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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RETAIN
RETAIN is a mainframe based database system, accessed via IBM 3270 terminals (or more likely, emulators), used internally within IBM providing service support to IBM field personnel and customers. The acronym RETAIN stands for Remote Technical Assistance Information Network. Predecessor system Historically, two dif...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-form%20radio
Free-form, or free-form radio, is a radio station programming format in which the disc jockey is given wide or total control over what music to play, regardless of music genre or commercial interests. Freeform radio stands in contrast to most commercial radio stations, in which DJs have little or no influence over prog...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit106.9%20Newcastle
Hit106.9 (call sign: 2XXX) is a commercial FM radio station broadcasting in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, on a frequency of 106.9 MHz, and is part of Southern Cross Austereo's Hit Network. History Hit106.9's history can be traced back to Singleton radio station 2SI, owned by Alex Mather (VK2JZ) and the Singl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%E2%80%9303%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule
The following is the 2002–03 network television schedule for the six major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 2002 through June 2003. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARINE
CARINE (Computer Aided Reasoning Engine) is a first-order classical logic automated theorem prover. It was initially built for the study of the enhancement effects of the strategies delayed clause-construction (DCC) and attribute sequences (ATS) in a depth-first search based algorithm. CARINE's main search algorithm is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valid%20time
In temporal databases, valid time (VT) is the time period during which a database fact is valid in the modeled reality. As of December 2011, ISO/IEC 9075, Database Language SQL:2011 Part 2: SQL/Foundation included clauses in table definitions to define "application-time period tables" (that is, valid-time tables). Vali...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction%20time
In temporal databases, transaction time (TT) is the time during which a fact stored in the database is considered to be true. As of December 2011, ISO/IEC 9075, Database Language SQL:2011 Part 2: SQL/Foundation included clauses in table definitions to define "system-versioned tables" (that is, transaction-time tables)....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN%20en%20Espa%C3%B1ol
Cable News Network en Español (known as CNN en Español) is a Pan-American Spanish-language news channel, owned by CNN Global, a news division for Warner Bros. Discovery. It was launched on pay television, on March 17, 1997. History CNN en Español before 1997 In 1988, CNN began producing news in Spanish with Noticiero...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof%20assistant
In computer science and mathematical logic, a proof assistant or interactive theorem prover is a software tool to assist with the development of formal proofs by human-machine collaboration. This involves some sort of interactive proof editor, or other interface, with which a human can guide the search for proofs, the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogg%20page
An Ogg page is a unit of data in an Ogg bitstream, usually between 4 kB and 8 kB, with a maximum size of 65,307 bytes. Purpose One of the purposes of multimedia container formats is to allow multiple codecs to be muxed into a single file or stream. For example, to combine audio, video, and subtitles into a single file...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIM
Nim is a mathematical two player game. Nim or NIM may also refer to: Nim (programming language) Nim Chimpsky, a signing chimpanzee Nim Tottenham, American psychologist Acronyms Network Installation Manager, an IBM framework Nuclear Instrumentation Module Negative index metamaterial, a metamaterial which can dir...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SACN
SACN can mean South American Community of Nations, a former customs union Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, a United Kingdom government body Streaming Architecture for Control Networks, a technology standard in the entertainment industry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle%20Brandt
Kyle Robert Brandt (born January 24, 1979) is an American television host, media personality, and actor. He is one of the co-hosts of Good Morning Football on NFL Network. Previously, he served as executive producer of The Jim Rome Show from 2009 until 2016. He is also known for portraying Philip Kiriakis on the NBC so...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybertron
Cybertron may refer to: A fictional planet, the homeworld of the Transformers and the planet form of their creator Primus The English dub name for "Tobikage", a small robotic ninja in the TV series Ninja Senshi Tobikage The Japanese name for the Autobot faction from the Transformers multimedia franchise The Japanese n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whammy%21%20The%20All-New%20Press%20Your%20Luck
Whammy! (subtitled The All-New Press Your Luck for its first season) is an American television game show that aired new episodes on Game Show Network (GSN) from April 15, 2002, to December 5, 2003. The series was produced by Fremantle North America, in association with GSN. The main goal of the game is to earn as much ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer%20Bees%21
