Friday, April 02, 2004

CCNMatthews: Newswire, Media Directories

CCNMatthews: Newswire, Media Directories: "
16:49 ET Stanley Mourin: Press Release


16:48 ET Media Advisory-1,000 Veterans into 1,000 Schools


16:48 ET Brookfield Properties Corporation: Conference Call and Webcast of 2004 First Quarter Results; Wednesday, April 28th, 2004 at 3:00 p.m. (E.T.)


16:32 ET Ontex Resources Limited: Update on Exploration


16:30 ET Environnement Canada: Des projets communautaires pour r�duire les �missions de gaz � effet de serre


16:30 ET Environment Canada: Community-Based Projects To Help Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions


16:28 ET Grey Island Announces Resignation of Board Member


16:24 ET Western Troy Capital Resources Inc.-Announcement


16:15 ET Musicrypt Closes Private Placement


16:01 ET Dundee Bancorp Inc. Reports 2003 Results


16:01 ET Dundee Wealth Management Inc. Reports 2003 Results


16:00 ET Placer Option Expires On The Fuller Property: Vedron Plans Exploration Drilling For Fuller


16:00 ET First Venture Program Underway on Four Additional Wine and Distilled Alcohol Beverage Yeasts "

AIDA32 - Worldwide Sysinfo Tool

AIDA32 - Worldwide Sysinfo Tool: "
AIDA32 development is finished / Befejezod�tt az AIDA32 fejleszt�se
2004-03-24 02:57 CET (Fiery)
As of March 24, 2004 we have decided to discontinue the development project that we all know as AIDA32. Development of AIDA32 has been started years ago, and the project went first public in April 2001. AIDA32 has become the de facto standard for both home and corporate system diagnosis and network audit, winning several awards including 'Freeware Product of the Year' by Support Alert newsletter in December 2002.
Aida32.hu has well served this project almost without any issues, providing access to over half a million of users in 150 countries worldwide. For the exceptional quality of service, we'd like to send our special thanks to Hunet Kft, our internet service provider and software supplier.
To help you find products to relieve AIDA32, hereby we publish our favorites:
1. Freeware system diagnostics, hardware monitoring, benchmarks
Lavalys EVEREST Home Edition: http://www.lavalys.com
Motherboard Monitor by Alex van Kaam: http://mbm.livewiredev.com
Panopsys CPU-Z: http://www.cpuid.com
ScienceMark 2: http://www.sciencemark.org
2. Commercial system diagnostics, network audit, benchmarks
Futuremark PCMark04: http://www.futuremark.com
HWiNFO & HWiNFO32 Hardware Analysis: http://www.hwinfo.com
Lavalys EVEREST Professional: http://www.lavalys.com
SiSoftware Sandra 2004: http://www.sisoftware.net "

Matrixz Consortium

Ma'trix (ma'triks; mat'riks), n.; pl. MATRICES (ma'tri·sez; mat'ri-; rarely, ma·tri'sez); MATRIXES (ma'trik-sez; -siz; mat'rik-).[L] A place or enveloping element within which something originates, takes form or develops. The natural material in which any metal, fossil, pebble, crystal, or gem is embedded. That which gives form, origin, or foundation to something enclosed or embedded in it.

Thursday, April 01, 2004

Google Technology

Google Technology: "Why Google's patented PigeonRank� works so well
PigeonRank's success relies primarily on the superior trainability of the domestic pigeon (Columba livia) and its unique capacity to recognize objects regardless of spatial orientation. The common gray pigeon can easily distinguish among items displaying only the minutest differences, an ability that enables it to select relevant web sites from among thousands of similar pages.
By collecting flocks of pigeons in dense clusters, Google is able to process search queries at speeds superior to traditional search engines, which typically rely on birds of prey, brooding hens or slow-moving waterfowl to do their relevance rankings.
When a search query is submitted to Google, it is routed to a data coop where monitors flash result pages at blazing speeds. When a relevant result is observed by one of the pigeons in the cluster, it strikes a rubber-coated steel bar with its beak, which assigns the page a PigeonRank value of one. For each peck, the PigeonRank increases. Those pages receiving the most pecks, are returned at the top of the user's results page with the other results displayed in pecking order.
Integrity
Google's pigeon-driven methods make tampering with our results extremely difficult. While some unscrupulous websites have tried to boost their ranking by including images on their pages of bread crumbs, bird seed and parrots posing seductively in resplendent plumage, Google's PigeonRank technology cannot be deceived by these techniques. A Google search is an easy, honest and objective way to find high-quality websites with information relevant to your search.
Data"

