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iPad (2017) vs. iPad Air 2
Emily Ferron March 22, 2017
Apple has axed the aging iPad Air 2 and replaced it with a refreshed 9.7-inch iPad (just iPad, no suffixes) that's slightly more affordable. The two are nearly indistinguishable from the outside, but their internals vary. Here's how their specs and features stack up.
The best iPad Air 2 alternatives
Emily Ferron February 3, 2017
When thinking of tablets, most people picture something like the iPad Air 2: A small, self-contained touchscreen device with a strictly mobile interface, ideal for personal entertainment, media and light productivity. However, it's not the only option. Here are some alternatives.
Will Shanklin December 4, 2015
iPads may not be the must-have devices they once were, but they're still the best standalone tablets – not to mention the most popular by a longshot. Let Gizmag help you decide which one you want, with our 2015 iPad Comparison.
Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 (9.7-inch) vs. Apple iPad Air 2
Will Shanklin July 20, 2015
Though last year's Galaxy Tab S was Samsung's best answer yet to the iPad, it didn't really look much like Apple's iconic tablet. That changes this year, as Samsung's Galaxy Tab S2 could almost be mistaken for the iPad Air 2.
Microsoft Surface 3 vs. iPad Air 2
Will Shanklin April 10, 2015
The Microsoft Surface lineup has always been better for work and versatility than at being dedicated tablets. That isn't likely to change with the latest model, the Surface 3, but let's see how it stacks up next to the best dedicated tablet, the iPad Air 2.
iPad Air 2 vs. iPad mini 3: Quick look
Will Shanklin November 13, 2014
Last year the iPad Air and Retina iPad mini made for a tough decision. But this year Apple put all its eggs in the iPad Air 2 basket, leaving no question as to which tablet is better. But is there any reason to consider the iPad mini 3? Let's take a quick hands-on look.
iPad Air 2 vs. 2014 MacBook Air (11-in)
Will Shanklin November 3, 2014
Can a tablet replace a laptop? Or, more specifically, can an iPad Air 2 replace a MacBook Air? The answer, of course, will depend on what you're looking for ... but perhaps comparing their features and specs could be a start.
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Review: iPad Air 2
Will Shanklin October 28, 2014
You could say that the 2013 iPad Air was the first fully mature tablet. How is Apple going to sell a new 2014 model when the last model had no obvious gaps to fill? Join Gizmag, as we review Apple's bigger-than-you-might-think update, the iPad Air 2.
2014 iPad Comparison Guide
This is the first year that Apple has given you five iPads to choose from. Granted, three of them are old models (and a fourth is old in spirit), but you might still be facing a tough decision. Join Gizmag, as we break down the features and specs of the five iPads you can buy today.
iPad Air 2 vs. Microsoft Surface Pro 3
The iPad Air 2 is the best iPad yet (as the latest iPad always should be), but how does it compare to one of the leading laptop/tablet hybrids? Read on, as Gizmag compares the iPad Air 2 to Microsoft's Surface Pro 3.


Portrait Commission of Friesian Mare, "Rinske" | Jennifer Pratt Equine Artist.
This must be the month for firsts! A few weeks ago, I posted my first racehorse commission; 'Ds Wando'. Today, I'm posting my first completed Friesian commission painting. Here in Ontario, we don't see many pure, dutch bred Friesians. I guess this is why I had not yet seen one come into my studio over my 10 year career as a horse portrait artist.
I have learned in my brief Friesian reasearch that today, there are two distinct conformation types of the breed. The baroque type has the more robust build of the classical Friesian. The modern, sport horse type is finer-boned. My subject, Rinske, a 6-year-old Friesian mare was imported to Canada at 7 months old, is the baroque type in her conformation.
A deep rich palette, slight head tilt, and soft wisps of her long mane and forelock, give this study a bit more character and mood. My client felt the same, and we went ahead with this layout/palette, to be completed in a more formal manner. The final painting, is 14×18, oil on wood panel.
Friesian Mare, "Rinske". 14x18, oil on wood panel.
Study #2 of Rinske is available for purchase, click image link for details, or email me, jennifer@jennpratt.com. Let's not forget Dutch Auction has made a comeback! This Wednesday July 6th, we head into week #3, where prices drop $20 yet again. One painting sold last week, pressure is building to bid before it's too late! Visit my Etsy shop section HERE to see the four remaining paintings in the auction.


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You need a valid ticket for zone 110 (City of Zurich).
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Q: Add character counter to MemoExEdit control I am trying to make a character counter, 40/200...41/200 and so on.  Now for a textbox control I am hooking into the KeyUp Event with something like this...
    public static void GetRemainingChars(MyTextBox txt, LabelControl lbl)
    {
        var maxChars = txt.Properties.MaxLength;
        lbl.Text = txt.Text.Length + "/" + maxChars;
    }

Unfortunately the MemoExEdit control has a popup window you type the text into and that seems to be hidden.  I tried the KeyUp, EditValueChanging, TextChanged, and they all do the same thing.  They don't fire till the user closes the popup.  I am guessing that it is a composite control that transfers the editvalue when it closes.
Any ideas on how I can get at the popups events?  Is there a different way to do this?

A: Just because I couldn't find this anywhere else I will post my solution for other's benefit.
Subscribe to the Popup Event of the MemoExEdit control, then inside that subscribe to the EditValueChanging Event.  That is where you can hook in.  See below for MY working version.  Tweaks may be needed for yourself.  Also, the Popup Event is created in my Designer.cs file.
private void memContactWith_Properties_Popup(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   MemoExPopupForm popupForm = (sender as DevExpress.Utils.Win.IPopupControl).PopupWindow as MemoExPopupForm;
   MemoEdit me = popupForm.Controls[2] as MemoEdit;
   me.EditValueChanging += new DevExpress.XtraEditors.Controls.ChangingEventHandler(me_EditValueChanging);
}

void me_EditValueChanging(object sender, DevExpress.XtraEditors.Controls.ChangingEventArgs e)
{
   var memo = (sender as MemoEdit);
   var maxChars = memo.Properties.MaxLength;
   lblContactWithCharCount.Text = memo.Text.Length + "/" + maxChars;
}

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On Wednesday 27 November and Thursday 28 November, MGCI held its first ever Go Eco Fair. The fair was the result of the combined efforts of Garneau's Eco Team and Art Council, spreading environmental awareness to students as well as informing them of the little things that everyone can do to keep our school eco-friendly.
The clubs began planning this event about a month ago. Events that Eco Team organized included a used battery drive so that they could be properly disposed of and reduce the millions of batteries that end up in landfills annually. With the help of the organization FoodShare, they promoted buying locally grown food. In addition, they had students participate in taste tests between bottled water and tap water, as well as organic and non-organic apples, and then conducted surveys on students' preferences. They encouraged students to stop drinking bottled water, because it produces a lot of waste, and to buy organic fruits. Eco Team also had an environmental quiz, awarding prizes to students who took part in it.
MGCI had been a Gold certified EcoSchool for five consecutive years, however last year the school dropped to a Silver certification, partly due to the lack of progress during the teacher strike. This year, Eco Team hopes to regain its Gold status or better yet, achieve a Platinum certification. Eco Team president Justin Li feels that "People really need to start listening to this message. We hear this every day to the point where we're ignoring it, but it is important. These issues will bite back at us when we are least expecting it." The clubs are preparing another back field cleanup and the second part of the Go Eco Fair for next semester, and Eco Team is planning to enlist students to help with light, blind, and heating audits.


