its modifiers.
Operations included addition and subtraction (56 µs), multiplication and division (364 µs), binary shift and bitwise conjunction.
Peripherals initially included 5-bit paper tape (400 cps read time) and teletypewriter (12 cps); magnetic tape and other peripherals were added later on.
See also
List of vacuum-tube computers
References
External links
Early Computing in Denmark
HOPL entry for DASK Algol
Dansk Datahistorisk Forening Virtual Museum (in Danish)
Technical description of the DASK (in Danish)
DASK – A video featuring original footage of DASK and some of its operators, Mediehuset Ingeniøren
IAS architecture computers
1950s computers
Vacuum tube computers
One-of-a-kind computers
Algol programming language f
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why%20the%20lucky%20stiff
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Jonathan Gillette, known by the pseudonym why the lucky stiff (often abbreviated as _why), is a writer, cartoonist, artist, and programmer notable for his work with the Ruby programming language. Annie Lowrey described him as "one of the most unusual, and beloved, computer programmers" in the world. Along with Yukihiro Matsumoto and David Heinemeier Hansson, he was seen as one of the key figures in the Ruby community. His pseudonym might allude to the exclamation "Why, the lucky stiff!" from The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.
_why made a presentation enigmatically titled "A Starry Afternoon, a Sinking Symphony, and the Polo Champ Who Gave It All Up for No Reason Whatsoever" at the 2005 O'Reilly Open Source Convention. It explored how to teach programming and make the subject more appealing to adolescents. _why gave a presentation and performed with his band, the Thirsty Cups, at RailsConf in 2006.
On 19 August 2009, _why's accounts on Twitter and GitHub and his personally maintained websites went offline. Shortly before he disappeared, _why tweeted, "programming is rather thankless. u see your works become replaced by superior ones in a year. unable to run at all in a few more."
_why's colleagues have assembled collections of his writings and projects.
In 2012, his website briefly went back online with a detailed explanation of his plans for the future.
Works
Books
His best known work is Why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby, which "teaches Ruby with stories." Paul Adams of Webmonkey describes its eclectic style as resembling a "collaboration between Stan Lem and Ed Lear". Chapter three was published in The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky.
In April 2013, a complete book attributed to Jonathan Gillette was digitally released via the website whytheluckystiff.net (which has since changed ownership) and the GitHub repository cwales. It was presented as individual files of PCL (Printer Command Language) without any instructions on how to assemble the print-outs into a book. Based on timestamps from the git repository, Steve Klabnik compiled the pages in the order in which they were released into a PDF file which he titled CLOSURE since the book provides some resolution to the story. Although no authorship is claimed in either the book or the git repository, the writing style and content are very similar to those of Gillette, the storyline references certain events, and the text includes the names Jonathan Gillette and _why.
Code tutorials
Try Ruby is an online interactive learning tool that provided a browser-based Ruby shell and an instructor that guided beginners through their first steps in Ruby. Since _why's disappearance, the project has been continued in spirit at Try Ruby revision 4.
His final project before his internet retirement, Hackety Hack, is a Ruby- and Shoes-based environment intended to bring the power, freedom, and simplicity of BASIC programming to the current generation, with a particular focus on bei
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Xi2 Sagittarii, Latinized from ξ2 Sagittarii, is a star in the zodiac constellation of Sagittarius. Data collected during the Hipparcos mission suggests it is an astrometric binary, although nothing is known about the companion. It is visible to the naked eye with a combined apparent visual magnitude of +3.51. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 8.93 mas as seen from Earth, this system is located around 370 light years from the Sun.
The spectrum of Xi2 Sagittarii yields a mixed stellar classification of G8/K0 II/III, showing traits of a G- or K-type giant or bright giant star. It has an estimated 3.36 times the mass of the Sun and about 14 times the Sun's radius. At an age of around 380 million years, it is radiating 676 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,541 K.
References
K-type giants
G-type giants
K-type bright giants
Astrometric binaries
Sagittarius (constellation)
Sagittarii, Xi
Durchmusterung objects
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The following is a collection of data for places with unusual or otherwise notable demographic characteristics within the United States. The data was obtained by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Of any population
Note: Data for places with extremely small populations may be misleading or anomalous.
Tenure
Most populous place where the entire population owns their housing units. Fort Devens, Massachusetts. Population: 1,017.
Most populous place where the entire population rents their housing units. K. I. Sawyer AFB, Michigan. Population: 1,443.
Income and housing costs
Highest per capita income and median housing cost below $100,000. Naples, South Dakota. Per capita income: $78,450; median housing cost: $36,300; population: 25.
Highest per capita income and median housing cost below $200,000. Rex, North Carolina. Per capita income: $148,073; median housing cost: $137,500; population: 55.
Highest median household income and median housing cost below $100,000. Valley Park, Oklahoma. Median household income: $101,376; median housing cost: $27,500; population: 24.
Highest median household income and median housing cost below $200,000. Rex, North Carolina. Median household income: above $200,000; median housing cost: $137,500; population: 55.
Lowest per capita income and median housing cost in excess of $1,000,000. Kirkwood, California. Per capita income: $14,853; population: 96.
Lowest median household income and median housing cost in excess of $1,000,000. Mountain Village, Colorado. Median household income: $30,663; population: 978.
Income and race
Highest median household income and an entirely European American population. The following places had an entirely European American population and a median household income above $200,000:
Mound, Louisiana. Population: 12.
Orchid, Florida. Population: 140.
Highest median household income and a proportion of African Americans in excess of 50 percent. Woodmore, Maryland. Percent African American: 64.9%; median household income: $97,270; population: 6,077.
Highest median household income and a proportion of Asian Americans in excess of 50 percent. Milpitas, California. Percent Asian: 51.8%; median household income: $84,429; population: 62,698.
Highest median household income and a proportion of Native Hawaiians or other Pacific Islanders in excess of 20 percent. Waimanalo Beach, Hawaii. Percent Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander: 47.3%; median household income: $55,781; population: 4,271.
Highest median household income and a proportion of Native Americans in excess of 50 percent. Lotsee, Oklahoma. Percent Native American: 72.7%; median household income: $152,338; population: 11.
Race
Highest percentage of African Americans. All inhabitants are African American in the following places:
McMullen, Alabama. Population: 66.
Birdsong, Arkansas. Population: 40.
Highest percentage of Asians. Kaumakani, Hawaii. Percent Asian: 76.1; population: 607.
Highest percentage of Native Hawai
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula%20One%2006
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Formula One 06 (also known as Formula One 2006 Portable for PlayStation Portable in Japan) is a racing video game developed by Studio Liverpool and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable. It is a sequel to the 2005 video game Formula One 05 and was based on the 2006 Formula One World Championship.
Summary
The game continues the tradition of a career mode, an option in place since the 2004 game. Formula One 06 uses the previous F1 game engine but with minor modifications (team and driver select with team mode has a team logo). This is also the last game in the Formula One series to be released on the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable.
In career mode, the player begins their career with either Super Aguri, Toro Rosso or Midland F1. Their position within the team, either a test driver; second driver or first driver, depends on how well the player performs during the trial sessions, and thereafter. The test sessions are either held at the Circuit de Catalunya; Silverstone or Magny-Cours circuits and can also be played out in either dry or wet conditions.
The game is based on the early 2006 Formula One World Championship. Hence, Yuji Ide drives for Super Aguri when in reality he lost his super licence just 4 races into the '06 Formula One World Championship, and Franck Montagny, then later Sakon Yamamoto took his seat. Other minor changes throughout the real 2006 Formula One World Championship are also not represented, therefore Pedro de la Rosa, Robert Kubica. Robert Doornbos, Franck Montagny and Sakon Yamamoto are not featured. Also, the Midland team are not re-branded as Spyker in later Grands Prix in the game.
The trial sessions vary from completing one "Flying Lap" to ten laps to beat the Target Time. Also, this target time can be an "Accumulative Target Time" where the player has four or three laps in which to consistently post fast times. The fastest laps are then added together and then compared to the Accumulative Target Time.
The player's career lasts a total of five Grand Prix seasons, in which they attempt to become a World Champion. This will most likely happen with the most competitive teams, e.g. Renault, Ferrari, McLaren or Honda.
In addition, certain prizes can be unlocked once certain criteria have been fulfilled, e.g. winning a grand prix, and unlocking an award such as the test track, Jerez. A trophy cabinet section is also featured so players can view the trophies they have won in different Grands Prix, or in the world championship. The F1 car that a player won the championship with is also displayed.
The game also features the new knockout qualifying system, introduced at the start of the 2006 Formula One World Championship, with three qualifying sessions. Other new additions include the formation lap and a much more competitive AI from previous F1 games in the series.
The game also features the V8 engine sound for the first time except for the Scuderia Toro Rosso STR1 V10
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Royal Air Maroc (RAM), Morocco's national airline, was founded in from the merger of Air Maroc and Air Atlas.
, RAM served a network comprising over 90 destinations, of which 56 are international ones. The carrier flies to 17 cities within Morocco and to 11 cities in France; it also serves twelve more countries in the rest of Europe, 24 in Africa, three in the Americas and two in the Middle East, whereas the cargo network comprises another three destinations. International seat capacity to and from Morocco is led by RAM, , with 57% of these seats offered to Western Europe traffic; Casablanca–Agadir and –Marrakesh are RAM largest domestic routes.
Following is a list showing the destinations served by the company as part of its scheduled services, . The list includes the country, city and the airport name, with the airline's hubs, cargo, seasonal and focus cities marked. Destinations served by RAM subsidiary Royal Air Maroc Express are also listed.
List
See also
Transport in Morocco
References
External links
Royal Air Maroc
Lists of airline destinations
Oneworld destinations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Taylor%20%28Australian%20footballer%29
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Brian Wayne Taylor (born 10 April 1962) is a former Australian rules footballer and current Australian Football League (AFL) commentator on television for the Seven Network. He played with Richmond and Collingwood from 1980 to 1990.
Playing career
Taylor was 16 when recruited from Mandurah, Western Australia, to the Richmond Football Club.
The moustached Taylor, known as "BT" and "Bristle", began his VFL career with Richmond in 1980. He was a full-forward at the same club as the prolific forward Michael Roach, which limited his playing opportunities and resulted in Taylor asking to be transferred to Collingwood after the 1984 season. Taylor played 43 games and kicked 156 goals at Richmond. His height was 191 cm and his weight was 102 kg.
In 1985, Taylor joined Collingwood. He kicked 100 goals in 1986 to win the Coleman Medal. Due to repeated knee injuries, he retired from playing in the AFL at the end of the 1990 season at 28 years of age. He had played 97 games for Collingwood, kicking 371 goals.
Taylor has admitted that early in his career, he had a problem controlling his aggression and was involved in some physical, comical incidents.
In 1991 Taylor became playing coach of Prahran in the VFA. In 1992, after he had kicked 16 and 9 goals in the opening two rounds, his knee gave way and he retired from playing after finishing that season with 64 goals. Continuing as coach, he again took the Two Blues to the finals. He retired as coach shortly before the 1994 season due to media commitments.
Statistics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear%20of%20Flying%20%28The%20Simpsons%29
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"Fear of Flying" is the eleventh episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It was first broadcast on the Fox network in the United States on December 18, 1994. In the episode, the family attempts to go on a vacation but soon discovers that Marge is afraid of flying.
The episode was written by David Sacks and directed by Mark Kirkland. It features numerous guest stars, including Anne Bancroft as Dr. Zweig. Additionally, Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson, Rhea Perlman, John Ratzenberger, and George Wendt appear as their characters from Cheers.
It received a positive reception from television critics, and acquired a Nielsen rating of 9.6.
The authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide commented positively on the episode, as did reviews from DVD Verdict and DVD Movie Guide.
Plot
At Moe's Tavern, the patrons pull a series of hazardous pranks on Moe that he laughs off. After pulling a harmless one, Homer is disproportionately banned for life and must find another bar. He is asked to leave a refined cocktail bar, and rejects both Cheers and a lesbian one (owing to their karaoke nights and lack of fire exits, respectively). Homer eventually settles for an airline pilots' bar, where he is mistaken for a pilot and despite his vehement protests is put in the cockpit of an airplane, which he promptly wrecks. In exchange for his silence about their mistake, the airline gives the Simpson family free tickets to any of the lower forty-eight states.
The idea of plane travel fills Marge with anxiety because she has a fear of flying. After several failed attempts to avoid the trip, she has a panic attack on the plane and the trip is postponed, whilst Grampa is left behind on the plane. To conquer Marge's phobia, Homer rents fiction films with airplane themes. This backfires when one film shows the survivors of a plane crash surviving by eating the dead crew and passengers.
When Marge shows signs of lingering flight-related trauma, manifesting as compulsions to perform household chores either at night or to an excessive degree, Lisa convinces her to undergo psychotherapy with Dr. Zweig. Homer is highly paranoid of this, believing that Dr. Zweig will identify him as a problem and convince Marge to leave him. She uncovers the roots of Marge's fear: the moment she discovered her father was not a pilot, but a flight attendant. Her shame is eased when Zweig assures her that male flight attendants are now very common, and that her father could be considered a pioneer. Marge also remembers other flying-related accidents that caused her fear, which include getting accidentally hit in the eye with an "airplane" spoon by her grandmother as an infant, riding an airplane scooter that caught fire, and being taken to a cornfield where she and her mother were attacked by a plane.
Thinking she has finally conquered her fear of flying, Marge boards a plane with Homer. The plane skids off
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrity%20%28disambiguation%29
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Integrity is the ethical concept of basing of one's actions on a consistent framework of principles.
Integrity may also refer to:
Technology
Data integrity, a concept from information and telecommunications technology in general, and cryptography in particular
System integrity, a telecommunications concept regarding the operation of a system
Integrity (operating system), a real-time operating system produced and marketed by Green Hills Software
HPE Integrity Servers, a server line from Hewlett Packard Enterprise based on the Itanium processor
Integrity by Tandem Computers, a fault-tolerant server line and Unix-based operating system whose trademark passed to HP
PTC Integrity, a software system lifecycle management and application lifecycle management platform
Arts and media
Music
Integrity (band), an American punk rock band formed in 1988
Integrity 2000, a 1999 album by American punk band Integrity
Integrity (album), 2015 album by British grime artist Jme
Integrity Blues, a 2016 album by American rock band Jimmy Eat World
TV and films
Anti-Corruption (film) (translated as "Storm of Integrity"), a 1975 Hong Kong crime film
"Integrity" (Modern Family), a 2015 episode from the TV series Modern Family
A Man of Integrity, a 2017 Iranian drama film
Integrity (film), a 2019 Hong Kong crime film
Media companies
Integrity Media, a media communications company that publishes and distributes Christian music, films and related materials
Integrity Records, a British independent record label
Legal
Bodily integrity, the principle of a human right to personal autonomy
Territorial integrity, a principle under international law
Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. v. Busk, a 2014 US Supreme Court decision
Nautical
HMCS Integrity (1804), a cutter that disappeared in 1805 while en route from New South Wales to Chile
HMS Integrity, a name used by the Royal Navy for several ships
Integrity (1824 ship), an English merchant ship
MV American Integrity, an American ship built in 1978
ARC Integrity, Vehicle Carrier built in 1992
Other uses
IntegrityBC, a Canadian non-profit organization focusing on political reform
Integrity Toys, an American toy company
Integrity USA, an American non-profit organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Episcopalians and straight friends
Global Integrity, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC which monitors governmental corruption around the world
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20Task%20Force%20%E2%80%93%20Global%20Network%20Operations
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Joint Task Force-Global Network Operations (JTF-GNO) was a subordinate command of United States Strategic Command whose mission was to: direct the operation and defense of the Global Information Grid (GIG) across strategic, operational, and tactical boundaries in support of the US Department of Defense's full spectrum of war fighting, intelligence, and business operations.
The Task Force's operations were moved to Fort Meade, Maryland, in April 2010 as part of decisions reached under the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure process. JTF-GNO was dissolved and incorporated within the United States Cyber Command on September 7, 2010.
Primary responsibilities
Identifies and resolves computer security anomalies that affect the GIG's ability to support Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) elements, Joint Staff, Supported Combatant Commands and the "warfighter".
Identifies significant threats to the GIG. Develop, disseminate and implement countermeasures to these threats in a timely manner via Information Assurance Vulnerability Messages (IAVM)
Assesses the incidents reported by Combatant Command, service, and agency (CC/S/A) computer network defense (CND) and Regions individually and cumulatively for their impact on the "warfighter’s" ability to carry out current and future missions.
Coordinates the response actions taken by the CC/S/A CND service providers (CNDSP).
Identifies emerging technologies and their associated threats in order to integrate migrations and response actions into current CND posture.
History
In 1998 the Department of Defense recognized a growing cyber threat and in response created the Joint Task Force-Computer Network Defense (JTF-CND), which achieved initial operational capability on 30 December 1998 and full operational capability by June 1999.
In the fall of 2000, the JTF-CND assumed responsibility for the DoD computer network attack mission and became the Joint Task Force—Computer Network Operations (JTF-CNO). In October 2002, the new Unified Command Plan, Change 2, re-aligned JTF-CNO under the United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM)
The JTF-CNO began its largest and most comprehensive transformation in April 2004 when the Commander of US Strategic Command approved the Joint Concept of Operations for GIG Network Operations. This “NetOps CONOPS” provided the common framework and command and control structure to conduct the USSTRATCOM Unified Command Plan-assigned mission of Global Network Operations, combining the disciplines of enterprise systems and network management, network defense, and information decision management.
The Secretary of Defense signed a delegation of authority letter on 18 June 2004, designating the Director, DISA as the new Commander of the Joint Task Force-Global Network Operations. With this designation, the new command assumed the responsibility for directing the operation and defense of the GIG.
This transformation enhanced the JTF GNO's mission and objectives was crucial in pushing towards t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC%20Universal%20Packet
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The PARC Universal Packet (PUP or PuP, although the original documents usually use Pup) was one of the two earliest internetworking protocol suites; it was created by researchers at Xerox PARC in the mid-1970s. (Technically, the name "PUP" only refers to the internetwork-level protocol, but it is also applied to the whole protocol suite.) The entire suite provided routing and packet delivery, as well as higher level functions such as a reliable byte stream, along with numerous applications.
History
The PUP protocol was created in roughly the same time frame as the earliest parts of the development of TCP/IP for the Internet and also the same time period as the early Ethernet local area network at PARC. The fundamental design of the PUP suite was substantially complete by 1974.
In the 1980s Xerox used PUP as the base for the Xerox Network Systems (XNS) protocol suite; some of the protocols in the XNS suite (such as the Internetwork Datagram Protocol) were lightly modified versions of the ones in the PUP suite, but others are quite different, reflecting the experience gained with PUP and IP.
Basic internetwork protocol
The main internetwork layer protocol is PUP, which roughly corresponds to the Internet Protocol (IP) layer in TCP/IP. A full PUP network address consists of an 8-bit network number, an 8-bit host number, and a 16-bit socket number. The network number has a particular special value which means 'this network', for use by hosts which do not (yet) know their network number.
Unlike TCP/IP, socket fields are part of the full network address in the PUP header, so that upper-layer protocols did not need to implement their own demultiplexing; PUP also supplies packet types (again, unlike IP). Also, an optional 2-byte checksum covers the entire packet.
PUP packets are up to 554 bytes long (including the 20 byte PUP header), and the checksum. This is a smaller packet size than IP, which requires all hosts to support a minimum of 576 bytes (but allows packets of up to 65K bytes, if the hosts support them); individual PUP host pairs on a particular network might use larger packets, but no PUP router is required to handle them. Larger packets can be fragmented.
A protocol named the Gateway Information Protocol (an ancestor of RIP) is used as both the routing protocol, and for hosts to discover routers.
PUP also includes a simple echo protocol at the internetwork layer, similar to IP's ping, but operating at a lower level.
Transport layer protocols
To establish a transport connection, two protocols came into play. The first, the Rendezvous and Termination Protocol (RTP), which was used to initiate communication between two entities, as well as manage and terminate the connection. The second was the primary transport layer protocol, Byte Stream Protocol (BSP), which was analogous to TCP.
