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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Winlock | Anna Winlock (1857–1904) was an American astronomer and human computer, one of the first members of female computer group known as "the Harvard Computers." She made the most complete catalog of stars near the north and south poles of her era. She is also remembered for her calculations and studies of asteroids. In particular, she did calculations on 433 Eros and 475 Ocllo.
Early years
Winlock was born September 15, 1857, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to astronomer Joseph Winlock and Isabella Lane. Winlock attended the Cambridge Schools as a child and began to develop an interest in both mathematics and the Greek language. Upon her graduation she received a letter from her principal expressing his appreciation for her Greek and of her character. Her father influenced her interest in astronomy. When she was twelve, she attended a solar eclipse expedition with her father in his home state of Kentucky. In June 1875, Joseph died shortly after Winlock had graduated from secondary school. Winlock quickly followed in her father's footsteps becoming one of the first female paid staff members of the Harvard College Observatory.
Harvard College Observatory
After the death of her father, it fell upon her to find financial support for her mother and four siblings, and soon she approached the Harvard College Observatory seeking a job in calculations. Specifically, she was capable of reducing volumes of unreduced observations, a decades worth of numbers in a useless state, that previously her father had left unfinished. The interim director of the observatory complained that he could not process the data, as "the condition of the funds is an objection to hiring anyone." Winlock presented herself to the observatory and offered to reduce the observations. Having been previously introduced to the principles of mathematical astronomy by her father she seemed like a capable asset to the observatory and could be paid less than half the prevailing rate for calculating at the time. Harvard was able to offer her twenty-five cents an hour to do the computations. Winlock found the conditions acceptable and took the position.
In less than a year, she was joined at the observatory by three other women who also served as computers; they became known as Pickering's Harem, gaining notoriety for leaving an uncomfortable example on the government computing agencies because of the women's low wages and arduous work, even though it was of high quality. Winlock found it important the work to be done in astronomy, especially for women. By her own development as a scientist and her lasting contributions to the stellar program of the observatory, she served as an example that women were equally capable as men of doing astronomical work.
Major contributions
Through her thirty-year career at the Harvard College Observatory, Winlock contributed to the many projects the observatory faced. Her most significant work involved the continuous and arduous work of reducing and computing m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%20Lodden | Johnny Lodden (born 1 June 1985 in Jørpeland, Norway) is a Norwegian professional poker player prominently known for his online success. He frequently played under the alias "bad_ip" on Prima network online high-stakes games (up to $40,000 buy-in NLHE), and for a brief time he was considered the biggest winner in the largest online cash games in the world (before Full Tilt Poker expanded to include larger games). Lodden has also been known to occasionally play on PokerStars under the alias "Lars-Magne".
In August 2007 Lodden gave a brief interview with the Danish poker journal Acemag, where he admitted to having lost his whole bankroll and had to retire his old bad_ip account and start from scratch with a stake from a friend.
As of 2021, his total live tournament winnings exceed $2,800,000.
He used to be a member of both Team Pro Pokerstars and Team PartyPoker.
European Poker Tour
Lodden has cashed 22 times at the European Poker Tour, making the final table at the 2008 event in Budapest and the 2013 and 2015 event in Monte Carlo. In the 2008 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo, Lodden was chip leader much of the tournament but ended up in 17th place earning €46,300 ($73,797). In 2013, he placed 3rd in Monte Carlo, earning €467,000. In 2015 he finished 4th after busting right after a massive bluff by Adrian Mateos.
World Series of Poker
Lodden came in 11th place at the 2008 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event, earning £54,300 ($86,880). He cashed in one event at the 2009 World Series of Poker before making a deep run in the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event.
Lodden Thinks
Lodden's name is associated with the game "Lodden Thinks" in which two bettors place bets on what a third party thinks is the answer to a given question. For example, the third party will be asked how old he thinks a particular person is or how much a particular item costs, and before revealing his answer the two players will place a bet on what they think the third party's answer will be. The actual answer to the question is irrelevant. This game was invented during the World Series of Poker Europe when Phil Laak and Antonio Esfandiari played the game, with Johnny Lodden as the third party.
Notes
External links
Official blog
CompatiblePoker.com biography
Norwegian poker players
1985 births
Living people
People from Strand, Norway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form%20%28programming%29 | In component-based programming (Visual Basic, .NET WinForms, Gambas, Delphi, Lazarus etc.), a form is a representation of a GUI window. A form contains components and controls typically including "OK" and "Cancel" buttons, these objects provide a high-level abstraction of standard or custom widgets which are typically much easier to manipulate than the GUI's underlying API.
At design time, visual controls (buttons, text boxes, and the like) and non-visual components (timers, database connections, layout aids and so on) are placed on the form. These controls and components are positioned and sized interactively, and their properties and event handlers are set with a special editor typically laid out as a grid.
At runtime, automatically generated code creates instances of these controls and components, and sets their properties.
Historically, forms were often implemented as screens on a block-oriented terminal connected to a mainframe computer. HTML forms are conceptually very similar.
See also
Form (document)
Form (HTML)
FormEngine
Master-detail
Oracle Forms
Windows Forms
Windows_Presentation_Foundation
Xamarin#Xamarin.Forms
XForms
Graphical control elements |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRL | RRL may refer to:
Regional Rail Link a new regional railway line in Victoria, Australia
Regional Red List
Rich Representation Language a computer language used for multi-agent animation
Russian Rugby League Federation
Regional Research Laborotaries, under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), in India
Road Research Laboratory, former name of the Transport Research Laboratory in the UK
Rocket Racing League
Radio relay link
An acronym for Recommended Reading List |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WxHaskell | wxHaskell is a portable and native graphical user interface (GUI) library for the programming language Haskell, built on wxWidgets. It is often used by those wanting to develop a GUI with a functional programming language.
Applications
High-level GUI libraries built on wxHaskell
wxHaskell is a middle-level GUI library. Several experimental high-level GUI library approaches are implemented on wxHaskell:
Reactive-banana
FunctionalForms
wxFruit
Phooey
In contrast, the high-level GUI libraries FG and Grapefruit are implemented on the middle-level Gtk2Hs, which is based on GTK2.
All of these high-level libraries are experimental, using advanced mathematics concepts in their approach (see arrows in functional programming).
Notes
External links
The 2004 ICFP Programming Contest. The winning entry by the team Dunkosmiloolump was written in Haskell and wxHaskell.
wxHaskell, A Portable and Concise GUI Library for Haskell
WxWidgets
X-based libraries
Free computer libraries
Free software programmed in Haskell |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20and%20Kisses%20%28TV%20series%29 | Love and Kisses was a black-and-white British sitcom that aired on ITV in 1955. It was written by Glenn Melvyn, who also starred in it. It was made for the ITV network by Associated-Rediffusion and was a spin-off series from the film The Love Match (1955) which was also written by and starred Glenn Melvyn.
Cast
Arthur Askey - Bill Brown
Lally Bowers - Sal Brown
Anthea Askey - Rose Brown
Ian Gardiner - Percy Brown
Glenn Melvyn - Wally Binns
Barbara Miller - Emma Binns
Danny Ross - Alf Hall
Bernard Graham - Terence Steel
Leonard Williams - Mr Seymour
Margaret Anderson - Pam
Plot
Bill Brown is a former engine driver who is now a landlord. His wife is Sal and he has two children, Rose and Percy. His regulars are Alf Hall, a milkman, and Wally Binns, who has a stammer.
Askey himself appears at the beginning and end of each episode.
Episodes
Episode One (4 November 1955)
Episode Two (11 November 1955)
Episode Three (18 November 1955)
Episode Four (25 November 1955)
Episode Five (2 December 1955)
The last two episodes are still missing from ITV's archive, but the other three remain intact, despite the age of the show (most shows from ITV's older rival, the BBC, from this era are lost and likely always will be).
Composite edition
The whole series was cut down for one 2 hour programme, and screened in the North of England on 23 December 1956 by ABC.
See also
Gert and Daisy - 1959 ITV sitcom
References
Mark Lewisohn, "Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy", BBC Worldwide Ltd, 2003
Love and Kisses at British TV Comedy
External links
1955 British television series debuts
1955 British television series endings
1950s British sitcoms
Black-and-white British television shows
English-language television shows
ITV sitcoms
Television shows produced by Associated-Rediffusion |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYDI | SYDI (Script Your Documentation Instantly) is an open source project aimed at assisting system administrators in documenting their networks. Hosted on SourceForge, the project provides scripts that target computers running the Windows and Linux operating systems. The Windows scripts are written in VBScript, while the Linux script is written in Python.
Each script serves two basic functions: collecting and reporting. After targeting a system, the script collects information from the target and outputs it to either an XML file or a Microsoft Word document.
SYDI is licensed under the BSD License.
SYDI components
As of version 2.0, SYDI consists of four separate script packages, each of which targets specific operating systems or applications.
SYDI-Server
SYDI-Server is the most developed script within the SYDI project. It is used to document Windows servers or clients. It collects information with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and by reading the Windows registry. SYDI-Server finds basic hardware settings, installed software, domain membership, network settings etc.
SYDI-Exchange
SYDI-Exchange is used to document Microsoft Exchange Server organizations. Information is gathered through LDAP queries to the Active Directory where the Exchange information is stored.
SYDI-SQL
SYDI-SQL is used to document Microsoft SQL (MS SQL) Servers. Information is gathered by using SQL queries against the target server.
SYDI-Linux
SYDI-Linux is the least developed package within the SYDI project. Information is gathered by reading various files on a Linux system. SYDI-Linux focuses on documenting the Gentoo Linux distribution. Unlike the other SYDI packages this is not able to write Microsoft Word documents, however the XML file created can be converted into an OpenOffice document.
SYDI-SMS
SYDI-SMS is an offshoot of the SYDI project. It was created by a Microsoft MVP to document his System Management Server 2003 unlike the other Microsoft-based SYDI packages, this script only create a Word document.
SYDI-SCCM
SYDI-SCCM is an offshoot of the SYDI project. It was created by a Microsoft MVP to document his System Center Configuration Manager 2007 unlike the other Microsoft-based SYDI packages, this script only create a Word document. This version will document most of CM12 too.
SYDI-CM12
SYDI-SCCM is an offshoot of the SYDI project. It was created by a Microsoft MVP to document his System Center Configuration Manager 2012 unlike the other Microsoft-based SYDI packages, this script will only create a Word document. This version will document most of CM12 too.
External links
Official SYDI Website
Creators blog with news about SYDI
SYDI-SMS, SYDI SCCM, and SYDI CM12 scripts
Free documentation generators
Windows network-related software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnussoft | magnussoft Deutschland GmbH is a German computer game developer and publisher. The company is seated in Kesselsdorf, close to the Saxon capital of Dresden.
In Europe magnussoft are well known, primarily for their releases of collections of software for 8-Bit computer systems that were very popular in the 1980s: Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, Atari XL/XE, and Atari ST. All required emulators are included so the software work on ordinary PCs although the programs are unaltered. There is a general collection called Retro-Classix that covers a bit of everything and collections that specialize on one particular system, like the Amiga Classix or the C64 Classix. Several successors followed.
The company released more than 160 products over the past ten years. Among their assortment are adventure games, board games, strategic games as well as shoot’em up games and jump and runs. On the other hand, magnussoft also released computer applications and educational software. The software was brought under varied labels to the market in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Benelux countries, France, Great Britain, and the United States of America.
By 2008 magnussoft have gained access to the software market, especially in the lower budget and middle price range. They cooperate with acquainted German partners like for example "ak tronik Software & Services", "KOCH Media", and the "Verlagsgruppe Weltbild". In addition magnussoft has founded more subsidiaries in other parts of Europe. However, magnussoft does not publish outside of Europe, they leave that work to local companies.
magnussoft have created their profile through the release of ZETA, a broad range of retro games, and classic computer games like Aquanoid, Barkanoid or Plot's.
Games (selection)
Amiga Classix
Aquanoid
Barkanoid
Boulder Match
Break It
C64 Classix
Colossus Chess
Dr. Tool Serie
Fix & Foxi Serie
Jacks Crazy Cong
Jump Jack
KLIX
METRIS
MiniGolf
Packs Serie
PLOTS!
Pool Island
Retro-Classix
Sokoman
BURN
Applications (selection)
Dr Brain series
Dr. Tool series
Driver Cataloger
Easy Bootmanager
Typing Tutor
Educational software (selection)
Deutsch, Englisch und Mathe für Zwerge
Deutsch– und Mathe Compilation
Fahrschule
Criticism
In 2006 magnussoft incurred public criticism for ceasing the distribution and the funding of BeOS replacement Magnussoft Zeta OS because of its uncertain legal status.
Trademarks
Amiga Classix
Aquanoid
Barkanoid
C64 Classix
Dr. Brain
Dr. Tool
Retro Classix
References
External links
magnussoft - official website
Video game publishers
Video game companies of Germany
Companies based in Saxony
BeOS
Wilsdruff |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20True%20Oldies%20Channel | Scott Shannon's True Oldies Channel (also known more recently as The True Oldies Channel: Greatest Hits) is a radio network begun in the spring of 2004. Originally distributed by ABC Radio Networks via satellite, the service plays a hybrid oldies/classic hits format comprising music mostly from 1964 to 1979 but also plays selected cuts from the 1955-1963 era and also from the 1980s. As of September 22, 2016, it is distributed via United Stations Radio Networks.
Prior to June 30, 2014; the service had over 100 affiliate stations across the United States. The service is available 24 hours a day online. Some stations ran the format full-time 24/7 while a few others ran it on overnights only. Many member stations, however, generally break away from the program feed at some points during the day to air some local programming, either a local morning show, a local afternoon show, or both; Cumulus also offered Imus in the Morning for The True Oldies Channel affiliates.
Scott Shannon was the founder, namesake and sole on-air personality (heard at all hours through voice-tracking) at the True Oldies Channel from its founding until he departed Cumulus Media (which had acquired Citadel Broadcasting in 2011, the company that in turn had bought ABC's radio assets in 2007) in February 2014. Weekend and guest hosts included Robby Bridges, Blake Hayes, Jay Michaels and Beaver Cleaver. In March 2014, Westwood One, the service's syndicator, announced it was canceling distribution of the channel at the end of June 2014, with no exact date announced, and planned to replace the service with "Good Time Oldies," a brand previously used by Jones Radio Networks as recently as the mid-2000s. Shannon confirmed the news through the network's Facebook page, but said the network and format is still available for streaming online. Shannon also hinted the possibility of "The True Oldies Channel" returning to the radio airwaves soon. It was unknown at the time who the network's new distributor would be, although SkyView Networks (which is also taking over distribution of ABC's other radio programs in 2015) was a possible candidate, as was United Stations Radio Networks, which teamed with Shannon for a syndicated program slated to air in November 2014.
On September 22, 2016, Scott Shannon and the United Stations Radio Networks struck a deal to relaunch radio syndication of the True Oldies Channel. A handful of radio affiliates, including WZTI in Milwaukee, Wisconsin were test-subjects for the new cloud based distribution created by Synchronicity before the nationwide reinstatement.
Evolution
At the time of the station's launch (a time when "real oldies" was experiencing a certain degree of revival on the AM dial), the True Oldies Channel featured only music from 1955 to 1969 with less than ten percent from 1970 to 1973 (for example "Tears of a Clown" and "Burning Love"). The format was 60% 1964 to 1969 (the post-British Invasion era) and 40% 1955 to 1963 (the pre-British Invas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical%20Huffman%20code | In computer science and information theory, a canonical Huffman code is a particular type of Huffman code with unique properties which allow it to be described in a very compact manner. Rather than storing the structure of the code tree explicitly, canonical Huffman codes are ordered in such a way that it suffices to only store the lengths of the codewords, which reduces the overhead of the codebook.
Motivation
Data compressors generally work in one of two ways. Either the decompressor can infer what codebook the compressor has used from previous context, or the compressor must tell the decompressor what the codebook is. Since a canonical Huffman codebook can be stored especially efficiently, most compressors start by generating a "normal" Huffman codebook, and then convert it to canonical Huffman before using it.
In order for a symbol code scheme such as the Huffman code to be decompressed, the same model that the encoding algorithm used to compress the source data must be provided to the decoding algorithm so that it can use it to decompress the encoded data. In standard Huffman coding this model takes the form of a tree of variable-length codes, with the most frequent symbols located at the top of the structure and being represented by the fewest bits.
However, this code tree introduces two critical inefficiencies into an implementation of the coding scheme. Firstly, each node of the tree must store either references to its child nodes or the symbol that it represents. This is expensive in memory usage and if there is a high proportion of unique symbols in the source data then the size of the code tree can account for a significant amount of the overall encoded data. Secondly, traversing the tree is computationally costly, since it requires the algorithm to jump randomly through the structure in memory as each bit in the encoded data is read in.
Canonical Huffman codes address these two issues by generating the codes in a clear standardized format; all the codes for a given length are assigned their values sequentially. This means that instead of storing the structure of the code tree for decompression only the lengths of the codes are required, reducing the size of the encoded data. Additionally, because the codes are sequential, the decoding algorithm can be dramatically simplified so that it is computationally efficient.
Algorithm
The normal Huffman coding algorithm assigns a variable length code to every symbol in the alphabet. More frequently used symbols will be assigned a shorter code. For example, suppose we have the following non-canonical codebook:
A = 11
B = 0
C = 101
D = 100
Here the letter A has been assigned 2 bits, B has 1 bit, and C and D both have 3 bits. To make the code a canonical Huffman code, the codes are renumbered. The bit lengths stay the same with the code book being sorted first by codeword length and secondly by alphabetical value of the letter:
B = 0
A = 11
C = 101
D = 100
Each of the e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penzance%20Heliport | Penzance Heliport is located northeast of Penzance, Cornwall. The heliport hosts scheduled flights to the Isles of Scilly, with a connection to the railway network at Penzance railway station by a special bus service. The original heliport had a single concrete landing pad, which was , inside a grass strip, 08/26.
The first heliport was officially closed on 31 October 2012. A new heliport is now operational and is the base for a new helicopter service to the islands of Tresco and St Mary's, operated by Penzance Helicopters in conjunction with Sloane Helicopters.
History
Services started on 1 May 1964 when BEA Helicopters operated the first service between Penzance and the Isles of Scilly with a Sikorsky S-61. The construction of the heliport cost £88,000 ().
This heliport, opened formally on 1 September 1964 by Councillor Alfred Beckerleg, the Mayor of Penzance with the Lady Mayoress, was at .
Due to the high costs of maintaining the service and falling passenger numbers, British International Helicopters ceased the operation of the helicopter route on 31 October 2012. The company announced that it intended to sell the heliport to a supermarket chain and relocate to another site in West Cornwall to raise funds, although no suitable alternative site was found in time to save the service.
In early April 2013, demolition work on the main terminal buildings began, and by September 2013, nothing remained of the former heliport, with a supermarket chain now dominating the site.
New heliport
In 2016 plans were announced for a new helicopter service between Penzance and the Isles of Scilly, serving both St Mary's and Tresco. The proposals include building a new heliport on Jelbert Way, Penzance, near to the location of the old one. The planning application received the highest level of support Cornwall Council had ever received for a planning application.
Planning consent for the new heliport was first granted in a unanimous decision by Cornwall Council's Strategic Planning Committee in February 2017. The decision was later challenged by the Isles of Scilly Steamship Company in a judicial review. A petition against the Judicial Review gained more than 11,000 signatures and an amended planning application was submitted.
The amended application was granted planning consent in a second unanimous decision by Cornwall Council in August 2018.
The new heliport was built during 2018 and 2019, with services commencing in March 2020, flying to the islands of St Mary's and Tresco.
Airlines and destinations
Statistics
References
External links
Penzance Heliport
Information on scheduled flights to the Isles of Scilly
Airports in Cornwall
Heliports in England
Buildings and structures in Penzance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24%20Minutes | "24 Minutes" is the twenty-first episode of the eighteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 20, 2007 as part of the one-hour season finale, alongside the episode "You Kent Always Say What You Want". It was originally promoted as being the 400th episode, but was broadcast as the 399th. It was written by Ian Maxtone-Graham and Billy Kimball. It was Kimball's first writing credit.
The episode is a spoof of the Fox television drama 24, and sees Principal Skinner's new Counter Truancy Unit (CTU), led by Lisa Simpson, attempting to prevent a stink bomb being released at Springfield Elementary School. Guest stars include Kiefer Sutherland and Mary Lynn Rajskub as their respective characters from 24, Jack Bauer and Chloe O'Brian.
The episode received critical acclaim and won the 2008 Annie Award for Best Writing in an Animated Television Production.
