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The Comeng train ( ) is a type of electric multiple unit (EMU) that operates on the suburban railway network of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Built by Commonwealth Engineering (Comeng) in Dandenong, they were introduced in 1981 as a replacement for the Tait and Harris trains. In total, 570 carriages (380 motor cars and 190 trailer cars, a total of 95 six carriage sets) were built.
Description
Comeng trains are single deck and are semi-permanently coupled as M-T-M (motor-trailer-motor) sets. Most frequently, they are coupled as M-T-M-M-T-M (six-car) sets. Comeng trains have power operated doors that must be pulled open by hand but are closed by the driver. The trains were the first suburban trains in Melbourne to have air-conditioning in the passenger saloon. (The older Hitachi trains had driver only air-conditioning fitted more recently.)
They operate in larger numbers on the Northern, Caulfield, Cross City and Sandringham group lines. Since 2017, it has been rare to see Comeng’s on the Burnley and Clifton Hill group lines which are serviced almost exclusively by newer X'Trapolis trains. The design of Melbourne's Comeng trains is closely related to that of TransAdelaide's diesel-electric 3000 class railcars.
The Comeng fleet has begun retirement, with many sets being transferred to North Shore and Tottenham to be stored. The stored sets eventually being transferred to Laverton, North Bendigo or McIntyre for scrapping. The fleet will eventually be replaced by the High Capacity Metro Trains (HCMT) and X'Trapolis 2.0 fleet.
History
In 1979, the operator of the Melbourne rail network at the time VicRail, placed an initial order for 100 new 3-car train sets, with the intention of replacing the last of the Tait sets and the majority of the Harris sets. The contract was awarded to Commonwealth Engineering, with the trains being manufactured at Comeng's Dandenong rolling stock factory.
The first Comeng set, 301M-1001T-302M, entered service on 28 September 1981. By the middle of 1984, 76 sets had been delivered, and some of the older trains, including the last of the Tait rolling stock, had begun to be phased out. Following the operational problems and subsequent failed refurbishment of the Harris fleet, the initial order was increased from 100 to 190 3-car sets, with the aim of completely replacing both the Tait and Harris sets by 1988.
Set 381M-1041T-382M was the first delivered in the Metropolitan Transit green and yellow scheme, though the sets including 27T and 28T had been repainted (with those cars renumbered 1027T and 1028T respectively) before then. Notably, when the 41st set was delivered the front panels of the motor carriages were still silver-framed rather than yellow.
The 45th set delivered had custom decals applied to the sides celebrating the halfway point through the order. On the side (above each door) was the quote "45th Super Train from The Met", and the sides also displayed the number 45 in large Numerals below the windows
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20Application%20Part
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The Mobile Application Part (MAP) is an SS7 protocol that provides an application layer for the various nodes in GSM and UMTS mobile core networks and GPRS core networks to communicate with each other in order to provide services to users. The Mobile Application Part is the application-layer protocol used to access the Home Location Register, Visitor Location Register, Mobile Switching Center, Equipment Identity Register, Authentication Centre, Short message service center and Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN).
Facilities provided
The primary facilities provided by MAP are:
Mobility Services: location management (to support roaming), authentication, managing service subscription information, fault recovery,
Operation and Maintenance: subscriber tracing, retrieving a subscriber's IMSI
Call Handling: routing, managing calls whilst roaming, checking that a subscriber is available to receive calls
Supplementary Services
Short Message Service
Packet Data Protocol (PDP) services for GPRS: providing routing information for GPRS connections
Location Service Management Services: obtaining the location of subscriber
Published specification
The Mobile Application Part specifications were originally defined by the GSM Association, but are now controlled by ETSI/3GPP. MAP is defined by two different standards, depending upon the mobile network type:
MAP for GSM (prior to Release 4) is specified by 3GPP TS 09.02 (MAP v1, MAP v2)
MAP for UMTS ("3G") and GSM (Release 99 and later) is specified by 3GPP TS 29.002 (MAP v3)
In cellular networks based on ANSI standards (currently CDMA2000, in the past AMPS, IS-136 and cdmaOne) plays the role of the MAP a similar protocol usually called IS-41 or ANSI-41 (ANSI MAP). Since 2000 it is maintained by 3GPP2 as N.S0005 and since 2004 it is named 3GPP2 X.S0004.
Implementation
MAP is a Transaction Capabilities Application Part (TCAP) user, and as such can be transported using 'traditional' SS7 protocols or over IP using Transport Independent Signalling Connection Control Part (TI-SCCP); or using SIGTRAN.
Yate is a partial open source implementation of MAP.
MAP signaling
In mobile cellular telephony networks like GSM and UMTS the SS7 application MAP is used. Voice connections are Circuit Switched (CS) and data connections are Packet Switched (PS) applications.
Some of the GSM/UMTS Circuit Switched interfaces in the Mobile Switching Center (MSC) transported over SS7 include the following:
B -> VLR (uses MAP/B). Most MSCs are associated with a Visitor Location Register (VLR), making the B interface "internal".
C -> HLR (uses MAP/C) Messages between MSC to HLR handled by C Interface
D -> HLR (uses MAP/D) for attaching to the CS network and location update
E -> MSC (uses MAP/E) for inter-MSC handover
F -> EIR (uses MAP/F) for equipment identity check
H -> SMS-G (uses MAP/H) for Short Message Service (SMS) over CS
I -> ME (uses MAP/I) Messages between MSC to ME handled by I Interface
J -> SCF (uses MAP/J
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.992.3
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ITU G.992.3 is an ITU (International Telecommunication Union) standard, also referred to as ADSL2 or G.dmt.bis. It optionally extends the capability of basic ADSL in data rates to 12 Mbit/s downstream and, depending on Annex version, up to 3.5 Mbit/s upstream (with a mandatory capability of ADSL2 transceivers of 8 Mbit/s downstream and 800 kbit/s upstream). ADSL2 uses the same bandwidth as ADSL but achieves higher throughput via improved modulation techniques. Actual speeds may decrease depending on line quality; usually the most significant factor in line quality is the distance from the DSLAM to the customer's equipment.
Annex versions
ADSL2 has multiple modes for DSL providers to offer services for different needs. Below is a list of available features based on ADSL2 specs from the ITU standards.
See also
ADSL
ADSL2+
List of interface bit rates
Wetting current
References
External links
ITU-T Recommendation G.992.3: Asymmetric digital subscriber line transceivers 2 (ADSL2)
Digital subscriber line
ITU-T recommendations
ITU-T G Series Recommendations
Telecommunications-related introductions in 2002
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majesty%3A%20The%20Fantasy%20Kingdom%20Sim
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Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim is a real-time strategy video game developed by Cyberlore Studios, and published by Hasbro Interactive under the MicroProse brand name for Windows in March 2000. The game is not a simulator; that part of the title is a witticism, a reference to the game's adherence to fantasy and fantasy role-playing game cliches. In Majesty, players assume the role of king in a fantasy realm called Ardania which features city sewers infested with giant rats, landscapes dotted with ancient evil castles, and soldiers helpless against anything bigger than a goblin. As Sovereign, the player must rely on hiring bands of wandering heroes in order to get anything done. In a major divergence from most real-time strategy games, the player does not have direct control over their units.
MacPlay released a Mac OS port in December 2000. Infogrames released the expansion pack Majesty: The Northern Expansion for Windows in March 2001, and Majesty Gold Edition, a compilation for Windows bundling Majesty and The Northern Expansion, in January 2002. Linux Game Publishing released a Linux port of Majesty Gold Edition in April 2003. Majesty Gold Edition was re-released by Paradox Interactive under the name Majesty Gold HD Edition in March 2012, adding support for higher resolutions and including two downloadable quests that were incompatible with the original release of Majesty: The Northern Expansion.
Gameplay
The game has 19 single player scenarios but no overarching plotline. The Northern Expansion adds new unit abilities, buildings, monsters, and 12 new single player scenarios. Freestyle (sandbox) play and multiplayer are also available.
Henchmen are free non-hero characters that are nonetheless essential to maintaining the realm. Peasants construct and repair buildings. Tax collectors collect gold from guilds and houses to finance the realm. Guards provide defense against monsters. Caravans travel from trading posts to the marketplace, where they deliver gold based on the distance they traveled.
Each scenario (or quest) has a unique map. Even if the player chooses the same quest twice, it will have a map that, while retaining the general terrain of the region, is significantly different. The map is initially shrouded in blackness, but all activity in explored areas can be viewed no matter how far away from a building or character it is, with no fog of war.
In certain quest scenarios, the player also has the ability to interact with other kingdoms. This mainly includes the use of a kingdom's services by the heroes of a foreign faction, although in many cases, the player may choose to attack the foreign faction or will be automatically hostile toward them. In other, rarer instances, heroes may switch sides between kingdoms in the event that their guild has been destroyed and their native kingdom can no longer offer them hospitality.
Buildings
Base-building is comparable to other real-time strategy games of the period, but units are autonomo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xzgv
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xzgv is a simple, small software utility that can be used for viewing digital images or pictures of several formats, e.g., JPEG, GIF, PNG, etc. xzgv is used on computers using a Unix-like operating system and the X Window System. Because xzgv is a fast, lightweight image viewer that is compatible with a large number of image formats, the viewer is popular on older, slower, resource-challenged computer systems. xzgv is a standard utility in the Damn Small Linux distribution, for example.
Xzgv was originally built as an X11-compatible clone of zgv by the same developer. The versions prior to 0.9 were based on the software toolkits GTK+ and Imlib 1.x. Most file formats are supported, and the thumbnails used are compatible with xv, zgv, and GIMP. Xzgv differs from other viewers in that it uses one window for both the file selector and viewer. xzgv incorporates a thumbnail-based file selector and is designed to be functional without using a mouse. The versions prior to 0.9 had full keyboard support, including advanced image tagging and external-command automation that were useful for scripting work. Xzgv is not an image editor, and much of its resource efficiency came from the decision to avoid any image modification support.
According to its man page, xzgv supports the following file formats: GIF, JPEG, PNG, PBM/PGM/PPM (collectively known as `PNM'), BMP, TGA (Targa), PCX, mrf, PRF, XBM (X bitmap files), XPM, TIFF, TIM (the Sony PlayStation), and XWD (X window dumps, as produced by the X Window utility xwd).
The source code for the utility is not under active development, but new versions are released every 2–3 years. The 0.9 release is missing much of the earlier releases' functionality and exists primarily as a start toward a version that does not depend on obsolete libraries.
See also
Comparison of image viewers
External links
Original homepage
Free image viewers
Free software programmed in C
Graphics software that uses GTK
Linux image viewers
X Window programs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking%20Glass%20Networks
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Looking Glass Networks, Inc. was an American telecommunications company headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois. The company provides rapid delivery of data transport services including SONET/SDH, Wavelength-division multiplexing and Ethernet as well as IP connectivity, dark fiber and carrier-neutral colocation. Looking Glass also offers custom design and build services for specific campus or data center requirements. On August 3, 2006, Level 3 Communications acquired Looking Glass, at which time the company's dark fiber offerings were deemphasized in favor of managed lit services. On November 1, 2017, CenturyLink completed its acquisition of Level 3 Communications.
Service locations
Services are available in the largest U.S. metro areas including:
Atlanta, Georgia
Baltimore, Maryland
Chicago, Illinois
Dallas, Texas
Houston, Texas
Los Angeles, California
New York City Metro Area
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Silicon Valley, California
Seattle, Washington
Washington, D.C. Metro Area
Service detail
The company's physically diverse networks provide customers with connections to primary carrier hotels, incumbent local exchange carrier central offices, key enterprise buildings and other major data aggregation facilities. Looking Glass interconnects with more than 140 carriers, has over 760 points of presence, 430 on-net buildings and 860 Type II buildings. This connectivity, coupled with their protocol "agnostic" platform, allows Looking Glass to deliver flexible service options and fast delivery intervals to customers with significant bandwidth needs.
References
Companies based in DuPage County, Illinois
Oak Brook, Illinois
Level 3 Communications
Lumen Technologies
Telecommunications companies of the United States
2006 mergers and acquisitions
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MayaVi
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MayaVi is a scientific data visualizer written in Python, which uses VTK and provides a GUI via Tkinter. MayaVi was developed by Prabhu Ramachandran, is free and distributed under the BSD License. It is cross-platform and runs on any platform where both Python and VTK are available (almost any Unix, Mac OS X, or Windows). MayaVi is pronounced as a single name, "Ma-ya-vee", meaning "magical" in Sanskrit. The code of MayaVi has nothing in common with that of Autodesk Maya or the Vi text editor.
The latest version of MayaVi, called Mayavi2, is a component of the Enthought suite of scientific Python programs. It differs from the original MayaVi by its strong focus on making not only an interactive program, but also a reusable component for 3D plotting in Python. Although it exposes a slightly different interface and API than the original MayaVi, it now has more features.
Major features
visualizes computational grids and scalar, vector, and tensor data
an easy-to-use GUI
can be imported as a Python module from other Python programs or can be scripted from the Python interpreter
supports volume visualization of data via texture and ray cast mappers
support for any VTK dataset using the VTK data format
support for PLOT3D data
multiple datasets can be used simultaneously
provides a pipeline browser, with which objects in the VTK pipeline can be browsed and edited
imports simple VRML and 3D Studio scenes
custom modules and data filters can be added
exporting to PostScript files, PPM/BMP/TIFF/JPEG/PNG images, Open Inventor, Geomview OOGL, VRML files, Wavefront .obj files, or RenderMan RIB file
Examples
Spherical harmonics
from numpy import linspace, meshgrid, array, sin, cos, pi, abs
from scipy.special import sph_harm
from mayavi import mlab
theta_1d = linspace(0, pi, 91)
phi_1d = linspace(0, 2*pi, 181)
theta_2d, phi_2d = meshgrid(theta_1d, phi_1d)
xyz_2d = array([sin(theta_2d) * sin(phi_2d),
sin(theta_2d) * cos(phi_2d),
cos(theta_2d)])
l = 3
m = 0
Y_lm = sph_harm(m, l, phi_2d, theta_2d)
r = abs(Y_lm.real) * xyz_2d
mlab.figure(size=(700, 830))
mlab.mesh(r[0], r[1], r[2], scalars=Y_lm.real, colormap="cool")
mlab.view(azimuth=0, elevation=75, distance=2.4, roll=-50)
mlab.savefig("Y_%i_%i.jpg" % (l, m))
mlab.show()
References
External links
Free data visualization software
Free plotting software
Free software programmed in Python
Plotting software
Software that uses Tk (software)
Software that uses VTK
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-level%20virtualization
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OS-level virtualization is an operating system (OS) virtualization paradigm in which the kernel allows the existence of multiple isolated user space instances, called containers (LXC, Solaris containers, AIX WPARs, HP-UX SRP Containers, Docker, Podman), zones (Solaris containers), virtual private servers (OpenVZ), partitions, virtual environments (VEs), virtual kernels (DragonFly BSD), or jails (FreeBSD jail or chroot jail). Such instances may look like real computers from the point of view of programs running in them. A computer program running on an ordinary operating system can see all resources (connected devices, files and folders, network shares, CPU power, quantifiable hardware capabilities) of that computer. However, programs running inside of a container can only see the container's contents and devices assigned to the container.
On Unix-like operating systems, this feature can be seen as an advanced implementation of the standard chroot mechanism, which changes the apparent root folder for the current running process and its children. In addition to isolation mechanisms, the kernel often provides resource-management features to limit the impact of one container's activities on other containers. Linux containers are all based on the virtualization, isolation, and resource management mechanisms provided by the Linux kernel, notably Linux namespaces and cgroups.
The term container, while most popularly referring to OS-level virtualization systems, is sometimes ambiguously used to refer to fuller virtual machine environments operating in varying degrees of concert with the host OS, e.g., Microsoft's Hyper-V containers. A more historic overview of virtualization in general since 1960 can be found in the Timeline of virtualization development.
Operation
On ordinary operating systems for personal computers, a computer program can see (even though it might not be able to access) all the system's resources. They include:
Hardware capabilities that can be employed, such as the CPU and the network connection
Data that can be read or written, such as files, folders and network shares
Connected peripherals it can interact with, such as webcam, printer, scanner, or fax
The operating system may be able to allow or deny access to such resources based on which program requests them and the user account in the context in which it runs. The operating system may also hide those resources, so that when the computer program enumerates them, they do not appear in the enumeration results. Nevertheless, from a programming point of view, the computer program has interacted with those resources and the operating system has managed an act of interaction.
With operating-system-virtualization, or containerization, it is possible to run programs within containers, to which only parts of these resources are allocated. A program expecting to see the whole computer, once run inside a container, can only see the allocated resources and believes them to be all tha
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTM
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GTM may refer to:
Guatemala
Generative topographic map
Global Traffic Manager, a load balancing module for some F5 Networks appliances
Global Server Load Balancing
Golden Triangle Mall, a mall in Denton, Texas
Google Tag Manager
Go to market, a strategy to approach the market with a new product or service
GoToMeeting, online meeting and desktop sharing software
Graduate Texts in Mathematics, a series of mathematics textbooks published by Springer-Verlag
Grammar translation method
Greater Manchester, metropolitan county in England, Chapman code
Greentech Media, a media and research company that covers the green technology market
Greystone Technology M, a schema-less transactional database
Groovin' the Moo, an annual music festival held at various regional centres across Australia during the middle of the year
Gross Ton Mile, the product of total weight (including the weight of lading cars and locomotives) and the distance moved by a train or other vehicle
Gross Trailer Mass, the portion of the mass of a fully laden trailer that is carried by the wheels
GT-M, a Soviet tracked military vehicle
GT-MU, a command and control variant
GTM Cars
GTM Supercar Factory Five Racing
Large Millimeter Telescope (Spanish: Gran Telescopio Milimétrico), the world's largest millimetric telescope, located in Mexico
Great Translation Movement, online anti-war movement
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile
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The shapefile format is a geospatial vector data format for geographic information system (GIS) software. It is developed and regulated by Esri as a mostly open specification for data interoperability among Esri and other GIS software products. The shapefile format can spatially describe vector features: points, lines, and polygons, representing, for example, water wells, rivers, and lakes. Each item usually has attributes that describe it, such as name or temperature.
Overview
The shapefile format is a digital vector storage format for storing geographic location and associated attribute information. This format lacks the capacity to store topological information. The shapefile format was introduced with ArcView GIS version 2 in the early 1990s. It is now possible to read and write geographical datasets using the shapefile format with a wide variety of software.
The shapefile format stores the geometry as primitive geometric shapes like points, lines, and polygons. These shapes, together with data attributes that are linked to each shape, create the representation of the geographic data. The term "shapefile" is quite common, but the format consists of a collection of files with a common filename prefix, stored in the same directory. The three mandatory files have filename extensions , , and .dbf. The actual shapefile relates specifically to the file, but alone is incomplete for distribution as the other supporting files are required. Legacy GIS software may expect that the filename prefix be limited to eight characters to conform to the DOS 8.3 filename convention, though modern software applications accept files with longer names.
Mandatory files
— shape format; the feature geometry itself {content-type: x-gis/x-shapefile}
— shape index format; a positional index of the feature geometry to allow seeking forwards and backwards quickly {content-type: x-gis/x-shapefile}
— attribute format; columnar attributes for each shape, in dBase IV format {content-type: application/octet-stream OR text/plain}
Other files
— projection description, using a well-known text representation of coordinate reference systems {content-type: text/plain OR application/text}
and — a spatial index of the features {content-type: x-gis/x-shapefile}
and — a spatial index of the features that are read-only {content-type: x-gis/x-shapefile}
and — an attribute index of the active fields in a table {content-type: x-gis/x-shapefile}
— a geocoding index for read-write datasets {content-type: x-gis/x-shapefile}
— a geocoding index for read-write datasets (ODB format) {content-type: x-gis/x-shapefile}
— an attribute index for the file in the form of shapefile.columnname.atx (ArcGIS 8 and later) {content-type: }
— geospatial metadata in XML format, such as ISO 19115 or other XML schema {content-type: application/fgdc+xml}
— used to specify the code page (only for ) for identifying the character encoding to be used {content-type: OR }
— an alte
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZOS%20Messaging%20Service
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ZOS Messaging Service (ZMS) is a location communication standard that operates over cellular network. ZMS uses standardized communications protocols and IP Networks to allow the exchange of geo coordinates between mobile phones, and between mobile telephone devices and personal computers.
ZMS enables developers of location-based service (LBS) applications to access multiple device platforms. The standard also opens the location-based advertising (LBA) market to create new advertising channels.
ZMS was developed by ZOS Communications in 2007. Its first use was in the mobile peer-to-peer location application .
End user and enterprise uses
End user
The end user software, known as manager, works to connect people in three ways. Either people-to-people, people-to-places, or people-to-services.
Enterprise
The ZMS standard may be implemented outside of the smartphone-based manager. Organizations may stay aware of a device's location, and dispatch the closest device to a given address.
The enterprise software differs from the end user software in that location can be constantly updated to the ZOS servers, and can be shared the client organization. This allows for efficient allocation of resources, whether the solution is focusing on taxis, EMS, Sales and Service organizations, advertising, or other uses.
External links
zhiing home page
iTunes app store link to zhiing
Mobile telecommunications standards
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIB
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LIB may refer to:
Science and technology
Label Information Base, a software table in networking routers
Library (computing), a collection of permanent programming resources
Lithium-ion battery, a type of, usually secondary, electrical battery
Other uses
Lebanon, former IOC country code (1964-2016; now LBN)
Lëvizja për Integrim dhe Bashkim (Movement for Integration and Unification), a political party in Kosovo
Libya, UNDP country code
Lightning in a Bottle, a music festival in Southern California
Long Island Bus, now called Nassau Inter-County Express
International School of Boston (Lycée International de Boston)
See also
Lib (disambiguation)
Let It Be (disambiguation), various musical and cinematic works
Let It Bleed (disambiguation), various works
cs:LIB
ja:リブ
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skypath
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Skypath is a system the NBC television network uses to distribute satellite programming to its affiliate stations.
