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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Fool%27s%20Errand | The Fool's Errand is a 1987 computer game by Cliff Johnson. It is a meta-puzzle game with storytelling, visual puzzles, and a cryptic treasure map. It is the tale of a wandering Fool who seeks his fortune in the Land of Tarot and braves the enchantments of the High Priestess. A sequel titled The Fool and His Money was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native%20%28computing%29 | In computing, native software or data-formats are those that were designed to run on a particular operating system. In a more technical sense, native code is code written specifically for a certain processor. In contrast, cross-platform software can be run on multiple operating systems and/or computer architectures.
F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent%20user | In computer science, the number of concurrent users (sometimes abbreviated CCU) for a resource in a location, with the location being a computing network or a single computer, refers to the total number of people simultaneously accessing or using the resource. The resource can, for example, be a computer program, a fil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSIX | MOSIX is a proprietary distributed operating system. Although early versions were based on older UNIX systems, since 1999 it focuses on Linux clusters and grids. In a MOSIX cluster/grid there is no need to modify or to link applications with any library, to copy files or login to remote nodes, or even to assign process... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.exe | .exe is a common filename extension denoting an executable file (the main execution point of a computer program) for Microsoft Windows, OS/2, and DOS.
File formats
There are numerous file formats which may be used by a file with a extension.
DOS
16-bit DOS MZ executable (MZ)The original DOS executable file format.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopus | Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation database launched in 2004. Scopus covers nearly 36,377 titles (22,794 active titles and 13,583 inactive titles) from approximately 11,678 publishers, of which 34,346 are peer-reviewed journals in top-level subject fields: life sciences, social sciences, physical sciences and h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic%20sieve | The quadratic sieve algorithm (QS) is an integer factorization algorithm and, in practice, the second-fastest method known (after the general number field sieve). It is still the fastest for integers under 100 decimal digits or so, and is considerably simpler than the number field sieve. It is a general-purpose factori... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn%20algorithm | The Luhn algorithm or Luhn formula, also known as the "modulus 10" or "mod 10" algorithm, named after its creator, IBM scientist Hans Peter Luhn, is a simple check digit formula used to validate a variety of identification numbers.
It is described in U.S. Patent No. 2,950,048, granted on August 23, 1960.
The algorith... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLAN | mLAN, short for Music Local Area Network, is a protocol for synchronized transmission and management of multi-channel digital audio, video, control signals and multi-port MIDI over a network.
Description
The mLAN protocol was originally developed by Yamaha Corporation, and publicly introduced in January 2000. It was a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGA%20connector | The Video Graphics Array (VGA) connector is a standard connector used for computer video output. Originating with the 1987 IBM PS/2 and its VGA graphics system, the 15-pin connector went on to become ubiquitous on PCs, as well as many monitors, projectors and high-definition television sets.
Other connectors have been... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Graham%20%28astronomer%29 | Andrew Graham (8 April 1815 – 5 November 1908), born in Irvinestown County Fermanagh, Ireland, was an Irish astronomer, orbit computer and discoverer of the asteroid 9 Metis.
Astronomer at Markree, County Sligo
In 1842 Graham was appointed to work at Markree Observatory in County Sligo in northwest Ireland. The obse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade%20route | A trade route is a logistical network identified as a series of pathways and stoppages used for the commercial transport of cargo. The term can also be used to refer to trade over bodies of water. Allowing goods to reach distant markets, a single trade route contains long-distance arteries, which may further be connect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Colorado | The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. State of Colorado, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats.
List of radio stations
Defunct stations
KAMV-LP
See also
Bibliography of Colorado
Geography of Colorado
History of Color... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Kentucky | The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Kentucky, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats.
List of radio stations
Defunct
WAIA
WANY
WBLG-LP
WCPM
WCWC
WCYN-FM
WEKC (Williamsburg, Kentucky)
WENS-LP
WFHS-LP
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function%20type | In computer science and mathematical logic, a function type (or arrow type or exponential) is the type of a variable or parameter to which a function has or can be assigned, or an argument or result type of a higher-order function taking or returning a function.
