Monday, April 28, 2008

Deadheading

Deadheading is the act of removing spent flowers or flowerheads for aesthetics, to extend bloom for up to several weeks or endorse rebloom, or to put off seeding.Deadheading is valuable to most herbaceous ornamental plants. It can get improved overall look of a plant, give a fresh new look to an otherwise finished or even distracting item, and can promote vegetative and root increase rather than seed production and help retain the plant's healthy appearance.






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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Cache Memory

A CPU cache is a cache used by the central processing unit of a computer to decrease the average time to access memory. The cache is a smaller, faster memory which stores copies of the data from the most often used main memory locations. As long as most memory accesses are to cached memory locations, the average latency of memory accesses will be closer to the cache latency than to the latency of main memory.

When the processor needs to read or write a location in main memory, it first checks whether that memory location is in the cache. This is accomplished by comparing the address of the memory location to all tags in the cache that may contain that address. If the processor finds that the memory location is in the cache, we say that a cache hit has occurred; otherwise we talk of a cache miss. In the case of a cache hit, the processor immediately reads or writes the information in the cache line. The proportion of accesses that result in a cache hit is known as the hit rate, and is a measure of the effectiveness of the cache.

In the case of a cache miss, most caches assign a new entry, which comprises the tag just missed and a copy of the data from memory. The reference can then be applied to the new entry just as in the case of a hit. Misses are relatively slow because they require the data to be transferred from main memory. This transfer incurs a delay since main memory is much slower than cache memory, and also incurs the overhead for recording the new data in the cache before it is delivered to the processor.




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Thursday, April 17, 2008

Bottlebrush

Bottlebrush (Callistemon) is a kind with 34 species of shrubs in the family Myrtaceae. The majority of Callistemon species are widespread to Australia; four species are also found in New Caledonia. They are usually referred to as bottlebrushes because of their cylindrical, brush like flowers resembling a traditional bottle brush. They are found in the more temperate regions of Australia, typically along the east coast and and south-west, and typically favour moist conditions so when planted in gardens thrive on regular watering.






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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Leisure Time

Leisure or free time is an interlude of moment depleted out of exertion and necessary conjugal doings. It is also the time of unrestricted time earlier or after unavoidable actions such as ingestion and quiescent, going to job or organizing a company, attending discipline and doing research, domestic chores, and everyday hassle. The difference between leisure time and enforced tricks is droopily functional, i.e. populaces every now and then do work-oriented assignments for gratification as well as for enduring efficacy.

Most populace like socializing with associates for banquet or a gulp after a tough day at exertion. For numerous adolescent people, having a habitual night out a week is a ordinary fraction of their open time, whether it is combining acquaintances for a slurp in a pub, feast out in a café, watching a movie, playing video fixtures or dancing the nighttime at a guild.


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Thursday, April 03, 2008

Apple Computer

Apple Computer, Inc. NASDAQ: AAPL is a Silicon Valley company based in Cupertino, California, whose nucleus business is computer technologies. Apple helped originate the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II microcomputer and has since further shaped it with the Macintosh. Apple is known for its original, well-designed hardware, such as the iPod and iMac, as well as software offerings exemplified through iTunes as part of the iLife suite and Mac OS X, its flagship operating system.






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