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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdragon | Superdragon may refer to:
SuperDragons, a public art project in Newport, Wales
Cray CS6400 computer, codenamed "SuperDragon"
Bruce Lee: A Dragon Story, a biopic also known as Superdragon
Secret Agent Super Dragon, a 1966 Eurospy film
Super Dragon, American professional wrestler
Super-Dragon, a variant of the M47 Dragon anti-tank missile
Elizalde Super-Dragon, an aircraft engine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeNIC | KENIC (Kenya Network Information Centre) was established through the facilitation of the Communications Commission of Kenya. KENIC is the entity charged with the management and the administration of the dot ke Country Code Top-Level Domain (.ke ccTLD) name.
ccTLD historical background
In 1993, .ke was delegated by Jon Postel, the Internet pioneer, to:
Dr. Shem Ochuodho (Administrative point of contact), and
Randy Bush (Technical point of contact)
Both Dr. Ochuodho and Randy Bush (USA) acted in a voluntary basis. In 2002/2003, .ke was re-delegated by the Internet Corporation for the Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to:
KENIC as the Administrative and Technical Point of Contact
KENIC Board membership
KENIC board members are drawn from the Government, the private sector, the academia, the civil society and the founding .ke Administrative contact (Dr. Shem Ochuodho).
References
Internet in Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20scalable%20texture%20compression | Adaptive scalable texture compression (ASTC) is a lossy block-based texture compression algorithm developed by Jørn Nystad et al. of ARM Ltd. and AMD.
Full details of ASTC were first presented publicly at the High Performance Graphics 2012 conference, in a paper by Olson et al. entitled "Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression".
ASTC was adopted as an official extension for both OpenGL and OpenGL ES by the Khronos Group on 6 August 2012.
Hardware support
On Linux, all Gallium 3D drivers have a software fallback since 2018, so ASTC can be used on any AMD Radeon GPU.
Overview
The method of compression is an evolution of Color Cell Compression with features including numerous closely spaced fractional bit rates, multiple color formats, support for high-dynamic-range (HDR) textures, and real 3D texture support.
The stated primary design goal for ASTC is to enable content developers to have better control over the space/quality tradeoff inherent in any lossy compression scheme. With ASTC, the ratio between adjacent bit rates is of the order of 25%, making it less expensive to increase quality for a given texture.
Encoding different assets often requires different color formats. ASTC allows a wide choice of input formats, including luminance-only, luminance-alpha, RGB, RGBA, and modes optimized for surface normals. The designer can thus choose the optimal format without having to support multiple different compression schemes.
The choices of bit rate and color format do not constrain each other, so that it's possible to choose from a large number of combinations.
Despite this flexibility, ASTC achieves better peak signal-to-noise ratios than PVRTC, S3TC, and ETC2 when measured at 2 and 3.56 bits per texel. For HDR textures, it produces results comparable to BC6H at 8 bits per texel.
Supported color formats
ASTC supports anywhere from 1 to 4 channels. In modes with 2–4 channels, one of the channels can be treated as "uncorrelated" and be given a separate gradient for prediction. In any case, the data is decoded as RGBA.
Each of these may be encoded as low or high dynamic range. The encoder selects color formats independently for each block in the image.
In practice, ASTC may be used to represent data other than color. For example, the L+A format may be used to represent "X+Y", a normal map with uncorrelated components; the "RG+B" format can be used to represent XY+Z. The software supplied by ARM supports "X+Y" generation with the option. The shader is expected to treat the decoded output as a swizzled texture.
2D block footprints and bit rates
ASTC textures are compressed using a fixed block size of 128 bits, but with a variable block footprint ranging from 4×4 texels up to 12×12 texels. The available bit rates thus range from 8 bits per texel down to 0.89 bits per texel, with fine steps in between.
In the above table, the "Increment" column shows the additional storage required to store a texture using this bit rate, as compared to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology%20data%20for%20low-linear%20energy%20transfer%20radiation | Epidemiological studies of the health effects of low levels of ionizing radiation, in particular the incidence and mortality from various forms of cancer, have been carried out in different population groups exposed to such radiation. These have included survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, workers at nuclear reactors, and medical patients treated with X-rays.
Life span studies of atomic bomb survivors
Survivors of the atomic bomb explosions at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan have been the subjects of a Life Span Study (LSS), which has provided valuable epidemiological data.
The LSS population went through several changes:
1945 – There were some 93,000 individuals, either living in Hiroshima or Nagasaki, Japan.
1950 – An additional 37,000 were registered by this time, for a total of 130,000 LSS members.
However, some 44,000 individuals were censured or excluded from the LSS project, so there remained about 86,000 people who were followed through the study. There is a gap in knowledge of the earliest cancer that developed in the first few years after the war, which impacts the assessment of leukemia to an important extent and for solid cancers to a minor extent. Table 1 shows summary statistics of the number of persons and deaths for different dose groups. These comparisons show that the doses that were received by the LSS population overlap strongly with the doses that are of concern to NASA Exploration mission (i.e., 50 to 2,000 milliSieverts (mSv)).
Figure 1 shows the dose response for the excess relative risk (ERR) for all solid cancers from Preston et al. Tables 2 and 3 show several summary parameters for tissue-specific cancer mortality risks for females and males, respectively, including estimates of ERR, excess absolute risk (EAR), and percentage attributable risks. Cancer incidence risks from low-LET radiation are about 60% higher than cancer mortality risks.
Other human studies
The BEIR VII Report contains an extensive review of data sets from human populations, including nuclear reactor workers and patients who were treated with radiation. The recent report from Cardis et al. describes a meta-analysis for reactor workers from several countries. A meta-analysis at specific cancer sites, including breast, lung, and leukemia, has also been performed. These studies require adjustments for photon energy, dose-rate, and country of origin as well as adjustments made in single population studies. Table 4 shows the results that are derived from Preston et al. for a meta-analysis of breast cancer risks in eight populations, including the atomic-bomb survivors. The median ERR varies by slightly more than a factor of two, but confidence levels significantly overlap. Adjustments for photon energy or dose-rate and fractionation have not been made. These types of analysis lend confidence to risk assessments as well as showing the limitations of such data sets.
Of special interest to NASA is the dependence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase%20distinction | Phase Distinction is a property of programming languages that observe a strict division between types and terms. A concise rule for determining whether phase distinction is preserved in a language or not has been proposed by Luca Cardelli - If A is a compile-time term and B is a subterm of A, then B must also be a compile-time term.
Most statically typed languages conform to the principle of phase distinction. However, some languages with especially flexible and expressive type systems (notably dependently typed programming languages) allow types to be manipulated in the same ways as regular terms. They may be passed to functions or returned as results.
A language with phase distinction may have separate namespaces for types and run-time variables. In an optimizing compiler, phase distinction marks the boundary between expressions which are safe to erase.
Theory
Phase distinction is used in conjunction with static checking. By using a calculus based system, phase distinction removes the need to enforce linear logic between different types and terms of programming.
Introduction
Phase Distinction distinguishes between processing to be done at compile-time versus processing done at runtime.
Consider a simple language, with terms:
t ::= true | false | x | λx : T . t | t t | if t then t else t
and types:
T ::= Bool | T -> T
Note how types and terms are distinct. At compile time, types are used to verify the validity of the terms. However, types do not play any role at runtime.
References
Computer programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength%20switched%20optical%20network | Wavelength switched optical network (WSON) is a type of telecommunications network.
A WSON consists of two planes: the data and the control planes. The data plane comprises wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) fiber links connecting optical cross-connect (OXCs) through a comb of several tens of wavelength channels, with typical data rates of 10 or 40 Gbit/s. Optical end-to-end connections (i.e., lightpaths) are established in the optical domain and switched by OXCs at the wavelength granularity.
The dynamic provisioning and maintenance of lightpaths is managed by the control plane. The control plane is implemented on a separate network and typically employs one network controller for each node in the data plane, as shown in the figure. The Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) protocol suite, the de facto standard control plane for WSONs proposed by the IETF, is composed of three protocols.
References
Fiber-optic communications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20item%20descriptions | A United States data item description (DID) is a completed document defining the data deliverables required of a United States Department of Defense contractor. A DID specifically defines the data content, format, and intended use of the data with a primary objective of achieving standardization objectives by the U.S. Department of Defense. The content and format requirements for DIDs are defined within MIL-STD-963C, Data Item Descriptions (2014).
Terminology
The terminology of DIDs and the term contract data requirements list (CDRL) originated with US military procurements, and it is now often encountered in other large procurements that are modeled after the military procurement process. Within a military solicitation or contract, each DID is uniquely numbered to identify the data deliverables in terms of specific information such as: purpose, description, preparation instructions including a table of contents and descriptions of each section, and references to the Contract Statement of work (SOW).
Practices and terms where definition is given by MIL-STD-963:
Tailoring of data requirements. The deletion of the applicability of a portion of the data requirements from an approved DID that are unnecessary to meet the needs of a specific contract.
Format. The desired organization, structure, or arrangement of the content of the data product described by the DID. This term relates to the shape, size, makeup, style, physical organization, or arrangement of the data product described in the DID.
Content. The desired subject(s), topic(s), or element(s) which constitutes the data product described in the DID (for example, a string of defined data elements for entry into a Government database; a listing of paragraph titles or topics for inclusion in a data deliverable) under general topics; or subject matter which may be further defined into sub-topics. For a specific contract, the content of a deliverable shall contain information that fulfills the requirements identified in the CDRL and the description of the DID. Documents should have section numbers and titles matching to the subsections of the DID content description for easier application and use.
DID number: Each DID is assigned a unique three-part identifier by the DID approval authority. An example DID number for repetitive use is DI-SESS-80013B (DI- Data Item; SESS – four character code for the "Systems Engineering" Standardization Area (see "SD-1, Standardization Directory" for descriptions); 80013 assigned by ASSIST Automated Document Number Module, and B the sequential version). An example DID number for one-time use is OT-13-1000 (OT- One Time; 13 – fiscal year issued; 10000 – (the first number assigned in FY13 by the Army).
Since DID documents are what contract mechanics cause to be produced, the defined content guidelines and their terminologies are commonly referred to in United States Military Standards or other forms of procedural and administrative guidance of the Unit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20Java%20virtual%20machines |
Version information
Technical information
Supported CPU architectures
Supported operating systems
References
Java platform software
Java virtual machine
Software comparisons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod%20Johnson%20%28programmer%29 | Roderick "Rod" Johnson is an Australian computer specialist who created the Spring Framework and co-founded SpringSource, where he served as CEO until its 2009 acquisition by VMware. In 2011, Johnson became Chairman of Neo4j's Board of Directors. At the JavaOne 2012 it was announced that he joined the Typesafe Inc. Company board of directors. In 2016, he founded Atomist.
Biography
Education
Johnson studied at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1992 with a BA Hons (music and computer science). In 1996 he completed a PhD in musicology, also at Sydney, with a thesis entitled 'Piano music in Paris under the July monarchy (1830-1848)'.
Career
In the early 2000s, Rob Johnson founded SpringSource, and served as CEO until its 2009 acquisition by VMware.
Publications
2002. Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development. Wrox. .
2004. Expert One-on-One J2EE Development without EJB. Wrox. .
2005. Professional Java Development with the Spring Framework. With Juergen Hoeller, Alef Arendsen, Thomas Risberg and Colin Sampaleanu. Wrox. .
References
Living people
Australian computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian%20algorithm | Gaussian algorithm may refer to:
Gaussian elimination for solving systems of linear equations
Gauss's algorithm for Determination of the day of the week
Gauss's method for preliminary orbit determination
Gauss's Easter algorithm
Gauss separation algorithm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atwater%20Library | The Atwater Library and Computer Centre (, officially the Atwater Library of the Mechanics' Institute of Montreal) is an independent community library in Westmount, Quebec, Canada, operating the oldest subscription library service in the country. It is located at 1200 Atwater Avenue. It is a privately operated, non-government, nonprofit organization, and a registered charity. It was founded in 1828.
History
The Atwater Library was home of the first Mechanics' Institute in Canada. It is also the oldest subscription library in Canada. It was first formed in 1828 when citizens recognized the need for educating workers for the number of industries that were expanding in Montreal. The Atwater Library is also the last Mechanics' Institute building in Canada serving its original purpose. The Atwater Library of the Mechanics' Institute of Montreal was recognized as a National Historic Site of Canada in 2005.
Services
The Atwater Library offers a variety of services and events to both members and to residents of the greater Montreal area. Membership is not limited to a specific municipality because it is not a public library.
Membership: Membership costs between $10.00 for three months up to $35.00 for a full year, with special pricing available to students, seniors, members of the Québec Writers' Federation, RECLAIM members, and former YMCA refugee residents with a permanent address.
Library services: Their collection currently offers almost 40 000 in multiple forms of media, mostly in English, as well as special collections and historical archives. In 2015, they created the Seed Bank, a seed-sharing program.
Computer services: They offer a bank of computers open to the public, provide free Wi-Fi, offer courses and workshops in a dedicated computer classroom, and operate the Digital Literacy Project which partners with community groups to teach technical skills relating to computers to youth and marginalized adults.
Digital literacy: The Atwater Library teaches the skills and knowledge to engage with digital technology and creative new media. They work with partner organizations and schools to offer age-appropriate activities to users, and they share their knowledge on seniors using digital media with international partners and peers.
Financial literacy: The library partners with relevant organizations to offer educational presentations and workshops on the financial issues and skills relevant to specific groups. In 2017, they focused on the needs of young families, and their 2019 series focuses on retirement and estate planning for seniors.
Room rentals: The Atwater Library offers four facilities for hourly rentals: an auditorium, a computer classroom, a reading room, and a computer centre.
Exhibitions: They accept community and school proposals for pictures and paintings to be exhibited throughout their heritage building.
Events: They host occasional and recurring events such as readings, lectures, community gatherings, and fundraising eve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%20Digital%20Network | Disney Digital Network was an American multi-channel network located in Culver City, California. It was originally the successor to Maker Studios, co-founded by Lisa Donovan, Danny Zappin, Scott Katz, Kassem Gharaibeh, Shay Carl, Rawn Erickson II, Ben Donovan, and Philip DeFranco in 2009. Maker Studios was originally conceived as an incubator for YouTube talent through the use of Super Channels like The Station. Maker Studios adopted the MCN model after the initial model failed to take root. Maker Studios was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2014 for $500 million, and was absorbed into the newly formed Disney Digital Network in 2017.
Outside the United States, the former Maker Studios had significant audiences in the United Kingdom, Brazil and Australia, and was aiming to expand its Asian operations, where it once had 700 million monthly unique views. Run by René Rechtman (who now runs Moonbug Entertainment), president for the international division, Maker had plans to build a headquarters in London for its commercial, production and marketing activities outside the USA. An Asian hub had been established in Singapore, which offered limited commercial and marketing support before the company was sold to The Walt Disney Company.
Following the Disney acquisition, the company suffered multiple rounds of layoffs, executive shuffling, and partner cut-offs.
History
As Maker Studios
2009–2012: Foundation and early years
Maker Studios was founded in 2009.
In June 2012, Maker Studios announced that over 1,000 channels signed under the network have received and accumulated over 1.1 billion views for the month of June 2012. At the time, YouTube channels under Maker Studios collectively earned over 90 million subscribers. In October 2012, Maker Studios surpassed Machinima to become the number one independent YouTube network. However, since that time, according to comScore, in December 2012, Fullscreen passed Maker to become the top ranked YouTube-based network.
2012–2013: Ray William Johnson dispute
From late 2012 through 2013, Maker Studios and Ray William Johnson were involved in a public feud that received considerable media attention. Maker Studios formerly produced Johnson's Equals Three and Your Favorite Martian series. In October 2012, Johnson announced he would be leaving Maker Studios in an episode of Equals Three. Johnson also formed his own production studio, Runaway Machine (formerly Runaway Planet). Johnson has stated online that he left Maker Studios due to the pressure the company put on him into signing a contract which gave Maker a 40% share of his channel's AdSense revenue and 50% of his show's intellectual property rights. He stated that they were using "thuggish tactics" to pressure him into signing the contract, one of which was allegedly leveraging his AdSense account for the intellectual property rights to Your Favorite Martian. He also claimed that Maker Studios CEO, Danny Zappin, is a convicted felon, which he was not mad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband%20Lifecycle | The Broadband Lifecycle is a model for looking at the planning, implementation, and adoption of broadband networks, providing a framework for understanding the natural progression and sound business planning to drive local economic development through broadband (high-speed Internet networks). It has been utilized by multiple North-American States since 2010.
Developed by Strategic Networks Group in the late 2000s as an alternative means to view broadband deployments, the Broadband Lifecycle is a departure from the dominant economic model of broadband network operators’ that relies on the “supply side” assumption that if a network is built adoption will follow.
Thus, the Broadband Lifecycle considers broadband from a “demand side,” recognizing that adoption and utilization only comes through understanding benefits, supporting the Demand side and the benefits for communities, demonstrating to individual businesses, organizations and households the value of broadband and its transformative effects through Internet enabled applications, which include global market reach, ability to do remote work, use of telemedicine, etc.
References
Compare Broadband Deals
Broadband |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed7 | Seed7 is an extensible general-purpose programming language designed by Thomas Mertes. It is syntactically similar to Pascal and Ada. Along with many other features, it provides an extension mechanism. Seed7 supports introducing new syntax elements and their semantics into the language, and allows new language constructs to be defined and written in Seed7. For example, programmers can introduce syntax and semantics of new statements and user defined operator symbols. The implementation of Seed7 differs significantly from that of languages with hard-coded syntax and semantics.
Features
Seed7 supports the programming paradigms: imperative, object-oriented (OO), and generic. It also supports features such as call by name, multiple dispatch, function overloading, operator overloading, exception handling and arbitrary-precision arithmetic.
Major features include:
User defined statements and operators
Abstract data types
Templates without special syntax
Object-oriented with interfaces and multiple dispatch
Static typing
May be interpreted or compiled
Source code portability
Runs under BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, Windows
Several programming language concepts are generalized:
Type declarations (which assign a name to a type) and function definitions take the form of constant definitions.
Compile-time expressions can execute user-defined functions.
Overloading and object-orientation (with multiple dispatch) are seen as common concepts. They just happen at different times: compile time and run time, respectively.
Type names and type descriptions can be used as parameter and function result.
Functions, which are executed at compile time, can be used to define objects.
Templates are written as compile time functions with type parameters.
Arrays, hash maps and structs are not a hard-coded feature. Instead they are defined as abstract data type in libraries.
Parser and interpreter are part of the runtime library.
UTF-32 Unicode support. This avoids problems of variable-length encodings like UTF-8 and UTF-16.
The Seed7 project includes both an interpreter and a compiler. The interpreter starts programs very quickly, supporting fast program development. The compiler uses the parser and reflection interfaces from the run-time library to generate a C program, which is subsequently compiled to machine code. Compiled Seed7 programs can have comparable performance to C programs.
Libraries
Seed7 has many libraries, covering areas including containers, numeric functions, lexical analysis, file manipulation, networking (sockets, Transport Layer Security (TLS/SSL), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), HTTP Secure (HTTPS), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), etc.), graphics, pixmap and vector fonts, database independent API, Common Gateway Interface (CGI) support, data compression, archive files (tar, zip, cpio, ar, rpm), character encoding, time and date handling, XML processing, message digests and more. These librari |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwerty%20Films | Qwerty Films is a British film production company set up by film producer Michael Kuhn in 1999; the name likely comes from the letters that start off most computer keyboards, "Q-W-E-R-T-Y".