Once RTP had started the connection, BSP took over and managed the data transfer. Like TCP, BSP's semantics and operation were in terms of bytes; this w
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYTU-LD
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WYTU-LD (channel 63) is a low-power television station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language Telemundo network. Owned by Weigel Broadcasting (as the company's only Telemundo affiliate), it is sister to CBS affiliate WDJT-TV (channel 58), Class A MeTV owned-and-operated station WBME-CD (channel 41) and Racine-licensed independent station WMLW-TV (channel 49). The stations share studios in the Renaissance Center office complex on South 60th Street in West Allis (with a Milwaukee postal address), while WYTU-LD's transmitter is located in Milwaukee's Lincoln Park (next to the transmitter belonging to ABC affiliate WISN-TV, channel 12).
Due to its low-power status, its broadcasting radius does not reach all of southeastern Wisconsin. Therefore, the station can also be seen through a 16:9 widescreen standard definition simulcast on WDJT-TV's fourth digital subchannel in order to reach the entire market. This relay signal can be seen on channel 58.4 from the same Lincoln Park transmitter facility. WYTU is also relayed on WMYS-LD (channel 69.2) in South Bend, Indiana, and WFBN-LD (channel 35.2) in Rockford, Illinois.
The station airs all of Telemundo's schedule, along with Spanish-language coverage of Sunday afternoon Milwaukee Brewers baseball home games, using camera positions shared with Bally Sports Wisconsin. WYTU-LD is also available via Dish Network and Charter Spectrum's systems throughout their entire state service area as far west as La Crosse and as far north as Bayfield, making for a rare example of an intra-region superstation in the digital age.
History
The station has mostly been a feeder of the entire schedule of Univision and Telemundo through most of its history, with new local programming being added to the schedule as the station (and Telemundo's schedule) has gained strength. In 1999, Weigel dropped Univision in a compensation dispute and affiliated with Telemundo, and within the year, the station moved to UHF channel 63 from channel 46 as "W63CU", in order to accommodate WDJT's channel 46 digital signal and the company's move to one tower in Lincoln Park for all its operations. In mid-December 2003, the station took the lettered call sign "WYTU-LP" as it began to solicit local advertising from the growing Latino population in the Milwaukee area and Weigel began to push for extended cable coverage by including it in retransmission consent negotiations for WDJT.
The station signed on its digital signal on UHF channel 17 on December 10, 2007. Unlike the channel 13 digital signal of WMLW (which receives interference from WZZM in Grand Rapids), WYTU-LD's digital signal reaches the southern portion of the adjacent Green Bay/Appleton DMA, and is somewhat unrestricted as WXMI, the former occupant of channel 17 in the Grand Rapids market, now broadcasts on digital channel 20, although that station's Muskegon translator W17DF-D also broadcasts on channel 17. As a result of carriage agreements by Time
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Game%20Show%20Network
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The following is a list of programs that are currently airing, upcoming, or were formerly broadcast by Game Show Network.
Current programs
Original programs
Reruns of ended original programs
Acquired programs
Upcoming programs
Riddiculous (Fall 2023)
Blank Slate (Fall 2023)
Former programs
Former original programming
Former acquired programming
References
External links
GSN's official website
Game Show Network
Game Show Network
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TigerDirect
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TigerDirect was an El Segundo, California-based online retailer dealing in electronics, computers, and computer components. The company was previously owned by Systemax, which is known for its acquisitions of the intellectual property of the defunct U.S. retail chains Circuit City and CompUSA and relaunching them as online retailers. The two brands were subsequently shuttered in late-December 2012 and consolidated into the TigerDirect site.
In 2015, TigerDirect phased out all of its remaining brick-and-mortar retail operations, and PCM Inc. acquired Systemax's online North American technology retail business. In 2019, TigerDirect closed its online business servicing Canada.
The bulk of the company's business was based on web and catalog computer electronics sales, where TigerDirect has carved out a niche by placing a heavy emphasis on rebate marketing as a way to offer lower prices. The company also operated retail store and business-to-business channels.
History
A TigerDirect location was used for the set of Rhett and Link's 'Epic Rap Battle: Nerd vs. Geek' released October 3, 2013 in which a nerd and a geek have an epic rap battle.
The company was founded as BLOC Development Corp., a publisher of utility and application software products starting with FormTool, in 1985. The original company was a pioneer in utility software with several top 10 titles. The original founders were: Frank Millman, Jorge Torres, Frank Haggar, Tim McGuinness, Phil Bolin, Stephan Whitney, and Bob Horton. Frank Milman and Jorge Torres conceptualized the first product "FormTool".
In 1989, Tiger Software became a subsidiary of publicly held Bloc Development Corporation. BLOC Development was also the parent company of BLOC Publishing (a sister company of TigerSoftware), which continued the development and publishing of the company's flagship product "FormTool", and 20 other products; and SoftSync, former publisher of the "EXPERT Software" titles and the Macintosh accounting software "Accountant Inc."). BLOC Development later changed its name to TigerDirect.
TigerDirect abandoned the profitable software development in favor of the TigerSoftware catalog by 1991. Unfortunately, the new model under the leadership of Gilbert Fiorentino was unprofitable, and the company was sold in distress to Global DirectMail (now known as Systemax). In 1994 TigerDirect launched a series of profitable smaller catalogs that included GraphicsExpress, as well as CDROM and Mac catalogs. In 1996, after an aborted attempt at acquisition by Hanover House, it was acquired by Systemax (NYSE: SYX)
Acquisition of CompUSA and Circuit City brands
On January 6, 2008, Systemax announced the acquisition of the CompUSA brand, trademarks and e-commerce business, and as many as 16 CompUSA retail outlets in Illinois, Florida, Texas and Puerto Rico. On May 13, 2009, Systemax similarly acquired Circuit City's intellectual property, including its trademarks, brand name, and domain names. The deal took effec
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory%20Yob
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Gregory Yob (June 18, 1945 – October 13, 2005) was an American computer game designer.
Early life
Gregory was born in Eugene, Oregon. An article about his experiment on simulating gravitational fields with droplets of water on a soap bubble was published in Scientific American in December 1964, under The Amateur Scientist.
Career
His one published game, Hunt the Wumpus (1975), written while he was attending University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, is one of the earliest adventure games. While living in Palo Alto, California, Yob came across logic games on a mainframe computer named Hurkle, Snark, and Mugwump. Each of these games was based on a 10 × 10 grid, and Yob recognized that a puzzle game on a computer could have a far more complex structure. He created the world for Wumpus in the shape of a dodecahedron, in part because as a child he made a kite with that shape.
In the late 1980s he designed Comfort House. He wrote: "Comfort House is a new form of entertainment. High technology and interactive systems combine with your participation to give you an enjoyable evening uniquely attuned to your senses and mind." It was never built.
He was an engineer and helped build the first iteration of student radio station KDVS at University of California, Davis, where he ran an avant-garde show.
Gregory Yob, also known as Hara Ra, had changed his name to Gregory H. Coresun shortly before his death.
In recent years he had made his home in Santa Cruz, California.
Death
After five days in a diabetic coma at the intensive care unit in Santa Cruz, on October 13, 2005, he was airlifted to a hospice in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he died that evening. Technicians from Alcor Life Extension Foundation were present and started preparations immediately. His body was moved into an ice bath and taken to Alcor's Scottsdale facility where his severed head underwent neuropreservation.
References
External links
Together forever: Local couple hopes to be frozen through cryonics and see the future on Santa Cruz Sentinel newspaper article, July 12, 2002 (archived).
1945 births
2005 deaths
Video game programmers
Artists from Eugene, Oregon
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth alumni
American video game designers
Cryonically preserved people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramalinga%20Raju
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Byrraju Ramalinga Raju (born 16 September 1954) is an Indian businessman. He is the founder of Satyam Computer Services and served as its chairman and CEO from 1987 until 2009. Raju stepped down following his admission to embezzlement from the company to the tune of ₹7,136 crores (approximately US$1.5 billion), including ₹5040 crores (approximately US$1 billion) of non-existent cash and bank balances. In 2015, he was convicted of corporate fraud, which led to the collapse of Satyam Computers.
Early life
Ramalinga Raju, the eldest of Four children, was born on 16 September 1954. He earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Andhra Loyola College at Vijayawada and subsequently earned an MBA from Ohio University in the United States. After returning to India in 1977, Raju married at the age of twenty two. He ventured into many businesses including Dhanunjaya Hotels; and a cotton spinning mill named Sri Satyam Spinning, funded by Andhra Pradesh Industrial Development Corporation (APIDC), with an investment of 9 crore (worth almost $7 million in 1983 prices). As the businesses failed Raju moved into real estate and started a construction company named Maytas Infra Limited.
Family
Ramalinga Raju is married to Nandini and the couple had two children Teja Raju, and Rama Raju. Teja Raju is married to Divya, a Bharatanatyam dancer. Younger son Ramaraju married Sandhya Raju, daughter of P. R. Venkatarama Raju, managing director of Ramco Cements.
Career
In 1987, Raju incubated Satyam Computer Services along with one of his brothers-in-law, DVS Raju at P&T colony in Secunderabad and 20 employees. In 1991, Satyam won its first fortune 500 client – John Deere. Raju navigated Indian bureaucracy to obtain the required clearance to transmit data from India. The company went public in 1992. Raju was enrolled in the Owner/President Management (OPM) program at Harvard Business School in the 1990s. In an interview with Deccan Chronicle way back in 1998, Raju was talking about Satyam's ambition of operating out of 50 countries with an employee count of more than 50,000. In 1999, Raju launched Satyam Infoway (Sify) as Satyam's internet subsidiary, thereby becoming an early participant in the Indian internet service market. Sify was later sold to Raju Vegesna.
Business and politics
In September 1995, as Raju was building Satyam, Andhra Pradesh had a new Chief Minister, Chandra Babu Naidu, who wanted to bring in change. Naidu saw IT as a strategic industry to focus on and Raju became instrumental in shaping the state's information technology initiatives like 'Mee Kosam' ("For you" in Telugu). Raju had unfettered access to the chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh at a very personal level. Research into his life has exposed close links between business and politics.
Philanthropy
The major philanthropic foundations he has founded and grown to large scale between 2000 and 2008 are:
Byrraju Foundation:
The Byrraju Foundation, a family run philanthropic organization, was s
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20Blank
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Marc Blank is an American game developer and software engineer. He is best known as part of the team that created one of the first commercially successful text adventure computer games, Zork.
Career
Blank first encountered Don Woods and Will Crowther's Adventure game while he was studying at MIT in the mid-1970s, where the game was played on mainframe computers.
Blank was frustrated by the computer's tiny vocabulary; when it parsed user inputs very few words were recognized. After thinking about the problem during his undergraduate years, he started work on his own adventure game using MDL, a computer language invented at MIT. Blank and a handful of friends wrote the original version of Zork on a PDP-10 while he was attending medical school at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City (he received his MD degree in 1979).
Blank graduated from medical school in 1979 but elected to continue with Zork. He and several friends spent the next year developing a specialized computer language that they could use to program text adventures like Zork on then-new microcomputers (with far less capabilities than the PDP-10). They founded the new company, Infocom, to publish the game and more like it. Aside from Zork I, II, and III, he designed Deadline, Enchanter, Fooblitzky, Border Zone, and Journey: The Quest Begins
In 1993 he founded Blank, Berlyn and Co. with former Infocom writer Michael Berlyn. The company's name was later changed to Eidetic after former Apple Employee [Russ Wetmore] joined as the third partner, to help program Notion, for the Apple Newton. Eidetic initially published productivity software for the Apple Newton. Eidetic's Notion: The Newton List Manager became a hit and was ultimately bundled in all Newtons.
Blank returned to text adventures in 1997 when Activision producer Eddie Dombrower asked Blank and Berlyn to create a small promotional game, Zork: The Undiscovered Underground, to promote the release of Activision's graphical game Zork: Grand Inquisitor.
As Newton sales slowed, Eidetic changed gears to focus on PC and PlayStation games, producing Bubsy 3D in 1996 and Syphon Filter in 1999. In 2000 Sony acquired Eidetic for an undisclosed sum.
Blank left Sony in 2004, where he focused on his email client for the Treo smartphone, ChatterEmail. On February 22, 2007, Blank announced he would no longer be "actively" working on ChatterEmail. Blank subsequently joined Palm, Inc. (who acquired ChatterEmail) and led the design and implementation of the Palm Pre's Email application. He worked in the Android group at Google from 2010 to 2012, and as a Principal Engineer at Lab126 (Amazon.com) from 2012 to 2018.
In 2013 Blank and Dave Lebling were awarded the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Pioneer Award for their work on Zork.
References
External links
Marc Blank profile at MobyGames
Footage from interview with Blank for the documentary Get Lamp
"Decoupling Object-Oriented Languages from Wide-Area Networks in Lampo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heer
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Heer may refer to:
People
Jeet Heer, Indo-Canadian author and journalist
Jeffrey Heer (born 1979), American computer scientist and entrepreneur
Kamal Heer (born 1973), Indian singer and musician of Punjabi music
Oswald Heer (1809–1883), Swiss botanist and naturalist with the standard botanical author abbreviation Heer
Manmohan Waris or Manmohan Heer (born 1970), Indian singer and musician of Punjabi music
Sangtar or Sangtar Heer (born 1973), Indian composer and musician of Punjabi music
Other meanings
Heer (1955 film), a 1955 Pakistani film
"Heer" (instrumental), a 1991 instrumental by Pakistani band Junoon
Heer, Netherlands, an area in the municipality of Maastricht, Limburg
Heer (army)
"Heeriye", song from the 2020 Indian romantic film Happy Hardy and Heer
See also
Heer Ranjha (disambiguation)
Heer Sial (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling%20window%20manager
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In computing, a tiling window manager is a window manager with an organization of the screen into mutually non-overlapping frames, as opposed to the more common approach (used by stacking window managers) of coordinate-based stacking of overlapping objects (windows) that tries to fully emulate the desktop metaphor.
History
Xerox PARC
The first Xerox Star system (released in 1981) tiled application windows, but allowed dialogs and property windows to overlap. Later, Xerox PARC also developed CEDAR (released in 1982), the first windowing system using a tiled window manager.
Various vendors
Next in 1983 came Andrew WM, a complete tiled windowing system later replaced by X11. Microsoft's Windows 1.0 (released in 1985) also used tiling (see sections below). In 1986 came Digital Research's GEM 2.0, a windowing system for the CP/M which used tiling by default. One of the early (created in 1988) tiling WMs was Siemens' RTL, up to today a textbook example because of its algorithms of automated window scaling, placement and arrangement, and (de)iconification. RTL ran on X11R2 and R3, mainly on the "native" Siemens systems, e.g., SINIX. Its features are described by its promotional video. The Andrew Project (AP or tAP) was a desktop client system (like early GNOME) for X with a tiling and overlapping window manager.
MacOS X 10.11 El Capitan released in September 2015 introduces new window management features such as creating a full-screen split view limited to two app windows side-by-side in full screen by holding down the full-screen button in the upper-left corner of a window.
Tiling window managers
Microsoft Windows
The built-in Microsoft Windows window manager has, since Windows 2.0, followed the traditional stacking approach by default. It can also act as a rudimentary tiling window manager.
To tile windows, the user selects them in the taskbar and uses the context menu choice Tile Vertically or Tile Horizontally. Choosing Tile Vertically will cause the windows to tile horizontally but take on a vertical shape, while choosing Tile Horizontally will cause the windows to tile vertically but take on a horizontal shape. These options were later changed in Windows Vista to Show Windows Side by Side and Show Windows Stacked, respectively.
Windows 7 added "Aero Snap" which adds the ability to drag windows to either side of the screen to create a simple side-by-side tiled layout, or to the top of the screen to maximize. Windows 8 introduced Windows Store apps; unlike desktop applications, they did not operate in a window, and could only run in full screen, or "snapped" as a sidebar alongside another app, or the desktop environment.
Along with allowing Windows Store apps to run in a traditional window, Windows 10 enhanced the snapping features introduced in Windows 7 by allowing windows to be tiled into screen quadrants by dragging them to the corner, and adding "Snap Assist" — which prompts the user to select the application they want to occupy the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel%20Billings
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Joel Billings is an American video game designer and producer. He is the founder of the computer game company Strategic Simulations (SSI). He was also the company's president.
Career
Joel Billings wanted to work with Avalon Hill to publish his computer game Computer Bismarck but they turned him down, so instead he decided to found a new company and publish the game himself. Billings started SSI in 1979 just after finishing college, with a $1000 initial investment. The first product was Computer Bismarck, which he co-wrote. Designed for the TRS-80 and Apple II home computers, it is viewed as the first computer war game ever published. It sold 7000 copies, considered reasonably successful for its time. The company was an industry leader for years in war games and role-playing video games.
In 1987 Billings acquired the rights to the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing games from TSR, which led to the creation of the Gold Box D&D game series, one of the best selling video game franchises of the 1980s and 1990s.
After a year of losses tied to delays in the new Dark Sun game engine, Billings sold the company to Mindscape in 1994.
In 2001 Billings started a game development company called 2 By 3 Games with former SSI game programmers Gary Grigsby and Keith Brors.
In December 2013, Billings donated several SSI video games, such as Computer Bismarck, including the source code for preservation to the ICHEG.
References
External links
2 By 3 Games official site
Joel Billings at MobyGames
American company founders
American video game designers
American video game producers
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Video game businesspeople
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure%20analysis
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Failure analysis is the process of collecting and analyzing data to determine the cause of a failure, often with the goal of determining corrective actions or liability.
According to Bloch and Geitner, ”machinery failures reveal a reaction chain of cause and effect… usually a deficiency commonly referred to as the symptom…”. Failure analysis can save money, lives, and resources if done correctly and acted upon. It is an important discipline in many branches of manufacturing industry, such as the electronics industry, where it is a vital tool used in the development of new products and for the improvement of existing products. The failure analysis process relies on collecting failed components for subsequent examination of the cause or causes of failure using a wide array of methods, especially microscopy and spectroscopy. Nondestructive testing (NDT) methods (such as industrial computed tomography scanning) are valuable because the failed products are unaffected by analysis, so inspection sometimes starts using these methods.
Forensic investigation
Forensic inquiry into the failed process or product is the starting point of failure analysis. Such inquiry is conducted using scientific analytical methods such as electrical and mechanical measurements, or by analyzing failure data such as product reject reports or examples of previous failures of the same kind. The methods of forensic engineering are especially valuable in tracing product defects and flaws. They may include fatigue cracks, brittle cracks produced by stress corrosion cracking or environmental stress cracking for example. Witness statements can be valuable for reconstructing the likely sequence of events and hence the chain of cause and effect. Human factors can also be assessed when the cause of the failure is determined. There are several useful methods to prevent product failures occurring in the first place, including failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) and fault tree analysis (FTA), methods which can be used during prototyping to analyze failures before a product is marketed.
Several of the techniques used in failure analysis are also used in the analysis of no fault found (NFF) which is a term used in the field of maintenance to describe a situation where an originally reported mode of failure can't be duplicated by the evaluating technician and therefore the potential defect can't be fixed.
NFF can be attributed to oxidation, defective connections of electrical components, temporary shorts or opens in the circuits, software bugs, temporary environmental factors, but also to the operator error. A large number of devices that are reported as NFF during the first troubleshooting session often return to the failure analysis lab with the same NFF symptoms or a permanent mode of failure.
The term failure analysis also applies to other fields such as business management and military strategy.
Failure analysis engineers
A failure analysis engineer often plays a lead role in t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%20London%20Transit
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East London Transit (ELT) is a part-segregated bus rapid transit, operated as part of the London Buses network. The East London Transit opened in phases between 2010 and 2013. The scheme for this system was developed by Transport for London to meet the existing and anticipated demand for public transport in East London caused by the Thames Gateway redevelopment, and has been planned to allow for a possible future upgrade to tram operation.
It connects National Rail, London Underground, Elizabeth line and London Overground stations in the London boroughs of Havering, Redbridge, and Barking and Dagenham with major population centers, such as Barking Riverside, that are currently only served by bus routes. The first stage of the scheme opened on 20 February 2010. There are proposals for a variety of extensions.
History
The East London Transit (ELT) was developed by Transport for London as an integrated public transport system in conjunction with the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and the London Borough of Redbridge and other stakeholders.