Launched in January 1984, Skypath (whose lead developer was Richard Edmondson at NBC's New York Rockefeller Center offices) was the first such system of its kind. Its main hub consisted of East Coast, West Coast, and affiliate feeds located on the Ku band RCA Satcom K2 satellite, with one C-band transponder located on RCA's now-defunct Satcom 1R. It was conceived because of concerns that the breakup of AT&T would escalate long lines rates for sending programs across the country. By 1987, the network fed 177 affiliate stations via Skypath.
In 1988, NBC began to encrypt their Skypath affiliate feeds with Leitch encryption. By the mid-1990s, such encryption was limited to NFL football games.
One of the feeds on the Skypath system was NBC Skycom, used for general internal "closed-circuit" video and news feeds between NBC and its local affiliates. Skycom operated in the fashion of a "video news wire" service (much in the same vein as CBS' NewsNet/NewsPath and ABC's DEF (Daily Electronic Feed) and NewsOne services) that provided news story packages and other material (such as promos, especially ones "personalized" by NBC for a local affiliate station) originated by both NBC and local NBC affiliates across the nation to be used by other affiliates.
Prior to the arrival of Skypath, NBC programming, with the exception of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, was delivered via coaxial cable and microwave transmission through the facilities of AT&T (however, NBC did have limited satellite delivery on an experimental basis via their C-band transponder on Satcom F1 beginning with the satellite's launch in 1975). Beginning in the early 1980s, The Tonight Show began satellite delivery to the East Coast.
In 1997, NBC began the transition of Skypath to digital transmission. The new system, completed in 2002, also allowed the network to send HD and regionalized feeds to the affiliates.
As of 2005, Skypath exists on the SES Americom Ku-Band AMC-1 and AMC-8 satellites, NBC having discontinued the analog C-band feed in 1998. All of the feeds are now broadcast via Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB).
References
External links
YouTube video of NBC Skycom feeds from 1986
Satellite television
National Broadcasting Company
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday%20%28Australian%20TV%20program%29
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Sunday was an Australian current affairs, arts and politics program, broadcast nationally on Sunday mornings on the Nine Network Australia. The program covered a range of topical issues including local and overseas news, politics, and in-depth stories on Australia and the world, plus independent film reviews, independent arts features, and independent music reviews. Its final show aired on Sunday, 3 August 2008.
History
The announcement of the launch of the private and independent breakfast television and Canberra-produced politics program on 22 October 1981 inspired controversy, as it was then practice to fill the spot with religious programming. The advent and ongoing success of Sunday was a significant milestone in Australian television, as it for the first time offered a credible alternative/rival to the dominant influence of the ABC's flagship current affairs program Four Corners, which had premiered 20 years earlier. Sunday was often referred to as the "baby" of network boss Kerry Packer, although rival media outlets have characterised it as "an expensive indulgence".
The first edition of Sunday aired on 15 November 1981, presented by Jim Waley, who hosted the show for the next 20 years and became synonymous with the program. Sunday differed from Four Corners in several key respects; at the time Sunday premiered, a typical Four Corners episode ran for 40–45 minutes (without interruption) and rarely presented more than one story per week. By contrast Sunday ran for two hours (including ad breaks) with a wide-ranging magazine-style format. Each episode typically opened with a news roundup presented by Waley, followed by a selection of short feature stories, an in-depth political interview by Nine's political editor Laurie Oakes, a "headline" investigative feature with in-depth coverage of a major story, a movie review by film critic Peter Thompson (the brother of actor Jack Thompson), and a general-interest 'colour' piece (presented during the later years of the show by actor-writer Max Cullen). For many years, each show usually concluded with a musical segment, often featuring a visiting overseas performer or group.
Waley continued as host until December 2002, when he left the show to take over from the retiring Brian Henderson as Sydney presenter on National Nine News. He was replaced as Sunday host by ex-A Current Affair host and reporter Jana Wendt. Following the decision to change ''Sundays successful magazine format, it was revealed on 1 September 2006 that Jana Wendt would resign from the program, with both Ross Greenwood and Ellen Fanning to take over as joint presenters of the show.
During the Ross Greenwood and Ellen Fanning era, Sunday was considered to be a program made up predominantly of hard news and current affairs stories, particularly when compared to Seven's Weekend Sunrise, which, as of 2018, continues to air on Sunday mornings.
Following the appointment of John Westacott as the Nine Network's chief of news and curr
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20New%20Adventures%20of%20Beans%20Baxter
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The New Adventures of Beans Baxter is an adventure/comedy television series that aired 1987 on the Fox television network. It was created by Savage Steve Holland, who also wrote and directed most of the 17 episodes. The title character was portrayed by Jonathan Ward, who won a "Best Young Actor Starring in a New Television Comedy Series" Young Artist Award for the role.
Plot
The show revolved around the spy activities of Benjamin "Beans" Baxter, Jr., a Kansas teenager who had just moved with his parents and younger brother to Washington, D.C., as part of his father's (assumed) reassignment as an employee of the U.S. Postal Service.
After Beans witnessed his father's apparent assassination in the explosion of a bomb planted in Benjamin Sr.'s postal freighter, he was recruited by the mysterious "Number Two" (Jerry Wasserman). Number Two was an officer (and, presumably, the Deputy Director) of "the Network", a CIA-styled spy agency; Beans thus learned that his father was actually an agent of the Network, and that the older Baxter's Postal Service employment was his cover assignment. (The Network's main delivery of assignments for its agents was a system similar to what was seen on the spy comedy Get Smart! in the 1960s.) The main nemesis of the Network was a terror organization that called itself UGLI, for the Underground Government Liberation Intergroup, which was headed by the professional terrorist called Mr. Sue (Kurtwood Smith) and his second-in-command (Taylor Negron). The Network, however, considered Beans himself strictly a "place-holder" agent, and it would only allow him to work in its dangerous service till his father could be found and freed. Viewers were warned, as a result, to expect to see little of Benjamin Sr., since his prime purpose was to stay lost and trapped so the series might continue.
Additional episodes were intended to show Beans's mother Susan, wrongly believing herself to be a widow, re-entering the dating scene. This activity on her part was to have led to complications for Beans, who knew, as she did not, that hers was still a valid, legal marriage to a husband who was still alive, and would thus have had to turn away possible suitors to prevent his mother from accidentally committing bigamy. Moreover, for all Beans or Susan knew, any of those suitors might have been UGLI terrorists planning all manner of nefarious activities, such as possibly assassinating not only Susan, but also Beans. The series was cancelled before any of these developments could be explored.
Beans started a friendship with a classmate nicknamed Woodshop (Stuart Fratkin), and he later became attracted to a beautiful student nicknamed "Cake Lace" (Karen Mistal). In one episode, former Miss Universe Shawn Weatherly appeared as herself. (The opening scene had Beans catching her in the shower naked and trying to escape from UGLI's chief henchman, who wanted to kidnap her as part of an unknown experiment.)
Cast
The supporting cast included Rick L
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The Jimmy Dean Show is the name of several similar music and variety series on American local and network television between 1963 and 1975. Each starred country music singer Jimmy Dean as host.
Daytime
The Jimmy Dean Show, initially called Country Style, aired live on WTOP-TV in Washington, D.C. in early 1957. It was picked up by the CBS-TV network from April 8 to December 13, 1957, under the name The Morning Show from 7 to 7:45 a.m. ET Monday–Friday before the station's regular newscast. Guests included Chet Atkins, Jay Chevalier, Billy Walker, Little Jimmy Dickens, George Hamilton IV, and the Country Lads; Mary Klick was a regular. The producer was Connie B. Gay.
CBS then carried The Jimmy Dean Show on its daytime schedule from September 14, 1958, to June 1959 from New York, airing from 2 to 2:30 p.m. ET Monday–Saturday. Guests on the variety program included Hans Conried and Jaye P. Morgan.
Prime time
The Jimmy Dean Show aired as a live half-hour summer series from Washington, DC, on CBS-TV from June 22 to September 14, 1957 from 10:30 to 11 p.m. on Saturday nights. Guests included Johnny Cash, Jim Reeves, and the Andrews Sisters.
The Jimmy Dean Show was later an hour-long weekly music and variety television show carried by ABC for three seasons from September 19, 1963, to April 1, 1966, out of ABC Studio One in New York. Its first season was written by Peppiatt and Aylesworth, and Scott Vincent was the announcer. Of the eighty-six episodes produced at ABC, ten shows were made on the road: four at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee; three at ABC Studios in Hollywood, California; one in Winter Haven, Florida, and one at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
The variety program featured country performers such as George Jones, Buck Owens and Dean's former band member Roy Clark, and pop artists like the Everly Brothers and Gene Pitney. Comics Jackie Mason, Don Adams, and Dick Shawn also appeared. Muppet character Rowlf the Dog (performed by Jim Henson) debuted as a regular on the show, and during the premiere episode of the series in 1963, Dean interacted with an animated Fred Flintstone. The Jimmy Dean Show in 1964 hosted the first television appearance of Hank Williams, Jr., who at the age of fourteen sang several songs associated with his legendary late father, Hank Williams.
Jimmy Dean and Rowlf the Dog
The show introduced Rowlf the Dog, his Muppet side-kick, who often performed duets with Dean. Introduced each time as Dean's "ol' buddy", Rowlf was Jim Henson's first Muppet to score a regular spot on a network television show and appeared in 85 of the 86 episodes. While Don Sahlin maintained the puppet, Jerry Juhl assisted in writing the Rowlf sketches with the help of the show's staff writers and even assisted Jim Henson and Jimmy Dean on occasion. During production on episodes that featured Rowlf the Dog, Jim Henson would perform Rowlf with the Muppet's right arm operated by Frank Oz, and later by Jerry Nelson. Henson was so grat
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is a 1990 scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Data West for the FM Towns. It is the first entry in the Rayxanber series, followed by Rayxanber II (1991) and Rayxanber III (1992) for the PC Engine platform. In the game, the player assumes the role of a fighter pilot from Earth controlling the RT-X-32 space craft to fight against the biomechanical Zoul Empire. The title was created by Team 50, a group within Data West. The soundtrack was scored by Yasuhito Saito, who composed for other titles such as Layla and The 4th Unit series. It garnered mixed reception from critics.
Gameplay
Rayxanber is a science fiction-themed scrolling shooter game reminiscent of R-Type, in which the player takes control of a fighter pilot from Earth controlling the RT-X-32 space craft to fight against the biomechanical Zoul Empire. The player controls the ship through eight increasingly difficult stages over a constantly scrolling background, populated with an assortment of bioships, organic fortresses and obstacles. The scenery never stops moving until a boss is reached, which must be fought in order to progress further.
There are three types of weapon units in the game the player can acquire by collecting their respective colors when dropped by carriers when shot down and alternate between each one by obtaining another weapon during gameplay, ranging from fire (red), barriers (green), and multi-directional laser (blue). Each weapon can be powered-up and collecting any weapon unit equips the ship with a set of two satellite-like options that fire based on the direction the unit was rotating towards before being obtained. By holding down the attack button, the player can charge the ship's cannon to unleash a more powerful blast against enemies. The ship is also capable of performing a dash maneuver to evade incoming enemy fire or obstacles.
The title employs a checkpoint system in which a downed player will start off at the beginning of the checkpoint they managed to reach before dying. Getting hit by enemy fire or colliding against solid stage obstacles will result in losing a life, as well as a penalty of decreasing the ship's firepower and loss of the weapon that was currently in use, and the game is over once all lives are lost, though the player has unlimited continues to keep playing.
Development and release
Rayxanber was developed by Team 50, a group within Data West composed of director Kazuhide Nakamura, programmer Takayasu Sato, artists Takeharu Igarashi and Yoshiko Miyamoto, producer Naokazu Akita and two playtesters. The soundtrack was scored by Yasuhito Saito, who composed for other titles such as Layla and The 4th Unit series. The game was published in Japan by Data West on April 13, 1990, for the FM Towns, although it was originally scheduled for a March release. In a 2020 interview with Japanese gaming website DenFaminicoGamer, a Data West representative commented that there were no current plans for a digital re-release of the R
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INTERNIST-I was a broad-based computer-assisted diagnostic tool developed in the early 1970s at the University of Pittsburgh as an educational experiment. The system was designed to capture the expertise of just one man, Jack D. Myers, MD, chairman of internal medicine in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The Division of Research Resources and the National Library of Medicine funded INTERNIST-I. Other major collaborators on the project included Randolph A. Miller and Harry E. Pople.
Development
INTERNIST-I is the successor of the DIALOG system. For ten years, INTERNIST-I was the centerpiece of a Pittsburgh course entitled “The Logic of Problem-Solving in Clinical Diagnosis.” In consultation with faculty experts, much responsibility for data entry and updating of the system fell to the fourth-year medical students enrolled in the course. These students encoded the findings of standard clinicopathological reports. By 1982, the INTERNIST-I project represented fifteen person-years of work, and by some reports covered 70-80% of all the possible diagnoses in internal medicine.
Data input into the system by operators included signs and symptoms, laboratory results, and other items of patient history. The principal investigators on INTERNIST-I did not follow other medical expert systems designers in adopting Bayesian statistical models or pattern recognition. This was because, as Myers explained, “The method used by physicians to arrive at diagnoses requires complex information processing which bears little resemblance to the statistical manipulations of most computer-based systems.” INTERNIST-I instead used a powerful ranking algorithm to reach diagnoses in the domain of internal medicine. The heuristic rules that drove INTERNIST-I relied on a partitioning algorithm to create problems areas, and exclusion functions to eliminate diagnostic possibilities.
These rules, in turn, produce a list of ranked diagnoses based on disease profiles existing in the system’s memory. When the system was unable to make a determination of diagnosis it asked questions or offered recommendations for further tests or observations to clear up the mystery. INTERNIST-I worked best when only a single disease was expressed in the patient, but handled complex cases poorly, where more than one disease was present. This was because the system exclusively relied on hierarchical or taxonomic decision-tree logic, which linked each disease profile to only one “parent” disease class.
Use of INTERNIST-I
By the late 1970s, INTERNIST-I was in experimental use as a consultant program and educational “quizmaster” at Presbyterian-University Hospital in Pittsburgh. INTERNIST-I’s designers hoped that the system could one day become useful in remote environments—rural areas, outer space, and foreign military bases, for instance—where experts were in short supply or unavailable. Still, physicians and paramedics wanting to use INTERNIST-I found the training period lengthy and
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Gore Hill Freeway is a divided freeway located in Sydney, New South Wales that is part of the Sydney Orbital Network and Highway 1. The primary function of the freeway is to provide an alternative high-grade route from to and to reduce traffic demands on Pacific Highway throughout Sydney's lower north shore, bypassing and .
Route
Gore Hill Freeway commences at the interchange of Pacific Highway and Longueville Road at Lane Cove, and heads east as a four-lane, dual-carriageway road, widening to 6 lanes a short distance later east of the ramps to the northern section of Pacific Highway. It curves to a southeasterly direction before terminating at the interchange at Warringah Freeway and Willoughby Road at Naremburn. Road signs designate Gore Hill Freeway simply as Freeway.
Forming part of the Sydney Orbital Network, the freeway provides access to most of the suburbs in Sydney; it is also a major route to the north, south, east and west of the metropolis.
Sound walls were pioneered as both art and architecture incorporating abstract road motifs in bas relief concrete and historical designs by Walter Burley Griffin. The language reinterprets local aboriginal rock engravings chipped into the ribbed retaining walls.
History
Construction of the freeway commenced in August 1988 as part of the Bicentennial Roads Program and opened to traffic on 26 August 1992. This connected Pacific Highway at Lane Cove to Warringah Freeway and eventually to the Sydney Harbour Bridge via a high-standard freeway route, bypassing the congested section of Pacific Highway through North Sydney.
The passing of the Main Roads Act of 1924 through the Parliament of New South Wales provided for the declaration of Main Roads, roads partially funded by the State government through the Main Roads Board (later the Department of Main Roads, and eventually Transport for NSW). With the subsequent passing of the Main Roads (Amendment) Act of 1929 to provide for additional declarations of State Highways and Trunk Roads, the Department of Main Roads (having succeeded the MRB in 1932) declared Main Road 651 along the freeway, from the interchange with Pacific Highway and Longueville Road in Lane Cove to the interchange with Warringah Freeway and Willoughby Road in Naremburn (and continuing south along Warringah Freeway to North Sydney), on 22 January 1993. Despite its role as a grade-separated freeway, the road is not officially gazetted as one by Transport for NSW classification, and is still considered today to be a main road.
The passing of the Roads Act of 1993 updated road classifications and the way they could be declared within New South Wales. Under this act, Gore Hill Freeway retains its declaration as part of Main Road 651.
The freeway was allocated National Route 1, and State Route 28 was extended from its previous terminus (at Longueville Road and Pacific Highway in Lane Cove) along Gore Hill Freeway, when it opened in 1992. National Route 1 was replaced by Metroad 1, a
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3-2-1 Penguins! is an American sci-fi computer-animated Christian children's television series, initially launched on November 14, 2000 as a direct-to-video episode by Big Idea Entertainment with videos released between 2000 and 2003. The direct-to-video series held the top spot on the Soundscan kid video sales charts for its first 18 weeks of release, was the #1 seller on Christian Booksellers Association's video list in 2001, and had sold 1.5 million videos as of February 2009.
The 3-2-1 Penguins television series appeared on the Qubo blocks on NBC, Ion Television and Telemundo as well as the Qubo channel it then later appeared on TBN and Smile of A Child. It ran for three seasons with the first season consisting entirely of television broadcasts of the six original home videos. 3-2-1 Penguins continued in reruns until 2014. The series was a top-ranked show on NBC's Qubo Saturday morning kids block in 2008.
Overview
Twin siblings Jason and Michelle are spending summer with their British grandmother in the Poconos region of Pennsylvania. Grandmum has a collection of kitschy ceramic figurines, the most prized of which is four penguins in a rocket ship (a honeymoon gift from her deceased husband). In the first video, the twins accidentally drop the ship, but instead of breaking, it flies into the air and reveals the four penguins are really the troop of a real spaceship. One of the twins is then pulled into the ship, using the crew's Galeezle (shrinking) device, and taken on a galactic adventure. The adventure that ensues then ties into whatever moral dilemma that Jason and Michelle had struggled with in the show's opening scene. For example, in the debut episode, Trouble on Planet Wait-Your-Turn, the twins are struggling with taking turns playing a new video game and looking through their Granddad's telescope before Jason is transported to a whole planet of alien vacuums who similarly have trouble taking turns.
Characters
Main
Zidgel (voiced by Ron Wells (2000–03) and John Payne (2006–2008)) is the Rockhopper's captain and a king who appears to be a cross between James T. Kirk and Ted Baxter.
Midgel (voiced by Greg Mills (2000–2003) and Paul Dobson (2006–2008)) is the Rockhopper's engineer and pilot. Midgel sometimes shouts "Banzai!" and pulls out a Bonsai tree to trim a branch before driving the ship.
Fidgel (voiced by Page H. Hearn (2000–2003) and Lee Tockar (2006–2008)) is the doctor/scientist of the Rockhopper's crew. Many of his inventions are odd, but can also be useful such as the crew's object resizer gun, the Gleezle. From photos in the first episode, we see that Fidgel physically resembles Jason's and Michelle's grandpa, Grandmum's deceased husband.
Kevin (voiced by Ron Smith (2000–2003) and Michael Donovan (2006–2008)): While Kevin has no specific job on the ship other than cleaning, he is always ready to help when needed by the others. He also sometimes answers questions or solves problems without being aware of it.
Jason Conrad (
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The Mick Molloy Show was a television program that appeared on the Nine Network in Australia for just eight weeks during 1999. The host, Mick Molloy, was a widely acclaimed comedian from The Late Show and Martin/Molloy. The program's running time (less commercial breaks) was approximately 1 hour 50 minutes.
The show essentially took a laidback, easygoing chat variety format, with a set comprising a couple of couches, a coffee table and resident band. The regular weekly guest band, featuring acts not normally seen on commercial television, added to the musical interludes. All this was combined with a some pre-recorded sketches, movie reviews, a sport segment, regular guests and local comedians to create a relaxed, urban/warehouse vibe. The lead-in shows were Hey Hey It's Saturday and The Pretender.
The premise of the show was that some mates would gather together on a pair of couches on a Saturday night. It was a variety show, with comedy and musical performances.
At the time The Mick Molloy Show was in pre-production, the popular comedy movie Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me had just been released, featuring the character Mini-me. In the debut episode, Tony Martin brought many gifts for Mick for his first show, including a new sidekick for Mick called Mini-Mick, a vertically challenged replica of Mick, parodying Mini-me. Mini-Mick was played by Arthur Serevetas (often credited as 'Arthur Penn'). Mini-Mick's catchphrase was "Blow it out your arse!" and was generally a more vulgar version of Mick, often yelling obscenities at people. Mini-Mick appeared in all eight episodes of The Mick Molloy Show.
Assisting Molloy in this live-to-air two-hour shambles were his comedy cronies Tony Martin, Judith Lucy, Bob Franklin and Dave O'Neil, bandleader Paul Hester and The Largest Living Things, film critic Leigh Paatsch, Puppetry of the Penis star Simon Morley and Channel Nine stalwart Pete Smith.