A function type depends on the type of the parameters an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%202100 | The HP 2100 is a series of 16-bit minicomputers that were produced by Hewlett-Packard (HP) from the mid-1960s to early 1990s. Tens of thousands of machines in the series were sold over its twenty-five year lifetime, making HP the fourth largest minicomputer vendor during the 1970s.
The design started at Data Systems I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova%20Entertainment | NOVA Entertainment is an Australian entertainment company that operates commercial radio networks (and associated digital brands) in metropolitan and regional areas of Australia.
NOVA Entertainment is owned by Lachlan Murdoch's Illyria Pty Ltd which purchased the remaining 50% it did not own from Daily Mail and Gener... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%20Over%20%28TV%20series%29 | Game Over is a 2004 American adult computer-animated sitcom created by David Sacks (who later became president of Nickelodeon Animation Studio), produced by Carsey-Werner Productions, and broadcast on UPN in 2004. It was cancelled after five episodes.
Game Over (the title was inspired by the phrase "game over" that co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC%20800 | The Luxor ABC 800 series are office versions of the ABC 80 home computer. They featured an enhanced BASIC interpreter, a slightly faster clocked CPU and more memory: 32 kilobytes RAM and 32 KB ROM was now standard, the Z80 is clocked at (quarter the 12 MHz crystal). It featured 40×24 text mode with eight colors (ABC 8... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20J.%20Farber | David J. Farber (born April 17, 1934) is a professor of computer science, noted for his major contributions to programming languages and computer networking who is currently the distinguished professor and co-director of Cyber Civilization Research Center at Keio University in Japan. He has been called the "grandfather... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Commodore%2064%20games | This is a list of games for the Commodore 64 personal computer system, sorted alphabetically. See Lists of video games for other platforms.
Because of the length of the list, it has been broken down to two parts:
List of Commodore 64 games (A–M)
List of Commodore 64 games (N–Z)
See also
Commodore 64 Games System
Co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source%20port | A source port is a software project based on the source code of a game engine that allows the game to be played on operating systems or computing platforms with which the game was not originally compatible.
Description
Source ports are often created by fans after the original developer hands over the maintenance suppo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-band%20signaling | In telecommunications, in-band signaling is the sending of control information within the same band or channel used for data such as voice or video. This is in contrast to out-of-band signaling which is sent over a different channel, or even over a separate network. In-band signals may often be heard by telephony part... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast%20Wars%3A%20Transformers | Beast Wars: Transformers (titled Beasties: Transformers in Canada) is a computer-animated television series that debuted in 1996 and ended on May 7, 1999, serving as the flagship of the Transformers: Beast Wars franchise. It was one of the earliest fully CGI television shows. The series is set in the future of the "ori... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroot | chroot is an operation on Unix and Unix-like operating systems that changes the apparent root directory for the current running process and its children. A program that is run in such a modified environment cannot name (and therefore normally cannot access) files outside the designated directory tree. The term "chroot"... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operators%20in%20C%20and%20C%2B%2B | This is a list of operators in the C and C++ programming languages. All the operators (except typeof) listed exist in C++; the column "Included in C", states whether an operator is also present in C. Note that C does not support operator overloading.
When not overloaded, for the operators &&, ||, and , (the comma oper... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Osaka | is a television station affiliated with the TX Network in Osaka, Japan. Nikkei, Inc. is the biggest shareholder of TVO. The mascot character is "Takoru-kun" (たこるくん).
History
Television Osaka, Inc. was founded in 1981 as part of the reorganization of Tokyo Channel 12 Ltd (now TV Tokyo). On March 1 the following year,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%20number | In computing, a line number is a method used to specify a particular sequence of characters in a text file. The most common method of assigning numbers to lines is to assign every line a unique number, starting at 1 for the first line, and incrementing by 1 for each successive line.
In the C programming language the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BESM-6 | BESM-6 (, short for Большая электронно-счётная машина, i.e. 'Large Electronic Calculating Machine') was a Soviet electronic computer of the BESM series. It was the first Soviet second-generation, transistor-based computer.
