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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCU | RCU may refer to:
Science and technology
Read-copy-update, a computer operating system synchronization mechanism
Remote concentrator unit in telephony
Organocopper complexes (RCu), in reactions of organocopper reagents
Organizations
Radio Club Uruguayo
Rogue Credit Union, a federal credit union in Medford, Orego... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack%20vector | In computer security, an attack vector is a specific path, method, or scenario that can be exploited to break into an IT system, thus compromising its security. The term was derived from the corresponding notion of vector in biology. An attack vector may be exploited manually, automatically, or through a combination of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBR | CBR may refer to:
Business and organizations
CBR Innovation Network (or Canberra Innovation Network), a government innovation
Central Bank of Russia
Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, an anti-abortion non-profit organization
Centre for Blood Research, at the University of British Columbia
Central Board of Revenue, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatures%20%28video%20game%20series%29 | Creatures is an artificial life video game series created in the mid-1990s by English computer scientist Steve Grand while working for the Cambridge video game developer Millennium Interactive.
The gameplay focuses on raising alien creatures known as Norns, teaching them to survive, helping them explore their world, d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDonkey | eDonkey may refer to:
eDonkey network (also known as eDonkey2000 network or eD2k), a popular file sharing network
eDonkey2000, a discontinued file sharing program that used the eDonkey network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intranet%20strategies |
In business, an intranet strategy is the use of an intranet and associated hardware and software to obtain one or more organizational objectives. An intranet is an access-restricted network used internally in an organization. An intranet uses the same concepts and technologies as the World Wide Web and Internet. This ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head%20%28Unix%29 | head is a program on Unix and Unix-like operating systems used to display the beginning of a text file or piped data.
Syntax
The command syntax is:
head [options] <file_name>
By default, head will print the first 10 lines of its input to the standard output. The number of lines printed may be changed with a comman... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Funt | Peter Funt (born 1947) is an American actor, host, and producer for the hit TV show Candid Camera. He worked for Denver radio station KHOW, the ABC Radio Network, The New York Times and various other media organizations. He is a University of Denver graduate.
Early life
Peter Funt grew up in New York, where he worked ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubblegum%20Crisis%20Tokyo%202040 | is a 1998 cyberpunk anime television series produced by AIC. It is a reboot of the 1987 OVA series Bubblegum Crisis, which focuses on the Knight Sabers, a rogue vigilante group made up of four women who use powered suits to fight rogue Boomer robots made by the megacorporation Genom.
Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 premie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F22%20%28disambiguation%29 | F22 and F-22 usually refer to:
Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, an American stealth fighter aircraft
F-22 (series), a series of computer games by Novalogic
F-22 Raptor (video game), a 1998 video game
F-22: Air Dominance Fighter, a 1997 video game by Digital Image Design
F-22 Interceptor, a 1991 video game by Electron... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFF | CFF may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Celebrity Family Feud, a 2008 NBC game show hosted by Al Roker
Charcoal Feather Federation, an anime television series by Yoshitoshi ABe
Computing
Common File Format, a video file format that is part of the UltraViolet digital rights authentication and licensing sys... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFS | FFS may refer to:
Computing
Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme, in cryptography
Flash file system
Formatted File System
Find first set, a type of bit operation
FreeFileSync, a software package
Amiga Fast File System
Berkeley Fast File System
Music
FFS (band), a rock supergroup of Franz Ferdinand and Spar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSI | GSI may refer to:
Science and technology
Geological Strength Index
Gonadosomatic Index
UK Government Secure Intranet
Grid Security Infrastructure, a computer networking specification
Businesses and organizations
Businesses
Gemological Science International, gemstone identification/grading/appraisal services
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20A.%20Wagner | David A. Wagner (born 1974) is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and a well-known researcher in cryptography and computer security. He is a member of the Election Assistance Commission's Technical Guidelines Development Committee, tasked with assisting the EAC in drafting the Vol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20Postman | Neil Postman (March 8, 1931 – October 5, 2003) was an American author, educator, media theorist and cultural critic, who eschewed digital technology, including personal computers, mobile devices, and cruise control in cars, and was critical of uses of technology, such as personal computers in school. He is best known f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incompatible%20Timesharing%20System | Incompatible Timesharing System (ITS) is a time-sharing operating system developed principally by the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, with help from Project MAC. The name is the jocular complement of the MIT Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS).