Google Technology

Google Technology: "Why Google's patented PigeonRank� works so well
PigeonRank's success relies primarily on the superior trainability of the domestic pigeon (Columba livia) and its unique capacity to recognize objects regardless of spatial orientation. The common gray pigeon can easily distinguish among items displaying only the minutest differences, an ability that enables it to select relevant web sites from among thousands of similar pages.
By collecting flocks of pigeons in dense clusters, Google is able to process search queries at speeds superior to traditional search engines, which typically rely on birds of prey, brooding hens or slow-moving waterfowl to do their relevance rankings.
When a search query is submitted to Google, it is routed to a data coop where monitors flash result pages at blazing speeds. When a relevant result is observed by one of the pigeons in the cluster, it strikes a rubber-coated steel bar with its beak, which assigns the page a PigeonRank value of one. For each peck, the PigeonRank increases. Those pages receiving the most pecks, are returned at the top of the user's results page with the other results displayed in pecking order.
Integrity
Google's pigeon-driven methods make tampering with our results extremely difficult. While some unscrupulous websites have tried to boost their ranking by including images on their pages of bread crumbs, bird seed and parrots posing seductively in resplendent plumage, Google's PigeonRank technology cannot be deceived by these techniques. A Google search is an easy, honest and objective way to find high-quality websites with information relevant to your search.
Data"

Google Technology

Google Technology: "Why Google's patented PigeonRank� works so well
PigeonRank's success relies primarily on the superior trainability of the domestic pigeon (Columba livia) and its unique capacity to recognize objects regardless of spatial orientation. The common gray pigeon can easily distinguish among items displaying only the minutest differences, an ability that enables it to select relevant web sites from among thousands of similar pages.
By collecting flocks of pigeons in dense clusters, Google is able to process search queries at speeds superior to traditional search engines, which typically rely on birds of prey, brooding hens or slow-moving waterfowl to do their relevance rankings.
When a search query is submitted to Google, it is routed to a data coop where monitors flash result pages at blazing speeds. When a relevant result is observed by one of the pigeons in the cluster, it strikes a rubber-coated steel bar with its beak, which assigns the page a PigeonRank value of one. For each peck, the PigeonRank increases. Those pages receiving the most pecks, are returned at the top of the user's results page with the other results displayed in pecking order.
Integrity
Google's pigeon-driven methods make tampering with our results extremely difficult. While some unscrupulous websites have tried to boost their ranking by including images on their pages of bread crumbs, bird seed and parrots posing seductively in resplendent plumage, Google's PigeonRank technology cannot be deceived by these techniques. A Google search is an easy, honest and objective way to find high-quality websites with information relevant to your search.
Data"

Google Technology

Google Technology: "The technology behind Google's great results
As a Google user, you're familiar with the speed and accuracy of a Google search. How exactly does Google manage to find the right results for every query as quickly as it does? The heart of Google's search technology is PigeonRank�, a system for ranking web pages developed by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University.

Building upon the breakthrough work of B. F. Skinner, Page and Brin reasoned that low cost pigeon clusters (PCs) could be used to compute the relative value of web pages faster than human editors or machine-based algorithms. And while Google has dozens of engineers working to improve every aspect of our service on a daily basis, PigeonRank continues to provide the basis for all of our web search tools."

Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Sharing Climate Data over the Internet

Try out these operational servers (or look at the complete list)

NVODS (National Virtual Oceanographic Data System)
PFEL (Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory)
ESSC (Environmental Systems Science Centre)
AVISO (Archiving, Validation and Interpretation of Satellite Oceanographic data)
The Live Access Server (LAS) is a highly configurable Web server designed to provide flexible access to geo-referenced scientific data. It can present distributed data sets as a unified virtual data base through the use of DODS networking. Ferret is the default visualization application used by LAS, though other applications (Matlab, IDL, GrADS, ...) can also be used.

LAS enables the Web user to

visualize data with on-the-fly graphics
request custom subsets of variables in a choice of file formats
access background reference material about the data (metadata)
compare (difference) variables from distributed locations
LAS enables the data provider to

unify access to multiple types of data in a single interface
create thematic data servers from distributed data sources
offer derived products on the fly
remedy metadata inadequacies (poorly self-describing data)
offer unique products (e.g. visualization styles specialized for the data)
Here are a couple of reports about LAS topics

LAS Overview. January 2001.
LAS for In Situ data, a PDF file. January 2002.