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February 20, 2012 Published ~ 3 years ago.
Move to Chattanooga, Win Big Money This Summer
While as we mentioned earlier this month, Google has begun building out its own gigabit network in Kansas City, Chattanooga Tenn. already has their own gig network up and running and they aren't sitting around just watching the packets fly by. This summer will see the culmination of a series of activities, including an incubator/accelerator program, a student-oriented hatchery program, and cash prizes for gig geeks galore. If you live there you probably already know about these activities, but if you are thinking about moving to where you can get faster Internet service, you might want to consider packing your bags this summer.
Here is a quick summary of what is going around town (PDF).
The GigCity, as they call themselves, will pay for up to ten people to move (up to $1,250, so travel light) and forgive $10k of your new home mortgage if you end up staying for five years. The catch? As long as you come from outside the metro area and buy something in one of eight close-in neighborhoods, you are covered by the program.
Here are the FAQs on GeekMove, as it is called. The process seems fairly straightforward and includes a Skype conference call to make sure you represent yourself properly and are interested in the various geek-related activities. The Lyndhurst Foundation, a local non-profit, provides the funds.
In addition, 10 other entrepreneurs will be selected for a special GigTank accelerator program. These entrants will get $15k in investment capital and the chance to win an additional cash prize of $100k. The application can be found here, but hurry: the deadline is the end of this month, and the program kicks off May 14th.Discuss
February 20, 2012 Published ~ 3 years ago.
Yahoo Takes YSlow to GitHub for Community Contributions
Yahoo is getting serious about turning YSlow into a real community driven project. The company put up YSlow on YDN in 2007, but now they've gone all-in with a BSD-licensed release on GitHub.
On the off chance you're not already familiar with YSlow, it is used to analyze Web pages against a set of best practices. YSlow crawls the DOM of a page, gets information about all of the page's components and then generates a grade for each of the 23 performance rules. YSlow has extensions for Firefox and Chrome, and has bookmarklets for Opera, Safari and mobile devices.
Since its release, Yahoo has been accepting contributions "indirectly" though the discussion group, but the company is now using GitHub's issue tracking to manage the project roadmap.
YSlow project lead Marcel Duran says that developers are "encouraged to use the source code, learn how it works, fork it to make your own projects and enhance it with new rules, features and whatever will improve this tool we all love."
The project is entirely written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS so it should be pretty easy for interested Web developers to jump in and contribute. If you're interested in contributing to YSlow upstream, Duran says to follow the development tree rather than the stable tree.
YSlow's GitHub repo was announced late last week, but already has 44 forks and 538 watchers. It'll be interesting to see how it evolves now that Yahoo is throwing open the doors to community contributions.Discuss
February 20, 2012 Published ~ 3 years ago.
Infographic: The Online Music Landscape
A new infographic from Gerson Lehrman Group's GPlus.com maps out the current online music on-demand landscape from the top 10 players. You can see at a glance what the monthly fees are, whether or not you can add your own tunes to their online libraries, how many current users, whether they have mobile, Web or desktop apps and what the major features are. If you were thinking about trying one of these services, this is a handy place to start to evaluate their basics.
Certainly, the idea that we need to carry our entire music collection on our own hard drives is becoming less important as these on-demand services improve and become more popular and feature-complete. How both Facebook and Apple's iTunes will handle these competitors remains to be seen.Discuss
February 20, 2012 Published ~ 3 years ago.
Group Says Twitter Gave in to French Government's Censorship Demands
The digital rights group Internet Without Borders is accusing Twitter of shutting down four accounts that parodied the recently created Twitter account of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
If true, it could mark the first time Twitter has succumbed to pressure from a government to censor user-created content. We've asked Twitter for comment and will update as soon as we hear back from them.
Sarkozy opened his account last Wednesday, just hours before he was certified as a candidate for upcoming elections. Within 24 hours the parody accounts had been set up but, by Saturday, they had all been removed, according to Internet Without Borders.
Twitter's guidelines allow people to set up parody accounts as long as they are not designed to intentionally deceive readers into thinking they belong to the person being parodied. The company will also verify popular accounts, which is has already done for Sarkozy's account.
Twitter does not, however, actively monitor accounts, meaning it is up to users to complain when they feel an account violates Twitter's guidelines. It is not clear who tipped the company off to the Sarkozy parody accounts.
Because the accounts have been removed, it's also not clear what the offending material was.
"The creation of an official account of Nicolas Sarkozy on this space should in no way mean killing all of twitter accounts that criticize, or parody the campaign or the person of President of the Republic," Internet Without Borders said.
The online publication kaboul.fr, which managed the suspended @_nicolassarkozy account, said it believes the complaints were filed by supporters or possibly campaign workers for Sarkozy. The company published a letter it sent to Twitter, noting that the account was clearly a parody and should not have been removed.Discuss
February 20, 2012 Published ~ 3 years ago.
Pinterest Will Let Web Publishers Opt Out With Code
Pinterest is offering code that will let publishers opt out of sharing their site content on the increasingly popular social network.
In an interview with LLSocial.com, Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann said users who try to pin from sites using the code will see a message telling them "This site doesn't allow pinning to Pinterest. Please contact the owner with any questions. Thanks for visiting!" Pinterest's copyright policies and user agreements have been the subject of debate, with some site publishers and industry observers arguing that Pinterest puts the legal responsibility for policing copyright violations on its more than 10 million users.
Josh Davis, who conducted the interview with Silbermann, noted that the code won't prevent users from downloading images from sites using the code then uploading them directly to Pinterest. Nor will the code prevent users from pinning images that were lifted in violation of copyright and published on another site.
"I question how many sites will use this code, given the popularity of Pinterest, but Pinterest is trying to address copyright issues in a proactive way," Davis wrote.