ITS, and the software developed on it, were technically and cult... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracey%20Curro | Tracey Ilana Curro (born 27 November 1963) is an Australian journalist.
Curro has previously been a news presenter on GMV-6, QTQ-9 and ATV-10 and a reporter on the Seven Network's Beyond 2000, a science-technology show, and correspondent on 60 Minutes.
Career
Curro was born and grew up in Ingham, Queensland; her fat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20O.%20Rabin | Michael Oser Rabin (; born September 1, 1931) is an Israeli mathematician, computer scientist, and recipient of the Turing Award.
Biography
Early life and education
Rabin was born in 1931 in Breslau, Germany (today Wrocław, in Poland), the son of a rabbi. In 1935, he emigrated with his family to Mandate Palestine. A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaster%20%28computer%20worm%29 | Blaster (also known as Lovsan, Lovesan, or MSBlast) was a computer worm that spread on computers running operating systems Windows XP and Windows 2000 during August 2003.
The worm was first noticed and started spreading on August 11, 2003. The rate that it spread increased until the number of infections peaked on Aug... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downstream%20%28networking%29 | In a telecommunications network or computer network, downstream refers to data sent from a network service provider to a customer.
One process sending data primarily in the downstream direction is downloading. However, the overall download speed depends on the downstream speed of the user, the upstream speed of the se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Multi-Programming%20Executive | MPE (Multi-Programming Executive) is a discontinued business-oriented mainframe computer real-time operating system made by Hewlett-Packard. While initially a mini-mainframe, the final high-end systems supported 12 CPUs and over 2000 simultaneous users.
Description
It runs on the HP 3000 family of computers, which o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20M.%20Karp | Richard Manning Karp (born January 3, 1935) is an American computer scientist and computational theorist at the University of California, Berkeley. He is most notable for his research in the theory of algorithms, for which he received a Turing Award in 1985, The Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored-value%20card | A stored-value card (SVC) is a payment card with a monetary value stored on the card itself, not in an external account maintained by a financial institution. This means no network access is required by the payment collection terminals as funds can be withdrawn and deposited straight from the card. Like cash, payment c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20Ross%20Ashby | William Ross Ashby (6 September 1903 – 15 November 1972) was an English psychiatrist and a pioneer in cybernetics, the study of the science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things. His first name was not used: he was known as Ross Ashby.
His two books, Design for a Brain and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDAP%20Application%20Program%20Interface | The LDAP Application Program Interface, described by RFC 1823, is an Informational RFC that specifies an application programming interface in the C programming language for version 2 of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. Version 2 of LDAP is historic. Commonly available LDAP C APIs do not strictly adhere to t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Crowther%20%28programmer%29 | William Crowther (born 1936) is an American computer programmer, caver, and rock climber. He is the co-creator of Colossal Cave Adventure from 1975 onward, a seminal computer game that influenced the first decade of video game design and inspired the text adventure game genre.
Biography
During the early 1970s, Crowt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Hopcroft | John Edward Hopcroft (born October 7, 1939) is an American theoretical computer scientist. His textbooks on theory of computation (also known as the Cinderella book) and data structures are regarded as standards in their fields. He is the IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics in Computer Science at Corne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Yao | Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (; born December 24, 1946) is a Chinese computer scientist and computational theorist. He is currently a professor and the dean of Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) at Tsinghua University. Yao used the minimax theorem to prove what is now known as Yao's Principle.