Productions
Golda (2022)
Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
Suite française (2014)
The Last Days on Mars (2013)
Carrying the Light (2011) (TV)
The Duchess (2008)
Severance (2006)
Alien Autopsy (2006)
The Amateurs (2005)
I Heart Huckabees (2004)
Kinsey (2004 )
Stage Beauty'' (2004)
References
Film production companies of the United Kingdom
1999 establishments in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patched%20%28malware%29 | Win32/Patched is a computer Trojan targeting the Microsoft Windows operating system that was first detected in October 2008. Files detected as "Trojan.Win32.Patched" are usually Windows components that are patched by a malicious application. The purpose of patching varies. For example, certain malware patches system components in order to disable security, such as the Windows Safe File Check feature. Other malware can add parts of its code to a system component and then patch certain functions of the original file to point to an appended code.
Operation
This Trojan operates through modification to legitimate systems files on an infected system. Additionally, malware can add parts of its code to a system component and then patch certain functions of the original file to point to an appended code. The most frequently patched components are:
winlogon.exe
wininet.dll
kernel32.dll
iexplore.exe
services.exe.
Initial infection
Variant R replaces the original legitimate system file "sfc.dll" with a patched version. The original "sfc.dll" may have been moved by malware to another location within the same computer. Trojan:Win32/Patched.R is capable of loading other files. It may be installed by other malware.
Variant I represent malicious, and packed, Win32 programs. Many malicious programs are packed with particular utilities in an attempt to avoid detection.
Variant C defines corrupted DLL files that are modified to load an additional DLL. This variant may also attack and corrupt the services.exe executable
Variant A can modify a legitimate DLL file on an infected system.
Symptoms
There are no obvious symptoms that indicate the presence of this malware on an affected machine. Additionally, there are no common symptoms associated with this threat. Alert notifications from installed antivirus software may be the only symptom(s).
Removal and detection
It is not advised to delete, rename or quarantine patched Windows components because it may affect system stability. Even though Windows locks its main files while it is active, it might be still possible to affect them.
If the user's anti-virus software detected a certain file as Trojan.Win32.Patched, they could attempt to have it create a copy of a patched file, try to restore its contents, and then it will add a renaming command into the Windows Registry in order to replace the patched file with a cleaned one during the next Windows startup.
A restoration to one of the recent System Restore points may be advisable. In many cases a patched system component will be replaced with a clean one. Before restoring a System Restore point it is advised to back up all personal data to avoid losing it when Windows rolls back to a previously saved state.
Windows Installation discs contain a repair option that can replace the patched file.
Another course of action includes attaching a hard drive with a patched file as slave to a similar Windows-based system, boot up and to replace a patched file wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solus%20%28operating%20system%29 | Solus (previously known as Evolve OS) is an independently developed operating system for the x86-64 architecture based on the Linux kernel and a choice of Budgie, GNOME, MATE or KDE Plasma as the desktop environment. Its package manager, eopkg, is based on the PiSi package management system from Pardus Linux, and it has a semi-rolling release model, with new package updates landing in the stable repository every Friday. The developers of Solus have stated that Solus was intended exclusively for use on personal computers and will not include software that is only useful in enterprise or server environments.
History
On September 20, 2015, Ikey Doherty announced that "Solus 1.0 will be codenamed Shannon, after the River Shannon in Ireland", indicating that "codenames for releases will continue this theme, using Irish rivers."
In July 2016, Solus announced the intention to discard the concept of fixed point releases and to embrace a rolling release model.
In January 2017, Doherty announced that Solus will adopt Flatpak to reassemble third party applications. In August, Doherty announced that Solus also will adopt "Snaps" (next to Flatpak).
On June 13 the same year, it was announced that the developer team had been expanded with Stefan Ric, and Ikey Doherty – previously working for Intel on Clear Linux OS – started working full-time on Solus.
On November 2, 2018, technology website Phoronix published an open letter from original founder Ikey Doherty confirming that he was stepping back from the project, assigning "any and all intellectual, naming and branding rights relating to the ownership of Solus" to the development team "with immediate and permanent effect, acknowledging them as the official owners and leadership of the project."
On January 1, 2022, experience lead Josh Strobl announced his resignation from Solus, after 6 years of involvement with the project. The Budgie desktop environment, originally created as a project internal to Solus, would be split out of Solus and developed independently under Strobl's newly founded Buddies of Budgie organization.
In January 2023, Solus infrastructure suffered an outage which lasted until April 2023. This outage brought down their website, forums, and development platform required to update the system. Their website was restored by moving it from internal infrastructure to GitHub Pages on February 27, 2023. On April 16, in a post on Reddit entitled "Righting the ship", Josh Strobl announced a series of measures aimed at restoring order to the project. This was followed by a blog post "A New Voyage" which provided more detail about the new personnel, and announced the intention to explore re-basing Solus on Serpent OS. Their development infrastructure and forums were restored alongside that announcement and build infrastructure on April 20.
Releases and reception
Point releases
Solus 1.0 "Shannon" was released December 27, 2015. Jessie Smith reviewed the release as part of a feature story in Dist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ports%20and%20harbours%20in%20Scotland | This is a list of ports and harbours in Scotland based on Department for Transport data.
See also
List of RNLI stations#Scotland Division
List of ports and harbours of the Atlantic Ocean#United Kingdom
List of North Sea ports#United Kingdom
List of marinas#Scotland
References
Scotland
Ports and harbours
Ports and harbours
Ports and harbours |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty%20Diff | Pretty Diff is a language-aware data comparison utility implemented in TypeScript. The online utility is capable of source code prettification, minification, and comparison of two pieces of input text. It operates by removing code comments from supported languages and then performs a pretty-print operation prior to executing the diff algorithm. An abbreviated list of unit tests is provided. The documentation claims the JavaScript pretty-print operation conforms to the requirements of JSLint.
As Pretty Diff is written entirely in TypeScript, the application executes in a web browser or on command line using a stand-alone JavaScript interpreter, such as Node.js.
As of March 23, 2016 Pretty Diff stated it would abandon NPM in response to a list of disagreements. On April 18, 2016 in parallel to the release of Pretty Diff version 2.0.0. the NPM package is updated to artificial version 99 where it is effectively locked into version 1.16.37.
The source code is published at the Pretty Diff GitHub repository.
Alternatives
JS Diff Lib - Diff tool written in JavaScript
JS Beautify - HTML and JavaScript beautification
JSMin - Minifier for JavaScript written in JavaScript
CSSmin - Minifier for CSS
Google Closure Compiler - Minifier for CSS, JavaScript, and HTML.
See also
Comparison of file comparison tools - Diff tools
Diff
Obfuscated code
Longest common subsequence problem
Markup language
Levenshtein distance
References
External links
File comparison tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road%20church | A road church is a roadside church, one of a network of such churches in Denmark (), Germany (, open all year), Estonia (), Finland (, ), Norway (), Russia (Murmansk oblast) and Sweden (). The churches are kept open for tourists during the summer holiday season.
Czech Republic
The only road church in the Czech Republic is the Chapel of Reconciliation (), located at D5 motorway in west Bohemia near Pilsen, built in 2008.
Denmark
List of road churches in Denmark
Estonia
List of road churches in Estonia
Finland
List of road churches in Finland
The first road churches (, ) were opened in Finland during the 1990s. There are about 265 churches that act as roadside churches in the summer time. Most of the churches are Lutheran and some are Finnish Orthodox.
Germany
The first road church was opened in Germany in 1958. In 2012 there are 39 road churches or chapels. Some of them were built on purpose in a rest area, others are old village churches which happen to be situated near an access point. In liturgical terms, they range from ecumenical chapels with no formal rank up to fully consecrated Roman Catholic churches. Churches are open all year.
Ökumenische Autobahnkapelle Dammer Berge
Ökumenische Autobahnkapelle Roxel
Evangelische Autobahn- und Gemeindekirche Exter
Evangelisch-lutherische Autobahn- und Gemeindekirche Peter und Paul, Uhyst am Taucher
Ökumenische Autobahnkapelle Geismühle
Katholische Autobahnkapelle St. Raphael, Nievenheim
Evangelische Autobahn- und Gemeindekirche Gelmeroda
Evangelische Autobahn- und Gemeindekirche Waldlaubersheim (Martinskirche)
Katholische Autobahnkirche St. Christophorus Himmelkron, Bad Berneck
Autobahnkirche "Maria, Schutz der Reisenden", Adelsried
Katholische Autobahnkirche St. Christophorus, Baden-Baden
Katholische Autobahn- und Pfarrkirche "Maria am Wege", Windach
Evangelische Autobahn- und Gemeindekirche Duben
Katholische Autobahnkapelle St. Antonius, Gescher/Coesfeld
Ökumenische Autobahnkapelle "Galluskapelle", Leutkirch im Allgäu
Evangelische Autobahnkirche Medenbach
Evangelische Autobahn- und Gemeindekirche Kavelstorf
Ökumenische Autobahnkapelle "Jesus - Brot des Lebens", Groß-Hesepe
Ökumenische Autobahnkapelle "Emmauskapelle", Engen (near Singen)
Ökumenische Autobahnkirche "Licht auf unserem Weg", Geiselwind
Evangelische Autobahn- und Gemeindekirche Werbellin
SVG-Autohofkapelle Schlüchtern
Autobahnkirche Siegerland
Evangelische Autobahn- und Gemeindekirche St. Benedikt, Hohenwarsleben
Evangelische Autobahn-, Stadt- und Klosterkirche Brehna
Evangelische Autobahn- und Gemeindekirche St. Petri, Brumby
SVG-Autohofkapelle Hessisch Lichtenau
SVG-Autohofkapelle Schwabhausen
Ökumenische Autobahnkirche Waidhaus
SVG-Autohofkapelle Kirchheim/Hessen
Ökumenische Autobahnkirche Jakobikirche, Wilsdruff
Evangelische Autobahn- und Gemeindekirche St. Pancratius, Rothenschirmbach, OT der Lutherstadt Eisleben
Autohofkapelle an der A 44 Kassel-Dortmund, Abfahrt Diemelstadt
Evangelische A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Kenneth%20Keller | Mary Kenneth Keller, B.V.M. (December 17, 1913 – January 10, 1985) was an American Catholic religious sister, educator and pioneer in computer science. She was the first person to earn a Ph.D. in computer science in the United States. Keller and Irving C. Tang were the first two recipients of computer science doctorates (Keller's Ph.D. and Tang's D.Sc. were awarded on the same day).
Career
Keller was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on December 17, 1913, to John Adam Keller and Catherine Josephine (née Sullivan) Keller. She entered the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1932 and took her vows with that religious congregation in 1940. She completed both her B.S. (Bachelor of Science) in Mathematics in 1943 and her M.S. (Master of Science) in Mathematics and Physics in 1953 from DePaul University in Chicago. Keller earned her Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1965. Her dissertation, Inductive Inference on Computer Generated Patterns, focused on "constructing algorithms that performed analytic differentiation on algebraic expression, written in CDC FORTRAN 63."
Throughout Keller's graduate studies, she was affiliated with various institutions including the University of Michigan, Purdue, and Dartmouth. Many sources claim that Keller began working at the National Science Foundation workshop in 1958 in the computer science center at Dartmouth College, a male-only institution at the time, where she participated in the implementation of the first DTSS BASIC kernel for the language, working under John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz along with about a dozen other students. But this cannot be correct since Dartmouth did not acquire its first computer until 1959. Keller in fact was at Dartmouth sometime in 1961 when Dartmouth ALGOL 30 was being developed and used in undergraduate education.
Keller believed in the potential for computers to increase access to information and promote education. After finishing her doctorate in 1965, Keller founded the computer science department at Clarke College (now Clarke University), a Catholic women's college founded by Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dubuque, Iowa. That same year, that National Science Foundation awarded her a grant of $25,000 payable over two years for "instructional equipment for undergraduate education." One of the first computer science departments at a small college, Keller directed this department for twenty years. Clarke College now has the Keller Computer Center and Information Services, which is named after her and which provides computing and telecommunication support to Clarke College students, faculty members, and staff. The college has also established the Mary Kenneth Keller Computer Science Scholarship in her honor.
Keller was an advocate for the involvement of women in computing and the use of computers for education. She helped to establish the Association of Small Computer Users in Education (ASCUE). She went on to wr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRINN | IRINN may mean:
Islamic Republic of Iran News Network
Indian Registry for Internet Names and Numbers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annala%20Round%20Barn | The Annala Round Barn near Hurley, Wisconsin, United States, is a round barn that was built in 1921 according to the NRIS database. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The listing included two contributing buildings.
According to another source, it was built in 1917 by Finnish stonemason Matt Annala.
It is asserted to be the "only barn in Wisconsin entirely made of massive field stones."
References
Barns on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin
Buildings and structures completed in 1921
Buildings and structures in Iron County, Wisconsin
Round barns in Wisconsin
National Register of Historic Places in Iron County, Wisconsin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings%20%28TV%20series%29 | Vikings is a historical drama television series created and written by Michael Hirst for the History channel, a Canadian network. Filmed in Ireland, it premiered on March 3, 2013, in Canada. The series concluded on December 30, 2020, when the second half of the sixth season was released in its entirety on Amazon Prime Video in Ireland, ahead of its broadcast on History in Canada from January 1 to March 3, 2021. A sequel series, titled Vikings: Valhalla, premiered on Netflix on February 25, 2022.
Vikings is inspired by the sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok, a Viking who is one of the best-known legendary Norse heroes and notorious as the scourge of Anglo-Saxon England and West Francia. The show portrays Ragnar as a farmer from the Kattegat who rises to fame by raiding England and eventually becomes a Scandinavian king, with the support of his family and fellow warriors. In the later seasons, the series follows the fortunes of his sons and their adventures in England, Scandinavia, Kievan Rus', the Mediterranean and North America.
Premise
The series is inspired by the tales of the Norsemen of early medieval Scandinavia. It broadly follows the exploits of the legendary Viking chieftain Ragnar Lothbrok and his crew, family and descendants, as notably laid down in the 13th-century sagas Ragnars saga Loðbrókar and Ragnarssona þáttr, as well as in Saxo Grammaticus' 12th-century work Gesta Danorum. Norse legendary sagas were partially fictional tales based in the Norse oral tradition, written down about 200 to 400 years after the events they describe. Further inspiration is taken from historical sources of the period, such as records of the Viking raid on Lindisfarne depicted in the second episode, or Ahmad ibn Fadlan's 10th-century account of the Varangians. The series begins at the start of the Viking Age, marked by the Lindisfarne raid in 793.
Cast and characters
Travis Fimmel as Ragnar Lothbrok (seasons 1–4)
Katheryn Winnick as Lagertha
Clive Standen as Rollo (seasons 1–4; special appearance season 5)
Jessalyn Gilsig as Siggy (seasons 1–3)
Gustaf Skarsgård as Floki
Gabriel Byrne as Earl Haraldson (season 1)
George Blagden as Athelstan (seasons 1–3; recurring season 4)
Donal Logue as Horik of Denmark (seasons 1–2)
Alyssa Sutherland as Aslaug (seasons 1–4)
Linus Roache as Ecbert of Wessex (seasons 2–4)
Alexander Ludwig as Bjorn Ironside (seasons 2–6)
Ben Robson as Kalf (seasons 3–4)
Kevin Durand as Harbard (seasons 3–4)
Lothaire Bluteau as Charles of West Francia (seasons 3–4)
John Kavanagh as The Seer (seasons 4–6; recurring seasons 1–3)
Peter Franzén as Harald Finehair (seasons 4–6)
Jasper Pääkkönen as Halfdan the Black (seasons 4–6)
Alex Høgh Andersen as Ivar the Boneless (seasons 4–6)
Marco Ilsø as Hvitserk (seasons 4–6)
David Lindström as Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye (season 4)
Jordan Patrick Smith as Ubbe (seasons 4–6)
Moe Dunford as Aethelwulf (seasons 4–5; recurring seasons 2–4)
Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Bishop Heahmund (seasons 4–5)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split%20networks | For a given set of taxa like X, and a set of splits S on X, usually together with a non-negative weighting, which may represent character changes distance, or may also have a more abstract interpretation, if the set of splits S is compatible, then it can be represented by an unrooted phylogenetic tree and each edge in the tree corresponds to exactly one of the splits. More generally, S can always be represented by a split network, which is an unrooted phylogenetic network with the property that every split s in S is represented by an array of parallel edges in the network.
A split network N can be obtained from a number of different types of data:
Split networks from distances
Split networks from trees
Split networks from sequences
Split networks from quartets
References
Further reading
Phylogenetics
Evolutionary biology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-median%20networks | The concept of a quasi-median network is a generalization of the concept of a median network that was introduced to represent multistate characters. Note that, unlike median networks, quasi-median networks are not split networks. A quasi-median network is defined as a phylogenetic network, the node set of which is given by the quasi-median closure of the condensed version of M (let M be a multiple sequence alignment of DNA sequences on X) and in which any two nodes are joined by an edge if and only if the sequences associated with the nodes differ in exactly one position. The quasi-median closure is defined as the set of all sequences that can be obtained by repeatedly taking the quasi-median of any three sequences in the set and then adding the result to the set.
References
Phylogenetics
Computational phylogenetics
Bioinformatics algorithms
Bioinformatics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedians%20in%20Cars%20Getting%20Coffee | Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee is an American talk-show directed and hosted by comedian Jerry Seinfeld. The series premiered on digital network Crackle on July 19, 2012 and has since been locked up by Netflix. As of May 2015, it had been streamed nearly 100 million times. The series moved to Netflix in 2018 for the debut of its tenth season. Its eleventh season premiered on July 19, 2019. Seinfeld has since indicated that he may be done working on the series.
Episodes feature Seinfeld introducing a vintage car selected for a guest comedian, followed by a drive to a café or restaurant where they drink coffee. Episodes diverge from the format spontaneously, from making unplanned stops to interacting with members of the public.
Production
History
Seinfeld has stated that the roots of the concept traced to a DVD extra he made for his 2002 documentary Comedian along with a later trip he made after purchasing an old VW Beetle in New Mexico, subsequently filming the return trip to the east coast with a friend. Later, describing the birth of the series, Seinfeld said the series birth was "an experiment"—as "kind of a guess."
Prior to the development of the series, Seinfeld was told by leading social network advisers, including those at Facebook and Yahoo, that a show length exceeding five minutes had little chance of success on the web. Howard Schultz, coffee magnate and Chairman of Starbucks, turned down the opportunity to sponsor the show. Acura eventually sponsored the show, giving Seinfeld creative license with creating commercials and product placements.
The series premiered on Crackle on July 19, 2012. As of May 2015, it had been streamed nearly 100 million times. In January 2017, it was announced that the series would migrate to Netflix starting with the show's tenth season. The first nine seasons became available to stream on Netflix in January 2018. Excluded are the Super Bowl promotional episode with Jason Alexander and Wayne Knight reprising their respective roles of George Costanza and Newman from Seinfeld, a series of promotional videos featuring Michael Richards as fictional Crackle president Dick Corcoran and a spin-off series Single Shot (2014–2016), which compiled footage from various episodes to focus on a more narrow subject.
The series' eleventh season premiered on July 19, 2019. After hinting in mid-2020 that he may be done working on the series, Seinfeld stated in late 2021 that "I think I'm going to put that volume on the shelf." He elaborated that "It was a lot of fun and I got to meet ... a lot of those people who I had not met. We're friends now." The first episode filmed and last episode released feature Barry Marder and the same 1966 Porsche 356.
