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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Installer%20CleanUp%20Utility
The Windows Installer CleanUp Utility (MSICU.exe, MSICUU.exe, MSICUU2.exe) was a software utility for the Microsoft Windows operating system designed to solve uninstallation problems of programs that use the Windows Installer technology. It looks up registry references and files related to Windows Installer that were i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock%20%27n%27%20Chase
Lock 'n' Chase (ロック・ン・チェイス) is a maze chase video game developed by Data East and released in arcades in Japan in 1981. It was licensed to Taito for distribution in North America. Lock 'n' Chase has similarities to Pac-Man, including a goal of collecting dots, with the addition of doors that periodically block pathways...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivalry%20Week
Rivalry Week is a week of programming by ESPN devoted to showing the top rivalries in college basketball. Games that are annually shown during Rivalry Week include: Indiana vs. Purdue (Indiana–Purdue rivalry) Duke vs. North Carolina (Carolina–Duke rivalry) West Virginia vs. Pittsburgh (Backyard Brawl) Missouri vs....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histidine%20%28data%20page%29
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20films%20about%20computers
This is a list of films about computers, featuring fictional films in which activities involving computers play a central role in the development of the plot. Artificial intelligence plots Motion picture 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) HAL 9000 The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969) Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%20the%20Money%20%282005%20TV%20program%29
CNBC's On the Money, hosted by Carmen Wong Ulrich, is a television program that focuses primarily on personal finance, a programming departure from CNBC's "investor focused" weekday programming. The program premiered on October 10, 2005 with Dylan Ratigan as host. Ratigan was replaced by Melissa Francis in 2007 and r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20for%20Development%20of%20Advanced%20Computing
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is an Indian autonomous scientific society, operating under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. History C-DAC was created in November 1987, initially as the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing Technology (C-DACT). In 1988, the US Go...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orroral%20Valley%20Tracking%20Station
The Orroral Valley tracking station was an Earth station in Australia, supported Earth-orbiting satellites, as part of NASA's Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network (STADAN). It was located approximately 50 km south of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory (ACT), and was one of three tracking stations in the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDAC
CDAC may refer to: Commission on Dental Accreditation of Canada Communicating with Disaster Affected Communities Network Canadian American Railroad Centre for Development of Advanced Computing Chinese Development Assistance Council, a self-help and non-profit organization set up by the Chinese community in Singapore t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minifloat
In computing, minifloats are floating-point values represented with very few bits. Predictably, they are not well suited for general-purpose numerical calculations. They are used for special purposes, most often in computer graphics, where iterations are small and precision has aesthetic effects. Machine learning also ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg%20Nees
Georg Nees (23 June 1926 – 3 January 2016) was a German academic who was a pioneer of computer art and generative graphics. He studied mathematics, physics and philosophy in Erlangen and Stuttgart and was scientific advisor at the SEMIOSIS, International Journal of semiotics and aesthetics. In 1977, he was appointed Ho...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debug%20%28command%29
The line-oriented debugger DEBUG.EXE is an external command in operating systems such as DOS, OS/2 and Windows (only in 16-bit/32-bit versions). DEBUG can act as an assembler, disassembler, or hex dump program allowing users to interactively examine memory contents (in assembly language, hexadecimal or ASCII), make ch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blokus%20Portable%3A%20Steambot%20Championship
Blokus Portable: Steambot Championship, known in Japan as , is a 2005 puzzle video game developed and published by Irem Software Engineering for the PlayStation 2 and later ported to the PlayStation Portable in Japan. The PlayStation Portable version was later published outside Japan by Majesco Entertainment. It is bas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AATF
AATF may refer to: Air Assault Task Force, a computer wargame Airport and Airway Trust Fund, a fund for the federal commitment to the USA's aviation system American Association of Teachers of French, a professional organisation for teachers of French in the United States Apoptosis antagonizing transcription factor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20State%20Stars%20F.C.
