KDE Toys is a collection of several programs in KDE. The toys collection may vary from release to release and may be different on different operating systems. They include programs such as a pair of eyes that follows your mouse pointer and a program to help you brew your tea for the correct length of time.
Shamir may refer to:
San Miguel Mission, also known as San Miguel Chapel, is a Spanish colonial mission church in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Built between approximately 1610 and 1626 The church was damaged during the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 but was rebuilt in 1710 following the Spanish reconquest and served for a time as a chapel for the Spanish soldiers. The wooden reredos, which includes a wooden statue of Saint Michael dating back to at least 1709, was added in 1798. Though the church has been repaired and rebuilt numerous times over the years, its original adobe walls are still largely intact despite having been hidden by later additions. This church is often and incorrectly labeled the oldest church in the US. Sunday mass is still held at the chapel.
The German National Library (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, abbreviated DNB) was established in 1990 during the German reunification by merging the Deutsche Bücherei Leipzig (founded 1912, later the national library of East Germany) and the Deutsche Bibliothek Frankfurt (founded 1947, later the national library of West Germany). At first operating under the name “Die Deutsche Bibliothek”, it received its current name in 2006.
The German National Library is responsible for collecting and cataloging all German and German language publications issued since 1913. The cooperation with publishers is regulated by law since 1935 for the Deutsche Bücherei Leipzig, since 1969 for the Deutsche Bibliothek Frankfurt and since 1990 for the successor organisation, the German National Library.
Duties are shared between the facilities in Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main, with each center focusing its work in specific specialty areas. A third facility, the Deutsches Musikarchiv Berlin (founded 1970), deals with all music-related archiving (both printed and recorded materials).
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The banjo clock, or more properly the banjo timepiece, is an American wall clock with a banjo-shaped case. It was invented by Simon Willard, originally of Grafton, Massachusetts, later of Roxbury, Massachusetts, and patented in 1802. The banjo timepiece is so named because it normally lacks a striking mechanism, an essential feature of a true clock, and indicates time only by its hands and dial.
The banjo style of wooden case usually features a round opening for a painted dial, a long-waisted throat, and a rectangular pendulum box with hinged door. Both the throat and door are ornamented with reverse-painted (verre églomisé) glass panels, and the case is usually flanked by curved and pierced brass frets. A finial mounted atop the case usually takes the form of a cast-brass eagle or a turned, giltwood acorn.
Only 4,000 authentic Simond Willard banjo clocks were made. The style was widely copied by other members of the Willard family of clockmakers and many others clockmakers, both craftsmen and industrial manufacturers. Variants of the banjo-style clock made by others include examples with square or diamond-shaped dials, and the extremely opulent, heavily gilt “girandole” style.
VocalTec Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:VOCL), is an Israeli telecom equipment provider. The company was founded in 1989 by Alon Cohen and Lior Haramaty, who invented and patented the first Voice over IP audio transceiver. VocalTec continues to be a leading VoIP company, with major customers such as Deutsche Telekom and Telecom Italia.
VocalTec released the first ever Internet VoIP program in February 1995. The company went public during 1996, and in 2005, completed a business combination with Tdsoft, a provider of VoIP gateways.
Today VocalTec specializes in providing carrier-class multimedia and voice-over-IP solutions for communication service providers. The company offers a wide portfolio of solutions enabling the flexible deployment of VoIP next generation networks.
Kitchenware Records is an independent record label based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. It was founded in 1982 by Keith Armstrong and Phil Mitchell, and was originally part of The Soul Kitchen, an artist collective and nightclub.
Kitchenware Records currently represents a number of artists in the music industry:
Of this current roster of artists, Editors are currently the most successful, having gained platinum status with their album The Back Room, which also reached number two on the UK Albums Chart. The band’s second album, An End Has a Start, brought the label its first UK number-one album upon its 25th anniversary in 2007.
Sirens, The Motorettes and Kate Walsh have also had chart success in the UK.
Past acts on Kitchenware Records include:
Session Announcement Protocol (SAP) is a protocol for broadcasting multicast session information.
A SAP listening application can listen to the well-known SAP multicast address and construct a guide of all advertised multicast sessions. SAP was published by the IETF as RFC 2974.
SAP typically uses Session Description Protocol (SDP) as the format of the session descriptions, and the multicast sessions typically use Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP).
Commission for the Environment may refer to the following:
In the exchange of information over a communications channel, an
out-of-band agreement is an agreement or understanding between
the communicating parties that is not included in any message sent
over the channel but which is relevant for the interpretation of such
messages.
By extension, in a client-server or provider-requester setting, an
out-of-band agreement is an agreement or understanding that
governs the semantics of the request/response interface but which is
not part of the formal or contractual description of the interface
specification itself.
The call signaling protocol is one layer of the overall PacketCable suite of specifications and relies upon companion protocol specifications to provide complete end-to-end
PacketCable functionality
Network-based Call Signaling, based on the Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP), is the VOIP signaling protocol adopted by the CableLab as a standard for PacketCable embedded clients, which is a network element that provides:
• Two or more traditional analog (RJ11) access lines to a voice-over-IP (VoIP) network.