By: Margaret Kerr, B.A., LL.B., M.A., Ph.D., JoAnn Kurtz, J.D., Laurence M. Olivo, B.A., M.A., J.D.
Margaret Kerr, B.A., LL.B., M.A., Ph.D., of the Ontario Bar, has a commercial law practice in Toronto.
JoAnn Kurtz, J.D., of the Ontario Bar was for many years a Professor at the School of Legal and Public Administration, Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology, and practised law in Toronto.
Laurence M. Olivo, B.A., M.A., J.D., of the Ontario Bar was a long-time Professor at the School of Legal and Public Administration at Seneca College and sits as a Deputy Judge in the Ontario Small Claims Court.


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With eye on Indian Ocean, China and Pakistan kick off naval, air drills to jointly deal with maritime threats
Article Posted on : - Jul 11, 2022
BEIJING (PTI): All-weather friends China and Pakistan have kicked off their 'Sea Guardians-2' drills off the Shanghai coast by deploying their new high-tech naval ships and fighter jets to "jointly deal with maritime security threats," as their navies stepped up cooperation in India's backyard, the Indian Ocean.
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy and the Pakistan Navy, will hold the joint naval exercise in maritime and aerial spaces off Shanghai in mid-July, Captain Liu Wensheng, a spokesperson for the PLA Navy, said in a statement on Sunday.
The two navies held an opening ceremony for the second edition of the Sea Guardian drills on Sunday, official media here reported.
The exercise is a "normal arrangement according to an annual schedule, and it is not aimed at a third party," Liu said.
The PLA Eastern Theatre Command Navy sent the frigate Xiangtan, the corvette Shuozhou, the comprehensive supply ship Qiandaohu, a submarine, an early warning aircraft, two fighter jets and a helicopter for the drill while the Pakistan Navy's frigate Taimur joined the exercise, state-run Global Times reported.
Taimur is the second of four powerful Type 054A/P frigates built by China. It was delivered to the Pakistan Navy in Shanghai on June 23. The first ship in the Type 054A/P-class, the Tughril, joined the Pakistan Navy Fleet in January, according to the daily's report.
Themed "jointly dealing with maritime security threats," the exercise will feature training courses including the joint strike against maritime targets, joint tactical manoeuvring, joint anti-submarine warfare and joint support for damaged vessels, Liu said.
The drill's goal is to enhance defence cooperation, conduct professional and technical exchanges, deepen traditional friendship between the two countries and the two navies, and promote the development of the all-weather strategic cooperative partnership between China and Pakistan, Liu said.
China and Pakistan face non-traditional security threats including piracy and maritime terrorists in regions like the Indian Ocean, so it has become necessary that the two countries enhance cooperation in these aspects, Wei Dongxu, a Chinese military expert, told the Global Times.
The two countries also need to jointly demonstrate their capabilities in safeguarding strategic sea lanes that transport energy and goods, Wei said.
The first edition of the 'Sea Guardians' exercise was held in January 2020 in the North Arabian Sea off Karachi.
The Arabian Sea region is strategically important as major Indian ports including Kandla, Okha, Mumbai, Mormugao, New Mangalore and Kochi are located there.
The Arabian sea provides entry to the Indian Ocean where China currently has built a logistics base at Djibouti in the Horn of Africa.
Observers say Sino-Pakistan military cooperation in recent years focussed more on the Navy as China gradually stepped up its naval presence in India's backyard, the Indian Ocean.
Besides building its first military base in Djibouti in the Horn of Africa in the Indian Ocean, China has acquired Pakistan's Gwadar port in the Arabian Sea which connects with China's Xinjiang province by land in the USD 60 billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
China is also developing Sri Lanka's Hambantota port after it acquired it on 99 years lease.
The modernisation of the Pakistan Navy coupled with the acquisition of the naval bases was expected to shore up the Chinese Navy's presence in the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea.
The newly delivered Taimur's participation in the drills indicates its high technical maturity, the success in the Pakistani sailors' training as well as the rich experience accumulated by the Tughril, Chinese analysts said.
Zhang Junshe, a senior research fellow at the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Naval Military Studies Research Institute, told the Global Times that the Type 054A, on which the Type 054A/P is based, is China's most advanced frigate.
Besides acquiring four modern naval frigates from China, Pakistan will also be getting eight Chinese submarines as part of efforts to the modernisation of the Pakistan Navy, its Chief Admiral M Amjad Khan Niazi told Chinese media earlier.
The Pakistan Navy has contracted the construction of four Type 054A/P frigates from China in 2017.
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CDS Anil Chauhan visits NCC's R-Day camp, says its contribution in inculcating discipline in youth exemplary
Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan visited the NCC Republic Day Camp and said its contribution in inculcating discipline and leadership among the youth is exemplary.