Free State Stars Football club is a South African professional football club based in Bethlehem, Free State that plays in the National First Division. Formerly known as Makwane Computer Stars, Fairway Stars and Qwa Qwa Stars, their most significant honour is winning the 1994 Coca-Cola Cup and 2018 Nedbank Cup. The clu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational%20Control%20Language
Operational Control Language (OCL) is the control language of the IBM System/3, System/32, System/34 and System/36 minicomputer family. It is supported on IBM i's System/36 Environment for backwards compatibility purposes. It is similar to the older control languages JCL (System/370), and unrelated to the later Control...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarbell
Tarbell may refer to: USS Tarbell (DD-142), a US Navy destroyer Tarbell Cassette Interface, for storing computer data on audio cassette Tarbell Course in Magic, an encyclopedia of magic written by Harlan Tarbell People with the surname Tarbell: Edmund C. Tarbell (1862–1938), American impressionist painter Frank ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Macmillan%20Ways
The Macmillan Ways are a network of long-distance footpaths in England that link points on the Bristol Channel, English Channel and North Sea. They are promoted to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Relief, a charity. The Macmillan Ways are: The Macmillan Way - Abbotsbury in Dorset to Boston, Lincolnshire ; The Macmil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20H.%20Walker
Mark H. Walker is a writer and board wargame designer. He has written articles about information technology and video games for publications including AutoWeek, PC Gamer, Computer Gaming World, Armchair General, and Playboy and websites such as GameSpy and Science Fiction Weekly. Background Walker spent over 23 years ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery%20sound%20ranging
In land warfare, artillery sound ranging is a method of determining the coordinates of a hostile battery using data derived from the sound of its guns (or mortar or rockets) firing, so called target acquisition. The same methods can also be used to direct artillery fire at a position with known coordinates, so called ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBT
RBT may refer to: Computing Red–black tree, in computer science Residual block termination, in cryptography Risk-based testing, in software testing Other uses Random breath test or sobriety checkpoints RBT (TV series), an Australian docuseries Residence-based taxation Ringback tone, in telephony
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%20User
Dragon User was a British magazine for users of the Dragon 32/64 computers published from 1982 by Sunshine Publications. Production of the computers themselves had ceased by 1985 but the user community remained sufficiently active to justify the magazine's continuation until 1989. Publication From its launch until Jun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPIE%20Authentication%20System
OPIE is the initialism of "One time Passwords In Everything". Opie is a mature, Unix-like login and password package installed on the server and the client which makes untrusted networks safer against password-sniffing packet-analysis software like dSniff and safe against shoulder surfing. It works by circumventing t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WICZ-TV
WICZ-TV (channel 40) is a television station in Binghamton, New York, United States, affiliated with Fox and MyNetworkTV. Owned by Imagicomm Communications, the station has studios on Vestal Parkway East (NY 434) in Vestal, and its transmitter is located on Ingraham Hill Road in the town of Binghamton. History The sta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDUS
KDUS (1060 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Tempe, Arizona, and serving the Phoenix metropolitan area. It airs a sports radio format and is an affiliate of the SportsMap network. It is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc., with the license held by Phoenix FCC License Sub, LLC. Its studios are on Nort...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avobenzone%20%28data%20page%29
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20Simpson%27s%20method
Adaptive Simpson's method, also called adaptive Simpson's rule, is a method of numerical integration proposed by G.F. Kuncir in 1962. It is probably the first recursive adaptive algorithm for numerical integration to appear in print, although more modern adaptive methods based on Gauss–Kronrod quadrature and Clenshaw–C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20University%20of%20California%2C%20Davis%20alumni
This page lists notable alumni of the University of California, Davis. Academics University presidents Professors Science Astronauts Tracy Caldwell Dyson Stephen K. Robinson Computer science Engineering Economics Ahmad Faruqui, defense analyst and economist Masami Imai, Japanese economist Timothy Francis M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation%20ZX
The SPARCstation ZX is a computer workstation produced by Sun Microsystems and launched in August 1993. It was end-of-lifed in March 1994. The original price was USD $19,995.00. The SPARCstation ZX was identical to the SPARCstation LX, with the addition of a Sun ZX (also known as LEO) accelerated 3D framebuffer card. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vet%20Emergency%202
