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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte%20addressing | Byte addressing in hardware architectures supports accessing individual bytes. Computers with byte addressing are sometimes called byte machines, in contrast to word-addressable architectures, word machines, that access data by word.
Background
The basic unit of digital storage is a bit, storing a single 0 or 1. Many... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean%20data%20type | In computer science, the Boolean (sometimes shortened to Bool) is a data type that has one of two possible values (usually denoted true and false) which is intended to represent the two truth values of logic and Boolean algebra. It is named after George Boole, who first defined an algebraic system of logic in the mid 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%20Reach%20Ethernet | Long Reach Ethernet (LRE) was a proprietary networking protocol marketed by Cisco Systems, intended to support multi-megabit (5 to 15 Mbit/s) performance over telephone-grade unshielded twisted pair wiring over distances up to 5,000 feet (1.5 km).
Supporting such distance ranges, LRE is technically classified a Metropo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narendra%20Karmarkar | Narendra Krishna Karmarkar (born circa 1956) is an Indian mathematician. Karmarkar developed Karmarkar's algorithm. He is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.
He invented one of the first provably polynomial time algorithms for linear programming, which is generally referred to as an interior point method. The al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20automaton | A network automaton (plural network automata) is a mathematical system consisting of a network of nodes that evolves over time according to predetermined rules. It is similar in concept to a cellular automaton, but much less studied.
Stephen Wolfram's book A New Kind of Science, which is primarily concerned with cell... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maintenance%20mode | In the world of software development, maintenance mode refers to a point in a computer program's life when it has reached all of its goals and is generally considered to be "complete" and bug-free. The term can also refer to the point in a software product's evolution when it is no longer competitive with other product... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitesmiths | Whitesmiths Ltd. was a software company founded in New York City by P. J. Plauger, Mark Krieger and Gabriel Pham, and last located in Westford, Massachusetts. It sold a Unix-like operating system called Idris, as well as the first commercial C compiler, Whitesmiths C.
The Whitesmiths compiler, first written for the PD... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traf-O-Data | Traf-O-Data was a business partnership between Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Paul Gilbert that existed in the 1970s. The objective was to read the raw data from roadway traffic counters and create reports for traffic engineers. The company had only modest success but the experience was instrumental in the creation of Micr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-class%20function | In computer science, a programming language is said to have first-class functions if it treats functions as first-class citizens. This means the language supports passing functions as arguments to other functions, returning them as the values from other functions, and assigning them to variables or storing them in data... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC%2B%2B | DC++ is a free and open-source, peer-to-peer file-sharing client that can be used for connecting to the Direct Connect network or to the ADC protocol. It is developed primarily by Jacek Sieka, nicknamed arnetheduck.
History and background
DC++ is a free and open-source alternative to the original client, NeoModus Dir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evesham%20Technology | Evesham Technology was a computer manufacturing and retail company based in Evesham, Worcestershire, England. It began operations in 1983 and closed in 2008 following financial difficulties. It was a significant contributor to the United Kingdom's domestic computer and digital television market. Its assets grew to i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zzap%2164 | Zzap!64 was a computer games magazine covering games on the Commodore International series of computers, especially the Commodore 64 (C64). It was published in the UK by Newsfield Publications Ltd and later by Europress Impact.