In the interview, which was published over the weekend, Silbermann also said the company had placed character limits on the captions for pins and had begun to outline its plans for monetizing the site.
The character limit is aimed at curtailing a practice by some users to cut and paste entire blog posts or articles into the caption of an image. The practice was particularly evident in recipes, Silbermann told Davis, noting that the intent of the site was aimed at having people link back to the original content.Discuss
February 19, 2012 Published ~ 3 years ago.
Did the French Govt. Ask Twitter to Suspend Satirical Accounts?
The morning after French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced he will run for a second term, several parodic Twitter accounts have mysteriously been suspended.
@_nicolassarkozy , an account created in September 2010 and clearly labeled as a satirical Sarkozy impersonation, was suspended on Feburary 16th.
Powerful People & Targeted Botnets: the End of @ Political Satire?
@_nicolassarkozy was managed by Kaboul.fr, a French political and satirical online webzine, that holds many other satirical Twitter accounts, like @_Carla_Bruni, Sarkozy's wife, @_Jacques_Chirac, the former french president, and @FrancoisHolland, Sarkozy's main competitor in the ongoing presidential race.Fabrice Epelboin, the former editor of ReadWriteWeb France, is the founder of Fhimt.com, a Tunisian social media site focusing on the intersection of IT and politics.According to Kaboul.fr, which, after complaining, received an answer from Twitter, @_nicolassarkozy was "suspended after being reported." Twitter also told Kabul.fr that to be granted such priviledge, the suspension had to be made by Sarkozy, or someone acting on his authority.
In fact, the official response, leaked to Pastebin shows Twitter describing the account as "engag(ing) in non-parody impersonation." The chance that the parodic nature of the account could be missed is slight.
More troubling, three other accounts, all clearly opposing Sarkozy's political views, were suspended at the same time: @mafranceforte, @fortefrance and @SarkozyCaSuffit. Those accounts were not related to Kaboul.fr, nor impersonating local politicians, but straight-ahead, and recently-created, politically-oriented Twitter accounts.
Although the news is making a huge buzz in France, it isn't the first time a such censorship has occurred in the country. Other Twitter accounts that were problematic to the French president's personal brand management were massively suspended last summer, those belonging to French gossip website Mixbeat.
A total 29 accounts managed by Mixbeat where suspended during July 2011. The only three of theirs that weren't suspended were created from a different I.P. address, according to Mixbeat's Carl de Canada.Three other accounts, all clearly opposing Sarkozy's political views, where also suspended at the same time: @mafranceforte @fortefrance and @SarkozyCaSuffit. Those accounts were not related to Kaboul.fr, nor impersonating local politicians, but straight-ahead and recently-created politically-oriented Twitter accounts.The massive suspension of Mixbeat's accounts occured a few days after its webmaster tweeted some rumors about Carla Bruni, president Sarkozy's wife, concerning her pregnancy.
All other accounts opened since by Carl de Canada have ended up being suspended, and despite a public dispute with Twitter, and many posts publised on Mixbeat, the website is still unable to be on Twitter in any way, fighting some mysterious forces and an uncooperative Twitter customer service.
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Information war on Twitter is a common practice, especialy since the beginning of the Arab Spring, in January 2011. Twitter has proven to be a solid propaganda platform used by many authoritarian regimes.
Twitter botnets, consisting of a network of centrally-controled twitter accounts, are a common practice. By mass-reporting a targeted account as spam, a group can easily get a Twitter account suspended.
But according to Mixbeat, this is not what happened to its accounts. Carl de Canada claims some special messenger from Sarkozy asked Twitter to suspend them.
Still, the Twitter botnet "targeted spam report" technique could explain the three other suspicious account suspensions which occured last thursday. Such tools are quite common, and are actualy far from being the most sophisticated infowar tool made to cheat and deceive social networks. The U.S. army accidentaly posted in June 2010 a call for proposals on its website for a very sophisticated software called "persona management." A Twitter botnet is far from being as complex.French State Secretary Nadine Morano was accused of buying false followers on Twitter just like Newt GingrichFive months ago, a large Twitter botnet of several thoursand accounts was mapped by an eReputation management expert team, spotted as they were massively posting and retweeting content supporting Sarkozy. More recently, French State Secretary Nadine Morano was accused of buying false followers on Twitter just like Newt Gingrich.
France is one of, if not the leader in online warfare, when it comes to digital weaponry designed to be used against civilian using the Internet. A market recently estimated by Wikileaks to around $US10 billion. France sells Internet surveillance technology to numerous African and Middle East countries, including Syria , Iran and Qaddafi's Libya. Both Twitter and Facebook are battlefields for dictatorships willing to extend political oppression to the online world, and, since the Tunisian Revolution, the market is skyrocketing.
As Sarkozy officially opened the race for the presidency in France last week, it looks like this will be France's first presidential election in which the Internet could play a major role. But it also looks like it will not be, in any way, what happend during Obama's first run for the presidency. In France, the Internet will most probably be used in a very dirty way.
As we say in the startup world: eat your own dogfood
Photo courtesy of ShutterstockDiscuss
February 19, 2012 Published ~ 3 years ago.
Hoo-ah: How the US Army Has Become a Social Media Leader
Over the past several years, the US Army has developed an exemplary program in exploiting numerous social media methods, and done so without a lot of flash, expense, or personnel. They have an engaged audience, numerous followers, and maintained a multi-pronged campaign into all of the major social media networks, including recent beach-heads in Pinterest and Google+. All this, and with a five-person team based in the Pentagon and without spending much in the way of budget too. They are a worthy case study for organizations that are trying to make their own assaults on social media and haven't been as effective.
Just look at this slide showing the numbers. Granted, with a potential audience of millions, it shouldn't be all that unusual that they have the number of Facebook and Twitter followers that they do. But the number of engaged users is what is interesting here.
