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The Home of Jack Miller
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I wrote Canto - An ncurses RSS reader, which is actually a Python rewrite of another ncurses reader that I wrote in C, NRSS.
I have written an alpha stage research kernel named Viridis.
I've also written small patches for projects like MOC and Python Markdown.
I recently started working for AMD writing firmware level CPU diagnostic software using a combination of EFI and Linux.
Previously, I worked for IBM on Linux, however most of my contributions have been internal (targeted at lab bringup), for experimental platforms that never made it into the wild, or closed platforms like the WiiU's Espresso chipset. I contributed to the open source firmware skiboot as part of the OpenPOWER initiative as well.

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A couple of tab behaviour enhancement suggestions:
These are missing from Chrome and would be great to have in Edge.
@antlane MRU for Ctrl+Tab is a must for me. Not sure why Chrome has always refused to offer the standard Windows behavior even as an option. Opera allows it.
Absolutely. This is REQUIRED for my workflow, and it's ingrained in my muscle-memory.
I need Edge to behave consistently with Alt-Tab when switching tabs with Ctrl-Tab. I need Edge to behave consistently with IE (which had this option), FireFox (which has this option), and Visual Studio, SQL Server Management Studio, Notepad++ (all of which default to this behavior).
MRU tab-switching option for Ctrl-Tab is a MUST-HAVE feature for me, and the lack of it was the single biggest reason I wasn't a huge EDGE user previously.
Chrome refused it because some devs decided they didn't want it, then in typical fashion stuck to their decision with superhuman levels of stuborness. The basic argument was that it would be too confusing for new users. First off, that doesn't even address the question of it being an option (which is what people were asking for) and secondly it ignores the fact that every OS works with MRU so that's definately the expected behaviour for anyone who uses keyboard shortcuts as an integral part of their workflow.
I would instantly move from Chrome to Edge if this were implemented. Currently I float between Chrome and FF, with the the option to use MRU tab switching being the only reason I use FF. If edge brough this, I would switch instantly across all platforms.
I'm currently using Opera, which managed to add the MRU option although it uses the Chromium engine I believe.
Thank you everyone! This is a great discussion. I will let the team that does tab management know of your beliefs.
You can make this happen now. Install Tab Position Options.
Hi @IonutBotizan, thanks for the link, it was an entertaining, if slightly sad read. I will make sure that the tab management team sees this feedback.
06-11-2019 01:33 PM - edited 06-11-2019 03:50 PM
Chrome refused it because some devs decided they didn't want it, then in typical fashion stuck to their decision with superhuman levels of stuborness.
I suspect it was leadership preference rather than developers. Anyway, it yet another time shows the value of extensions, giving users freedom of choice.
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06-11-2019 03:43 PM - edited 06-11-2019 04:14 PM
If you don't know what that is or you simply don't need it, please refrain yourself from commenting on this thread.
Help me entertain the value of MRU feature pls. Would you?
For me rational tab control encompasses proper close and open order augmented with fast switching btw last 2 tabs. If one wants fast switching btw multiple tabs in a certain order, is it really faster and simpler when you go beyond the 1st switch cycle than selecting the right tab from the list? Try Ctrl+Tab MRU by using Ctrl+Y .
Now, you are claiming that only Yes votes are allowed in this thread. Not the case. Its a privilege you don't have - and that's the exact behavior you object in Chrome devs. :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:
The value of this is immeasurable. I simply can't work with "round robin" style tab switching with Ctrl-Tab... it makes Ctrl-Tab almost completely USELESS.
MRU is the only logical, efficient, and sane method of tab management, period. If I close a tab, I should see the last tab I was looking at, not the jarring re-appearance of a tab I haven't looked at for a while just because it was "adjacent'. And If I am Looking at one tab, switch to another, Ctrl-Tab should take me immediately back to the tab I was just looking at. And Ctrl-Tab should then allow me to easily switch back and forth between those two tabs, even if they're not adjacent. And if I want to see the tab I was looking at before that, Ctrl-Tab-Tab, and boom, I'm there.
It's consistent with the way EVERY OTHER interface works... from Alt-Tab, to Ctrl-Tab in Firefox, IE, Notepad++, SQL Server Management Studio, Visual Studio, etc, etc.
Not having it in EDGE is just … ridiculous. Frustrating. Infuriating. It slows me down and makes navigating more than two tabs PAINFUL. There's zero excuse for not providing this as an option. I cannot fathom how anyone can do any real work in a tabbed UI without MRU tab-switching.
So the main thing here is that your solution is dependent on constantly re-arranging tabs so that current tab switching method (position based) works.
In a situation where one of the two tabs you're working with is newly opened then this works. But for people who constantly have multiple tabs open, its not as efficient. My work flow for example, involves having several always open tabs logged into various web front ends. So to get this working with your method, I need to first re-arrange all my tabs. Even then I need to switch between CTRL+Tab and CTRL+Shift+tab all the time (and also be conscious of which one I need to use).
Just imagine if the OS worked like this - forcing you to re-arrange your task bar every time you wanted to enable a proper alt+tab workflow. I don't think anyone would consider that viable.
06-11-2019 04:38 PM - edited 06-11-2019 04:40 PM
I do work with multiple tabs and can see your logic, but is it deep enough? Did you try both extensions jointly: Tab Position Options and Ctrl+Tab MRU ? Explore all their options? Now you see, the logic choice gets more diverse? The MRU definition more complex?
Now think of the basic feature you ask for: switch multiple tabs in the order they were looked at or created before. Sounds intelligent - at the 1st run. What do you expect to happen at the 2nd run? Where do you want to go AFTER you looked at a certain tab again? Are you sure, you always want to go to its parent instead of simply back or closing it? Starting from step 2, I doubt a rigid order will work whatever it is. ;)
06-11-2019 04:51 PM - edited 06-11-2019 06:00 PM
Lets say you have 10 tabs open. You read a page Y, open a link from it as next tab Z. Now jump back to the original tab Y - this is your 1st run. Read it again - now what? Where do you want to go for your 2nd run? Always to its parent tab X? I more often go back to tab Z, or close Z and Y. Logic varies, becomes more diverse, hard to fit in rigid order. Better choice seems to be a Tab List you pick your next tab from, beyond the last 2.
What I'd expect from Edge team - make it possible to develop a more flexible MRU extension. How big is the demand - just look at similar addons install stats.
06-11-2019 06:30 PM - edited 06-11-2019 06:32 PM
The problem here is scope. We have a nail, and we're asking for a hammer to deal with it. You're essentially coming in and saying, "but the hammer can't cut my 2x4 so what's the point of a hammer".
The point of MRU tab switching is that you have a workflow where you're constantly switching back and forth between a few tabs. Like you're entering a bunch of data in a form and you're frequently switching between one tab which contains the source data and another tab which contains the form fields you're filling out.