Some of the show's guests included Glenn Robbins, Mark Little, Alan Davies, Stephen Curry, Ben Folds Five, Spiderbait, The Fauves, Mach Pelican, Colin Hay and Stephen Cummings.
In its short time on air, the program caused considerable controversy. The very first sketch of the show portrayed Molloy appearing to be drunk, and supposedly urinating on the set with his back to camera. The show was widely panned by critics, and generated many complaints.
The show was originally contracted for 20 episodes, but was taken off air after the eighth. In that time, Molloy was reportedly paid over A$1 million.
Axing
The Mick Molloy Show was unconventional compared to many other mainstream live variety shows on Australian television at the time. Many speculate that it was the infamous "pilot" sketch during episode one which caused so much controversy. The show was axed after eight episodes. It is believed that the cast and crew were informed of the axing by Nine management during the week following episode eight, although this has not been confirmed. Another setback f
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TINA-C stands for Telecommunication Information Networking Architecture Consortium. It was an attempt (started in 1992) by several actors in the telecommunication world to define, design and realize a software architecture for the telecommunication infrastructure. The consortium has defined a number of specifications and has organized several experiments and demos.
TINA-C is partly based on the Advanced Networked Systems Architecture (ANSA) standard developed by Andrew Herbert.
From 1993-1997 TINA specifications where developed by a core team of experts residing in Red Bank, New Jersey. Core team members were employees of the member companies assigned to work for the consortium. From 1998-2000 the consortium consisted of a Technical Architecture Board that met frequently, with work being conducted in several working groups.
The consortium disbanded in 2000.
Member Companies
The following organizations were at one time members of TINA-C:
Alcatel
Alcatel
AT&T
Bellcore
BT
Deutsche Telekom
DEC
Ericsson
France Telecom
GPT
HP
IBM
Korea Telecom
KPN
Lucent
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Nokia
Siemens
SPRINT
STL research lab for Nortel Networks
Telefonica
Telecom Italia / CSELT
Telstra
Telenor
Bibliography
Appeldorn, Menso, Roberto Kung, and Roberto Saracco. "Tmn+ in= tina." IEEE Communications Magazine 31.3 (1993): 78-85.
External links
TINA-C Official website
Telecommunications organizations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuan-Yuan%20Sword
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Xuan-Yuan Sword (, literally "Sword of the Xuan-Yuan") is a long-running historical fantasy role-playing video game series developed for personal computers by the DOMO Studio (DOMO小組/多魔小組) of the Taiwanese game developer Softstar Entertainment. The games incorporate heavily elements of Chinese mythology, and is one of the so-called "Twin Swords of Softstar" (大宇雙劍) along with The Legend of Sword and Fairy, a sister fantasy RPG series also developed by Softstar.
In time immemorial, the titular Xuan-Yuan Sword was wielded by Yellow Emperor to defend Ancient China against the warlord Chi You and his aggressive subjects. After Chi You's defeat, the future for the five-thousand-year-old history of China was secured, and the sword was passed on from Yellow Emperor to future generations to continue to defend the world against evil. Due to its great power, the sword was often sought by treacherous individuals to further their own ends.
A recurring item of the series is the Monster Fusion Vessel (Lian Yao Hu, 煉妖壺), created by the goddess Nüwa in emulation of the Immortal Creation Ding (造物仙鼎) to cleanse the world. Within the Vessel resides an immortal entity known as the Spirit in the Vessel. The Vessel's powers are to absorb nonhuman creatures, and to transmute them into other creatures or items.
Main series
The Xuan-Yuan Sword series is the oldest and longest living Chinese RPG series, totaling 13 RPGs with ancient Chinese-style stories set in ancient Chinese backgrounds. They are:
Xuan-Yuan Sword
Xuan-Yuan Sword II
Xuan-Yuan Sword Gaiden: Dance of the Maple Leaves (The story happened in Warring States period of China)
Xuan-Yuan Sword III: Mists Beyond the Mountains (The story happened around the time of the An Lushan Rebellion. The protagonist started from Venice, Italy, and crossed the entire Eurasian continent to reach Chang'an, the capital of the Tang dynasty of China)
Xuan-Yuan Sword III Gaiden: The Scar of Sky (The story happened in late Sui dynasty)
Xuan-Yuan Sword IV: The Black Dragon Dances as the Storm Rages (The story happened in the late Qin dynasty)
Xuan-Yuan Sword Gaiden: The Millennial Destiny (Part of the story happened in the Spring and Autumn period of China, in the 6th century BC, and the other part 1000 years later, during the Battle of Fei River, during the East Jin dynasty)
Xuan-Yuan Sword V: A Sword Above the Clouds and the Sentiments of Shanhai (The story happened in an alternate world called the world of Shanhai, or literally the world of the Classic of Mountains and Seas. The time is equivalent to late Three Kingdoms period in our world)
Xuan-Yuan Sword Gaiden: The Cloud of Han (The story happened in the period of Three Kingdoms of China)
Xuan-Yuan Sword Gaiden: The Clouds Faraway (The game consists of 3 chapters: the main chapter, the chapter of Lan Ying, and the chapter of Wuzhang Plains. The story happened in the period of Three Kingdoms.)
Xuan-Yuan Sword VI: The Phoenix Soars over Millennial Clouds (The story
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New MetroRail was a division of the Public Transport Authority in Western Australia. It was responsible for managing extensions to Perth's railway network. The project doubled Perth's rail network, which is operated by Transperth, and was completed in 2007, after various projects were completed. Costing $1.6 billion, the project was the largest public transport project ever undertaken by the Western Australian government and effectively doubled the size of Perth's railway network. A similar agency Metronet was created in 2017 for future Perth rail extensions.
History
In December 1994, the Metropolitan Region Scheme was amended to include the original route for the Mandurah Railway, via Kenwick, using the existing Woodbridge to Kwinana freight line, and the Armadale line. In July 1995, the Court Liberal government announced it would build the new line to Mandurah (via Kenwick), and committed to completing the line from Kenwick to Jandakot by 2005.
In April 1997, the same government approved funding for the South West Metropolitan Railway Master Plan. The Master Plan was completed in April 2000. In June of the same year, the plan for the Currambine to Butler extension was released, which formed part of the Northern Suburbs Railway Interim Master Plan.
In February 2001, the Gallop Labor government was elected. In August 2002, that government announced that the rail alignment from Jandakot to Perth would run in the median of the Kwinana Freeway, and not via Kenwick as previously planned. In December 2007, the Mandurah railway line opened, meaning that the project was complete.
The Perth Urban Rail Development Project was renamed in March 2003 to New MetroRail. The organisation had an information centre in the Perth central business district for the public to obtain information on New MetroRail projects.
Projects
Northern suburbs railway
Works on the northern suburbs line within the project included:
Acquisition of relevant lands, funded from the 2000/2001 state budget
The construction of a new Currambine station to a location within the middle of the Mitchell Freeway road reserve, along with associated approach works
Demolition of the previous Currambine station, including associated sidings and rolling stock cleaning facilities
Construction of Clarkson station and associated works
A new station at Greenwood, Greenwood station
Construction of a rail bridge at Burns Beach Road
Construction of a road bridge at Hester Avenue
Construction of the new Nowergup railway depot
Construction of the rail reserve and 4 km of railway track from Burns Beach Road to Nowgerup, along with associated necessary works including communications and signalling
Upgrade of existing station platforms along the line to a length of 144 m to accommodate 6-carriage rolling stock
The purchase and delivery of new railcars at a cost of 23 million (2000)
Southern suburbs railway
Construction of eight new stations: Bull Creek, Murdoch, Cockburn Central, Kwinana,
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Profiling, the extrapolation of information about something, based on known qualities, may refer specifically to:
Technology
Profiling (information science) in information science
Profiling (computer programming) in software engineering
DNA profiling
Other
Author profiling
Data profiling
Forensic profiling, used in several types of forensic science
Offender profiling
Racial profiling
Sexual orientation profiling
Geographic profiling
See also
Profile (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS-Interface
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Actuator Sensor Interface (AS-Interface or ASi) is an industrial networking solution (physical layer, data access method and protocol) used in PLC, DCS and PC-based automation systems. It is designed for connecting simple field I/O devices (e.g. binary ON/OFF devices such as actuators, sensors, rotary encoders, analog inputs and outputs, push buttons, and valve position sensors) in discrete manufacturing and process applications using a single two-conductor cable.
AS-Interface is an 'open' technology supported by a multitude of automation equipment vendors. The AS-Interface has been an international standard according to IEC 62026-2 since 1999.
AS-Interface is a networking alternative to the hard wiring of field devices. It can be used as a partner network for higher level fieldbus networks such as Profibus, DeviceNet, Interbus and Industrial Ethernet, for whom it offers a low-cost remote I/O solution. It is used in automation applications, including conveyor control, packaging machines, process control valves, bottling plants, electrical distribution systems, airport baggage carousels, elevators, bottling lines and food production lines. AS-Interface provides a basis for Functional Safety in machinery safety/emergency stop applications. Safety devices communicating over AS-Interface follow all the normal AS-Interface data rules. The AS-Interface specification is managed by AS-International, a member funded non-profit organization located in Gelnhausen/Germany. Several international subsidiaries exist around the world.
History
AS-Interface was developed during the late 1980s and early 1990s by a development partnership of 11 companies mostly known for their offering of industrial non-contact sensing devices like inductive sensors, photoelectric sensors, capacitive sensors and ultrasonic sensors. Once development was completed the consortium was resolved and a member organization, AS-International, was founded. The first operational system was shown at the 1994 Hanover fair.
In 2018, a new technology step was presented at SPS IPC Drives in Nuremberg. This technology is named ASi-5. ASi-5 was developed by well-known manufacturers of automation technology.
Use
The AS-Interface (from the Actuator Sensor Interface) has been developed as an alternative to conventional parallel cabling of sensors and actuators and offers the following advantages:
Flexibility
Cost saving
Simplicity
Reduction of installation errors
Widely distributed
Best networking opportunities
Compatibility
The main application areas of the system are factory automation, process technology and home automation.
Technology
The AS-Interface is a single-master system, this means a master device exchanges the input and output data with all configured devices.
The transmission medium is an unshielded two-wire yellow flat cable. The cable is used for signal transmission and at the same time for power supply (30 V). The communication electronics and participants with low power re
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Retromer is a complex of proteins that has been shown to be important in recycling transmembrane receptors from endosomes to the trans-Golgi network (TGN) and directly back to the plasma membrane. Mutations in retromer and its associated proteins have been linked to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
Background
Retromer is a heteropentameric complex, which in humans is composed of a less defined membrane-associated sorting nexin dimer (SNX1, SNX2, SNX5, SNX6), and a vacuolar protein sorting (Vps) heterotrimer containing Vps26, Vps29, and Vps35. Although the SNX dimer is required for the recruitment of retromer to the endosomal membrane, the cargo binding function of this complex is contributed by the core heterotrimer through the binding of Vps26 and Vps35 subunits to various cargo molecules including M6PR, wntless, SORL1 (which is also a receptor for other cargo proteins such as APP), and sortilin. Early study on sorting of acid hydrolases such as carboxypeptidase Y (CPY) in S. cerevisiae mutants has led to the identification of retromer in mediating the retrograde trafficking of the pro-CPY receptor (Vps10) from the endosomes to the TGN.
Structure
The retromer complex is highly conserved: homologs have been found in C. elegans, mouse and human. The retromer complex consists of 5 proteins in yeast: Vps35p, Vps26p, Vps29p, Vps17p, Vps5p. The mammalian retromer consists of Vps26, Vps29, Vps35, SNX1 and SNX2, and possibly SNX5 and SNX6. It is proposed to act in two subcomplexes: (1) A cargo recognition heterotrimeric complex that consist of Vps35, Vps29 and Vps26, and (2) SNX-BAR dimers, which consist of SNX1 or SNX2 and SNX5 or SNX6 that facilitate endosomal membrane remodulation and curvature, resulting in the formation of tubules/vesicles that transport cargo molecules to the trans-golgi network (TGN). Humans have two orthologs of VPS26: VPS26A, which is ubiquitous, and VPS26B, which is found in the central nervous system, where it forms a unique retromer that is dedicated to direct recycling of neuronal cell surface proteins such as APP back to the plasma membrane with the assistance of the cargo receptor SORL1.
Function
The retromer complex has been shown to mediate retrieval of various transmembrane receptors, such as the cation-independent mannose 6-phosphate receptor, functional mammalian counterparts of Vps10 such as SORL1, and the Wnt receptor Wntless. Retromer is required for the recycling of Kex2p and DPAP-A, which also cycle between the trans-Golgi network and a pre-vacuolar (yeast endosome equivalent) compartment in yeast. It is also required for the recycling of the cell surface receptor CED-1, which is necessary for phagocytosis of apoptotic cells.
Retromer plays a central role in the retrieval of several different cargo proteins from the endosome to the trans-Golgi network, or for direct recycling back to the cell surface. However, it is clear that there are other complexes and proteins that act in this retriev
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blokesworld
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Blokesworld is an Australian television lifestyle series. It was originally shown on Channel 31 in 2003, and is currently shown on 7mate and Aurora Community Television channel on the pay TV network Foxtel in late night timeslots. It is also long-running in New Zealand on Triangle TV and Face TV.
Show
The creators and main presenters of Blokesworld are "Ado" and "Ben Wah", however in recent seasons Ben Wah appears in fewer segments. The format of the show is based around regular segments that focus on subjects like motor sports, motorsport & music events, exotic dancing, sports shooting, and unique aspects of Australian culture and society. In most episodes a connecting theme is interspersed among these segments.
History
Blokesworld began as a slow-paced, low-budget Saturday night program on the national community network Channel 31 in 2003. The concept of the show stemmed from Ado and Ben Wah's newfound interest in dirt biking, following years of playing in bands together and dabbling in music journalism. They had the idea that Australian television needed a more "bloke friendly" program, and set about completing six episodes of a show that combined the dirt biking theme with pole dancing, discussion on all matter of trucks and cars, and various other "blokey" subjects. The episodes were then submitted to Channel 31, in hopes that a late-night slot could be secured. When Channel 31 suggested that six more episodes be made to constitute a full series, Ado and Ben Wah moved production into the former's Queensland home and took odd jobs to make ends meet. Blokesworld began on Channel 31 in February 2003. Much of the funding for the series at the time came from sponsorship deals with companies such as Globe and 1-800 Reverse.
Many unsuccessful attempts to sell Blokesworld to the commercial networks followed. Eventually, Steve Dundon of the Melbourne-based production company Cornerbox expressed interest in the show and convinced Network Ten to place Blokesworld in a Friday night graveyard slot. To be closer to Cornerbox, Ado and Ben Wah relocated the production from Queensland to Whittlesea, Victoria, during 2004.
Ten launched the second series of Blokesworld on 1 September 2004. By then the show had better editing and sponsorship from more lucrative companies like Ford Motor Company (which ties in with the show's portrayal of Ford's V8 engined utes). It consistently won its timeslot.
Blokesworld'''s final season for Channel Ten concluded in November 2005. The latest season, subtitled Spin The Globe, was filmed in Europe and Japan during 2006, and began appearing in November that year on the community cable channel Aurora (via Foxtel/Austar). An anthology of each of the show's first three seasons has been released on DVD.Blokesworld entered the Australian lexicon when in response to Senate candidate Wayne Dropulich of the Australian Sports Party posting on Facebook a picture of a topless woman as part of his campaign online criticism included "P
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph-Johan%20Back
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Ralph-Johan Back is a Finnish computer scientist. Back originated the refinement calculus, an important approach to the formal development of programs using stepwise refinement, in his 1978 PhD thesis at the University of Helsinki, On the Correctness of Refinement Steps in Program Development. He has undertaken much subsequent research in this area. He has held positions at CWI Amsterdam, the Academy of Finland and the University of Tampere.
Since 1983, he has been Professor of Computer Science at the Åbo Akademi University in Turku. For 2002–2007, he was an Academy Professor at the Academy of Finland. He is Director of CREST (Center for Reliable Software Technology) at Åbo Akademi.
Back is a member of Academia Europaea.
References
External links
Ralph-Johan Back home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Helsinki alumni
Academic staff of the University of Tampere
Academic staff of Åbo Akademi University
Finnish computer scientists
Formal methods people
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Inmarsat-C is a two-way, packet data service operated by the telecommunications company Inmarsat which operates between mobile earth stations (MES) and land earth stations (LES). It became fully operational after a period of pre-operational trials in January 1991. The advantages of Inmarsat-C compared to Inmarsat-A are low cost, smaller and uses a smaller omni-directional antenna. The disadvantage is that voice communication is not possible with Inmarsat-C. The service is approved for use under the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS), meets the requirements for Ship Security Alert Systems (SSAS) defined by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and is the most widely used service in fishing Vessel Monitoring Systems (VMS).
The service works with a store-and-forward method which enables interface with data network transfer including; e-mail; SMS; telex; remote monitoring; tracking (position reporting); chart and weather updates; maritime safety information (MSI); maritime security; GMDSS; and SafetyNET and FleetNET services; two-way messaging; data reporting and polling; Safety/Emergency alerting.
The service is operated via an Inmarsat-C Transceiver or a lower-power mini-C Transceiver. Data transfers between MES and LES at a rate of 600 bits/second. The frequencies for transmitting (TX) are 1626.5MHz -1645.5MHz and for receiving (RX) are 1530.0MHz - 1545.0MHz.
The service is available for maritime, land mobile and aeronautical use.
This system was also used to track the BBC's project "The Box". BBC News followed a container around the world for a year to tell stories of globalization and the world economy.
Maritime Rescue Coordination Centers
The headquarters for Inmarsat C is located in London. The four Ocean Regions that are covered by Inmarsat C are:
the Atlantic Ocean Region East (AOR-E)
Atlantic Ocean Region West (AOR-W)
Pacific Ocean Region (POR)
Indian Ocean Region (IOR).
Within each ocean region, there are approximately four or five Maritime Rescue Coordination Centers (MRCC). In total, there are over twenty MRCC's in the world, and each MRCC station contributes to a certain MRCC area. The MRCC stations are located in:
Wellington (New Zealand)-POR
Aussaguel (France)-IOR/AOR-E/AOR-W
Beijing (China)-IOR/POR
Burum (The Netherlands)-AOR-E/AOR-W/IOR
Elk (Norway)-AOR-E/AOR-W/IOR
Emeq Haela (Israel)-AOR-E/IOR
Fucino (Italy) AOR-E/IOR
Ex Goonhilly @ Burum (Netherlands)
Hai Phong (Vietnam)-IOR/POR
Kumsan (S. Korea) IOR/POR
Lakhadaria (Algeria) AOR-E
Nakhodka (Russia)-POR
Nudol (Russian Fed.)-AOR-E/IOR
Perth (Australia)-IOR/POR
Psary (Poland)-AOR-E/IOR
Pune (India)-IOR
Santa Paula (USA)-POR
Sentosa (Singapore)-IOR/POR
Southbury (USA)-AOR-E/AOR-W
Tangua (Brazil)-AOR-E
Thermopylae (Greece)-AOR-E
Yamaguchi (Japan)-IOR/POR.
References
External links
Safety communications using Inmarsat C
Emergency communication
Maritime communication
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market%20data
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In finance, market data is price and other related data for a financial instrument reported by a trading venue such as a stock exchange. Market data allows traders and investors to know the latest price and see historical trends for instruments such as equities, fixed-income products, derivatives, and currencies.
The market data for a particular instrument would include the identifier of the instrument and where it was traded such as the ticker symbol and exchange code plus the latest bid and ask price and the time of the last trade. It may also include other information such as volume traded, bid, and offer sizes and static data about the financial instrument that may have come from a variety of sources. There are a number of financial data vendors that specialize in collecting, cleaning, collating, and distributing market data and this has become the most common way that traders and investors get access to market data.
Delivery of price data from exchanges to users, such as traders, is highly time-sensitive and involves specialized technologies designed to handle collection and throughput of massive data streams are used to distribute the information to traders and investors. The speed that market data is distributed can become critical when trading systems are based on analyzing the data before others are able to, such as in high-frequency trading.
Market price data is not only used in real-time to make on-the-spot decisions about buying or selling, but historical market data can also be used to project pricing trends and to calculate market risk on portfolios of investments that may be held by an individual or an institutional investor.
Data structure
A typical equity market data message or business object furnished from NYSE, TSX, or NASDAQ might appear something like this:
The above example is an aggregation of different sources of data, as quote data (bid, ask, bid size, ask size) and trade data (last sale, last size, volume) are often generated over different data feeds.
Delivery of data
Delivery of price data from exchanges to users is highly time-sensitive. Specialized software and hardware systems called ticker plants are designed to handle collection and throughput of massive data streams, displaying prices for traders and feeding computerized trading systems fast enough to capture opportunities before markets change. When stored, historical market data is a type of time series data.
Latency is the time lag in delivery of real-time data, i.e. the lower the latency, the faster the data transmission speed. Processing of large amounts of data with minimal delay is low latency. The delivery of data has increased in speed dramatically since 2010, with "low" latency delivery meaning delivery under 1 millisecond. The competition for low latency data has intensified with the rise of algorithmic and high frequency trading and the need for competitive trade performance.
Market data generally refers to either real-time or delayed pric
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20H.%20Lathwell
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Richard (Dick) Henry Lathwell was the 1973 recipient (with Larry Breed and Roger Moore) of the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery.
"For their work in the design and implementation of APL/360, setting new standards in simplicity, efficiency, reliability and response time for interactive systems."
References
IBM employees
I. P. Sharp Associates employees
People from Alberta
Grace Murray Hopper Award laureates
APL implementers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20M.%20Breed
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Lawrence Moser "Larry" Breed (July 17, 1940 - May 16, 2021) was a computer scientist, artist and inventor, best known for his involvement in the programming language APL.
