1 New Zealand Dollar = 1.1019 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

1 Croatian Kuna = 0.2587 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

1 Peruvian Nuevo Sol = 0.5281 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

1 Dominican Peso = 0.0326 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

1 Papua New Guinean Kina = 0.5233 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

1 Brunei Dollar = 1.2703 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

This new film is the latest remake of Devdas, but what is equally interesting is the fact that it is in conversation with films made in the West. Unlike Bhansali’s more spectacular version of the older story, Anurag Kashyap’s Dev.D is a genuine rewriting of Sarat Chandra’s novel. Kashyap doesn’t flinch from depicting the individual’s downward spiral, but he also gives women their own strength. He has set out to right a wrong—or, at least, tell a more realistic, even redemptive, story. If these characters have lost some of the affective depth of the original creations, they have also gained the hard edges of modern lives.

We don’t always feel the pain of Kashyap’s characters, but we are able to more readily recognize them. Take Chandramukhi, or Chanda, who is a school-girl humiliated by the MMS sex-scandal. Her father, protective and patriarchal, says that he has seen the tape and thinks she knew what she was doing. “How could you watch it?” the girl asks angrily. And then, “Did you get off on it?” When was the last time a father was asked such a question on the Hindi screen? With its frankness toward sex and masturbation, Dev.D takes a huge step toward honesty. In fact, more than the obvious tributes to Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting, or the over-extended psychedelic adventure on screen, in fact, as much as the moody style of film-making, the candour of such questions make Dev.D a film that is truly a part of world cinema.

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The IEEE has announced the publication of the new 1801-2013 standard, also known as UPF 2.1, and immediate availability for free download through the IEEE 1801-2013 Get Program. Even though the standard is new to the whole world, for the people of the IEEE working group this standard is finally done and is in the past now.

There is a Chinese saying "好事多磨" which means "good things take time to happen." I forgot the exact time when I first joined the working group for the new standard -- about two and half years ago -- but I do remember long hours of meetings and many "lively" debates and discussions. Since the "hard time" has passed us, I would like to share some fun facts about the working group and the standard.

• The 1801 working group is the largest entity based ballot group in IEEE-SA history.
• The new standard was initially planned for 2012, but was delayed purely due to the large amount of work required.
• At one point, the group was debating on whether the new standard should be called UPF 2.1 or 3.0. It may sound weird now but we spent quite some time discussing this. Eventually we settled on 2.1 as it was the original plan.
• The 1801-2013 document has 358 pages which is 53% thicker than previous version (the sheer amount of changes in the new standard indicate that this is more than just a normal incremental update of the previous version as suggested by naming it 2.1)
• Around 300 real issues were reported over the previous version and a majority of them were fixed in the new release.
• This is the first release with constructs and semantics coming from Common Power Format (CPF), a sign of convergence of the two industry leading power formats.
• There are about 100 working group meetings in my Outlook calendar since 2011, with meeting times ranging from 2 hours to 8 hours.
• We extensively used Google Drive (which was called Google Docs when the working group started), a great tool for productivity. I cannot imagine how any standard could have been done before Google existed!

Personally, I had an enjoyable journey, especially from having the privilege to work with many industry experts who are all passionate about low power. I do have one more thing to share though. My older daughter went from middle school to high school during the period of the development of the new standard. Since most of the meetings took place in the early morning California time, she had to endure the pain of listening to all these discussions on power domain, power switches, etc. on her way to school.

I asked her if she learned anything. She told me that other than being able to recognize the voices of Erich, John and Joe on the line, she also learned that she would never want to become an electrical or computer engineer! She was so happy that the meetings stopped a couple of months ago. But what I did not tell her is that the meetings will resume after DAC! Well, I am sure this will be a big motivation for her to get her own driving license in the summer.

If you want to get some quick technical insights into the new standard, check out my recent EE Times article IEEE 1801-2013: A bold step towards power format convergence.

Qi Wang

Hello, i need to test the  parameter Kf under some conditions in subthreshold.i cannot just plot the OP param,becasue i need to derive it under certain conditions.

Spectre(of Cadence) like BSIM(of Berkley) has developed a method for deriving each parameter in their model.