Plot
To tackle misbehavior, Principal Skinner opens a CTU – Counter Truancy Unit – at Springfield Elementary School with Lisa heading up the operation over Milhouse, Martin and Database. When the bullies Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney play truant, Milhouse is assigned on a mission to spy on them. At the Power Plant, Homer is found to be the owner of a container of expired and highly pungent yogurt and is ordered to dispose of it. Homer tries to return the yogurt to Apu, but Apu refuses to take it due to its unbearable stench and, desperate to get rid of it, takes Homer to the yogurt section and offers him whatever he wants there. While Homer and Apu are distracted, the bullies take the yogurt. Outside, Homer unwittingly breaks Milhouse's cover, and the bullies throw them both into a dumpster and send it rolling down an avenue.
Meanwhile, Marge discovers that there is a bake sale at the school that day, and realizes she has just 27 minutes to make a cake. In order to save time, she drastically increases the oven temperature to 1,200 degrees, quickly burning the cake and making it rock-solid. Marge desperately attempts to cover it up with pink and white frosting before rushing to the bake sale.
Lisa suggests that Bart help them, though he only agrees after negotiating immunity from punishment for all his past and future pranks (and making Skinner teach him a new swear word). At Jimbo's house, the bullies make a powerful stink bomb (which resembles the canisters of Sentox Nerve Gas from season 5 of 24) from the expired yogurt and a variety of other putrid items, and plan on detonating it at the bake sale. During his investigation, Bart's phone call is accidentally crossed with a call from Jack Bauer of 24, who is busy in a gun battle, and turns it into a prank call against him ("Ahmed Adoudi").
Bart finds out about the stink bomb and informs Lisa. Upon returning to school, he discovers that Martin is a double-agent working for the bullies. Before Bart can tell Lisa about Martin's double-dealing, Martin knocks him u |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20One%20in%20Vegas | "The One in Vegas" is a double length episode of Friends fifth season. It first aired on the NBC network in the United States on May 20, 1999, as the finale of season five.
Plot
Part I
Joey works at Caesars Palace as a costumed "atmosphere" character, as the film that was going to be his "big break" has been placed on indefinite hiatus. Chandler, following his fight with Joey about the film, has been trying to apologize by phone, but is repeatedly rebuffed by Joey, particularly since he does not want to admit Chandler turned out to be right. When Joey calls Phoebe on the apartment phone, Chandler decides to fly out and visit Joey in person, which Joey overhears, so he allows Chandler to talk to him, forgiving him for the incident but telling him not to come to Vegas.
Monica reveals to Phoebe that she had lunch with her old flame Richard; she has not been able to tell Chandler because their first anniversary is coming up and she does not want him to get jealous. When Chandler arrives, Monica reveals her gift to Chandler: two tickets to Vegas for their anniversary. Phoebe buys in to make up for missing Ross's wedding in London due to her pregnancy. Finally, she invites Ross and Rachel as well, but they decide to fly out a day later due to work commitments.
On the plane, as Phoebe goes to the restroom, Chandler realizes he forgot his anniversary present to her, but Monica immediately forgives him. Chandler says it is the worst thing that can happen on their anniversary the minute Phoebe returns, making Phoebe assume that Monica told him about Richard, which causes tension between the couple. When Monica, Chandler and Phoebe arrive at Caesars Palace, they find Joey, who admits that he is working there while his movie is on hiatus, and apologizes to Chandler for not telling him. Chandler and Monica then quickly get into a huge fight over whether she would see Richard again, and split off. Phoebe counsels Monica to tell Chandler that she loves him and not Richard. Monica sets out to do so, but gets sucked into a craps game by accident and then starts winning. Meanwhile, Phoebe tells Chandler to look for Monica to receive her apology, only for him to walk away silently when he finds her hugging a bystander in joyous celebration at the craps table.
Rachel takes advantage of the empty apartment to act on Phoebe's suggestion and wander around the apartment completely in the nude. However, Ross sees her from across the street and assumes she is coming on to him. This leads to an awkward conversation in the hall, and then escalating attempts to embarrass each other on the plane the next day. After inconclusive attempts to out-embarrass each other, Rachel falls asleep on Ross's shoulder, and Ross draws a beard and mustache on her face with a pen.
Part II
Rachel is oblivious to the beard and mustache Ross drew on her face until they meet Phoebe and Joey in the Caesar's Palace lobby; she storms off to the restrooms, where she discovers that the marker Ro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian%20Todd | Julian Todd is a British computer programmer and activist for freedom of information who works in Liverpool.
He was inventor and co-founder of Public Whip with Francis Irving, and also the affiliated TheyWorkForYou website, a project that parses raw Hansard data to track how members vote in the UK Parliament. Initially risking prosecution for reusing the raw data under Crown copyright, they were later successful in getting permission to use it. He has since extended this concept of parsing political transcripts to the General Assembly and Security Council of the United Nations to establish UNdemocracy.com in 2007.
Todd is a Director of ScraperWiki.
Todd also writes science fiction short stories, and is cited as a major inspiration for the Mundane science fiction movement.
Publications
A machining strategy for toolmaking, A. Flutter and J. Todd
Game credits
Fat Worm Blows a Sparky – ZX Spectrum, 1985, Durell Software
References
External links
Julian Todd at World of Spectrum
Freesteel - blog with Martin Dunschen focused on CAM programming and computational geometry
British computer programmers
Living people
People from Liverpool
MySociety
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept%20processing | Concept processing is a technology that uses an artificial intelligence engine to provide flexible user interfaces. This technology is used in some electronic medical record (EMR) software applications, as an alternative to the more rigid template-based technology.
Some methods of data entry in electronic medical records
The most widespread methods of data entry into an EMR are templates, voice recognition, transcription, and concept processing.
Templates
The physician selects either a general, symptom-based or diagnosis-based template pre-fabricated for the type of case at that moment, making it specific through use of forms, pick-lists, check-boxes and free-text boxes. This method became predominant especially in emergency medicine during the late 1990s.
Voice recognition
The physician dictates into a computer voice recognition device that enters the data directly into a free-text area of the EMR.
Transcription
The physician dictates the case into a recording device, which is then sent to a transcriptionist for entry into the EMR, usually into free text areas.
concept processing
Based on artificial intelligence technology and Boolean logic, concept processing attempts to mirror the mind of each physician by recalling elements from past cases that are the same or similar to the case being seen at that moment.
How concept processing works
For every physician the bell-shaped curve effect is found, representing a frequency distribution of case types. Some cases are so rare that physicians will have never handled them before. The majority of other cases become repetitive, and are found on top of this bell shape curve.
A concept processor brings forward the closest previous encounter in relation to the one being seen at that moment, putting that case in front of the physician for fine-tuning.
There are only three possibilities of cases : The closest encounter could be identical to the current encounter (not an impossible event). It could be similar to the current note, or it could be a rare new case.
If the closest encounter is identical to your present one, the physician has effectively completed charting. A concept processor will pull through all the related information needed.
If the encounter is similar but not identical, the physician modifies the differences from the closest case using hand-writing recognition, voice recognition, or keyboard. A Concept Processor then memorizes all the changes, so that when the next encounter falls between two similar cases, the editing is cut in half, and then by a quarter for the next case, and then by an eighth....and so on. In fact, the more a Concept Processor is used, the faster and smarter it becomes.
concept processing also can be used for rare cases. These are usually combinations of SOAP note elements, which in themselves are not rare. If the text of each element is saved for a given type of case, there will be elements available to use with other cases, even though the other cases m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EJ%20DiMera | EJ DiMera is a fictional character from Days of Our Lives, an American soap opera on the NBC network. Created by head writer James E. Reilly and introduced under executive producers, Ken Corday and Tom Langan, EJ is the son of crime boss Stefano DiMera (Joseph Mascolo) and the eccentric Susan Banks (Eileen Davidson). Originally portrayed by child actors: Avalon, Dillon and Vincent Ragone from February 1997 to April 1998, the character was rapidly aged in 2006 when James Scott was cast in the role; he departed the role in October 2014. In 2018, the role was briefly portrayed by Trey Baxter. In June 2021, Australian actor Dan Feuerriegel assumed the role.
Upon the character's 2006 re-introduction, EJ is immediately taken with Sami Brady (Alison Sweeney), with the pairing becoming one of the most popular and controversial couples in recent history, with the controversy stemming from EJ raping Sami in exchange for his help in saving the life of her longtime love, Lucas Horton. This rape also produces their son, Johnny. The couple's first marriage is for convenience allowing EJ to stay in the country when he begins having problems with immigration. EJ also has a chaotic relationship with Sami's nemesis, Nicole Walker. EJ and Sami's relationship is also rivaled by Sami's relationship with Rafe Hernandez. EJ reunites with Sami, but presumably dies after being shot by his disloyal bodyguard hired by rival Clyde Weston. However, Kristen reveals in 2017 that EJ is alive, and Susan and Sami are reunited with him the following year. EJ then returns to Salem in June 2021.
Scott's performance in the role garnered him two consecutive Daytime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2010 and 2011.
Creation
Background
According to former Days writer, Kola Boof, she also helped to create the role of EJ Wells and was actually the person who decided to cast Scott in the role. Boof, titled her initial character bible for EJ Wells as "The Devil Finds Work." Boof revealed to Nelson Branco of TV Guide that EJ initially comes to town to avenge his mother, Susan (Eileen Davidson), who by that time had been in a mental institution. Eileen Davidson was set to reprise the role for a few episodes slated to air in the fall. However, the planned story was abandoned when Boof was fired from the writing team. The character was always meant to be a race car driver, but following Boof's firing, his career as a racer was also forgotten about, and he was instead written as a lawyer.
Majority of EJ's childhood is spent with a nanny whom he refers to as his governess, whom he compares to Mary Poppins. EJ begins attending boarding schools at a very young age. EJ is a fan of Jazz music. EJ attends Eton College along with Duke of Cambridge, Prince William (revising his birth year to 1982) and even serviced his car at one point. EJ later attends Oxford University. During this time, EJ is in a long term romance with another woman, and they graduate Oxford |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAX | CAX may refer tco:
Carlisle Lake District Airport in Carlisle, Cumbria, England (IATA airport code: CAX)
Combined arms Exercise (abbreviated as CAX)
Computer-aided technologies (sometimes abbreviated as CAx)
Container Availability Index (abbreviated as CAx) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwerty%20%28disambiguation%29 | QWERTY is a keyboard layout.
QWERTY may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Qwerty, a character in the Marvel Comics including Morlocks characters
Qwerty, a computer in the children's film series VeggieTales
Dashiell Qwerty, a character in Lemony Snicket's All The Wrong Questions series
Other uses
Qwerty Films, a British film production company
"QWERTY Tummy", an ailment
Switching barriers, also known as the QWERTY effect
QWERTY, a song by Linkin Park, released for their fan club exclusive LP Underground 6.0 EP.
Qwerty, a song by Mushroomhead from the 2014 album The Righteous & the Butterfly
See also
Kuerti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon%20Party%20Blast | Nickelodeon Party Blast is a party video game developed by English developer Data Design Interactive and published by Infogrames Interactive. Party Blast was released for Xbox in North America on October 30, 2002, and later in PAL regions on December 6, 2002. The Windows version was released in one day later after the release of the Xbox version in North America. The GameCube version was released worldwide on December 6, 2002. A PlayStation 2 version of the game was planned to be released, but it was cancelled for unknown reasons, though leftovers, such as a model of a DualShock 2 controller, can still be found in all versions of the game’s files. The game features characters from Nicktoons, including SpongeBob SquarePants, Rugrats, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Invader Zim, Rocket Power, and The Wild Thornberrys, with CatDog as the hosts.
Gameplay
Players play as 8 different characters and play more than 20 stages and six different party modes. Player 1 can choose Blast, Replay, and Cup challenge (Players 2, 3, and 4 have a mode called "Party Play"). Each stage has different events although the last stage is almost opposite from the original stage when the player first starts. Every party game has each different Boss depending on 5 different events (or party modes) on which level. In Food Fight, players throw food at each other to lose lives or points and neither person can be taken away. Squirt and Splash has players squirting each other and have the person with the highest score to survival wins. In Basketball, players have to make the most baskets in the game and perform tricks to earn more points.
Food Fight is a mode where players attempt to deplete their rival's health bars by throwing various food items.
The Pipe Challenge is the 2nd party mode where players put pipes together to create a pipeline to blast rockets, Rugrats dinosaurs, and more. The Racing mode is the 5th party event where players race each other and see who has the most coins and mess up with items and more. Clam bonus stages are bonus stages where each different stage lets players play 4 different games to win or lose. At the end, there is also a Gooze Squirter stage where you squirt goo to Nicktoon characters and the person who goozes the most is the winner of the game and then goes back to the main menu.
Development
Nickelodeon Party Blast was first shown at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in 2002. During the showing, Data Design promised unlockable bonus levels, power-ups, and boss battles.
Reception
The game received largely negative reviews, with most criticizing the game's controls and sound effects. Metacritic gave the Xbox version a 19 out of 100, indicating "overwhelming dislike," while IGN gave the Xbox version a 1.1 out of 10, writing, "With so many great franchises, this could've been a decent party game. Instead, what we're left with is a poor-looking, poor-sounding, and poor-playing game."
References
2002 video games
Crossover video g |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Allen | Jennifer Allen (born 1961) is an American author and commentator. She has worked for the NFL Network and as an on-air reporter. She is the daughter of football coach George Allen and sister of politician George Allen and football executive Bruce Allen.
Childhood
Allen grew up the only daughter and youngest child of professional football coach George Allen. She has three brothers. George Allen is a former United States Senator and Governor of Virginia. Bruce was the president and general manager of the Washington Redskins and previously the general manager of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Greg is a clinical psychologist.
Allen's mother came from French Tunisia and was of a Sephardic Jewish background, which became an issue in her brother's 2006 senatorial re-election campaign in Virginia.
Books
Allen is the author of three books, a collection of short stories, Better Get Your Angel On and a memoir, Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter, describing her childhood as a coach's daughter and relationship that her family had with the members of the Los Angeles Rams and the Washington Redskins that her father coached; as well as the author of Hōkūle'a, Mālama Honua, A Voyage of Hope, a chronicle of the worldwide voyage of a Hawaiian sailing vessel, Hōkūleʻa, which is navigated without modern instruments.
Mālama Honua was published by Patagonia, Inc. in 2017. Mālama Honua, which means in "to care for the Earth", Hawaiian, documented the stories of original peoples and environmentalists in countries and island states around the globe. In 2018, the book won the Independent Book Publishers Association Category: Nature and the Environment, Gold Award for non-fiction environmental writing. It also earned Independent Book Publishers Association Silver Award for Coffee Table Book and the Foreword Indies Book Award in the category of Ecology and the Environment.
Pat Conroy called Fifth Quarter "the best book about football I've ever read—and Jennifer Allen never played a down in her life." In The Washington Post, Jonathan Yardley reviewed the book, noting that in writing about her father, she "illuminates his innermost soul and gives us not just a football coach but a human being.”
The memoir contains claims that George held her by her feet over Niagara Falls, struck her boyfriend in the head with a pool cue, threw his brother Bruce through a glass sliding door, tackled his brother Gregory, breaking his collarbone, and dragged Jennifer upstairs by her hair. In the book, she wrote, "George hoped someday to become a dentist...George said he saw dentistry as a perfect profession—getting paid to make people suffer."
In May 2006, Allen qualified some of the claims made in the book. With regards to the pool cue incident, she claimed it was a joke and that "Allen was simply testing her boyfriend's reflexes."
With regards to the dentist quote, Allen claims that the book was a "novelization of the past" and written from the perspective of a youn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick%20Assist | Quick Assist is a Microsoft Windows feature that allows a user to view or control a remote Windows computer over a network or the Internet to resolve issues without directly touching the unit. It is based on the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). It is complemented by Get Help, a feature introduced in Windows 10 that enables the user to contact Microsoft directly but does not allow for remote desktoping or screen sharing.
Before Quick Assist was introduced in Windows 10, Windows XP and later Windows versions offered a similar feature called Windows Remote Assistance.
Overview
Helpers offering remote assistance can open multiple simultaneous sessions—one for each remote computer. However, users seeking assistance from helpers can have only one remote assistance session waiting for a connection. Connect invitations can be sent to multiple recipients—any of which may connect. All subsequent connect attempts will be blocked until the first helper disconnects, after which another helper may connect. If the user disconnects the session, the remote assistance application terminates and no further connections are allowed.
Quick Assist is installed by default on Windows clients, but is not available on Windows Server 2008 R2 servers. The name of the tool differs depending on Windows language; a search for "Quick Assist" in the Start menu will locate the tool regardless of the language settings.
Quick Assist requests a code in order to match users to a session. This will allow the giver to access the computer of the receiver in Administrator mode while allowing the receiver to see the choices the giver made.
Connection
Quick Assist uses TCP port 443 and communicates with the following hosts:
The Quick Assist binary is located at "C:\Windows\System32\quickassist.exe"
History
The feature was first introduced in Windows XP as Remote Assistance and based on Remote Desktop technologies. Remote Assistance in Windows XP is integrated into the Help and Support Centre UI and allows sending invitations to the support person by email, Windows Messenger or saving the invitation as a file and transferring the file across through other methods. The computer can be controlled by both, the support person connecting remotely as well as the one sending the invitation. Chat, audio-video conversations and file transfer are available.
In Windows Vista, Remote Assistance is upgraded with a standalone user interface and based on RDP 6 and Windows Desktop Sharing API. Two systems administrators can simultaneously connect to a single computer. Remote sessions automatically reconnect after restarting the computer. It also supports session pausing, built-in diagnostics, chat, file transfer and XML-based logging. It reduces bandwidth requirements for low-speed connections. NAT traversal allows a session to be established even if the user is behind a Network Address Translation (NAT) device, for example, a router in a home network. Remote Assistance is configurable using Group Pol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC%20TV%20%28Australian%20TV%20channel%29 | ABC TV, formerly known as ABC1, is an Australian national public television network. It is owned and operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and is the flagship ABC Television network. The headquarters of the ABC TV channel and the ABC are in Ultimo, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales.
The network began operating on 5 November 1956 as the ABC National Television Service, starting in Sydney, followed by Melbourne, with other stations being established in state capitals and regional areas in the following years. In the 1960s and 1970s, the network was also referred to as ABC National Television, or ABC Television. Until the introduction of digital television in 2001, the network was the only domestic television service broadcast by the ABC. On 8 February 2008, the channel was renamed ABC1, before being rebranded as ABC TV on 20 July 2014.
As of 2022, the ABC is the third-rated television network in Australia, behind the Seven Network and Nine Network, and ahead of Network 10 and SBS.
History
Origins
In 1953 the Television Act was passed, providing the initial regulatory framework for both ABC Television and commercial television networks under the ABC. The ABC's 1956 Annual Report stated that it aimed to create a "television service as truly national in character as its resources will permit".
The first ABC station was launched in Sydney, ABN-2, followed by ABV-2 in Melbourne, in time to cover the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, with the first television broadcast was inaugurated by prime minister Robert Menzies on 5 November 1956 at the Gore Hill studios in Sydney, followed two weeks later by transmission in Melbourne. A purpose-built television studio opened in Sydney on 29 January 1958, replacing the temporary sound studios used the service's inception. In the same year, technical equipment was also moved to permanent locations, while main transmitters were introduced to Melbourne and Sydney in 1957 and 1958 respectively. Services had expanded to all of the other states by the end of June 1960.
1960s to the 1990s
Direct television relays between Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra were established in 1961, and in 1963, using microwave transmission as a temporary measure, television programs from Adelaide were viewed simultaneously across the four eastern capitals. Videotape equipment, allowing the sharing of footage with much greater ease and speed, was installed in each state capital by 1962.
Teletext services were introduced to the television service in 1983 to allow hearing impaired viewers access to closed captions. Nationwide, successor to This Day Tonight, was replaced in turn by a new, hour-long, national news program called The National. Having proved unsuccessful, it reverted to a state ABC News bulletin at 7:00pm, with a state-based edition of The 7.30 Report following afterwards. Lateline and Media Watch also launched in the 1980s.
2000s
In 2001 a new logo was launched, featuring a modification to a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%20renumbering%20of%20national%20highways%20in%20India | On 28 April 2010, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways officially notified the rationalized number system of the national highway network in the Gazette of the Government of India. It is a systematic numbering scheme based on the orientation and the geographic location of the highway. This was adopted to ensure more flexibility and consistency in the numbering of existing and new national highways. According to the system all north–south oriented highway will have even numbers increasing from the east to the west. Similarly all east–west oriented highways will be odd numbered increasing from the north to the south of the country.
The longest National Highway in new numbering scheme is National Highway 44.
The longest National Highway under the old numbering scheme was the NH 7 which was from Varanasi to Kanyakumari passing through Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu covering a distance of , as of Sep 2011 as per National Highways Authority of India.
The shortest National Highway was the NH 47A (), which connected Kundanoor Junction of Maradu in Kochi city to the Kochi port at Willingdon Island. India has the distinction of having the world's highest drivable highway connecting Manali to Leh in Ladakh, Kashmir.
