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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberia
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Cyberia may refer to:
Technology
Cyberia (book), a 1994 non-fiction book by Douglas Rushkoff
Cyberia (fest in SJCE), an annual technical fest conducted by IEEE-SJCE
Cyberia (ISP), a West Asian ISP serving Lebanon, Jordan and Saudi Arabia
Cyberia, London, one of the first Internet cafés, and the first in the UK
Entertainment
Cyberia (album), a 1995 album by Cubanate
"Cyberia", a song by the Afro Celt Sound System from the album Seed
Cyberia (video game), a 1994 video game
The penal colony to which Dave Lister was sentenced in the Red Dwarf book Last Human
The techno-rave night club featured in Serial Experiments Lain
Cyberia, a 2008 book by Chris Lynch
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ%20printing
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Organ printing utilizes techniques similar to conventional 3D printing where a computer model is fed into a printer that lays down successive layers of plastics or wax until a 3D object is produced. In the case of organ printing, the material being used by the printer is a biocompatible plastic. The biocompatible plastic forms a scaffold that acts as the skeleton for the organ that is being printed. As the plastic is being laid down, it is also seeded with human cells from the patient's organ that is being printed for. After printing, the organ is transferred to an incubation chamber to give the cells time to grow. After a sufficient amount of time, the organ is implanted into the patient.
To many researchers the ultimate goal of organ printing is to create organs that can be fully integrated into the human body. Successful organ printing has the potential to impact several industries, notably artificial organs organ transplants, pharmaceutical research, and the training of physicians and surgeons.
History
The field of organ printing stemmed from research in the area of stereolithography, the basis for the practice of 3D printing that was invented in 1984. In this early era of 3D printing, it was not possible to create lasting objects because of the material used for the printing process was not durable. 3D printing was instead used as a way to model potential end products that would eventually be made from different materials under more traditional techniques. In the beginning of the 1990s, nanocomposites were developed that allowed 3D printed objects to be more durable, permitting 3D printed objects to be used for more than just models. It was around this time that those in the medical field began considering 3D printing as an avenue for generating artificial organs. By the late 1990s, medical researchers were searching for biocompatible materials that could be used in 3D printing.
The concept of bioprinting was first demonstrated in 1988. At this time, a researcher used a modified HP inkjet printer to deposit cells using cytoscribing technology. Progress continued in 1999 when the first artificial organ made using bioprinting was printed by a team of scientist leads by Dr. Anthony Atala at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. The scientists at Wake Forest printed an artificial scaffold for a human bladder and then seeded the scaffold with cells from their patient. Using this method, they were able to grow a functioning organ and ten years after implantation the patient had no serious complications.
After the bladder at Wake Forest, strides were taken towards printing other organs. In 2002, a miniature, fully functional kidney was printed. In 2003, Dr. Thomas Boland from Clemson University patented the use of inkjet printing for cells. This process utilized a modified spotting system for the deposition of cells into organized 3D matrices placed on a substrate. This printer allowed for extensive research into bioprinting and
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedit5
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pedit5, alternately called The Dungeon, is a 1975 dungeon crawl role-playing video game developed for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's PLATO computer network by Rusty Rutherford. In it, the player controls a character exploring a fixed, single-level dungeon containing randomly-generated monster encounters and treasure. When they encounter a monster, they can fight the monster with a weapon or spells, or attempt to flee. Characters can be saved between sessions.
Rutherford developed the game over four to six weeks in late 1975 as a computerized take on the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game; it was named pedit5 as it was stored in the fifth "pedit" slot his school group had available. It is considered to be the first example of a dungeon crawl video game and one of the first computer role-playing games. An improved version was later created on the PLATO network as orthanc.
Gameplay
pedit5 is a dungeon crawl role-playing video game, in which the player guides a character who wanders a single-level dungeon accumulating treasure and killing monsters. When a player encounters a monster, they can use one of several spells. Characters can be saved from one play session to the next. The dungeon is rendered in a two-dimensional overhead view using on-screen character graphics, and controlled via keyboard commands. The dungeon has a fixed layout, but the monster encounters and treasure are randomly generated. They are generated whenever a new character was created, and saved with the character. When the player encounters a monster, they can choose to fight, cast a spell, or run; if the player does not immediately defeat or flee the monster, the player-character and monster fight to the death in a battle controlled by the game without further player input.
Development
The game was developed by Rusty Rutherford over four to six weeks in late 1975 for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's PLATO computer network, which by the 1970s supported several thousand graphical terminals distributed worldwide, running processes on nearly a dozen different networked mainframe computers. Rutherford had been playing the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons since earlier in the year, and wanted to create a video game based on the concept. He knew of another game based on the same concept that was under development in the PLATO system, under the title dnd, but as it had not yet been finished he wanted to start on his own version. As the dnd project had promised to be a multiplayer game but had not yet been able to deliver the feature—nor would it—he set out to create a single-player game. Rutherford tried to use Dungeons & Dragons concepts as much as possible, including hit points, levels, and experience and treasure rewards for defeating monsters. The player-character was a combination of a fighter, magic user, and cleric. The limitations of the system required Rutherford to compromise on size; the dungeon was limited to 40-50 rooms on a single le
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epson%20Robots
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EPSON Robots is the robotics design and manufacturing department of Japanese corporation Seiko Epson, the brand-name watch and computer printer producer.
Epson started the production of robots in 1980. Epson manufactures Cartesian, SCARA and 6-axis industrial robots for factory automation. Cleanroom and ESD compliant models are available.
They offer PC-based controllers and integrated vision systems utilizing Epson's own vision processing technology.
Epson has a 30-year heritage and there are more than 30,000 Epson robots installed in manufacturing industries around the world.
Epson uses a standardized PC-based controller for 6-axis robots, SCARA, and Linear Module needs. A move that simplifies support and reduces learning time.
Epson SCARA Robots
Epson offers four different lines of SCARA robots including the T-Series, G-Series, RS-Series, and LS-Series . The performance and features offered for each series of robot is determined by the intended purpose and needs of the robot. The T- Series robot is a high performance alternative to slide robots for pick-and-place operations. The G-Series offers a wide variety of robots in regards to the size, arm design, payload application, and more. The RS-Series offers two SCARA robots that are mounted from above and have the ability to move the second axis under the first axis. The LS-Series features several low cost and high performance robots that come in a variety of sizes.
References
External links
Official website
Robotics at Epson
Epson
Robotics companies of Japan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberia%20%28album%29
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Cyberia is a 1995 album by UK-based industrial band Cubanate. The album features one of the band's most well known songs, "Oxyacetylene", which was also included alongside "Skeletal", "Industry" and "Autonomy" (from the Antimatter album) in instrumental versions in the video game Gran Turismo.
Track listing
UK release
"Cyberia" – 1:16
"Oxyacetylene" – 4:02
"Hatesong" – 4:44
"Build" – 4:47
"Transit" – 5:44
"Skeletal" – 4:21
"Human Drum" – 7:03
"Das Island" – 2:05
"Industry" – 4:42
"False Dawn" – 7:14
"Hatesong (Extended)" – 6:01
"Oxyacetylene (Extended)" – 6:18
U.S. release
"Cyberia" – 1:16
"Oxyacetylene" – 4:02
"Hatesong" – 4:44
"Build" – 4:47
"Transit" – 5:43
"Skeletal" – 4:21
"Human Drum" – 7:03
"Das Island" – 2:05
"Industry" – 4:47
"Hatesong (Extended)" – 6:01
"Oxyacetylene (Extended)" – 6:20
"Oxyacetylene (Extended Remix)" – 6:54
"Skeletal (Remix)" – 4:27
"Body Burn (Julian Beeston Mix Extended)" – 4:59
References
1994 albums
Cubanate albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOMED%20CT
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SNOMED CT or SNOMED Clinical Terms is a systematically organized computer-processable collection of medical terms providing codes, terms, synonyms and definitions used in clinical documentation and reporting. SNOMED CT is considered to be the most comprehensive, multilingual clinical healthcare terminology in the world. The primary purpose of SNOMED CT is to encode the meanings that are used in health information and to support the effective clinical recording of data with the aim of improving patient care. SNOMED CT provides the core general terminology for electronic health records. SNOMED CT comprehensive coverage includes: clinical findings, symptoms, diagnoses, procedures, body structures, organisms and other etiologies, substances, pharmaceuticals, devices and specimens.
SNOMED CT is maintained and distributed by SNOMED International, an international non-profit standards development organization, located in London, UK. SNOMED International is the trading name of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO), established in 2007.
SNOMED CT provides for consistent information interchange and is fundamental to an interoperable electronic health record. It provides a consistent means to index, store, retrieve, and aggregate clinical data across specialties and sites of care. It also helps in organizing the content of electronic health records systems by reducing the variability in the way data are captured, encoded and used for clinical care of patients and research. SNOMED CT can be used to directly record clinical details of individuals in electronic patient records. It also provides the user with a number of linkages to clinical care pathways, shared care plans and other knowledge resources, in order to facilitate informed decision-making, and to support long-term patient care. The availability of free automatic coding tools and services, which can return a ranked list of SNOMED CT descriptors to encode any clinical report, could help healthcare professionals to navigate the terminology.
SNOMED CT is a terminology that can cross-map to other international standards and classifications. Specific language editions are available which augment the international edition and can contain language translations, as well as additional national terms. For example, SNOMED CT-AU, released in December 2009 in Australia, is based on the international version of SNOMED CT, but encompasses words and ideas that are clinically and technically unique to Australia.
History
SNOMED started in 1965 as a Systematized Nomenclature of Pathology (SNOP) and was further developed into a logic-based health care terminology.
SNOMED CT was created in 1999 by the merger, expansion and restructuring of two large-scale terminologies: SNOMED Reference Terminology (SNOMED RT), developed by the College of American Pathologists (CAP); and the Clinical Terms Version 3 (CTV3) (formerly known as the Read codes), developed by the National Heal
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister%20Cities%20International
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Sister Cities International (SCI) is a nonprofit citizen diplomacy network that creates and strengthens partnerships between communities in the United States and in other countries, particularly through the establishment of "sister cities"—broad and long-term agreements formally recognized by civic leaders. Its mission is to "build global cooperation at the municipal level, promote cultural understanding and stimulate economic development". A total of 1,800 cities, states, and counties are partnered in 138 countries worldwide.
As the official organization that links jurisdictions in the U.S. with communities worldwide, Sister Cities International recognizes, registers, and coordinates relationships between cities, counties, provinces, and other subnational political divisions at various levels.
The U.S. sister city program began in 1956 when President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed a people-to-people, citizen diplomacy initiative. Originally a program of the National League of Cities, Sister Cities International became a separate, nonprofit corporation in 1967, due to the growth and popularity of the U.S. program.
Sister Cities program
The Sister Cities program is designed as means for cultural exchange. A community of any size decides to join with a community in another nation to learn more about one another. Therefore, a sister city, country, oblast, prefecture, province, region, state, territory, town, or village relationship is a broad-based, officially approved, long-term partnership between two communities.
Sister City relationships begin for a variety of reasons. Generally sister city partnerships share similar demographics and town size. Partnerships may arise from business connections, travel, similar industries, diaspora communities, or shared history. For example, Portland, Oregon and Bologna, Italy's partnership arose from shared industries in biotechnology and education, an appreciation for the arts, and a "similar attitude towards food", whereas Chicago's link with Warsaw, Poland began with the city's historic Polish community.
Sister Cities International also recognizes "Friendship City" affiliations. These are a less formal arrangement that may be a step towards a full Sister City affiliation. 'Friendship City' is also the Chinese term for 'Sister City'.
Mission and goals
The organization's mission is to "promote peace through mutual respect, understanding, and cooperation — one individual, one community at a time."
Sister Cities International's stated goals are to:
Develop municipal partnerships between U.S. cities, counties, and states and similar jurisdictions in other nations.
Provide opportunities for city officials and citizens to experience and explore other cultures through long-term community partnerships.
Create an atmosphere in which economic and community development can be implemented and strengthened.
Stimulate environments through which communities will creatively learn, work, and solve problems together
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In2TV
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In2TV was a website offering ad-supported streaming video of classic TV shows in the USA only. It was operated by AOL Time Warner as an outlet for the company's archival television programming.
History
In2TV was announced in November 2005 as a collaboration of AOL and Warner Bros. Television, at the time both being owned by the AOL Time Warner conglomerate. The site was created in part as a counteraction against the rapid rise in popularity of video hosting sites such as YouTube; when In2TV launched, Time Warner subsequently ordered all of its content (mostly posted by users, not by Time Warner itself) off YouTube through Digital Millennium Copyright Act notices in order to divert traffic to In2TV. The service launched in March 2006 and was later integrated with AOL Video in December 2006.
Content
When In2TV first launched the shows were categorized into channels. These included LOL (Comedy), Drama Rama (Drama), What a Rush (Action), Vintage TV (Classic), Heroes Horror (Sci-Fi/Horror), Toon Topia TV (Cartoons) and Pilot Theater (first episodes).
In2TV also included bonus channels featuring original content based on the TV shows featured on the service. These channels included:
Starplay, featuring stars before they were stars
Betcha Didn't Know!, trivia about top TV stars
TV Karaoke, theme-song sing-alongs
Where Are They Now, updates on stars of past series
Rock 'n Flix, musical clips from movies
After the move to AOL video in December 2006, the channels were dropped and the shows were put into more generic categories such as Animation, Comedy, Drama, Reality, Sci-Fi, Secret Agent, Urban and en Espanol.
AOL Video lost its rights to the Time Warner library when AOL Time Warner broke apart in 2009 to form AOL, Time Warner, and Time Warner Cable. By the time AOL had purchased The Huffington Post in 2011, AOL Video had been dissolved. Links to the service now redirect to Huffington Post's TV section, which contains no archival video. What remains of In2TV's content was moved over to online platforms bearing the brands of the now-defunct The WB and Kids' WB.
References
American entertainment websites
Video hosting
Former video hosting services
Defunct online companies of the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidy
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Tidy may refer to:
HTML Tidy, a computer program for fixing HTML errors
PerlTidy, a computer program for nicely reformatting Perl source code
Tidy (album), a 1996 album by Kinnie Starr
Tidy (surname)
TIDY, software for managing property services
Tidying, an aspect of housekeeping
See also
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20thumbnail%20cache
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On Microsoft Windows operating systems, starting with the Internet Explorer 4 Active Desktop Update for Windows 95 to 98, a thumbnail cache is used to store thumbnail images for Windows Explorer's thumbnail view. This speeds up the display of images as these smaller images do not need to be recalculated every time the user views the folder.
Purpose
Windows stores thumbnails of graphics files, and certain document and movie files, in the Thumbnail Cache file, including the following formats: JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, TIFF, AVI, PDF, PPTX, DOCX, HTML, and many others. Its purpose is to prevent intensive disk I/O, CPU processing, and load times when a folder that contains a large number of files is set to display each file as a thumbnail. This effect is more clearly seen when accessing a DVD containing thousands of photos without the thumbs.db file and setting the view to show thumbnails next to the filenames. Thumbnail caching was introduced in Windows 2000; wherein the thumbnails were stored in the image file's alternate data stream if the operating system was installed on a drive with the NTFS file system. A separate Thumbs.db file was created if Windows 2000 was installed on a FAT32 volume. Windows Me also created Thumbs.db files. From Windows XP, thumbnail caching, and thus creation of Thumbs.db, can optionally be turned off. In Windows XP only, from Windows Explorer Tools Menu, Folder Options, by checking "Do not cache thumbnails" on the View tab. Under Windows 2000, Windows Me, and Windows XP, a context menu command to force refreshing the thumbnail is available by right clicking the image in Thumbnail view of Windows Explorer.
Thumbs.db
Thumbs.db files are stored in each directory that contains thumbnails on Windows systems. The file is created locally among the images, however, preventing system wide use of the data and creating additional data load on removable devices. Windows XP Media Center Edition also creates ehthumbs.db which holds previews of video files. Each thumbnail created in a directory is represented in this database file as a small JPEG file, regardless of the file's original format. The images are resized to 96×96 pixels by default or a proportional miniature of their original shape for non-square images, with 96 pixels on the longer side. The size can be controlled by a setting on Windows Registry. Each folder with initiated thumbnail views (that is where they have displayed a Thumbnails or Filmstrip view in Windows Explorer) will have a Thumbs.db file. Folders with pictures also display previews on their icon when displayed in Thumbnail mode – the first four images in the folder at 40×40 pixels (or proportionally shaped), with a 1-pixel divider overlaid on a standard large folder icon. The Thumbs.db file is stored in Compound File Binary Format format, the same format that many Microsoft Office products use.
Centralized thumbnail cache
Beginning with Windows Vista, thumbnail previews are stored in a centralized location on
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20C.%20Prim
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Robert Clay Prim III (September 25, 1921 – November 18, 2021) was an American mathematician and computer scientist.
Biography
Robert Clay Prim III was born in Sweetwater, Texas on September 25, 1921. In 1941, Prim received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, where he also met his wife Alice (Hutter) Prim (1921–2009), whom he married in 1942. Later in 1949, he received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Princeton University, where he also worked as a research associate from 1948 until 1949.
During the climax of World War II (1941–1944), Prim worked as an engineer for General Electric. From 1944 until 1949, he was hired by the United States Naval Ordnance Lab as an engineer and later a mathematician. At Bell Laboratories, he served as director of mathematics research from 1958 to 1961. There, Prim developed Prim's algorithm. Also during his tenure at Bell Labs, Robert Prim assisted the Weapons Reliability Committee at Sandia National Laboratory chaired by Walter McNair in 1951. After Bell Laboratories, Prim became vice president of research at Sandia National Laboratories.
During his career at Bell Laboratories, Robert Prim along with coworker Joseph Kruskal developed two different algorithms (see greedy algorithm) for finding a minimum spanning tree in a weighted graph, a basic stumbling block in computer network design. His self-named algorithm, Prim's algorithm, was originally discovered in 1930 by mathematician Vojtěch Jarník and later independently by Prim in 1957. It was later rediscovered by Edsger Dijkstra in 1959. It is sometimes referred to as the DJP algorithm or the Jarník algorithm.
Robert C. Prim died in San Clemente, California on November 18, 2021, at the age of 100.
See also
Joseph Kruskal
Dijkstra's algorithm
References
External links
A History of Fundamental Mathematics Research at Bell Labs
Sweetwater, Texas Chamber of Commerce
Dr. Robert Clay Prim - Bio/Description, IT History Society
A History of Exceptional Service in the National Interest, Sandia National Laboratories
1921 births
2021 deaths
20th-century American mathematicians
20th-century American scientists
21st-century American mathematicians
American centenarians
American computer scientists
American electrical engineers
Men centenarians
University of Texas at Austin alumni
Princeton University alumni
Sandia National Laboratories people
Scientists at Bell Labs
People from Sweetwater, Texas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDWO-CD
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WDWO-CD (channel 18) is a low-power, Class A television station in Detroit, Michigan, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language network Visión Latina. The station is owned by Innovate Corp., and maintains a transmitter on West 11 Mile Road in Southfield, Michigan.
WDWO-CD is the only Spanish-language television station to serve Detroit; as a result, Detroit is one of the largest television markets to be completely void of major Spanish-language networks Estrella TV, Univision, Telemundo and/or UniMás.
History
The station was founded on April 13, 1989, but did not sign on until sometime in 1993 as W44AR (channel 44), owned by a local religious organization, Detroit World Outreach.
The station went silent in July 1999, due to CBS owned-and-operated station WWJ-TV (channel 62) starting up its digital signal on that channel, but returned to the air on Channel 18 on February 25, 2000, under TCT ownership. The station was sold, apparently because DWO couldn't afford to keep the station, or endure any expenses to move the channel.
The station also had a rebroadcaster on channel 27 in Ann Arbor. That channel was originally W59CA (channel 59), a repeater of Saginaw's WAQP, serving Jackson, which was relocated to Ann Arbor in November 2000 and renamed W27CJ. In November 2007, the repeater was sold to SMG Media Group and the call sign changed to WHDA-LP, and later to WFHD-LP, which soon went silent. Plans were for the station to broadcast all local programming from Ann Arbor in 100% high definition digital format.
In March 2013, TCT filed to sell WDWO-CD to LocusPoint Networks. The deal would have put the station under common ownership with another Detroit religious station, WUDT-LD; the sale of WDWO-CD closed on May 31, 2013, while LocusPoint's acquisition of WUDT-LD remains pending . Upon purchase by LocusPoint, the station moved its antenna from Dearborn to WKBD-TV's tower in Southfield. TCT agreed to reacquire WDWO-CD from LocusPoint in February 2017.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
On July 30, 2010, the station converted to digital on channel 18 with an effective radiated power of 15 kW (slightly lower than its analog ERP of 20 kW), but retained its -CA suffix (and branding itself as "WDWO-DT" via PSIP).
At one point afterward, WDWO-CD broadcast three video feeds: DT1 broadcasts in SD, and carried some local programs in addition to the network feed. DT2 broadcast in HD, and carried the network programming. The two feeds aired most of the same shows at the same times, but occasionally had different schedules. DT3 was added in the last week of January 2011, and aired mostly older public domain sitcoms and cartoons, and a block of TCT-made E/I programming called TCT Kids. In June 2011, WDWO-CD, like many other TCT stations, added SD3, La Fuente (The Source), a Spanish-language religious service, available on 18.4.
On June 20, 2019, WDWO moved its TCT affiliation to a reactivated 18.4, with
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Nick%20at%20Nite
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The following is a list of programs broadcast by the American nighttime block Nick at Nite.
Current programming
Former programming
Original programming
Programming from Nickelodeon
Acquired programming
Special/cross-promotional airings
Movie presentations
Former
Nick at Nite Movie (1985–88)
Nick at Nite Tuesday Movie of the Week (2007–14)
Nick at Nite Movie Nite (2014–19)
Wild About Movies (2019–21)
Television specials
Occasionally, episodes of Rugrats and SpongeBob SquarePants have aired regularly or as marathons during Nick at Nite special events in the 1990s and 2000s. This has also occurred during crossovers with Nickelodeon special programming where the Nickelodeon programming runs into the regular Nick at Nite timeslot. A 30-year reunion special of Double Dare aired on November 23, 2016. Regular marathons occur on Nick at Nite. Usually when a show debuts, it receives an all-night or a week-long marathon. Seasonal marathons also occur for holidays such as Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
On June 17, 2019, Nick at Nite aired a simulcast of the 2019 MTV Movie & TV Awards for the first time, along with many of its sister networks. On August 26, it also aired a simulcast of the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards for the first time. In December 2019, Nick at Nite began airing a marathon of Friends to celebrate the show's 25 year anniversary since its finale throughout half of Nick at Nite's regular programming time. Nick at Nite aired a simulcast of the widely distributed One World: Together at Home on April 18, 2020.