There are three routes in the East London Transit system. EL1 replaced the previous route 369 bus service and operated 24 hours a day, initially between Thames View Estate and Ilford, and has since been extended from Thames View Estate to Barking Riverside. EL2 operated over the whole length of the phase 1 route between Dagenham Dock and Ilford until March 2016, when it was amended to run to Becontree Heath after leaving Barking. EL3 replaced the previous route 387 operated between Little Heath and Barking Riverside, the route change through Barking Town Centre. As a result of these changes, route 179 was withdrawn between Ilford and Barking and was diverted to terminate at Ilford (Hainault Street) bus terminus.
Each route operates five buses an hour on Monday to Saturday daytimes and three buses an hour during the evenings and on Sunday; this gives a combined frequency of ten buses an hour over the core route from Barking to Thames View Estate during the day.
Delivered phases
Phase 1
Ilford — Barking — Thames View Estate — Dagenham Dock station
Phase 1 commenced on 20 February 2010.
Phase 2
Barking — Thames View Estate — Dagenham Dock
Construction of phase 2 began in 2011 and was completed in 2013. It received funding from the Homes and Communities Agency.
Extension to Barking Reach
In 2013 it was proposed to extend route EL1 from Thames View Estate to Barking Reach and a consultation was held. The extended service started on 7 September 2013.
Extension to Barking Riverside, Northgate Road
In 2020, the route EL1 was extended from the Barking Reach terminus to further serve the new housing developments that had been built in the area. The route was extended to terminate at the newly built Northgate Road on the far east side of the development and was routed to pass the new Barking Riverside station and Barking Riverside pier that opened in 2022. Route EL3 also has two schoolday journeys that are
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20function
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A universal function is a function that can, in some defined way, imitate all other functions. This occurs in several contexts:
In computer science, a universal function is a computable function capable of calculating any other computable function. It is shown to exist by the utm theorem.
In cryptography, a universal one-way function is a function that is known to be one-way if one-way functions exist.
In mathematics, a universal function is one that contains subregions that approximate every holomorphic function to arbitrary accuracy. The Riemann zeta function (and some others) have this property, as described in Zeta function universality.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20CyBC
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The following is a list of programs broadcast by CyBC or RIK (Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation) television stations. CybC was the only Cypriot television network before the launches of ANT1 (in 1993), Mega (Logos TV until the 1990s), and Sigma (in 1995).
Talk shows
Apo Mera Se Mera (RIK-1)
Ora Kyprou (RIK-1)
Dramas
Epikindyni Zoni (RIK-1)
Genies tis Siopis (RIK-1)
Roda tis Orgis (RIK-1)
Weekly TV shows
7 meres Kypros
Aktualite, in Turkish
Dialogoi
H Kypros konta sas
Kypros - Evropi
Oikomikos kathreftis
Prizma, in Turkish
Proektaseis
Sto Proskinio
News, sports and morning programs
Alpha News from Greece, (RIK-1)
Athlitikes Eikones, sports (RIK-2)
Epta me deka, morning program (RIK-1)
Fasis & Goal, sports (RIK-2)
RIK1 News in Greek, (RIK-1)
RIK2 News in English, Greek and Turkish, (RIK-2)
Special events
Eurovision Song Contest
Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Cypriot television shows
Programs broadcast by CyBC, Lists
CyBC
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMN
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TMN is an abbreviation for:
Telecommunications Management Network, a network protocol
Telecomunicações Móveis Nacionais, SA, a Portuguese telecom
Texas Moratorium Network, an American advocacy organization dealing with the death penalty
The Morning News (online magazine), an American online magazine
The Movie Network, former name of Crave, a Canadian television network
The Music Network, an Australian magazine and charts company
TM Network, aka TMN (1990–1994), a Japanese pop band
TMN Group plc, former name of GlobalData, a British data analytics company
TrackMania Nations, a computer game
Tuberomammillary nucleus, a part of the hypothalamus
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoteWorthy%20Composer
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NoteWorthy Composer (NWC) is a proprietary scorewriter application made by NoteWorthy Software. It is a graphical score editor for Microsoft Windows computers. Version 1 of NWC was released in October 1994, and Version 2 in September 2008.
NWC is intended for the creation of sheet music, but it can also import and export MIDI and Karaoke files and can export graphical WMFs. The user interface works either from the keyboard or the mouse. Visual results are immediate, and audible results can be heard at any time. Notes can also be entered by playing on a MIDI device, when configured. In version 2, the notes can be heard as they are entered. Lyrics are entered as a single block of text which automatically positions itself on notes according to syllabic and slur rules, as opposed to being entered per-note as is standard for Sibelius, Finale, or MuseScore.
The binary NWC file format is undocumented and facilities to convert it into more popular formats are less limited. There are, however, a couple of open source libraries that can parse and convert this file format. Version 2 of NWC introduced a textual representation of the file format called NWCTXT. This allowed easier conversion to many other formats, including LilyPond.
A feature of the user interface is that notation is displayed during editing. Each staff proceeds linearly from left to right, without being wrapped to the screen, like the galley view in other software. Staff systems are visually broken to fit margins during page layout, allowing many possibilities at "print time", when parts and scores can be laid out. On older hardware, this presents performance advantages over the WYSIWYG behavior of other editors because it minimizes the necessary rendering of particularly large scores. Print preview is available for adjustments to page layout since version 2.51.
The program lacks the more advanced engraving, graphic sophistication, playback and publishing capabilities of more expensive scriptwriting software such as Sibelius or Finale. A free viewer is available. The otherwise fully functional demo version imposes a limit of 10 saves per file name, adds a small footer to each printed page, and prints a registration form with each printed score. Besides the demo program, a downloadable plug-in for Winamp allows Winamp to play files from NWC.
Because of the availability of a free viewer, Noteworthy has been adopted as the standard score distribution format by the large hymn database, Hymnary.org. An "unofficial" catalog of compositions and helpful files contributed by users is available from the NoteWorthy Scriptorium.
There have been no new software releases or updates for NoteWorthy Composer since 2017, nor updates on the official NoteWorthy Composer blog since 2015. The Noteworthy Composer Forum continues to be active (July 2022).
See also
List of scorewriters
List of music software
References
"Klucz do czarnej magii / NoteWorthy Composer. Komputerowy papier nutowy", Gazeta
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Quinn%20%28astronomer%29
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Professor Peter Quinn is Executive Director of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) in Perth, Western Australia and was previously the Head of the Data Management and Operations Division at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Munich.
Prof. Quinn has authored more than 300 published scientific papers and was awarded the 'Western Australian Scientist of the Year' in 2012. Prof. Quinn is also a Fellow of Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.
At ESO, Prof. Quinn was working towards the creation of the Astrophysical Virtual Observatory, a massive virtual database of astronomical data, designed to allow astrophysicists to carry out research using existing data without using valuable telescope time.
Prior to working at ESO, Prof. Quinn taught astrophysics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for several years, working alongside Gerald Jay Sussman, and has worked at the NASA Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore. His scientific interests include the study of dark matter, computational cosmology, galactic formation, and MACHOs.
References
Living people
1955 births
21st-century Australian astronomers
University of Wollongong alumni
Australian National University alumni
Academic staff of the University of Western Australia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSUR
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CSUR may refer to:
ACM Computing Surveys, a peer reviewed scientific journal
ConScript Unicode Registry, a project to maintain a registry of scripts and the codes assigned to them
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTFK-DT
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KTFK-DT (channel 64) is a television station licensed to Stockton, California, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language UniMás network to the Sacramento area. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Modesto-licensed Univision outlet KUVS-DT, channel 19 (and its Sacramento-based translator KEZT-CD, channel 23). Both stations share studios on Arden Way near Cal Expo in Sacramento, while KTFK's transmitter is located near Walnut Grove, California.
History
The station first signed on the air on November 12, 1987, as KFTL, operating as an independent station; it was founded and owned by Family Radio, a non-profit organization headed by Harold Camping that ran traditional non-commercial Christian radio stations and over the years taught conservative Calvinistic reformed Christian theology.
Because of the lack of available programming from the syndication market that complies with Family Radio's programming philosophy, KFTL instead ran religious programming about six hours a day, with programming from the Home Shopping Network filling the remainder of the schedule.
In the late 1990s, it began running a few hours of public domain movies and sitcoms each day. Family Radio never grew into television as planned; as a result, the organization sold KFTL in 2003 to Univision Communications, which turned it into a Spanish-language station as an owned-and-operated station of Telefutura (which was relaunched as UniMás in January 2013). The station also modified its call letters to KTFK. As a result, KTFK became the fourth station in the Sacramento market overall to be owned and operated by its affiliated network.
Family Radio later bought a San Francisco low-power station, K30BI, which now carries the call letters KCNZ-CD. Initially, KCNZ-CD was reprogrammed and carried similar programming to that which aired on the former KFTL.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
There is no 64.2 on this multiplex, as it is broadcast from KUVS-DT.
On September 27, 2021, a new digital network called Digi-TV was launched on KFTK's fifth subchannel (64.5). It was short-lived as the network ceased operations on August 1, 2022.
Analog-to-digital conversion
KTFK-TV ended transmission of analog television over UHF channel 64 on May 8, 2009, due to equipment failure, and informed the FCC there was insufficient time before the June 12 shutoff to do repairs. Despite losing its analog transmitter, KTFK continued digital broadcasting on its transitional digital channel 62, until the June 12 cutoff. On June 13, 2009, it began broadcasting on its permanent DTV channel, UHF channel 26.
As part of the analog-to-digital transition, KTFK-TV moved its broadcast location from an antenna on Mount Diablo, which it shared with KTNC-TV, to an antenna on the KXTV/KOVR candelabra in Walnut Grove. This move was necessary because transmissions from Mount Diablo can be received in both the San Francisco and Sacramento markets, and
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise%20data%20management
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Enterprise data management (EDM) is the ability of an organization to precisely define, easily integrate and effectively retrieve data for both internal applications and external communication. EDM focuses on the creation of accurate, consistent, and transparent content. EDM emphasizes data precision, granularity, and meaning and is concerned with how the content is integrated into business applications as well as how it is passed along from one business process to another.
EDM arose to address circumstances where users within organizations independently source, model, manage and store data. Uncoordinated approaches by various segments of the organization can result in data conflicts and quality inconsistencies, lowering the trustworthiness of the data as it is used for operations and reporting.
The goal of EDM is trust and confidence in data assets. Its components are:
Strategy and governance
EDM requires a strategic approach to choosing the right processes, technologies, and resources (i.e. data owners, governance, stewardship, data analysts, and data architects). EDM is a challenge for organizations because it requires alignment among multiple stakeholders (including IT, operations, finance, strategy, and end-users) and relates to an area (creation and use of common data) that has not traditionally had a clear “owner.”
The governance challenge can be a big obstacle to the implementation of an effective EDM because of the difficulties associated with providing a business case on the benefits of data management. The core of the challenge is due to the fact that data quality has no intrinsic value. It is an enabler of other processes and the true benefits of effective data management are systematic and intertwined with other processes. This makes it hard to quantify all the downstream implications or upstream improvements.
The difficulties associated with quantification of EDM benefits translate into challenges with the positioning of EDM as an organizational priority. Achieving organizational alignment on the importance of data management (as well as managing data as an ongoing area of focus) is the domain of governance. In recent years the establishment of an EDM and the EDM governance practice has become commonplace despite these difficulties.
Program implementation
Implementation of an EDM program encompasses many processes – all of which need to be coordinated throughout the organization and managed while maintaining operational continuity. Below are some of the major components of EDM implementation that should be given consideration:
Stakeholder requirements
EDM requires alignment among multiple stakeholders (at the right level of authority) who all need to understand and support the EDM objectives. EDM begins with a thorough understanding of the requirements of the end users and the organization as a whole. Managing stakeholder requirements is a critical, and ongoing, process based in an understanding of workflow,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma%20%281996%20TV%20film%29
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Jane Austen's Emma is an adaptation of the 1815 novel of the same name. It was adapted for the British television network ITV in 1996, directed by Diarmuid Lawrence and dramatised by Andrew Davies, the same year as Miramax's film adaptation of Emma starring Gwyneth Paltrow. This production of Emma stars Kate Beckinsale as the title character, and also features Samantha Morton as Harriet Smith and Mark Strong as Mr. Knightley.
Davies had recently adapted another Austen novel as the successful 1995 television serial Pride and Prejudice for the BBC when he proposed to adapt the novel Emma for the network. The BBC, however, had already made such an agreement with another screenwriter, leading Davies to approach ITV.
Emma received generally positive reviews from critics, who believed it to be superior to the 1996 Miramax film. Most focused on Beckinsale's performance as a positive highlight. It aired on ITV on 24 November 1996 and garnered an estimated 12 million viewers. It also was broadcast on the American channel A&E on 16 February 1997.
Plot
Miss Emma Woodhouse of Hartfield lives in the small town of Highbury, and is young, pretty, and rich. Though she has decided she will never marry, Emma takes credit for matchmaking her friend and former governess, Miss Taylor, to the widower Mr. Weston. Emma decides to organise marriages for others of her acquaintance, despite friendly warnings not to meddle from Mr. Knightley, who is both an old friend, her brother-in-law, and the wealthy owner of Donwell Abbey. Emma resolves to marry off her new friend, a pretty girl named Harriet Smith, to the young vicar, Mr. Elton. This fails once Emma realises to her horror that Elton desires to marry her instead.
New arrivals come to Highbury, including young orphan Miss Fairfax and Elton's pretentious new wife. Frank Churchill, the handsome son of Mr. Weston, also arrives generating interest and gossip. Emma, so sure of her ability to judge the feelings of others, believes that Frank wishes to marry her. Eventually the town discovers that Frank and Miss Fairfax have been secretly engaged, while Emma comes to recognise her true feelings for Mr. Knightley.
Cast
Kate Beckinsale as Emma Woodhouse
Bernard Hepton as Mr. Woodhouse
Mark Strong as George Knightley
Samantha Morton as Harriet Smith
Olivia Williams as Jane Fairfax
James Hazeldine as Mr. Weston
Samantha Bond as Miss Taylor/Mrs. Weston
Raymond Coulthard as Frank Churchill
Dominic Rowan as Mr. Elton
Lucy Robinson as Mrs. Elton
Prunella Scales as Miss Bates
Sylvia Barter as Mrs. Bates
Guy Henry as John Knightley
Dido Miles as Isabella Knightley
Alistair Petrie as Robert Martin
Production
Andrew Davies adapted Jane Austen's 1815 novel Emma for television. Previously, he was the screenwriter for the successful 1995 BBC TV serial Pride and Prejudice starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth. Davies offered to adapt Emma for the BBC, but it had already commissioned Sandy Welch as screenwriter. Mich
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language-independent%20specification
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A language-independent specification (LIS) is a programming language specification providing a common interface usable for defining semantics applicable toward arbitrary language bindings.
LIS's are language-agnostic; they mitigate the risk that a certain language binding might reduce compatibility with other languages. An ideal LIS allows the language bindings to take advantage of features of a programming language uncompromisingly.
Examples of LIS include Interface description language, Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator and Common Language Infrastructure.
Recursive transcompiling can be used to distribute a language independent specification across many different technologies, with each technology potentially keeping an authoritative description of a different part of the specification. Recursive transcompiling provides the general methodology for distributing this authoritative information through the rest of the derivative code pipeline.
See also
Technical communication
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo%20Teen
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Turbo Teen is an American animated television series about a teenager with the ability to transform into a sports car. It aired on Saturday morning on the ABC Network for thirteen episodes in 1984.
The series was rerun on the USA Network's USA Cartoon Express programming block.
Plot
Turbo Teen is about a teenager named Brett Matthews who swerves off a road during a thunderstorm and crashes into a secret government laboratory. There, he and his red sports car are accidentally exposed to a molecular beam, invented by a scientist named Dr. Chase for a government agent named Cauldwell. As a result, Brett and his car become fused together. Brett gains the ability to morph into the car when exposed to extreme heat and revert into his human form when exposed to extreme cold. With this new superhero power, Brett, along with his girlfriend Pattie (a freelance reporter), his best friend Alex (a mechanic who calls Brett "TT"), and his dog Rusty go on crime-fighting adventures together and solve other mysteries.
A recurring subplot involves Brett's, Cauldwell's, and Dr. Chase's search for a way to return Brett to normal. Also, a recurring villain is the mysterious, unseen "Dark Rider" who drives a monster truck and seeks to capture Brett in order to find the secret behind his abilities. Dark Rider is voiced by Frank Welker.
Production
The show was produced by Ruby-Spears Productions with animation supplied by Toei Animation and Hanho Heung-Up. It was broadcast during the growing popularity of the Knight Rider television series and mirrors much of it. The car that Brett turns into looks like an amalgam of a Third Generation Chevrolet Camaro and its sister car, the Pontiac Trans Am; the later model Knight Rider's KITT is based on. The Trans Am also had limited edition turbocharger packages in the early 1980's, appearing as an official Indy 500 pace car and featuring in the movie Smokey and the Bandit II.
Cast
T. K. Carter as Alex
Pat Fraley as Eddie, Dr. Chase
Pamela Hayden as Pattie
Michael Mish as Brett Matthews/Turbo Teen
Clive Revill as Cardwell
Frank Welker as Rusty, Dark Rider, Flip
Additional voices
Nelson Comer
Alan Dinehart
Ron Feinberg
Alejandro Garay
Linda Gary
Bob Holt
William Martin
Michael Sheehan
Episodes
Crew
Alan Dinehart - Voice Director
Howard Morris - Voice Director
Michael Maurer - Story Editor
John Kimball - Director
Jack Kirby - Production Design
Reception
In The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows, David Perlmutter writes, "This is perhaps the most absurd concept developed for television animation in the genre's history. Despite a basis in somewhat-plausible science, it was not produced competently enough to make its premise anywhere near believable."
Parodies
Turbo Teen was parodied in the Robot Chicken episode "Rabbits on a Roller Coaster" with Brett Matthews voiced by Seth Green, Alex voiced by Tom Root and Pattie voiced by Katee Sackhoff.
A webcomic named Teen Boat ran for a short t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia%20%28video%20game%29
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Dystopia is a team-based, objective-driven, first-person shooter video game, developed as a total conversion modification on the Valve's proprietary Source engine. It is based on the cyberpunk literary and aesthetic genre; it is somewhat based on popular role-playing game Shadowrun, created by an amateur development team and released to the public for free. Its first playable build was released on September 9, 2005, after a year of planning and nine months of development. The first full version of Dystopia, Version 1, was released after 3 years of development on February 25, 2007.
Dystopia has been received positively from critics, with praise being given for its graphical quality, unique meatspace/cyberspace gameplay, overall polish and its representation of cyberspace. Criticisms of Dystopia were aimed at how inaccessible the game is at first, and its learning curve. The game has won several awards, including Best Mod for Half-Life 2 from the Independent Games Festival's Modding Competition.
Setting
Dystopia takes place in a high-tech futuristic world spanned by computer networks. It places players into tense combat situations in its own cyberpunk universe, revolving around the conflict between two factions, the Punk Mercenaries (Punks) and the Corporate Security Forces (Corps). As either the Punks or the Corps, players battle against each other in both the physical world (known commonly as meatspace) and the virtual world (cyberspace), with actions in one having an effect on the other.
Gameplay
The gameplay of Dystopia is objective-based, in which both the Punks and the Corps fight against each other to complete a series of objectives within a set amount of time to win the round. The rounds are played attack vs. defence, with the attacking team (usually Punks) attempting to complete their objectives in order to progress through the level and complete their final goal. While the defending team (usually the Corps) are tasked with stopping them from completing and even attempt to push the attacking team back.
This is similar to games such as Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Enemy Territory and Unreal Tournament's Assault mode. However, Dystopia's dual-layered gameplay means that it is possible to complete objectives in either the realworld (meatspace) or the virtual world (cyberspace). Many of the final objectives on maps in Dystopia require the co-ordination between both players in meatspace and players in cyberspace. Players can choose to play from one of three different character classes, Light, Medium, and Heavy Augmented Armor each with their own unique strengths and weaknesses with varying amounts of health and armor. The player is able to choose from up to four primary weapons and further customize their selected class by equipping different class based special abilities called implants.
