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The lab also supported a number of Sun Microsystems thin clients for use by students enrolled in AP Computer Science.
In 2008, the school received a grant from Sun Microsystems for $388,048, which was student-written.
The Syslab was given 7 Sun workstations, 12 Sun servers, and 145 Sun Rays for distribution throughout the school.
These were placed in the existing AP Computer Science Lab and the science classrooms, support backend services, and serve as kiosks placed around the school for guests, students, and faculty.
However, the Sun Rays were taken out of the AP Computer Science Lab due to teachers' objections.
By 2014, the Sun Ray clients were decommissioned, and replaced with Linux-based thin clients running LTSP.
In 1997, 2000, 2013, and 2017, the wind ensemble of the school was among fifteen high-school bands invited to the Music for All National Concert Band Festival in Indianapolis.
Microsoft Visio
Microsoft Visio ( ) (formerly Microsoft Office Visio) is a diagramming and vector graphics application and is part of the Microsoft Office family.
The product was first introduced in 1992, made by the Shapeware Corporation.
It was acquired by Microsoft in 2000.
Microsoft made Visio 2013 for Windows available in two editions: Standard and Professional.
The Standard and Professional editions share the same interface, but the Professional edition has additional templates for more advanced diagrams and layouts, as well as capabilities intended to make it easy for users to connect their diagrams to data sources and to display their data graphically.
The Professional edition features three additional diagram types, as well as intelligent rules, validation, and subprocess (diagram breakdown).
Visio Professional is also offered as an additional component of an Office365 subscription.
On 22 September 2015, Visio 2016 was released alongside Microsoft Office 2016.
A few new features have been added such as one-step connectivity with Excel data, information rights management (IRM) protection for Visio files, modernized shapes for office layout, detailed shapes for site plans, updated shapes for floor plans, modern shapes for home plans, IEEE compliant shapes for electrical diagrams, new range of starter diagrams, and new themes for the Visio interface.
Database modeling in Visio revolves around a Database Model Diagram (DMD).
All of the previous versions of Visio used VSD, the proprietary binary-file format.
Visio 2010 added support for the VDX file format, which is a well-documented XML Schema-based ("DatadiagramML") format, but still uses VSD by default.
Visio 2013 drops support for writing VDX files in favor of the new VSDX and VSDM file formats, and uses them by default.
Created based on Open Packaging Conventions (OPC) standard (ISO 29500, Part 2), a VSDX or VSDM file consists of a group of XML files archived inside a Zip file.
VSDX and VSDM files differ only in that VSDM files may contain macros.
Since these files are susceptible to macro virus infection, the program enforces strict security on them.
While VSD files use LZW-like lossless compression, VDX is not compressed.
Hence, a VDX file typically takes up 3 to 5 times more storage.
VSDX and VSDM files use the same compression as Zip files.
Visio also supports saving files in SVG files, other diagramming files and images.
However, images cannot be opened.
Visio began as a standalone product produced by Shapeware Corporation; version 1.0 shipped in 1992.
A pre-release, Version 0.92, was distributed free on a floppy disk along with a Microsoft Windows systems readiness evaluation utility.
In 1995, Shapeware Corporation changed their name to Visio Corporation to take advantage of market recognition and related product equity.
Microsoft acquired Visio in 2000, re-branding it as a Microsoft Office application.
Like Microsoft Project, however, it has never been officially included in any of the bundled Office suites (although it was on the disk for Office 2003 and could be installed if users knew it was there ).
Microsoft included a Visio for Enterprise Architects edition with some editions of Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Visual Studio 2005.
Along with Microsoft Visio 2002 Professional, Microsoft introduced Visio Enterprise Network Tools and Visio Network Center.
Visio Enterprise Network Tools was an add-on product that enabled automated network and directory services diagramming.
Visio Network Center was a subscription-based website where users could locate the latest network documentation content and exact-replica network equipment shapes from 500 leading manufacturers.
The former has been discontinued, while the latter's shape-finding features are now integrated into the program itself.
Visio 2007 was released on November 30, 2006.
Microsoft Visio adopted ribbons in its user interface in Visio 2010.
Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook (to some extents) had already adopted the ribbon with the release of Microsoft Office 2007.
November 19, 2012: BPMN 2.0 was utilized within Microsoft Visio.
There are no Visio versions 7, 8, or 9, because after Microsoft acquired and branded Visio as a Microsoft Office product, the Visio version numbers followed the Office version numbers.
Version 13 was skipped due to triskaidekaphobia.
Visio does not have a Mac OS X version, which has led to the growth of several third party applications which can open and edit Visio files on Mac.
On 7 May 2001, Microsoft introduced "Visio Enterprise Network Tools" (VENT), an add-on for Visio 2002 scheduled for release on 1 July 2001, and "Visio Network Center", a subscription-based web service for IT professionals who use Microsoft Visio for computer network diagramming.
VENT was discontinued on 1 July 2002 because of very low customer demand.
ECF
ECF may refer to:
Franz Lachner
Franz Paul Lachner (2 April 1803 – 20 January 1890) was a German composer and conductor.