Vet Emergency 2 is a PC CD-ROM computer game in which the player is a veterinarian and must take care of animals, earning points for treatment and efficiency. It was created by Legacy Interactive, and is the sequel to Vet Emergency. References External links 2003 video games Medical video games Video game sequels Vi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Knowlton
Kenneth Charles Knowlton (June 6, 1931 – June 16, 2022) was an American computer graphics pioneer, artist, mosaicist and portraitist. In 1963, while working at Bell Labs, he developed the BEFLIX programming language for creating bitmap computer-produced movies. In 1966, also at Bell Labs, he and Leon Harmon created the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professionals%20in%20the%20City
Professionals in the City (commonly known as PNC) is a socializing and networking private organization based out in Washington, DC, with branches in New York City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Boston. It was founded in 1999 by Michael Karlan, who serves as the incumbent president of the organization. PNC ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20Society
Ancient Society is an 1877 book by the American anthropologist Lewis H. Morgan. Building on the data about kinship and social organization presented in his 1871 Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family, Morgan develops his theory of the three stages of human progress, i.e., from Savagery through Barb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy%20television
Fantasy television is a genre of television programming featuring elements of the fantastic, often including magic, supernatural forces, or exotic fantasy worlds. Fantasy television programs are often based on tales from mythology and folklore, or are adapted from fantasy stories in other media. The boundaries of fan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KUIL-LD
KUIL-LD (channel 12.5) is a low-power television station in Beaumont, Texas, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside dual ABC/NBC affiliate KBMT (channel 12). Both stations share studios along I-10/US 69/US 96/US 287 in Beaumont, while KUIL-LD's transmitter is located in Mauricev...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VKT
Vkt or VKT may mean: Vakarų Kompiuteriniai Tinklai, Western Computer Networks Всероссийская конфедерация труда, the All-Russian Confederation of Labour VKT-line, a Finnish defence line during the World War II. Standard abbreviation for Vuokatti railway station in Finland. Vehicle Kilometers Traveled. Vestfold Ko...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparq
Sparq may refer to: SPARQL, programming language SPARQCode, standard encoding for the contents of a QR barcode SPARQ Training, creators of a standardized test for athleticism SyQuest SparQ drive, a short-lived (1998–1999) removable-disk hard drive See also Spark (disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDDL
MDDL (Market Data Definition Language) is an XML-based messaging format for exchanging information related to Financial Instruments Corporate events related to the financial instruments Market-related data MDDL was developed by FISD (Financial Information Services Division) of SIIA (Software & Information Industry ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quibble
A quibble may refer to: a trivial objection a pun, or play on words Quibble (plot device), in narratology Quibble (computing), a quad nibble
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task%20Manager%20%28Windows%29
Task Manager, previously known as Windows Task Manager, is a task manager, system monitor, and startup manager included with Microsoft Windows systems. It provides information about computer performance and running software, including name of running processes, CPU and GPU load, commit charge, I/O details, logged-in u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cada%20ma%C3%B1ana
Cada mañana () was a morning television program on the Azteca 13 television network in Mexico, which aired from July 2000 to 2005. History Cada mañana debuted on July 24, 2000. It was hosted by Leonardo Daniel, Laura Luz, Luz Blanchet, Ana María Alvarado and Paco Lala's, and Darío T. Pie. Daniel left in mid-August, af...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luz%20Blanchet
Luz Blanchet (born Luz Blanchet Enríquez de Rivera in Mexico City) is a Mexican TV host she started her career on the network TeleHit. She also participated on the shows Cada Mañana and Con sello de mujer. Luz has had long term experience in the media in addition to her career as a graphic designer, studying at the Un...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banker%27s%20algorithm
Banker's algorithm is a resource allocation and deadlock avoidance algorithm developed by Edsger Dijkstra that tests for safety by simulating the allocation of predetermined maximum possible amounts of all resources, and then makes an "s-state" check to test for possible deadlock conditions for all other pending activi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket%20Paint
Pocket Paint is the Windows CE version of the raster graphics editor Microsoft Paint accessory commonly included with the Windows operating system. Because it is written to run on the leaner Windows CE operating system, it lacks a few of the features found in its bigger brother for the desktop. The only image format su...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnie%20II
