DeskAway is a subscription-based web-based project management and collaboration solution developed by Synage Software.
The product has often been compared to Basecamp
It is mainly suited for small businesses and teams, it has a free plan for online usage while larger businesses and teams can upgrade for a paid plan with more features.
DeskAway is the flagship product of Synage Software. Synage Software is based in India. Sahil Parikh is the CEO of DeskAway and the president of Synage Software.
DeskAway API
DeskAway is built on Ajax and advanced JavaScript. It runs on a Linux platform, is scripted using PHP, and uses Mysql for the backend.
Features
Some of the features in DeskAway
*work analysis and reporting
*twitter like updates
*personal email reminders
*RSS syndication
*user report
The product has often been compared to Basecamp
It is mainly suited for small businesses and teams, it has a free plan for online usage while larger businesses and teams can upgrade for a paid plan with more features.
DeskAway is the flagship product of Synage Software. Synage Software is based in India. Sahil Parikh is the CEO of DeskAway and the president of Synage Software.
DeskAway API
DeskAway is built on Ajax and advanced JavaScript. It runs on a Linux platform, is scripted using PHP, and uses Mysql for the backend.
Features
Some of the features in DeskAway
*work analysis and reporting
*twitter like updates
*personal email reminders
*RSS syndication
*user report
Monochrome BBS, known to users as "Mono", is a text-based multi-user bulletin board system featuring thousands of discussion files, along with games, instant and deferred user messaging, and a talker.
History
The software (mono - small m) was originally written in around 1990 by David Brownlee, then a student at City University, London, for his final year project. Once the board was up and running, fellow students were given accounts, and word began to spread. The first non-City users were admitted in 1991-1992. Another instance of Mono was used for a few years as the official user interface for students in the Information Science department but this petered out around 1996. Eventually Mono's userbase became international, although the majority of those joining were UK university students.
Mono became a vibrant community: Users regularly organised weekend-long events to meet and socialise at various places around the UK, and Mono itself had a very social feel with so much discussion and chat going on in files, by message or in the talker. Like any other healthy community, it has brought people together in marriage, brought children into the world, and mourned deaths amongst its members.
By its peak in the mid-1990s, over 8000 accounts had been created, and there were often more than 150 people logged in simultaneously, making it almost certainly the most popular internet BBS in the UK. However, with the advent of web forums and GUI-based instant messaging, Mono's text-only format began to seem archaic, and it struggled to attract new users. Most of those now using the system are long-time members.
Operation
Mono's interface was designed for ease of use - most operations are performed using single keypresses, and the options available are shown on-screen wherever possible, so it is relatively straightforward for a newcomer to start making their way around without reading lots of documentation.
Files are organised hierarchically by topic into menus and submenus. A file is composed of edits (comments). While reading a file, a user may add a comment to it, send part of it to another user, email it and so on, again using keypresses which are given on-screen. The Esc key may be pressed at any time to provide a menu of additional facilities such as the talker and messaging systems.
The talker takes some cues from MUDs by being composed of rooms, for which users write the descriptions, and a visitor may wander through these using the cardinal directions. What you say is only relayed to people in the same room, and rooms may be locked by their owner for privacy.
The messaging system (u2u in Monochrome slang) allows sending messages directly to one or more other users. If a recipient is logged in, the message is received immediately and the recipient's client displays the message or, if they are in the middle of editing a file, beeps to alert them and displays it when they finish. Otherwise, the message is stored and shown to them when they next connect.
Technology
In the past, users connected to Monochrome via the X25 protocol (using the JANET network) on address 000041002300, and later, when JANET became internet-addressable, telnet was employed. Nowadays SSH is the only supported option. There are a wide variety of SSH clients, such as PuTTY, or users can connect using the Java client on the Monochrome website.
The mono software has a client-server architecture: users connect to the mono client, which in turn communicates with a number of server applications such as md.serv (the over-arching controller), md.talk (the Talker daemon) and md.file (the u2u delivery daemon).
Originally, the client software ran on separate machines from the server software. At the peak of its popularity, there were up to five client machines dedicated to Monochrome, all simultaneously talking to a single central server which both ran the mono server applications and served the files to the clients. This implemented a form of redundancy, in that users could still access Monochrome even if one or several of the client machines failed; however, the server machine remained a single point of failure).
As hardware speeds have increased and the number of users has declined, there is now just a single machine performing both client and server roles.
Most of the communication between the client and the server software uses network sockets, but files still need to be directly accessible by the client (an API for client-server file processing was much discussed but never completed). This meant that when separate client and server machines were used, the server's central file store had to be exported to all the client machines using NFS, which was a major bottleneck.
