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Gulf Gate Library will move to a space in Westfield Sarasota Square Mall in January after its current location closes next month, according to a news release from Sarasota County.
The roughly 20,000-square-foot temporary space will also house the Friends of Gulf Gate Library Bookstore. The county is leasing the location from Sarasota Shoppingtown LLC for roughly $5,400 per month.
The county expects construction of the new two-story Gulf Gate Library to begin in February and take about 18 months.
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GA Industry Rallies to Oppose Cylinder NPRM
The General Aviation community has mobilized to oppose a proposed AD on TITAN® brand 520/550 series cylinders produced between 2002 and 2009.
SAN ANTONIO, TX. August 22, 2013 — The General Aviation community has mobilized to oppose a proposed AD on TITAN® brand 520/550 series cylinders produced between 2002 and 2009. Aircraft owners, mechanics, engine shops, and several GA organizations worked feverishly to spread the word about the consequences that would be felt in their respective businesses. Diminished aircraft value, potential safety hazards of mid-time cylinder replacement, reduced flight hours, and most prominently, the 83,000,000 dollar price tag, were among the comments posted to the NPRM docket.
Many proposed AD's receive fewer than a dozen comments to their docket. This one has already garnered over 45 in just a few days. Most all of the comments express serious concern over the consequences of the proposal, and also address the fact that the FAA has not presented a root cause nor any technical data in support of its proposal. News organizations across the country have picked up the story and spread it amongst their subscribers. General Aviation's most important trade organizations, like Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), Cessna Pilots Association, Cessna Flyer Association, and General Aviation News posted it to their websites. Parts distributors and OEMs posted on their websites their opinions on the far-reaching consequences of this action, and reinforced the significance of the NPRM to the general aviation industry. Direct links to these articles and comments can be found at www.eci.aero/NPRM, as well as at www.pistonpower.org, a website dedicated to regulatory issues affecting general aviation.
"I am encouraged by the number of comments being posted not only to the comment section of the NPRM, but also throughout all of the General Aviation community," said Danbury AeroSpace President, Ty Stoller. "It is important that the FAA understand the safety and economic consequences of this unnecessary action." Stoller encouraged everyone to go to the ECi website (www.eci.aero/NPRM) and read all the test results and reports, then post their comments on the NPRM docket (http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=FAA-2012-0002). The Comment period remains open until October 11, 2013.
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Breaking up is hard to do. It's especially hard when breaking up is tied up in a legal action. The two partners at Jericho-based Essential Nurse Staffing are involved in a bitter dissolution suit after one of the partners left and created his own nurse recruiting and staffing firm, taking the former company's business with [...]


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http://media.xda-developers.com/images/icons/icon1.gif [RECOVERY] Updated ClockworkMod for all (non-voodoo) ROMs
So the current iterations of cwm seem to have trouble working reliably with the newer froyo ROMs, and koush's recovery (although seeming to work correctly) is quite broken. So......
please find below a new recovery package that should work for any ROM for the fascinate, mesmerize, or showcase.
This recovery is used via fakeflash, ie: it flashes a stock 2e recovery that uses test-keys, allowing you to flash test-key signed update.zips. After installing the recovery, flash update.zip from the stock recovery to get to cwm. The recovery is red, just like the voodoo versions of cwm, but it WILL NOT work with a voodoo installation (yet).
