Grub distributed web-crawling project - Grub distributed web-crawling project Grub is the name for a search engine pioneered by LookSmart based on the power of distributed computing. Users may download the grubclient software and let it run during computer idle time. The client indexes URLs and sends them back to the main grub server in a highly compressed form. The collective cache can then be searched on the Grub website. Grub is able to quickly build a large cache by asking thousands of clients to cache a small portion of the web each. Though many believe in Grub's novel distributed computing system, the search engine has its share of opponents. Many state that a large cache is not the strength of a good search engine, rather, that it is the ability.
Distributed web crawling - Distributed web crawling Distributed web crawling is a technique used in Internet search engines employing many computers to do the web crawling necessary to index the Internet. The idea is to spread the resource requirements of computing power and bandwidth across many computers and network connections. As of 2003, most modern commercial search engines use this technique. Companies such as Google use thousands of individual computers in multiple locations to crawl the Web. Newer projects are attempting to use a less structured, more ad-hoc form of collaboration by enlisting volunteers to join the effort using, in many cases, their home or personal computers. LookSmart is the largest search engine to use this technique in its Grub distributed web-crawling project. The following is a proposed solution, but.
Grub - Grub Grub has several common meanings, did you mean: in common English usage, can either be a slang term for food a name for a larva that resembles a worm. is the GNU project's Grand Unified Bootloader software. See GRUB. is the name for a distributed commercial search engine. See Grub distributed web-crawling project. a series of places in Switzerland, Austria and Germany, e.g. Grub, canton of Appenzell Outer Rhodes, Switzerland Grub, Germany This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
LookSmart - LookSmart is an internet company, known for its Grub distributed web-crawling project. Looksmart was a directory developed by usually low-paid editors, none of whom were allowed to be members of a labor union. In that way, it is seen as the antithesis of Google which used algorithms to determine the relevancy of searches and which built a reputation for looking after its people well. Having failed to build a retail brand of significance, Looksmart devised an approach of selling its web directory to portals much more successful than it. In that time, some of the founders and senior executives made tens of millions of dollars selling what most thought to be its overpriced stock even though the accumulated losses of the company approached one hundred and sixty million dollars. However, Looksmart.
Search engine - help the user access files stored on a computer, for example on the World Wide Web, by allowing the user to ask for documents meeting certain criteria (typically those containing a given word, a set of words, or a phrase) and retrieving files that match those criteria. Unlike an index document that organizes files in a predetermined way, a search engine looks for files only after the user has entered search criteria. In the context of the Internet, search engines usually refer to the World Wide Web and not other protocols or areas. Because the data collection is automated, they are distinguished from Web directories, which are maintained by people. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 How search engines work 2 Internet History 2.1 Google 3 Challenges faced by search engines 4.
Library of Congress Digital Library project - Library of Congress Digital Library project The Library of Congress National Digital Library Program (NDLP) is assembling a digital library of reproductions of primary source materials to support the study of the history and culture of the United States. Begun in 1995 after a five-year pilot project, the program began digitizing selected collections of Library of Congress archival materials that chronicle the nation's rich cultural heritage. In order to reproduce collections of books, pamphlets, motion pictures, manuscripts and sound recordings, the Library has created a wide array of digital entities: bitonal document images, grayscale and color pictorial images, digital video and audio, and searchable texts. To provide access to the reproductions, the project developed a range of descriptive elements: bibliographic records, finding aids, and introductory texts and programs, as well.
History of the Internet - a important tool in developing the Internet (being used for communication between the groups working on internetworking research). Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Motivation for the Internet 2 Early Internet Work 3 Growth 4 Commercialization and Privatization 5 Early applications 6 Standards and Control 7 World Wide Web 8 External Link Motivation for the Internet The need for an internetwork appeared with ARPA's sponsorship, by Robert Kahn, of the development of a number of innovative networking technologies; in particular, the first packet radio networks (inspired by the ALOHA network), and a satellite packet communication program. Later, local area networks (LAN's) would also join the mix. Connecting these disparate networking technologies was not possible with the kind of protocols used on the ARPANET, which depended on the exact nature of the subnetwork..