Lachner was born in Rain am Lech to a musical family (his brothers Ignaz, Theodor and Vinzenz also became musicians).
He studied music with Simon Sechter and Maximilian, the Abbé Stadler.
He conducted at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna.
In 1834, he became "Kapellmeister" at Mannheim.
As a result of composers' aesthetic comparisons of Beethoven's symphonic output with efforts afterwards, in 1835, there was a competition in Vienna for the best new symphony sponsored by Tobias Haslinger of the music publishing firm with no fewer than 57 entries.
Lachner received first prize with his 5th Symphony "Sinfonia passionata, or Preis-Symphonie" and became royal "Kapellmeister" at Munich, becoming a major figure in its musical life, conducting at the opera and various concerts and festivals.
His career there came to a sudden end in 1864 after Richard Wagner's disciple Hans von Bülow took over Lachner's duties.
Lachner remained officially in his post on extended leave for a few years until his contract expired.
See: List of compositions by Franz Lachner
Lachner was a well-known and prolific composer in his day, though he is not now considered a major composer.
His work, influenced by Ludwig van Beethoven and his friend Franz Schubert, is regarded as competent and craftsman-like, but is now generally little known.
Among his greatest successes were his opera "Catharina Cornaro" (1841, preceding Donizetti's opera by three years), his "Requiem", and his seventh orchestral suite (1881).
In the present day it may be his organ sonatas (Opp.
175, 176, 177) and chamber music, in particular his music for wind instruments, that receive the most attention, though his string quartets and some of his eight symphonies have been performed and recorded.
His songs, some of which are set to the same texts that Schubert used, contributed to the development of the German Lied.
For performances of Luigi Cherubini's "Médée" in Frankfurt in 1855, Lachner composed recitatives to replace the original spoken dialogue, and it was this version, translated into Italian, which was used in many twentieth-century revivals and recordings of that opera.
Visio Corporation
Visio Corporation was a software company based in Seattle, Washington, USA.
Its principal product was a diagramming application software of the same name.
It was acquired by Microsoft and is now in a division of that company, which continues to develop the application under the name Microsoft Visio.
Axon Corporation was incorporated May 1, 1989, shortly after Jeremy Jaech left Aldus.
Later, in summer 1990, Jeremy Jaech and Ted Johnson met to come up with the initial product definition and then in the fall of 1990 recruited Dave Walter as their third founder.
All of its founders came from Aldus Corporation: Jeremy Jaech and Dave Walter were two of Aldus's original founders, and Ted Johnson was the lead developer of Aldus PageMaker for Windows.
In 1992, before it had released a single product, the company changed its name to Shapeware.
It finally released its first application, Visio, in November of that year.
When Shapeware released Visio 4.0 on August 18, 1995, it was one of the first applications developed specifically for Windows 95.
In November 1995, Shapeware changed its own name to Visio and on November 9, 1995, marked its initial public offering of stock under the ticker VSIO.
On January 7, 2000, Microsoft Corporation acquired Visio in a stock swap.
Microsoft gave Visio shareholders 0.45 Microsoft shares for each Visio share.
Based on the value of Microsoft stock when the deal closed the trade was worth approximately US$1.5 billion.
This was Microsoft's largest acquisition until they acquired aQuantive.
Richard Hieb
Richard James Hieb (born September 21, 1955 in Jamestown, North Dakota) is a former NASA astronaut and a veteran of three space shuttle missions.
He was a mission specialist on STS-39 and STS-49, and was a payload commander on STS-65.
After leaving NASA he worked at AlliedSignal and Orbital before spending 14 years as an executive at Lockheed Martin.
He is currently a faculty member in the University of Colorado Boulder Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department.
Hieb's family originates from many places in Europe, and includes one line that came to the Americas in the 1600s.
The name Hieb is of German origin.
His mother was a long time elementary school teacher at Lincoln Elementary in Jamestown, North Dakota and his father was a transport driver before retiring and operating a small business buying and selling antiques and specialty items where he was a well-known figure at sales around eastern North Dakota.
Hieb received a bachelor of arts degree in math and physics from Northwest Nazarene College in 1977.
He went on to graduate from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1979 with a master of science degree in aerospace engineering.
Upon graduation from CU/Boulder, Hieb went to NASA/JSC to work in crew procedures development and crew activity planning.
He worked in the Mission Control Center on the ascent team for STS-1, and during rendezvous phases on numerous subsequent flights.
He has an extensive background in on-orbit procedures development, particularly in rendezvous and proximity operations.
Selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate in June 1985, Hieb qualified July 1986 for assignment as a mission specialist on future Space Shuttle flight crews.
A veteran of three space flights, Hieb flew on STS-39 in 1991, STS-49 in 1992, and STS-65 in 1994.
He logged over 750 hours in space, including over 17 hours of EVA (space walk), traveling over 13 million miles.
Hieb first flew on the crew of STS-39, an unclassified Department of Defense mission which launched on April 28, 1991 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.