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OMA to Deliver Pioneering Industry Concepts at Mobile World Congress 2014; OMA demo day speaker line-up announced with keynote presentations from industry leaders addressing open specifications for next generation mobile services
(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) San Diego- CA - Mobile vendors and operators will come together to present the latest developments in the mobile industry, through insightful presentations from industry leaders and exciting demonstrations, including a life size automotive console, multiple Android devices and the widely speculated Google Glass platform. All of this and more will be taking place at the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) demonstration day, held at the world's largest mobile industry event, the GSMA Mobile World Congress, on Wednesday February 26th, 2014.
Alongside presentations from OMA Board Chairman, Gary K. Jones and OMA Technical Plenary Chairman, Francesco Vadal, keynote presentations will be taking place from ARM, Comverse, GS1, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Red Bend Software and Telecom Italia. Visitors will gain an exclusive preview into up and coming technologies across the entire wireless value chain, some of which are not yet commercially available.
"We are excited to once again return to Mobile World Congress and demonstrate how OMA Enablers are driving developments in the mobile industry and ultimately how this is enabling broader adoption and delivering open specifications for the Internet of Everything," said Seth Newberry, General Manager of the Open Mobile Alliance.
GS1 will be hosting their exciting Google Glass demo, which will show the power of barcodes on product packaging to receive nutritional information, recipes, coupons and the ability to share the information on social media websites. Cameron Green, B2C Director at GS1 will highlight how OMA standards are critical in enabling a vision of the connected consumer of the future whose shopping trip and product usage are augmented with trusted information and services.
"Consumers are increasingly using mobile devices to research and purchase products. GS1 and OMA standards will allow more consumers to access accurate and trusted product information to help them with their daily lives," said John Phillips, SVP Customer Supply Chain and Logistics at PepsiCo.
Roger Ordman, Director of Product Marketing for Red Bend Software, will present the challenges that the car manufacturers are encountering from the convergence of the mobile and automotive industries, specifically in managing the multitude of software elements in the car. Roger will show that using OMA Device Management (OMA-DM) and specifically the Software Component Management Object (SCOMO) Enabler will allow the complex automotive industry to manage these software elements throughout the lifecycle of the car.
M2M will be under discussion by Zach Shelby, Director of Technology for the ARM Internet of Things Business Unit. Zach was the founder of Sensinode, which was acquired by ARM in 2013 and has been an active participant in defining the OMA Lightweight M2M (LWM2M) Enabler and will give an insightful discussion into the world of M2M and the need for standardization to support the projected growth of this market.
Gil Kazes, Domain Expert - Digital & VAS Services from Comverse, will focus on interoperability among a wide variety of legacy systems, and the convergence of those systems with new IP based services and technologies. The discussion goes on to show the primary goal is to enhance user experience and the operator's ability to build comprehensive communications systems.
George Percivall, Chief Engineer of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), will discuss the latest developments in Location-based Services (LBS) in an exciting presentation. George will look at how OGC and other standards developing organisations are co-operatively developing specifications that raise overall industry capabilities across differing mobile networks, platforms, and devices.
Camillo Carlini, Wireless Devices Innovation Manager at Telecom Italia, along with Luigi Carabiniere, Executive Chairman at 0infinito, will be discussing 'Are Smartphones (still) a vertical industry? Or is Standardisation progressing?' as well as looking at new initiatives for Smartphone openness and developer engagement. Telecom Italia's demonstration will support this presentation and show an innovative Smartphone development device which aims at maximizing the user's Quality of Experience (QoE) and the exploitation of next generation Wireless Networks, through the new OMA framework Generic Open Terminal API.
This unique session can be seen on Wednesday February 26, 2014 in the Theatre District, Hall 8.0, Theatre D, from 15.00- 19.00. To register to attend this event, please go to www.mobileworldcongress.com/open-mobile-alliance/.
The Mobile World Congress, organized by the GSMA, is recognized as the mobile industry's must-attend event. Held annually, the Mobile World Congress attracts executives from the world's largest and most influential mobile operators, software companies, equipment providers, Internet companies and media and entertainment organizations, as well as government delegations from across the globe. It's expected that more than 75,000 professionals from 200 countries will attend the 2014 Mobile World Congress.