Format
Episodes are estimated to cost roughly $100,000, with guests being paid in cash and the initial raw shoot lasting on average three and a half hours, which is then edited over a two-week period down to a 12 to 20-minute episode. The process uses a lean production staff, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy%20Island%20Waggonway | The Holy Island Waggonway (sometimes referred to as the Holy Island Tramway) was a network of waggonways across the island of Lindisfarne, Northumberland, England.
The earliest two lines connected limestone quarries at the northern end of the island with lime kilns and a tidal jetty in waters known as The Basin, northwest of Lindisfarne Priory. A third line down the eastern side of the island eventually replaced the earlier routes. It was built to connect the remaining quarry with new kilns and a pair of new jetties near Lindisfarne Castle.
The waggonways had all fallen into disuse by the middle of the 1880s.
Early works
Lime burning on Lindisfarne was first recorded in 1344, though the process itself has been used for over four thousand years. The scale of the operation before the industrial revolution was small, with the product used locally. Geography and unenclosed land ownership inhibited ambition and opportunity, Lindisfarne was then and remains a semi-island remote from centres of population and industry. Limestone deposits extended to the neighbouring mainland, so the island had no natural advantage to exploit. The island in the 18th century was characterised by "grinding poverty, emigration, lawlessness and a decline in population."
Industrialisation
In the process of enclosure on Lindisfarne in the 1790s "…the agricultural potential of the land was increased, and its value was estimated to have increased eightfold." This, the climate of the times and the presence on the island of industrialisation's key drivers – coal and iron – brought about radical change.
There are thin seams of poor quality coal to the north of the island which have been used over the years. Attempts were made to mine this on a significant scale in the early 19th century. Costs, quality and quantity meant this ultimately came to nothing as cheap, accessible coal became readily available elsewhere. Some coal used in the nineteenth century was brought in by ship from Scotland, but the majority was shipped in from further south in Northumberland.
Though dating before the island's waggonways, iron ore was mined on the island and shipped to Falkirk in the early 19th century. Like coal, this petered out as better ore became much more readily and cheaply available elsewhere.
These industrial activities acted as spurs to pursue the island's lime workings. The fact that Lindisfarne is an island had inhibited lime production when markets were small and local, but, conversely, with industrial scale processes and industrial scale markets in view, the island's natural south side harbour gave it the same advantage afforded by rivers and canals – a means of getting the product to customers on an industrial scale.
St Cuthbert's Limeworks waggonway
The Lord of the Manor, John Selby, wrote to the Crown Commissioners on 21 December 1839 seeking their support to install steam-powered quarrying machinery, erect modern kilns, a sea jetty and a railway to connect them, with the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable%20type | Variable type may refer to:
Variable star
The data type of a variable within a programming language's type system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA3 | IA3 or similar may refer to:
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, a 2009 3-D computer-animated adventure comedy film
Iowa Highway 3, a state highway that runs from east to west across the state of Iowa
Iowa's 3rd congressional district, a congressional district in the U.S. state of Iowa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%2018 | Code_18 is a visual novel video game developed by Cyberfront and released on September 29, 2011, for the PlayStation Portable and Xbox 360, and later for Microsoft Windows. It is a reboot of the Infinity series, which also includes Never 7: The End of Infinity, Ever 17: The Out of Infinity, Remember 11: The Age of Infinity, and the spin-off 12Riven: The Psi-Climinal of Integral. The story follows Hayato Hino, a high school student who receives voice messages from the future on his phone, and is stuck in a loop, repeating a month of his life over and over again. The gameplay involves advancing the story through conversations with characters, with dialogue choices influencing the story's path.
Cyberfront bought the rights to the Infinity series after its previous developer, KID, closed down. The game's writing was done by the group Run & Gun, while the sound production was handled by the band Milktub. While the development team had originally planned to use a theme of "escape from an enclosed space" similarly to previous Infinity games, it was changed due to concerns of the size of the game's audience, and was seen as a reboot of the series. Western journalists were optimistic, while Famitsu 360 gave it an average score. Sales of the title were low, with both console versions reaching a combined total of over 11,000 units.
Gameplay
As with the rest of the Infinity series, Code_18 is a visual novel in which the player makes progress through the linear story by talking to characters and listening to dialogue. Disposing of the escape scenarios of earlier Infinity games, the core gameplay features the player character Hayato Hino exploring his school environment and interacting with five female characters with whom he can develop relationships. The state of Hayato's romantic relationships, together with choices made during the story, can alter the flow of events to a degree; some options can trigger alternative bad endings for characters, and the game's full ending is altered depending on whom Hayato has formed a romantic relationship with.
Synopsis
Setting and characters
In Code_18, the player takes the role of Hayato Hino, a high school student at Ryuusei Academy in Tokyo, and a member of the school's Second Science Club. Among other characters are Hikari Haruna, a friend of Hayato's, who often visits the club despite not being a member; Tamaki Tatekawa, a wealthy girl with otaku hobbies; Yuzu Soraki, a tomboy who is an acquaintance of Hayato's; Nanari Torikura, a quiet girl who often reads alone; Arika Tokitou, who appears to dislike Hayato.
Plot
The game opens on September 11, 2018. When Hayato is about to test his "Dragon Unit" flight pack on the school's roof, a girl falls from the sky, wearing a similar device. He tries to save her, but falls to his death; after this, he is transported back in time without any memory of the event, and manages to save her. Her name turns out to be Arika Tokitou. Ryuusei Academy and the Second Science Clu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cityfone | Cityfone Telecommunications Inc. is a Canadian cellular network service reseller owned by Rogers Communications which acquired it in 2010 for CAD$26 million. It provides services through Rogers Wireless. It was founded in 1997 by Dejan Mirkovic, Donald Roth, and Mark Reid.
It operates under the Cityfone, Primus Wireless, Zoomer Wireless, and, most recently, SimplyConnect brand names. It only offers postpaid plans under each.
Network
Cityfone is owned by Rogers (which owns and should not be confused with the CityTV television network) and uses the Rogers Wireless' network. It supports LTE just like Rogers and Fido.
Products
Cityfone carries feature phones and low-end smartphones.
Partners
Bank of Montreal
Royal Bank of Canada
Primus Canada
Scotiabank
Sears Canada (SearsConnect)
ZoomerMedia
See also
List of Canadian mobile phone companies
References
External links
Cityfone Subreddit
Mobile phone companies of Canada
Rogers Communications
Companies based in Burnaby
2010 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20Butler%20Rote | Jason Butler Rote is an American television writer, known mainly for his work at Hanna-Barbera on Cartoon Network animated television series like Dexter's Laboratory (1996-2003) and The Powerpuff Girls (1998–2005). He attended McClintock High School.
Filmography
Other work
In 1995 Rote, along with Mark Hughes and Joe LoCicero, published The Jetsons Character Reference Guide under the Hanna-Barbera label.
Awards and nominations
He and fellow writer Paul Rudish won an Annie Award in 1997 in the category "Best Individual Achievement: Writing in a TV Production" for their work on the Dexter's Laboratory episode "Beard to Be Feared". He was also nominated for three Primetime Emmys: in 1997 and 1998 for Dexter's Laboratory and in 1999 for The Powerpuff Girls.
References
External links
American male screenwriters
Living people
American male television writers
American television writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Annie Award winners
Cartoon Network Studios people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet%20capture%20appliance | A packet capture appliance is a standalone device that performs packet capture. Packet capture appliances may be deployed anywhere on a network, however, most commonly are placed at the entrances to the network (i.e. the internet connections) and in front of critical equipment, such as servers containing sensitive information.
In general, packet capture appliances capture and record all network packets in full (both header and payload), however, some appliances may be configured to capture a subset of a network's traffic based on user-definable filters. For many applications, especially network forensics and incident response, it is critical to conduct full packet capture, though filtered packet capture may be used at times for specific, limited information gathering purposes.
Deployment
The network data that a packet capture appliance captures depends on where and how the appliance is installed on a network. There are two options for deploying packet capture appliances on a network. One option is to connect the appliance to the SPAN port (port mirroring) on a network switch or router. A second option is to connect the appliance inline, so that network activity along a network route traverses the appliance (similar in configuration to a network tap, but the information is captured and stored by the packet capture appliance rather than passing on to another device).
When connected via a SPAN port, the packet capture appliance may receive and record all Ethernet/IP activity for all of the ports of the switch or router.
When connected inline, the packet capture appliances captures only the network traffic traveling between two points, that is, traffic that passes through the cable to which the packet capture appliance is connected.
There are two general approaches to deploying packet capture appliances: centralized and decentralized.
Centralized
With a centralized approach, one high-capacity, high-speed packet capture appliance connects to a data-aggregation point. The advantage of a centralized approach is that with one appliance you gain visibility over the network's entire traffic. This approach, however, creates a single point of failure that is a very attractive target for hackers; additionally, one would have to re-engineer the network to bring traffic to appliance and this approach typically involves high costs.
Decentralized
With a decentralized approach you place multiple appliances around the network, starting at the point(s) of entry and proceeding downstream to deeper network segments, such as workgroups. The advantages include: no network re-configuration required; ease of deployment; multiple vantage points for incident response investigations; scalability; no single point of failure – if one fails, you have the others; if combined with electronic invisibility, this approach practically eliminates the danger of unauthorized access by hackers; low cost. Cons: potential increased maintenance of multiple appliances.
In the past, p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunted%20Highway | Haunted Highway (originally called Paranormal Highway) is an American paranormal investigation reality television series produced by BASE Productions. It began airing on the Syfy network on July 3, 2012.
The series features two teams of investigators; Jack Osbourne, investigator Dana Workman, and Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files investigators Jael de Pardo and Devin Marble.
On the 5th episode of the series, Osbourne announced that he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) and temporarily stepped down as host of the series.
On April 22, 2013, Syfy renewed the show for a six-episode second season which premiered on November 27, 2013.
Format
The two teams drive across America's highways and back roads, investigating cases of various alleged cryptid sightings. During the intro, Osbourne states that he has had an interest in the paranormal since he was a child and that the show takes a unique investigative approach whereby the teams film their own video footage and do not rely on camera crews.
Opening Introductions:
Premiere episode intro:
Main episode intro:
Cast
Jack Osbourne - Team Leader
Dana Workman - Researcher
Jael de Pardo - Investigator
Devin Marble - Investigator
Episodes
Season 1
Season 2
References
External links
Syfy original programming
Paranormal reality television series
2010s American reality television series
2012 American television series debuts
2013 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s%20the%20Good%20Word%3F | What's the Good Word? was a Canadian word-based game show that aired on that country's CTV network as a daily daytime series from 1972 to 1976. The host was John Barton. The show was shot at the BCTV Studios in Burnaby, British Columbia.
Rules
Three teams of two players each competed over guessing the key word with a list of related clues. Play began with an introductory clue. For example, a set might begin with "This can either be a friend to man or an enemy." Clues would then be read while the timer clicked down. Clues for this sample set might be: WILD, RED, FLASH, GUN, ANTS, SIDE, TRUCK, HYDRANT, and finally FIGHTER (a maximum of ten clues would be revealed). The good word, of course, is FIRE. When a team rang in to answer, they would write their response down. If they were correct, they earned one point for every clue that was revealed. If they were incorrect, the team scored 11 points. If two or more teams rang in on the same clue, the host would then mention the order the teams signaled; the first team, if correct, would score one point for each revealed clue; the second team, if right, would get that same number plus one point, and if the third team rang in and was right, they would score that same number plus two points. If only two teams rang in and were both right, the third team would have to wait for two more clues to be revealed before they could ring in (they could answer verbally at that point). Whoever had the fewest points when time ran out won the game and would play a bonus game similar to regular play.
References
1970s Canadian game shows
1972 Canadian television series debuts
1976 Canadian television series endings
CTV Television Network original programming
Television shows filmed in Burnaby |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogate%20data | Surrogate data, sometimes known as analogous data, usually refers to time series data that is produced using well-defined (linear) models like ARMA processes that reproduce various statistical properties like the autocorrelation structure of a measured data set. The resulting surrogate data can then for example be used for testing for non-linear structure in the empirical data, see surrogate data testing.
Surrogate or analogous data may refer to data used to supplement available data from which a mathematical model is built. Under this definition, it may be generated (i.e., synthetic data) or transformed from another source.
Uses
Surrogate data is used in environmental and laboratory settings, when study data from one source is used in estimation of characteristics of another source. For example, it has been used to model population trends in animal species. It can also be used to model biodiversity, as it would be difficult to gather actual data on all species in a given area.
Surrogate data may be used in forecasting. Data from similar series may be pooled to improve forecast accuracy. Use of surrogate data may enable a model to account for patterns not seen in historical data.
Another use of surrogate data is to test models for non-linearity. The term surrogate data testing refers to algorithms used to analyze models in this way. These tests typically involve generating data, whereas surrogate data in general can be produced or gathered in many ways.
Methods
One method of surrogate data is to find a source with similar conditions or parameters, and use those data in modeling. Another method is to focus on patterns of the underlying system, and to search for a similar pattern in related data sources (for example, patterns in other related species or environmental areas).
Rather than using existing data from a separate source, surrogate data may be generated through statistical processes, which may involve random data generation using constraints of the model or system.
See also
Bootstrapping (statistics)
Jackknife resampling
References
Further reading
Statistical data types
Nonlinear time series analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near%20sound%20data%20transfer | Near Sound Data Transfer (NSDT) is a sound-based mobile transaction technology developed and patented by Tagattitude since 2005. NSDT uses a one time password sent through the audio channel of a mobile device to create an electronic signature enabling secure transactions. Because all mobile telephones have an audio input and output (speaker and microphone) built in, this technology is compatible with all mobile phones in use worldwide.
Applications
NSDT is primarily used for mobile banking transactions through the mobile money platform Tagpay. It is also used to securely open doors and enable authentication on websites.
See also
Air gap (networking)
Van Eck phreaking
Notes and references
Wireless |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EchoStar%20XVII | EchoStar XVII or EchoStar 17, also known as Jupiter 1, is an American geostationary high throughput communications satellite which is operated by Hughes Network Systems, a subsidiary of EchoStar. It is positioned in geostationary orbit at a longitude of 107.1° West, from where it is used for satellite internet access over HughesNet.
EchoStar XVII was built by Space Systems/Loral, and is based on the LS-1300 satellite bus. It measures by by , with solar arrays which were deployed after launch, and generates a minimum of 16.1 kilowatts of power. The spacecraft had a mass at liftoff of , and is expected to operate for fifteen years. It carries sixty (NATO K band) transponders which is used to cover North America.
EchoStar XVII was launched by Arianespace, using an Ariane 5ECA carrier rocket flying from ELA-3 at Kourou. The spacecraft was launched at 21:36 UTC on 5 July 2012. The MSG-3 weather satellite was launched aboard the same rocket, mounted below EchoStar XVII, which was atop a Sylda 5 adaptor. The launch successfully placed both satellites into a geosynchronous transfer orbit. EchoStar XVII used its own propulsion system to manoeuvre into a geostationary orbit.
Path to geostationary orbit
See also
ViaSat-1 – Similar high throughput satellite that was the source of a lawsuit to the manufacturer of both
2012 in spaceflight
References
Spacecraft launched in 2012
High throughput satellites
Communications satellites in geostationary orbit
Ariane commercial payloads
E17 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System76 | System76, Inc. is an American computer manufacturer based in Denver, Colorado, specializing in the sale of notebooks, desktops, and servers. The company utilizes free and open-source software, and offers a choice of Ubuntu or their own Ubuntu-based Linux distribution Pop!_OS as preinstalled operating systems.
History
System76 was founded by Carl Richell and Erik Fetzer. In 2003, Fetzer registered the domain system76.com to sell computers with Linux operating systems preinstalled, but the idea was not pursued until two years later. The number 76 in the company name is a reference to 1776, the year the American Revolution took place. Richell explained that the company hoped to spark an "open source revolution", giving consumers a choice to not use proprietary software.
In mid-2005, the founders considered which Linux distribution to offer, with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, openSUSE, Yoper and other distributions evaluated. Ubuntu was initially dismissed, but Richell and Fetzer changed their mind quickly after a re-evaluation. Richell liked Canonical's business model of completely free software, backed by commercial support when needed. The first computers sold by System76 shipped with Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger preinstalled.
In response to Canonical switching to the GNOME desktop from the Unity interface for future releases of Ubuntu in May 2017, System76 announced a new shell called Pop. The company announced in June 2017 that it would be creating its own Linux distribution based on Ubuntu called Pop!_OS.
Products
System76's products include the Thelio series of desktops, the Meerkat mini computer, several laptops, and several rack mount servers. The computers are shipped with Pop! OS, the company's in-house Linux Distribution.
System76's computer models are named after various African animals.
In May 2016, the company released the Launch series of mechanical keyboards, which feature the open source QMK firmware and built-in USB hubs.
System76's firmware partly disables the Intel Management Engine; the Intel Management Engine is proprietary firmware which runs an operating system in post-2008 Intel chipsets.
On 4 April 2023, System76's CEO and founder Carl Richell announced System76's first in-house designed laptop, code-named "Virgo".
Pop!_OS
Pop!_OS is a Linux distribution developed by System76 based on Ubuntu, using the GNOME desktop environment. It is intended for use by "developers, makers, and computer science professionals". Pop!_OS provides full disk encryption by default as well as streamlined window management, workspaces, and keyboard shortcuts for navigation.
In 2022, a System76 Engineer revealed that the company was working on a new Desktop Environment for Pop!_OS called COSMIC.
Community relations
The company has sponsored the Ubuntu Developer Summit, Southern California Linux Expo, and other Open Source/Linux events and conferences. Their official support forums are hosted by Canonical Ltd., the primary developer of Ubuntu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctur-1 | Arctur-1 was a supercomputer located in Slovenia which is used by scientific and technical users in technologically intensive industries and research. In 2017 it was replaced by Arctur-2.
The High Performance Computer (HPC) was located in Gorjansko (Slovenia) and was put into operation in October 2010. Arctur-1 was built with 84 IBM iDataPlex dx360 M3 nodes, each with two Intel Xeon X5650 cores (6 cores clocked at 2,66 GHz) for a total of 1008 cores, 2,66 terabytes of memory (2,66 gigabytes per core), reaching a peak processing power of 10 TFlops (Rpeak). Compute nodes are connected with InfiniBand QDR 40 Gbit/s. The supercomputer was managed by Arctur.
References
Supercomputing in Europe
X86 supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MakeModes | In computing, MakeModes is an application which is used to generate data which allows computers to produce display output compatible with various computer monitors. It can generate and modify data which is used by the operating system to produce different graphics display resolutions.
Development
MakeModes was released in 1994, for use with the RiscPC (initially running ). The documentation was revised for clarity by Frank Watkinson in 2003. The issuing of this revised documentation was supported by RISCOS Ltd.
Features
MakeModes assists in mode setting, via the editing and creation of monitor definition files (MDFs). It can be used to define screen modes suited to particular monitors.
References
RISC OS configuration utilities
Proprietary software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director%20Musices | Director Musices is computer software produced by the Department of Speech, Music and Hearing at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. It aims to give an expressive, human-like performance to a musical score by varying the volume and timing of the notes. Director Musices is written in CMU Common Lisp and distributed as free software. It processes MIDI files.
External links
Software for Automatic Music Performance including Director Musices and pDM
Director Musices with Lilypond "Howto" (instructions on how to set up Director Musices to process GNU LilyPond output)
See also
Sibelius (software) a commercial program that also includes automatically expressive playing
List of music software
References
Computer Music Journal (2000)
Music software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart%20TV | Heart TV (stylized as 'heartv') was a British 24-hour pop music television channel owned by Global as a brand extension of radio's Heart network. The channel played music videos from the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s (including romantic music and film scores).
It reached 927,000 viewers on average per month on Sky alone.