Let's take a tour of the Army social media landscape and show you what they are doing right. Regardless of your politics, I think you will agree that they are leading by example when it comes to social media.
- They are a content machine. Each week they coordinate the posts on their various social media properties and there is plenty of fresh content. Any social media strategy needs to be based on terrific content, and regular infusions of it. They have this one covered, in spades. Just look at the two dozen pinboards they have already created on Pinterest, where our soldier on a camo couch lead image was taken from (you didn't see him at first, admit it).
- Leadership is essential.The Army's efforts are led by Major Juanita Chang who is the Director, Online and Social Media Division for the past two years in the Army's Office of the Chief of Public Affairs. Chang is a career soldier who has been in active duty since 1996 and served at one point as a chemical weapons officer before she got into PR. Having someone who came up through the ranks is key, because they can emphasize with the boots on the ground and know the entire Army ecosystem too. When you pick your social media team leader, keep this in mind.
- They have solid guidelines for usage. The Army has a 50-page social media manual (which incidentally is a Slideshare link, kudos for that) that walks everyone through what is and isn't appropriate for posting to particular sites. There are guidelines specific to security, including turning off the GPS or geotagging features of your smartphone and cameras, asking the soldier what could the wrong person do with the information that is posted online, and recommending that photos don't reveal sensitive information. Also, a soldier should talk to their family members about operational security and be sure everyone knows what can and can't be posted. Here is just a snippet from their manual:
- They aren't heavy-handed about it either. The guidelines are all common sense and not what you would expect from an organization that believes in the chain of command. "If we can trust our soldiers with guns and grenades, why can't we trust them with Facebook?" Major Chang asks. That doesn't mean they are completely hands-off. A Twitter post from a random civilian that wanted to make note of the recent Medal of Honor winner Salvatore Giunta, was unauthorized, and the Army asked that the relationship be clarified.
- Despite such a broad footprint, they pick their targets and have solid engagement goals. Just like you might expect from them. "We don't have to be everywhere all the time. We have our goals and want to pick and choose our platforms to establish our presence," Major Chang told me.
- Humor counts, too. Again, somewhat unexpectedly, the Army has a great sense of humor, at least how it is displayed across its social media empire. Humor is a very important engagement mechanism and a great way to break the social media ice for social media noobs. Take a look at the photo that topped last week's list of most frequently-shared pics from their Facebook site:
This was shared more than 375 times and Liked by more than 2,000 Facebook users. Granted, pet pics do well but still. Of course, it helps to have more than a million Facebook followers too.
- Know your audience. "We know the audience that we want to reach," says Major Chang. "We want to connect America with its army. People don't always know what we do for the everyday Joe Taxpayer in Idaho." Look at this post on Google+ about a new Army concept vehicle at the Chicago Auto Show. This exposes their comment stream to non-Army Internet users and potentially widens their reach.
- Blogs matter and could be the center that holds everything together. I know in our rush to embrace all that is new we tend to forget about the old, but blogging is still important and can cement the other social media pieces. The Army has one blog destination: the ArmyLive blog which has stories about its soldiers, methods, and values. Six stories were posted in Februrary, making it a vibrant and active place to come read about its doings. Can you say the same thing about your bloggers? And it isn't all cheerleading either: an article by the Sergeant Major of the Army, Raymond F. Chandler on new uniforms is enlightening. These and other blogs complement its main corporate website.
- Be cost-conscious and leverage free resources. Unlike those stories of thousand-dollar toilet seats and other cost overruns, when it comes to social media the Army is very thrifty. Major Chang was proud that what she has accomplished has been on the cheap: she hasn't paid for any ad campaigns and mostly relied on word-of-mouth to grow her various properties. "Experts are doing it all for less money. We use the free versions of every platform and do everything in house," she says. For example, there is the Army's YouTube channel here that has more than 2600 subscribers and posted five new videos last week (see content point above). Yes, they could have set up an extensive and expensive video streaming site, but why bother when you could it for free?
If you have a captive audience and focus, you can do this too. Remember, the traffic that you quickly gain can quickly leave to other memes-of-the-moment: organic growth is best.
February 18, 2012 Published ~ 3 years ago.
Cartoon: Either Stand With Us or With Those Internet Geeks
It was just over a week ago that the Canadian government was preparing to table its new Internet surveillance legislation.
For the Conservatives, it was supposed to be a very good week. Tough posturing on crime has been a vote-winner for them in the past, and the only people who care about civil liberties are those herbal-tea-swilling vegan-sashimi-ordering bicycle-riding bleeding hearts* who'd never vote for them anyway - right?
And then Public Safety Minister Vic Toews went and said something that galvanized a community that went far beyond the herbal-tea-swilling crowd (or as I call them, "my people"). Replying to a questioner in the House of Commons (or "House of Representatives" to Americans, Australians and New Zealanders), he said:
We are proposing measures to bring our laws into the 21st century and to provide the police with the lawful tools that they need. He can either stand with us or with the child pornographers.
The government promptly rebranded the bill, hastily changing its name from "Lawful Access Act" to "Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act." And all holy hell broke loose.
This being Canada, by "all holy hell" I mean there was a hashtag - #TellVicEverything. Twitter's Canadian users bombarded Toews with the mundane details of their lives. One of the country's leading voices for online freedom, Michael Geist, summed it up:
Yesterday's Twitter-based #tellviceverything was the perfect illustration for how the Internet can fuel awareness and action at remarkable speed. Through thousands of tweets, Canadians used humour to send a strong message that the government has overstepped with Bill C-30 (my favourite remains @kevinharding's Hey @ToewsVic, I lost an email from my work account yesterday. Can I get your copy?). Alongside the Twitter activity are dedicated websites, hundreds of blog postings from commentators on the left and right of the political spectrum, thousands of calls and letters to MPs, and nearly 100,000 signatures on the Stop Spying petition at Open Media.