Career
As an undergraduate at Stanford University in 1961, he created the first computer animation language and system and used it at Stanford football half-times to coordinate images produced by a 100 ft-by-100 ft array of rooters holding up colored cards.
As a graduate student at Stanford, he corresponded with APL's inventor, Ken Iverson, to correct the formal description of the IBM System/360 which used Iverson's notation. He received his M.S. from Stanford in 1965, under academic supervisor Niklaus Wirth. He then joined Iverson's group at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. In 1965 he and Philip S. Abrams created the first implementation of APL, written in FORTRAN on an IBM 7090.
He later created APL implementations for an experimental IBM Little Computer, and the IBM 360 in 1966, and for the IBM 1130.
Breed was the 1973 recipient (with Dick Lathwell and Roger Moore) of the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery "for their work in the design and implementation of APL\360, setting new standards in simplicity, efficiency, reliability and response time for interactive systems."
With Dan Dyer and others he co-founded Scientific Time Sharing Corporation in 1969, where he led the development of the APL PLUS time-sharing system. While there, in 1972, he and Francis Bates III wrote one of the world's first worldwide email systems, named Mailbox.
Breed rejoined IBM in 1977. He helped develop the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) APL standard, then joined IBM efforts to port Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix onto IBM platforms. He worked on compilers for the programming language C, floating-point arithmetic standardization, and radix conversion, until retiring in 1992.
Retirement
Breed became a significant contributor to the Burning Man event, under the playa name of Ember. He coined the term "MOOP" (matter out of place), and conceived and built the first trash fence to capture windborne debris. He created the spiraling, flaming sculpture "Chaotick", the playa’s longest-running art piece besides the Man himself, and built artistic bicycle light effects. He edited and proofread the Black Rock Gazette newspaper, a role in which he continued as a co-founder and director of its successor the Black Rock Beacon, and edited other Burning Man materials. As co-founder of the Earth Guardians, Breed promoted the "Leave No Trace" ethos, particularly in post-event cleanup.
In 1973 and 1974 he took first place, with co-solver Donna Breed, in the Dictionary Rally.
Gray-B-Gone and Evapotrons
Associated with his Burning Man activities, Breed devised the Gray-B-Gon and the Evapotron evaporators for graywater disposal, and through Bay Area workshops directed construction, by Burning Man campers,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBEF
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CBEF (1550 kHz) is a non-commercial AM radio station in Windsor, Ontario. It airs the programming of Radio-Canada's Première network.
CBEF is a Class A station broadcasting on the clear-channel frequency of 1550 AM, the only full power station on this frequency in Canada. Most clear channel stations broadcast at 50,000 watts, the maximum permitted for Canadian AM stations, but CBEF is powered at 10,000 watts. It uses a directional antenna, located off Talbot Road (Route 3) in Tecumseh, Ontario. CBEF is also heard on three FM rebroadcasters in Southern Ontario. One is a nested rebroadcaster also in Windsor, CBEF-2-FM at 105.5 MHz.
CBEF was launched in 1970. It originally broadcast at AM 540, until taking over the 1550 frequency in 2013. The 1550 frequency was previously used by CBEF's English language sister station, but CBE converted to the FM band in 2013 (now CBEW-FM 97.5 MHz).
Programming
CBEF's local morning program is Matins sans frontières. The station also airs the regional afternoon program L'heure de pointe Toronto from CJBC in Toronto. On Saturday mornings, the station carries the province-wide morning program À échelle humaine. The province-wide program airs on CBON and CJBC, as well as CBEF. On all public holidays, the morning show Matins sans frontières airs as usual and the afternoon show Pas comme d'habitude is heard province-wide (except Ottawa).
In the CBC's programming cuts announced on March 26, 2009, almost all of CBEF's local programming was slated for cancellation, meaning that the station would become effectively a rebroadcaster of CJBC except for a skeleton staff of two anchors to present local news updates during the day and report on breaking news. A local lobby group, "SOS-CBEF," organized to oppose the cutbacks. The group's request for an injunction against the change was denied in July, due to the presiding judge ruling that she did not have the appropriate legal jurisdiction to issue an injunction.
Matins sans frontières, a one-hour local morning program hosted by Charles Lévesque, was reinstated from September 7, 2010, and in May 2013 was expanded to two hours. As of summer 2015, it expanded to three hours. The station continues to rebroadcast CJBC in other local programming blocks.
At the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)'s license renewal for the CBC's services in 2013, the commission directed the network to maintain at least 15 hours per week of local programming on CBEF during the 2013-18 license term, due to the lack of other French-language radio services in Windsor.
Transmitters
The station has a rebroadcast transmitter (CBEF-1-FM) in Leamington, on 103.1 FM. Due to AM reception issues in downtown Windsor, CBEF was also approved by the CRTC to operate a 620-watt nested rebroadcaster in Windsor at 105.5 MHz, provided that does not interfere with stations at or near this frequency, such as WQQO in Toledo, Ohio or WWCK-FM in Flint, Michigan, both Top 40 stations owned
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKSB-FM
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CKSB-FM (89.9 MHz) is a public radio station in Winnipeg, Manitoba, owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It carries Radio-Canada's Ici Musique network, airing a mix of adult album alternative (AAA), classical music and other genres.
CKSB-FM has an effective radiated power of 61,000 watts, broadcasting from the Starbuck Communications Tower.
History
On August 21, 2001, the CRTC approved the CBC's application to launch the new French language radio station. CKSB-FM signed on the air December 23, 2001.
Transmitters
CKSB-FM also has rebroadcast transmitters in Saskatchewan:
Both rebroadcasters for Regina and Saskatoon were approved by the CRTC on April 30, 2002.
See also
CKSB-10-FM
CBWFT-DT
References
External links
KSB
KSB
KSB
Franco-Manitoban culture
Radio stations established in 2001
2001 establishments in Manitoba
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolv.conf
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resolv.conf is the name of a computer file used in various operating systems to configure the system's Domain Name System (DNS) resolver. The file is a plain-text file usually created by the network administrator or by applications that manage the configuration tasks of the system. The resolvconf program is one such program on FreeBSD or other Unix machines which manages the resolv.conf file.
Purpose
In most Unix-like operating systems and others that implement the BIND Domain Name System (DNS) resolver library, the resolv.conf configuration file contains information that determines the operational parameters of the DNS resolver. The DNS resolver allows applications running in the operating system to translate human-friendly domain names into the numeric IP addresses that are required for access to resources on the local area network or the Internet. The process of determining IP addresses from domain names is called address resolution.
Contents and location
The file resolv.conf typically contains search directives that specify the default search domains used for completing a given query name to a fully qualified domain name when no domain suffix is supplied. For instance, search example.com local.test configures the resolver to try additionally somehost.example.com and somehost.local.test.
It also contains a list of IP addresses of nameservers for resolution. For instance, nameserver 1.1.1.1 configures the resolver to query for the name server with IP 1.1.1.1. Additional nameserver directives after the first are only used when the first or last used server is unavailable. An example file is:
search example.com local.test
nameserver 10.0.0.17
nameserver 10.1.0.12
nameserver 10.16.0.7
resolv.conf is usually located in the directory /etc of the file system. The file is either maintained manually, or when DHCP is used, it is usually updated with the utility resolvconf.
In systemd based Linux distributions using systemd-resolved.service, /etc/resolv.conf is a symlink to /run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf.
See also
Hosts (file)
nsswitch.conf
resolved.conf
systemd-resolved
References
External links
"resolv.conf" on Arch Linux wiki
"resolv.conf" on Gentoo Linux wiki
Domain Name System
Configuration files
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20of%20Us
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All of Us is an American sitcom that premiered on the UPN network in the United States on September 16, 2003, where it aired for its first three seasons. On October 1, 2006, the show moved to The CW, a new network formed by the merger of UPN and The WB (whose sister company Warner Bros. Television produced this series), where it aired for one season, then was cancelled on May 15, 2007.
Synopsis
The series, loosely based on the blended family of creator and executive producers Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith, revolved around Robert James (Duane Martin), a divorced television entertainment reporter with a young son, Robert "Bobby" James, Jr. (Khamani Griffin), and his fiancée Tia Jewel (Elise Neal), a kindergarten teacher who helped him through the breakup of his first marriage.
Robert shares custody of his son with his ex-wife Neesee (LisaRaye McCoy), with whom he shares a tenuously friendly relationship for the sake of their son.
Robert also finds himself in a difficult situation, attempting to maintain the peace, however uneasy, between his ex-wife and his fiancée. Friends of the couple include Dirk Black (Tony Rock), Robert's single best friend and producer, and Tia's best friend and fellow teacher Jonelle Abrahams (Terri J. Vaughn).
In season three, Tia breaks her engagement to Robert, leaving a newly single Robert faced with a situation where Neesee must move in with him and Bobby temporarily after her apartment building is destroyed by fire. In addition to Tia, two other supporting characters, Jonelle and Turtle (James Vincent), were written out of the series. In season four, Laivan Greene joined the cast as Courtney, Dirk's long-lost daughter.
Cast and characters
Main
Episodes
Production
Cast changes
In June 2005, Elise Neal, who portrayed Tia Jewel, announced that she would not be returning for the third season of the series, claiming that marital issues between Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith were negatively impacting the show's work environment. In August 2005, Terri J. Vaughn who played Jonelle Abrahams, and James Vincent, who played Turtle, also announced they would not be returning to the series due to contract issues.
In November 2005, Terri J. Vaughn returned to play Jonelle in a guest appearance for the third season's two-part episodes, titled "Legal Affairs". James Vincent returned to play Turtle in a guest appearance in the third season episode "Creeping with the Enemy".
Cancellation
On May 15, 2007, The CW canceled All of Us, along with many other programs that originated from UPN and the WB.
Broadcast
First run
All of Us debuted on UPN on September 16, 2003. The series aired on Tuesdays at 8:30 PM (EST) for its first season. The second season aired on Tuesday nights at 8:00 PM and was paired up with fellow UPN sitcom Eve.
For its third season, UPN moved the series to Mondays at 8:30 PM (EST) airing after One on One. After three seasons of average ratings, and with the fall 2006 launch of The CW necessitating t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCTI
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RCTI (Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia) is a West Jakarta-based Indonesian free-to-air television network. It is best known for its soap operas, celebrity bulletins, news, and sports programmes. It was first launched in 1989, originally as a local pay television operator that broadcasts mostly foreign programmes, before switching to free-to-air terrestrial network a year later.
History
In October 1987, state broadcaster TVRI lost its monopoly when the government allowed private television networks to begin broadcasting. RCTI was officially inaugurated on the morning of 24 August 1989 by President Suharto as Indonesia's first privately owned commercial television network. Evening programming was launched by Minister of Information Harmoko. RCTI was initially broadcast to Greater Jakarta area as a local pay television channel and gained a nationwide terrestrial license a year later. Prior to 1994, RCTI mostly aired foreign programmes as it cost less compared to self-produced programmes, and to evoke the look and feel of a conventional pay television (which was a new and expensive technology in Indonesia at the time) . From 1989 to 1990, the station's subscription system requires an UHF set-top box, and in some areas, with a satellite dish. During this time, the subscription system was incorrectly branded as a "pay-per-view", despite the fact that it works similarly as a conventional pay television that requires monthly subscription.
RCTI was initially co-owned by PT Rajawali Wira Bhakti Utama (later Rajawali Corpora) and PT Bimantara Citra (later Global Mediacom, now known as PT Media Nusantara Citra (MNC)), thus its name. One of its commissioner at that time Indra Rukmana is the husband of Tutut Soeharto, the founder and ex-owner of its eventual sister network TPI. It is completely owned by MNC, which also owns GTV, MNCTV, and iNews, both private Indonesian television networks.
RCTI, MNCTV and GTV was removed from Cable subscription of First Media due to limited Broadcasting rights period as result from information posted by First Media Twitter account at January 2013. There are same with IPTV service IndiHome at 8 April 2016, but GTV still aired on First Media through MNC Vision transmission since 2019.
Since the digital television transition started on November 2, 2022, the PAL broadcast of RCTI Jakarta was scheduled to shut down on November 3, 2022 at 12:00am, but was delayed to November 3, 2022, at 23:59:19 WIB/11:59pm after Kominfo statement with MNC Group or ANTV issues that did not force them to shut down the analogue service in Jakarta when TVRI or other TV stations shut down the analogue service quickly and switched to DVB-T2 services on November 3, 2022 at 12:00am.
RCTI now has 47 relay stations around Indonesia and reaches over 180 million viewers.
Programming
The flagship news program is Seputar iNews (formerly Seputar Indonesia), which has morning, lunchtime and late-night editions. RCTI also airs quiz shows, including the Ind
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro%20TV
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Metro TV may refer to:
Metro TV (Ghana), a television station in Ghana
Metro TV (Indonesian TV network), a television network in Indonesia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Office%202000
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Microsoft Office 2000 (version 9.0) is a release of Microsoft Office, an office suite developed and distributed by Microsoft for the Windows family of operating systems. Office 2000 was released to manufacturing on March 29, 1999, and was made available to retail on June 7, 1999. It is the successor to Office 97 and the predecessor to Office XP. A Mac OS equivalent, Microsoft Office 2001, was released on October 11, 2000.
Office 2000 is incompatible with Windows NT 3.51 and earlier versions of Windows. Office 2000 requires Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 SP3 at the minimum. It is not officially supported on Windows Vista or later versions of Windows. It is the last version of Microsoft Office to support Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 SP3 as the following version, Microsoft Office XP only supports Windows NT 4.0 SP6 or later.
Microsoft released three service packs for Office 2000 throughout its life cycle. The first update was called Service Release 1 (SR-1), while subsequent updates were referred to as service packs. Mainstream support for Office 2000 ended on June 30, 2004, and extended support ended on July 14, 2009.
New features
New features in Office 2000 include HTML document creation and publishing, Internet collaboration features such as integration with NetMeeting, roaming user profile support, COM add-in support; an updated version of the Office Assistant that utilizes Microsoft Agent, improved compliance with the year 2000, and interface improvements including personalized menus and toolbars that omit infrequently used commands from view. Office 2000 introduces PhotoDraw, a raster and vector imaging program, as well as Web Components. It is also the first version of Office to use Windows Installer for the installation process. It also comes with Internet Explorer 5 and uses its technologies as well.
Editions
Microsoft released five main editions of Office 2000 globally: Standard, Small Business, Professional, Premium, and Developer. An additional Personal edition with Word, Excel, and Outlook exclusive to Japan was also released. A similar Basic edition for Office 2003 would later be released to all markets.
All retail editions sold in Australia, Brazil, China, France, and New Zealand, as well as academic copies sold in Canada and the United States, required the user to activate the product via the Internet. Microsoft extended this requirement to retail editions sold in Canada and the United States with the availability of Office 2000 Service Release 1. However, product activation is no longer required as of April 15, 2003. Product activation would become a requirement for all editions of Office from Office XP onward.
MapPoint, Project, Visio and Vizact also used the Microsoft Office 2000 brand, but they were only available as standalone programs.
System requirements
Notes
References
1999 software
2000
Office 2000
Windows-only proprietary software
Products and services discontinued in 2009
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20network%20diagram
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A computer network diagram is a schematic depicting the nodes and connections amongst nodes in a computer network or, more generally, any telecommunications network. Computer network diagrams form an important part of network documentation.
Symbolization
Readily identifiable icons are used to depict common network appliances, e.g. routers, and the style of lines between them indicates the type of connection. Clouds are used to represent networks external to the one pictured for the purposes of depicting connections between internal and external devices, without indicating the specifics of the outside network. For example, in the hypothetical local area network pictured to the right, three personal computers and a server are connected to a switch; the server is further connected to a printer and a gateway router, which is connected via a WAN link to the Internet.
Depending on whether the diagram is intended for formal or informal use, certain details may be lacking and must be determined from context. For example, the sample diagram does not indicate the physical type of connection between the PCs and the switch, but since a modern LAN is depicted, Ethernet may be assumed. If the same style of line was used in a WAN (wide area network) diagram, however, it may indicate a different type of connection.
At different scales diagrams may represent various levels of network granularity. At the LAN level, individual nodes may represent individual physical devices, such as hubs or file servers, while at the WAN level, individual nodes may represent entire cities. In addition, when the scope of a diagram crosses the common LAN/MAN/WAN boundaries, representative hypothetical devices may be depicted instead of showing all actually existing nodes. For example, if a network appliance is intended to be connected through the Internet to many end-user mobile devices, only a single such device may be depicted for the purposes of showing the general relationship between the appliance and any such device.
Cisco symbolization
Cisco uses its own brand of networking symbols. Since Cisco has a large Internet presence and designs a broad variety of network devices, its list of symbols ("Network Topology Icons") is exhaustive.
Topology
The physical network topology can be directly represented in a network diagram, as it is simply the physical graph represented by the diagrams, with network nodes as vertices and connections as undirected or direct edges (depending on the type of connection). The logical network topology can be inferred from the network diagram if details of the network protocols in use are also given.
Gallery
See also
Comparison of network diagram software
Computer network
Diagram
Network diagram
Network topology
References
Computer networking
Diagrams
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Youth%20For%20Action
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European Youth For Action (EYFA) is an environmental youth network in Europe. It is based in Amsterdam and has partner organizations in 18 European countries.
History
EYFA started in 1985 as the European Youth Forest Action; a campaign organised by Youth and Environment Europe with then still an office in Denmark. YEE employed the German Petra Keppler for a while as she held office in Amsterdam. After the first bustour Amsterdam-Budapest EYFA was split off to an independent youth organisation and moved to Sittard. The fundraising for Budapest was done by the Dutch Ed Romeijn as the (East-West) exchange-officer of YEE. The then Belgian chairwoman of YEE Adelheid Byttebier is nowadays elderman in Brussels for the Greens.
EYFA grew from a tour that was initiated by Swedish/German/Dutch group in 1986 to save the old forests in Europe, and it was then named European Youth Forest Action. From this beginning, it developed into a platform for grassroots, collectives, organizations, projects and individuals active on environmental and social justice issues all around Europe. One of EYFA's founders was Dutch activist Wam Kat. By 1994, the group had grown to over 400 affiliates across Europe. Its early goal was "to promote co-operation and co-ordination of youth environmentalists on an international level; to integrate issues of environment and development on a global level".
Structure
The group was organized as a "loose network" of youth action groups without "formal membership or membership fees" and "very basic nonbureaucratic structures". EYFA's environmentalist perspective is characterized by a grassroots orientation and by its view that most environmental problems are also a question of social and economic injustice. EYFA works to challenge the mainstream economic system and promotes what it sees as socially and environmentally sound ways of living.
Ecotopia gathering
EYFA has organized the annual Ecotopia gathering, which is training camp of environmental and political organizers from across Europe. The first Ecotopia was in Cologne, Germany in 1989. Ecotopia moved each year, trying to take place in countries where the ecological movement would benefit from having such an event. Thus, it was often the case that Ecotopia was in central or east European countries or the poorer western ones. Ecotopia stopped happening as a regular annual event in the early 2000s.
Governmental ties
EYFA receives funding from various organizations including the European Union to organize its projects and events. The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs has described EYFA as a "major group".
Campaigns
Opposition to the "car culture"
EYFA opposes the car culture and proposes alternatives to reliance on cars for transportation. It publishes "energetic, information-packed" publications about the car-free movement.
The group organized anti-car demonstrations in Lyon, France in 1997, that involved protesters and passersby "dancing in t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflectometer
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Some scientific instruments commonly designated reflectometer are:
Vector network analyser (VNA)
Optical time domain reflectometer
Reflectometer (electronics): In electronics, a directional coupler containing matched calibrated detectors in both arms of the auxiliary line, or a pair of single-detector couplers oriented so as to measure the electrical power flowing in both directions in the main line
Spectrophotometer: in optics, an instrument for measuring the reflectivity or reflectance of reflecting surfaces
Time-domain reflectometer
See also
Retroreflector
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Apache%E2%80%93MySQL%E2%80%93PHP%20packages
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This is a list of notable AMP (Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, Perl/PHP/Python) software stacks for all computer platforms; these software bundles are used to run dynamic Web sites or servers. There are LAMPs (for Linux); WAMPs (for Windows); MAMPs (for macOS) and DAMPs (for Darwin); SAMPs (for Solaris); and FAMPs (for FreeBSD).
See also
Composer (software)
References
Lists of software
Web development software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seputar%20Indonesia
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Seputar Indonesia (translated Around Indonesia) was Indonesia's longest running flagship newscast carried by a private television network. It debuted for the first time on the newly inaugurated RCTI on 15 November 1989 as the local news program Seputar Jakarta (Around Jakarta), as well as the network's first newscast before it evolved to go nationwide on 15 November 1990. Since the end of 2005, the program has regained its position as the most-watched newscast in the country, according to ratings by Nielsen Media Research. During its early years, Seputar Indonesia was also carried by RCTI's then sister network SCTV.
On 9 February 2009, Seputar Indonesia was revamped and was the only news program on RCTI, under an initiative called Satu Seputar Indonesia (One Around Indonesia). The morning news program, Nuansa Pagi was renamed Seputar Indonesia Pagi. The lunchtime news program, Buletin Siang renamed Seputar Indonesia Siang. The late night news program, Buletin Malam was renamed Seputar Indonesia Malam. The main evening edition retained the Seputar Indonesia name due to the historical context.
On 1 November 2017, along with rebranding that includes iNews brand for MNCTV and GTV newscasts, it was replaced by Seputar iNews.
Historically, it was also broadcast by SCTV before the network would produce their own news program, Liputan 6 respectively.