Overview
The BESM-6 was the most well-known and influential model of the series designed at the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanner%20Access%20Now%20Easy | Scanner Access Now Easy (SANE) is an open-source application programming interface (API) that provides standardized access to any raster image scanner hardware (flatbed scanner, handheld scanner, video- and still-cameras, frame grabbers, etc.). The SANE API is public domain. It is commonly used on Linux.
Architecture
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20%28music%29 | Programming is a form of music production and performance using electronic devices and computer software, such as sequencers and workstations or hardware synthesizers, sampler and sequencers, to generate sounds of musical instruments. These musical sounds are created through the use of music coding languages. There are... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deloitte | Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (), commonly referred to as Deloitte, is a British multinational professional services network headquartered in London, England. Deloitte is the largest professional services network by revenue and number of professionals in the world and is considered one of the Big Four accounting fir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invision%20Community | Invision Community is a brand of forum software developed in 2002 and originally marketed as Invision Power Board. The current version of the software was written in PHP and uses MySQL for database storage.
Invision Power Services (IPS) was created in 2002 by Charles Warner and Matt Mecham after they left Jarvis En... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ES%20EVM | The ES EVM (, "Unified System of Electronic Computing Machines"), or YeS EVM, also known in English literature as the Unified System or Ryad (, "Series"), is a series of mainframe computers generally compatible with IBM's System/360 and System/370 mainframes, built in the Comecon countries under the initiative of the S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Soviet%20computer%20systems | This is the list of Soviet computer systems. The Russian abbreviation EVM (ЭВМ), present in some of the names below, means “electronic computing machine” ().
List of hardware
The Russian abbreviation EVM (ЭВМ), present in some of the names below, means “electronic computing machine” ().
Ministry of Radio Technology... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDL%20%28programming%20language%29 | MDL (Model Development Language, or colloquially also referred to as More Datatypes than Lisp or MIT Design Language) is a programming language, a descendant of the language Lisp. Its initial purpose was to provide high level language support for the Dynamic Modeling Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MI... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IITRAN | IITRAN is a discontinued programming language created in the mid-1960s and designed as a first language for students. The primary designer of the language, William S. Worley, also contributed to the design of PL/I, and the two languages have similar syntax. The name derives from Illinois Institute of Technology, where... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed%20number%20representations | In computing, signed number representations are required to encode negative numbers in binary number systems.
In mathematics, negative numbers in any base are represented by prefixing them with a minus sign ("−"). However, in RAM or CPU registers, numbers are represented only as sequences of bits, without extra symbol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogito%20%28magazine%29 | Cogito is a philosophical magazine published by Nefeli publications (Athens, Greece) and a member of the Eurozine network. It was founded in 2004 with the intention of making philosophy accessible to the lay reader without compromising it through oversimplification. Cogito is therefore an attempt to approach everyday i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava%20flow%20%28programming%29 | In computer programming jargon, lava flow is a problem in which computer code written under sub-optimal conditions is put into production and added to while still in a developmental state. Often, putting the system into production results in a need to maintain backward compatibility (as many additional components now ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandia | is a series of role-playing video games developed by Game Arts and published over the years by Entertainment Software Publishing, Sony Computer Entertainment, Ubisoft, Hudson Soft, Enix, Square Enix and GungHo Online Entertainment. Games in the Grandia series have been released for the Sega Saturn, PlayStation, Dreamca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%20Arts | is a Japanese developer and publisher of video games located in Chiyoda, Tokyo. Originally established in 1985 as a computer software company, it expanded into producing for a number of game console and handheld systems. Its President and CEO in 2007 was Yoichi Miyaji at which time it was a member of the Computer Enter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20copy%20protocol | Secure copy protocol (SCP) is a means of securely transferring computer files between a local host and a remote host or between two remote hosts. It is based on the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol. "SCP" commonly refers to both the Secure Copy Protocol and the program itself.
