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![]() However, gene sequences can be used to reconstruct the bacterial phylogeny, and these studies indicate that bacteria diverged first from the archaeal/eukaryotic lineage. Although bacterial fossils exist, such as stromatolites, their lack of distinctive morphology prevents them from being used to examine the history of bacterial evolution, or to date the time of origin of a particular bacterial species. For about 3 billion years, most organisms were microscopic, and bacteria and archaea were the dominant forms of life. ![]() The ancestors of bacteria were unicellular microorganisms that were the first forms of life to appear on Earth, about 4 billion years ago. Origin and early evolutionįurther information: Earliest known life forms, Evolutionary history of life, and Timeline of evolution Phylogenetic tree of Bacteria, Archaea and Eucarya, with the last universal common ancestor at the root. The word bacteria is the plural of the Neo-Latin bacterium, which is the Latinisation of the Ancient Greek βακτήριον ( baktḗrion), the diminutive of βακτηρία ( baktēría), meaning "staff, cane", because the first ones to be discovered were rod-shaped. These evolutionary domains are called Bacteria and Archaea. Although the term bacteria traditionally included all prokaryotes, the scientific classification changed after the discovery in the 1990s that prokaryotes consist of two very different groups of organisms that evolved from an ancient common ancestor. Unlike cells of animals and other eukaryotes, bacterial cells do not contain a nucleus and rarely harbour membrane-bound organelles. Once regarded as plants constituting the class Schizomycetes ("fission fungi"), bacteria are now classified as prokaryotes. Bacteria are important in sewage treatment and the breakdown of oil spills, the production of cheese and yogurt through fermentation, the recovery of gold, palladium, copper and other metals in the mining sector, as well as in biotechnology, and the manufacture of antibiotics and other chemicals. Antibiotics are used to treat bacterial infections and are also used in farming, making antibiotic resistance a growing problem. The most common fatal bacterial diseases are respiratory infections. However, several species of bacteria are pathogenic and cause infectious diseases, including cholera, syphilis, anthrax, leprosy, tuberculosis, tetanus and bubonic plague. Most of the bacteria in and on the body are harmless or rendered so by the protective effects of the immune system, and many are beneficial, particularly the ones in the gut. Most are in the gut, though there are many on the skin. Humans and most other animals carry vast numbers (approximately 10 13 to 10 14) of bacteria. The study of bacteria is known as bacteriology, a branch of microbiology. Most bacteria have not been characterised and there are many species that cannot be grown in the laboratory. ![]() Bacteria also live in symbiotic and parasitic relationships with plants and animals. In the biological communities surrounding hydrothermal vents and cold seeps, extremophile bacteria provide the nutrients needed to sustain life by converting dissolved compounds, such as hydrogen sulphide and methane, to energy. ![]() The nutrient cycle includes the decomposition of dead bodies bacteria are responsible for the putrefaction stage in this process. Bacteria play a vital role in many stages of the nutrient cycle by recycling nutrients and the fixation of nitrogen from the atmosphere. Bacteria inhabit soil, water, acidic hot springs, radioactive waste, and the deep biosphere of Earth's crust. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria were among the first life forms to appear on Earth, and are present in most of its habitats. They constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. "Schizomycetaceae" de Toni and Trevisan 1889īacteria ( / b æ k ˈ t ɪər i ə/ ⓘ SG: bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell."Bacteria" ( Cohn 1872) Cavalier-Smith 1983.Scanning electron micrograph of Escherichia coli rods ![]() On this page are a few of our spy camera products for the full range of body worn spy cameras, video recorders, specialist spy cameras, wired spy cameras and wireless spy cameras please go to our main video spy surveillance equipment section. Now you can rest assured that your house and your family is safe and sound as you watch it. ![]() ![]() Other variations of the wireless cameras are those using wifi or 3g. 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The parents of Blackfire along with their council decided to take Blackfire's birth rite to the throne and titles and give them to her younger sister Starfire, this was to calm things down after the destruction the citadel caused,īlackfire was raised knowing the people hated her, she was rejected, shunned and seen as an invert, her parents spent most of their time pandering to Starfire and wildfire so Blackfire was left out of the picture, Pale skin and violet eyes and energy instead of the gold-like skin, red hair, green eyes and energy like Tamaraneans are supposed to have, for this she was seen as a bad omen and an invert. 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The record labels now view the massive iTunes juggernaut as a threat. More retailers means more competition, which is good for consumers. The major labels want nothing more than to break Apple's dominance of the digital music business. Do you think they charge Apple and Amazon the same price for each track and Apple simply charges you more and pockets the difference as a higher markup? The labels would like you to think that, but they actually charge Amazon less for each track, and that's how Amazon can charge you less.