See also
List of programs broadcast by Nickelodeon
List of programs broadcast by the Nick Jr. Channel
List of programs broadcast by Nicktoons
List of programs broadcast by TeenNick
List of Nickelodeon original films
Nickelodeon
Nick at Nite
TV Land
Notes
1 Indicates program that had also been broadcast on Nickelodeon.
2 Indicates program that had also been broadcast on NickMom.
3 Indicates program that is/had also been on TV Land.
4 Indicates program that aired as part of Nick at Nite's 20 Years.
References
Nickelodeon
Nick at Nite
Nickelodeon-related lists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyl%20acetate%20%28data%20page%29
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This page provides supplementary chemical data on ethyl acetate.
Material Safety Data Sheet
The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions. It is highly recommended that you seek the Material Safety Datasheet (MSDS) for this chemical from a reliable source and follow its directions.
Science Stuff
Baker
Fisher
Eastman
Structure and properties
Thermodynamic properties
Distillation data
Spectral data
References
SDBS spectral database
Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hare%20%28computer%20virus%29
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The Hare Virus was a destructive computer virus which infected DOS and Windows 95 machines in August 1996. It was also known as Hare.7610, Krsna and HD Euthanasia.
Description
The virus was capable of infecting .COM and .EXE executable files, as well as the master boot record of hard disks and the boot sector on floppy disks. The virus was set to read the system date of the computer and activate on August 22 and September 22, at which time it would erase the hard disk in the computer and display the following message:
HDEuthanasia by Demon Emperor: Hare Krsna, hare, hare
Timing
The date of the virus is controversial, even there is consensus that it started spreading at the end of the spring or at the beginning of the summer of 1996 in New Zealand, experts seem to disagree about the precise timing of the start of the spread. After a little while, its effects started to show up in South Africa and Canada. The United States saw the arrival of Hare in May 1996 and then continued spreading globally to Western and Eastern Europe.
See also
Timeline of computer viruses and worms
Comparison of computer viruses
References
External links
Hare Virus by Online VSUM.
Hare Krishna virus looming (The Augusta Chronicle)
DOS file viruses
Boot viruses
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNN%20%28Pakistani%20TV%20channel%29
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G News Network, commonly known as GNN, is a Pakistani 24-hour news and current affairs channel based in Lahore, Pakistan. It is owned and operated by Gourmet Foods.
It was launched in 2005 as CNBC Pakistan under a license from CNBC Asia Pacific. It was then owned by Vision Network Television Limited. In 2015, it was renamed as Jaag TV and was relaunched. In 2018, it was again relaunched with a new name GNN.
History
It started its transmission under name of CNBC Pakistan by taking a license from CNBC Asia. It was then owned by Vision Network Television.
In 2015, it was relaunched as Jaag TV after struggling to compete in the Pakistani market. The channel continued to struggle and was bought by Pakistani bakery company, Gourmet Bakeries. Reportedly, they bought it for 1.5 billion to diversify their business.
In 2018, the company announced its intention to rename the channel and relaunch it under the name, G News Network. For this purpose, they appointed Amir Mir, brother of journalist and anchor Hamid Mir, as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the channel.
On 10 August 2018, Hamid Mir left Geo TV and joined GNN as President of the channel along with two other colleagues Sohail Warraich and Munib Farooq. But his stint remained brief at GNN as two months later on 12 October 2018, Hamid Mir left GNN.
Senior journalist Dr. Shahid Masood joined GNN as President on 14 April 2019, continuing his show Live With Dr. Shahid Masood.
Senior journalist Arif Hameed Bhatti joined GNN as Chief operating officer (COO) on 13 June 2019. He will host a show at GNN.
Shows
Khabar Hai (Arif Hameed Bhatti, Saeed Qazi and Tahir Malik)
Live With Dr Shahid Masood (Shahid Masood; anchor: Zaryab Arif , earlier Mehr U. Sher, Naila Ali, Samina Pasha
View Point (Imran Yaqub Khan, Samina Pasha and Zafar Hilaly)
G Kay Sung (Mohsin Bhatti)
Food Street
Aisa Dais Hai Mera
Nagar Nagar ki Khabar
News Edge
Global Insight
Former shows
Aashkar
Bebaak
Clash with Aisha Yousaf
Hamid Mir Show
Inside Out
GNN HD Network
GNN - HD News Channel
GNN Entertainment - HD Entertainment Channel - Coming soon
See also
List of television stations in Pakistan
List of news channels in Pakistan
References
Television stations in Pakistan
24-hour television news channels in Pakistan
Television stations in Lahore
CNBC global channels
Mass media in Karachi
Television channels and stations established in 2005
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica%20at%20the%201968%20Summer%20Olympics
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Jamaica competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico.
Medalists
References
Official Olympic Reports
International Olympic Committee results database
Nations at the 1968 Summer Olympics
1968
1968 in Jamaican sport
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20World%20Is%20Yours%20%28TV%20series%29
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The World Is Yours is an early television series, making its debut on June 26, 1951, on several stations of the CBS television network in the eastern United States. This half-hour daytime program (4:30-5:30 p.m., EDT) was hosted from New York by naturalist and author Ivan T. Sanderson, and was broadcast Monday through Friday.
Mr. Sanderson's assistant was "Patty Painter" (Patricia Stinnette) a model and CBS employee who had posed for on-camera tests of CBS's color television system since 1946. The producer-director for the show was Frances Buss. The first episode of the series was sponsored by General Mills and included commercials for Betty Crocker cake mixes.
The World Is Yours was broadcast in the CBS field-sequential color system that was incompatible with existing black and white television sets, on which no picture would be visible. Only a small number of prototype color television sets existed on which the program could be seen. It was last broadcast on September 14, 1951.
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1951 American television series debuts
1951 American television series endings
CBS original programming
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN%20effect
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The CNN effect is a theory in political science and media studies which states that global television networks play a significant role in determining the actions policymakers take and the outcomes of events.
History
The 24-hour international television news channel Cable News Network (CNN) had a major impact on the conduct of United States foreign policy in the late Cold War period; CNN and its subsequent industry competitors have had a similar impact in the post–Cold War era. While the free press has, in its role as the "Fourth Estate", always had an influence on policy-making in representative democracies, proponents of the CNN effect argue that the extent, depth, and speed of the new global media have created a new species of effects qualitatively different from those that preceded them. The term's coinage reflects the role played by CNN in particular, whose coverage of many events outside the U.S. – such as the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, the fall of Communism in eastern Europe, the first Gulf War, and the Battle of Mogadishu – was viewed as being strongly influential in bringing these images and issues to the immediate forefront of the American political consciousness. Additionally, the CNN effect has been cited as the driving force behind the U.S. intervention in the Kurdish crisis and the use of force by the U.S. Army during the Bosnia war of 1992–1995.
Research
In his research paper Clarifying the CNN Effect: An examination of Media Effects According to Type of Military Intervention, George Washington University professor Steven Livingston identifies three distinct aspects that fall under the broad term of the CNN effect. The media may function alternately or simultaneously as (1) a policy agenda-setting agent, (2) an impediment to the achievement of desired policy goals, (3) an accelerant to policy decision-making. (Italics in original). and (4) one of the common grounds of CNN effect is policy uncertainty; as policy certainty reduces, media influence increases and vice versa.
By focusing instantaneous and ongoing media coverage on a particular conflict, international incident, or diplomatic initiative, the news cycle effectively demands political attention, as governing politicians attempt to demonstrate that they are "on top of" current issues. The effect has been, according to Margaret Belknap, that "[t]he advent of real time news coverage has led to immediate public awareness and scrutiny of strategic decisions and military operations as they unfold". Deeper penetration and wider broadcast of statements and actions by public figures may increase transparency, but it can also complicate sensitive diplomatic relationships between states or force an official reaction from governments that would otherwise prefer to minimize political risk by remaining noncommittal. The information revolution and spread of global mass media through the Internet and international 24-hour news thus accelerates the policy-making process, requirin
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABW%20%28TV%20station%29
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ABC Television in Western Australia comprises national and local programming on the ABC television network in the Australian state of Western Australia, on a number of channels under the ABC call sign. There is some local programming from the Perth studio.
ABW was the historic name of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television station in Perth, with the "W" standing for the name of the state.
History
The station began broadcasting on 7 May 1960 from studios on Adelaide Terrace in downtown Perth and its transmitter at Bickley. The station was relayed throughout the state by a number of transmitters, and in the 2000s on the Optus Aurora free-to-view satellite television platform, replaced by Viewer Access Satellite Television (VAST) in 2010.
ABW commenced digital television transmission in January 2001, broadcasting on VHF Channel 12 while maintaining analogue television transmission on VHF Channel 2.
In 2005 the station moved to a new digital broadcast centre in East Perth.
In February 2013 ABC Perth was the first TV station in Western Australia to start producing a national news bulletin at 5.30pm.
The analogue signal for ABW was shut off on 16 April 2013.
The Western Australian edition of 7.30 was presented by Andrew O'Connor each Friday night but was cancelled in 2014 to broadcast a national edition only, in a round of severe cuts to the ABC.
The channel used to carry live coverage of West Australian Football League matches every Saturday afternoon throughout the season until 2014.
ABC Television in WA today
there is a large number of transmitters broadcasting a number of ABC channels.
Programming
ABC News Western Australia is presented by Pamela Medlen Monday-Thursday, Charlotte Hamlyn Friday-Sunday, and Tyne Logan for weather on weeknights. Tom Wildie presents local sport bulletins on weekends. The weeknight bulletins also incorporates a national finance segment presented by Alan Kohler in Melbourne.
Due to different time zones in Australia, the 5:30 news bulletin goes live to air on the east coast at 5.30pm and a separate local edition is produced for the west coast. Perth also receives a local version of ABC News at Noon produced from the ABC's Sydney studios, which is also simulcast live nationally on the ABC News channel.
Presenters
On 6 April 2018, weeknight weather presenter Rebecca Dollery stepped down from the ABC due to family reasons. From 9 April, Dollery was replaced by Irena Ceranic as weather presenter. In January 2021, Tyne Logan took over from Ceranic as weather presenter on weeknights.
In late June 2018 Tom Wildie replaced Trevor Jenkins as the weekend sport presenter.
James McHale formerly presented the news on weekdays, until 11 September 2020.
Briana Shepherd formerly presented the news on weekends, between August 2021 and June 2022, while Charlotte Hamlyn is on maternity leave.
Relay stations
The following stations relayed ABW throughout Western Australia:
See also
Television broadcasting in
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retained%20mode
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Retained mode in computer graphics is a major pattern of API design in graphics libraries, in which
the graphics library, instead of the client, retains the scene (complete object model of the rendering primitives) to be rendered and
the client calls into the graphics library do not directly cause actual rendering, but make use of extensive indirection to resources, managed thus retained by the graphics library. It does not preclude the use of double-buffering.
Immediate mode is an alternative approach. Historically, retained mode has been the dominant style in GUI libraries; however, both can coexist in the same library and are not necessarily exclusionary in practice.
Overview
In retained mode the client calls do not directly cause actual rendering, but instead update an abstract internal model (typically a list of objects) which is maintained within the library's data space. This allows the library to optimize when actual rendering takes place along with the processing of related objects.
Some techniques to optimize rendering include:
managing double buffering
treatment of hidden surfaces by backface culling/occlusion culling (Z-buffering)
only transferring data that has changed from one frame to the next from the application to the library
Example of coexistence with immediate mode in the same library is OpenGL. OpenGL has immediate mode functions that can use previously defined server side objects (textures, vertex buffers and index buffers, shaders, etc.) without resending unchanged data.
Examples of retained mode rendering systems include Windows Presentation Foundation, SceneKit on macOS, and PHIGS.
See also
Compositing window manager
Scene graph
References
Computer graphics
3D computer graphics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunae
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Lunae was a short-lived Spanish pop group built upon the success of Operación Triunfo a reality show talent contest popular on Spain's TVE network.
The band was composed by putting together singers that were not given the chance to pursue a solo career after the show, and was composed of Tessa (born 7 November 1982), Elena Gadel (born 11 November 1982) and Marey (born 19 December 1983)
In the summer of 2003, their debut single 'Hipnotizadas' (produced by Xenomania) was a minor summertime hit across Spain, and it was used in a Pringles advertisement tie-in. In September, Lunae released their debut album, Olor a Nuevo. It included 13 tracks, with 3 in English. It also included a collaboration with Enrique Anaut, Operación Triunfo Season 2 fellow finalist. In January 2004, Lunae released their second single Viva Otra Vez.
By March 2004, the band members were working on separate projects (Elena Gadel and Tessa moving on to musicals). However, they still were 'Lunae' at the Spanish Song for Europe in April 2004, and they still performed together until April 2005, although singing the same songs from their debut album two years before. In July 2005 Elena Gadel confirmed the end of Lunae in an interview.
Discography
Albums
Olor a nuevo (2003)
Singles
Hipnotizadas (2003)
Viva Otra Vez (2004)
References
Spanish musical groups
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey%20Norman
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Harvey Norman is a large Australian-based, multi-national retailer of furniture, bedding, computers, communications and consumer electrical products. It mainly operates as a franchise, with the main brand and all company-operated stores owned by ASX-listed Harvey Norman Holdings Limited. As of 2022, there are 304 company-owned and franchised stores in Australia, New Zealand, Europe and South-East Asia operating under the Harvey Norman, Domayne and Joyce Mayne brands in Australia, and under the Harvey Norman brand overseas.
History
Gerry Harvey and Ian Norman opened their first store in 1961, that specialised in electrical goods and appliances. Harvey and Norman had first met when both were working as door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen. The store's success prompted Harvey and Norman to expand the business and conduct talks with retailer Keith Lord, who sought to expand his own retail group. They could not settle on a name for the new business, with Harvey and Lord reluctant to take on the other's name. They eventually decided to retain Norman's name and that of its first store manager, Peter Ross. This spawned the retail chain Norman Ross.
Norman Ross became one of the largest appliance retail chains and by 1979 controlled 42 stores with sales of more than $240 million. In the early 1980s, Alan Bond and Grace Bros sought to acquire the chain, spawning a bidding war that saw Grace Bros incorporate the chain in 1982. Three weeks later however, a determined Alan Bond successfully convinced the Grace Bros director Michael Grace to sell the chain to Bond. Shortly after, Harvey and Norman were given notice and redundancy package of six months pay. Reasons for their sacking were not publicised, although Harvey later told The Daily Telegraph: "I said I wished Alan Bond would pack up his marbles and go back to Perth. Then I got a telegram telling me I was sacked".
Norman Ross went into liquidation in 1992. In October 1982, Harvey and Norman purchased a new shopping centre in the outer Sydney suburb of Auburn for A$3 million, and opened the first Harvey Norman store. The enterprise was intended to be a single store but its success led to the opening of others. Harvey Norman Holdings Limited was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange on 3 September 1987.
In the early 1990s, Harvey Norman adopted the superstore format then successful in the United States, and entered the computer and furniture markets. The first computer superstore was opened at Bennetts Green, Newcastle, in late 1993 with much fanfare. That was followed several weeks later by the opening of a larger superstore at Auburn. Many stores later expanded their computer sections.
Strong support was provided to the chain by distributors such as Merisel, Dataflow, Tech Pacific, and Marketing Results. Extra support and funding was supplied by vendors (supplied by these distributors) such as Microsoft, Corel, Symantec and WordPerfect.
Harvey Norman also sold Apple Computer products for se
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OzTAM
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OzTAM is an Australian audience measurement research firm that collects and markets television ratings data. It is jointly owned by the Seven Network, the Nine Network and Network Ten, and is the official source of television ratings data for all metropolitan television in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth as well as subscription services (such as Foxtel) on a national basis.
OzTAM was created in 1999 after the Seven and Ten Networks led a call for a re-tendering of the contract to provide audience ratings. Executives from both networks were concerned that the previous ratings service did not accurately reflect viewing levels for their channels.
Prior to OzTAM, the dominant metropolitan ratings company was Nielsen Media Research. The two companies competed for a short time, before Nielsen pulled out. Nielsen continues to be active in some regional areas.
There are ten official survey periods, of four weeks each, covering 40 weeks of the year, excluding 2 weeks over Easter and 10 weeks over summer.
In total, OzTAM measures ratings from 3,500 homes, with 950 homes in Sydney, 900 in Melbourne, 650 in Brisbane and 500 each in Adelaide and Perth, with these ratings commonly referred to as 'five city metro ratings'. A further 2,000 homes outside these five cities are measured by Regional TAM, and an additional 1,200 homes monitor viewing of subscription television in Australia. Nielsen are contracted to provide the audience measurement services to both OzTAM and Regional TAM having previously operated their own measurement service.
The Nine Network, traditionally the ratings leader in Australia for many years, carried over its dominance into the OzTam era, winning six consecutive ratings seasons between 2001 and 2006 inclusive. Between 2007 and 2018 inclusive, it dropped to second position behind the Seven Network, before again reclaiming the mantle as the most-watched television network in Australia in 2019.
In 2017, the metropolitan homes measured will increase to 5,250, Regional TAM homes will increase to over 3,000 and subscription viewing homes to 2,120. Additionally, OzTAM's renewed its contract with Nielsen as a sub-contractor through until 2020.
See also
Television ratings in Australia
References
External links
OzTAM Homepage
Audience measurement
Australian television ratings
Market research companies of Australia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartEiffel
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SmartEiffel was the GNU free Eiffel compiler, provided with associated tools, libraries and classes. GNU has continued to support a free license Eiffel via a new project, LibertyEiffel. The compiler translates Eiffel code either to ANSI C or Java bytecode. Hence it can be used to write programs that run on virtually any platform for which an ANSI C compiler or a Java virtual machine exist.
SmartEiffel was developed at the Lorraine Laboratory of Research in Information Technology and its Applications (LORIA), an institute affiliated to the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA), on the campus of Nancy-Université in Lorraine. SmartEiffel has seen wide use in academia.
History
The project was initiated in 1994 by the French researcher Dominique Colnet. The compiler was then called SmallEiffel, in reference to the Smalltalk language. In 1995, the compiler was able to compile itself for the first time. In 1998, on the occasion of a visit to LORIA by Richard Stallman, the project became part of the GNU Project. In December 2002, the project was renamed SmartEiffel and reached version 1.0. In September 2004, SmartEiffel reached version 2.0.
In May 2005, after divergences with the working group for the normalization of the Eiffel language, the SmartEiffel project announced that they would not implement the ECMA TC39-TG4 norm.
By version 2.2 (2006), the project had reportedly announced via its wiki, "we, the SmartEiffel project, consider that the Eiffel language as we know it today, now contains nearly all desirable features. Therefore, version 2.2 of SmartEiffel marks the debut of a new level of stability and corresponds to what we think of as being the true Eiffel language." The statement remains published as a foundation artifact at the wiki of a successor project, LibertyEiffel.
The Debian package was removed at around the same time, reported as neglected by its own maintainer. FreeBSD removed SmartEiffel some years later, due to lack interaction from the authors of the code, and the fact that it would not work on some architectures, though with some recommendation that others may take over the challenge of maintenance of the software.
References
Further reading
Colnet, D., Marpons, G., Merizen, F. (2006). Reconciling Subtyping and Code Reuse in Object-Oriented Languages: Using inherit and insert in SmartEiffel, the GNU Eiffel Compiler. In: Morisio, M. (eds) Reuse of Off-the-Shelf Components. ICSR 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4039. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. doi 10.1007/11763864_15
Marko van Dooren and Eric Steegmans. 2007. [A higher abstraction level using first-class inheritance relations. In Proceedings of the 21st European conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP'07). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 425–449. doi 10.5555/2394758.2394786
External links
The Grand SmartEiffel Book – official wiki
Efficient Dynamic Dispatch without Virtual Function Tables: The SmallE
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%20Cheshire
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Stuart Cheshire is a Distinguished Engineer, Scientist and Technologist (DEST) at Apple. He pioneered Zeroconf networking while employed at Apple. Zeroconf was originally released by Apple as Rendezvous, but later renamed Bonjour. Subsequently, he co-authored the book Zero Configuration Networking: The Definitive Guide, published by O'Reilly, with Daniel H Steinberg.
He is the author or co-author of 27 IETF RFCs principally concerning multicast DNS, and NAT.
He is also the author of Bolo, a networked tank game, originally written for the BBC Micro and later ported to the Apple Macintosh.
Biography
Education
Stuart Cheshire received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, U.K., in June 1989 and June 1992. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in June 1996 and April 1998.
While at Stanford, Stuart Cheshire and his colleague Mary Baker designed the Consistent Overhead Byte Stuffing algorithm.
References
External links
Stuart Cheshire's homepage
Cheshire's November 2005 Google Tech Talk: "Zero Configuration Networking with Bonjour"
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People educated at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School
Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Apple Inc. employees
Free software programmers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Pacific
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California Pacific may refer to:
California Pacific Airlines, a former airline
California Pacific Computer Company, a defunct computer game publisher
California Pacific Medical Center, a large campus of four hospitals in Northern California
California Pacific Railroad, a 19th-century railroad company
California Pacific University, a former distance learning university
CalPac (airline), a former division of Mesa Airlines
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SportsChannel
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SportsChannel is the collective name for a former group of regional sports networks in the United States that was owned by Cablevision, which from 1988 until the group's demise, operated it as a joint venture with NBC.
Operating from March 1, 1979, to January 27, 1998, it was the country's first regional sports network, and along with Prime Network, was an important ancestor to many of the regional sports outlets in the U.S., particularly Fox Sports Networks and Comcast SportsNet. At its peak, SportsChannel operated nine networks serving several of the nation's largest cities including New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia.
History
SportsChannel's origins date back to 1976, when Cablevision launched Cablevision Sports 3 (the "3" referencing its original channel slot on the provider), a sports network carried on the company's New York City area system. The network originated the SportsChannel brand on March 1, 1979, when it changed its name to SportsChannel New York. The network carried games from several New York area sports teams including the New York Yankees and New York Mets Major League Baseball franchises and the NBA's New Jersey Nets. One of the notable accomplishments from the channel's early days was inking one of the earliest cable deals with a pro sports team when they signed a contract to broadcast games on cable for the National Hockey League's New York Islanders in 1978 while still known as Sports 3.
The network expanded to other regions with the launches and purchases of additional networks throughout the 1980s; the first expansion occurred when Cablevision signed a deal to televise the Chicago White Sox in 1981. However, this new network would be short-lived as the White Sox launched SportsVision the following season. Cablevision's subsidiary Rainbow Media's purchased Boston-based PRISM New England in 1983, relaunching the network as SportsChannel New England. Shortly after, Cablevision formed a partnership with The Washington Post which gave the Post a 50% interest in SportsChannel. By the end of the year, the Rainbow/Washington Post partnership purchased Philadelphia-based PRISM and SportsVision, affiliating them with SportsChannel (although the SportsChannel Chicago brand would not reappear until 1989). The White Sox returned to Cablevison, now with the addition of the Chicago Blackhawks and Chicago Bulls. In 1984, CBS entered the partnership in a deal that gave each of the three companies a one-third interest in three of the four networks and a one-sixth interest in SportsChannel New England (the other 50% was owned by the Celtics and the Whalers). The same deal would also give CBS a 50% interest in Rainbow's other networks, then-premium services Bravo and American Movie Classics. The partnership with the Washington Post and CBS would end in 1987 when both companies sold their shares back to Cablevision, citing delays in the deployment of cable television service in New York and other cities as the reason for
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%20Cap
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Magic Cap (short for Magic Communicating Applications Platform) is a discontinued object-oriented operating system for PDAs developed by General Magic. Tony Fadell was a contributor to the platform, and Darin Adler was an architect.