The Open Mobile Alliance demonstration day will also be open to a limited number of journalists to obtain previews of the demonstrations and the chance to speak to the companies attending. To register for a press pass to this event please contact Beth Dyson email@example.com.
About OMA The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) delivers open specifications for creating interoperable services that work across all geographical boundaries on any bearer network. OMA's specifications support billions of new and existing fixed and mobile terminals across a variety of mobile networks. Driven by the global demand for mobile data services, the member companies of the Open Mobile Alliance support the adoption of new and enhanced information, communication and entertainment solutions. For additional information visit www.openmobilealliance.org.
The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) name and logo are registered trademarks of the Open Mobile Alliance Ltd. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks or trade names of their owners.
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If there is one story that contains in it all the reasons why India remains a poor country, it is the story of the Vedanta aluminum refinery in Odisha. Now that economic reforms are back on the government's agenda, it is a story I hope high officials, high-minded judges and busybody NGOs listen to carefully. Why do I tell it this week? Because earlier this month, Sterlite Industries gave notice that they are closing their Lanjigarh refinery because it is bleeding to death. It has lost Rs 2,500 crores trying to stay alive these past two years. When it closes, 6,500 people will lose their jobs in one of India's poorest districts.
On a tour of Kalahandi's villages, during the 1987 drought, I saw poverty so horrific that memories of children dying slowly in barren mud huts remains etched painfully not just in my mind but in my heart. The rains failed that year so the economy based on a single annual crop collapsed and thousands of Adivasi families were forced to live on a diet of birdseed and mango kernels for months. Women started selling babies they could not longer feed.
You would think then, would you not, that if someone was prepared to bring investment to such a desolate place he would be applauded, welcomed with open arms. The very opposite happened and for the wrong reasons. The first people to start protesting against Vedanta were foreigners. Had the refinery functioned on bauxite from the nearby Niyamgiri hills, aluminum could have been produced in Lanjigarh at $1,500 a tonne, instead of the global cost of $2,050. This caused alarm bells to start ringing in the ears of the international aluminum industry and soon powerful foreign NGOs appeared in Kalahandi to stop the project. Greenpeace and Amnesty International are still there supposedly to protect the interests, and sacred hills, of forest-dwelling Adivasi tribes.
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Data released this morning by Seek shows Auckland and Canterbury led the growth, with healthy 2.6 per cent and 2.5 per cent increases respectively year-on-year.
Growth in new job ads from December to January was a more modest 0.7 per cent.
Seek's New Zealand general manager Janet Faulding said the year-on-year increase indicated a good start to the traditionally busy first-quarter hiring period.
"We expect to see an increase in job ads in January as the new year often sees employers act on back-filling current vacancies or expanding their operations," she said.
Last week official statistics showed that the unemployment rate for the December quarter dropped to 6.9 per cent from its previous high of 7.3 per cent.
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However, Seek's Employment Index, which measures the ratio of new job ads to the number of applications received, shows plenty of people are still looking for work.
The index dipped 0.6 per cent in January, signalling that job applications grew at a faster pace than new jobs last month.
The enthusiasm was especially marked in the Canterbury region, which saw a 9.3 per cent increase in job applications.
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This invention relates to the computing devices in a domain, and more particularly to grouping computing devices in a network into subgroups.
A domain or other large network environment can have hundreds or thousands of related computing devices, each of which has some element of trust for the other related computing devices. As used herein, a domain includes a collection of computing devices that share a common domain database and security policy, where each domain has a unique name. It is useful to divide up the computing devices into smaller, manageable groups. These groups can be useful for system management, for deploying applications or data across hundreds or thousands of related computing devices in the domain, and for distributing computing problems among related computing devices in the groups.
The efficiency of dividing related computing devices into groups can be seen through examples. An application or data can be distributed to one related computing device in a group so that it can share its locally cached files with other related computing devices across the group, such as within a local network. Thus, a group can serve as a related computing device-based caching system. The caching system of the group allows application, data, and data processing tasks to be delivered in a peer-to-peer fashion between related computing devices within the group. For example, when a document needs to be distributed to thousands of users, the first related computing device to receive this document in a group is then able to serve it to other related computing devices in its group. Once other related computing devices receive the file, they can then serve the file to additional related computing devices in the group that are requesting it. As the number of related computing devices in a group that are able to serve others eventually expands, the document will be delivered faster without overwhelming the network or any single related computing device.