The question of what to do once you're finished with this workflow (where you're switching back and forth between two tabs) is completely separate. MRU tab switching order on CTRL+Tab is not meant to address that situation at all so it's not really relevant in this thread.
Additionally, the questions you're asking are already handled by other shortcuts. CTRL+<a number from 1-9> already exists to switch to a certain tab. CTRL+PGUp & CTRL+PGDown already exists to cycle through the tabs in display order. So if your question is "How would you handle the situation where the user no longer wants to switch between tabs in MRU" the simple answer is that they would use one of the other shortcuts to switch tabs in whatever manner they prefer.
Your questions and scenarios are all irrelevant. EVERY other tabbed UI (except Chrome) already does this, and they all do it consistently. It makes perfect sense. If you wonder how it works, just use IE, Firefox, Visual Studio, SQL Server Management Studio, Notepad++, or any other tabbed application and you can see for your self. If you hold Ctrl down while repeatedly pressing TAB, you cycle through tabs in MRU order. If you lift up the Ctrl key, and then press it down again with TAB, then you have reset the MRU order and start again. It's totally intuitive and obvious, and makes it really easy to navigate. ALT-TAB works the same way for switching apps. THIS IS KNOWN AND SOLVED FUNCTIONALITY.
There is ZERO legitimate argument for not providing an option for MRU tab switching order with Ctrl-Tab. Period. Your arguments are pointless, and baseless, and really, the only thing left to be said is WHEN this REQUIRED functionality will be added. The fact that it's missing is, imho, either to be considered a bug, or a usability FAIL.
06-11-2019 09:16 PM - edited 06-11-2019 09:23 PM
Like you're entering a bunch of data in a form and you're frequently switching between one tab which contains the source data and another tab which contains the form fields you're filling out.
The question of what to do once you're finished with this workflow (where you're switching back and forth between two tabs) is completely separate.
I think you guys are absolutely right, was just teasing a bit to have better justification for the team. I enjoyed this feature with Opera. ;) I assume Edge team waits for coming Chromium Tab Groups to show up before they start thinking about tab settings.
I believe what's really needed is a Tab Control section in Settings now missing. Accounting for Tab Groups coming to Chrome, and the need to control not only tab switching, but also tab tree, grouping, closure and opening order, this is a must have section namely in Settings, and not in Flags, since Tabs handling is major and the most prominent browser feature, regularly used by everyone.
06-12-2019 05:54 AM - edited 06-12-2019 08:58 AM
Not out of scope, better look at the thread title. As to Ctrl+Tab, it should cycle by default as it is now. Anything beyond that should be user choice in Settings.
06-12-2019 07:01 AM - edited 06-12-2019 07:14 AM
Why do you think its preferable for CTRL+Tab to cycle in a manner that
A) you can already do with CTRL+PgDN
B) is different than every other application, including the OS itself
I think that's the issue most of us have. We don't see the logic in this. We don't see the logic in having the browser work differently than the rest of the OS. And when I say rest of the OS, I'm not just referring to Windows; MacOS and every popular Linux shell also use MRU. Hell, even iOS and Android use MRU in their app switching, both their card interfaces reorder themselves in MRU order every time you switch an app and using the quick change gestures honors this after a second
06-12-2019 09:07 AM - edited 06-12-2019 08:29 PM
As said I agree with you about MRU, and see your needs as extensions developer. But I'm a huge proponent of basic simplicity as the means to attract more users of various backgrounds, which translates into better funding for the browser team, and as a result allows to implement more user requests in a thoughtful manner.
If someone needs this option, they should be smart enough to pick it in Settings. I can refer you to the opposite spectrum: some demanded to put pages they like as Start menu or Taskbar shortcuts, thus mixing up browser with OS. This is the bottom line user you have to account for. :crying_face:
06-12-2019 09:45 AM - edited 06-12-2019 09:52 AM
But the question is, why is this the default? The OS already works a certain way. The other apps on the platform work that same way. Even the user's phone works this way. How is it simpler for the user to have their browser work a completely different way for no reason at all?
Just wanted to add, since nobody has directly addressed it yet, there is a reason people don't want stuff like this to be handled by plugins (unless it was an MS developed plugin). For a plugin to control tab switching, that plugin would defacto have access to your entire browsing history.
This is probably not comforting to many users seeing as how grow market share -> sell to web marketing agency is emerging as the dominant business strategy for plugin makers looking to cash in on their plugins.
Here's an example of why people don't want core browser functionality, and more importantly core browser functionality will full access, to be a plugin;
I came here looking to see if anyone had requested this feature yet... And I stumbled into the most asinine argument about it. Like it's been mentioned, people are asking for it because high-productivity environments already have this feature. Stop arguing about the what-ifs, just look at the functionality of systems that already have it , whether it be other browsers or other Microsoft software.
Jeez people, it's not rocket science, it's not even risky. It's just matching what the other browsers already have.
Even more frustrating than the absence of this essential functionality is reading people having such inane arguments against it. Seriously people, not having this in the browser is just dumb.
As log as this is an option and not default behavior as I prefer to be on the same page even though I open links in new tab. Depending on my work, I keep opening few new tabs here and there and then get back to them later. So I think being on the same page when opening links in new tab would be first preference to me.
@antlane MRU tab switching is what prevents me from switching to Edge at work. It's so important in the way that I work that I can't do without it.
I hope Microsoft devs integrate it, especially that it would give more consistency with Windows.
@antlane I would really like to see tab switching in most recent order as an option. This works just like alt+tab for open programs and makes a ton of sense. It is also necessary for switching quickly between two tabs, a common use scenario. I've always been confused as to why Chrome does not have this feature. Heck, even IE has it!
@Deleted For the desperate, there is a pretty good extension called "Popup Tab Switcher" in the Chrome Web Store. I use it and change the keyboard shortcut to alt+Q instead of alt+Y.
@JordanQ Thanks for the hints. I was able to get MRU tabs 100% working with the CTRL-TAB and CTRL-SHIFT-TAB keys by doing the following:
* Enable "Allow extension from other stores" in Edge
* Installing "Ctrl+Tab MRU" from the Chrome app store (it's very similar to what you suggested) at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ctrl%2Btab-mru/ialfjajikhdldpgcfglgndennidgkhik
* Follow the directions in the above extension URL in the section titled "IMPORTANT TO KNOW" on how to change the hotkeys to be CTRL-TAB and CTRL-SHIFT-TAB.
So now I have the tab switching to be 100% working with MRU behavior.
So you got this working? I was never able to get it working on chrome, and have had the same bad luck on Edge.