Its graphical user interface incorporates a room metaphor, where the user navigates between rooms to perform tasks, such as going to a home office to perform word processing, or to a file room to clean up the system files. Automation is based on mobile agents but not an office assistant.
Several electronic companies came to market with Magic Cap devices, including the Sony Magic Link and the Motorola Envoy, both released in 1994. None of these devices were commercial successes.
Mobile agents
The Magic Cap operating system includes a new mobile agent technology named Telescript. Conceptually, the agents carry work orders, travel to a Place outside of the handheld device, complete their work, and then return to the device with the results. When the Magic Cap devices were delivered, the only Place for agents to travel was the PersonaLink service provided by AT&T. The agents had little access to functionality, because each agent had to be strictly authorized and its scope of inquiry was limited to the software modules installed on the PersonaLink servers. The payload carried by these agents was also hampered by the slow dial-up modem speed of 2400 bit/s.
The authentication and authorization system of the mobile agents in Telescript created a high coupling between the device and the target Place. As a result, deployment of agent-based technology was incredibly difficult, and never reached fruition before the PersonaLink service was shut down.
See also
Apple Newton
Microsoft Bob
Danger Hiptop
References
External links
Archive section and "time capsule" dedicated to Magic Cap – Pen Computing Magazine
"Making Magic" – a developer’s introduction to General Magic and Magic Cap by Richard Clark, Scott Knaster, and the staff of General Magic (from Mactech 11:5)
Magic Cap Resources – a combination blog and gallery with links to Magic Cap software, documentation and other information. Also includes a photo gallery of Magic Cap devices.
Computer-related introductions in 1994
Discontinued operating systems
Embedded operating systems
Graphical user interfaces
Mobile operating systems
Object-oriented operating systems
Personal digital assistant software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion%20Media
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Ion Media, LLC (formerly known as Paxson Communications Corporation and Ion Media Networks) is a division of Scripps Networks that operates the linear broadcast networks Ion Television and Ion Plus. Prior to its acquisition by the E. W. Scripps Company, the company owned and operated over 71 television stations in most major American markets (through its television stations group, Ion Media Television), and also operated Qubo and Ion Shop. After being operated as a private company since it entered and emerged from bankruptcy in 2009, it was acquired by the E. W. Scripps Company and merged with its Katz Broadcasting subsidiary on January 7, 2021, creating the new Scripps Networks division to manage those assets separately from its traditional broadcast network-affiliated television stations.
History
As Paxson Communications Corporation
The company was founded in 1988 by Bud Paxson in Florida. The company purchased radio stations and a couple of television stations, eventually becoming Florida's largest radio group. The radio stations' formats included rock, contemporary hit radio, news and talk, and adult contemporary. The television stations were network affiliates of ABC and NBC. In 1993 the company began to purchase stations on the outer fringes of large television markets.
In 1994, Paxson acquired its first television station, ABC affiliate WPBF in West Palm Beach, Florida.
The company divested itself of both the radio group and major-network affiliated television stations in 1998, focusing on building its own independent TV network, "PAX TV". The company focused on acquiring UHF television stations. Some of these stations are out-of-market stations, such as WPXD in Ann Arbor, Michigan ( from Detroit), KXLI in St. Cloud, Minnesota ( from Minneapolis), WTLK in Rome, Georgia ( from Atlanta), WPXJ in Pavilion, New York ( from both Buffalo and Rochester, New York), and WAYK in Melbourne, Florida ( from Orlando). Still in some markets the company bought low-rated stations that had the same type of signals as established stations with medium to high ratings. These stations included WCFC in Chicago (religious), WTGI in Wilmington, Delaware (brokered), WAKC in Akron, Ohio (Cleveland's secondary ABC affiliate), and channel 35 in Miami (Shopping), among others. In the fall of 1997, a tentative lineup was announced, and it included a family entertainment lineup of drama shows, movies, first-run shows, wildlife shows, sitcoms, and talk shows. The most expensive station acquisition was WBIS in New York City. The city government had sold this station to Dow Jones & Company and ITT in 1996 for nearly US$200 million. In January 1997, Dow Jones launched a business format called S+ during the day and a sports channel after 7 pm and on weekends. Dow Jones/ITT lost money on the operation, sold the station for about $225 million in May 1997, and shut down S+ that June in favor of Bloomberg Business News, Fox Sports Net and a block previewing new networks, Int
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program-specific%20information
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Program-specific information (PSI) is metadata about a program (channel) and part of an MPEG transport stream.
The PSI data as defined by ISO/IEC 13818-1 (MPEG-2 Part 1: Systems) includes four tables:
PAT (Program Association Table)
CAT (Conditional Access Table)
PMT (Program Mapping Table)
NIT (Network Information Table)
The MPEG-2 specification does not specify the format of the CAT and NIT.
PSI is carried in the form of a table structure. Each table structure is broken into sections. Each section can span multiple transport stream packets. On the other hand, a transport stream packet can also contain multiple sections with same PID. Adaptation field also occurs in TS packets carrying PSI data. The PSI data will never be scrambled so that the decoder at the receiving end can easily identify the properties of the stream.
The sections comprising the PAT and CAT tables are associated with predefined PIDs (Packet Identifier) as explained in their respective descriptions below. There may be multiple independent PMT sections in a stream; each section is given a unique user-defined PID and maps a program number to the metadata describing that program and the streams within it. PMT section PIDs are defined in the PAT, and are the only PIDs defined there. The streams themselves are contained in PES packets with user-defined PIDs specified in the PMT.
PSI structure
Table Sections
Descriptor
PAT (Program Association Table)
The program association table (PAT) lists all programs available in the transport stream. Each of the listed programs is identified by a 16-bit value called program_number. Each of the programs listed in PAT has an associated value of PID for its PMT.
The value 0x0000 for program_number is reserved to specify the PID where to look for network information table. If such a program is not present in PAT the default PID value (0x0010) shall be used for NIT.
TS packets containing PAT information always have PID 0x0000.
The PAT is assigned PID 0x0000 and table id of 0x00. The transport stream contains at least one or more TS packets with PID 0x0000. Some of these consecutive packets form the PAT.
At the decoder side the PSI section filter listens to the incoming TS packets. After the filter identifies the PAT table they assemble the packet and decode it.
A PAT has information about all the programs contained in the TS. The PAT contains information showing the association of Program Map Table PID and Program Number.
The PAT should end with a 32-bit CRC
PMT (Program map specific data)
PMTs contain information about programs. For each program, there is one PMT. While the MPEG-2 standard permits more than one PMT section to be transmitted on a single PID (Single Transport stream PID contains PMT information of more than one program), most MPEG-2 "users" such as ATSC and SCTE require each PMT to be transmitted on a separate PID that is not used for any other packets.
The PMTs provide information on each program present in the tr
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic%20Service%20Provider
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In Microsoft Windows, a Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) is a software library that implements the Microsoft CryptoAPI (CAPI). CSPs implement encoding and decoding functions, which computer application programs may use, for example, to implement strong user authentication or for secure email.
CSPs are independent modules that can be used by different applications. A user program calls CryptoAPI functions and these are redirected to CSPs functions. Since CSPs are responsible for implementing cryptographic algorithms and standards, applications do not need to be concerned about security details. Furthermore, one application can define which CSP it is going to use on its calls to CryptoAPI. In fact, all cryptographic activity is implemented in CSPs. CryptoAPI only works as a bridge between the application and the CSP.
CSPs are implemented basically as a special type of DLL with special restrictions on loading and use. Every CSP must be digitally signed by Microsoft and the signature is verified when Windows loads the CSP. In addition, after being loaded, Windows periodically re-scans the CSP to detect tampering, either by malicious software such as computer viruses or by the user him/herself trying to circumvent restrictions (for example on cryptographic key length) that might be built into the CSP's code.
To obtain a signature, non-Microsoft CSP developers must supply paperwork to Microsoft promising to obey various legal restrictions and giving valid contact information. Microsoft did not charge any fees to supply these signatures. For development and testing purposes, a CSP developer can configure Windows to recognize the developer's own signatures instead of Microsoft's, but this is a somewhat complex and obscure operation unsuitable for nontechnical end users.
The CAPI/CSP architecture had its origins in the era of restrictive US government controls on the export of cryptography. Microsoft's default or "base" CSP then included with Windows was limited to 512-bit RSA public-key cryptography and 40-bit symmetric cryptography, the maximum key lengths permitted in exportable mass market software at the time. CSPs implementing stronger cryptography were available only to U.S. residents, unless the CSPs themselves had received U.S. government export approval. The system of requiring CSPs to be signed only on presentation of completed paperwork was intended to prevent the easy spread of unauthorized CSPs implemented by anonymous or foreign developers. As such, it was presented as a concession made by Microsoft to the government, in order to get export approval for the CAPI itself.
After the Bernstein v. United States court decision establishing computer source code as protected free speech and the transfer of cryptographic regulatory authority from the U.S. State Department to the more pro-export Commerce Department, the restrictions on key lengths were dropped, and the CSPs shipped with Windows now include full-strength cryptogr
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern%20Homemakers
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Modern Homemakers was an early American television series, making its debut on June 27, 1951, on five stations of the CBS television network in the eastern United States. This half-hour daytime program (10:30-11:00 a.m., EDT) was broadcast from New York Monday through Friday. It was hosted by home economist Edalene Stohr, who during the first episode quipped, "Color television's wonderful, but it will really be something when we develop it to bring you the aromas of the dishes, too."
Modern Homemakers was broadcast in the CBS field-sequential color system that was incompatible with existing black and white television sets, on which no picture would be visible. Only a small number of prototype color television sets existed on which the program could be seen. It was last broadcast on August 17, 1951.
References
1951 American television series debuts
1951 American television series endings
1950s American television series
CBS original programming
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaplan%E2%80%93Meier%20estimator
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The Kaplan–Meier estimator, also known as the product limit estimator, is a non-parametric statistic used to estimate the survival function from lifetime data. In medical research, it is often used to measure the fraction of patients living for a certain amount of time after treatment. In other fields, Kaplan–Meier estimators may be used to measure the length of time people remain unemployed after a job loss, the time-to-failure of machine parts, or how long fleshy fruits remain on plants before they are removed by frugivores. The estimator is named after Edward L. Kaplan and Paul Meier, who each submitted similar manuscripts to the Journal of the American Statistical Association. The journal editor, John Tukey, convinced them to combine their work into one paper, which has been cited more than 61,800 times since its publication in 1958.
The estimator of the survival function (the probability that life is longer than ) is given by:
with a time when at least one event happened, di the number of events (e.g., deaths) that happened at time , and the individuals known to have survived (have not yet had an event or been censored) up to time .
Basic concepts
A plot of the Kaplan–Meier estimator is a series of declining horizontal steps which, with a large enough sample size, approaches the true survival function for that population. The value of the survival function between successive distinct sampled observations ("clicks") is assumed to be constant.
An important advantage of the Kaplan–Meier curve is that the method can take into account some types of censored data, particularly right-censoring, which occurs if a patient withdraws from a study, is lost to follow-up, or is alive without event occurrence at last follow-up. On the plot, small vertical tick-marks state individual patients whose survival times have been right-censored. When no truncation or censoring occurs, the Kaplan–Meier curve is the complement of the empirical distribution function.
In medical statistics, a typical application might involve grouping patients into categories, for instance, those with Gene A profile and those with Gene B profile. In the graph, patients with Gene B die much quicker than those with Gene A. After two years, about 80% of the Gene A patients survive, but less than half of patients with Gene B.
To generate a Kaplan–Meier estimator, at least two pieces of data are required for each patient (or each subject): the status at last observation (event occurrence or right-censored), and the time to event (or time to censoring). If the survival functions between two or more groups are to be compared, then a third piece of data is required: the group assignment of each subject.
Problem definition
Let be a random variable, which we think of as the time that elapses between the start of the possible exposure period, , and the time that an event of interest takes place, . As indicated above, the goal is to estimate the survival function underlying .
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security%20event%20manager
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Security event management (SEM), and the related SIM and SIEM, are computer security disciplines that use data inspection tools to centralize the storage and interpretation of logs or events generated by other software running on a network.
Overview
The acronyms SEM, SIM and SIEM have sometimes been used interchangeably, but generally refer to the different primary focus of products:
Log management: Focus on simple collection and storage of log messages and audit trails
Security information management (SIM): Long-term storage as well as analysis and reporting of log data.
Security event manager (SEM): Real-time monitoring, correlation of events, notifications and console views.
Security information and event management (SIEM): Combines SIM and SEM and provides real-time analysis of security alerts generated by network hardware and applications.
Event logs
Many systems and applications which run on a computer network generate events which are kept in event logs. These logs are essentially lists of activities that occurred, with records of new events being appended to the end of the logs as they occur. Protocols, such as syslog and SNMP, can be used to transport these events, as they occur, to logging software that is not on the same host on which the events are generated. The better SEMs provide a flexible array of supported communication protocols to allow for the broadest range of event collection.
It is beneficial to send all events to a centralized SEM system for the following reasons:
Access to all logs can be provided through a consistent central interface.
The SEM can provide secure, forensically sound storage and archival of event logs (this is also a classic log management function).
Powerful reporting tools can be run on the SEM to mine the logs for useful information.
Events can be parsed as they hit the SEM for significance, and alerts and notifications can be immediately sent out to interested parties as warranted.
Related events which occur on multiple systems can be detected which would be very difficult to detect if each system had a separate log.
Events which are sent from a system to a SEM remain on the SEM even if the sending system fails or the logs on it are accidentally or intentionally erased.
Security analysis
Although centralised logging has existed for long time, SEMs are a relatively new idea, pioneered in 1999 by a small company called E-Security, and are still evolving rapidly. The key feature of a Security Event Management tool is the ability to analyse the collected logs to highlight events or behaviors of interest, for example an Administrator or Super User logon, outside of normal business hours. This may include attaching contextual information, such as host information (value, owner, location, etc.), identity information (user info related to accounts referenced in the event like first/last name, workforce ID, manager's name, etc.), and so forth. This contextual information can be leveraged to prov
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal%20Greenway
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The Cardinal Greenway (TGC) is a multi-use recreational network combining a rail trail and an on-street route that together cross and five counties — in east central Indiana. The greenway, which was designated a National Recreation Trail in June 2003 and in 2018 was named to the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy's "Rail Trail Hall of Fame." uses the former CSX railroad track between Richmond and Marion. It is named after the Cardinal, the last regular passenger train service on the (Chicago-Cincinnati-Washington) route. Currently it is Indiana's longest rail trail project.
The route, which is dedicated to pedestrian, bicycle and equestrian users, has nine bridges and passes the historic Wysor Street Depot. It also follows the White, Whitewater and Mississinewa Rivers. Marked in half-mile increments, the TGC has more than 20 trail heads, most with restrooms, parking areas, and interpretive markers. The system hosts annual events including the National Trails Day (June/Running), Cardinal Greenways Bike Fest (July/biking), Walk Indiana (September/walking), and BikeTOURberfest (October/bicycle).
The Cardinal Greenway is part of the Northern Route of the American Discovery Trail. and connects to the White River Greenway near downtown Muncie. A current expansion is underway to construct the White River Greenway trail in downtown Muncie. In Richmond, the trail connects to the Whitewater Gorge Trail and Gennett Walk of Fame in the Whitewater Gorge Park.
Background
In 1993, volunteers organized an investigative meeting to study purchasing an abandoned rail line for a rails-to-trails conversion project. Removal of the steel rails began in late 1992. Work started in Marion and was completed from there through Richmond by June 1993. Cardinal Greenway, Inc., a not-for-profit, was formed, purchasing of the former railroad corridor from CSX Corporation in that same year (1993).
In 1996 a Master Plan was completed and final drawings were submitted to INDOT.
Groundbreaking took place in September 1997, marking the start of Phase 1, a Muncie section from the Wysor Street Depot to County Road 534 East.
The Jonesboro-Marion section and the Richmond section were constructed sometime before 2003. The Muncie-Gaston section was constructed around 2003.
In 2003, the Cardinal Greenway was designated a National Recreation Trail.
The Losantville-Mt. Pleasant section was opened in a ribbon-cutting ceremony held in Losantville on April 19, 2007. Governor Mitch Daniels helped cut the ribbon.
In 2008 the state governor announced grants which include work on the Richmond-to-Losantville section including the improvement of six bridges and the Sweetser Switch Trail Connector, linking the two trails along a defunct railroad corridor.
The trail is managed by Cardinal Greenway, Inc., formerly known as Delaware Greenways, Inc. The company is organized under federal tax regulations as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
Route
See: Cardinal Greenway Map
Cardi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/81%20Produce
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is a voice talent management firm in Japan founded on 3 February 1981 (thus the year is the company's namesake). A hybrid CD-ROM featuring voice talent data for members of 81 Produce was released on 19 October 1997. The company is located in Shibuya, Tokyo.
Attached talent
All names are in Western order (given name followed by family/last name).
Male
Shigeru Chiba
Takuya Eguchi
Tesshō Genda
Wataru Hatano
Katsunosuke Hori
Naruhito Iguchi
Ryuzou Ishino
Hiroshi Ito
Kent Itō
Jun'ichi Kanemaru
Kunihiro Kawamoto
Arthur Lounsbery
Yuuki Matsuda
Shin-ichiro Miki
Kenta Miyake
Kōki Miyata
Yū Mizushima
Shigeru Mogi
Yoshiki Nakajima
Daiki Nakamura
Ryūsei Nakao
Kōtarō Nishiyama
Ryūsuke Ōbayashi
Tetsuharu Ōta
Soma Saito
Kōichi Sakaguchi
Toshiharu Sakurai
Nozomu Sasaki
Toshihiko Seki
Mitsuo Senda
Shigenori Sōya
Shunsuke Takeuchi
Kan Tanaka
Tomohiro Tsuboi
Hiroshi Tsuchida
Hidenari Ugaki
Hideyuki Umezu
Kousei Yagi
Takayuki Yamaguchi
Kiyoyuki Yanada
Kunihiko Yasui
Female
Himika Akaneya
Chinatsu Akasaki
Yoshino Aoyama
Yōko Asada
Madoka Asahina
Yoshiko Asai
Kana Asumi
Nanami Atsugi
Sumie Baba
Sachiko Chijimatsu
Arisa Date
Sayuri Hara
Coco Hayashi
Nene Hieda
Rina Honnizumi
Mako Hyōdō
Tomoko Ishimura
Masako Jō
Rie Kanda
Masako Katsuki
Yuko Kobayashi
Kaho Kōda
Aoi Koga
Chie Kōjiro
Kujira
Motoko Kumai
Masayo Kurata
Mayuki Makiguchi
Miyu Kubota
Kurumi Mamiya
Yōko Matsuoka
Ui Miyazaki
Marie Mizuno
Haruhi Nanao
Chinami Nishimura
Keiko Nemoto
Rumi Ōkubo
Kaya Okuno
Misaki Sekiyama
Yū Serizawa
Chiyako Shibahara
Mari Shimizu
Emi Shinohara
Anri Shiono
Yuri Shiratori
Noriko Shitaya
Yumi Takada
Rie Takahashi
Minami Takayama
Aimi Tanaka
Minami Tanaka
Megumi Toyoguchi
Ayumi Tsunematsu
Reina Ueda
Rumiko Ukai
Fushigi Yamada
Erina Yamazaki
Madoka Yonezawa
Yukiji
Ryōka Yuzuki
Saki Yamakita
Yūki Wakai
Azuki Shibuya
Formerly attached talent
Male
Masashi Ebara (currently affiliated with Aoni Production)
Yuzuru Fujimoto (deceased)
Satoshi Goto (currently affiliated with Beckers Act)
Tetsuya Kakihara (currently affiliated with Zynchro)
Saburo Kamei (deceased)
Kiyoshi Kawakubo (deceased)
Iemasa Kayumi (deceased)
Kaneta Kimotsuki (deceased)
Issei Miyazaki (currently affiliated with TAB Production)
Hidetoshi Nakamura (deceased)
Tōru Ōhira (deceased)
Hiroshi Ōtake (affiliated with Gin Production until his death)
Takahiro Sakurai (currently affiliated with INTENTION)
Daisaku Shinohara (deceased)
Mahito Tsujimura (deceased)
Kyousei Tsukui (retired)
Toshiya Ueda (deceased)
Takeshi Watabe (deceased)
Female
Runa Akiyama (deceased)
Keiko Hanagata (deceased)
Emiri Katō
Miyu Matsuki (deceased)
Tamaki Nakanishi (deceased)
Masako Nozawa (currently affiliated with Aoni Production)
Ai Shimizu (currently affiliated with Haikyō)
Kaoru Shimamura (deceased)
Asako Shirakura (currently affiliated with Aqua Place)
Kumiko Takizawa (deceased)
Kazuko Yanaga (deceased)
References
External links
Japanese voice act
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just%20for%20Kicks%20%28TV%20series%29
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Just for Kicks is an American comedy series that aired on the Nickelodeon television network as a part of the channel's TEENick television lineup. The series is about a group of girls on a soccer team set in New York City.
Created by Alana Sanko and developed by Whoopi Goldberg, the series was first titled Head to Toe, and then The Power Strikers, but its title was finally changed in 2005 to Just for Kicks. The series premiered in January 2006 on Nickelodeon UK, and in April 2006 on Nickelodeon in the United States. The series is produced by Brookwell McNamara Entertainment. Airing for one season of thirteen episodes, it is also considered to be one of Nickelodeon's most forgotten series, as this show fell to obscurity and was lost for over a decade until May 2, 2016, nearly ten years after its original premiere, when the entire series was uploaded onto YouTube in two parts. Despite this, the show has yet to ever air again on television in over a decade.
Characters
Main
Alexa D'Amico (Francesca Catalano) is a typical popular high school girl. She was a former cheerleader and she is fond of boys. She has an older brother, Chris. Towards the end of the series, her father gets laid off of his job, which causes some stress for her. Since Alexa started being a soccer player and she had to stop cheerleading her old, popular friends don't understand why she would rather run around on a muddy field than go shopping. She lives in Brooklyn.
Winifred "Freddie" Costello (Mallory Low) is a tough girl in high school who is not good friends with Alexa because she and her friends are snobs to Freddie at their private school. Her father is always with the military, and she lives with her grandmother. She is also known for having severe cases of "bacne", or acne on her back. Freddie lives in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.