According to OpenSSH developers in April 2019,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMAX%20Technologies | UMAX Technologies (), originally known as UMAX Computer Corporation, is a manufacturer of computer products, including scanners, mice, and flash drives, based in Taiwan. The company also uses the Yamada and Vaova brand names.
History
UMAX was formerly a maker of Apple Macintosh clones, using the SuperMac brand name o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back%20end | Back end, back-end or backend may refer to:
Electronics
Computing
Back end (computing), the data access layer in software architecture
Back-end CASE
Back-end database, a database accessed indirectly through an external application
Back-end processor, hardware that stores and retrieves data from a database
Integr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front%20end | Front end may refer to:
Computing
Front-end (computing), an interface between the user and the back end
Front-end processor (computer), a small-sized computer
Front-end processor (program)
Front-end web development, the practice of producing HTML, CSS and JavaScript for a website or web application
Front-end API,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM%20EVM | SM EVM (СМ ЭВМ, abbreviation of Система Малых ЭВМ—literally System of Mini Computers) are several types of Soviet and Comecon minicomputers produced from 1975 through the 1980s.
Most types of SM EVM are clones of DEC PDP-11 and VAX. SM-1 and SM-2 are clones of Hewlett-Packard minicomputers.
The common operating syste... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS%20%28operating%20system%29 | Mobile Operating System (MOS; ) is an operating system, a Soviet clone of Unix from the 1980s.
Overview
This operating system is commonly found on SM EVM minicomputers; it was also ported to ES EVM and Elbrus. MOS is also used by high-end PDP-11 clones.
Modifications of MOS include MNOS, DEMOS, , etc.
See also
List... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ES%20PEVM | ES PEVM (ЕС ПЭВМ) was a Soviet clone of the IBM PC in the 1980s. The ES PEVM models lineup also included analogues of IBM PC XT, IBM PC AT, IBM XT/370.
The computers and software were adapted in Minsk, Belarus, at the Scientific Research Institute of Electronic Computer Machines (НИИ ЭВМ).
They were manufactured in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardening%20%28computing%29 | In computer security, hardening is usually the process of securing a system by reducing its surface of vulnerability, which is larger when a system performs more functions; in principle a single-function system is more secure than a multipurpose one. Reducing available ways of attack typically includes changing default... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MozDex | mozDex was a project to build an Internet-scale search engine with free and open source software (FOSS) technologies like Nutch. Since its search algorithms and code were open, it was hoped that no search results could be manipulated by either mozDex as a company or anyone else. As such, instead of having to trust mozD... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%20colony%20optimization%20algorithms | In computer science and operations research, the ant colony optimization algorithm (ACO) is a probabilistic technique for solving computational problems which can be reduced to finding good paths through graphs. Artificial ants stand for multi-agent methods inspired by the behavior of real ants.
The pheromone-based co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGA | TGA may refer to:
The IATA Airport Code for Tengah Air Base, Singapore
Tandy Graphics Adapter for the Tandy 1000 computer system
Tasman Global Access, a submarine cable linking Australia and New Zealand
Tennessee Governor's Academy for Math and Science, United States
Therapeutic Goods Administration, Australian re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20G.%20Kemeny | John George Kemeny (born Kemény János György; May 31, 1926 – December 26, 1992) was a Hungarian-born American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator best known for co-developing the BASIC programming language in 1964 with Thomas E. Kurtz. Kemeny served as the 13th President of Dartmouth College from 1970 to 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20number%20field%20sieve | In number theory, a branch of mathematics, the special number field sieve (SNFS) is a special-purpose integer factorization algorithm. The general number field sieve (GNFS) was derived from it.
The special number field sieve is efficient for integers of the form re ± s, where r and s are small (for instance Mersenne n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrocomputing | Retrocomputing is the current use of older computer hardware and software. Retrocomputing is usually classed as a hobby and recreation rather than a practical application of technology; enthusiasts often collect rare and valuable hardware and software for sentimental reasons.
