A technique for evaporating a stoichiometric alloy by continually feeding a small evaporating area with liquid alloy through a capillary from a sealed reservoir of the liquid. The evaporating area is at a temperature higher than that of the liquid, and the material at this area will be rich in the less volatile element but the evaporant will be stoichiometric. A crucible is sown which is self-heated by current passing along its length, with shaping of the cross-sectional area of the crucible pro...

A computer-implemented apparatus and method for generating an output digital font from a base font and one or more font descriptor files. In one example, the method involves, the steps of retrieving from memory a file containing instructions and data for a generic base font; retrieving from memory a font descriptor file containing specifications for operating upon the base font to produce the desired output font; and then generating the output font by performing operations upon the base font in ...

A computer-implemented apparatus, and method for generating an output digital font from a base font and one or more font descriptor files. The method involves, in an exemplary embodiment, the steps of retrieving from memory a file containing instructions and data for a generic base font; retrieving from memory a font descriptor file containing specifications for operating upon the base font to produce the desired output font; and then generating the output font by performing operations upon the ...

A computer-implemented apparatus and method for generating an output digital font from a base font and one or more font descriptor files. The method involves, in an exemplary embodiment, the steps of retrieving from memory a file containing instructions and data for a generic base font; retrieving from memory a font descriptor file containing specifications for operating upon the base font to produce the desired output font; and then generating the output font by performing operations upon the b...

Parallelism between the track on magnetic tape and the path of the rotating head is dynamically adjusted and maintained by adjusting one or both of the entry or exit guides guiding the tape as it helically wraps a mandrel. The mandrel has two halves that flank the rotating head so that as the tape wraps the mandrel, the rotating head traverses the tape at an oblique angle. Skew error is represented by a lack of parallelism between the track on the tape and the path of the rotating head across th...

An embodiment of the present invention is a technique for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) to view system state of a computer system. An error window displays an error condition of a failed unit in a plurality of functional units in a computer system based on a panel dump file. A warning window shows a warning condition that potentially causes a problem in analyzing system state of the computer system or the error condition.

A method for estimating a trend in exhaust gas temperature in a turbine engine includes sampling exhaust gas temperature and a plurality of variables associated with the exhaust gas temperature over a set of observation times for a turbine engine to acquire exhaust gas temperature data. A trend in the exhaust gas temperature for the specific turbine engine is identified by removing the effect of the plurality of variables on the exhaust gas temperature data.