In another example where a related computing device can cache content for multiple users on the same Local Area Network (LAN), a series of video files may need to be sent to multiple users in a satellite office. By using one related computing device in a group to first retrieve the series of video files from a corporate server, and then distributing the series of video files in a peer-to-peer model (or using a group cache of the video files) within the group, there will be a significant reduction in the amount of Wide Area Network (WAN) traffic to the satellite office with the corporate server. As such, this kind of efficient distribution protects WAN bandwidth by delivering content to a group once, and allowing other employees to get the content from any related computing device on the LAN in a peer-to-peer fashion. Thus, the content only needs to cross the corporate server firewall and travel the WAN once and is distributed efficiently within the LAN in the satellite office(s). Note that any related computing device on the LAN can receive data, software, or a computing task either from the corporate backbone (e.g., corporate servers) on the WAN, or from any neighboring related computing device in the group from the LAN via peer-to-peer networking.
Since any one group can be configured to have a relatively small membership in a "peer-casting" application, the original related computing device that first receives an application is not overwhelmed with requests from its group peers and as more of the peers receive the application, other peers in the group can go to any group member that already has the application to get their own copy. Further, the load on the original corporate server is significantly reduced since the number of related computing devices that the original corporate server must directly communicate with is significantly reduced.
In some environments it may be easy to define a peer-casting group within which related computing devices can share data, software, and computing tasks. For example, if there are only a few 'close by' related computing devices, then specifying these related computing devices as being in a single group is a fairly easy chore for a system or network administrator. In a domain or other large network environment, however, there may be hundreds or thousands of related computing devices such that it may be all but impossible to directly create and manage these groups. A problem exists in that related computing devices are not dynamically formed into groups, and groups of related computing devices are not maintained automatically. Rather, intervention by a system or network administrator is required. It would be an advance in the art to dynamically create and manage groupings of related computing devices within a domain without requiring the attention of a system or network administrator.
According to one exemplary implementation, a method is described for a domain containing one of many computing devices. The computing device transmits a query and receives back a response from one or more neighbor-casting (NC) groups in the domain. Each NC group includes one or more of the computing devices. The computing device applies predetermined criteria to select one of the NC groups. After the selection is made, the computing device is joined to the selected NC group, such as by association with a unique NC group identifier. The predetermined criteria can be the number of computing devices in the selected NC group (e.g., numerousity), a length of time between the query and the response from the selected NC group (e.g., latency), or a combination of thereof. In another exemplary implementation, when the selected group has few computing devices, the computing device can send a query and receive back a response from one or more groups. By applying criteria similar to the predetermined criteria, the computing device can select one other group, remove itself from its current group, and join the other selected group.
Exemplary implementations allow a computing device to dynamically group itself with other computing devices, to dynamically manage NC groups with which the computing device is in communication, as well as to remove itself from an NC group.
The same numbers are used throughout the disclosure and figures to reference like components and features. Series 100 numbers refer to features originally found in
This disclosure pertains to the dynamic grouping together of related computing devices in a domain, and managing the groups. Applicable domains can have hundred or thousands of related computing devices, although the present disclosure is equally applicable to domains having a significantly fewer number of related computing devices. This grouping is dynamic in that groups of related computing devices in the domain are created and managed without intervention by a system or network administrator. The dynamic creation and management of groups is driven by predetermined criteria as to the number of related computing devices that can be within a group and/or is driven by predetermined criteria as to acceptable latency in response times between related computing devices within a group.
In order to dynamically create groups, a related computing device should have the ability to discover neighboring groups (if any) that already exists in the domain. Once the NC groups are discovered, an appropriate criteria can be applied in order to select which of the existing neighboring groups (Neighbor-Casting (NC) groups) are appropriate. Once one or more NC groups have been dynamically created, they should be automatically managed so that no NC group grows inappropriately large, and so that group membership can be automatically maintained as related computing devices are added to and removed from the domain and/or from a local area network over time.