The table below shows the list of National Highways, prior to their renumbering in 2010–11 and their newly assigned numbers. For the list of current highway numbers see List of National Highways in India.
List of highways
See also
List of national highways in India by state (old numbering)
National Highways Authority of India
National Highways Development Project
References
External links
Official website of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI)
Map of all the National Highways
Lists of roads in India
India transport-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Cullimore | Ian H. S. Cullimore is an English-born mathematician and computer scientist who has been influential in the pocket PC arena.
Biography
Cullimore has a degree in mathematics from King's College London, and a PhD in cognitive and computer science from the University of Sussex.
He was the original founder (in 1985) and main inventor of the pocket PC which became the Atari Portfolio (originally known as the "DIP Pocket PC") in 1989. DIP Research Ltd. was acquired by Phoenix Technologies in 1994.
In 1988 Cullimore was also one of the founders and Vice President of Software at Poqet Computer Corporation in Silicon Valley, where he developed the Poqet PC.
His interest in PDAs was sparked from his early times at Psion, working on the first Organiser products.
He was also the original instigator of the PC Card (formerly "PCMCIA Card") movement. This came about from his decision to use the then-emerging credit card memories in the design of the Atari Portfolio. On founding Poqet, and with major investment from Fujitsu, a decision was made to use the 68-pin JEIDA card. He successfully persuaded the board of Poqet to set up an industry standards organization, PCMCIA, to promote this as a standard.
Cullimore wrote parts of the PCMCIA driver stack for (NetWare) PalmDOS 1.0, a variant of Digital Research's DR DOS, tailored specifically at battery powered mobile PCs in 1992.
Publications
References
English computer scientists
Computer hardware researchers
Alumni of King's College London
Alumni of the University of Sussex
Living people
People educated at The College of Richard Collyer
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20Bites%20%28TV%20series%29 | Love Bites is an American anthology comedy-drama television series originally planned for the 2010–11 television season on the NBC network that eventually aired as a summer replacement series. It premiered in its regular Thursday night time slot at 10:00 pm Eastern/9:00 pm Central, on June 2, 2011. On July 11, 2011, NBC canceled the show and the series finale aired on July 21, 2011.
Plot
Love Bites was originally set to focus on Annie (Becki Newton) and Frannie (Jordana Spiro), two single women exploring the ups and downs of dating, love, and sex, while dealing with the fact that all their other friends have married.
Off-camera complications, including Spiro's commitment to another show and Newton's pregnancy, delayed production, and the show was eventually retooled as an anthology series, focusing on three short vignettes per episode similar to Love, American Style. Each story was often intertwined by a common theme or character, and was related to the three main protagonists: Annie (Becki Newton), Judd (Greg Grunberg), and Colleen (Constance Zimmer/Pamela Adlon in the pilot).
Cast and characters
Main
Becki Newton as Annie Matopoulos
Greg Grunberg as Judd Rouscher
Constance Zimmer as Colleen Rouscher
Guest
Episodes
Development and production
In January 2010, NBC announced Love Bites as one of many pilots on its early development slate. Becki Newton was cast in late February, followed quickly by Jordana Spiro. Marc Buckland was confirmed to be directing the pilot in early March. In May 2010, NBC announced it had green-lit the series. The series was scheduled to air on Thursday nights in the 10–11 pm slot starting in the fall of 2010. On May 17, 2010, Greg Grunberg announced via Twitter that he will be joining the cast.
A number of changes eventually prevented the series from going into production as planned. On June 24, 2010, Jordana Spiro left the series due to her role on My Boys, for which she had a contract that bound her to continue on that program. Krysten Ritter guest starred in the pilot episode as Cassie, replacing Spiro. The premise of the show had to change when Becki Newton announced her pregnancy; her character was a virgin. Before changes could be made, showrunner Cindy Chupack departed for personal reasons. NBC was forced to move Love Bites to midseason 2010–11, and The Apprentice up to fall 2010 to take the timeslot. Pamela Adlon was originally cast as Colleen in the unaired pilot episode. She was replaced by Constance Zimmer in the subsequent aired episodes. It was announced in July 2010 that Tracy Poust and Jon Kinnally would serve as showrunners for the series.
On December 9, 2010, Deadline Hollywood reported that NBC had cut back the episode order from 13 to 9 episodes. This would be followed by Spiro, Newton and Grunberg landing pilots elsewhere.
After numerous delays, NBC announced that the 9 completed episodes were to premiere on June 2, 2011.
References
External links
2010s American anthology television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residential%20gateway | A residential gateway is a small consumer-grade gateway which bridges network access between connected local area network (LAN) hosts to a wide area network (WAN) (such as the Internet) via a modem, or directly connects to a WAN (as in EttH), while routing. The WAN is a larger computer network, generally operated by an Internet service provider.
Devices
Multiple devices have been described as residential gateways:
Cable modem
DSL modem
FTTx modem
IP-DECT telephone (base station)
Network switch
Smart home hub
TV/VoD Set-top box
Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) analog telephone adapter
Wired router
Wireless access point
Wireless router
A modem (e.g. DSL modem, cable modem) by itself provides none of the functions of a router. It merely allows ATM or PPP or PPPoE traffic to be transmitted across telephone lines, cable wires, optical fibers, wireless radio frequencies, or other physical layers. On the receiving end is another modem that re-converts the transmission format back into digital data packets.
This allows network bridging using telephone, cable, optical, and radio connection methods. The modem also provides handshake protocols, so that the devices on each end of the connection are able to recognize each other. However, a modem generally provides few other network functions.
A USB modem plugs into a single PC and allows a connection of that single PC to a WAN. If properly configured, the PC can also function as the router for a home LAN.
An internal modem can be installed on a single PC (e.g. on a PCI card), also allowing that single PC to connect to a WAN. Again, the PC can be configured to function as a router for a home LAN.
A cellular wireless access point can function in a similar fashion to a modem. It can allow a direct connection from a home LAN to a WWAN, if a wireless router or access point is present on the WAN as well and tethering is allowed.
Many modems now incorporate the features mentioned below and thus are appropriately described as residential gateways, such as some Internet providers which offer a cable modem router combo.
Features
A residential gateway usually provides
configuration via a web interface, or app on mobile device.
routing between the home network and the Internet.
connectivity within the home network like a network switch, hub, or WLAN base station.
network address translation (NAT),
DHCP for IPv4 and IPv6, and
firewall functions
It may also provide other functions such as Dynamic DNS, and converged triple play services such as TV and telephony.
Most gateways are self-contained components, using internally stored firmware. They are generally platform-independent, i.e., they can serve any operating system.
Wireless routers perform the same functions as a wired router and base station, but allow connectivity for wireless devices with the LAN, or as a bridge between the wireless router and another wireless router for a meshnet (the wireless router-wireless router connection can b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Pulse%20%28SiriusXM%29 | The Pulse is a Sirius XM Radio station that plays music from the 2010s to present-day on channel 5 and Dish Network channel 6005. Every half-hour The Pulse's Jim Ryan or Ron Ross reviews music news on tours, future albums, and other topics covered.
The channel debuted on XM Satellite Radio channel 26 and DirecTV channel 818 on April 17, 2006 as Flight 26 in response to demands by former shareholder Clear Channel Communications (who owns the similarly formatted Mix on channel 22), and was programmed by New York City native Mike Abrams. XM agreed that Clear Channel Communications can add commercials to channels which it already provides programming to, such as KISS, Sunny, and Mix. In response, XM changed their slogan from "100% commercial-free music" to "the most commercial-free music channels on satellite radio". In the United States, the newly commercialized channels were moved, whereas they were deleted outright from XM Canada. XM described Flight 26 as "Modern Hits of the 90s & Now," although since it leaned toward Hot AC, the station played no urban music. The music was targeted for the younger adult group, especially for those who were age 16 or older, and the station played music from such artists as John Mayer, Jack Johnson, Green Day, The Fray, Avril Lavigne, Uncle Kracker, Lisa Loeb, P!nk, Colbie Caillat, Counting Crows, and Nickelback. During its tenure as Flight 26, it was XM's second-most-listened-to channel after Top 20 on 20.
On November 12, 2008, during the consolidation of XM and Sirius programming, Flight 26 took The Pulse branding that lived on Sirius channel 9, which aired a 1990s/hot AC hybrid, and that channel number is now The 90s on 9. Also, the new Pulse was added to channel 12 on Sirius Satellite Radio. As a result, the old Pulse ceased operations due to the fact for the old Pulse ranked #9 in the Sirius ratings, and Flight 26 had higher ratings than the old Pulse. A number of Flight 26 on-air personalities joined The Pulse and continue broadcasting under The Pulse branding. The Bridge (which became Led Zeppelin Radio for two months) forced its move from channel 12 to channel 33 (replacing SIRIUS Disorder). However, Mediabase reports The Pulse's playlist under X026-FM rather than S012-FM.
The Pulse's imaging was changed to the same voiceover as the old Flight 26 branding rather than carry the old jingles from the old Sirius 9 channel.
Most recently, to encounter sister channel The Blend's overhaul in September 2009, The Pulse dropped most of the 1990s songs that can already be heard on sister channel '90s on 9. The slogan was also changed to "2000s and today."
Every weekend, The Pulse counts down their top 15 current songs as well as the top 15 Pulse songs that week anywhere from 2010 to 2019. Pat Monahan, lead singer of the band Train, also hosts a weekend show, an hour long of new music discovery songs picked by Pat himself.
After the launch of PopRocks, The Pulse further narrowed its playlist dropping mo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maintenance%20release | A maintenance release (also minor release or Maintenance Pack or MP) is a release of a product that does not add new features or content. For instance, in computer software, maintenance releases are typically intended to solve minor problems, typically "bugs" or security issues.
Example of minor version numbering
The somewhat unusual version number "3.0.5a" was used for a minor release of KDE because of a lack of version numbers. Work on KDE 3.1 had already started and, up to that day, the release coordinator used version numbers such as 3.0.5, 3.0.6 internally in the main CVS repository to mark snapshots of the upcoming 3.1. Then after 3.0.3, a number of important and unexpected bug fixes (starting from 3.0.4) suddenly became necessary, leading to a conflict, because 3.0.5 was at this time already in use. More recent KDE release cycles have tagged pre-release snapshots with large revision numbers, such as 3.1.95, to avoid such conflicts.
See also
Patch (computing)
Software versioning
Software release life cycle
Point release
Software release |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appleseed%20%281988%20film%29 | is a Japanese cyberpunk-style OVA adaptation of the manga of the same name created by Masamune Shirow. The anime takes place in a non-determined future. The anime, produced by Gainax, departs greatly from the manga's storyline, sharing only the characters and setting.
Plot
After World War III, the General Management Control Office constructs an experimental city known as Olympus. It is inhabited by humans, cyborgs, and bioroids. Bioroids are genetically engineered beings created to serve Mankind. They oversee all the administration duties of Olympus. Olympus was meant to be a utopian society, but for some, it feels more like a cage. Charon Mautholos, an Olympus city police officer, is one of the many who feel that way. Charon secretly conspires with a terrorist, A. J. Sebastian, to destroy Gaia, a super computer that runs the various utilities and networks of Olympus. Out to stop them are Olympus City ESWAT (Enhanced SWAT) team members Deunan Knute and Briareos Hecatonchires. Deunan and Briareos are determined to stop the terrorist plot by any means necessary.
A.J. Sebastian and Charon have plotted to disable Gaia, the computer system which controls Olympus' infrastructure, including the override circuits which safeguard Multi-ped Cannon. To do so, they stage a raid on the facility where bioroids are created, creating havoc by killing and by arson. However, it is discovered that the attack is just a cover for stealing information on one particular bioroid, Hitomi, a friend of Deunan and Briareos, whose DNA is the genetic key which will cause Gaia to shut down. The "locks" are a handful of kiosks, scattered across the city, and the city director orders all but one destroyed, and a heavy guard placed around the one which remains.
Sebastian converts to his full-military configuration and steals Multi-ped Cannon, while Charon—wearing a Cadmos suit which has been made faster through the removal of half the armor—takes Hitomi to the one surviving kiosk. With his faster suit, he is able to get her to the portal, through a hail of gunfire which goes through the decreased armor. As Charon dies, a terrified, confused Hitomi backs into the kiosk, launching the shutdown process. To cover his theft of the Multi-ped Cannon, Sebastian uses the tank and its weapons to cause damage in the city, while the director and Deunan rush to try to restart Gaia, by destroying the circuit module which keeps the system offline. However, Deunan's pistol is damaged and her right (shooting) hand is injured by the databank defense system. The director hands over her own pistol, trusting Deunan's skill more than her own, even with an unfamiliar weapon and shooting left-handed. With her last round of ammunition, Deunan is able to hit the module with pistol fire, and Gaia immediately disables the Multi-ped Cannon. Sebastian is killed, Charon is mourned, and life goes on.
Characters
Briareos Hecatonchires is a cyborg, mostly human but with enhanced physical strength and an integ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Economic%20Information%20Network | China Economic Information Network (中国经济信息网) is a national information network that provides information and analyses of Chinese national macroeconomic trends. It is sponsored by the State Information Network. It was officially opened on December 3, 1996.
External links
Official website (in Chinese)
China Monitor, CEInet's official international entity (in English)
Communications in China
Economy of China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transform%2C%20clipping%2C%20and%20lighting | Transform, clipping, and lighting (T&L or TCL) is a term used in computer graphics.
Overview
Transformation is the task of producing a two-dimensional view of a three-dimensional scene. Clipping means only drawing the parts of the scene that will be present in the picture after rendering is completed. Lighting is the task of altering the colour of the various surfaces of the scene on the basis of lighting information.
Hardware
Hardware T&L had been used by arcade game system boards since 1993, and by home video game consoles since the Sega Genesis's Virtua Processor (SVP), Sega Saturn's SCU-DSP and Sony PlayStation's GTE in 1994 and the Nintendo 64's RSP in 1996, though it wasn't traditional hardware T&L, but still software T&L running on a coprocessor instead of the main CPU, and could be used for rudimentary programmable pixel and vertex shaders as well. More traditional hardware T&L would appear on consoles with the GameCube and Xbox in 2001 (the PS2 still using a vector coprocessor for T&L). Personal computers implemented T&L in software until 1999, as it was believed faster CPUs would be able to keep pace with demands for ever more realistic rendering. However, 3D computer games of the time were producing increasingly complex scenes and detailed lighting effects much faster than the increase of CPU processing power.
Nvidia's GeForce 256 was released in late 1999 and introduced hardware support for T&L to the consumer PC graphics card market. It had faster vertex processing not only due to the T&L hardware, but also because of a cache that avoided having to process the same vertex twice in certain situations. While DirectX 7.0 (particularly Direct3D 7) was the first release of that API to support hardware T&L, OpenGL had supported it much longer and was typically the purview of older professionally oriented 3D accelerators which were designed for computer-aided design (CAD) instead of games.
S3 Graphics launched the Savage 2000 accelerator in late 1999, shortly after GeForce 256, but S3 never developed working Direct3D 7.0 drivers that would have enabled hardware T&L support.
Usefulness
Hardware T&L did not have broad application support in games at the time (mainly due to Direct3D games transforming their geometry on the CPU and not being allowed to use indexed geometries), so critics contended that it had little real-world value. Initially, it was only somewhat beneficial in a few OpenGL-based 3D first-person shooter titles of the time, most notably Quake III Arena. 3dfx and other competing graphics card companies contended that a fast CPU would make up for the lack of a T&L unit.
ATI's initial response to GeForce 256 was the dual-chip Rage Fury MAXX. By using two Rage 128 chips, each rendering an alternate frame, the card was able to somewhat approach the performance of SDR memory GeForce 256 cards, but the GeForce 256 DDR still retained the top speed. ATI was developing their own GPU at the time known as the Radeon which also im |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iota%20and%20Jot | In formal language theory and computer science, Iota and Jot (from Greek iota ι, Hebrew yodh י, the smallest letters in those two alphabets) are languages, extremely minimalist formal systems, designed to be even simpler than other more popular alternatives, such as the lambda calculus and SKI combinator calculus. Thus, they can also be considered minimalist computer programming languages, or Turing tarpits, esoteric programming languages designed to be as small as possible but still Turing-complete. Both systems use only two symbols and involve only two operations. Both were created by professor of linguistics Chris Barker in 2001. Zot (2002) is a successor to Iota that supports input and output.
Note that this article uses Backus-Naur form to describe syntax.
Universal iota
Chris Barker's universal iota combinator has the very simple λf.fSK structure defined here, using denotational semantics in terms of the lambda calculus,
From this, one can recover the usual SKI expressions, thus:
Because of its minimalism, it has influenced research concerning Chaitin's constant.
Iota
Iota is the LL(1) language that prefix orders trees of the aforementioned Universal iota combinator leafs, consed by function application ,
iota = "1" | "0" iota iota
so that for example denotes , whereas denotes .
Jot
Jot is the regular language consisting of all sequences of 0 and 1,
jot = "" | jot "0" | jot "1"
The semantics is given by translation to SKI expressions.
The empty string denotes ,
denotes ,
where is the translation of ,
and denotes .
The point of the case is that the translation satisfies for arbitrary SKI terms and .
For example,
holds for arbitrary strings .
Similarly,
holds as well.
These two examples are the base cases of the translation of arbitrary SKI terms to Jot given by Barker,
making Jot a natural Gödel numbering of all algorithms.
Jot is connected to Iota by the fact that and by using the same identities on SKI terms for obtaining the basic combinators and .
Zot
The Zot and Positive Zot languages command Iota computations, from inputs to outputs by continuation-passing style, in syntax resembling Jot,
zot = pot | ""
pot = iot | pot iot
iot = "0" | "1"
where produces the continuation ,
and produces the continuation ,
and consumes the final input digit by continuing through the continuation .
See also
Lambda calculus
Combinatory logic
Binary combinatory logic
SKI combinator calculus
References
External links
https://esolangs.org/wiki/Iota
https://esolangs.org/wiki/Jot
https://esolangs.org/wiki/Zot
Esoteric programming languages
Combinatory logic
Algorithmic information theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%20TV | You TV was an analog television channel available in Sri Lanka owned by the private company MGM Networks (Pvt) Ltd. It is currently running test transmissions while its sister radio channel, Max Radio, has already begun proper transmissions.
Programming
You TV started its operations as Max Television. At their time of launch, the channel featured programs from NDTV 24x7. You TV nowadays features programs from France 24.
External links
Blog dedicated to TV and Radio related events in Sri Lanka
English-language television stations in Sri Lanka
Sinhala-language television stations
Tamil-language television stations in Sri Lanka
Television channels and stations established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siyatha%20TV | Siyatha TV is a private Sri Lankan 4K Ultra HD channel currently broadcasting in Sri Lanka in the Sinhala language. It is owned by the Voice of Asia Network (Pvt) Ltd, which also runs radio channels named Siyatha FM, Real Radio, Kiss FM and Vettri FM.
Background
Along with their sister channel, Vettri TV, the Voice of Asia Network (Pvt) began broadcasting Siyatha TV on September 17, 2009 on E32 UHF.
Siyatha TV is the first Sri Lankan terrestrial channel to go simultaneously on satellite through their own DTH platform. This platform currently carry all VOA Television and Radio channels on Intelsat 906 satellite located at 64´E.
Roshantha Kariyapperuma, owns the Voice of Asia Network which owns Siyatha TV along-with Roshantha Kariyapperuma's brother, Priyantha Kariyapperuma, who was a former Director General of the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRC).
Revamp
On 15 February 2017, the parent company Voice of Asia Network (Pvt) Ltd had their network relaunch, Siyatha TV, revamped their entire line-up of programs and the look and feel of the TV station along with becoming an "Ultra HD 4K Television Channel".
Programming
Siyatha TV broadcasts a range of entertainment programmes including dramas, reality shows, Kids Programme, Cartoons, music and News. It operates 16 hours a day, between 05:00 am and 12:00 midnight.
In April 2010, a quiz program titled Siyatha TV T20 Quiz was telecast.
New Station
Voice of Asia is expected to launch a new station, Real TV, in coming months.
Firebombing
Early on July 30, 2010, 12 armed men attacked and firebombed the Siyatha TV and radio station, destroying much of the broadcasting equipment. The gunmen forced the staff to kneel at gunpoint, and injured two of them.
References
External links
‘Sati Medha Sadhaya’ on Siyatha
‘Rathriya Obai’ : Classical music on Siyatha TV
Sinhala-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2009
Voice of Asia Network
Mass media in Colombo
2009 establishments in Sri Lanka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier%20Galzi | Olivier Galzi (born 26 October 1971) is a French journalist.
He works for the French TV network France 2, a division of France Télévisions. On France 2, Galzi presents news bulletins within Télématin, France 2's morning show presented weekdays at 7:00 and 8:00 CET in Metropolitan France. Galzi is also the regular substitute for David Pujadas on the station's evening news bulletin 20 heures. He sometimes presents the newscasts in Canada on TV5 every 1/2 hour (4 times over 2 hours, starting shortly before the hour and 1/2 past the hour) from 6:00 to 8:00am North American Eastern Time.