Logos
On 15 November 1989, the Seputar Indonesia logo used only the phrase 'SEPUTAR JAKARTA' which was formerly the logo used on 15 November 1989 until 14 November 1990.
On 15 November 1990, the Seputar Indonesia logo used only the phrase 'SEPUTAR INDONESIA' which was renamed and used from what was formerly named Seputar Jakarta by the logo was used on 15 November 1990 until 23 August 1997.
On 24 August 1997, the Seputar Indonesia logo is closed by a circular red ring with word seputar INDONESIA (the word seputar at the top with the word INDONESIA at the bottom) by the logo was used on 24 August 1997 until 31 July 2002.
On 1 August 2002, Seputar Indonesia replaced the logo with a blue ball closed rings (in a similar shape to Saturn) was used until 24 August 2006.
On 25 August 2006, the logo changed again into a ball bearing the front of RCTI by the logo continued to be used until 9 February 2009.
On 9 February 2009, Seputar Indonesia relaunched the logo and was used until 31 October 2017. The logo is almost similar to the Firefox logo.
Anchors and former anchors
Atika Suri
Desi Anwar
Helmi Johannes
Putra Nababan
Aiman Witjaksono
Trishna Sanubari
Dana Iswara
Adolf Posumah
Asti Husadi
F.A. Prasetyo
Ade Novit
Zsa Zsa Yusharyahya
Ratna Komala
Iwan Emawan Malik
Edwin Nazir
Inne Sudjono
Devi Trianna
Scheduling of main news program
Seputar Jakarta
16:00-16:30 WIB (15 November 1989 – 14 November 1990)
Seputar Indonesia Pagi
04:30-06:00 WIB (9 February 2009 – 31 October 2017)
Seputar Indonesia Siang
12:00-12:30 WIB (9 February 2009 – 11 May 2014)
11:30-12:00 WIB (12 May 2014 – 31 Octo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia%20Today
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Indonesia Today is the first English-language newscast ever carried by a private television network in Indonesia. It appeared on RCTI from 1 November 1996 to 31 August 2001. On 31 August 2001, Indonesia Today was discontinued due to lack of ratings and replaced by Indonesian-language criminal news, Sergap.
News anchor
Desi Anwar
Chrysanti Soewarso
Jason Tedjakusmana
Helmi Johannes
Rubrication
In Focus
Business and Financial
The Diplomatic Pouch
Politic
Law and Criminal
Social
Health and Medical
International
Art and culture
Weather Forecast
English Daily Newspaper (Morning Paper)
The Jakarta Post
Jakarta Straits Times
Jakarta Daily News
Agenda
Headline News
World Sport
Time slot history
07.30-08.00 WIB (4 November 1996 – 4 February 2000)
07.00-07.30 WIB (7 February 2000 – 31 August 2001)
See also
RCTI
References
Indonesian television news shows
1996 Indonesian television series debuts
2001 Indonesian television series endings
1990s Indonesian television series
2000s Indonesian television series
2010s Indonesian television series
RCTI original programming
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka%20%28OPAC%29
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Eureka was the user interface for general users of the Research Library Information Network (RLIN), a bibliographic resource containing records from libraries that were members of Research Libraries Group (RLG). Eureka had the capacity to search among approximately 45 million different titles. Most of the catalog was from major research libraries and museums in the United States. Despite the OPAC formulation, Eureka technically was not a public access search engine. It was generally accessible only from networks connected to research institutions, such as universities.
Following the 2006 merger of RLG into OCLC, the Eureka databases were migrated to OCLC's FirstSearch in 2007.
See also
WorldCat
References
Bibliographic databases and indexes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darryl%20Francis
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Darryl Francis (born 16 April 1948) is a well-known author of books on Scrabble.
He was a co-compiler of Chambers' original Official Scrabble Words publication in 1988 and consultant on all future editions, along with ex ABSP chairman Allan Simmons. He is also co-compiler on the Collins Official Scrabble Words publication in 2007 and 2012, again along with ex ABSP chairman Allan Simmons.
Darryl Francis co-hosted a series of five short programmes for the BBC on the World Scrabble Championship in 1991, alongside TV presenter Alan Coren. He has also ghost-written many Scrabble books for well-known personalities, most notably ex-MP Gyles Brandreth.
In 1985, he was the series 6 champion for the UK game show Countdown. In 2013, he returned to the programme to participate in the 30th Birthday Championship, where he was the earliest series champion in the field.
He has also written extensively for the American journal Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics, having contributed nearly 200 articles as of 2010. His articles on wordplay, word puzzles and all manner of word recreations have appeared regularly since 1968.
Francis has also appeared on Turnabout, BrainTeaser and Eggheads.
References
1948 births
Living people
British male writers
British non-fiction writers
British Scrabble players
Contestants on British game shows
Countdown (game show)
Word Ways people
Male non-fiction writers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listing
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Listing may refer to:
Enumeration of a set of items in the form of a list
Listing (computer), a computer code listing
Listing (finance), the placing of a company's shares on the list of stocks traded on a stock exchange
Johann Benedict Listing (1808–1882), German mathematician
Navigation listing, tilting of vessels in a nautical context
Listings magazine, a type of magazine displaying a schedule of programmed content
Designation as a listed building in the United Kingdom
A term in US real estate brokerage, referring to the obtaining of a written contract to represent the seller of a property or business
See also
List (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedwire
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Fedwire (formerly known as the Federal Reserve Wire Network) is a real-time gross settlement funds transfer system operated by the United States Federal Reserve Banks that allows financial institutions to electronically transfer funds between its more than 9,289 participants (as of March 19, 2009). Transfers can only be initiated by the sending bank once they receive the proper wiring instructions for the receiving bank. These instructions include: the receiving bank's routing number, account number, name and dollar amount being transferred. This information is submitted to the Federal Reserve via the Fedwire system. Once the instructions are received and processed, the Fed will debit the funds from the sending bank's reserve account and credit the receiving bank's account. Wire transfers sent via Fedwire are completed the same business day, with many being completed instantly.
In conjunction with Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS), Fedwire is the primary U.S. network for large-value or time-critical domestic and international payments. Fedwire is designed to be highly resilient.
The Fedwire system has grown since its inception, seeing growth in both number of transfers and total transaction dollar value of about 79% and 207% respectively between 1996 and 2016. In 2016, roughly 148.1 million transfers were valued at $766.7 trillion.
History
In the early 1900s, settlement of interbank payments was often done by the physical delivery of cash or gold. By 1915, The Federal Reserve Banks began to move funds electronically. In 1918, the Banks established a proprietary telecommunications system to process funds transfers, connecting all 12 Reserve Banks, the Federal Reserve Board and the U.S. Treasury by telegraph using Morse code. Starting in the 1920s up until the 1970s, the system remained largely telegraphic; however as technology improved, they began to make the shift from telegraphy towards telex, then to computer operations and then to proprietary telecommunications networks.
In the early 1980s, Fedwire was taxed to its limit with the result that it was often subject to "throttle", which means that it took messages from the banks more slowly than its normal speed. From a user's point of view, throttle was like being put on hold every time one sent a message to the Fed. In 1983, the Fed made a major upgrade of the automated system it uses to support Fedwire. Because the major banks could not tolerate a long breakdown in their computer operations, the Fed designed its internal systems so that the maximum down time for a breakdown would be limited to a few minutes or a few hours at most. In an effort to improve operational efficiency, in the 1990s, the Reserve Banks consolidated most mainframe computer operations and centralized certain payment applications. More recently, the Reserve Banks have taken advantage of the flexibility and efficiency that Internet protocol (IP) and distributed processing technologies offer. These technol
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daal
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Daal or DAAL may refer to:
Dal (also daal), a dried pulse which has been split
Dāl, Arabic letter د
Ḏāl, Arabic letter ذ
Data Analytics Acceleration Library, a library of optimized algorithmic building blocks for data analysis stages
Dali (goddess), whose name is sometimes transliterated as "Daal"
Mung Daal, a character in the cartoon show Chowder
See also
Dal (disambiguation)
Dahl (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCNS
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KCNS (channel 38) is a television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Bay Area. Owned by WRNN-TV Associates, the station airs programming from ShopHQ. KCNS shares its digital channel with KMTP-TV (channel 32), KTNC-TV (channel 42), and KEMO-TV (channel 50). Their transmitter is located atop Sutro Tower in San Francisco.
History
KUDO and KVOF-TV
The first channel 38 signed on the air on December 28, 1968, as KUDO. With a lineup heavy on live and local shows, including financial programming during the morning and early afternoon hours and even an interview show hosted by Willie Mays, KUDO failed financially; it went bankrupt and fell dark on April 15, 1971.
Faith Center, managed by pastor Ray Schoch (1917–1977), acquired the station at a low price and returned it to the air in 1974 as KVOF-TV, carrying Christian programming for about 12 hours a day. Some shows were produced by Faith Center while others came from outside Christian groups. In 1975, the station expanded its programming to nearly 24 hours a day, when Dr. Gene Scott became pastor of Faith Center and assumed control of its television stations. By 1978, the station was only running programming from Scott's "University Network" 24 hours a day. However, the station lost its license, along with those of sister stations KHOF (99.5 FM) in Los Angeles and KHOF-TV in San Bernardino, after Faith Center refused to disclose its private donor records to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in a case over alleged misuse of funds for uses other than originally stated purposes.
West Coast United
The FCC's 1980 decision to deny a distress sale of KVOF-TV spurred three applications for new stations on channel 38, from West Coast United Broadcasting Company, Together Media Ministries (owned by the First Assembly of God of Fremont), and Carmel-based LDA Communications; this proceeding in turn depended on the renewal for the radio station. Administrative law judge Edward Kuhlmann dismissed KVOF-TV's renewal application in 1983 for failure to answer questions and produce documents that were necessary for the hearing. The initial decision that December gave the nod to West Coast United Broadcasting Company, whose Tacoma, Washington–based staff presented a superior proposal on integration of staff and management. Faith Center appealed the dismissal of its license application, but the FCC denied this in 1984 and gave the church 90 days to continue running KVOF-TV in order to wind up its affairs. Faith Center then attempted to have the Supreme Court of the United States hear a challenge to its losses; it refused.
KVOF-TV was given until January 2, 1986, to close. Scott warned viewers of his San Francisco successor, "Here comes the Tower of Babel religious brigade ... the voices like Oral Roberts, Jimmy Swaggart and Jerry Falwell preaching homosexuals into hell and beating the drum with the same claptrap you hear Sunday on every religious station in
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Guideline%20Clearinghouse
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National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) is a database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents. As of July 2, 2018, it will no longer be updated with new content, and it will no longer be available online as of July 18, 2018. As stated on its announcement page on June 18, 2018, federal funding is no longer available for it (nor for the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse [NQMC]) The entire content of the NGC is now available free of charge at The Alliance for the Implementation of Clinical Practice Guidelines. This site will begin uploading more current references in April 2020.
Historically, it had been maintained as a public resource by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The NGC aimed to provide physicians, nurses, and other health professionals, health care providers, health plans, integrated delivery systems, purchasers and others an accessible mechanism for obtaining objective, detailed information on clinical practice guidelines and to further their dissemination, implementation and use. The database was updated weekly with new and revised guidelines. The currency of all guidelines was verified annually through NGC's Annual Verification process.
The site featured:
A Guideline Comparison utility that gives users the ability to generate side-by-side comparisons for any combination of two or more guidelines
Guideline Syntheses prepared by NGC staff, comparing guidelines covering similar topics, highlighting areas of similarity and difference. NGC Guideline Syntheses often provide a comparison of guidelines developed in different countries, providing insight into commonalities and differences in international health practices.
An electronic forum, NGC-L for exchanging information on clinical practice guidelines, their development, implementation and use
An Annotated Bibliography database where users can search for citations for publications and resources about guidelines, including guideline development and methodology, structure, evaluation, and implementation.
See also
ECRI Institute
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
References
External links
NGC Website
NGC Announcements
Galician Health Technology Assessment Agency published a Spanish user-guide about National Guideline Clearinghouse
ECRI Guidelines Trust
United States Department of Health and Human Services
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniprocessor%20system
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A uniprocessor system is defined as a computer system that has a single central processing unit that is used to execute computer tasks. As more and more modern software is able to make use of multiprocessing architectures, such as SMP and MPP, the term uniprocessor is therefore used to distinguish the class of computers where all processing tasks share a single CPU. Most desktop computers are shipped with multiprocessing architectures since the 2010s. As such, this kind of system uses a type of architecture that is based on a single computing unit. All operations (additions, multiplications, etc.) are thus done sequentially on the unit.
Further reading
Parallel computing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphoryl%20chloride%20%28data%20page%29
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This page provides supplementary chemical data on phosphoryl chloride.
Material Safety Data Sheets
Aldrich MSDS
Fisher MSDS
Baker MSDS
Thermodynamic properties
Spectral data
Structure and properties data
References
Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable%20Batch%20System
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Portable Batch System (or simply PBS) is the name of computer software that performs job scheduling. Its primary task is to allocate computational tasks, i.e., batch jobs, among the available computing resources. It is often used in conjunction with UNIX cluster environments.
PBS is supported as a job scheduler mechanism by several meta schedulers including Moab by Adaptive Computing Enterprises and GRAM (Grid Resource Allocation Manager), a component of the Globus Toolkit.
History and versions
PBS was originally developed for NASA under a contract project that began on June 17, 1991. The main contractor who developed the original code was MRJ Technology Solutions. MRJ was acquired by Veridian in the late 1990s. Altair Engineering acquired the rights to all the PBS technology and intellectual property from Veridian in 2003. Altair Engineering currently owns and maintains the intellectual property associated with PBS, and also employs the original development team from NASA.
The following versions of PBS are currently available:
OpenPBS — original open source version released by MRJ in 1998.
TORQUE — a fork of OpenPBS that is maintained by Adaptive Computing Enterprises, Inc. (formerly Cluster Resources, Inc.)
PBS Professional (PBS Pro) — the version of PBS offered by Altair Engineering that is dual licensed under an open source and a commercial license. Note that the non-commercial offering is called OpenPBS, not to be confused with the outdated software originally released in 1998.
License
The license for PBS derived programs allows redistribution accompanied by information on how to obtain the source code and modifications, and requires an acknowledgement in any advertising clause mentioning use of the software (compare the BSD advertising clause). Prior to 2002, PBS and derivative programs (OpenPBS) prohibited commercial redistribution of the software, required registration at the OpenPBS website, and required attribution when PBS contributed to a published research project. These requirements, which did not meet the Open Source Initiative's definition of open source, were set to expire on December 31, 2001.
Today, OpenPBS, the "community edition" of PBS Professional, is distributed under GNU Affero General Public License.
References
External links
PBS Professional home page
PBS Professional GitHub Project
Job scheduling
1998 software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Spectrum%20LSF
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IBM Spectrum LSF (LSF, originally Platform Load Sharing Facility) is a workload management platform, job scheduler, for distributed high performance computing (HPC) by IBM.
Details
It can be used to execute batch jobs on networked Unix and Windows systems on many different architectures. LSF was based on the Utopia research project at the University of Toronto.
In 2007, Platform released Platform Lava, which is a simplified version of LSF based on an old version of LSF release, licensed under GNU General Public License v2. The project was discontinued in 2011, succeeded by OpenLava.
In January, 2012, Platform Computing was acquired by IBM. The product is now called IBM Spectrum LSF.
IBM Spectrum LSF Community Edition is a no-charge community edition of the IBM Spectrum LSF workload management platform.
References
Also See
Sun Grid Engine
HTCondor
Job scheduling
Grid computing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20Modular%20Dataflow%20Machine
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Binary Modular Dataflow Machine (BMDFM) is a software package that enables running an application in parallel on shared memory symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) computers using the multiple processors to speed up the execution of single applications. BMDFM automatically identifies and exploits parallelism due to the static and mainly dynamic scheduling of the dataflow instruction sequences derived from the formerly sequential program.
The BMDFM dynamic scheduling subsystem performs a symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) emulation of a tagged-token dataflow machine to provide the transparent dataflow semantics for the applications. No directives for parallel execution are needed.
Background
Current parallel shared memory SMPs are complex machines, where a large number of architectural aspects must be addressed simultaneously to achieve high performance. Recent commodity SMP machines for technical computing can have many tightly coupled cores (good examples are SMP machines based on multi-core processors from Intel (Core or Xeon) or IBM (Power)). The number of cores per SMP node is planned to double every few years according to computer makers' announcements.
Multi-core processors are intended to exploit a thread-level parallelism, identified by software. Hence, the most challenging task is to find an efficient way to harness power of multi-core processors for processing an application program in parallel. Existent OpenMP paradigm of the static parallelization with a fork-join runtime library works pretty well for loop-intensive regular array-based computations only, however, compile-time parallelization methods are weak in general and almost inapplicable for irregular applications:
There are many operations that take a non-deterministic amount of time making it difficult to know exactly when certain pieces of data will become available.
A memory hierarchy with multi-level caches has unpredictable memory access latencies.
A multi-user mode other people's codes can use up resources or slow down a part of the computation in a way that the compiler cannot account for.
Compile-time inter-procedural and cross-conditional optimizations are hard (very often impossible) because compilers cannot figure out which way a conditional will go or cannot optimize across a function call.
Transparent dataflow semantics of BMDFM
The BMDFM technology mainly uses dynamic scheduling to exploit parallelism of an application program, thus, BMDFM avoids mentioned disadvantages of the compile-time methods. BMDFM is a parallel programming environment for multi-core SMP that provides:
Conventional programming paradigm requiring no directives for parallel execution.
Transparent (implicit) exploitation of parallelism in a natural and load balanced manner using all available multi-core processors in the system automatically.
BMDFM combines the advantages of known architectural principles into a single hybrid architecture that is able to exploit implicit parallelism of the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEPnet
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HEPnet or the High-Energy Physics Network is a telecommunications network for researchers in high-energy physics. It originated in the United States, but that has spread to most places involved in such research. Well-known sites include Argonne National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley.
See also
Energy Sciences Network
External links
HEPnet site
Computational particle physics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBLR
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KBLR (channel 39) is a television station licensed to Paradise, Nevada, United States, broadcasting the Spanish language Telemundo network to the Las Vegas area. Owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group, KBLR maintains studios at the Neonopolis complex on Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas, and a transmitter on Black Mountain near Henderson.
History
Early years
The station was founded in 1988 by Glenn Rose, an entrepreneur who found early success as a franchisee in Southern California of Nutrisystem and used the wealth from that effort to found KBLR, a station whose call letters were inspired by the initials of his wife.
During its first two years of operation, it aired a schedule heavy on public domain movies and TV shows, professional wrestling, and programs no other Las Vegas stations wanted to air. A lack of compelling programming and competition from three other independent stations, including Fox-affiliated KVVU-TV, left KBLR unable to carve out a niche in the market. After a proposed sale to a company known as The Gaming Network fell through in December 1990, the station added programming from Channel America, a service primarily used by low-power stations.
After dropping much of its programming to carry the contractual minimum with Channel America and air primarily Christian programming in February 1991, the station went dark on July 12, 1991. The station then became the centerpiece of a proposal by Source Venture Capital to relaunch KBLR as a western superstation with content from Willie Nelson's Outlaw Channel and purchased British series, which was slated for an October 15 launch that was postponed several times and ultimately scrapped when Rose's investors would not go along with the deal.
In 1993, Rose sold the station to a partnership known as Summit Media, headed by Scott Gentry, to be converted to the first full-power Spanish-language television station in Las Vegas and a Telemundo affiliate. At the time, the only Spanish-language outlet in the area was K27AF "KAFT-TV", affiliated with Univision. The station resumed broadcasting on March 1, 1994.
Sale to NBC
On February 23, 2005, NBC bought Telemundo affiliate KBLR from Summit Media for $32.1 million. The sale was completed on May 24, 2005.
In August 2008, KBLR confirmed reports from the Las Vegas Sun and announced at the city council meeting that its studio facility would be moving to Neonopolis on Fremont Street, which is part of the Fremont Street Experience. The station's studios were first occupied on January 20 with full completion on February 22, 2009. KBLR began broadcast operations from the new facility that day at 4:45 a.m.
The station previously had a repeater in Reno, Nevada, K52FF (channel 52); this station has since gone dark, and its license canceled.
As a result of the sale to NBCUniversal, KBLR is the only network owned-and-operated station in the Las Vegas media market.
News operation
As the first full-power Spanish station in Las
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escuela%20Superior%20Latinoamericana%20de%20Inform%C3%A1tica
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The Escuela Superior Latinoamericana de Informática (Spanish for "Latin American Superior School of Informatics", ESLAI) was an Argentine undergraduate school of computer science established in 1986. Classes were held in a former country house at the Pereyra Iraola Park in Buenos Aires Province, located approximately 40 km from Buenos Aires.
The school had Argentine mathematician Manuel Sadosky among its main founders. In spite of its short life, it had a considerable impact on informatics teaching and research in Argentina and South America. ESLAI courses were attended by students from several Spanish-speaking countries in South America such as Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela. All students had a full scholarship and the admission process was passed by about 15% of applicants.
ESLAI established cooperation programs with a number of foreign universities in the Americas as well as in Europe. Those agreements sponsored important visitors to the school, such as Alberto O. Mendelzon, Jean-Raymond Abrial, Ugo Montanari, Carlo Ghezzi and Giorgio Ausiello, and enabled its students to attend graduate school at foreign universities.
The school had a significant European influence and was oriented towards theoretical aspects of computer science, such as typed lambda calculus, formal verification, and Martin-Löf's intuitionistic type theory.
Unfortunately, ESLAI was never able to develop a relationship with local companies, which in an emergent economy like Argentina's is essential to be involved with more practical problems. Without financial support, ESLAI had to close down in September 1990 during the presidency of Carlos Menem.