The dynamic creation and management of NC groups is regulated by predetermined criteria that defines constraints that are put on the NC groups. Once such constraint is a minimum size criterion (e.g., numerousity) that dictates how small an NC group should be (e.g., a minimum number of related computing devices that are to be in one NC group). This number need not be mandatory, but may be discretionary in that a group may be permitted to be smaller, but groups should be at least the specified size. As such, NC groups that are smaller than this number will be managed so that attempts will be made to try to join it with larger groups, if scrutiny of the predetermined criteria deems that they can. For example for small NC groups, a minimum size criterion may be a default minimum of three related computing devices. Another constraint on an NC group is a maximum size criterion that dictates how large the NC group should be (e.g., a maximum number of related computing devices that are to be in one NC group).
Still another constraint on NC groups is a response timeout criterion (e.g., latency). The response timeout criterion that dictates the longest acceptable length of time that a related computing device will wait for a reply from any NC group. The reply is requested when the related computing device transmits a query for existing NC groups and that related computing device is being managed to try to join an NC group. After the expiration of the response timeout criteria, any additional replies are cut off. For example, if an NC group replies after the length of time specified by the response timeout criteria, then that NC group is most likely "too far" away, in network terms of the latency of the response. The response timeout criteria can be a value that is chosen such that an NC group will not span a modem or a Cable/Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) connection (i.e., if set to less that 10 milliseconds, then this values will likely exclude any connection that spans Cable/DSL lines).
Yet another constraint on NC groups is a retirement timeout criteria that dictates the longest time that a group member can disappear (not communicate with any other group member) before other members of a group automatically remove that member from the group. A further constraint on NC groups is a maximum response criterion that dictates the maximum amount of time that members within a group should require in communicating with each other. If a related computing device is moved, it may no longer be close enough for an acceptable latency in its responses and therefore would no longer be an acceptably close neighbor. In this case, it would be more efficient to have the related computing device automatically leave its existing group and join a closer group (e.g., automatically form a new group).
The groups being formed as described in this specification are composed of related computing devices that are in the same domain. As such, related computing devices in each group that is to be formed already have an established trust relationship. While the established trust relationship need not be a full trust relationship, the trust should be sufficient such that non-members of the domain can be excluded from joining a group. Additionally, the creation and management of groups should include criteria that prevent a mistaken joining of a related computing device in a domain into a group with one or more computing devices that are not in the domain.
The forgoing constraints can be used to dynamically create multiple peer-casting groups from larger groups of related computing devices in a domain. In further explanation, this disclosure is organized as follows: Section A of this disclosure describes exemplary implementations of exemplary environments for creating and managing groups of related computing devices in a domain. Section B describes exemplary implementations of exemplary processes to create and manage groups of related computing devices in a domain, and Section C describes both an exemplary related computing device and an exemplary computing environment that can be used to provide the exemplary implementations described in Sections A and B.
A. Environments for Creating and Managing Groups
An exemplary environment is seen in
The logic for creating and managing groups of related computing devices 102(m) in a domain may reside in O/S 104, but may also be fully or partially a standalone application. In one implementation, predetermined criteria for dynamically forming and managing groups can be a component of a Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS). BITS can be an aspect of O/S 104 that is used, for instance, by Software Management Services (SMS). SMS is an application outside the O/S 104 that is used to deploy, uninstall, and/or manage software updates (e.g., such as security patched and updates) for the related computing device 102. The efficiency realized by dynamic group formation and management is that these tasks can be accomplished without intervention by a network or system administrator. Dynamic grouping aspects of BITS can be enabled or disabled and may or may not be exposed for use by third parties as part of O/S 104 or as part of a standalone application.
A dynamic group formation process 120 forms an NC group (k) from related computing device 102(1) through related computing device 102(M) via communications over network 106. Note that the present disclosure anticipates that there is a wide variety of types and kinds of related computing devices 102, examples of which are depicted as being a video game console 108, a set top box 110, an automatic teller machine 112, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) 114, a Personal Computer (PC), 116, a cellular telephone 118, etc. The related computing device 102 can also be a peripheral computing device (a printer, facsimile machine, copier, or multifunction peripheral device) or a server.
Once NC groups have been formed, they can be dynamically grouped together in a likewise manner into meta groups (and so on) to form groups of groups. Accordingly, domain 100 is also seen in
Given the foregoing explanation of
In sum, each group in the domain has at least one related computing device and each of the groups, meta groups, and super meta groups can have a GUID to uniquely identify itself with. Each related computing device can be a node on a logical hierarchical tree structure representing a group, meta group, and/or super meta group. Once groups have been dynamically created, the related computing devices in the groups treat each other as neighbors so that they can do neighbor-casting of data, software, and computing tasks.