Arnie II, developed by Zeppelin Games in 1993, is a computer game and sequel to Arnie. It was written by David Sowerby with graphics by Neil Hislop. The music was created by Andrew Rodger. The game's manual says that "Arnie has been chosen to perform four missions that require stealth, skill and extreme violence." T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVD
NVD may refer to: Avion Express, Lithuania (ICAO airline code) Dutch Zoo Federation (Dutch: ) HD NVD, a High-definition video standard National Vulnerability Database Night vision device Party for Neighbourly Love, Freedom, and Diversity (Dutch: ), a Dutch political party with only three known members forced by ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNBA%20on%20ESPN
The WNBA on ESPN refers to the presentation of Women's National Basketball Association games on the ESPN family of networks. Under the title of WNBA Tuesday, games are broadcast throughout the WNBA season on Tuesday nights on ESPN2. Background In June 2003, the WNBA signed a new six-year agreement with ABC Sports and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random%20map
In video games, a random map is a map generated randomly by the computer, usually in strategy games. Random maps are often the core of single and multiplayer gameplay, aside from story based campaigns that are often shipped with the game. Each new game presents an unknown map, providing a new experience to the player, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanisha%20Harper
Tanisha Harper is an American model, actress and television host. She made her screen debut in the 2006 romantic comedy-drama film Something New and later starred in the MyNetworkTV series Desire. Harper was runner-up in the sixth season of the reality competition series Project Runway in 2009 and worked as a fashion m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negation%20%28disambiguation%29
Negation is a connective in logic and an operation computing that maps true to false and false to true. Negation may also refer to: Negation (linguistics), a grammatical operation by which a proposition is replaced by one that states the opposite, as by the addition of not Negation (comics), a CrossGen comic The N...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikarus%20%28chess%29
Ikarus is a computer chess program created by brothers Munjong and Muntsin Kolss. History Development Development began in 1997 and it competed in its first ICGA event in 1998 at the 9th World Computer Chess Championship, held in Paderborn, finishing in 26th place with 2 points from 7 games. Three years later in Maa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20gateway%20exchange
In telephony, an international gateway exchange is a telephone switch that forms the gateway between a national telephone network and one or more other international gateway exchanges, thus providing cross-border connectivity. Requirements Whereas international gateway exchanges are commonly implemented using hardwar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20file%20systems
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of file systems. General information Metadata Features File capabilities Block capabilities Note that in addition to the below table, block capabilities can be implemented below the file system layer in Linux (LVM, , cryptsetup) or Windows...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Fourman
Michael Paul Fourman FBCS FRSE (born 12 September 1950) is Professor of Computer Systems at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, UK, and was Head of the School of Informatics from 2001 to 2009. Fourman is worked in applications of logic in computer science, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science – more spe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Groove
Cyber Groove (known as 熱舞2000 or Dance 2000 in Chinese) is a Taiwanese dancing game, by Front Fareast Industrial Corporation, played on a Microsoft Windows computer. It was released in January 2000, and can be played on either the keyboard or a dance pad. Gameplay Gameplay is similar to Dance Dance Revolution. Arrows ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Kovacs
Bill Kovacs (25 October 1949 – 30 May 2006) was a pioneer of commercial computer animation technology. Early career Kovacs received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 1971. He worked for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (New York office) while getting a Masters of Environmental Design fro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic%20Locator%20Codes
Worldwide Geographic Location Codes (GLCs) list the number and letter codes federal agencies should use in designating geographic locations anywhere in the United States or abroad in computer programs. Use of standard codes facilitates the interchange of machine-readable data from agency to agency within the federal co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Computer%20Speed%20Chess%20Championship
World Computer Speed Chess Championship is an annual event organized by the International Computer Games Association where computer chess engines compete against each other at blitz chess time controls. It is held in conjunction with the World Computer Chess Championship. Up to 2001, it was held in conjunction with th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AETN