The magazine launched in April, with the cover date May 1985, as the sister magazine to CRA... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omia | Omia may refer to:
Omia (moth), a genus of moth
Omia District, Peru
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals, an online database of animal phenotypes
Omia, a minor Enochian angel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex%20editor | A hex editor (or binary file editor or byte editor) is a computer program that allows for manipulation of the fundamental binary data that constitutes a computer file. The name 'hex' comes from 'hexadecimal', a standard numerical format for representing binary data. A typical computer file occupies multiple areas on th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLNA | Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is a set of interoperability standards for sharing home digital media among multimedia devices. It allows users to share or stream stored media files to various certified devices on the same network like PCs, smartphones, TV sets, game consoles, stereo systems, and NASs. DLNA inco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%E2%80%9305%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule | The 2004–05 network television schedule for the six major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the prime time hours from September 2004 to August 2005. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2003–04 television s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Heath | Michael Heath may refer to:
Mike Heath (baseball) (born 1955), baseball player
Michael Heath (cartoonist) (born 1935), British strip cartoonist and illustrator
Michael Heath (computer scientist) (born 1946), computer scientist who specializes in scientific computing
Mike Heath (swimmer) (born 1964), former America... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIVT-DT | CIVT-DT (channel 32) is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, serving as the West Coast flagship of the CTV Television Network. It is owned and operated by network parent Bell Media alongside Victoria-based CTV 2 station CIVI-DT (channel 53). Although the two stations nominally maintain separate ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Jennings | Thomas Daniel Jennings (born 1955) is a Los Angeles-based artist and computer programmer, known for his work that led to FidoNet (the first message and file networking bulletin board system, or BBS), and for his work at Phoenix Software on MS-DOS integration and interoperability.
Work
In 1983, Jennings created the Fi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitting | Fitting can refer to:
Curve fitting, the process of constructing a curve, or mathematical function, that has the best fit to a series of data points
A dress fitting
Piping and plumbing fitting, used in pipe systems to connect straight sections of pipe or tube, adapt to different sizes or shapes, and for other purpo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBC%20Radio%20One%20local%20programming | Stations in Canada's CBC Radio One network each produce some local programming in addition to the network schedule.
The amount of local programming may vary from station to station. For instance, some stations in smaller markets may produce their own morning show but air an afternoon show from another station. Some st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPAC | GPAC may refer to
Geelong Arts Centre (formerly Geelong Performing Arts Centre), an arts centre in Geelong, Victoria, Australia
General purpose analog computer, a mathematical model of analog computers
GPAC Project on Advanced Content, an open source multimedia framework for research and academic purposes
Great Plains... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%E2%80%93Newton%20algorithm | The Gauss–Newton algorithm is used to solve non-linear least squares problems, which is equivalent to minimizing a sum of squared function values. It is an extension of Newton's method for finding a minimum of a non-linear function. Since a sum of squares must be nonnegative, the algorithm can be viewed as using Newton... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision%20%28computer%20science%29 | In computer science, the precision of a numerical quantity is a measure of the detail in which the quantity is expressed. This is usually measured in bits, but sometimes in decimal digits. It is related to precision in mathematics, which describes the number of digits that are used to express a value.
Some of the sta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Registry | The Windows Registry is a hierarchical database that stores low-level settings for the Microsoft Windows operating system and for applications that opt to use the registry. The kernel, device drivers, services, Security Accounts Manager, and user interfaces can all use the registry. The registry also allows access to c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric%20Lepied | Frédéric Lepied (born 1967) is a French computer engineer, and was the CTO of Mandriva until January 2006.
Biography
Born in 1967, Frédéric Lepied took an early interest in computer science and was educated at the Bréguet school in Noisy-le-Grand, France.
In 1999, he joined the Mandrakesoft Research and Development... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tengen%20%28company%29 | Tengen Inc. was an American video game publisher and developer that was created by the arcade game manufacturer Atari Games for publishing computer and console games. It had a Japanese subsidiary named .
History
By 1984, Atari, Inc. had been split into two distinct companies. Atari Corporation was responsible for comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland%20and%20Great%20Northern%20Joint%20Railway | The Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway (M&GNJR) was a railway network in England, in the area connecting southern Lincolnshire, the Isle of Ely and north Norfolk. It developed from several local independent concerns and was incorporated in 1893. It was jointly owned by the Midland Railway and the Great Northern R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Haganah | Internet Haganah is a "global intelligence network dedicated to confronting Internet activities by Islamists and their supporters, enablers and apologists."