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Police consultant Patrick Jane used to be a phony psychic. His heightened sensitivity to detail, manipulation skills and ability to read people helped him make a killing. But since a sadistic serial killer called Red John murdered his family, Jane has partnered with Det. Teresa Lisbon and her homicide squad to solve killings—with an eye toward bringing his family's butcher to terminal justice.Cut from the same cloth as Monk, The Mentalist features another smug-yet-likable San Francisco savant tormented by his wife's unsolved murder and committed to bringing evildoers to justice. Such men are 21st-century superheroes for people who'd rather TiVo CSI than pick up a comic book. No masks. No capes. No secret identities. Their powers are cerebral and their weaknesses are, well, far more common than a fatal kryptonite allergy.Speaking of weaknesses, Jane is a pragmatist who'll lie, cheat or pick a man's pocket to solve a case. Old habits die hard for this ex-charlatan. But since he scams bad people, the show's creators approve of his ethical relativism. Edgier than the aforementioned Monk but less graphic than CSI, The Mentalist can feature gory crime scenes and violent flashbacks. Characters can be verbally abusive and profane, and they often engage in frank sexual dialogue. In the show's tangled whodunits, the motives and red herrings frequently involve adulterous affairs or deviant behavior. Drugs and alcohol often play a supporting role as well.The Mentalist is intriguing but frustrating at a spiritual level, as conversations about supernatural phenomena pit skepticism against faith. Jane doesn't buy into "real" psychics, but he also scoffs at the very notion of an afterlife. Conversely, a sweetly naive colleague named Grace believes in heaven, but she's also open to metaphysics. Still, smart and taut describe this CBS procedural. If it sought less shock value and acknowledged a rational spiritual middle ground, it could achieve (if you'll pardon the pun) a happy medium.
"The Great Red Dragon" Jane announces the identity of Red John—a member, it would seem, of a shadowy organization called The Blake Association. It's an illegal support network made up of people in law enforcement who cover for one another as they steal and kill. A bartender is brutally murdered with a broken whiskey bottle. (We see the killer smash the weapon on the man's head and then jam it into his body—just offscreen.) We see a severed and charred foot. A man's skin is shown to be grotesquely missing in spots. A guy gets shot in the gut, and amid his screams, the bullet is removed without anesthesia. (We see the doctor stick a bloody, gloved finger into the wound.) Jane is almost killed. People throw punches, wrestle and kick.We hear about an FBI officer's previous problems—drug addiction and the accidental shooting of a 12-year-old girl. He also admits to killing someone else. A glass of whiskey is downed. We hear "d‑‑n" (twice), "h‑‑‑" (five or six times) and "a‑‑" (once). God's name is misused a few times. The episode wraps up with Jane in a church, looking at paintings of Mary, Jesus and Moses.
"Red Hot" A rich mogul and his bodyguard are apparently killed in an opening-scene explosion. Suspicion initially falls on rival Walter Mashburn. Then, after he's cleared, Teresa hops into bed with him. "It was nice seeing you, Walter," Teresa says afterwards, giving him a kiss before leaving. Teresa's nearly shot by a sniper and stabbed by a voluptuous German model (a jealous ex-wife of Walter's). Walter punches Patrick in the face. Another suspect has a fascination with the memorabilia of dead celebrities—and Patrick buys part of the car in which James Dean was killed, just to upset the guy. This guy's also suspected of having an affair with the victim's wife. Folks are served champagne. Patrick pilfers a toupee. Teresa reveals her bra before she puts on a shirt. A crude reference to testicles is made. Characters utter mild sexual allusions and say words such as "d‑‑n," "h‑‑‑," "b‑‑ch" and "b‑‑tard." They also misuse God's name.
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Good....I guess. I hope there are no "bad" apps that turn out to be a virus.
Apple goes through and signs off on them i doubt you will ever get an app from the app store that will have a virus ever.
So basically Apple is saying everyone bought Angry Birds on the first day.
Seriously, how is it though? Is it pretty cool? I'm not a Mac owner, so I can't check for my self.
This man knows his stuff. I would buy it too, it's a good game.
I am so tempted to get angry birds, but I already finished the iphone version so I am scared that it will be the same and levels I already passed
it is the same levels :/
Haha I know I did.
Surely there's a better way (more efficient) way to update Apps. Its not really an issue on iOS cos most Apps are only a few Megabytes at most. But I bought Angry Birds v1.0 and it was about 40MB. Then today there is v1.0.1 update that just makes some text more legible yet you still have to go through another 40MB download. Bandwidth isn't a problem for me, I have a 7MB unlimited download connection, but it's annoying if I have to download a full app over and over just to update it, when surely Apple could implement a system where your App gets patched with a few bytes.
