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In the News (Tue 10 Nov 09)

  
  Let it rip
"CrossBow" was the most suitable name for this project since we are trying to achieve similar results in the field of virtualization and resource control as the weapon did in medivial times in the battlefield.
In addition, the Crossbow provided APIs for network management, virtualization and bandwidth resource control can be use by 3rd party management softwares to propogate the common policy throughout the server farm or all the blades in the chasis.
Crossbow introduces a new command called 'netrcm' and further augments 'dladm' which was introduced as part of the new high performance device driver framework (GLDv3) in Solaris 10.
blogs.sun.com /sunay/entry/crossbow_solaris_network_virtualization_resource   (2733 words)

  
 Horton Crossbows | Hunting Equipment | Crossbow Supplies | Hunting Accessories
Crossbows were invited as a guest class this year.
Today, Horton Manufacturing is the world leader in high-performance hunting crossbows, still blending the latest technology with the needs of the modern hunter.
Our website is loaded with features and information including details on our complete line of crossbows, FAQs, hunting tips, a new crossbows blog and more.
www.crossbow.com   (237 words)

  
  Current News
The reason is simple, NYB exposed the truth about the crossbow and the crossbow manufacturers have softened their marketing in an attempt to fool the general public.
Furthermore, the club considers the use of the crossbow during bowhunting seasons to be a serious threat to the future of bowhunting.
The crossbow which is always cocked, shoulder held, shot from a rest, fired by a trigger and has over twice the effective range of a bow is closer to being a firearm than a hand held bow.
www.newyorkbowhunters.com /New_Folder/xbow.htm   (2854 words)

  
 Crossbow: Network Virtualization and Resource Control at OpenSolaris.org
Crossbow provides the building blocks for network virtualization and resource control by virtualizing the stack and NIC around any service (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, NFS, etc.), protocol or Virtual machine.
Project Crossbow is next step in the evolution of Solaris networking stack and brings bandwidth resource control and virtualization as part of the architecture itself instead of the usual add-on layers which have heavy overheads and complexity.
Crossbow creates the concept of a flow, which comprises a class of traffic and a handling policy (bandwidth limit, priority, etc.) A flow, for example, can correspond to a particular protocol, service, or virtual machine.
www.opensolaris.org /os/project/crossbow   (888 words)

  
  Crossbow Cases: Info on Crossbow Cases
Crossbow cases are a great way to store your crossbow, bolts, and other hunting accessories year-round.
Tempting though it may be to hang your crossbow on the wall in your den when you're not using it, it's better to store it safely out of the way.
If you own a recurve crossbow, make sure the case you purchase will allow for the broader limbs of your recurve bow.
www.crossbows-bolts.com /crossbow-cases.php   (232 words)

  
  Extremely Sharp---Crossbow Aiming and Hunting Techniques
Crossbows used to shoot anesthetic darts for capturing and treating wildlife; also used to obtain tissue samples from marine animals for obtaining genetic information.
Crossbow terminology is not altogether standardized and one should not be too pedantic about it.
Crossbow having a tubular barrel rather than a track; used to shoot balls, usually of lead; synonym for slurbow.
www.extremely-sharp.com /es/learn/aimcross.html   (877 words)

  
 Crossbow
A crossbow is a weapon that consists of a prod (similar in appearance to a bow) mounted on a stock similar to a rifle stock, which has a mechanism to wind and shoot its bolts.
Crossbow bolts must be made to have consistent weights as the mechanical process of engaging a bolt forces a more uniform process than that of using a bow and arrow.
Crossbows were actively being used from 800 to 1500 A.D. Pope Urban II banned the crossbow's use against Christians in 1097, and the Second Lateran Council did the same in 1139.
www.themiddleages.net /crossbow.html   (829 words)

  
 CrossBow Overview Doc at OpenSolaris.org
Crossbow could be used effectively after a week of training, while a comparable single-shot skill with a longbow could take years of practice.
Crossbow introduces a new command called 'netrcm' and further augments 'dladm' which was introduced as part of the new high performance device driver framework (GLDv3) in Solaris 10.
Crossbow will provide more tools to help capacity planning by allowing the system to be put under capacity planning mode where bandwdith usage for top traffic is monitored and displayed.
opensolaris.org /os/project/crossbow/Docs/Overview   (2652 words)

  
 computersmiths - Invention of the Crossbow
However, over two thousand years ago in China, the crossbow was invented as an innovation to the basic bow and arrow that extended the use of mechanical hand weapons throughout the world.
Carthagenians in the second century BCE used a hand held crossbow called the scorpion, as it is told (Derry and Williams: A Short History of Technology) that 2,000 of these weapons were handed over to the Romans after the fall of Carthage.
Chinese inventors continued to refine the crossbow for hundreds of years, producing a rapid-fire version in the 16th century that carried 10 bolts in a self-contained magazine.
www.computersmiths.com /chineseinvention/crossbow.htm   (468 words)

