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The multidisciplinary essays in Configuring History describe how teachers can use virtual reality technology to teach the Harlem Renaissance. Describing in detail the construction of Virtual Harlem, Bronzeville, and Montmartre - all important sites in African American cultural history - the essays delineate the technologies employed in the construction of these cityscapes and the learning theory - configuring history - that informs the project. The book provides a model of a collaborative learning network, linking classrooms at universities in the United States and in Europe, and demonstrates the importance of collaboration between the sciences and the humanities for the future development of instructional technologies.
The legal and technical rules governing flows of information are out of balance, argues Julie E. Cohen in this original analysis of information law and policy. Flows of cultural and technical information are overly restricted, while flows of personal information often are not restricted at all. The author investigates the institutional forces shaping the emerging information society and the contradictions between those forces and the ways that people use information and information technologies in their everyday lives. She then proposes legal principles to ensure that people have ample room for cultural and material participation as well as greater control over the boundary conditions that govern flows of information to, from, and about them.
The Articles of Configuration: What happened before Genesis began? The scriptures amazingly describe the material building blocks of the earth before our earthly sphere was formed. But, even more amazing, is that the invisible blueprints describing the formation of the universe and its lifeforms are hidden in plain sight in the scriptures-in the form of flashback descriptions of what happened before Genesis 1:1. The problem of mankind understanding these blueprints has been that advancements in science were necessary to understand what has been written from antiquity. Science and theology has been locked together in a mighty struggle of ideas. The process, at times, has been ugly as a caterpillar chomping on leaves, regurgitating and trying to build a cocoon of how the universe is really constituted. But this cocoon, like the human brain, has an inside tension between left brained logic and right brained dreaming. A mighty struggle ensues and at last a butterfly emerges from the cocoon and its glistening wings dry in the sun. As the butterfly discovers its destiny and ascends in flight into the brilliant blue sky filled with fluffy white clouds, a serene revelation of peace envelops the butterfly. It realizes that its one wing of science and its other wing of theology are working in harmony under a Master control. Thrilled and awed, the butterfly uses both wings to ascend far above worldly ideas into realms that it once only dreamed of.
Studying the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) through the lens of international relations (IR) theory, Chen argues that it is inappropriate to treat the AIIB as either a revisionist or a complementary institution. Instead, the bank is still evolving and the interaction of power, interests, and status that will determine whether the bank will go wild. Theoretically, the current shape of the AIIB will influence global strategic conditions and global perceptions of the bank itself, consequently affecting China’s level of dissatisfaction with its power and status in the international financial system and maneuvering in the AIIB. To empirically show that, this book presents the evolution of the AIIB, compares the bank with its main competitors in the Asia-Pacific region, and conducts ten comparative case studies to show how countries around the world have positioned themselves in response to the emergence of the AIIB. This book presents critical insights for scholars and foreign-policy practitioners to understand China’s surging influence in international organizations and how China can shape the world order. It should prove of interest to students and scholars of IR, strategic studies, China Studies, Asian Studies, developmental studies, economics, and global finance.