B. Processes for Creating and Managing Groups
An exemplary process 400 is seen in
At block 406, a determination is made on the network as to what groups currently exist. For TCP networks, this can be accomplished with a broadcast/multicast of a group query packet (which transmission can usually be made just to the subnet), and then 'listening' for responses within a predetermined timeout length of time. For queries to discover other existing groups in the domain; it may be possible to use SSDP (Simple Service Discovery Protocol) in order for a new computing device to query for existing groups in the domain. The responses to the query can include information about joining the group, the number of current members in the group, as well as any additional group information that can be used to determine membership applicability (e.g., the GUID of the group). Further, the response can be signed with credentials such that it can be known that the responder is part of the same domain (i.e., that the response has an acceptable level of trust), or both sides of the response can be authenticated at block 418, discussed below.
After block 406, process 400 passes control to a block 408 at which the responses are ordered according to the closest (least response time) and smallest (least number of related computing devices) group. Note that if two groups have the same response time then process 400 can be configured such that the first smaller group will be selected. The groups can also be ordered by other group membership criteria as well, such as how busy the members of the group are or by how much availability of machine resources exist for the group. For example, a group with low computer utilization may be a better group to join even if that group has more members than another group that has higher computer utilization of its members. Additional joining criteria can be pre-configured into process 400
After block 408, process 400 passes control to a query 410. Query 410 determines whether the related computing device presently being examined is in a group already. If so, the process 400 move to a query 412. If not, then process 400 passes control to block 420.
At query 420, it is determined whether one or more responses were received from existing groups. If so, the process 400 moves on to a block 418 at which the related computing device is joined to the first and best group as determined by the ordering at block 408. In the process of joining the NC group at block 418, the computing device presently being examined and the group sought to be joined can authenticate each other in order to exclude untrusted computing devices from group membership. If, however, it is determined by query 420 that no responses have been received, then process 400 moves to block 422 at which a new group is created having only the related computing device presently being examined as its sole member. After block 422, process 400 terminates at block 424.
At query 412, it is determined whether one or more responses had been received from existing groups. If so, then process 400 proceeds to a query 414. If, however, no responses were received, then process 400 terminates at block 424. Query 414 determines whether the best response that was received was from a group that would be better for the related computing device presently being examined that its current NC group. If so, then process 400 moves to block 416 so that the related computing device presently being examined can leave the current group and joining the better group at block 418. Otherwise, process 400 terminates at block 424.
Block 418 of process 400 allows a related computing device to join an existing group. If the group is joined at block 418, then the group can be tested to see if the number of members in the group exceeds a predetermined maximum size. An exemplary process 500 for this test is seen in
At block 506, one half of the members in the group are selected to stay in the existing group and one half are selected to form a new separate group. There are, however, several ways to split the group membership. For example, one way is to randomly choose one half the members, and another is to use a predetermined criteria. For example, members can be broken into two groups based on their observed response times within the group (i.e., network distance). Additionally, members that are in the process of inviting another related computing device into the group, such as through communication of responses to queries from other related computing devices outside the group, can stay in the existing group. An alternative is to define an optimum size membership for the number of members in a group, which size may not be the same as one-half (�) the predetermined maximum group size, and then split the group into a group having the optimum size membership—thus leaving the remaining members to make up the other group.
After the selection of group members has been made at block 506, process 500 moves to block 508 at which a new group is created for the members selected to leave the existing group. One of the new group members can randomly be selected, for instance, to create the group. A block 510 follows block 508 at which each of the members selected for the new group leaves the existing group and joins the newly created group. Process 500 then terminates at block 512. Process 500 will effectively manage dynamic group formation and will effectively subdivide the domain into groups of approximately the predetermined maximum group size (or less). Groups, in essence, are able to self manage themselves over time.
As discussed above, latency in a response time can be indicative of the 'closeness' of related computing devices. Related computing devices are isolated if they have slow links, thereby preventing spanning both a local site and a remote site. When a related computing device is looking to join a group and any reply follows a query for existing groups that exceeds a maximum time period (e.g., more than 10 milliseconds for the example of DSL), this latency in the response may be an indication that there is a spanning of a modem or of a Cable/DSL connection, or other wide area network connection. By excluding members from groups on the basis of a long response time, network bandwidth usage is made more efficient than otherwise.