Is there a way to help me with such manual where i can test in cadence virtuoso the Kf parameter shown in the formula bellow?

Thanks.

If you design wire bond packages, you’re familiar with the need for the bond fingers and rings on the package substrate layers to be exposed through the solder mask layer. If they aren’t, it becomes… rather difficult… to bon...(read more)

Hi All,

I've just about to finish my first PCB layout, and I want to understand some 2 issues better:

1. Soldermask layer: when exactly do we want to define for some SMT pad (say at Pad Designer tool), to have soldermask top and when we want to define solermask bottom? 

if it's a TH pad, I guess we always want to define both layers soldermask (top, bottom), because the pads are crossing all the layers. However, if it's a SMT pad, which SM we want?

2. Pastemask layer: is this layer necessary for the gerber files generation, when we have SMT components in our circuit?

And again, when we define for a TH/SMT pads pastemask top, and when Pastemask bottom?

Thanks!

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This Metasploit module exploits a vulnerability found in the ActiveX component of Adobe Flash Player before 12.0.0.43. By supplying a specially crafted swf file it is possible to trigger an integer underflow in several avm2 instructions, which can be turned into remote code execution under the context of the user, as exploited in the wild in February 2014. This Metasploit module has been tested successfully with Adobe Flash Player 11.7.700.202 on Windows XP SP3, Windows 7 SP1 and Adobe Flash Player 11.3.372.94 on Windows 8 even when it includes rop chains for several Flash 11 versions, as exploited in the wild.

A deficiency in handling authentication and authorization has been found with Kguard 104/108/v2 models. While password-based authentication is used by the ActiveX component to protect the login page, all the communication to the application server at port 9000 allows data to be communicated directly with insufficient or improper authorization. Proof of concept exploit included.

Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernel sock_sendpage() NULL pointer dereference exploit. The third and final version of this exploit. This third version features: Complete support for i386, x86_64, ppc and ppc64; The personality trick published by Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tinnes; The TOC pointer workaround for data items addressing on ppc64 (i.e. functions on exploit code and libc can be referenced); Improved search and transition to SELinux types with mmap_zero permission.

Slackware Security Advisory - New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues.

Slackware Security Advisory - New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues.

Slackware Security Advisory - New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues.

Slackware Security Advisory - New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues.

Slackware Security Advisory - New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues.

VÉLIZY-VILLACOUBLAY, France and NEW YORK — August 19, 2019 – Dassault Systèmes SE (Dassault Systèmes) (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY. PA) and Medidata Solutions, Inc. ("Medidata") (NASDAQ: MDSO) announced that Medidata stockholders have approved on August 16, 2019 the proposed acquisition of Medidata by Dassault Systèmes. At a special meeting of Medidata stockholders held on August 16, 2019, 78% of Medidata’s total outstanding common stock voted in favor of the proposed acquisition and...

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Qualys discovered a local privilege escalation in OpenBSD's dynamic loader (ld.so). This vulnerability is exploitable in the default installation (via the set-user-ID executable chpass or passwd) and yields full root privileges. They developed a simple proof of concept and successfully tested it against OpenBSD 6.6 (the current release), 6.5, 6.2, and 6.1, on both amd64 and i386; other releases and architectures are probably also exploitable.

This Metasploit module exploits a vulnerability in the OpenBSD ld.so dynamic loader (CVE-2019-19726). The _dl_getenv() function fails to reset the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable when set with approximately ARG_MAX colons. This can be abused to load libutil.so from an untrusted path, using LD_LIBRARY_PATH in combination with the chpass set-uid executable, resulting in privileged code execution. This module has been tested successfully on OpenBSD 6.1 (amd64) and OpenBSD 6.6 (amd64).

This Metasploit module exploits an arbitrary file upload vulnerability found in Kaseya VSA versions between 7 and 9.1. A malicious unauthenticated user can upload an ASP file to an arbitrary directory leading to arbitrary code execution with IUSR privileges. This Metasploit module has been tested with Kaseya v7.0.0.17, v8.0.0.10 and v9.0.0.3.

ASP.NET Core version 5.-RC1 suffers from an HTTP header injection vulnerability.