Idle Days in Patagonia

Utilizing Idle Workstations

The decreasing cost of personal workstations over recent years has led to their proliferation in computing environments. Studies have shown that personal workstations are under-utilized for long periods of time during regular working hours. This paper identiies this under-utilization as the idle-workstation problem. A taxonomy of computational models of systems that have attempted to solve the ...

A novel approach to disturbance rejection in idle speed control towards reduced idle fuel consumption

Idle speed control remains one of the most challenging problems in the automotive control eld owing to its multiple-input, multiple-output structure and the step nature of the disturbances applied. In this paper a simulation model is described for a 4.0 l production engine at idle which includes the standard bypass air valve and spark advance dynamics, as well as the e ects of operating point o...

Divaricating shrubs in Patagonia and New Zealand

There are at least three hypotheses to account for the abundance of divaricating shrubs in New Zealand: 1) Ratites in the form of 11 species of moa, led to divarication for browse protection (Greenwood and Atkinson, 1977); 2) Divarication evolved as a microclimatic shield (McGlone and Webb, 1981); 3) Divarication evolved to aid leaves in light harvesting (Kelly, 1994). In Patagonia before human...

Master's Thesis TCP Idle Scans in IPv6

Port scans are done by an attacker to discover which services are o ered by systems on a network and could be attacked. There are various approaches for port scanning, all providing advantages and disadvantages. One of those approaches is the TCP Idle Scan, in which the attacker spoofs messages of a third computer in order to remain undetected. To see the results of the scan, he utilizes the IP...

Idle thought in Wordsworth’s Lucy cycle