AETN may refer to: Arkansas Educational Television Network, a Public Broadcasting System (PBS) member television stations in Arkansas A&E Television Networks, parent company of A&E Network and History Channel, among others
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silversword
Silversword is a fantasy role-playing game created by Mario J. Gaida. It was released for the iOS operating system on 13 January 2012 and is available for the Apple iPad and iPhone. Gaida modeled Silversword after the 1980s The Bard's Tale series of games, but provided a new storyline and plot. It retains the dungeon ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlay%20%28programming%29
In a general computing sense, overlaying means "the process of transferring a block of program code or other data into main memory, replacing what is already stored". Overlaying is a programming method that allows programs to be larger than the computer's main memory. An embedded system would normally use overlays beca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Abel%20and%20Associates
Robert Abel and Associates (RA&A) was an American pioneering production company specializing in television commercials made with computer graphics. Robert Abel's company, RA&A was especially known for their art direction and won many Clio Awards. Abel and his team created some of the most advanced and impressive compu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event%20data%20recorder
An event data recorder (EDR), more specifically motor vehicle event data recorder (MVEDR), similar to an accident data recorder, (ADR) sometimes referred to informally as an automotive black box (by analogy with the common nickname for flight recorders), is a device installed in some automobiles to record information r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20queue%20management
In routers and switches, active queue management (AQM) is the policy of dropping packets inside a buffer associated with a network interface controller (NIC) before that buffer becomes full, often with the goal of reducing network congestion or improving end-to-end latency. This task is performed by the network schedu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XWinLogon
XWinLogon is an interface to the Cygwin/X Server (The graphical interface of an X Window System) to allow the user to easily connect to a Unix/Linux box from Windows computer. The XWinLogon system is free and stable, but has not been updated since 2004-11-22. XWinLogon has a Windows installer that makes installation e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenor%20Sverige
Telenor Sverige (previously Vodafone Sweden, Europolitan and Nordic Tel), is a mobile phone, IPTV and Internet service provider in Sweden, owned by Telenor. Telenor Sverige's network covers 99 percent of the country's population, with telecom infrastructure sharing on 2G, 4G LTE and 5G NR under the Net4Mobility joint v...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20diving
Information diving is the practice of recovering technical data, sometimes confidential or secret, from discarded material. In recent times, this has chiefly been from data storage elements in discarded computers, most notably recoverable data remaining on hard drives. Those in charge of discarding computers usually ne...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwu%20Tung%20station
Kwu Tung (Chinese: 古洞站) is a planned underground infill station on the Lok Ma Chau spur line of the of the MTR rapid transit network in Hong Kong. The station will be situated near Kwu Tung in North District, New Territories. It is part of the first phase of the and act as its eastern terminus when phase 2 is compl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume%20boot%20record
A volume boot record (VBR) (also known as a volume boot sector, a partition boot record or a partition boot sector) is a type of boot sector introduced by the IBM Personal Computer. It may be found on a partitioned data storage device, such as a hard disk, or an unpartitioned device, such as a floppy disk, and contains...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%20Media%20Group
Curtis Media Group is a broadcast media company based in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. The company owns and operates several North Carolina radio stations and television networks. Broadcast stations Curtis Media Group owns and operates the following stations: Radio AM WPTF 680 AM (Raleigh, North Carolin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KXSP
KXSP (590 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Omaha, Nebraska. The station is owned by SummitMedia and it airs a sports format. Most weekday afternoon and evening programming is from local hosts, while during mornings, late nights and weekends, KXSP carries the ESPN Radio Network. KXSP operates with 5,000 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract%20State%20Machine%20Language
Abstract State Machine Language (AsmL) is a programming language based on abstract state machines developed by Microsoft. AsmL is a functional language. XASM is an open source implementation of the language. References External links Microsoft: ASML XASM .NET programming languages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20data