Will this method of updating still hold true when we're updating Apps like iWork '11 or any other App that is hundreds of Megabytes, and surely some that will be Gigabytes?
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i guess the difference is 1 more click...eh?
I'm liking the Mac app store but it is annoying that it automatically docks every app that you install.
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In my role at JISC infoNet I support the JISC Open Educational Resources programme. Phase 3 of this programme has just begun, with the synthesis and evaluation report from Phase 2 now available (authored by Lou McGill, Helen Beetham, Isobel Falconer and Allison Littlejohn).
It's my feeling that not enough people read these, so I'm going to summarise the summary. It will, of course, be partial and miss out some important stuff, so I'd encourage you to go and read the original!
Evidence is accumulating that teachers do share content informally, but do not necessarily consider IPR, or share resources openly. Thus they are engaging in some of the practices associated with OER, but they do not necessarily recognise OER terminology, and in asking about use/reuse of OER we may be asking the wrong questions.
I think there's a need to move away from the jargon 'OER' towards just 'open content'.
While the current economic climate may promote efficiency as a motive for open release and sharing, the costs involved, and government encouragement of a competitive HE culture, mitigated against this.
It's a curious situation we're in: universities are supposed to 'collaborate to compete'.
While community trust and positive recognition are clear motivators, the lack of such trust and the fear of negative recognition - content 'not being good enough,' being thought to be putting oneself forward by releasing material that has not been peer-reviewed, or laying the producer open to legal scrutiny - are barriers to making release of open sustainable.
This is a systemic problem but one which, hopefully, should diminish over time if open practice is seen as the way forward by younger members of staff.
When other resources are freely available for re-use and teacher awareness of IPR is low there is little incentive to use OER, especially if a google search finds relevant resources more easily than does a search of an OER repository.
There's a huge issue around discoverability and user experience that I know Jorum are addressing (for example).
There is evidence that the openness of resources is promoting wider stakeholder engagement and community and network building… Increasingly projects have talked about the importance of broader activities around OERs - community networking, curriculum development and student engagement.
This is Open Educational Practice, something OER3 is addressing specifically.
Several projects comment that working across boundaries to develop project outcomes (business/community/academy, staff/consultants, students/teachers) has been one of the most radical aspect of their experience and has the potential to change practice more widely
Whilst it's not the end of subject disciplines (yet!) there is a need to break down the very artificial silos that exist. Open Educational Practice allows this to happen much more readily and quickly.
Cascade strand projects noted that choice of search engine affected which resources were found and used, while collections projects found that their users expected searches to be "google-like" in their ease of use, personalisation, and production of relevant results. Users expressed frustration with the search functionality of many OER repositories. They were also disappointed in the scarcity of relevant OERs, a finding echoed by the release strand PORSCHE project. Most of the collections projects decided to include "grey" or "non" OERs to get round this problem - while clearly labelling them so that their non-licensed status was clear.
See comments above about 'discoverability'. The debate about whether to include 'grey' material into repositories is a flamewar I don't really want to get into…
An issue emerging during this phase included uncertainties around the meaning of commercial use and the impact of this relating to CC license choice. John Roberston from JISC CETIS has generated some interesting discussion around this in relation to choice of CC licenses in his technical synthesis blog post) and Amber Thomas, JISC provides an excellent description of issues realting to licensing for phase 2 of ukoer in the 'Importance of licensing section' of her OER turn blog post
I think it's the opinion of most people in the world of OER that using the NC (or 'Non-Commercial') part of the Creative Commons license is pretty much meaningless. Studies have shown (I should find a link to go here!) that using the least restrictive licensing increases reuse.
In some disciplines, sharing practice through a range of open technologies has emerged as important as sharing resources, and is having an impact on the way subjects are being studied and taught. Considerations of OER use cannot be divorced from these wider changes to disciplinary knowledge practices. Social science subjects, for example, are being changed in radical ways by the availability of public social and research data online as well as the rise of new social/digital practices.
