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PC Hardware Fat FAQs: PC Troubleshooting,Upgrading,Maintaining and Repairing
Authors: Stephen J. Bigelow
Venue:  (1997)

:As president of Dynamic Learning Systems,editor of The PC ToolBox newsletter,and author of numerous books and articles on PC hardware issues,Stephen J. Bigelow has fielded questions from PC users worldwide. His top 1038 answers appear in this easy-to-use reference which will soon become your first resource when faced with a hardware problem. Included are questions and answers on systems,drivers,video and sound cards,communications,motherboards,input devices,installations and upgrades,system configurations,operating systems (including Windows 95),and much more. The book is easy to navigatewith questions categorized by topic and complexityand is suitable for novice and expert alike. the FIRST place to turn with Pc Hardware questions. With today's unparalleled growth in computer technology,keeping your PC in step with the times isn't easy. Outdated or glitch-ridden hardware can render the latest and greatest software all but useless. Certainly yor PC's components can be upgraded or repaired for far less than the cost of a new machine; but if you choose to take advantage of this cost-saving alternative,beware! You'll have questions. Fortunately,this book has the answers. Over 1000 of the most frequently asked PC hardware questions are answered clearly and accurately in PC Hardware FAT FAQs: Troubleshooting,Upgrading,Maintaining,and Repairing. A part of McGraw-Hill's Fat FAWs series,this quick-reference is suitable for novice and expert alike and will be your first resource when you're faced with a hardware dilemma. The book is easy to navigate,with graphic icons guiding you through a standard Q & A format categorized by topic and complexity. The book covers allfacets of PC hardware,including systems,drivers,video and sound cards,communications,motherboards,and input devices. Other sections cover installations and upgrades,system configurations,operating systems (including Windows 95),and much more. Plus,the valuable list of Internet resources includes the author's website,to which you may submit your own questions.
Poly-logarithmic deterministic fully-dynamic algorithms for connectivity, minimum spanning tree, 2-edge, and biconnectivity
Authors: Jacob Holm, Kristian de Lichtenberg, Mikkel Thorup
Venue: Journal of the ACM (JACM) (2001)

Deterministic fully dynamic graph algorithms are presented for connectivity, minimum spanning tree, 2-edge connectivity, and biconnectivity. Assuming that we start with no edges in a graph with n vertices, the amortized operation costs are O(log2 n) for connectivity, O(log4 n) for minimum spanning forest, 2-edge connectivity, and O(log5 n) biconnectivity.
The ABCs of Lotus Notes 4.5
Authors: Rupert Clayton
Venue:  (1997)

:The ABCs of Lotus Notes 4.5 is an easy-to-use, task-oriented guide to learning Lotus Notes 4.5, the leading groupware application for Windows, Macintosh, Unix, and OS/2. Clearly and concisely presented, this book allows you to quickly harness Notes' capabilities, from routing and organizing e-mail to browsing the Web. Start using Lotus Notes today. Begin with a simple introduction to Notes. Learn how to collaborate with coworkers on projects and share data and documents. Send and receive hyperlinked e-mail within your organization or across the Internet. Use the new calendar feature to manage your schedule. Create and access workflow, reference, and discussion databases. Use mobile Notes to keep in touch and up-to-date while on the road. Browse the Web with the new Web Navigator. A bigger and better index helps you locate exactly what you need. The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player
Medical education as a model for simulation education
Authors: Andrew F. Seila
Venue: Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation (2000)

Simulation professionals need to see themselves first as systems analysts, i.e., problem solvers, rather than just simulation users. As the networked digital economy develops, systems will become more complex, creating a robust market for experienced systems analysts who use simulation to solve operational problems and manage these complex systems. Physicians solve problems involving a complex biological system, i.e., the human body. The medical education system in the United States is examined and proposed as a model for an education structure for professional systems analysts. The objectives and requirements of simulation education are examined and a curriculum structure is proposed. It is also argued that certifying exams would do much to promote the profession and improve the educational environment.
Keynote address: simulation education: past reflections and future directions
Authors: Richard E. Nance
Venue: Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation (2000)

The results of two surveys of persons concerned with simulation education in the 1974-76 timeframe are compared with the results of a 1997 workshop entitled, "What Makes a Modeling and Simulation Professional?" Analysis of these two samplings, separated in time by over 20 years and admittedly with differing objectives and under dissimilar conditions, is used to identify persistent issues, beliefs or convictions regarding the needs for professionals. The intent is to establish a departure point for further discussion of simulation education.
Telecommunications Protocols, 2nd edition
Authors: Travis Russell
Venue:  (1999)