History
On 3 July 2012, Global announced it would launch a TV channel of the same name, Heart. The station launched on Sky and Freesat platforms on 11 October 2012 at (this was postponed twice), along with a TV channel of the same name for sister radio station Capital. The channels could also be watched via dedicated iOS and Android apps, as well as online. Both channels played non-stop music videos 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and also featured live coverage for major musical events across the UK. On 24 July 2012 it was confirmed BSkyB would be responsible for ad sales on both channels, likewise with the radio station, Heart TV was aimed at a target audience of housewives with children.
In February 2015, Global were reprimanded by the media regulator Ofcom following an incident in October 2014 during which Heart TV played 72 seconds more than the permitted amount of advertising during one particular hour. Global said the incident had occurred because a commercial break was pushed to the end of an hour by software controlling its output, creating too much advertising time for the following hour.
The channel originally aimed to play “more music variety” (similar to the radio), however, after the slogan was changed in February 2017 to “Turn Up the Feel Good”, it said “more feel good music”.
It was removed from Freesat on 10 October 2018, and on Sky the next day, along with Capital TV, and all mentions of it have disappeared from the Heart website. The first music video aired on the channel was “My Kind of Love” by Emeli Sandé and the last music video was "Locked Out of Heaven" by Bruno Mars before the channel ceased at 6am.
References
Global Radio
Music video networks in the United Kingdom
Television channels and stations established in 2012
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2018
Defunct television channels in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum%20of%20Firms | The Forum of Firms (FOF, Forum) is an association of international networks of accounting firms that perform transnational audits.
The objective of the Forum is to promote consistent and high-quality standards of financial reporting and auditing practices worldwide. The Forum brings together firms that perform transnational audits and involves them more closely with the activities of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) in audit and other assurance-related areas. It was established in 2002. Theo Vermaak is the chair of the Forum The Transnational Auditors Committee (TAC) is a committee of IFAC and the executive arm of the Forum, and, therefore, provides the official linkage between the Forum and IFAC. The Transnational Auditors Committee is chaired by Wally Gregory.
Membership obligations
Members of the Forum have committed to adhere to and promote the consistent application of high-quality audit practices worldwide, as detailed in the FOF Constitution. Membership in the Forum is open to networks and firms of all sizes that conduct, or have an interest in conducting, transnational audits; promote the consistent application of high-quality audit practices and standards worldwide; support convergence of national audit standards with the International Standards on Auditing (ISAs); and commit to meeting the Forum's membership obligations.
The Forum's membership obligations require that members:
• Maintain quality control standards in accordance with the International Standard on Quality Control (ISQC 1) issued by the IAASB in addition to relevant national quality control standards;
• Conduct, to the extent not prohibited by national regulation, regular globally coordinated internal quality assurance reviews;
• Have policies and methodologies for the conduct of transnational audits that are based, to the extent practicable, on the International Standards on Auditing (ISAs) issued by the IAASB;
• Have policies and methodologies that conform to the IESBA Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants and national codes of ethics; and
• Agree to submit to the Secretary of the Forum an annual report, in an approved format, indicating that it meets the membership obligations set forth above.
International networks of firms practicing under the same name or whose member firms are otherwise closely identified with one another, such as through common elements in their name, will be expected to join as one organization.
Current members and affiliates
Members are those networks or firms that have satisfactorily submitted an annual report to the Transnational Auditors Committee (TAC) indicating that they have met the Forum's membership obligations during the reporting period. Members shall be entitled to describe themselves as such in accordance with wording to be determined by the Forum.
Members as of 2022.
AUREN
Baker Tilly International
BDO
Constantin – Serval & Associés
Crowe Global
Deloitte
Ernst & Young
FinExpertiza
Grant Thorn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gbcast | Gbcast (also known as group broadcast) is a reliable multicast protocol that provides ordered, fault-tolerant (all-or-none) message delivery in a group of receivers within a network of machines that experience crash failure. The protocol is capable of solving Consensus in a network of unreliable processors, and can be used to implement state machine replication. Gbcast can be used in a standalone manner, or can support the virtual synchrony execution model, in which case Gbcast is normally used for group membership management while other, faster, protocols are often favored for routine communication tasks.
History
Introduced in 1985, Gbcast was the first widely deployed reliable multicast protocol to implement state machine replication with dynamically reconfigurable membership. Although this problem had been treated theoretically under various models in prior work, Gbcast innovated by showing that the same multicasts used to update replicated data within the state machine can also be used to dynamically reconfigure the group membership, which can then evolve to permit members to join and leave at will, in addition to being removed upon failure. This functionality, together with a state transfer mechanism used to initialize joining members, represents the basis of the virtual synchrony process group execution model.
The term state machine replication was first suggested by Leslie Lamport and was widely adopted after publication of a survey paper written by Fred B. Schneider. The model covers any system in which some deterministic object (a state machine) is replicated in such a way that a series of commands can be applied to the replicas fault-tolerantly. A reconfigurable state machine is one that can vary its membership, adding new members or removing old ones. Some state machine protocols can also ride out the temporary unavailability of a subset of the current members without requiring reconfiguration when such situations arise, including Gbcast and also Paxos, Lamport's widely cited protocol for state machine replication.
State machine replication is closely related to the distributed Consensus problem, in which a collection of processes must agree upon some decision outcome, such as the winner of an election. In particular, it can be shown that any solution to the state machine replication problem would also be capable of solving distributed consensus. As a consequence, impossibility results for distributed consensus apply to solutions to the state machine replication problem. Implications of this finding are discussed under liveness.
Gbcast is somewhat unusual in that most solutions to the state machine replication problem are closely integrated with the application being replicated. Gbcast, in contrast, is designed as a multicast API and implemented by a library that delivers messages to group members. Lamport, Malkhi and Zhou note that few reliable multicast protocols have the durability properties required to correctly implement the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasdaman | rasdaman ("raster data manager") is an Array DBMS, that is: a Database Management System which adds capabilities for storage and retrieval of massive multi-dimensional arrays, such as sensor, image, simulation, and statistics data. A frequently used synonym to arrays is raster data, such as in 2-D raster graphics; this actually has motivated the name rasdaman. However, rasdaman has no limitation in the number of dimensions - it can serve, for example, 1-D measurement data, 2-D satellite imagery, 3-D x/y/t image time series and x/y/z exploration data, 4-D ocean and climate data, and even beyond spatio-temporal dimensions.
History
In 1989, Peter Baumann started a research on database support for images, then at Fraunhofer Computer Graphics Institute. Following an in-depth investigation on raster data formalizations in imaging, in particular the AFATL Image Algebra, he established a database model for multi-dimensional arrays, including a data model and declarative query language. pioneering the field of Array Databases. Today, multi-dimensional arrays are also known as Data Cubes.
At TU Munich, in the EU funded basic research project RasDaMan, a first prototype was established, on top of the O2 object-oriented DBMS, and tested in Earth and Life science applications. Over further EU funded projects, this system was completed and extended to support relational DBMSs.
A dedicated research spin-off, rasdaman GmbH, was established to give commercial support in addition to the research which subsequently has been continued at Jacobs University. Since then, both entities collaborate on the further development and use of the rasdaman technology.
Concepts
Data model
Based on an array algebra specifically developed for database purposes, rasdaman adds a new attribute type, array, to the relational model. As this array definition is parametrized it constitutes a second-order construct or template; this fact is reflected by the second-order functionals in the algebra and query language.
For historical reasons, tables are called collections, as initial design emphasized an embedding into the object-oriented database standard, ODMG. Anticipating a full integration with SQL, rasdaman collections represent a binary relation with the first attribute being an object identifier and the second being the array. This allows the establishment of foreign key references between arrays and regular relational tuples.
Raster Query Language
The rasdaman query language, rasql, embeds itself into standard SQL and its set-oriented processing.
On the new attribute type, multi-dimensional arrays, a set of extra operations is provided which all are based on a minimal set of algebraically defined core operators, an array constructor (which establishes a new array and fills it with values) and an array condenser (which, similarly to SQL aggregates, derives scalar summary information from an array). The query language is declarative (and, hence, optimizable) and safe in eva |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comp%20%28command%29 | In computing, comp is a command used on DEC OS/8, DOS, DR FlexOS, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows and related computer operating systems such as ReactOS. It is used to perform comparisons of multiple computer files to show the differences between them.
History
In DOS, the comp command first appeared in PC DOS 1.0 and has been included in most versions of MS-DOS and PC DOS. A newer command, fc was added in DOS 3.3 which allows for line comparisons in addition to binary comparisons. DR DOS 6.0 also includes an implementation of the command.
The FreeDOS version was developed by Paul Vojta and is licensed under the MIT License. Ged Murphy developed the ReactOS version. It is licensed under the GNU GPL 2.
The command is also available in the EFI shell.
Syntax
The command-syntax is:
comp [<Data1>] [<Data2>] [/d] [/a] [/l] [/n=<Number>] [/c]
Parameters
<Data1> – Location and name of the first file or set of files
<Data2> – Location and name of the second file or set of files
/d – Display differences in decimal format (Default is hexadecimal)
/a – Display differences as characters
/l – Display the number of the line, instead of the byte offset
/n=<Number> – Compare only the specified number of lines for each file
/c – Perform a non case-sensitive comparison
/off[line] – Process files with the offline attribute set
/? – Display Help
See also
Data comparison
List of DOS commands
diff
References
Further reading
External links
comp | Microsoft Docs
External DOS commands
OS/2 commands
ReactOS commands
File comparison tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20cooling | Algorithmic cooling is an algorithmic method for transferring heat (or entropy) from some qubits to others or outside the system and into the environment, which results in a cooling effect. This method uses regular quantum operations on ensembles of qubits, and it can be shown that it can succeed beyond Shannon's bound on data compression. The phenomenon is a result of the connection between thermodynamics and information theory.
The cooling itself is done in an algorithmic manner using ordinary quantum operations. The input is a set of qubits, and the output is a subset of qubits cooled to a desired threshold determined by the user. This cooling effect may have usages in initializing cold (highly pure) qubits for quantum computation and in increasing polarization of certain spins in nuclear magnetic resonance. Therefore, it can be used in the initializing process taking place before a regular quantum computation.
Overview
Quantum computers need qubits (quantum bits) on which they operate. Generally, in order to make the computation more reliable, the qubits must be as pure as possible, minimizing possible fluctuations. Since the purity of a qubit is related to von Neumann entropy and to temperature, making the qubits as pure as possible is equivalent to making them as cold as possible (or having as little entropy as possible). One method of cooling qubits is extracting entropy from them, thus purifying them. This can be done in two general ways: reversibly (namely, using unitary operations) or irreversibly (for example, using a heat bath). Algorithmic cooling is the name of a family of algorithms that are given a set of qubits and purify (cool) a subset of them to a desirable level.
This can also be viewed in a probabilistic manner. Since qubits are two-level systems, they can be regarded as coins, unfair ones in general. Purifying a qubit means (in this context) making the coin as unfair as possible: increasing the difference between the probabilities for tossing different results as much as possible. Moreover, the entropy previously mentioned can be viewed using the prism of information theory, which assigns entropy to any random variable. The purification can, therefore, be considered as using probabilistic operations (such as classical logical gates and conditional probability) for minimizing the entropy of the coins, making them more unfair.
The case in which the algorithmic method is reversible, such that the total entropy of the system is not changed, was first named "molecular scale heat engine", and is also named "reversible algorithmic cooling". This process cools some qubits while heating the others. It is limited by a variant of Shannon's bound on data compression and it can asymptotically reach quite close to the bound.
A more general method, "irreversible algorithmic cooling", makes use of irreversible transfer of heat outside of the system and into the environment (and therefore may bypass the Shannon bound). Such an environm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diskcomp | In computing, diskcomp is a command used for comparing the complete contents of a floppy disk to another one.
Overview
The command is used on DOS, Digital Research FlexOS, IBM/Toshiba 4690 OS, SISNE plus, IBM OS/2 and Microsoft Windows. It is available in MS-DOS versions 3.2 and later and IBM PC DOS releases 1 and later. Digital Research DR DOS 6.0 and Datalight ROM-DOS also include an implementation of the command. The FreeDOS version was developed by Michal Meller.
The diskcomp command does not work with hard disk drives, CDs, network drives, Zip drives, or USB flash drives, etc. It also does not allow comparison from 3.5 inch drive to 5.25 inch drives, and vice versa. The source and target drive must be the same size.
Examples
Compare floppy disks in drive A: and drive B:
diskcomp a: b:
If the computer has only one floppy disk drive (in this case drive A:), it is still possible to compare two disks:
diskcomp a: a:
The diskcomp command will prompt to insert each disk, as needed.
The software outputs "Compare OK" if no differences are found, and "Compare error on side [number], track [number]" upon detecting a difference.
References
Further reading
External links
diskcomp | Microsoft Docs
Computer Hope: MS-DOS and Windows command line diskcomp command
External DOS commands
OS/2 commands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Database%20Manager | Virtual Database Manager (VDB) is software designed to represent some non-relational data in a virtual data warehouse without copying the original data and allow a real time access to the data.
VDB is a framework written in Java allowing access to data via the standard SQL language through a conventional JDBC driver. The data are represented into its virtual data warehouse to facilitate the usage of analysis and reporting tools.
History
Needs
Because of the need for independence and neutral access to information in a governance process, SAP Business Objects' administrators and managers need to analyse the content of the platform, such as security control, license compliance or document relationships, by using standard reporting tools which are used standard SQL.
As said Jacob Nikom of MIT's Lincoln Laboratory in 2009, "real-time data warehousing", .. was so accurate,, to have the best analysis of original data, VDM must provide a real time access to the most recent data.
Issues
SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise repository's structure does not use a normalized design, although it is physically stored in a relational database. For performance reason, all data which represents an object (Folders, Documents, Users, Groups) is stored in a flat table. Each row includes ids and keys and a blob for the metadata and the security access control lists. These metadata are not accessible through standard SQL. None of the standard reporting tools can access this metadata, including SAP BusinessObjects' native documents (Web Intelligence).
Solution
To solve all these issues, SoftNtic has decided to design the product – Enterprise Connector – which permit a live and real time SQL access to the repository and its founder, Thomas Trolez, got the idea of Virtual Database Manager for the core engine which provide a real time representation of the needed data in a virtual data warehouse which permit the usage of standard analysis and reporting tools.
VDM was developed by SoftNtic SAS between 2009 and 2010 and integrated as the core engine of its "Enterprise Connector" product to access SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise repository.
How it works
To allow a representation of the data in a virtual data warehouse without copying them, VDM designed a virtual star schema consisting of virtual fact and dimension tables. The original data are represented and organized into virtual tables (standard table and fact table). These tables are virtually linked in an n,m relation and the JDBC driver exposes the virtual database model as though the original data were held in these "tables".
When an SQL request is received by the JDBC driver, it is analyzed with SoftNtic's Lexer/parser, determining:
The best path (depending on its cost) to retrieve all the requested data
The virtual tables associated with the mandatory data (requested and technical). For example, the unique identifier of an object.
The pre-treatment and post-treatment filters
Depending on these elements, the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenTag | OpenTag is a DASH7 protocol stack and minimal Real-Time Operating System (RTOS), written in the C programming language. It is designed to run on microcontrollers or radio Systems on a Chip (SoC). OpenTag was engineered to be a very compact software package. However, with proper configuration, it can also run in any POSIX environment. OpenTag can also provide all functionality required for any type of DASH7 Mode 2 device, rather than just the eponymous “tag”-type endpoint device.
Design philosophy
OpenTag implements DASH7 Mode 2, which specifies a monolithic system encompassing OSI layers one through six, part of layer seven, as well as the application layer. OpenTag is designed to be light and compact, as it is targeted to run on resource-constrained micro-controllers. As a monolithic system, it does not implement different layers of the OSI model in a way that will enable them to be deployed on systems that differ from the typical, and nearly universal, MCU+RF transceiver architecture, utilized by WSN and M2M nodes. However, the OpenTag RTOS employs an exokernel architecture (as of version 0.4), so a monolithic kernel is not required. Applications developed for OpenTag may safely reference the library or directly access the hardware, as befits the exokernel design model.
Features
It has a lightweight pre-emptive multitasking exokernel RTOS.
Most kernels use fixed priority tasks.
It contains a complete DASH7 Mode 2 protocol stack, including
Remote wake up;
Native query protocol; and
UDP & SCTP adaptation layers.
It uses a Wear-leveling, Flash-based lightweight filesystem (Veelite).
It has an internal C-based API.
It has an external NDEF-based messaging API for client-server interaction.
Implementation
OpenTag implements a multitasking real-time kernel designed specifically to implement DASH7. User tasks can be managed by the kernel, and they can preempt the kernel, although they must be allocated at compile-time. The scheduling frequency, or kernel resolution, is implementation-dependent, but it must be at least 1024 Hz and it must be an integer multiple of 1024 Hz.
Kernel events use callbacks to invoke custom application code, which are called "applets". Extensive templating is used to provide callback functionality that is efficient for embedded environments. Thus callbacks in OpenTag may be dynamic (assigned during runtime), or they may be static, which requires assignment at compile-time but reduces overhead. As OpenTag implements an exokernel, user tasks may either be managed entirely by the kernel, they may be managed partly by the kernel and partly by external events, or they may be managed entirely by external events. Communication between tasks and the kernel is accomplished through an API of system calls and a message pipe interface.
OpenTag's external API uses a simplified client-server model and NDEF for data wrapping. The NDEF wrapper is particularly used for wireline communication between client and server, where |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet%20Hunters | Planet Hunters is a citizen science project to find exoplanets using human eyes. It does this by having users analyze data from the NASA Kepler space telescope and the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. It was launched by a team led by Debra Fischer at Yale University, as part of the Zooniverse project.
History
Planet Hunters and Planet Hunters 2.0
The project was launched on December 16, 2010, after the first Data Release of Kepler data as the Planet Hunters Project. 300,000 volunteers participated in the project and the project team published 8 scientific papers. On December 14, 2014, the project was re-launched as Planet Hunters 2.0, with an improved website and considering that the volunteers will look at K2 data. As of November 2018 Planet Hunters identified 50% of the known planets with an orbital period larger than two years.
Non-Planet Hunters project: Exoplanet Explorers
In 2017 the project Exoplanet Explorers was launched. It was another planet hunting project at Zooniverse and discovered the system K2-138 and the exoplanet K2-288Bb. This project was launched during the television program Stargazing Live and the discovery of the K2-138 system was announced during the program.
Planet Hunters TESS (PHT)
On December 6, 2018, the project Planet Hunters TESS (PHT) was launched and is led by astronomer Nora Eisner. This project uses data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and is currently active (as of March 2023). This project discovered the Saturn-sized exoplanet TOI-813 b and many more.
Until March 2023 PHT discovered 284 exoplanet candidates (e.g. TIC 35021200.01), 15 confirmed exoplanets (e.g. TOI-5174 b) and countless eclipsing binaries. All discovered exoplanet candidates are uploaded to ExoFOP by Nora Eisner or sometimes by another project member (see TOI and CTOI list provided by ExoFOP).
All exoplanet candidates are manual checked by multiple project members (volunteers and moderators) and needs to pass different tests before they was accepted by Nora Eisner and uploaded to ExoFOP. But it's possible that not all PHT planet candidates become real (confirmed) exoplanets. Some of them are maybe grazing eclipsing binaries.
Planet Hunters: NGTS
On October 19, 2021, the project Planet Hunters: NGTS was launched. It uses a dataset from the Next Generation Transit Survey to find transiting planets. It is the first Planet Hunters project that uses data from a ground-based telescope. The project looks at candidates that were already automatically filtered, similar to the Exoplanet Explorers project. The project found four candidate planets so far.