In August 2010 Galzi left France Télévisions to run the breakfast show La Matinale de L'Info from 6am to 9am each weekday on i-Télé, alongside the newsreader Amandine Bégot.
On 2011, Denis Girolami joined i-Télé from RTL and replaced Galzi, so he took charge on a new show: L'Édition du Soir every weekend from 6pm to midnight.
From 10/2011 to 9/2012, Galzi presented a magazine about presidential election, called CQFD – Ce qu'il fallait décrypter, every Saturday from 10:15am to 11am.
On 9/2012, he started presenting La Grande Édition from 10pm to midnight each weekday with Maya Lauqué.
From 2016 to 7/2017, he anchors Galzi Jusqu'à Minuit - Le Grand Décryptage, which running Monday–Thursday from 9:00pm to midnight.
On 7/2017, he left CNews.
References
External links
1971 births
Living people
French television journalists
People from Tunis
Tunisian emigrants to France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20TV | Apple TV is a digital media player and microconsole developed and marketed by Apple Inc. It is a small network appliance hardware that sends received media data such as video and audio to a television set or external display. Its media services include streaming media, TV Everywhere-based services, local media sources, and sports journalism and broadcasts.
Second-generation and later models function only when connected via HDMI to an enhanced-definition or high-definition widescreen television. Since the fourth-generation model, Apple TV runs tvOS with multiple pre-installed apps. In November 2019, Apple released Apple TV+ and Apple TV app a la carte.
Apple TV lacks integrated controls and can only be controlled remotely, either through an Apple Remote, Siri Remote, iOS device, or some third-party infrared remotes.
Background
In 1993, Apple released the Macintosh TV in an attempt to enter the home-entertainment industry. The device had a 14-inch CRT screen and a TV tuner card. It was not a commercial success, with only 10,000 sold before its discontinuation in 1994. That year, the company developed the Apple Interactive Television Box, a collaboration with BT Group and Proximus Group that was never released to the public. Apple's final major attempt before the Apple TV was the Apple Pippin in 1990s, a combination home game console and networked computer.
Models
First generation
At a September 2006 Apple special event, Apple announced the first-generation Apple TV. It was originally announced as "iTV" to fit into their "i"-based product naming convention, but was renamed "Apple TV" before launch due to a trademark dispute with British broadcasting network ITV, which threatened legal action against Apple. Pre-orders began in January 2007 and it was released in March 2007. It is based on a Pentium M processor and ran a variant of Mac OS X Tiger, and included a 40 GB hard disk for storing content. It supported output up to 720p on HDTVs via HDMI, and supported some standard definition televisions via component video. At launch, Apple TV required a Mac or Windows-based PC running iTunes on the same network to sync or stream content to it.
A model with a 160 GB hard drive was released in May 2007. The 40 GB version was discontinued in September 2009. In January 2008, it became a stand-alone device through a software update, which removed the requirement of iTunes syncing from separate computer, and allowed for media from services such as iTunes Store, MobileMe, and Flickr to be rented or purchased directly on the Apple TV.
In July 2008, Apple released the software 2.1 update which added external recognition of iPhones and iPod Touches as alternative remote control devices to the Apple Remote. In September 2015, Apple discontinued iTunes support for the first-generation Apple TV, with accessibility being obstructed from such devices due to obsolete security standards.
The first generation Apple TV can be modified into a makeshift intel Mac M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haploview | Haploview is a commonly used bioinformatics software which is designed to analyze and visualize patterns of linkage disequilibrium (LD) in genetic data. Haploview can also perform association studies, choosing tagSNPs and estimating haplotype frequencies. Haploview is developed and maintained by Dr. Mark Daly's lab at the MIT/Harvard Broad Institute.
Haploview currently supports the following functionalities:
LD & haplotype block analysis
Haplotype population frequency estimation
Single SNP and haplotype association tests
Permutation testing for association significance
Implementation of Paul de Bakker's Tagger tag SNP selection algorithm
Automatic download of phased genotype data from HapMap
Visualization and plotting of PLINK whole genome association results including advanced filtering options
References
External links
Haploview Homepage
Genetics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide%20Protein%20Data%20Bank | The Worldwide Protein Data Bank, wwPDB, is an organization that maintains the archive of macromolecular structure. Its mission is to maintain a single Protein Data Bank Archive of macromolecular structural data that is freely and publicly available to the global community.
The organization has five members:
Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Database (RCSB PDB)
Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe)
Protein Data Bank Japan (PDBj)
Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank (BMRB)
Electron Microscopy Data Bank (EMDB).
The wwPDB was founded in 2003 by RCSB PDB (USA), PDBe (Europe) and PDBj (Japan). In 2006 BMRB (USA) joined the wwPDB. EMDB (UK) joined in 2021.
Each member's site can accept structural data and process the data. The processed data is sent to the "archive keeper". The RCSB PDB presently acts as the "archive keeper". This ensures that there is only one version of the data which is identical for all users. The modified database is then made available to the other wwPDB members, each of whom makes the resulting structure files available through their websites to the public. (Data is accessed from the wwPDB website itself only through links to the member websites.) The member sites are more than just mirrors of the archive keeper, because the members offer different tools on their websites for analysing the structures in the database.
Accomplishments
2008 The wwPDB now requires that, in addition to atomic coordinates, structure factor amplitudes and intensities (for crystal structure depositions) and NMR restraints (for NMR structure depositions) must be deposited as a prerequisite for receiving a PDB ID.
2007 Rolled out a remediated PDB. Remediation included changing the nomenclature to conform to IUPAC standards.
References
External links
Member organizations
RCSB PDB, Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Databank (USA)
PDBe, Protein Data Bank in Europe
PDBj, Protein Data Bank Japan
BMRB, Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank (USA)
Electron Microscopy Data Bank
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4ISRNET | C4ISRNET (previously C4ISR, or C4ISR: The Journal of Net-Centric Warfare) is a publication covering emerging issues and trends in global military transformation and network centric warfare technologies, products and services for federal government managers, defense, and industry. It is published nine times per year.
C4ISRNET was established in 2002. The magazine is published by Sightline Media Group, which was a part of Gannett Company (NYSE:GCI).
As part of the spinoff of digital and broadcasting properties in 2015, Gannett spun off these properties to Tegna. In March 2016, Tegna sold Sightline Media Group to Regent, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm controlled by investor Michael Reinstein.
C4ISRNET'''s headquarters is in Tysons, Virginia.
The 16th annual C4ISRNET'' Conference was on May 3, 2017, at the Renaissance Arlington Capital View.
References
External links
Business magazines published in the United States
Monthly magazines published in the United States
Gannett publications
Magazines established in 2002
Magazines published in Virginia
Military magazines published in the United States
Military technology
Professional and trade magazines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TK85 | The TK85 was a ZX81 clone made by Microdigital Eletrônica, a computer company located in Brazil. It came with 16 or 48 KB RAM, and had a ZX Spectrum–style case, similar to a Timex Sinclair 1500.
Unlike the ZX81, the TK85 used standard logic components rather than a gate array ("ULA"), and during manufacture several of them were scraped so that competitors couldn't easily copy the circuit. The circuit board had space for a AY-3-8912 sound generator chip (compatible with the ZonX-81 sound board), and although none came factory installed, it is possible to add the necessary circuits.
The TK85 came with a copy of the 8K ZX81 floating point BASIC, and an additional 2K EPROM, mapped to addresses 8192-10240, containing machine code routines for use with tape files. These routines could save (HISAVE), load (HILOAD) and verify (HIVERIFY) in "Hi-Speed" (4200 bps); save and load, BASIC variables in 300 bps (standard ZX81 speed) using DSAVE and DLOAD functions and 4200 bps (Hi-Speed) using DHSAVE and DHLOAD. These routines were all accessible using RAND USR commands. The save to variable function could be used to make copies of programs on tape.
The expansion port on the back of the computer is compatible with the ZX81, although some peripherals may not work due to conflicts with the 2K of extra ROM.
The rear of the computer featured a TV output (without video back porch), "EAR" and "MIC" sockets for connecting to an external tape recorder, a joystick port using a DIN socket (that simulated the ,,, and keys), a ZX81 compatible expansion port, space for a sound output socket, and a socket for the 9V external power supply.
Since the joystick used the cursor keys, and due to the circuitry for the keyboard, it wasn't possible to detect diagonal directions correctly.
Bibliography
Books
Other sources
References
External links
Microdigital TK85
Microdigital Eletrônica
Goods manufactured in Brazil
Sinclair ZX81 clones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20script%20typefaces | This is a list of script typefaces. This list details standard script typefaces and computer fonts used in classical typesetting and printing.
Calligraphic
Handwriting
Additional script typefaces
Forte
See also
List of display typefaces
List of monospaced typefaces
List of sans serif typefaces
List of serif typefaces
List
Script
Script |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%27s%20Treasured%20Volumes | Arthur's Treasured Volumes was a black-and-white British television series that aired on ITV in 1960. Starring Arthur Askey, it was written by Dave Freeman and was made for the ITV network by ATV.
All six episodes were missing having been presumed wiped during the 1960s, until part of the first episode "A Blow In Anger" was recovered by Paul Stroud and shown at the National Film Theatre in November 2003. The remaining episodes were re-discovered in ITV's archive by a researcher from archive television organisation Kaleidoscope in December 2019.
Cast
Arthur Askey - Various
Anthea Askey - Herself/narrator
Sam Kydd - Various
Arthur Mullard - Various
Roger Avon - Various
Tony Sampson - Various
Paddi Edwards - Various
Billy Tasker - Various
Barbara Mitchell - Various
Wilfrid Brambell - Various
Patrick Newell - Various
June Whitfield - Enid Brown
Janet Davies - Miss Tiddy
David Garth - Hamlet
Plot
Arthur's Treasured Volumes was a series of one-episode sitcoms. At the beginning of each episode, Anthea Askey, Arthur's daughter, takes down a book from a shelf and the story begins. All the 'books' are in fact scripts written by Dave Freeman. In each episode, Arthur Askey, Sam Kydd and Arthur Mullard play different roles. Amongst those who made guest appearances were Wilfrid Brambell, Patrick Newell, June Whitfield and Geoffrey Palmer.
Episodes
"A Blow In Anger" (2 May 1960)
"The History of Mr Lacey" (9 May 1960)
"The Command Performer" (16 May 1960)
"Pilbeam of Twickenham" (23 May 1960)
"A Slight Case of Deception" (30 May 1960)
"The Curse of the Bellfoots" (6 June 1960)
References
Mark Lewisohn, "Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy", BBC Worldwide Ltd, 2003
British TV Comedy Guide for Arthur's Treasured Volumes
External links
1960 British television series debuts
1960 British television series endings
1960s British sitcoms
ITV sitcoms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20virtualization%20development | The following is a timeline of virtualization development. In computing, virtualization is the use of a computer to simulate another computer. Through virtualization, a host simulates a guest by exposing virtual hardware devices, which may be done through software or by allowing access to a physical device connected to the machine.
Timeline
Note: This timeline is missing data for important historical systems, including: Atlas Computer (Manchester), GE 645, Burroughs B5000.
Year 1960
In the mid-1960s, IBM's Cambridge Scientific Center developed CP-40, the first version of CP/CMS. It went into production use in January 1967. From its inception, CP-40 was intended to implement full virtualization. Doing so required hardware and microcode customization on a S/360-40, to provide the necessary address translation and other virtualization features. Experience on the CP-40 project provided input to the development of the IBM System/360 Model 67, announced in 1965 (along with its ill-starred operating system, TSS/360). CP-40 was re-implemented for the S/360-67 as CP-67, and by April 1967, both versions were in daily production use. CP/CMS was made generally available to IBM customers in source code form, as part of the unsupported IBM Type-III Library, in 1968.
Year 1964
IBM Cambridge Scientific Center begins development of CP-40.
Year 1965
IBM M44/44X, experimental paging system, in use at Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
IBM announces the IBM System/360-67, a 32-bit CPU with virtual memory hardware (August 1965).
Year 1966
IBM ships the S/360-67 computer in June 1966.
IBM begins work on CP-67, a re-implementation of CP-40 for the S/360-67.
Year 1967
CP-40 (January) and CP-67 (April) go into production time-sharing use.
Year 1968
CP/CMS installed at eight initial customer sites.
CP/CMS submitted to IBM Type-III Library by MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, making system available to all IBM S/360 customers at no charge in source code form.
Resale of CP/CMS access begins at time-sharing vendor National CSS (becoming a distinct version, eventually renamed VP/CSS).
Year 1971
First System/370 shipped: S/370-155 (January).
Year 1970
IBM announced the System/370 in 1970. To the disappointment of CP/CMS users – as with the System/360 announcement – the series would not include virtual memory. In 1972, IBM changed direction, announcing that the option would be made available on all S/370 models, and also announcing several virtual storage operating systems, including VM/370. By the mid-1970s, CP/CMS, VM, and the maverick VP/CSS were running on numerous large IBM mainframes. By the late 80s, there were reported to be more VM licenses than MVS licenses.
Year 1972
Announcement of virtual memory added to System/370 series.
VM/370 announced – and running on announcement date. VM/370 includes the ability to run VM under VM (previously implemented both at IBM and at user sites under CP/CMS, but not made part of standard releases)
Year 197 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybase%20iAnywhere | Sybase iAnywhere, is a subsidiary of Sybase specializing in mobile computing, management and security and enterprise database software. SQL Anywhere, formerly known as SQL Anywhere Studio or Adaptive Server Anywhere (ASA), is the company's flagship relational database management system (RDBMS). SQL Anywhere powers popular applications such as Intuit, Inc.'s QuickBooks, and the devices of 140,000 census workers during the 2010 United States Census. The product's customers include Brinks, Kodak, Pepsi Bottling Group (PBG), MICROS Systems, Inc. and the United States Navy. In August 2008.
Sybase iAnywhere mobility products include Sybase Unwired Platform. a platform for mobile enterprise application development. It combines tooling and integration with standard development environments. Afaria provides mobile device management and security capabilities to ensure that mobile data and devices are up-to-date, reliable and secure. Afaria is currently being used by Novartis and United Utilities among others. iAnywhere Mobile Office, formerly known as OneBridge, is specifically designed to securely extend email and business processes to wireless devices.
RFID Anywhere, is a software platform designed to simplify radio frequency identification (RFID) projects, including the development, deployment and management of highly distributed, multi-site networks. Through the 2006 acquisition of Extended Systems, Inc., Sybase iAnywhere is now providing wireless connectivity, device management and data synchronization software. Its software development kits (SDKs) for Bluetooth, IrDA, OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) Device Management and OMA Data Synchronization protocols are used by cellphone and automobile manufacturers worldwide in Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) applications. XTNDConnect PC, available for OEM/ODM applications, as well as for direct purchase, is a software application based on this technology that helps millions of consumers sync their mobile phones and devices with PC applications.
History
Watcom International Corporation was founded in 1981 in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Watcom produced a variety of tools, including the well-known Watcom C compiler introduced in 1988. In 1994 Powersoft acquired Watcom, merging with Sybase just one year later. In 2000, Sybase iAnywhere was formed as a wholly owned subsidiary consisting of the former mobile and embedded computing division. iAnywhere played an important role in Sybase's Unwired Enterprise strategy, which focuses on managing and mobilizing information from the data center to the point of action. In 2010 Sybase (along with iAnywhere) was acquired by SAP and is now known as Sybase, an SAP Company.
Products
Database
Advantage Database Server (ADS): A client/server back-end for shared, networked, standalone, mobile and Internet database applications. Advantage provides both ISAM table-based and SQL based data access.
SQL Anywhere: A data management and en |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy-hour%20call%20attempts | In telecommunications, busy-hour call attempts (BHCA) is a teletraffic engineering measurement used to evaluate and plan capacity for telephone networks. BHCA is the number of telephone calls attempted at the sliding 60-minute period during which occurs the maximum total traffic load in a given 24-hour period (BHCA), and the higher the BHCA, the higher the stress on the network processors. BHCA is not to be confused with busy hour call completion (BHCC) which measures the throughput capacity of the network. If a bottleneck in the network exists with a capacity lower than the estimated BHCA, then congestion will occur resulting in many failed calls and customer dissatisfaction.
BHCA is usually used when planning telephone switching capacities and frequently goes side by side with the Erlang unit capacity calculation. As an example, a telephone exchange with a capacity of one million BHCA is estimated to handle 250,000 subscribers. The overall calculation is more complex however, and involves accounting for available circuits, desired blocking rates, and Erlang capacity allocated to each subscriber.
Determination
The busy hour is determined by fitting a horizontal line segment equivalent to one hour under the traffic load curve about the peak load point. If the service time interval is less than 60 minutes, the busy hour is the 60-minute interval that contains the service timer interval. In cases where more than one busy hour occurs in a 24-hour period, i.e., when saturation occurs, the busy hour or hours most applicable to the particular situation are used.
References
See also
Call volume (telecommunications)
Calls per second
Teletraffic
Telecommunications engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary%20Mind%20Zen%20School | The Ordinary Mind Zen School is a network of independent Zen centers established by Charlotte Joko Beck and her Dharma Successors in 1995.
History
The school is unaffiliated with any Zen centers which fall outside of its own network, however many Ordinary Mind Zen teachers are members of the White Plum Asanga. The history of the Ordinary Mind Zen School dates back to 1983, which was the year that Joko Beck had left the Zen Center of Los Angeles. That was the year her teacher, Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi, had been confronted by his students about his alcoholism and sexual liaisons with some female students. Joko Beck established the Zen Center of San Diego in 1983.
According to Richard Hughes Seager, "By 1998, the Ordinary Mind School had centers in San Diego, Champaign, Illinois, Oakland, California, Portland, Oregon and New York City." There is no one set structure of curriculum in the Ordinary Mind School, as the Dharma Successors of Joko Beck get to decide their method of training independent of any organizational head. Long before retirement, Joko Beck had done away with all titles and no longer wore her okesa. (For formal occasions she often wore a rakusu after ceasing to wear okesa; she also ordained several Zen priests throughout her life.) She had distanced herself considerably from her roots in the Sōtō school, and much of the ceremony had been abandoned in favor of pure meditation practice.
Teachers
Dan Birnbaum (Bay Zen Center)
Barry Magid (Ordinary Mind Zendo)
Elihu Genmyo Smith (Prairie Zen Center)
Andrew Sono Tootell (OzZEN Ordinary Mind Zen)
See also
Buddhism in the United States
Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States
Further reading
References
External links
Ordinary Mind Zendo
Zen Center of Philadelphia
Zen Center of Portland
Prairie Zen Center
Bay Zen Center
Ordinary Mind Zen Brisbane
Ordinary Mind Zen Sydney
OzZEN Ordinary Mind Zen
Appamada in Austin, TX
Ordinary Mind Zendo Finland
Ordinary Mind Zen Galway, Ireland
Freeway Zen Escondido, California
Santa Rosa Zen Group
Zen Center San Diego
SAMU Zen Lab, Nicaragua
Buddhist orders
Schools of Buddhism founded in the United States
Zen sects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Mix | Radio Mix is a Bosnian commercial radio station, broadcasting from Sarajevo.
History and programming
Radio Mix was founded on 18 May 2016 when RSG Group bought the frequency from Radio Vrhbosna. Radio Mix is formatted as a variety radio service that broadcasts greatest pop and folk hits, talk shows and short news.
The program is currently broadcast at one frequency (Sarajevo ), estimated number of potential listeners is around 426,581. Radio Mix is part of the informal media group in the radio market of Bosnia and Herzegovina called RSG Group.
RSG Group consists of three radio programs RSG Radio, Antena Sarajevo and Radio Mix, marketing agency and production – Netra, radio news production services – Media servis, and Web portals and .
Frequencies
The program is currently broadcast on 7 frequencies:
Sarajevo
Travnik
Zenica
Tešanj
Mostar
Tuzla
Konjic
See also
List of radio stations in Bosnia and Herzegovina
References
External links
Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Radio Mix in Facebook
Sarajevo
Radio stations established in 2016
Mass media in Sarajevo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orao | Orao ("eagle" in Serbo-Croatian) may refer to:
Soko J-22 Orao, a Yugoslav-Romanian combat aircraft
The Yugoslav Orao-class minelayers
Orao (computer)
The Kurukh people, also called Oṛāōn
See also
Serbo-Croatian words and phrases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica%20Mink | Jessica Mink (formerly Douglas John Mink) is an American software developer and a data archivist at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian. She was part of the team that discovered the rings around the planet Uranus.
Early life and career
Mink was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1951 and graduated from Dundee Community High School in 1969. She earned an S.B. degree (1973) and an S.M. degree (1974) in Planetary Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She worked at Cornell University from 1976 to 1979 as an astronomical software developer. It was during this time that she was part of the team that discovered the rings around Uranus. Within the team she was responsible for the data reduction software and the data analysis. After working at Cornell she moved back to MIT, where she did work that contributed to the discovery of the rings of Neptune. She has written a number of commonly used software packages for astrophysics, including WCSTools and RVSAO.