By the end of the week, several of the country's editorial pages that are normally pretty sympathetic to the Conservatives' agenda had swung against them on this issue. A Twitter account appeared, revealing purported details of Toews' personal life, and then went dark again. And the government was signalling it might be open to amending the bill, with at least one Conservative Member of Parliament saying it's "too intrusive as it currently stands."
This isn't the first time our politicians have accused defenders of privacy and civil liberties of siding with child pornographers. But it's the first time it's backfired this spectacularly.
Maybe it's because Canada's net activists were spurred by the success of the fight against SOPA/PIPA in the United States (a fight many of us played some small role in waging). Maybe it's because we've become a little more sensitive on online privacy issues, after a few high-profile clashes with social networking giants. Or maybe it's just that we won't tolerate being lumped in with terrorists, child pornographers, thieves and counterfeiters whenever it suits a politician's or lobbyist's communications strategy.
Whatever the reason, Canada now has a northern counterpart to the wired community's newfound activism in the US. And #TellingVicEverything is only the beginning.
* Or as I call them, "my people".
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February 17, 2012 Published ~ 3 years ago.
No, It's Not a Scottish Flag… It's the New Windows 8 Logo!
It will take some getting used to. Okay, I take that back: No, it won't. The official explanation from Microsoft this afternoon for its design choice for the new Windows 8 logo - a white cross on a tilted blue rectangle - is that the logo wanted to return to its origins and stop being a flag.
"If you look back to the origins of the logo you see that it really was meant to be a window," writes Microsoft user experience director Sam Moreau this afternoon. " "'Windows' really is a beautiful metaphor for computing and with the new logo we wanted to celebrate the idea of a window, in perspective."
Granted, the four-color motif was starting to look a little dated, and newcomers to computing were wondering why Microsoft was borrowing from the Google Chrome logo. But growing up among graphic art as I did, and also speaking as someone with a bit of Scottish heritage, it's hard for me not to wonder whether the new Windows 8 logo falls short in several key respects. First of all, it's a classic Nordic Cross flag, still flown today over Shetland Province in Scotland.
It's also the flag of the French city of Calais, of the Estonian city of Pärnu, the former flag of Iceland, and the flag flown by some ships of the Greek Navy.
Moreau credits the design team of Pentagram with the new Windows logo concept. Last year, out of necessity (because it no longer contained 11 members), the Big Ten athletic conference signed Pentagram to redesign its logo. The result emphasized the number "10," even though the conference now has twelve members with the addition of the University of Nebraska. Graphic designer Nick Conflitti called that design an "epic fail," asking why the conference would want to "bash it over our brains twice" that it really doesn't have ten members.
The previous year, when Pentagram redesigned the North Carolina Museum of Art logo by styling the words completely out of blocks and curved wedges, its hometown's Web site was besieged by protest comments. Said one, "It is just evocative of the more hideous examples of late '60s through mid-'70s architecture. It reminds me of all those concrete buildings with arrow-slit windows that popped up on college campuses all over the state during that time."
Added Microsoft's Moreau about the work Pentagram produced for Windows 8, "It was important that the new logo carries our Metro principle of being 'Authentically Digital.' By that, we mean it does not try to emulate faux-industrial design characteristics such as materiality (glass, wood, plastic, etc.). It has motion - aligning with the fast and fluid style you'll find throughout Windows 8."
Years ago, Microsoft told me that after the development team met one of its early milestones and the campus celebrated, they hoisted a flag of the existing Windows logo - which looked at that time like a sideways cinder-block - over Redmond headquarters. Someone, perhaps Bill Gates, said the logo should become a flag and represent all colors of the computing spectrum. It's interesting that the company should heed an outsider's advice and discard that important symbology.Discuss
February 17, 2012 Published ~ 3 years ago.
Trippy Fluid Simulation in WebGL
One of the reasons Google makes its Chrome browser is to push the Web forward relentlessly. Google engineers aren't afraid to do things like invent new formats for Web images or build WebGL-powered 3D maps of the world, even if most of our systems aren't ready for it.
But in the interest of a faster, more capable Web, Google builds it anyway, and it encourages developers to contribute. It hosts a gallery of Chrome Experiments (with the tagline "Not your mother's JavaScript.") where it encourages developers to go nuts stretching these new Web technologies to their limit.
Today, the Chrome team highlighted a super-trippy demo by German computer science grad student Felix Woitzel, which uses WebGL to simulate the movement of crazy, colorful fluids using patterns modeled by the great mathematician Alan Turing. You can tickle it with your mouse, and it moves.
If you've got Chrome (or another browser that supports WebGL) and a computer that can handle it, you ought to check this out.
For those whose systems can't or won't handle it, here's an extreme slow-mo video taken on my MacBook Air, which doesn't much like doing WebGL Turing patterns and video screen captures at the same time:
Happy Friday, everybody.Discuss
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Network topology is the study of the arrangement or mapping of the elements (links, nodes, etc.) of a network, especially the physical (real) and logical (virtual) interconnections between nodes. A local area network (LAN) is one example of a network that exhibits both a physical topology and a logical topology. Any given node in the LAN will have one or more links to one or more other nodes in the network and the mapping of these links and nodes onto a graph results in a geometrical shape that determines the physical topology of the network. Likewise, the mapping of the flow of data between the nodes in the network determines the logical topology of the network. It is important to note that the physical and logical topologies might be identical in any particular network but they also may be different.
