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- "Wayne Vick" writes: ... That's a big ques |
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- Using Message Boards to Build Community A message board can be a valuable addit |
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Morro Rock (Dec 12 2003 07:30 GMT) - A fog surrunds Morro Rock in Morro Bay, California. |
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- The site may go down around 5 AM PST on Friday, Dec 12... |
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- This white paper provides business and technical overviews of the integration between the Rational ClearCase products and IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer (Application Developer). It covers the benefits of the Rational ClearCase product family, the software configuration management functions available within IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer, and the use of the Rational ClearCase product with WebSphere Studio Application Developer. |
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- This white paper is intended for software developers using Rational XDE/Java Platform Edition and Rational ClearCase. The paper outlines the details of the integration between Rational XDE and Rational ClearCase. The primary purpose of this document is to familiarize developers with XDE and ClearCase concepts related to configuration management and identify approaches to using Rational XDE and ClearCase together. The document also outlines the most common configuration management related tasks from a software developer perspective. Important points to note appear highlighted in the document. |
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- The current generation of smart mobile phones and wireless-enabled PDAs offer developers the opportunity to write software that extends device capability. This extensibility is migrating to mass-market mid-range phones and, as network providers move towards GPRS and 3G, the case for writing serious business software for mobile devices, particularly to access corporate databases, becomes compelling. This white paper considers the motivation for writing applications for mobile devices, and in particular the motivation for using the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) of Suns Java 2 Micro Edition platform. |
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- Curious Castle Curious Castle is high school teacher's blog. You are greeted with a warm holiday banner. The blog is a part personal diary and part reflection regarding her classroom journey.... |
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- Video communication over lossy packet networks such as the Internet is hampered by limited bandwidth and packet loss. This paper presents a system for providing reliable video communication over these networks, where the system is composed of two subsystems: (1) multiple state video encoder/decoder and (2) a path diversity transmission system. Multiple state video coding combats the problem of error propagation at the decoder by coding the video into multiple independently decodable streams, each with its own prediction process and state. The path diversity transmission system explicitly sends different subsets of packets over different paths, as opposed to the default scenarios where the packets proceed along a single path, thereby enabling the end- to-end video application to effectively see an average path behavior. |
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- Multiple description (MD) coders provide important error resilience properties. Specifically, MD coders are designed to provide good performance when the loss is limited to a single description, but it is not known in advance which description. In this paper, MD video coding is combined with a path diversity transmission system for packet networks such as the Internet, where different descriptions are explicitly transmitted through different network paths, to improve the effectiveness of MD coding over a packet network by increasing the likelihood that the loss probabilities for each description are independent. It provides a design of MD video communication system that is effective in both balanced and unbalanced operation. |
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- The goal of the capacity planning tool proposed in this paper is to provide the best cost/performance configuration for support of a known media service workload. There are two essential components in capacity planning tool: i) the capacity measurements of different h/w and s/w solutions using a specially designed set of media benchmarks and ii) a media service workload profiler, called MediaProf, which extracts a set of quantitative and qualitative parameters characterizing the service demand. The capacity planning tool matches the requirements of the media service workload profile, SLAs and configuration constraints to produce the best available cost/performance solution. |
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- Who would have guessed the Farrelly brothers would ever make a film that could be described as "sweet" and... |
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- Sue Gray reports in New-l, a mail list devoted to Newfoundland dogs, that Scooby is home from the hospital and doing well. Thank all of you who prayed for his recovery and please pray for his continued recovery. |
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- A Spoonful of Cinnamon Helps Treat Diabetes (Reuters) Reuters - People with diabetes can help keep their bodies healthy by simply adding a dash of spice to their diet, new research reports. OK, some things are just *too* easy to do. Apparently it just takes one gram of cinnamon a day to reduce blood fats and sugars. Cinnamon apparently contains compounds that help make insulin more efficient, improving the hormone's ability to bring glucose to the cells that need itand it also appears to help fat cells recognize and respond to insulin. In test tube and in animal studies, the spice increased glucose metabolism by about 20 times. |
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- Autot saattavat siirtyä yläilmoihin jo ennen seuraavan vuosikymmenen alkua, Lentoautoyhtiön osakkaana on mm. suomalaisen it-tekniikan uranuurtaja Risto Linturi, joka arvio lentoauto tulee nousevan Suomen taivaalle 3-7 vuoden kuluttua. |
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- A neat AppleScript to create Palm memos from the selection in Safari. Also includes a variation for creating a memo from any text on the clipboard. If I wasn't so tired, I'd be tempted to make a Services menu item out of this. Anyone out there feeling ambitious? Update: |