Classes
Dystopia is class-based, and as such, each of the three classes is unique in terms of weapons, implants, and overall performance during gamep
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Against%20Prohibition
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Network Against Prohibition (NAP) is an Australian drug law reform activist group. It was organised on 7 March 2002, in Darwin, Northern Territory to response to the Australian Labor Party's drug house legislation. The organisations goal is to end prohibition of recreational drug use and draw attention to the human rights abuses faced by illicit drug advocates. The organisation provides a number of services, including needle exchanges, community smoke-ins, and an email newsletter. A number of NAP members were arrested for disturbing the Northern Territory's legislative assembly in 2002.
NAP belongs to the Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League (AIVL) and International Coalition of NGO's for Just and Effective Drugs Policy (ICN).
See also
Australian National Council on Drugs
Illicit drug use in Australia
References
Australian Bureau of Statistics, June 2005
External links
archive of NAPNT's defunct website
Political organisations based in Australia
Non-profit organisations based in the Northern Territory
Drug policy organizations
Drug policy reform
2002 establishments in Australia
Drug policy of Australia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accel%20%28interbank%20network%29
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Accel (formerly known as the ACCEL/Exchange Network) is a North American interbank network owned by Fiserv. It connects over 412,000 automatic teller machines (ATMs) in all 50 states in the United States. The network also has a small number of ATMs in certain U.S. Air Force Bases around the world, and over 3.3 million electronic funds transfer at point-of-sale locations.
History
1985: Accel was founded, by major banks in the Northwest of the United States, primarily as an electronic funds transfer network.
1991: Accel began a business partnership with The Exchange network creating ACCEL/Exchange.
In the 1990s most banks in the Pacific Northwest were part of this network including Seafirst Bank/Bank of America, US Bank, First Interstate Bank, Puget Sound Bank, Rainier Bank/Security Pacific, Key Bank and West One Bank. Since then, bank mergers caused some banks to leave the Accel/Exchange network. Now only Key Bank is part of Accel/Exchange when it comes to major banks in the Northwest.
2013: In April, the company streamlined the name from "ACCEL/Exchange" to simply "Accel," a result of a repositioning of the debit payment network, and a reflection of its current "ability to accelerate funds transfers across retail, biller and social person-to-person payments.
The Exchange Network
Accel's Canadian counterpart The Exchange Network (stylized as THE EXCHANGE) is operated by FICANEX, a limited partnership of several Canadian banks and credit unions which licenses "The Exchange" branding and intellectual property from Fiserv. The Exchange Network includes over 3,300 ATMs serving customers of 170 financial institutions—primarily credit unions and online banks but also including smaller banks such as the National Bank of Canada and Canadian Western Bank. The Exchange Network is not used for debit payment processing in Canada, as all Canadian debit cards use the Interac network for EFTPOS debit transaction, but most Exchange debit cards can be used for debit purchases through the Accel network in the United States.
References
External links
Accel (United States)
The Exchange (Canada)
Interbank networks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilford%20Road%20Metro%20station
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Ilford Road is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, primarily serving the suburb of Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It joined the network on 11 August 1980, following the opening of the first phase of the network, between Haymarket and Tynemouth via Four Lane Ends.
History
Unlike nearby South Gosforth and West Jesmond station, which were converted from British Rail stations, Ilford Road was purpose-built for the network. It was the "typical Metro halt" used in publicity when the system first opened. When other stations were being repainted red, green or blue in the early 2000s, Ilford Road was repainted in original brown, with much of the unpainted concrete being painted cream.
Facilities
Step-free access is available at all stations across the Tyne and Wear Metro network, with ramped access to platforms at Ilford Road. Between platforms, step-free access is by the road bridge on Moorfield Road, around south of the station. The station is equipped with ticket machines, waiting shelter, seating, next train information displays, timetable posters, and an emergency help point on both platforms. Ticket machines are able to accept payment with credit and debit card (including contactless payment), notes and coins. The station is also fitted with smartcard validators, which feature at all stations across the network.
There is no dedicated car parking available at this station. There is the provision for cycle parking, with two cycle pods available for use.
Services
, the station is served by up to ten trains per hour on weekdays and Saturday, and up to eight trains per hour during the evening and on Sunday. Additional services operate between and , , or at peak times.
Rolling stock used: Class 599 Metrocar
References
External links
Timetable and station information for Ilford Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
1980 establishments in England
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1980
Tyne and Wear Metro Green line stations
Tyne and Wear Metro Yellow line stations
Transport in Tyne and Wear
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security%20association
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A security association (SA) is the establishment of shared security attributes between two network entities to support secure communication. An SA may include attributes such as: cryptographic algorithm and mode; traffic encryption key; and parameters for the network data to be passed over the connection. The framework for establishing security associations is provided by the Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP). Protocols such as Internet Key Exchange (IKE) and Kerberized Internet Negotiation of Keys (KINK) provide authenticated keying material.
An SA is a simplex (one-way channel) and logical connection which endorses and provides a secure data connection between the network devices. The fundamental requirement of an SA arrives when the two entities communicate over more than one channel. Take, for example, a mobile subscriber and a base station. The subscriber may subscribe itself to more than one service. Therefore, each service may have different service primitives, such as a data encryption algorithm, public key, or initialization vector. To make things easier, all of this security information is grouped logically, and the logical group itself is a Security Association. Each SA has its own ID called SAID. So both the base station and mobile subscriber will share the SAID, and they will derive all the security parameters.
In other words, an SA is a logical group of security parameters that enable the sharing of information to another entity.
See also
IPsec
Virtual private network (VPN)
Notes
References
Internet Key Exchange (IKEv2) Protocol - RFC 5996
IPsec
Cryptography
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paste%20up
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Paste up is a method of creating or laying out publication pages that predates the use of the now-standard computerized page design desktop publishing programs. Completed, or camera-ready, pages are known as mechanicals or mechanical art. In the offset lithography process, the mechanicals would be photographed with a stat camera to create a same-size film negative for each printing plate required.
Paste up relied on phototypesetting, a process that would generate "cold type" on photographic paper that usually took the form of long columns of text. These printouts were often a single column in a scroll of narrow (3-inch or 4-inch) paper that was as deep as the length of the story.
A professional known variously as a paste-up artist, layout artist, mechanical artist, production artist, or compositor would cut the type into sections and arrange it carefully across multiple columns. For example, a 15 inch strip could be cut into three 5-inch sections. Headlines and other typographic elements were often created and supplied separately by the typesetter, leaving it to the paste up artist to determine their final position on the page.
Adhesive was then applied to the back side of these strips, either by applying rubber cement with a brush or passing them through a machine that would apply a wax adhesive. The adhesives were intentionally made semi-permanent, allowing the strips to be removed and moved around the layout if it needed to be changed. The strips would be adhered to a board, usually a stiff white paper on which the artist would draw the publication's margins and columns, either lightly in pencil or in non-photographic blue ink, a light cyan color that would be ignored by the orthochromatic film used to make printing plates in offset lithography. For magazines, newspapers, and other recurring projects, often the boards would be pre-printed in this color.
Other camera-ready materials like photostats and line art would also be prepared with adhesive and attached to the boards. Continuous-tone photographs would need halftoning, which would require black paper or red film (which photo-imaged the same as black) to be trimmed and placed on the board in place of the image; in the process of creating the negative film for the printing plates, the solid black area would create a clear spot on the negative, called a window. The photographs would be converted to halftone film separately and then positioned in this window to complete the page (although this process was typically performed by a different worker, known as a negative "stripper").
Once a page was complete, the board would be attached to an easel and photographed in order to create a negative, which was then used to make a printing plate.
Paste up was preceded by hot type and cold type technologies. Starting in the 1990s, many newspapers started doing away with paste up, switching to desktop publishing software that allows pages to be designed completely on a computer. Such software inclu
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Student%20Environment%20Network
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The Australian Student Environment Network (ASEN) is the national network of many campus environment collectives in Australia, formed at the 1997 Students and Sustainability convergence in Townsville. People from ASEN facilitate communication between environment collectives and co-ordinate national projects and campaigns. ASEN is particularly known for cultivating intersectional social justice analyses and critiques amongst young environmentalists, facilitating direct action campaigns, projects towards just transitions and indigenous solidarity work. ASEN is the longest running, and one of the largest, youth environment networks in Australia.
Projects and Campaigns
Students of Sustainability Conference
Students of Sustainability is an annual conference usually held on a university campus during the winter break (July). Since ASEN was created by the 1997 Townsville Students of Sustainability conference, the national network has helped to organise the conference each year.
National Training Camp
Annually in January ASEN holds a training camp for people who want to learn about environmental campaigns, indigenous solidarity, campaign strategy, self-education, advocacy and develop knowledge and skills for continuing the network.
Indigenous Solidarity and Nuclear-Free
ASEN aims to work with Australia's indigenous peoples in their struggles for sovereignty and self-determination. This includes supporting communities fighting the nuclear mining and energy industry on their lands. ASEN contributes annually to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy convergence in Canberra on Survival/Invasion Day.
Fossil fuels divestment
ASEN is the main contributor to university campus fossil fuels divestment campaigns. In 2012 ANU's environment collective began a divestment campaign which led the broader ASEN network to begin a national campaign known as "Lock The Campus" which later formed the "Fossil Free Universities" campaign with 350.org and other national groups. This campaign is current and ongoing, constituting one of ASEN's biggest commitments.
Just Transitions
In 2013/14 several state networks set up working groups to discuss and self-educate around just transitions. From 2014 onwards ASEN members in Victoria have become more active in EarthWorker co-operative and other just transitions projects.
Food co-operatives
The ASEN food co-op working group connects people interested in food co-operatives, worm farms and community gardens to enable information sharing and joint projects.
Germinate
Germinate is ASEN's bi-annual publication. It contains news, art, opinion and reviews. Each year a new collective is elected to edit and publish the zine.
No Coal No Gas
ASEN runs campaigns to stop the expansion of Australia's coal and Coal Seam Gas (CSG) industries, because of their destructive effect on the climate, the land and community health. As of 2015 ASEN members are involved in most anti-coal and anti-gas projects and campaigns in Australia.
Climate Justice
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front-end%20processor
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A front-end processor (FEP), or a communications processor, is a small-sized computer which interfaces to the host computer a number of networks, such as SNA, or a number of peripheral devices, such as terminals, disk units, printers and tape units. Data is transferred between the host computer and the front-end processor using a high-speed parallel interface. The front-end processor communicates with peripheral devices using slower serial interfaces, usually also through communication networks. The purpose is to off-load from the host computer the work of managing the peripheral devices, transmitting and receiving messages, packet assembly and disassembly, error detection, and error correction. Two examples are the IBM 3705 Communications Controller and the Burroughs Data Communications Processor.
Sometimes FEP is synonymous with a communications controller, although the latter is not necessarily as flexible. Early communications controllers such as the IBM 270x series were hard wired, but later units were programmable devices.
Front-end processor is also used in a more general sense in asymmetric multi-processor systems. The FEP is a processing device (usually a computer) which is closer to the input source than is the main processor. It performs some task such as telemetry control, data collection, reduction of raw sensor data, analysis of keyboard input, etc.
Front-end processes relates to the software interface between the user (client) and the application processes (server) in the client/server architecture. The user enters input (data) into the front-end process where it is collected and processed in such a way that it conforms to what the receiving application (back end) on the server can accept and process. As an example, the user enters a URL into a GUI (front-end process) such as Microsoft Internet Explorer. The GUI then processes the URL in such a way that the user is able to reach or access the intended web pages on the web server (application server known as the “back end” process). Front-end processors or communications processors relates to efficient use of the host CPU by off-loading processing for peripheral control, as an example, to another device or controller.
IP networking
FEPs are responsible for linking client applications and their associated networks to host computer based applications. With the advent of the Internet and of IP as a universal protocol, it is often assumed that there is no longer any need for FEPs, which traditionally handled SNA traffic. This may be true where FEPs provide only straight connectivity (and assuming IP address never changes). However, FEPs also perform other vital functions, that are closely linked to transaction applications, including message and transaction switching, multiplexing, transaction security, quality of service guarantors, and end-to-end transaction management and reporting. The need for these functions is especially important in mission-critical transaction environment
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endgame%20tablebase
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An endgame tablebase is a computerized database that contains precalculated exhaustive analysis of chess endgame positions. It is typically used by a computer chess engine during play, or by a human or computer that is retrospectively analysing a game that has already been played.
The tablebase contains the game-theoretical value (win, loss, or draw) in each possible position, and how many moves it would take to achieve that result with perfect play. Thus, the tablebase acts as an oracle, always providing the optimal moves. Typically the database records each possible position with certain pieces remaining on the board, and the best moves with White to move and with Black to move.
Tablebases are generated by retrograde analysis, working backward from a checkmated position. By 2005, all chess positions with up to six pieces, including the two kings, had been solved. By August 2012, tablebases had solved chess for almost every position with up to seven pieces, but the positions with a lone king versus a king and five pieces were omitted because they were considered to be "rather obvious." These positions were included by August 2018. , work is still underway to solve all eight-piece positions.
The solutions have profoundly advanced the chess community's understanding of endgame theory. Some positions which humans had analyzed as draws were proven to be winnable; in some cases the tablebase analysis could find a mate in more than five hundred moves, far beyond the horizon of humans, and beyond the capability of a computer during play. For this reason, tablebases also called into question the 50-move rule, since many positions are now seen to exist that would be a win for one side but are drawn because of the 50-move rule; initially, as individual cases were found, exceptions to the rule were introduced, but when more extreme cases were later discovered, the exceptions were removed. Tablebases provide a powerful analytical tool, enhancing competitive play and facilitating the composition of endgame studies.
While endgame tablebases exist for other board games, such as checkers, nine men's morris, and some chess variants, the term endgame tablebase is assumed to refer to the chess tablebase by default.
Background
Physical limitations of computer hardware aside, in principle it is possible to solve any game under the condition that the complete state is known and there is no random chance. Strong solutions, i.e. algorithms that can produce perfect play from any position, are known for some simple games such as Tic Tac Toe/Noughts and crosses (draw with perfect play) and Connect Four (first player wins). Weak solutions exist for somewhat more complex games, such as checkers (with perfect play on both sides the game is known to be a draw, but it is not known for every position created by less-than-perfect play what the perfect next move would be). Other games, such as chess and Go, have not been solved because their game complexity is far too vast
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix%20digital%20rain
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Matrix digital rain, or Matrix code, is the computer code featured in the Matrix series. The falling green code is a way of representing the activity of the simulated reality environment of the Matrix on screen by kinetic typography. All four Matrix movies, as well as the spin-off The Animatrix episodes, open with the code. It is a characteristic mark of the franchise, similar to the opening crawl featured in the Star Wars franchise.
Background
In the film, the code that comprises the Matrix itself is frequently represented as downward-flowing green characters. This code uses a custom typeface designed by Simon Whiteley, which includes mirror images of half-width kana characters and Western Latin letters and numerals. In a 2017 interview at CNET, he attributed the design to his wife, who comes from Japan, and added, "I like to tell everybody that The Matrix's code is made out of Japanese sushi recipes".
The effect resembles that of older generation green screen displays of monochrome phosphorescent computer monitors. One predecessor of the digital rain exists in a "code-scene" of the movie Meteo, a Hungarian experimental-pop culture movie from 1990. The 1995 cyberpunk film Ghost in the Shell, a strong influence on The Matrix, features opening credits similar to the digital rain.
No official version of the code's typeface actually used in the Matrix trilogy and in the website for the game Path of Neo has been released. Several imitations have been made, mostly in the form of screensavers.
Cultural impact
Dutch musician Arjen Anthony Lucassen named a track "Digital Rain", in honour of the movie, on his 2010 album Victims of the Modern Age by his band Star One.
The effect also inspired the creation of many unofficial Matrix screensavers, including the "GL Matrix" mode in XScreenSaver.
See also
Monochrome monitor
Simulated reality
References
External links
Example implementation of the Matrix digital rain in Rust
Examples of Matrix digital rain implementations on Rosetta Code
Creator of The Matrix code reveals its mysterious origins
Film and television opening sequences
Screensavers
Digital rain
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%20%28disambiguation%29
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E is the fifth letter of the Latin alphabet.
E or e may also refer to:
Computing and computation
E (1970s text editor), a text editor developed at the Stanford AI Lab in the 1970s
E (complexity), a set of decision problems solvable by a Turing machine in a specific time
/e/ (operating system), a fork of LineageOS, which in turn is based on Android
E (PC DOS), a text editor
E (programming language), an object-oriented programming language
E (theorem prover), a modern, high performance prover for first-order logic
e (verification language) hardware verification language
Amiga E, a programming language
E or Enlightenment (software), a free software open source manager for X Window System
Commerce and transportation
€, the symbol for the euro, the European Union's standard currency unit
℮, the estimated sign, an EU symbol indicating that the weight or volume of pre-packaged goods is within specific allowable tolerances
E, the country identifier for vehicle registration plates of Spain
E, a Polish electric locomotive in PKP classification system
E or Eni, an Italian oil and gas company
E-Mark, an approval mark for automotive products in Europe under the World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations
E (Los Angeles Railway)
E (New York City Subway service), a subway service in New York
E Line (Los Angeles Metro)
Line E (Buenos Aires Underground) of the Buenos Aires Subte
RER E, a line in the RER of Paris
Toei Ōedo Line, a subway service operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation (Toei), labeled
The official West Japan Railway Company service symbol for:
San'in Main Line.
Kisuki Line.
Geography
E or east, one of the four cardinal directions
E (state), a vassal state in Zhou Dynasty China (1046–256 BC)
E Township, Maine, an unincorporated community in USA
Mount E (), a stratovolcano on Oshima Peninsula, Japan
River E, a river in Scotland
E postcode area, for east London
E, New Brunswick's postal code
Hubei, abbreviated in Chinese as È (鄂), a province of China
Languages
É (temple), Sumerian word for house or temple
E language, a language of China
E, the Spivak pronoun meaning "he" or "she"
Letters and other characters
Ⓔ or ⓔ or (e) or (E) - circled-E or circled-E, see Enclosed Alphanumerics
Latin E with diacritic:
É or é - e-acute, an accented letter of many Latin alphabets.
È or è - e-grave, another accented letter of many Latin alphabets
Ê or ê - e with circumflex
Ë or ë - e with trema (diaeresis or umlaut)
Ē or ē - e with macron
e, the close-mid front unrounded vowel IPA symbol
Tifinagh letter ⴹ
Е and е, a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet
Ε and ε, the letter epsilon in the Greek alphabet
Mathematics and logic
e (mathematical constant), a mathematical constant also known as Euler's number and Napier's constant
E notation, or scientific notation, a way of writing very large and very small numbers such as 5E7
∃ (a backwards E; U+2203) or existential quantification, the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRLH-TV
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WRLH-TV (channel 35) is a television station in Richmond, Virginia, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. Owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, it has studios on Westmoreland Street in the North Side area of Richmond, and its transmitter is located at Bon Air near the studios of PBS member stations WCVE-TV and WCVW.
WRLH-TV was the third station owned by the TVX Broadcast Group when it went on the air in 1982. It was the first independent station in the Richmond market; TVX sold it in 1985, marking the first of five changes of ownership in four years. During that time, the station became Richmond's Fox affiliate when the network launched in 1986. In 1988, Act III Broadcasting acquired WRLH-TV and simultaneously purchased the programming inventory of its only competitor, WVRN-TV, which then shut down for good. Sinclair has owned WRLH-TV since 1998. NBC affiliate WWBT produces 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. newscasts for air on WRLH-TV.
History
Early history
At the start of 1978, two groups applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for permission to build a television station on channel 35. One was Neighborhood Communications Corporation, a subsidiary of Richmond movie theater operator Neighborhood Theaters, and the other was Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) of Portsmouth. Whichever group won out would get to build channel 35 on a new tower being built by WCVE–WCVW. Both proposed to build something lacking in Richmond at that time—an independent station.
CBN amended its application to specify channel 63 in early 1980, which cleared the way for the FCC to award channel 35 to Neighborhood Communications in May 1980. Months later, after Neighborhood decided to concentrate on the movie theater business, the company assigned the permit to Television Corporation of Richmond (the parent of which was the Television Corporation Stations or TVX). Among the owners were former Richmonder Gene Loving; longtime Richmond radio man Harvey Hudson (also an executive with Neighborhood); and Tim McDonald, president and general manager of WTVZ in Norfolk. (Another notable owner of TVX was Dick Davis.) The call letters were changed from WRHP-TV to WRLH-TV (Richmond, Loving and Hudson), and construction got underway in mid-1981.