The Monochrome cluster was historically based on Sun Microsystems machines (most often, old disused or discarded machines from universities or businesses), and has in the past run on DEC Alpha, but the lone machine now is Intel x86. A variety of operating systems have been involved historically, including SunOS and OpenBSD, but NetBSD has been the chosen OS for some years.
Most of the core client and server code is written in C, though a number of additional utilities have been written in Perl.
History
The software (mono - small m) was originally written in around 1990 by David Brownlee, then a student at City University, London, for his final year project. Once the board was up and running, fellow students were given accounts, and word began to spread. The first non-City users were admitted in 1991-1992. Another instance of Mono was used for a few years as the official user interface for students in the Information Science department but this petered out around 1996. Eventually Mono's userbase became international, although the majority of those joining were UK university students.
Mono became a vibrant community: Users regularly organised weekend-long events to meet and socialise at various places around the UK, and Mono itself had a very social feel with so much discussion and chat going on in files, by message or in the talker. Like any other healthy community, it has brought people together in marriage, brought children into the world, and mourned deaths amongst its members.
By its peak in the mid-1990s, over 8000 accounts had been created, and there were often more than 150 people logged in simultaneously, making it almost certainly the most popular internet BBS in the UK. However, with the advent of web forums and GUI-based instant messaging, Mono's text-only format began to seem archaic, and it struggled to attract new users. Most of those now using the system are long-time members.
Operation
Mono's interface was designed for ease of use - most operations are performed using single keypresses, and the options available are shown on-screen wherever possible, so it is relatively straightforward for a newcomer to start making their way around without reading lots of documentation.
Files are organised hierarchically by topic into menus and submenus. A file is composed of edits (comments). While reading a file, a user may add a comment to it, send part of it to another user, email it and so on, again using keypresses which are given on-screen. The Esc key may be pressed at any time to provide a menu of additional facilities such as the talker and messaging systems.
The talker takes some cues from MUDs by being composed of rooms, for which users write the descriptions, and a visitor may wander through these using the cardinal directions. What you say is only relayed to people in the same room, and rooms may be locked by their owner for privacy.
The messaging system (u2u in Monochrome slang) allows sending messages directly to one or more other users. If a recipient is logged in, the message is received immediately and the recipient's client displays the message or, if they are in the middle of editing a file, beeps to alert them and displays it when they finish. Otherwise, the message is stored and shown to them when they next connect.
Technology
In the past, users connected to Monochrome via the X25 protocol (using the JANET network) on address 000041002300, and later, when JANET became internet-addressable, telnet was employed. Nowadays SSH is the only supported option. There are a wide variety of SSH clients, such as PuTTY, or users can connect using the Java client on the Monochrome website.
The mono software has a client-server architecture: users connect to the mono client, which in turn communicates with a number of server applications such as md.serv (the over-arching controller), md.talk (the Talker daemon) and md.file (the u2u delivery daemon).
Originally, the client software ran on separate machines from the server software. At the peak of its popularity, there were up to five client machines dedicated to Monochrome, all simultaneously talking to a single central server which both ran the mono server applications and served the files to the clients. This implemented a form of redundancy, in that users could still access Monochrome even if one or several of the client machines failed; however, the server machine remained a single point of failure).
As hardware speeds have increased and the number of users has declined, there is now just a single machine performing both client and server roles.
Most of the communication between the client and the server software uses network sockets, but files still need to be directly accessible by the client (an API for client-server file processing was much discussed but never completed). This meant that when separate client and server machines were used, the server's central file store had to be exported to all the client machines using NFS, which was a major bottleneck.
The Monochrome cluster was historically based on Sun Microsystems machines (most often, old disused or discarded machines from universities or businesses), and has in the past run on DEC Alpha, but the lone machine now is Intel x86. A variety of operating systems have been involved historically, including SunOS and OpenBSD, but NetBSD has been the chosen OS for some years.
Most of the core client and server code is written in C, though a number of additional utilities have been written in Perl.
"24 Hour Propane People" is the 198th episode of the FOX animated television series King of the Hill, and was the 12th episode broadcast in the 10th season. This episode is rated TV-PG S.
Plot
Buck Strickland gets banned from his favorite strip club, Jugstore Cowboys, after an argument with the club's owner, Keith. With nowhere else to spend his mornings, Buck turns up at Strickland Propane, where he becomes despondent at how boring work is. Hank promises Buck that work can be fun, and proposes surprising the staff with ice cream. They go to an ice cream parlor called the Frozen Cow, where the employees greet and serve patrons with cheerful songs. Buck, enamored with the atmosphere of the Frozen Cow, continues to spend all his time there until he decides to make Strickland Propane a 'fun' place to work and to buy propane in. The new measures to this end, including songs, costumes, facepaint, and fundatory' outings, only frustrate Hank and his co-workers, however; things come to a boiling point when Buck requires everyone to attend an inventory 'sleepover' at the workplace, even handing out Strickland Propane pajamas for the occasion.