• Optionally, one or more video lines to a VoIP network
MGCP is a call signaling protocol for use in a centralized call control architecture, and assumes relatively simple client devices. The call signaling protocol is one layer of the overall PacketCable suite of specifications and relies upon companion protocol specifications to provide complete end-to-end PacketCable functionality.
NCS provides a PacketCable profile of an application programming interface (MGCI), and a corresponding protocol (MGCP) for controlling voice-over-IP (VoIP) embedded clients from external call control elements. MGCI functions provide for connection control, endpoint control, auditing, and status reporting. They each use the same system model and the same naming conventions.
The NCS profile of MGCP has been modified from the MGCP 1.0 in the following ways:
• The NCS protocol only aims at supporting PacketCable-embedded clients. Functionality present in the MGCP 1.0 protocol, which was superfluous to NCS, has been removed.
• The NCS protocol contains extensions and modifications to MGCP. However, the MGCP architecture, and all of the MGCP constructs relevant to embedded clients, are preserved in NCS.
• The NCS protocol contains minor simplifications from MGCP 1.0
Morris Cohen (November 27, 1911 – May 27, 2005).
Born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, Cohen spent his entire career affiliated with MIT. He graduated from his undergraduate degree in 1933, receiving his doctorate three years later, and was appointed assistant professor of metallurgy in 1937. He was appointed Professor of Physical Metallurgy in 1946, and an Institute Professor in 1975. He took emeritus status in 1982.
He worked on the Manhattan Project during the Second World War. He and his colleagues developed fuel rods for Enrico Fermi’s nuclear reactor at the University of Chicago.
He has been awarded the gold medal by the ASM International (formerly American Society for Metals) (1968) and the Japan Institute of Metals (1970), the National Medal of Science in 1976, and the Kyoto Prize in 1987.
IonIdea, Inc. is a United States–based company, incorporated in Virginia in 1994.
In addition to its main location in Fairfax, Virginia, it also has customer service offices in California and New Jersey, as well as solutions delivery centers in Bangalore, India and Simferopol, Ukraine.
IonIdea provides software development and IT consulting services for businesses. Typical services include e-business and executive assessments, application and systems software development, requirements analysis, quality assurance, and application support.
IonIdea has 700 employees worldwide, with an estimated 200 of them in the United States.
IonIdeas customers currently include:
They serve their customers in USA, Asia, Europe, and South America. They believe their “long term relationships with customers” is based upon their commitment to the simple values of honesty, reliability, dedication, teamwork, innovation, and customer satisfaction.
IonIdea Infotech customers comprise of almost all major IT development companies in India.
Contact IonIdea Bangalore at : +91-80-66581500
Six ships and one submarine of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Dreadnought in the expectation that they would “dread nought”, i.e. “fear nothing, but God”. The 1906 ship was one of the Royal Navy’s most famous vessels.
Voxbone is a Voice over IP carrier providing virtual phone numbers, also called DID numbers from over 40 countries.
Their service allows users and companies to get phone numbers from any of these countries and to receive the call via SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) or IAX.
The carrier also provides toll-free numbers from different countries.
Voxbone launched a Global Trunk Program that allows customers to share capacity between 30 countries. This innovation has widely contributed to their leadership position.
The company is now sponsor of major VoIP events like VON.
Voxbone is focused on so-called call origination only. Other voice carriers are focused on call termination only, and others are doing both call origination and call termination.
The company is a member of study group 2 of the ITU responsible for numbering evolutions and standards.
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Telkom Kenya is the sole provider of landline phone services in Kenya. It was previously a part of the Kenya Posts and Telecommunications Corporation which was the sole provider of both postal and telecommunication services. The company operates and maintains the infrastructure over which Kenya’s various internet service providers operate. As of 2004, most internet service is provided via dial-up service. Jambonet, an important Kenyan ISP, is a subsidiary of Telkom Kenya.
WinDiff is a graphical file comparison program published by Microsoft, and is distributed with certain versions of Microsoft Visual Studio as well as by source with the Platform SDK code samples.
Standalone downloads:
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In software engineering, a test suite (more formally known as a validation suite) is a collection of test cases that are intended to be used as input to a software program to show that it has some specified set of behaviors (i.e., the behaviors listed in its specification).
A test suite often also contains detailed instructions or goals for each collection of test cases and information on the system configuration to be used during testing. A group of test cases may also contain prerequisite states or steps, and descriptions of the following tests.
Collections of test cases are sometimes incorrectly termed a test plan. They may also be called a test script, or even a test scenario.
An executable test suite is a test suite that is ready to be executed. This usually means that there exists a test harness that is integrated with the suite and such that the test suite and the test harness together can work on a sufficiently detailed level to correctly communicate with the system under test (SUT).
A test suite for a primality testing subroutine might consist of a list of numbers and their primality (prime or composite), along with a testing subroutine. The testing subroutine would supply each number in the list to the primality tester, and verify that the result of each test is correct.
The counterpart of an executable test suite is an abstract test suite. However, often terms test suites and test plans are used, roughly with the same meaning as executable and abstract test suites, respectively.
Four Royal Navy ships have been named HMS Grenville. Vice Admiral Sir Richard Grenville was an Elizabethan sailor, explorer, and soldier:
The Royal Canadian Navy also operated a fishery protection vessel, HMCS Grenville, launched in Toronto in 1915.