Occasionally, however, an obsolete compute... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Chimp%20Channel | The Chimp Channel is an American sitcom which aired on TBS Superstation in 1999. Based on the Monkey-ed Movies interstitials that TBS aired one year prior, it is the network's first original sitcom. The series primarily consists of costumed chimpanzees and orangutans, voiced by human actors, parodying popular televisio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trend%20Micro | is a Japanese cyber security software company. The company has globally dispersed R&D in 16 locations across every continent excluding Antarctica. The company develops enterprise security software for servers, containers, & cloud computing environments, networks, and end points. Its cloud and virtualization security pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESET | ESET, s.r.o., is a Slovak software company specializing in cybersecurity. ESET's security products are made in Europe and provide security software in over 200 countries and territories worldwide, and its software is localized into more than 30 languages.
The company was founded in 1992 in Bratislava, Slovakia. Howeve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickDraw%203D | QuickDraw 3D, or QD3D for short, is a 3D graphics API developed by Apple Inc. (then Apple Computer, Inc.) starting in 1995, originally for their Macintosh computers, but delivered as a cross-platform system.
QD3D was separated into two layers. A lower level system known as RAVE (Rendering Acceleration Virtual Engine) ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busdma | In computing, busdma, bus_dma and bus_space is a set of application programming interfaces designed to help make device drivers less dependent on platform-specific code, thereby allowing the host operating system to be more easily ported to new computer hardware. This is accomplished by having abstractions for direct ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosswalk%20%28disambiguation%29 | A crosswalk, or pedestrian crossing, is a place designated for pedestrians to cross a road.
Crosswalk may also refer to:
Crosswalk.com, a Christian website
Schema crosswalk, in databases, a table that shows equivalent elements in more than one schema
Crosswalk, in database management, a type of table that maps togeth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen | Xen (pronounced ) is a free and open-source type-1 hypervisor, providing services that allow multiple computer operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently. It was
originally developed by the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and is now being developed by the Linux Foundation with s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Levy%20%28chess%20player%29 | David Neil Laurence Levy (born 14 March 1945) is an English International Master of chess and a businessman. He is noted for his involvement with computer chess and artificial intelligence, and as the founder of the Computer Olympiads and the Mind Sports Olympiads. He has written more than 40 books on chess and compute... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGill%20University%20Health%20Centre | The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC; ) is one of two major healthcare networks in the city of Montreal, Quebec. It is affiliated with McGill University and is one of the largest medical complex in Montreal. It is the largest hospital system in Canada by bed capacity. The majority of its funding comes from Quebec ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France%205 | France 5 () is a French free-to-air public television channel, part of the France Télévisions group. Principally featuring educational programming, the channel's motto is la chaîne de la connaissance et du savoir (the knowledge network). In contrast to the group's two main channels, France 2 and France 3, France 5 conc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20information%20theory%20articles | This is a list of information theory topics.
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
algorithmic information theory
arithmetic coding
channel capacity
Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems
conditional entropy
conditional quantum entropy
confusion and diffusion
cross-entropy
data compression
entropic uncerta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/zero | is a special file in Unix-like operating systems that provides as many null characters (ASCII NUL, 0x00) as are read from it. One of the typical uses is to provide a character stream for initializing data storage.
