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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flicker%20%28screen%29 | Flicker is a visible change in brightness between cycles displayed on video displays. It applies to the refresh interval on cathode ray tube (CRT) televisions and computer monitors, as well as plasma computer displays and televisions.
Occurrence
Flicker occurs on CRTs when they are driven at a low refresh rate, allowi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic%20Routing%20Encapsulation | Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) is a tunneling protocol developed by Cisco Systems that can encapsulate a wide variety of network layer protocols inside virtual point-to-point links or point-to-multipoint links over an Internet Protocol network.
Example uses
In conjunction with PPTP to create VPNs.
In conjunctio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20South%20Dakota | The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of South Dakota, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats.
List of radio stations
Defunct
KABR
KAWK
References
South Dakota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Global%20Television%20Network | This is a list of television programs currently, formerly, and soon to be broadcast by the Global Television Network, a national broadcast network owned by Corus Entertainment.
Current programming
Original series
Drama series
Departure (2020)
Family Law (2021)
Robyn Hood (2023)
Reality/documentary series
Big Br... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFA%20BASIC | GFA BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language, by Frank Ostrowski. The name is derived from the company ("GFA Systemtechnik GmbH"), which distributed the software. In the mid-1980s to the 1990s it enjoyed popularity as an advanced BASIC dialect, but has been mostly superseded by several other programming la... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell%20account | A shell account is a user account on a remote server, traditionally running under the Unix operating system, which gives access to a shell via a command-line interface protocol such as telnet, SSH, or over a modem using a terminal emulator.
Shell accounts were made first accessible to interested members of the public ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba%20Libretto | The Libretto (Italian for "booklet") is a line of subnotebook computers that was designed and produced by Toshiba. The line was distinguished by its combination of functionality and small size, squeezing a full Windows PC into a device the size of a paperback book. The first Libretto model, the Libretto 20, was release... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GenBank | The GenBank sequence database is an open access, annotated collection of all publicly available nucleotide sequences and their protein translations. It is produced and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI; a part of the National Institutes of Health in the United States) as part of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession%20number | Accession number may refer to:
Accession number (bioinformatics), a unique identifier given to a biological polymer sequence (DNA, protein) when it is submitted to a sequence database
Accession number (cultural property), a unique identifier assigned to each acquisition of a library or museum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20movie%20television%20channels | Movie channels are television specialty channels that present film content.
Popular movie channels:
AMC Networks
AMC
Europa Europa (Latin America)
Film & Arts (Latin America)
IFC (United States and Canada)
SundanceTV (United States)
Legend (United Kingdom) part of the CBS-AMC Networks UK Channels Partnership
A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s%20interest%20channel | A men's interest channel generally refers to either a television station, network or specialty channel that targets men as its main demographic; offering programs that appeal to the male population.
There are two types of male interest channels: general interest and niche interest.
General interest
General interest m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s%20interest%20channel | A women's interest channel generally refers to either a television station, network or specialty channel that targets women as its main demographic; offering programs that will appeal to the female population.
There are two types of female interest channels: general interest and niche interest.
General interest
Gene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential%20consistency | Sequential consistency is a consistency model used in the domain of concurrent computing (e.g. in distributed shared memory, distributed transactions, etc.).
It is the property that "... the result of any execution is the same as if the operations of all the processors were executed in some sequential order, and the o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s%20interest%20channel | Children's interest channels are television specialty channels that present children's interest content.
List
Worldwide
BabyTV
BabyFirstTV
Boomerang
Middle East
UK
Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network Arabic (Middle East)
Central and Eastern Europe
Cartoon Network Hindi (Middle East)
Middle East and Africa
Car... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20fiber-coaxial | Hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) is a broadband telecommunications network that combines optical fiber and coaxial cable. It has been commonly employed globally by cable television operators since the early 1990s.