Basically, I change the shortcut in the preference file - then I re-open the browser but nothing has changed. Then I go back to the preference file and see that it has reverted to CTRL+Y and CTRL+SHIFT+Y. Seems like when the browser opens, it overwrites whatever changes I made to the preference file.
regarding your question on why Chrome doesn't have it, if you read through some of the bug reports on it, it's basically the stubbornness of one dev (or product manager). They decided that its not intuitive, completely ignore anyone asking how having behavior that's the opposite of every OS and every other app is intuitive, and basically just bury their head in the sand. From there, the issue obviously snowballs because the longer you stick to your guns (against all logic) the worse it is when you finally change.
You can reference the main bug thread here;
It's over a decade old and marked as wontfix.
@geoken2 I think maybe the problem is casing, I know mine reverted if I did not spell the elements perfectly as expected.
Here is how I spelled the relevant entries in my Preferences file:
Hope it helps. The fact that your file is reverting means you are editing the right one, at least. Figuring out which is the right file to edit is half the puzzle.
@antlane I just wanted to add one tidbit to help people think about this. Imagine how frustrating it would be if alt+tab switched between your open programs, not in recently used order, but in the order in which they appear on the taskbar. Well, it's the same thing for tabs in the browser.
@Elliot Kirk Good. Show them that everyone except Chrome seems to understand this need, so Microsoft should be able to get 'er done without much trouble. See below
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Fom me must have as i described in similar topic https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/ctrl-tab-cycles-through-tabs-in-recently-used-ord...
Unbelievable, why can't Edge get an edge with some user over Chrome and do this?!?!
I got it working using this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-thumbnails-switcher/jpaiaplhepeiilhiegfnknedhjepknng/r...
Nice that IE has the "use most recent order when switching ab with Ctrl+Tab". But it doesn't look like Edge browser has this option. For chrome, at least I can spend $0.99 to buy Alt+Q extension for that feature.
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"There are two kinds of science. Real, observational science like that carried out onboard the International Space Station. And historical science - where unseen events of the past, such as the Big Bang or divine creation, are hypothesised from the available evidence. Whether you hypothesise the Big Bang or divine creation will depend on whether you view the evidence through a wholly naturalistic worldview, or whether you begin with a Bible worldview when attempting historical science."
As far as I know, Peake did NOT say the above today when interviewed live on Sky News (that sounds appropriate) whilst working as a crewmember onboard the International Space Station:
http://news.sky.com/story/1668956/tim-p ... this-world
But there is currently a keen Bible and Noah's Flood believing Christian also onboard the ISS, a probable young earth creationist. Named Jeffrey N Williams.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyat ... a-mission/
Williams - who also sounds like a top bloke - also does twitter:


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The drama was flying on Monday night's "The Bachelorette" thanks to bad boy Bentley and his barbs towards Ashley Hebert.
While Ashley has previously said she was unaware of Bentley's harsh words and bad intentions while they were originally filming the show (in May, she told Access Hollywood Live it came as a "big surprise"), she certainly knows now, and says she feels "betrayed" and "hurt" by his rude comments to the cameras.
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"Throughout the first two episodes, I was very surprised by the things he said, but a part of me still looked for the good in him, and wanted to, once again, give him the benefit of the doubt," Ashley wrote in her "Bachelorette" blog on People on Tuesday morning. "After watching this episode, I can't help but feel betrayed, lied to, and made a fool of."
Season after season, the "Bachelor/Bachelorette" installments are filled with contestants who are often seeking a shot at fame, rather than the series star's heart – but Bentley didn't seem to set on finding his 15 minutes, but rather a different "Bachelorette" – something he had no problems expressing to the cameras.
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"I came into 'The Bachelorette' hoping it was Emily," he told the cameras of previous "Bachelor" winner Emily Maynard, who was picked by Brad Womack last season. "Ashley kind of looks like an ugly duckling to me."
But Bentley didn't stop there.
"I came in thinking Ashley was not attractive at all. I knew for a fact I wasn't going to fall in love with her, so I need to go say goodbye to Ashley. I'm going to make Ashley cry," he told the cameras. "I hope my hair looks OK."
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Once he broke the news to Ashley that he was leaving, the tears did begin to flow – something the newly anointed "most hated man in reality TV" didn't have much patience for.
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"It's annoying to hold a girl that is just crying and crying and crying," he deadpanned to the cameras in his confessional interview. "I was already checked out, you know."
As for why Ashley kept Bentley around, despite a warning early on from past contestant Michelle Money, who was aware of Bentley's bad intentions, she insists it wasn't due to a "bad boy" draw.
"People may speculate I was attracted to the 'bad boy,' or maybe they thought I wanted what I couldn't have. The truth is that I always look for the good in people, and I saw that in him. I only knew what he showed me, and I felt it to be real at the time," she blogged. "I can tell you that from the bottom of my heart, I don't remember ever feeling this depth of hurt and embarrassment."
Yet for better or worse – it appears viewers haven't seen the last of bad boy Bentley.
"Unfortunately, it's not the last you will see of Bentley," Ashley revealed.
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With both Admiral Mullen and Secretary of Defense Panetta upbraiding Pakistan, particularly the ISI for its ''veritable arm'' the Haqqani Network, the relations between the two countries have plunged into a state of decline.
While Americans suggest scourges for Pakistan's perfidy with Congressman Ted Poe introducing the "Pakistan Accountability Act" and Senator Lindsey Graham calling for 'all options' to be considered for the 'deceitful country' (and clearly, what one extracts from his statements by reading between the lines is that he desires for an attack on Pakistan) – the Pakistani Government and Army have been unapologetic and dismissive of the accusations.
Reminding the world that Haqqani was once the blue-eyed boy of the US, as is the case with most of the fighters in Afghanistan of the Soviet War that the US had 'abandoned' and left to and for the use of Pakistan's Establishment.
(USA hasn't placed the Haqqani Network under the list of terrorist organizations)
The entire situation seems precarious and what it holds and will evince at the end is left to speculations that can only be made on the basis of facts; the most significant of which is that both the United States and Pakistan are, as of yet, mutually dependent upon each other. Albeit, not equally.
Both have a set of choices to select from.
If Pakistan refuses to shun its links with the Haqqani Network as part of its Strategic Depth Policy (that seeks to ensure an Afghanistan with a Pro-Pakistan Government for various reasons that are part of an entirely new subject) or if US-Pak relations further degenerate in the future – America can:
1. Reduce or cut the aid it channels to it.
2. Increase drone attacks.
3. With the All-American raid in Abbottabad for Osama, the potentiality of other unilateral strikes and actions inside Pakistan can not be ruled out.
4. Economically assail; The United States has become Pakistan's largest trading partner (To reward Pakistan for being an ally?) and can reduce this position by closing its markets for Pakistani goods.
5. Expand and apply other pressure tactics.
In case of Option.3 being carried out, one might predict that a decisive decision will be taken by Pakistan which may be a turning-point for the entire relation.
Why may that be, the reasons being that the Pakistani Army and Intelligence came under great censure after the May Raid, losing credibility in the eyes of many. A newspaper editor aptly remarked that what they hadn't faced in the past 64 years (due to their 'Holy Cow' status'), the faced after that single raid.