HyperCard - was making the Macintosh platform as a whole much more interesting to the market, management let it languish. Things started changing in late 1989, when internal politics (largely the efforts of Kevin Calhoun, a programmer at Apple) finally gained enough momentum to start an upgrade process. This resulted in 1990's HyperCard 2.0, a massive improvement on the original. Additional features, notably fully integrated support for color, were promised. Then, seemingly to add insult to injury, Apple decided that all software should be a part of their Claris division. An agreement was reached in which Claris would sell an editor product, whereas Apple would include only a "viewer," the HyperCard Player, in order to keep their original promise to Bill Atkinson. People would now have to pay to use the product which.
File sharing - even stronger. So today we are left with a slew of clients with functionality designed around making sharing files more effective, both in the real sense of uploading and downloading (like anti-hoarding functions) and in the more ethereal sense of being bulletproof towards legal issues (as with anonymity and decentralization). List of file-sharing utilities FTP File Transfer Protocol Kermit Operating System File-Sharing Protocols Network File System (NFS) Samba or SMB Appleshare Operating System File-Sharing Servers Windows 2000 Server Linux Novell Mac OS Server HTTP Servers Apache HTTP Server IIS Microsoft Internet Information Services User agents Mozilla, IE, Konqueror, etc. User agents Mozilla CuteFTP IRC Hotline OpenNap protocol Directory servers OpenNap Server User agents Napster Gnapster WinMX Gnutella BearShare Gnucleus Limewire Morpheus Shareaza XoloX Freenet protocol Espra Audiogalaxy iMesh Direct Connect NeoModus.
Emacs - user entered a keystroke. This more-intuitive behavior, which is used by most modern text editors, had been pioneered by the "E" editor written at the Stanford AI Lab. In 1974, Richard Stallman, another hacker, added a macro feature to the TECO display-editing mode. This allowed the user to define keystrokes for launching TECO programs to perform various editing tasks, such as reading or writing files. The users at the AI Lab soon accumulated a large collection of custom macros. In 1976, Guy Steele began an effort to unify the many divergent macro sets. The project was completed by Stallman, who also wrote facilities for extension and self-documentation. The resulting program was called EMACS. Though built on TECO, its behavior was different enough to be considered a text editor in its own.
Enigma machine - article relates to the Enigma machine in cryptography. For the Enigma web browser, see Enigma browser; for the musical work by Elgar, see Enigma Variations; for the musical artist, see Enigma (musical artist); for the computer game, see Enigma (game). Fig. 1 - The Enigma Machine The Enigma was an electro-mechanical cypher machine used for both encryption and decryption, widely used in various forms by most German military forces. Ease of use and the supposedly unbreakable cypher were the main reasons for its widespread use. The cypher was in fact broken, and the reading of information in the messages it didn't protect is generally credited with ending World War II at least a year earlier than it would have otherwise. The British encryption machine, Typex, and several American ones, eg the.
Digital rights management - a computer system which can't be trusted to protect the rights of its owner, because they can be remotely manipulated at any time, regardless of the legal merits of the change. Such concerns are among those which prompted China to make a strategic decision to switch from the Microsoft Windows operating system to something more assuredly trustworthy. Several laws relating to DRM have been proposed or already enacted in various jurisidictions (State, Federal, non-US). Some of them will require _all_ computer systems to have mechanisms controlling the use of digital media. (See Professor Edward Felten's freedom-to-tinker Web site for information and pointers to the current debate on these matters). An early example of a DRM system is the Content Scrambling System (CSS) employed by the DVD Consortium on movie DVD disks..
A Hacker History - of BBSs in 14 U.S. cities including the Legion of Doom, conducting early-morning raids and arrests. The arrests involve and are aimed at cracking down on credit-card theft and telephone and wire fraud. The result is a breakdown in the hacking community, with members informing on each other in exchange for immunity. 1990, LOD and MOD engaged in almost two years of online warfare — jamming phone lines, monitoring calls, trespassing in each other's private computers. Then the Feds cracked down. For Phiber and friends, that meant jail. A woman who goes by the handle Natasha Grigori (Bullwinkle’s nemesis in the classic cartoon) started out in the early starts running a bulletin-board system for software pirates. Now, at age “40-plus,” she’s the founder of antichildporn.org, a group of hackers who use.
