Using data gathered from US government agencies, anthropologist Felix Pharand-Deschenes has created a collection of maps that illustrate the various circulatory systems that connect humanity: cities, roads, railways, power lines, pipelines, cable Internet, airlines, and shipping lanes. The maps are remarkable cartographic documents of our current age, but also serve deeper research and educational purposes.
by: Joseph D. Mocker (Sun Microsystems, Inc.). Compilation of all the JVM options for various versions of the JVM on primarily SPARC/Solaris Platform. The descriptions for each option are taken mostly verbatim from the reference documents.
This report was originally written in 1992-1993. Therefore, some of its information is out-of-date. The Object Agency, Inc. believes, however, that the report still provides many useful insights.
The Portable Network Graphics (PNG) is a format for storing compressed raster graphics. The compression engine is based on the Deflate method [RFC1951], designed by PKWare and originally used in PKZIP.
This guide was mainly distilled from On Writing Well by William Zinsser and The Elements of Style by Strunk and White. Other sources are listed. Compiled by Joshua Sowin
“For people who make websites” A List Apart Magazine explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on techniques and benefits of designing with web standards.
Kim Gräsman, January 2004 - how to flow context properties from client to server, and why it works the way it does. Unfortunately, it also unveils a couple of serious limitations.
The curriculum outlines what we believe to be a continuum of skills, competencies, behaviours and attitudes ranging
from functional skills to intellectual operations that together comprise the spectrum of information literacy.
The overarching aim of the curriculum is to help undergraduate learners to develop a high‐level, reflective understanding of information contexts and issues which will empower them with a robust framework for handling new information situations, and to generate strategies for evaluating, analysing and and assimilating that information as needed and at the time it is required.
The emphasis throughout is on the student’s development as a discerning scholar and, beyond the academic arena, as an informed citizen and an autonomous and lifelong learner.
by Eva Golinger. Transcription of the interview of Noam Chomsky about Venezuelan and Latin American done as promotion for the III International Book Fair in Venezuela, which this year focuses on the theme: "United States: Is Revolution Possible?"
This tutorial is intended for os/2 users starting with OS/2 2.30 or 3.0 or WARP. It is probably applicable mutatis mutandis to other systems as well, since REXX exists on a variety of platforms.
Li Fan, Pei Cao and Jussara Almeida & Andrei Z. Broder - this new protocol, each proxy keeps a summary of the cache directory of each participating proxy, and checks these summaries for potential hits before sending any queries.
First Contact, Alien Invasions and Wars, Colonization, Alien Biologies/ Environments, Whole Planet As An Alien Entity, Alien Anthropology -- Cultures, Communication with Aliens, Allien Buddies/ Police, Sex With Or Among Aliens, Criticism on Aliens
Subversion’s hook scripts provide a powerful and flexible way to associate actions with repository events. For example, the pre-commit hook allows you to check — and possibly abort — a transaction before it actually gets committed. This entry describes how to install and test a simple Python hook script to prohibit tabs from C++ files.
Threshold concepts are a theory of teaching and learning proposed by two British
educators, Jan Meyer and Ray Land. Threshold concepts can be used for teaching information literacy and could inform the Standards revision as well. There are five definitional criteria that make a concept a threshold concept
This document explores methods for squeezing excess bytes out of simple programs. (Of course, the more practical purpose of this document is to describe a few of the inner workings of the ELF file format and the Linux operating system. But hopefully you can also learn something about how to make really teensy ELF executables in the process.)
Standard paper sizes like ISO A4 are widely used all over the world today. This text explains the ISO 216 paper size system and the ideas behind its design.
It’s not just about “finding” Information. The Missions which dictate our Searches weave a complex Web of Information which could provide a wealth of experience if we could maintain the relationships between the Nuggets of Information related to a
by Edward de Bono. "There is a story of a man who painted half his car black and the other half white. He said he did this because he loved to hear the witnesses dogmatically contradict each other whenever he was involved in an accident. A wife tries on a new dress and loves it. Her husband who is with her dislikes it. She is looking at the colour and shape - he is looking at the price."
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Using email for almost everything from FTP downloads/uploads or Free WEB site hosting to using it for gatter FINGER or WHOIS information (telnet is still not available :)
Hm, didn't work for me, so I followed the "domain configuration way". But that's maybe interesting for others: "Accessing Windows Or Samba Shares Using AutoFS".
Any peer-to-peer publishing system must provide a mechanism for efficiently locating published documents. For censorship resistant systems, it is particularly important that the lookup mechanism be difficult to disable or abuse.
S. Angelov, P. Grefen, и D. Greefhorst. Joint Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture, 2009 & European Conference on Software Architecture. WICSA/ECSA 2009, стр. 141--150. IEEE, (сентября 2009)
M. Granitzer, M. Hristakeva, R. Knight, K. Jack, и R. Kern. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics, стр. 19:1--19:8. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2012)