Thus it is derived that they can not afford to come under that fire once again, it would be a great blow to their institution and all that it claims to stand for.
Secondly, the current climate of Anti-Americanism (that has bloated since the country joined the 'War On Terror' which many believe is solely 'America's war' and blame for their country's national, economic and political nosedive that occured after Pakistan's engagement in the WoT) brimming with bellicosity in the wake of the charges hurled will force those in power in Pakistan to either retaliate or finish all connections with the 'Great Satan'.
In face of which, USA might impose sanctions on Pakistan.
Coming back, Pakistan's position presently and the factors that can determine its course of action lest the USA takes an unfavourable step, are excellently described and elucidated by Ex-CIA Officer Bruce Riedel in his new article :
'Reality is less important than image in this war. The Army leadership also feels it can weather any blowback from Washington. The generals assume U.S. military aid will be cut or eliminated by Congress sooner rather than later, and they are confident that the Saudis and Chinese will fill the gap.
They also know NATO's logistical supply line to Kabul runs through Karachi (more than half of everything NATO eats, drinks, and shoots arrives via Karachi despite intense efforts to find alternatives). They have leverage and they know it. And of course, they have the fastest-growing nuclear arsenal in the world with a developing tactical nuclear capability. They feel they hold a lot of aces, maybe more than they should. Cocky poker players are dangerous.'
Pakistan has also been extending its hand of friendship to Russia and especially Iran, which has manifestly irked the USA.
The importance of the NATO Supply Route that runs through Pakistan can be gauged from this:
"Shifting supply lines elsewhere would substantially increase the cost of the war and make the United States more dependent on authoritarian countries in Central Asia," reports Craig Whitlock for the Washington Post.
"With landlocked Afghanistan lacking seaports, and hostile Iran blocking access from the west, Pentagon logisticians have limited alternatives." While Pakistan has not threatened closure, the shift in routes reflects deteriorating US-Pakistani relations: In 2009, about 90 percent of surface cargo passed through Pakistan; about half that has since been diverted through other countries to the north including Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan.
Ammunition or weapons are prohibited; shipping by air costs 10 times more than using roads through Pakistan. For the US, the new routes through multiple nations present new complications in logistics, diplomacy and its human rights objectives.'
The conclusion is, the relationship between both countries is uncomfortable at its best but hard to wriggle out from, particularly for America due to the necessity and indispensability it (the relation)commands today in view of the leverage Pakistan has that Riedel mentioned and as Admiral Mullen pointed out:
'A flawed and difficult relationship [with Pakistan] is better than no relationship at all.'
Will USA grant Pakistan a seat at the negotiating table in Kabul so that it is given a share of its stake and influence in Post-war Afghanistan for the purpose of which its Establishment pursues dubious strategies? Will Pakistan go after the Haqqani Network?
Or will some other deal between the two be sought? Only time can tell as relations between the two are wrought taut.
– Hafsa Khawaja


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S. A. Schelkunoff
Dr. Sergei Alexander Schelkunoff was a mathematician and electromagnetism theorist. He is known for his contributions to antenna theory.
Schelkunoff was was born on January 27, 1897 in Samara, Russia. He began his studies at the University of Moscow but was drafted in 1917. By 1921 he settled in Seattle where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics from the State College of Washington (now the University of Washington). Schelkunoff received his doctoral degree in 1928 from Columbia University.
Schelkunoff joined Western Electric, which eventually became Bell Labs, after earning his PhD. He worked in the company's research department. In 1935, Schelkunoff and three of his colleagues discovered that the coaxial cable, which was new at the time, had the ability to transmit television and up to 200 telephone circuits. The coaxial cable is now widely used in television transmission.
Schelkunoff's career at Bell Labs lasted for a total of 35 years, and during that time his research encompassed radar, short-wave radio, broad-band antennas, electromagnetic wave propagation in the atmosphere and in microwave guides, and grounding. In addition to his work at Bell Labs, he also taught for 5 years at Columbia University and held the position of assistant director of mathematical research and assistant vice president for university relations. Schelkunoff retired from Columbia in 1965 and was a consultant for the United States Naval Station in San Diego.
Schelkunoff authored 4 books and several technical articles, and held 15 patents. He received the 1942 Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award from the IRE and the 1949 Stuart Ballantine Medal from the Franklin Institute. He died in Hightstown, New Jersey on May 2, 1992.


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McCrory criticizes Senate on budget talks
Gov. Pat McCrory has criticized the North Carolina Senate for failing to bridge a budget impasse on education and walking out on education leaders during negotiations.
The governor made the comments Wednesday during a meeting of his education cabinet.
Senate Republicans walked out of a budget meeting after the House asked educators to speak at the meeting. McCrory said that the Senate should be listening to educators, not walking out on them. He said he's disappointed in the Senate and isn't concerned about agitating them, adding that he needs to stand up for North Carolinians.
The Senate's budget includes an 11 percent teacher raise, but makes cuts in funding for teacher's assistants and to Medicaid to pay for it.
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Health officials are working to track down everyone who may have been treated with an injection for lower back pain that is linked to an outbreak of rare fungal meningitis. So far, 35 people have been diagnosed with the infection in six states and five of them have died.
At least 75 clinics in 23 states received batches of the steroid drug from a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy and have been told to notify all affected patients, health officials said.
"Unfortunately, despite the current recall, we expect to see additional cases as this investigation unfolds. However, it is possible if patients are identified soon and started on appropriate antifungal therapy some of the unfortunate consequences may be averted," Dr. Benjamin Park of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told reporters in a telephone briefing.
Food and Drug Administration officials warned health care workers not to use any drugs from the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Mass., which has voluntarily ceased distribution of all of its products.
The 35 cases include 25 people in Tennessee, one in North Carolina, two in Florida, three in Virginia, two in Maryland, and in Indiana, the CDC reported. Three of the deaths were in Tennessee, one in Virginia and one in Maryland.
"Infected patients have presented approximately one to four weeks following their injection with a variety of symptoms including fever, new or worsening headache, nausea and our new symptoms consistent with a stroke," Park said. "Some of these patients symptoms were very mild in nature. Cerebrospinal fluid obtained from these patients has shown findings consistent with meningitis. It is important to note that this type of meningitis is not transmissible from person-to-person."
Health officials are asking anyone who had a spinal injection for pain and who has symptoms such as a headache, stiff neck, dizziness or trouble walking to see a doctor right away.
The drug is question is called methylprednisone and is used mostly to treat older patients for lower back pain. Tennessee officials were the first to notice the unusual cases of meningitis, and discovered that the patients involved had all been treated at three specialty clinics. All had recieved direct injections of the steroid into their spines for pain. Women who received epidural infusions for childbirth are not in danger, the officials said.