Planet hunting
The Planet Hunters project exploits the fact that humans are better at recognising visual patterns than computers. The website displays an image of data collected by the NASA Kepler Space Mission and asks human users (referred to as "Citizen Scientists") to look at the data and see how the brightness of a star changes over time. This brightness |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DistrRTgen | Distributed Free Rainbow Tables (or DistrRTgen) was a volunteer computing project for making rainbow tables for password cracking. By using the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software platform, DistrRTgen was able to generate rainbow tables that are able to crack long passwords. DistrRtgen was used to generate LM, NTLM, MD5 and MYSQLSHA1 rainbow tables.
All of the rainbow tables are downloadable at Free Rainbow Tables.
See also
RainbowCrack
References
Science in society
Volunteer computing projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Farley | Timothy Patrick Farley (born August 12, 1962) is a computer software engineer, writer and instructor who lives in Atlanta, Georgia. He is an expert in computer security and reverse engineering as well as a skeptic. He was a research fellow of the James Randi Educational Foundation. Tim Farley is the creator of the website What's The Harm?, a resource where stories are documented and categorized about the damage done when people fail to use critical thinking skills. Farley was also instrumental in the apprehension of spammer "David Mabus."
Early life
Farley was born in 1962 and grew up in Edison, New Jersey. He later lived in Valdosta, Georgia and in Atlanta, Georgia.
While in high school and college, Farley was involved in Star Trek fandom and wrote for and edited several fanzines. Most of his writing was non-fiction, examining the science of Star Trek such as the technology shown. In 1985 Farley created the Star Trek Historical Calendar which related science, cartoons and historical facts associated with the series. This venture in college he credits with guiding his later interests in his "This day in skeptic history" project. He was also president of two different Star Trek fan clubs at different times: VISTAS in Valdosta and ASTRA in Atlanta. Later he worked on the staff of several Atlanta-area conventions including Atlanta Fantasy Fair and Dragon Con.
Professional career
His professional career has been in software development, specializing in network communications, computer security and reverse engineering of binary software. He has worked for several Atlanta-area software companies including SemWare, Magee Enterprises, Internet Security Systems, and SPI Dynamics among others.
He has written a number of articles for computer periodicals about programming, computer networking and other topics. He has also written a chapter for a book on computer networking. As an expert in reverse engineering he has been quoted in BYTE Magazine and contributed material to the book Undocumented DOS and other books.
He has participated in computer industry standards committees and has presented at computer industry conferences. He has received three patents for his work in computer security. Farley has also worked as an instructor for commercial computer security training, including reverse engineering and secure application development.
Career as a skeptic
Farley is the creator of the web site What's The Harm? which documents the damage done by mistaken beliefs, misinformation and pseudoscience.
In an interview with Richard Saunders on the Skeptic Zone podcast, Farley discussed how he wanted to try to stay focused on "concrete stories of people that actually got hurt" that he could cite with some kind of "decent documentation". He stated that he wanted to keep the format simple so that anyone could comfortably access the stories, on any browser with no flashy videos. He hopes to expand the site into longer feature stories of some of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsion | is an on-rail 3D shoot-'em-up produced by Konami that was released for the Family Computer Disk System in 1987. It is one of the few games compatible with the Famicom 3D System peripheral.
Plot
The game's background story is only explained through the user manual. In the game's universe, humanity has colonized most planets in our galaxy, the Milky Way, and they now look towards expanding their reach by using an experimental travel technology called "Hyperzone Drive". However, a race of aliens who have already mastered that technology are currently invading planets at a quick pace, closing in on the Solar System. The invaders attack humanity's colony on Pluto and conquer it with little resistance, since human civilization doesn't have the technology to defend itself.
The human organization responsible for the space program, the "United Space Force", decides to use the yet-untested "Hyperzone Drive" in order to send ships that will directly attack the armies of the invading aliens. However, the new technology proves hard to control, and only one of the ships manages to survive the trip: the protagonist's ship, named Falsion. The story of the game itself deals with the Falsion'''s attack on the alien forces, and its eventual victory over the alien mothership, called "Gigantos", which serves as the game's final boss.
Gameplay
The game is a shoot 'em up in which the player controls the movements of a flying space ship, called the Falsion, while simultaneously shooting enemy ships and trying to avoid their attacks. The goal of the game is to survive to the end of the auto-scrolling levels and defeat the boss to move on to the next level, until the sixth and final boss is defeated.
In a manner that has been compared to games like Space Harrier and Star Fox, the player's perspective is from the third person, behind the space ship, as it goes forward. Enemies, projectiles and obstacles seem to fly towards the space ship. Enemies can be attacked by shooting a rapid-firing beam weapon or homing missiles, although there is a limited supply of the latter. Randomly appearing power-ups which float around the screen for a limited time can also be collected by the player, and they either increase the ship's movement speed or replenish its missile supply. To survive, the player must avoid getting hit by enemies and obstacles or their attacks. The player can also destroy these enemies, which include other space ships, meteorites and robots.
Reception and legacy
The game received mixed reviews. Atari HQ praised Falsion's fluidity and called its 3D mode a great experience, saying the game is a "must-get". Another reviewer found the depth perception confusing and while they praised the game's music and said this was the best Famicom 3D System title, it remained "a pain to play".
Despite the similarity in name, the "Falchion β" ship in Gradius Gaiden'' is not based on the "Falsion" ship featured in this game.
References
1987 video games
Gradius video games
Fami |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20astronomy%20websites | This is a list astronomy websites. Some of them are CalSky, Exoplanet Archive, Exoplanet Data Explorer, Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia, Universe Today, Space.com and Galaxy Zoo. Out of all these Exoplanet Archive is managed by NASA. These websites provide knowledge about exoplanets, eclipses, tides, comets, stars, galaxy and other topics about astronomy. These websites also serve as a knowledge sharing platform for astronomy students and astronomers.
List
Astronomia.pl
Astronomia.pl was a Polish web portal for astronomy and space research. It was founded in 2001 and was active until 2015. While active, it was the largest astronomy and space portal in Poland, hosting over 3000 articles at its prime.
CalSky
CalSky (sky calendar) was web based astronomical calculator used by astronomers to plan observing. It was created by Arnold Barmettler a researcher at the University of Zurich and formerly a scientific assistant at the European Space Agency. The website, available in English and German, featured a calendar (and/or email notifications) generated for your location including information on aurora, comets, tides, solar and lunar eclipses, planets, bright satellite passes (ISS, HST, etc.), occultations, transits, iridium flares, and decaying satellites that may be visible. In 2020, the website ceased operation.
Exoplanet Archive
The NASA Exoplanet Archive is an online astronomical exoplanet catalog and data service that collects and serves public data that support the search for and characterization of extra-solar planets (exoplanets) and their host stars. It is part of the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) and is on the campus of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, CA. The archive is funded by NASA and was launched in early December 2011 by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI) as part of NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program.
Exoplanet Data Explorer
The Exoplanet Data Explorer lists extrasolar planets up to 24 Jupiter masses.
Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia is an astronomy website, founded in Paris, France at the Meudon Observatory by Jean Schneider in February 1995, which maintains a database of all the currently known and candidate extrasolar planets, with individual "note" pages for each planet and a full list interactive catalog spreadsheet. The main catalogue comprises databases of all of the currently confirmed extrasolar planets as well as a database of unconfirmed planet detections. The databases are frequently updated with new data from peer-reviewed publications and conferences.
Galaxy Zoo
Galaxy Zoo is an online astronomy project which invites members of the public to assist in the morphological classification of large numbers of galaxies. It is an example of citizen science as it enlists the help of members of the public to help in scientific research. An improved version—Galaxy Zoo 2—went live on 17 February 2009. The current iteration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIE%20%28file%20format%29 | The SIE format is an open standard for transferring accounting data between different software produced by different software suppliers.
SIE could be used to transfer data between software on the same computer, but also used for sending data between companies, for example between the company, the accountant and the audit. It can also be used for transferring from trade pre-systems like payables, receivables and salary systems to accounting as well as from accounting to tax administrative special applications.
File format
SIE is a tagged text file format, not XML like XBRL GL and UN/CEFACT accounting. Elder not able to use new XML technology, but about 20 times compacter file format.
The SIE files are in five sections:
General information
Used chart of accounts declaration
Used dimension/object (identifiers) of accounting declaration (making object related accounting analyse possible from SIE data)
Balances of accounts (of this, last and possibly more previous years, for the total and for each object)
Accounting entries (of this year)
History
A non-profit organization (The SIE Group) was formed in 1992 by leading Swedish accounting software vendors and accounting specialist (accountants/auditors interest groups). The accounting data file interchange file format rapidly gained market support, and is now implemented in all accounting software on the Swedish market. It is also used by government bodies, such as the Swedish Tax Authority, Statistics Sweden and The Economic Crimes Authority.
SIE is closely related to the Swedish standard charts of accounts organisation BAS (accounting) (the most advanced and fully covering standard account chart in the world), and SIE is one of the owning members of BAS. However the SIE file format works with any charts of accounts and is technically independent of BAS. Together the SIE file format and the standard chart of accounts make a strong concept for accounting information interchange that has proven simple and efficient.
SIE has since 2012 a close cooperation with XBRL Sweden.
SIE is not an official SIS (Swedish Standards Institute local ISO) national standard. The SIE Group provides the SIE File format as an open standard. The SIE Group is however a member of SIS.
A large Swedish domestic market implementation rate
Due to the fact that the SIE standard is so well spread in the software business in Sweden it has become a de facto standard for transferring accounting data in Sweden. The format is open to everyone, but only SIE members can get their software approved.
A vendor interest group, not a standards organisation
As a vendor interest group SIE is not bound to the statements of neutrality against proprietary solutions of regular standards organisations. That makes the SIE specification also include implementation instruction layer that is not possible in official standards organisations work. The implementation instruction layer has helped a lot in limiting dialects and makes certain the i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yandex%20Disk | Yandex.Disk () is a cloud service created by Yandex that lets users store files on “cloud” servers and share them with others online. The service is based on syncing data between different devices. Yandex.Disk was launched in English in June 2012.
Features
Storage — users can upload and save files. There are no restrictions on the length of time files can be stored. All files are uploaded over an encrypted connection and are checked by an antivirus.
Syncing — files are synced between all the user's internet-enabled devices either through the web interface or the Yandex.Disk mobile/desktop application.
Sharing — users can share file download links with others.
Preview — the built-in flash player lets people preview songs.
Integration with other Yandex services — lets people manage their files on other Yandex services such as Yandex.Mail and Yandex.Narod. All sent and received mail attachments are automatically placed in one folder and can easily be searched.
WebDAV support — means that files can be managed with any application supporting the WebDAV protocol. The Yandex.Disk API can be used in any software program supporting WebDAV.
Since October 18, 2019, Yandex.Disk has started throttling WebDAV, causing some clients to time out, the official page redirects to the Yandex.Disk 3.0 client page, support writes:
“Yandex.Disk is a personal service that is not designed to be used as an infrastructure element. For such tasks, we have Yandex.Cloud"
Supported platforms
Web version
Located inside Yandex.Mail under the “Files” tab.
Desktop application
There are applications available for the following operating systems:
Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 10
macOS
command line version for Linux
Mobile version
The mobile version is available as its own app for:
iOS
Android
The mobile app lets users view files on Yandex.Disk, upload files from their mobile device, download files for use offline and email file download links.
Yandex.disk api
The Yandex.Disk API makes it easier to sync info between smartphones, tablet PCs, laptops and desktop computers.
The API lets developers:
manage Yandex.Disk user files
store files created by developers’ own software
store application settings and use them on any internet-enabled device
The Yandex.Disk API Documentation was released on April 28, 2012.
Storage
The service is provided completely free of charge.
Everyone starts off with a free allowance of 5GB, which can be increased by 512 Mb increments by referring others to an additional maximum of 10 GB for 20 GB in total. Also, additional storage can be paid for on a monthly or yearly basis.
Users can choose to enable device auto-uploads using the Yandex.Disk App on Android and iOS for an additional 32 GB of free storage. This increases the maximum storage from 10 GB to 42 GB.
History
April 5, 2012 – the beta version of the service was launched.
May 3, 2012 – the first API and open source client are launched.
May 24, 20 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20ConvergedSystem | HP ConvergedSystem is a portfolio of system-based products from Hewlett-Packard (HP) that integrates preconfigured IT components into systems for virtualization, cloud computing, big data, collaboration, converged management, and client virtualization. Composed of servers, storage, networking, and integrated software and services, the systems are designed to address the cost and complexity of data center operations and maintenance by pulling the IT components together into a single resource pool so they are easier to manage and faster to deploy. Where previously it would take three to six months from the time of order to get a system up and running, it now reportedly takes as few as 20 days with the HP ConvergedSystem.
HP ConvergedSystem uses a common Converged infrastructure architecture, the same common foundation used for all HP server, storage, and networking products.
HP Converged Infrastructure pools resources so that they can be shared across different applications while being managed from a standardized management platform and security software.
The convergence of server, storage, and networking can help user organizations save investment on equipment maintenance and management.
HP Converged Systems includes HP ConvergedSystem for Virtualization, for developing and managing virtualized environments; HP CloudSystem, for building and managing cloud computing services across private, public and hybrid clouds; HP ConvergedSystem for Big Data, for loading, analyzing and managing vast quantities of data;
HP ConvergedSystem for Collaboration, for configuration and deployment of Microsoft unified communications software; HP OneView for converged infrastructure management; and HP ConvergedSystem for Client Virtualization, for running Virtual desktop infrastructure.
HP CloudSystem is an integrated cloud infrastructure for delivering private, public, and hybrid cloud services. It integrates HP cloud software with HP servers, storage, and networking technologies into a single system.
The HP OneView converged infrastructure management product provides a unified interface that lets users automate formerly labor-intensive manual Data center management and maintenance tasks, as part of a Software-defined data center.
HP ConvergedSystem for Virtualization
HP ConvergedSystem for Virtualization consists of a series of integrated server, storage and networking infrastructures that offer Scalability with modular virtualization systems that can support 50 to 1,000 Virtual machines each. The HP ConvergedSystem 300, designed to support 50 to 300 virtual machines, comes configured with HP ProLiant servers. The HP ConvergedSystem 700 is designed for larger enterprise installations of 100 to more than 1,000 virtual machines and comes configured with HP BladeSystem servers. For both models, customers can choose between VMware or Microsoft virtualization environments. Customers of the 700 model can also install their own virtualization software. All of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFPH-CD | KFPH-CD (channel 35) is a low-power, Class A television station in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, airing programming from the Spanish-language UniMás network. It is a translator of Flagstaff-licensed KFPH-DT (channel 13) which is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision; it is also sister to Univision outlet KTVW-DT (channel 33). KFPH-CD's transmitter is located on South Mountain; its parent station shares studios with KTVW-DT on 30th Street in southern Phoenix.
Originally established as a translator for the American Christian Television System (ACTS) on channel 39, the station moved to channel 35 when a full-power television station was established on channel 39 in 2000. It has been owned by Univision since 2002 and has served primarily as a translator of KFPH-DT. KFPH-CD was converted in April 2018 to be one of the first regular ATSC 3.0 television stations in the United States as part of the Phoenix Model Market initiative and since has been regularly used for testing; its programming is available in ATSC 1.0 format on subchannels of other Phoenix television stations.
History
North Phoenix Baptist Church received a construction permit for low-power television station K39BI in December 1986; the station was on the air less than six months later and began broadcasting programs on June 7, 1987. Alongside programming from ACTS—owned by the Southern Baptist Convention—K39BI produced some of its own programming, including the Baptist church's services. In the 1990s, ACTS was replaced with FamilyNet.
Underneath K39BI was a full-power allocation for channel 39, the second non-commercial reserved channel in Phoenix. In 1996, the Daystar Television Network, by way of Community Television, Inc., filed for the channel. Two years later, Daystar bought K39BI from the church; Daystar programming replaced FamilyNet, though North Phoenix Baptist Church services were still broadcast. The call letters were changed to KDTP-LP on December 16, 1998.
The impending launch of KDTP as a full-power station displaced the low-power station to channel 35. Daystar also sold the low-power station to Equity Broadcasting Corporation, which owned KDUO channel 13 in Flagstaff, and changed KDTP-LP's call letters to KOND-LP. The stations aired programming from America's Collectibles Network before being sold for $19.1 million to Univision in late 2001 alongside KBGF in Douglas. KDUO and KOND-LP became KFPH and KFPH-CA on January 4, 2002, in advance of the launch of Telefutura ten days later.
ATSC 3.0
In December 2017, the Phoenix Model Market partnership, comprising Pearl TV and the television station groups that owned most of Phoenix's commercial stations at the time, including Univision Communications, was formed in order to provide guidance and testing for how the ATSC 3.0 standard could be deployed without reducing ATSC 1.0 service to existing viewers, using the "lighthouse" concept, in which one station becomes an ATSC 3.0 multiplex and its subchannels are distributed o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20John%20Miles | James John Miles (born 1959) is a retired Professor of Computer Engineering in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester where he previously was head of the school and a member of the Nano Engineering & Storage Technology Research Group (NEST).
Education
Miles graduated with a first class honours degree in Physics from the University of Liverpool in 1980. Following this he completed a Master of Science in Computational physics from the University of Salford in 1987 and PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Manchester in 1990.
Research
Miles has worked at the Meteorological Office modelling the formation of storm clouds and completed research in novel anaesthetic delivery systems for BOC Medishield, now Datex Ohmeda. Since 1987 he has worked in Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Manchester School of Engineering and the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester.
His research interests are in magnetic materials for data storage purposes, including micromagnetic modelling of thin magnetic films for hard disks. He is involved in the Information Storage Industry Consortium (INSIC) Extremely High Density Recording (EHDR) programme, determining the architecture and design of future 1 Terabit per square inch hard disk products and beyond.
His research is done in collaboration with academic and industrial research groups, including Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST), San Jose, California and Seagate Research, Pittsburgh, USA.
Research funding
Miles research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council., European Union and INSIC. He has been involved in obtaining grant funding in excess of £3 million of which £1.6 million is in grants or awards for which he was the principal applicant. Miles is also a member of one of the groups that secured Science Research Investment Fund (SRIF) for the £1.8M Manchester Centre for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology.
Jim Miles served as Head of the School of Computer Science from November 2011 till July 2016. He retired from The University of Manchester in August 2019.
Other activities
In the University, Miles was Associate Dean for Graduate Education in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences from 2008 to 2011. He has supervised several PhD students via the Doctoral Training Centre, the first of its kind in the UK.
In August 2017, he was responsible for the discovery of a previously-unknown collection of Alan Turing letters in an old filing cabinet at the University of Manchester.
Previously Miles has been an editor of Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials and a Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Magnetics.
References
People associated with the Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
Academics of the University of Manchester
Living people
1959 births
Alumni of the University of Liverpool |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Miles | Jim Miles may refer to:
Jim Miles (politician) (born 1941), politician
Jim Miles (baseball) (born 1943), pitcher in Major League Baseball
James John Miles (born 1959), Professor of Computer engineering at the University of Manchester
See also
James Miles (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20Ahern | Larry Ahern is an American computer game designer, writer, artist, and animator. He is best known for being the co-project leader on The Curse of Monkey Island, alongside Jonathan Ackley.
Career
Larry Ahern began his career as an artist and animator on Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge in 1991. He was lead animator on Full Throttle in 1995, and finished his tenure at LucasArts as co-project leader on The Curse of Monkey Island in 1997.