Killer Bees! is an action video game written by Robert S. Harris for the Magnavox Odyssey2 and published in 1983. Reception Art Levis for Electronic Fun with Computers & Games said "Here's a game that has great play value, doesn't involve the shopworn space or maze cliches, is graphically vivid and has great sound eff...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%20in%20rail%20transport
Events January events January 1 – METRORail light rail service in Houston, Texas, opens. February events February – Pacific National takes over Australian Transport Network. February 3 – The first freight train travels the entire north-south transcontinental railroad in Australia between Adelaide, South Aust...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS%20interrupt%20call
BIOS implementations provide interrupts that can be invoked by operating systems and application programs to use the facilities of the firmware on IBM PC compatible computers. Traditionally, BIOS calls are mainly used by DOS programs and some other software such as boot loaders (including, mostly historically, relative...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945%20in%20rail%20transport
Events January events January 1 – The national railway operator in the Republic of Ireland, Great Southern Railways, with responsibility for the southern part of the Irish railway network is merged into a new national transport operator, Córas Iompair Éireann (CIÉ). January 10 – Los Angeles streetcars make their l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your%20Computer%20%28Australian%20magazine%29
Your Computer was an Australian computer magazine published by the White House Publishing Group (under licence from Motorword Pty Ltd.) and printed by The Lithgo Centre, Waterloo. Starting with the very first issue in May/June 1981 (102 pages) (with a limited print run of 30,000) at the recommended price of $2.00. Arou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accoona
Accoona was an internet company with offices in Jersey City, New Jersey, and Shanghai, China. Their main product was a search engine that claimed to use artificial intelligence to better understand searches. On June 23, 2005, in the ABC Times Square Studios, the AI Accoona Toolbar, driven by a Fritz 9 prototype, playe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mailer
Mailer may refer to: Mass mailer, a computer worm that spreads itself via e-mail Mailer (occupation), an individual employed to handle newspapers from the press to the truck. Mailer (surname) Padded envelope See also Mail carrier E-mailer Central Mailer (disambiguation) Mailer-Daemon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiled%20printing
Tiled printing is a method that computer programs use to enable users to print images larger than a standard page. This method was popularized by a program called The Rasterbator. A tiled printing program overlays a grid on the printed image in which each cell (or tile) is the size of a printed page and then prints eac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avahi%20%28software%29
Avahi is a free zero-configuration networking (zeroconf) implementation, including a system for multicast DNS/DNS-SD service discovery. It is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). Avahi is a system which enables programs to publish and discover services and hosts running on a local network. For ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Register
Sam Register (born June 16, 1969) is an American television producer, animator, and businessman. He is currently the president of Warner Bros. Animation, Cartoon Network Studios, and Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe. Career Formerly Vice President of Cartoon Network, Register was the brain behind CartoonNetwork.com, which...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel%20Bassett
Isabel Bassett (born August 23, 1939) is a Canadian broadcaster and former politician. From 1999 until 2005 she was the chair and CEO of TVOntario/TFO, Ontario's provincial public television network. She has been a controversial figure at times, but is also a highly regarded pioneer in Canadian broadcasting. Backgro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1894%20in%20rail%20transport
Events January events January 1 – Bangor and Aroostook Railroad begins rail service connecting Aroostook County, Maine to the United States rail network. April events April 29 – The Lake Street Elevated Railroad in Chicago is extended west from California & Lake to Laramie (52nd) Avenue. May events May 11 – 3,0...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20state%20highways%20in%20New%20Jersey%20before%201927
{ "type": "ExternalData", "service": "page", "title": "State highways in New Jersey before 1927.map" } New Jersey was one of the first U.S. states to adopt a system of numbered state highways. New Jersey's original numbered highway system was first legislated in 1916, succeeding another proposal submitted in 191...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub
Sub or SUB may refer to: Places Juanda International Airport, Surabaya, Indonesia, IATA code SUB People Bottom (BDSM), or "sub" for "submissive" Substitute teacher Computing and technology <sub>, an HTML tag for subscript SUB designates a subroutine in some programming languages SUB, substitute character, ASCI...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Davis%20%28programmer%29
Paul Davis (formerly known as Paul Barton-Davis) is a British-American software developer best known for his work on audio software (JACK) for the Linux operating system, and for his role as one of the first two programmers at Amazon.com. Davis grew up in the English Midlands and in London. After studying molecular bi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN%20Airport
CNN Airport was an American out-of-home television network owned and operated by AT&T's WarnerMedia through CNN, hence its name. The service broadcast general news, weather, stock market updates, entertainment, and travel content to airports across the United States. The founding management was led by Jon Petrovich and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal%20Voices%20Radio%20Network