Lauren Zelmer (Katija Pevec) is a shy, timid serious girl who is a good athlete. She is a typical schoolgirl who plays the violin and is on the soccer team, among other activities. Lauren is very intelligent, and is very busy with extracurricular activities, which causes her much stress. She has a big crush on Alexa's older brother Chris, and at the end of the season they start to date, much to Alexa's disbelief. Her overprotective mother works at a local private school, in which Lauren attends. Lauren lives in Harlem, Manhattan.
Vida Atwood (Jessica Williams) is a sporty athletic serious girl, who has a lot in common with her soccer mate Lauren Zelmer. She has been playing soccer the longest, and is sort of the unofficial best at the game. She lives at home with her younger brother, older sister, and parents. Vida is self-conscious of her towering height, and it is known that she once beat up a boy back in first or second grade. She lives in Queens.
Chris D'Amico (Jerad Anderson) is Alexa's older brother, he is an aspiring filmmaker and somewhat dimwitted.
Recurring
Marni Nelson (Jessica Sara) is a Power Strikers teammate later turn
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit%20%28telecommunications%29
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Rabbit was a British location-specific (Telepoint) telephone service backed by Hutchison, which later created the Orange GSM mobile network, followed by 3. The Rabbit network was the best-known of four such services introduced in the 1980s, the others being BT Phonepoint, Mercury Callpoint and Zonephone. Although Hutchison received a licence for Rabbit in 1989, the service was not launched until May 1992. Telepoint services such as Rabbit allowed subscribers to carry specially designed (CT2) home phone handsets with them and make outgoing calls whenever they were within of a Rabbit transmitter.
Rollout
The initial network only supported outgoing calls, but offered paging and messaging facilities as standard on all customer accounts. The service was rolled out after extensive tests with 1,000 users and 2,000 base stations located across the UK.
Original plans were for 12,000 base stations to be placed around the UK by December 1992. The service was launched in Greater Manchester in May 1992 with the entire city centre of Manchester covered with Rabbit base stations. The service was then rolled out to the rest of the North of England and there was nationwide coverage by the autumn of 1993. At the height of Rabbit's operations, there were 12,000 base stations and 10,000 customers in the UK.
Closure
The service ceased in December 1993, only 20 months after being launched. Rabbit had 2,000 subscribers at the time the service closed. The failure of Rabbit can be mainly attributed to the fall in cost of analogue mobile phones from Cellnet and Vodafone, which also accepted incoming calls. The imminent conversion of these mobile phone networks to the digital GSM standard sealed Rabbit's fate. Hutchison Whampoa lost around $183 million from the failure of Rabbit but later went on to found the Orange and 3 mobile phone networks.
Wall-mounted signs advertising the Rabbit base stations were still visible in various parts of the UK some 20 years after the Rabbit service ended.
Home use
Many of the Rabbit CT2 telephones were sold with a home base station as a home CT2 cordless telephone system and these continued to be used for many years after the closure of the Rabbit network.
Branding
The Rabbit name, logo and advertising campaign idea was devised by Hook Advertising and specifically its chairman Chris Joseph. Competitors emerging onto the new Telepoint market tended to adopt more technological-sounding names — Zonephone, Callpoint and Phonepoint — and Joseph wanted to devise a distinctive brand name to stand out in the market. He selected the name Rabbit as it sounded warmer and more friendly. Joseph had studied Russian and sketched out a logo based an inverted 'Я' character from the Cyrillic alphabet with a dot in the middle, which resembled both the Latin alphabet 'R' and the head of a rabbit. Hook successfully pitched the idea to the Barclays Philips Shell consortium (BYPS) and signed with them in 1989.
Legal dispute
When BYPS sold the tele
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%20Underground%20battery-electric%20locomotives
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London Underground battery-electric locomotives are battery locomotives used for hauling engineers' trains on the London Underground network where they can operate when the electric traction current is switched off. The first two locomotives were built in 1905 for the construction of the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway, and their success prompted the District Railway to buy two more in 1909, which were the only ones built to the loading gauge of the subsurface lines. Following this, a number of battery vehicles were built by converting redundant motor cars, with the batteries placed in the unused passenger compartment. One exception to this was made by the City and South London Railway, who used a trailer car to hold the batteries, and wired them to a separate locomotive.
From 1936, battery locomotives were built as new vehicles, although in most cases, some components, particularly the bogies and motors, were refurbished from withdrawn passenger cars. The batch of nine vehicles supplied by Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company between 1936 and 1938 set the standard for subsequent builds. Including this batch, 52 machines had been built by 1986, in six batches from four manufacturers, with one built at London Transport's Acton Works. Each new batch included some improvements, but most used electro-pneumatic traction control equipment made by GEC, and so could be operated together. The exception were three from the 1936 batch, which used an experimental Metadyne system, and the final batch of six, built in 1985, which used controllers manufactured by Kiepe.
Improvements since manufacture have included the replacement of low-level Ward couplers by buckeye couplers, which has resulted in less damage from shunting accidents, and the fitting of draught excluders and cab heaters for use in winter when the locomotives operate on sections of line above ground. A number of the machines were fitted with Automatic Train Protection (ATP) in-cab signalling equipment to enable them to work on the newly opened Victoria line, and later on the Central line after ATP was installed. More were fitted with Transmission Based Train Control (TBTC) for the Jubilee and Northern lines and Communication Based Train Control (CBTC) as part of the Four Lines Modernisation.
Early vehicles
The first two battery locomotives supplied for the London Underground were manufactured by Hurst Nelson and Co, who were based in Motherwell. They were delivered in August 1905, and were used during the construction of the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway, where they were numbered 1B and 2B. The vehicles were long, with a tube-gauge cab at both ends. Braking and electrical control equipment was housed in a compartment behind one of the cabs, and the central section was lower, housing the 80 batteries, arranged in two rows of 40 either side of a central divide, which also supported metal covers for the battery compartments. The batteries were supplie
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visor%20%28disambiguation%29
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A visor is a surface that protects the eyes.
Visor may also refer to:
Visor (armor)
VISOR, a fictional device in Star Trek media.
ViSOR (Violent and Sex Offender Register), a UK database
Bow visor, a feature of some ships, particularly ferries
Visor, a PDA series made by Handspring
The Visor, a rock ledge on the top of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park
See also
Advisor
Vizor, Irish software company
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Virginia%20Japanese%20Text%20Initiative
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The University of Virginia Japanese Text Initiative (JTI) is a project intended to provide a comprehensive online database of Japanese literary texts. Sponsored by the University of Virginia and the University of Pittsburgh East Asian Library, the online collection contains over 300 texts from Japan's pre-modern and modern periods (generally defined as before and after the Meiji Restoration of 1868). Pre-modern texts include the Man'yōshū, the Tale of Genji, the Kokin Wakashū, and the Hōjōki. Modern texts include works by Natsume Sōseki, Mori Ōgai, and Akutagawa Ryūnosuke.
The stated aim of the initiative is "In the short term... to put online most or all of the Twenty Classical Works in J. Thomas Rimer's A Reader's Guide to Japanese Literature, revised edition (New York: Kodansha, 1999)". The aim is also to add pre-20th century literature and as much 20th century literature as copyright restrictions will allow.
The database is still a work in progress, and it is not completely comprehensive; generally, the later in time one goes, the fewer works are featured. There are relatively few Edo-period pieces, and some Meiji and Taishō period authors are either absent, or not all of their works are available. As of October 2014, the last update was in March 2004.
The database can be browsed either by author or by title, and includes a search function which, among other things, can be used to search for specific or phrases occurring in the works available.
References
"Scope and Goals"
External links
The UVA Text Initiative's home page
Japanese studies
University of Virginia
University of Pittsburgh
Japanese literature websites
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Brown%20%28composer%29
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Bill Brown IV (born 1969) is an American composer known for creating music for several video games and films. He is best known for his work on Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, composing the system sounds as well as music for the tour software. His father was renowned New York City radio disc jockey, Bill Brown (III) (d. 2011).
Awards
BMI 2005 TV Music Award for "CSI: NY" Season 1
ITVA Golden Reel GOLD Award for Kennedy Space Center "Gateway to the Universe" soundtrack
Music4Games – M4G Editor's Choice Award for "The Sum of All Fears" (PC)
Best Music Award – PCXL Magazine's 1998 All-Star Awards for "Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six"
Nominations
Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.) 2003 Awards Nominee for Lineage II: the Chaotic Chronicle (NCSoft), in the following categories: Best Live Performance Recording, Best Cinematic / Cut-Scene Audio, Best Original Vocal Song – Choral
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) 2003 Games Awards Nominee in the Music category: Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Tides of War
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) 2003 Games Awards Nominee in the Music category: Command and Conquer: Generals
Golden Reel Nominee: Feature Film Ali (Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Entertainment)
Golden Reel Nominee: Feature Film Any Given Sunday (Warner Bros.)
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) 2001 Interactive Entertainment Award Nominee in the Music category: "Clive Barker's Undying"
Best Original Music Nominee by L.A. Weekly: Blue Sphere Alliance's live theatrical production "Nagasaki Dust"
Golden Reel Nominee: Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (Renaissance Pictures/Universal)
Golden Reel Nominee: In the Presence of Mine Enemies (Showtime Pictures)
Discography
Video games
Quake II (1997)
Trespasser (1998)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (1998)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear (1999)
Disney's Villains' Revenge (1999)
Quake III (1999)
Timeline (2000)
Shadow Watch (2000)
Return to Castle Wolfenstein (2001)
Clive Barker's Undying (2001)
Anachronox (2001)
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon (2001)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Black Thorn (2001)
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder (2002)
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 (2004) – theme co-written with Tom Salta
Command & Conquer: Generals (2003)
Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour (2003)
Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle (2003)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield (2003)
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (2003)
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm (2004)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown (2005)
The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction (2005)
Command & Conquer: The First Decade (2006) – compilation which included his work
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Critical Hour (2006)
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (2007)
Wolfenstein (2009)
Captain America: Super Soldier (2011)
Film
War of the Angels (1999)
Any Given Sunday (1999) (songs "Sharks' Theme", "Spiritual" and "Rock the Sharks")
Ali (2001) (songs "Round 8 Strings" and "Prequel Strings")
Behin
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viewer
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Viewer may refer to:
File viewer, application software that decodes and displays the data in a computer file
Image viewer, a computer program capable of displaying digital images
Pocket Viewer, a range of personal digital assistants marketed by Casio
A person who is engaged in remote viewing
Slide viewer, a device for viewing slides of reversal film
Television viewer, television industry term for a person watching television
ViEWER, a computer program developed for studying visual perception in a virtual 3D environment
Waveform viewer, a software tool for viewing the signal levels of either a digital or analog circuit design
See also
View-Master
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20flow%20problem
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In combinatorial optimization, network flow problems are a class of computational problems in which the input is a flow network (a graph with numerical capacities on its edges), and the goal is to construct a flow, numerical values on each edge that respect the capacity constraints and that have incoming flow equal to outgoing flow at all vertices except for certain designated terminals.
Specific types of network flow problems include:
The maximum flow problem, in which the goal is to maximize the total amount of flow out of the source terminals and into the sink terminals
The minimum-cost flow problem, in which the edges have costs as well as capacities and the goal is to achieve a given amount of flow (or a maximum flow) that has the minimum possible cost
The multi-commodity flow problem, in which one must construct multiple flows for different commodities whose total flow amounts together respect the capacities
Nowhere-zero flow, a type of flow studied in combinatorics in which the flow amounts are restricted to a finite set of nonzero values
The max-flow min-cut theorem equates the value of a maximum flow to the value of a minimum cut, a partition of the vertices of the flow network that minimizes the total capacity of edges crossing from one side of the partition to the other. Approximate max-flow min-cut theorems provide an extension of this result to multi-commodity flow problems. The Gomory–Hu tree of an undirected flow network provides a concise representation of all minimum cuts between different pairs of terminal vertices.
Algorithms for constructing flows include
Dinic's algorithm, a strongly polynomial algorithm for maximum flow
The Edmonds–Karp algorithm, a faster strongly polynomial algorithm for maximum flow
The Ford–Fulkerson algorithm, a greedy algorithm for maximum flow that is not in general strongly polynomial
The network simplex algorithm, a method based on linear programming but specialized for network flow
The out-of-kilter algorithm for minimum-cost flow
The push–relabel maximum flow algorithm, one of the most efficient known techniques for maximum flow
Otherwise the problem can be formulated as a more conventional linear program or similar and solved using a general purpose optimization solver.
Graph algorithms
Combinatorial optimization
Directed graphs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Eagle
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Ian Eagle ( ; born February 9, 1969) is an American sports announcer. He calls NBA, NFL, and college basketball games on CBS, TNT, and TBS, as well as Brooklyn Nets games on the YES Network and French Open tennis for Tennis Channel. Other announcing experiences include Army–Navy football games, boxing, and NCAA track and field for CBS.
Early life and education
Eagle was born in Miami to entertainers Jack Eagle and Monica Maris. Jack, a former "Catskills comedian" and commercial actor, was best known for portraying "Brother Dominic" and "Mr. Cholesterol" in Xerox and Fleischmann's margarine television commercials respectively in the 1970s. Maris was a singer.
Eagle graduated from Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 1990. He was in the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity.
Career
Early career
While at Syracuse, Eagle joined WJPZ his freshman year and announced women’s basketball games at the Carrier Dome. In his sophomore year, he was given more opportunities to call high-profile Syracuse Orange games on WAER, a student run radio station. He also joined UUTV (now CitrusTV), to gain on-camera experience. Outside the campus, Eagle interned with then-recent graduate Mike Tirico at WTVH in Syracuse for three years. He hosted 10 shows during his senior year.
Following his graduation in 1990, Eagle began working for WFAN Radio in New York City as a producer. In 1992, WFAN gave him his own show (Bagels and Baseball). In 1993, Eagle was given pregame and postgame duties for the Jets. 1994 saw Eagle's first year as a Nets play-by-play radio announcer. A year later, he was made a TV announcer for SportsChannel, which later became Fox Sports Net New York (now MSG Plus). In 1997, WFAN made Eagle play-by-play announcer for Jets games.
Later television and radio career
Eagle joined CBS in 1998 doing announcing work for NFL and NCAA basketball. He continues to serve these roles today. In 2010, he joined Dan Fouts to make up the number three broadcast team for CBS' NFL coverage. The pair was elevated to the number two team behind Jim Nantz and Phil Simms in the 2014 season. After Fouts parted ways with CBS, and with the NFL’s playoff expansion, which included CBS gaining rights to an extra playoff game, during the 2020 offseason, the network paired him with former Fox analyst Charles Davis, and the duo now call one of CBS’s Wild Card games in years the network has the second game. Other CBS work includes boxing, The Pilot Pen Tennis tournament, the U.S. Open (both the late night show and daytime studio host for 2008 U.S. Open coverage), and the NCAA Track and Field Championships.
Prior to joining the YES Network as Nets announcer in 2002, Ian Eagle served the same role for the Nets on the MSG Network and Fox Sports Net New York. When Marv Albert joined the YES Network prior to the 2005-06 NBA season, the games were split between the two broadcasters, before Eagle again became the primary announcer for the Nets in the 2011-12 NBA s
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Access%20Protection
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Network Access Protection (NAP) is a Microsoft technology for controlling network access of a computer, based on its health. It was first included in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 and backported to Windows XP Service Pack 3. With NAP, system administrators of an organization can define policies for system health requirements. Examples of system health requirements are whether the computer has the most recent operating system updates installed, whether the computer has the latest version of the anti-virus software signature, or whether the computer has a host-based firewall installed and enabled. Computers with a NAP client will have their health status evaluated upon establishing a network connection. NAP can restrict or deny network access to the computers that are not in compliance with the defined health requirements.
NAP was deprecated in Windows Server 2012 R2 and removed from Windows Server 2016.
Overview
Network Access Protection Client Agent makes it possible for clients that support NAP to evaluate software updates for their statement of health. NAP clients are computers that report their system health to a NAP enforcement point. A NAP enforcement point is a computer or device that can evaluate a NAP client's health and optionally restrict network communications. NAP enforcement points can be IEEE 802.1X-capable switches or VPN servers, DHCP servers, or Health Registration Authorities (HRAs) that run Windows Server 2008 or later. The NAP health policy server is a computer running the Network Policy Server (NPS) service in Windows Server 2008 or later that stores health requirement policies and provides health evaluation for NAP clients. Health requirement policies are configured by administrators. They define criteria that clients must meet before they are allowed undeterred connection; these criteria may include the version of the operating system, a personal firewall, or an up-to-date antivirus program.
When a NAP-capable client computer contacts a NAP enforcement point, it submits its current health state. The NAP enforcement point sends the NAP client's health state to the NAP health policy server for evaluation using the RADIUS protocol. The NAP health policy server can also act as a RADIUS-based authentication server for the NAP client.
The NAP health policy server can use a health requirement server to validate the health state of the NAP client or to determine the current version of software or updates that need to be installed on the NAP client. For example, a health requirement server might track the latest version of an antivirus signature file.
If the NAP enforcement point is an HRA, it obtains health certificates from a certification authority for NAP clients that it deems to be compliant with the relevant requirements. NAP clients can be placed on a restricted network if they are deemed non-compliant. The restricted network is a logical subset of the intranet and contains resources that allow a noncompliant NA
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge-based%20processor
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Knowledge-based processors (KBPs) are used for processing packets in computer networks. Knowledge-based processors are designed with the goal of increased performance of the IPv6 network. By contributing to the buildout of the IPv6 network, KBPs provide the means to an improved and secure networking system.
Standards
All networks are required to perform the following functions:
IPv4/IPv6 multilayer packet/flow classification
Policy-based routing and Policy enforcement (QoS)
Longest Prefix Match (CIDR)
Differentiated Services (DiffServ)
IP Security (IPSec)
Server Load Balancing
Transaction verification
All of the above functions must occur at high speeds in advanced networks. Knowledge-based processors contain embedded databases that store information required to process packets that travel through a network at wired speeds. Knowledge based processors are a new addition to intelligent networking that allow these functions to occur at high speeds and at the same time provide for lower power consumption.
Knowledge-based processors currently target the 3rd layer of the 7 layer OSI model which is devoted to packet processing.
Advantages
The advantages that knowledge based processors offer are the ability to execute multiple simultaneous decision making processes for a range of network-aware processing functions. These include routing, Quality of Service (QOS), access control for both security and billing, as well as the forwarding of voice/video packets. These functions improve the performance of advanced Internet applications in IPv6 networks such as VOD (Video on demand), VoIP (voice over Internet protocol), and streaming of video and audio.
Knowledge-based processors use a variety of techniques to improve network functioning such as parallel processing, deep pipelining and advanced power management techniques. Improvements in each of these areas allows for existing components to carry on their functions at wired speeds more efficiently thus improving the performance of the overall network.
The databases in a knowledge-based processor include classification tables, forwarding tables, and exact match tables- all of which are utilized by the CPU and network processors.
Knowledge based processors mainly process packet headers (20% of the packet approximately) which enables network awareness. Content processors, by contrast, allow for packet payload inspection (80% of the packet is data) and therefore must search "deeper" into the packet.
See also
Network processor
Multi core processor
Content processor
References
Computer networks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced%20Network%20Selection
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Enhanced Network Selection (sometimes referred to as Enhanced Network Service, or simply ENS) extends GSM by making it possible for a GSM cellular device (e.g., handset) to be "homed" OTA (over the air) to different networks. This made it possible for Cingular Wireless, while it was still operating two networks post merger with AT&T Wireless, to "home" a given cellular device to either the "orange" (old Cingular Wireless) or "blue" (old AT&T Wireless) network. That can improve performance for certain customers because without ENS a GSM device will only select a non-home network when a "usable" home network signal doesn't exist, even when a non-home network has a better signal or when the home network has no available capacity.
For ENS to work, both an ENS-capable device and an ENS SIM are needed.
Most mobile devices sold by Cingular from the end of 2004 should be ENS-capable.
ENS SIMs are marked "64K". (Prior SIMs are no more than 32KB. There is no other benefit to the increased memory in the SIM.)
Cingular states that any device to be activated in excess of 10000 quantity is required to support ENS.
Mobile phones
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronomaster
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Chronomaster is an adventure game developed by DreamForge Intertainment for MS-DOS compatible operating systems and published by IntraCorp on 20 December 1995. Its main plot was written by novelist Roger Zelazny and was his last known work, as he died during the development of the game. Due to Roger's passing, Dreamforge used in-house puzzle and game designers John McGirk and Aaron Kreader to complete a majority of the game puzzles, while leaving the overall game plot and concept intact as per Roger's vision.
Chronomaster narrates the story of Rene Korda (voiced by Ron Perlman), a retired and formerly renowned designer of "pocket universes" — self-contained worlds developed according to the tastes of the person who finances their construction. Korda is hired by a representative of the "Terran Regional government" to restore two pocket universes from a state of "temporal stasis" and to find out who is responsible for the situation.
Gameplay
Each pocket universe contains a single solar system with anywhere from one to several worlds Korda can visit. Each world requires Korda to travel to magnetic North and use a "resonance tracer" to locate the universe's "world key". The world key (each protected by a unique puzzle) stops or starts the universe's temporal flow. Each pocket universe has a unique feel to it, reflecting the personality and interests of its owner. Verdry for example, owned by a woman known for creating a philosophical movement centered on nonsense and unreality, contains a world shaped and colored like an Easter egg.
In order to move within pocket universes in which time is stagnant, Korda employs "bottled time", a container which when opened provides him with a field in which times flows normally. Bottled time may also be used to activate objects and trigger ongoing events which were halted by the temporal stasis. He also counts on the help of a versatile context-sensitive tool which makes available different functions to him, depending on the pocket universe he visits. During his journey Korda is accompanied by his personal digital assistant (PDA) Jester (voiced by Lolita Davidovich), a flying blue spherical robot who provides more comic relief than help with gameplay. Korda is eventually joined by Milo, (voiced by Brent Spiner) a former student of Korda's and the sole survivor of a horrific pirate attack on his homeworld.
Chronomaster makes heavy use of CG cutscenes. Chronomaster possesses a degree of non-linearity in that many tasks exist which are unnecessary to complete the game, and puzzles frequently have two possible solutions.
Reception
According to Charles Ardai of Computer Gaming World, Chronomaster was commercially unsuccessful.
A reviewer for Next Generation hailed the game for its detailed graphics, simple and intuitive interface, "entertaining" dialogue, puzzles which are mostly neither too easy or overly hard, and deep story based "around the concepts of immortality, universe construction, and the nature of tim
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfellas
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"Godfellas" is the twentieth episode in the third season of the American animated television series Futurama, and the 52nd episode of the series overall. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 17, 2002. The episode was written by Ken Keeler and directed by Susie Dietter. It features Bender becoming the god of a tiny civilization, and explores various religious issues. The episode won the first Writers Guild of America Award for animation.