Internet Haganah also is an activist organization which attempts to convince businesses not to provide web-based services to such groups, and collects intelligenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterbrain | , formerly , is a Japanese publisher and division of Kadokawa Future Publishing founded on 30 January 1987 as . Magazines published by Enterbrain are generally focused on video games and computer entertainment as well as video game and strategy guides. In addition, the company publishes a small selection of anime artb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigskin%20621%20A.D. | Pigskin 621 A.D. is an arcade game released in 1990 by Midway Manufacturing under the "Bally Midway" label. One player can battle the computer, or two players can battle head-to-head. Two teams compete to score as many touchdowns as possible in the tradition of American football, but actual play is more similar to rugb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codename%3A%20ICEMAN | Codename: ICEMAN (pronounced as "Iceman") is a graphical adventure game made with the SCI engine and published by the American computer game company Sierra On-Line in 1989. The lead designer was Jim Walls, who also created several Police Quest games. Mention of a "Codename: PHOENIX" in Sierra promotional material sugge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHBC-DT | CHBC-DT (channel 2) is a television station in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, part of the Global Television Network. It is owned and operated by network parent Corus Entertainment, and maintains studios on Leon Avenue (near Water Street) in Downtown Kelowna; its main transmitter is located near Lambly Creek Road in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Powerpuff%20Girls%20Movie | The Powerpuff Girls Movie is a 2002 American animated superhero comedy film based on the Cartoon Network animated television series The Powerpuff Girls. It was co-written and directed by series' creator Craig McCracken (in his directorial debut), co-written by Charlie Bean, Lauren Faust, Paul Rudish, and Don Shank, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna%20U-Bahn | The Vienna U-Bahn (), where U-Bahn is an abbreviation of the German word Untergrundbahn (), is a rapid transit system serving Vienna, Austria. The five-line network consists of of route, serving 109 stations. It is the backbone of what the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) deemed one of the best-per... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Truel | Bob Truel is a computer programmer. He met Rich Skrenta in ninth grade in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania and has since co-founded several Internet ventures with him and others, including DMOZ with Bryn Dole, Chris Tolles, and Jeremy Wenokur in 1998, Newhoo in 1998, Topix.net with Tom and Michael Markson in 2002, and search ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bard%27s%20Tale%20III%3A%20Thief%20of%20Fate | The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate is a computer fantasy role-playing video game created by Interplay Productions in 1988. It is the second sequel to The Bard's Tale. It was designed by Rebecca Heineman, Bruce Schlickbernd, and Michael A. Stackpole. The game was released for the Amiga, Apple II (64k), Commodore 64, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dockapps | Dockapps, or docked applications are computer programs which appear to reside inside an icon rather than a window in graphical computer systems, normally in a part of the user interface known as the dock. Their display is constantly updated just like a windowed application, but appears inside a small (64x64 pixel) ico... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WINGs%20Display%20Manager | In computing, the WINGs Display Manager (WDM) is a display manager for the X window system, mainly used for graphically logging in, on a Unix-based system.
WINGs is a modification of XDM, XFree86's original display manager.
It uses a Window Maker-style interface to present a graphical login screen. It uses the WINGs w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeuRFon | The neuRFon project (named for a combination of "neuron" and "RF") was a research program begun in 1999 at Motorola Labs to develop ad hoc wireless networking for wireless sensor network applications. The biological analogy was that, while individual neurons were not very useful, in a large network they became very po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%27s%20Fair%20in%20Oven%20War | "All's Fair in Oven War" is the second episode of the sixteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 14, 2004. In the episode, Marge gets her kitchen remodeled and the dishes she makes inside it get rave reviews. The sugg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metatable | A metatable is the section of a database or other data holding structure that is designated to hold data that will act as source code or metadata. In most cases, specific software has been written to read the data from the metatables and perform different actions depending on the data it finds.
See also
Magic number... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN%20Center | The CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia, is the international headquarters of the Cable News Network (CNN). The main newsrooms and studios for several of CNN's news channels are located in the building. The facility's commercial office space is occupied by various units of the former Turner Broadcasting System, now part of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa%20Citizen | The Ottawa Citizen is an English-language daily newspaper owned by Postmedia Network in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
History
Established as The Bytown Packet in 1845 by William Harris, it was renamed the Citizen in 1851. The newspaper's original motto, which has recently been returned to the editorial page, was Fair pla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll-away%20computer | A roll-away computer is an idea introduced as part of a series by Toshiba in 2000, which aimed to predict the trends in personal computing five years into the future. Since its announcement, the roll-away computer has remained a theoretical device.