Electronic data can stand for data in general that is exchanged via electronic communication lines digital data in particular Data (computing), i.e. computer-processable data as opposed to executable code
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Reserved%20Partition
A Microsoft Reserved Partition (MSR) is a partition of a data storage device, which is created to reserve a portion of disk space for possible subsequent use by a Windows operating system installed on a separate partition. No meaningful data is stored within the MSR; though from the MSR, chunks may be taken for the cre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarCraft%3A%20The%20Board%20Game
StarCraft: The Board Game, published by Fantasy Flight Games, is a game inspired by the 1998 computer game StarCraft. Players take control of the three distinctive races featured in the video games, the Terrans, the Protoss, or the Zerg, to engage in battle across multiple worlds in order to achieve victory. Each of th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI%20system%20partition
The EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) system partition or ESP is a partition on a data storage device (usually a hard disk drive or solid-state drive) that is used by computers having the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). When a computer is booted, UEFI firmware loads files stored on the ESP to start ins...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetlands%20%28video%20game%29
Wetlands is a video game created by Hypnotix and published by New World Computing in 1995 for DOS. Gameplay The game is a rail shooter with 20 levels. The player can move their view left and right slightly to better shoot at enemies. Level 6, in which the player controls a gun turret, is the only time in the game wher...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20card%20reader
A memory card reader is a device for accessing the data on a memory card such as a CompactFlash (CF), Secure Digital (SD) or MultiMediaCard (MMC). Most card readers also offer write capability, and together with the card, this can function as a pen drive. Some printers and Smartphones have a built-in card reader, as d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20Secondary%20School
Alpha Secondary is a public high school in Burnaby, British Columbia part of School District 41 Burnaby. Academics Alpha Secondary offers a broad range of educational programming, including French Immersion, Mini School, Advanced Placement, Honours courses, and Ace-It programs. Students wishing to earn their professi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20SouthCentral
Network SouthCentral (NSC) was a shadow franchise that existed from 4 February 1994 to 13 October 1996, when Connex South Central took over the running of the franchise. The franchise is now part of the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise operated by Govia Thameslink Railway under the Southern brand. As ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Kotok
Alan Kotok (November 9, 1941 – May 26, 2006) was an American computer scientist known for his work at Digital Equipment Corporation (Digital, or DEC) and at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Steven Levy, in his book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, describes Kotok and his classmates at the Massachusetts I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueNAS
TrueNAS is the branding for a range of free and open-source network-attached storage (NAS) operating systems produced by iXsystems, and based on FreeBSD and Linux, using the OpenZFS file system. It is licensed under the terms of the BSD License and runs on commodity x86-64 hardware. The TrueNAS range includes free pu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android%2013
Android 13 is the thirteenth major release and the 20th version of Android, the mobile operating system developed by the Open Handset Alliance led by Google. It was released to the public and the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) on August 15, 2022. The first devices to ship with Android 13 were the Pixel 7 and 7 Pro....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-user%20BASIC
Multi-user BASIC was a dialect of the BASIC language for the DEC PDP-11 running the RT-11 operating system. One or more users were supported in separate address spaces sharing the same language interpreter. The syntax of the language was similar to but not identical to BASIC-11. A key language element was the support f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC-11
BASIC-11 was a dialect of the basic language for PDP-11 operating systems such as RSX-11, RT-11, TSX and TSX-Plus. It was a classic BASIC in that it used line numbers, supported line number editing, and classic function syntax. It provided extended support for user-defined functions, external sequential disk files, a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallet%20%28software%20project%29
MALLET is a Java "Machine Learning for Language Toolkit". Description MALLET is an integrated collection of Java code useful for statistical natural language processing, document classification, cluster analysis, information extraction, topic modeling and other machine learning applications to text. History MALLET wa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney%20Freight%20Network