References
1986 establishments in Argentina
1990 disestablishments in Argentina
Educational institutions established in 1986
Educational institutions disestablished in 1990
Universities in Buenos Aires Province
Computer science departments
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossy%20data%20conversion
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A lossy data conversion method is one where converting data between one storage format and another displays data in a form that is "close enough" to be useful, but may differ in some ways from the original. This type of conversion is used frequently between software packages that rely on different storage techniques. In many cases, a software package such as Microsoft Word will enable a document stored in one format to be saved as another, in particular HTML. The document saved in the lossy format may look identical, but the conversion can also cause some loss of fidelity or functionality.
Types of lossy conversion
There are three basic types of lossy data conversion:
With in-place lossy data conversion, software packages such as IBM's Lotus Domino transform a proprietary rich text format into a web standard HTML as the page is requested. Because the page is served up just in time, it can rely on the existence of the software package to handle specialized data features that may not be available in the new format natively. On the other hand, the converted data may not be usable outside of the in-place context.
With file export lossy data conversion, software packages allow either a File Export to the new data storage format, or a File Save to the new data storage format. The former leaves the original content in its original format and creates a new lossy version in the named file. The latter changes the format of the existing file.
With extraction lossy data conversion, software packages take content stored by a different software package and extract out the content to the desired format. This may allow data to be extracted in a format not recognized by the original software package.
Other types of data
Graphic data (images) is often converted from one data storage format to another. Such conversions are usually described separately as either lossy data compression or lossless data compression.
See also
Round-trip format conversion
Transcoding
Computer file formats
Data compression
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPC%20Historical%20Data%20Access
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This group of standards, created by the OPC Foundation, provides COM specifications for communicating data from devices and applications that provide historical data, such as databases. The specifications provides for access to raw, interpolated and aggregate data (data with calculations).
OPC Historical Data Access, also known as OPC HDA, is used to exchange archived process data. This is in contrast to the OPC Data Access (OPC DA) specification that deals with real-time data. OPC technology is based on client / server architecture. Therefore, an OPC client, such as a trending application or spreadsheet, can retrieve data from an OPC compliant data source, such as a historian, using OPC HDA.
Similar to the OPC Data Access specification, OPC Historical Data Access also uses Microsoft's DCOM to transport data. DCOM also provides OPC HDA with full security features such as user authentication and authorization, as well as communication encryption services. OPC HDA Clients and Servers can reside on separate PCs, even if they are separated by a firewall. To do this, system integrators must configure DCOM properly as well as open ports in the firewall. If using the Windows firewall, users only need to open a single port.
See also
OLE for process control
OPC Foundation
OPC Data Access
External links
OPC Foundation
OPC Historical Data Access specification
Industrial automation
Computer standards
Component-based software engineering
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPAT%20%28AM%29
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WPAT (930 AM), is a radio station licensed to Paterson, New Jersey, with a brokered programming format. WPAT is owned by Multicultural Broadcasting, and its studios are located in New York City, in Manhattan's Financial District. The station's four transmitting towers are located in Clifton, New Jersey.
History
WPAT first went on the air in 1941, from studios at 7 Ellison Street in Paterson. In December 1949, it began broadcasting 24 hours a day with power increased to 5,000 watts using a directional antenna. Air personalities then included John Henry Faulk.
For many years, the station (along with its FM counterpart) would broadcast a beautiful music format under the slogan "Easy 93". WPAT was the essence of a mellow sound and feel; the requirement for different programming between the AM and FM was met simply by repeating the previous week's AM programs in a slightly different order on FM. Initially, the music was only instrumental versions of pop standards by artists like Mantovani, Henry Mancini, Stan Kenton, Jackie Gleason, Hollyridge Strings, Ray Conniff, Percy Faith, David Rose and Ferrante & Teicher, among others. Some of the music bordered on light classical. The FM station was added in 1958.
The WPAT stations were purchased by Capital Cities Communications in 1961. In the late 1960s the stations added several vocalists per hour. The vocalists were pop standards artists like Lettermen, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Patti Page, and others. Vocals were only very soft ones that had string arrangements and the stations steered clear of jazzy type vocals at that point. Throughout the 1960s, WPAT also resisted playing easy instrumental versions of baby boomer pop and rock and roll songs, however after WCBS-FM adopted a beautiful music format called the "Young Sound" which played a mix of easy listening instrumental versions of rock songs and some soft rock, WPAT began at least playing such songs in instrumental easy arrangements. In the 1970s, WPAT began integrating some baby boomer soft vocals such as The Carpenters, Neil Diamond, Dionne Warwick, and others, still playing one vocal per 15 minutes. In 1982, the stations began playing soft rock songs mixed into the format a couple of times an hour and cut back on pop standards artists and songs.
In 1985, Capital Cities announced that it would buy ABC. As a result of Federal Communications Commission regulations at the time, the company decided to sell WPAT and WPAT-FM because ABC already owned WABC and WPLJ in New York City. The WPAT stations would be sold to Park Communications. By the early 1990s both frequencies of WPAT evolved to an adult contemporary format.
In January 1996, WPAT-FM was sold to Spanish Broadcasting System and switched to a Spanish-language adult contemporary format. Around the same time, WPAT was sold to Heftel Broadcasting and switched to an automated classic salsa–tropical music format on March 26. Heftel tried buying the FM station but was narrowly outbid by SBS. H
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynane
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Cynane (, Kynane or , Kyna; killed 323 BC) was half-sister to Alexander the Great, and daughter of Philip II by Audata, an Illyrian princess. She is estimated to have been born in 357 BC.
Biography
According to Polyaenus, Audata trained her daughter in "the arts of war" in the Illyrian tradition. Cynane's father gave her in marriage to her cousin Amyntas, by whom she had a daughter and by whose death she was left a widow in 336 BC. In the following year Alexander promised her hand, as a reward for his services, to Langarus, king of the Agrianians, but the intended bridegroom became ill and died.
Cynane continued unmarried and employed herself in the education of her daughter, Adea or Eurydice, whom she is said to have trained, after the manner of her own education, in martial exercises. It was Eurydice who took command of Cynane's troops after her death. When her half-brother Philip Arrhidaeus was chosen king in 323 BC, Cynane determined to marry Eurydice to him, and crossed over to Asia accordingly.
Out of all royal Macedonian women in the Hellenistic Period, Cynane was one of only three to fight on the front lines. Macurdy claims that Cynane killed an Illyrian queen in battle and is, in fact, one of the only women recorded to have killed an enemy in battle. She also defeated an army of the now dead Alexander the Great when facing Alcetas, brother of Perdiccas (the regent).
Her influence was probably great, and her project to marry off Eurydice alarmed Perdiccas and Antipater, the former of whom sent his brother Alcetas to meet her on her way and put her to death. Alcetas did so in defiance of the feelings of his troops, and Cynane met her doom with an undaunted spirit. Upon her death, Alcetas' troops rioted and virtually ensured Eurydice's wedding took place, which was Cynane's ultimate goal. Unfortunately, both daughter and son-in-law were eventually killed by Olympias. In 317 BC, Cassander, after defeating Olympias, buried Cynane with Eurydice and Arrhidaeus at Aegae, the royal burying-place.
Polyaenus, half a millennium later, in the second century C.E., wrote:
References
4th-century BC births
323 BC deaths
Ancient Macedonian queens consort
Family of Alexander the Great
Women in Hellenistic warfare
People who died under the regency of Perdiccas
Murdered royalty of Macedonia (ancient kingdom)
Illyrian women
4th-century BC women
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBC2
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CBC2 may be:
CBC Radio 2, FM radio network in Canada
CBC-2, a proposed (but never aired) second English-language Canadian TV service that was to be operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Ford Bay Airport, CBC2 ICAO airport code, in the Northwest Territories, Canada
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliance%20%28graphics%20editor%29
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Brilliance is a bitmap graphics editor for the Amiga computer, published by Digital Creations in 1993. Although marketed as a single package, Brilliance in reality consisted of two separate (but near identical-looking) applications. One was a palette-based package also named Brilliance. The other was a true-color package called TrueBrilliance.
The Brilliance package was one of the major rivals to Deluxe Paint, the established "killer app" in Amiga bitmap graphics editing.
At its launch, Brilliance attracted generally favorable reviews. One commonly noted point was TrueBrilliance's performance on Hold-and-Modify and true-color images, which was significantly faster than that of Deluxe Paint IV. However, despite being faster and easier to use than Deluxe Paint, Brilliance never achieved the same level of popularity. It may be significant that (in contrast to Deluxe Paint) by the time of Brilliance's launch, the Amiga market was already in serious decline.
TrueBrilliance was notable for its ability to edit true 15 and 24-bit color images, even on older Amigas which could only display HAM-6 (pseudo-12-bit color) graphics. In such cases, the image was rendered as a HAM display, but all modifications were performed on the underlying true color image buffer. Even when the final image was intended for HAM display, this had the advantage that successive operations did not accumulate HAM artifacts on top of each other. Loss of quality could be restricted to a single HAM conversion at the end of the process.
Releases
Brilliance/TrueBrilliance was released in 1993, and came with a dongle. Brilliance/TrueBrilliance 2 (released in 1994) dropped this requirement, although some reviewers considered the changes in functionality overall to be minor, given the new major release number. However, the significant drop in price of the new version was positively received.
See also
Deluxe Paint
Photon Paint
GrafX2
References
External links
Archived Usenet review of a.o., Brilliance
Raster graphics editors
Amiga software
1993 software
Proprietary software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Virtual%20Server
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Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Originally developed by Connectix, it was acquired by Microsoft prior to release. Virtual PC is Microsoft's related desktop virtualization software package.
Virtual machines are created and managed through a Web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus.
The last version using this name was Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1. New features in R2 SP1 include Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, SMP (but not for the guest OS), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista. It also provides a Volume Shadow Copy writer that enables live backups of the Guest OS on a Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 host. A utility to mount VHD images has also been included since SP1. Virtual Machine Additions for Linux are available as a free download. Officially supported Linux guest operating systems include Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 2.1-5.0, Red Hat Linux 9.0, SUSE Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server versions 9 and 10.
Virtual Server has been discontinued and replaced by Hyper-V.
Differences from Virtual PC
VPC has multimedia support and Virtual Server does not (e.g. no sound driver support).
VPC uses a single thread whereas Virtual Server is multi-threaded.
VPC will install on Windows 7, but Virtual Server is restricted from install on NT 6.1 or higher operating systems i.e. Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7.
VPC is limited to 127GB .vhd (per IDE CHS specification), however Virtual Server can be made to access .vhd up to 2048GB (NTFS max file size).
Version history
Microsoft acquired an unreleased Virtual Server from Connectix in February 2003.
The initial release of Microsoft's Virtual Server, general availability, was announced on September 13, 2004. Virtual Server 2005 was available in two editions: Standard and Enterprise. The Standard edition was limited to a maximum 4 processors for the host operating system while the Enterprise edition was not.
On 2006-04-03, Microsoft made Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition a free download, in order to better compete with the free virtualization offerings from VMware and Xen, and discontinued the Standard Edition. Microsoft Virtual Server R2 SP1 added support for both Intel VT (IVT) and AMD Virtualization (AMD-V).
Limitations
Known limitations of Virtual Server, , include the following:
Will not install on Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 or newer operating systems. Upgrades from Vista/Server2008 can be patched.
Although Virtual Server 2005 R2 can run on hosts with x86-64 processors, it cannot run x64 guests that require x86-64 processors (guests cannot be 64-bit).
It also makes use of
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical%20resistivity
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Numerical resistivity is a problem in computer simulations of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). It is a form of numerical diffusion. In near-ideal MHD systems, the magnetic field can diffuse only very slowly through the plasma or fluid of the system; it is rate-limited by the inverse of the resistivity of the fluid. In Eulerian simulations where the field is arbitrarily aligned compared to the simulation grid, the numerical diffusion rate takes the form similar to an additional resistivity, causing non-physical and sometimes bursty magnetic reconnection in the simulation. Numerical resistivity is a function of resolution, alignment of the magnetic field with the grid, and numerical method. In general, numerical resistivity will not behave isotropically, and there can be different effective numerical resistivities in different parts of the computational domain. For current (2005) simulations of the solar corona and inner heliosphere, this numerical effect can be several orders of magnitude larger than the physical resistivity of the plasma.
See also
Numerical diffusion
Numerical differential equations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical%20diffusion
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Numerical diffusion is a difficulty with computer simulations of continua (such as fluids) wherein the simulated medium exhibits a higher diffusivity than the true medium. This phenomenon can be particularly egregious when the system should not be diffusive at all, for example an ideal fluid acquiring some spurious viscosity in a numerical model.
Explanation
In Eulerian simulations, time and space are divided into a discrete grid and the continuous differential equations of motion (such as the Navier–Stokes equation) are discretized into finite-difference equations. The discrete equations are in general more diffusive than the original differential equations, so that the simulated system behaves differently than the intended physical system. The amount and character of the difference depends on the system being simulated and the type of discretization that is used. Most fluid dynamics or magnetohydrodynamic simulations seek to reduce numerical diffusion to the minimum possible, to achieve high fidelity — but under certain circumstances diffusion is added deliberately into the system to avoid singularities. For example, shock waves in fluids and current sheets in plasmas are in some approximations infinitely thin; this can cause difficulty for numerical codes. A simple way to avoid the difficulty is to add diffusion that smooths out the shock or current sheet. Higher order numerical methods (including spectral methods) tend to have less numerical diffusion than low order methods.
Example
As an example of numerical diffusion, consider an Eulerian simulation using an explicit time-advance of a drop of green dye diffusing through water. If the water is flowing diagonally through the simulation grid, then it is impossible to move the dye in the exact direction of the flow: at each time step the simulation can at best transfer some dye in each of the vertical and horizontal directions. After a few time steps, the dye will have spread out through the grid due to this sideways transfer. This numerical effect takes the form of an extra high diffusion rate.
When numerical diffusion applies to the components of the momentum vector, it is called numerical viscosity; when it applies to a magnetic field, it is called numerical resistivity.
Consider a Phasefield-problem with a high pressure loaded airbubble(blue) within a phase of water. Since there are no chemical or thermodynamical reactions during expansion of air in water there is no possibility to come up with another (i.e. non red or blue) phase during the simulation. These inaccuracies between single phases are based on numerical diffusion and can be decreased by mesh refining.
See also
False diffusion
Numerical dispersion
Numerical error
References
Numerical artifacts
Numerical differential equations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform%20Computing
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Platform Computing was a privately held software company primarily known for its job scheduling product, Load Sharing Facility (LSF). It was founded in 1992 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and headquartered in Markham, Ontario with 11 branch offices across the United States, Europe and Asia.
In January 2012, Platform Computing was acquired by IBM.
History
Platform Computing was founded by Songnian Zhou, Jingwen Wang, and Bing Wu in 1992. Its first product, LSF, was based on the Utopia research project at the University of Toronto. The LSF software was developed partially with funding from CANARIE (Canadian Advanced Network and Research for Industry and Education).
Platform's revenue was approximately $300,000 in 1993, and reached $12 million in 1997. Revenue grew by 34% (YoY) to US$46.2 million in 2001, US$50 million in 2003.
In 1999, the SiteAssure suite was announced by Platform to address website availability and monitoring market.
On October 29, 2007, Platform Computing acquired the Scali Manage business from Norway-based Scali AS. Scali was cluster management software. On August 1, 2008, Platform acquired the rest of the Scali business, taking on the industry-standard Message Passing Interface (MPI), Scali MPI, and rebranding it Platform MPI.
On June 22, 2009, Platform Computing announced its first software to serve the cloud computing space. Platform ISF (Infrastructure Sharing Facility) enables organizations to set up and manage private clouds, controlling both physical and virtual resources.
In August 2009, Platform acquired HP-MPI from Hewlett-Packard.
In January 2012, Platform Computing was acquired by IBM.
Open-source participation
Platform joined the Hadoop project in 2011, and is focused on enhancing the Hadoop Distributed File System
Platform Lava - based on Platform LSF, licensed under GPLv2. The Lava scheduler is part of Red Hat HPC. Discontinued in 2011.
OpenLava - successor to Platform Lava.
Platform FTA - File Transfer Agent for HPC clusters
Nagios Plug-ins
Community Scheduler Framework - a meta-scheduling framework
Memberships
Platform Computing is a member of the following organizations:
The Green Grid
Open Grid Forum
Standards
Platform products adopted the following standards:
DRMAA
Intel Cluster Ready
HPC Profile
JSDL
Open MPI
Project Kusu, the basis for the Platform Cluster Manager
See also
Computational grid
CPU scavenging
Beowulf (computing)
Job schedulers
References
External links
Platform.com The Official Website for Platform Computing HPC Management Software
User forum
Platform Computing user portal for downloads and commercial support
Software companies of Canada
Companies established in 1992
IBM acquisitions
Grid computing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidsbeat
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Kidsbeat is a Canadian children's television news series that aired on the Global Television Network during the mid-1980s.
Airing Saturdays at 12:30 p.m. (rebroadcast on TVOntario at 11:30 a.m. on Sundays), the program featured various news stories and specials focusing on issues that mattered to kids. It also had a strong emphasis on pop culture, including a segment with short clips from the week's top 5 singles, and sometimes featured video games. It had a variety of different hosts, including, Kevin Newman, Dave Hatch, Pauline Chan, Nerene Virgin, Doug Gamey and Serena Keshavjee amongst others.
1980s Canadian children's television series
Global Television Network original programming
TVO original programming
Television shows filmed in Toronto
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20Computer%2C%20Inc.%20v.%20Mackintosh%20Computers%20Ltd.
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Apple Computer, Inc. v. Mackintosh Computers Ltd. [1990] 2 S.C.R. 209, is a Supreme Court of Canada case on copyright law regarding the copyrightability of software. The Court found that programs within ROM silicon chips (in this case, the Autostart ROM and Applesoft in Apple II+ systems) are protected under the Copyright Act, and that the conversion from the source code into object code was a reproduction that did not alter the copyright protection of the original work.
lmpact=Background
The defendant Mackintosh Computers Ltd. was a manufacturer of unlicensed Apple II+ clones that were capable of running software designed for Apple II+ computers. At issue in this case were the Autostart ROM and Applesoft programs embedded in the computer chips of Apple's computers.
At trial, the defendants conceded that they copied the chips in question by burning the contents of Apple's ROM chips into their own EPROMs They further conceded that software written in assembly code was copyrightable under the Copyright Act as literary works. However, the defendants argued that they had not infringed Apple's copyright in the assembly code because they had copied only the contents of the ROMs in question.
The trial judge found that the software burned into Apple's ROMs were both a translation and reproduction of the assembly language source code, thus were protected by s. 3(1) of the Copyright Act.
The Federal Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal. Two of the appellate judges held that the object code was a reproduction of the assembly code, while the third held that the object code could be considered either a translation or a reproduction, both protected by copyright.
Ruling
The Supreme Court held that the machine code embedded in the Apple ROM chips was an exact reproduction of the written assembly code, and as such were protected by s. 3(1) of the Copyright Act. The court further rejected the argument that the machine code fell under the merger doctrine, holding that the programs were a form of expression.
The Supreme Court declined to follow the case of Computer Edge Pty. Ltd. v. Apple Computer, Inc. decided by the High Court of Australia, which had virtually identical facts. In that case, the court held that the chips contained a "sequence of electrical impulses" which could not be subject to copyright.
Aftermath
Not long after the case, the Copyright Act of Canada was amended to explicitly include software as a "literary work" within the Act.
See also
Apple Inc. litigation
Apple Computer, Inc. v. Franklin Computer Corp., 714 F.2d 1240 (3d Cir. 1983), a similar case heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Computer Edge Pty. Ltd. v. Apple Computer, Inc. (1986), 65 A.L.R. 33, a similar case heard by the High Court of Australia
International Business Machines Corporation v. Computer Imports Ltd., [1989] 2 NZLR 395, a similar case heard by the High Court of New Zealand
References
External links
Canadian copyright case law
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call%20capture
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Call Capture technology is both a phone and text-based technology that captures personal data from persons who inquire for information on something; usually a property for sale or rent. After the call is placed, the system notifies a client of the name and phone number of the person calling. The system was designed to generate leads specifically for the real estate industry.
Telephony
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20Emission%20Spectrometer
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The Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) is an instrument on board Mars Global Surveyor. TES collects two types of data, hyperspectral thermal infrared data from 6 to 50 micrometres (μm) and bolometric visible-NIR (0.3 to 2.9 μm) measurements. TES has six detectors arranged in a 2x3 array, and each detector has a field of view of approximately 3 × 6 km on the surface of Mars.
The TES instrument uses the natural harmonic vibrations of the chemical bonds in materials to determine the composition of gases, liquids, and solids.
TES identified a large (30,000 square-kilometer) area that contained the mineral olivine. Olivine was found in the Nili Fossae formation. It is thought that the ancient impact that created the Isidis basin resulted in faults that exposed the olivine. Olivine is present in many mafic volcanic rocks. In the presence of water it weathers into minerals such as goethite, chlorite, smectite, maghemite, and hematite. Olivine was also discovered in many other small outcrops within 60 degrees north and south of the equator. Olivine has also been found in the SNC (shergottite, nakhlite, and chassigny) meteorites that are generally accepted to have come from Mars. Later studies have found the olivine-rich rocks to cover over 113,000 square kilometers. That is 11 times larger than the five volcanoes on the Big Island of Hawaii.