After a series of delays owing to bad weather, WRLH-TV began broadcasting on February 20, 1982. This made it the third TVX station, after WTVZ and WJTM-TV in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Like most independents, it initially offered a format consisting of cartoons, sitcoms, movies, sports, and some religious programs. It was the most successful of TVX's first three stations. Unlike in Norfolk, where Christian Broadcasting Network owned WYAH-TV, WRLH-TV was the only independent in Richmond. A year after starting up, it already accounted for eight percent of the total TV audience in Richmond. Meanwhile, CBN's channel 63 station permit was sold to National Capital Christian Broadcasting in 1982, and the station began broadcasting a
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20I.%20Soare
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Robert Irving Soare is an American mathematician. He is the Paul Snowden Russell Distinguished Service Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Chicago, where he has been on the faculty since 1967. He proved, together with Carl Jockusch, the low basis theorem, and has done other work in mathematical logic, primarily in the area of computability theory.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Selected publications
C. G. Jockusch Jr. and R. I. Soare, "Π(0, 1) Classes and Degrees of Theories" in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (1972).
See also
Jockusch–Soare forcing
References
External links
Professional homepage
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Chicago faculty
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20highways%20in%20Virginia
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The state highway system of the U.S. state of Virginia is a network of roads maintained by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). As of 2006, the VDOT maintains of state highways, making it the third-largest system in the United States.
Interstate and primary highways
Interstate Highways, totaling 1118 miles (1799 km) in Virginia, are freeways designated by the Federal Highway Administration and numbered by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. They are in a special class with respect to federal funding. These interstate highways are as follows:
and (both proposed)
(proposed)
(proposed)
Primary highways, totaling 8111 miles (13,053 km), consist of U.S. Routes, designated and numbered by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, and primary state routes, designated and numbered by the VDOT. Alternate, business, and bypass special routes, as well as wye connections (with a Y suffix appended to the number), are all considered primary routes.
Primary routes are generally given numbers under 600. The two exceptions - State Route 785 and State Route 895 - are numbered as future interstate highway spurs.
Roadways at many of Virginia's state institutions, such as state universities and colleges, correctional facilities, and state police headquarters, also receive primary highway designations. For example, all of the roadways within Virginia Tech's campus carry the single designation State Route 314. These roadways may or may not be signed.
Other than limited access roads, most primary routes inside Virginia's independent cities are not maintained by the state, but by the city with financial assistance from the state. Some towns also choose to maintain their own streets (see below).
Secondary highways
Virginia has 48,305 miles (77,739 km) of secondary routes. These roads, numbered 600 and up, receive less funding than primary routes. Numbers are only unique within each county, and routes that cross county lines generally, but not always, keep their numbers.
History
Byrd Road Act (1932), Secondary roads system
The secondary roads system in Virginia was formed in 1932, when the financial pressures of the Great Depression prompted the state to take over most county roads through the Byrd Road Act.
Virginia's independent cities were not included, but all the counties in Virginia were given the option of turning this responsibility over to the state. Only four counties initially opted not to do so. Of these, Nottoway County opted in the following year, and in the 1950s, Warwick County became an independent city and was consolidated with another, Newport News. By the end of the 20th century, only Arlington and Henrico counties continue to maintain their own roads.
Generally, when an area became part of an independent city, through annexation, merger, consolidation, or conversions, the secondary roads passed from the state system to local responsibili
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20species%20occurring%20in%20Britain%20at%20a%20single%20location
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The following is a list of native plant and animal species which are found in Britain, but only at a single location.
Key
Key to conservation designations for species:
RDB - Red Data Book with three subdivisions
(cr) - critically endangered
(en) - endangered
(vu) - vulnerable
W&CA 8 - Schedule 8 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
Key to conservation designations for sites:
NNR - national nature reserve
SSSI - Site of Special Scientific Interest
Currently found at just a single location
Non-vascular plants
Vascular plants
This section currently lists non-critical species and critical species in the smaller apomictic genera; many microspecies in the apomictic genera Hieracium (hawkweeds), Rubus (brambles) and Taraxacum (dandelions) are also found at just a single site each.
Invertebrates
Vertebrates
Birds
Notes
Common crane, although occurring in fluctuating numbers as a scarce spring and autumn migrant through Britain, with occasional individuals or pairs wintering or summering, has only established a single breeding population, in the Norfolk Broads (see Cranes in Britain for more details); the species was thought to be quite widespread in the Middle Ages, but the term 'crane' was also often applied to grey heron, making a reliable determination of historical status difficult.
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter%20Hotz
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Günter Hotz (born 16 November 1931) is a German pioneer of computer science. His work includes formal languages, digital circuits
and computational complexity theory. In 1987, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research. In 1999 he was awarded the Konrad Zuse Medal of the Gesellschaft für Informatik.
Hotz received his PhD in 1958 at Göttingen. His advisor was Kurt Reidemeister.
References
External links
Personal web page
1931 births
Living people
German computer scientists
20th-century German mathematicians
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners
Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Recipients of the Saarland Order of Merit
Members of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
Presidents of the German Informatics Society
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly%20%28pentop%20computer%29
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The Fly Pentop Computer and FLY Fusion Pentop Computer are personal electronics products manufactured by LeapFrog Enterprises Inc. They are called a "pentop" computer by its manufacturer, because they consist of a pen with a computer inside.
In 2009, LeapFrog discontinued both the manufacture and support of the device and all accessory products, such as notepads and ink refills which are required for continued use. The inventor of the FLY Pentop, Jim Marggraff, left LeapFrog and founded Livescribe in January 2007.
Description
The Fly, released in 2005, is a customizable pen that is intended to assist children with schoolwork. There are several bundled and add-on applications available, including a notepad, calculator, language and writing assistant, and educational games; many of these require the use of a small cartridge that can be inserted into a port built into the rear of the pen. The Fly only works on its own proprietary digital paper, which is lightly printed with a pattern of dots to provide positioning information to the pen via a tiny infrared camera. The ink tip itself can be retracted into the body of the pen when no physical notes are desired.
The pen uses digital paper and pattern decoding technology developed by Anoto to track where the user writes on the page. It uses Vision Objects' MyScript character recognition technology to read what's been written, and can read aloud nearly any word in U.S. English. One notable thing is that the Fly uses only capital letters. To start the main menu of the base pen, the user writes "M" and circles it. After recognizing the circled "M", the pen switches to "menu mode". There are several different circle-letter codes for activating different applications, these codes are officially known as "Fly-Cons."
Once an application is activated, the user uses the pen to draw on the paper to interact with the application. In much of the applications, users are told what to draw, rather than having the freedom to design their own.
Applications and add-ons
LeapFrog sold several different types of paper with which the pen could be used, often in conjunction with a related programming cartridge. The paper may include special instructions for using the pen, as well as cosmetic alterations to the paper reflecting the subject for which it is intended.
Activities available for the Fly included a Spanish language translator, spelling and mathematical software, and a personal journal. Activities for the Fly pen came in packs that include a game pad - a different piece of digital paper - or a cartridge. Using a game pad begins with the user "downloading" the game from the paper by swiping the pen along a Fly Strip, reminiscent of a barcode. Available games include Batman Begins, a "Flyball" baseball game, Harry Potter Interactive Marauder's Map, and a musical DJ game called "Scratch".
Response
Many critics of the computer have pointed out the length of time required for the pen to correctly recognise
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20T3E
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The Cray T3E was Cray Research's second-generation massively parallel supercomputer architecture, launched in late November 1995. The first T3E was installed at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center in 1996. Like the previous Cray T3D, it was a fully distributed memory machine using a 3D torus topology interconnection network. The T3E initially used the DEC Alpha 21164 (EV5) microprocessor and was designed to scale from 8 to 2,176 Processing Elements (PEs). Each PE had between 64 MB and 2 GB of DRAM and a 6-way interconnect router with a payload bandwidth of 480 MB/s in each direction. Unlike many other MPP systems, including the T3D, the T3E was fully self-hosted and ran the UNICOS/mk distributed operating system with a GigaRing I/O subsystem integrated into the torus for network, disk and tape I/O.
The original T3E (retrospectively known as the T3E-600) had a 300 MHz processor clock. Later variants, using the faster 21164A (EV56) processor, comprised the T3E-900 (450 MHz), T3E-1200 (600 MHz), T3E-1200E (with improved memory and interconnect performance) and T3E-1350 (675 MHz). The T3E was available in both air-cooled (AC) and liquid-cooled (LC) configurations. AC systems were available with 16 to 128 user PEs, LC systems with 64 to 2048 user PEs.
A 1480-processor T3E-1200 was the first supercomputer to achieve a performance of more than 1 teraflops running a computational science application, in 1998.
After Cray Research was acquired by Silicon Graphics in February 1996, development of new Alpha-based systems was stopped. While providing the -900, -1200 and -1200E upgrades to the T3E, in the long term Silicon Graphics intended Cray T3E users to migrate to the Origin 3000, a MIPS-based distributed shared memory computer, introduced in 2000. However, the T3E continued in production after SGI sold the Cray business the same year.
See also
History of supercomputing
References
External links
Top500 description of T3E
Inside Cray T3E-900 Serial Number 6702, (link to updated copy)
Performance Analysis of the CRAY T3E-1200E, Edward Anderson, Lockheed Martin Services Inc., 1999, (link to archived copy)
Computer-related introductions in 1995
T3e
Supercomputers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Sentinels
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Space Sentinels (originally titled Young Sentinels and renamed midway through its only season) is a Saturday morning animated series produced by Filmation which debuted on the American NBC network on September 10, 1977, and ran for thirteen half-hour episodes. The science fiction action series follows a superhero team during missions to protect the Earth.
Premise
Three young Earth people were selected many centuries ago and teleported to another planet, where they were given eternal youth and superpowers. They were trained and returned to Earth, where they are tasked with protecting the planet and its vicinity, similar to the Green Lantern Corps. Hercules and Mercury through superhuman feats became the basis for the mythological Roman deities of the same names. They are joined by Astrea, namesake of the Greek deity but with unrelated powers.
Their base of operations and living quarters is a spaceship hidden within the caldera of a dormant volcano. They are supervised by Sentinel One, a member of a series of sentient supercomputers that command and coordinate Sentinel teams, although the race that gave the Sentinels their powers is ostensibly humanoid. For missions anywhere on Earth, the team is launched through vertical tubes and fly to their destination through the use of rocket belts in their suits, which seem to have intercontinental range as well as hypersonic capability (although Mercury can fly even faster). For interplanetary and interstellar missions, Sentinel One transports them within the spacecraft, which has faster-than-light capability.
The series was set in 1985, eight years after the series' debut; in the episode "The Time Traveler", Hercules and Astrea use time belts to return to "the present" and set the belts for 1985.
Characters
Hercules: blond-haired and blue-eyed man possesses superhuman strength and is obsessed with exercise and healthy eating. He was voiced by George DiCenzo, who also voiced Sentinel One.
Mercury: can run and fly purportedly up to the speed of light. Mercury is Chinese and practices martial arts as a hobby. He is usually the jokester. Although capable of flight like the other Sentinels, he often prefers to run at super high speed on the ground. He was voiced by Evan Kim.
Astrea: can morph into any Earth animal and is the de facto field leader of the team. She was one of the very few black superheroes in cartoons of the era, along with Super Friends' Black Vulcan, and predating Superstretch and Microwoman. She was voiced by Dee Timberlake.
Sentinel One, nicknamed S-1: a sentient supercomputer integrated into the spaceship who monitors all situations, alerts the team about threats and provides advice and information during missions. He communicates as a large, hairless, holographic head projected within the interior of the spacecraft. Other Sentinel computers in the series include Sentinel Seven (with a female aspect) and the Prime Sentinel, the supreme commander depicted as a bearded, older head.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic%20announcement%20%28radio%20data%20systems%29
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Traffic announcement (TA) refers to the broadcasting of a specific type of traffic report on the Radio Data System. It is generally used by motorists, to assist with route planning, and for the avoidance of traffic congestion.
The RDS-enabled receiver can be set to pay special attention to this TA flag and e.g. stop the tape/pause the CD or retune to receive a Traffic bulletin. The related TP (Traffic Programme) flag is used to allow the user to find only those stations that regularly broadcast traffic bulletins, whereas the TA flag is used to stop the tape or raise the volume during a traffic bulletin.
On some modern units, traffic reports can also be recorded and stored within the unit, both while the unit is switched on, but also for a pre-set period after the unit is turned off. It may also have in-built timers to seek and record the same for two separate daily occasions, i.e., one setting for before the morning commute, and the second for the evening return journey. These messages may then subsequently be recalled on demand by the driver. This specific function is known as TIM, or traffic information message.
See also
Traffic Message Channel – an automated service operational in Europe.
External links
BBC factsheet – Radio Data System (RDS) in HTML format
RDSList.com
Broadcast engineering
Radio technology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dselect
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dselect is a computer program used to manage software packages in the Debian operating system.
dselect is one of the oldest front-ends to dpkg, and the bulk of its development happened when it was originally written by Ian Jackson, who wrote it alongside dpkg.
The work on dselect started in dpkg version 0.93.12, and the first alpha release of dselect was made on March 27, 1995 in version 0.93.32. dselect was distributed in the dpkg package until June 21, 2002; even after it was split out into its own package, it was kept as a pre-dependency of dpkg in order to assist upgrades. It has been a standalone package since March 3, 2005.
dselect has a text-mode user interface, a set of key bindings that is generally considered to be fairly non-intuitive, and its dependency resolution mechanism is suboptimal. dselect can now use apt as the back-end 'method' for installing packages.
Today, dselect is largely superseded by Advanced Packaging Tool front-ends.
External links
The dselect documentation for beginners
Dpkg
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xpress%20200
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The Radeon Xpress 200 is a computer chipset released by ATI. The chipset supports AMD 64-bit processors (Socket 939 and Socket 754) as well as supporting Intel Pentium 4, Pentium D and Celeron processors (LGA 775 and Socket 478). Additionally, it includes support for DDR400 RAM and DDR-2 667 RAM on the Intel Edition.
ATI renamed its Radeon Xpress 200 Crossfire Edition chipset to CrossFire Xpress 1600. After the takeover from AMD, AMD renamed the Crossfire Xpress 1600 chipset for AMD socket AM2 platform to the AMD 480X CrossFire chipset.
Types
The Radeon Xpress 200 comes in five different versions:
Radeon Xpress 200
Radeon Xpress 200P
Radeon Xpress 200M
Radeon Xpress 200 Crossfire Edition
Radeon Xpress 200 for Intel
Common features
Support for up to 22 PCI Express lanes.
Support for up to 8 USB 2.0 ports.
Support for 4 SATA and 4 PATA drives, which can be linked together in any combination of SATA and PATA to form a RAID 0, 1, or 0+1.
AC'97 Audio for SB400.
HD Audio for SB450, SB460 and SB600.
Support for up to 7 PCI slots.
Radeon Xpress 200
DDR-RAM support
The integrated graphics are based on the ATI Radeon X300 GPU with full OpenGL 2.0 and DirectX 9.0 support
Later renamed as Radeon Xpress 1150 for AMD notebooks
Radeon Xpress 200M
Radeon Xpress 200 chipset optimized for Mobile applications
Includes AMD Turion 64 support
Support for Shared Memory Architecture
ATI PowerPlay 5.0 support
Later renamed as Radeon Xpress 1150 for AMD notebooks
Radeon Xpress 200 Crossfire
This adds support for ATI's multi-GPU technology called Crossfire. It is designed to compete with nVidia's SLI technology.
Motherboards utilizing this chipset will feature two 16x PCI-Express slots (although, like early SLI chipsets, they only operate at 8x when CrossFire is enabled, unlike some newer CrossFire and SLI capable chipsets where both slots retain full speed).
Renamed as AMD 480X CrossFire chipset after the acquisition of AMD and ATI, with Intel CrossFire chipset retained the use of Radeon Xpress 200 CrossFire chipset.
Radeon Xpress 200 for Intel
DDR SDRAM and DDR2 SDRAM support
7.1 surround sound support
Later renamed as Radeon Xpress 1150 for Intel notebooks/desktops with a 100 MHz increase in core clock speed (400 MHz from originally 350 MHz for 200M chipset, from originally 300 MHz for Xpress 1100 chipset).
Southbridges
SB400 (IXP 400), M1573 (RS480)
The Radeon Xpress 200 (RS480) chipset can make use of different southbridges, one of them is the SB400 (IXP 400), providing 2 ATA channels (2 devices per channel), 2 SATA 1.5 Gbit/s interface (4 drives total) with RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1 support, 7 PCI slots, 8 USB 2.0 and AC'97 codec for 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound support. Motherboard manufacturers were able to replace the SB400 southbridge with the M1573 southbridge from ULi for more versatile configuration, as well as avoiding the frequently criticized USB performance issues with ATI southbridges.
SB450, SB460, M1575 (RS482)
The Radeo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell%20OptiPlex
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OptiPlex (a portmanteau of "optimal" and "-plex") is a line of business-oriented desktop and all-in-one computers made for corporate enterprises, healthcare, the government, and education markets released in 1993 by Dell. The systems typically contain Intel CPUs, beginning with Celeron and Pentium and with the Core microarchitecture (i3, i5, i7, i9). Business-oriented components, such as Gigabit Ethernet, DisplayPort, Tool-less Chassis and software such as data protection utilities, along with management features such as Intel vPro often come standard with OptiPlex systems. OptiPlex configurations can be completed by the purchaser for components such as CPU, GPU, RAM, Storage and Wireless options, as well as Dell Pro support.
History
In 1993, Dell released the OptiPlex and NetPlex lines in the wake of its first quarterly loss. Its disappointing results were partially attributed to poor returns on its notebook division; however, Dell's desktop and server lines continued to see success, particularly within the enterprise market.
The new offerings were positioned accordingly. The NetPlex line consisted of inexpensive i486 workstations designed to be used as corporate network clients. The OptiPlex line offered the same networking capabilities as the NetPlex along with additional features such as VESA Local Bus expansion slots, expandable VRAM, and stronger processor models. It also targeted large enterprises with features such as embedded diagnostics.
Overview
Series 1 - Classic beige
In the classic beige chassis:
Series 2
In the midnight-gray chassis:
Series 3 - BTX
Dell OptiPlex from 2005 to 2009 followed Intel's BTX standard. The first model to sport the new BTX layout was the OptiPlex 170L and also the OptiPlex GX280 had a BTX variant albeit uncommon. The last model to be BTX is the OptiPlex 980. 7xx Series DT models can be configured with a riser card to accommodate two full height cards. The riser card fits over the top PCIe x16 slot and middle PCI which is slightly longer with extra pins, this is however not PCI-X. Features DirectDetect system health status indicators for troubleshooting and diagnostics.
Capacitor issues
OptiPlex models (mostly produced in 2003 and 2004), notably the GX270, suffered from frequent failures due to faulty capacitors supplied by Nichicon as part of the capacitor plague. These capacitors would bulge and leak, resulting in product failure after only a few years of use. Leaked internal documents allege that Dell knew that the computers were likely to fail, and continued to ship them.
Series 4
The OptiPlex 960 introduced a new style of cases, made with recyclable plastics. The first two models, namely the 960 and 980 were based on BTX, However the rest of this series was built upon the standard ATX and DTX. From the x020 and onwards, Dell switched over from a standard 24 pin power connector to a proprietary 12v only 8 pin connector for better power efficiency. The DT and SSF models from this series used
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datacom%20%28disambiguation%29
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Datacom may refer to:
Data communication
DATACOM/DB, a relational database for IBM mainframes
Datacom Group, a New Zealand-based IT company
Next Generation Data Communications (DataComm), an aviation initiative to replace some voice communications between pilots and air traffic control with textual messages
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netopia
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Farallon, later renamed Netopia, was a computer networking company headquartered in Berkeley, and subsequently Emeryville, California, that produced a wide variety of products including bridges, repeaters and switches, and in their later Netopia incarnation, modems, routers, gateways, and Wi-Fi devices. The company also produced the NBBS (Netopia Broadband Server Software) and, as Farallon, Timbuktu remote administration software, as well as the MacRecorder, the first audio capture and manipulation products for the Macintosh (later sold to Macromedia). The company was founded in 1986 and changed its name to Netopia in 1998. Farallon originated several notable technologies, including:
PhoneNet, an implementation of AppleTalk over plain ("Cat-3") telephone wiring or, more commonly, EIA-TIA 568A/B structured cabling systems. Many versions of the product were produced, but the original product was a commercialized version of a kit developed and produced by BMUG, the Berkeley Macintosh Users Group in 1986.