ĭo you think Apple insists on the DRM but Amazon has the vision to see that the future of music is DRM-free? Do you think Jeff Bezos is a better negotiator and he was able to get a better price per track than Steve Jobs? Without putting up with DRM? The reason you can find more music on Amazon at a lower price is that the Record Labels want it that way. If it seems a little odd to you that Amazon is somehow able to offer all this music up DRM-free, while the majority of Apple's iTunes Store catalog is still stuck in the old testament world of DRM customer punishment, you're not alone. Every purchase of DRM-ed music, in the face of Amazon's excellent alternative, is an implicit vote for more useless, aggravating DRM on your music. Needless to say, I've been buying as much music as I can from Amazon to vote with my wallet and demonstrate to the music labels that yes, giving the customer what they want does pay. And no evil, consumer hostile DRM! It's almost unbelievable. And there are tons of tracks on Amazon that are actually less expensive than on iTMS, so you get better music for less money without the DRM hassle.īetter quality. The same album is also $9.99 from Apple, but you get DRM. You can generally get the same music for the same price, or less, at Amazon's MP3 store - completely free of any form of DRM! Reg Braithwaite provides an example:įor example, Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 on 256-bit DRM-free MP3 is just $9.99 from Amazon. FairPlay was indeed an acceptable tradeoff when Apple's iTunes Store was one of the few easy and legal ways to get digital music of any kind.īut that's no longer true today. I'm no fan of DRM, but I do accept that sometimes it is a necessary evil. These songs were originally sold at a 30 cent premium, but later reduced to the standard 99 cents.) (EMI and independent artists are also offered in "iTunes Plus" DRM-free format - at last count, around 2 million songs. Songs can only be played on a computer with iTunes or an iPod other mp3 devices do not support FairPlay encoded tracks.Users can access their purchased songs on a maximum of five computers.Users can make a maximum of seven CD copies of any particular playlist containing songs purchased from the iTunes Store.Music purchased from the Apple store comes encumbered with Apple's flavor of Digital Rights Management, known as FairPlay: The iTunes Store is the number one music retailer in the USĬlearly Apple is doing something right.But the iPod, and the companion iTunes Store, have been hugely successful: A quick peek at the first iPod ad provides a little context to how rough that first generation really was compared to the competely polished product we enjoy on store shelves today. The success of the iPod was anything but a foregone conclusion back in 2001. I'm sure that the moment man discovered fire, there was some guy nearby saying, "Too smoky. It's ripe for parody, as Andy Baio explains: Rob's pithy dismissal of the iPod at its introduction has become virtually synonymous with how out of touch the Slashdot crowd is with the rest of the world. But in fact, that quote is part of the body of the news entry, and it came directly from Rob Malda, the founder of Slashdot. I had always assumed this particular quote was written by a random Slashdot user in the comments. It's from the Slashdot article on the introduction of the original Apple iPod back in 2001. You've probably read this classic boner of an iPod quote at some point: ![]() In this article, I'll discuss 5 very confusing mistakes that have caused me to waste significant amounts of time when using the command-line tool known as 'grep' to search for things. This article was originally published in June 2018 and has been updated with additional information by the editor.The Most Confusing Grep Mistakes I've Ever Made - By Robert Elder Introduction Prevent certain commands from being recorded in historyįor more information about the history command and other interesting things you can do with it, take a look at Seth Kenlon's articles about parsing history, history search modifiers, and the GNU Bash Manual.Record the date and time for each line in history.Set the size of your history buffer to a certain number of commands.There are a number of other things that you can do with history: Bash shell users find it in their home directory as. The history file is stored in a file that you can modify, as well. To clear the entire contents of the history file, execute history -c. If you want to delete a particular command, enter history -d. There may come a time that you want to remove some or all the commands in your history file. In other words, this command is run: $ history | grep ssh Removing history ![]() ![]() The command is rerun, but with dnf replaced by ssh. For example, if I want to change my previous command history | grep dnf to history | grep ssh, I can execute the following at the prompt: $ ^dnf^ssh^ You can also use history to rerun a command with different syntax. Now you can start typing a command, and matching commands will be displayed for you to execute by pressing Return or Enter. After typing this, the prompt changes to: (reverse-i-search)`': For example: $ history | grep dnfĪnother way to get to this search functionality is by typing Ctrl-R to invoke a recursive search of your command history. By pairing it with grep, you can search for commands that match a text pattern or, by using it with tail, you can find the last few commands you executed. You can also use history to rerun the last command you entered by typing !!. This prompts history to search for the last command that matches the pattern you provided (in this case, that pattern is dnf) and run it. ![]() I could also access that command by entering: $ !sudo dnf The !3 command at the prompt tells the shell to rerun the command on line 3 of the history list. The joy of history