Yao was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20disc%20drive | In computing, an optical disc drive is a disc drive that uses laser light or electromagnetic waves within or near the visible light spectrum as part of the process of reading or writing data to or from optical discs. Some drives can only read from certain discs, but recent drives can both read and record, also called b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound%20document | In computing, a compound document is a document that “combines multiple document formats, either by reference, by inclusion, or both.” Compound documents are often produced using word processing software, and may include text and non-text elements such as barcodes, spreadsheets, pictures, digital videos, digital audio,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20L.%20Steele%20Jr. | Guy Lewis Steele Jr. (; born October 2, 1954) is an American computer scientist who has played an important role in designing and documenting several computer programming languages and technical standards.
Biography
Steele was born in Missouri and graduated from the Boston Latin School in 1972. He received a Bachelor ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-Point%20Protocol%20over%20Ethernet | The Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) is a network protocol for encapsulating Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) frames inside Ethernet frames. It appeared in 1999, in the context of the boom of DSL as the solution for tunneling packets over the DSL connection to the ISP's IP network, and from there to the rest ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-Point%20Protocol%20over%20ATM | In computer networking, the Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM (PPPoA) is a layer 2 data-link protocol typically used to connect domestic broadband modems to ISPs via phone lines. It is used mainly with DOCSIS and DSL carriers, by encapsulating PPP frames in ATM AAL5. Point-to-Point Protocol over Asynchronous Transfer Mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISDN%20digital%20subscriber%20line | ISDN Digital Subscriber Line (IDSL) uses ISDN-based digital subscriber line technology to provide a data communication channel across existing copper telephone lines at a rate of 144 kbit/s, slightly higher than a bonded dual channel ISDN connection at 128kbit/s. The digital transmission bypasses the telephone company... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC%20circuit | A resistor–capacitor circuit (RC circuit), or RC filter or RC network, is an electric circuit composed of resistors and capacitors. It may be driven by a voltage or current source and these will produce different responses. A first order RC circuit is composed of one resistor and one capacitor and is the simplest type... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year%202038%20problem | The year 2038 problem (also known as Y2038, Y2K38, Y2K38 superbug or the Epochalypse) is a time formatting bug in computer systems with representing times after 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038.
The problem exists in systems which measure Unix time – the number of seconds elapsed since the Unix epoch (00:00:00 UTC on 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20Computing%20Corporation | Power Computing Corporation (often referred to as Power Computing) was the first company selected by Apple Inc to create Macintosh-compatible computers ("Mac clones"). Stephen “Steve” Kahng, a computer engineer best known for his design of the Leading Edge Model D, founded the company in November 1993. Power Computin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOAA%20Weather%20Radio | NOAA Weather Radio (NWR), also known as NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards, is an automated 24-hour network of VHF FM weather radio stations in the United States that broadcast weather information directly from a nearby National Weather Service office. The routine programming cycle includes local or regional weather forec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Perlis | Alan Jay Perlis (April 1, 1922 – February 7, 1990) was an American computer scientist and professor at Purdue University, Carnegie Mellon University and Yale University. He is best known for his pioneering work in programming languages and was the first recipient of the Turing Award.
Biography
Perlis was born to a Jew... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datasheet | A datasheet, data sheet, or spec sheet is a document that summarizes the performance and other characteristics of a product, machine, component (e.g., an electronic component), material, subsystem (e.g., a power supply), or software in sufficient detail that allows a buyer to understand what the product is and a design... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20access | Internet access is a facility or service that provides connectivity for a computer, a computer network, or other network device to the Internet, and for individuals or organizations to access or use applications such as email and the World Wide Web. Internet access is offered for sale by an international hierarchy of I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compis | Compis (COMPuter I Skolan, also a pun on the colloquial Swedish word kompis meaning comrade or buddy) was a computer system intended for the general educational system in Sweden and sold to Swedish schools beginning in 1984 through the distributor Esselte Studium, who also was responsible for the software packages.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-American%20Highway | The Pan-American Highway is a network of roads stretching across the Americas and measuring about in total length. Except for a break of approximately across the border between northwest Colombia and southeast Panama called the Darién Gap, the roads link almost all of the Pacific coastal countries of the Americas in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-American%20Highway%20%28North%20America%29 | The Pan-American Highway route in North America is the portion of a network of roads nearly in length that travels through the mainland nations of the Americas. No definitive length of the Pan American Highway exists because the Canadian government has never officially defined any specific route as being part of the P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA%20Security | RSA Security LLC, formerly RSA Security, Inc. and trade name RSA, is an American computer and network security company with a focus on encryption and encryption standards. RSA was named after the initials of its co-founders, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman, after whom the RSA public key cryptography algorith... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid%20War | Liquid War is an free software multi-player action game based on particle flow mechanic. Thomas Colcombet developed the core concept and the original shortest path algorithm, the software was programmed by . Liquid War 6 is a GNU package distributed as free software and part of the GNU project.