In a hybrid fiber-coaxial cable system, television channels are sent from the cable system's distribution facil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release%20consistency | Release consistency is one of the synchronization-based consistency models used in concurrent programming (e.g. in distributed shared memory, distributed transactions etc.).
Introduction
In modern parallel computing systems, memory consistency must be maintained to avoid undesirable outcomes. Strict consistency model... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC-PLUS | BASIC-PLUS is an extended dialect of the BASIC programming language that was developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for use on its RSTS/E time-sharing operating system for the PDP-11 series of 16-bit minicomputers in the early 1970s through the 1980s.
BASIC-PLUS was based on BASIC-8 for the TSS/8, itself bas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU | XNU (X is Not Unix) is the computer operating system (OS) kernel developed at Apple Inc. since December 1996 for use in the Mac OS X (now macOS) operating system and released as free and open-source software as part of the Darwin OS, which in addition to macOS is also the basis for the Apple TV Software, iOS, iPadOS, w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU%20toolchain | The GNU toolchain is a broad collection of programming tools produced by the GNU Project. These tools form a toolchain (a suite of tools used in a serial manner) used for developing software applications and operating systems.
The GNU toolchain plays a vital role in development of Linux, some BSD systems, and software... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite%20phone | A satellite telephone, satellite phone or satphone is a type of mobile phone that connects to other phones or the telephone network by radio link through satellites orbiting the Earth instead of terrestrial cell sites, as cellphones do. Therefore, they can work in most geographic locations on the Earth's surface, as lo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource%20Reservation%20Protocol | The Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) is a transport layer protocol designed to reserve resources across a network using the integrated services model. RSVP operates over an IPv4 or IPv6 and provides receiver-initiated setup of resource reservations for multicast or unicast data flows. It does not transport applicat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.net | The domain name net is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) used in the Domain Name System of the Internet. The name is derived from the word network, indicating it was originally intended for organizations involved in networking technologies, such as Internet service providers and other infrastructure companies. However,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20group%20theory | In mathematics, computational group theory is the study of
groups by means of computers. It is concerned
with designing and analysing algorithms and
data structures to compute information about groups. The subject
has attracted interest because for many interesting groups
(including most of the sporadic groups) it is i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Lazaridis | Mihal "Mike" Lazaridis (born March 14, 1961) is a Canadian businessman, investor in quantum computing technologies, and founder of BlackBerry, which created and manufactured the BlackBerry wireless handheld device. With an estimated net worth of US$800 million (as of June 2011), Lazaridis was ranked by Forbes as the 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpion%20%28disambiguation%29 | A scorpion is a predatory arthropod animal.
Scorpion may also refer to:
Computing and technology
Scorpion (computer), a Russian ZX Spectrum clone computer
Scorpion (CPU), a Qualcomm CPU used in smart phones
Film and television
Scorpion (2007 film), a French film
Scorpion (2018 film), an Uzbek film
The Scorpion ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20transaction | A distributed transaction is a database transaction in which two or more network hosts are involved. Usually, hosts provide transactional resources, while a transaction manager creates and manages a global transaction that encompasses all operations against such resources. Distributed transactions, as any other transac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-serving%20visitor%20pattern | In computer programming, the single-serving visitor pattern is a design pattern. Its intent is to optimise the implementation of a visitor that is allocated, used only once, and then deleted (which is the case of most visitors).
Applicability
The single-serving visitor pattern should be used when visitors do not nee... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus%20Mail | Pegasus Mail is a proprietary email client for Microsoft Windows. It was originally released in 1990 on NetWare networks with MS-DOS and later Apple Macintosh clients, before being ported to Windows which is now the only platform actively supported. Since its inception it has been developed by David Harris and is donat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DES-X | In cryptography, DES-X (or DESX) is a variant on the DES (Data Encryption Standard) symmetric-key block cipher intended to increase the complexity of a brute-force attack. The technique used to increase the complexity is called key whitening.
