Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Defining Information Using LDAP
A directory database consists of data entries that conta ...

Directory structure
The protocol accesses LDAP directories, which follow the ...
* A directory is a tree of directory entries.
* An entry consists of a set of attributes.
... the other server and returns the results to the client.

What is LibraryThing?
Go ahead and take the tour.
Enter what you're reading or your whole library—it's a ...
What's good?
... doesn't convince you, you cannot be convinced. Go away.

You say… We say…
May 10th, 2007
Another visual experiment on tagging:
How do individuals use tags — compared to the communit ...
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A global community of friends and strangers answering on... What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or right h...

Tip of the Hat: the Apple Recycler
Posted 1 day, 22 hours ago. under Tip of the Hat
Tags:apple computer, mailboxes

An Anthropologist Explores Video Blogging
Michael L. Wesch, an assistant professor of cultural ant ...
Within just a few weeks, the video had been viewed more ...
This semester Mr. Wesch is leading a class of nine under ...

What is Cluztr?
Cluztr is a FREE add-on for your web browser that lets y ...
Explore
* Find out where your friends are online.
... * Enjoy the social hum of the web.

The Gift of the Gab?: A Design OrientedSociology of Youn...
Full text Full text available on the Publisher sitePubl ...
Source Computer Supported Cooperative Work archive
Volume 12 , Issue 3 (2003) table of contents
... e, University of Surrey, Guild

As John Dewey put it, there is no question of theory ver... rather of intelligent practice versus uninformed, stupid...

, as I maintain, 'objects' themselves are as much made a... much products of our conceptual invention as of the 'obj... experience, the factor independent of our will, then of ... intrinsically belong under certain labels; because those... tools we us

This article explains how to use the headless mode capab... Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE, formerly referred t...
Headless mode is a system configuration in which the dis ...
Where it is applicable? Let's say that your application ...

HTML Browser Subproject
Version 0.95 of Warrior (download) includes the capabili ...
Why a Pure Java Browser?
There are a number of advantages to be derived from a br ...
... his is the obvious advantage of a pure Java application.

Abstract: Two in-place variants of the classical mergeso... analysed in detail. The first, straightforward variant p... log 2 N + O(N ) comparisons and 3N log 2 N + O(N ) moves... elements. The second, more advanced variant requires at ... O(N ) compa

External memory algorithms and data structures: dealing ...
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Source ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) archive
Volume 33 , Issue 2 (June 2001) table of contents
... ACM Press

FastSort: a distributed single-input single-output exter...
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Source International Conference on Management of Data a ...
Proceedings of the 1990 ACM SIGMOD international confere ...
... ACM Press New York, NY, USA

Performance comparison of distributive and mergesort as ...
Source Journal of Systems and Software archive
Volume 10 , Issue 3 (October 1989) table of contents
Pages: 187 - 200
... Elsevier Science Inc. New York, NY, USA

Optimal disk I/O with parallel block transfer
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Source Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing archive
Proceedings of the twenty-second annual ACM symposium on ...
... ACM Press New York, NY, USA

Greed Sort: An Optimal External Sorting Algorithm for Mu...
Mark H. Nodine and Jeffrey Scott Vitter
March 1991
Abstract:
We present an optimal deterministic algorithm for extern ...

External mergesort is normally implemented so that each ... contiguously on disk and blocks of data are read exactly... are needed during merging. We investigate two ideas for ... performance of external mergesort: interleaved layout an... strategy. I

We provide tight upper and lower bounds, up to a constan... number of inputs and outputs (I/OS) between internal mem... storage required for five sorting-related problems: sort... Fourier transform (FFT), permutation networks, permuting... transpositi

Sorting is a significant activity for which better metho... sought. In many computing scenarios, sorting must be don... majority of data items remaining on an auxiliary storage... paper introduces a new data structure, the *M-ary tree, ... external so

The memory model assumed for this discussion is a paged ...
The heapsort algorithms seen so far are not very well su ...
NOTE: Be aware that the words 'page access' does not nec ...
One may wonder if the d-heaps described in chapter 5 can ...
The drawbac

Heapsort is an internal sorting method which sorts an ar... place in O(n log n) time. Heapsort is generally consider... external random-access sorting. By replacing key compari... operations on pages, it is shown how to obtain an in-pla... which requi

M. L�ng, K. Sattler, K. Schmidt, E. Schallehn:
Autonomous Tuning with Soft Indexes
ICDE Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systerms (SMDB07 ...

A versatile variant of Heapsort, adapted for external di... presented. On a single processor RAM with internal memor... Θ(m + kbw) words, it sorts a file of n records of ... stored in m physical blocks, each consisting of b record... using O(m l

OpenSearch
Firefox 2 supports the OpenSearch description format for ...

Effect of z-index value to positioned elements
with help from Dave Hyatt 1
Through the entire tutorial, I will be using RP as short ...

* Test different versions of a page to see which wor...
* Discover which ad placement gives the best results
* Find out which design encourages visitors to click ...
* Learn which content leads to improved sales

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We aim to prove that accessible, usable web sites built ...