See also
Thermal Emission Imaging System
Thermal infrared spectroscopy
Phil Christensen
References
Spectrometers
Spacecraft instruments
Mars Global Surveyor
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20spectrometry%20data%20format
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Mass spectrometry is a scientific technique for measuring the mass-to-charge ratio of ions. It is often coupled to chromatographic techniques such as gas- or liquid chromatography and has found widespread adoption in the fields of analytical chemistry and biochemistry where it can be used to identify and characterize small molecules and proteins (proteomics). The large volume of data produced in a typical mass spectrometry experiment requires that computers be used for data storage and processing. Over the years, different manufacturers of mass spectrometers have developed various proprietary data formats for handling such data which makes it difficult for academic scientists to directly manipulate their data. To address this limitation, several open, XML-based data formats have recently been developed by the Trans-Proteomic Pipeline at the Institute for Systems Biology to facilitate data manipulation and innovation in the public sector. These data formats are described here.
Open formats
JCAMP-DX
This format was one of the earliest attempts to supply a standardized file format for data exchange in mass spectrometry. JCAMP-DX was initially developed for infrared spectrometry. JCAMP-DX is an ASCII based format and therefore not very compact even though it includes standards for file compression. JCAMP was officially released in 1988. Together with the American Society for Mass Spectrometry a JCAMP-DX format for mass spectrometry was developed with aim to preserve legacy data.
ANDI-MS or netCDF
The Analytical Data Interchange Format for Mass Spectrometry is a format for exchanging data. Many mass spectrometry software packages can read or write ANDI files. ANDI is specified in the ASTM E1947 Standard. ANDI is based on netCDF which is a software tool library for writing and reading data files. ANDI was initially developed for chromatography-MS data and therefore was not used in the proteomics gold rush where new formats based on XML were developed.
AnIML
AnIML is a joined effort of IUPAC and ASTM International to create an XML based standard that covers a wide variety of analytical techniques including mass spectrometry.
mzData
mzData was the first attempt by the Proteomics Standards Initiative (PSI) from the Human Proteome Organization (HUPO) to create a standardized format for Mass Spectrometry data. This format is now deprecated, and replaced by mzML.
mzXML
mzXML is a XML (eXtensible Markup Language) based common file format for proteomics mass spectrometric data. This format was developed at the Seattle Proteome Center/Institute for Systems Biology while the HUPO-PSI was trying to specify the standardized mzData format, and is still in use in the proteomics community.
YAFMS
Yet Another Format for Mass Spectrometry (YAFMS) is a suggestion to save data in four table relational server-less database schema with data extraction and appending being exercised using SQL queries.
mzML
As two formats (mzData and mzXML) for representing the same
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream%20processing
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In computer science, stream processing (also known as event stream processing, data stream processing, or distributed stream processing) is a programming paradigm which views streams, or sequences of events in time, as the central input and output objects of computation. Stream processing encompasses dataflow programming, reactive programming, and distributed data processing. Stream processing systems aim to expose parallel processing for data streams and rely on streaming algorithms for efficient implementation. The software stack for these systems includes components such as programming models and query languages, for expressing computation; stream management systems, for distribution and scheduling; and hardware components for acceleration including floating-point units, graphics processing units, and field-programmable gate arrays.
The stream processing paradigm simplifies parallel software and hardware by restricting the parallel computation that can be performed. Given a sequence of data (a stream), a series of operations (kernel functions) is applied to each element in the stream. Kernel functions are usually pipelined, and optimal local on-chip memory reuse is attempted, in order to minimize the loss in bandwidth, associated with external memory interaction. Uniform streaming, where one kernel function is applied to all elements in the stream, is typical. Since the kernel and stream abstractions expose data dependencies, compiler tools can fully automate and optimize on-chip management tasks. Stream processing hardware can use scoreboarding, for example, to initiate a direct memory access (DMA) when dependencies become known. The elimination of manual DMA management reduces software complexity, and an associated elimination for hardware cached I/O, reduces the data area expanse that has to be involved with service by specialized computational units such as arithmetic logic units.
During the 1980s stream processing was explored within dataflow programming. An example is the language SISAL (Streams and Iteration in a Single Assignment Language).
Applications
Stream processing is essentially a compromise, driven by a data-centric model that works very well for traditional DSP or GPU-type applications (such as image, video and digital signal processing) but less so for general purpose processing with more randomized data access (such as databases). By sacrificing some flexibility in the model, the implications allow easier, faster and more efficient execution. Depending on the context, processor design may be tuned for maximum efficiency or a trade-off for flexibility.
Stream processing is especially suitable for applications that exhibit three application characteristics:
Compute intensity, the number of arithmetic operations per I/O or global memory reference. In many signal processing applications today it is well over 50:1 and increasing with algorithmic complexity.
Data parallelism exists in a kernel if the same function is applie
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied%20Engineering
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Applied Engineering, headquartered in Carrollton, Texas, was a leading third-party hardware vendor for the Apple II series of computers from the early 1980s until the mid-1990s.
History
In its day, Applied Engineering built a solid reputation among Apple II owners for their innovation, excellent build quality, and generous warranty support. AE was quick to fill in gaps in the market for Apple II add-on boards and expansion options, often developing products for the Apple II line that neither Apple Computer nor other third-party vendors offered.
By the early 1990s, as Apple Computer, Inc., began to withdraw support for the Apple II series and focus on the Macintosh line, the market for Apple II hardware and software began to wane. Many Apple II users began to migrate to other platforms, such as the Macintosh and IBM PC-compatibles. In an attempt to capitalize on its well-known brand name among previous Apple II owners, Applied Engineering began to market products for the Macintosh and Commodore Amiga lines. However, because of stiff competition in already active markets, and AE's late entries, Applied Engineering could not duplicate the success it had experienced with the Apple II. Around the same time, cost-cutting measures were implemented, such as shortening warranty periods, charging for technical support (via a 1-900 number) and a using inferior parts, turning off loyal and long-time customers. Eventually dwindling Apple II sales and a failure to shift into other markets caused Applied Engineering to go out of business by 1994.
Product offerings
Some of Applied Engineering's best-known products for the Apple II included:
RamWorks — memory expansion card for the Apple IIe
TransWarp — CPU accelerator card for the Apple IIe and Apple IIGS
Vulcan — internal hard drive
PC Transporter — NEC V30 (Intel 8086-compatible) card that allowed Apple IIs to run MS-DOS programs
The TransWarp family of Apple II accelerators consisted of multiple products. The original TransWarp took over from the standard 1-MHz 6502 or 65C02 used in the Apple IIe with a 3.6 MHz version of the 65C02 (which could also be run at 1.8 MHz, selectable through hardware) and turned on and off completely through software. The TransWarp was later followed by a TransWarp II and TransWarp III, the latter of which was announced but never actually went into production. With Apple Computer's release of the Apple IIGS, Applied Engineering followed with a TransWarp GS, which provided an accelerated version of the 65C816 processor on which the IIGS was based.
Multi-function cards were a mainstay of AE's product offerings, of which the Serial Pro serial interface card was a typical example. Besides offering a standard RS-232 serial port, the card included a ProDOS-compatible real-time clock, thus combining two cards into one and freeing up an extra slot. When used with a dot-matrix printer, the Serial Pro offered several screen-dump print options, such as printing either of the tw
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20build
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In software development, a build is the process of converting source code files into standalone software artifact(s) that can be run on a computer, or the result of doing so.
Functions
Building software is an end-to-end process that involves many distinct functions. Some of these functions are described below.
Version control
The version control function carries out activities such as workspace creation and updating, baselining and reporting. It creates an environment for the build process to run in and captures metadata about the inputs and output of the build process to ensure repeatability and reliability.
Tools such as Git, AccuRev or StarTeam help with these tasks by offering tools to tag specific points in history as being important, and more.
Code quality
Also known as static program analysis/static code analysis this function is responsible for checking that developers have adhered to the seven axes of code quality: comments, unit tests, duplication, complexity, coding rules, potential bugs and architecture & design.
Ensuring a project has high-quality code results in fewer bugs and influences nonfunctional requirements such as maintainability, extensibility and readability; which have a direct impact on the ROI for a business.
Compilation
This is only a small feature of managing the build process. The compilation function turns source files into directly executable or intermediate objects. Not every project will require this function.
While for simple programs the process consists of a single file being compiled, for complex software the source code may consist of many files and may be combined in different ways to produce many different versions.
Build tools
The process of building a computer program is usually managed by a build tool, a program that coordinates and controls other programs. Examples of such a program are make, Gradle, Meister by OpenMake Software, Ant, Maven, Rake, SCons and Phing. The build utility typically needs to compile the various files, in the correct order. If the source code in a particular file has not changed then it may not need to be recompiled ("may not" rather than "need not" because it may itself depend on other files that have changed). Sophisticated build utilities and linkers attempt to refrain from recompiling code that does not need it, to shorten the time required to complete the build. A more complex process may involve other programs producing code or data as part of the build process and software.
See also
Build automation
List of build automation software
Software versioning
References
Software development
Computer programming
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMF
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OMF may refer to:
Object Module Format, an object-file format of the VME operating system or of the IBM personal computer
Open Media Framework, a file format that aids in exchange of digital media across applications and platforms
Relocatable Object Module Format, an object-file format used primarily on Intel 80x86 microprocessors or Apple IIGS
Offshoring Management Framework
Ohmefentanyl, a potent piperidine narcotic
One Must Fall, a fighting computer-game
Open Source Metadata Framework, a Document Type Definition based on Dublin Core used for describing document metadata
Opposing Military Force
Oracle-managed files, a feature controlling datafiles in Oracle databases
Ostmecklenburgische Flugzeugbau, a former (1998–2003) manufacturer of light aircraft
OMF International, formerly Overseas Missionary Fellowship, a Christian missionary-society
Organisation de la microfrancophonie, a micronational oorganisation
Omnipresent Music Festival, an American music festival based in New York City.
Options Market France a regulated stock index futures and options market with integrated clearing
Gerry Wright Operations and Maintenance Facility, a light rail transit maintenance facility in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host%20model
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In computer networking, a host model is an option of designing the TCP/IP stack of a networking operating system like Microsoft Windows or Linux. When a unicast packet arrives at a host, IP must determine whether the packet is locally destined (its destination matches an address that is assigned to an interface of the host). If the IP stack is implemented with a weak host model, it accepts any locally destined packet regardless of the network interface on which the packet was received. If the IP stack is implemented with a strong host model, it only accepts locally destined packets if the destination IP address in the packet matches an IP address assigned to the network interface on which the packet was received.
The weak host model provides better network connectivity (for example, it can be easy to find any packet arriving at the host using ordinary tools), but it also makes hosts susceptible to multihome-based network attacks. For example, in some configurations when a system running a weak host model is connected to a VPN, other systems on the same subnet can compromise the security of the VPN connection. Systems running the strong host model are not susceptible to this type of attack.
The IPv4 implementation in Microsoft Windows versions prior to Windows Vista uses the weak host model. The Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 TCP/IP stack supports the strong host model for both IPv4 and IPv6 and is configured to use it by default. However, it can also be configured to use a weak host model.
The IPv4 implementation in Linux defaults to the weak host model. Source validation by reversed path, as specified in RFC 1812 can be enabled (the rp_filter option), and some distributions do so by default. This is not quite the same as the strong host model, but defends against the same class of attacks for typical multihomed hosts. arp_ignore and arp_announce can also be used to tweak this behaviour.
Modern BSDs (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and DragonflyBSD) all default to the weak host model. OpenBSD since 6.6-current supports strong host model by default "if and only IP forwarding is disabled", with IP forwarding enabled (and for older versions) it supports reversed path source validation via its pf firewall, using the urpf-failed option, while Free-, Net-, and DragonflyBSD provide a global sysctl options.
See also
uRPF
References
External links
- Requirements for Internet Hosts -- Communication Layers
Internet protocols
Computer networking
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20La%20Russa%20Baseball
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Tony La Russa Baseball is a baseball computer and video game console sports game series (1991-1997), designed by Don Daglow, Michael Breen, Mark Buchignani, David Bunnett and Hudson Piehl and developed by Stormfront Studios. The game appeared on Commodore 64, PC, and Sega Genesis, and different versions were published by Electronic Arts, SSI and Stormfront Studios. The artificial intelligence for the computer manager was provided by Tony La Russa, then manager of the Oakland Athletics and later the St. Louis Cardinals. The game was one of the best-selling baseball franchises of the 1990s.
The game was based on the baseball simulation methods Daglow evolved through the Baseball mainframe computer game (1971) (the first computer baseball game ever written), Intellivision World Series Baseball (1983) and Earl Weaver Baseball (1987).
TLB refined many of the simulation elements of Earl Weaver Baseball, and introduced a few "firsts" of its own:
User Interface and the Fly Ball Cursor -- Prior to Intellivision World Series Baseball in 1983 all hits in baseball games were grounders, since there was no way to display the ball in flight in 3D. After World Series Baseball, from 1983-1990 games had fly balls but used a ball-shaped shadow to trace the ball's path on the ground. This made catching fly balls difficult, since users couldn't tell how high the ball was if it was off the screen. In La Russa Daglow designed a circular Fly Ball Cursor that appeared where the ball was going to land, and grew or diminished in size based on the height of the ball. If the wind was blowing the cursor would move its location to reflect the changing course of the ball. The Fly Ball Cursor introduced real fly balls and pop-ups to computer baseball games, eliminating the last segment of the sport that had never been simulated accurately. Every graphic baseball game published since 1991 has used some variation on Daglow's Fly Ball Cursor for outfield play.
Fantasy Draft -- La Russa was the first computer baseball game to allow users to conduct drafts and set up their own leagues, all with access to the game's comprehensive player statistics. Tony La Russa would draft on behalf of all non-human users in a league, and users could tune the AI draft strategy uniquely for each team. The draft features were enhanced in later versions.
Head-to-Head Stats and Simulation Accuracy -- La Russa was the first baseball game to offer accurate stats for each individual pitcher against each individual hitter, data that actual managers use extensively in the dugout. Player stats and ratings were supplied by baseball sabermetrics pioneers John Thorn and Pete Palmer.
Baseball stadiums -- Ballparks in the game were larger and more richly detailed than any prior game. Add-on disks allowed users to play in real Major League ballparks.
AI -- In contrast to many sports celebrities who merely lent their names to games, Tony La Russa spent extensive sessions over a period of years working to make
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WORT
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WORT (89.9 FM) is a listener-sponsored community radio station, broadcasting from 118 S. Bedford St. in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. WORT offers a range of programming.
WORT's FM signal reaches a roughly 50-mile radius around Madison. In early 2006, the station began webcasting all of its programming in both high-quality (96k) and low-quality (32k) streams. WORT also maintains an archive of recent news and public affairs programs available for podcast, download, or stream.
Programming
WORT broadcasts a mix of music news and talk programming. All of WORT's music programs are produced by local DJs. WORT airs 30 hours of news and public affairs programming per week, 21.5 hours of which are reported and hosted by volunteers. All of the programmers at the station are volunteers from the community, including DJs, hosts, reporters, and engineers.
Music programming
The weekday music schedule includes:
Classical
Folk
Bluegrass
Old School Country
World
Jazz
Rock
Techno
Metal
Blues
The weekend music lineup includes a range of genres. Saturday's programming is divided into two-hour shows, including:
Traditional Mexican music
Classic R&B
Vintage jazz and swing
Reggae
Pan-African
Salsa
Latin jazz
Rock 'n' roll oldies
Blues
Hip-hop.
Sunday's music includes:
Medieval and Renaissance music
Women's music
Show tunes
World music
Kids' music
Gospel
Electronic
Experimental
Avant-garde music.
News and public affairs programming
Insurgent Radio Kiosk: commentaries, "this day in history" notes, and community event info
Eight O'Clock Buzz: mix of music, culture, information, news and interviews
A Public Affair: call-in show on issues of international, national and local importance
Democracy Now
Mel & Floyd
BBC Headline News (taken from the BBC World Service)
Letters & Politics with Mitch Jeserich (syndicated from KPFA)
WORT Local News: Alternative local and state news
En Nuestro Patio: Local, national, and international news and interviews in Spanish.
Labor Radio: News for, by, and about working people
Access Hour: A different host from the community every week.
Radio Literature: Poetry, fiction, non-fiction readings and discussion
Queery: local and national news affecting Madison's LGBTQ+ community
Perpetual Notion Machine: Science news and features
Hmong Radio: News, announcements, interviews, and music in Hmong language
Her Turn: News by and about women, though all are encouraged to listen
World View: News of the world from a left-critical perspective
Salamat: A weekly window into the vastly varied population of Arab-Americans
Universal Soul Explosion/After Hours: Hip-hop, R&B, old and new with music and commentary
Madison Book Beat: Author interviews with a local connection
Organizational structure
The organizational structure of WORT reflects the station's principles of democratic decision making; the staff and volunteers at the station elect the Board of Directors; the Board sets policy and hires full-time and part-time pa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChileHardware
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CHW, formerly ChileHardware, was a Spanish language computer hardware review web site. The site was founded by Christian Montero, Felipe Figueroa and Juan Pablo Adaro, in January 2004 to help and show people new technologies. The site is based in South America, and writes about information technology trade shows, daily news, first hand hardware reviews and columns.
History
In 2006, the web site was restructured, after which Montero and Adaro left. Figueroa was left in charge, and Juan Francisco Diez became his assistant. Later that year, CHW launched a web site called TecnoSquad, based on consumer electronics and other blogs like Engadget and Gizmodo. In 2007, the web site BotonTurbo was launched, which was a video game console oriented blog. During 2007, the web site incorporated as an LLC company, with the help of Felipe Encinas and Luis Felipe Castillo as minor partners, and stood as a media network under the unofficial name Sconf Networks.
Merging with Betazeta
In 2008, the company underwent another restructure. After mild and unsuccessful alliances with PCFactory and Terra Networks, the owners opted for Sconf Networks (CHW, TecnoSquad and BotonTurbo) to be merged with Zetacorp Networks, the media group in charge of FayerWayer, a tech savvy blog, and Saborizante, a web site dedicated to social life and events. The new media network was renamed Betazeta. TecnoSquad was absorbed into a new project called Wayerless, which was devoted to mobile and hand held e-reader. BotonTurbo was re-branded to Niubie.
Content
CHW focuses on technology rumors, how-to tutorials, hardware reviews and opinion articles. CHW started producing content by re-printing news stories, and has advanced to producing original content and getting exclusives. The company learns about new content through attending IDF, Computex, CES, CeBIT and other information technology trade shows, and it maintains close contact with tech brands such as AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, HP, Samsung, MSI, Foxconn, ECS, Gigabyte and Kingston Technologies.
Forums
CHW maintains a forums board, where readers can discuss information technology. It has 350.000 members and 4 million posts.
External links
CHW
Notes
Computing websites
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%20error
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A user error is an error made by the human user of a complex system, usually a computer system, in interacting with it. Although the term is sometimes used by human–computer interaction practitioners, the more formal human error term is used in the context of human reliability.
Related terms such as PEBMAC ("problem exists between monitor and chair"), identity error or ID-10T/1D-10T error ("idiot error"), PICNIC ("problem in chair, not in computer"), IBM error ("idiot behind machine error") and skill issue ("lack of skill") and other similar phrases are also used as slang in technical circles with derogatory meaning. This usage implies a lack of computer savviness, asserting that problems arising when using a device are the fault of the user. Critics of the term argue that the problems are caused instead by poor product designs that fail to anticipate the capabilities and needs of the user.
The term can also be used for non-computer-related mistakes.
Causes
Joel Spolsky points out that users usually do not pay full attention to the computer system while using it. He suggests compensating for this when building usable systems, thus allowing a higher percentage of users to complete tasks without errors:
Experts in interaction design such as Alan Cooper believe this concept puts blame in the wrong place, the user, instead of blaming the error-inducing design and its failure to take into account human limitations. Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini describes an anecdote of Dilbert creator Scott Adams losing a significant amount of work of comment moderation at his blog due to a poorly constructed application that conveyed a wrong mental model, even though the user took explicit care to preserve the data.
Jef Raskin advocated designing devices in ways that prevent erroneous actions.
Don Norman suggests changing the common technical attitude towards user error:
Acronyms and other names
Terms like PEBMAC/PEBCAK or an ID10T error are often used by tech support operators and computer experts to describe a user error as a problem that is attributed to the user's ignorance instead of a software or hardware malfunction. These phrases are used as a humorous way to describe user errors. A highly popularized example of this is a user mistaking their CD-ROM tray for a cup holder, or a user looking for the "any key". However, any variety of stupidity or ignorance-induced problems can be described as user errors.
PEBKAC/PEBCAK/PICNIC
Phrases used by the tech savvy to mean that a problem is caused entirely by the fault of the user include PEBKAC (an acronym for "problem exists between keyboard and chair"), PEBCAK (an alternative, but similar, acronym for "problem exists between chair and keyboard"), POBCAK (a US government/military acronym for "problem occurs between chair and keyboard"), PICNIC ("problem in chair not in computer") and EBKAC ("Error between keyboard and chair"). Another variant is PEBUAK (Problem Exists Between User and Keyboard).
In 2006, Intel
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphard%20%28programming%20language%29
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Alphard is a Pascal-like programming language for data abstraction and verification, proposed and designed by William A. Wulf, Ralph L. London, and Mary Shaw. The language was the subject of several research publications in the late 1970s, but was never implemented. Its main innovative feature was the introduction of the 'form' datatype, which combines a specification and a procedural (executable) implementation. It also took the generator from IPL-V, as well as the mapping functions from Lisp and made it general case.