Function
Read operations from return as many null characters (0x00) as requested in the read operation.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythms%20of%20Resistance | Rhythms of Resistance, sometimes abbreviated to RoR, is a network of percussion bands that play at demonstrations and direct actions that fall within the broad definition of 'anti-capitalist'. Since RoR London was formed in 2000, similar groups have arisen around the world; while not all such bands use the Rhythms of R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blob | Blob may refer to:
Science
Computing
Binary blob, in open source software, a non-free object file loaded into the kernel
Binary large object (BLOB), in computer database systems
A storage mechanism in the cloud computing platform Microsoft Azure
Blob URI scheme, a URI scheme for binary data
A region in an image... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current%20Population%20Survey | The Current Population Survey (CPS) is a monthly survey of about 60,000 U.S. households conducted by the United States Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The BLS uses the data to publish reports early each month called the Employment Situation. This report provides estimates of the unemployment rat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padding%20%28cryptography%29 | In cryptography, padding is any of a number of distinct practices which all include adding data to the beginning, middle, or end of a message prior to encryption. In classical cryptography, padding may include adding nonsense phrases to a message to obscure the fact that many messages end in predictable ways, e.g. sinc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEAL | In cryptography, FEAL (the Fast data Encipherment Algorithm) is a block cipher proposed as an alternative to the Data Encryption Standard (DES), and designed to be much faster in software. The Feistel based algorithm was first published in 1987 by Akihiro Shimizu and Shoji Miyaguchi from NTT. The cipher is susceptible ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Metamorphosis%20of%20Prime%20Intellect | The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect is a 1994 novella by Roger Williams, a programmer living in New Orleans. It deals with the ramifications of a powerful, superintelligent supercomputer that discovers god-like powers to alter reality while studying a quirk of quantum physics discovered during the prototyping of its o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DiscDrive%20%28radio%20show%29 | This is an article on the radio show. For the computer storage device, see disk storage.
DiscDrive was an afternoon show on CBC Radio 2 hosted by Jurgen Gothe. It played a mix of classical, traditional bluegrass, jazz, and commentary. It aired from 1985 to 2008, in the weekday afternoon drive time block from 3 to 6 p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20security | Network security consists of the policies, processes and practices adopted to prevent, detect and monitor unauthorized access, misuse, modification, or denial of a computer network and network-accessible resources. Network security involves the authorization of access to data in a network, which is controlled by the ne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shacknews | Shacknews is a website that hosts news, features, editorial content and forums relating to video games. It is owned by Gamerhub Content Network, which purchased the site in January 2014.
History
Shacknews was founded in 1996 by Steve "Scary" Gibson at the age of 20. It was initially a website dedicated to following ne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wen%20Tsing%20Chow | Wen Tsing Chow (; 1918–2001), was a Chinese-born American missile guidance scientist and a digital computer pioneer, known for the invention of programmable read-only memory or PROM.
Biography
Chow was born in Taiyuan, Shanxi in 1918. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Chiao Tung University (no... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialty%20channel | A specialty channel (also known in the United States as a cable channel or cable network) can be a commercial broadcasting or non-commercial television channel which consists of television programming focused on a single genre, subject or targeted television market at a specific demographic.
History
The number of spe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20channel | In cryptography, a secure channel is a means of data transmission that is resistant to overhearing and tampering. A confidential channel is a means of data transmission that is resistant to overhearing, or eavesdropping (e.g., reading the content), but not necessarily resistant to tampering (i.e., manipulating the cont... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTP%20server | An FTP server is computer software consisting of one or more programs that can execute commands given by remote client(s) such as receiving, sending, deleting files, creating or removing directories, etc. The software may run as a software component of a program, as a standalone program or even as one or more processes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunking | In telecommunications, trunking is a technology for providing network access to multiple clients simultaneously by sharing a set of circuits, carriers, channels, or frequencies, instead of providing individual circuits or channels for each client. This is reminiscent to the structure of a tree with one trunk and many b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX%20System%20Services | z/OS UNIX System Services (z/OS UNIX, or informally USS) is a base element of z/OS. z/OS UNIX is a certified UNIX operating system implementation (XPG4 UNIX 95) optimized for mainframe architecture. It is the first UNIX 95 to not be derived from the AT&T source code. Through integration with the rest of z/OS, additi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU%20socket | In computer hardware, a CPU socket or CPU slot contains one or more mechanical components providing mechanical and electrical connections between a microprocessor and a printed circuit board (PCB). This allows for placing and replacing the central processing unit (CPU) without soldering.
Common sockets have retention ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel%20rendering | Subpixel rendering is used to increase the apparent resolution of a computer's display. It takes advantage of the fact that each pixel on a color liquid-crystal display (LCD) or similar is composed of individual red, green, and blue components — subpixels — with different locations, so that the color also causes the im... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/MIME | S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is a standard for public-key encryption and signing of MIME data. S/MIME is on an IETF standards track and defined in a number of documents, most importantly . It was originally developed by RSA Data Security, and the original specification used the IETF MIME specif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetLogo | NetLogo is a programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) for agent-based modeling.
