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  2. Dave Täht - Wikipedia

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    Co-Founder of the Bufferbloat Project Dave Täht (born August 11, 1965) is an American network engineer , musician, lecturer, asteroid exploration advocate, and Internet activist. He is the chief executive officer of TekLibre.

  3. Bufferbloat - Wikipedia

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    Bufferbloat is the undesirable latency that comes from a router or other network equipment buffering too many data packets. Bufferbloat can also cause packet delay variation (also known as jitter), as well as reduce the overall network throughput .

  4. Blotter art - Wikipedia

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    Symbolic pictures were sometimes added to indicate the origin of the LSD. Designs printed on blotter paper can serve to identify dosage strengths, different batches, or makers. [6] As designs became more creative, blotter art became a folk and underground art form, drawing on an art vocabulary borrowed from psychedelic art and underground comix.

  5. Paper - Wikipedia

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    Most commercial paper sold in North America is cut to standard paper sizes based on customary units and is defined by the length and width of a sheet of paper. The ISO 216 system used in most other countries is based on the surface area of a sheet of paper, not on a sheet's width and length.

  6. List of photographs considered the most important - Wikipedia

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    Two f-holes are painted on her back to make her body resemble a violin. [s 1] Movement Study: 1926 Rudolf Koppitz: Vienna, Austria [s 1] Kiki with African Mask: 1926 Man Ray: Paris, France [s 2] Charles Lindbergh, Croydon Aerodrome: 29 May 1927 Pacific and Atlantic photos inc. London, England, United Kingdom [s 2] Monolith, the Face of Half ...

  7. Mimeograph - Wikipedia

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    Mimeographed images generally have much better durability than spirit-duplicated images, since the inks are more resistant to ultraviolet light. The primary preservation challenge is the low-quality paper often used, which would yellow and degrade due to residual acid in the treated pulp from which the paper was made. In the worst case, old ...

  8. Papermaking - Wikipedia

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    The deckle leaves the edges of the paper slightly irregular and wavy, called "deckle edges", one of the indications that the paper was made by hand. Deckle-edged paper is occasionally mechanically imitated today to create the impression of old-fashioned luxury. The impressions in paper caused by the wires in the screen that run sideways are ...

  9. Blotting paper - Wikipedia

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    Blotting paper is a highly absorbent type of paper used to absorb ink or oil from writing material, particularly when quills or fountain pens were popular. It could also be used in testing how much oil is present in products. Blotting paper referred to as bibulous paper is mainly used in microscopy to remove excess liquids from the slide before ...