Plot
During a space pirate attack, Bender—trying to find some peace and quiet in a torpedo tube—is accidentally fired into space. Because Bender was launched when the ship was at its top speed, it is impossible to catch up with him. After an asteroid crashes into Bender, a civilization of tiny humanoid "Shrimpkins" grows on him and worships him as a god. Bender enjoys his new-found status, picking a prophet named Malachi and having him bring "The One Commandment" ("God Needs Booze") to the Shrimpkins, who brew what for them are vast quantities of "Lordweiser" beer. The Shrimpkins begin praying for rain, sun and wealth, and Bender attempts to heed their prayers, failing and unintentionally harming the Shrimpkins in the process. Malachi tells him that the Shrimpkins who migrated to his buttocks feel their prayers are unheeded and have become atheists. The atheists threaten war with Bender's worshipers. Bender, horrified that his previous attempts to help the Shrimpkins only harmed them, refuses to intervene. The micro-civilization is destroyed when the Shrimpkin factions launch atomic weapons out of Bender's nuclear piles.
Bender continues floating through space until he encounters a cosmic entity. During their time together, the entity tells Bender that it has had much the same experience with helping those who pray to it, and has given up on directly interfering in its worshippers' lives. It now uses a "light touch", which it compares to safecracking, pickpocketing, or (as Bender adds) insurance fraud. Bender asks if he can be sent back to Earth, but the entity claims that it does not know where Earth is.
Meanwhile, Fry and Leela search for a way to locate Bender, which leads them to a sect of monks who use a radio telescope to search for God in space. Leela locks up the pacifist monks and Fry spends the next three days searching for Bender. Leela convinces him to give up the search, considering the odds of finding Bender astronomical. Fry spins the telescope's trackball and finds the cosmic entity by accident as he wishes out loud he had Bender back. The entity hears him and flings Bender toward Earth, where he lands just outside the monastery. Bender recounts his tale and Fry boasts they "climbed a mountain and locked up some monks", which reminds Leela that they never let them out. Fry is reluctant to return to the monastery and claims that their God will surely help them. Bender tells them that God cannot be counted on, and demands they rescue the monks themselves. The cosmi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM2000
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VM 2000 is a hypervisor from Fujitsu (formerly Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme) designed specifically for use with the BS2000 operating system. It is an EBCDIC-based operating system. It allows multiple images of BS2000 and Linux to operate on a S-series computer, which is based on the IBM System/390 architecture. It also supports BS2000, Linux and Microsoft Windows on x86-based SQ-series mainframes. Additionally, it can virtualize BS2000 guests on SR- and SX-series mainframes, based on MIPS and SPARC respectively.
See also
Paravirtualization
References
External links
Virtualization VM2000
Virtualization software
MIPS operating systems
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUBST
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In computing, SUBST is a command on the DOS, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows and ReactOS operating systems used for substituting paths on physical and logical drives as virtual drives.
Overview
In MS-DOS, the SUBST command was added with the release of MS-DOS 3.1. The command is similar to floating drives, a more general concept in operating systems of Digital Research origin, including CP/M-86 2.x, Personal CP/M-86 2.x, Concurrent DOS, Multiuser DOS, System Manager 7, REAL/32, as well as DOS Plus and DR DOS (up to 6.0). DR DOS 6.0 includes an implementation of the command. The command is also available in FreeDOS and PTS-DOS. The Windows SUBST command is available in supported versions of the command line interpreter cmd.exe. In Windows NT, SUBST uses DefineDosDevice() to create the disk mappings.
The JOIN command is the "opposite" of SUBST, because JOIN will take a drive letter and make it appear as a directory.
Some versions of MS-DOS COMMAND.COM support the undocumented internal TRUENAME command which can display the "true name" of a file, i.e. the fully qualified name with drive, path, and extension, which is found possibly by name only via the PATH environment variable, or through SUBST, JOIN and ASSIGN filesystem mappings.
Syntax
This is the command syntax in Windows XP to associate a path with a drive letter:
SUBST [drive1: [drive2:]path]
SUBST drive1: /D
Parameters
drive1: – Specify a virtual drive to which to assign a path.
[drive2:]path – Specify a physical drive and path to assign to a virtual drive.
/D – Delete a substituted (virtual) drive.
Examples
Mapping a drive
This means that, for example, to map C:'s root to X:, the following command would be used at the command-line interface:
C:\>SUBST X: C:\
Upon doing this, a new drive called X: would appear under the My Computer virtual folder in Windows Explorer.
Unmapping a drive
To unmap drive X: again, the following command needs to by typed at the command prompt:
C:\>SUBST X: /D
Custom label
A custom label can be assigned to a drive letter created in this way by way of a registry key, which can be created by renaming (select "rename" from the drive letter context menu or press ) the SUBST drive in Windows Explorer/My Computer.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons\M\DefaultLabel\
(DefaultValue) = Your Drive Label
"M" represents the drive letter to assign a custom label to.
However, labels created for SUBST drives in this manner are overridden by the label of the host drive/partition: the custom labels are only used if the host drive has no label. One may then:
Delete the host's drive label;
Create the proper registry keys for the SUBST drive letter;
Create the proper registry keys for the host drive letter (optional, works around the host drive label override caveat);
Re-create the SUBST drive to see label changes applied.
In addition the LABEL command is able to change the label name
LABEL <Your Drive Letter>: "Your
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop%3A%20Prime%20Directives
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RoboCop: Prime Directives is a Canadian cyberpunk TV miniseries released in 2001. It is a spin-off from the action film RoboCop franchise. The series, created by Fireworks Entertainment, consists of four feature-length episodes: Dark Justice, Meltdown, Resurrection and Crash and Burn. All four episodes have been released on DVD. Page Fletcher stars as Officer Alex Murphy / RoboCop.
Production
Fireworks Entertainment stated that they wanted to make use of the TV rights to RoboCop before they expired, and thus ordered that Prime Directives be made, selecting Julian Grant to direct. Grant had a reputation for finishing projects ahead of schedule and under budget. He, in turn, picked Joseph O'Brien and Brad Abraham to write the series. Richard Eden, who played the role of RoboCop during the 1994 television series, was approached to reprise the role for this series, but negotiations broke down for an unspecified reason.
The previous incarnation of RoboCop was the family-friendly TV series from 1994. Grant had no interest in perpetuating this approach, and returned RoboCop to his dark, violent roots. Although Prime Directives takes place ten years after the original film, the production was not permitted to use clips from the feature films. MGM had licensed shots of Murphy's death scene from the original film for the television show to use. The creators of Prime Directives took the clip of the TV show that used the footage, recolored the shots blue, and used them in the third film in the series, Resurrection. In other words, they used a clip from the TV show that contained a clip from the movie.
Cast
Page Fletcher as Officer Alex Murphy / RoboCop
Maurice Dean Wint as Commander John T. Cable / RoboCable
Maria Del Mar as OCP Executive Sara Cable
Anthony Lemke as OCP Executive James Murphy
Leslie Hope as Ann R. Key
Geraint Wyn Davies as David Kaydick
Kevin Jubinville as OCP Executive Damian Lowe
Anthony J. Mifsud as Chuck Conflagration
Eugene Clark as Carver RH
Marni Thompson as Abby Normal
Françoise Yip as Lexx Icon
Prior to being cast, Fletcher had not seen the RoboCop films, and no effort was made to mimic Peter Weller's original movements. Fletcher instead worked out a RoboCop movement system for himself that he felt was appropriate for where the character was, physically and emotionally.
Continuity
Prime Directives takes place ten years after RoboCop. This series is largely considered an alternate reality to the films as major events of the second and third films and the television series are almost completely ignored. In contrast to the events shown in the films, Delta City is developed and OCP is not dissolved. In the theatrical movie series, Murphy is publicly revealed to have been converted into RoboCop and openly uses his legally deceased name, whereas in this series, Murphy's identity remains secret until the fourth episode, in which he is legally recognized as Police Commander Alex Murphy, formerly known as Robocop Model 01.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit%20Network
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The Hit Network is an Australian commercial radio network owned and operated by Southern Cross Austereo. The network consists of 41 radio stations broadcasting a hot adult contemporary music format, as well as 6 digital radio stations.
History
The Hit Network was formed in 1986 as the Austereo Network after Austereo, the licensee of Adelaide commercial radio station SAFM, purchased Fox FM in Melbourne. The network grew throughout the late 1980s and the 1990s, acquiring B105 Brisbane, 2Day FM Sydney and PMFM Perth, as well as establishing joint-venture stations in Canberra and Newcastle. The network would later become known as the Today Network, with stations adopting a contemporary hit radio music format.
Following the acquisition of Austereo by Southern Cross Media Group, the company incorporated the regional Hot FM, Sea FM and Star FM networks into the Today Network.
In October 2014, Southern Cross Austereo announced it would relaunch SAFM in Adelaide as Hit 107, with a staggered network-wide relaunch announced in December. On 14 January 2015, the network was relaunched as Today's Hit Network, with the relaunch extending to Canberra in January 2016. Sea FM Hobart was relaunched as Hit100.9 in February, with the remaining network stations adopting the Hit Network branding as part of a national brand consolidation in December.
On 27 July 2020, the Hit Network was relaunched, adopting a new logo and "pop-based" music format in an attempt to target a 30–54 year old audience. In addition, Hit 105 Brisbane and Hit 107 Adelaide reverted to their heritage brands B105 and SAFM respectively. On 20 August 2020, Southern Cross Austereo announced the network would introduce statewide networked breakfast programs in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria, replacing 19 local shows.
On 1 December 2020, Mix 94.5 Perth switched affiliation from the Triple M network to the Hit Network, with Hit92.9 relaunching as 92.9 Triple M.
Stations
, the Hit Network consists of 41 FM radio stations.
ACT
Hit104.7 Canberra
NSW
2Day FM 104.1 Sydney
Hit101.3 Central Coast
Hit105.9 Central West
Hit105.5 Coffs Coast
hit102.3 & 105.1 Mid North Coast
Hit106.9 Newcastle
Hit93.1 Riverina
Hit99.7 Riverina MIA
Hit104.9 The Border
QLD
B105 Brisbane
Hit103.5 Cairns
Hit Central Queensland
Hit100.7 Darling Downs
Hit94.7 Emerald
Hit101.9 Fraser Coast
90.9 Sea FM Gold Coast
Hit100.3 Mackay & the Whitsundays
hit Maranoa
Hit102.5 Mount Isa
Hit89.1 South Burnett
Hit97.9 Tablelands
Hit103.1 Townsville
SA
SAFM 107.1 Adelaide
SAFM 96.1 Limestone Coast
TAS
Hit100.9 Hobart
VIC
101.9 The Fox Melbourne
Hit91.9 Bendigo
hit Goulburn Valley
Hit99.5 Sunraysia
WA
Mix 94.5 Perth
Hit95.3 Albany
Hit101.3 Broome
Hit99.7 Carnarvon
Hit102.3 Esperance
Hit96.5 Geraldton
Hit97.9 Kalgoorlie
Hit106.5 Karratha
Hit Northwest
Hit91.7 Port Hedland
Hit Southwest
Hit Wheatbelt
Hit WA
Network shows
Carrie & Tommy, Weekdays 3 pm – 6 pm
Hughesy, Ed & Erin, Weeknights 6
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suunto
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Suunto Oy is a Finnish company that manufactures and markets sports watches, dive computers, compasses and precision instruments. Headquartered in Vantaa, Finland, Suunto employs more than 300 people worldwide, and its products are sold in over 100 countries. Although globally active, the headquarters is placed next to the factory, in which most of the work stages are still handcrafted. Suunto was a subsidiary of Amer Sports, owned since 2019 by the Chinese group Anta Sports, with sister brands Wilson, Atomic, Sports Tracker, Salomon, Precor, Arc'teryx. In May 2022, Chinese technology company Liesheng acquired Suunto from Amer Sports.
The company's name comes from the Finnish word , meaning "direction" or "path", or in navigation, "bearing" or "heading".
History
In 1932 the company's founder, Tuomas Vohlonen, a surveyor by profession, applied for a patent for a unique method of filling and sealing a lightweight compass housing made entirely of celluloid and filled with liquid to dampen the needle and to protect it from shock and wear due to excessive motion.
In 1935, Vohlonen was granted a patent on his design, and it went into mass production a year later as the wrist-mount Suunto M-311. Although it was not the first portable liquid-filled compass, Vohlonen's design was compact and lightweight, enabling it to be easily worn on the wrist. With minor changes, the M-311 was later adopted by the Finnish Army as the M-34.
The company was entered in the trade register on February 4, 1936.
During World War II, Suunto introduced a compact liquid sighting compass, the M/40, for artillery officers and other users needing a precision instrument for measuring an azimuth. The company grew rapidly after the war, supplying compasses and other navigational instruments to both civilian and military markets.
After Tuomas Vohlonen died in 1939, his widow Elli Vohlonen ran the company until 1952, when she sold it to Paavo Kajanne, Aarne Mahnala and Veli-Jussi Hölsö, who also owned Redox Oy. At the very end of 1970s they sold the company to Niemistö family, and in the beginning of 1990s Sponsor Oy bought the company and listed it in a stock exchange in 1995. In 1999 Amer Sports bought the company.
In 1996 Suunto Oy acquired Recta SA, a Swiss compass manufacturer.
In the late 1930s Suunto Oy was located in the backyard building of Laivanvarustajankatu 8, Ullanlinna, Helsinki. In 1959 Suunto moved to Itämerenkatu 52, Ruoholahti, Helsinki. In 1969 the company moved to Juvan teollisuuskatu 8, Juvanmalmi, Espoo. Suunto Oy's headquarters moved to its current location in Valimotie 7, Tammisto, Vantaa in 2001.
Compass products
Suunto makes a wide variety of magnetic compasses, including the A and M series for general navigation, the Arrow series of compasses for competitive orienteering and KB (KäsiBussoli, engl. hand bearing compass), MB (=MatchBox) and MC (=Mirror Compass) lines for those requiring a professional-quality hand bearing compass. Suunto also produ
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevlin%20Henney
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Kevlin Henney is an English author, presenter, and consultant on software development. He has written on the subject of computer programming and development practice for many magazines and sites, including Better Software, The Register, C/C++ Users Journal, Application Development Advisor, JavaSpektrum, C++ Report, Java Report, EXE, and Overload. He is a member of the IEEE Software Advisory Board. Henney is also coauthor of books on patterns and editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know.
Henney has given keynote addresses at a number of conferences, including Agile, ACCU, DevTernity, DevWeek, Dutch PHP Conference, Embedded Systems Club, GeeCON, GOTO, Build Stuff, JAOO, JAZOON, Jfokus, NLUUG, OOP, PHPNW, SDC, Software Architect, VOXXEDDAYS, and XP Day.
Henney is a member of the ACCU, and gave the keynote address at the 2001 ACCU conference on the subject of writing less code, because "there is no code faster than no code" and "less code, equals less bugs" (of which he is an active presenter). He is also a speaker at OOPSLA, most recently speaking at OOPSLA 2005. In October 2009, Henney presented The Uncertainty Principle at the 2nd Annual PHP North West Conference in Manchester, UK. He has also been credited with the remark "...except for the problem of too many layers of indirection" in response to the famous aphorism of David Wheeler: "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection."
Bibliography
References
External links
British technology writers
Living people
British software engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LANtastic
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LANtastic is a peer-to-peer local area network (LAN) operating system for DOS and Microsoft Windows (and formerly OS/2). The New York Times described the network, which permits machines to function both as servers and as workstations, as allowing computers, "to share printers and other devices."
InformationWeek pointed out that "these peer-to-peer networking solutions, such as Webcorp's Web and Artisoft's LANtastic, definitely aren't powerful, but they can act as 'starter' local area networks" yet added that even Fortune-sized companies find them useful.
LANtastic supports Ethernet, ARCNET and Token Ring adapters as well as its original twisted-pair adapter at .
Overview
Lantastic networks use NetBIOS.
Its multi-platform support allows a LANtastic client station to access any combination of Windows or DOS operating systems, and its interconnectivity allows sharing of files, printers, CD-ROMs and applications throughout an enterprise. LANtastic was especially popular before Windows 95 arrived with built-in networking and was nearly as popular as the market leader Novell at the time.
The New York Times described the network, which permits machines to function both as servers and as workstations, as allowing computers "to share printers and other devices.
History
LANtastic was originally developed by Artisoft, Inc. in Tucson, Arizona, the first company to offer peer-to-peer networking.
Several foreign-language versions were released in 1992.
By mid 1994, Microsoft's Windows for Workgroups was "eating into" LANtastic's lead (as was Novell).
Artisoft bought TeleVantage, and renamed the latter Artisoft TeleVantage. Artisoft subsequently bought Vertical Communications (September, 2004), and renamed itself (January, 2005) to be Vertical Communications.
Following the release of TeleVantage, Lantastic and Artisoft's other legacy products were acquired by SpartaCom Technologies in 2000. SpartaCom was later acquired by PC Micro.
LANtastic 8.01 was released in 2006. It can connect PCs running MS-DOS (also PC DOS) 5.0 or later and Windows 3.x up to 7 (in case of Windows XP and 7, some limitations apply).
Reception
In 1989, BYTE magazine listed LANtastic as among the "Distinction" winners of the BYTE Awards, stating that the $399 starter kit with two cards was "a lot of LAN for the buck" and noting that columnist Jerry Pournelle used it "despite the silly name".
Artisoft products were described in 1994 as "popular with small businesses." By 1996 they were able to buy the 1991-founded Stylus Innovation for $12.8 million.
Line extensions
In 1993 the company introduced a pair of line extensions named:
Simply LANtastic, "for beginners" (with licensing for 2 - 10 peer-to-peer nodes) and
LANtastic Power Suite came with Lotus Organizer and Cheyenne's backup software.
Lantastic-95
A package named Lantastic-95 was designed to give more security than the Windows 95 "signon" screen (for which pressing ESCape is the way to bypass it) and also support "lo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20Paulson
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Lawrence Charles Paulson (born 1955) is an American computer scientist. He is a Professor of Computational Logic at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.
Education
Paulson graduated from the California Institute of Technology in 1977, and obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1981 for research on programming languages and compiler-compilers supervised by John L. Hennessy.
Research
Paulson came to the University of Cambridge in 1983 and became a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge in 1987. He is best known for the cornerstone text on the programming language ML, ML for the Working Programmer. His research is based around the interactive theorem prover Isabelle, which he introduced in 1986. He has worked on the verification of cryptographic protocols using inductive definitions, and he has also formalised the constructible universe of Kurt Gödel. Recently he has built a new theorem prover, MetiTarski, for real-valued special functions.
Paulson teaches an undergraduate lecture course in the Computer Science Tripos, entitled Logic and Proof which covers automated theorem proving and related methods. (He used to teach Foundations of Computer Science which introduces functional programming, but this course was taken over by Alan Mycroft and Amanda Prorok in 2017, and then Anil Madhavapeddy and Amanda Prorok in 2019.)
Awards and honours
Paulson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017, a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2008 and a Distinguished Affiliated Professor for Logic in Informatics at the Technical University of Munich.
Personal life
Paulson has two children by his first wife, Dr Susan Mary Paulson, who died in 2010. Since 2012, he has been married to Dr Elena Tchougounova.
References
1955 births
Living people
American computer scientists
Members of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
California Institute of Technology alumni
Stanford University alumni
Fellows of Clare College, Cambridge
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellows of the Royal Society
Formal methods people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20BMG%20copy%20protection%20rootkit%20scandal
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The Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal concerns the copy protection measures included by Sony BMG on compact discs in 2005. When inserted into a computer, the CDs installed one of two pieces of software that provided a form of digital rights management (DRM) by modifying the operating system to interfere with CD copying. Neither program could easily be uninstalled, and they created vulnerabilities that were exploited by unrelated malware. One of the programs would install and "phone home" with reports on the user's private listening habits, even if the user refused its end-user license agreement (EULA), while the other was not mentioned in the EULA at all. Both programs contained code from several pieces of copylefted free software in an apparent infringement of copyright, and configured the operating system to hide the software's existence, leading to both programs being classified as rootkits.
Sony BMG initially denied that the rootkits were harmful. It then released an uninstaller for one of the programs that merely made the program's files visible while also installing additional software that could not be easily removed, collected an email address from the user and introduced further security vulnerabilities.
Following public outcry, government investigations and class-action lawsuits in 2005 and 2006, Sony BMG partially addressed the scandal with consumer settlements, a recall of about 10% of the affected CDs and the suspension of CD copy-protection efforts in early 2007.
Background
In August 2000, statements by Sony Pictures Entertainment U.S. senior vice president Steve Heckler foreshadowed the events of late 2005. Heckler told attendees at the Americas Conference on Information Systems: "The industry will take whatever steps it needs to protect itself and protect its revenue streams ... It will not lose that revenue stream, no matter what ... Sony is going to take aggressive steps to stop this. We will develop technology that transcends the individual user. We will firewall Napster at source – we will block it at your cable company. We will block it at your phone company. We will block it at your ISP. We will firewall it at your PC ... These strategies are being aggressively pursued because there is simply too much at stake."
In Europe, BMG created a minor scandal in 2001 when it released Natalie Imbruglia's second album White Lilies Island without warning labels stating that the CD contained copy protection. The CDs were eventually replaced. BMG and Sony both released copy-protected versions of certain releases in certain markets in late 2001, and a late 2002 report indicated that all BMG CDs sold in Europe would contain some form of copy protection.
Copy-protection software
The two pieces of copy-protection software at issue in the 2005–2007 scandal were included on over 22 million CDs marketed by Sony BMG, the record company formed by the 2004 merger of Sony and BMG's recorded music divisions. About two million of those CDs, sp
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellsite%20information%20transfer%20standard%20markup%20language
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WITSML is a standard for transmitting technical data between organisations in the petroleum industry. It continues to be developed by an Energistics facilitated Special Interest Group to develop XML standards for drilling, completions, and interventions data exchange. Organizations for which WITSML is targeted include energy companies, service companies, drilling contractors, application vendors and regulatory agencies.
A modern drilling rig or offshore platform uses a diverse array of specialist contractors, each of whom need to communicate data to the oil company operating the rig, and to each other. Historically this was done with serial transfer of ASCII data.
Purpose
The drilling, completions, and interventions functions of the upstream oil and natural gas industry need universally available standards to facilitate the free flow of technical data across networks between oil companies, service companies, drilling contractors, application vendors and regulatory agencies.
The WITSML initiative was started to address this need, and through its success, is now influencing petroleum industry data standards beyond the original scope.
WITSML(tm) Standards support the “right time” seamless flow of drilling and completions data between data producers and data consumers to speed and enhance decision-making in the drilling and completions domain.
The WITSML Special Interest Group (SIG) is open to all industry organizations who wish to contribute to the further development of the WITSML Standards. Energistics has custody of the standards and hosts the SIG. Energistics makes these and other industry standards available for use by all industry companies through a licensing agreement that is free of any fees or charges.