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IBM…The [Big!] New Kid On The Block?
Now, strictly speaking, for the title of this blog to be accurate, I should probably have said IBM might be the new kid on the file, object, and cloud as well as the block…but that would have made it a tad too long, and spoiled the pun! Nonetheless, odd as it seems, the fact is that IBM recently had what amounted to a 'coming out party' in terms of its involvement in the storage market. It seems odd of course to think in those terms because IBM has been in the storage game for ever….well 'for ever' being a pretty darned long time since IBM effectively started the storage market back in the mid 1950s with the first commercially successful tape and disk drives.
For a few decades after that, IBM dominated the storage space (with a few 'plug compatible' manufacturers snapping around its heels), but in more recent decades a dynamic competitive storage sector has emerged and IBM has – frankly – been somewhat relegated to the [at least marketing] shadows. Some of the change was no doubt due to the sophisticated and capable competitors lined up against it (EMC, NetApp, HP, HDS, and so on)….but some of the change has also been due to what-appears-to-be an unwillingness by IBM to toot its own horn. Whether born of old style-courtesy or something else, what makes the change in 'perception-fortunes' doubly odd is that IBM has never stopped being highly innovative in storage, nor indeed has it stopped having a vibrant storage revenue stream. You just wouldn't have known! And it has even seemed at times as if IBM was accepting of its 'dowager' role; or – more generously – was at least concentrating its efforts elsewhere.
There is a meme going around in IT circles that goes like this "Young people are driving new expectations of IT, especially in social enterprise." A variant is of this is "Millennials are driving the move toward social enterprise because they are used to Facebook." I heard this idea repeated at a conference recently by a CIO (who shall remain nameless). To me, that has never sounded right. In fact, I find it downright silly to think that a new 20-something will come into a large corporation, demand that IT provide them with internal Facebook, and not have them laughed right back to their desk. Simply put, they don't make these decisions. It is managers – budget holders – that make the technology decisions in companies. There aren't enough of the under-30 employees in those positions to make much of an impact on an entire market. ESG research bears that out. In a recent survey, we found that of the participants that either had implemented or were planning to implement Social Enterprise solutions (which was 93% of the sample!) and who were managers and above, roughly 74% were over 35. No surprise there. Management requires experience and, hence, tends to skew older. The people making the decisions about Social Enterprise, management, are generally over 35 years old and not Millenials.
I also think it is preposterous to think that because someone is older than Mark Zuckerberg they will summarily reject new technology. If that were the case, no one over 45 today would use the Internet and no one over 55 a PC. Instead, grandparents in their 70s and 80s embrace Facebook. ESG data once again points out the fallacy of the idea that workers over 45 (or 35 for that matter) don't engage with the Social Enterprise. While younger workers may be more regular users or may use more of the social tools provided to them, older workers do not reject them. The IT professionals surveyed believe that roughly 9% of their users in the 46 to 55 age group reject social communication and collaboration tools. Another way to look at it is that 91% actually do use social tools. Not bad for a new technology.
In my last blog, I presented some data about the extremely critical but often ignored security skills shortage. While 55% of enterprise organizations (i.e., more than 1,000 employees) plan to add information security headcount this year, 83% say it is "extremely difficult" or "somewhat difficult" to recruit and hire these folks.
Microsoft finally announced what everyone already knew – that they were acquiring Yammer. Yammer produces what some term an enterprise social network product. It's Facebook for the corporation. The news broke two weeks before the deal was confirmed because someone involved was overheard talking about it in a coffee shop. When the actual announcement came down it seemed somewhat anticlimactic since even the size of the deal ($1.2B) was already pretty much known.
What struck me in the call that surrounded the announcement was how often the executives involved, including Steve Ballmer, cited the Yammer viral adoption model as a key to success. Viral adoption is a polite way of saying "we use freemuim offerings to infiltrate a corporation." The theory is that individual users will sign up for the free version, introduce it to their departments, and from there will then spread the product throughout the company like the flu. Sooner or later, the people who run the company will catch the Yammer flu and spend big dollars in licenses. Yammer claimed to have 5 million corporate subscribers, though they declined to mention how many actually pay for the software.
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Most of you know me as a "backup guy" (and I am) … but my last gig at Microsoft not only included MS backup products but also monitoring and reporting technologies such as System Center Operations Manager.
So, when I had the chance to take a deep look at EMC's upcoming DataBridge solution, which aggregates up status information from several other management tools and then allows customized instrumentation based on roles or interest areas, I jumped at the chance. Here's a 3m video from the show floor of EMC World 2012 that summarizes with EMC DataBridge is and what was interesting to me about it.
Last week I attended CiscoLive in sunny San Diego--well sort of sunny, apparently San Diego was suffering from "June Gloom," which resulted in mostly cloudy days--but I digress. It was a great opportunity to hear from Cisco executives like John Chambers and get caught up on the latest and greatest from Cisco. I'll start with my thoughts from the John Chambers keynote.
Q: How many vendors does it take to protect all your data?
A: One-unless you're a masochist.
I frequently peruse information security news, and recently came across this article. The article highlights Symantec CEO Enrique Salem's warning of a shortage of talented cybersecurity professionals in the United States. Furthermore, this shortage is especially pronounced where it may be needed most -- law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and the Department of Defense.
The interesting thing about being at a conference is that you can talk to a lot of people, some of whom you know and many that you never met before. The Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston is no exception. When you talk to that many people, it helps to solidify ideas that you may have already had or (hopefully) introduces you to new ones. Here's what is running through my head at Enterprise 2.0.
The market for enterprise social networks is fragmenting. There are so many ISVs in this space that it is nearly impossible for all to survive as broad software players. Each has to find their points of differentiation, what makes them special to a specific group of people. The largest vendors such as SAP, IBM, and Oracle will be able to sell horizontal software for giant corporations but the smaller ones will need to focus on special needs or specific niches. The market will still have large horizontal vendors but the rest will fragment.
Lots of vendors are talking about getting work done while few show products that do that. So, everyone has figured out that the Social Enterprise is not going to gain widespread user adoption unless companies can see real business value from it. Everyone's messaging is now about getting work done. That's a good thing. Few people are actually showing products that make that happen. That's not to say no one has products that actually help in everyday work but few products support the vision. Those that do have a leg up on everyone else.
The show floor is small. What does that say about Enterprise 2.0? In my opinion, it means the vague term is tired. Again, we can talk broadly about transforming the workplace and everyone has bought into the vision. Now it's time to execute on that vision.
Social analytics turns inward – and that's good. Measuring company performance is an important management function. I saw several companies that are looking for ways to leverage what we know from data analytics, business intelligence, and social analytics to get a better picture of why things happen in companies. Most performance measures tell managers what happens. These new tools give insight into why things happen so that managers can enact change.
Overall, the Social Enterprise is maturing. That much is obvious. The renewed emphasis on business rather than philosophy is welcome. Now, it's time for products that actually do what business needs.
It appears that Yammer will be acquired by Microsoft for $1.2B. That hasn't been confirmed by either company at the time this blog was written. The Wall Street Journal seems pretty certain, citing "a person familiar with the matter." The rumor leaked out because someone had loose lips in a coffee shop. It just goes to show, never talk shop in a public place in San Francisco or Silicon Valley. The place is crawling with bloggers.
I suppose for Yammer the benefit is obvious– a rich payday for founders, executives, and investors. For Microsoft, I'm not so sure. Here's what I think about the deal.
It does not validate the Social Enterprise since that happened a long time ago. A common theme is that a deal of this scale validates the market for Social Enterprise. Not really. What really validates the market is when customers spend money on products. ESG research already shows that IT is buying Social Enterprise products, so there's your validation. Besides, this is not the first deal of its kind, it's only bigger. Citrix recently purchased Podio and VMWare purchased SocialCast. Perhaps what has been validated is that established companies will pay huge amounts of money for 300 person startups.
It makes sense for Yammer as a company…. If someone dangled a number north of a billion dollars for my small to mid-size software company, I'd take it. More to the point, Yammer lives in a crowded field with well heeled and established competitors like IBM, SAP, Citrix, and Oracle. Any one of these companies could eat Yammer for lunch and still have room for dessert. The number of potential suitors is also quite small. Outside of Cisco, the only top flight IT companies that might want to buy a Social Enterprise startup are HP and Cisco. Sure, second tier companies like Sage might be interested but not for a billion dollars.
… but not for everyone at Yammer. When we hear these huge numbers it's easy to forget that not everyone benefits equally. Executives, founders, and investors will certainly do well. A few of the top people will make so much money that they can retire or become VCs themselves. For much of the rank and file, that's not the case. Keep in mind that of the 300 or so people working at Yammer, at least 100 have been added this year and another 100 or so the year before. The later you come into the company the less you get when the company is acquired. It's like showing up late for a party – most of the beer is already gone when you get there.
The cultures are really different. Over the years, Microsoft has become quite corporate. That's good. It's what happens when you are a huge public company. They need to be a process-driven, buttoned up organization. Yammer is the complete opposite. They bring their dogs to work. For a lot of Yammer employees, the Microsoft culture will be the antithesis to Yammer. Yammer people won't be hip anymore. They'll be sell outs.
I get why Microsoft would want a company in this space. Of the major software companies, Microsoft and HP are the only two that haven't an entry in the social portal/enterprise social network/Facebook-for-the-corporation space. All their rivals do. They are also facing competition from the online file sharing companies such as Box.net and DropBox. These companies are going for Sharepoint's jugular. Microsoft needed to get a complete solution ASAP.
Why didn't Microsoft just build it? They already have Sharepoint and Lync so how hard could it have been for them to do the rest of the work? Creating an activity stream doesn't seem to be all that difficult given how many companies have added these to existing products. Microsoft already manages the corporate directory in millions of companies so creating social profiles seems like incremental work. When I was a software engineer, I used to hate when people would dismiss the amount of work needed to create software as SMOP (a simple matter of programming) but I just don't see what the big deal is here. Oracle, SAP, and IBM did it along with a host of smaller companies. I'm betting it would cost much less than a billion dollars for Microsoft to make their own social portal.