The original DES algorithm was specified in 1976 with a 56-bit key size: 256... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20TopView | TopView is the first object-oriented, multitasking, and windowing, personal computer operating environment for PC DOS developed by IBM, announced in August 1984 and shipped in March 1985. TopView provided a text-mode (although it also ran in graphics mode) operating environment that allowed users to run more than one a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20J.%20Weinberger | Peter Jay Weinberger (born August 6, 1942) is a computer scientist best known for his early work at Bell Labs. He now works at Google.
Weinberger was an undergraduate at Swarthmore College, graduating in 1964. He received his PhD in mathematics (number theory) in 1969 from the University of California, Berkeley unde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20text-based%20computer%20games | The following list of text-based games is not to be considered an authoritative, comprehensive listing of all such games; rather, it is intended to represent a wide range of game styles and genres presented using the text mode display and their evolution across a long period.
On mainframe computers
Years listed are th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text%20mode | Text mode is a computer display mode in which content is internally represented on a computer screen in terms of characters rather than individual pixels. Typically, the screen consists of a uniform rectangular grid of character cells, each of which contains one of the characters of a character set; at the same time, c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface%20%28computing%29 | In computing, an interface is a shared boundary across which two or more separate components of a computer system exchange information. The exchange can be between software, computer hardware, peripheral devices, humans, and combinations of these. Some computer hardware devices, such as a touchscreen, can both send and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Plots | Family Plots is an American reality series that followed the ongoing events and employees at the family-run Poway Bernardo Mortuary in Poway, California. It ran for four seasons on the A&E Network.
Overview
The show centered on the relationships between the employees, for instance Chuck Wissmiller and his three daught... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priority%20inheritance | In real-time computing, priority inheritance is a method for eliminating unbounded priority inversion. Using this programming method, a process scheduling algorithm increases the priority of a process (A) to the maximum priority of any other process waiting for any resource on which A has a resource lock (if it is high... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train%20simulator | A train simulator (also railroad simulator or railway simulator) is a computer based simulation of rail transport operations. They are generally large complicated software packages modeling a 3D virtual reality world implemented both as commercial trainers, and consumer computer game software with 'play modes' which le... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anisotropic%20filtering | In 3D computer graphics, anisotropic filtering (abbreviated AF) is a method of enhancing the image quality of textures on surfaces of computer graphics that are at oblique viewing angles with respect to the camera where the projection of the texture (not the polygon or other primitive on which it is rendered) appears t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20computer%20graphics%20and%20descriptive%20geometry%20topics | This is a list of computer graphics and descriptive geometry topics, by article name.
2D computer graphics
2D geometric model
3D computer graphics
3D projection
Alpha compositing
Anisotropic filtering
Anti-aliasing
Axis-aligned bounding box
Axonometric projection
Bézier curve
Bézier surface
Bicubic interpol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enum | ENUM or enum may refer to:
E.164 Number Mapping, a suite of protocols to unify the telephone system with the Internet
An enumerated type, a data type consisting of a set of named values |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts%20%28file%29 | The computer file hosts is an operating system file that maps hostnames to IP addresses. It is a plain text file. Originally a file named HOSTS.TXT was manually maintained and made available via file sharing by Stanford Research Institute for the ARPANET membership, containing the hostnames and address of hosts as cont... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20J.%20Meade | Carl Joseph Meade (born November 16, 1950) is a former NASA astronaut.
Personal data
Born November 16, 1950, at Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois. Married. Two sons. Resides in Canyon Country, California. He enjoys woodworking, home-built aircraft construction, racquetball, jogging, and snow skiing. His parents were Jo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Morin | Lee Miller Emile Morin (born September 9, 1952) is a United States Navy Captain and NASA astronaut. He flew on STS-110 in 2002.
Personal data
Born in Manchester, New Hampshire, Morin is married with two children and three grandchildren. An amateur machinist, he enjoys math and jogging.