This is an important point. Open content, open access and open source software/technologies go hand-in-hand. It's a whole ecosystem.
Institutional readiness for OER can become evident through strategic level approaches and senior buy-in. Projects' view that strategic vision was an essential factor was reflected in attention to institutional strategies and policies. Generally it was felt that strategic buy-in could ensure the development of an infrastructure to enable staff engagement and contribute to longer term sustainability.
Every project and programme says how important it is to get senior level buy-in. What I like here is the reasons for doing so are articulated: improved staff engagement and longer-term sustainability.
Alongside a strategic 'top-down' vision was the notion of institutional readiness at 'ground level'. Projects described open educational practices emerging at an individual or departmental level, or being embedded into professional activities in a low-key way.
Cultural change doesn't just come from the top of an organization, of course. Emergent practices can be rubber-stamped by senior management. Top-down AND bottom-up.
Findings from this phase confirm those from the phase 1 institutional strand, that there are different cultures of openness at different educational institutions. This is not as simple as a single dimension from closed to open: rather there are many different ways in which institutions can support open educational practices and start to move towards more open policies in relation to educational resources.
Different cultures, and therefore different cultures of openness is a reason why a successful project can't simply be replicated in a different environment. It's an iterative process that will take some trial-and-error.
In some senses it is easier to sustain support mechanisms (such as repositories, quality assurance processes or curriculum design practices) than maintaining and encouraging staff engagement at an institution-wide level. Staff awareness, engagement and support for ongoing staff involvement was seen by most projects as crucial and, as in the pilot phase, staff development and training (capacity building), reward and recognition and maintaining communities of practice emerged as important sustaining activities.
This is a really interesting point: it's easier to support 'things' than engagement. There's an ebb and flow to engagement that has to be respected.
Projects identified positive impacts for a range of different participants (academic staff, service staff, academic managers, students, stakeholders in other sectors) which were a direct result of involvement with an OER project, particularly increased awareness around open educational practices and increased opportunities or collaboration across institutions, sectors and subject disciplines.Projects also celebrated increased literacies of staff involved in projects, particularly in relation to IPR and technical issues. Of note is the fact that several staff saw engagement with OER as having impact on their pedagogic practice and enhanced quality of their own learning resources. Such cultural impacts were supported and enabled by impacts on infrastructure and processes, such as enhanced policies and documentation for dealing with IPR, enhanced models and workflows for developing learning materials for open release, and technical developments including new repositories, repository and development tools.
Here's the real meat! These are the benefits of OER identified by the JISC projects. :-)
In the learning and teaching area also, a sense emerged of activities around the OERs being as important as the OERs themselves and their potential to encourage 'pedagogically infomed use' (SWAP) - ie good learning and teaching practice (open practices). How OERs are integrated into curriculum processes can depend on the way they have been developed or presented. Projects generally produced OERs for a particular subject discipline area, sector or student group and this impacted on intended use.
As I mentioned above, Open Educational Practice is the next big thing. Openly licensing content works in changing the culture of an institution and even a subject discipline. Now we need to expand the circle to include other components of the landscape such as open access journals.
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System call
In computing, a system call is how a program requests a service from an operating system's kernel. This may include hardware related services (e.g. accessing the hard disk), creating and executing new processes, and communicating with integral kernel services (like scheduling). System calls provide an essential interface between a process and the operating system.
The design of the microprocessor architecture on practically all modern systems (except some embedded systems) involves a security model (such as the rings model) which specifies multiple privilege levels under which software may be executed; for instance, a program is usually limited to its own address space so that it cannot access or modify other running programs or the operating system itself, and a program is usually prevented from directly manipulating hardware devices (e.g. the frame buffer or network devices).
However, many normal applications obviously need access to these components, so system calls are made available by the operating system to provide well-defined, safe implementations for such operations. The operating system executes at the highest level of privilege, and allows applications to request services via system calls, which are often executed via interrupts; an interrupt automatically puts the CPU into some required privilege level, and then passes control to the kernel, which determines whether the calling program should be granted the requested service. If the service is granted, the kernel executes a specific set of instructions over which the calling program has no direct control, returns the privilege level to that of the calling program, and then returns control to the calling program.