Gameplay
Gameplay take... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20H.%20Wilkinson | James Hardy Wilkinson FRS (27 September 1919 – 5 October 1986) was a prominent figure in the field of numerical analysis, a field at the boundary of applied mathematics and computer science particularly useful to physics and engineering.
Education
Born in Strood, England, he won a Foundation Scholarship to Sir Joseph ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Bachman | Charles William Bachman III (December 11, 1924 – July 13, 2017) was an American computer scientist, who spent his entire career as an industrial researcher, developer, and manager rather than in academia. He was particularly known for his work in the early development of database management systems.
His techniques of l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological%20footprint | The ecological footprint is a method promoted by the Global Footprint Network to measure human demand on natural capital, i.e. the quantity of nature it takes to support people and their economies. It tracks this demand through an ecological accounting system. The accounts contrast the biologically productive area peo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork%20%28software%20development%29 | In software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it, creating a distinct and separate piece of software. The term often implies not merely a development branch, but also a split in the developer community; as such, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork%20%28system%20call%29 | In computing, particularly in the context of the Unix operating system and its workalikes, fork is an operation whereby a process creates a copy of itself. It is an interface which is required for compliance with the POSIX and Single UNIX Specification standards. It is usually implemented as a C standard library wrappe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-expression | In computer programming, M-expressions (or meta-expressions) were an early proposed syntax for the Lisp programming language, inspired by contemporary languages such as Fortran and ALGOL. The notation was never implemented into the language and, as such, it was never finalized.
Compared to S-expressions, M-expressions... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20W.%20Floyd | Robert W Floyd (June 8, 1936 – September 25, 2001) was a computer scientist. His contributions include the design of the Floyd–Warshall algorithm (independently of Stephen Warshall), which efficiently finds all shortest paths in a graph and his work on parsing; Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm for detecting cycles in a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Cocke%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | John Cocke (May 30, 1925 – July 16, 2002) was an American computer scientist recognized for his large contribution to computer architecture and optimizing compiler design. He is considered by many to be "the father of RISC architecture."
Biography
He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, US. He attended Duke Universi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original%20programming | Original programming (also called originals or original programs, and subcategorized as "original series", "original movies", "original documentaries" and "original specials") is a term used for in-house television, film or web series productions to which the exclusive domestic and, if the originating service operates... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20language%20generation | Natural language generation (NLG) is a software process that produces natural language output. A widely-cited survey of NLG methods describes NLG as "the subfield of artificial intelligence and computational linguistics that is concerned with the construction of computer systems than can produce understandable texts i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20audio%20formats | An audio format is a medium for sound recording and reproduction. The term is applied to both the physical recording media and the recording formats of the audio content—in computer science it is often limited to the audio file format, but its wider use usually refers to the physical method used to store the data.
Note... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dive%20computer | A dive computer, personal decompression computer or decompression meter is a device used by an underwater diver to measure the elapsed time and depth during a dive and use this data to calculate and display an ascent profile which, according to the programmed decompression algorithm, will give a low risk of decompressi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%20%28programming%20language%29 | Curry is an experimental functional logic programming language, based on the Haskell language. It merges elements of functional and logic programming, including constraint programming integration.