The Perfect Reference for the Multitasked System AdministratorsThe new version of Exchange is an ambitious overhaul that tries to balance the growing needs for performance, cost effectiveness, and security. For the average system administrator, it will present a difficult migration path from earlier versions and a vexing number of new features. How to Cheat will help you get Exchange Server 2007 up and running as quickly and safely as possible.• Understand Exchange 2007 PrerequisitesReview hardware and software requirements, Active Directory requirements, and more.• Manage Recipient FilteringCreate a custom MMC that contains the Exchange 2007 Recipients work center, which can be used, for example, by the helpdesk staff in your organization.• Manage Outlook AnywhereOutlook Anywhere makes it possible for your end users to remotely access their mailboxes from the Internet using their full Outlook clients.• Manage Outlook Web Access 2007See how Outlook Web Access 2007 was completely rewritten in managed code to make it scale even better.• Use the Exchange 2007 Queue ViewerYou can now view information about queues and examine the messages held within them.• Master Powerful Out-of-the-Box Spam ProtectionThe Edge Transport server supports SMTP, provides several antispam filtering agents, and supports antivirus extensibility.• Manage a Single-Copy Cluster-Based SetupSCC-based cluster provides service failover and still has a single point of failure when it comes to the databases.• Recover Mailbox DatabasesUse the improved database portability feature to port and recover a Mailbox database to any server in the Exchange 2007 organization. - Essential information for the multi-tasked System Administrator charged perform everyday tasks - Includes the latest coverage of the major new release of Exchange Server - Emphasizes best-practice security measures for all areas and in particular the area of remote access via Outlook
Studying the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) through the lens of international relations (IR) theory, Chen argues that it is inappropriate to treat the AIIB as either a revisionist or a complementary institution. Instead, the bank is still evolving and the interaction of power, interests, and status that will determine whether the bank will go wild. Theoretically, the current shape of the AIIB will influence global strategic conditions and global perceptions of the bank itself, consequently affecting China’s level of dissatisfaction with its power and status in the international financial system and maneuvering in the AIIB. To empirically show that, this book presents the evolution of the AIIB, compares the bank with its main competitors in the Asia-Pacific region, and conducts ten comparative case studies to show how countries around the world have positioned themselves in response to the emergence of the AIIB. This book presents critical insights for scholars and foreign-policy practitioners to understand China’s surging influence in international organizations and how China can shape the world order. It should prove of interest to students and scholars of IR, strategic studies, China Studies, Asian Studies, developmental studies, economics, and global finance.
Build cloud native observability pipelines with minimal footprints and high-performance throughput—all with Fluent Bit, Kubernetes, and your favorite visualization and analytics tools. Logs and Telemetry is an all-practical guide to monitoring both cloud-native and traditional environments with the Fluent Bit observability tool. It takes you from the basics of collecting app logs, all the way to filtering, routing, enriching and transforming logs, metrics, and traces. Inside Logs and Telemetry you’ll learn how to: • Deploy Fluent Bit for telemetry (log, metric, and trace) collection • Configure pipelines to filter, route, and transform data • Integrate Fluent Bit with containers and Kubernetes • Configure Fluent Bit to work with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and other open source tech • Monitor applications at scale with minimal footprint • Address challenges in Kubernetes-based ecosystems using Fluent Bit • Utilize Fluent Bit for real-time event analytics to derive new metrics and insights • Develop custom filters, inputs, and outputs for unique or reusable use cases Logs and Telemetry draws on both the input and support of key committers and founders of Fluent Bit, and author Phil Wilkins’ years of experience in DevOps. Inside, you’ll see how you can integrate Fluent Bit with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, FluentD deployments, and more. Learn how Fluent Bit can not only meet all the demands of cloud-native use cases, but also more traditional deployments as well. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the technology Fluent Bit is a super-fast lightweight observability tool that’s perfect for Kubernetes and containers, as well as traditional IT environments. Fluent Bit makes it a snap to extract meaning from the logs, traces, and other performance metrics generated by your applications and infrastructure. It’s also a great way to route telemetry to analysis tools like Prometheus and Grafana. About the book Logs and Telemetry shows you how to turn systems data into actionable insights using Fluent Bit. You’ll start by learning the pre-built plugins for common use cases and progress to integration with powerful tools like OpenTelemetry and real-time analytical event processing. You’ll use plugins to configure routing, filtering and processing, automate your observability with Lua scripts, and configure Fluent Bit to meet the demands of highly scalable environments. What's inside • Deploy Fluent Bit for telemetry collection • Configure pipelines to filter, route, and transform data • Integrate Fluent Bit with containers and Kubernetes • Monitor applications at scale About the reader For developers, DevOps engineers, and SREs working with observability. About the author Phil Wilkins has spent over 25 years in the software industry from multinationals to software startups. He is the author of Logging in Action. The technical editor on this book was Karthik Gaekwad. Table of Contents Part 1 1 Introduction to Fluent Bit 2 From zero to “Hello, World” Part 2 3 Capturing inputs 4 Getting inputs from containers and Kubernetes 5 Outputting events 6 Parsing to extract more meaning 7 Filtering and transforming events Part 3 8 Stream processors for time series calculations and filtering 9 Building processors and Fluent Bit extension options 10 Building plugins 11 Putting Fluent Bit into action: An enterprise use case Appendix A Installations Appendix B Useful resources Appendix C Comparing Fluent Bit and Fluentd