Any particular network topology is determined only by the graphical mapping of the configuration of physical and/or logical connections between nodes. LAN Network Topology is, therefore, technically a part of graph theory. Distances between nodes, physical interconnections, transmission rates, and/or signal types may differ in two networks and yet their topologies may be identical<.
The arrangement or mapping of the elements of a network gives rise to certain basic topologies which may then be combined to form more complex topologies (hybrid topologies). The most common of these basic types of topologies are (refer to the NetworkTopologies.png at the top right of this page):
There are also three basic categories of network topologies:
The terms signal topology and logical topology are often used interchangeably even though there is a subtle difference between the two and the distinction is not often made between the two.
The simplest topology is a permanent link between two endpoints. Switched point-to-point topologies are the basic model of conventional telephony. The value of a permanent point-to-point network is the value of guaranteed, or nearly so, communications between the two endpoints. The value of an on-demand point-to-point connection is proportional to the number of potential pairs of subscribers, and has been expressed as Metcalfe's Law.
Also known as a hierarchical network.
The type of network topology in which a central 'root' node (the top level of the hierarchy) is connected to one or more other nodes that are one level lower in the hierarchy (i.e., the second level) with a point-to-point link between each of the second level nodes and the top level central 'root' node, while each of the second level nodes that are connected to the top level central 'root' node will also have one or more other nodes that are one level lower in the hierarchy (i.e., the third level) connected to it, also with a point-to-point link, the top level central 'root' node being the only node that has no other node above it in the hierarchy – the hierarchy of the tree is symmetrical, each node in the network having a specific fixed number, f, of nodes connected to it at the next lower level in the hierarchy, the number, f, being referred to as the 'branching factor' of the hierarchical tree.
The hybrid topology is a type of network topology that is composed of one or more interconnections of two or more networks that are based upon different physical topologies or a type of network topology that is composed of one or more interconnections of two or more networks that are based upon the same physical topology, but where the physical topology of the network resulting from such an interconnection does not meet the definition of the original physical topology of the interconnected networks (e.g., the physical topology of a network that would result from an interconnection of two or more networks that are based upon the physical star topology might create a hybrid topology which resembles a mixture of the physical star and physical bus topologies or a mixture of the physical star and the physical tree topologies, depending upon how the individual networks are interconnected, while the physical topology of a network that would result from an interconnection of two or more networks that are based upon the physical distributed bus network retains the topology of a physical distributed bus network).
The mapping of the actual connections between the nodes of a network, as evidenced by the path that the signals take when propagating between the nodes.
The logical classification of network topologies generally follows the same classifications as those in the physical classifications of network topologies, the path that the data takes between nodes being used to determine the topology as opposed to the actual physical connections being used to determine the topology.
If the central node is passive, the originating node must be able to tolerate the reception of an echo of its own transmission, delayed by the two-way round trip transmission time (i.e. to and from the central node) plus any delay generated in the central node. An active star network has an active central node that usually has the means to prevent echo-related problems.
A tree topology (a.k.a. hierarchical topology) can be viewed as a collection of star networks arranged in a hierarchy. This tree has individual peripheral nodes (e.g. leaves) which are required to transmit to and receive from one other node only and are not required to act as repeaters or regenerators. Unlike the star network, the functionality of the central node may be distributed.
As in the conventional star network, individual nodes may thus still be isolated from the network by a single-point failure of a transmission path to the node. If a link connecting a leaf fails, that leaf is isolated; if a connection to a non-leaf node fails, an entire section of the network becomes isolated from the rest.
In order to alleviate the amount of network traffic that comes from broadcasting all signals to all nodes, more advanced central nodes were developed that are able to keep track of the identities of the nodes that are connected to the network. These network switches will "learn" the layout of the network by "listening" on each port during normal data transmission, examining the data packets and recording the address/identifier of each connected node and which port it's connected to in a lookup table held in memory. This lookup table then allows future transmissions to be forwarded to the intended destination only.
In a mesh topology (i.e., a partially connected mesh topology), there are at least two nodes with two or more paths between them to provide redundant paths to be used in case the link providing one of the paths fails. This decentralization is often used to advantage to compensate for the single-point-failure disadvantage that is present when using a single device as a central node (e.g., in star and tree networks). A special kind of mesh, limiting the number of hops between two nodes, is a hypercube. The number of arbitrary forks in mesh networks makes them more difficult to design and implement, but their decentralized nature makes them very useful. This is similar in some ways to a grid network, where a linear or ring topology is used to connect systems in multiple directions. A multi-dimensional ring has a toroidal topology, for instance.
A fully connected network, complete topology or full mesh topology is a network topology in which there is a direct link between all pairs of nodes. In a fully connected network with n nodes, there are n(n-1)/2 direct links. Networks designed with this topology are usually very expensive to set up, but provide a high degree of reliability due to the multiple paths for data that are provided by the large number of redundant links between nodes. This topology is mostly seen in military applications. However, it can also be seen in the file sharing protocol BitTorrent in which users connect to other users in the "swarm" by allowing each user sharing the file to connect to other users also involved. Often in actual usage of BitTorrent any given individual node is rarely connected to every single other node as in a true fully connected network but the protocol does allow for the possibility for any one node to connect to any other node when sharing files.
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The Chronicle recommends Wanda Adams, Anna Eastman and Harvin Moore.