As I started my is-it-still-emcs-world-part-1-of-2/index.html" target="_blank">last Blog: "Sometimes a little distance is good in order to get a perspective on things. I certainly think that's true of big vendor events….while you're there it's all too easy to drown in the Kool-Aid, so a week or two to dry off and evaluate in a more objective spirit is probably best." I went on to cover my main thoughts about this year's EMC World: basically being happy that there was no big new technology theme or grandiose aspiration. However there were 42 new announcements and clearly every presenter talked about the strategic direction for their part of the EMC colossus. So, without repeating the press releases, what are some of the more specific pieces of news – and direction – that I took away from Vegas?
With the theme of the conference being 'Transform' I was interested in the extent that this was reflected by EMC itself. While Joe Tucci joked that "We have a big position in storage, as you might know" (!) what was clear is that storage in its most raw form is becoming less important to EMC at about the same rate as storage in its most general way is become more important to VMware. Bottom line? Things are becoming converged, with storage as an integrated part of an IT whole. Sure, we knew that intuitively, but I haven't heard it quite so clearly before. And the emphasis on terms like trust, security, and channel commitment all give emphasis to the transformation at EMC. Even the private analyst break-outs were strikingly more open, unstructured and frank than in years prior.
There were some key moves, announcements, and 'intimations' in existing focus areas, all buoyed by a continued commitment to around 11% of revenues being directed to R+D. Via a complex (and academically questionable) science analogy Pat Gelsinger wanted us to understand that 'data is the new center of gravity for IT'….as if to emphasize that one size doesn't fit all, he then covered the key elements of the 42-strong 'mega-launch.' Storage-wise there was the VMAX 40K, with a huge increase in performance and capacity; although I find the extension of FAST management to Hitachi and IBM more interesting in the 'big picture' world. VMAX-SP is a new product version with code and applicability to make a [cloud] storage service provider's life easier….and there was the faster, more secure and better-featured Isilon, together with the self-describing 'OneFS' (Mavericks) product. Although there were software improvements to the VNX (and VNXe) family, the main emphasis there was some – fair – chest-thumping regarding market success: 6000 new customers, 1EB shipped, and 32000 units is certainly noticeable! Of course, every system these days is, it seems, using flash and (to borrow someone else's phrase) EMC is not only happy to be the Baskin Robbins of solid-state, but continues to add flavors: the newly acquired all-flash Xtreme-io product won't ship 'til 2013, but meantime we have the 'server-network-based' Thunder joining the existing VFCache (the first product from the Lightning business unit at EMC). And it went on…there were improvements for DataDomain, Avamar, and the VSPEX news, plus better management via the DataBridge control mashup. 42 news items is a lot! Snuck in there was something that I found particularly interesting – the news that EMC is planning to allow storage to run VMs (2013), and then also to be able to run storage platforms on VMs (VPLEX goes first here...).
Next week (June 18th through the 20th) I'll be at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston. It will be jam packed with all kinds of exciting companies that promise to transform business through social communication and collaboration. I fully expect to see many companies I've never heard of and quite a few that I know well. The full spectrum of social technology (and theory) will be on display for everyone to see.
I do want to see more enterprise features. There should be a conversation or two about how to back up and restore, archive, and manage large scale Social Enterprise software installation. Everyone says that social communications and collaboration applications are mission critical and it's about time they acted like they were. Otherwise, no IT manager worth their paycheck will advocate spending money on these solutions.
I don't want to hear any more stories about how you can build a viable business with 100K subscribers and only a 2.5% conversion rate to paid ones. Do the math. Even a generous 5% conversion rate translates to 5000 paying seats which, at a typical $15/user/month (or less) subscription, will be around $900,000 a year. At that rate most investors will not be making back their money anytime soon.
I do want to see more workflow capabilities but want them to be easy to use for the average end-user. I know that's hard but that's why we pay product designers and software engineers well. End-users will not become regular users of the social tools placed in front of them until these tools can enhance the work do every day in their jobs. Collaboration happens in the context of getting work done or it's just Facebook. Facebook works pretty well already so I don't get why we need 15 more of them. Let's get some work done.
I don't want to see more applications that look like Facebook. In the enterprise social network segment, so many products look the same that it's almost impossible to tell them apart. I'm all for familiar UI elements but there must be something different in the corporate environment that affects the UI.
I do want to see more use of social communications and collaborations to better leverage human capital. I hate the phrase "human capital" because it dehumanizes where Social Enterprise does the opposite. Still, managers need to be able to make the best use of the talents that people have. They can't do that until they know what those talents are. Social Enterprise software can unlock potential by discovering the hidden capabilities that people have.
I don't want to see any more social media management software that allows marketers to reach out to customers by violating privacy. Some of what I've seen lately is pretty creepy. Sure, you might get some short term revenue by cyberstalking. It's the long term effects I would worry about. Who wants to be the new kind of spam?
NEVMUG Is Now VTUG! Yes, I Said vTUG!
I guess the official "VMUG" folk got a little pissy since the NEVMUG refuses to be consumed by the borg - and thus has changed their name to VTUG! (www.vtug.com). Virtual TUG. I could go on and on. How very appropriate.
Sometimes a little distance is good in order to get a perspective on things. I certainly think that's true of big vendor events….while you're there it's all too easy to drown in the Kool-Aid, so a week or two to dry off and evaluate in a more objective spirit is probably best.
So, a review of EMCWorld 2012. Objectively? I'll try! Well, it was big! Indeed, it's interesting how the major vendor events (EMC World, Oracle Open World, HP Discover, VMWorld etc) have become the big storage industry events, often pushing the more generic events to the sidelines. Anyhow, so we were gathered in the dungeons of the Venetian/Palazzo 'meet-tropolis' to watch small segments of a very large screen [in case you're wondering, it was wider than a football field is long…with end-zones and even a little room for photographers!]. It needed to be this big to accommodate the 14,000 or more attendees. Not only big in scale, but big in ambition – this year the event was dedicated to the idea of 'Transform'…transforming one's IT, one's business, and even oneself. Oh, yes, and it was big in press releases too – the 'mega-announcement' contained no less than 42 new products or features, niftily beating out the 41 from a couple of years back [and, for Douglas Adams fans, thereby making EMC the answer to the meaning of the universe along the way!]. Oh, ooh, er… and let's not forget the intergalactic babes (this was Vegas after all) that guarded and guided our seating. And then – sandwiched between the never-ending (and superbly managed) buffet lines, the incessant (and unnecessary) DJs in the corridors, the massive and very-EMC-ish Solutions Center, and before the happy and fun Maroon 5 concert - came the meat.
This week at HP Discover 2012, HP announced StoreOnce Catalyst as a software accelerator (API toolset) that enables its HP StoreOnce backup appliances to achieve up to 100TB/hour in backups – and in restores, too! Along with support for HP's own Data Protector 7 (also announced at Discover), the StoreOnce family supports Symantec NetBackup and will add Backup Exec within a few months.
Touting the next generation of deduplication methodology, and a unified deduplication methodology that enables data to be deduplicated at the source, the backup server or the storage – and then stay that way throughout the data protection infrastructure.
Yesterday, Oracle had a lengthy webinar/seminar to announce and describe their cloud and social offerings. Listening to Larry Ellison is always interesting no matter what the content. He seems genuine in his delivery. Even the demonstration – yes, Mr. Ellison does his own demos – started off a little ragged adding to that sense of authenticity. If it was staged, it was staged well. Otherwise, kudos to Oracle for keeping it real.
Oracle has almost 100 applications in the cloud including all the majors. Wow. That is a lot. ERP, CRM, HR, all of it delivered as a service. Cloud applications are nothing new but the scope of this is huge. Even if it were only ERP, PLM, CRM and all the other three letter acronyms I would be impressed. This is an enormous commitment to and endorsement of the Software-as-a-Service model of computing.
Platforms everywhere. Oracle has a series of platform services in the cloud as well. These include everything from their own Oracle database to Java virtual machines and, more important, the development environments that go along with them. A Java integrated development environment (IDE) in the cloud is a great way to encourage cloud deployment. This is a formidable though Oracle-centric Platform-as-a-Service offering.
Cloud and on-premises together. The ability to move between cloud and on-premises as well as integrate the two is a big plus to a developer. There are a lot of situations where deploying into a cloud environment is just not an option. Being able to combine those two realms provides choice in systems architecture and may be necessary to certain regulated environments or for some types of applications. They do this by having the same platform for applications on-premises and in the cloud and through their SOA.
Social Services. One of the foundational elements of their software is what Oracle calls Social Services. Despite a name that sounds like a government program, Social Services is a richly featured collection of software services for all aspects of social interactions. There are internal collaboration tools (packaged as Oracle Social Networking), social media and social network communications tools, and social analytics. It's a full social layer. Pretty impressive for a company that was barely on the social radar a year ago.
In the last month, two companies in the traffic visibility network/intelligent management aggregation network/network packet broker area (depending on what you call it) consisting of Anue, APCON, Gigamon, NetOptics, and VSS Monitoring - were acquired. During Ihe interop show in May, Anue was acquired by Ixia and just last week VSS monitoring was acquired by Danaher. Ixia is in the test and measurement space and Danaher will place VSS monitoring in its test and measurement companies group that includes Arbor Networks, Fluke, and Tektronix. These acquisitions didn't come as a surprise as ESG published a research brief back in February on this segment and indicated this area was heating up--and speculated that there would be activity in this space. Why did we think that? Basically, it is because these companies are in the right place, at the right time, and with the right technology.
As enterprises continue to consolidate data centers, increase their use of server virtualization and deploy more web-oriented or service-oriented applications, the network must rapidly expand and scale to meet those needs. However, the ability to effectively manage and secure these environments has become more difficult and complex. Especially when building out multi-tenant environments. The companies in this space offer solutions for both service providers and enterprises to regain control by efficiently collecting data from the entire network, and then intelligently aggregating, filtering, and distributing the appropriate information to the designated performance, management, and security solutions. By leveraging these traffic visibility network/intelligent management aggregation network/network packet broker solutions, organizations can optimize SPAN ports and TAPs as well as extend the useful life of existing management/security tools for the rapidly growing 10 Gb network space. For additional information, please read the ESG research brief: Will Intelligent Management Aggregation Networks Become Mainstream (subscription required).
With an architecture that is designed to scale-up (compute) its storage and dedupe controllers, separate from how it scales-out (capacity) is storage nodes, Sepaton markets itself as the only data protection solution that is designed solely for large enterprises.
I confess to have been personally blown out of the water by this new UI, when I saw it a few weeks ago. Many backup companies talk about 'policy-based' solutions and 'ease-of-use' – but what has come out of Quest looks more like a UI from a science fiction movie like Minority Report or video game than an enterprise backup vendor.
Deduplication isn't an "if", it's a "when" – and the "when" is now.
Take a look at this 5m video to explain where the evolution is coming from, in a technology that everybody ought to be taking for granted.