Health officials have isolated aspergillus from five patients, CDC officials said. In addition, FDA officials detected fungal contamination in an unopened vial of methylprednisolone from one of three lots of 80-milligram injection doses recalled by the New England Compounding Center.
"Looking under microscopic examination, it was identified as a fungal contaminant. For the sake of time, because we -- everything is unraveling and unfolding very quickly, we have not been able to further microbial testing of additional vials and what is necessary. So, right now, we can only say that it is a foreign material," FDA's Dr. Ilisa Bernstein said.
Everything the pharmacy made is being checked. Berstein said it's not clear how many potentially contaminated vials of steroid were distributed. "But if they are licensed in 50 states, there is a possibility that it could be elsewhere, not just this product, but as well as other products that they have made," she said.
Meningitis is an inflammation of the spinal cord, usually caused by bacteria or viruses. It can be very serious and is marked by a headache, fever, often a stiff neck and balance problems. Fungi and parasites can also cause this inflammation and in this case the common mold aspergillus is suspected.
Aspergillus is tricky to treat. It's an infection that patients with damaged immune systems can get – notably cancer patients and those with HIV infection. It's often found in the lungs because the mold – found in dead leaves and elsewhere -- can be breathed in. An antifungal drug called voriconazole can treat the infection but the health officials said in this case they want to be sure before they try it. The side effects from the antifungal treatment can be severe and include kidney and liver damage.
"Currently, we think that this type of meningitis is quite severe as we have been describing here. The antifungal treatment for this is intravenous antifungal treatment and requires initial hospitalization. But the duration of antifungal therapy could be prolonged possibly on the order of months," Park said.
Health officials are now trying to track down people in 23 states who got epidural steroid injections. NBC's Robert Bazell reports.
Related links:
- Outbreak points to pharmacy problems
- Parents of killed toddler settle tainted wipes lawsuit
- Calif. lab worker died after handling rare meningitis strain


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Edwardian Platinum Topped 14kt Gold Etched Cufflinks
Beautiful etched cufflinks from the Edwardian (ca1900) era! Made of 14kt yellow gold, each cufflink has a platinum topped surface and a face which is covered with a fine etched design with a floral-like motif. The design covers the entire octagonal face of the double sided cufflinks and a gold bar connects each side. Both bars are marked "PLAT&14K". A classic pair of cufflinks, these would look fabulous worn by a man or woman!
Measurements: Each octagonal face of the cufflinks measures 5/8" wide and tall and the connecting bar measures a little more than 1/2" in length.Condition: The overall condition of the cufflinks is excellent. Besides normal surface wear, there is no apparent damage to the platinum topped gold setting.


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How SAP and cities are boosting innovation through open data
Listening to a couple of coders gush over the virtues of gamification, location-based mobile services and open data standards, I might have mistaken the techies for sneaker-wearing pitchmen at a Silicon Valley hackathon.
But this was midtown Manhattan. Instead of B-school dropouts, the geeks in question were actually silver-haired civil servants in charge of the IT operations for Boston and Edmonton. Though centuries old, each of the cities is racing towards decidedly cutting-edge goals of opening up access to municipal data for their residents and businesses to use and commercialize.
"Successful cities of the future aren't necessarily the most efficient. It's about engagement and citizen empowerment," said Bill Oates, chief information officer for the City of Boston. "Our innovation is on people, to help constituents connect with the city."
The CIOs were brought together by SAP to mark the U.S. launch of the software giant's Urban Matters program, which aims to help municipal governments "deliver better-run cities" by opening up data streams for citizens and business to tap into.
As this software space matures, big companies also are exploring opportunities to integrate city data feeds into current and future services.
GM is grooming its OnStar unit to become the software hub for transportation services such as RelayRides' peer-to-peer car sharing service. The automaker recently issued protocols that will let third-party developers integrate the data beginning to flow from cities -- such as road construction information, or parking data -- into future OnStar services.
In the world of smart buildings, Johnson Controls is likewise eyeing the opportunities emerging by tapping into huge, public pools of data on the performance of buildings in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, Washington D.C. and other cities.
Back in Boston, SAP technology is powering the city's Boston About Results website and accompanying Citizen Insights iPhone app. Citizen Insights collects, analyzes and shares performance measures across scores of city departments from tree planting requests to fire response times.
By digitizing and opening up their data flows, most cities are trying to evolve into "better versions of themselves" rather than presume to compete with Silicon Valley, said Bruce Katz, vice president and director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution.
Boston and Edmonton are pushing to lead a growing contest among cities aiming to boost their competitiveness by opening access to city data streams. Fighting to transform decades-old bureaucratic processes that tended to lock up key city information -- such as property records or tax rolls -- in hard-to-access formats, the goal is first to digitize as much information as possible.
Next page: Can cities meet the challenge?
As these programs grow more ambitious, cities face an outsized data challenge in scaling up these efforts. With centuries' worth of property records or historical budget information, cities are typically sitting on mountains of data that are a challenge to digitize, standardize and make accessible.
Cities need "additional investment to deal with the analytics…of taking tens of thousands of data sets and looking inside them," said Theresa Pardo of the Center for Technology in Government at the University of Albany (State University of New York, SUNY). "A lot of cities still have their records in paper form."
Pardo's center recently released a white paper, The Dynamics of Opening Government Data. The paper offers practical advice for government managers pursuing open data initiatives.
Edmonton started its open data efforts with a dozen public datasets in 2010. Today, "We have 257… San Francisco has 250," said Chris Moore, the City of Edmonton's CIO. Moore is pleased to be edging out one of the U.S.'s most wired metropolises.
Digitizing the information sequestered in city offices is just the beginning of the battle. Making those data streams publicly accessible and easily useable is essential for developers to build new services and businesses.
In Edmonton, for instance, the city transportation department recognized an appetite for access to information on road closures, resurfacings and the like. When the dataset went live earlier this year, it quickly became the city's most popular feed. "After it was released, an Edmontonian created an app called YEG Constriction," Moore told IT World Canada.
As Edmonton's efforts unfold, Moore's IT team hopes to stay at the front of city efforts by exploring gamification and the immersive 3D web as ways to boost public interaction with the data. For instance, the city is readying a Facebook game around traffic and safety, Moore said.
Behind all the enthusiasm for data transparency are bottom-line benefits that please city bean counters. The shift towards open data standards can deliver a big bang for the buck at a time when cities face rising demands for data services, yet have fewer resources with which to develop them.
In Edmonton, the city hosted Apps4Edmonton.ca, a contest to develop apps for city residents and businesses. "For around $50,000 we developed dozens of apps," says Moore. Were the applications developed conventionally, he speculated, the cost of a single study of the business case would have exceeded that figure.