Copyright 2013: Houston Chronicle | October 3, 2013 | Updated: October 15, 2013 4:43pm
Photo By Eric KayneW. Clyde Lemon, HISD school board candidate, Sept. 27, 2013 in Houston (Eric Kayne/For the Chronicle)
Photo By Eric KayneWanda Adams, HISD school board candidate, Sept. 27, 2013 in Houston (Eric Kayne/For the Chronicle)
Photo By Brett Coomer/StaffAnne Sung poses for a portrait in the Chronicle Studio Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013, in Houston. Sung is a candidate for HISD Trustee - District 7. ( Brett Coomer / Houston Chronicle )
Photo By Billy Smith II/StaffHugo Mojica,Wednesday September 25, 2013. Mojica is running for the HISD school board. (Billy Smith II /Chronicle)
Photo By Eric KayneAnna Eastman, HISD school board candidate, Sept. 27, 2013 in Houston (Eric Kayne/For the Chronicle)
Photo By Eric KayneCoretta Mallet-Fontenot, HISD school board candidate, Sept. 27, 2013 in Houston (Eric Kayne/For the Chronicle)
Houston's future depends heavily on the Houston Independent School District, the largest public-school district in Texas. And the performance of HISD in turn depends heavily on the elected board that sets district policy and supervises the district's superintendent, Terry Grier.
We believe that HISD is among the best urban school districts in the nation. But it's far from perfect, and it faces enormous problems. These are only a few of the many challenges and questions that board members must grapple with:
- Not only has the school board been rocked by ethics scandals, but a recent outside evaluation found that HISD's audit department doesn't comply with industry standards, leaving the district vulnerable to fraud. Given that voters recently approved a $1.89 billion construction bond - the largest school bond in Texas history - the potential for graft is alarming.
- Like all urban school districts, HISD grapples with problems related to race and poverty. Eighty percent of the district's 200,000 students are from low-income families. Sixty-three percent are Hispanic; 25 percent are African-American.
- Recently, HISD won the Broad Prize in Urban Education for its efforts to close the achievement gap between those students and the rest of Texas. But particularly for students in the district's lowest-performing schools, there's still a long way to go.
More than 20 percent of HISD schools failed to meet the state's academic standards in 2013.
- Of HISD's high school graduates, the state deems fewer than half ready to do college-level work.
- The popular magnet-school program is due for an overhaul. Is there a way to make its funding and rules less erratic without wreaking havoc on HISD's best schools?
- The Apollo 20 school-turnaround project, a signature program of Superintendent Grier, has been among the district's most controversial initiatives. Is the expensive program the best use of the district's scarce money?
The Chronicle has these recommendations for the contested races for members of the HISD board.
District 1: Anna Eastman, the board president, has been a thoughtful leader and a strong advocate for tightening the board's ethics policy. We heartily endorse her re-election.
Eastman, an HISD parent, joined the board four years ago. She believes that the turnover among the district's best principals and teachers is too high and that HISD needs to pay more attention to retaining and developing its staff, and not focus only on non-renewal of low performers: "You can't fire your way to excellence."
She argues that openness is the best way to fight graft. "Corruption isn't overt," she says. "You don't see bad people lurking in the corners. It's far more subtle, an assumption about the way that influence works. The best way to fight it is to make as much as possible accessible to outside third parties."
About Apollo 20, she says, "The program has noble, worthy origins, and I think it's done an incredible job at changing school cultures. But it's very, very expensive. The analysis that we've done to date shows that its biggest impact comes from the math tutors, which are the expensive part, but we haven't seen whether their effects last beyond a year. Are there sustained performance gains?"
District 7:Harvin Moore, a member of the board since 2003, has been perhaps the strongest supporter of Superintendent Grier. Though we are impressed by his challenger Anne Sung, we endorse Moore as a steady hand and a master of HISD's details.
Moore is a fan of technology-aided "blended learning," which he says could help eliminate benchmark tests that consume too much classroom time. He supports expansion of Apollo 20: "It's shown astounding results in math. And no one doubts that it's reduced the dropout rate."
Moore, who has served on HISD's audit committee, says that the best way to fight corruption on the school board is to have a strong superintendent. And he argues that high teacher turnover has been good for the district: "We retained 90 percent of the most highly functioning teachers, and we exited 52 to 54 percent of the lowest."
District 9: Of the three candidates vying to replace longtime board member Larry Marshall, a magnet for scandal, we believe that Wanda Adams, currently a member of Houston City Council, would do the best job. She is energetic and active in community affairs.
To fight corruption, she suggests that HISD make school board candidates' campaign filings available in ways that are easy for the general public to search. And she says that when a board member has shown shaky ethics, it's up to other board members to hold him or her accountable.
She presents herself as a consensus builder. And she is conscious of the changing needs of District 9, a historically African-American area with a growing Hispanic population.


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Concerned citizens from various progressive organizations gathered today in front of the Vinoy in downtown St. Petersburg to protest many of Rick Scottâs policies. The umbrella group Pink Slip Rick protested the governorâs arrival in St. Pete where he was spoke at the Florida Society of News Editors annual meeting.
One of the protestâs organizers, Kofi Hunt of the Pinellas chapter of Awake the State has many reasons he thinks the governor should be kicked out of office. Scott has an approval rating of 29%; the lowest in the country. Thatâs something Hunt wants more people to talk about.
"We hope to contribute to the discussion. As citizens of a democratic nation we think that it is our duty to contribute to discussions about how we are going to move forward in governing our society."
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"The governor has this really amazing infrastructure to push his message out. Not only the office of the Governor but the Republican Party of Florida. They're doing doing robocalls, they're trying to generate letters to the editor so it's much harder for the grassroots to breakthrough into the mainstream media in many respects to make sure that the anti-Rick Scott message is getting out there. I think, fortunately, a lot of the media has picked up on the fact that this is a very unpopular governor and his policies are driving our state in the wrong direction, but not all of them."
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You've got to love a place that lists the pies first on the menu.
Clay's Family Restaurant along Lake George in Fremont, just a stone's throw away from the outlet mall, promises "Good Home Cooking" and nothing tastes more like home than a delicious slice of pie.
Clay's has every kind – baked fruit, raw fruit, creams and pecan – and usually has 10 to 12 varieties on weekdays and can have up to 20 on weekends.