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Known for Lost (2005-2008), I'll Fly Away (1991-1992), The Ωmega Man (1971), L.A. Law (1989)
Jul 14, 1952 (age 67)
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The Foreign Languages Centre offers English, German, Russian, French and Latin courses.
We can provide Erasmus students with the free-of-charge language classes on the condition that language classes are included in the Erasmus Student's Learning Agreement.
If the Learning Agreement does not include language component you could enroll for paid language development ( refresher ) courses available at the Centre.


While the freedom of summer vacation is every child's dream-come-true, parents know the inevitable bedtime and morning routines are fast approaching. Achieving a successful back-to-school sleep routine requires parents to plan ahead.
Dr. Mendiratta advises that most children, ages five through twelve years old, require 10-12 hours of sleep per night. As an additional incentive for parents and children, numerous studies have shown a good night's sleep leads to better academic performance.
Modify sleep routines in advance. Gradually adjust sleep schedules by sending children to bed 30 minutes earlier, and waking them up 30 minutes earlier in the morning. After a few days, alter your child's sleep and waking schedule by an additional 30 minutes. Continue until you reach the appropriate bedtime and wake-up time for your child's school schedule.
Create a bedtime routine. It's highly recommended that parents develop a routine to help children acknowledge bedtime. Consistently following the same routine will help your child associate such actions with getting ready for bed. Evening routines can include taking a bath or shower, telling bedtime stories, and giving goodnight hugs and kisses.
Avoid big meals and sugary or caffeinated drinks before bedtime. Children should finish eating a large meal at least one hour before bedtime. Drinks containing caffeine or sugar are not a healthy choice for children, and are especially detrimental to sleep when consumed in the evening. Give your child a light snack such as a banana, a glass of milk or yogurt if they are hungry.
Avoid large amounts of liquids before bedtime. Drinking liquids before sleeping can create unnecessary bathroom trips throughout the night. This can disturb your child's sleep cycle, and create tiredness the next day.
Avoid naps, especially if it will affect night sleep. Taking long naps in the afternoon or after dinner can affect your child's sleep habits. If your child took a long nap during the day, it will likely be much harder to get your child to sleep at night, since they are already well-rested from sleeping during the day.
Make your child's bedroom a comfortable environment. Make sure the room is dark, and the temperature and bed are comfortable. It is recommended that the room temperature be between 60 and 67 degrees. Having a television in children's bedrooms is not recommended. If your child needs a night-light, plug it into an area where the light won't directly shine onto your child's face. Direct light can interfere with your child's ability to sleep and stay asleep.
Don't overexert your child. Keep extracurricular activities at a manageable level, allowing time for relaxation before bedtime every night.
Maintain a consistent sleep schedule. Don't confuse your child's sleep pattern by making extreme changes to their bedtime on weekends. Try to keep the same bed time all week long.


