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acpi patch
ACPI kernel patch suggestion Here's a posting that Jincao found which talks about getting acpi (and video!) working on a zt1130. I havnt tried this, so would be interested to hear of others who succeed with it. Hi Adrian: Attached is that post from newsgroup comp.os.linux.portable. I just followed the steps mentioned....
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Adrian West - contact information
Adrian J. West - contact information I am now at Transitive Technologies in the centre of Manchester. Previously, I was at the Advanced Interfaces Group, Dept. Computer Science, the University of Manchester. email: adrian.west@which.net Adrian's home page
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Information Visualisation
Virtual environments for visualising information For some applications, such as architectural CAD, its fairly obvious how you would start to place them in a 3D VR environment. In other cases there are fewer clues asto how information should be represented in 3D. Financial systemsM, applications that deal with...
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MSc Projects
MSc Projects Research Students undertake substantial full-time projects taking either a half, or a full year depending on their degree programme. Here is this years list of projects that I supervise. For reference, here are some of the project lists from recent years. MSc projects 1999/2000 MSc projects 1998/9...
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MSc projects 00/01
MSc projects 00/01 Below are the three projects I am offering for MSc. students this year. Being and Queueing Network Central Red Alert Being and Queing Staff announcement, service 500, member of staff from plumbing to the checkout, customer waiting.... A common experience in large DIY stores is to be standing...
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MSc projects 95/6
MS.c. Projects 95/6 Adrian West An automated laboratory marking system. The marking of laboratory exercises places a considerable load on the laboratory staff, and reduces the effort available for assisting students with their work. Testing whether a program works, and to what extent it ulfills the specification...
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Final Year Projects 97/98
MSc Projects 97/98 Projects offered for this year are shown below. Most of them use the AIG's own in-house research tools. It is therefore important to talk to the supervisor if you are intending to apply for such a project in order to find out exactly what that involves. Perl Interface to Deva CyberWidgets Hosts...
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MSc projects 99/00
MSc projects 99/00 The following projects are offered this year, supervised jointly by Adrian West and Steve Pettifer. VR projects VR Home Designer VR Garden Designer VR powerpoint new Digital Biota projects Biota Morphology Biota Nerve-Center VR Projects The Advanced Interface Group (AIG) is primarily involved...
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HP Pavillion zt1121s - SuSE Linux 7.2
HP Pavillion zt1121s - SuSE Linux 7.2 Change log Last updated 11th August 2002 Adrian West Here are my notes on on getting Linux (SuSe 7.2) running on a HP Pavillion Notebook - zt1121s. It has since been bolstered by information others with zt1xxx's have kindly shared. Most of my own experience was in putting...
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acpi patch
ACPI kernel patch suggestion Here's a posting that Jincao found which talks about getting acpi (and video!) working on a zt1130. I havnt tried this, so would be interested to hear of others who succeed with it. Hi Adrian: Attached is that post from newsgroup comp.os.linux.portable. I just followed the steps mentioned....
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repartitioning
Repartitioning Here is some guidance on getting linux to boot, after re-partitioning your disks with partition magick. The problem is that after pm has shuffled partitions around, it doesnt tell the linux kernel that the absolute locations of its root partition and swap have changed on the disk. So when you boot...
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xf86config pavillion
XF86config for usb mouse Here is a note from Thanassis Misaridis on the xf86config for using a usb mouse in conjunction with the built-in mousepad. He has a zt1180 under mandrake 8.2, and has video working too About the mouse: I am using two mice (built-in and an external USB mouse) They work both at the same...
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debian
Will Duke's note on debian on his zt1170 I'll fill you in on my overall experience with Debian/Linux on the zt1170. Debian has worked great. I still had one of the stable release (2.2/"potato") cds I bought from a vendor off the Debian website (I wanna say around $20 - though if you have cd-burning capability...
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Adrian West
Adrian J. West PGP public key I use PGP for encryption. If you want to send or receive encrypted communcations to or from me, or to check that a message or package digitally signed by me is valid, then you will need my pgp public key which appears below. Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID pub 768/7A7F9025 1998/03/26...
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Linux on the Pico Envoy Labtop
Changelog Linux on the Pico Envoy Laptop We have three of these machines, purchased mid summer 1999. Having three has been helpful in trying to debug problems. Ours are 128Mby, 333Mhz 6G disc machines with the 14" displays. Here are some notes on our experiences - they are just our own personal observations in...
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Plastering
Plastering Plastering is a weird and wonderful thing to learn, that seems impossible the first time you try to do it. It is also an impressive experience to watch a skilled craftsman at work - rather like watching a magic show. Learning plastering at Mancat, with Anthony Talbot (tutor). Plumb-dot and screed, bonding,...