is that now you can replay any of them by using a command such as: $ !3 The history command shows a list of the commands entered since you started the session. To see history in action, open a terminal program on your Linux installation and type: $ history However, most of the basic functions are the same. This article is based upon the Bash implementation of history, so some functions may not work in other shells. Because it's written into the shell you're using, there can be some variation in how history behaves depending on whether you're using Bash, tcsh, Zsh, dash, fish, ksh, and so on. Your computer can't find the history command because it's a built-in keyword of your shell. Which: no history in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin) You can see this for yourself by looking for the command on your system: $ which history If you are an experienced terminal user, you know about the power of history, but for us dabblers or new sysadmin folks, history is an immediate productivity gain.įirst of all, the history command isn't actually a command. The GNU history command keeps a list of all the other commands that have been run from that terminal session, then allows you to replay or reuse those commands instead of retyping them. The GNU history command is one that really changed my work day. As I spend more and more time in terminal sessions, it feels like I'm continually finding new commands that make my daily tasks more efficient. ![]() For example, a developer can define their own attribute type (UUID) for a temperature reading as: F5A1287E-227D-4C9E-AD2C-11D0FD6ED640. A custom UUID, on the other hand, can be any 128-bit number that does not use the SIG-adopted base UUID. ![]() The published 16-bit UUID attribute values replace the 2 bytes in bold in the base UUID. For example, the UUID for a SIG-adopted temperature measurement attribute value is 0x2A1C. This is a 16-bit number (in the case of Bluetooth SIG-Adopted Attributes), or 128-bit number (in the case of custom attribute types defined by the developer, also sometimes referred to as vendor-specific UUIDs). Attribute type (Universally Unique Identifier or UUID).For example, services and characteristics (both described later) are types of attributes. An attribute is the generic term for any type of data exposed by the server and defines the structure of this data. The data that the server exposes is structured as attributes. In the previous example, a mobile device that connects to the thermometer and reads its temperature value is acting in the Client role. It is the device that sends commands and requests and accepts incoming notifications and indications. This is the device that interfaces with the server with the purpose of reading the server’s exposed data and/or controlling the server’s behavior. It can also notify the client (defined later) when a temperature reading has changed rather than have the client poll for the data waiting for a change to occur. It is the device that accepts incoming commands from a peer device and sends responses, notifications, and indications.įor example, a thermometer device will behave as a server when it exposes the temperature of its surrounding environment, the unit of measurement, its battery level, and possibly the time intervals at which the thermometer reads and records the temperature. This is the device that exposes the data it controls or contains, and possibly some other aspects of server behavior that other devices may be able to control. Attribute Protocol (ATT)ĪTT defines how a server exposes its data to a client and how this data is structured. The GATT only comes into play after a connection has been established between two BLE devices. To understand what GATT is, we first need to understand the underlying framework for GATT: the Attribute Protocol (ATT). GATT stands for Generic Attribute Profile. In today’s tutorial, I’ll be covering a detailed step-by-step guide on how to design your custom GATT to satisfy your product’s requirements and go through a complete design and simplistic implementation of a MIDI device using the nRF52 platform.īefore explaining what services and characteristics are, we first need to cover two very important concepts: the Generic Attribute Profile (GATT) and the Attribute Protocol (ATT). ![]() There’s not a lot of info on internet for this subject and I can’t find any for the nRF52 DK. I’m trying to be able to send MIDI over Bluetooth… I’m trying to advertise that device as a BLE MIDI controller… Reader João Neves sent in a question asking about implementing a BLE MIDI controller: ![]() That’s where custom p rofiles, services, and characteristics come in. However, many times you will find that none of these satisfies the use case you’re designing. The Bluetooth SIG defines quite a few standard Profiles, Services, and Characteristics. Keep in mind that GATT is used exclusively after a connection has been established between the two devices, and not during the advertising/scanning states. The Bluetooth GATT (Generic Attribute Profile) is the foundation for the design of any BLE system and defines the way two BLE devices interact with each other. The one thing I wish I had when I started developing for BLE is more resources that walk you step-by-step on how to tackle the different phases of the system design and implementation. However, designing BLE devices can be a confusing process! And we can all agree that smartphone apps have become very familiar to end-users and are very user-friendly. Well, adding BLE allows your device to be connectable from a smartphone app. You’re probably aware that adding Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to your device is one of the best ways to achieve a great user experience for your IoT device. |
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