:The rapid evolution and convergence of voice and data technologies has created unique technological challenges for telecommunications professionals. This book answers the need for an accessible overview of telecommunications protocols, presenting the fundamentals of each of the technologies used to deliver network services - along with practical examples of their applications.
Introduction to the GiNaC framework for symbolic computation within the C++ programming language
Authors: Christian Bauer, Alexander Frink, Richard Kreckel
Venue: Journal of Symbolic Computation (2002)

The traditional split into a low level language and a high level language in the design of computer algebra systems may become obsolete with the advent of more versatile computer languages. We describe GiNaC, a special-purpose system that deliberately denies the need for such a distinction. It is entirely written in Cand the user can interact with it directly in that language. It was designed to provide efficient handling of multivariate polynomials, algebras and special functions that are needed for loop calculations in theoretical quantum field theory. It also bears some potential to become a more general purpose symbolic package. Copyright 2002 Academic Press
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buying a Computer
Authors: Preston Gralla
Venue:  (1999)

:The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buying a Computer will arm you with the know-how to find and purchase the machine that's just right for you. In language that's easy to understand, with information that's actually enjoyable to learn, this guide gets you through the process without turning you into a total geek. Here's an industry overview, a crash course in computer lingo, and a laundry list of what questions to ask. It's the book that builds your confidence to find your best computer buy.
Build Your Own Pentium II PC
Authors: Aubrey Pilgrim
Venue:  (1998)

:Build your own Pentium II PC and save a bundle! Why pay big bucks for a Pentium II system when legendary built-it-yourself guru Aubrey Pilgrim can help you construct one at home for a fraction of dealer prices? In Build Your Own Pentium II PC he gives you top-to-bottom,fully-illustrated instructions for assembling your own customized Pentium II powerhouse - from selecting components to installing software. you get deatiled,step-by-step assembly and installation instructions for motherboards,floppy drives,hard disks,memory modules,scanners,modems,CD-ROM and DVD drives,sound boards and more. Plus you'll find handy comparisons of the latest generation of chips - including those from Intel plus the latest low-cost rockets from AMD and Cyrix - along with all the tips and techniques you need to create,test and troubleshoot a sizzling state-of-the-art system. You don't need a technical degree or special tools. Just follow thesen simple guidelines and procedures and save hundreds in the process!"The neat thing about Pilgrim's books is that they are written for people who aren't engineers or tinkerers. Even if you're not very handy with tools. \\#. \\#. he takes you through the process step by step. "\\=PC World. \\IThe Do-It-Yourself Guide to Building a State-Of-The-Art Computer. Do you want more computer than you can afford? A powerful machine that's bigger,better,faster? One with lots of bells and whistles? Here's a way to get it! With tools you already own (like a screwdriver) and no technical experience,you can easily build a lead-edge,high-performance,super fast machine such as aPentium II and get all the computer you dream of. Think of the bragging rights you'll earn.You'll be able to say "I built it myself!" Anyone can do it. As best-selling author Aubrey Pilgrim\\=the "preeminent guru on the inner workings of computers" (PC World)\\=explains in this book,computers are composed of readily available,easily interchangable parts\\=and not very many of them. He'll show you how simple it is to replace those parts in an old computer or put together an entirely new one from components. (They're designed for easy assembly!) And he even tells you how to compare,shop for,and save money on parts\\=all in plain English! Building your own computer is a learning experience. You'll gain valuable knowledge of how these essential appliances work. And even if you end up buying apreassembled unit,this book will prepare you for the inevitable upgrades you'll want when the next generation of computers appears,better,faster,and doing more - say,six months from now! The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player
Empires at War: Official Strategy Guide
Authors: Dennis J. Greene
Venue:  (2000)

:BradyGames official strategy guide provides: Detailed Tactics and Strategies, Crucial Energy Management Tips, Race-Specific Combat Analysis, Campaign Strategies, In-Depth Weapon Tactics and Defensive Maneuvers. The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player
The ACTIVE IP option
Authors: David J. Wetherall, David L. Tennenhouse
Venue: Proceedings of the 7th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Systems support for worldwide applications (1996)

In this paper, we discuss our work on an active network architecture in which passive packets are replaced with active capsules --- encapsulated program fragments that are executed at each switch they traverse. This approach allows application-specific processing to be injected into the network. The accessibility of computation and storage "within" the network provides a substrate that can be tailored to build global applications, including those that invoke customized multicast and merge processing.We describe an extension to the IP options mechanism that supports the embedding of program fragments in datagrams and the evaluation of these fragments as they traverse the Internet. The ACTIVE option provides a generic approach to the extension of the IP network service.
Audio for Television
Authors: John Watkinson
Venue:  (1997)