After leaving LucasArts, he joined Microsoft in 2001. While there, he worked as an artist on Blood Wake and Microsoft Flight Simulator X. After leaving Microsoft, he co-founded Crackpot Entertainment with former LucasArts alumnus Mike Levine. Through Crackpot Entertainment, they developed the action-adventure game Insecticide,. Part I of Insecticide for the PC was released in 2008. However, development of Part II of the game for the PC was never completed due to a lack of funding. In July 2012, all of the cut scene videos from Part II were released by Levine and Ahern on YouTube. In an interview, Ahern expressed the troublesome development of Part II with the publisher SouthPeak "the new publisher pretty much ignored us for a month or two while they "evaluated" the prospects of our title, which also wasn't a good sign. They ultimately decided not to publish Part II, and we never got much of an explanation, but I'm guessing someone there with a calculator was predicting trouble with the whole venture. Either that or they were just creeped out by bugs.".
He has since been working freelance creating interactive entertainment for amusement parks. In this function, he co-designed Walt Disney World's Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom with his former Curse of Monkey Island co-lead, Jonathan Ackley, in 2012.
Games
1991 Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, artist, animator (LucasArts)
1992 Super Star Wars, artist, animator (LucasArts)
1993 Zombies Ate My Neighbors, additional art (LucasArts)
1993 Star Wars: Rebel Assault, additional art (LucasArts)
1993 Day of the Tentacle, artist (LucasArts)
1993 Sam & Max Hit the Road, artist (LucasArts)
1995 Full Throttle, lead animator (LucasArts)
1997 The Curse of Monkey Island, co-project leader (LucasArts)
2001 Blood Wake, artist (Microsoft)
2006 Microsoft Flight Simulator X, artist (Microsoft)
2008 Insecticide, co-project leader (Crackpot Entertainment)
2012 Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom, co-designer (The Walt Disney Company)
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Lucasfilm people
American video game designers
American video game directors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Ackley | Jonathan Ackley is an American interactive theme park attraction and computer game designer, writer, and programmer. He is best known for being the Creative Director and Producer on Walt Disney World's Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom and co-project leader, with Larry Ahern, for LucasArts Games The Curse of Monkey Island.
He is an inventor who holds or co-holds more than 35 patents, including for novel game interfaces, theme park systems, rides and attractions, interactive merchandise, RFID, bar codes, consumer media platforms, mobile-powered reservation systems, and parental controls for cellular phones.
Career
Jonathan Ackley began his career as a programmer at LucasArts on Day of the Tentacle in 1993.
He was co-project leader on The Curse of Monkey Island in 1997, an animated pirate adventure that received critical acclaim. The Curse of Monkey Island was nominated for or won many industry awards, including "best adventure game of 1997" by Computer Games Strategy Plus, Computer Gaming World, and PC Gamer US, and GameSpot, which said "The Curse of Monkey Island has all the makings of a classic."
He worked as an associate game designer for Rocket Science Games on Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: The Second Cataclysm in 1994. While there, he was an Associate Game Designer and also a voice actor for the game Loadstar: The Legend of Tully Bodine, playing the role of "Scorpion."
For Mindstorms, the LEGO company's flagship toy robotics line, Ackley crafted the interfaces for Mindstorms' "Robotics Invention System 2.0" and "Mindstorms Vision Command."
Starting in 2001, Mr. Ackley joined Walt Disney Imagineering creating interactive entertainment for their amusement parks. In this function, he co-designed Walt Disney World's Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom with his former Curse of Monkey Island co-lead, Larry Ahern, in 2012. "Insidethemagic.net" called him the "Sorcerer behind 'Sorcerers'" in a 2012 interview with Ackley.
As a Disney Imagineer, Ackley played a major design role in a number of innovative attractions. These included:
Led the technology team for the Disney Company's Interactive Television Platform.
Designer and Producer for the THEA Award-winning Kim Possible's World Showcase Adventure at EPCOT. This successful in-park high-tech scavenger hunt was later re-imagined as "Agent P's World Showcase Adventure with Phineas and Ferb," which also met with critical and popular acclaim. In a June 2012 interview, Ackley said of the "Agent P" experience, "From a WDI standpoint, the focus is always on the storyline and not the technology."
Designed the Leonardo Challenge at Tokyo Disney Sea
Was a show writer for the interactive queue at the Haunted Mansion at the Magic Kingdom
Designed the Midship Detective Agency game on the Disney Cruise ships
Designed and Produced The Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom in the Magic Kingdom Park
Designed and Produced the attraction "A Pirate's Adventure - Treasure of the Seven Seas" at the Magic Kingdom park
Desig |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Home%20and%20Away%20characters%20%281991%29 | Home and Away is an Australian television soap opera. It was first broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. The following is a list of characters that first appeared in Home and Away in 1991, by order of first appearance. They were all introduced by the show's executive producer Des Monaghan. The 4th season of Home and Away began airing on the Seven Network on 7 January 1991. The first introduction of the year was Josh Webb in February. Bruce Roberts began appearing as Nick Parrish in March. The following month, Ryan Clark made his debut as Sam Nicholls as did Naomi Watts as Revhead's sister Julie Gibson. Dee Smart began playing Lucinda Croft in June. Her brother David, played by Guy Pearce appeared from July. Alistair MacDougall arrived as Ryan Lee in August. In September, Tina Thomsen, Ross Newton, and Richard Norton joined the cast as Finlay Roberts, Greg Marshall and Simon Fitzgerald, respectively. Finlay's mother, Irene Roberts made her debut in October, followed by her son Damian, played by Matt Doran in November.
Josh Webb
Josh Webb, played by Erik Mitsak, debuted on-screen during the episode broadcast 7 February 1991 and departed on 7 January 1992. In The Official Home and Away Annual John Kercher said that the character is "about as bad as they come". But Josh is "fortunate to have the type of angelic looks that make people forgive him". He has a backstory featuring a life of crime - stealing vehicles and making money by any means possible. Josh is a "rapid talker and very street wise" which meant that he could always outsmart the law. Josh had always used his mother Gerry (Julie Godfrey) because he knew how to "wrap her around his little finger". He loves her but creates a pretence for her and "frequently lies" to get what he wants. She does not want him to leave her, so she believes anything that he says. But this leaves Josh free to take advantage of the predicament.
Josh is Rachel Webb's (Beth Champion) older brother. He befriends her boyfriend Blake Dean (Les Hill) and invites him, his sister Karen (Belinda Jarrett) and their friends Haydn Ross (Andrew Hill) and Sophie Simpson (Rebekah Elmaloglou) to a party at his place. The party turns into a drugs bust when Sgt. Chris Hale (John Meillon Jr.) arrives. When Josh learns of Blake and Rachel's romance, he hits Blake.
Adam Cameron (Mat Stevenson) acts as a decoy to date Rachel but Josh sees through this plan and attacks Blake at the Bayside diner the next day, prompting Adam to intervene and punch Josh. As a measure of revenge, Josh frames Adam for the theft of Summer Bay High's raffle money. However, he is later exposed as the real culprit and jailed.
After being released, Josh puts on an act of having changed his ways and invites Blake and Adam on a camping trip but little do they know he is planning to kill them both. Blake and Adam quickly realise what Josh is up to and foil his murder attempt and he is arrested and sent back to prison.
Nick Parrish
Nick Parrish, p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial%20sorting | In computer science, partial sorting is a relaxed variant of the sorting problem. Total sorting is the problem of returning a list of items such that its elements all appear in order, while partial sorting is returning a list of the k smallest (or k largest) elements in order. The other elements (above the k smallest ones) may also be sorted, as in an in-place partial sort, or may be discarded, which is common in streaming partial sorts. A common practical example of partial sorting is computing the "Top 100" of some list.
In terms of indices, in a partially sorted list, for every index i from 1 to k, the i-th element is in the same place as it would be in the fully sorted list: element i of the partially sorted list contains order statistic i of the input list.
Offline problems
Heap-based solution
Heaps admit a simple single-pass partial sort when is fixed: insert the first elements of the input into a max-heap. Then make one pass over the remaining elements, add each to the heap in turn, and remove the largest element. Each insertion operation takes time, resulting in time overall; this "partial heapsort" algorithm is practical for small values of and in online settings. An "online heapselect" algorithm described below, based on a min-heap, takes .
Solution by partitioning selection
A further relaxation requiring only a list of the smallest elements, but without requiring that these be ordered, makes the problem equivalent to partition-based selection; the original partial sorting problem can be solved by such a selection algorithm to obtain an array where the first elements are the smallest, and sorting these, at a total cost of operations. A popular choice to implement this algorithm scheme is to combine quickselect and quicksort; the result is sometimes called "quickselsort".
Common in current (as of 2022) C++ STL implementations is a pass of heapselect for a list of k elements, followed by a heapsort for the final result.
Specialised sorting algorithms
More efficient than the aforementioned are specialized partial sorting algorithms based on mergesort and quicksort. In the quicksort variant, there is no need to recursively sort partitions which only contain elements that would fall after the 'th place in the final sorted array (starting from the "left" boundary). Thus, if the pivot falls in position or later, we recurse only on the left partition:
function partial_quicksort(A, i, j, k) is
if i < j then
p ← pivot(A, i, j)
p ← partition(A, i, j, p)
partial_quicksort(A, i, p-1, k)
if p < k-1 then
partial_quicksort(A, p+1, j, k)
The resulting algorithm is called partial quicksort and requires an expected time of only , and is quite efficient in practice, especially if a selection sort is used as a base case when becomes small relative to . However, the worst-case time complexity is still very bad, in the case of a bad pivot selection. Pivot selection along the lines of th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Array%20DBMS | An array database management system or array DBMS provides database services specifically for arrays (also called raster data), that is: homogeneous collections of data items (often called pixels, voxels, etc.), sitting on a regular grid of one, two, or more dimensions. Often arrays are used to represent sensor, simulation, image, or statistics data. Such arrays tend to be Big Data, with single objects frequently ranging into Terabyte and soon Petabyte sizes; for example, today's earth and space observation archives typically grow by Terabytes a day. Array databases aim at offering flexible, scalable storage and retrieval on this information category.
Overview
In the same style as standard database systems do on sets, Array DBMSs offer scalable, flexible storage and flexible retrieval/manipulation on arrays of (conceptually) unlimited size. As in practice arrays never appear standalone, such an array model normally is embedded into some overall data model, such as the relational model. Some systems implement arrays as an analogy to tables, some introduce arrays as an additional attribute type.
Management of arrays requires novel techniques, particularly due to the fact that traditional database tuples and objects tend to fit well into a single database page a unit of disk access on server, typically 4 KB while array objects easily can span several media. The prime task of the array storage manager is to give fast access to large arrays and sub-arrays. To this end, arrays get partitioned, during insertion, into so-called tiles or chunks of convenient size which then act as units of access during query evaluation.
Array DBMSs offer query languages giving declarative access to such arrays, allowing to create, manipulate, search, and delete them. Like with, e.g., SQL, expressions of arbitrary complexity can be built on top of a set of core array operations. Due to the extensions made in the data and query model, Array DBMSs sometimes are subsumed under the NoSQL category, in the sense of "not only SQL". Query optimization and parallelization are important for achieving scalability; actually, many array operators lend themselves well towards parallel evaluation, by processing each tile on separate nodes or cores.
Important application domains of Array DBMSs include Earth, Space, Life, and Social sciences, as well as the related commercial applications (such as hydrocarbon exploration in industry and OLAP in business). The variety occurring can be observed, e.g., in geo data where 1-D environmental sensor time series, 2-D satellite images, 3-D x/y/t image time series and x/y/z geophysics data, as well as 4-D x/y/z/t climate and ocean data can be found.
History and status
The relational data model, which is prevailing today, does not directly support the array paradigm to the same extent as sets and tuples. ISO SQL lists an array-valued attribute type, but this is only one-dimensional, with almost no operational support, and not usable for the a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPortugu%C3%AAse | The ePORTUGUÊSe network is a platform developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to strengthen collaboration among Portuguese-speaking countries in the areas of health information and capacity building of Human Resources for Health, therefore enhancing health information systems in those countries.
According to Ethnologue, Portuguese is the sixth most spoken language in the world and there are more than 300 million speakers distributed through eight countries (Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Timor-Leste) in four WHO Regional Offices (AFRO , PAHO-AMRO , EURO and SEARO ).
Portuguese is also the third most spoken language in the Western hemisphere and the most widely spoken in the southern hemisphere.
In November 2012, ePORTUGUÊSe received a recognition award for its contribution to the South-South and Triangular collaboration at the UN High Level and Directors General Meeting during the Global Development EXPO 2012 held in Vienna, Austria.
In May 2015, the ePORTUGUÊSe network ceased to exist as a WHO Programme.
History
The ePORTUGUÊSe network was established in 2005, after the Ministerial Summit on Health Research held in Mexico City in November 2004. At this event, topics such as digital inclusion and the know-do gap were debated and WHO made a pledge to create health information networks in various languages as a way to contribute to the discussed challenge,.
In April 2005 the ePORTUGUÊSe network was established, with the mission to develop a Portuguese health information network and strengthen the cooperation and knowledge exchange between the eight Portuguese speaking countries and WHO.
Since its establishment, the ePORTUGUÊSe network has been working as a facilitator by establishing alliances with health institutions from different countries. Its main purpose is to disseminate and distribute information in Portuguese, thereby reducing existing language barriers. By using diverse media resources, ePORTUGUÊSe facilitates the access to relevant and up-to-date information that contribute to the work of health professionals in rural and distant areas can be facilitated.
Brazil is now one of the main partners in south-south cooperation. Working together with Portugal, it has developed the Health Cooperation Strategic Plan (PECS/CPLC) for the eight Portuguese-speaking countries (CPLC), signed by the health ministers of those countries in an official ceremony in Estoril, Portugal, in May 2008.
In January 2010, WHO and CPLC signed a cooperation agreement highlighting the commitment to use the ePORTUGUÊSe network, to encourage training and the strengthening of health information systems, particularly in underdeveloped countries.
The ePORTUGUÊSe network provides support to Portuguese-speaking countries so that they can reach their Millennium Development Goals.
Activities
Promoting and improving access to health information available in Portuguese, by developing a Virtual |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangan | Rangan may refer to:
Rangan, Razavi Khorasan, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province
Venkat Rangan, Indian computer scientist
Gumbok Rangan, a mountain of India
Rangan Chakraborty (b. 1957), Indian filmmaker |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20CBS%20television%20affiliates | The following are lists of affiliates of the CBS television network:
List of CBS television affiliates (by U.S. state)
List of CBS television affiliates (table)
List of former CBS television affiliates
See also
Lists of ABC television affiliates
Lists of Fox television affiliates
Lists of NBC television affiliates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20Fox%20television%20affiliates | The following are lists of affiliates of the Fox Broadcasting Company (Fox) television network:
List of Fox television affiliates (by U.S. state)
List of Fox television affiliates (table)
List of former Fox television affiliates
See also
Lists of ABC television affiliates
Lists of CBS television affiliates
Lists of NBC television affiliates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmania%20Story | is a 1990 Japanese-language film, released on July 21, 1990. It was filmed by Pacific Link Communications Japan, the Fuji Television Network, and by David Hannay Productions. Lasting 110 minutes, the film had Kunie Tanaka and Hiroko Yakushimaru as the starring roles. The movie was filmed in Australia, with filming starting in the Southern Hemisphere's winter of 1989.
The soundtrack to the film was released on July 21, 1990, by Joe Hisaishi, who composed the music for the film.
Plot
A sixth-grade elementary school student, Shoichi, visits his divorced father who lives in Australia after retiring from a leading Japanese company and has become obsessed with finding the extinct Tasmanian Tiger. Shoichi had run away from home. At first, he travels to Sydney looking for his father but finds him in the beautiful southern island of Tasmania.
Reception
The film made at the Japanese box office, and was the recipient of the eight Golden Gross Award "Silver Excellence" award given out by the Association of Environmental Health. A DVD of the film was released on November 21, 2001; it was released exclusively in Japan.
Staff
Director: Yasuo Furuhata
Music: Joe Hisaishi
Theme: Hiroyuki Izuta ("In Your Eyes")
Executive Producer: Hiroaki Shikanai
Producer: Hisashi Hieda
Planning: Yasushi Mitsui
Executive Producer: Koichi Murakami, Toshikazu Horiguchi
Producer: Shinya Kawai, Satoshi Kiyoshi Ichiko, Charles Hannah
Producer: Hideshi Miyajima
Produced by Fuji Television Network, Inc.
Distribution: Toho
Video game
In the Game Boy action video game based on the film, the divorced father is looking for a Tasmanian tiger while trying to survive in the harsh wilderness of Tasmania. Players can choose between two "types" of levels; slow levels or fast levels. Either jumping on the enemies or using the bombs kills them instantly. Players are limited in the number of bombs that they receive in the game. Certain enemies are worth more than others when defeated. Other animals like koalas appear in the game as bonus characters. However, these bonus creatures tend to disappear very quickly.
This game is a port of Pony Canyon's Fruit Panic for the MSX which plays similar to the classic arcade game Mappy. All plants must be collected and animals must be cleared off the level before players can begin the next level; there are approximately ten levels in this game. While the "A" button is used to plant bombs on the screen; the "Select" button is used to choose the level (and make the Tasmanian tiger either slower or faster). It is possible to stun the Tasmanian tiger with a bomb attack.
References
External links
Tasmania Story at MobyGames
Tasmania Story at The Game Boy Database
Box art comparison at djvenomnyc.com
1990 films
Films scored by Joe Hisaishi
Films set in Tasmania
Japanese drama films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNBX-CD | KNBX-CD (channel 31) is a low-power, Class A television station in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, which airs Armenian-language programming on its primary subchannel. The station is owned by HC2 Holdings. KNBX-CD's transmitter is located on Mount Arden near Henderson, Nevada.
History
KNBX-CD (meaning "Nevada Box") was owned by Equity Media Holdings and previously broadcast programming from TeleFórmula. Before that, it had aired programming from MTV2. Like most over-the-air MTV2 affiliates, it was an affiliate of The Box until that network's acquisition by Viacom in 2001.
KNBX-CD was sold at auction to Mako Communications on April 16, 2009. Most recently, it operated as a translator of Azteca América affiliate KMCC (channel 34).
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
Low-power television stations in Nevada
NBX-CD
Television channels and stations established in 1998
1998 establishments in Nevada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Rock%20Communications | North Rock Communications Ltd. is an Internet and telecommunications service provider located in Bermuda. It is the second largest ISP on the island, and through its own WiMAX Network, is the only company to offer both Internet service and connectivity under the same corporate entity.
History
North Rock was launched in 1997 with a staff of three people offering dial-up Internet service. Over the next several years, the company developed one of the largest internet and telecommunications architectures, consisting of several data centres, a country-wide WiMax network, and a suite of telephony services.
Present
As of 2012, North Rock remains the only Bermudian-owned and operated internet service provider. Its chairwoman, Vicki Coelho, is involved in and regularly cited on matters of Bermudian telecommunications regulation. It is currently facing increasing competition from foreign-owned entities, with Jamaica-based Digicel recently entering the internet services market.
References
Further reading
Finding the right Internet service for your needs | Bermuda Technology
North Rock customers double-billed through payment processor error | Bermuda Local Business
NorthRock’s ‘Follow Me’ connects all your numbers | Bermuda Technology
External links
Official website
Communications in Bermuda |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MXU | MXU may refer to:
Mullewa Airport (IATA code), Australia
Media Extension Unit, a SIMD extension for the MIPS computer architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrolepia%20jaspidata | Acrolepia jaspidata is a moth of the family Acrolepiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1919. It is found in South America.
