X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Distributed.net


Distributed.net

A cow head was selected as the icon of the application and the project's mascot.

Unfortunately, this initial effort had to be suspended as the result of SYN flood attacks by participants upon the server.


A-Film

A-Film distributed films produced both in the Netherlands, such as Phileine Says Sorry and Black Book, and outside of the Netherlands, such as Hello Kitty videos, A Fistful of Dollars, The Pianist, Dances with Wolves and Bowling for Columbine for the Benelux.

Advisors Asset Management

In 1998, Scott Colyer founded Sterling Resources, a fixed income and wealth preservation company for high net worth clients and institutions in Monument, Colorado.

Alvania beanii

This species is distributed in European waters, from the North Coast of Norway and the North East Atlantic Ocean down to the Canary Islands.

Andrew Herbert

As part of his ANSA work, Herbert played an active role in many standards and consortia for distributed computing including TINA-C, RM-ODP, OSF DCE and OMG CORBA.

Angie's Kettle Corn

The producers, Angie and Dan Bastian of Mankato, Minnesota, originally distributed their product in 2002 outside the Metrodome during Minnesota Vikings home games.

Brian Reffin Smith

In the UK in 1979, Smith wrote 'Jackson', one of the first digital painting programs, for the Research Machines 380Z computer, software which was distributed by the Ministry of Education and widely used in schools and elsewhere.

Canadian Parliamentary Review

Canadian Parliamentary Review is distributed to all federal, provincial and territorial legislators in Canada and by subscription to interested individuals and institutions in Canada, the United States and throughout the Commonwealth.

Carlos Bueno

On the 15th he scored his first goal for the club, against Everton de Viña del Mar in a 5–1 success (also away), coming off the bench at Estadio Francisco Sánchez Rumoroso in Coquimbo; nine days later he also found the net against Oriente Petrolero of Bolivia, a in 2–2 home draw (2–3 aggregate loss).

CarSim

CarSim is produced and distributed by an American company, Mechanical Simulation Corporation, using technology that originated at The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Cathay Organisation

Cathay distributed Golden Harvest films and when Jurong Drive-In screened Bruce Lee’s Big Boss, the line-up of cars was so long that many got out and walked.

Chimney Safety Institute of America

In 1992, Dick Van Dyke, America’s most recognizable chimney sweep, donated his voice talent to the Chimney Safety Institute of America helping CSIA produce a public service announcement distributed to 404 stations across the country in time for National Chimney Sweep Week.

CodeRush

It supports C# 4.0, VB10, ASP.NET, HTML, JavaScript, XML, XAML and C++.

Distributed element filter

Distributed element filters are used in many of the same applications as lumped element filters, such as selectivity of radio channel, bandlimiting of noise and multiplexing of many signals into one channel.

Erythroxylum novogranatense

It was introduced in Bogor (West Java, Indonesia) in 1875, and by 1888 large quantities of seed were already being distributed in South-East Asia.

Etherpad

Localization is achieved collaboratively through translatewiki.net.

Fever Records

The label was marketed and distributed by Sutra Records until the latter went under, which precipitated a distribution deal with Russel Simmons's RAL division of Def Jam Recordings.

Florin Krasniqi

In 1998-99, he raised $30 million from the Albanian community in the United States for the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and smuggled hundreds of high-powered American sniper rifles to Kosovo for guerrillas, which were distributed by his extended family clan in the region.

Homeroom

Announcements may be made, correspondence distributed, and the Pledge of Allegiance said.

Jim Toomey

His cartoon strip, Sherman's Lagoon, is distributed by King Features Syndicate, and appears in over 250 newspapers in North America and in over 30 foreign countries.

John Busby

In June 1825 Busby made an interesting report on the state of the water-supply of Sydney, and suggested that a supply could be drawn from "the large lagoon in the vicinity of the paper mill" to a reservoir in Hyde Park from which it would be distributed throughout the city by pipes.

Justice for All with Judge Cristina Perez

Perez returned to U.S. television following a three-year stint on the three-time Daytime Emmy Award winning, 20th Television-distributed court show, Cristina's Court (2006–09), cancelled due to low ratings.

KDK Factory

In 2013, the company distributed Mohsen Makhmalbaf's feature film, The Gardener in theatrically in North America along with a number of other films via VOD.

Kurt Kuenne

Validation (2007), written, directed, and scored by Kuenne, was distributed through Gay Hendricks's Spiritual Cinema Circle and is a short film about a parking attendant (played by T.J. Thyne) who dispenses advice to his customers.

Michael Marshall Smith

When God Lived in Kentish Town (1998) – a small paperback containing four stories, distributed for free by W H Smith at tube and rail stations around London and in Heathrow airport to promote the publication of One of Us.

Mitridae

Mitridae, known as mitre shells, are a taxonomic family of sea snails, widely distributed marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Neogastropoda.

