Abstract: A method and an apparatus for the user-specific configuration of a communications port includes provisioning a default profile that references a predetermined user, assigning the default profile to a user-specific configuration profile that is assigned to the predetermined user, and configuring the communications port using the user-specific configuration profile.

Abstract: An inversion casting vessel includes a melt-filled container with a hole in the floor through which a metal strip is drawn. As the strip is drawn through the container, crystallization of the melt on the metal strip occurs, thereby forming a metal strand. The hole in the floor is a slit shaped channel through which the strip is run in a low-contact manner. The container also includes a cooling device for cooling the melt in the area of the slit shaped channel. The cooling device maintains the temperature of the melt around the channel to create a two-phase field of the melt, one of the phases being crystal, making up 50%-90% of the two phase field. The metal strip first contacts the melt at the two-phase field of the melt as the strip is run through the melt container.

Abstract: A simplified process for producing a corrosion-protecting, well adhering lacquer coating, and the workpieces obtained thereby, is described. The process comprisessubjecting a metal substrate to a pre-treatment by spray or dip phosphate treatment and without subsequent passivation treatment, optionally after a drying,carrying out an electrophoretic dip lacquer coating of the metal substrate treated in this way wherein an electro dip lacquer is used which contains bismuth in the form of an organic bismuth complex and/or a bismuth salt of an organic carboxylic acid in a content of 0.1 to 5 wt. % calculated as bismuth and related to the binder solids in the electro dip lacquer.