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The first version, 1.0A, was released in 1994. It rapidly gained reputation as the best tool for connecting to the internet. Guides for internet connectivity commonly advised to use Trumpet Winsock. [3] The author received very little financial compensation for developing the software. [4] In 1996, a 32-bit version was released. [5]
A windsock (a wind cone or wind sleeve) is a conical textile tube that resembles a giant sock. It can be used as a basic indicator of wind speed and direction , or as decoration. Windsocks are typically used at airports to show the direction and strength of the wind to pilots, and at chemical plants where there is risk of gaseous leakage.
Winsock 2 was a backwards-compatible extension of Winsock 1.1. It added support for protocol-independent name resolution, asynchronous operations with event-based notifications and completion routines, layered protocol implementations, multicasting , and quality of service .
George Silver, writing in 1599, stated that the black bill should be 5 or 6 feet (1.5 or 1.8 m) long, while the forest bill should be 8 or 9 feet (2.4 or 2.7 m). [ 2 ] During the early 16th century when most European states were adopting the pike and arquebus , the English preferred to stick with the combination of bill and English longbow .
USS Bowfin (SS/AGSS-287), is a Balao-class submarine of the United States Navy named for the bowfin fish. Since 1981, she has been open to public tours at the USS Bowfin Submarine Museum & Park in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, next to the USS Arizona Memorial Visitor Center.
The bows that were used during the rule of Genghis Khan were smaller than the modern Manchu-derived weapons used at most Naadam.Paintings as well as at least one surviving example of a 13th-century Mongol bow from Tsagaan-Khad demonstrate that the medieval Mongolian bows had smaller siyahs and much less prominent leather string bridges.
On a square-rigged ship, a bowline (sometimes spelled as two words, bow line) is a rope that holds the edge of a square sail towards the bow of the ship and into the wind, preventing it from being taken aback. [8] A ship is said to be on a "taut bowline" when these lines are made as taut as possible in order to sail close-hauled to the wind. [9]
The bows are generally between 170 and 180 cm in length and less than 6 cm wide. [2] [3] It has been suggested that only the inner limbs of a Holmegaard style bow bend in use, [4] [5] but this is incorrect, they bend to their tips. [6] All Mesolithic bows from this area are made of elm, the best European bow wood apart from yew.