It is nearly a superset of Haskell, lacking support mostly for overloading using type classes, which some implementations ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore%2016 | The Commodore 16 is a home computer made by Commodore International with a 6502-compatible 7501 or 8501 CPU, released in 1984 and intended to be an entry-level computer to replace the VIC-20. A cost-reduced version, the Commodore 116, was mostly sold in Europe.
The C16 and C116 belong to the same family as the higher-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipset | In a computer system, a chipset is a set of electronic components on one or more ULSI integrated circuits known as a "Data Flow Management System" that manages the data flow between the processor, memory and peripherals. It is usually found on the motherboard of computers. Chipsets are usually designed to work with a s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle%20Wolfenstein | Castle Wolfenstein is a 1981 action-adventure game that was developed by Muse Software for the Apple II home computer. It is one of the earliest games to be based on stealth mechanics. An Atari 8-bit family port was released in 1982 and was followed by versions for Commodore 64 (1983) and MS-DOS (1984).
The game takes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTEC | The Microsoft Certified Technical Education Centre (Microsoft CTEC) channel provides training for computer professions in the use of Microsoft products. The term Microsoft Certified Technical Education Centre was introduced by Microsoft in early 1990s. Microsoft CTECs are authorised to deliver Microsoft Official Curric... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore%20Plus/4 | The Commodore Plus/4 is a home computer released by Commodore International in 1984. The "Plus/4" name refers to the four-application ROM-resident office suite (word processor, spreadsheet, database, and graphing); it was billed as "the productivity computer with software built in".
Internally, the Plus/4 shared the s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%20Silver%20Bullet | "No Silver Bullet—Essence and Accident in Software Engineering" is a widely discussed paper on software engineering written by Turing Award winner Fred Brooks in 1986. Brooks argues that "there is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order of magnitude [... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20Processing%20Language | Information Processing Language (IPL) is a programming language created by Allen Newell, Cliff Shaw, and Herbert A. Simon at RAND Corporation and the Carnegie Institute of Technology about 1956. Newell had the job of language specifier-application programmer, Shaw was the system programmer, and Simon had the job of ap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infomercial | An infomercial is a form of television commercial that resembles regular TV programming yet is intended to promote or sell a product, service or idea. It generally includes a toll-free telephone number or website. Most often used as a form of direct response television (DRTV), they are often program-length commercials ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockingboard | The Mockingboard (a pun on "Mockingbird") is a sound card built by Sweet Micro Systems for the Apple II series of microcomputers. It improves on the Apple II's limited sound capabilities, as did other Apple II sound cards.
In 1981, Sweet Micro Systems began designing products not only for creating music, but speech a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP%20address%20blocking | IP address blocking or IP banning is a configuration of a network service that blocks requests from hosts with certain IP addresses. IP address blocking is commonly used to protect against brute force attacks and to prevent access by a disruptive address. It can also be used to restrict access to or from a particular g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Kahan | William "Velvel" Morton Kahan (born June 5, 1933) is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, who received the Turing Award in 1989 for "his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis",
was named an ACM Fellow in 1994, and inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2005.
Biography
Born to a Cana... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCID | SCID may stand for:
Computing
Shane's Chess Information Database, a chess database to maintain, view and replay chess games
Source Code in Database, program source code stored in a database with structural relations reflecting the language syntax and program structure
Synchronous optical networking, carrier identi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando%20J.%20Corbat%C3%B3 | Fernando José "Corby" Corbató (July 1, 1926 – July 12, 2019) was an American computer scientist, notable as a pioneer in the development of time-sharing operating systems.