If a related computing device "disappears" from a network for an extended time, in that no communication is made with the related computing device, then the related computing device can be removed from the group by the other members. For example, if a related computing device is retired, sold, turned off, or is manually removed from a group, then after a predetermined retire timeout length of time, the related computing device will be automatically removed by the other group members. If a related computing device is turned off for an extended time greater than the predetermined retire timeout length of time, then when the related computing device is turned back on, the related computing device will no longer be a member of the group it originally joined and will need to rerun a group formation algorithm, such as by using process 400.
A group of related computing devices can have a shared group cache of information or data and a shared database directory of what is in the shared group cache. These are used by the peers (e.g., members) in a group. A shared directory is a database that can be on each peer or in different pieces spread out over peers in the group. This database serves as a library to answer queries that find out what other peers in the group have and do not have, thus reducing data replication within the group, yet expanding intra-group network traffic (e.g., peer chit chat). One peer that needs data/software/parallel process computing can know, via the shared directory, that another is now downloading what it needs so that it will forebear getting its needs and wait until its peer has the needed download before requesting it. As such, peers in a group can share information about what is available by using a shared database directory of what is available on each peer in the group. Thus, each peer will check with the group for a needed download before going out of the group for it. As a needed download is distributed within the group, one peer might have a choice of several locations within the group to choose as a download source. This choice can be made randomly. The information can flow through the group by checking the shared directory and then spreading the load of responding to requests for downloads if more than one peer has the needed download. The shared database directory can also keep information as to whether a peer is now active or is now being accessed so that requests for downloads are sent only to peers that are neither busy nor active.
Implementations presented herein enable dynamic creation and maintenance of groups of related computing devices in a domain. These implementations reduce network traffic and make content distribution more efficient and less expensive due to the dynamic creation and maintenance of groups.
C. Computing Device and Computing Environment.
Related computing device 842 further includes a hard disk drive 856 for reading from and writing to a hard disk (not shown), a magnetic disk drive 858 for reading from and writing to a removable magnetic disk 860, and an optical disk drive 862 for reading from or writing to a removable optical disk 864 such as a CD ROM or other optical media. The hard disk drive 856, magnetic disk drive 858, and optical disk drive 862 are connected to the bus 848 by an SCSI interface 866 or some other appropriate interface. The drives and their associated computer-readable media provide nonvolatile storage of computer-readable instructions, data structures, program modules and other data for related computing device 842. Although the exemplary environment described herein employs a hard disk, a removable magnetic disk 860 and a removable optical disk 864, it should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that other types of computer-readable media which can store data that is accessible by a computer, such as magnetic cassettes, flash memory cards, digital video disks, random access memories (RAMs), read only memories (ROMs), and the like, may also be used in the exemplary operating environment.
A number of program modules may be stored on the hard disk 856, magnetic disk 860, optical disk 864, ROM 850, or RAM 852, including an operating system (O/S) 870, one or more application programs 872 (such as an application to create and/or manage groups of related computing devices in a domain), cache/other modules 874, and program data 876. Alternatively, O/S 870 can include a component that can create and/or manage groups of related computing devices in a domain, such as is described with respect to O/S 104(m) seen in
A user may enter commands and information into related computing device 842 through input devices such as a keyboard 878 and a pointing device 880. Other input devices (not shown) may include a microphone, joystick, game pad, satellite dish, scanner, or the like. These and other input devices are connected to the processing unit 844 through an interface 882 that is coupled to the bus 848. A monitor 884 or other type of display device is also connected to the bus 848 via an interface, such as a video adapter 886. In addition to the monitor, personal computers typically include other peripheral output devices (not shown) such as speakers and printers.
Related computing device 842 commonly operates in a networked environment using logical connections to one or more remote computers, such as a remote computer 888. The remote computer 888 may be another personal computer, a server, a router, a network PC, a peer device or other common network node, and typically includes many or all of the elements described above relative to related computing device 842. The logical connections depicted in
When used in a LAN networking environment, related computing device 842 is connected to the local network through a network interface or adapter 894. When used in a WAN networking environment, related computing device 842 typically includes a modem 896 or other means for establishing communications over the wide area network 892, such as the Internet. The modem 896, which may be internal or external, is connected to the bus 848 via a serial port interface 868. In a networked environment, program modules depicted relative to the personal related computing device 842, or portions thereof, may be stored in the remote memory storage device. It will be appreciated that the network connections shown are exemplary and other means of establishing a communications link between the computers may be used.