Standards used
WITSML Standards are defined using the W3C Internet standards for XML (notably XML Schema) and Web Services (including SOAP and WSDL)). The WITSML Standards define Web Services that define client/server interactions, known as the WITSML Application Programming Interface specifications. The WITSML Standards define more than 20 industry domain specific XML data object schemas to support drilling, completions, and intervention business functions.
Download current standards
Versions
WITSML Version 1.3.1 was released in March 2006. This was superseded by Version 1.3.1.1(bugfix), release in March 2007.
WITSML Version 1.4.1 was released in September 2011.
WITSML Version 2.0 was released in February 2017.
WITS and WITSML
WITS was a precursor of WITSML based on serial data exchange on a "Point to Point" basis, developed in the early 1980s (SPE Paper 16141) and was transferred to the American Petroleum Institute as a standard. However the rapid evolution of network technology, and the richness of data from LWD and rig data systems, drove BP and Statoil to explore a change to the standard. The initial project in 2000, DART ( Drilling Automation Real Time) was a CORBA approach, but this was dropped in favour of an XML base
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Atari%20XEGS%20games
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The Atari XEGS is the final member of the Atari 8-bit family. Marketed primarily as a video game console, it is compatible with other Atari 8-bit computer software and peripherals and functions as a home computer.
This list contains games released during the XEGS's lifetime, all of which use "Atari XE Video Game Cartridge" packaging. Many are earlier diskette-based releases converted to ROM cartridge. Some XEGS cartridges do not work the Atari 400 and 800, because they need 64K RAM or another feature of the XL and XE 8-bit computer models.
Games
Listed here are all Atari XEGS games published by Atari Corporation.
See also
Lists of video games
Notes
References
Atari XEGS
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domination%20analysis
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Domination analysis of an approximation algorithm is a way to estimate its performance, introduced by Glover and Punnen in 1997. Unlike the classical approximation ratio analysis, which compares the numerical quality of a calculated solution with that of an optimal solution, domination analysis involves examining the rank of the calculated solution in the sorted order of all possible solutions. In this style of analysis, an algorithm is said to have dominance number or domination number K, if there exists a subset of K different solutions to the problem among which the algorithm's output is the best. Domination analysis can also be expressed using a domination ratio, which is the fraction of the solution space that is no better than the given solution; this number always lies within the interval [0,1], with larger numbers indicating better solutions. Domination analysis is most commonly applied to problems for which the total number of possible solutions is known and for which exact solution is difficult.
For instance, in the Traveling salesman problem, there are (n-1)! possible solutions for a problem instance with n cities. If an algorithm can be shown to have dominance number close to (n-1)!, or equivalently to have domination ratio close to 1, then it can be taken as preferable to an algorithm with lower dominance number.
If it is possible to efficiently find random samples of a problem's solution space, as it is in the Traveling salesman problem, then it is straightforward for a randomized algorithm to find a solution that with high probability has high domination ratio: simply construct a set of samples and select the best solution from among them. (See, e.g., Orlin and Sharma.)
The dominance number described here should not be confused with the domination number of a graph, which refers to the number of vertices in the smallest dominating set of the graph.
Recently, a growing number of articles in which domination analysis has been applied to assess the performance of heuristics has appeared. This kind of analysis may be seen as competing with the classical approximation ratio analysis tradition. The two measures may also be viewed as complementary.
Known Results
This section contains a technical survey of known results.
Vertex Cover
Inapproximability. Let ε > 0. Unless P=NP, there is no polynomial algorithm for Vertex Cover
such that its domination number is greater than 3^((n-n^ε)/3).
Knapsack
Inapproximability. Let ε > 0. Unless P=NP, there is no polynomial algorithm for Knapsack
such that its domination number is greater than 2^(n-n^ε).
Max Satisfiability
TSP
References
Approximation algorithms
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20time%20Java
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Real time Java is a catch-all term for a combination of technologies that enables programmers to write programs that meet the demands of real-time systems in the Java programming language.
Java's sophisticated memory management, native support for threading and concurrency, type safety, and relative simplicity have created a demand for its use in many domains. Its capabilities have been enhanced to support real time computational needs:
Real time Java supports a strict priority-based threading model,
because Java threads support priorities, Java locking mechanisms support priority inversion avoidance techniques, such as priority inheritance or the priority ceiling protocol, and
event handling.
The initial proposal for an open standard for real-time Java was put forth by Kelvin Nilsen, then serving as a research faculty member at Iowa State University. A follow-on overview paper was published in the CACM. The overwhelmingly positive response to these early proposals resulted in a series of meetings hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in an effort to establish an open standard for real-time Java. NIST was ultimately told that they were not the appropriate body to establish standards related to the Java language, as Java was trademarked, and the technologies were owned by Sun Microsystems. Therefore, NIST ended their efforts with publication of consensus requirements that could be considered by future standardization efforts to be hosted by Sun Microsystems.
When the Java Community was formed, the very first effort was the specification for real-time Java, JSR001. A number of implementations of the resulting Real-time specification for Java (RTSJ) have emerged, including a reference implementation from Timesys, IBM's WebSphere Real Time, Sun Microsystems's Java SE Real-Time Systems, PTC Perc from PTC, Inc., or JamaicaVM from aicas.
The RTSJ addressed the critical issues by mandating a minimum specification for the threading model (and allowing other models to be plugged into the VM) and by providing for areas of memory that are not subject to garbage collection, along with threads that are not preemptable by the garbage collector. These areas are instead managed using region-based memory management. The latest specification, 2.0, supports direct device access and deterministic garbage collection as well.
Real-Time Specification for Java
The Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ) is a set of interfaces and behavioral refinements that enable real-time computer programming in the Java programming language. RTSJ 1.0 was developed as JSR 1 under the Java Community Process, which approved the new standard in November, 2001. RTSJ 2.0 is being developed under JSR 282. A draft version is available at JSR 282 JCP Page. More information can be found at RTSJ 2.0
See also
Functional specification
Javolution – RTSJ Compliant Java Library
References
External links
Issues in the Design and Implementation of Real-Ti
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20Advertising%20Protocol
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The Service Advertising Protocol (SAP) is included in the Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX) protocol. SAP makes the process of adding and removing services on an IPX internetwork dynamic. SAP was maintained by Novell.
As servers are booted up, they may advertise their services using SAP; when they are brought down, they use SAP to indicate that their services will no longer be available. IPX network servers may use SAP to identify themselves by name and service type. All entities that use SAP must broadcast a name and Service Type that (together) are unique throughout the entire IPX internetwork. This policy is enforced by system administrators and application developers.
SAP Service Types
Further reading
Novell NetWare
Network protocols
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20LU6.2
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Logical Unit 6.2 is an IBM-originated communications protocol specification dating from 1974, and is part of IBM's Systems Network Architecture (SNA).
A device-independent SNA protocol, it is used for peer-to-peer communications between two systems, for example, between a computer and a device (e.g. terminal or printer), or between computers. LU6.2 is used by many of IBM's products, including Common Programming Interface for Communications Intersystem Communications (CICS ISC), and Information Management System, and also many non-IBM products. In 1986, Bruce Compton, Manager of Office Systems and Technology with General Electric, said:
LU 6.2 means I don't have to write the software communications interfaces. If I have one office server in a DEC environment, and another in a Wang environment… I can use the LU 6.2 standard to pass files between those devices, and I don't have to worry about things like block checking and clock.
Some examples of non-IBM products which implemented the SNA stack including LU6.2 are: Microsoft Host Integration Server, and NetWare for SAA.
APPC is a protocol used with LU6.2 architecture. APPC is often used to refer to the LU6.2 architecture or to specific LU6.2 features.
LU6.2-compliant devices operate as peers within the network and can perform multiple simultaneous transactions over the network. LU6.2 devices can also detect and correct errors. The LU6.2 definition provides a common API for communicating with and controlling compliant devices. Although the concepts were the same on all platforms, the actual API implementation often varied on each IBM platform which implemented it. Other vendors also implemented LU6.2 in their own products and with their own APIs. IBM later defined the Common Programming Interface for Communications (CPIC) API which would eventually become widely implemented. CPIC allowed for the authoring of multi-platform code.
Adoption was slow but steady. As of November 1987, of 207 large US companies interviewed "Eighteen percent of the companies said they have implemented LU 6.2 systems already, and 51% said they expect to have such systems up and running within two years."
References
LU6.2
Network protocols
LU6.2
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMNT-CD
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WMNT-CD (channel 48) is a low-power, Class A television station in Toledo, Ohio, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. The station is owned by Community Broadcast Group, Inc. WMNT-CD's studios are located in a strip mall at the corner of Reynolds Road and Dussel Drive in Maumee, and its transmitter is located on top of the One SeaGate tower in downtown Toledo.
On cable, the station is available on Toledo's Buckeye Broadband on channel 58 (hence the former branding of My58). It claims no other pay TV carriage in the Toledo market, nor are its subchannels carried by any pay TV provider.
History
The station was licensed as W48AP on March 23, 1987, with broadcasts commencing on March 6, 1989, from studios and transmitters located at 716 North Westwood Avenue, in west Toledo. Launched as "HomeTown TV 48", it carried a wide variety of locally produced programming including a trivia quiz game show (Trivia in Toledo, or TnT, hosted by Jerry Millen); a current affairs and political program (High Level Views, hosted by Chuck Schmitt); Neighbor Talk, an interview-driven talk show hosted by general manager Bob Moore, and featuring local guests talking about topics ranging from political issues to hobbies; a nightly auction program featuring products from local merchants and hosted by Douglas Goff; broadcasts of entertainment acts from local fairs and festivals; a weekly auto and boat sale program called Wheels, Keels, and Deals and a spin-off called Homes for Sale, featuring local real property and hosted by Bob DuParis; a children's series called Abracadabra featuring games, activities, and ventriloquism; a variety show hosted by long-time actor and singer Johnny Ginger; local high school football and basketball games (several each week); as well as other specials and series. Programming during non-prime hours was provided by FamilyNet (later seen in Toledo on WLMB), which featured classic movies and religious programs.
Although W48AP was widely recognized as a pioneer of community-oriented low-power television (LPTV), it suffered initially in its bid for cable TV carriage, as the local cable systems did not generally grant LPTV stations space on their networks. This effectively relegated their signal to being viewed on "second TVs" in the minority of households that did not subscribe to cable—which meant that getting advertising support was difficult. Exacerbating the difficulties posed by lack of cable carriage, the local newspaper (the Toledo Blade, whose owner Block Communications also own the local cable system), refused to publish TV listings for TV48. The station bought small ads in the Sunday TV listings booklet, but was unable to list their programming alongside the other stations in the main listing section. However, TV48 was able to secure a cable slot on April 24, 1989, on Buckeye Cablesystem, though on channel 29B (or "B-29", as TV48 referred to it), away from the other local channels, and on the other side of what was then a dual-coax
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20Levy
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Marc Levy (born 16 October 1961) is a French novelist.
Career
Levy was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, and studied management and computers at Paris Dauphine University.
In the late 1990s, Levy wrote a story that his sister, then a screenwriter, encouraged him to send to Editions Robert Laffont, who immediately decided to publish If Only It Were True. Before it was published, Steven Spielberg (DreamWorks) acquired film rights to the novel. The movie, Just like Heaven, produced by Steven Spielberg, and starring Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo, was a #1 box office hit in America in 2005.
After If Only It Were True, Marc Levy began writing full-time.
Levy was first married at the age of 26; he had a son, the inspiration for If Only It Were True. He is married and lives in New York City.
Bibliography
If Only It Were True, 2000 (adapted for film in 2005)
Finding You, 2001 (adapted for television in 2007)
Seven Days for an Eternity, 2003
In Another Life, 2004
Vous revoir, 2005 (the sequel to If Only It Were True)
London Mon Amour, 2006 (adapted for film in 2008)
Children of Freedom, 2007
All Those Things We Never Said, 2008.
The First Day, 2009
The First Night, 2009 (the sequel to The First Day)
The Shadow Thief, 2010
The Strange Journey of Mr. Daldry, 2011
Replay, 2012
Stronger than Fear, 2013
Another Idea of Happiness, 2014
P.S. from Paris, AmazonCrossing, 2015, trans. Sam Taylor
The Last of the Stanfields, AmazonCrossing, 2019, trans. Daniel Wasserman
A Woman Like Her, AmazonCrossing, 2020, trans. Kate Deimling
Hope, AmazonCrossing, 2021, trans. Hannah Dickens-Doyle
Filmography
La tortue sur le dos (1978) - Gus, le voyageur
L'amour dure trois ans (2011) - Himself
Short film
La Lettre de Nabila directed for Amnesty International, adapted from a short story he co-wrote with Sophie Fontanel.
References
External links
Site officiel
The story behind Replay – Online Essay by Marc Levy at Upcoming4.me
1961 births
Living people
Writers from Boulogne-Billancourt
21st-century French novelists
Paris Dauphine University alumni
French male novelists
French psychological fiction writers
21st-century French male writers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razer
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Razer may refer to:
Razer Inc., a Singaporean-American computer peripherals manufacturer specializing in PC gaming
Razer (Canadian TV channel), former name of MTV2, a Canadian digital television specialty service
Razer Phone, a smartphone designed and developed by Razer Inc.
Razer (robot), a contestant on the series Robot Wars
Razer Airport, airport serving Koran va Monjan, Badakhshan, Afghanistan
Razer, a main character in Green Lantern: The Animated Series who also appears in the fourth season of Young Justice.
Razer, a character in SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron
People
Greg Razer, American politician
Helen Razer (born 1968), Australian radio presenter and writer
See also
Razor (disambiguation)
Razar (disambiguation)
Rasor (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethering
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Tethering or phone-as-modem (PAM) is the sharing of a mobile device's Internet connection with other connected computers. Connection of a mobile device with other devices can be done over wireless LAN (Wi-Fi), over Bluetooth or by physical connection using a cable, for example through USB.
If tethering is done over WLAN, the feature may be branded as a personal hotspot or mobile hotspot, which allows the device to serve as a portable router. Mobile hotspots may be protected by a PIN or password. The Internet-connected mobile device can act as a portable wireless access point and router for devices connected to it.
Mobile device's OS support
Many mobile devices are equipped with software to offer tethered Internet access. Windows Mobile 6.5, Windows Phone 7, Android (starting from version 2.2), and iOS 3.0 (or later) offer tethering over a Bluetooth PAN or a USB connection. Tethering over Wi-Fi, also known as Personal Hotspot, is available on iOS starting with iOS 4.2.5 (or later) on iPhone 4 or iPad (3rd gen), certain Windows Mobile 6.5 devices like the HTC HD2, Windows Phone 7, 8 and 8.1 devices (varies by manufacturer and model), and certain Android phones (varies widely depending on carrier, manufacturer, and software version).
For IPv4 networks, the tethering normally works via NAT on the handset's existing data connection, so from the network point of view, there is just one device with a single IPv4 network address, though it is technically possible to attempt to identify multiple machines.
On some mobile network operators, this feature is contractually unavailable by default, and may be activated only by paying to add a tethering package to a data plan or choosing a data plan that includes tethering. This is done primarily because with a computer sharing the network connection, there is typically substantially more network traffic.
Some network-provided devices have carrier-specific software that may deny the inbuilt tethering ability normally available on the device, or enable it only if the subscriber pays an additional fee. Some operators have asked Google or any mobile device producer using Android to completely remove tethering capability from the operating system on certain devices. Handsets purchased SIM-free, without a network provider subsidy, are often unhindered with regard to tethering.
There are, however, several ways to enable tethering on restricted devices without paying the carrier for it, including 3rd party USB Tethering apps such as PDAnet, rooting Android devices or jailbreaking iOS devices and installing a tethering application on the device. Tethering is also available as a downloadable third-party application on most Symbian mobile phones as well as on the MeeGo platform and on WebOS mobiles phones.
In carriers' contracts
Depending on the wireless carrier, a user's cellular device may have restricted functionality. While tethering may be allowed at no extra cost, some carriers impose a one-time charge to ena
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.I.C.E.
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D.I.C.E. (DNA Integrated Cybernetic Enterprises) is an English language-originated anime series produced by Bandai Entertainment, Xebec, and Studio Galapagos (computer animation). Originally made for the United States, the series was first shown on Cartoon Network in the US, then YTV in Canada. On December 12, 2005, the Japanese version was shown on Animax under the title . On January 7, 2006, the Tagalog version premiered on Hero TV. ABS-CBN network followed by broadcasting the series in Tagalog on January 28, 2006. As of October 31, 2009, D.I.C.E. has already run for a total of 15 full runs in the 4 channels which broadcast D.I.C.E. in the Philippines.
Story
In the Sarbylion galaxy, there is an organization named D.I.C.E. (an acronym for DNA Integrated Cybernetic Enterprises) to help those in need. Among them, F-99 is the only unit composed entirely of children. Often being trivialized by their young ages, DICE member use RADOC to summon the Gild suit (Gild jacket) to help them to gain some respect among suspicious locals. When a problem arises, DICE is called to the rescue. With their Dinobreakers which can transform from Vehicle Mode to Dino Mode, the DICE team can always get the job done.
D.I.C.E. is sometimes compared with Thunderbirds, not only because of the rescue theme, but also the GTR catchphrase, which means "Good to Roll" (some prefer it as "got the request").
In the Japanese version of the show, D.I.C.E. stands for "Dinobrakers Integrated Cybernetic Enterprises."
Characters
D.I.C.E. members
Fortress F-99
Among D.I.C.E., the F-99 is run by children, specifically orphans. It has been said that all of them grew up in a time of war and that their families were victims of it.
A hot-headed pilot who always rushes into danger with little or no forethought. Despite his hot temper, Jet has a strong moral sense and isn't afraid to take risks to rescue those in need. His fierce competitive streak often leads to friction with his teammates. Jet's Dinobreaker is Motoraptor. (Age: 12) (Red)
Captain of F-99. As the second oldest member of the team, he is looked upon by his other teammates as an older brother. A well-respected and capable leader, Tak always stays calm and decisive even under enormous pressure. In episode 8, it was hinted that he and Marsha are dating. Tak's Dinobreaker is Dimetrover. (Age: 15) (Yellow)
Described best as "a pretty-boy pilot who is always concerned about his looks." As the pilot of the only flight-capable Dinobreaker HoverPtera, Robert is often sent to the front lines to scout the situation. Though Robert and Jet always compete over everything, they also make the best partners on the DICE F-99 team. It is shown often throughout the season that he is close friends with both Sam and Marco. (Age: 12) (Purple)
Jet's buddy in orphanage and a close friend of Robert. Always complaining about something, especially how cramped his cockpit is, Marco and his Dinobreaker Monocrawler are often ass
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Fistful%20of%20Datas
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"A Fistful of Datas" is the 134th episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the eighth episode of the sixth season, which premiered in the United States on November 9, 1992. Its title is a play on the title of the Sergio Leone "Spaghetti Western" film A Fistful of Dollars.
Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet crew of the Federation starship Enterprise-D. In this episode, Worf, his son Alexander Rozhenko, and Deanna Troi are trapped in the holodeck where the characters resemble Data and have his superior abilities.
This episode features a scene with Data in drag, and has numerous comedy elements. It has been noted as a fun and comical episode, and praised for its use of the holodeck.
Plot summary
The Enterprise has arrived 2 days early for a rendezvous with a supply ship, USS Biko, and the crew spend the extra time pursuing personal activities. Data and La Forge propose to Captain Picard to attempt to set up systems that would allow them to use Data's processing abilities to run critical systems in the case of main computer failure, and he allows them to proceed.
Meanwhile, Worf reluctantly joins his son Alexander in a holodeck adventure set in the town of Deadwood, South Dakota, in the American Old West, later joined by Deanna Troi. The three play the role of lawmen in Deadwood, where Eli Hollander, the "Butcher of Bozeman", is wanted. Worf tries to use his Starfleet tactics to end the episode quickly, but Alexander insists that he play along with the scenario. They capture Eli, learning that his father Frank is a sly and powerful man.
As Data and La Forge work on the interface, a brief energy surge occurs. The ship's systems react strangely, specifically around elements of Data's logs and records. Data also takes up stereotypical Wild West mannerisms and vernacular, unaware.
In the holodeck, Frank, who appears exactly like Data, captures Alexander, demanding the release of his son Eli. Worf gets into a gun battle and is wounded, and he and Troi find that the holodeck safety protocols are off and they cannot end the program. They realize Alexander could be in trouble and the only assured way is to play out the story. Further, Troi observes that Eli now possesses skills comparable to Data's. As more of the holodeck characters take on Data's appearance, Worf works to create a personal shield as protection, knowing he would not be victorious against characters that all have Data's skills.
Data and La Forge determine that the power surge causes segments of the main computer and Data's processes to swap memories, and they start a memory purge to restore both to normal operation.
On the holodeck, Worf and Troi successfully defeat Frank and his gang, and recover Alexander. They believe the story is now over, but the holodeck does not yet respond. Only after Miss Annie, proprietress of the local tavern and also now looking like Data, thanks Worf for his brav
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Televisi%C3%B3n%20P%C3%BAblica
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Televisión Pública (Public Television, abbreviated TVP) is a publicly owned Argentine television network, the national public broadcaster. It began broadcasting in 1951, when LR3 Radio Belgrano Televisión channel 7 in Buenos Aires, its key station and the first television station in the country, signed on the air.
History
1951–1978: Foundations
Jaime Yankelevich, businessman and operator of radio station LR3 "Radio Belgrano", received the approval of the Perón family to import television equipment from the United States. The final approval came from Eva Perón, who, when informed of the importation of the new equipment, said "Sí, sí, todo muy lindo pero yo lo que quiero es que televisen el acto del Día de la Lealtad" ("Yes, yes, all very good, but what I want is for them to televise the acts of Loyalty Day"). With the support of Minister of Communications Oscar Lorenzo Nicolini and the Radio Belgrano executives, preparations were made to start the first television station in Argentina. Yankelevich imported Bell equipment, DuMont cameras, and a horizontally polarized antenna initially mounted on the MOP Building. On September 24, 1951, Radio Belgrano announcer Fito Salinas was put behind a camera and backed by a musical group, and the first test transmissions commenced. On the first days of tests, televisions were set up in department stores in a 500-meter radius around the site, and the transmitter put out 500 watts of power, but the signal was ramped up and brought to 40 kW power. At that power level, reception was clear for around.
Finally, October 17, 1951 came, and once more, channel 7 signed on for the first time under the name it would bear for a decade: LR3 Radio Belgrano TV. The first broadcast was conducted on Loyalty Day, as Eva Perón wanted, from the Plaza de Mayo; the remote cameras were connected to the studios by a cable link. 2,500 televisions were in place in the country to watch the events. For the first time in 24 days, Eva Perón rose from her bed to attend, dressed in black. The CGT awarded her the Distinction of Recognition and to president Juan Perón the Great Peronist Medal of Extraordinary Class. Doses of tranquilizers, administered by the education minister, were necessary to allow Eva to deliver a brief address, her final political testament, in which she mentioned her own death nine times.