With that many, of course they had one I had never heard of – rhappleberry.
This mix of rhubarb, apples, strawberries and blackberries was perfection. The mix of sour rhubarb with the sweet berries and the added crispness of apples made every bite different.
The crust, like it was on all the pies I tried, was light and flaky.
The best pie was the blueberry "signature" fruit pie. The menu stated the "signature" fruit pies are available only when the fruits – strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and peaches – are in season. Blueberries are not in season, so what gives?
"We do it whenever we can get good fruit, but always in the summer," said Jack Baker, who has owned Clay's since buying the 60-plus-year-old restaurant from the Clay family in 1975.
The crust for these fresh pies was smeared with a thin layer of sweetened cream cheese and chopped pecans. The raw fruit is just touched with sweetened gel and placed inside the lined crust raw. The result was a pie full of sweet, plump, juicy blueberries that popped with each bite. The cream cheese added a nice creamy element, and it was one of the freshest tasting pies I ever have had at a restaurant.
All of the pies were great. The deep golden brown butterscotch cream was very rich and actually looked more like a sweet potato pie there was so much butterscotch in it. The "Oops!" pie – a traditional pecan pie with chocolate chips – also won favor. It was kind of like a big, dense chocolate chip cookie laid in a crust.
And, if you love pie like I love pie, you may want to mark June 24 on your calendar for Clay's eighth annual Pie Day featuring an all-you-can-eat pie buffet. It is a popular event, so tickets must be ordered and paid for ahead of time and times are allotted.
"We have some food on the (regular) buffet, too, for those folks who don't just want to eat pie," said Chass Baker, Jack's daughter-in-law who oversees the making of pies – up to 120 each week during the busy summer months.
Believe it or not, it wasn't the pie that drew me to Clay's. When some Twitter followers suggested I check it out, I asked some friends who live up that way what they knew about the eatery.
"I hear they have a good pot roast special on Friday nights."
That was all it took to get me up there.
The pot roast was, indeed, special and it gets special treatment. It is slow cooked overnight to ensure it is tender and is seasoned simply, but deliciously. I did reach for my salt shaker with the pot roast, and that practice had to be repeated often at Clay's. Pretty much everything, including side vegetables, lacked seasoning. The roast turkey dinner was almost inedible without added salt.
Prime rib is offered on the weekends and it, too, needed salt. The 7-ounce cut was the right size for lunch and it was perfectly cooked, but it, and the rather oily side cup of au jus, lacked flavor from salt or any other herbs and spices. With salt added, it was OK.
One dish that didn't need any help was the pan-fried fish of the day, which, Baker said, is almost always bluegill. These fillets were lightly dredged in a flour breading and fried until brown and crisp. The fish was sweet and flaky, the kind you want to get all you can eat.
Clay's Kickin' Onion Rings are the perfect thing to pair with the fish. Big rings were coated in a chewy, slightly sweet batter that was crunchy without a spot of oil. My server said Clay's Famous Fish Fry of Alaskan pollock is coated in the same batter as the rings, so it is on my list to try next time I visit.
Another breaded treat was the pork tenderloin. It was big, but not crazy big, had a crispy, gritty breading that was seasoned properly and the pork inside was nice. Beware, however, that if you order it as a dinner entrée, it comes on a plate alone with no bun, so if you want a sandwich, ask for one.
Although the salad part of Clay's salad and soup bar was lackluster – just iceberg with few vegetables, which did not include the staple cucumbers or carrots – the soups were tasty. Chicken noodle and chili are always on it, and the third soup is a rotation of four other varieties.
The chicken noodle was the best of the bunch with a flavorful broth and big, plump, dumpling-style noodles. The vegetable beef (available Tuesday and Sunday) was also worth having with carrot, potato and green beans and some of that leftover pot roast. The beef pepper pot soup (Wednesday and Saturday) was my least favorite. It was made with ground beef, chunks of tomato and rice, but the rice was way overdone from sitting in the warmer and it needed more of its name vegetable.
Clay's is an old-school kind of place with no-frills design. The furnishings are outdated and it has sort of stale country home decorations. It was not exactly flashy, but, in a way, it is what I would expect from a place that just serves solid no-nonsense food and pies like Grandma made.
The service was also hit or miss. One Saturday afternoon, only two servers were working and they struggled to keep up even though it was not overly busy. And on a busy weeknight, my server also seemed too busy to keep drinks filled and to promptly tend to basic needs.
But the pies saved the day. They alone made Clay's a place to check out and a place I will check out again.
Restaurant: Clay's Family Restaurant
Address: 7815 N. Old 27, Fremont
Phone: 260-833-1332
Hours: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday; 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday; 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday
Cuisine: American
Handicapped accessible: Yes
Alcohol: None
Smoking status: Non-smoking
Credit cards: Yes
Kid-friendly: Yes
Menu: Pie ($2.99; $3.59 for specialty), onion rings ($3.99), bluegill ($10.99), breaded tenderloin ($7.99), pot roast ($7.29), prime rib ($10.99)
Rating breakdown: Food: ** (3-star maximum); atmosphere: 1/2 (1 maximum), service: 1/2 (1 maximum)
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Just a quick question here. I guess you could say I'm trying to shoe-horn as large an oven as I can into my space so dimensions can be critical.
I plan on a metal stud framed enclosure and was wondering what clearance I could get away with. See my sketch attached below. can I include the depth of my metal stud in the 4 inch minimum insulation. I'll have a ceramic blanket in place the about an inch to the stud layed flay on the hearth, as a sill you could say, then my vertical studs are placed inside it. since they are metal I was wondering how little clearance I could get way with.
Did I explain well enough?
Anyway take a look at the sketch.