Education
1970: Graduated from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20job | A Joe job is a spamming technique that sends out unsolicited e-mails using spoofed sender data. Early Joe jobs aimed at tarnishing the reputation of the apparent sender or inducing the recipients to take action against them (see also email spoofing), but they are now typically used by commercial spammers to conceal the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazehakase | Kazehakase (Japanese: ) was a web browser for Unix-like operating systems that uses the GTK+ libraries. Kazehakase embeds the Gecko layout engine as well as GTK+ WebKit.
The browser is named after the short story "Kazehakase" by the Japanese author Ango Sakaguchi; its literal meaning is "Dr. Wind" (a PhD rather than a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary%20file | A temporary file is a file created to store information temporarily, either for a program's intermediate use or for transfer to a permanent file when complete. It may be created by computer programs for a variety of purposes, such as when a program cannot allocate enough memory for its tasks, when the program is workin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNNNN | CNNNN (Chaser NoN-stop News Network) is a Logie Award winning Australian television program, satirising American news channels CNN and Fox News. It was produced and hosted by comedy team The Chaser.
CNNNN'''s slogan was "We Report, You Believe.", a parody of Fox News' slogan "We Report, You Decide."
In April 2004, CN... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigational%20database | A navigational database is a type of database in which records or objects are found primarily by following references from other objects. The term was popularized by the title of Charles Bachman's 1973 Turing Award paper, The Programmer as Navigator. This paper emphasized the fact that the new disk-based database syste... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSSI | OpenSSI is an open-source single-system image clustering system. It allows a collection of computers to be treated as one large system, allowing applications running on any one machine access to the resources of all the machines in the cluster.
OpenSSI is based on the Linux operating system and was released as an open... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single%20system%20image | In distributed computing, a single system image (SSI) cluster is a cluster of machines that appears to be one single system. The concept is often considered synonymous with that of a distributed operating system, but a single image may be presented for more limited purposes, just job scheduling for instance, which may ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin%20problems | In mathematics, the Cousin problems are two questions in several complex variables, concerning the existence of meromorphic functions that are specified in terms of local data. They were introduced in special cases by Pierre Cousin in 1895. They are now posed, and solved, for any complex manifold M, in terms of conditi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted%20operating%20system | Trusted Operating System (TOS) generally refers to an operating system that provides sufficient support for multilevel security and evidence of correctness to meet a particular set of government requirements.
The most common set of criteria for trusted operating system design is the Common Criteria combined with the S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compile%20farm | A compile farm is a server farm, a collection of one or more servers, which has been set up to compile computer programs remotely for various reasons. Uses of a compile farm include:
Cross-platform development: When writing software that runs on multiple processor architectures and operating systems, it can be infeas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreach%20loop | In computer programming, foreach loop (or for-each loop) is a control flow statement for traversing items in a collection. is usually used in place of a standard loop statement. Unlike other loop constructs, however, loops usually maintain no explicit counter: they essentially say "do this to everything in this set... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic%20mapping | Robotic mapping is a discipline related to computer vision and cartography. The goal for an autonomous robot is to be able to construct (or use) a map (outdoor use) or floor plan (indoor use) and to localize itself and its recharging bases or beacons in it. Robotic mapping is that branch which deals with the study and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel%20Panthers | Steel Panthers is a series of computer wargames, developed and published by several different companies, with various games simulating war battles from 1930 to 2025. The first Steel Panthers game was released in 1995, and the most recent update was released in 2018 and is still updated regularly (yearly).
Players cont... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol%20Kolb | Carol Kolb is an American comedy writer. She was a writer for and editor-in-chief of The Onion, and a former head writer for the Onion News Network. She served as a writer on Kroll Show, and later worked as a staff writer on the television series Community, Review, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
Kolb was the founder of the n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Clyde%20Line | The North Clyde Line (defined by Network Rail as the Glasgow North Electric Suburban line) is a suburban railway in West Central Scotland. The route is operated by ScotRail Trains. As a result of the incorporation of the Airdrie–Bathgate rail link and the Edinburgh–Bathgate line, this route has become the fourth rail l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublanguage | A sublanguage is a subset of a language. Sublanguages occur in natural language, computer programming language, and relational databases.