On November 4, 1951, LR3-TV began regular commercial telecasts, broadcasting from 5:30 to 10:30pm each day. In 1957, the studios moved to the Alas Building, where they occupied two subfloors, the first floor and the basement. In 1961, the television and radio station parted the separate ways, with the television station adopting its current callsign, LS 82 TV.
There was even a brief period in which the station was awarded to a private entity: Editorial Haynes was awarded the license in 1954 by Perón's government, but the next year, the government of the Revolución Libertadora annulled the transfer, thus it remained a national cha
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC532
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The PC532 was a "home-brew" microcomputer design created by George Scolaro and Dave Rand in 1989-1990, based on the National Semiconductor NS32532 microprocessor (a member of the NS320xx series). Full hardware documentation for the design, including schematics and PAL programming data, was made freely available, and a short run (around 200) of motherboard PCBs were produced for hobbyists to populate and assemble into fully functional systems.
Hardware specifications
PC/AT form-factor motherboard
NS32532 CPU and NS32381 FPU (25 MHz)
4 to 32 MB of RAM
National Semiconductor DP8490 SCSI host adapter
Adaptec AIC-6250 SCSI host adapter
Four SCN2861 DUARTs (providing 8 serial ports)
27256 32 kB firmware EPROM
Operating systems
The following operating systems were ported to the PC532:
MINIX A port of MINIX 1.3 to the PC532 (sometimes referred to as MINIX-532) was released by Bruce Culbertson in 1990.
Mach Mach 3.0 was ported to the PC532 in 1992 by Johannes Helander, Tero Kivinen, and Tatu Ylönen; some work was also done by them on porting a Net/2 BSD-based Mach server (bnr2ss) to provide BSD UNIX emulation.
NetBSD/pc532 A project to port 386BSD 0.1 to the PC532, initially called 532BSD, was started by Phil Nelson. This was integrated into the NetBSD project in 1993 and became NetBSD/pc532, with Nelson as the port maintainer. On January 9, 2008, NetBSD/pc532 was dropped from the NetBSD source tree, as GCC support for the NS32532 microprocessor had been dropped.
References
NetBSD/pc532 FAQ
PC532 Notes by Julian H. Stacey
Mail list, new 2017, supersedes defunct lists on bungi.com & netbsd.org
FTP archive, new 2017, several on mail list have write access
Personal computers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPXQ-TV
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WPXQ-TV (channel 69) is a television station licensed to Newport, Rhode Island, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the Providence area. Owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, it shares transmitter facilities with former sister station WLWC (channel 28) on Champlin Hill near Ashaway.
Despite originally being licensed to Block Island, Rhode Island, WPXQ was never carried by former cable operator Block Island Cable TV.
History
The FCC was persuaded to allocate channel 69 (WPXQ's original analog frequency) to Block Island by Ted Robinson, an island resident, who claimed during the allocation filing process in 1984–85 that an independent TV station providing niche programming from there would serve the public interest better. Robinson subsequently ran into local opposition to tower siting, and sold out his interest to Ray Yorke, who obtained the initial construction permit. The station began broadcasting a few hours of old movies daily in 1992 using the callsign WOST-TV (meaning Ocean State Television, the original owners). By 1996, the station was owned by Paxson Communications, which had implemented their infomercials (via their inTV network) and religious programming. The station became WPXQ in 1998, and in August of that year began to run programming from the Pax TV network (later i: Independent Television; now Ion Television).
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
WPXQ-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 69, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 17, using PSIP to display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 69, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.
Notes
References
External links
Ion Television affiliates
Laff (TV network) affiliates
Scripps News affiliates
Bounce TV affiliates
Defy TV affiliates
PXQ-TV
Television channels and stations established in 1992
1992 establishments in Rhode Island
Mass media in Providence, Rhode Island
Newport, Rhode Island
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEF1X
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Integration DEFinition for information modeling (IDEF1X) is a data modeling language for the development of semantic data models. IDEF1X is used to produce a graphical information model which represents the structure and semantics of information within an environment or system.
IDEF1X permits the construction of semantic data models which may serve to support the management of data as a resource, the integration of information systems, and the building of computer databases. This standard is part of the IDEF family of modeling languages in the field of software engineering.
Overview
A data modeling technique is used to model data in a standard, consistent and predictable manner in order to manage it as a resource. It can be used in projects requiring a standard means of defining and analyzing the data resources within an organization. Such projects include the incorporation of a data modeling technique into a methodology, managing data as a resource, integrating information systems, or designing computer databases. The primary objectives of the IDEF1X standard are to provide:
Means for completely understanding and analyzing an organization's data resources
Common means of representing and communicating the complexity of data
A technique for presenting an overall view of the data required to run an enterprise
Means for defining an application-independent view of data which can be validated by users and transformed into a physical database design
A technique for deriving an integrated data definition from existing data resources.
A principal objective of IDEF1X is to support integration. The approach to integration focuses on the capture, management, and use of a single semantic definition of the data resource referred to as a “conceptual schema.” The “conceptual schema” provides a single integrated definition of the data within an enterprise which is not biased toward any single application of data and is independent of how the data is physically stored or accessed. The primary objective of this conceptual schema is to provide a consistent definition of the meanings of and interrelationships between data that can be used to integrate, share, and manage the integrity of data. A conceptual schema must have three important characteristics:
Consistent with the infrastructure of the business and true across all application areas
Extendible, such that new data can be defined without altering previously defined data
Transformable to both the required user views and to a variety of data storage and access structures.
History
The need for semantic data models was first recognized by the U.S. Air Force in the mid-1970s as a result of the Integrated Computer Aided Manufacturing (ICAM) Program. The objective of this program was to increase manufacturing productivity through the systematic application of computer technology. The ICAM Program identified a need for better analysis and communication techniques for people involved in improving ma
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qoca
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Qoca is a GPL library for incrementally solving systems of linear equations with various goal functions. It contains a robust implementation of Cassowary, a popular linear programming algorithm for handling Manhattan goal functions. It is used in several free software projects and is maintained at Monash University. It is available in a C++ or a Java version, and provides language bindings for Python and Perl.
External links
project page
The CVS host listed on the download page no longer exists.
The sources no longer compile out of the box (2013).
Perhaps this 2003 software is unmaintained today.
C (programming language) libraries
Java (programming language) libraries
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homam
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Homam may refer to:
Homam (star), the traditional name of the star Zeta Pegasi
Heroes of Might and Magic, a series of computer games
Homam (film), a 2008 Telugu film
Homam, Iran, a village in Isfahan Province, Iran
Homam-e Tabrizi, Persian poet
See also
Homa (ritual), a Hindu ceremonial ritual
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop%20%28live%20action%20TV%20series%29
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RoboCop is a 1994 cyberpunk television series based on the RoboCop franchise. It stars Richard Eden as the title character. Made to appeal primarily to children and young teenagers, it lacks the graphic violence of the original film RoboCop and its sequel RoboCop 2 and is more in line with the tone of RoboCop 3.
The television series ignores the events of the sequels and many character names are changed from the movie series. The RoboCop character has several non-lethal alternatives to killing criminals, which ensures that certain villains can be recurring. The OCP Chairman and his corporation are treated as simply naïve and ignorant, in contrast to their malicious and immoral behavior from the second film onward.
Background
While RoboCop was initially an American property, Orion Pictures received a $500,000 cash infusion for TV licensing rights by Canada's Skyvision Entertainment in May 1993. Orion Pictures had originally planned to make a fourth RoboCop film, but decided to license a television series instead due to the bankruptcy of the studio and the negative reception to RoboCop 3 (1993). This allowed access to co-production agreements and possible partnerships with other countries. The series was filmed in Toronto and Mississauga, Ontario and originally planned for a January 1994 debut, several months after the unsuccessful release of RoboCop 3. Skyvision was also in negotiation with Peter Weller, the original RoboCop, but this did not come to fruition. 22 episodes were made, but the series was not renewed for a second season. Expense played a significant part in this; according to Skyvision VP Kevin Gillis, episodes would be produced at $1.2 million to $1.5 million each.
The pilot episode runs two hours and was adapted from a discarded RoboCop 2 script, Corporate Wars, by the writers of the original RoboCop, Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner.
Villains on the series include Dr. Cray Z. Mallardo, OCP executive Chip Chayken, William Ray Morgan aka Pudface, Vlad Molotov.
The series gave writers more of an opportunity to develop the central characters and to extend the human interest aspect through the introduction of Gadget, the station mascot and the adopted, insightful daughter of station Sergeant Parks. Gadget, along with the presence of Jimmy Murphy did much to shift the focus from the adult to the youth target audience. The writers also introduced an element of virtual camaraderie in the character Diana, formerly a secretary to crooked Vice-president Chip Chayken, who is unwillingly turned into the 'mind' of Metronet and OCP's city-running super-computer, NeuroBrain and RoboCop's biggest 'behind-the-scenes' ally in his fight-against-crime.
Many of the characters' names were also altered from their movie counterparts due to rights issues.
Cast
Main
Richard Eden as Officer Alex James Murphy / RoboCop. When out on duty, his callsign is "Beta 1".
Yvette Nipar as Officer / Detective Lisa Madigan, of the Metro South Police Station
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizette%20Carri%C3%B3n
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Lizette Carrión (born March 12, 1972) is an American actress, best known for her portrayal of PFC Esmeralda "Doublewide" Del Rio in the 2005 FX network television series Over There.
Early life and education
Carrión was born in New York City, New York, the youngest of four siblings. She holds a bachelor's degree in Government and Politics from St. John's University.
Career
Carrión has performed in many New York City theatre productions such as "Bed, Bawd and Beyond" and "Flores and Alice Underground" to name a few. Carrión has multiple guest credits to her name on shows such as NYPD Blue, Judging Amy, Chicago Hope and ER. She has recently wrapped up production on the movie "Shackles" which she co-stars in with D.L. Hughley and "Crazylove".
Filmography
Medium (2007) as Cashier
Dexter (2006) as Shanda
Crazylove (2005) as Maria
Shackles (2005) as Rosa
Over There (2005) as Pfc. Esmeralda "Doublewide" Del Rio
The Division (2002 & 2004)
Strong Medicine (2003) as Sarita Ballard
Reba (2003) as Halle
The Practice (2002) as Christina Portes
The Chronicle (2002) as Monica / "Savage Simian"
FreakyLinks (2000) as Lan Williams
Third Watch (1999) as Sylvia Enrique
ER (1999) as Lizette
Chicago Hope (1999) as I Dunno Girl
Brooklyn South (1998) as Luce
Fired Up (1997) as Pierced Girl
Family Matters (1997) as High Bidder
Sister, Sister (1996) as M'lissa
Further reading
External links
1972 births
American television actresses
Living people
St. John's University (New York City) alumni
21st-century American women
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20compact%20discs%20sold%20with%20Extended%20Copy%20Protection
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The following compact discs, sold by Sony BMG, were shipped with the computer software known as Extended Copy Protection (XCP). As a result, any Microsoft Windows computer that has been used to play these CDs is likely to have had XCP installed. This can cause a number of serious security problems. Several security software vendors, including Microsoft, regard XCP as a trojan horse, spyware, or rootkit. MacOS systems that were used to play these CDs may have been affected with a similar program, MediaMax.
Album list
Note: Three titles — Ricky Martin, "Life"; Peter Gallagher, "7 Days in Memphis"; and a limited number of “Hidden Beach Presents Unwrapped Vol. 4” — were released with a content protection grid on the back of the CD packaging but XCP content protection software was not actually included on the albums.
References
External links
Sony BMG list of XCP CDs
EFF list of XCP CDs
Geoffrey McCalebs list of XCP CDs
Compact Disc and DVD copy protection
Sony
Rootkits
Technology-related lists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Keane
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Peter Keane is an American blues/folk musician who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1963.
Biography
He lives in Austin, Texas, and works as a computer programmer at the company Etsy. Bill Morrissey produced his second album, Walkin' Around. His albums contain original compositions as well as cover versions of songs written by Bob Dylan, Mississippi John Hurt, Bob Wills and Tim Hardin. In 2005, his web page said that he was "semi-retired" as a musician and that most of his recordings had been made available under a Creative Commons license.
Discography
The Goodnight Blues (1992)
Walkin' Around (1996)
Another Kind of Blue (2000)
Milton Street (2002)
Rural Electrification (2015)
References
External links
Official web site
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Texas at Austin staff
American blues singers
American blues guitarists
American male guitarists
American folk musicians
American folk singers
American male singers
Songwriters from Texas
Musicians from Austin, Texas
Guitarists from Texas
Creative Commons-licensed authors
American male songwriters
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola%20%28computing%29
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Lola is designed to be a simple hardware description language for describing synchronous, digital circuits. Niklaus Wirth developed the language to teach digital design on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to computer science students while a professor at ETH Zurich.
The purpose of Lola is to statically describe the structure and function of hardware components and of the connections between them. A Lola text is composed of declarations and statements. It describes digital electronics hardware on the logic gate level in the form of signal assignments. Signals are combined using operators and assigned to other signals. Signals and the respective assignments can be grouped together into data types. An instance of a type is a hardware component. Types can be composed of instances of other types, thereby supporting a hierarchical design style and they can be generic, e.g., parametrizable with the word width of a circuit.
All of the concepts mentioned above are demonstrated in the following example of a circuit for adding binary data. First, a fundamental building block () is defined, then this is used to declare a cascade of word-width 8, and finally the s are connected to each other. The defined in this example can serve as a building block on a higher level of the design hierarchy.
MODULE Adder;
TYPE Cell; (* Composite Type *)
IN x,y,ci:BIT; (* input signals *)
OUT z,co:BIT; (* output signals *)
BEGIN
z:=x-y-ci;
co:=x*y+x*ci+y*ci;
END Cell;
CONST N:=8;
IN X,Y:[N]BIT; ci:BIT; (* input signals *)
OUT Z:[N]BIT; co:BIT; (* output signals *)
VAR S:[N]Cell; (* composite type instances *)
BEGIN
S.0(X.0, Y.0, ci); (* inputs in cell 0 *)
FOR i:=1..N-1 DO
S.i(X.i,Y.i,S[i-1].co); (* inputs in cell i *)
END;
FOR i:=0..N-1 DO
Z.i:=S.i.z;
END;
co:=S.7.co;
END Adder.
Wirth describes Lola from a user's perspective in his book Digital Circuit Design. A complementary view on the details of the Lola compiler's implementation can be found in Wirth's technical report Lola System Notes. An overview of the whole system of tools for digital design is the technical report Tools for Digital Circuit Design using FPGAs (containing a copy of the report on the language Lola Lola: An Object-Oriented Logic Description Language).
External links
CAD Tools for Hardware Design at ETH Zürich, including the Lola language page
Hardware description languages
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NURMS
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In computer graphics, non-uniform rational mesh smooth (NURMS) or subdivision surface technique is typically applied to a low-polygonal mesh to create a high-polygonal smoothed mesh.
Usage
NURMS are used in commercial 3D packages such as Autodesk 3ds Max to perform mesh smoothing operations. The mesh smooth modifier in 3ds Max operates by applying this algorithm to a low-polygon mesh and creates a high-polygon smoothed mesh. The new mesh can be dynamically manipulated by the low-polygon mesh to achieve the desired results.
There is also an Adobe Illustrator filter that uses the same algorithm of smoothing for 2d curves.
External links
Head Modeling, 3D Studio Max tutorial
Computer graphic techniques
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo%21%20Publisher%20Network
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The Yahoo! Publisher Network (abbreviated YPN) was an advertising network launched on August 2, 2005, by Yahoo! and effectively closed on April 30, 2010. The service only accepted US-Based publishers. YPN provided cost per click contextual advertising as well as various tools and services to assist publishers in building and improving their websites.
History
In May 2006, YPN caused some controversy by shutting down accounts used for MySpace layout sites. The reason given was the quality of traffic was very poor.
Also in May 2006, the Yahoo! Publisher Network's blog posted an updated version of their requirements from publishers. YPN explicitly stated visitors must recognize advertisements as advertisements, and images/media could not be placed to induce accidental clicks.
Closure
Users of the service received an e-mail on March 31, 2010, that the service would stop serving ads on April 30, 2010. Users who wished to continue displaying advertisements were referred to the Chitika ad network. Chitika is a search-targeted advertising network and serves over 2 billion ads per month.
References
External links
Yahoo Publisher Network
Yahoo Publisher Network Blog
Publisher Network
Online advertising services and affiliate networks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKGM
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CKGM (TSN 690 Montreal) is an English-language AM radio station in Montreal, Quebec, owned by Bell Media Radio. Formerly an affiliate of sports radio network "The Team," it was one of three stations to retain the sports format after the network folded in 2002 until it switched to the TSN Radio branding in October 2011. CKGM has been an all-sports station since May 2001. Its studios and offices are located on René Lévesque Boulevard East in Downtown Montreal.
On September 4, 2012, CKGM officially began broadcasting on 690 kHz, as a non-directional clear-channel Class A station. It runs the maximum power permitted for Canadian AM stations, 50,000 watts. By day, CKGM can be heard from Ottawa to Sherbrooke and across the border into New York State and Vermont. At night, its signal covers much of Eastern North America. Its transmitter is located near Mercier. CKGM is also heard on the HD3 subchannel of CITE-FM. CKGM is carried nationally on Bell Satellite TV satellite channel 985.
While it was still broadcasting at 980 kHz, CKGM was known for being a legendary and influential Top 40/CHR radio station from 1970 to 1986. From 1941 until 1999, AM 690 in Montreal was the home of CBF, the flagship station of the CBC's French-language radio network, now known as Ici Radio-Canada Première.
Current programming
CKGM airs local shows on weekdays, with TSN Radio programming heard evenings and weekends, and ESPN Radio programming late nights. Local shows include Melnick in the Afternoon with Mitch Melnick, Campbell vs Gallo with Sean Campbell and Mitch Gallo from 10am-2pm. The Morning Show with Conor McKenna and Shaun Starr, and The Weekend Game Plan with Matthew Ross & Dave Trentadue. These shows mainly focus on Montreal Canadiens analysis, especially during hockey season, but also address all the major sports in North America.
CKGM is the English-language flagship station for the Canadiens, with lengthy pre and post-game coverage for each game. TSN Radio 690 also carries network national feeds of the NFL, MLB, NASCAR and some NHL playoffs and the World Junior Hockey Championships. CKGM, as part of the TSN Radio Network, also has rights for The British Open golf, U.S. Open Tennis, major world soccer championships, NBA playoffs, and NBC Sunday Night Football.
On June 22, 2011, Bell Media announced it had signed a deal with the Montreal Canadiens for CKGM to become the Canadiens' official English-language radio broadcaster for the next 7 seasons.
Live sports
TSN Radio 690 is the flagship station for the following teams' radio broadcasts:
Montreal Alouettes (CFL)
Montreal Canadiens (NHL)
CF Montréal (MLS)
TSN Radio 690 also features live coverage of the following:
MLB Baseball (select games, including some from the Toronto Blue Jays and Washington Nationals)
NFL Football (select games)
Indycar (auto racing)
NHL Playoffs hockey
Notable staff
Elliott Price
Mitch Melnick
Chris Nilan ("Knuckles" Nilan)
Sergio Momesso
History
Early days
CKGM was foun
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounds-checking%20elimination
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In computer science, bounds-checking elimination is a compiler optimization useful in programming languages or runtime systems that enforce bounds checking, the practice of checking every index into an array to verify that the index is within the defined valid range of indexes. Its goal is to detect which of these indexing operations do not need to be validated at runtime, and eliminating those checks.
One common example is accessing an array element, modifying it, and storing the modified value in the same array at the same location. Normally, this example would result in a bounds check when the element is read from the array and a second bounds check when the modified element is stored using the same array index. Bounds-checking elimination could eliminate the second check if the compiler or runtime can determine that neither the array size nor the index could change between the two array operations. Another example occurs when a programmer loops over the elements of the array, and the loop condition guarantees that the index is within the bounds of the array. It may be difficult to detect that the programmer's manual check renders the automatic check redundant. However, it may still be possible for the compiler or runtime to perform proper bounds-checking elimination in this case.
Implementations
In natively compiled languages
One technique for bounds-checking elimination is to use a typed static single assignment form representation and for each array to create a new type representing a safe index for that particular array. The first use of a value as an array index results in a runtime type cast (and appropriate check), but subsequently the safe index value can be used without a type cast, without sacrificing correctness or safety.
In JIT-compiled languages
Just-in-time compiled languages such as Java and C# often check indexes at runtime before accessing arrays. Some just-in-time compilers such as HotSpot are able to eliminate some of these checks if they discover that the index is always within the correct range, or if an earlier check would have already thrown an exception.
References
External links
W. Amme, J. von Ronne, M. Franz. Using the SafeTSA Representation to Boost the Performance of an Existing Java Virtual Machine (2002).
Computer errors
Compiler optimizations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeks%20on%20the%20Roof
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Greeks on the Roof was a short-lived Australian television talk show and variety show that ran for 11 episodes on the Seven Network from 1 April to 1 July 2003. It was hosted by the actress/comedian Mary Coustas in character as Effie, a second generation Greek Australian, whom she had portrayed on the sitcom Acropolis Now, and featured her "family" of Greek immigrants portrayed by Maria Mercedes, Angus Sampson as cousin Dimi, Serge De Nardo, and Evelyn Krape.
Origins
Based on the format of the British TV show The Kumars at No. 42, each show had interviews with a number of Australian actors and actresses. Guests were involved in Effie's jokes and antics while being asked about their career and personal life.
Guest stars
Guests included Sam Newman, who is a personality on the rival Channel Nine network, Molly Meldrum before he signed a contract with Seven, and Dr. Harry Cooper who in promos was told he would reveal his full self by taking off his hat, but in the show he never did. The American talk show host Jerry Springer also made a guest appearance.
Production
Kris Noble was the executive producer of the show.
References
Australian television talk shows
Australian variety television shows
Seven Network original programming
Television shows set in Victoria (state)
2003 Australian television series debuts
2003 Australian television series endings
Television series about television
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SafeTSA
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SafeTSA (Safe Typed Single Assignment) is a static single assignment form (SSA) intermediate representation capable of representing all of the type safety of the Java programming language and the standard Java Virtual Machine (JVM) byte-code.
As of 2005, many optimizing compilers (including just-in-time compilers used by JVMs) use SSA representations internally.
A typical just-in-time compiler for a JVM converts JVM stack-machine byte-code into an internal static-single-assignment representation, performs optimizations, converts the SSA form to a low-level form similar to the host CPU's machine code, and performs some platform-specific optimizations before finally creating the native code that gets executed.
SafeTSA is an external representation similar to these SSA internal representations, yet SafeTSA still provides the full type safety (including security verifiability at class load time) of standard JVM byte-code.
In theory, this preserves the advantages of the JVM while decreasing the amount of work the JVM needs to do in order to efficiently execute programs.