:This book makes the television sound person's life a little easier by outlining all the relevant principles and practices. Newcomers to the field will find it an invaluable, up to date resource and experienced sound people will gain from the explanations of new technology. It considers analog and digital audio as alternatives and stresses the advantages of both. Microphone and loudspeaker technology is also discussed in some detail and audio recording and routing and transmission are also covered. This book is a companion to the author's book Television Fundamentals and will prove an invaluable addition to the sound person's bookshelf.
Exploring the past: a toolset for visualization of historical events in virtual environments
Authors: Stanislav L. Stoev, Matthias Feurer, Michael Ruckaberle
Venue: Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology (2001)

In this paper, we present a set of tools and techniques for visualization of and interaction with historical data. First, we briefly describe the data acquisition and preparation. Afterwards, we discuss in detail the interaction approaches for exploration of historical data, containing a time dimension. In particular, we propose (1) a continuous time increment approach for visualizing 3D slices continuously moving in the 4D space; (2) a fly-with mode for viewing the scene from the perspective of the participants in the migration, we are visualizing; (3) a time lens, as an extension of the traditional magic lens for viewing arbitrary event times; (4) a time-space exploration tool for simultaneous viewing more than one event time and location of interest; (5) a guided exploration tool, which allows for viewing events on an interactively defined or pre-defined path in space. Finally, we conclude the paper with a discussion and comparison of the proposed tools.
Troubleshooting, Maintaining, and Repairing PCs, 2nd edition
Authors: Stephen J. Bigelow
Venue:  (1998)

:Highlighted by 8 new chapters and 5 new appendices, this thoroughly updated and expanded edition of the best-selling Troubleshooting, Maintaining, and Repairing Personal Computers is your total guide to PC problem-solving. Equally useful to technicians, enthusiasts, and PC students, this mammoth resource reviews the fundamentals of PCs and peripherals and features: A unique alphabetized "Symptoms at a Glance" section stocked with fully explained solutions to over 1,200 PC problems - 800 more than before! New cd-rom is full of shareware and freeware diagnostics and utilities that help you pinpoint the peskiest PC problems. Newly reorganized material that makes locating beep, POST, and diagnostic codes much easier. Fully revised DLS Technician's Certificate II test that also serves as an ideal prep for the A+ and ETA certification exams. New Web addresses in all 49 chapters, which offer extra details, self-study aid, and news on manufacturers and organizations. An opportunity to get ongoing troubleshooting help via a subscription to The PC Toolbox newsletter. Including new guidance on PC standards, new information on PC newsgroups, Windows 95 shortcuts, and a variety of forms you can photocopy, the new Second Edition is your quick and dependable cure for every PC ailment.
Information discovery from complementary literatures: categorizing viruses as potential weapons
Authors: Don R. Swanson, Neil R. Smalheiser, A. Bookstein
Venue: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (2001)

Using novel informatics techniques to process the output of Medline searches, we have generated a list of viruses that may have the potential for development as weapons. Our findings are intended as a guide to the virus literature to support further studies that might then lead to appropriate defense and public health measures. This article stresses methods that are more generally relevant to information science. Initial Medline searches identified two kinds of virus literatures---the first concerning the genetic aspects of virulence, and the second concerning the transmission of viral diseases. Both literatures taken together are of central importance in identifying research relevant to the development of biological weapons. Yet, the two literatures had very few articles in common. We downloaded the Medline records for each of the two literatures and used a computer to extract all virus terms common to both. The fact that the resulting virus list includes most of an earlier independently published list of viruses considered by military experts to have the highest threat as potential biological weapons served as a test of the method; the test outcome showed a high degree of statistical significance, thus supporting an inference that the new viruses on the list share certain important characteristics with viruses of known biological warfare interest.
Mining frequent neighboring class sets in spatial databases
Authors: Yasuhiko Morimoto
Venue: Proceedings of the seventh ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining (2001)

We consider the problem of finding neighboring class sets. Objects of each instance of a neighboring class set are grouped using their Euclidean distances from each other. Recently, location-based services are growing along with mobile computing infrastructure such as cellular phones and PDAs. Therefore, we expect to see the development of spatial databases that contains very large number of access records including location information. The most typical type would be a database of point objects. Records of the objects may consist of "requested service name," "number of packet transmitted" in addition to x and y coordinate values indicating where the request came from. The algorithm presented here efficiently finds sets of "service names" that were frequently close to each other in the spatial database. For example, it may find a frequent neighboring class set, where "ticket" and "timetable" are frequently requested close to each other. By recognizing this, location-based service providers can promote a "ticket" service for customers who access the "timetable."
The MCSE Complete V1.1, 1st edition
Authors: Jason Sirockman
Venue:  (1998)