In natural language
In informatics, natural language processing, and machine translation, a sublanguage is the language of a restricted domain, particularly a technical domain. In ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPAK | XPAK may refer to:
Expansion pack, for a game console
XPAK, a smaller version of the XENPAK computer network pluggable transceiver |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain%20J.%20Williams | Britain J. Williams III is a Professor Emeritus of computer science at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, and is consultant with the school's Center For Election Systems. He has bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics from the University of Georgia, and a PhD is in Statistics
from the University of Georgia ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-mediated%20reality | Computer-mediated reality refers to the ability to add to, subtract information from, or otherwise manipulate one's perception of reality through the use of a wearable computer or hand-held device such as a smartphone.
Mediated reality is a proper superset of mixed reality, augmented reality, and virtual reality, as i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%E2%80%93computer%20interface | A brain–computer interface (BCI), sometimes called a brain–machine interface (BMI) or smartbrain, is a direct communication pathway between the brain's electrical activity and an external device, most commonly a computer or robotic limb. BCIs are often directed at researching, mapping, assisting, augmenting, or repairi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20right | A database right is a sui generis property right, comparable to but distinct from copyright, that exists to recognise the investment that is made in compiling a database, even when this does not involve the "creative" aspect that is reflected by copyright. Such rights are often referred to in the plural: database right... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental%20impact%20of%20electricity%20generation | Electric power systems consist of generation plants of different energy sources, transmission networks, and distribution lines. Each of these components can have environmental impacts at multiple stages of their development and use including in their construction, during the generation of electricity, and in their deco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etoh | Etoh may refer to:
EtOH, shorthand often used for ethanol (e.g., EtOH withdrawal)
"Etoh", a song by The Avalanches from their 2001 album Since I Left You
The ETOH database, an Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science database, produced by the NIAAA (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eval | In some programming languages, eval , short for the English evaluate, is a function which evaluates a string as though it were an expression in the language, and returns a result; in others, it executes multiple lines of code as though they had been included instead of the line including the eval. The input to eval is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHNM-DT | CHNM-DT (channel 42) is a multicultural television station licensed to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, part of the Omni Television network. It is owned and operated by Rogers Sports & Media alongside Citytv station CKVU-DT (channel 10). Both stations share studios at the corner of West 2nd Avenue and Columbia Stre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20Planet%20%28Canadian%20TV%20channel%29 | Animal Planet is a Canadian English language discretionary specialty television channel. Animal Planet broadcasts a variety of programming featuring animals.
The channel is owned by the Animal Planet Canada Company, which is a consortium consisting of CTV Speciality Television Inc. which owns 80% of the company (CTV S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BookTelevision | BookTelevision was a Canadian English language specialty channel owned by Bell Media.
The channel was originally established in 2001 by CHUM Limited, airing programming relating to books, literature, and various media. The network later shifted primarily to airing Bell Media library programming with little relevance t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTV%20Comedy%20Channel | CTV Comedy Channel (often shortened to CTV Comedy and formerly known as The Comedy Network) is a Canadian English-language discretionary specialty channel owned by Bell Media which focuses primarily on comedy programming. The channel first launched on October 17, 1997, and operates two time-shifted feeds, running on Ea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigation%20Discovery%20%28Canadian%20TV%20channel%29 | Investigation Discovery is a Canadian Discretionary service owned by Bell Media. Based on the U.S cable network of the same name, the channel focuses on true crime programming.