The creators of SafeTSA modified the IBM JikesRVM (called the Jalapeño JVM at the time) so that it could use standard JVM byte-code and also a SafeTSA bytecode.
They then ran a standard suite of Java benchmarks and published a paper showing that SafeTSA input produced faster running native code output from the just-in-time compiler.
In addition, the researchers also showed that SafeTSA required less time to compile to native code.
On the other hand, the advantages of a stack-machine byte-code (such as the standard JVM byte-code) include an easily implemented interpreter.
Most commercial JVMs in late 2005 use a mixture of byte-code interpretation and byte-code just-in-time optimized compilation whereas the JikesRVM used in the SafeTSA research uses only a mixture of two different optimization levels for just-in-time compilation.
The research platform never used interpretation to run SafeTSA byte-code, so it's less clear how SafeTSA byte-code would perform in a modified version of a commercial JVM.
, it seems that SafeTSA has only been used in academia.
External links
A Type-Safe Mobile-Code Representation Aimed at Supporting Dynamic Optimization At The Target Site (2000) W. Amme, N. Dalton, M. Franz, J. von Ronne
SafeTSA: A Type Safe and Referentially Secure Mobile-Code Representation Based on Static Single Assignment Form (2001) W. Amme, N. Dalton, J. von Ronne, M. Franz
Using the SafeTSA Representation to Boost the Performance of an Existing Java Virtual Machine (2002) W. Amme, J. von Ronne, M. Franz
Java platform
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacompilation
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Metacompilation is a computation which involves metasystem transitions (MST) from a computing machine M to a metamachine M' which controls, analyzes and imitates the work of M. Semantics-based program transformation, such as partial evaluation and supercompilation (SCP), is metacomputation. Metasystem transitions may be repeated, as when a program transformer gets transformed itself. In this manner MST hierarchies of any height can be formed. The Fox paper reviews one strain of research which was started in Russia by Valentin Turchin's REFAL system in the late 1960s-early 1970s and became known for the development of supercompilation as a distinct method of program transformation. After a brief description of the history of this research line, the paper concentrates on those results and problems where supercompilation is combined with repeated metasystem transitions.
See also
Metacompiler
Partial evaluation
External links
Papers on metacompilation
Metacomputation: Metasystem Transitions + Supercompilation an introduction to supercompilation
Compiler construction
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFGL-FM
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CFGL-FM (105.7 MHz) is a commercial radio station serving Greater Montreal, airing a French Soft Adult Contemporary radio format. It is the flagship of the Rythme FM network, which operates across much of Quebec. The station is licensed to the off-Island suburb of Laval.
Owned and operated by Cogeco, it broadcasts with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 41,000 watts as a Class C1 station, using an omnidirectional antenna atop Mount Royal, at 297 metres (974') in height above average terrain (HAAT). Studios and offices are on Boulevard Saint-Martin Est in Laval.
History
CFGL was founded in September 1968 by Jean-Pierre Coallier and Roland Saucier. It originally was powered at 100,000 watts but from a tower in Laval only 400 feet in height. It began as a French-language beautiful music station serving Laval and the suburbs north of Montreal. In the 1980s, the audience for the easy listening format began aging, so CFGL began adding more vocals in an effort to attract younger listeners. It made the full transition to French soft adult contemporary music in 1992.
In 1999, it switched to a French mainstream adult contemporary sound, known as Rythme FM. The move proved to be quite successful. CFGL became the top-rated French-language radio station in North America. It held that distinction until its sister station, French talk outlet CHMP-FM, overtook it in Fall 2011.
On May 17, 2017, CFGL-FM began broadcasting in HD Radio, offering a digital radio simulcast of its FM feed on its digital sideband, with room for potential expansion of subchannels in the future.
By 2019, the station returned to soft adult contemporary.
Notable hosts
Pierre Nadeau OC CQ, announcer circa 1979
References
External links
Official website
Fgl
Fgl
Radio stations established in 1968
Laval, Quebec
FGL
Fgl
1968 establishments in Quebec
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20PI
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Super PI is a computer program that calculates pi to a specified number of digits after the decimal point—up to a maximum of 32 million. It uses Gauss–Legendre algorithm and is a Windows port of the program used by Yasumasa Kanada in 1995 to compute pi to 232 digits.
Significance
Super PI is popular in the overclocking community, both as a benchmark to test the performance of these systems and as a stress test to check that they are still functioning correctly.
Credibility concerns
The competitive nature of achieving the best Super PI calculation times led to fraudulent Super PI results, reporting calculation times faster than normal. Attempts to counter the fraudulent results resulted in a modified version of Super PI, with a checksum to validate the results. However, other methods exist of producing inaccurate or fake time results, raising questions about the program's future as an overclocking benchmark.
Super PI utilizes x87 floating point instructions which are supported on all x86 and x86-64 processors, current versions which also support the lower precision Streaming SIMD Extensions vector instructions.
The future
Super PI is single threaded, so its relevance as a measure of performance in the current era of multi-core processors is diminishing quickly. Therefore, wPrime has been developed to support multiple threaded calculations to be run at the same time so one can test stability on multi-core machines. Other multithreaded programs include: Hyper PI, IntelBurnTest, Prime95, Montecarlo superPI, OCCT or y-cruncher. Last but not least, while SuperPi is unable to calculate more than 32 million digits, and Alexander J. Yee & Shigeru Kondo were able to set a record of 10 Trillion 50 Digits of Pi using y-cruncher under a 2 x Intel Xeon X5680 @ 3.33 GHz - (12 physical cores, 24 hyperthreaded) computer on October 16, 2011 Super PI is much slower than these other programs, and utilizes inferior algorithms to them.
References
External links
Benchmarks (computing)
Pi-related software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKLX-FM
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CKLX-FM (91.9 MHz) is a French-language radio station located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Owned and operated by RNC Media, it airs a sports talk format as flagship station of RNC's BPM Sports network. It is the French-language flagship station of CF Montreal of Major League Soccer and the Laval Rocket of the American Hockey League.
CKLX-FM's studios are located on West Laurier Avenue in the Le Plateau-Mont-Royal neighbourhood of Montreal. Its transmitter, located atop Mount Royal, uses a directional antenna with an average effective radiated power of 1,780 watts and a peak effective radiated power of 4,675 watts (Class B1). It also is heard nationally on Channel 978 on the Bell Satellite TV radio station lineup.
History
The station first signed on in 2004. It had a smooth jazz format. From December 2004 until August 2012, it called itself Couleur Jazz before being re-branded as Planète Jazz 91,9 in the summer of 2008.
On 13 January 2012, RNC Media applied to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to amend its licence conditions to allow 50% of its programming to be spoken-word and talk programming, with the remainder being its existing smooth jazz format (though its license also included other forms of jazz) as well as blues and additional special interest music genres. Its application hinted that the station would take a direction more towards its Quebec City sister station, CHOI-FM.
On 20 August 2012, CKLX-FM flipped to the new CHOI Radio X format, sharing the branding with its sister station. The station primarily aired talk radio programming, but aired music programming during certain dayparts to remain in compliance with its license at the time. These included blocks of jazz programming on evening and weekend mornings, and rock music programming on weekends under the name La Garage. The hybrid format remained in effect pending CRTC approval to allow CKLX-FM to switch to a mainly spoken-word format. The station's first effort to gain approval was denied by the CRTC on March 14, 2013. On April 8, 2014, the CRTC approved CKLX's request to discard its music requirements as part of its license renewal, in exchange for a requirement to carry a minimum of 50% spoken word and talk programming. While CKLX's new license took effect on September 1, 2014, the format change went into effect immediately.
On 9 September 2014, the station rebranded as Radio 9, heralding a new lineup including former RDI personality Louis Lemieux.
As a sports station
Despite the changes, the station's ratings remained lackluster, due to continuous competition from the region's leading francophone talk station, 98.5 CHMP-FM. As a result, the station dismissed four of its on-air hosts, including Lemieux, in June 2015. At that time, CKLX announced that it would flip to a sports talk format. However, CKLX-FM continued to face competition from CHMP, as that station had the rights to most of Montreal's professional sports teams.
CKLX adop
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vital%20Product%20Data
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Vital Product Data (VPD) is a collection of configuration and informational data associated with a particular set of hardware or software. VPD stores information such as part numbers, serial numbers, and engineering change levels. Not all devices attached to a system will provide VPD, but it is often available from PCI and SCSI devices. Parallel ATA and USB devices also provide similar data, but do not refer to it as VPD.
VPD data is typically burned onto EEPROMs associated with various hardware components, or can be queried through attached I2C buses. It is used by firmware (for example, OpenFirmware) to determine the nature of the system hardware, and to shield the operation of the firmware from minor changes and variations of hardware implementations within a given machine model number.
AIX
In IBM's AIX operating system, VPD also refers to a subset of database tables in the Object Data Manager (ODM) obtained from either the Customized VPD object class or platform specific areas, therefore the VPD and ODM terms are sometimes referred to interchangeably.
command can be used in AIX to get the VPD.
lscfg [-v] [-p] [-s] [-l Name]
Other Unix-like systems
Package dmidecode provides commands vpddecode, biosdecode, and dmidecode, which can display hardware Vital Product Data. This package is available for many Unix-like operating systems.
See also
Organizationally unique identifier
World Wide Name
References
Further reading
PCI System Architecture (PC System Architecture Series), 10 Jun 1999, MindShare Inc., Tom Shanley, Don Anderson,
Identifiers
IBM operating systems
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaulay2
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Macaulay2 is a free computer algebra system created by Daniel Grayson (from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign) and Michael Stillman (from Cornell University) for computation in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry.
Overview
Macaulay2 is built around fast implementations of algorithms useful for computation in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. This core functionality includes arithmetic on rings, modules, and matrices, as well as algorithms for Gröbner bases, free resolutions, Hilbert series, determinants and Pfaffians, factoring, and similar. In addition, the system has been extended by a large number of packages. Nearly 200 packages are included in the distribution of Macaulay2 as of 2019, and notable package authors include Craig Huneke and Frank-Olaf Schreyer. The Journal of Software for Algebra and Geometry has published numerous packages and programs for Macaulay2.
Macaulay2 has an interactive command-line interface used from the terminal (see ). It can also use emacs or GNU TeXmacs as a user interface.
Macaulay2 uses its own interpreted high-level programming language both from the command line and in saved programs. This language is intended to be easy to use for mathematicians, and many parts of the system are indeed written in the Macaulay2 language. The algebraic algorithms that form the core functionality are written in C++ for speed. The interpreter itself is written in a custom type safety layer over C. Both the system and the programming language are published under the GNU General Public License version 2 or 3.
History
Stillman, along with Dave Bayer had authored the predecessor system, Macaulay, beginning in 1983. They named Macaulay after Francis Sowerby Macaulay, an English mathematician who made significant contributions to algebraic geometry. The Macaulay system showed that it was possible to solve actual problems in algebraic geometry using Gröbner basis techniques, but by the early 1990s, limitations in its architecture were becoming an obstruction. Using the experience with Macaulay, Grayson and Stillman began work on Macaulay2 in 1993. The Macaulay2 language and design has a number of improvements over that of Macaulay, allowing for infinite coefficient rings, new data types, and other useful features.
Macaulay continued to be updated and used for some time after the 1993 introduction of Macaulay2. The last released version was 3.1, from August 2000. The Macaulay webpage currently recommends switching to Macaulay2.
Macaulay2 has been updated regularly since its introduction. David Eisenbud has been listed as a collaborator on the project since 2007.
Sample session
The following session defines a polynomial ring , an ideal inside , and the quotient ring . The text i1 : is the 1st input prompt in a session, while o1 is the corresponding output.
i1 : S=QQ[a,b,c,d,e]
o1 = S
o1 : PolynomialRing
i2 : I=ideal(a^3-b^3, a+b+c+d+e)
3 3
o2 = ideal (a - b , a +
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PointCast
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PointCast was a dot-com company founded in 1992 by Christopher R. Hassett in Sunnyvale, California.
PointCast Network
The company's initial product amounted to a screensaver that displayed news and other information, delivered live over the Internet. The PointCast Network used push technology, which was a hot concept at the time, and received enormous press coverage when it launched in beta form on February 13, 1996.
The product did not perform as well as expected, often believed to be because its traffic burdened corporate networks with excessive bandwidth use, and was banned in many places. It demanded more bandwidth than the home dial-up Internet connections of the day could provide, and people objected to the large number of advertisements that were pushed over the service as well. PointCast offered corporations a proxy server that would dramatically reduce the bandwidth used. But even this didn't help save PointCast. A more likely reason than bandwidth was the increasing popularity of "portal websites". When PointCast first started Yahoo offered little more than a hierarchical structure on the internet (broken down by subject much like DMOZ) but was soon to introduce the portal which was customizable and offered a much more convenient way to read the news.
News Corporation purchase offer and change of CEO
At its height in January 1997, News Corporation made an offer of $450 million to purchase the company. However, the offer was withdrawn in March. While there were rumors that it was withdrawn due to issues with the price and revenue projections, James Murdoch said it was due to PointCast's inaction.
Shortly after not accepting the purchase offer, the board of directors decided to replace Christopher Hassett as the CEO. Some reasons included turning down the recent purchase offer, software performance problems (using too much corporate bandwidth) and declining market share (lost to the then-emerging Web portal sites.) After five months, David Dorman was chosen as the new CEO. In an effort to raise more capital, Dorman planned to take the company public. A filing was made in May 1998 with a valuation of $250 million. This plan was abandoned after two months in favor of looking for a company with whom to partner or be acquired.
Project Newnet
In August 1998, PointCast found such a partner. In order to compete with @Home, a consortium of telephone companies and Microsoft put together a project designed to promote use of DSL in preference to cable modems. The project was dubbed "Newnet" and the plan was to use PointCast's software as a portal for the service. The consortium planned to buy PointCast for $100 million as part of the deal. The deal was signed in December 1998 with the intent of launching the service in April 1999.
Due to delays in the project, Dorman resigned as CEO in March 1999. Two weeks later PointCast were informed that their planned acquisition had been scrapped. In the reorganization that followed, 75 of the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microelectronics%20and%20Computer%20Technology%20Corporation
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Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, originally the Microelectronics and Computer Consortium and widely seen by the acronym MCC, was the first, and at one time one of the largest, computer industry research and development consortia in the United States. MCC ceased operations in 2000 and was formally dissolved in 2004.
Divisions
MCC did research and development in the following areas:
System Architecture and Design (optimise hardware and software design, provide for scalability and interoperability, allow rapid prototyping for improved time-to-market, and support the re-engineering of existing systems for open systems).
Advanced Microelectronics Packaging and Interconnection (smaller, faster, more powerful, and cost-competitive).
Hardware Systems Engineering (tools and methodologies for cost-efficient, up-front design of advanced electronic systems, including modelling and design-for-test techniques to improve cost, yield, quality, and time-to-market).
Environmentally Conscious Technologies (process control and optimisation tools, information management and analysis capabilities, and non-hazardous material alternatives supporting cost-efficient production, waste minimisation, and reduced environmental impact).
Distributed Information Technology (managing and maintaining physically distributed corporate information resources on different platforms, building blocks for the national information infrastructure, networking tools and services for integration within and between companies, and electronic commerce).
Intelligent Systems (systems that "intelligently" support business processes and enhance performance, including decision support, data management, forecasting and prediction).
History
The MCC was a response to the announcement of Japan's Fifth Generation Project, a large Japanese research project launched in 1982 aimed at producing a new kind of computer by 1991. The Japanese had formed similar industrial research consortia as early as 1956. Many European and American computer companies saw this new Japanese initiative as an attempt to take full control of the world's high-end computer market, and MCC was created, in part, as a defensive move against that threat.
In late 1982, several major computer and semiconductor manufacturers in the United States banded together and founded MCC under the leadership of Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, whose previous positions had been Director of the National Security Agency and Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Such formations were illegal in the United States until the 1984 Congressional passage of the "National Cooperative Research Act".
Several sites with relevant universities were considered, including Atlanta, Georgia (Georgia Tech), the Research Triangle, N.C. (UNC), the Washington, D.C. area (George Mason), Stanford University and Austin, Texas (UT) which was the final selection. The University of Texas offered land upon which they would construct a new buildi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20Java%20System
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Sun Java System was a brand used by Sun Microsystems to market computer software. The Sun Java System brand superseded the Sun ONE brand in September 2003. There are two major suites under this brand, the Sun Java Enterprise System suite of infrastructure software, and the Sun Java Desktop System graphical user environment.
Sun ONE brand
Sun ONE was a brand under which Sun Microsystems marketed server software products from 2002 to 2003. Sun ONE stood for Sun Open Net Environment.
The Sun ONE brand was primarily used for products that resulted after the dissolution of Sun's alliance with Netscape Communications Corporation, which was sold under the brand name of iPlanet. The name was also applied to other Sun software products such as Sun ONE Studio 8 and Sun ONE Active Server Pages 4.0. Products included:
Sun ONE Web Server
Sun ONE Web Proxy Server
Sun ONE Application Server
Sun ONE Messaging Server
Sun ONE Calendar Server
Sun ONE Directory Server
Sun ONE was introduced on April 15, 2002, to supersede the iPlanet brand name, following the end of the Sun-Netscape alliance. Sun ONE itself was superseded on September 16, 2003, by the Sun Java System brand.
Sun Java Enterprise System
The Sun Java Enterprise System is itself broken into smaller suites, which include:
Identity management services (Sun Java Identity Management Suite)
Sun Java System Access Manager
Sun Java System Identity Manager
Sun Java System Role Manager
Sun Java System Federation Manager
Sun Java System Directory Server, formerly Sun ONE Directory Server and iPlanet Directory Server
Sun Java System Directory Proxy Server
Business Integration - SOA (Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite)
Sun Java ESB Suite
Sun Java B2B Suite
Web and application services
Sun Java System Application Server (SJSAS), formerly Sun ONE Application Server
Sun Java System Message Queue (SJSMQ), formerly Java Message Queue
Sun Java System Web Server, formerly Sun ONE Web Server and iPlanet Web Server
Sun Java System Web Proxy Server, formerly Sun ONE Web Proxy Server and iPlanet Web Proxy Server
Sun Java System Messaging Server, formerly Sun ONE Messaging Server and iPlanet Messaging Server
Sun Java System Calendar Server, formerly Sun ONE Calendar Server and iPlanet Calendar Server
Sun Java System Service Registry
Portal services
Sun Java System Portal Server
Sun Java System Portal Mobile Access
Sun Java System Portal Remote Access
Availability services (Sun Java Availability Suite)
Sun Cluster
Sun Cluster Agents
Sun Cluster Geographic Edition
Sun N1 Service Provisioning System
Development tools
Java Studio Enterprise
Java Studio Creator
Sun Java Desktop System
References
External links
Sun Java System Wiki
Java ES Interoperability Space
Sun Microsystems software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFilter
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An IFilter is a plugin that allows Microsoft's search engines to index various file formats (as documents, email attachments, database records, audio metadata etc.) so that they become searchable. Without an appropriate IFilter, contents of a file cannot be parsed and indexed by the search engine.
They can be obtained as standalone packages or bundled with certain software such as Adobe Reader, LibreOffice, Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.
It also refers to the software interface needed to implement such plugins.
How it works Windows Search Service documentation on MSDN
An IFilter acts as a plug-in for extracting full-text and metadata for search engines. A search engine usually works in two steps:
The search engine goes through a designated place, e.g. a file folder or a database, and indexes all documents or newly modified documents, including the various types documents, in the background and creates internal data to store indexing result.
A user specifies some keywords they would like to search for, and the search engine answers the query immediately by looking up the indexing result and responding to the user with all the documents that contains the keywords.
During Step 1, the search engine itself doesn't understand format of a document. Therefore, it looks on Windows registry for an appropriate IFilter to extract the data from the document format, filtering out embedded formatting and any other non-textual data.
Search engines
Windows Indexing Service and the newer Windows Search, Windows Desktop Search, MSN Desktop Search, Internet Information Server, SharePoint Portal Server, Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), Site Server, Exchange Server, SQL Server and all other products based on Microsoft Search technology support indexing technology. Also, IFilters are used by SQL Server as a component of the SQL Server Full Text Search service.
See also
IUnknown
Notes
References
External links
Filter Central — Microsoft Search Filters Discussion Board;
IFilter.org — Downloads and documentation;
MSG IFilter — IFilter for Outlook Message Files (.MSG) for Windows Desktop Search;
IFilterShop — Some IFilters available as free for non-commercial users.
PDF iFilter Win x64 11.0.01 — Adobe PDF iFilter for 64bit Windows systems. Reader and Acrobat include iFilter for 32bit Windows systems.
PDF IFilter — Foxit PDF IFilter. Works on Windows OS.
PDFlib TET PDF IFilter — PDF IFilter from PDFlib. Works on Windows OS.
IFilter Downloads — iFilter Downloads.
— Windows Search connector for IBM Lotus Notes.
Various IFilters.
Windows components
Microsoft application programming interfaces
Microsoft software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataloging%20%28library%20science%29
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In library and information science, cataloging (US) or cataloguing (UK) is the process of creating metadata representing information resources, such as books, sound recordings, moving images, etc. Cataloging provides information such as author's names, titles, and subject terms that describe resources, typically through the creation of bibliographic records. The records serve as surrogates for the stored information resources. Since the 1970s these metadata are in machine-readable form and are indexed by information retrieval tools, such as bibliographic databases or search engines. While typically the cataloging process results in the production of library catalogs, it also produces other types of discovery tools for documents and collections.
Bibliographic control provides the philosophical basis of cataloging, defining the rules that sufficiently describes information resources, to enable users find and select the most appropriate resource. A cataloger is an individual responsible for the processes of description, subject analysis, classification, and authority control of library materials. Catalogers serve as the "foundation of all library service, as they are the ones who organize information in such a way as to make it easily accessible".
Cataloging different kinds of materials
Cataloging is a process made in different kinds of institutions (e.g. libraries, archives and museums) and about different kinds of materials, such as books, pictures, museum objects etc. The literature of library and information science is dominated by library cataloging, but it is important to consider other forms of cataloging. For example, there are special systems for cataloging museum objects that have been developed, e.g., Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging. Also, some formats have been developed in some opposition to library cataloging formats, for example, the common communication format for bibliographical databases. About cataloging different kinds of cultural objects, see O'Keefe and Oldal (2017).
Six functions of bibliographic control
Ronald Hagler identified six functions of bibliographic control.
"Identifying the existence of all types of information resources as they are made available." The existence and identity of an information resource must be known before it can be found.
"Identifying the works contained within those information resources or as parts of them." Depending on the level of granularity required, multiple works may be contained in a single package, or one work may span multiple packages. For example, is a single photo considered an information resource? Or can a collection of photos be considered an information resource?
"Systematically pulling together these information resources into collections in libraries, archives, museums, and Internet communication files, and other such depositories." Essentially, acquiring these items into collections so that they can be of use to the user.
"Producing lists of these information resources
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