Career
Corbató was born on July 1, 1926, in Oakland, California, to Hermenegildo Corbató, a Spanish literature professor from Villarreal, Spain, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral%20Interchange%20Program | Peripheral Interchange Program (PIP) was a utility to transfer files on and between devices on Digital Equipment Corporation's computers. It was first implemented on the PDP-6 architecture by Harrison "Dit" Morse early in the 1960s. It was subsequently implemented for DEC's operating systems for PDP-10, PDP-11, and PD... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20mart | A data mart is a structure/access pattern specific to data warehouse environments, used to retrieve client-facing data. The data mart is a subset of the data warehouse and is usually oriented to a specific business line or team. Whereas data warehouses have an enterprise-wide depth, the information in data marts pertai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macsyma | Macsyma (; "Project MAC's SYmbolic MAnipulator") is one of the oldest general-purpose computer algebra systems still in wide use. It was originally developed from 1968 to 1982 at MIT's Project MAC.
In 1982, Macsyma was licensed to Symbolics and became a commercial product. In 1992, Symbolics Macsyma was spun off to M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenZaurus | OpenZaurus is a defunct embedded operating system for the Sharp Zaurus personal mobile tool PDA.
History
In its original form, the project was a repackaging of the SharpROM, the Zaurus's factory supplied kernel and root filesystem image. In order to make the Zaurus's OS closer to the needs of the developer community,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%20%28video%20game%20series%29 | (known as EarthBound outside Japan) is a video game series that consists of three role-playing video games: Mother (1989), known as EarthBound Beginnings outside Japan, for the Family Computer; Mother 2 (1994), known as EarthBound outside Japan, for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System; and Mother 3 (2006) for the G... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILP | ILP can refer to:
Computer science
Inductive logic programming
Information Leak Prevention
Instruction-level parallelism
Integer linear programming
Other
ilp., a 2013 album by Kwes
Independent Labour Party, United Kingdom
Independent Living Program, a US Veteran Affairs program aimed at making sure that each ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygon%20%28computer%20graphics%29 | Polygons are used in computer graphics to compose images that are three-dimensional in appearance.
Usually (but not always) triangular, polygons arise when an object's surface is modeled, vertices are selected, and the object is rendered in a wire frame model. This is quicker to display than a shaded model; thus the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot%20disk | A boot disk is a removable digital data storage medium from which a computer can load and run (boot) an operating system or utility program. The computer must have a built-in program which will load and execute a program from a boot disk meeting certain standards.
While almost all modern computers can boot from a hard... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read-only | In computer technology, read-only can refer to:
Read-only memory (ROM), a type of storage media
Read-only access to memory using memory protection
Read-only access to files or directories in file system permissions
Read-only access for database administrators in database system permissions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEM%20%28disambiguation%29 | DEM was the ISO 4217 currency code for the Deutsche Mark, former currency of Germany
Computing
Digital elevation model, a digital representation of ground-surface topography or terrain
.dem, a common extension for USGS DEM files
Discrete element method or discrete element modeling, a family of numerical methods fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance%20fog | Distance fog is a technique used in 3D computer graphics to enhance the perception of distance by shading distant objects differently.
Because many of the shapes in graphical environments are relatively simple, and complex shadows are difficult to render, many graphics engines employ a "fog" gradient so objects furthe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%20Panthers | The Gray Panthers are a series of multi-generational local advocacy networks in the United States which confront ageism and many other social justice issues. The organization was formed by Maggie Kuhn in response to her forced retirement from the Presbyterian Church at the age of 65 in 1970. The Gray Panthers are named... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datenschleuder | , literally translated as The Data Slingshot: The scientific trade journal for data voyagers, is a German hacker magazine that is published at irregular intervals by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC).
Topics include primarily political and technical aspects of the digital world (freedom of information, data privacy (data ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P4 | P4 may refer to:
Computing
Intel Pentium 4, a processor series shipped from 2000 to 2008
The P4 power connector, introduced in the ATX12V 1.0 standard to power these and later CPUs
The i486DX (P4) model of the Intel 80486 microprocessor, introduced in 1989
P4 (programming language), for controlling network data f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectBand | DirectBand was a North American wireless datacast network owned and operated by Microsoft. It used FM radio broadcasts in over 100 cities to constantly transmit data to a variety of devices, including portable GPS devices, wristwatches and home weather stations.