Despite not having a PhD, Mink is a member of the American Astronomical Society and the International Astronomical Union.
Personal life
Mink is an avid bicycle user. She has served as an officer and director of the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition and has been the route planner for the Massachusetts portion of the East Coast Greenway since 1991.
Mink is a transgender woman, and she publicly came out in 2011 at the age of 60. She has since spoken out about her experiences transitioning. She was also featured in two articles about the experiences of transitioning in a professional environment. She was a co-organiser of the 2015 Inclusive Astronomy conference at Vanderbilt University.
Mink currently lives in Massachusetts (USA), and has a daughter.
References
External links
Jessica Mink's Homepage
1951 births
Living people
People from Lincoln, Nebraska
Harvard University staff
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Transgender women
LGBT people from Nebraska
American LGBT scientists
American transgender people
Transgender scientists
Planetary scientists
Women planetary scientists
LGBT astronomers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20CBS%20television%20affiliates%20%28table%29 | The CBS television network is a television network based in the United States made up of 15 owned-and-operated stations and nearly 228 network affiliates.
Stations are listed in alphabetical order by city of license.
A blue background indicates an affiliate originating as a digital subchannel.
A gray background indicates a low-power station or translator.
A lavender blue background indicates an affiliate originating as a digital subchannel of a low-power station.
(**) – Indicates station was built and signed on by CBS.
Owned-and-operated stations
Affiliate stations
U.S. territories
Outside the U.S.
Notes
License ownership/operational agreements
Primary and secondary affiliations
Satellites and semi-satellites
Previous CBS affiliations
Miscellany
See also
List of CBS television affiliates (by U.S. state)
List of former CBS television affiliates
Lists of ABC television affiliates
Lists of Fox television affiliates
Lists of NBC television affiliates
References
CBS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application%20streaming | Application streaming is a form of on-demand software distribution. In these scenarios, only essential portions of an application's code need to be installed on the computer: while the end user performs actions in the application, the necessary code and files are delivered over the network as and when they are required.
Application streaming is a related concept to application virtualization, where applications are run directly from a virtual machine on a central server that is completely separate from the local system. By contrast, application streaming runs the program locally, but still involves the centralized storage of application code.
Stream server
An application is packaged and stored on a streaming server. Packaging or sequencing produces an image of the application in a way that orders delivery or predicatively optimizes delivery to the client.
Launch and streaming of application
The initial launch of an application would be important for the end user and the Packaging process might be optimized to achieve this. Once launched, common functions would be followed. As these functions are requested by the end user, these may be streamed in a similar manner. In this case the client is pulling the application from the stream server. Otherwise, the full application might be delivered from the server to the client in the background. In this case, the server pushes the application to the client.
Advantages
The concept of application streaming carries several major advantages over traditional software distribution: given the complexity of modern applications, many functions are never or seldom used, and pulling the application on demand is more efficient in terms of server, client and network usage; streaming also allows for applications to be cached on the local system and still run in a traditional manner; updates can also be deployed automatically to the cached application files.
Vendor-specific implementations
Android
2015 app streaming experiment
In 2015 Google launched "App streaming" experiment for launching "streamed" apps from Google Search. If user with a supported device entered a relevant search query, Google Search would display "Stram" button on the top result. When user clicked the button, user device would display a live video stream of the app running on Google servers. Only nine app publishers participated in the experiment. Ars Technica writer discovered a way to "escape the app and get into a Web browser" and found out that the virtual device was running Android 4.4.4. Writer raised concerns about using such an old version of Android. The experiment never advanced past "beta" stage.
Google Play Instant
In 2018, Google Play added "Instant apps" feature which allowed users to try out compatible apps before downloading them. Specifically, app has to be packaged in Android App Bundle format with special activities. If app supports "Instant apps", Google Play displays "try now" button next to "install" button. When user |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20People%27s%20Television%20Network | People's Television Network (PTV) is a government television network owned by the Government of the Philippines and the main brand of People's Television Network, Inc. (PTNI), one of the attached agencies under the Presidential Communications Office (PCO). Headquartered in Broadcast Complex, Visayas Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City. The following is a list of all television programming that PTV is currently broadcasting since it began its television operations in 1974.
Current local programming
Note: Titles are listed in alphabetical order followed by the year of debut in parentheses.
Newscasts
Global Round-up
PTV Balita Ngayon
PTV Balita Ngayon sa Probinsya: Cebu
PTV Balita Ngayon sa Probinsya: Cordillera
PTV Balita Ngayon sa Probinsya: Mindanao
PTV News Now
PTV News Tonight
Rise and Shine Pilipinas
Sentro Balita
Ulat Bayan
Ulat Bayan Weekend
News specials
Bagong Pilipinas
Malacañang Press Briefing
President Bongbong Marcos' Vlog
Special Coverage
Public affairs
Iskoolmates
Mike Abe Live
On Assignment
On The Ground
Public Eye
Punto Asintado Reload
The Chatroom
Public service
Bagong Pilipinas Ngayon
Yan ang Marino
Cultural
Lakbayin ang Magandang Pilipinas
Sagisag Kultura TV
Game shows
PCSO Lottery Draw
Infotainment
Auto Review
DOST Report
Mag-Agri Tayo
Sports
Masters of the Game
PTV Sports
Religious shows
Jesus Miracle Crusade
Oras ng Himala
Word of God Network
Current acquired programming
Documentary
ASEAN Documentaries
ASEAN National Attractions (2023)
ASEAN Creative Film in Response to COVID-19 (2023)
Stories from the Grid: The VOA and AFP Diaries
Regional programming
Newscasts
Ako Bicol News
DavNor Weather Update
Kangrunaan a Damag
Maayong Buntag Agusan
PTV News Agusan del Sur
PTV Agusan Newsbreak
PTV News Davao del Norte
PTV News Mindanao
PTV News Ylocos
One DavNor Patrol
Public affairs
Abante Norte
DavNor Sayron Ta!
Iskoolmates sa Norte
Isyu @ Serbisyo with Eddie Carta
Kapihan sa Kapitolyo
Yes sa Probinsya!
Talk, infotainment and lifestyle
Bida ang Bata
Game Na!
Madayaw Davao
Musical variety
Cordilleran Country: Aweng Ti Biag
Future programming
Wowowin
Code Red
Go Beyond Borders
Previously aired programs
Newscasts
Balita Ala-Una (1987–1998)
Balitaan (2013–2014)
Batingaw (2008–2010)
Business @ 10 (2007-2008)
Business News (2002–2003)
Daily Info (2017–2020)
The DPI Mid-Day Report (1978)
Early Evening Report (1986–1987)
The Final Report (1997–1998)
Late Evening Report (1986–1987)
Malacañang: The Week That Was (2008–2010)
Midnight Update (1987–1989)
M:NU:TO (pronounced as Minuto) (2007–2010)
Money Matters (2008–2010)
National Network News (1998–2001)
NBN Business (2005–2006)
NBN News Live (2001–2007)
NBN Sports (2008–2010)
News @ 1 (2012–2016)
News @ 1: Junior Edition (2013–2014)
News @ 1: The Week that Was (2013–2014)
News @ 6 (2012–2016)
News @ 6 Saturday Edition (2014–2016)
NewsLife (2012–2016)
Newsbreak Bilingual (1995–1998)
News Flash sa 4 (1998–2001) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%20Grand%20Jury | Le Grand Jury (The Great Jury) is a French political broadcast of RTL, the main generalist radio network in France. Since 1994, it is also broadcast on LCI, a TV news channel.
It took place evening Sundays at 6.30. During one hour, a politician, an employer or a tade unionist is interviewed by journalists of RTL, LCI and of a newspaper. The partner of the broadcast was Le Monde then Le Figaro since 2005.
Currently, the interviewers are Jean-Michel Aphatie (RTL), Pierre-Luc Séguillon (LCI) and Etienne Mougeotte (Le Figaro).
History
In 1987, interviewed in Le Grand Jury, the National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen said "the holocaust is a detail of the history of the Second World War".
In 2002, the Workers' Struggle spokesperson Arlette Laguiller cried during the broadcast when a former trotskyst militant was evoked by the journalists.
French news radio programs
1980 radio programme debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTL%20Matin | RTL Matin (RTL Morning) is the main morning news programme on the French generalist commercial radio network RTL. It goes out on weekdays 7.00-9.00 and weekends 7.00-10.15 and is France's most listened-to news programme.
From what had originally begun as a morning music sequence incorporating regular news bulletins, RTL Matin eventually developed into an "all-news" programme as the proportion of time given over to news, comment and background reports gradually grew.
The programme's main presenter since 2014 has been Yves Calvi, who also presents the culture and entertainment review Laissez-Vous Tenter, which follows between 9.00 and 9.30 each weekday.
References
French news radio programs
2006 radio programme debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%20sept%20neuf | Le sept neuf ("The seven nine") – sometimes styled Le 7/9 – is the name of the main weekday morning news sequence broadcast by France Inter, the French public-service generalist radio network. Consisting of news bulletins, background reports, commentaries, press reviews, interviews, and a phone-in debate with listeners (including e-mailed comments), it goes out every weekday between 7.00 and 9.00 (hence the name). It debuted in 2010.
The weekend editions of the program, entitled Le sept neuf du samedi and Le sept neuf du dimanche, give greater coverage to leisure-time pursuits. Those editions are currently presented by Patricia Martin and Fabrice Drouelle.
The program's main weekday presenter as of December 2010 is the radio journalist Patrick Cohen.
External links
The program's home page
French public radio programs
Radio France
French news radio programs
2010 radio programme debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%20t%C3%A9l%C3%A9phone%20sonne | Le téléphone sonne (The phone's ringing) is a current affairs programme produced by the French generalist public radio network France Inter and broadcast between 7:20pm and 8.00pm on Monday to Friday evenings.
First aired in 1978, the programme consists of a live studio debate between specialist guests on a selected item in the news, to which listeners are invited to contribute by phoning in their questions and opinions – hence the programme's title. The journalist Alain Bédouet was the main presenter of Le téléphone sonne from 1984 to 2012.
External links
The programme's home page
French public radio programs
Radio France
1978 radio programme debuts
French talk radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Arthur%20Askey%20Show | The Arthur Askey Show was a short-lived black-and-white British sitcom starring Arthur Askey that ran for six episodes in 1961. It was written by Dave Freeman. It was made for the ITV network by ATV. The following year Askey appeared in another series Raise Your Glasses on the BBC.
Cast
Arthur Askey – Arthur Pilbeam
June Whitfield – Emily Pilbeam
Arthur Mullard – Mr. Rossiter
Patricia Hayes – Mrs. Rossiter
Plot
The Arthur Askey Show was set in 1910, and Arthur Pilbeam's wife, Emily, was considerably younger than he was. The next door neighbours are Mr. and Mrs. Rossiter. Amongst the guest stars to make appearances were Sam Kydd, who had appeared in Arthur's Treasured Volumes the year before, and Guy Middleton.
Episodes
"Episode One" (11 Mar 1961)
"Episode Two" (18 Mar 1961)
"Pilbeam, the Journalist" (25 Mar 1961)
"Episode Four" (1 Apr 1961)
"Episode Five" (8 Apr 1961)
"Episode Six" (15 Apr 1961)
Six more episodes were made, but they were never transmitted. All twelve episodes still exist.
1959 show
The Arthur Askey Show was also the name of a six-part ITV stand-up and sketch show featuring Arthur Askey that ran sporadically from 28 February 1959 to 3 September 1960. Three episodes lasted 55 minutes, and three lasted 60 minutes.
References
Mark Lewisohn, "Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy", BBC Worldwide Ltd, 2003
British TV Comedy Guide for The Arthur Askey Show
External links
1961 British television series debuts
1961 British television series endings
1960s British sitcoms
ITV sitcoms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAD%20Group | The RAD Group consists of a number of independent companies that develop, manufacture and market solutions for diverse segments of the networking and telecommunications industry. Each company operates independently, without a holding company, but is guided by the group founders under a collective strategic umbrella. Companies share technology, engage in joint marketing activities and benefit from a common management structure.
Four RAD Group companies are traded on NASDAQ in the U.S.:
Ceragon Networks, Radware, RADCOM, and Silicom. The others are privately held by the Group's founders and several venture capital firms.
History
The RAD Group was founded by brothers Yehuda (born 1942) and Zohar (1949-2023) Zisapel, in Tel Aviv, Israel. Both brothers studied electrical engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Yehuda started his career in the 1960s working for Motorola Israel but in 1973 decided to start his own business importing and distributing computer networking equipment, a company called Bitcom. Later Yehuda parted company with his initial business partner and started a new company, Bynet. The company's main business was distributing Codex Corporation products, and the company soon became a market leader in Israel. In 1977 Codex Corporation was acquired by Motorola, but due to its success Bynet maintain the distribution rights for its products; however in 1981 Motorola decided not to renew the distribution agreement with Bynet, and Codex Corporation began to sell in Israel directly.
The experience of losing the distribution rights of Codex made Yehuda realize that his business should never rely on one product line, and in 1981 he asked his brother, Zohar, to join him at Bynet to start working on the development of their products. They started a new company in a corner of the Bynet offices and gave it the name RAD Data Communications, RAD being the acronym of Research And Development.
RAD's first successful product was a miniature (by 1980s standards) computer modem. By 1985, RAD's annual revenues reached $5.5 million USD. RAD Data Communications is now the largest company in the RAD Group.
In 1985, RAD provided initial funding and support to entrepreneur Benny Hanigal to start LANNET Data Communications, which developed a pioneering Ethernet switch, one of the first to offer Ethernet switching over simple twisted pair telephone cables rather than expensive coaxial cables. In 1991 LANNET had an initial public offering on NASDAQ, but in 1995, as their market was consolidating, it was decided to merge with Madge Networks, in a deal valuing LANNET at $300 million USD.
By the end of 1995, the merged Madge-LANNET had 1,400 employees and achieved revenues of more than $400 million, but throughout 1996-1997 there were disagreements about strategy. Benny Hanigal left the company and joined the Israeli Venture Capital fund Star Ventures. In late 1997 Madge Networks spun off its Ethernet division into a separate subsidiary, o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Vault%20%28Sirius%29 | The Vault was a Deep Album Cuts Classic rock music channel that aired on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 16 and Dish Network channel 6016. The channel was officially dropped on November 12, 2008 because of the Sirius-XM merger, and replaced by XM's Deep Tracks.
The Vault was one of the early satellite stations to broadcast in Dolby matrix surround sound.
The station advertised itself as one that would play deep cuts of classic rock, and Entertainment Weekly described The Vault as "a channel that spins less-familiar songs by dad-rock favorites like Eric Clapton and the Kinks." The station aired a week-long marathon of Pink Floyd and David Gilmour tracks in March 2006.
See also
List of Sirius Satellite Radio stations
References
External links
Sirius The Vault
Defunct radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC%20SCOPE | SCOPE (Supervisory Control of Program Execution) is a series of Control Data Corporation batch operating systems developed in the 1960s.
Variants
SCOPE for the CDC 3000 series
SCOPE for the CDC 6000 series
SCOPE and SCOPE-2 for the CDC 7600/Cyber-76
SCOPE for the CDC 3000 series
SCOPE for the CDC 6000 series
This operating system was based on the original Chippewa Operating System. In the early 1970s, it was renamed NOS/BE for the CDC Cyber machines. The SCOPE operating system is a file-oriented system using mass storage, random access devices. It was designed to make use of all capabilities of CDC 6000 computer systems and exploits fully the multiple-operating modes of all segments of the computer. Main tasks of SCOPE are controlling job execution, storage assignment, performing segment and overlay loading. Its features include comprehensive input/output functions and library maintenance routines. The operating system chronologically records all jobs run and any problems encountered. To aid debugging, dumps and memory maps are available.
Description
SCOPE is a multiprogramming operating system capable of running up to eight jobs, called control points, at one time. One control point is used for system functions. Later versions increased this limit to 15.
SCOPE runs on the 6x00's peripheral processors (PPs). "A central processor (CP)… is completely within the power of every PP at all times." One PP, identified as PP0 runs the Monitor Program (MTR) "that oversees or controls all other activities." PP9 is assigned to control the system console typewriter and displays. The other PPs perform input/output functions as directed by MTR.
A portion of the central processor's memory (called central memory, or CM) the Central Memory Resident (CMR) "is reserved for various system tables accessible by the PPs.” Part of this CMR is a communications area for each PP. Each communications area contains an "input register" and an "output register", followed by a message buffer.
When the computer is deadstarted, all PP's are loaded with system code from magnetic tape. PP0 will begin running the monitor code. The remaining PPs will loop reading their input registers waiting for requests from the monitor.
Software
As of SCOPE 3.3 a number of programming language compilers and utilities were supported. Major languages were ALGOL, BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, and COMPASS (assembler). Other languages were APT, CSSL 3 (Continuous System Simulation Language), JOVIAL, SIMSCRIPT, and SIMULA. Other software included IGS (Interactive Graphics System), PERT, and SORT/MERGE.
CDC systems were considered supercomputers, and customers were often large government agencies and research facilities. Most of these had specialized requirements, and often wrote their own software.
Competition
SCOPE was written by a programming team in Sunnyvale, California, about 2,000 miles from the CDC hardware division. It was considered by them a buggy and inefficient piece of software, thou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Intercontinental%20Broadcasting%20Corporation | IBC is a Philippine free-to-air television and radio network. It is the flagship property of Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation, a state broadcaster owned by the Government Communications Group under the Presidential Communications Office (PCO). Headquartered on IBC Compound, Lot 3-B, Capitol Hills Drive, Diliman, Quezon City. The following is a list of all television programming that IBC is currently broadcasting since it began its television operations in 1960. As of late 2022, most of the programs are government media-produced, including some from PTV, Presidential Communications Office, and Radyo Pilipinas, while fewer are independently produced.
For the previously aired defunct programs of IBC, see List of programs previously broadcast by Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation.
Current original programs
Note: Titles are listed in alphabetical order followed by the year of debut in parentheses.
Newscasts
IBC Express Balita
Rise and Shine Pilipinas
Sentro Balita
Tutok 13
Ulat Bayan Weekend
News specials
Bagong Pilipinas
IBC Special Report: Presidential Coverage
Malacanang Press Briefing
President Bongbong Marcos' Vlog
Public affairs
Bagong Pilipinas: PBBM Lingkod ng Bayan
Bitag Live
Ito Ang Kongreso
On The Ground
The Good Story
Public service
Bagong Pilipinas Ngayon
Gabay at Aksyon
#ipaBITAGmo
Kid-oriented
Talents Academy
Lifestyle
Chinatown TV
Religious
Feast TV (2011)
Current acquired programs
Note: Titles are listed in alphabetical order, followed by the year of debut in parentheses.
Documentary
ASEAN Documentaries (2022; also broadcast on PTV)
ASEAN: Changing Lives (2022-2023, 2023)
ASEAN Women Entrepreneurship (2022-2023, 2023)
Colours of ASEAN (2022, 2023)
Faces of ASEAN (2022-2023, 2023)
Proudly ASEAN (2022-2023, 2023)
Sharing ASEAN (2022–2023, 2023)
Future programming
Wowowin
Cabinet at Work
Isangguni kay Attorney
Untitled medical program with Congressman Rachel del Mar
Pilipinas Super League
See also
Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation
List of Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation specials aired
References
External links
IBC official website
Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation
Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveMath | LiveMath is a computer algebra system available on a number of platforms including Mac OS, macOS (Carbon), Microsoft Windows, Linux (x86) and Solaris (SPARC). It is the latest release of a system that originally emerged as Theorist for the "classic" Mac in 1989, became MathView and MathPlus in 1997 after it was sold to Waterloo Maple, and finally LiveMath after it was purchased by members of its own userbase in 1999. The application is currently owned by MathMonkeys of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The overall LiveMath suite contains LiveMath Maker, the main application, as well as LiveMath Viewer for end-users, and LiveMath Plug-In, an ActiveX plugin for browsers, which was discontinued in 2014.
Description
LiveMath uses a worksheet-based approach, similar to products like Mathematica or MathCAD. The user enters equations into the worksheet and then uses the built-in functions to help solve them, or reduce them numerically. Workbooks typically contain a number of equations separated into sections, along with data tables, graphs, and similar outputs. Unlike most CAS applications, LiveMath uses a full GUI with high-quality graphical representations of the equations at every step, including input.
LiveMath also allows the user to interact with the equation in the sheet; for instance, one can drag an instance of to the left hand side of the equation, at which point LiveMath will re-arrange the equation to solve for . LiveMath's algebraic solving systems are relatively simple compared to better known systems like Mathematica, and does not offer the same sort of automated single-step solving of these packages.