Originally launching as a Canadian version of Court TV, it was relaunched on August 30, 2010 under its current branding as part of a licensing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian%20Highway%20Network | The Asian Highway Network (AH), also known as the Great Asian Highway, is a cooperative project among countries in Asia and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) to improve their connectivity via highway systems. It is one of the three pillars of the Asian Land Transport Inf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Ely | Michael Ely is the writer of the trilogy of books surrounding the events in the computer game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
Works
Centauri Dawn -
Dragon Sun -
Twilight of the Mind -
See also
List of novels based on video games
References
External links
Science fiction writers
Living people
Year of birth missing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Iraqiya | Al Iraqiya (, al-ʿIrāqiyyä) is a satellite and terrestrial public broadcaster and television network in Iraq that was set up after the fall of Saddam Hussein. It is an Arabic language network that serves upwards of 85% of Iraq's population, and is viewed by a significant percentage (about 40%).
The channel began under... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GR%20footpath | The GR footpaths are a network of long-distance walking trails in Europe, mostly in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain. They go by the following names: , , , , – generally meaning "long trail" or more literally "great route". The trails in France alone cover approximately . Trails are blazed with characteristi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%20the%20Cruelty%20of%20Really%20Teaching%20Computer%20Science | "On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computing Science" is a 1988 scholarly article by E. W. Dijkstra which argues that computer programming should be understood as a branch of mathematics, and that the formal provability of a program is a major criterion for correctness.
Despite the title, most of the article is on Dij... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%20of%20the%20Stones | Children of the Stones is a British television fantasy drama serial for children, produced by HTV in 1976 and broadcast on the United Kingdom's ITV network in January and February 1977. The serial was produced by Peter Graham Scott, with Patrick Dromgoole as executive producer. A novelisation by the serial's writers, J... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte%20Carlo%20algorithm | In computing, a Monte Carlo algorithm is a randomized algorithm whose output may be incorrect with a certain (typically small) probability. Two examples of such algorithms are the Karger–Stein algorithm and the Monte Carlo algorithm for minimum feedback arc set.
The name refers to the Monte Carlo casino in the Princip... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU%20Aspell | GNU Aspell, usually called just Aspell, is a free software spell checker designed to replace Ispell. It is the standard spell checker for the GNU operating system. It also compiles for other Unix-like operating systems and Windows. The main program is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (GNU LGPL), the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte%20Moore%20Sitterly | Charlotte Emma Moore Sitterly (September 24, 1898 – March 3, 1990) was an American astronomer. She is known for her extensive spectroscopic studies of the Sun and chemical elements. Her tables of data are known for their reliability and are still used regularly.
Early life and education
Charlotte Moore was born to Ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhpGedView | PhpGedView is a free PHP-based web application for working with genealogy data on the Internet. The project was founded and is headed by John Finlay. It is licensed under the GPL-2.0-or-later license.
PhpGedView is hosted on SourceForge, where it was Project of the Month in December 2003. It is a widely used interact... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECX | ECX may refer to:
European Climate Exchange
Ethiopia Commodity Exchange
Embedded Compact Extended, a small form factor Single Board Computer specification
ECX register, an x86 general purpose register that is used by the CPU to store the loop counter
ECX screwdriver |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel%20Drucker | Michel Drucker, OQ (born 12 September 1942 in Vire) is a popular French journalist and TV host. He has been on screen for so long on various shows and different networks, both public and private, that he once said that some people joked that he was included in the price of their TV sets.
Career
He started a journalist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4%20%28computer%20language%29 | m4 is a general-purpose macro processor included in most Unix-like operating systems, and is a component of the POSIX standard.
The language was designed by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie for the original versions of UNIX. It is an extension of an earlier macro processor, m3, written by Ritchie for an unknown AP-3... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisha%20Hailey | Leisha Hailey (born July 11, 1971) is an American actress and musician known for playing Alice Pieszecki in the Showtime Networks series The L Word and The L Word: Generation Q. Hailey first came to the public's attention as a musician in the pop duo The Murmurs and has continued her music career as part of the band Uh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaOS | JavaOS is a discontinued operating system based on a Java virtual machine. It was originally developed by Sun Microsystems. Unlike Windows, macOS, Unix, or Unix-like systems which are primarily written in the C programming language, JavaOS is primarily written in Java. It is now considered a legacy system.