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Adrian West
Sample final year project plan Here's the project plan from the final phases of Steve's final year project. The idea isnt so much to illustrate a "good" plan, as to give one example of the kind of thing that may be useful. It certainly shows that Steve was thinking quite hard about what needed doing and in what...
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Publications
Publications P. Arnold, M. Farrell, S. Pettifer, and A. West. Performance on a skilled motor task in virtual and real environments. Ergonomics, 2002. to appear. A. Beeharee, S. Pettifer, and A. West. A framework for optimising network useage for plausible distributed virtual environments. In Proceedings of New...
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repartitioning
Repartitioning Here is some guidance on getting linux to boot, after re-partitioning your disks with partition magick. The problem is that after pm has shuffled partitions around, it doesnt tell the linux kernel that the absolute locations of its root partition and swap have changed on the disk. So when you boot...
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Projects
Final Year Projects Final year undergraduate students don't have laboratories; instead they spend 4 afternoons a week working on their final year project, which is obviously a pretty substantial undertaking. Members of staff are asked to suggest upto 7 projects that they will supervise. Below is my current list....
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Final Year Projects 00/01
Final Year Projects 00/01 These pages describe the 3rd year projects that were on offer to students in their final year in the academic year 2000/2001. 3D widgets Deva Programmers tools Navigation and Selection techniques Kahun City Undersea Operations 2 VR Network Administration Web Based Planomatic MAVERIK 3D...
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Final Year Projects 96/97
Final Year Projects 96/97 Projects I've put in this year are as follows; these are slightly updated with respect to the handbook of projects that has been published. VR systems architecture Deva Touch-stone - controlling worlds Deva SpaceMan - managing space Deva Oracle - managing the renderer Graphics related...
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Final Year Projects 97/98
Final Year Projects 97/98 These pages describe the 3rd year projects that were on offer to students in their final year in the academic year 1997/98. In the meantime, if you are interested in finding out more about the proejcts that will be available in the AIG, specifically to do with the Deva system, please...
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Final Year Projects 99/00
Final Year Projects 99/00 These pages describe the 3rd year projects that were on offer to students in their final year in the academic year 1999/2000. As the old project book does not exist anymore on the departmental pages, I need to retrieve them from my own notes and put them here. For now here are the titles...
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Arcade
The Laboratory Management System - ARCADE To manage the laboratories I use John Latham's laboratory management system ARCADE. This is in my opinion a great system. It looks after marks, deadlines, excuses and so forth, keeps students automatically informed of where they are up to (or often, how far behind they...
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Untitled Document
Audience response Here are audience comments from student questionaires, administered by the University of Manchester. In places they are a little embarrassing, but I have resisted the temptation to edit them. These could just be hand-picked choices, so to support my claim that they are representative I will say...
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CS1031 Introduction to Computer Architecture
CS1031 Introduction to Computer Architecture The last MIPS-based version of CS1031 was given in the 99/00 session. The course is now ARM-based, and taught by Dr. Doug Edwards. This page is my copy of the original CS1031 syllabus description. This module introduces the fundamental components of computer architecture....
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2000-01 syllabus details
2000-01 session CS1311 Applications and User Interfaces Level: 1 Credit rating: 10 Degree(s): CS SE CE CS4 CIS AI CM Pre-requisites: none Co-requisites: none Pre-requisite for: CS2312 Duration: 12 weeks in first semester Lectures: 22 in total, 2 per week Tutorials : included in the lab time Laboratories: 24 hours...
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2001-02 syllabus details
2001-02 session CS2042 Architectural Support for Languages and Operating Systems Level: 2 Credit Rating: 10 Degree(s): CS SE CE CIS CS4 AI Pre-requisites: CS1001 or CS1011, CS1031, CS1062 in 2001, CS1092 in 2002, CS2051. Co-requisites: None Pre-requisite for: CS3001, CS3012 Duration: 12 weeks in second semester...
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Information Visualisation
Virtual environments for visualising information For some applications, such as architectural CAD, its fairly obvious how you would start to place them in a 3D VR environment. In other cases there are fewer clues asto how information should be represented in 3D. Financial systemsM, applications that deal with...
http://homepages.which.net/~adrian.west/univ/infovis.html |
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MSc Projects
MSc Projects Research Students undertake substantial full-time projects taking either a half, or a full year depending on their degree programme. Here is this years list of projects that I supervise. For reference, here are some of the project lists from recent years. MSc projects 1999/2000 MSc projects 1998/9...
http://homepages.which.net/~adrian.west/univ/mscprojects.html |
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MSc projects 00/01
MSc projects 00/01 Below are the three projects I am offering for MSc. students this year. Being and Queueing Network Central Red Alert Being and Queing Staff announcement, service 500, member of staff from plumbing to the checkout, customer waiting.... A common experience in large DIY stores is to be standing...