See also
Comparison of computer algebra systems
References
External links
Computer algebra system software for Linux
Computer algebra system software for Windows
Computer algebra system software for macOS
Proprietary commercial software for Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISLISP | ISLISP (also capitalized as ISLisp) is a programming language in the Lisp family standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) joint working group ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 16 (commonly termed simply SC22/WG16 or WG16). The primary output of this working group was an international standard, published by ISO. The standard was updated in 2007 and republished as ISO/IEC 13816:2007(E). Although official publication was through ISO, versions of the ISLISP language specification are available that are believed to be in the public domain.
The goal of this standards effort was to define a small, core language to help bridge the gap between differing dialects of Lisp. It attempted to accomplish this goal by studying primarily Common Lisp, EuLisp, Le Lisp, and Scheme and standardizing only those features shared between them.
Design goals
ISLISP has these design goals:
Compatible with extant Lisp dialects where feasible
Provide basic functionality
Object-oriented
Design for extensibility
Prioritize industrial needs over academic needs
Promote efficient implementations and applications
ISLISP has separate function and variable namespaces (hence it is a Lisp-2).
ISLISP's object system, ILOS, is mostly a subset of the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS).
Major differences from Common Lisp
There is a global lexical variable. (defglobal)
Dynamic variable is explicit. (dynamic)
Keywords are not self-evaluating.
Destructuring is not supported in defmacro.
Implementations
ISLISP implementations have been made for many operating systems including: Windows, most Unix and POSIX based (Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Cygwin, QNX), Android, DOS, OS/2, Pocket PC, OpenVMS, and z/OS.
Implementations for hardware computer architectures include: x86, x86-64, IA-64, SPARC, SPARC9, PowerPC, MIPS, Alpha, PA-RISC, ARM, AArch64
Two older implementations are no longer available:
TISL, by Masato Izumi and Takayasu Ito (Tohoku University), was an interpreter and compiler.
G-LISP, by Josef Jelinek, was a Java applet.
References
External links
ISLISP 2007 draft in PDF format
ISLISP 2007 draft in HTML format
ISLISP page of Kent M Pitman
ISLISP page of OKI ISLISP developers
ISLISP on Software Preservation Group
Lisp programming language family
Lisp (programming language)
Programming languages with an ISO standard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Ford | Brian Ford may refer to:
Brian Ford (numerical analyst), numerical analyst and founder of the Numerical Algorithms Group
Brian Ford (cricketer) (born 1970), New Zealand cricketer
Brian Ford (police officer), Ottawa Police Service police chief, 1993–2000
Brian Ford (ice hockey) (born 1961), former NHL player
Brian J. Ford (born 1939), scientist, broadcaster and author
Brian Ford (British radio broadcaster), works for Scottish radio station 1152 Clyde 2
Brian Ford (rugby union) (born 1951), New Zealand rugby player |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash%20of%20Steel | Clash of Steel is a grand strategy computer game released in 1993 by Strategic Simulations for MS-DOS.
Gameplay
It covers World War II in Europe on a grand strategic scale between 1939 and 1945. Three major powers are playable: Germany (Axis), the Allies and the Soviet Union. In the game each player in charge of his chosen major power and its land, air and naval forces. Each player also controls production and research of military equipment.
This game contains a number of bugs that were fixed in the follow-up game, Clash of Steel: Future Edition. Buyers of the original version were given a discount when upgrading to Future Edition.
Reception
Computer Gaming World in 1993 stated that Clash of Steel was reminiscent of Hitler's War and "a gamer's game—quick-playing, entertaining and reasonably accurate. An entire campaign ... can be played in as few as six hours". It concluded that "COS should not be missed." A survey of wargames by the magazine gave Clash of Steel four-plus stars out of five, calling it "strategic and eminently playable ... everything that Storm Across Europe should have been and wasn't".
Clash of Steel won Computer Gaming Worlds Wargame of the Year award in June 1994. The editors wrote, "Everything is accessible, useful and enjoyable in this well-conceived design". Elsewhere in the issue, the magazine stated that "Although Clash has its share of flaws, it won our award based upon its most important underlying virtue: the fun factor", describing it as a "game-about history" and not "history-in-a-game" and comparing it to The Russian Campaign.
References
External links
1993 video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Computer wargames
World War II video games
World War II grand strategy computer games
Strategic Simulations games
Grand strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSI%20Barcode | MSI (also known as Modified Plessey) is a barcode symbology developed by the MSI Data Corporation, based on the original Plessey Code symbology. It is a continuous symbology that is not self-checking. MSI is used primarily for inventory control, marking storage containers and shelves in warehouse environments.
Character set and binary lookup
The MSI bar code represents only digits 0–9; it does not support letters or symbols.
Each digit is converted to 4 binary-coded decimal bits. Then a 1 bit is prepended and two 0 bits are appended.
Finally, each bit is printed as a bar/space pair totalling three modules wide. A 0 bit is represented as 1/3 bar followed by 2/3 space, while a 1 bit is represented as 2/3 bar followed by 1/3 space.
Binary mapping
Each digit and guard character is represented by a binary number, as shown in the table below.
To produce a barcode image from this map, one simply must consider the digit 1 to be a black bar and the digit 0 to be a white bar and produce an image accordingly.
Check digit calculation
The MSI barcode uses one of five possible schemes for calculating a check digit:
No check digit (least common)
Mod 10 (most common)
Mod 11
Mod 1010
Mod 1110
Mod 10 Check Digit
When using the Mod 10 check digit algorithm, a string to be encoded 1234567 will be printed with a check digit of 4:
12345674
The Mod 10 check digit algorithm
uses the Luhn algorithm.
Mod 11 Check Digit
1. Reverse the string to be encoded (in this case 1234567).
Let S be the reverse of the string to be encoded
S = 7654321
2. The string is then "weighted" using a repeating weighting factor pattern. There are two modulo 11 algorithms which use different repeated weighting factor patterns: the IBM algorithm which uses (2,3,4,5,6,7), and the NCR algorithm which uses (2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9). Get the sum of the string by looping through each character and multiply it by a weight from 2 to 7 (IBM) or 2 to 9 (NCR) depending on its position. If the weight's value exceeds the highest number (7 or 9), reset the weight back to 2.
This example is using the IBM modulo 11 algorithm with a weighting pattern of (2,3,4,5,6,7)
Let X = the final product of the string to encode.
X = 7 * 2
X = 6 * 3
X = 5 * 4
X = 4 * 5
X = 3 * 6
X = 2 * 7
X = 1 * 2
X = 14 + 18 + 20 + 20 + 18 + 14 + 2
X = 106
3. Mod the sum by 11, subtract the result from 11, and then apply the mod 11 function again.
Let C equal the check digit.
C = (11 - (X mod 11)) mod 11
C = (11 - (106 mod 11)) mod 11
C = (11 - 7) mod 11
C = 4 mod 11
C = 4
The check digit is 4.
Mod 1010 check digit
Simply calculate the Mod 10 check digit the first time and then calculate it again with the previous result and append the result of the second Mod 10 Calculation to the string to be encoded.
Mod 1110 check digit
Same as Mod 1010 but the first calculation should be a Mod 11 Check digit.
Example
As an example, we will generate an MSI barcode for the number sequence 12 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20Service%20Processor | The System Service Processor (often abbreviated as SSP) is a SPARC-based computer that is used to control the Sun Microsystems Enterprise 10000 platform. The term SSP is often used to describe both the computer hardware and the software that are necessary to accomplish this task.
Functionality
The System Service Processor software provided for the following functionality:
Environmental monitoring and automated domain-shutdown in the event of an out-of-bounds condition, such as a CPU getting too hot.
The creation and destruction of domains
The ability to boot domains
Domain console device
Dynamic Reconfiguration of domains, in which CPU, memory, and/or Input-Output boards are added to or removed from a running domain.
Assign multiple paths to Input-Output devices for increased availability
Monitor and display platform environmental statistics, such as the temperatures, currents, and voltages present on System Boards
Monitor and control power flow to the platform components such as System Boards and Control Boards
Power On Self Test and similar platform diagnostics
Logging and Notification for various platform events
The creation and destruction of Inter Domain Networks (IDNs) which allow for TCP/IP connectivity between domains, across the platform's centerplane.
Support for a dual power-grid option
Several utilities were provided with the SSP software packages, including hostview, a program that provided an X Window System interface for platform maintenance, and several CLI programs.
Implementation
Normally, two System Service Processors were used per platform. One was configured as Main and the other as Spare. Only the SSP in the role of Main could control the platform at any given time. Failover between Main and Spare was performed automatically by the SSP software.
Supported hardware platforms
The following systems were supported for use as System Service Processors:
Sun SPARCstation 5
Sun Ultra 5
Sun Enterprise 250
Sun Netra T1
See also
Baseboard Management Controller
IBM System Guard, a service processor on most RS/6000 machines
Intel Management Engine
References
Sun Enterprise 10000 SSP 3.5 User Guide, October 2001
External links
Sun Enterprise 10000 SSP 3.5 Collection
Sun Microsystems hardware
Sun Microsystems software
SPARC microprocessor products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual%20clustering | Conceptual clustering is a machine learning paradigm for unsupervised classification that has been defined by Ryszard S. Michalski in 1980 (Fisher 1987, Michalski 1980) and developed mainly during the 1980s. It is distinguished from ordinary data clustering by generating a concept description for each generated class. Most conceptual clustering methods are capable of generating hierarchical category structures; see Categorization for more information on hierarchy. Conceptual clustering is closely related to formal concept analysis, decision tree learning, and mixture model learning.
Conceptual clustering vs. data clustering
Conceptual clustering is obviously closely related to data clustering; however, in conceptual clustering it is not only the inherent structure of the data that drives cluster formation, but also the Description language which is available to the learner. Thus, a statistically strong grouping in the data may fail to be extracted by the learner if the prevailing concept description language is incapable of describing that particular regularity. In most implementations, the description language has been limited to feature conjunction, although in COBWEB (see "COBWEB" below), the feature language is probabilistic.
List of published algorithms
A fair number of algorithms have been proposed for conceptual clustering. Some examples are given below:
CLUSTER/2 (Michalski & Stepp 1983)
COBWEB (Fisher 1987)
CYRUS (Kolodner 1983)
GALOIS (Carpineto & Romano 1993),
GCF (Talavera & Béjar 2001)
INC (Hadzikadic & Yun 1989)
ITERATE (Biswas, Weinberg & Fisher 1998),
LABYRINTH (Thompson & Langley 1989)
SUBDUE (Jonyer, Cook & Holder 2001).
UNIMEM (Lebowitz 1987)
WITT (Hanson & Bauer 1989),
More general discussions and reviews of conceptual clustering can be found in the following publications:
Michalski (1980)
Gennari, Langley, & Fisher (1989)
Fisher & Pazzani (1991)
Fisher & Langley (1986)
Stepp & Michalski (1986)
Example: A basic conceptual clustering algorithm
This section discusses the rudiments of the conceptual clustering algorithm COBWEB. There are many other algorithms using different heuristics and "category goodness" or category evaluation criteria, but COBWEB is one of the best known. The reader is referred to the bibliography for other methods.
Knowledge representation
The COBWEB data structure is a hierarchy (tree) wherein each node represents a given concept. Each concept represents a set (actually, a multiset or bag) of objects, each object being represented as a binary-valued property list. The data associated with each tree node (i.e., concept) are the integer property counts for the objects in that concept. For example, (see figure), let a concept contain the following four objects (repeated objects being permitted).
[1 0 1]
[0 1 1]
[0 1 0]
[0 1 1]
The three properties might be, for example, [is_male, has_wings, is_nocturnal]. Then what is stored at this concept node is the property count |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot%20%28Ugly%20Betty%29 | "Pilot" is the first episode and the series premiere of the American comedy-drama series Ugly Betty. It first aired on September 28, 2006 on the ABC network in the United States. This is also the most watched episode of the season and the series with more than 16 million viewers.
Plot
Betty Suarez, an unglamorous woman in her 20s, starts work for a fashion magazine called MODE, and in the process is introduced to the harsh treatment she will have to deal with from her more beautiful co-workers. She also meets with her boss, Daniel Meade, who was just named the new editor in chief by his father, Bradford Meade. Daniel succeeds the revered Fey Sommers, who was killed in a suspicious car accident. The announcement of Daniel being named editor-in-chief does not sit well with Wilhelmina Slater, the magazine's creative editor who has been vying for the position herself.
Daniel is not keen about having Betty working with him because she is homely, so he plots to have her quit by giving her difficult and outrageous tasks. When Betty gets wind of this from the company seamstress, Christina McKinney, she is badly hurt and says that perhaps that is the way she was supposed to land a job. After Daniel makes Betty stand in for an embarrassing modeling shoot, he has a change of heart after realizing what he is putting her through and halts the shoot as Betty walks out in anger and tears, leaving a regretful Daniel behind.
In her personal life, Betty has to deal with her sister Hilda Suarez, a single mother who thinks that her college-educated sister is not cut out for work in the fashion world, and wants Betty to join her in selling Herbalux. Betty takes responsibility for her father Ignacio Suarez by phoning his HMO to get treatment for his health condition. As well as this, Betty's boyfriend, Walter, dumps her for her neighbor Gina Gambarro. After going to Gina's house to complain about her dating activities, and walking in on her making out with another man, Betty learns that Gina was using Walter in order to get a discount on a plasma TV. Fuming, Betty storms out of Gina's house, accidentally destroying the TV in the process.
Daniel later learns that he is in danger of losing the Fabia cosmetics account, unaware that he is being sabotaged by Wilhelmina and his best friend, a photographer who has been known to plagiarize other people's work (after Betty mentions a layout he did) and is responsible for the aforementioned shoot that Betty was in. After seeing a new cosmetics layout proposal created by Betty, Daniel realizes that he needs her. Walter later ends things with Gina and tries to convince Betty to take him back. However, they are interrupted when Daniel walks in, so Betty tells Walter to leave, after which Daniel makes a passionate plea to her to return after seeing her layout proposal. Betty eventually returns and in the process not only saves the campaign, but also his job.
Meanwhile, Wilhelmina pays a visit to a person whose face is partiall |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novell%20Embedded%20Systems%20Technology | Novell Embedded Systems Technology (NEST) was a series of APIs, data formats and network protocol stacks written in a highly portable fashion intended to be used in embedded systems. The idea was to allow various small devices to access Novell NetWare services, provide such services, or use NetWare's IPX protocol as a communications system (and later also TCP/IP). Novell referred to this concept as "Extended Networks", and when the effort was launched they boasted that they wanted to see one billion devices connected to NetWare networks by year 2000. NEST was launched in mid-1994 countering Microsoft's similar Microsoft at Work efforts, which had been launched in 1993.
Neither technology saw much third-party support, although some of NEST's code was apparently re-used in Novell Distributed Print Services (NDPS), and thus iPrint.
Architecture
NEST consisted primarily of a Novell protocol driver stack implemented in ANSI C. The stack included drivers for then-popular networking hardware, including Ethernet, Token Ring, AppleTalk (actually referring to LocalTalk, a common confusion) and ISDN, as well as higher-level modules for protocols such as Novell's own IPX, and AppleTalk, and later TCP/IP.
The NetWare Services Layer added support for application protocols, notably NetWare client services such as file servers and network time synchronization, and the NEST Requester which acted as a pipe-like endpoint for lightweight communications.
Orthogonal to these services, NEST also included basic implementations of Novell's PSERVER and NPRINTER servers.
Finally, NEST also defined an operating system interface known as POSE (Portable Operating System Extension), which was a thin translation module defining all of the calls NEST needed to support its own functionality, things like memory management and process creation (as POSIX 1003.1, 1003.4, and 1003.4A subsets), which the developer ported to the particular platform of interest. NEST was deliberately written to be able to run from ROM without secondary storage (i.e., it had no long-term state it needed to store).
Whereas the Digital Research-inherited modular real-time multi-user multi-tasking operating system FlexOS was used by Novell as a primary test platform during development, NEST did not include an operating system of its own, and instead was intended to be used on existing platforms and OSs.
One such third-party OS to support NEST in 1995 was pSOS+ by Integrated Systems (ISI) a company who had bought FlexOS from Novell for US$3,000,000 in July 1994. The deal comprised a direct payment of half this sum as well as shares representing 2% of the company.
The NEST code was deliberately modular, in order to allow developers to use as much or as little of the overall package as they needed. It was expected that developers would pick and choose the components they needed, for instance, a device reporting status over the network might choose only the NEST Requester, IPX and an Ethernet driver, remo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geophysical%20survey | Geophysical survey is the systematic collection of geophysical data for spatial studies. Detection and analysis of the geophysical signals forms the core of Geophysical signal processing. The magnetic and gravitational fields emanating from the Earth's interior hold essential information concerning seismic activities and the internal structure. Hence, detection and analysis of the electric and Magnetic fields is very crucial. As the Electromagnetic and gravitational waves are multi-dimensional signals, all the 1-D transformation techniques can be extended for the analysis of these signals as well. Hence this article also discusses multi-dimensional signal processing techniques.
Geophysical surveys may use a great variety of sensing instruments, and data may be collected from above or below the Earth's surface or from aerial, orbital, or marine platforms. Geophysical surveys have many applications in geology, archaeology, mineral and energy exploration, oceanography, and engineering. Geophysical surveys are used in industry as well as for academic research.
The sensing instruments such as gravimeter, gravitational wave sensor and magnetometers detect fluctuations in the gravitational and magnetic field. The data collected from a geophysical survey is analysed to draw meaningful conclusions out of that. Analysing the spectral density and the time-frequency localisation of any signal is important in applications such as oil exploration and seismography.
Types of geophysical survey
There are many methods and types of instruments used in geophysical surveys. Technologies used for geophysical surveys include:
Seismic methods, such as reflection seismology, seismic refraction, and seismic tomography. This type of survey is carried out to discover the detailed structure of the rock formations beneath the surface of the Earth.
Seismoelectrical method
Geodesy and gravity techniques, including gravimetry and gravity gradiometry. This type of survey is carried out to discover the structure of rock formations beneath the surface of the Earth.
Magnetic techniques, including aeromagnetic surveys and magnetometers.
Electrical techniques, including electrical resistivity tomography, induced polarization, spontaneous potential and marine control source electromagnetic (mCSEM) or EM seabed logging. This type of survey is carried out mainly to study the existence of groundwater.
Electromagnetic methods, such as magnetotellurics, ground penetrating radar and transient/time-domain electromagnetics, surface nuclear magnetic resonance (also known as magnetic resonance sounding).
Borehole geophysics, also called well logging.
Remote sensing techniques, including hyperspectral.
Geophysical signal detection
This section deals with the principles behind measurement of geophysical waves. The magnetic and gravitational fields are important components of geophysical signals.
The instrument used to measure the change in gravitational field is the gravimeter. This |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastContact | FastContact is an algorithm for the rapid estimate of contact and binding free energies for protein–protein complex structures. It is based on a statistically determined desolvation contact potential and Coulomb electrostatics with a distance-dependent dielectric constant. The application also reports residue contact free energies that rapidly highlight the hotspots of the interaction.
The programme was written in Fortran 77 by Carlos J. Camacho and Chao Zhang at the Department of Computational Biology, University of Pittsburgh, PA. A web server for running FastContact online or downloading the binary was set up by P. Christoph Champ in July 2005.
References
External links
FastContact binaries — binaries are freely available for download (with documentation).
FastContact Server — set up by P. Christoph Champ in July 2005.
FastContact Wiki
Bioinformatics
Fortran software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switchover | Switchover is the manual switch from one system to a redundant or standby computer server, system, or network upon the failure or abnormal termination of the previously active server, system, or network, or to perform system maintenance, such as installing patches, and upgrading software or hardware.
Automatic switchover of a redundant system on an error condition, without human intervention, is called failover. Manual switchover on error would be used if automatic failover is not available, possibly because the overall system is too complex.
See also
Safety engineering
Data integrity
Fault-tolerance
HA Clusters
Business continuity planning
References
Engineering failures
Fault-tolerant computer systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakarta%20XML%20Web%20Services | The Jakarta XML Web Services (JAX-WS; formerly Java API for XML Web Services) is a Jakarta EE API for creating web services, particularly SOAP services. JAX-WS is one of the Java XML programming APIs.
Overview
The JAX-WS 2.2 specification JSR 224 defines a standard Java- to-WSDL mapping which determines how WSDL operations are bound to Java methods when a SOAP message invokes a WSDL operation. This Java-to-WSDL mapping determines which Java method gets invoked and how that SOAP message is mapped to the method’s parameters.
This mapping also determines how the method’s return value gets mapped to the SOAP response.
JAX-WS uses annotations, introduced in Java SE 5, to simplify the development and deployment of web service clients and endpoints. It is part of the Java Web Services Development Pack. JAX-WS can be used in Java SE starting with version 6. As of Java SE 11, JAX-WS was removed. For details, see JEP 320.