A roll-away computer is a computer with a flexible polymer-based displ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotives%20of%20the%20Southern%20Railway | The Southern Railway took a key role in expanding the 660 V DC third rail electrified network begun by the London & South Western Railway. As a result of this, and its smaller operating area, its steam locomotive stock was the smallest of the 'Big Four' companies.
For an explanation of numbering and classification, se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WABM | WABM (channel 68) is a television station in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Homewood-licensed CW affiliate WTTO (channel 21) and low-power ABC affiliate WBMA-LD (channel 58); Sinclair also operates Bessemer-licensed WDBB (channel 17), w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advice%20%28programming%29 | In aspect and functional programming, advice describes a class of functions which modify other functions when the latter are run; it is a certain function, method or procedure that is to be applied at a given join point of a program.
Use
The practical use of advice functions is generally to modify or otherwise extend... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%20Costanza | Pascal Costanza is a research scientist at the ExaScience Lab at Intel Belgium. He is known in the field of functional programming in LISP as well as in the aspect-oriented programming (AOP) community for contributions to this field by applying AOP through Lisp1. More recently, he has developed Context-oriented progra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBMA-LD | WBMA-LD (channel 58) is a low-power television station in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, affiliated with ABC. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate WABM (channel 68) and Homewood-licensed CW affiliate WTTO (channel 21); Sinclair also operates Bessemer-licensed WDBB (channel 17), w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBRC | WBRC (channel 6) is a television station in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Gray Television alongside low-power, Class A Telemundo affiliate WTBM-CD (channel 24). The two stations studios atop Red Mountain (between Vulcan Trail and Valley View Drive) in southeastern B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov%20blanket | In statistics and machine learning, when one wants to infer a random variable with a set of variables, usually a subset is enough, and other variables are useless. Such a subset that contains all the useful information is called a Markov blanket. If a Markov blanket is minimal, meaning that it cannot drop any variable ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal%20Markov%20condition | The Markov condition, sometimes called the Markov assumption, is an assumption made in Bayesian probability theory, that every node in a Bayesian network is conditionally independent of its nondescendants, given its parents. Stated loosely, it is assumed that a node has no bearing on nodes which do not descend from it.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopfield%20network | A Hopfield network (Ising model of a neural network or Ising–Lenz–Little model or Amari-Little-Hopfield network,) is a form of recurrent artificial neural network and a type of spin glass system popularised by John Hopfield in 1982 as described by Shun'ichi Amari in 1972
and by Little in 1974 based on Ernst Ising's... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne%20tram%20route%20109 | Melbourne tram route 109 is operated by Yarra Trams on the Melbourne tram network from Box Hill to Port Melbourne. The 19.3 kilometre route is operated out of Kew depot with A and C class trams.
History
The origins of route 109 lie in separate tram lines, a cable tram from Spencer Street to the Yarra River, a horse tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOCAL%20%28programming%20language%29 | FOCAL (acronym for Formulating On-line Calculations in Algebraic Language, or FOrmula CALculator) is an interactive interpreted programming language based on JOSS and mostly used on Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) Programmed Data Processor (PDP) series machines.
JOSS was designed to be a simple interactive languag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webmin | Webmin is a web-based server management control panel for Unix-like systems. Webmin allows the user to configure operating system internals, such as users, disk quotas, services and configuration files, as well as modify and control open-source apps, such as BIND, Apache HTTP Server, PHP, and MySQL.
History
Webmin, w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassia | Brassia is a genus of orchids classified in the subtribe Oncidiinae. It is native to Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and northern South America, with one species (B. caudata) extending into Florida.
The genus was named after William Brass, a British botanist and illustrator, who collected plants in Africa u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Add-on |
Software
Plug-in (computing), a piece of software which enhances another software application and usually cannot be run independently.