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- It was almost more saddened by the few people who commented on my bow tie today, who, when I told them I was wearing it in honor of Paul Simon, encouraged me with their shock and dismay, only to dismay me when I realized that they weren't quite on the same bus, Gus, if you know what I mean. |
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- Ματαιώθηκε το Συνέδριο του Ουράνιου Τόξου μετά από απίστευτου θράσους τραμπουκισμούς και απειλές των Χρυσαυγιτών με τις ευλογίες της τοπικής αυτοδιοίκησης και του ελληνικού κράτους. Παρακάτω ακολουθεί η ανακοίνωση του ΟΥΡΑΝΙΟΥ ΤΟΞΟΥ |
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- Pentagon auditors found that Vice President Dick Cheney's former company may have overcharged the Army by as much as $61 million for gasoline in Iraq. - www.indymedia.org:8080 |
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- Attend this online eSeminar and learn why it's time to standardize on Gigabit Ethernet connectivity. This technology is available on servers, desktops and laptops. You can use Gigabit Ethernet to open up bottlenecks in your network. The growing need for bandwidth and how Gigabit Ethernet can solve that need will be discussed. |
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- "The Dungeon Adventure Tracker is an excel spreadsheet which tracks all of the adventures, side treks and critical threats from issue 84 of Dungeon Magazine onwards (or the release of third edition onwards). It is sortable by level, author, issue and campaign setting."... |
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- Wizards' Latest: D&D Miniatures: Dragoneye Preview -- Lawful Good! Map-a-Week: A Collection of Quests - The Dungeon... |
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- The latest in the world of Magic: the Gathering from WotC's Randy Buehler: "The next Magic Invitational is going to be held at the 2004 Electronic Entertainment Exposition. “E3” is one of the most important conferences of the year within the computer game industry and that’s why we’re going to fly the best Magic players in the world to Los Angeles in May. We want to put them ... |
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- The Interactive SRD has been updated with a new section on 3.5 Feats. This interactive document is available for free online use at Dimensions Game Software's website. This section of the iSRD contains 5 new charts to reference. The new charts are Random Type of ... |
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- New Products Shipping To Distributors To Tuesday, December 16th: Dirt Cheep: Vyllage-on-the-Cheep Vol. 2 $25.00 Here's MORE easy-to-build colorful 3D buildings that you can print and build yourself for pennies! |
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- From V Shane & Wacom Knight Studio : "For ages there has been a constant among those who manipulated unseen arts, before the races were divided, before religion knew a name, a system beyond language that all of the same alignment understood, before written languages ... |
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- Some Good News from Zipwhaa: "Some cool Zipwhaa news to share with you all. On Monday, December 15th at 6:40 a.m. |
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- Mortality.net has posted a review of Heroes of High Favor: Halflings (Badaxe Games).... |
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- Critically Acclaimed Comic to be "Future" Campaign Setting for the d20 System December 11, 2003--SEATTLE, WA: Green Ronin Publishing has reached an agreement with Archangel Studios to license Christian Gossett's critically acclaimed comic The Red Star. Green Ronin will publish The Red Star Campaign setting next summer. The book, an essential guide to the world and characters of The Red Star, will be the first ... |
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- Sweet Stuff for Mage Knight Fans: Mage Knight:Dark Riders Coming in April, 2004 Dark forces are gathering across the Land. The four horsemen and other Avatars of the Apocalypse ride again, and only cavalry can stop them. It's Mage Knight as you've never seen it before, where pounding hooves and clashing lances ... |
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The Mishnah (Dec 12 2003 07:25 GMT) - "Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure." |
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- "Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend." |
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- "'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow." |
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Reading (Dec 12 2003 07:25 GMT) - My current reads, favourite reads of times past, and ever-expanding queue of reads to come. You'll see this post bounce to the top of the blog whenever I review or alter my list. ... In Hand... ... |
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- I spent the weekend with Zeldman's can't-put-it-down-despite-it-b "Designing with Web Standards". Now I've not been in the web design game since I gave up my little 1993 web design company (Hyper, Ink. was it's name) to help build an ISP, but this book really took me back. It was like learning HTML (and all that comes with it these days) all over again, and just as enjoyable as the first time. |
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Channel Z (Dec 12 2003 07:25 GMT) - I'd meant to write something about this a little while back when I first saw the breadcrumbs (e.g. Top > Dave's World > Weblog Archive > |
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- Todays telecom environment is a plethora of protocols, transports, codecs, and configurations. One of the most significant challenges of deploying speech applications is connecting the telephony server to the voice network. How much network connectivity should an application developer understand? Which partners can be called-upon to help? This webcast takes the next step by concentrating on the specific challenge of connecting the telephony server to existing voice infrastructure. |
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- Whether you're implementing a comprehensive IP PBX solution, migrating toward IP, or looking to get the most out of your traditional circuit-switched PBX, adding wireless is a great way to leverage your PBX investment. Join SpectraLink for a 60-minute seminar where we will discuss the various technologies and trade-offs for adding wireless to your PBX. |
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