JAX-WS 2.0 replaced the JAX-RPC API in Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 which leans more towards document style Web Services.
This API provides the core of Eclipse Metro.
JAX-WS also is one of the foundations of WSIT.
Standards Supported
JAX-WS 2.0/2.1/2.2 (JSR 224)
WS-I Basic Profile 1.2 and 2.0
WS-I Attachments Profile 1.0
WS-I Simple SOAP Binding Profile 1.0
WS-Addressing 1.0 - Core, SOAP Binding, WSDL Binding
Main JWS Packages
XML Web Services related Specs
Implementations
Eclipse Metro in Eclipse Enterprise for Java (EE4J)
Apache CXF
Apache Axis2
JBossWS in WildFly
IBM WebSphere Jax-Ws in WebSphere
Oracle Weblogic
References
External links
java.net project pages
JAX-WS java.net project page
GlassFish java.net project page
Documentation
JAX-WS Javadoc
JAX-WS in the Java EE 5 Tutorial
Tutorials
JAX-WS Tutorials
Java enterprise platform
Java API for XML
Web service specifications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AgentSheets | AgentSheets was one of the first modern block-based programming language for children. The idea of AgentSheets was to overcome syntactic challenges found in common text-based programming languages by using drag-and-drop mechanisms conceptualizing commands such as conditions and actions as editable blocks that could be composed into programs. Ideas such as this are used in various other programming languages, such as Scratch though it does cost money to use most of the blocks. AgentSheets is used to create media-rich projects such as games and interactive simulations. The main building blocks of AgentSheets are agents which are interactive objects programmed through rules. Using conditions agents can sense the user input including mouse, keyboard and in some versions even speech recognition and web page content. Using actions agents can move, produce sounds, open web pages, and compute formulas.
History
AgentSheets was initially considered as a cyberlearning tool to teach students programming and related information technology skills through game design.
AgentSheets is supported by a middle and high school curriculum called Scalable Game Design aligned with the ISTE National Educational Technology Standards (NETS). The mission of this project is to reinvent computer science in public schools by motivating & educating all students (including women and underrepresented communities) to learn about computer science through game design starting at the middle school level. Through this curriculum students build increasingly sophisticated games and, as part of this process, learn about computational concepts at the level of computational thinking that are relevant to game design as well as to computational science. The curriculum is made available through the Scalable Game Design Wiki. Research investigating motivational aspects of computer science education in public schools is currently exploring the introduction of game design in representative regions of the U.S. including technology hubs, inner city, rural and remote/tribal areas. Previous research has already found that game design with AgentSheets is universally accessible across gender as well as ethnicity and is not limited to students interested in playing video games.
The results of the NSF ITEST program supported research investigating motivational and educational aspects of introducing computer science at the middle school level are extremely positive in terms of motivational levels, number of participants and participation of women and underrepresented communities. The participation is extremely high because most middle schools participating in the study have made Scalable Game Design a module that is part of existing required courses (e.g., computer power with keyboarding and power point). Many of the middle schools instruct all of their students in scalable game design reaching in some schools over 900 students per year, per school. Of the over 1000 students participating in the projec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberThrill | CyberThrill is one of the first and now-defunct online casinos, which gained it notoriety for one of the largest organised international sponsorship (and gambling) frauds, through its ad serving program. Formed in 1997 and located in Nassau, Bahamas, the company was represented by the Canadian firm Internet Entertainment Enterprises, Inc. (based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) which also handled the casino's marketing and banner advertising program. The online casino was eventually taken offline some time in late 2000-early 2001 by disgruntled webmasters who had fallen victim to the scam. The former location of cyberThrill was CyberThrill.com, which is today an Ad driven parked domain.
History
1997–2000: Ad program
As one of the foremost methods of website revenue in the late 1990s, website owners used to enroll in CyberThrill's ad serving program to display banners on their websites, similar to the contemporary AdSense program (by Google). CyberThrill ran the program to exclusively send gamblers to the casino website. The program itself was administered on a per-click basis.
The reason behind CyberThrill's popularity were claims of above-average $0.20 per click-through. Many webmasters joined the program and brought traffic to the online casino, but very few got paid. CyberThrill occasionally would send out a small, first check ($5 or $10) to 'show' legitimacy to the program. However, once the user's account reached in excess of $50 to $100, the casino would withhold payment or simply terminated the contract with the webmaster, on claims that CyberThrill's terms were breached.
Though click fraud was rampant (as has been the case with AdSense and other ad serving programs), many webmasters nonetheless earned their clicks fairly, but were still cheated by the casino.
2000–2001: Demise
The online casino was eventually destroyed some time in late 2000-early 2001 in an attack by webmasters who were scammed by the program. MungaBunga, owner of Hackology.co, created a JavaScript program that registered millions of fake accounts into the CyberThrill database, overloaded the company's servers and prevented new members from registering. Other cheated webmasters participated in the attack.
See also
AdSense
References
Online gambling companies of the Bahamas
Defunct casinos
Defunct online companies
Online advertising
Internet fraud |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewYork-Presbyterian%20Healthcare%20System | The NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System is a network of independent, cooperating, acute-care and community hospitals, continuum-of-care facilities, home-health agencies, ambulatory sites, and specialty institutes in the New York metropolitan area. , the System was the largest receiver of Medicare payments in the United States.
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, along with Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons run the system.
Each hospital in the system is an affiliate of either of the two medical colleges.
To become a part of the system, institutions must meet standards of the organization and to remain in it, "each must continue to pursue a quality agenda, which includes review and evaluation of clinical, operational, and financial data," according to the Web site of the organization. Member institutions share their knowledge and expertise, including knowledge of best practices in various fields.
List of hospitals in the system
These hospitals, in addition to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and its connected hospitals, are in the system:
New York City
Gracie Square Hospital in Manhattan, New York
Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan, New York (Cornell)
Lower Manhattan Hospital in Manhattan, New York (Cornell)
NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, New York
NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens in Queens, New York
Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital in Manhattan, New York
New York State
Helen Hayes Hospital in Haverstraw, New York (Columbia)
Lawrence Hospital Center in Bronxville, New York (Columbia)
Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, New York (Columbia)
Westchester Division in White Plains, New York
Hudson Valley Hospital in Cortlandt Manor, New York
Long-term care institutions in the system
Amsterdam Nursing Home
Fort Tryon Center For Rehabilitation And Nursing
Franklin Center For Rehabilitation And Nursing
Freidwald Center For Rehabilitation And Nursing
Manhattanville Health Care Center
Menorah Home and Hospital
New York United Hospital Medical Center Skilled Nursing Pavilion
St. Barnabas Nursing Home
St. Mary's Hospital for Children
Shore View Nursing Home
The Silvercrest Center For Nursing and Rehabilitation
Tandet Center for Continuing Care (part of Stamford Hospital)
Specialty institutes in the system
Community Healthcare Network
Gracie Square Hospital
Helen Hayes Hospital
New York College of Podiatric Medicine & Foot Clinics of New York
The Rogosin Institute
References
External links
NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System
Hospital networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Ckubo%20Tadataka | or Ōkubo Hikozaemon (大久保 彦左衛門) (1560 – April 2, 1639) was a Japanese warrior in the Sengoku and Edo periods. He was the eighth son of Ōkubo Tadakazu, a vassal of the Tokugawa clan. Tadataka wrote the , a work he wrote for his descendants, telling the way a warrior should live, mixed with a chronicle of the accomplishments of the Tokugawa and Ōkubo clans.
Biography
Tadataka was born in Kamiwada, Mikawa Province, the son of Tokugawa retainer Ōkubo Tadakazu. His older brother was Ōkubo Tadayo. He joined Tadayo at age 17 for his first campaign, during the subjugation of Tōtōmi Province. Tadataka's first battle was the siege of Inui Castle. From then on, he fought in many battles, under Tadayo or his other brother, Ōkubo Tadasuke. Tadataka served with distinction at the Battle of Takatenjin Castle, taking the head of enemy general Okabe Motonobu. He also fought at the siege of Ueda Castle. After the Siege of Odawara, when Tokugawa Ieyasu moved to the Kantō Region, he granted Tadataka land assessed at 3,000 koku, and appointed him yari-bugyō (magistrate of spears) in the Tokugawa main battle camp.
Tadataka also served at Sekigahara and the Siege of Osaka; his service stretched over the careers of the first three Tokugawa shōguns.
Tadataka died at age 80. His graves are in Okazaki, Kyoto, and at Ryūgyō-ji, a temple in Minato, Tokyo.
References
Japanese Wiki article on Tadataka (21 Sept. 2007)
Further reading
Bolitho, Harold. (1974). Treasures Among Men: The Fudai Daimyo in Tokugawa Japan. New Haven: Yale University Press. ; OCLC 185685588
Tsumoto Yō 津本陽 (2004). Ōkubo Hikozaemon: fufū no toki koso 大久保彦左衛門: 不遇の時こそ. Tokyo: Kōbunsha 光文社.
Ōkubo clan
1560 births
1639 deaths
Hatamoto
People from Okazaki, Aichi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinger%20%281986%20video%20game%29 | </noinclude>
Stinger is a shoot-'em-up video game developed and published by Konami. It was originally released for the Family Computer Disk System (FDS) in Japan in 1986, and later for the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America in late 1987, making it one of the few games in the series to have a release outside of Japan. As with Konami's other FDS titles, Castlevania and Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa, it was later re-released in 1993 as a standard Famicom game with some minor changes. Moero TwinBee was the second game in the TwinBee series, as well as the first of two TwinBee sequels released for the Famicom, followed by TwinBee 3: Poko Poko Daimaō in 1989.
Gameplay
Moero TwinBee can be played by up to three players simultaneously: the first two players control TwinBee and WinBee (the ships from the previous game) using the standard Famicom controllers, while the third player controls GwinBee (a green ship) by connecting an additional controller into the console's expansion port. Unlike the original TwinBee, which only featured vertical-scrolling stages, Moero TwinBee adds side-scrolling stages to the mix as well. There are seven stages in the game. Stage 1, 3, and 7 are side-scrolling stages, while the rest are vertical-scrolling stages. The controls remain the same between the two styles of gameplay, with the only difference being that in the side-scrolling segments, the A button shoots hearts over the ship instead of dropping bombs into the ground like the vertical-scrolling segments, which helps the player keep the power-up bells afloat in the side-scrolling stages.
The player's primary power-up items are once again bells that uncovered by shooting floating clouds throughout the stages. There are six types of bells in this installment: the regular yellow bells give the player bonus points as usual, the blue bell increases the ship's speed; the white bell upgrades the player's gun into a twin cannon; the pink bell gives the player a laser beam cannon; the flashing pink/white bell gives the player's ship mirror options for added firepower; and the flashing blue/white bell will surround the player's ship with a barrier for extra protection from enemy fire. Some power-ups are mutually exclusive, such as the white and pink bells. Other power-ups can be obtained by destroying ground enemies such as a moon item and star item which gives the player's ship a three-way shot and a five-way shot respectively. If two players are playing the game, they can align their ship together to turn their gun into a ripple laser.
Notes
References
1986 video games
Famicom Disk System games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
TwinBee games
Video game sequels
Video games developed in Japan
Video games scored by Kiyohiro Sada
Virtual Console games
Virtual Console games for Wii U |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bots%21%21 | Bots!! was a massively multiplayer online game (MMO) created by Acclaim Games as the company's launch title and most popular game, with the theme of robots fighting against computer viruses. Players choose from one of three basic BOTS and level up their character through gameplay and buying items with virtual credits called gigas. Three game modes exist for the game: Sector Battle, Player versus Player, and Base Battle. A Korean version of the game, called BOUT!! (Bots Of Unlimited Transformation), also existed and was nearly identical, but received new updates earlier than the American version. BOUT!! was intended to be originally released on Xbox, but ended up being solely released on PC.
Beta testing for BOTS!! began in March 2006. It received its full release in November 2006, eventually reaching 1 million players in May 2007. The online servers were shut down on August 27, 2010 following the purchase of Acclaim Games by Playdom and Disney's purchasing of Playdom for $763 million.
Game modes
Sector Battle (PVE)
In Sector Battle mode, a team of up to eight players must face viruses in different levels. The level played is chosen by the party host from a list of levels numbered irregularly from 1 to 95, with the stipulation that the party host has completed the level before, or the level immediately before it. Each level gives different enemy viruses and obstacles, and every few levels fit a similar environment theme. Every level is segmented in to sections that must be cleared of enemies before proceeding.
At the end of each level, a boss virus must be fought. Boss viruses are typically named after real-world malware such as Melissa (computer virus) or Code Red (computer worm), and have large special attacks. When a boss is successfully destroyed item crates may drop containing random armor pieces to use or sell to other players. Barrels scattered around the level can be destroyed and may contain an item crate or an enemy. The likelihood of an item appearing is based on the number of players in group or whether any of them have a "lucky" item attached. The reward is obtained by whichever player first reaches it, meaning that players who contributed little to the fight are able to receive the item, while a player who dealt the most damage or final blow to the boss might receive nothing.
The player who kills the most viruses is titled the "MVP" and receives a small experience bonus equal to the number of people in the group.
The player who deals the most damage to the boss and is hit the least is titled "Boss Killer No. 1" and also receives a small experience bonus. Bonus exp can also be received by wearing "coin" items bought with real money, at an increased rate of 2 experience points per coin item.
Elite Levels
Elite levels occur in sector mode on level numbers ending in eight. These levels reward approximately twice the normal amount of experience and Gigas, but are also far more difficult than usual to complete. The bosses on these l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innocent%20Venus | is a Japanese anime television series which began broadcasting on the Wowow network in Japan on July 26, 2006 at midnight. The series makes use of some 3D cel-shaded animation, which achieves a more "hand drawn" look than traditional 3D animation. At Anime Boston 2007, ADV Films announced they licensed for the show (for $120,000). On July 11, 2008 ADV announced that it was discontinuing printing of the DVDs.
Plot
In the near future, after the world population and economy is devastated by a series of simultaneous hypercanes, many different factions and fledgling nations appear. In Japan, an elite class called Logos appears, controlling special zones in the country which have most of the wealth and resources. These special zones were created with the help of Power Assist Technology, which allowed Japan to recover from the consequences of the worldwide disaster (which included a combination of land subsidence and rising sea levels resulting in the permanent submerging of low-lying areas and a subsequent ice age in much of the Northern Hemisphere), albeit to a strictly limited degree. The Logos exercise control over the Revenus, a lower class who mostly live in devastated and often poverty stricken zones (urban or in close proximity) and areas (rural) known as Levinas (e.g. Levinas Sector Six, Area 18) and who struggle from day to day in order to stay alive. The Revenus are generally restricted from entering the special zones, causing tension which creates a resistance movement which fights back against the Logos.
With the tagline "A Near Future Late-Shogunate Action Animation", the story draws analogies with 19th-century Japan at the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate period, just before the Boshin War.
The story proper is mainly set in 2035 AD. Jō and Jin defect from Phantom, an elite Japanese military special operations group which is used to help control the Revenus. When they escape, they take a young girl named Sana with them. The series follows them as they work to avoid being caught by Phantom and the regular military forces of the Logos. However, there are more to things than meet the eye.
Episode list
The opening theme is "Noble Roar" by Yōsei Teikoku while the ending theme is "Brand New Reason" by Fleet.
Staff
Director: Jun Kawagoe
Series Composition: Shinsuke Ōnishi
Original Character Design: Shō Kōya
Character Design: Hideki Nagamachi
Mechanical Design: Hiroshi Ogawa
Art Design: Jirō Kōno, Minoru Yasuhara
Art Director: Katsuhiro Haji
Color Design: Kōchi Usui
Cinematography Director: Megumi Saitō
3D Director: Yūichi Gotō
Editor: Masaki Sakamoto
Audio Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami
Sound Effects: Yasumasa Koyama
Sound Production: Half H•P Studio
Music: Tomohisa Ishikawa
Music Production: Lantis
Animation Production: Brain's Base
Produced by Bandai Visual
Notes
References
General references
External links
Official website
ADV Films
Anime with original screenplays
Brain's Base
Bandai Visual
Drama anime and manga
Dystopian anime and manga |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated%20vulnerability%20disclosure | In computer security, coordinated vulnerability disclosure (CVD, formerly known as responsible disclosure) is a vulnerability disclosure model in which a vulnerability or an issue is disclosed to the public only after the responsible parties have been allowed sufficient time to patch or remedy the vulnerability or issue. This coordination distinguishes the CVD model from the "full disclosure" model.
Developers of hardware and software often require time and resources to repair their mistakes. Often, it is ethical hackers who find these vulnerabilities. Hackers and computer security scientists have the opinion that it is their social responsibility to make the public aware of vulnerabilities. Hiding problems could cause a feeling of false security. To avoid this, the involved parties coordinate and negotiate a reasonable period of time for repairing the vulnerability. Depending on the potential impact of the vulnerability, the expected time needed for an emergency fix or workaround to be developed and applied and other factors, this period may vary between a few days and several months.
Coordinated vulnerability disclosure may fail to satisfy security researchers who expect to be financially compensated. At the same time, reporting vulnerabilities with the expectation of compensation is viewed by some as extortion. While a market for vulnerabilities has developed, vulnerability commercialization (or "bug bounties") remains a hotly debated topic. Today, the two primary players in the commercial vulnerability market are iDefense, which started their vulnerability contributor program (VCP) in 2003, and TippingPoint, with their zero-day initiative (ZDI) started in 2005. These organizations follow the coordinated vulnerability disclosure process with the material bought. Between March 2003 and December 2007 an average 7.5% of the vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft and Apple were processed by either VCP or ZDI. Independent firms financially supporting coordinated vulnerability disclosure by paying bug bounties include Facebook, Google, and Barracuda Networks.
Disclosure policies
Google Project Zero has a 90-day disclosure deadline which starts after notifying vendors of vulnerability, with details shared in public with the defensive community after 90 days, or sooner if the vendor releases a fix.
ZDI has a 120-day disclosure deadline which starts after receiving a response from the vendor.
Examples
Selected security vulnerabilities resolved by applying coordinated disclosure:
MD5 collision attack that shows how to create false CA certificates, 1 week
Starbucks gift card double-spending/race condition to create free extra credits, 10 days (Egor Homakov)
Dan Kaminsky discovery of DNS cache poisoning, 5 months
MBTA vs. Anderson, MIT students find vulnerability in the Massachusetts subway security, 5 months
Radboud University Nijmegen breaks the security of the MIFARE Classic cards, 6 months
The Meltdown vulnerability, hardware vulnerability af |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPLS%20local%20protection | MPLS Fast Reroute (also called MPLS local restoration or MPLS local protection) is a local restoration network resiliency mechanism. It is actually a feature of resource reservation protocol (RSVP) traffic engineering (RSVP-TE). In MPLS local protection each label-switched path (LSP) passing through a facility is protected by a backup path which originates at the node immediately upstream to that facility.
This node which redirects the traffic onto the preset backup path is called the Point of Local Repair (PLR), and the node where a backup LSP merges with the primary LSP is called Merge Point (MP). This mechanism (local protection) provides faster recovery because the decision of recovery is strictly local. For comparison, when recovery mechanisms are employed at the IP layer, restoration may take several seconds which is unacceptable for real-time applications (such as VoIP). In contrast, MPLS local protection meets the requirements of real-time applications with recovery times comparable to those of shortest path bridging networks or SONET rings (< 50 ms).
Local protection approaches
There are two distinct approaches to local protection: (1) one-to-one local protection (detour) (2) many-to-one local protection (facility backup).
One-to-one local protection
In one-to-one backup approach, the PLRs maintain separate backup paths for each LSP passing through a facility. The backup path terminates by merging back with the primary path at a node called the Merge Point (MP). In one-to-one backup approach, the MP can be any node downstream from the protected facility. Maintaining state information for backup paths protecting individual LSPs, as in the one-to-one approach, is a significant resource burden for the PLR. Moreover, periodic refresh messages sent by the PLR, in order to maintain each backup path, may become a network bottleneck.
Many-to-one local protection
In many-to-one approach, a PLR maintains a single backup path to protect a set of primary LSPs traversing the triplet (PLR, facility, MP). Thus, fewer states need to be maintained and refreshed which results in a scalable solution. The many-to-one backup approach is also called facility backup. Note that in this approach, the MP should be the node immediately downstream to the facility.
Example
In Fig.1 (right), there is a primary path (label-switched path, or LSP) from A to E via B and D. The traffic of customers connected to A and E will take this path in normal operation. There is also a secondary path (LSP) from A to E via C. This path can be either pre-signaled or not. For the primary LSP, FRR (Fast ReRoute) is enabled. Once enabled, the other network elements on the LSP will know that FRR is enabled. Let's assume there is a break between D and E. D will immediately know this and will inform B and A. For A to know that there is a failure between D and E takes a while, but since D knows about the failure immediately and FRR is enabled on the LSP, it uses the detour path D- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched%20communication%20network | In computer networking and telecommunications, a switched communication network is a communication network which uses switching for connection of two non-adjacent nodes.