The Sydney Freight Network is a network of dedicated railway lines for freight in Sydney, Australia, linking the state's rural and interstate rail network with the city's main yard at Enfield and Port Botany. Its primary components are the Southern Sydney Freight Line (SSFL) and a line from Sefton to Enfield and Port B...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice%20print
Voice print may refer to: VoicePrint, a Canadian audio-only TV network Spectrogram, an image representing the sounds in a voice Voice print, a verification method of speaker recognition Voiceprint Records, an English record label
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mong%20Kok%20Computer%20Centre
Mong Kok Computer Centre () is a shopping mall for computers and computer related products in Nelson Street, in Mong Kok, Hong Kong. The three floor mall houses more than 70 computer shops and attracts some 10,000 customers daily. Shops sell various kinds of products, including laptops, computer software, hardware and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasan
The Nasan Clustered File System is a shared disk file system created by the company DataPlow. Nasan software enables high-speed access to shared files located on shared, storage area network (SAN)-attached storage devices by utilizing the high-performance, scalable data transfers inherent to storage area networks and t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20data%20entry
A remote data entry (RDE) system is a computerized system designed for the collection of data in electronic format. The term is most commonly applied to a class of software used in the life sciences industry for collecting patient data from participants in clinical research studies—research of new drugs and/or medical...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinakaran
Dinakaran is a Tamil daily newspaper distributed in Tamil Nadu, India. It was founded by K. P. Kandasamy in 1977 and is currently owned by media conglomerate Sun Group's Sun Network. Dinakaran is the second largest circulated Tamil daily in India after Dina Thanthi . It is printed in 12 cities across India. Dinakaran w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide%20World%20of%20Sports%20%28Australian%20TV%20program%29
Wide World of Sports is an Australian sports television program. It was broadcast on the Nine Network. The show originally aired from 23 May 1981, until the end of 1999. After a nine-year hiatus, it returned on 16 March 2008 and had its last episode in 2016 following Ken Sutcliffe's retirement. It was replaced by a ne...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interim%20analysis
In clinical trials and other scientific studies, an interim analysis is an analysis of data that is conducted before data collection has been completed. Clinical trials are unusual in that enrollment of subjects is a continual process staggered in time. If a treatment can be proven to be clearly beneficial or harmful...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Abel%20%28animator%29
Robert Abel (March 10, 1937 – September 23, 2001) was an American pioneer in visual effects, computer animation and interactive media, best known for the work of his company, Robert Abel and Associates. Born in Cleveland, he received degrees in Design and Film from UCLA. He began his work in computer graphics in the 1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Unitarian%20Universalists
The European Unitarian Universalists (EUU) is a network of English-speaking Unitarian Universalist fellowships and individuals in Western Continental Europe. It was founded in 1982 to provide support and religious community for expatriate American Unitarian Universalists in Europe, although it increasingly includes Eur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relay%20attack
A relay attack (also known as the two-thief attack) in computer security is a type of hacking technique related to man-in-the-middle and replay attacks. In a classic man-in-the-middle attack, an attacker intercepts and manipulates communications between two parties initiated by one of the parties. In a classic relay ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20Home%20%26%20Health
Discovery Home & Health is a television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery that features lifestyle programming. Discovery Home & Health is available in Latin America, Australia, Republic of Ireland, Hong Kong, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia. It was formerly available on Australia's SelecTV from Mar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20David%20Schools%2C%20Johannesburg
The King David Schools are a network of Jewish day schools in Johannesburg, South Africa, offering nursery through high school education. There are three campuses across Johannesburg: Linksfield, Victory Park, and Sandton; "each school has an atmosphere of its own serving the specific community". The schools are under ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Developers
Google Developers (previously Google Code) , application programming interfaces (APIs), and technical resources. The site contains documentation on using Google developer tools and APIs—including discussion groups and blogs for developers using Google's developer products. There are APIs offered for almost all of Goog...