Generally, the data processors of related computing device 842 are programmed by means of instructions stored at different times in the various computer-readable storage media of the computer. Programs and operating systems are typically distributed, for example, on floppy disks or CD-ROMs. From there, they are installed or loaded into the secondary memory of a computer. At execution, they are loaded at least partially into the computer's primary electronic memory. The invention described herein includes these and other various types of computer-readable storage media when such media contain instructions or programs for implementing the blocks described below in conjunction with a microprocessor or other data processor. The invention also includes the computer itself when programmed according to the methods and techniques described herein.
For purposes of illustration, programs and other executable program components such as the operating system are illustrated herein as discrete blocks, although it is recognized that such programs and components reside at various times in different storage components of the computer, and are executed by the data processor(s) of the computer.
General reference is been made herein to one or more related computing devices, such as related computing device 842. As used herein, "related computing device" means any electronic device having data communications, data storage capabilities, and/or functions to process signals, such as broadcast signals, received from any of a number of different sources. For example, a related computing device can be a video game console, a set top box, an automatic teller machine, a PDA, a PC, a cellular telephone, a peripheral computing device such as a printer, facsimile machine, copier, or multifunction peripheral device, a server, etc.
Related computing device 842 can include a variety of computer readable media identified as communication media. Communication media typically embodies computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data on an information delivery media.
The term "modulated data signal" means a signal that has one or more of its characteristics set or changed in such a manner as to encode information in the signal. By way of example, and not limitation, communication media includes wired media such as a wired network or direct-wired connection, and wireless media such as acoustic, RF, infrared, and other wireless media. Combinations of any of the above are also included within the scope of computer readable media.
Various modules and techniques may be described herein in the general context of computer-executable instructions, such as program modules, executed by one or more computers or other devices. Generally, program modules include routines, programs, objects, components, data structures, etc. that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types. Typically, the functionality of the program modules may be combined or distributed as desired in various embodiments.
An implementation of these modules and techniques may be stored on or transmitted across some form of computer readable media. Computer readable media can be any available media that can be accessed by a computer. By way of example, and not limitation, computer readable media may comprise "computer storage media" and "communications media."
"Computer storage media" includes volatile and non-volatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data. Computer storage media includes, but is not limited to, RAM, ROM, EEPROM, flash memory or other memory technology, CD-ROM, digital versatile disks (DVD) or other optical storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tape, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium which can be used to store the desired information and which can be accessed by a computer.
"Communication media" typically embodies computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data defined on any information delivery media.
The present invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from its spirit or essential characteristics. The described embodiments are to be considered in all respects only as illustrative and not restrictive. The scope of the invention is, therefore, indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description. All changes which come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims are to be embraced within their scope.
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In the last example, I talked about the beleaguered administrator (is there any other kind?) and suggested this might be a useful tool for them as well. What if you are administering that system from far away? Worse yet, this Internet gateway runs on a budget—it's a simple dial-up connection to an ISP running diald and IP masquerading. When trouble strikes, they call you. Trouble means you use TELNET to log in, check things out and fix the problems remotely. Trouble is, the IP is dynamic and changes with each connection to the ISP. The solution this time is the showppp.pl script shown in Listing 2. The script is simple and lives in cgi-bin. Depending on your web server setup, you might want to rename this one showppp.pl.
Setting up a simple Intranet for your users is a breeze. A nice corporate home page with some popular links to the Internet makes it easier on your resources than having each user start up their browser with http://www.cnn.com/ or http://www.excite.com/ as their start page. If your dial-up connection gives you only a fixed number of hours per month, that time can get chewed up very quickly.
Why not use that same page and give your users a link to a script that will display the IP address of your dial-up IP connection without requiring them to log in to your Linux server? Figure 1 shows just such a page.