Code sharing between cities can further compound these savings. Boston's New Urban Mechanics initiative encourages public collaboration to develop innovative civic services, explained Oates, the city's CIO. Among the program's most popular apps is Street Bump, an iPhone app that helps detect and report potholes. As a result of these efforts, nearly every pothole complaint in Boston is resolved in two days or less. A couple of years ago, less than half were completed that quickly.
Now, Boston is extending and sharing its New Urban Mechanics platform with dozensof other cities and towns, where apps can be adapted or further customized.
To be sure, cities aren't going to threaten Silicon Valley's software titans anytime soon. But the afamiliar, infectious air of competitive innovation is developing in municipal software circles. Earlier this month, Emily Badger at The Atlantic Cities rounded up the best open data releases of 2012. From listings of green roofs in Chicago to bikeshares in Boston, the apps are promising examples of how smart software can transform existing, static city data into dynamic, interactive tools that promise to make cities greener and more efficient.
While incremental, the boom in city data apps highlights how metropolises are best positioned to push ahead with effective innovation. "Cities are a lot more pragmatic than state or national governments," said Brooking's Katz.
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The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd takes a "deep dive" look into whether the policy and politics surrounding the immigration bill will allow it to pass in Congress. Executive Director of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, Alfonso Aguilar, joins to discuss.
Drafters are racing to complete the text of a comprehensive immigration reform bill slated to be unveiled on Tuesday, with minor loose ends causing some in the Senate's Gang of Eight to urge a delay to presenting the sweeping legislation.
But, with pressure growing after multiple missed deadlines for the completion of the reform bill, sources within the group tell NBC News that the proposal is still likely to be formally presented in a press conference tomorrow.
The Senate Judiciary Committee was expected to hold its first hearing on the legislation on Wednesday, but that has now been postponed to Friday. An additional hearing will be held next Monday as well.
Senate Republicans and Democrats have yet to be briefed on the legislation in their respective formal meetings. The bill includes the opportunity -- if certain border security criteria have been met -- for qualified undocumented immigrants to obtain probationary legal status for 10 years before becoming eligible to apply for a visa.
Republicans are expected to meet tonight at 5:45 pm to review the plan within their own conference. (Lead GOP negotiator Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida was originally scheduled to brief his colleagues last week, but lengthy discussion of pending gun legislation pushed the presentation off the agenda.)At noon on Tuesday, Republicans also plan to sell the plan to outside conservative interest groups.
Democrats have yet not scheduled an internal briefing but would likely share the bill with colleagues during a regularly scheduled Tuesday lunch meeting tomorrow.


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Snoopy dog clipart
You can get acquainted with the presented collection of Snoopy dog clipart to choose suitable ideas for your business or design interface.
Today we have 23 cliparts and vectors for this category.
Advice on how to make a good presentation
Use a good combination of colors
If you want to become successful as a PowerPoint presenter you need to utilize some color psychology in your presentations.
Color psychology and facts:
- Use a standard color wheel - a simple google search can show you the best results.
- Avoid heavy contrasts as it's tiring for the eyes and distracts attention from the content
- Stick with a white or light pastel coloured background
- Green has chosen to be the most popular color in presentations but choose a shade that's pleasant to the eyes and still calls for attention
- Blue has become all too common therefore, if you plan on using it, have a shade that's different from the common ones.
Stick with black when it comes to standard texts.
I really loved the parallels that Snoopy and Charlie Brown shared in the Peanuts Movie involving their love interests…


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Cobalt, EU-3TG and Sanctioned Entities – Why you should establish proactive business practices to manage the shift from conflict minerals compliance to responsible sourcing.
Quicker more accurate data received through iPCMP; Track and Trace reports to increase reporting transparency.
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A new poll by Public Policy Polling puts Texas Gov. Rick Perry in the front of the GOP presidential field in Iowa and shows just how much Perry's entrance into the race scrambled the contest for the Republican nomination.
The poll, released Tuesday (.pdf), shows that 21% of the poll respondents would support Perry in the Iowa caucuses next February, outpacing the two other Republican frontrunners Michele Bachmann and Mitt Romney. Romney's campaign has been focusing on New Hampshire, a state that is considered a must win for his campaign.
If the contest were simplified to a three-way race between Bachmann, Romney and Perry – Perry would be supported by 34 percent of respondents as opposed to just 28% for Romney and 24% for Bachmann.
As a possible indication of just how much Perry's entrance in the race has hurt the Bachmann campaign, in a hypothetical match-up between Romney and Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman would eke out a narrow (inside the margin of error) victory with 44% of the vote.
Perry has the best favorability rating of any GOP candidate among probable Iowa caucus voters with 56% having a favorable opinion and only 24% having a negative opinion – even after Perry's controversial statements about global warming, evolution and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.
Perry's statements on evolution and global warming fit the profile of Iowa caucus voters — 66% of Iowa caucus voters do not believe in global warming and only 35% believe in evolution.
NOTE – Public Policy Polling is a Democratically aligned polling firm that has had an impressive track record over the last few years of being able to accurately model outcomes. In contrast to other pollsters, PPP makes its survey internals freely available to the public.
As always, a poll is nothing more than a snapshot in time of public opinion and the Iowa caucuses are still months away.


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Mobile Public Library:robi Rolling Library by Claudia Miller
Claudia Miller Portrays The Robi Rolling Library Mobile Public Library
Claudia Miller, the maker of the awarded design Robi Rolling Library - Mobile public library by Claudia Miller spells out, Robi is a mobile public library in a truck with an individual type mounting for people in small villages around the district town. Inside, special acrylic shelves have illuminated LED edges that can light in the dark. When you read a book you let one's mind wander - the back of the truck is like a fantasy with no right angles and lines become more imaginative. The shelves start as parallel, then go up and down. It's like a mystery of an history..
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Dell Technologies Unified Workspace is the industry's most comprehensive solution to deploy, secure, manage and support your devices from the cloud.1 With industry leading expertise from VMWare, SecureWorks and Dell.1
Transform your business with Dell Technologies Unified Workspace. Dell Technologies Unified Workspace revolutionizes the way IT handles deployment, security, management and support. Our integrated solution was designed with intelligence and automation to empower you with visibility across the entire endpoint environment, and eliminate non-value add work. We'll help you reduce run-the-business tasks and provide ready-to-work experiences for end users. Unified Workspace is available as a service across the portfolio as a flexible and predictable option priced monthly or annually.
By integrating factory and cloud, we're the first OEM to provision applications with VMware Workspace ONE in the factory.1 Then we ship your systems directly to your employees, anywhere, everywhere. They can hit the ground running, and you can focus on what's next. This is how deployment gets done.
Secure your business with trusted devices, trusted access and trusted data that doesn't impede your employees' ability to work anywhere, anytime or compromise their productivity.