Browser extension, which modifies the interface and/or behavior of web browsers
Add-on (Mozilla), a piece of software that enhances and customizes Mozilla-based applications
Expan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Forces%20Radio%20and%20Television | Canadian Forces Radio and Television (CFRT), Radiotélévision des Forces canadiennes (RTFC) in French, was a television and radio network system broadcast by satellite to those members of the Canadian Forces ground forces who served overseas in places such as the Middle East, Africa and Europe and, due to popular demand... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20for%20Supply%20Chain%20Management | The Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM) is a not-for-profit international educational organization offering certification programs, training tools, and networking opportunities to increase workplace performance. Formed in 1957, it was originally known as the "American Production and Inventory Control Society... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilnius%20BASIC | Vilnius BASIC, sometimes known as BK BASIC, is a dialect of the BASIC programming language running on the Elektronika BK-0010-01/BK-0011M and UKNC computers. It was developed at Vilnius University, located in Lithuania which was a republic of the Soviet Union at the time.
In contrast to most microcomputer dialects of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbaud | Blackbaud is a cloud computing provider that serves the social good community—nonprofits, foundations, corporations, education institutions, healthcare organizations, religious organizations, and individual change agents. Its products focus on fundraising, website management, CRM, analytics, financial management, ticke... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ZX80%20and%20ZX81%20clones | The following is a list of clones of Sinclair Research's ZX80 and ZX81 home computers:
ZX80
MicroAce (1980, US)
Microdigital TK80 (1981, Brazil)
Nova Electrônica/Prológica NE-Z80 (1981, Brazil)
ZX81
Official clones
Timex Sinclair T/S 1000 (a ZX81 with the same circuit board from the same factory, but with a 2K x... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ZX%20Spectrum%20clones | The following is a list of clones of Sinclair Research's ZX Spectrum home computer. This list includes both official clones (from Timex Corporation) and many unofficial clones, most of which were produced in Eastern Bloc countries. The list does not include computers which require additional hardware or software to bec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sinclair%20QL%20clones | The following is a list of clones of Sinclair Research's Sinclair QL microcomputer:
Sandy QLT / Futura (only produced in prototype form)
CST Thor series (Thor 1 / Thor 20 / Thor XVI)
Qubbesoft Aurora (a replacement QL motherboard)
Peter Graf's Qx0 series of motherboards: Q40, Q40i and Q60
The following hardware d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computronium | Computronium is a material hypothesized by Norman Margolus and Tommaso Toffoli of MIT in 1991 to be used as "programmable matter", a substrate for computer modeling of virtually any real object.
It also refers to an arrangement of matter that is the best possible form of computing device for that amount of matter. In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2 | P2, P02, P.2, or P-2 might refer to several subjects:
Technology
P2 (storage media), a "Professional Plug-in" solid state data storage technology employed by Panasonic
DSC-P2, a Sony Cyber-shot P series camera model
Honda P2, a 1996 Honda P series of robots, an ASIMO predecessor
Intel 80286, 2nd generation process... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P1 | P1, P01, P-1 or P.1 may refer to:
Computing, robotics, and, telecommunications
DSC-P1, a 2000 Sony Cyber-shot P series camera model
Sony Ericsson P1, a UIQ 3 smartphone
Packet One, the first company to launch WiMAX service in Southeast Asia
Peer 1, an Internet hosting provider
Honda P1, a 1993 Honda P series of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conkeror | Conkeror is a Mozilla-based web browser designed to be navigated primarily by a computer keyboard. Its design is mainly patterned after the text editor GNU Emacs, with some influence from other programs, including vi.
It was originally written by Shawn Betts, the primary author of keyboard-driven ratpoison and Stumpwm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream%20Job | Dream Job is an American reality television show made by ESPN, which began on February 22, 2004. It was the network's second reality show, with two editions of Beg, Borrow & Deal having previously aired. However, this was the first reality show from a network to offer its winner an on-air place on one of its shows. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaBeans | In computing based on the Java Platform, JavaBeans is a technology developed by Sun Microsystems and released in 1996, as part of JDK 1.1.