Switched communication networks are divided into circuit switched networks, message switched networks, and packet switched networks.
See also
Broadcast communication network
Fully connected network
Network architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast%20communication%20network | In computer networking and telecommunications, a broadcast communication network is a communication network which uses broadcasting for communication between its nodes. They take messages from a single sender and transmit to all endpoints on the network. For example, radio, television, etc.
See also
Fully connected network
Multicast
Switched communication network
Telecommunications engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20%28video%20game%29 | Network is a real-time, two player business simulation game developed by David Mullich for the Apple II and published by Edu-Ware in 1980.
Gameplay
Two players play competitively against the computer, each taking the role of the programming chief for a major television network. Each side bids on new television shows to add to the season's line-up, schedules them, monitors the weekly ratings, and then drops shows with poor ratings or reschedules them to recover from mistakes at the end of the thirteen-week season. The side with the highest ratings is the winner.
Reception
Bruce Webster reviewed Network in The Space Gamer No. 31. Webster commented that "Unfortunately, I just could not get interested in the game. It moves slowly and requires (for intelligent play) that the players keep track of a lot of information that is not always easily accessible. One friend I played against quit out of boredom at one point, and I found myself yawning. There is a lack of tension, which means that personal interest must be the overriding factor in playing the game - and I'm just not that interested in network planning. If you are, then this is the game for you; otherwise, I'm afraid you'll just be disappointed."
References
External links
1980 video games
Apple II games
Apple II-only games
Business simulation games
Edu-Ware games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Langston | Peter Langston (born 1946) is a computer programmer who wrote and distributed for free several games for Unix systems in the 1970s, including one of the earliest text adventure video games Wander, the original version of Empire and the program "Oracle" upon which the later net-wide Oracle was modeled. He is also an experienced jazz, rock, and folk musician.
In 1982, he was hired by the Computer Division of Lucasfilm to start Lucasfilm Games. He hired the programming and design teams and wrote the music for and contributed to the game design of Lucasfilm Games' first two releases, Ballblazer and Rescue on Fractalus!. In fact, for Ballblazer, Langston created an algorithmic composition system, which allowed the game to improvise music (from an initial set of musical snippets contributed by famous musicians) based on what is happening in the game. Langston later left Lucasfilm Games for Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies). Langston retired in 1991 and is now consulting and running adult music camps.
External links
Peter Langston's Home Page
Musicians from Seattle
American folk guitarists
American male guitarists
American rock guitarists
Living people
1946 births
Guitarists from Washington (state)
Lucasfilm people
20th-century American guitarists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan%20Software | Vulcan Software was an independent computer games company founded in 1994 in the UK. Vulcan started creating software for the Amiga computer systems. Its first commercial game was Valhalla and the Lord of Infinity, which was notable for being the first ever Amiga speech adventure game. In January 1999, Vulcan Software started development for PC computer systems. The Director of Vulcan Software is Paul Carrington. In 2007, Vulcan announced a partnership with Amiga, Inc to develop older Amiga games for PCs and other devices.
Games
Valhalla and the Lord of Infinity
Valhalla: Before the War
Valhalla and the Fortress of Eve
Timekeepers
JetPilot
Burnout
Tiny Troops
Hillsea Lido
Genetic Species
The Strangers
Uropa²: The Ulterior Colony
Final Odyssey: Theseus Verses The Minotaur
Third Party Creations Linked to Valhalla
It's a skull
References
External links
Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom
Video game companies established in 1994
1994 establishments in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog%20delay%20line | An analog delay line is a network of electrical components connected in cascade, where each individual element creates a time difference between its input and output. It operates on analog signals whose amplitude varies continuously. In the case of a periodic signal, the time difference can be described in terms of a change in the phase of the signal. One example of an analog delay line is a bucket-brigade device.
Other types of delay line include acoustic (usually ultrasonic), magnetostrictive, and surface acoustic wave devices. A series of resistor–capacitor circuits (RC circuits) can be cascaded to form a delay. A long transmission line can also provide a delay element. The delay time of an analog delay line may be only a few nanoseconds or several milliseconds, limited by the practical size of the physical medium used to delay the signal and the propagation speed of impulses in the medium.
Analog delay lines are applied in many types of signal processing circuits; for example the PAL television standard uses an analog delay line to store an entire video scanline. Acoustic and electromechanical delay lines are used to provide a "reverberation" effect in musical instrument amplifiers, or to simulate an echo. High-speed oscilloscopes used an analog delay line to allow observation of waveforms just before some triggering event.
With the growing use of digital signal processing techniques, digital forms of delay are practical and eliminate some of the problems with dissipation and noise in analog systems.
History
Inductor–capacitor ladder networks were used as analog delay lines in the 1920s. For example, Francis Hubbard's sonar direction finder patent filed in 1921. Hubbard referred to this as an Artificial transmission line. In 1941, Gerald Tawney of Sperry Gyroscope Company filed for a patent on a compact packaging of an inductor–capacitor ladder network that he explicitly referred to as a time delay line.
In 1924, Robert Mathes of Bell Telephone Laboratories filed a broad patent covering essentially all electromechanical delay lines, but focusing on acoustic delay lines where an air column confined to a pipe served as the mechanical medium, and a telephone receiver at one end and a telephone transmitter at the other end served as the electromechanical transducers. Mathes was motivated by the problem of echo suppression on long-distance telephone lines, and his patent clearly explained the fundamental relationship between inductor–capacitor ladder networks and mechanical elastic delay lines such as his acoustic line.
In 1938, William Spencer Percival of Electrical & Musical Industries (later EMI) applied for a patent on an acoustical delay line using piezoelectric transducers and a liquid medium. He used water or kerosene, with a 10 MHz carrier frequency, with multiple baffles and reflectors in the delay tank to create a long acoustic path in a relatively small tank.
In 1939, Laurens Hammond applied electromechanical delay lines to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoPDF | GeoPDF refers to map and imagery products created by TerraGo software applications. GeoPDF products use geospatial PDF as a container for maps, imagery, and other data used to deliver an enhanced user experience in TerraGo applications. However, GeoPDF products conform to published specifications including both the OGC best practice for PDF georegistration as well as Adobe's proposed geospatial extensions to ISO 32000, making them readable by applications such as Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Reader, Avenza PDF Maps, Global Mapper, and others.
GeoPDF products often include other advanced PDF features such as layers and object data which can add significant GIS functionality to the file, particularly when used with the TerraGo Technologies plugin to Adobe Reader or other TerraGo clients.
Distribution
GeoPDF products are used to deliver maps and imagery from multiple US government agencies. Quadrangles of The National Map are available from the USGS store in as GeoPDF products and are free to download. The US Army Corps of Engineers distributes GeoPDF maps through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Topographic Engineering Center. These include Country DVDs of standard National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) maps.
Naming
The GeoPDF trademark should not be confused with georeferencing techniques such as the OGC best practice or Adobe's geospatial extensions to ISO 32000 or with geospatial PDF files in general. Nothing about the georeferencing metadata in a GeoPDF product is proprietary; these metadata are embedded in conformance with published specifications and best practices. GeoPDF is best thought of as a branded instance of geospatial PDF.
See also
Geospatial PDF
The National Map
Further reading
US Topo
External links
TerraGo Technologies website
Adobe Geospatial PDF
USGS map store
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Topographic Engineering Center
National Spatial Data Infrastructure: Federal Geographic Data Committee
Avenza Systems Geospatial PDF Creator Software
Avenza PDF Maps
Adobe Inc.
Vector graphics
GIS file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Guevara | Max Guevara (X5-452) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the cyberpunk science fiction television program Dark Angel. During both seasons of the series, Max was portrayed by Jessica Alba; Geneva Locke played the character during flashbacks to her childhood. Over one thousand actresses were considered for the part of Max before Alba was given the role. Max also appears in three canonical novels based on the series as well as an apocryphal video game adaptation. Created by James Cameron and Charles H. Eglee, Max followed a long line of strong female characters in Cameron's work, including Sarah Connor and Ellen Ripley.
Max is a genetically enhanced transgenic supersoldier, created in a secret government lab known as Manticore. Along with 11 other children, Max escapes from the facility when she is 9 years old. Max attempts to live a normal life while eluding recapture by Manticore. She also searches for other escaped transgenics with the help of Logan Cale, a cyber-journalist also known as "Eyes Only". The character received mostly positive reception from critics, and Alba won several awards for her portrayal of Max. In 2004, Max was ranked at No. 17 in TV Guides list of the "25 Greatest Sci-Fi Legends."
Creation and appearances
Following his success with the film Titanic, director James Cameron teamed up with Charles H. Eglee. The two formed a production company, Cameron/Eglee Productions, and began working on ideas for a television series, eventually deciding on the idea of Dark Angel. Cameron said they began with the idea that Max would be a genetic construct who appeared normal but was different on a genetic level, saying "We explored what that could mean. Do her eyes look different? Were there things that manifest themselves? Were there negatives to it? We wanted her to have flaws, things that were built inlike Kryptonite." Max followed a long line of strong female characters in films directed Cameron, including Sarah Connor and Ellen Ripley. Cameron believes such characters are well received all round as women respond favourably to strong female characters and male audiences "want to see girls kick ass".
More than one thousand young actresses were considered for the part of Max before Jessica Alba was chosen; Cameron started reviewing audition tapes when it had been narrowed down to 20 or 30 applicants. Cameron said he was not overly impressed with Alba's acting skill or appearance in her audition tape, though he kept coming back and watching it as there was something about her attitude that he liked, eventually deciding he needed to see her in person. Alba was hired for the role before the scripts were written. Eglee said "We had the benefit of being able to write a script kind of backwards, we were writing for this actress, with her cadences and her rhythms and her sensibilities and her attitude and her slang." In order to train for the role, Alba spent a year doing martial arts and gymnastics and riding motorcycles.
Max is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBN | OBN may refer to:
OBN, IATA code for Oban Airport in Scotland
Ocean Bottom Nightmare, a rock band from Nottingham, England
Oceania Broadcasting Network, a free-to-air television network in Tonga
Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control, a state law enforcement agency in Oklahoma, US
Omni Broadcasting Network (2003–2013), former US regional television network
"Order Of The Brown Nose", a mock honour awarded by British satirical magazine Private Eye for published examples of sycophancy
Oromia Broadcasting Network, a regional broadcaster in Ethiopia
OBN Televizija, a terrestrial television network in Bosnia-Herzegovina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DGX | DGX might refer to:
Nvidia DGX, a series of super computer nodes
MOD St Athan (IATA: DGX), a Ministry of Defence airfield connected to the RAF (British Royal Air Force)
DGX, a division of Dollar General
Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX)
A type of bullet, see .460 Weatherby Magnum
A series of Yamaha portable grand pianos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Ultra%20Search | Oracle Corporation's Oracle Ultra Search (also known as Ultrasearch) allows the generation of indexes to textual material stored (for example) on web-servers, file-servers, databases and mail-systems. It uses crawlers and Oracle Text utilities to build its indexes, which it then makes available within an Oracle database.
Oracle Corporation makes Ultrasearch available free-of-charge to customers who purchase an Oracle database, an Oracle Application Server or the Oracle Collaboration Suite.
By default, Oracle Ultra Search uses the WKSYS schema and the DRSYS tablespace.
History
Oracle Search originated with Oracle 9i.
External links
Oracle's documentation for Ultra Search
Footnotes
Oracle software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misc | Misc or MISC may refer to:
Misc (title), a gender neutral title
MISC Berhad, or Malaysia International Shipping Corporation
Minimal instruction set computer, a processor architecture
Moi International Sports Centre, in Kasarani, Kenya
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, a post-infectious disease associated with COVID-19
See also
Miscellaneous |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MedicAlert | The MedicAlert Foundation is a non-profit company founded in 1956 and headquartered in Turlock, California. It maintains a database of members' medical information that is made available to medical authorities in the event of a medical emergency. Members supply critical medical data to the organization and receive a distinctive metal bracelet or necklace tag which is worn at all times. It can be used by first responders, such as emergency medical personnel or law-enforcement agents, to access wearers' medical history and special medical needs.
The name MedicAlert may be interpreted either as the two separate words "medic alert" or as a blended form of the phrase "medical alert".
Protocol and publicity
The MedicAlert IDs worn by members are designed to mimic regular jewelry (such as bracelets, necklaces, ID tags, etc.) with the addition of the distinctive MedicAlert engraved tag. The personalized jewelry bears the words "Medic Alert" and the Staff of Asclepius, the universal symbol of the medical profession, on the obverse side, and important medical information and a personalized MedicAlert ID number on the back of the tag. Medical personnel can call the MedicAlert 24-hour Emergency Hotline and provide the ID number on the back of the ID to get more detailed medical information on the member.
Members' conditions and allergies are reviewed by medically trained staff and prioritized in the order of importance that an emergency health professional would assess a patient. The prioritized conditions are then transferred onto a members emblem and wallet card, while more detailed information is contained at MedicAlert ready to pass on in an emergency situation.
While IDs may change depending on country and availability, the two main MedicAlert IDs are bracelets and necklaces, the former being the most popular. MedicAlert has teamed up with Citizen Watch Co. to provide a line of watches that include the Citizen Watch Co. Eco-Drive watch with the customized engraving and logo of MedicAlert.
In the 1980s the IDs were publicized in conjunction with the insurance industry, The Epilepsy Foundation, and The American Diabetes Association, amongst other foundations. Celebrities also participated in the campaign (including comedienne Carol Burnett, whose bracelet is symbolically the one-millionth).
Common medical conditions
The medical conditions and prescriptions covered include, but are not limited to:
Adrenal insufficiency
Allergies (food, latex, insects, seasonal, environmental etc.)
Alzheimer's disease
Asthma
Autism
Diabetes
Epilepsy
Heart disease
Hemophilia
Hypertension
Drug-induced long QT syndrome
Medications with serious interactions, e.g. MAOIs and Lamotrigine
Parkinson's disease
Devices/implants (artificial heart valves, pacemaker)
The MedicAlert Foundation of Australia permits organ donation directions to be engraved on their IDs.
Advance directives
An advance directive covers specific directives as to the course of treatment that is to be ta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20International | Science International, later retitled What Will They Think of Next!, is a Canadian television series produced by the Global Television Network from 1976 to 1979. Each episode featured approximately 20 short segments on scientific developments and trivia, narrated by Joseph Campanella and Tiiu Leek for its initial seasons. Kerrie Keane replaced Leek later in the series run. The hosts also appeared on camera, usually with chromakey effects behind them such as animation. The format of the series alternated between filmed footage of new inventions and developments and limited-animation segments usually focusing on more off-beat developments. After the show was retitled for its second and third seasons, Campanella proclaimed at the end of the opening credits that the reports originated from the "Research Unit of Science International."
In the US, this series aired in the early-1980s on Nickelodeon, with almost all episodes airing under the What Will They Think of Next! title, however, Nickelodeon did air some episodes under the Science International title.
Further reading
References
Additional material
External links
Science International segment as aired in the UK
Science International segment as aired in the US on Nickelodeon
1976 Canadian television series debuts
1979 Canadian television series endings
Global Television Network original programming
1980s Nickelodeon original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20previously%20broadcast%20by%20NBC | This is a list of television programs once broadcast by the American television network NBC that have ended their runs on the network.
News programming
1986 (1986)
Camel News Caravan (1949–56)
Early Today (1982–83, original run)
The Huntley–Brinkley Report (1956–70)
Megyn Kelly Today (2017–18)
Monitor (1983)
NBC News at Sunrise (1983–99)
NBC News Overnight (1982–83)
NBC Nightside (1991–98)
Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric (1993–94)
Real Life with Jane Pauley (1990–91)
Rock Center with Brian Williams (2011–13)
Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly (2017)
Weekend (1974–79)
Scripted programming
Sitcoms
100 Questions (2010)
1600 Penn (2012–13)
227 (1985–90)
30 Rock (2006–13)
3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001)
90 Bristol Court (1964–65)
A.P. Bio (2018–19) (moved to Peacock)
A.U.S.A. (2003)
A to Z (2014–15)
Abby's (2019)
About a Boy (2014–15)
Accidental Family (1967–68)
The Aldrich Family (1949–53)
ALF (1986–90)
All Is Forgiven (1986)
Almost Home (1993)
Amen (1986–91)
American Auto (2021–23)
American Dreamer (1990–91)
Andy Barker, P.I. (2007)
Animal Practice (2012)
Ann Jillian (1989–90)
Are You There, Chelsea? (2012)
Baby Boom (1988–89)
Bachelor Father (1959–61)
Bad Judge (2014–15)
Bent (2012)
Best Friends Forever (2012)
The Bill Cosby Show (1969–71)
The Bill Dana Show (1963–65)
Blossom (1990–95)
The Bob Crane Show (1975)
The Bob Cummings Show (1955; 1957–59)
Bosom Buddies (1984)
Boss Lady (1952)
Boston Common (1996–97)
The Brian Keith Show (1972–74)
Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2019–21) (moved from Fox)
Brotherly Love (1995–96) (moved to The WB)
Brothers and Sisters (1979)
Buffalo Bill (1983–84)
Built to Last (1997)
C.P.O. Sharkey (1976–78)
Café Americain (1993–94)
California Dreams (1992–96)
Camp Runamuck (1965–66)
Car 54, Where Are You? (1961–63)
The Carmichael Show (2015–17)
Carol & Company (1990–91)
Caroline in the City (1995–99)
Champions (2018)
Cheers (1982–93)
Chicago Sons (1997)
Chico and the Man (1974–78)
Committed (2005)
Community (2009–14) (moved to Yahoo! Screen)
Connecting (2020)
Conrad Bloom (1998)
The Cosby Show (1984–92)
Coupling (2003)
Crowded (2016)
Cursed (2000–01)
DAG (2000–01)
Daddio (2000)
Day by Day (1988–89)
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (1987–88) (moved to Lifetime)
Dear John (1988–92)
Dear Phoebe (1954–55)
The Debbie Reynolds Show (1969–70)
Diana (1973–74)
A Different World (1987–93)
Diff'rent Strokes (1978–85) (moved to ABC)
Double Trouble (1984–85)
Down Home (1990–91)
The Duck Factory (1984)
The Dumplings (1975–76)
Easy Street (1986–87)
Emeril (2001)
Empty Nest (1988–95)
Encore! Encore! (1998–99)
Ensign O'Toole (1962–63)
Ethel and Albert (1953–54)
Everything's Relative (1999)
The Facts of Life (1979–88)
Family Ties (1982–89)
The Fanelli Boys (1990–91)
Father Knows Best (1955–58)
Fathers and Sons (1986)
Fay (1975–76)
Ferris Bueller (1990–91)
The Fighting Fitzgeralds (2001)
Fired Up (1997–98)
Flesh 'n' Blood (1991)
For Your Love (1998) (moved to The WB)
Four Kings (2006)
Frasier (1993–2004)
Free Agents (2011)
The Fresh Prince |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reset%20%28computing%29 | In a computer or data transmission system, a reset clears any pending errors or events and brings a system to normal condition or an initial state, usually in a controlled manner. It is usually done in response to an error condition when it is impossible or undesirable for a processing activity to proceed and all error recovery mechanisms fail. A computer storage program would normally perform a "reset" if a command times out and error recovery schemes like retry or abort also fail.
Hardware reset
Most computers have a reset line that brings the device into the startup state and is active for a short time after powering on. For example, in the x86 architecture, asserting the RESET line halts the CPU; this is done after the system is switched on and before the power supply has asserted "power good" to indicate that it is ready to supply stable voltages at sufficient power levels. Reset places less stress on the hardware than power cycling, as the power is not removed. Many computers, especially older models, have user accessible "reset" buttons that assert the reset line to facilitate a system reboot in a way that cannot be trapped (i.e. prevented) by the operating system. Out-of-band management also frequently provides the possibility to reset the remote system in this way.
Many memory-capable digital circuits (flip-flops, registers, counters and so on) accept the reset signal that sets them to the pre-determined state. This signal is often applied after powering on but may also be applied under other circumstances.
The ability for an electronic device to be able to reset itself in case of error or abnormal power loss is an important aspect of embedded system design and programming. This ability can be observed with everyday electronics such as a television, audio equipment or the electronics of a car, which are able to function as intended again even after having lost power suddenly. A sudden and strange error with a device might sometimes be fixed by removing and restoring power, making the device reset. Some devices, such as portable media players, very often have a dedicated reset button as they are prone to freezing or locking up. The lack of a proper reset ability could otherwise possibly render the device useless after a power loss or malfunction.
There is a reset-related trio of keys, somewhat analogous to the three-finger salute (CTL,ALT,DEL) on Windows computers, on Apple MAC computers, that allows resetting.
See also
Abnormal end
Abort (computing)
CRIU
Hang (computing)
Reboot (computing)
References
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