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concept of war, and brought revolution to the battlefield.
It takes time to reload, and the accuracy is questionable.
Guns will never be of value on the battlefield.
That was what everybody thought at the time.
──And today, the Demon King has obtained another innovation.
modified by adding rifling to the barrel, and not a Gatling gun.


Gnarly River: Donner Summit - sixty miles later.
Woke up before the crack of dawn. I could see things faintly in the pre-dawn grayness. The temp was chilly, like the inside of a refrigerator... So this is what it's like when the door is shut. I checked my phone for the time, six nineteen! I've got to get moving.
The transition of warm, cozy down sleeping bag to the cold hard reality of the woods in October is never a pleasant one. I un-stuffed my clothes from my pillow and quickly, that is as quickly as I could, put them on. It can be a hard thing to standup on a cold morning, especially when you are standing on a nylon bivy sack, which is filled with a nylon covered sleeping bag, containing a silk mummy liner. Whoops, good morning rocks and sticks. Okay this time I am going to stand on the side of the bivy on the ground cloth. "Gosh its cold," I thought as I picked the pine needles and off of my hands.
My goal was to get moving as quickly as possible. Coffee and granola, no oatmeal. I had the oatmeal yesterday morning. It's amazing how quickly I lost my taste for it. I retrieved my food from the tree I hung it in last night. It was still there. Last night when I arrived in camp it was dark and one of my first priorities is to get the bear hang already to go so that I don't have to deal with it after dinner when I am stiff from sitting. Unfortunately the branch I had selected was weaker than it looked and when I began to hoist my food, Crrack! Down came my food and the branch it was supposed to be hanging from. Note to self: always stand to the side when hoisting your food into a tree.
One thing I didn't mention last night was that just as I was climbing into my bivy sack, stuffing my clothes into a stuff sack to make a pillow I heard voices behind me, on the trail. Mind you it was pitch dark. I had my headlamp set on the red light setting to preserve battery power and to keep my eye acclimated to the dark. I flipped my light to high-beam and a brilliant white beam shot out towards the trail. The voices stopped. I peered into the dark between the trees, moving the beam left and right. Nobody, nothing, weird huh? I didn't want to think about it too much last night as I probably would have freaked myself out and ran screaming for my life through the woods. Either they were unsociable hikers who could hike in the pitch black, or they were just in my head. Regardless, I am alive today and don't have an axe in my skull, so it's all good.
I was on the trail by seven fifteen, less than an hour to get ready, not to bad. I was in a valley and still had no sun by the time I left. As I started up the trail an urgent necessity became apparent. There would be squatting in the woods in my near future. One of my least favorite things when backpacking is the process of relieving myself of food that has been processed and has outlived it's usefulness. I was mulling over my prospects and considering my options. It's still cold and I am in the shade. I will wait till I reach the summit of Barker Pass. By then I'll be in the sun and I won't have to expose my privates to the cold. Thank you Mr. Forest Ranger, or whoever it was in the government to build the fine, pit toilet at Barker Pass. I know that you're not working at this moment with the government shutdown and all. But the work you did in the past was greatly appreciated this morning.
There were a lot less people on the trail today. Probably because I had left the ever popular Desolation Wilderness and was heading to and through the less familiar Granite Chief Wilderness. Around lunch time I was descending into Five Lakes Basin when I met a mountain biker coming up the trail. By the way, this story only works if you know that the Pacific Crest Trail is a hiker and horse trail ONLY. Okay, well I met this biker coming up the trail. The Pacific Crest Trail, so I stopped and stood there in the middle of the trail. "You know this is a hiker only trail don't you?" I said. "Uh, yeah, the guy down there told me I have to go back they way I came, he won't let me exit." Yeah right, why make up a lame story like that? There is eighteen miles of trail up there and you are going to tell me that you have to go back? Sure.
Near the end of the day, I met a guy with a giant pack climbing up to Tinker Knob. He, like me was heading out to Donner Summit. He had been hiking with his buddy who had left him behind. His buddy was hiking from Mexico, and he had been trying unsuccessfully to meet up and hike with him on certain parts of the trail. He and I played leap frog for a few miles. A fifteen pound pack is pretty easy to carry up a hill compared to the fifty plus pounds he was lugging. The darkness descended on us while we were still about two and a half miles out. I past him on the last uphill and when I entered the forest I turned on my headlamp. I didn't see any light behind me, I suppose he stopped to camp.
The last two miles of the trail were pitch black with my headlamp providing a small beam of clarity with the shadows of the trees flickering by me. The shadows seem to be moving behind me. The last bit of the trail is probably the toughest and roughest part of the entire trail. It's like climbing down an empty stream bed. With boulders and loose rocks strewn haphazardly about. I slowed way down to avoid twisting my ankle or falling. I arrived at the trail head exhilarated and exhausted. I'm sleeping in my own comfy bed in my own comfy room tonight!
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Catar estuvo representado en los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio 2020 por un total de 16 deportistas, 13 hombres y tres mujeres, que compitieron en siete deportes.

Los portadores de la bandera en la ceremonia de apertura fueron el tirador Mohamed Al Rumaihi y la remera Tala Abuybara.

Medallistas
El equipo olímpico catarí obtuvo las siguientes medallas:

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Página del COI .
 Base de datos olímpica .