Dell builds unique security features into every commercial device to ensure a secure foundation for your unified workspace. Dell SafeBIOS protects the layers below the operating system, where new attacks can secretly lurk undetected. We help you better protect the BIOS environment by providing visibility to damaging BIOS attacks.
Dell and VMware Workspace ONE provide our customers with an added layer of protection through Trusted Access. VMware Workspace ONE constantly monitors and validates the state of device, user, network and applications. At the first sign of a threat, it will ask for multi-factor authentication, and depending on the threat level it can even block user access and wipe data from a machine.
95% of attacks happen at the endpoint.9 Protect your business information and keep malware out of your environment with Dell SafeData and Dell SafeGuard and Response.
Dell SafeData, encrypts information to keep your sensitive company information protected while helping to meet data protection regulations so when an end user device is lost or stolen, the information stays secure.
Dell SafeGuard and Response, powered by VMware Carbon Black and Secureworks, provides comprehensive threat management to prevent, detect and respond to attacks.
Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) is becoming the new norm because of Windows 10 migration. Dell and VMware Workspace ONE provide you with a simplified path to modern management regardless of device, OS or applications, while providing end users with a faster, smarter experience.
With VMware Workspace ONE you can:
ProSupport Plus with SupportAssist shortens your IT time spent on support calls resolving hardware and software issues through intelligence aggregated from device, application and user. And now with Dell ProSupport for PCs, you can take advantage of the telemetry-driven insights that allow you stay informed on hardware usage and application performance, maintain control and remotely resolve PC issues on one or many devices, eliminating productivity interruptions.
Our technology portfolio is designed with smarter, faster end user experiences to get your people to be productive faster, and help them stay there, no matter where or how they work.
Introducing ExpressSign-in. The world's first PC proximity sensor, enabled by Intel® Context Sensing Technology.4 The sensor detects your presence and automatically wakes your system, so you don't have to lift a finger.
Now your people can stay productive over multiple work days or on long flights with up to 26 hours of battery life. And with ExpressCharge, they can charge up to 80% in only 1 hour.5
Innovate in every way. The drop-hinge design allows for a 4-sided narrow border 14" screen in the most compact 13" body. Crafted from machined aluminum with diamond cut edges, experience the ultimate in productivity, stunning in any mode.6
Secure, reliable, cost effective thin clients designed to integrate into any virtualized or web-based infrastructure. Modern Wyse thin clients offer unparalleled levels of flexibility, both in peripheral support and the variety of form factors available. Plus, with a variety of mounting options, you can improve your desktop real estate.
Let your people easily shift from working alone to working with others. OptiPlex 7000 series All-In-One with optional 4k UHD display offers an expansive display with a 27" vibrant screen (perfect for deep dives into concentrated work) in a 24" chassis (fits the smallest spaces); 10 pt touch; optional IR web cam, active stylus and privacy screen.
With a single click, Dell Precision Optimizer Premium Software lets you experience higher productivity (up to 552%) with AI-based optimization for any application, customized to how you use your workstation.7 Also, address resource bottlenecks with the Dell Precision Optimizer's analytics. Fully automated monitoring helps identify CPU, storage, graphic and memory needs.
Dell PC as a Service (PCaaS) combines hardware, software, lifecycle services and financing into one all-encompassing solution – allowing you to predict and control your costs over the life of your PCs.
1 Based on Dell internal analysis of competitive products as of February 2019.
2 Based on Principled Technologies Report commissioned by Dell Technologies, "Deliver pre-configured systems to end users faster with Dell Provisioning for VMware Workspace ONE", February 2019, comparing deployment using Dell Provisioning for Workspace ONE vs. traditional deployment. Results extrapolated to deployment of 1000 systems. Actual results will vary.
3 Based on a Forrester Total Economic Impact™ Study commissioned by VMware, "The Total Economic Impact™ of VMware Workspace ONE for Windows 10", September 2018. Results from interviews with VMware Workspace ONE customers and/or based on a 12,000-employee composite organization.
4 Based on a Principled Technologies test report, "Spend Less Time and Effort Troubleshooting Laptop Hardware Failures" dated April 2018. Testing commissioned by Dell, conducted in the United States. Actual results will vary. Full report: http://facts.pt/L52XKM
5 Battery Life: Latitude 7400 2-in-1 tested with Intel i5-8265U, 8GB RAM, 128GB PCIe SSD, WLAN/WWAN, FHD Touch and 78 Whr battery, using the Mobile Mark 2014 battery life benchmark test, available at HYPERLINK "http://www.bapco.com"www.bapco.com. Test results are for comparative purposes only. Actual battery life may be significantly less than the test results and varies depending on product configuration and use, software, usage, operating conditions, power management settings and other factors. Maximum battery life will decrease with time.
6 Based on Dell internal analysis, November 2018.
7 Based on Dell internal testing, May 2018, using SPECapc PTC Creo 3.0 benchmark test comparing a Dell Precision 3630 with Dell Precision Optimizer Premium with AI-based optimization vs. same system with factory standard settings. Actual performance will vary based on configuration, usage and manufacture variability.
8 Dell and Partners Workforce Productivity Benefits: Three Strategies To Transform Employee Productivity assessed through Forrester Total Economic Impact Study Commissioned by Dell January 2019. Results based on a survey of 700 workplace technology decision makers in large organizations and the interviews of eight organizations using Workforce Enablement Solutions to obtain data with respect to costs, benefits and risks. Actual results will vary.
9 Source: 95% of security breaches occur at the endpoint. Verizon Data Breach Digest, 2017.
10 Remote TSM is mandatory minimum offer requirement for ProSupport Flex; Available for ProSupport Plus customers with 500 or more ProSupport Plus systems. Customers must commit to purchase 1,000 Dell client assets with ProSupport Flex within 12 months.


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Binding to MySQL in Java Studio Creator
Originally, I was planning to use this article to cover use of Java Studio Creator for simple Web apps that could be used on a mobile phone, but I realized that this and other articles I was planning to write about would require data in something a little more complete than the pointbase Java database that comes with Java Studio Creator by default.
Creating database-driven apps requires a database, and that requires data. This makes it necessary to create schemas and populate them with some sample data. This is of course possible with pointbase, but without any admin tools it means writing a bunch of SQL and just takes longer than if you have access to some higher-level tools.
That said, most of the points in this article about using Java Studio Creator with MySQL above are transferable to other databases. I will not attempt to cover the installation and administration of those other databases, because if you want to use them you probably know that already. However, I will point out the points where JDBC setup, database URL template setup, and other places that are likely to be customized for different databases.
MySQL is chosen because future articles I write will include scripts to set up and populate MySQL databases with data that will be used for the examples. If you want to try and adapt these to other databases to follow the articles, I wish you luck, but politely decline to offer technical assistance in converting the data across to the database of your choice.
Gathering and Installing the Software
The first step will be obtaining MySQL, the JDBC drivers, and (optional) some tools that make working with MySQL easier.