Thanks, Bob
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My suggestion: don't use half bricks. Use 3" slices (third bricks) and/or 3" chopped-down bricks for standing soldiers if you're going to do that. Then cram as much insulation around it as you can. That's assuming that you prioritize floor space highly. I fit a 34" oven onto a 48"x54" stand with 4" of high-efficiency insulation, so there's my bias for you. If you make the floor smaller then you can use half bricks. If you make the floor smaller and use 3" bricks you can use more insulation, which might be best of all :-)
Are you primarily interested in quick heat-up times for pizza making and good insulation for retained heat purposes, or are you interested in more thermal mass for baking bread, retaining days' worth of heat, etc? Because that would inform your decision. 4.5" half bricks plus 0.5" of Heat Stop would yield a wall thickness of 5" -- a total of 10" of masonry enclosing your dome floor. Personally I don't see any reason to do that if you're pressed for space. You could get back 1.5" of additional clearance on each side by using thinner walls. Then you could use a 2" blanket and still have a full inch of clearance. If you place the studs strategically, you might be able to cram even more insulation in. Or you could dump vermiculite into the voids. Whatever. (I cheated and used expansion bolts in some places) Metal studs and cement board are not supposed to become structurally unsound at the ~150 degree temps that you might expect at the edge of a 2" ceramic blanket, but YMMV.
ps. If you go down to 3", use a catenary curve and/or a rebar buttress for your dome.
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Thanks I was hoping the spacing of studs vs the curve of the dome would gain me some space, also not shown in my sketch, I thought I'd have the sill or horizontal stud laying on the structural concrete slab recessed below the surface of the vermiculite slab. Like a step.
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I cut it really close on mine and framed a sort of "window" with the studs right next to the curve to get some extra clearance.
Here are some photos in my thread:
It never gets hot on the outside.
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A picture is worth a thousand words, thank you. I read your oven build pages. Great info there for me. You cut it much closer than I was planning. It was good hear you didn't have a heat problem. I'll probably follow suite.
Thanks again, Bob
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TAMPA, Fla. The wife of a military officer shot and killed her son on the way to soccer practice, then drove to their upscale home and shot her daughter in the head while she studied at her computer, police said Friday. Afterward, the woman told detectives she killed the teens for being "mouthy."
Julie Powers Schenecker admitted the slayings after officers found her covered in blood on the back porch of her home Friday morning, police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said. Schenecker's mother had called police from Texas because she was unable to reach the 50-year-old woman, who she said was depressed and had been complaining about her children.
Schenecker's husband, Parker Schenecker, is an Army colonel stationed at the headquarters of U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. The father had been away for several days when the killings happened, said CentCom spokesman Lt. Col. Michael Lawhorn, describing him as a career Army intelligence officer.
Police said Parker Schenecker was in Qatar and was told of his children's deaths on Friday.
Julie Schenecker left a note detailing her plans to kill her disrespectful children and then herself, saying "they talked back and were mouthy and that she was going to take care of it," McElroy said. She provided the same motive to police who interviewed her.
"I think we will never understand how or why a mother could take the lives of her children," McElroy said. "That was the only reason she provided to our detectives."
The body of Schenecker's daughter, Calyx Powers Schenecker, 16, was found in an upstairs bedroom, McElroy said. The body of her son, Powers Beau Schenecker, 13, was found in an SUV in the garage.
An arrest affidavit said Schenecker shot her son twice in the head "for talking back" as she drove him to soccer practice Thursday night. She drove home, went inside and shot her daughter in the back of head while the teen sat at a computer doing homework, then shot her in the face, the affidavit said.
McElroy said investigators believe the teens "never saw it coming." Both were killed with a .38-caliber pistol.
Julie Schenecker was jailed and charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Wearing a white jumpsuit, she was led into a county jail later Friday visibly shaking and being supported by a sheriff's deputy.
The family's home is on a cul-de-sac in a gated country club community in north Tampa. Hillsborough County property records show that the Scheneckers bought the house in 2008 for $448,000. It now has a market value of $261,000.
Charanun Soodjinda, 38, lives across the street. He said the Scheneckers moved in about two years ago and "fit right in." The couple's two children often played in the cul-de-sac with other neighborhood kids, and Julie Schenecker seemed to be at home a lot.
"They seemed like a nice family," Soodjinda said. "I never thought this would happen. How could you do that to your children?"
Seena Jain, who carpooled with the Schenecker children and her own daughter, Sheema, 15, told the St. Petersburg Times that recently Parker Schenecker had picked up his wife's carpooling shift while she recovered from a serious car crash that happened about a month ago. Details of the accident weren't immediately available.


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AMMAN: Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Wednesday it will open a hospital for Syrian refugee children at the Zaatari camp in northern Jordan, which complains its healthcare services are already burdened.
"MSF is now coordinating with the government to open the hospital in Zaatari in two weeks," Antoine Foucher, head of the organisation in the kingdom, told Health Minister Abullatif Wreikat, the official Petra news agency reported.
"In the beginning, the hospital will be have 35 beds. Later, the beds will be increased to 60, while obstetrics and gynaecology specialties will be introduced."
Foucher said five doctors and eight nurses will work at the 1.2-million-euro ($1.62-million) hospital.
Jordan says it is hosting around 350 Syrian refugees, including more than 90,000 at Zaatari desert refugee camp, near the border with Syria.
"The number of Syrian refugees in Jordan has become a serious burden that is larger than our capabilities," Wreikat was quoted by Petra as saying.
"Jordan needs assistance in order to continue providing medical services for the refugees."
The country provides free health and education services for more than 200,000 UN-registered Syrian refugees, according to officials.
The United Nations has predicted the number of Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries will double to 1.1 million by June if Syria's 23-month conflict -- which it says has killed nearly 70,000 people -- does not end.
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