:What is MCSE Complete v1.1? It's a 100% Microsoft authorized, fully integrated computer-based training product that includes study materials, exercises, self-tests, practice exams and automatic progress tracking. The following complete courses are included: All the Core MCSE Exams; The Elective MCSE Exams; and the MCSE Complete Users Guide, MCSE Complete workbook, and Core Exam Audio Quiz CDs. MCSE Complete v1.1 is an effective training tool. Users save time studying because the software quickly helps to find their strengths and weaknesses with regard to each exam. You can then focus on mastering only the relevant material and even try to "test out" of any study material by taking the Practice Exam first to identify strengths and weaknesses. Each MCSE exam tests your knowledge of dozens of distinct objectives. Mastering these objectives is the key to passing the test. MCSE complete breaks each exam down into its specific objectives and automatically tracks your progress through them. 2 CD-ROMs contain a comprehensive hypertext self-study course, real world exercises, the Test Prep suite of self-test applications that give you over 3,000 sample fact-based questions, a and more!
Multiple working points in multichannel ALOHA with deadlines
Authors: Dror Baron, Yitzhak Birk
Venue: Wireless Networks (2002)

This paper addresses the problem of maximizing the capacity of multichannel slotted ALOHA networks subject to a user-specified deadline and a permissible probability of exceeding it. A previous paper proposed to transmit a non-decreasing number of copies of a message in successive rounds until success or deadline. This yielded a low probability of failure due to the large maximum number of copies per message, with only minimal "pollution" due to the small mean number of copies. In this paper, we examine another way of implementing variable resource expenditure in different rounds: the channels are partitioned into groups, one for each round, and the channels used in later rounds are operated with lower offered loads, i.e., at different "working points". The delay-constrained capacity with these Single-Copy Multiple-Working-Point (SC-MWP) policies is shown to be substantially higher than that with conventional ALOHA, but lower than with the optimal Multicopy Single-Working-Point (MC-SWP) scheme. Combining the two to form an MC-MWP scheme only slightly improves capacity over MC-SWP. The SC-MWP approach can be more attractive when using a single transmitter per station because, unlike with multiple copies, transmission time is not prolonged. Therefore, multiple-working-point policies become more attractive when propagation delay is lower (e.g., low orbit satellites).
Overview of TOS: a distributed educational operating system in Java
Authors: Tyrone Nicholas, Jerzy A. Barchanski
Venue: ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review (2000)

This paper describes TOS - a distributed educational operating system implemented in Java. First, the current trends in commercial operating systems are shortly presented and compared with several available educational operating systems. Next, we give our rationals for Java as the TOS implementation language.. Then the architecture of the system and its components - launchers and servers are described. Finally we explain the advantages of this architecture and provide some information on its implementation and portability.
1998 International Symposium on Technology and Society on Technology and Society
Authors: CORPORATE IEEE,  Society on Social Implications of Technology Staff
Venue:  (1998)

:Expanded technological capabilities are creating a world which data, information, and knowledge can be accessed from anywhere by almost anyone, and used for almost any purpose, good or bad. As the tools of such information technologies as the Internet, multimedia computers, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence mature, the implications of these technologies for public policy and society remain little understood. The general theme of ISTAS '98 examines and identifies these emerging issues. The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player
Word for Windows 95 Instant Reference, 2nd edition
Authors: Sheila S. Dienes
Venue:  (1995)

:Learn essential commands in seconds. This compact, yet comprehensive reference to Word for Windows 95 is as easy to use as a dictionary - and a lot more fun to read. Find your bearings; a concise introduction to Word for Windows 95 gives you all the information you need to start using the program. It's a great time-saver for beginners and upgraders alike. Find any command, feature, or function; alphabetically organized, fully cross-referenced, and completely indexed entries make it a snap to find virtually any topic. Find smarter ways to work; useful notes, tips, and warnings provide helpful background information, work-saving shortcuts, and quick routes around common pitfalls. Read less, accomplish more. You can simply scan the text, locate the relevant icon, and have your answer in seconds! Unique graphics throughout the book illustrate dialog boxes, toolbars, and buttons.
E-Topia: "Urban Life, Jim--But Not as We Know It"
Authors: William J. Mitchell
Venue:  (1999)

:The global digital network is not just a delivery system for email, Web pages, and digital television. It is a whole new form of urban infrastructure - one that will change the forms of our cities as dramatically as railroads, highways, electric power supply, and telephone networks did in the past. In this book, William J. Mitchell examines this new infrastructure and its implications for our future daily lives.