About
NetLogo was designed by Uri Wilensky, in the spirit of the programming language Logo, to be "low threshold and no ceiling". It teaches programming concepts using agents in the form of turtles, patches, links ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20%28game%29 | Simon is an electronic game of short-term memory skill invented by Ralph H. Baer and Howard J. Morrison, working for toy design firm Marvin Glass and Associates, with software programming by Lenny Cope. The device creates a series of tones and lights and requires a user to repeat the sequence. If the user succeeds, the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple%20Authentication%20and%20Security%20Layer | Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) is a framework for authentication and data security in Internet protocols. It decouples authentication mechanisms from application protocols, in theory allowing any authentication mechanism supported by SASL to be used in any application protocol that uses SASL. Authentic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Cyberiad | The Cyberiad () is a series of humorous science fiction short stories by Polish writer Stanisław Lem, originally published in 1965, with an English translation appearing in 1974. The main protagonists of the series are Trurl and Klapaucius, the "constructors".
The vast majority of characters are either robots or intel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SASL | SASL may refer to:
Computing
Simple Authentication and Security Layer, a framework for authentication and data security in Internet protocols
SASL (programming language), a non-strict functional programming language developed by David Turner in 1976
System Application Support Libraries, an application of the Erlang... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR%20algorithm | In numerical linear algebra, the QR algorithm or QR iteration is an eigenvalue algorithm: that is, a procedure to calculate the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a matrix. The QR algorithm was developed in the late 1950s by John G. F. Francis and by Vera N. Kublanovskaya, working independently. The basic idea is to perf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram%20Research | Wolfram Research, Inc. ( ) is an American multinational company that creates computational technology. Wolfram's flagship product is the technical computing program Wolfram Mathematica, first released on June 23, 1988. Other products include WolframAlpha, Wolfram SystemModeler, Wolfram Workbench, gridMathematica, Wolfr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaobject | In computer science, a metaobject is an object that manipulates, creates, describes, or implements objects (including itself). The object that the metaobject pertains to is called the base object. Some information that a metaobject might define includes the base object's type, interface, class, methods, attributes, par... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uconv | In computing, uconv is a command-line tool that is bundled with International Components for Unicode that converts text files between different character encodings. It is very similar to the iconv command that is part of the Single UNIX Specification which is usually implemented using libiconv. In fact the command line... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/README | In software development, a README file contains information about the other files in a directory or archive of computer software. A form of documentation, it is usually a simple plain text file called README, Read Me, READ.ME, README.TXT, README.md (to indicate the use of Markdown), or README.1ST.
The file's name is g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo%20%28file%20manager%29 | gentoo (written with a lowercase g) is a free file manager for Linux and other Unix-like computer systems created by Emil Brink. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
gentoo is written in C using the GTK+ toolkik and the "two-pane" concept. Notable features of gentoo include its graphical configurabili... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U15%20%28Berlin%20U-Bahn%29 | The U15 was a line on the Berlin U-Bahn. Originally the U3 running between Wittenbergplatz and Uhlandstraße, it became a branch of the U1 in 1993 as part of the reorganisation of the network following the reopening of the U2.
On December 12, 2004, it was renumbered as the U1.
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Berlin U-Bahn lines
Railway l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%205100 | The IBM 5100 Portable Computer is one of the first portable computers, introduced in September 1975, six years before the IBM Personal Computer, and eight before the first successful IBM compatible portable computer, the Compaq Portable. It was the evolution of a prototype called the SCAMP (Special Computer APL Machine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberware | Cyberware is a relatively new and unknown field (a proto-science, or more adequately a "proto-technology"). In science fiction circles, however, it is commonly known to mean the hardware or machine parts implanted in the human body and acting as an interface between the central nervous system and the computers or machi... |
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