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Friday, 26 April 2013 00:10 |
In New Zealand when entering words in Māori there are a number of words that use a macrons over certain characters. A macron is a horizontal bar over the character. This is used to emphasise the pronounciation of the word. In most cases it lengthens the sound. You can get more advice on their use from website for Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori (the Māori Language Commission).
Here are some examples of words that use macrons:
Māori
Tēnā koe
Ngā mihi
What's the problem?
The Māori macron is part of an extended Character Set that requires the implementation of what is called Unicode, or more specifically UTF-8. Originally text characters were encoded ( ie given numbers that computers deal with) in the range of 0 to 255, in what was called ASCII. This did include some latin characters used in French and German. These were based on a computer using just one byte ( giving the 256 character range) per text character.
With other languages needing to use computers, ie Chinese, Japanese, and Middle Eastern, extended character sets were created that used 2 or more bytes per character - some even vary the number of bytes per character of text to optimise file sizes. UTF-8 uses one byte for any ASCII characters, which have the same code values in both UTF-8 and ASCII encoding, and up to four bytes for other characters
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A Simple Server Cluster Design |
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Tags: cluster server moodle This item is the first of a series I will be doing to document a simple Server Cluster design that I have used.This has come about from requests in the Moodle community where clustering of servers is required to provide redundancy and increased performance.
 The design will be deployed on two physical servers, using a Virtual Machine environment with four virtual servers per machine. Each server will host a load balancer, a web server, a file server, and a database.
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Perseid Meteor from Space |
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This stunning photograph taken by NASA astronaut Ron Garan through a space station window, a single Perseid meteor was captured as the piece of comet dust slammed into the Earth's atmosphere.
Such beauty!!
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Privacy and Security Issues with Cloud Computing |
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Written by Administrator
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Saturday, 18 June 2011 20:16 |
For some time I've watched as New Zealand businesses have been seduced by the so called advantages of Cloud Computing.
In a manner similar to drug pushers, they dole out free "hits", they eschew free services that entice business owners to send their IT provisioning to places unknown overseas. The glamour of the websites, extolling these services, appears to induce a feeling of security, all the while containing many a fish hook.
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Last Updated on Monday, 20 June 2011 00:18 |
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Written by Administrator
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Saturday, 06 August 2011 23:01 |
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From the TED Conference in Edinburgh July 2011
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Last Updated on Monday, 08 August 2011 07:53 |
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A Peek at Moodle 2.0 - Part 2 |
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Written by Administrator
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Saturday, 01 January 2011 19:12 |
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 In this article I will look at the new ways in which Moodle 2.0 handles files and resources.
Moodle Resources
In Moodle "Resources" are the documents and files we use to present information, or content for our Courses. They may be text, graphics, or multi-media.
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When selecting a resource in Moodle 1.*
we had the following options
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In Moodle 2.0 this is now updated to:
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Last Updated on Saturday, 01 January 2011 20:22 |
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