References
Further reading
Pascal (programming language)
Experimental programming languages
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPI
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VPI may refer to:
Vietnam Petroleum Institute
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (a.k.a. Virginia Tech)
Virtual path identifier, in computer networking
Verilog Procedural Interface, in computer programming
Velopharyngeal insufficiency, a medical term
Vertical Politics Institute, a conservative political action committee
VPI Industries, a manufacturer of phonographs
Vocational Preference Inventory
Visegrad Patent Institute, a patent organization created by the four Visegrad countries
VPIphotonics, photonic simulation tool
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sping
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Sping is short for "spam ping", and is related to pings from blogs using trackbacks, called trackback spam. Pings are messages sent from blog and publishing tools to a centralized network service (a ping server) providing notification of newly published posts or content. Spings, or ping spam, are pings that are sent from spam blogs, or are sometimes multiple pings in a short interval from a legitimate source, often tens or hundreds per minute, due to misconfigured software, or a wish to make the content coming from the source appear fresh.
Spings, like spam blogs, are increasingly problematic for the blogging community. Estimates from Weblogs.com and Matt Mullenweg's Ping-o-Matic! service have put the sping rate—the percentage of pings that are sent from spam blogs—well above 50%. A study commissioned by Ebiquity Group and conducted by the University of Maryland in 2006 confirmed that these numbers are around 75%. Since then, growth in sping has slowed, such that the portion of pings that are spam has dropped to 53%.
The term was popularized by David Sifry from Technorati in his February 2006 State of the Blogosphere report, but was coined initially in September 2005 by a French SEO blogger, Sébastien Billiard, in an article titled "Spam 2.0".
See also
Spam in blogs
Referrer spam
References
Spamming
Blogging
Black hat search engine optimization
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous%20matching
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Anonymous matching is a matchmaking method facilitated by computer databases, in which each user confidentially selects people they are interested in dating and the computer identifies and reports matches to pairs of users who share a mutual attraction. Protocols for anonymous matchmaking date back to the 1980s, and one of the earliest papers on the topic is by Baldwin and Gramlich, published in 1985. From a technical perspective, the problem and solution are trivial and likely predate even this paper. The problem becomes interesting and requires more sophisticated cryptography when the matchmaker (central server) isn't trusted.
The purpose of the protocol is to allow people to initiate romantic relationships while avoiding the risk of embarrassment, awkwardness, and other negative consequences associated with unwanted romantic overtures and rejection. The general concept was patented on September 7, 1999, by David J. Blumberg and DoYouDo chief executive officer Gil S. Sudai, but several websites were already employing the methodology by that date, and thus apparently were allowed to continue using it. United States Patent 5,950,200 points out several potential flaws in traditional courtship and in conventional dating systems in which strangers meet online, promoting anonymous matching of friends and acquaintances as a better alternative:
Implementations
Some of the most notable implementations of the idea have been:
Baldwin and Gramlich, as cited above.
eCRUSH. launched Valentine's Day, 1999, is the most successful implementation of the concept. Targeted to the teen market, it has more than 1.6 million users and claims more than 600,000 legitimate matches
DoYOU2.com. The website's owner, DoYouDo, Inc., was incorporated 23 September 1999 and acquired by MatchNet in September 2000 in exchange for stock valued at $1,820,000. According to MatchNet's 2003 annual report, "The acquisition was made primarily for the purpose of acquiring the patent on this business model for future development."
The LiveJournal Secret Crush meme. In mid-2003, a company named Anonymous Consulting created an online quiz called "Secret Crush Meme," which would provide each user with a chart showing who on their LiveJournal friends list had a crush on them, as well as what "kind" of crush they had (public, secret or ex). The quiz was designed to harvest crushes between LiveJournal users (hence the elaborate disclaimer). In October 2003, a new quiz, called "Secret Crush Meme 2: The Revenge of Secret Crush Meme," was released , which showed users how many crushes other users had on them, as well as what kind. There was a catch: For four dollars, the company would tell someone who had crushes on them. This created controversy between couples who listed other users as crushes as well as people getting ex-crushes when they felt they should have gotten public crushes, and much ethics debating. Finally a small PERL script was written and distributed to poison the database. Fa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Adama
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William "Bill" Adama (callsign "Husker") is a fictional character in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television series produced and aired by the SyFy cable network. He is one of the main characters in the series, and is portrayed by Edward James Olmos. The character is a reimagining of Commander Adama from the 1978 Battlestar Galactica series, originally played by Lorne Greene.
Character biography
Childhood
In the Caprica spinoff series, Markus Towfigh plays Bill Adama as a young boy. Adama was born on Caprica, the son of Joseph Adama (a civil liberties lawyer and previously a lawyer for the Ha'la'tha, the Tauron resistance movement turned mob) and Joseph's second wife, Evelyn Adama (an accountant). He is named in honor of his deceased older half-brother William "Willie" Adama in accord with Tauron tradition. Both were named after their grandfather, who along with their grandmother Isabelle was killed during the Tauron Uprising.
Bill was the only child of Joseph and Evelyn, though he is Joseph's third child, a half-brother to Joseph's children Tamara and Willie with his first wife Shannon, who died in the year YR42 on the Colonial calendar (as depicted in the prequel series Caprica). Bill Adama had at least three uncles: Joseph's brother Sam Adama (a Ha'la'tha enforcer on Caprica), Sam's husband Larry, and Evelyn's brother on Tauron who owned a ranch near a river and used trained dogs to drive foxes into the river. Shannon Adama's mother Ruth was also part of the Adama family during Bill's childhood, though not related to him by blood.
Military service
Admiral Adama's Military service record is shown in the dossier prepared by Billy Keikeya in the episode "Hero". It lists the following events in his service history:
D6/21311 – First commission: Battlestar Galactica air group
E4/21312 – Commendation for shooting down Cylon fighter in first viper combat mission
D5/21314 – Mustered out of service post-armistice
R6/21317 – Served as Deck Hand in merchant fleet and as common [...] aboard inter-colony tramp freighters
D1/21331 – Recommissioned in Colonial Fleet
D6/21337 – Major: Battlestar Atlantia
R8/21341 – Colonel: Executive Officer: Battlestar Columbia
C2/21345 – Commander: Commanding Officer, Battlestar Valkyrie
C2/21348 – Commander: Commanding Officer, Battlestar Galactica
After the death of Admiral Helena Cain, Adama is promoted to admiral, in light of the fact that he has now had charge of more than one battlestar. He retains the rank after the Battlestar Pegasus is destroyed.
First Cylon War
As depicted in Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, Adama (played by Luke Pasqualino) is a new Academy graduate during the tenth year of the First Cylon War. He is assigned to the Galactica, the newest battlestar in the Colonial fleet. His aviator call sign is "Husker", originally bestowed on him by his copilot Coker Fasjovik. The name is an Aerilon term for farmboy or hick, but Adama was actually raised in Caprica City. His first mi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department%20of%20Electronics%20and%20Accreditation%20of%20Computer%20Classes
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The Department of Electronics and Accreditation of Computer Courses (DOEACC) (Presently National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology - NIELIT) is an autonomous scientific society under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India and is involved in training, consulting, product development, entrepreneurship and human resource development in information, electronics & communication technologies. It is based in New Delhi with a network of centers on the globe. The DOEACC Society was created by the Department of Electronics to implement a scheme of the AICTE (All India Council of Technical Education), with a view to harness the resources available in the private sector for training in the Computers, with a view to meet the increasing requirement of the trained manpower. In December 2002,other Societies of the Department of Information Technology, (Dept. of Electronics was renamed as Dept. of Information Technology) like CEDT Aurangabad, CEDT Calicut, CEDT Jammu/Srinagar, CEDT Tezpur/Guwahati, CEDT Imphal, CEDT Aizawl, CEDT Gorakhpur, RCC Chandigarh, RCC Kolkata were merged into the DOEACC Society. The acronym CEDT stands for Centre for Electronic Design and Technology and RCC stands for Regional Computer Centre.
DOEACC Society is now National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology.
Courses
There are four computer courses offered from DOEACC:
O Level Equivalent to Diploma course. There are four paper in this level.
A Level Equivalent to Advanced Diploma in Computer Applications. There are ten papers in this level.
B Level qualified students are eligible to apply where MCA Master of Computer Applications is a desirable qualification. It's equivalent to MCA. For students doing B level after A level, there are fifteen papers, for students doing B level directly, there are 25 papers.
C Level equivalent to M. Tech Level.
Other than these, courses are also taught in bio-informatics and hardware.
Fate
On October 10, 2011 it was changed to NIELIT.
External links
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (India)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPMS
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TPMS may refer to:
Takoma Park Middle School, in Maryland, US
Tire-pressure monitoring system
Transaction Processing Management System, ICL computer software
Triply periodic minimal surface, an aspect of differential geometry
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Mobile%202003
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Windows Mobile 2003, originally codenamed "Ozone", was a member of the Windows Mobile family of mobile operating systems, released on June 23, 2003. It was the first Microsoft mobile OS to be called "Windows Mobile" and was based on Windows CE 4.20.
Editions
Windows Mobile 2003 came in four editions:
Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC Premium Edition
Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC Professional Edition: Used in Pocket PC budget models and lacked a number of features from the Premium Edition such as a client for L2TP/IPsec VPN.
Windows Mobile 2003 for Smartphones
Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC Phone Edition: Designed especially for Pocket PCs which include phone functionality.
Features
The communications interface was enhanced with Bluetooth device management which allowed for Bluetooth file transfer support, Bluetooth headset support and support for Bluetooth add-on keyboards.
A pictures application with viewing, cropping, e-mail, and beaming support was added.
Multimedia improvements included MIDI file support as ringtones in Phone Edition and Windows Media Player 9.0 with streaming optimization.
A puzzle game titled Jawbreaker was among the pre-installed programs. Games API was included with this release to facilitate the development of games for the platform.
Other features/built-in applications included:
Enhanced Pocket Outlook with vCard and vCal support
Improved Pocket Internet Explorer
SMS reply options for Phone Edition.
See also
References
Windows Mobile
Discontinued versions of Microsoft Windows
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted%20Computing%20Group
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The Trusted Computing Group is a group formed in 2003 as the successor to the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance which was previously formed in 1999 to implement Trusted Computing concepts across personal computers. Members include Intel, AMD, IBM, Microsoft, and Cisco.
The core idea of trusted computing is to give hardware manufacturers control over what software does and does not run on a system by refusing to run unsigned software.
History
On October 11, 1999, the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (abbreviated as TCPA), a consortium of various technology companies including Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft, was formed in an effort to promote trust and security in the personal computing platform. In November 1999, the TCPA announced that over 70 leading hardware and software companies joined the alliance in the first month. On January 30, 2001, version 1.0 of the Trusted Computing Platform Specifications was released IBM was the first original equipment manufacturer to incorporate hardware features based on the specifications with the introduction of its ThinkPad T30 mobile computer in 2002.
In 2003, the TCPA was succeeded by the Trusted Computing Group, with an increased emphasis on mobile devices.
Membership fees vary by level. Promoters pay annual membership fees of $30,000, contributors pay $15,000, and depending upon company size, adopters pay annual membership fees of either $2,500 or $7,500.
Overview
TCG's most successful effort was the development of a Trusted Platform Module (TPM), a semiconductor intellectual property core or integrated circuit that conforms to the specification to enable trusted computing features in computers and mobile devices. Related efforts involved Trusted Network Connect, to bring trusted computing to network connections, and Storage Core Architecture / Security Subsystem Class, to bring trusted computing to disk drives and other storage devices. These efforts have not achieved the same level of widespread adoption as the trusted platform module.
Criticism
The group historically faced opposition from the free software community on the grounds that the technology had a negative impact on the users' privacy and can create customer lock-in, especially if it is used to create DRM applications. It received criticism from the Linux and FreeBSD communities, as well as the software development community in general.
ISO standardization
In 2009 ISO/EIC release trusted platform module standards
ISO/IEC 11889-1:2009 Information technology—Trusted Platform Module—Part 1: Overview
ISO/IEC 11889-2:2009 Information technology—Trusted Platform Module—Part 2: Design principles
ISO/IEC 11889-3:2009 Information technology—Trusted Platform Module—Part 3: Structures
ISO/IEC 11889-4:2009 Information technology—Trusted Platform Module—Part 4: Commands
References
External links
Computer security organizations
Trade associations based in the United States
Companies based in Beaverton, Oregon
Co
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TME
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TME may refer to:
TME (operating system), Transaction Machine Environment, former ICL computer operating system
TME (psychedelics), drugs
Transmisogyny exempt
Tencent Music Entertainment Group, music distribution company
Total mesorectal excision, removal of cancerous bowel tissue
Toyota Motor Europe
Transmissible mink encephalopathy
Trimethylolethane, a triol, an organic compound
Tumor microenvironment
Tickle Me Elmo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDH
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IDH may refer to:
Isocitrate dehydrogenase
Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis
Interactive Data Handler
Intradialytic hypotension
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC%20extension
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BASIC toolkits (aka BASIC extensions) were a common type of program for 1980s 8-bit home computers. Generally third-party extensions, they added additional features to a computer's built-in BASIC interpreter.
Technical concept
Toolkits ran as extensions to the BASIC interpreter supplied with the machine. At the time, such interpreters almost always came programmed into the ROM of the computer, making it impossible to modify or patch the code. It was also extremely rare for manufacturers to offer upgrades or bugfixes except as part of new models of machine.
As the original language was held in immutable ROM, it generally was difficult for a toolkit to directly extend the language, except by adding new keywords to perform functions not implemented by the original interpreter.
Functionality
Typical toolkit functionality included editing extensions, such as commands to renumber a program, perform block line deletions and so on, facilities to make structured programming possible, and additional keywords to perform new functions. In the case of the latter, these new functions often allowed the programmer to easily access the computer's graphics, sound and other hardware which was often partially or completely unsupported in the early BASICs. This would have otherwise been achieved by arcane usage of PEEK and POKE commands and machine language routines.
Examples
Beta BASIC (ZX Spectrum) – Extension to Sinclair BASIC; started out as a simple toolkit but grew into a full interpreter
Lightning BASIC (Amstrad PCW) – Extension to Mallard BASIC with many new facilities (see the Mallard BASIC article for details)
Simons' BASIC (Commodore 64) – Extension to BASIC 2.0 with 114 extra commands; programmed by a 16-year-old boy and marketed by CBM
Super Expander (VIC-20) – A combined RAM-expansion (3 kibibytes) and BASIC extension cartridge
See also
List of BASIC dialects#BASIC extensions
List of computers with on-board BASIC
BASIC programming language
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XING
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XING is a Hamburg-based career-oriented social networking site, operated by New Work SE (until mid-2019 XING SE) and owned mainly by Hubert Burda Media.
The site is primarily focused on the German-speaking market, alongside XING Spain, and competes with the American platform LinkedIn.
Company history
OPEN Business Club AG was founded in August 2003 in Hamburg, Germany by Lars Hinrichs. Its official debut was 1 November 2003. It was renamed XING in November 2006.
In its early years, the site pursued a global strategy; however, since 2012, XING has focused on the German-speaking market, as 76% of all XING page views come from Germany and 90% come from the D-A-CH area.
Leadership
Lars Hinrich led the company as CEO until 2009, when he was succeeded by Stefan Groß-Selbeck. Thomas Vollmoeller has served from 2012 and was succeeded by Petra von Strombeck in 2020.
Number of users
As of April 2019, XING reported 16 million members, up from 10 million members in the D-A-CH area in March 2016, which at that time included 880,000 premium members.
Ownership and acquisitions
In November 2009, Hubert Burda Media acquired 25.1% of XING, becoming its main shareholder. In 2010, XING acquired online event management company Amiando, changing its name to XING EVENTS. In 2012, Burda increased its shareholding to over 50%. In 2013, XING acquired Austrian e-recruiting company Kununu. In 2015, XING announced a cooperation project with eyeson, a unified communications provider. In 2017, XING acquired global expat network InterNations and Austrian recruitment company Prescreen. In April 2019, XING paid €22 million for Honeypot, a Berlin-based IT job platform.
IPO
XING became the first Web 2.0 company to go public in Europe, debuting on 7 December 2006 at an issue price of 30 Euros per share.
Website
The platform offers personal profiles, groups, discussion forums, event coordination, and other common social community features. Basic membership is free, but many core functions, like searching for people with specific qualifications or messaging people to whom one is not already connected, can only be accessed by the premium members. Premium membership comes at a monthly fee from €6.35 to €9.95 depending on the billing interval you choose and the country you are from. The platform uses https and has a rigid privacy and no-spam policy.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpeedTree
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SpeedTree is a group of vegetation programming and modeling software products developed and sold by Interactive Data Visualization, Inc. (IDV) that generates virtual foliage for animations, architecture and in real time for video games and demanding real time simulations.
SpeedTree has been licensed to developers of a range of video games for Microsoft Windows, and the Xbox and PlayStation console series since 2002.
SpeedTree has been used in more than 40 major films since its release in 2009, including Iron Man 3, Star Trek Into Darkness, Life of Pi and Birdman, and was used to generate the lush vegetation of Pandora, in Avatar.
SpeedTree was awarded a Scientific and Technical Academy Award in 2015, presented to IDV founders Michael Sechrest and Chris King, and Senior Engineer Greg Croft.
History
SpeedTree was conceptualized at IDV in circa 2000, and originated due to the firm's lack of satisfaction with 3rd-party tree-generation software on the market.
The initial version of SpeedTreeCAD (CAD standing for "computer-aided design") was developed by IDV for a real-time golf simulation. Although backers pulled out of the golf project, IDV refined the CAD software as a 3D Studio Max plug-in for an animated architectural rendering, dubbing it SpeedTreeMAX.
SpeedTreeMAX was released in February 2002, and toward the end of 2002, IDV released SpeedTreeRT, a real-time foliage/tree middleware SDK, which allowed automatic levels of foliage detail, real-time wind effects, and multiple lighting options. IDV eventually released plug-ins for Maya as well, appropriately named SpeedTreeMAYA. In early 2009, IDV discontinued the SpeedTreeMAX and SpeedTreeMAYA plugins, replacing them with SpeedTree Modeler and Compiler products.
IDV released SpeedTree 5 in July 2009, a version representing a "complete re-engineering" of the software and the first versions of SpeedTree enabling hand modeling and editing of vegetation models: SpeedTree Modeler (replacing SpeedTreeCAD), SpeedTreeSDK (replacing SpeedTreeRT) and SpeedTree Compiler, which prepares SpeedTree files for real-time rendering.
SpeedTree Cinema was first released by IDV in 2009, based on version 5 technology. SpeedTree for Games (version 6) was released on November 7, 2011, and was essentially a re-branded version of SpeedTree 6 (Modeler + Compiler). The product was identified as SpeedTree for Games to distinguish it from other products not meant for gaming/real-time use.
SpeedTree Architect was released on October 15, 2012, and is designed for architectural 3D CAD use and 3D fly-throughs. IDV released updated versions of SpeedTree Cinema, SpeedTree Studio and SpeedTree Architect in November 2013. IDV released SpeedTree v7 for Unreal Engine 4 in July 2014. IDV released SpeedTree v7 for Unity 5 on the new engine version's launch date, in March 2015. IDV released SpeedTree for Games v7 on April 16, 2015.
IDV and three of its engineers received a Scientific and Technical Academy Award in 2015, for their
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami%20al-Hajj
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Sami Mohy El Din Muhammed Al Hajj (), aka Sami Al-Haj (Khartoum, Sudan, February 15, 1969) is a Sudanese journalist for the Al Jazeera network. In 2001, while on his way to do camera work for the network in Afghanistan, he was arrested by the Pakistani army and held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camp in Cuba for over six years. After his release, al-Hajj wrote a book titled Prisoner 345. He was released without charge on May 1, 2008. He later attempted to launch legal action against George W. Bush.
Al Hajj's case was portrayed in a documentary titled Prisoner 345 by Al Jazeera producer Ahmad Ibrahim.
Background
Al Hajj was arrested in Pakistan on December 15, 2001.
He was on his way to work in Afghanistan as a cameraman for Al Jazeera and had a legitimate visa. He was held as an "enemy combatant" at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp, with Guantanamo Internment Serial Number 345, and was the only journalist to be held in Guantanamo.
British human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith represented al-Hajj, and was able to visit him in 2005. According to Stafford Smith, Al Hajj had "endured horrendous abuse - sexual abuse and religious persecution" and that he had been beaten, leaving a "huge scar" on his face. Stafford Smith also said that Al Hajj had witnessed "the Quran being flushed down the toilet by US soldiers in Afghanistan" and "expletives being written on the Muslim holy book".
On 23 November 2005, Stafford Smith said that, during (125 of 130) interviews, U.S. officials had questioned Al Hajj as to whether Al Jazeera was a front for al-Qaeda.
Stafford Smith stated of his client that:
Al Jazeera responded that Al Hajj reported his passport stolen in Sudan in 1999, and that anything done with the passport after that date was likely the work of identity thieves.
During Al Hajj's time in captivity, Reporters Without Borders repeatedly expressed concern over his detention, mentioning Al Hajj in its annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index, and launched a petition for his release.
In January 2007, Al Hajj and several other inmates went on hunger strike in protest of their treatment in Guantanamo, during which Al Hajj lost over 55 pounds. In response to the hunger strike, Al Hajj and the other inmates were force-fed. Al Hajj's hunger strike lasted 438 days until he was set free on 1 May 2008.
When Alan Johnston, former Gaza Correspondent for the BBC, was abducted on 12 March 2007 in Gaza City by gunmen from the Army of Islam and held for 113 days, Sami Al Hajj made a plea to Johnston's captors to let the journalist go. Following his release, Johnston made a similar plea for the release of Al Hajj, being held by the United States Government in Guantanamo.
Interrogation
On 20 April 2007, the UK newspaper, The Guardian, started publishing excerpts from Clive Stafford Smith's book, Bad Men: Guantanamo Bay and the Secret Prisons. According to Stafford Smith:
Health and hunger strike
In 1998, Al Hajj was treated for throat cance
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