Depending on your platform, you may already find that you have MySQL installed on your machine. Most Linux distributions in particular come with MySQL either installed by default, or in the accompanying software packages with your distribution. You can use the software installation application included with your version of Linux to search for and install MySQL if it is provided. Failing that, you can download binaries for Linux from the same place as binaries for Mac and Windows.
For all platforms, if you need to install MySQL (and on Windows and MacOSX you probably will), the downloads page is:
There are quite a lot of different versions, so you may need to scroll down to find the platform binary you need.
After download, installation will be what you are expecting on your platform—probably RPM for Linux, msi for Windows, and dmg for MacOSX. Install as you would any other app; you should hit no problems.
If you are prompted for a root or admin username and password, remember what they are because you will need them later.You also need to grab the JDBC driver for MySQL; the download page for this is:
The binaries are pure Java jars; hence, they are the same across all platforms. Just grab the zip or tar.gz based on your preference, and unzip or untar it. Once done, find the mysql-connector-java-3.1.8-bin.jar file (the number may be higher depending on when you read this article) and copy it to somewhere that makes sense on your machine. You are going to have to tell Creator about this jar file when you want to use MySQL, so put it somewhere you can remember.
As an optional step, also grab the MySQL Control Center from
This is an older tool for which support has dropped, but still one I find very useful.
Depending on your install, you may have chosen not to run MySQL by default. On Windows if you did this, you should start the MySQL Service from the services; on Linux, start the service as standard for your distribution. If it is pre-installed on Linux, the chances are it is already running.
Finally, I can highly recommend phpmyadmin if you are so inclined (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/). It requires a PHP installation on a working Web server to run, and I will not cover the installation of that here. Suffice to say that I like it better than MySQLCC even though you have to have Apache with PHP or similar running first.
If you do have trouble with any of these steps, I would refer you to the excellent guide at
which is an excellent step-by-step guide for setting up MySQL on Linux and Windows. Hopefully, it will also provide some useful pointers to MacOSX users and others out there as well.
Add an Example Database
Download MySQLCreatorDemo with the example project in it and unpack it to a suitable directory. Inside, you will find a Java Studio Creator project, and also a file called creatordemo.sql. This is a MySQL dump file that you can restore into a complete schema with example data. To do this:
bring up a command window and log in in to MySQL using the following command:
mysql -u root -p
And enter the root password you selected on install when prompted.
If you chose not to use a root password, leave off the -p off at the end.
When you see the mysql> prompt, type the following command:
create database creatordemo;
then type
Next, you want to import the schema and data. This step also creates a user called creatordemo with a password of creatordemo to access the database you are populating.
From the command line, type:
mysql -u root -p creatordemo < creatordemo.sql
You should now have the demo database ready to use in Creator.
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The proof is out thereApril 7th, 2012 — ddelmoli
I'd like to thank Jonathan Lewis for taking up my challenge and writing up a proof that there is indeed a formula that solves Cary Millsap's string problem for not just circles, but for any regular polygon.
Like Jonathan, I found the problem intriguing, and "wasted" a few hours on a Saturday afternoon discovering the formula.
This blog entry isn't about the formula or proof — it's rather about the process I used to discover it.
You see, I didn't know that such a formula actually existed before I set out — but I was convinced that there might be. After all, it would be neat if there was one, wouldn't it?
This is a common way that I approach problems, especially in the Oracle programming and tuning world — usually I assume the existence of a solution and then I go about trying to find it. One of the things I'm constantly surprised at is how many people "give up" on these kinds of problems, start guessing, guess wrong, and then decide that such a solution either doesn't exist, or that they're not smart enough to find it. This post is an attempt to debunk the idea that finding such solutions requires any special smarts — that today there are so many ways to learn and discover that anyone can do it. It just takes perseverance and a bit of dedication.
I started out on my quest to find the formula for regular polygons by searching Wikipedia for "Regular Polygon"
About half-way down the page, I found the following image:
The little letter a looked exactly like what I was looking for — something that resembled the radius of a circle. Before reading this article I had no idea was it was called — from this article I learned it was called the apothem.
From there, I clicked on the link to the definition of the apothem, trying to see if there was a way to calculate its length somehow and relate it to the perimeter of the polygon.
In the article, a way to calculate the apothem based on the length of the sides and the number of them is presented:
a = s / (2 tan (pi / n))
with the comment that the formula can be used when only the perimeter (p) and the number of sides (n) is known because s = p / n.
From here, the rest becomes relatively simple, as I substituted s = p / n for s in the formula for the apothem.
a = (p / n) / (2 tan (pi / n))
Given a new apothem of length a' (where a' = a + h); we can work through the formulas to determine the difference between our new perimeter p' and the original perimeter p.
We start by isolating the perimeter:
a = p / (2n tan (pi/n))
2an tan (pi/n) = p
p = 2an tan(pi/n)
Looking at our new perimeter (p'), using the new apothem (a'):
p' = 2a'n tan(pi/n)
And we want p' – p (the difference between the perimeters)
p' – p = 2a'n tan(pi/n) – 2an tan(pi/n)
Factor out the 2n tan (pi/n) which is common to both terms on the right:
p' – p = (2n tan(pi/n)) (a' – a)
And since we know that a' simply equals a + h (the "height" we're raising the string):
p' – p = (2n tan(pi/n))(a + h – a)
(This was my aha! moment :-), sorry, bad joke)
p' – p = (2n tan(pi/n))(h)
p' – p = 2nh tan(pi/n)
Voila, a solution that only requires the number of sides and the "height".
I was satisfied that this solution matched Cary's just by simply trying out the formula with 1,000-sided polygon and seeing how it matched — Jonathan went beyond and showed how the approximation of the tan function using a Taylor series (actually a MacLaurin series) gets you to 2hpi.
Why all this focus on a simple problem?
Mainly because it's been interesting to see how people approach solving it and — in my mind, more interesting — how they attempt to generalize it in a way that makes it really applicable.
When I'm confronted with a particularly challenging Oracle problem, I generally assume there's a pretty easy way out — I can't be the first person to ever have encountered such a problem, and the database developers have probably thought of it too, so I usually start with the "Big 3″ manuals:
The Concepts Guide, the SQL Reference Guide, and the PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference.
- Want to tokenize a string? Check out CTX_DOC.TOKENS
- Want to know the "distance" between 2 strings? Check out UTL_MATCH — complete with Levenshtein and Jaro-Winkler differences
- Want to do linear algebra? Check out UTL_NLA
- Want to "smash" an XML document into something you can select against like a table? Check out XMLTABLE
- Want to implement a k-means clustering algorithm? Check out DBMS_DATA_MINING
Don't re-invent the wheel, and don't assume that the problem is unsolvable — while we might not always stand on the shoulders of giants, we should start by assuming our problem isn't unique, and that the proof or truth is out there…


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