References
Moths described in 1919
Acrolepiidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eligma%20malgassica | Eligma malgassica is a moth in the family Nolidae. This species was first described by Walter Rothschild in 1896 and is endemic to Madagascar.
Notes
The Afromoths database refers to the species as Eligma malagassica as does the Global Lepidoptera Names Index of the Natural History Museum, London.
References
Moths described in 1896
Eligminae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20Today%20%28Australian%20TV%20program%29 | Business Today is an Asian-Pacific television program, which began airing on the Asia-pacific channel Australia Network in August 2006, and on ABC News 24 (Australia) on 23 July 2010. It is hosted by Whitney Fitzsimmons. The program provides daily rundowns of Australian, Australasian, and International economies, as well as commentaries on financial and political outcomes.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming
Australian television news shows
2006 Australian television series debuts
2010s Australian television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%20expression | In computer science, a "let" expression associates a function definition with a restricted scope.
The "let" expression may also be defined in mathematics, where it associates a Boolean condition with a restricted scope.
The "let" expression may be considered as a lambda abstraction applied to a value. Within mathematics, a let expression may also be considered as a conjunction of expressions, within an existential quantifier which restricts the scope of the variable.
The let expression is present in many functional languages to allow the local definition of expression, for use in defining another expression. The let-expression is present in some functional languages in two forms; let or "let rec". Let rec is an extension of the simple let expression which uses the fixed-point combinator to implement recursion.
History
Dana Scott's LCF language was a stage in the evolution of lambda calculus into modern functional languages. This language introduced the let expression, which has appeared in most functional languages since that time.
The languages Scheme, ML, and more recently Haskell have inherited let expressions from LCF.
Stateful imperative languages such as ALGOL and Pascal essentially implement a let expression, to implement restricted scope of functions, in block structures.
A closely related "where" clause, together with its recursive variant "where rec", appeared already in Peter Landin's The mechanical evaluation of expressions.
Description
A "let" expression defines a function or value for use in another expression. As well as being a construct used in many functional programming languages, it is a natural language construct often used in mathematical texts. It is an alternate syntactical construct for a where clause.
In both cases the whole construct is an expression whose value is 5. Like the if-then-else the type returned by the expression is not necessarily Boolean.
A let expression comes in 4 main forms,
In functional languages the let expression defines functions which may be called in the expression. The scope of the function name is limited to the let expression structure.
In mathematics, the let expression defines a condition, which is a constraint on the expression. The syntax may also support the declaration of existentially quantified variables local to the let expression.
The terminology, syntax and semantics vary from language to language. In Scheme, let is used for the simple form and let rec for the recursive form. In ML let marks only the start of a block of declarations with fun marking the start of the function definition. In Haskell, let may be mutually recursive, with the compiler figuring out what is needed.
Definition
A lambda abstraction represents a function without a name. This is a source of the inconsistency in the definition of a lambda abstraction. However lambda abstractions may be composed to represent a function with a name. In this form the inconsistency is removed. The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo%20IdeaPad%20U310 | The Lenovo IdeaPad U310 is an Ultrabook-class notebook computer released in 2012. It is the successor to the Lenovo U300s.
The U310 has an aluminum-slab design with an island keyboard and a large touchpad.
Hardware specifications
Christopher Null of Wired wrote, "Surprisingly, the U310 I reviewed performed almost identically in benchmark tests to the U300s I reviewed in November. That’s interesting, because the prior machine featured a 256GB SSD, and the U310 features a slow, 5400rpm 500GB traditional hard drive. It seems the faster CPU and slower hard drive manage to cancel each other out in the end. At about 4 hours, 20 minutes of video playback, even battery life is almost the same as it was last time around."
The U310 has a 13.3-inch 1366x768 resolution screen. The U310 has two USB 3.0 ports and one USB 2.0 port, an HDMI port, a wired ethernet port, and an SD card slot.
Issues
Wireless connectivity issues
Many owners reported poor wireless connectivity, a fact later acknowledged by Lenovo, and allegedly affecting all U310 and U410 models built prior to 23 July 2012. Lenovo suggested that users affected by the issue send their Ultrabook to customer support, however no official recall campaign was issued and malfunctioning units in stock were still sold internationally. After the repair, some users still reported the same issue.
However, despite the statement above, reports continue to come in of laptops manufactured after the date mentioned having the same wireless problem.
Lenovo is in the process of settling a class-action lawsuit to either repair the faulty laptops, refund $100, or give a $250 voucher towards another laptop purchase.
Cracking case and hinge
A number of users throughout the world have reported that the hinges of their Ideapad U310 notebooks were popped out and sometimes cracking sounds could be heard after half of a year or one year's normal usage. So far, Lenovo refused to acknowledge this problem and tried to charge customers for replacing the whole screen, which almost costs as much as a new U310. No official recall campaign was issued.
Reviews
A review in Wired praised the U310 for its "awesome value," "solid performance," and sturdiness while complaining about the screen quality and lack of keyboard backlighting.
References
External links
U310
Subnotebooks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20support | In information technology (IT), remote support tools are IT tools and software that enable an IT technician or a support representative to connect to a remote computer from their consoles via the Internet and work directly on the remote system. Although its main focus is the access to computers located anywhere in the world, the remote support applications also provide features like file transfer, desktop sharing, file synchronization, command line or guest accessibility.
Privacy
Privacy is also a major concern for all users. One of the most used tools in remote support sessions are the ones that allow desktop sharing. It is also possible to provide what is commonly called Unattended Support (the technician is granted total remote access to the client’s computer, even when he is not physically close to it).
The need for an absolute trust in these services and providers is considered to be the biggest obstacle for this technology to achieve mass-marketing status – even when many studies indicate that for every 5 technical occurrences, 4 of them could be remotely solved.
Benefits
Remote Support technology tries to reduce helpdesk centers cost-issues – all transport-related expenses are immediately trimmed down, for instance.
Modern day technology enables that any technician using Remote Support is able to assist a customer just like it was physically side-by-side. Technologies and tools like live chat, VoIP and desktop sharing enable a direct intervention in the remote system.
See also
Desktop sharing
File transfer
File synchronization
WHICH INDUSTRIES ARE USING AR REMOTE SUPPORT?
References
Remote desktop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o%20Manzarra | João Maria Manzarra is a Portuguese television host mainly on the Portuguese SIC Radical network and best known as co-host for the reality television show Ídolos, the Portuguese version of the Idol series for three years and is now one of the most popular presenters on Portuguese television.
Career
Manzarra studied Social Communication at Universidade Católica but had to cut short his studies to host his first major show on television. For two-and-a-half years, he took part in Curto Circuito, a direct call program without prepared scripts becoming a popular presenter. In 2009 he co-hosted SIC ao Vivo with José Figueiras and Liliana Campos followed by co-hosting the show TGV (Todos Gostam do Verão) with Carolina Patrocínio
From 2009 onwards he has hosted Ídolos, the Portuguese version of the Idol series for three consecutive seasons co-host with Cláudia Vieira making him earn great fame in Portugal due to the popularity of the show. In 2010, he was nominated for the Portuguese Golden Globes award for "Revelation of the Year".
Following his success in Ídolos, he has hosted another popular television series on SIC, namely Achas que Sabes Dançar? the Portuguese version of So You Think You Can Dance series that was launched on SIC in April 2010.
Because of his popularity, he has won commercial endorsements. He is also actively involved in charities.
Filmography
Acting
2010: Lua Vermelha (SIC Radical)
2011: Yacun (short)
TV hosting
2007/2009: Curto Circuito2009: SIC ao Vivo2009: TGV (Todos Gostam do Verão)
2009/2010: Ídolos2010: Achas que Sabes Dançar?2010: Natal de Esperança2010: Parabéns a Você (the 18th anniversary special of SIC)
2010/2011: Ídolos2011: Chamar a Música2011: SIC 19 Anos - Parabéns a Você2011: Natal Portugal2012: Ídolos2013: Factor X''
References
External links
Portuguese television personalities
Portuguese male television actors
1985 births
Living people
Mass media people from Lisbon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20Hejhal | Dennis Arnold Hejhal (born December 10, 1948 in Chicago) is an American mathematician. In his mathematical research he frequently uses extensive computer calculation.
In 1967, as a college freshman, Hejhal scored among the top 5 in the U.S. in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition.
Hejhal graduated from the University of Chicago in 1970 with a bachelor's degree and from Stanford University in 1972 with a PhD in mathematics under the direction of Menahem Max Schiffer. He became an assistant professor at Harvard in 1972, then in 1974 an associate professor at Columbia University and starting in 1978 a professor at the University of Minnesota. Additionally, he was a professor at the Uppsala University from 1994 to 2012 (where he has since been a professor emeritus) and a fellow of the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute since 1986. He was a guest professor at Princeton University in 1993 and at the Institute for Advanced Study on several occasions since 1983.
Hejhal works on analytic number theory, automorphic forms, the Selberg trace formula and quantum chaos.
From 1972 to 1974 he was a Sloan Fellow. In 1986 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berkeley (Zeros of Epstein Zeta Functions and Supercomputers). In 1997 he received the Goran Gustafson Prize from the Swedish Academy of Sciences and in 2005 the Eva and Lars Gårding Prize. He is a member of the Swedish Royal Society of Sciences. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Among his successful former doctoral students is Persi Diaconis. He also supervised the undergraduate honors thesis research of James Z. Wang.
Publications
Theta functions, kernel functions and abelian integrals, AMS 1972
Eigenvalues of the Laplacian for Hecke triangle groups, AMS 1992
Regular b-Groups, degenerating Riemann surfaces and spectral theory, AMS 1990
The Selberg Trace Formula for PSL (2, R), 2 volumes, Springer, 1976, 1983 (3rd volume planned)
Editor with Peter Sarnak, Audrey Terras: The Selberg Trace Formula and related topics, AMS 1986 (Conference, Bowdoin College 1984)
Editor with Martin Gutzwiller, Andrew Odlyzko, et al.. Emerging applications of Number theory, Springer 1999
References
External links
Homepage
Hejhal Eigenvalues of the Laplacian, quantum chaos and computation 1995
1948 births
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
University of Chicago alumni
Stanford University alumni
Harvard University Department of Mathematics faculty
Harvard University faculty
Columbia University faculty
University of Minnesota faculty
Academic staff of Uppsala University
Princeton University faculty
People from Chicago
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Mathematicians from Illinois
Putnam Fellows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopala%20Chandra%20Praharaj | Gopala Chandra Praharaj (27 September 1874 – 16 May 1945) was a writer in the Odia language, well known as the compiler of the Purnachandra Odia Bhashakosha. He also contributed significantly to Odia literature by his works in prose. A lawyer by profession, Praharaj wrote several satirical and analytical essays, in magazines such as Utkal Sahitya, Rasachakra, Nababharata, and Satya Samachar, on the social, political and cultural issues of contemporary Odisha (Odisha) during early 20th century.
Early life
Praharaj was born on 27 September 1874 to an aristocratic Zamindar Brahmin family of Siddheswarpur in Cuttack district. He completed his matriculation from Ravenshaw Collegiate School and studied FA from Ravenshaw college of Cuttack. He studied law at Calcutta University and became a lawyer in 1902.
Life as a writer
He started writing essays in the Magazine Utkal Sahitya in 1901 by the caption "Bhagabata Tungire Sandhya", which is the first published work by the author. It was followed by Bai Mohanty Panji and many other writings on socio-cultural and political issues. He followed the footsteps of Fakir Mohan Senapati and made a remarkable development in Odia satirical literature. Praharaj used the colloquial speech of Odisha along with Hindustani, Parsi, English, Sanskrit and folk language in his prose works. He wrote several critical essays with different pen names in many magazines up to his old age. However, he dedicated around three decades of his life to the compilation of Purnachandra Odia Bhashakosha.
Works
Purnachandra Odia Bhashakosha
Purnachandra Odia Bhashakosha is the most comprehensive lexicon in Odia language. It presents the meaning of words in four languages—Odia, English, Hindi and Bengali, and explains the origin, development and use of the words. It consists of around 9,500 pages and 185 thousand words in 7 volumes. Praharaj not only did the work of compiling the lexicon, but also raised funds for its publication and supervised its printing and sale. Praharaj included in this lexicon not only the words which were used in literature, but also the words of common speech. The publication of the lexicon was patronised by the kings/princes of several princely states of present Orissa (Odisha). It is still recognised as the biggest dictionary in Oriya (Odia) language, although few copies of the original printed version survive. An electronic version has been published by Srujanika.
Praharaj while compiling the Purnachandra Odia Bhashakosha, also introduced a new letter- ୱ to the Odia script inventory to represent the phonetic sound of (Wa) in order to distinguish it from ବ (Ba), with which it shared the same consonant ligature form/conjunct form(୍ୱ).
Essays
Praharaj was one of the satirists of early 20th century. His writings were published in many magazines of that period; Utkal Sahitya, Rasachakra, Nababharata, Satya Samachar and many others. Dealing with social issues, political condition of Orissa and India, and socio-cult |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20CloudSystem | HP CloudSystem is a cloud infrastructure from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) that combines storage, servers, networking and software.
HP CloudSystem is now branded HP Helion CloudSystem and is an integral component of the HPE Helion portfolio.
History
HP CloudSystem was first launched in January 2011. Many of its components are based on earlier HP products. HP CloudSystem is based on HP BladeSystem Matrix technology, which was originally launched in 2009. BladeSystem Matrix is a combination of HP Systems Insight Manager, HP BladeSystem c-Class blade chassis and HP StorageWorks EVA Fibre Channel Storage framework, along with Microsoft Active Directory and virtualization Hypervisors from Microsoft and VMware. HP Insight Orchestration provides the orchestration functionality.
Previous versions of HP CloudSystem combined HP Matrix Operating Environment, which manages, monitors and provisions servers for physical and virtual resources and HP Cloud Service Automation Software, a set of system management tools used to provide and manage the lifecycle of IT services. BladeSystem Matrix supports HP ProLiant x64 blades running Microsoft Windows and Linux, and HP Integrity blades running HP-UX.
HP CloudSystem is now branded HP Helion CloudSystem and is an integral component of the HP Helion portfolio.
Cloud migration challenges
The migration of traditional IT, in which IT directly controls IT purchasing, deployment, management, and use, to a cloud computing model holds a number of challenges. A paper titled "Cloud Migration: A Case Study of Migrating an Enterprise IT System to IaaS," by researchers at the Cloud Computing Co-laboratory, School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, raises several socio-technical issues related to the migration of IT services to the cloud. The researchers state that in-house IT personnel are at risk of becoming dependent upon the cloud service vendor, of which the user organization has no control over. The researchers also note that the user organization could also require more resources to carry out migration to the cloud and overcome the issues that could crop up after migration, such as a lack of in-house knowledge of cloud operations.
The researchers also note that the user organization's customer representatives could take longer to resolve customer problems, as their questions may require input from the external cloud services provider. Furthermore, migrating to cloud computing could reduce job satisfaction among IT staffers, whose jobs change from a hands-on technical role to managing external service providers. User organizations must also learn to cope with a new way of managing IT as they are no longer in charge of software support contracts or hardware maintenance issues.
Other cloud migration challenges that have been cited include security, vendor management and technical integration. Security experts have raised the issue that because public clouds are multi-tenant (see: Multitenancy), meaning t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak%20Corporate%20Network | Peak Corporate Network is an American group of real estate services companies based in Los Angeles, California. Eleven entities operate under the Peak umbrella.
Overview
Established in 1991 by Los Angeles businessmen Eli Tene and Gil Priel, Peak originally focused on short sale transactions. In 2007, Peak started a private lending fund through a partnership with a $12 billion private family office.
In a bid to expand its operations in Southern California, Peak became a real estate franchisee of Century 21 Real Estate in September 2015. The following month, Century 21 Peak acquired Granada Hills, Los Angeles-based Century 21 All Moves, Century 21's oldest franchise. The acquisition of All Moves added about 100 employees to Century 21 Peak's residential real estate operation and increased Peak Corporate Network's total staff to 300 people. Peak subsequently expanded into the Inland Empire with the acquisition of two Upland, California-based firms: American Inland Empire R.E. Inc. in December 2016 and Century 21 Prestige in February 2017.
In May 2014, Peak Finance, a division of Peak Corporate Network, and Misuma Holdings, acquired the Myrtle Beach Mall in South Carolina for $45 million. In May 2016, Peak Financial and Misuma announced they would begin a $30 million renovation of the mall in 2017. In July 2017, Peak Finance secured nearly $103 million in financing for a North Hollywood, Los Angeles complex consisting of 297 apartments and a 365 By Whole Foods Market. Peak is the owner of InterServ, one of the largest nationwide hospitality renovation companies in the U.S.
References
External links
Real estate services companies of the United States
Real estate companies established in 1990
American companies established in 1990
Companies based in Los Angeles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperX%20%28Operating%20System%29 | SuperX is a Linux distribution, a computer operating system originally developed in India. SuperX uses a tweaked version of KDE and is aimed towards beginners and casual users. SuperX features a new launcher made in QML that allows users to get a grid view of all icons of the installed applications in the system, the new launcher is called "SuperX App Launcher".
Name
The name SuperX is an acronym which bears its aim of providing a simple elegant computing experience
SuperX stands for "Simple, User friendly, Powerful, Energetic and Robust eXperience".
Philosophy
SuperX aims to be as simple and down-to-earth as possible avoiding bloat and unnecessary components. It aims to be as easy as possible for the non Linux users especially those who are coming from Microsoft Windows. The operating system embraces beginners, casual users and makes them feel at home. Simplicity doesn't mean feature-less. SuperX is as powerful and very handy for professionals and experts alike. The GNU utilities plus the software packages available are enough to be used for any task. SuperX is perfectly capable of being a desktop publishing setup, multimedia hub or even server. SuperX uses a tweaked version of KDE as its Graphical User Interface for providing a more polished, smooth and beautiful looking desktop experience which is delightful to use. SuperX is based on the Linux kernel with Hardware Enablement (HWE) for use on newer hardware and follows the Ubuntu LTS specifications. As a consequence, it is strong, stable and recovers quickly. It is virus and malware-free and no one can gain access to computer without knowledge. There is no need to defragment the hard-drive or clean up the registry every month, as all housekeeping is done by the operating system itself.
Features
A default installation of SuperX contains a wide range of software that includes LibreOffice, Firefox, Ktorrent, and several lightweight games such as Kpaitence and Kacman Many additional software packages are accessible from the built in SuperX Appstore as well as any other APT-based package management tools. Many additional software packages that are no longer installed by default, are still accessible in the repositories still installable by the main tool or by any other APT-based package management tool. Cross-distribution snap packages and flatpaks are also available, that both allow installing software. The default file manager is Dolphin
All of the application software installed by default is free software. In addition, SuperX redistributes some hardware drivers that are available only in binary format, but such packages are clearly marked in the restricted component.
Technical Details
History
SuperX was first developed in Guwahati, the capital city of Assam in India by a high school student named Wrishiraj Kausik in 2007. Later he released the first public version of SuperX in 2011 and started a company to support and promote SuperX called Libresoft (Libresoft Technology Pvt. Ltd.). |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortexx | Vortexx was a short-lived American Saturday morning children's television programming block that aired on The CW from August 25, 2012 to September 27, 2014. Programmed by Saban Brands, it replaced Toonzai, a block that was programmed by 4Kids Entertainment until its bankruptcy. The Vortexx block primarily featured animated programs, although it also featured several live-action series, including the Lost Galaxy installment of the Power Rangers franchise (which had been re-acquired by Saban), and the WWE wrestling series WWE Saturday Morning Slam.
