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Tin Can Camera: Service Announcement
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Somewhere on the vast net, just merging along with the entire domain. This blog has been hosted on Blogger and uses FTP to publish static files to www.tincancamera.com/blog . Blogger are stopping support for FTP, so you will need to point your browsers to http:/ blog.tincancamera.com. And readers to this feed. Posted by Pete Kirkham at 18:17. Glasgow, scotland, United Kingdom. I have a small plastic duck that has sat on top of my computer monitor since 1984. View my complete profile. Trees, Forests, Vines.
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Tin Can Camera: 2005-04
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Somewhere on the vast net, just merging along with the entire domain. Link: http:/ incubator.apache.org/jackrabbit/. I've had a long interest in CMS, mainly in the model- transformation- model view of refinement in engineering design, and the facilities that CMS common, queriable formats hypertext can give for ambient design capture. Can you embed XMI models in Atom and use pub/sub as the synchronization mechanism and leverage some of the existing infrastructure? Or do we flatten the models to RDF? But a...
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Tin Can Camera: Where does the energy for a solar-powered mole scarer come from?
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Somewhere on the vast net, just merging along with the entire domain. Where does the energy for a solar-powered mole scarer come from? This question was given as an example of a poor science question on the today programme. Today, as the presenters declared that the answer is obvious to anyone with basic literacy and has nothing to do with science or mathematics. For every problem there is a solution which is simple, obvious, and wrong.". The total energy requirement to produce a PV panel is 1,060 kWh/m.
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Tin Can Camera: 2005-03
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Somewhere on the vast net, just merging along with the entire domain. As my annual wont, I spent the weekend in York, attending the Visions. Easter service. Some years I seem to connect with the story more than others; this year I've been working trying to get some major stress analysis codes ported onto a Condor cluster, so it took til Sunday afternoon before I'd switched out of work mode (I then fell asleep and was late for the evening service). Posted by Pete Kirkham at 20:54. As a bit of fun, I am pl...
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Tin Can Camera: 2004-06
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Somewhere on the vast net, just merging along with the entire domain. Posted by Pete Kirkham at 19:50. Last weekend I got round to reading Cryptonomicon. And to resist urge to join the SoJ. Haven't heard from Malvern yet either, though MathWorks is advertising for senior Java engineer for visualisation. Unfortunately, that's in the USA, and I doubt they'd want a teleworker. Posted by Pete Kirkham at 20:13. Over the hills and far away. Posted by Pete Kirkham at 19:43. Thing is, most of the notations I scr...
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Tin Can Camera: Trees, Forests, Vines.
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Somewhere on the vast net, just merging along with the entire domain. Trees, Forests, Vines. There are work-arounds for this, but basically the problem comes down to a mis-match between a hierarchical version control system, where users work on a package and the contents of a package, and a hyperlinked model, where links can exist between different nodes in the hierarchy, and really belong to neither end. Posted by Pete Kirkham at 17:54. Glasgow, scotland, United Kingdom. View my complete profile.
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Tin Can Camera: Returning to N-gauge
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Somewhere on the vast net, just merging along with the entire domain. I'm quite impressed by the quality of modern models, and now DCC is available at N-gauge. I've joined the N gauge society. My digs in Stafford are off Doxey road, next to the location of the LNER Stafford-Uttoxeter line. When I moved in I noticed that the names of the roads were all based on types of wood, so I did a bit of digging and had found out that the area used to be the site of Henry Venables Ltd. To the south (still called Cas...
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Tin Can Camera: Random Lists
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Somewhere on the vast net, just merging along with the entire domain. As kin has support for pattern matching and sequences at its heart, it's natural to formulate a random number generator as a generator of a sequence of random numbers. For example, this is the same linear congruent shift register as used in java.util.Random:. Type lcsr ( seed : uint64 ) : seq [ uint32 ]. Def head : uint32 = uint32 ( self.seed 16 ). Type @actor random source ( sequence : seq[uint32] ). Def next uint32 ( self ) : uint32.
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Tin Can Camera: Re: Why is UML so hard?
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Somewhere on the vast net, just merging along with the entire domain. Re: Why is UML so hard? In response to Why is UML so hard? In the late '90s I was working as a research associate at the University of York. Looking at CASE ( computer aided systems engineering ) tools and notations when UML started to happen to the industry as a merger of some OO notations developed in industry from experience in the '70s and '80s. Quite a lot of the problems I've seen with applying UML seem to come from forgetting th...