Catar
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Deporte en Catar en 2021

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Date: 16 April - 17 April
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14-year-old György's life is torn apart in WWII Hungary, as he is deported first to Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald, where he is forced to become a man in the midst of hatred, and what it really means to be Jewish.
The movie is based on the novel by Imre Kertész, which won the 2002 Nobel Prize for literature. It is screened to commemorate the Memorial Day of the Hungarian Victims of the Holocaust. April 16 was declared the Memorial Day of the Hungarian Victims of the Holocaust in 2001, marking the anniversary of the establishment of the first ghettos in the country in 1944.
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Ti/Au/p-Si diodes with the diameters of 100 and 200 μ m were fabricated by photolithographic technique. Capacitance–voltage (C–V) and conductance–voltage (G/w–V) characteristics of these diodes have been investigated by considering the series resistance (Rs) and interface states (Nss) effects. Experimental results show that the value of C and G/w in per area, with D1 (100 μ m) is lower than that of D2 (200 μ m) in depletion region but this behavior become reverse at accumulation region. Such behavior of C and G/w can be attributed to the special distribution of Nss at metal/semiconductor (M/S) interface, series resistance (Rs) of diode. The interface states density of the devices determined from high-low capacitance methods are presented for comparison. The voltage dependent profile of Rs was obtained for 100 kHz and 1 MHz. The observed anomalous peaks in C–V plots at 100 kHz were attributed to the effects of Rs, Nss and native interfacial layer. Experimental result show that the localizations of Nss at Ti/Au/p-Si interface, Rs and native interfacial layer have significant effects on the C–V and G/w–V characteristics of Ti/Au/p-Si diodes.


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China pledges $230 million for biodiversity fund at UN meet
BEIJING (AP) — China on Tuesday pledged $230 million to establish a fund to protect biodiversity in developing countries.
President Xi Jinping, speaking by video to a U.N. conference in the southwest Chinese city of Kunming, called on other countries to contribute to the Kunming Biodiversity Fund.
The weeklong meeting marks the formal start of a new round of global talks on protecting the world's plants and animals from extinction. A second and final session that will try to agree on targets for the next 10 years is scheduled to be held in Kunming from April 25 to May 8 next year.
The world has failed to reach most of the current 10-year goals, the Aichi Biodiversity Targets set in Japan in 2010. Greenpeace, the environmental group, said countries need to focus on not just setting new targets but also meeting them.
"The Kunming Biodiversity Fund launched today should jump start an urgently needed conversation on biodiversity finance," it said in a statement.
One 2010 goal was achieved: About one sixth of the planet's land and freshwater area now lies within protected or conservation areas, according to a U.N. report released in May.
Xi said that China is speeding up the building of a natural conservation system with a new national park system as its core.
China, after decades of headlong economic growth, has made progress in protecting habitat and wildlife in recent years. It has set up protected areas and seen recoveries in the population of the giant panda and other species. China also tightened control of the wildlife trade after the outbreak of COVID-19, because of possible links to it.
Other leaders who spoke to the conference on Tuesday included Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
The meeting, originally scheduled for October 2020, was postponed twice because of the pandemic.