The library as an intermediary[edit]
Generally, systems provide a library or API that sits between normal programs and the operating system. On Unix-like systems, that API is usually part of an implementation of the C library (libc), such as glibc, that provides wrapper functions for the system calls, often named the same as the system calls that they call. On Windows NT, that API is part of the Native API, in the ntdll.dll library; this is an undocumented API used by implementations of the regular Windows API and directly used by some system programs on Windows. The library's wrapper functions expose an ordinary function calling convention (a subroutine call on the assembly level) for using the system call, as well as making the system call more modular. Here, the primary function of the wrapper is to place all the arguments to be passed to the system call in the appropriate processor registers (and maybe on the call stack as well), and also setting a unique system call number for the kernel to call. In this way the library, which exists between the OS and the application, increases portability.
The call to the library function itself does not cause a switch to kernel mode (if the execution was not already in kernel mode) and is usually a normal subroutine call (using, for example, a "CALL" assembly instruction in some Instruction set architectures (ISAs)). The actual system call does transfer control to the kernel (and is more implementation-dependent and platform-dependent than the library call abstracting it). For example, in Unix-like systems, "fork" and "execve" are C library functions that in turn execute instructions that invoke the "fork" and "execve" system calls. Making the system call directly in the application code is more complicated and may require embedded assembly code to be used (in C and C++) as well as knowledge of the low-level binary interface for the system call operation, which may be subject to change over time and thus not be part of the application binary interface; the library functions are meant to abstract this away.
On exokernel based systems, the library is especially important as an intermediary. On exokernels, libraries shield user applications from the very low level kernel API, and provide abstractions and resource management.
IBM operating systems descended from OS/360 and DOS/360 (today's z/OS and z/VSE) implement system calls through a library of assembly language macros. This reflects their origin at a time when programming in assembly language was more common than high-level language usage. IBM system calls are therefore not directly executable by high-level language programs, but require a callable assembly language wrapper subroutine.
Examples and tools[edit]
On Unix, Unix-like and other POSIX-compliant operating systems, popular system calls are open, read, write, close, wait, execve, fork, exit, and kill. Many of today's operating systems have hundreds of system calls. For example, Linux and OpenBSD each have over 300 different calls,[1][2] NetBSD has close to 500,[3] FreeBSD has over 500,[4] while Plan 9 has 51.[5]
Tools such as strace and truss allow a process to execute from start and report all system calls the process invokes, or can attach to an already running process and intercept any system call made by said process if the operation does not violate the permissions of the user. This special ability of the program is usually also implemented with a system call, e.g. strace is implemented with ptrace or system calls on files in procfs.
Typical implementations[edit]
Implementing system calls requires a control transfer which involves some sort of architecture-specific feature. A typical way to implement this is to use a software interrupt or trap. Interrupts transfer control to the operating system kernel so software simply needs to set up some register with the system call number needed, and execute the software interrupt.
For many RISC processors this is the only technique provided, but CISC architectures such as x86 support additional techniques. One example is SYSCALL/SYSRET, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT (the two mechanisms were independently created by AMD and Intel, respectively, but in essence do the same thing). These are "fast" control transfer instructions that are designed to quickly transfer control to the OS for a system call without the overhead of an interrupt.[6] Linux 2.5 began using this on the x86, where available; formerly it used the INT instruction, where the system call number was placed in the EAX register before interrupt 0x80 was executed.[7][8]
An older x86 mechanism is called a call gate and is a way for a program to literally call a kernel function directly using a safe control transfer mechanism the OS sets up in advance. This approach has been unpopular, presumably due to the requirement of a far call which uses x86 memory segmentation and the resulting lack of portability it causes, and existence of the faster instructions mentioned above.
For IA-64 architecture, EPC (Enter Privileged Mode) instruction is used. The first eight system call arguments are passed in registers, and the rest are passed on the stack.