The StarController, a line of LocalTalk and Ethernet bridges and switches released in 1988 which integrated directly with EIA-TIA 568A/B structured cabling systems.
EtherWave, an ADB-powered serial-to-ethernet bridge in a dongle form-factor which looked something like a manta ray. The two external ports were 10BASE-T and the serial pigtail spoke an overclocked 690kbps version of LocalTalk. This served both to allow devices without expansion busses (commonly early Macintosh computers and LaserWriter printers) to connect directly to Ethernet networks, and also to allow the daisy-chaining of multiple devices from a single Ethernet switch or bridge port. Later versions used Apple's "AAUI" version of the Attachment Unit Interface to achieve full 10mbps host connections.
AirDock, a Serial-to-IrDA gateway which allowed devices with LocalTalk ports to communicate on IrDA infrared wireless networks.
Netopia acquired multiple companies in the home networking space including Cayman and DoBox, Inc. DoBox, Inc., founded by Nicole Toomey Davis, Bradley Davis and Matt Smith, was acquired in 2002 for its award-winning DoBox Family Firewall and Home Server Gateway.
Netopia was acquired by Motorola in the first quarter of 2007.
ISPs known to use Netopia modems include:
AT&T in the United States
Sonic.net in the United States
Covad in the United States
eircom in Ireland
Swisscom in Switzerland
NextGenTel in Norway
France Télécom, Cegetel RSS, B3G Telecom, Nerim, Easynet, Claranet, Magic Online in France
References
External links
Homepage of Netopia
Netopia financial news from Google Finance
1986 establishments in California
2007 disestablishments in California
American companies established in 1986
American companies disestablished in 2007
Companies based in Emeryville, California
Computer companies established in 1986
Computer companies disestablished in 2007
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Networking hardware companies
Telec
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%20%28Coldplay%20song%29
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"Talk" is a song by the British rock band Coldplay. Built around a motif from Kraftwerk's 1981 song "Computer Love", it was written by all members of the band and appeared on their third album, X&Y. In the United States, the song entered at number 86 on the Billboard Hot 100 and elsewhere in the world its success varied. It peaked at number one in the Netherlands on both the Dutch Top 40 and Single Top 100 charts, becoming the band's first number-one single there.
The song received positive reviews, with critics noting the music's sound and memorable lyrics. Both the song and its "Thin White Duke" remix were nominated for the 2007 Grammy Awards, the latter of which won in the category of Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical.
Background
Coldplay had difficulties with the recording sessions for months, as to the sound of the track. They were skeptical in deciding to add "Talk" to the final track listing of X&Y. During the recording sessions, which had seen the band scrap huge amounts of material, the song was left out when they sent early versions of the album to its record label, Parlophone. The song, however, made it to the track list, after it was properly mixed.
When asked about the development of the song by NME.com, vocalist Chris Martin said, "From that version, [a version that NME.com heard, while visiting the band in the studio] we went and did a whole other version of it. A whole other song. What happened with the song 'Talk' is that it was all going great and then someone said 'That should be the first single' and we all just freaked out and scrapped it all. [...] We’ve just mixed it and it sounds great. I think we’ve had such pain getting to that place, I’m not sure anyone quite knows what to do with it anymore. When we heard it mixed properly, it sounded mega."
The band received permission from the electronic music German band Kraftwerk to use the main riff from their song "Computer Love", from its 1981 studio album Computer World, for "Talk", replacing Kraftwerk's synthesizers with guitars. In a track-by-track interview given by the band on X&Y, bassist Guy Berryman reported that in response to the band's request, Kraftwerk founding member Ralf Hütter "said something like, 'Yes, you can use it, and thank you very much for asking my permission, unlike that bastard Jay-Z'" (a reference to the latter's "(Always Be My) Sunshine", which uses a Kraftwerk sample). Martin also recalled in a 2007 article in Q magazine the process of requesting permission to use the melody: He sent a letter through the lawyers of the respective parties and several weeks later received an envelope containing a handwritten reply that simply said ″yes″.
The band recorded three separate versions of the single; the one recorded on X&Y was based on an early cut of the song. An early version of the track – with a different set of lyrics – was leaked onto the internet in early 2005. The track was originally intended to be a B-side for the song "Speed of Sound", b
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Com
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Com or COM may refer to:
Computing
COM (hardware interface), a serial port interface on IBM PC-compatible computers
COM file, or .com file, short for "command", a file extension for an executable file in MS-DOS
.com, an Internet top-level domain, originally short for "commercial"
Component Object Model, a Microsoft software interface technology
Computer-on-module, a type of single-board computer
Transport
Comair (USA), an airline which was a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta Air Lines by ICAO airline designator
Commonwealth MRT station, a Mass Rapid Transit station in Singapore by MRT station abbreviation
Other
COM (manga magazine)
Cốm, green rice dish in Vietnam
Common rail (electricity), a common path of currents in an electronic circuit, often for the ground
Center of mass
Center-of-momentum frame
Coma Berenices (constellation), standard astronomical abbreviation
Comoros, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code
College of Marin, a community college in Marin County, California
College of the Mainland, a community college in Texas City, Texas
Collectivité d'outre-mer, a French overseas collectivity, or first-order administrative division
Concerned Officers Movement, anti-war organization
Commander of the Order of Merit of the Police Forces, Canadian decoration post-nominal letters
Either of two figures named Com in the Book of Mormon: an early Jaredite king, son of Coriantum; and a late Jaredite king
Como, a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy, in Romansh language
See also
Comm (disambiguation)
Command (disambiguation)
dot-com (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort%20Macquarie%20Tram%20Depot
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Fort Macquarie Tram Depot was part of the Sydney tram network. It opened in 1902 on the site of the old Fort Macquarie and was demolished in 1958 to make way for the construction of the Sydney Opera House.
History
Fort Macquarie Tram Depot was built on Bennelong Point in Sydney opening on 10 August 1902, on the site of the old Fort Macquarie. The depot was constructed in the design of a fortress with castellated ramparts in homage to the previous building. The depot closed on 22 October 1955 before being demolished in 1958 to make way for the construction of the Sydney Opera House.
With the closing of Fort Macquarie depot, most of the services were transferred to Dowling Street depot.
Design
12 tracks
Battlement style front parapet
Brick pediments, vents within false windows
Roof orientation to south
Operations
The depot consisted of a 12 road shed, with loop line laid around the outside. The loop and sidings on the western side of the depot were an important lay-over point for trams serving many lines. This took pressure away from Circular Quay during busy periods. Entry to the depot and loop line was controlled from a signal box located adjacent to the tracks. Nothing remains of the depot; the buildings were totally razed to make way for the Opera House.
Services from Fort Macquarie (some of these services also commenced at Circular Quay and Millers Point) were:
Fort Macquarie to Rozelle, Drummoyne, Gladesville and Ryde
Fort Macquarie to Forest Lodge, Balmain and Birchgrove
Fort Macquarie to Haberfield, Five Dock and Abbotsford
Fort Macquarie to Leichhardt
Fort Macquarie to Glebe Point
Fort Macquarie to Kensington
Fort Macquarie to Rosebery
Circular Quay to Railway Colonnade
Dimensions:
Width: 131 ft
Length of car shed: 250 ft
Length of building from end to end: 307 ft
Height from ground level 36 ft
Height from pit level: 41 ft
Height of turret: 80 ft
References
External links
Sydney Architecture gallery
Buildings and structures demolished in 1958
Industrial buildings in Sydney
Tram depots in Sydney
Transport infrastructure completed in 1902
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%20%C3%85kesson
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Stefan "Lillis" Åkesson is a legendary Swedish Pro freestyle skateboarder. He is the founder of the International Network for Flatland freestyle Skateboarding and of Reverse Freestyle Skateboards, as well as the co-founder of the World Freestyle Skateboard Association (WFSA).
Åkesson started to skateboard in 1978 and won his first Swedish Skateboard Championships in 1983. Won his first European Championships in 1987, the World Championships in 2000, and the European Championships once again in 2005. In 2011 he won the World Championships again.
Lillis enters contests, does demos, shows and clinics all over the world. He was part of the theater group Skokloster Teatersällskap as an lead actor and work part-time as a sales person for Stadium and freelance as a web- and graphic designer.
He has his own pro signature model from Moonshine Skateboards .
Contest highlights
World Champion 2011, Sweden
World Champion 2000, San Francisco (tie)
European Champion 2005, England
European Champion 1987, Sweden
2nd World Championships 2008
2nd World Championships 2007
2nd World Championships 2006
2nd World Championships 2005
2nd World Championships 2001
2nd World Championships 2002
3nd World Championships 2018 Japan
1st Chit Challenge, New Jersey 2001
1st LA Barrio Games, Los Angeles 2001
1st Reverse Freestyle Open 2003
1st SKF Euro Cup 1990
1st Swedish Champion 15 times
2nd UK Round Up 2015, England
2nd Spot On, Glendale 2008
2nd Spot On, Glendale 2009
2nd Venice Beach Jam & Contest, 2010
3rd European Championships 2021, Brandenburg, Germany
2nd Grand Prix Trocadero 2008, Paris, France
2nd Spon On Summer Classic 2008, Glendale, USA
2nd Venice Beach Contest & Jam 2010, Venice Beach, USA
3rd All Japan Freestyle Skateboard Contest 2012, Tokyo, Japan
3rd Paderborn World Cup 2009, Paderborn, Germany
4th Stockholm Freestyle 2016, Stockholm Sweden
4th World Round Up 2012, Vancouver, Canada
5th World Round Up 2015, Vancouver, Canada
6th World Round Up 2017, Vancouver, Canada
6th World Round Up 2016, Vancouver, Canada
6th World Round Up 2013, Vancouver, Canada
Guinness World Record 2008: Most Dogwalks in 1 minute.
Guinness World Record 2006: Longest one wheelie on flat, 39 meters.
Update!:
Guinness World Record 2007: Longest one wheelie on flat, 68 meters and 54 centimeters.
Sponsors
Moonshine Skateboards
Seismic Skate Systems
Early life
Stefan "Lillis" Åkesson was born April 21, 1964, in Falun, Sweden to Britt-Inger and Kjell Åkesson. He was raised in Falun and in 1992 moved to Idealbyn Skokloster. He has a younger brother, Peter, that lives in Thailand and work as a horseback riding instructor. Lillis has two kids and joke "they are older than me now".
Career
Lillis saw a skateboard for the first time in his life 1977 and knew that moment that he wanted to be a skateboarder. It took him however one complete year to convince his parents to buy him a skateboard. Finally, the summer of 1978, Lillis stepped on his very own skateboard. Why skateboarding attra
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysctl
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sysctl is a software utility of some Unix-like operating systems that reads and modifies the attributes of the system kernel such as its version number, maximum limits, and security settings. It is available both as a system call for compiled programs, and an administrator command for interactive use and scripting. Linux additionally exposes sysctl as a virtual file system.
BSD
In BSD, these parameters are generally objects in a management information base (MIB) that describe tunable limits such as the size of a shared memory segment, the number of threads the operating system will use as an NFS client, or the maximum number of processes on the system; or describe, enable or disable behaviors such as IP forwarding, security restrictions on the superuser (the "securelevel"), or debugging output.
In OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD, sysctl is also used as the transport layer for the hw.sensors framework for hardware monitoring, whereas NetBSD uses the ioctl system call for its sysmon envsys counterpart. Both sysctl and ioctl are the two system calls which can be used to add extra functionality to the kernel without adding yet another system call; for example, in 2004 with OpenBSD 3.6, when the tcpdrop utility was introduced, sysctl was used as the underlying system call. In FreeBSD, although there is no sensors framework, the individual temperature and other sensors are still commonly exported through the sysctl tree through Newbus, for example, as is the case with the aibs(4) driver that's available in all the 4 BSD systems, including FreeBSD.
In BSD, a system call or system call wrapper is usually provided for use by programs, as well as an administrative program and a configuration file (for setting the tunable parameters when the system boots).
This feature first appeared in 4.4BSD. It has the advantage over hardcoded constants that changes to the parameters can be made dynamically without recompiling the kernel.
Historically, although kernel variables themselves could be modified through sysctl, the elements comprising the MIB of the sysctl tree were hardcoded at compile time, and as of 2019, it's mostly still the case in OpenBSD (with some exceptions like hw.sensors, which manages and provides its own dynamic subtree). FreeBSD has had "sysctl internal magic" for dynamic sysctl tree management since 1995; NetBSD has had its own implementation of a dynamic sysctl tree since December 2003.
Linux
In Linux, the sysctl interface mechanism is also exported as part of procfs under the directory (not to be confused with the directory). This difference means checking the value of some parameter requires opening a file in a virtual file system, reading its contents, parsing them and closing the file. The sysctl system call does exist on Linux, but it has been deprecated and does not have a wrapper function in glibc; it is usually unavailable due to many distributions configuring the kernel without CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL; so it is not recommended for
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge%20Computer%20Lab%20Ring
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The Cambridge Computer Lab Ring is a members' association for staff and graduates of the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory. It was formed in 2002 as a non-profit, independent and voluntary members’ association, but was absorbed into the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory in 2012. It was named by Maurice Wilkes.
The association was mentioned by Richard Lambert in the Lambert Review of Business-University Collaboration as an example of how "universities, departments and faculties should develop their alumni networks in order to build closer relationships with their graduates working in the business community."
Hall of Fame
The association claims that, as of January 2018, there are 267 companies created by computer lab graduates and staff. A 'Company of the Year' is chosen from this list annually.
2005 Sophos
2006 Codian
2007 Jagex
2008 Xensource
2009 Linguamatics
2010 Ubisense
2011 RealVNC
2012 Trampoline Systems
2013 Raspberry Pi
2014 DeepMind Technologies
2015 SwiftKey
2016 Unikernel Systems
2017 Improbable
2018 Bromium
2019 PolyAI
2020 DisplayLink
2021 iKVA
References
External links
Cambridge Computer Lab Ring
Lambert Review of Business-University Collaboration December 2003
2002 establishments in England
Organizations established in 2002
Computer
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vino
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Vino may refer to:
Computing
Vino (operating system), an open-source operating system
Vino (VNC server), a Remote Desktop sharing library for GNOME
Locations
Vino, California, a former settlement in Fresno County
Vino, Grosuplje, a village in the Municipality of Grosuplje, central Slovenia
Cascada del Vino, a Venezuelan waterfall
El Vino, a London wine bar and off licence
People
Vino G. Bastian (born 1982), Indonesian actor
Vino Noharathalingam (born 1963), Sri Lankan politician
Dr. Vino, pen name for American author and wine educator Tyler Colman
Vino, nickname of Russian cyclist Alexander Vinokourov
Vino, a character in the anime and manga series Zatch Bell!
Other
ViNO or Federation of Green Youth and Students, a Finnish organization
Vino (album), a 2008 album by Dräco Rosa
Vino 100, a North American franchise
Yamaha Vino 125, a 2004 scooter
VINO (Virgin Islands News Online), a news website in the British Virgin Islands
Vino, a word for wine in some languages
See also
Mondovino, a 2004 American documentary film
Vinoš Sofka (1929–2016), Czech museologist
In vino veritas (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodger%20Corser
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Rodger Corser (born 28 February 1973) is an Australian actor. He is best known for his portrayals of Detective Senior Sergeant Steve Owen in the Nine Network crime mini-series Underbelly, based on the Melbourne gangland killings, Senior Sergeant Lawson Blake in the Network Ten police drama series Rush, and as Dr. Hugh Knight in The Nine Network series Doctor Doctor. He was part of the main cast of Glitch in the role of John Doe/William Blackburn.
Early life
Corser graduated from Deakin University in 1996 with an Honours B.A. in Media Studies. He formed a band called Tender Prey when he was 16. They played their majority of gigs at the Shoppingtown Hotel, Doncaster, Victoria. He was also lead vocalist in a band called Stone the Crows. They played Rolling Stones and Black Crowes covers as well as many original songs. They released "Perfect Face" on a Nu-Music CD in the mid-1990s.
Corser was also the lead vocalist in a 4-piece cover band called "Sideshow Bob" that played around a few Melbourne pubs during the mid-late 90s (1995–1996) – namely at places like the Royal Hotel in Essendon, Victoria, Australia.
Career
Corser's big role came in 1998, when he was cast in the leading role (from a field of 6,000) in the Australian production of the musical Rent. Corser portrayed the role of Roger, an HIV-positive musician. The show played seasons in Sydney and Melbourne and launched Corser into a successful career in television. His other theatre credits include Leader of the Pack and Below. In 2009, he took to the stage in the theatre production Secret Bridesmaids' Business.
Corser played Detective Senior Constable George Newhouse in the final four episodes of Water Rats in 2001. Corser played Peter Johnson in the Australian drama series McLeod's Daughters from 2001 to 2004. He played the lead role of Alex in the Australian movie Let Me Not in 2005. He portrayed photographer Adam Logan in the Australian television series Last Man Standing and Dr Hugh Sullivan in Home and Away from 2006 to 2007. Corser has appeared in numerous television adverts, most notably for car maker Hyundai.
In 2008, Corser was cast as Detective Senior Sergeant Steve Owen in the Nine Network crime mini-series Underbelly, based on the Melbourne gangland killings.
From 2008 to 2011, Corser starred as Lawson Blake in the Australian police drama Rush, which follows the lives of members of the prestigious Tactical Response team (TR), which is based on the real life Victoria Police Critical Incident Response Team, a highly mobile unit that fills the operational gap between general duties police and the SWAT-like Special Operations Group.
Corser narrated the first series of Network Ten's factual TV series Recruits, which shows the people in training to become police officers in the New South Wales Police Force and people who have only just started out on the beat. In 2010, Corser started work on Spirited, a new television series on the W channel on Foxtel.
In 2013, Corser starred, al
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Woman%20to%20Remember
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A Woman to Remember is a soap opera which ran on the DuMont Television Network from February 21 to July 15, 1949. The show began on February 21 as a daytime series at 3 pm ET. However, starting May 2, the show aired Monday through Friday from 7:30 to 7:45 pm ET.
John Haggart was the writer, and Bob Steel was the director. The 7:30 pm version of the show followed Captain Video and His Video Rangers and had no sponsor.
The series is believed to be lost.
Synopsis
The soap opera featured a story within a story. Set in a radio studio, it had actors portraying the director, technicians, and other personnel of inner soap opera. The director's replacing a regular actor with a detested new actor led to conflicts within the company.
Cast and characters
The main focus of A Woman to Remember was the backstage drama of a radio serial. Radio soap opera star Christine Baker (Patricia Wheel) was the central heroine who had to spend much of her time dealing with malicious Carol Winstead (Joan Catlin), who fought against her both at work and in Christine's relationship with Steve Hammond (John Raby). Other characters included Christine's actress pal Bessie Thatcher (Ruth McDevitt) and sound man Charley Anderson (Frankie Thomas). Thomas would later star in popular series Tom Corbett, Space Cadet. His mother, Mona Bruns (who appeared on many soaps), had a small part on the show and described the backstage atmosphere as very hectic.
Production
The show was broadcast live from a tiny radio studio in Wanamaker's Department Store, Philadelphia, with a budget of $1,750 a week, a three-hour rehearsal period, and, at most, two TV cameras. The studio bathroom was used as the dressing room, there was little ventilation, the sets were cheap and the actors were barely paid. One day, the air conditioning broke down and five technicians fainted from heat exhaustion. Bruns had to say, "I've just had a tooth pulled," but was so delirious, she said (live on air), "I've just had a pooth tulled." The actors struggled not to laugh, which kept them from fainting from the heat. Leading man Raby once had a scene with an actress who panicked once the broadcast began. She tried to flee the set, but he pushed her into a chair and kept her there. He blurted out, "I can guess what you came to tell me," and proceeded to recite all of her dialogue, along with his own lines. After the scene ended he went to the bathroom and threw up.