AmigaOS - turn the machine on. With third party software, it is possible to have a different kickstart loaded in RAM and to use it instead of the ROM one - for example Kickstart 1.3 may be loaded in order to run old games incompatible with Kickstart 2.0 and higher. These programs are called Softkickers. Workbench Workbench is the native graphical user interface for the Amiga computer. As the name suggests, the metaphor of a workbench, rather than a desktop, is used. Directories are depicted as drawers, executable files are depicted as tools, data files are depicted as projects and GUI widgets are gadgets. Most Amiga application software has pull-down menus starting "Project Edit ..." rather than the "File Edit ..." typical on other platforms. In many other respects the interface resembles Mac.
TeX - finally frozen around 1985. Guy Steele happened to be at Stanford during the summer of 1978, when Knuth was developing his first version of TeX. When he returned to MIT that fall, he rewrote TeX's I/O to run under ITS. The first version of TeX was written in the SAIL programming language to run on a PDP-10 under Stanford's WAITS operating system. For later versions of TeX, Knuth invented the concept of literate programming, a way of producing compilable source code and high quality cross-linked documentation (typeset in TeX of course) from the same original file. The language used is called WEB and produces programs in Pascal. TeX has an idiosyncratic version numbering system. Since version 3, updates have been indicated by adding an extra digit at the end of the.
Bard's Tale - is a fantasy role-playing game by Interplay Productions and distributed by Electronic Arts. It was written by Michael Cranford and was released in 1985, the first in an eventual series of three. It was originally released for the Apple II, but was eventually ported to the MS-DOS, Apple IIgs, Commodore 64, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, and Amiga platforms. The game featured a game style similar to Dungeons and Dragons and most of its game play was based on the earlier computer game Wizardry, but The Bard's Tale was notable for its unprecendented pseudo-3D graphics and animation. It was so successful and popular that it inspired several knock-offs and imitations. The name The Bard's Tale became the calling card of the series, though it was not meant to. The original planned name.
Bohol - Except for a rare shower, this is the mildest time of the year. Daytime temperatures average 28°C, cooling down at night to around 25°C. The summer season from May to July brings higher temperatures and very humid days. From August to October is the southwest monsoon (habagat). The weather during this season is not very predictable, with weeks of calm weather alternating with rainy days. History Early History The people of Bohol are said to be the descendants of the last group of inhabitants who settled in the Philippines called pintados or “tattooed ones.” Boholanos had already a culture of their own as evidence by the artifacts dug at Mansasa, Tagbilaran, and in Dauis and Panglao. The name Bohol is supposedly derived from Bo-ol, a small town in the vicinity of.
Censorship in cyberspace - major difference is that national borders are more permeable online: residents of a country that bans certain information can often find it on web sites hosted elsewhere. Conversely, attempts by one government to prevent its citizens from seeing certain material can have the effect of restricting foreigners, because the government may take action against Internet sites anywhere in the world, if they host material it objects to. For example: France has asked auction sites hosted in the United States to remove Nazi memorabilia. The People's Republic of China has set up systems for Internet censorship that are collectively known as the Great Firewall of China. Cuba has made Internet usage illegal without a permit. The efforts of Scientology to stifle online discussion of its activities has been seen by many as.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library - Christian Classics Ethereal Library is a volunteer-based project to provide free electronic copies of Christian scripture and literature texts. It was founded by Harry Plantinga in 1993. The current project includes an Internet web site for processing documents. Books are scanned and run through OCR. Volunteers can then edit and correct the texts through a web interface. This is similar to (and predates) Distributed Proofreaders..
Sega 32X - by Sega. In Japan, the console was distributed under the name Sega Super 32X. In North America, its name was the Sega Genesis 32X. In Europe, Australia, and other countries that use PAL, Sega Mega 32X was its name. With the release of the Super Famicom in Japan and the Super NES in North America, Sega needed to leapfrog Nintendo in the technological department. The Sega Mega-CD aka Sega CD hadn't worked as well as they wanted it to. Sega had various developments underway, named after planets. Some used System 16 technology like the Sega Megadrive and Sega Genesis did, as well as other arcade games. On January 8, 1994, Hayao Nakayama, then CEO of Sega, ordered his company to make a 32-bit cartridge based console that would be in stores.