The block came to an end on September 27, 2014, and was replaced the following week with a live-action E/I block from Litton Entertainment named One Magnificent Morning, marking the end of traditional Saturday morning children's programming on broadcast television in United States. The final program that aired on the block was episode 89 of Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal, titled "Darkness Dawns" at 11:30 a.m. EDT
The block served as the first time since Fox Kids in the early 2000s that Haim Saban ran a Saturday morning block. It was also the last time he ran a Saturday morning block. The block, however, does not include most Fox Kids original shows, as the rights to most of their shows currently belong to The Walt Disney Company.
History
On April 6, 2011, following a lawsuit involving the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise, 4Kids Entertainment, which programmed the CW4Kids/Toonzai block for the network, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. On May 1, 2012, Kidsco Media Ventures, an affiliate of Saban Capital Group, placed a bid to acquire some of their assets. On June 26, 2012, after competition from 4K Acquisition Corp, a subsidiary of Konami, the deal was finalized, with 4K Acquisition receiving the U.S. rights to the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise and Saban receiving all other assets, including the programming rights to The CW's Saturday morning block. On July 2, 2012, it was announced that Saban Capital Group, via Kidsco Media Ventures, would begin programming the block that fall. On July 12, 2012, it was announced that the block would be named Vortexx, which launched on August 25, 2012.
In 2013, Vortexx became the only Saturday morning block without a strictly E/I-based lineup to air on broadcast TV. This happened in November of that year, when Tribune acquired Weigel's 50% stake in This TV, and their Cookie Jar Toons/This Is for Kids block came to an end.
Cancellation
Between May 31, 2014 and June 5, 2014, The CW announced that Vortexx would be discontinued and replaced on October 4, 2014 by One Magnificent Morning, a block produced by Litton Entertainment that would feature live-action documentary and lifestyle programs aimed at pre-teens and teenagers, although the block remained until 2014 similarly to a block also introduced by Litton for CW sister channel CBS the previous year. The move came as part of a shift by broadcast television networks towards using their Saturday morning lineup solely to comply with the education |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate%20Responsibility%20Group | The Corporate Responsibility Group (CRG) was a training and development network for corporate responsibility (CR) and sustainability practitioners in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1987, it was succeeded in January 2015 by spin-off Institute of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (ICRS).
History and governance
The group was founded in 1987, as a not-for-profit organisation run by a volunteer board of corporate responsibility practitioners.
The Institute of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability was created by CRG in 2014 to respond to the need for an organisation that supports the personal and professional development of individuals in CR, sustainability or related functions.
Representing the profession
CRG undertakes research every few years on the state of its profession. Its 2009 study found that 84% of corporate responsibility professionals considered the discipline to be a mainstream business issue, compared to 72% in 2006 survey.
In 2011 the group announced that it would create a professional body for individual corporate responsibility practitioners in the UK, distinct from the group's current organisation-membership model.
Research
The group has collaborated with academia and government to produce research into the state of corporate responsibility. From 2002 to 2003 it supported the work of a UK government working group, commissioned by Stephen Timms MP, the then Minister of State for e-Commerce & Competitiveness at the Department of Trade and Industry (now BIS), looking at professional skills development in the corporate responsibility sector. Its report, "Changing Manager Mindsets", was published in 2003 in conjunction with Ashridge Business School.
In 2005 it produced a study with Ashridge Business School on the state of executive development amongst corporate responsibility professionals. In 2007, a report published by the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and Cranfield School of Management reported that the "professionalisation of the corporate responsibility and sustainability function in many companies... has also been supported by organisations such as CRG".
Partnerships
The group has an established link with Business in the Community (BITC). By convention, the Chair of CRG sits on the Board of Directors of BITC. BITC's "Key Knowledge for CR Practitioners" primer cites CRG's Code of Conduct for CR practitioners under "Key Principles & Frameworks".
The Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, at the Cranfield School of Management cites the group as a partner.
Membership
Membership is vetted, and comprises over 300 corporate responsibility professionals, representing approximately 85 organisations. Membership covers those within member organisations in the private, public, and third sector, though consultants are not admitted. Among the members - many of which employ members of CRG's volunteer board - are Accenture, British American Tobacco, City of London Corporation, The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find%20and%20replace | Find and replace may refer to:
a feature of text processing as found:
in text editors
in formal language theory
in particular programming languages
Find and Replace (audio drama)
See also
Regular expressions
String searching algorithms
replace (command), an MS DOS command |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comunit%C3%A0%20tariffale%20Ticino%20e%20Moesano | The Comunità tariffale Ticino e Moesano, also known by its marketing name arcobaleno, is a Swiss tariff network covering the whole of the canton of Ticino, together with the Moesano district of the canton of Graubünden.
Arcobaleno offers various kinds of tickets, from single tickets to annual season tickets, which are valid on the buses, trains and boats of the operators that are members of the network. Tickets are only valid within the arcobaleno area, and a few operators have further restrictions on which tickets are accepted on which services. Ticket prices are based on zones, with 49 zones covering the whole of the arcobaleno area, whilst season tickets use a coarser zone structure of only 16 zones.
Tickets are available from the offices of the operators. Ticket machines sell a range of tickets at railway stations and urban bus stops. Where ticket machines are not available at bus stops, tickets may be obtained from the bus driver.
Operators
The operators which make up the network are:
Autolinee Bleniesi (ABL)
Autolinea Mendrisiense (AMSA)
Autolinee Regionali Luganesi (ARL)
Ferrovie Autolinee Regionali Ticinesi (FART)
Ferrovie Luganesi (FLP)
Funicolare Locarno - Madonna del Sasso (FLMS) †
Navigazione Lago Maggiore (NLM) †
PostBus Switzerland
Società Navigazione del Lago di Lugano (SNL) †
Swiss Federal Railways (FFS)
Treni Regionali Ticino Lombardia (TILO)
Trasporti Pubblici Luganesi (TPL)
† - limitations to ticket acceptance
References
External links
Arcobaleno web site (in Italian)
Transport in Graubünden
Transport in Ticino |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugata%20Sanyal | Sugata Sanyal is a Professor in the School of Technology and Computer Science at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He is well known for his contributions in the field of Network Security and Computer Architecture.
Education
Sugata Sanyal received a PhD in Computer Science in 1992 from University of Mumbai. Before that he received his master's degree from IIT Kharagpur in 1973 specializing in Electronics and Electrical Engineering and bachelor's degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Jadavpur University in 1973.
Career
Sugata Sanyal joined the School of Technology and Computer Science at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in 1973 and has been working there since then. He was also a visiting professor in University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA from July 2003 to September 2003. He has been actively involved in research and development activities and has over 100 publications in peer reviewed international journals. He also played a major role in the development of various projects of national importance. During 1973–1985, he was involved in developing a large complex real-time multi-computer based Integrated Data Handling System for On Line Air-Sector Control. This project was a major national achievement which earned him the Vividhlaxi Audyogik Samsodhan Vikas Kendra Award (VASVIK). During 1977–1980, he was also involved in development of 16 bit, highly reliable computer system. The Processor acted as the Central Controlling Element for a rugged mobile exchange of the High Availability Computerized System class. This Real Time system was widely used by various Indian groups. During the period of 1978- 1980, he was involved in development of 3D Scanning Radar Attachment Project which was connected with the 3D Scanning Radar of the Cyclone Warning Radar Station of Indian Meteorological Department. Moreover, he has been actively involved in numerous projects in the area of Network, Security, Parallel Processing and Computer Algorithms.
Honors
Recipient of IEEE distinguished Lecturer award in 1997.
Co-recipient of Vividhlaxi Audyogik Samsodhan Vikas Kendra Award (VASVIK) for Electrical and Electronics Science and Technologies for the year 1985 for successful and completely indigenous design, development, testing, know-how transfer to production unit and final successful live field -trial of a large complex real-time multi-computer based Integrated Data Handling System for On Line Air-Sector Control.
Recipient of first class first with honours in B.Tech. with three gold medals.
Senior member of IEEE
Life member of ACM.
Sugata Sanyal is also currently serving in the editorial and advisory board of several international journals.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Indian computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maintal%20Ost%20station | Maintal Ost (east) is a station in the network of the Rhine-Main Transport Association (, RMV) on the Frankfurt Süd–Aschaffenburg railway, serving the Maintal districts of Hochstadt and Dörnigheim in the German state of Hesse. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn (DB) as a category 4 station.
Location
The Regionalbahn station is at a centrally located and easily accessible location between Hochstadt and Dörnigheim: in the south from Hochstadt and in the north from Dörnigheim.
History
On 10 June 1848, the Frankfurt-Hanau railway was opened by the Frankfurt-Hanau Railway Company (Frankfurt-Hanauer Eisenbahn Gesellschaft, FHE), but at that time there was no station at the current location. Like the neighbouring Rumpenheim station (later Bischofsheim-Rumpenheim and now Maintal West), the former Hochstadt–Dörnigheim station (now Maintal Ost) was built by 1858.
Infrastructure
The station now consists of four tracks, but two of them are passing loops, which are not used for scheduled trains.
When the station handled freight, there were a total of six tracks, supplemented by several sidings. It mainly served Furnierwerk Kling, which was demolished in 1998, and the Intu-Bau company.
For passenger transport, there are now three platforms on the two main tracks and a passing loop to the north. The station building is located on the south side but is no longer used for passengers. It is rented out for events. Tickets for travel in the RMV area and for long-distance services on Deutsche Bahn are available from vending machines. There are free park and ride spaces on both the Hochstadt and the Dörnigheim sides. In addition, there is taxi parking on the Dörnigheim side.
Operations
On weekdays, trains run every half hour from 5 AM to 9 PM, and hourly on weekends, except on Saturday mornings, when they run every half hour. There are Regionalbahn and Regional-Express services operated by DB Regio and services operated by VIAS, all running between Frankfurt South station and Hanau Central Station. Some trains run west from/to Frankfurt Central Station or Frankfurt Airport and in the east from/to Aschaffenburg, Würzburg, Nuremberg, Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach and Bad Soden-Salmünster. At peak times trains run more frequently than every half hour.
Scheduled trains run on track 1 (towards Hanau ) and track 2 (towards Frankfurt). Trains to Frankfurt stop on track 3 when overtaking delayed trains.
Buses
On the south side of the station, in Dörnigheim, is the bus station, which is served by routes 22 and 23 to Hochstadt, Dörnigheim, Wachenbuchen and to Enkheim U-Bahn station in Frankfurt-Bergen-Enkheim.
Notes
Railway stations in Hesse
Buildings and structures in Main-Kinzig-Kreis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larman | Larman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Craig Larman (born 1958), Canadian computer scientist and author
Drew Larman (born 1985), American ice hockey player
See also
Laraman (surname)
Layman (surname) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYFJ | DYFJ (99.9 FM) is a relay station of RJFM Manila, owned and operated by Rajah Broadcasting Network through its licensee Free Air Broadcasting Network, Inc. The station's transmitter is located at Brgy., Pahanocoy, Bacolod.
References
External links
RJFM FB Page
Radio stations in Bacolod
Radio stations established in 1985 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerographite | Aerographite is a synthetic foam consisting of a porous interconnected network of tubular carbon. With a density of 180 g/m3 it is one of the lightest structural materials ever created. It was developed jointly by a team of researchers at the University of Kiel and the Technical University of Hamburg in Germany, and was first reported in a scientific journal in June 2012.
Structure and properties
Aerographite is a black freestanding material that can be produced in various shapes occupying a volume of up to several cubic centimeters. It consists of a seamless interconnected network of carbon tubes that have micron-scale diameters and a wall thickness of about 15 nm. Because of the relatively lower curvature and larger wall thickness, these walls differ from the graphene-like shells of carbon nanotubes and resemble vitreous carbon in their properties. These walls are often discontinuous and contain wrinkled areas that improve the elastic properties of aerographite. The carbon bonding in aerographite has an sp2 character, as confirmed by electron energy loss spectroscopy and electrical conductivity measurements. Upon external compression, the conductivity increases, along with material density, from ~0.2 S/m at 0.18 mg/cm3 to 0.8 S/m at 0.2 mg/cm3. The conductivity is higher for a denser material, 37 S/m at 50 mg/cm3.
Owing to its interconnected tubular network structure, aerographite resists tensile forces much better than other carbon foams as well as silica aerogels. It sustains extensive elastic deformations and has a very low Poisson's ratio. A complete shape recovery of a 3-mm-tall sample after it was compressed down to 0.1 mm is possible. Its ultimate tensile strength (UTS) depends on material density and is about 160 kPa at 8.5 mg/cm3 and 1 kPa at 0.18 mg/cm3; in comparison, the strongest silica aerogels have a UTS of 16 kPa at 100 mg/cm3. The Young's modulus is ca. 15 kPa at 0.2 mg/cm3 in tension, but is much lower in compression, increasing from 1 kPa at 0.2 mg/cm3 to 7 kPa at 15 mg/cm3. The density given by the authors is based a mass measurement and the determination of the outer volume of the synthetic foams as usually performed also for other structures.
Aerographite is superhydrophobic, thus its centimeter-sized samples repel water; they are also rather sensitive to electrostatic effects and spontaneously jump to charged objects.
Synthesis
Common aspects of synthesis:
With the aerographite's chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process metal oxides had been shown in 2012 to be a suitable template for deposition of graphitic structures. The templates can be in situ removed. Basic mechanism is the reduction of metal oxide to a metallic constituent, the nucleation of carbon in and on top of metal and the simultaneous evaporation of metal component.
Requirements for the metal oxides are: a low activation energy for chemical reduction, a metal phase, which can nucleate graphite, a low evaporation point of metal phase (ZnO, SnO).
From eng |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20COM%2B%20IMDB | At TechEd 1999 conference during its rollout of Windows 2000 Beta, Microsoft introduced COM+ in-memory database (IMDB) that provided an application with fast access to data through databases that supported OLE DB connectivity, without incurring the overhead associated with storing and accessing data to and from physical disks. "We're setting aside a cache of memory on the machine that's running your application for data from a database on another platform," says Michael Gross, product manager for COM+. "You'll be running your application on a Windows 2000 machine, but you may be actually accessing the data from an Oracle database on another platform."
Microsoft did not intend to offer IMDB separately from COM+. "There are no current plans to productize the IMDB separately, or incorporate it into SQL Server in the near future," Gross says. He noted then that SQL Server 6.5 and SQL Server 7.0—along with Oracle7, Oracle8, Sybase Enterprise, Informix 8, and Microsoft ADO—would be able to serve as back-end data stores for the IMDB. Microsoft's IMDB also supports the OLE DB for an ODBC provider.
Competition
However, soon after the rollout of Windows 2000, several already delivering IMDB vendors had come forward with main-memory database systems that run on 32-bit Windows NT systems. TimesTen Performance Software—a Hewlett-Packard Co. spin-off—offered a main-memory database for Windows NT and Unix. Angara Database Systems Inc. also had demonstrated an RDBMS. Empress Software Inc.’s Empress RDBMS for Windows NT intermixed main memory and disk storage mechanisms to achieve increased speed.
Demise
Microsoft's COM+ division's IMDB solution never made it past Windows 2000 Beta release, because it was squelched by Microsoft's SQL Server division for several reasons:
Initial tests showed that Microsoft's IMDB performed better with Oracle7 and Oracle8 than with Microsoft's products SQL Server 6.5 and SQL Server 7.0 and ADO.
It was a skunkworks project produced by Microsoft's COM+ division, and Microsoft's SQL Server division had more political clout.
Proven competition TimesTen
References
COM+ IMDB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westrail%20N%20class | The N class was a class of diesel locomotives built by Comeng, Bassendean for Westrail between 1977 and 1979.
History
Eleven were built all for use on the Western Australian narrow gauge network, primarily to haul mineral trains in the south east. Between July 1982 and June 1983, the first four members of the class had their vacuum brake equipment replaced with Westinghouse air brake systems, and were redesignated as the NA class. While liked by crews for their ride quality and power, they suffered from reliability problems and most were withdrawn in the early 1990s. The last were withdrawn in 1997.
In January 1995 two of the NA class were converted to standard gauge using bogies from Mount Newman Alco M636s, and redesignated as the NB class. In February 1998 these two were sold to Austrac Ready Power, Junee. These were sold in 2004 to Patrick Port Link, Adelaide and again in September 2011 to Australian Locolease who redesignated as the 18 class and leased them to El Zorro for use in Victoria.
Austrac also purchased NA1874 but it was sold without use to South Spur Rail Services in 2001 and converted for standard gauge operation in January 2006. It was scrapped in 2014.
Status table
References
External links
Co-Co locomotives
Commonwealth Engineering locomotives
Diesel locomotives of Western Australia
Railway locomotives introduced in 1977
Standard gauge locomotives of Australia
3 ft 6 in gauge locomotives of Australia
Diesel-electric locomotives of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Winnick%20%28game%20developer%29 | Gary Winnick is an American computer game designer, writer, artist, and animator who was the first artist hired by Lucasfilm Games. He co-designed Maniac Mansion, alongside Ron Gilbert, and created the comic book Bad Dreams.
Career
Gary Winnick founded Horizon Zero Graphiques with Frank Cirocco in 1974. There, he was the editor, artist, and writer for the comic magazine Venture, which ran until 1976. Horizon Zero Graphiques also published the comic magazine Mindworks by Brent Anderson, which included art by Gary. He began his video game career at LucasArts as the only artist and animator at the then-newly formed Lucasfilm Games Division in 1984. He worked as an artist and animator on the early games by Lucasfilm Games, before he became co-designer of the 1987 adventure game, Maniac Mansion. He continued working on art and animation at LucasArts, and became the art department supervisor on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure in 1989. In 1992, he was the designer, artist, and animator on Defenders of Dynatron City and co-wrote the comic based on the game, with Steve Purcell. Before leaving LucasArts in 1993, he contributed dialog and story to the sequel to Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle. After leaving LucasArts, he joined Spectrum Holobyte as an art director. In 1995, he co-founded the video game company, Orbital Studios, where he served as executive producer. In 1996, he returned as a partner at Horizon Zero Graphiques, which was rebranded Lightsource Studios.
He also co-created the comic book Neomen with Frank Cirocco in 1987 and created the comic book Bad Dreams in 2014. The first issue of Bad Dreams was in the list of the top six new comics and sold out in its first week of release.
Gary Winnick reunited with Ron Gilbert, with whom he co-created his early critically acclaimed point'n'click games for LucasArts, and both of them ran a Kickstarter campaign for a new point'n'click game called Thimbleweed Park. The campaign ended on December 18, 2014 and the game was released on March 30, 2017.
Credited works
Bibliography
1974 Mindworks, artist
1974 Venture, editor, writer, artist
1987 Neomen, writer, artist
1992 Defenders of Dynatron City
2014 Bad Dreams, writer, artist
Games
1985 Rescue on Fractalus!, animator (LucasArts)
1985 Ballblazer, artist (LucasArts)
1985 The Eidolon, artist, animator (LucasArts)
1985 Koronis Rift, additional art (LucasArts)
1986 Habitat, artist, animator (LucasArts)
1986 Labyrinth: The Computer Game, artist, animator (LucasArts)
1986 PHM Pegasus, artist (LucasArts)
1987 Maniac Mansion, co-project leader, artist, animator (LucasArts)
1988 Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders, artist (LucasArts)
1989 Pipe Dream, artist (LucasArts)
1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure, art department supervisor (LucasArts)
1990 Loom, character designer, artist, animator (LucasArts)
1990 The Secret of Monkey Island, art department supervisor (LucasArts)
1991 Star Wars, artist (Beam |
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