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"The Solaris™Internals volumes are simply the best and most comprehensive treatment of the Solaris (and OpenSolaris) Operating Environment. Any person using Solaris--in any capacity--would be remiss not to include these two new volumes in their personal library. With advanced observability tools in Solaris (like DTrace), you will more often find yourself in what was previously unchartable territory. Solaris™ Internals, Second Edition, provides us a fantastic means to be able to quickly understand these systems and further explore the Solaris architecture--especially when coupled with OpenSolaris source availability."

Solaris™ Performance and Tools: DTrace and MDB Techniques for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris - $34.99

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IO-Warrior - The "Universal" for USB

Do you know the situation where all you want to do is connect some very simple
electronics to a computer, like a couple relais, switches, or a small display, but the
computer has no parallel port or that port is in use by some other device?

Going to USB for such things so far meant you had to develop specific code for a
USB enabled microcontroller, going through hundreds of pages of documentation,
getting the necessary development system, and finally having to develop a driver
for the thing. No more!

Simple to use

IO-Warrior does answer many of these requirements with an off the shelf solution.
IO-Warrior 40 does have 32 generic I/O pins, IO-Warrior 24 has 16 I/O pins, IO-Warrior56
even offers 50 I/O pins.
The pins can be used for anything, every single one acting as either an input or
output as you want.

For things a bit more sophisticated than just setting or reading a port pin IO-Warrior supports the "special mode functions". A simple command tells IO-Warrior to
enable one of these special mode functions. It is then taking direct control of a couple
I/O pins needed to perform the specific function.

IO-Warrior 40 and 24 support the IIC bus, controlling an alphanumeric LCD and a
LED matrix with up to 8x32 LEDs. IO-Warrior 40 can also control a 8x8 switch
or button matrix and IO-Warrior 24 has a SPI and a decoder for infrared remote
control signals according to the RC5 format. IO-Warrior56 can also control the majority of
graphic display modules, control a 8x64 LED matrix, and its SPI and IIC are faster.

Getting control of IO-Warrior from your software is very simple. On Windows
(any version up from 98 or 2K) you can use any programming language to access
the libraries, including Visual Basic. For MacOS X support does not only
include a library but even goes so far to support access via AppleEvents. Want
FileMaker to open a cash drawer? Just a moment!

IO-Warrior 24PowerVampire is a chip optimized for devices that want to use the USB
primarily as a power source. Four dedicated control lines allow direct connection of power
management chips or high side power switches.

To simplify the process of getting your first prototypes up and running we do provide
starter kits for the chips (not available for IOW24PV). All the basic components and a
few additional ones for initial testing are on the starterkit PCBs.

IO-Warrior - Generic USB I/O Controller / Overview

The IO Warrior 40 is really cool. Works as an HID device in OS X, comes with source code for interacting with it.

IO-Warrior - Generic USB I/O Controller / Downloads

The Spartan phalanx presents itself to foes as a wall of shields, bristling with spears, its members squatting behind their defenses, anonymous and unknowable, until they break formation and stand out alone, practically naked, soft, exposed and recognizable as individuals.

The audience members watching them play the same game: media-weary, hunkered down behind thick irony, flinging verbal jabs at the screen — until they see something that moves them. Then they’ll come out and feel. But at the first hint of politics, they’ll jump back behind their shield-wall, just like the Spartans when millions of Persian arrows blot out the sun, and wait until the noise stops.

It’s All Geek to Me - New York Times - Neal Stephenson Reviews '300'

What is the Beryl Project?

Beryl is an OpenGL accelerated desktop that seeks to provide a free, open source desktop experience to the community that reflects the wishes of the users. Above all else, the project seeks to listen to and respond to the requests of the user base.

Beryl is a combined window manager and composite manager written in C using OpenGL to provide acceleration. It is designed to be highly flexible, extensible, and portable, all the while keeping in mind that the users know how they want their desktops to act better than we do. With Beryl the rather esoteric concept of the computer desktop is brought down to a more human level, allowing for a more native and intuitive understanding of your workspace. To learn more about Beryl and its features visit our Feature Spotlight.

Beryl is a fork of the Compiz project, started by David Reveman of Novell. We continue to port new changes from compiz, and consider them essentially our upstream. Beryl could not have existed were it not for the heavy lifting done both server side by David and in creating compiz, which is the base on which all of our code is built, and which still comprises a large portion of our code, though this is likely to change as the 0.3.0/0.4.0 release cycle gets started.

Beryl-project.org

'Gross oversimplification'

"Our results suggest that the popular journalistic image of rich latte-drinking Democrats and poor NASCAR Republicans is a gross oversimplification," Park says. "Income varies far more within states than average income does between states, and it is these with-in-state variances that explain national voting patterns."

The bottom line, the study suggests, is that little has changed in terms of income's general influence on individual voting patterns: in every presidential election since 1952, the richer a voter is, the more likely that voter is to vote Republican, regardless of ethnicity, sex, education or age.

What's changing, the researchers argue, is how differences in income are playing out at the county and state levels. A key finding is that relative income is a much stronger predictor of voting preferences in poor states than it is in rich states.

"We find that income matters more in 'red' America than in 'blue' America," the researchers explain. "In poor states, rich people are much more likely than poor people to vote for the Republican presidential candidate, but in rich states (such as Connecticut), income has a very low correlation with vote preference."

In Connecticut, one of the nation's richer states, researchers found little difference between the voting patterns of the state's richest and poorest residents. In Mississippi, the nation's poorest state, they found dramatic income-related differences, with rich voters twice as likely as poor to vote Republican.

The study also documents changing income-related voting patterns in counties across the nation. Rich counties, a longtime bastion of Republican support, are generally shifting toward the Democrats. And while Republicans maintain an edge among rich counties in poor southern states, they're doing so with slimmer margins.

These regional differences may be especially important, the researchers suggest, in understanding why the national news media is especially vulnerable to the misperception of the typical Democrat as a rich liberal living in a wealthy urban metro area.

Study debunks journalistic image of rich 'Latte' Democrats, poor 'NASCAR' Republicans

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Description

Everything you wanted to know about templating systems and didn't dare to ask. Well, not everything....

Introduction

Go on, admit it: you've written a templating system. It's okay, nearly everyone has at some point. You start out with something beautifully simple like $HTML =~ s/\$(\w )/${$1}/g and end up adding conditionals and loops and includes until you've created your very own unmaintainable monster.

Luckily for you, you are not the first to think it might be nice to get the HTML out of your code. Many have come before, and more than a few have put their contributions up on CPAN. At this time, there are so many templating modules on CPAN that it's almost certain you can find one that meets your needs. This document aims to be your guide to those modules, leading you down the path to the templating system of your dreams.

And, if you just went straight to CPAN in the first place and never bothered to write your own, congratulations: you're one step ahead of the rest of us.

My choice is Template Toolkit with Catalyst.

mod_perl: Choosing a Templating System