Every once in a while, the diald process may get hung up. Sometimes the modem has gotten hung up and diald can't seem to drop it. In either case, the easiest way to get life back to normal is to stop diald and restart the process. Since you are operating remotely and want to make this as painless as possible, you can either do the work yourself or talk one of your remote users through the process. It would be so much easier if they could just type one command, rather than doing a ps ax | grep diald while hoping they kill the right PID and not bring your system down. Listing 3 is a little script to do just that. The user simply types:
diald.control restart
to get things moving again. You can also use the script to stop diald, start it, or shut it down and start a single instance of mgetty in order to pick up a fax (but that's for another time).
You can use this example as a template to create any number of start, stop or restart scripts. When necessary, you can have trusted users log in to your server and run simple administration scripts like this one without risking damage to your system or the equally ominous possibility of killing an important process like init. After all, kill --1 looks very similar to kill 1, doesn't it?
Remember those great little messages for letting your users know they have mail? How about using that same technique to let you, the administrator, know that some important system event needs your attention? For example, suppose you are constantly battling disk space. Wouldn't it be nice if the system let you know that resources are low? With the next little Perl script (see Listing 4), you can have your Linux system send a pop-up message to your Windows workstation alerting you that system resources are low. This script scans disk partitions and reports to client speedy that disk space usage is over 90%. (See Figure 2.)
The Windows winpopup utility is a great tool for the user who still runs a Windows client but needs to get information sent to him from their Linux servers. This script and the earlier mail notification script highlight this flexibility.
By the way, the next item on the menu, the fly—that's just to get you thinking about other possibilities.
In my business, I've set up a number of Linux internet gateways. To make these installations as inexpensive as possible, we set the machines to dial every half hour or so to pick up mail. That half-hour mark is also our cue to log in using TELNET if we need to do some administration work on the machines. Unfortunately, the time on each machine can vary. How about a way to check the time against some reliable source and adjust the Linux server?
The script in Listing 5 is a bit of Perl magic. It opens a socket on a secondary time server, picks up the time, and closes the socket. This is a nice alternative to NTP in that it does not tax the NTP time server's resources. For that very reason, the NTP rules ask that you do not use primary servers if you don't need to. A link to the "Public NTP Time Servers" page is provided in Resources.
Notice the line in Listing 5 that says remote_host="chime.utoronto.ca";. The host specified here is chime.utoronto.ca, but it could be one of any number of machines which offer primary or secondary time services. Consider the rules, though, and visit the NTP time server page for a system in your area and time zone.
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Has anyone eaten in Spanish Tavern?
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Where about's in Newark? Airport, Museuem??
I expect you have checked Chowhound?
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It's not quite Newark, but Liberty State Park has the Liberty House restaurant, plenty of parking and easy to get to from Newark, it's where I've taken people when I pick them up at Newark. Continental food, so choices for all.
There's a ton of Portuguese restaurants in the "Ironbound" section too, the one I went to (and I'm sorry, can't remember the name) had a parking lot.
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Deb - Anywhere in Newark - halfway meeting place to see friends in Jersey. I will check chowhound. I looked at Opentable and trip advisor - neither very helpful.
owlwoman - Is the food good at Liberty House?
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I remember reading on this Forum about a street in Newark with a concentration of Portugese restaurants I can't find the thread but perhaps someone else will remember the location.
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If Weehawken is an option, the Chart House there is good.
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The US' Election Day isn't until November, but it looks like President Obama's got at least one confirmed vote - Obama Boy, the truly supportive musical artist who put together this hysterical video.
In the video, a riff on 2007's "Obama Girl", Obama Boy - whose real name is Justin Brown - admits his affection for the president, leaving him voicemails and shooting hoops with a cardboard cutout of Obama.
"I can't wait for my soulmate, Barry you're the finest candidate," sings Brown.
While singing about the president, Brown drops several references to Obama's gay rights record, including the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell and his support of gay marriage.
"You let us serve openly in the military, I'm so jealous of the first lady, gay marriage will soon be the norm, it makes me shiny and warm," he sings.
For some bonus behind the scenes footage, check out Brown's website. Should Obama Boy and Obama Girl get together for a duet?
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Promising three-year-old Peck needs to start winning if he is to avoid missing more feature races later this year.
Promising three-year-old Peck needs to start winning if he is to avoid missing more feature races later this year.
Joseph Pride trained Title has won today's feature race at Gosford racecourse the Takeover Target Stakes ahead of Jest Crewsin' in second place and Motspur in third.
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