How it works
DirectBand used the 67.65 kHz subcarrier l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitter%20object | A Bob (contraction of Blitter object) is a graphical element (GEL) used by the Amiga computer. Bobs are hardware sprite-like objects, movable on the screen with the help of the blitter coprocessor.
The AmigaOS GEL system consists of VSprites, Bobs, AnimComps (animation components) and AnimObs (animation objects), each... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20caf%C3%A9 | An Internet café, also known as a cybercafé, is a café (or a convenience store or a fully dedicated Internet access business) that provides the use of computers with high bandwidth Internet access on the payment of a fee. Usage is generally charged by the minute or part of hour. An Internet cafe will generally also off... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside%20Macintosh | Inside Macintosh is the developer documentation published by Apple Computer, documenting the APIs and machine architecture of the Macintosh's classic Mac OS.
Early editions
The first Inside Macintosh documentation, for the Mac 128K, was distributed in two large binders with photocopied 3-hole-punched pages. Every few... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telerobotics | Telerobotics is the area of robotics concerned with the control of semi-autonomous robots from a distance, chiefly using television, wireless networks (like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and the Deep Space Network) or tethered connections. It is a combination of two major subfields, which are teleoperation and telepresence.
Teleop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacophony%20Society | The Cacophony Society is an American organization described on their website as "a randomly gathered network of free spirits united in the pursuit of experiences beyond the pale of mainstream society". It was started in 1986 by surviving members of the defunct Suicide Club of San Francisco.
Cacophony has been descri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3B%20series%20computers | The 3B series computers are a line of minicomputers made between the late 1970s and 1993 by AT&T Computer Systems' Western Electric subsidiary, for use with the company's UNIX operating system. The line primarily consists of the models 3B20, 3B5, 3B15, 3B2, and 3B4000. The series is notable for controlling a series of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null%20device | In some operating systems, the null device is a device file that discards all data written to it but reports that the write operation succeeded. This device is called /dev/null on Unix and Unix-like systems, NUL: (see TOPS-20) or NUL on CP/M and DOS (internally \DEV\NUL), nul on OS/2 and newer Windows systems (internal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devnull | Devnull is the name of a computer worm for the Linux operating system that has been named after , Unix's null device. This worm was found on 30 September 2002.
This worm, once the host has been compromised, downloads and executes a shell script from a web server. This script downloads a gzipped executable file named ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamber%20of%20commerce | A chamber of commerce, or board of trade, is a form of business network. For example, a local organization of businesses whose goal is to further the interests of businesses. Business owners in towns and cities form these local societies to advocate on behalf of the business community. Local businesses are members, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Walker%20%28programmer%29 | John Walker is a computer programmer, author and co-founder of the computer-aided design software company Autodesk. He has more recently been recognized for his writing on his website Fourmilab.
Early projects
In 1974/1975, Walker wrote the ANIMAL software, which self-replicated on UNIVAC 1100 machines. It is conside... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logitech | Logitech International S.A. ( ) is a Swiss
company and a multinational manufacturer of computer peripherals and software, with global headquarter in Lausanne, Switzerland. The company has offices throughout Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas, and is one of the world's leading manufacturers of input and interface d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Journeyman%20Project%20%28video%20game%29 | The Journeyman Project is a time travel adventure computer game developed by Presto Studios.
Gameplay
The game features a first-person perspective. The protagonist sees a display, a rectangle shaped visor (acting as a monocle for Agent 5). This user interface helps to reduce the movie size and maintain relatively high... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSC | HSC may stand for:
Business
Hughes Systique Corporation
Halifax Shopping Centre
Harmonized System Code
Harsco Corporation
Computing
HSC50 (Hierarchical Storage Controller), using DEC Mass Storage Control Protocol
Hughes Systique Corporation
Medicine
Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland
Hematopoietic st... |
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