History
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France%203 | France 3 () is a French free-to-air public television channel and part of the France Télévisions group, which also includes France 2, France 4, France 5 and France Info.
It is made up of a network of regional television services providing daily news programming and around ten hours of entertainment and cultural progr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctime | in computer programming languages CTime or ctime may refer to:
ctime(), a function in the ISO C standard library defined in the time.h standard header
<ctime> is a standard header file for C++, equivalent to the C standard library header, <time.h>
st_ctime, a member of the stat structure specifying the last inode c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning%20Chrome%20%28short%20story%20collection%29 | Burning Chrome (1986) is a collection of short stories written by William Gibson. Most of the stories take place in Gibson's Sprawl, a shared setting for most of his early cyberpunk work. Many of the ideas and themes explored in the short stories were later revisited in Gibson's popular Sprawl trilogy.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lites | Lites is a discontinued Unix-like operating system, based on 4.4BSD and the Mach microkernel. Specifically, Lites is a multi-threaded server and emulation library that provided unix functions to a Mach-based system. At the time of its release, Lites provided binary compatibility with 4.4BSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, 386BSD, U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS/360%20and%20successors | Disk Operating System/360, also DOS/360, or simply DOS, is the discontinued first member of a sequence of operating systems for IBM System/360, System/370 and later mainframes. It was announced by IBM on the last day of 1964, and it was first delivered in June 1966. In its time, DOS/360 was the most widely used operat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude%20Risset | Jean-Claude Raoul Olivier Risset (; 13 March 1938 – 21 November 2016) was a French composer, best known for his pioneering contributions to computer music. He was a former student of André Jolivet and former co-worker of Max Mathews at Bell Labs.
Biography
Risset was born in Le Puy-en-Velay, France. Arriving at Bell ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday%20rule | The Doomsday rule, Doomsday algorithm or Doomsday method is an algorithm of determination of the day of the week for a given date. It provides a perpetual calendar because the Gregorian calendar moves in cycles of 400 years. The algorithm for mental calculation was devised by John Conway in 1973, drawing inspiration fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matunga%20Road%20railway%20station | Matunga Road ([maːʈuŋɡaː] station code:MRU) is the name of a railway station on the Western Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network. It offers access to Matunga and Shivaji Park areas of Mumbai. It should not be confused with the nearby Matunga railway station, which is on the Central Line just to the east. Matung... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khar%20Road%20railway%20station | Khar Road ([kʰaːɾ]; station code: KHAR) is a railway station on the Western Line and the Harbour Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network, in the Khar suburb. It is close to the Bandra Terminus for upcountry trains.
The name of the station is derived from the name of the Koli village Khar-Danda, near the Arabian Se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20tuner%20card | A TV tuner card is a kind of television tuner that allows television signals to be received by a computer. Most TV tuners also function as video capture cards, allowing them to record television programs onto a hard disk much like the digital video recorder (DVR) does.
The interfaces for TV tuner cards are most commo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20signature | An electronic signature, or e-signature, is data that is logically associated with other data and which is used by the signatory to sign the associated data. This type of signature has the same legal standing as a handwritten signature as long as it adheres to the requirements of the specific regulation under which it ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided%20software%20engineering | Computer-aided software engineering (CASE) was a domain of software tools used to design and implement applications. CASE tools were similar to and were partly inspired by Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools used for designing hardware products. CASE tools were intended to help develop high-quality, defect-free, and mai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null%20modem | Null modem is a communication method to directly connect two DTEs (computer, terminal, printer, etc.) using an RS-232 serial cable. The name stems from the historical use of RS-232 cables to connect two teleprinter devices or two modems in order to communicate with one another; null modem communication refers to using ... |
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