http://homepages.which.net/~adrian.west/univ/mscprojects00.html |
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MSc projects 95/6
MS.c. Projects 95/6 Adrian West An automated laboratory marking system. The marking of laboratory exercises places a considerable load on the laboratory staff, and reduces the effort available for assisting students with their work. Testing whether a program works, and to what extent it ulfills the specification...
http://homepages.which.net/~adrian.west/univ/mscprojects95.html |
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Final Year Projects 97/98
MSc Projects 97/98 Projects offered for this year are shown below. Most of them use the AIG's own in-house research tools. It is therefore important to talk to the supervisor if you are intending to apply for such a project in order to find out exactly what that involves. Perl Interface to Deva CyberWidgets Hosts...
http://homepages.which.net/~adrian.west/univ/mscprojects98.html |
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MSc projects 99/00
MSc projects 99/00 The following projects are offered this year, supervised jointly by Adrian West and Steve Pettifer. VR projects VR Home Designer VR Garden Designer VR powerpoint new Digital Biota projects Biota Morphology Biota Nerve-Center VR Projects The Advanced Interface Group (AIG) is primarily involved...
http://homepages.which.net/~adrian.west/univ/mscprojects99.html |
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Adrian West - teaching
Detecting copied programs - BANDIT Managing programming laboratories means we have to think about plagiarism. Without some control, it really does get well out of hand, which ends up being demotivating for everyone concerned.Over the last few years we have developed a system called Bandit to cope with this. This...
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Ph.D projects
Ph.D. Projects The following people are currently working towards their doctorates - have a look at their own pages for their own descriptions of what their work involves. There are links for all the AIG research students on the AIG people pages. Cityscapes Nicolas Gaborit is investigating the generation and use...
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Adrian West
Sample final year project plan Here's the project plan from the final phases of Steve's final year project. The idea isnt so much to illustrate a "good" plan, as to give one example of the kind of thing that may be useful. It certainly shows that Steve was thinking quite hard about what needed doing and in what...
http://homepages.which.net/~adrian.west/univ/projplan.html |
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Projects
Final Year Projects Final year undergraduate students don't have laboratories; instead they spend 4 afternoons a week working on their final year project, which is obviously a pretty substantial undertaking. Members of staff are asked to suggest upto 7 projects that they will supervise. Below is my current list....
http://homepages.which.net/~adrian.west/univ/ugprojects.html |
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Final Year Projects 00/01
Final Year Projects 00/01 These pages describe the 3rd year projects that were on offer to students in their final year in the academic year 2000/2001. 3D widgets Deva Programmers tools Navigation and Selection techniques Kahun City Undersea Operations 2 VR Network Administration Web Based Planomatic MAVERIK 3D...
http://homepages.which.net/~adrian.west/univ/ugprojects00.html |
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Final Year Projects 96/97
Final Year Projects 96/97 Projects I've put in this year are as follows; these are slightly updated with respect to the handbook of projects that has been published. VR systems architecture Deva Touch-stone - controlling worlds Deva SpaceMan - managing space Deva Oracle - managing the renderer Graphics related...
http://homepages.which.net/~adrian.west/univ/ugprojects96.html |
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Final Year Projects 97/98
Final Year Projects 97/98 These pages describe the 3rd year projects that were on offer to students in their final year in the academic year 1997/98. In the meantime, if you are interested in finding out more about the proejcts that will be available in the AIG, specifically to do with the Deva system, please...
http://homepages.which.net/~adrian.west/univ/ugprojects97.html |
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Final Year Projects 99/00
Final Year Projects 99/00 These pages describe the 3rd year projects that were on offer to students in their final year in the academic year 1999/2000. As the old project book does not exist anymore on the departmental pages, I need to retrieve them from my own notes and put them here. For now here are the titles...
http://homepages.which.net/~adrian.west/univ/ugprojects99.html |
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VR Systems Architecture
VR Systems Architecture VR situates users in artificial realities. Doing so brings new capabilities to our interaction with computers and each other. The key benefits are related to the significant psychological features of these environments. Psychology thus provides the defining characteristics of VR, distinguishing...
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debian
Will Duke's note on debian on his zt1170 I'll fill you in on my overall experience with Debian/Linux on the zt1170. Debian has worked great. I still had one of the stable release (2.2/"potato") cds I bought from a vendor off the Debian website (I wanna say around $20 - though if you have cd-burning capability...
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yachting.html
Yachting Sailing is interesting to do for a number of reasons. Cruising around mediteranian islands has a natural pace, and is as idyllic an existence as anything real can be. Learning navigation and seamanship is an excellent mental training focused by obvious practical application. "there is nothing so distressing...
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Index of /~adrian.west/pavillion_subpages/
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Index of /~adrian.west/univ/
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Index of /~adrian.west/univ/cs1311_files/
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