For many years, A Woman to Remember was considered the first television soap opera, due to some magazine articles which erroneously claimed the series debuted in 1947. However, DuMont's Faraway Hill, which ran for several months in 1946, is now considered the first soap opera on television.
Critical response
A review in the trade publication Variety said that A Woman to Remember "succeeds in shaping the soap opera formula to television's requirements." It commended the writing for containing "honest, simple dialog."
See also
List of programs broadcast by th
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS%20%28TV%20station%29
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SAS, formerly SAS-7 and before that SAS-10, is a television station in Adelaide, South Australia. It is part of the Seven Network.
History
SAS-7 was originally known as SAS-10, an affiliate of what became Network Ten. It commenced broadcasting on 26 July 1965, as SA Telecasters. In the early 1970s the station was bought out by Perth station TVW-7 and thus, on two occasions, shared the same image campaigns as TVW's. On 1982, SAS and TVW were bought by the Bell Group.
On 27 December 1987, SAS-10 and Seven Network's original affiliate ADS-7 switched broadcast channels and affiliations, ADS moving to channel 10, SAS moving to channel 7. As the television industry was consolidating in Australia, these channels had each become associated by ownership with interstate stations bearing the opposite channel numbers, so to simplify network interaction, they agreed to swap channel assignments and network affiliations in Adelaide. ADS was owned by Kerry Stokes who also owned NEW-10 and Capital Television. As a result, from the last days of 1987 up to 1988, SAS, now on channel 7, adopted the On the Move slogan previously used by WLS-TV in Chicago, Illinois in 1984 to mark the change, with a music video made for this purpose.
In 1988, SAS was sold by the Bell Group to Qintex, bringing the station under common ownership with the Seven stations in the other capital cities.
The station celebrated 40 years in 2005 with a special television program "Made in Adelaide 40 Years of Television".
Television shows made during the SAS-10 era include children's shows Fat Cat and Friends, The Early Bird Show, Crackerjack and Romper Room. Music shows included in Time, Trax and Simulrock. Variety talent shows included Adelaide's New Faces and Pot Luck. There was also the long running daytime show Touch of Elegance. SAS 10 employed actor Hedley Cullen as horror host Deadly Earnest, who was also seen in WA.
From 1973 to 1989 the Christmas Appeal telethon was held each year. For the inaugural Bay to Birdwood classic car run, SAS Channel 10 provided advertising and a documentary after the event.
SA Telecasters also produced the 45-minute documentary On location with Robbery Under Arms, which achieved a sort of permanency as a "special feature" of the DVD transfer of the film Robbery Under Arms, starring Sam Neill.
The game show Wheel of Fortune commenced recordings in ADS-7 studios in July 1981 on the Seven Network. It moved to SAS with the 1987 switch, and continued there until July 1996 when the show moved to ATN-7 Sydney where it lasted to its cancellation in 2006.
Other shows after the changeover included Fat Cat and Friends until 1992 and Trax until 1990.
Currently the station produces Discover and Seven News, while between 1995 and 2019, it produced a local edition of Today Tonight, which outrated the national A Current Affair.
The last edition of Seven News and Today Tonight to be broadcast from the Gilberton studios in North Adelaide took place on 14 December 200
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenrin
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is a Japanese map publishing company. Founded in 1948 as the in Beppu, Kyūshū, the company is known as a maker of residential maps and software used in personal computers and automotive navigation systems. It is a leading Japanese company in the production of mapping software.
Operations
Zenrin provides navigation software and expertise to Nissan's North American division, Honda's Internavi in-car telematics service in Japan, and other automobile and navigation systems hardware manufacturers. Zenrin is also exploring collaborative efforts with other electronics and automotive manufacturers. Field research crews collect data throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil, and survey businesses along American interstates to integrate into their navigation software and databases. Businesses, organizations, and travelers nationwide utilize this data in a variety of applications and settings.
Offices
Zenrin's head office is in the Zenrin-Asahi Building at 1-1-1, Muromachi, Kokura-Kita Ward, Kitakyūshū. The building stands in the midst of a modern shopping and cultural center called Riverwalk Kitakyūshū, on the spot where noted Edo-period mapmaker Inō Tadataka began his mapping of Kyūshū. The company also has a development center at Nakabaru Shinmachi 3–1, Tobata Ward, Kitakyushu.
A map museum is located on the on 14th floor of the company's home office building. It is open from 10:00 to 17:00 on weekdays, and is closed on weekends and Japanese national holidays. Admission is ¥100.
Internationally, Zenrin's American division (Zenrin USA, Inc.) and European division (Zenrin Europe GmbH) are located in Burlingame, California and Düsseldorf, Germany, respectively.
Executive officials
was president from 1980 until his retirement in 2001. Inheriting the company from his father, founder Masatomi Osako, he built it into a major company in mapping and vehicle-mounted navigation software. He was also the first president of the StarFlyer airline.
has been the President and CEO of Zenrin since April 1, 2008. Takayama joined Zenrin in 1986 and has been its Director since 2006. He graduated from Seinan Gakuin University.
References
External links
Zenrin Japan website
Zenrin Europe website
Zenrin USA website
Zenrin DataCom website
Map companies of Japan
Book publishing companies of Japan
Companies based in Fukuoka Prefecture
Publishing companies established in 1948
Japanese brands
Mass media in Kitakyushu
GIS companies
Japanese companies established in 1948
Companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
Companies listed on the Fukuoka Stock Exchange
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharity
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In computing, Sharity is a program to allow a Unix system to mount SMB fileshares. It is developed by Christian Starkjohann of Objective Development Software GmbH and is proprietary software. , the current version is 3.9.
Linux (using or ), and FreeBSD, NetBSD, and macOS (using ), can mount SMB natively. Most other Unix and Unix-like operating systems cannot. In the proprietary Unix world, Sharity is a common solution to mounting SMB shares, as the usual recommended workaround — to run Services for UNIX on the Windows file server and make the share available via NFS — is frequently unreliable in practice.
Sharity works by making an external SMB share appear to the kernel as an NFS-mounted file system. (Compare to from Samba, which either provides an FTP-like interactive shell or sends commands to the Windows file server to be executed remotely.)
The program runs on the following Unix and Unix-like operating systems: macOS, IRIX, Solaris, HP-UX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, Tru64, AIX, NEXTSTEP, OpenStep, UnixWare, SunOS 4, and Linux.
Sharity is a rewrite of an earlier program, Sharity-Light, which is free software under the GPL (having been derived from in Linux) but is limited in capabilities and is no longer developed. Sharity-Light was originally called Rumba (a pun on "Samba"), but the name was trademarked to another company. Sharity-Light runs in user space rather than kernel space.
References
smbfs support (OpenSolaris RFE forums)
SMB Filesystem Driver (OpenSolaris BugDatabase)
Mounting an SMB share on Solaris. (Solaris x86 FAQ)
External links
Sharity
Internet Protocol based network software
Unix network-related software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGSOFT
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The Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Software Engineering provides a forum for computing professionals from industry, government and academia to examine principles, practices, and new research results in software engineering.
SIGSOFT focuses on issues related to all aspects of software development and maintenance, with emphasis on requirements, specification and design, software architecture, validation, verification, debugging, software safety, software processes, software management, measurement, user interfaces, configuration management, software engineering environments, and CASE tools.
SIGSOFT (co-)sponsors conferences and symposia including the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) and other events.
SIGSOFT publishes the informal bimonthly newsletter Software Engineering Notes (SEN) newsletter with papers, reports and other material related to the cost-effective, timely development and maintenance of high-quality software.
SIGSOFT's mission is to improve the ability to engineer software by stimulating interaction among practitioners, researchers, and educators; by fostering the professional development of software engineers; and by representing software engineers to professional, legal, and political entities.
References
External links
SIGSOFT website
Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Groups
Software engineering organizations
Organizations established in 1976
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20Engineering%20Notes
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The ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes (SEN) is published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for the Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT). It was established in 1976, and the first issue appeared in May 1976. It provides a forum for informal articles and other information on software engineering. The headquarters is in New York City. Since 1990, it has been published five times a year.
References
External links
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes homepage
Computer magazines published in the United States
Association for Computing Machinery magazines
Engineering magazines
Magazines established in 1976
Magazines published in New York City
Software engineering publications
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recordset
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A recordset is a data structure that consists of a group of database records, and can either come from a base table or as the result of a query to the table.
The concept is common to a number of platforms, notably Microsoft's Data Access Objects (DAO) and ActiveX Data Objects (ADO). The Recordset object contains a Fields collection, and a Properties collection. At any time, the Recordset object refers to only a single record within the set as the current record.
See also
Bound control
External links
Microsoft definition of a Recordset object in ADO
W3Schools: ADO Recordset Object
Databases
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richardson%E2%80%93Lucy%20deconvolution
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The Richardson–Lucy algorithm, also known as Lucy–Richardson deconvolution, is an iterative procedure for recovering an underlying image that has been blurred by a known point spread function. It was named after William Richardson and Leon B. Lucy, who described it independently.
Description
When an image is produced using an optical system and detected using photographic film or a charge-coupled device, for instance, it is inevitably blurred, with an ideal point source not appearing as a point but being spread out into what is known as the point spread function. Extended sources can be decomposed into the sum of many individual point sources, thus the observed image can be represented in terms of a transition matrix p operating on an underlying image:
where is the intensity of the underlying image at pixel and is the detected intensity at pixel . In general, a matrix whose elements are describes the portion of light from source pixel j that is detected in pixel i. In most good optical systems (or in general, linear systems that are described as shift invariant) the transfer function p can be expressed simply in terms of the spatial offset between the source pixel j and the observation pixel i:
where is called a point spread function. In that case the above equation becomes a convolution. This has been written for one spatial dimension, but of course most imaging systems are two dimensional, with the source, detected image, and point spread function all having two indices. So a two dimensional detected image is a convolution of the underlying image with a two dimensional point spread function plus added detection noise.
In order to estimate given the observed and a known , the following iterative procedure is employed in which the estimate of (called ) for iteration number t is updated as follows:
where
It has been shown empirically that if this iteration converges, it converges to the maximum likelihood solution for .
Writing this more generally for two (or more) dimensions in terms of convolution with a point spread function P:
where the division and multiplication are element wise, indicates a 2D convolution, and is the flipped point spread function.
In problems where the point spread function is not known a priori, a modification of the Richardson–Lucy algorithm has been proposed, in order to accomplish blind deconvolution.
Derivation
In the context of fluorescence microscopy, the probability of measuring a set of number of photons (or digitalization counts proportional to detected light) for expected values for a detector with pixels is given by
it is convenient to work with since in the context of maximum likelihood estimation we want to find the position of the maximum of the likelihood function and we are not interested in its absolute value.
Again since is a constant, it will not give any additional information regarding the position of the maximum, so let's consider
where is something that shares the sa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Neumann
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Peter Neumann may refer to:
Peter Neumann (Canadian football) (1931–2020), Canadian football player
Peter G. Neumann (born 1932), computer scientist
Peter M. Neumann (1940-2020), British mathematician
Peter R. Neumann (born 1974), political scientist
See also
Peter de Neumann (1917–1972), British sailor, convicted pirate and dockmaster
Peter Newman (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOTF-TV
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WOTF-TV (channel 26) is a television station licensed to Daytona Beach, Florida, United States, serving the Orlando area as an affiliate of the digital multicast network Grit. The station is owned by Entravision Communications, and has a transmitter near Orange City, Florida.
History
The station began operation on July 5, 1982, as an independent station on UHF channel 43 in Melbourne under the call sign WMOD. It was owned by Press Broadcasting, and programmed a general entertainment format with an emphasis on movies and drama series, along with some game shows. The station's original studio facilities were located on Enterprise Court in Melbourne. Shows broadcast by the station in its early years included among others Ironside, Bonanza, Soap, One Day at a Time, The Joker's Wild and Tic Tac Dough. In 1984, WMOD became a more traditional independent station, and added sitcoms (such as The Brady Bunch, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, The Lucy Show, All in the Family, The Odd Couple and The Honeymooners) and cartoons (such as Inspector Gadget, Super Friends and He-Man).
Being licensed to Melbourne placed the station at a disadvantage, as its transmitter was located southeast of Orlando due to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules at the time that required a station's transmitter to be located within of its city of license; the signal reached Orlando with only grade B coverage and no signal at all was receivable in Daytona Beach. As a result, the station received low ratings despite decent programming.
Soon afterwards, the FCC allocated a commercial license to Clermont, a western suburb of Orlando in Lake County, on UHF channel 68. Press applied for the license in 1985, and received it in March 1986. The plan was for Press Broadcasting to sell off WMOD to the Home Shopping Network at the same time as the company's new station on channel 68 was built and signed on the air. In the meantime, WMOD agreed to affiliate with HSN on a part-time basis. Initially in October 1986, WMOD began carrying HSN programming during the overnight hours. In January 1987, HSN programming was expanded to the midday hours and by the summer of 1987, the network occupied 18 hours of WMOD's daily schedule. General entertainment programming continued to run on the station evenings from 5 to 11 p.m.
The station still was unable to move its programming unit of general entertainment shows to channel 68 by the fall. Financial constraints also prevented them from moving forward. In order to finish building the new station, in January 1988, WMOD's channel 43 signal was sold to HSN affiliate company, Blackstar Broadcasting. That February, it began to run HSN full-time (except for a few hours of religious and public affairs shows on Sunday mornings), and changed its call letters to WBSF. Its cartoons and other barter shows moved to WAYK (channel 56, now WOPX-TV), another Melbourne station with an even weaker signal than channel 43 had. Other existing programming was dropped
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRBW
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WRBW (channel 65), branded on-air as Fox 35 Plus, is a television station in Orlando, Florida, United States, serving as the local outlet for the MyNetworkTV programming service. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet WOFL (channel 35). Both stations share studios on Skyline Drive in Lake Mary, while WRBW's transmitter is located in unincorporated Bithlo, Florida.
History
WRBW began operation as an independent station on June 6, 1994, airing vintage sitcoms, cartoons and older movies. It was owned by Rainbow Media, a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corporation. It originally operated from studio facilities located on the backlot of Universal Studios Florida. WRBW became the Orlando area affiliate of the United Paramount Network (UPN) (a network created by BHC and Paramount), when the network debuted on January 16, 1995. Since UPN only provided two hours of network programming two nights a week at launch, WRBW essentially still programmed itself as an independent station. During the late 1990s, especially during the wildfire plagued summer of 1998, there were occasions to which ABC Sports programming was moved to channel 65 in order for the market's ABC affiliate WFTV (channel 9) to provide wall-to-wall news coverage. Some of ABC's Saturday morning children's programs also aired on WRBW, until WRDQ signed on the air in April 2000.
Chris-Craft Industries, part-owner of UPN (through its United Television unit) bought the station in 1998, making WRBW the first owned-and-operated station of a major network in the Orlando market. Fox Television Stations acquired most of Chris-Craft's television stations, including WRBW, in 2001. Fox did not consider moving its affiliation from WOFL to WRBW, however; not only was WOFL one of Fox's strongest affiliates, but WRBW was located on a very high channel number. The buyout of Chris-Craft's stake in UPN by Viacom (which owned 50% of UPN since 1996) and the subsequent purchase of WRBW by Fox effectively stripped the station of its status as a UPN owned-and-operated station. A few months after the Chris-Craft deal closed, Fox traded KPTV in Portland, Oregon to Meredith Corporation in return for WOFL (and its Ocala-based semi-satellite WOGX), giving the company a duopoly in the Orlando market when the deal was finalized on June 17, 2002. Fox subsequently moved WRBW's operations to the WOFL studios in Lake Mary.
On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation (the restructured original Viacom, which acquired UPN, after CBS and Viacom split and spun off a separate company carrying the Viacom name in December 2005) and Time Warner announced that UPN and The WB would be shut down, and replaced by a new network that would feature some of the higher-rated programs from both networks called The CW Television Network. The CW's initial list of stations did not include any of Fox's UPN affiliates; as a result, Fox removed all network references and branding from its UPN affiliates, and stopped prom
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das%20Keyboard
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Das Keyboard is a series of computer keyboards sold by Metadot Corporation, a software company located in Austin, Texas. Some models feature blank keycaps, made with the purpose to help improve touch typing skills. The current iterations employ mechanical keyswitches manufactured by either Cherry or Greetech. It is worth to note that "the keyboard" in German is "die Tastatur", not "das Tastatur".
Das Keyboard products
There have been multiple generations of Das Keyboard:
The first iteration, released in 2005, did not feature mechanical key switches, but in addition to the blank keycaps, it featured a Model-M-inspired design, and keys with individual weights that require a different amount of force to press.
The second iteration in 2006 introduced mechanical key switches using Cherry MX Blue switches.
The third iteration in 2008 was the first to be offered in both Ultimate (unlabeled) and Professional (labeled) versions. This USB-only keyboard also offered six-key rollover capability (the maximum for a conventional USB HID keyboard), an internal two-port USB hub and came with a glossy surface. Both 104-key (ANSI) and 105-key layouts (ISO) were offered.
This version was not without its problems, however, as it became known that key transposition errors could occur at high typing speeds. In addition, interoperability issues related to the USB hub and lack of power were noticed with some systems.
The "Das Keyboard Model S" was introduced in late 2009, and continues to be sold today. It contains revised electronics to address many common complaints along with supporting media keys and PS/2 operation. Again, it is shipped in both Ultimate (unlabeled) and Professional (labeled) versions, both 104- and 105-key, with the addition of a labeled Professional Silent model featuring non-clicky but tactile MX brown stem keyswitches. The latter is intended for applications demanding lower noise levels than obtained with the regular clicky MX blue stem switches while retaining a similar tactile characteristic.
In 2014 saw the release of the "Das Keyboard 4" with updated design and enhanced structure. Like earlier versions, it was offered in two configurations: an Ultimate (unlabelled) version and a more conventional Professional version with key legends.
In 2015, some versions of Das Keyboards began shipping with Cherry MX clone switches manufactured by Greetech. The "Das Keyboard 4" for Windows continues to be sold with Cherry MX switches, but the Mac version and the "Das Keyboard 4C" models all feature the clone switches instead. This move has been somewhat controversial, as the clone switches are cheaper and of unknown but almost definitely different quality/durability. However, as of 2016, Das Keyboard discontinued the use of Greetech switches to use only the Cherry brand for MX switch type.
In June 2016, the "Das Keyboard 5Q" was introduced on Kickstarter. The new keyboard was to be cloud connected, allowing various online services to send signals
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%20railway%20station
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Lincoln railway station (previously Lincoln Central) serves the city of Lincoln in Lincolnshire, England. The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway. East Midlands Railway provides the majority of services from the station, with other services being provided by Northern and London North Eastern Railway.
The station is part of the PlusBus scheme, where train and bus tickets can be bought together at a saving. Lincoln Central bus station, the city's main bus station, is within a couple of minutes' walk from the railway station and is located to the north-east of the station and easily accessed via a pedestrian crossing and pedestrianised plaza.
History
The station buildings were designed by John Henry Taylor of London in 1848, for the Great Northern Railway company. It is built in a Tudor revival style of yellow brick, with stone dressings and slate roofs, with six ridge and eight side wall stacks. The buildings and footbridge were Grade II listed in 1990.
The station has been the only station in Lincoln since the closure of in 1985. Despite this, the station retained its "Central" suffix until 2019. The station's "welcome" message, recorded by East Midlands Trains and still in use, refers to the station as Lincoln Central.
In late-2010, East Midlands Trains announced that it intended to develop an improved customer service area and improve the café and toilets.
Platform layout
The station has a total of 5 platforms, numbered 1-5:
Platforms 1 and 2 are bay platforms used for daytime stabling of trains and for terminating arrivals from the east which will return east (trains arriving from the east which will form westbound services will be routed into one of the through platforms).
Platforms 3, 4 and 5 are bidirectional through platforms used for services on all routes. All three through platforms are used in whichever way is most operationally advantageous.
Platform 3 is the platform face adjacent the main station building and is nearest to the station entrance. The ticket barriers, buffet/shop, a waiting room, accessible toilet and staff facilities are all sited on platform 3.