  
 History of the Crossbow - Associated Content   (Site not responding. Last check: )
By the 9th Century the crossbow had become a common weapon of war and had largely taken the place of the longbow due to ease of use and armor piercing capabilities.
The crossbow became such a feared weapon across Europe and in England that Pope Urban II banned its use against Christians in 1097 as being inhumane and uncivilized.
Crossbow use by assassins became a preferred weapon of their trade as a smaller crossbow could be easily concealed and quickly used.
www.associatedcontent.com /article/32781/history_of_the_crossbow.html?page=2   (723 words)

  
 The Crossbow
The Crossbow is a missile weapon with approximately the same range and accuracy of a typical bow, however, fired on short distances Crossbows can hit their targets with much more force than ceretain bows.
The Jhehellrhim mainly used the Crossbow for hunting big animals, but it was also an often seen weapon in the Third Sarvonian War when the city of Carmalad was besieged and the Jhehellrhim assisted atdefending it (though they were unsuccessful).
This variety was developed in R'unor around the year 700 b.S. The Crossbow is a slightly elongated variation on the standard heavy crossbow, the major diffrence being that these models were actualy two crossbows stacked on top of each other, alowing the bow to fire both shots simutaniosly or seperately.
www.santharia.com /weapons/crossbow.htm   (740 words)

  
 Crossbow   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The original crossbows were actually very poor weapons: very slow to load, prone to misfires, and overly complicated for the generally mechanically disinclined population of the period.
Most early crossbows had a stirrup on the front of the stock (squint through this text to the crossbow on the wallpaper for an example).
To reload the crossbow, the archer placed the stirrup on the ground, his foot through the stirrup, and pulled the bowstring back as hard as he could until he notched it in the nut (the mechanism which held the string in place, depressing the crude trigger bar allowed the bolt to fly).
members.aol.com /dargolyt/TheForge/CROSSBOW.HTM   (330 words)

  
 Crossbow
The Medieval crossbow was introduced to England by William the Conqueror in 1066.
The crossbow could be used by an untrained soldier to injure or kill a knight in plate armour.
A Medieval crossbow windlass was a mechanism used to span a crossbow utilizing a hook and a hand crank, sometimes utilizing a pulley system.
www.middle-ages.org.uk /crossbow.htm   (810 words)

  
 Crossbow - FAQ
Crossbow enforces enterprise wide business rules which enable the disparate data to be presented as an ‘integrated dataset’, which enables the user to search and view the “cross-functional” data from a single application.
Crossbow is applicable to a wide range of vertical markets and business applications where accessing and providing a single view of disparate data will enhance business productivity and profitability.
Crossbow’s ability to be implemented in conjunction with an existing data warehouse depends on whether the existing data warehouse is in SQL Server or not.
www.tenix.com /Main.asp?ID=952   (804 words)

  
 Crossbow
Crossbow features an integral terminal emulator which provides instant access to target systems and development tools with serial communications capabilities.
During transmission, Crossbow displays transfer progress, timeouts and errors, and a Cancel button to abort the transfer at the end of the current block, or at the next timeout.
Crossbow will display an error alert if another application, driver, or desk accessory is already using the requested port.
www.persistor.com /pii/support/crossboweb/crossbowman/man/xbo.man.term.html   (1515 words)

  
 Crossbow   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The crossbow had a firing mechanism, which was so complicated that it would have been nearly impossible for an enemy to understand how it worked, thus reducing the chance that the crossbow could be copied by hostile civilizations.
The crossbow was not invented as an instrument of war, but as a peacemaking device.
The crossbow was considered so advanced that around 200 BC, a law was passed to prevent people from taking crossbows out of China, for fear that enemies would replicate them.
www.vendian.org /guests/invent/sam2.htm   (333 words)

  
 Crossbow
Crossbow” - family TV series about Swiss national hero William Tell.
Finding his son caught up in the spirit of rebellion and endangered by Gessler's soldiers, Tell is forced to raise his crossbow once again and his life is changed forever.
Just as he had feared, once his crossbow had been raised, he could never put it down again.
www.freewebs.com /robertaddie21/CrossbowEn.htm   (672 words)