The 'beans' of JavaBeans are classes that encapsulate one or more objects into a single standardized object (the bean). This standardization allows the beans to be handled in a mor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20access%20server | A network access server (NAS) is a group of components that provides remote users with a point of access to a network.
Overview
A NAS concentrates dial-in and dial-out user communications. An access server may have a mixture of analog and digital interfaces and support hundreds of simultaneous users. A NAS consists of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri%20Gouraud%20%28disambiguation%29 | Henri Gouraud may refer to:
Henri Gouraud (general) (1867–1946), led the French Fourth Army at the end of the First World War
Henri Gouraud (computer scientist) (born 1944), French computer scientist, inventor of Gouraud shading |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runlevel | A runlevel is a mode of operation in the computer operating systems that implements Unix System V-style initialization. Conventionally, seven runlevels exist, numbered from zero to six. S is sometimes used as a synonym for one of the levels. Only one runlevel is executed on startup; run levels are not executed one afte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ComputerLand | ComputerLand was a widespread chain of retail computer stores during the early years of the microcomputer revolution, and was one of the outlets (along with Computer City and Sears) chosen to introduce the IBM PC in 1981. The first ComputerLand opened in 1976, and the chain eventually included about 800 stores by 1985.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiViD | LiViD, short for Linux Video and DVD, was a collection of projects that aim to create program tools and software libraries related to DVD for Linux operating system.
The projects included:
OMS
GATOS
mpeg2dec
ac3dec
In 2002, LiViD project leader Matthew Pavlovich was sued by the DVD Copy Control Association Inc. (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NovaLogic | NovaLogic, Inc. was a software developer and publisher established in 1985 and based in Calabasas, California. The company was founded by CEO John A. Garcia. Garcia's background in computer software started in Southern California in the early 1980s, when he worked at Datasoft. The company was known for their Voxel Spac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20geolocation | In computing, Internet geolocation is software capable of deducing the geographic position of a device connected to the Internet. For example, the device's IP address can be used to determine the country, city, or ZIP code, determining its geographical location. Other methods include examination of Wi-Fi hotspots,
Dat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SheerVideo | SheerVideo was a family of proprietary lossless video codecs developed by BitJazz Inc. The codecs enabled devices with inexpensive hardware (such as laptop computers and video cameras) to play, capture, edit, and archive high-quality lossless videos in real time.
As of July 2023, SheerVideo is still available as a set... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime%20Animation | QuickTime Animation format (also known as QuickTime RLE) is a video compression format and codec created by Apple Computer to enable playback of RGB video in real time without expensive hardware. It is generally found in the QuickTime container with the FourCC 'rle '. It can perform either lossless or lossy compression... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null%20pointer | In computing, a null pointer or null reference is a value saved for indicating that the pointer or reference does not refer to a valid object. Programs routinely use null pointers to represent conditions such as the end of a list of unknown length or the failure to perform some action; this use of null pointers can be ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gofer%20%28disambiguation%29 | A gofer is an errand runner.
Gofer may also refer to:
Gofer (programming language), educational version of Haskell
GOFER, mnemonic device for a decision-making method
See also
Gofer wood, used to construct Noah's Ark in the Bible
Gopher (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conference%20on%20Neural%20Information%20Processing%20Systems | The Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems (abbreviated as NeurIPS and formerly NIPS) is a machine learning and computational neuroscience conference held every December. The conference is currently a double-track meeting (single-track until 2015) that includes invited talks as well as oral a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich%20U-Bahn | The Munich U-Bahn () is an electric rail rapid transit network in Munich, Germany. The system began operation in 1971, and is operated by the municipally owned Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG; Munich Transport Company). The network is integrated into the Münchner Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund (MVV; Munich Transport and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCons | SCons is a computer software build tool that automatically analyzes source code file dependencies and operating system adaptation requirements from a software project description and generates final binary executables for installation on the target operating system platform. Its function is analogous to the traditiona... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marching%20ants | The marching ants effect is an animation technique often found in selection tools of computer graphics programs. It helps the user to distinguish the selection border from the image background by animating the border. The border is a dotted or dashed line where the dashes seem to move slowly sideways and up and down. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Motors%20Local%20Area%20Network | General Motors Local Area Network (GMLAN) is an application- and transport-layer protocol using controller area network for lower layer services. It was standardized as SAE J2411 for use in OBD-II vehicle networks.