In the IBM System/360 mainframe family, a Supervisor Call instruction implements a system call for legacy facilities; the Program Call instruction is used for newer facilities. In particular, PC is used when the caller might be in SRB mode.
Categories of system calls[edit]
System calls can be roughly grouped into five major categories:
- Process Control
- load
- execute
- create process (for example, fork on Unix-like systems or NtCreateProcess in the Windows NT Native API)
- terminate process
- get/set process attributes
- wait for time, wait event, signal event
- allocate, free memory
- File management
- create file, delete file
- open, close
- read, write, reposition
- get/set file attributes
- Device Management
- request device, release device
- read, write, reposition
- get/set device attributes
- logically attach or detach devices
- Information Maintenance
- get/set time or date
- get/set system data
- get/set process, file, or device attributes
- Communication
- create, delete communication connection
- send, receive messages
- transfer status information
- attach or detach remote devices
Processor mode and context switching[edit]
A system call is processed in kernel mode, which is accomplished by changing the processor execution mode to a more privileged one, but no process context switch is necessary —although a privilege context switch does occur. The hardware sees the world in terms of the execution mode according to the processor status register, and processes are an abstraction provided by the operating system. A system call does not require a context switch to another process, it is processed in the context of whichever process invoked it.[9][10]
See also[edit]
- ^ "syscalls(2) - Linux manual page".
- ^ OpenBSD (2013-09-14). "System call names (kern/syscalls.c)". BSD Cross Reference.
- ^ NetBSD (2013-10-17). "System call names (kern/syscalls.c)". BSD Cross Reference.
- ^ "FreeBSD syscalls.c, the list of syscall names and IDs".
- ^ "Plan 9 sys.h, the list of syscall names and IDs".
- ^ "SYSENTER (OSDev wiki)".
- ^ Anonymous (2002-12-19). "Linux 2.5 gets vsyscalls, sysenter support". KernelTrap. Retrieved 2008-01-01.
- ^ Manu Garg (2006). "Sysenter Based System Call Mechanism in Linux 2.6".
- ^ Bach, Maurice J. (1986), The Design of the UNIX Operating System, Prentice Hall, pp. 15-16.
- ^ Elliot, John (2011). "Discussion of system call implementation at ProgClub including quote from Bach 1986".
External links[edit]
- Linux system call reference – Updated system call reference for Linux kernel 2.6, includes register and data structure references
- A list of modern Unix-like system calls
- Interactive map of Linux kernel
- Linux system calls – system calls for Linux kernel 2.2, with IA-32 calling conventions
- How System Calls Work on Linux/i86 (1996, based on the 1993 0.99.2 kernel)
- Sysenter Based System Call Mechanism in Linux 2.6 (2006)
- Kernel command using Linux system calls, IBM developerWorks
- Choudhary, Amit; HOWTO for Implementing a System Call on Linux 2.6
- Modular system programming on Minix 3
- A simple open Unix Shell in C language – examples on System Calls under Unix
- Inside the Native API – Windows NT Native API, including system calls
- Gulbrandsen, John; System Call Optimization with the SYSENTER Instruction, CodeGuru.com, 8 October 2004
This article is based on material taken from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later.


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Mell: Eh, after you got knocked out, me and Dr. Narbon had this awesome battle royal that'd be super hard to draw.
— Narbonic
Sano: And my new special attack Magnetic Screw Choqa Zanbil didn't work at all.
Teammate: Yes, it was an amazing attack.
Subtitles: ((Please imagine the attack for yourselves))
"Too bad you didn't see Agent 300's revenge, cause it was awesome!"
— Niels
(Hierophant Green and Silver Chariot are in the middle of fighting Lovers. Hierophant Green tosses a sharp emerald at Lovers.) Lovers: Mwargh! (Kakyoin and Polnareff are triumphant.) Kakyoin: Woohoo! Polnareff: Yep, we beat it good. Joseph: Good job, you two. That sure was a lot of spinechilling back to back battles. |