Platforms 4 and 5 are the two faces of the island platform. Passenger waiting rooms and toilets are on the island platform, as is the staff conference room.
Services
Train services at Lincoln are operated by East Midlands Railway, Northern Trains and London North Eastern Railway.
Services at the station are as follows:
East Midlands Railway
East Midlands Railway operate the majority of services at Lincoln. Off-peak, they operate an hourly service to via and an hourly service to via . There are also trains every two hours between via and to , with one train per day continuing to/from . East Midlands Railway also operate five trains per day between Peterborough and , as well as a single daily service to London St Pancras International.
On Sundays, the service to Leicester runs only as far as Nottingham and there is no servic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian%20National%20R%26D%20Computer%20Network
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The Romanian National R&D Computer Network (Rețeaua Națională de calculatoare pentru cercetare-dezvoltare) is the official registry for the .ro top-level domain.
External links
Home page
Whois lookup for .ro
Computer networks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTQ
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BTQ is the Brisbane television station of the Seven Network in Australia. BTQ was the second television station to launch in Brisbane, going to air on 1 November 1959, after QTQ (station of the Nine Network) launched three months earlier and before ABQ (station of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation) launched just 1 day after BTQ's launch.
Along with other Australian television channels, BTQ began broadcasting on digital television on 1 January 2001.
In the early eighties, Seven National News became the first Brisbane-based bulletin to be relayed throughout a string of independent Queensland telecasters. Within the same decade, BTQ was also a major production house for children's television - hosting popular shows as Wombat, Now You See It, Family Feud, Play Your Cards Right and Seven's Super Saturday featuring Agro (puppet). In the 1980s and 1990s, the channel regularly opened its facilities to the Brisbane public - at Open Days. In the 1970s, BTQ also held annual telethons for the Children's Hospital, featuring network personalities.
In 1995, BTQ also produced "Tourist TV", a tourist information channel which could be viewed at various Gold Coast hotels and resorts, including Sea World Nara Resort.
Until 2007, BTQ was the key station of the national Austext teletext service. The service was later largely automated out of ATN-7 Sydney until it was decommissioned in September 2009.
In July 2018, deconstruction of the BTQ transmission tower began after nearly 60 years of service. On 21 July 2018 the top half of tower which contained its broadcasting elements, no longer in use by the station, was removed in stages by a destruction crew via helicopter.
News
Brisbane and Queensland
7NEWS Brisbane is directed by Neil Warren and presented by Max Futcher and Sharyn Ghidella from weeknights and Katrina Blowers on weekends from Seven's Brisbane studios, located at Mount Coot-tha. Sport is presented by Shane Webcke from Sunday to Wednesday and Ben Davis from Thursday to Saturday. Weather is presented by Tony Auden from Sunday to Thursday and Paul Burt on Friday and Saturday.
The bulletin is also simulcast in Brisbane on local radio station 96.5 Family FM, to regional Queensland viewers in the Sunshine Coast, Wide Bay-Burnett, Toowoomba, Rockhampton, Mackay, Townsville and Cairns television markets via the Seven Queensland network and across central & remote areas of eastern Australia, on Southern Cross Central.
Previously, Tracey Challenor presented the weekend news for many years until her resignation in February 2007. Cummins was first appointed to the weekday weather in 2005 after more than a year of the Brisbane bulletin not having a weather presenter; former kids show presenter Tony Johnston had this role in 2003. Cummins was replaced by former Nine weatherman John Schluter in early 2007 and she was moved to weekends. Ghidella joined Seven News in 2007 and replaced Challenor.
In October 2002, Rod Young moved from ABC News in Brisbane t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVQ
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TVQ is the Brisbane television station of Network 10 in Australia.
History
In April 1964, the Postmaster-General's Department granted Universal Telecasters a broadcasting licence. The channel was allocated channel 0 (the 0 was pronounced as the letter O instead of "zero") on the VHF band and commenced broadcasting on 1 July 1965 as TVQ-0. Ansett Transport Industries initially held a 49% shareholding, before acquiring the remaining shares in 1970.
After News Limited acquired a controlling stake in Ansett, it was required to sell TVQ due to restrictions on the number of television stations one organisation could own. TVQ was sold to Ampol (67%) and 2SM (33%). In 1984 TVQ was purchased by Qintex.
On 17 September 1987, Darling Downs Telecasters, owner of DDQ10 Toowoomba, purchases TVQ for $123 million, and announces plans to convert the station to the Channel 10 frequency.
On 10 September 1988, DDQ-10 switched frequency to DDQ-0, and TVQ changed frequency to become TVQ-10, in time for the channel's broadcast of the 1988 Summer Olympics, at the same time as its broadcasts of World Expo 88, of which it and the entire Network Ten was the official station.
On 30 November 2015, lightning struck the TVQ transmission tower, cutting its power and lighting.
Digital multiplex
Programming
Current in-house productions
10 News First (Qld) (2018–present)
Past productions
Shake Takes (2020–2022)
Gamify (2019–2020)
Scope (2005–2020)
Toasted TV (2005–2020)
10 News First Queensland (1965–2020)
Crocamole (2016–2019)
Couch Time (2011–2017)
Wurrawhy (2011–2016)
Puzzle Play (2006–2011)
ttn (2004–2008)
In the Box (1998–2006)
Ocean Girl (1994–1997)
Totally Wild (1992–2021)
Jacki Mac Breakfast Show (1980)
Have A Go Show (1980)
The Saturday Show (1967–1970s)
Fat Cat and Friends
Funville (1966-1970s)
Just A Minute (1987)
This Week at Expo (1988)
Newsmakers
Brisbane With Anna McMahon (1990)
Living (1980s)
Early Birds (1980s)
Countdown (1960s)
Frightful Movies with Deadly Earnest (1967–1968)
News and current affairs
TVQ-10 produces a 90-minute local news program at 5pm on weeknights.
10 News First is presented from the network's Sydney studios by Sandra Sully with sports presenter Matt Burke and weather presenter Josh Holt. Reporters, camera crews and editorial staff are based at TVQ-10's Mount Coot-tha studios and a Gold Coast news bureau at Surfers Paradise.
TVQ-0 did not operate a news service until 1974 when it launched News Watch. The bulletin later adopted the branding Eyewitness News after rival channel BTQ-7 had relinquished the name, and became the first Brisbane newscast to use videotape for its reports. Eyewitness News continued as a nightly half-hour bulletin until 1984 when it was expanded to a one-hour format (the last Network Ten station at that time to convert to the one hour newscast used in other major Australian cities save for Perth). The station won a Logie award in 1986 for Best News Report for its coverage of the sie
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Bomberman%20video%20games
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This is a list of Bomberman video games.
Console and computer games
Portable handheld games
Sub-series
Super Bomberman series
Bomberman Land series
Other games
Arcade video games
Mobile and phone games
Compilations and re-releases
Spin-offs
Cancelled games
Clones
Notes
References
External links
Bomberman Series Game List - Hudson Soft (Japanese) on Wayback Machine - March 15, 2010.
"The 10-Best Video-Game Franchises". GamePro. July 7, 2006.
Bomberman
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit%20field
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A bit field is a data structure that consists of one or more adjacent bits which have been allocated for specific purposes, so that any single bit or group of bits within the structure can be set or inspected. A bit field is most commonly used to represent integral types of known, fixed bit-width, such as single-bit Booleans.
The meaning of the individual bits within the field is determined by the programmer; for example, the first bit in a bit field (located at the field's base address) is sometimes used to determine the state of a particular attribute associated with the bit field.
Within CPUs and other logic devices, collections of bit fields called flags are commonly used to control or to indicate the outcome of particular operations. Processors have a status register that is composed of flags. For example, if the result of an addition cannot be represented in the destination an arithmetic overflow is set. The flags can be used to decide subsequent operations, such as conditional jump instructions. For example, a JE ... (Jump if Equal) instruction in the x86 assembly language will result in a jump if the Z (zero) flag was set by some previous operation.
A bit field is distinguished from a bit array in that the latter is used to store a large set of bits indexed by integers and is often wider than any integral type supported by the language. Bit fields, on the other hand, typically fit within a machine word, and the denotation of bits is independent of their numerical index.
Implementation
Bit fields can be used to reduce memory consumption when a program requires a number of integer variables which always will have low values. For example, in many systems storing an integer value requires two bytes (16-bits) of memory; sometimes the values to be stored actually need only one or two bits. Having a number of these tiny variables share a bit field allows efficient packaging of data in the memory.
In C and C++, native implementation-defined bit fields can be created using unsigned int, signed int, or (in C99) _Bool. In this case, the programmer can declare a structure for a bit field which labels and determines the width of several subfields. Adjacently declared bit fields of the same type can then be packed by the compiler into a reduced number of words, compared with the memory used if each 'field' were to be declared separately.
For languages lacking native bit fields, or where the programmer wants control over the resulting bit representation, it is possible to manually manipulate bits within a larger word type. In this case, the programmer can set, test, and change the bits in the field using combinations of masking and bitwise operations.
Examples
C programming language
Declaring a bit field in C and C++:
// opaque and show
#define YES 1
#define NO 0
// line styles
#define SOLID 1
#define DOTTED 2
#define DASHED 3
// primary colors
#define BLUE 0b100
#define GREEN 0b010
#define RED 0b001
// mixed colors
#define BLACK 0
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorcerer%27s%20Apprentice%20Syndrome
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Sorcerer's Apprentice Syndrome (SAS) is a network protocol flaw in the original versions of TFTP. It was named after Goethe's 1797 poem "Der Zauberlehrling" (popularized by the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment of the 1940 animated film Fantasia), because the details of its operation closely resemble the disaster that befalls the sorcerer's apprentice: the problem resulted in an ever-growing replication of every packet in the transfer.
The problem occurred because of a known failure mode of the internetwork which, through a mistake on the part of the TFTP protocol designers, was not taken into account when the protocol was designed; the failure mode interacted with several details of the mechanisms of TFTP to produce SAS.
Technical background
TFTP operates in simple lock-step: there is only ever one packet outstanding at any time, and every packet received by either party caused one packet to be sent in reply (until the termination of the transfer). The TFTP specification said that any time any packet was received, the receiver was required to send the appropriate reply packet. Thus, the receipt of a block of data triggered the sending of an 'acknowledgement', and the receipt of an acknowledgement triggered the sending of the next data block.
TFTP also, like all protocols designed to operate across an unreliable network, includes timeouts. After sending a packet, it expects a reply, so it starts a timer. If the timer expires with no reply received, it takes some action; typically re-sending the original packet.
Details
SAS occurred when a packet was not lost in the internetwork, but rather simply delayed, and later successfully delivered, after a timeout had occurred (on either side).
The timeout causes a second copy of the previous packet to be sent to replace the 'lost' packet. However, the first copy was not lost, and since, according to the TFTP specification, receipt of any packet always forced the generation of a reply packet, two replies were generated (one to each copy). Those forced the generation of two replies to them, and so on. A typical scenario was as follows:
Computer S (source) sends data block X to computer D (destination)
Computer D receives block X, and sends an acknowledgement for X back to S
The packet containing the acknowledgement for X is delayed in the internetwork
Computer S times out, and resends data block X to D
Computer S receives the delayed acknowledgement for X, and sends data block X+1
Computer D receives the second copy of block X, and sends another acknowledgement for X back to S
Computer D receives block X+1, and sends an acknowledgement for X+1 back to S
Computer S receives the second acknowledgement for X, and sends a second copy of data block X+1
Computer S receives the acknowledgement for X+1, and sends data block X+2
Computer D receives the second copy of block X+1, and sends another acknowledgement for X+1 back to S
Computer D receives block X+2, and sends an acknowledgement for X+2 back to S
It wi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad%20Silverberg
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Brad Silverberg is an American computer scientist and businessman, most noted for his work at Microsoft in 1990–1999 as Senior VP and product manager for MS-DOS, Windows, Internet Explorer, and Office. He was named PC Magazines Person of the Year in 1995 for his leadership of Windows 95.
Early career
Silverberg earned a BS degree magna cum laude in Computer Science from Brown University, and an MS in Computer Science from University of Toronto. His first work experience was research at SRI International, one of the four first ARPANET nodes. Also early in his career Silverberg worked in the early 1980s at Apple Computer on the failed Lisa project.
Later Silverberg was hired as the first employee at Analytica, a Silicon Valley startup. After 1985, he was VP of Engineering at Borland after their acquisition of Analytica.
Career at Microsoft
In 1990, Silverberg left Borland to lead the personal systems division at Microsoft. A number of people left Borland to follow him at Microsoft in the following years, leading to a number of failed lawsuits from Borland.
At the start of his tenure, the personal systems division was already a prime moneymaker with MS-DOS, at that time sold only through OEMs. After shipping Windows 95, he turned his full-time focus onto the Internet efforts at Microsoft, which led to the creation of the Internet Platform and Tools Division 1996, which he led.
In 1997, Silverberg was given responsibilities for Office but his principal interest remained with the Internet. He took a sabbatical that summer to reflect on where the Internet was going at Microsoft. He returned as a part-time consultant for new president and later CEO, Steve Ballmer. On 29 October 1999, he left Microsoft.
Current career
In March 2000, he led a group of former Microsoft executives to found Ignition, a venture capital firm. Silverberg works as a partner of the firm.
References
External links
Ignition: Brad Silverberg biography
Microsoft employees
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Brown University alumni
University of Toronto alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MailSlot
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A Mailslot is a one-way interprocess communication mechanism, available on the Microsoft Windows operating system, that allows communication between processes both locally and over a network. The use of Mailslots is generally simpler than named pipes or sockets when a relatively small number of relatively short messages are expected to be transmitted, such as for example infrequent state-change messages, or as part of a peer-discovery protocol. The Mailslot mechanism allows for short message broadcasts ("datagrams") to all listening computers across a given network domain.
Features
Mailslots function as a server-client interface. A server can create a Mailslot, and a client can write to it by name. Only the server can read the mailslot, as such mailslots represent a one-way communication mechanism. A server-client interface could consist of two processes communicating locally or across a network. Mailslots operate over the RPC protocol and work across all computers in the same network domain. Mailslots offer no confirmation that a message has been received. Mailslots are generally a good choice when one client process must broadcast a message to multiple server processes.
Uses
The most widely known use of the Mailslot IPC mechanism is the Windows Messenger service that is part of the Windows NT-line of products, including Windows XP. The Messenger Service, not to be confused with the MSN Messenger internet chat service, is essentially a Mailslot server that waits for a message to arrive. When a message arrives it is displayed in a popup onscreen. The NET SEND command is therefore a type of Mailslot client, because it writes to specified mailslots on a network.
A number of programs also use Mailslots to communicate. Generally these are amateur chat clients and other such programs. Commercial programs usually prefer pipes or sockets.
Mailslots are implemented as files in a mailslot file system (MSFS). Examples of Mailslots include:
MAILSLOT\Messngr - Microsoft NET SEND Protocol
MAILSLOT\Browse - Microsoft Browser Protocol
MAILSLOT\Alerter
MAILSLOT\53cb31a0\UnimodemNotifyTSP
MAILSLOT\HydraLsServer - Microsoft Terminal Services Licensing
MAILSLOT\CheyenneDS - CA BrightStor Discovery Service
External links
Mailslots (MSDN Documentation)
Using Mailslots for Interprocess Communication
Using a Mailslot to read/write data over a network
Inter-process communication
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retransmission
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Retransmission might refer to:
Retransmission (data networks), the resending of packets which have been damaged or lost
Replication of a signal at a repeater
re-broadcast through a rebroadcaster or broadcast translator or booster, or relay station
Retransmission consent, permission for a cable or satellite company to carry a TV station
See also
Relay (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retransmission%20%28data%20networks%29
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Retransmission, essentially identical with automatic repeat request (ARQ), is the resending of packets which have been either damaged or lost. Retransmission is one of the basic mechanisms used by protocols operating over a packet switched computer network to provide reliable communication (such as that provided by a reliable byte stream, for example TCP).
Such networks are usually "unreliable", meaning they offer no guarantees that they will not delay, damage, or lose packets, or deliver them out of order. Protocols which provide reliable communication over such networks use a combination of acknowledgments (i.e. an explicit receipt from the destination of the data), retransmission of missing or damaged packets (usually initiated by a time-out), and checksums to provide that reliability.
Acknowledgment
There are several forms of acknowledgement which can be used alone or together in networking protocols:
Positive Acknowledgement: the receiver explicitly notifies the sender which packets, messages, or segments were received correctly. Positive Acknowledgement therefore also implicitly informs the sender which packets were not received and provides detail on packets which need to be retransmitted.
Negative Acknowledgment (NACK): the receiver explicitly notifies the sender which packets, messages, or segments were received incorrectly and thus may need to be retransmitted (RFC 4077).
Selective Acknowledgment (SACK): the receiver explicitly lists which packets, messages, or segments in a stream are acknowledged (either negatively or positively). Positive selective acknowledgment is an option in TCP (RFC 2018) that is useful in Satellite Internet access (RFC 2488).
Cumulative Acknowledgment: the receiver acknowledges that it correctly received a packet, message, or segment in a stream which implicitly informs the sender that the previous packets were received correctly. TCP uses cumulative acknowledgment with its TCP sliding window.
Retransmission
Retransmission is a very simple concept. Whenever one party sends something to the other party, it retains a copy of the data it sent until the recipient has acknowledged that it received it. In a variety of circumstances the sender automatically retransmits the data using the retained copy. Reasons for resending include:
if no such acknowledgment is forthcoming within a reasonable time, the time-out
the sender discovers, often through some out of band means, that the transmission was unsuccessful
if the receiver knows that expected data has not arrived, and so notifies the sender
if the receiver knows that the data has arrived, but in a damaged condition, and indicates that to the sender
See also
Error control
Reliable system design
Truncated binary exponential backoff
TCP congestion avoidance algorithm
Development of TCP
QSL card
Network protocols
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic%20Friends%20Network
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The Psychic Friends Network (PFN) was a telephone psychic service operating in the United States in the 1990s. The company's infomercials were aired frequently on late night television at that time. In 2012, the business began to migrate to online services.
Mark Edward, who worked as a telephone "psychic" for the network, has become a vocal critic of the PFN, and all psychics, saying that "the psychic business is built on lies". His book Psychic Blues details what it was like to work for PFN.
History
Infomercial and telephone network business model
The Psychic Friends Network was launched in 1991. It relied on infomercials to attract clients, and used a call distributing system to forward calls to a network of "psychics" working in shifts from their homes. This technology allowed the customers to build personal relationships with individual "psychics".
According to the Slate article What Psychic Friends Failed to Foresee, "Psychic Friends infomercials had been among the most popular in history. Between 1993 and 1994, they aired more than 12,000 times, and at one point Inphomation was shelling out half a million dollars a week to buy air time on cable stations. It was money well spent: At its peak, Psychic Friends was bringing in as much as $125 million a year, most of it through infomercials." Slate reported that "the psychic business has tried to focus on establishing continuing relationships between individual psychics and their customers. ('I don't want just any psychic! I want to speak to Clarissa!')"
Presented in talk show-like format and hosted by singer Dionne Warwick, and "psychic" Linda Georgian, each installment featured a 1–900 number for viewers to call to consult a psychic.
According to Jack Schember, publisher of Response TV, a magazine that tracked the direct-response television industry, the PFN had "the most successful infomercial of all time."
According to USA Today, The Psychic Friends Network infomercials opened "the parody floodgates." The parent company, Inphomation, took in profits of over $100 million within the first few years of the Network's operation.
The company declared bankruptcy in 1998 with liabilities of $26 million, and assets of about $1.2 million. In 2001, the bankruptcy trustees for the Psychic Friends Network sued MCI WorldCom Network Services Inc for mismanagement of billing and collections and won a judgement of $7.5 million in 2004, of which MCI eventually paid $4.1 million.
In 2009, Vivica A. Fox announced that she had not given PFN permission for the use of her image in its commercials, stating "Vivica A. Fox is no friend of The Psychic Friends Network," and said that the video "is using her unauthorized likeness, footage, voice and photographs as an endorsement of their service."
Web-based business model
PFN launched as a public company on March 30, 2012. Shortly afterwards, PFN CEO Mike Lasky announced that PFN had received an additional $250,000 investment from Right Power Services Ltd, and
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