Transport-layer services
Transport-layer services include the transmission of multi-CAN-frame messages b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tread%20Marks | Tread Marks is a 3D, third-person perspective, multiplayer-focused tank combat and racing computer game developed by Independent video game developer Longbow Digital Arts. The game won the 2000 Independent Games Festival grand prize, later renamed to the Seumas McNally Grand Prize in honor of the game's lead programmer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Community%20Grid | World Community Grid (WCG) is an effort to create the world's largest volunteer computing platform to tackle scientific research that benefits humanity. Launched on November 16, 2004, with proprietary Grid MP client from United Devices and adding support for Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepping | Stepping may refer to:
Walking, one of the main gaits of locomotion among legged animals
Computing
Stepping level, an aspect of microprocessor version designation
Stepping (debugging), a method of debugging
Dance
Chicago stepping, a type of dance originating in Chicago
Step dance, generic term for dance style... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode%20Island%20Computer%20Museum | The Rhode Island Computer Museum is a vintage computer museum located in Warwick, Rhode Island, United States. The museum's Learning Lab and display space are in the lower level of the La-Z-Boy building at 1755 Bald Hill Road, Warwick, RI 02886. The museum's warehouse is in Bldg 310 Compass Circle, Suite C, North Kings... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autovivification | In the Perl programming language, autovivification is the automatic creation of new arrays and hashes as required every time an undefined value is dereferenced. Perl autovivification allows a programmer to refer to a structured variable, and arbitrary sub-elements of that structured variable, without expressly declarin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiBarn%20Computer%20Museum | The DigiBarn Computer Museum, or simply DigiBarn, is a computer history museum in Boulder Creek, California, United States. The museum is housed in a 90-year-old barn constructed from old-growth Redwood in the Santa Cruz Mountains, which is adjacent to Silicon Valley. It was co-founded by Bruce Damer and Allan Lundell... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PANA | PANA may refer to:
The Panafrican News Agency, based in Senegal
A former name of the Islamic Republic News Agency, based in Iran
The Protocol for carrying Authentication for Network Access
PANA in telecommunications refers to a plain analog loop, also known as a dry pair or BANA (basic analog loop)
Napakiak Airp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Lux | Trans-Lux is a company that specializes in designing, selling, leasing, and maintaining multi-color, real-time data and LED large-screen electronic information displays, but is primarily known as a major supplier of national stock ticker displays for stock exchanges. These indoor and outdoor displays are used worldwide... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level%20of%20detail%20%28computer%20graphics%29 | In computer graphics, level of detail (LOD) refers to the complexity of a 3D model representation. LOD can be decreased as the model moves away from the viewer or according to other metrics such as object importance, viewpoint-relative speed or position.
LOD techniques increase the efficiency of rendering by decreasing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROAM | Real-time optimally adapting mesh (ROAM) is a continuous level of detail algorithm that optimizes terrain meshes. On modern computers, sometimes it is more effective to send a small amount of unneeded polygons to the GPU, rather than burden the CPU with LOD (Level of Detail) calculations—making algorithms like geomipma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Overmars | Markus Hendrik Overmars (; born 29 September 1958 in Zeist, Netherlands) is a Dutch computer scientist and teacher of game programming known for his game development application GameMaker. GameMaker lets people create computer games using a drag-and-drop interface. He is the former head of the Center for Geometry, Imag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends%20of%20the%20Earth%20%28EWNI%29 | Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland (also known as FoE EWNI) is one of 75 national groups around the world which make up the Friends of the Earth network of environmental organisations. It is usually referred to as just 'Friends of the Earth' within its home countries.
History
Friends of the Earth... |
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