As the sleepover progresses with Buck engaging everyone in endless boardgames, Donna, Enrique, and Joe Jack all grow increasingly agitated and Hank struggles to keep the peace while being fed up with the situation himself. Hank reasons that since business has been up since the implementation of all the new 'fun' policies they all need to just tough things out, until he realizes that the only reason Strickland Propane has more money than before is simply that Buck hasn't been helping himself to the business' cash drawer for tip money since getting banned from the strip club. Now determined to put an end to the 'fun', Hank sneaks away from the sleepover to try and convince Keith to allow Buck back into the club; Keith agrees to consider it if Buck apologizes. Hank then lures Buck to the Frozen Cow (allowing his co-workers the chance to escape) and prods him into admitting how much he misses the strip club and had wanted to apologize in the first place; whereupon Keith comes out of hiding and accepts his indirect apology. Buck returns to the strip club, and Hank, to the relief of his co-workers, returns everything at Strickland Propane to normal.
Cultural references
* The episode's title is a reference to the film 24 Hour Party People.
* The ice cream shop, the Frozen Cow, references Cold Stone Creamery.
* Strickland Propane's new motto, "It's a gas, gas, gas!", is the chorus to the Rolling Stones song "Jumpin' Jack Flash" .
Plot
Buck Strickland gets banned from his favorite strip club, Jugstore Cowboys, after an argument with the club's owner, Keith. With nowhere else to spend his mornings, Buck turns up at Strickland Propane, where he becomes despondent at how boring work is. Hank promises Buck that work can be fun, and proposes surprising the staff with ice cream. They go to an ice cream parlor called the Frozen Cow, where the employees greet and serve patrons with cheerful songs. Buck, enamored with the atmosphere of the Frozen Cow, continues to spend all his time there until he decides to make Strickland Propane a 'fun' place to work and to buy propane in. The new measures to this end, including songs, costumes, facepaint, and fundatory' outings, only frustrate Hank and his co-workers, however; things come to a boiling point when Buck requires everyone to attend an inventory 'sleepover' at the workplace, even handing out Strickland Propane pajamas for the occasion.
As the sleepover progresses with Buck engaging everyone in endless boardgames, Donna, Enrique, and Joe Jack all grow increasingly agitated and Hank struggles to keep the peace while being fed up with the situation himself. Hank reasons that since business has been up since the implementation of all the new 'fun' policies they all need to just tough things out, until he realizes that the only reason Strickland Propane has more money than before is simply that Buck hasn't been helping himself to the business' cash drawer for tip money since getting banned from the strip club. Now determined to put an end to the 'fun', Hank sneaks away from the sleepover to try and convince Keith to allow Buck back into the club; Keith agrees to consider it if Buck apologizes. Hank then lures Buck to the Frozen Cow (allowing his co-workers the chance to escape) and prods him into admitting how much he misses the strip club and had wanted to apologize in the first place; whereupon Keith comes out of hiding and accepts his indirect apology. Buck returns to the strip club, and Hank, to the relief of his co-workers, returns everything at Strickland Propane to normal.
Cultural references
* The episode's title is a reference to the film 24 Hour Party People.
* The ice cream shop, the Frozen Cow, references Cold Stone Creamery.
* Strickland Propane's new motto, "It's a gas, gas, gas!", is the chorus to the Rolling Stones song "Jumpin' Jack Flash" .
Pier Dominguez is a writer who was born in Barranquilla, Colombia (1983). In 2001 he published "Amy Fisher: Anatomy of a Scandal." Eventually he wrote about the Fisher case for New York Newsday and was featured on the Amy Fisher segment of E! Entertainment's "Top 20 Cases of Love Gone Wrong."
In late 2002 he published "Christina Aguilera: A Star is Made," an unauthorized biography that landed in Page Six and was excerpted in the Post. It received a negative reaction from Aguilera's mom. At the time he was a student at NYU.
Now he is an M.A. candidate in American Studies at Columbia University.
In late 2002 he published "Christina Aguilera: A Star is Made," an unauthorized biography that landed in Page Six and was excerpted in the Post. It received a negative reaction from Aguilera's mom. At the time he was a student at NYU.
Now he is an M.A. candidate in American Studies at Columbia University.