  
 Update: Microsoft developing next mobile OS | InfoWorld | News | 2006-04-24 | By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service
Crossbow will have strong links with Office 2007 and Exchange 12, Microsoft's pending new office application suite and e-mail server, said Pieter Knook, senior vice president for the mobile devices and telecoms sector.
Crossbow would be the successor to Windows Mobile 5.0, released in May 2005.
Knook said it's premature to say when Crossbow would be released, but that the company plans for an annual mobile OS release.
www.infoworld.com /article/06/04/24/77696_HNmscrossbow_1.html   (1274 words)

  
 Crossbow Targets: Info on Crossbow Targets
Crossbow targets will help you hone your skill, adjust your crossbow's sites, and keep in practice during the off-season.
Crossbow targets are typically made of high-density foam or carbon material.
Sometimes crossbow hunters will fire their bolts into the hand bow targets, and tear them to shreds trying to retrieve their buried bolts.
www.crossbows-bolts.com /crossbow-targets.php   (337 words)

  
 Crossbow Media Inc. > Crossbow Web Products
Crossbow Webâ„¢ is a simple to use, but highly advanced software tool which enables you to edit your website using the same web browser that you use to view it.
A great solution for small and medium sized businesses, Crossbow Express SMB lends the ease of use of Crossbow Express to companies with an existing web presence who would like to take direct control of their website content.
Crossbow Web can be accessed from anywhere in the world, 24 hours a day 7 days a week, via the Internet.
www.crossbowmedia.com /products   (631 words)

  
 Target Crossbow Tube ABD/APD
I placed the shaft on my crossbow, and pulled it back about 9" of the 13" manually, held the end of the blunt approximately 2 feet from the grill on the helm (to make sure it hit the grill), and released.
These were conducted in a similar manner to the original testing done below, except that these were not done with a level to keep them at 45 degrees, but instead kept at approximately a 30-35 degree angle aim, by using a consistant aim point.
It is WAAY overpowered for a combat crossbow, but I wanted to see how these flew in relation to each other, and I feel that the relative changes based upon design would still apply, no matter what the draw weight.
crossbow.freeshell.org /tube   (1916 words)

  
 Crossbow / TV series of William tell/ Will Lyman / Jeremy Clyde
From the peaceful village flsmith to the avenging freedom fighter, the show follows the daring exploits of this legendary hero as he battles to save his son and his country from the evil Governor Hermann Gessler.
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Did you watch Crossbow or do you have any information for us let us know and please don't forget to sign our guestbook.
www.geocities.com /elinececile   (584 words)

  
 Smith College Museum of Ancient Inventions: The Crossbow   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The earliest representations we have of the crossbow date from 400 BCE, in China.
These crossbows, which were an important weapon in war until rifles were invented, were usually mounted and could fire up to 650 feet.
Crossbows, used in war until the 17th century, are still usedfor sport today.
www.smith.edu /hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/hsc10b.htm   (125 words)

  
 Crossbow Rivalry of Two Italian Towns Dates to Middle Ages   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Summary Every year crossbow marksmen from two Umbrian towns in Italy match skills in a target-shooting competition that has been held for more than 350 years.
The crossbow, which has ancient origins in China, was one of the most important weapons of medieval Europe.
"Crossbows were important for warfare and hunting from the 11th century onward—they were of daily practical use," said Stuart Pyhrr, a curator in the arms and armor department of the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2002/09/0905_crossbow.html   (689 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Operation Crossbow: DVD: Sophia Loren,George Peppard,Trevor Howard,John Mills,Richard Johnson,Tom ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Operation Crossbow was one among many '60s films aiming, in the wake of The Guns of Navarone, to cash in on nostalgia for "the Good War" of 20 years earlier, plus snag a share of the spy-movie market stoked by James Bond.
In CROSSBOW we are shown that the V-1 flying bomb was a largely unperfected weapon rushed to launching ramps.
The plots were all similar in that the plans almost always went awry after the agents got behind enemy lines, there were traitors or double-agents in their midst, and usually a woman or two was added to the cast for dramatic effect.
www.amazon.com /Operation-Crossbow-Sophia-Loren/dp/B00005JP3T   (3356 words)

  
 JoseQ's Emu Views
The graphics in Crossbow are some of the best I have seen in any Atari system of the time.
Crossbow on the other hand can be used with either the light gun or the joystick controller.
Over all I would say that the 7800 version of Crossbow is without a doubt the best console conversion of this title I have played.
www.emuviews.com /reviews/reviews-241.html   (958 words)

  
 Crossbow Bolts: Info on Crossbow Bolts
Crossbow bolts come in a variety of lengths and materials.
Be sure to check the specs of your particular crossbow to determine the optimum length and diameter of bolts recommended for it.
Crossbow pistols require shorter bolts than a full-size recurve or compound crossbow.
www.crossbows-bolts.com /crossbow-bolts.php   (269 words)

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