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Your search for Literary Period: "Eighteenth Century" , "Industrial Revolution" AND Metaphor Category: "Impressions" , "Body" returned 5 results(s) in 0.002 seconds
Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
Characters are not impressed on the countenance independent of the characters in the mind because that would "overthrow the whole System of Physiognomists" and becuase "it would overthrow the Opinion of Socrates himself, who allowed that his Countenance had received such Impressions from t...
— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
"He made but little reply; but the impression sunk deep into his rancorous heart; every word in Edmund's behalf was like a poisoned arrow that rankled in the wound, and grew every day more inflamed."
— Reeve, Clara (1729-1807)
Date: April, 1783
"If impressions are made upon some substance in the mind, may not forgetfulness of them be only that the perceptive faculty of the soul is turned to other objects, while these still remain ready to be perceived whenever the 'mind's eye,' glances upon them?"
— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
"Has he been at work all night without being conscious of it. Have other spirits been making impressions on his sensorium. Are there faculties in the mind quite separate one from another, which, like the eyes of Argus, may some of them be awake while others are asleep, and is the great faculty of...
"The human brain is a bodily substance; and sensible and permanent impressions made upon it must so far resemble those made on sand by the foot, or on wax by the seal, as to have certain shape, length, breadth, and deepness"
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RasMol Frequently Asked Questions
Roger Sayle, Glaxo Wellcome Research and Development
Can RasMol be distributed freely, on CD-ROMs, and used freely even for commercial purposes?
Is RasMol "Year 2000 (Y2K) compliant"?
What is the definitive literature citation for RasMol?
Where can I get more molecule co-ordinate files?
How do I measure distances within RasMol?
How do I select residues in a particular chain?
How can I create the PDB file for a particular sequence?
I can't find the command line window in RasWin
I get the message "No suitable display detected!"
How do I create high resolution images in RasMol?
Generating RasMol animations non-interactively in UNIX
Is there an Acorn Archimedes version of RasMol?
Here is a quote from Roger Sayle, author of RasMol, in reply to a 1998 inquiry about commercial use of RasMol:
The RasMol molecular graphics package is "public domain", which in the legal definition is more than just freely redistributable but actually free of all intellectual property right. Although my original vision was to allow it to be redistributed at the back of text books and enable researchers like Eric to collaborate in its development. Indeed about 8 publishers currently bundle it with CD-ROMs or text books, and several people actively continue to independently develop and support RasMol. However the darker side of "public domain" is that companies such as MDL and MSI are able to sell it as a stand-alone product for profit, not only without roytalty but in some cases without acknowledgement. Hence I'm delighted for you to bundle it with your text's and theres nothing to stop you selling it for profit. But then if another publisher also sells the same stand-alone cheaper, or a customer wishes to download it from the internet for free, there's nothing you can do to prevent them. I hope this explains the situtation. Please have my blessing to use it as you will, in the end it is the research community that stands to benfit most.
Roger Sayle, E-mail: roger@metaphorics.com
Bioinformatics Group, Metaphorics, WWW: http://www.metaphorics.com/
419 East Palace Avenue, Tel: (+1) 505-984-0613
Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501. Fax: (+1) 505-989-1200
RasMol 2.6 and all prior versions are fully Y2K compliant with a single caveat. RasMol can read and write MDL Mol and Brookhaven PDB files, which reserve only two characters for the year in a date field. RasMol ignores these fields and is therefore not affected by Y2K. However programs reading MDL Mol files generated by RasMol (or any other molecular graphics program) may suffer if they process the date field.
The currently preferred literature reference to RasMol is: Roger Sayle and E. James Milner-White. "RasMol: Biomolecular graphics for all", Trends in Biochemical Sciences (TIBS), September 1995, Vol. 20, No. 9, p. 374.
In addition to the three example files that are distributed with RasMol, the protein crambin (1crn.pdb), the DNA-binding protein CRO (3cro.pdb) and aspirin (asprin.alc), the major source of data files for RasMol is the Protein Databank at Brookhaven National Labs. This is the main repository for all of the world's known 3D xray-crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) structures of proteins and nucleic acids. Currently over 7,000 are available at the Protein Data Bank. One of the best lists of sites that hold small molecule co-ordinates (and additional protein structures) is Eric Martz'z "Molecules Galore!" WWW page at http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/whereget.htm
There are two ways to measure distances between atoms in version 2.6beta of RasMol. The first is to use the "set picking distance" command, to set the mouse into interactive distance measurement mode. Then by clicking on pairs of atoms, RasMol will report the distance between them on the command line. RasMol also has similar modes for "set picking angles" and "set picking torsions". The mouse can be returned to the default mode using "set picking ident".
The second approach is to use distance monitors. A distance monitor in RasMol is a graphical dotted line between an arbitrary pair of atoms optionally labelled by the distance between them. There are two ways to add a monitor to a molecule. The first is to use "set picking monitors", similar to set picking distance above. Note that this will acta as a toggle and selecting the same two atoms again will remove the monitor. Monitors can also be added from the command line using the monitor command. This command takes the atom serial numbers of the two end-point atoms as parameters. All monitors can be turned of using the command "monitors off".
The method for selecting a range of residues in a particular chain has improved in RasMol version 2.6. It can now be done using the syntax "select 1-25:a" to select residues 1 to 25 in chain A. Similarly "select 25:a" and "select :a" will select just residue 25 in chain A and all of chain A respectively.
In RasMol versions prior to v2.6, you'd have to type an atom expression of the form "select 1-25 and **a" where the final term is a primitive expression. This primitive expression is a wildcarded form of the form "cys37a" where the residue name and number are replaced by the wildcard "*".
Note that care has to be made to ensure that RasMol can determine which field is being specified. For example, although "select *a" will select all resiues in chain A, if the chain identifier was a number, "select **1" would have to be used, as "select *1" denotes residue 1. To avoid any ambiguity, an optional colon character is now used to prefix the chain identifier, allowing expressions such as "cys:a", "cys35:1", "*:1" and even just ":1".
See also the RasMol Manual.
May I strongly recommend that you consider using the Swiss-Model server, written by Manual Peitche at the University of Geneva. This e-mail and WWW server accepts as input either an amino-acid sequence or a multiple sequence alignment with a protein of known structure and performs comparative homology modelling to return the potential 3D structure to you by e-mail as a PDB file.
For more information visit the Swiss-Model WWW page at www.expasy.ch/swissmod/SWISS-MODEL.html
This is a confusing problem with RasWin. When RasWin initially starts under Microsoft Windows the command line window is initially iconised (unlike the Macintosh or UNIX versions). The "RasMol Command Line" icon appears at the bottom of the screen on the Windows background. Unfortunately, this is often obscured by another window such as the Program Manager or the File Manager. Both the "RasMol" icon and the "RasMol Command Line" icons can be seen if all the open windows are minimized.
A more convenient solution is to make use of the Microsoft "Alt-Tab" control key combination. Hold down the "Alt"-key, and press the "Tab" key one or more times until the name of the window you wish to bring to the front appears, then release the "Alt"-key.
This is a problem on the UNIX version of RasMol caused by one of two potential problems. The first is that your DISPLAY environment variable isn't set corrrectly or that you don't have permission to display to the X Windows server. This can be checked by testing whether it is possible to run any other X Windows program.
The second problem is caused by a mismatch between the configured version of RasMol and the display depths available on the current X Windows server. This is most often the case when RasMol has been compiled in 24/32bit mode (by defining THIRTYTWOBIT in either rasmol.h or Makefile). The 24/32bit mode indicates that RasMol should use 3bytes/pixel (or 16 million simultaneous colours). If the current X Windows server is unable to display this visual depth it reports the "No suitable display" error. The visual depths supported by the current X Windows server can be reported by typing the "xdpyinfo" command. To solve the problem, recompile RasMol with EIGHTBIT defined instead (i.e use one byte/pixel or 256 simultaneous colours).
Note: that RasMol must be configured with EIGHTBIT for 1bit/pixel (monochrome) or 8bit/pixel displays, with SIXTEENBIT for 16bit/pixel displays and with THIRTYTWOBIT for either 24bit/pixel or 32bit/pixel displays.
Unfortunately, raster images generated by RasMol are currently limited by the screen resolution (though this defficiency is actively being worked on). This means that images will generated at the resolution of about 72dpi (dots per inch) even though must printers (including colour printers) support resolutions of 300dpi, 450dpi or even 600dpi. This leads to jagged bitmap like printouts where the individual pixels are often visible.
The exception to the above rule is images produced in Vector Postscript format using the "write vectps" command. These output files have the advanatge of being generated at the printer's resolution, but the disadvantage of not supporting all of RasMol's representations.
One way to minimise the limitations of screen resolution is to expand or maximise the RasMol graphics window to the full size of the screen before generating an output file. This ensures that the image contains as much detail as possible. Another commonly used trick is post-process the image in a graphics package such as PhotoShop or "xv" to expand and then blur or smooth the images generated by RasMol.
See also the discussion on this topic in the RasMol FAQ by Martz.
As mentioned above RasMol's resolution limitations are currently being removed by four approaches:
Support for high resolution output images (at x4 screen resolution).
The ability to have large resolutions in UNIX command-line only mode.
Vector PostScript support for all RasMol representations.
Export of model file formats (including POV, Raster3D, DXF and VRML) to other rendering programs such as photo-realistic ray-tracers.
The inability to use the save and write commands in a RasMol script file is a deliberate security feature. There was a concern about the security of using RasMol on the Internet when researchers started e-mailing and FTPing 'untrusted' script files between sites. This was especially true of sites that have configured Netscape to fire up RasMol with a RasMol script file MIME type. Such a script, executed with "rasmol -script <filename>" may potentially overwrite system and user files, for example creating a "~/.rhosts" file on the remote machine. To defend against this threat I decided to disable the save and write command from within RasMol, unless the command "set write true" had been entered interactively on the command line.
The solution to the problem is to run your scripts with:
rasmol -nodisplay <pdbfile> < <scriptfile>
cat <scriptfile> | rasmol -nodisplay <pdbfile>
i.e. pipe the commands into stdin, RasMol can't tell that these haven't been generated interactively and allows save and write commands.
Note: all known versions of RasMol for different operating systems, including Acorn RISC, are available through the Getting RasMol page.
The Acorn Archimedes (ARM) version of RasMol has been ported by Martin Wuerthner at the University of Stuttgart, "wuerthne@trick.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de". The Archimedes distribution is available at the following sites: HENSA (difficult to reach for users from outside the UK): micros.hensa.ac.uk (in /micros/arch/riscos/e/e089/rasmol.arc), the University of Kaiserlautern (Germany): ftp.uni-kl.de (in /pub/acorn/long/science/chemistry/rasmol.arc), and the University of Stuttgart (Germany): ftp.uni-stuttgart.de (in /pub/systems/acorn/riscos/etc/rasmol110.spk).
The first RISC OS release (1.10) of RasMol has the following features in addition to those of the X version:
runs on all Acorn 32-bit RISC computers under RISC OS 3.1 or higher, supports all display depths up to 24 bpp, just about runs on a 2MB machine
fully supports RISC OS cooperative multitasking even while rendering the image
Floyd-Steinberg colour dithering for 16 and 256 colour modes
support of both the RasMol mouse mode and a more RISC OS-like way using a tool bar with rotation/translation/slabbing etc. tools
extended menu structure (e.g. sub-menus to enter parameters for display options)
exports native RISC OS bitmap format, RISC OS drag-and-drop support
1996 Roger Sayle
rasmol@ggr.co.uk


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