Nassarius recidivus

This species is distributed in the Western Mediterranean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean off Madeira.

Nery Pumpido

At the 1990 World Cup, Pumpido was at fault for Cameroon's winning goal, fumbling François Omam-Biyik's header into the net as the African nation shocked the defending champions at the tournament's opening game in Milan, winning by a goal to nil.

Net gun

One notable example of a net gun is used in the Predator series of films, most notably Predator 2 and Alien vs. Predator.

New Day Films

Its has also distributed nine Academy Award nominated films including The Collector of Bedford Street, and four Emmy Award-winning titles, as well as films that have been broadcast on P.O.V., Independent Lens, HBO and other national programs.

Newsweek Argentina

The magazine is also distributed as an in-flight magazine in Aerolíneas Argentinas and Austral Líneas Aéreas as a reprint within Cielos Argentinos.

Norman Harris

He also produced several acts, including Loleatta Holloway, Eddie Holman, the Salsoul Orchestra, Double Exposure and Love Committee, for Salsoul Records, who distributed his subsidiary label, Gold Mind Records.

Qijia

Qijia culture, early Bronze Age culture distributed around western Gansu and eastern Qinghai, China

Ragga Twins

The following year a remix was created and a few white labels distributed but the single was never released due to Aquasky leaving their distribution deal with ST Holdings and moving to SRD.

Recession

Economist Richard C. Koo wrote that under ideal conditions, a country's economy should have the household sector as net savers and the corporate sector as net borrowers, with the government budget nearly balanced and net exports near zero.

Ripe Digital Entertainment

The services were mainly distributed through cable video on demand services such as Comcast, Time Warner Cable and FiOS, along with syndication through the AOL, Google and Yahoo ad networks.

Ritek

Confusingly, Rimedia, Ridisc and Rivision are not Ritek brands, but instead come from E-net, a company also known for Datawrite, Datasafe and Tuffdisc brands.

Roy Nielsen

Operation Derby initially focused on black propaganda directed towards German soldiers, but they also issued the undercover magazine Fritt Land, and distributed the bi-weekly magazine Håndslag (produced in Sweden) and the monthly magazine Det frie Norge (from the Norwegian government in London).

Ruairí McKiernan

He is a recipient of a Social Entrepreneurs Ireland award, an Irish Internet Association Net Visionary Award, and a Junior Chambers Ireland award.

Saxtuba

The only other notable public appearance of the saxtubas occurred less than a month after the opera's première, on 10 May 1852, when twelve saxtubas participated in a military ceremony on the Champ de Mars, Paris, in which the President of the French Republic Louis Napoleon distributed the colours to his army.

Sea Princess Azuri

Sea Princess Azuri is an original English manga distributed by Tokyopop and created by Erica Reis (now married and publishing under the name Erica Leigh Currey).

South Dakota State Jackrabbits men's basketball

The team does not have an official television partner, but Jackrabbit games have been televised on Midco Sports Net, Fox College Sports, the Big Ten Network, ESPN2, ESPNU, and local television networks.

Southeast Chicago Observer

Southeast Chicago Observer is delivered throughout the Bush, South Chicago, East Side and Hegewisch, with most copies distributed on the East Side.

Stewart Tele Enterprises

They were Pyramid and was hosted by Donny Osmond in 2002 for syndication and Chain Reaction in 2005 produced by British television producer Michael Davies' production company Embassy Row in association with and distributed by Sony Pictures Television aired on GSN and was hosted by Dylan Lane.

STOIC

at Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) and was distributed by DECUS.

Taurian Fontenette

Video clips of the feat have been shown on ESPN's SportsCenter and also have been widely distributed over the internet.

TheOneRing.net

For example, it was TheOneRing.net that Peter Jackson emailed in an effort to get his side heard when a lawsuit threatened his chance to film The Hobbit.

TrueSkill

Factor graphs are used to "pack up" each team into (\mu,\sigma) pairs on which the update formulas are run; the skill updates are then correctly distributed to each player.

Voronoi diagram

Voronoi diagrams that are used in geophysics and meteorology to analyse spatially distributed data (such as rainfall measurements) are called Thiessen polygons after American meteorologist Alfred H. Thiessen.

William Cottrell

A letter in Cottrell’s defense, signed by Stephen Hawking and other prominent scientists, was distributed to prison authorities and the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals at Cottrell’s October 18, 2006 hearing.

XML appliance

Message-oriented middleware appliances - are hardware devices supporting the sending and receiving of messages between distributed systems.


see also

SlashNET

SlashNET has been host to numerous IRC forums with famous people in the tech industry, including Ken Coar, Marcel Gagne, Richard Stallman, Jamie Zawinski, Matt Dillon of DragonflyBSD, Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda and Jeff 'Hemos' Bates of Slashdot, Rusty Foster and Dylan 'Inoshiro' Griffiths of kuro5hin, and the distributed.net crew.