Aboriginal Voices Radio Network (rebranded as Voices Radio in 2014) was a Canadian radio network, which primarily broadcast music programming and other content of interest to aboriginal people. As of June 2015, the network operated stations in Toronto, Ontario (where its studios and offices were located), Calgary and E...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look%20into%20the%20Eyeball
Look into the Eyeball is the sixth studio album by musician David Byrne, released on May 8, 2001. The single "Like Humans Do" was supplied with the Windows XP operating system to showcase Microsoft's Windows Media Player. "" is a Spanish language song, performed with Nrü (a.k.a. Rubén Isaac Albarrán Ortega) from Café ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford%20Internet%20Institute
The Oxford Internet Institute (OII) serves as a hub for interdisciplinary research, combining social and computer science to explore information, communication, and technology. It is an integral part of the University of Oxford's Social Sciences Division in England. Overview The OII is spread across three locations on...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE%20121%20Class
The Córas Iompair Éireann 121 Class was a railway locomotive which was manufactured by General Motors Electro-Motive Division. These locomotives were in regular service on the Irish railway network until 2002, with the last two remaining in service until early 2008. History The poor availability of the A and C class ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1927%20New%20Jersey%20state%20highway%20renumbering
{ "type": "ExternalData", "service": "page", "title": "New Jersey State Highway Renumbering 1927.map" } In 1927, New Jersey's state highways were renumbered. The old system, which had been defined in sequence by the legislature since 1916, was growing badly, as several routes shared the same number, and many unnu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France%2024
France 24 ( in French) is a French state-owned international news television network based in Paris. Its channels broadcast in French, English, Arabic and Spanish are aimed at the overseas market. Based in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux, the service started on 6 December 2006. It is aimed at a worldwide marke...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBLFT-DT
CBLFT-DT (channel 25) is an Ici Radio-Canada Télé station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which broadcasts programming to the province's Franco-Ontarian population. It is part of a twinstick with CBC Television flagship CBLT-DT (channel 5). Both stations share studios at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre on Front Street We...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996%20in%20rail%20transport
Events January events January 6 – A computer-controlled Washington Metro train overruns the platform at the Shady Grove station, colliding with a parked train and fatally injuring the operator. February events February 4 – The first two British passenger train operating companies begin operation of their service ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKNC-TV
CKNC-TV was a television station in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The station was in operation from 1971 to 2002 as a private affiliate of CBC Television, and then continued until 2012 as a network-owned rebroadcaster of the network's Toronto affiliate CBLT. History CKNC was established on October 8, 1971 by J. Conrad La...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maquila%20Solidarity%20Network
The Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN) based in Toronto describes itself as: "A Canadian network promoting solidarity with groups in Mexico, Central America, Africa, and Asia organizing in maquiladora factories and export processing zones to improve conditions and win a living wage." The network is the secretariat of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal%20map
Normal map may refer to: Normal mapping in 3D computer graphics Normal invariants in mathematical surgery theory Normal matrix in linear algebra Normal operator in functional analysis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20areas%20in%20Chicago
The city of Chicago is divided into 77 community areas for statistical and planning purposes. Census data and other statistics are tied to the areas, which serve as the basis for a variety of urban planning initiatives on both the local and regional levels. The areas' boundaries do not generally change, allowing compar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Derbyshire
John Derbyshire (born 3 June 1945) is a British-born American white supremacist political commentator, writer, journalist and computer programmer. He was noted for being one of the last paleoconservatives in the National Review, until he was fired in 2012 for writing an article for Taki's Magazine that was widely viewe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%2C%20%28Annoyed%20Grunt%29-Bot
"I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot", also known as "I, D'oh-Bot", is the ninth episode of the fifteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 11, 2004. This episode represents a milestone in the history of the series as Snowball II is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersection%20algorithm
The intersection algorithm is an agreement algorithm used to select sources for estimating accurate time from a number of noisy time sources. It forms part of the modern Network Time Protocol. It is a modified form of Marzullo's algorithm. While Marzullo's algorithm will return the smallest interval consistent with th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCC
SCC may refer to: Companies Secure Computing Corporation SCC (Specialist Computer Centres), British-based IT consulting company Southern Copper Corporation, a mining company operating in Central and South America Computing Scenarist Closed captioning file Small, Cheap Computer, a small, subnotebook computer Sou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20Facility%20for%20Linux
The Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) is an IBM mainframe and Power Systems processor dedicated to running the Linux operating system. On IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE machines, IFLs can be used with or without hypervisors such as z/VM and KVM. IFLs are one of three most common types of "specialty" IBM mainframe processors ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/VM
z/VM is the current version in IBM's VM family of virtual machine operating systems. z/VM was first released in October 2000 and remains in active use and development . It is directly based on technology and concepts dating back to the 1960s, with IBM's CP/CMS on the IBM System/360-67 (see article History of CP/CMS for...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPI
IPI or ipi may refer to: Science and technology International Prognostic Index, a medical tool used in oncology to predict the outcome of lymphoma patients International Protein Index, a database covering information about the proteomes of humans, mice and other animals Integrated Pulmonary Index, a single value th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit%20Blaauw
Gerrit Anne "Gerry" Blaauw (July 17, 1924 – March 21, 2018) was a Dutch computer scientist, known as one of the principal designers of the IBM System/360 line of computers, together with Fred Brooks, Gene Amdahl, and others. Biography Born in The Hague, Netherlands, Blaauw received his BA from the Delft University of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scancode
A scancode (or scan code) is the data that most computer keyboards send to a computer to report which keys have been pressed. A number, or sequence of numbers, is assigned to each key on the keyboard. Variants Mapping key positions by row and column requires less complex computer hardware; therefore, in the past, u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season
The 1950 Atlantic hurricane season was the first year in the Atlantic hurricane database (HURDAT) that storms were given names in the Atlantic basin. Names were taken from the Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet, with the first named storm being designated "Able", the second "Baker", and so on. It was a very active seaso...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor
A hypervisor (also known as a virtual machine monitor, VMM, or virtualizer) is a type of computer software, firmware or hardware that creates and runs virtual machines. A computer on which a hypervisor runs one or more virtual machines is called a host machine, and each virtual machine is called a guest machine. The hy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei%C3%9Fkirchen%20radio%20transmitter
The transmitter Weißkirchen was a medium wave broadcasting facility located near Weißkirchen, Oberursel, Germany. It was the most powerful European AM transmitter of the American Forces Network and transmitted on 873 kHz with a power of 150 kilowatts. It started operation in May 1951 on 872 kHz and moved its frequency ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TU%20Wien
TU Wien (), also known as the Vienna University of Technology, is a public research university in Vienna, Austria. The university's teaching and research are focused on engineering, computer science, and natural sciences. It currently has about 28,100 students (29% women), eight faculties, and about 5,000 staff member...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teredo%20tunneling
In computer networking, Teredo is a transition technology that gives full IPv6 connectivity for IPv6-capable hosts that are on the IPv4 Internet but have no native connection to an IPv6 network. Unlike similar protocols such as 6to4, it can perform its function even from behind network address translation (NAT) devices...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20A.%20Davis
John Alexander Davis (born October 26, 1961) is an American film director, writer, animator, voice actor and composer known for his work both in stop-motion animation as well as computer animation, live action and live-action/CGI hybrids. Davis is best known for creating Nickelodeon's Jimmy Neutron franchise, which enj...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg%20S-Bahn
The Hamburg S-Bahn is a suburban commuter railway network in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region. Together, the S-Bahn, the Hamburg U-Bahn, the AKN railway and the regional railway form the backbone of railway public transport in the city and the surrounding area. The network has operated since 1907 as a commuter rail syst...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos%20%28disambiguation%29
Paxos or Paxi is a Greek island in the Ionian sea. Paxos may also refer to: Paxos (computer science), a family of algorithms Paxos Trust Company, an American financial institution and technology company See also Paxo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofmap
is one of the largest personal computer and consumer electronics retailers in Japan. In 2000, it was the second largest e-commerce company in the country. Bic Camera acquired a majority stake in Sofmap in 2006, and turned it into a wholly owned subsidiary in January 2010. Formerly listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange und...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratagnon%20language
Ratagnon (also translated as Latagnon or Datagnon, and Aradigi) is a regional language spoken by the Ratagnon people, an indigenous group from Occidental Mindoro. It is a part of the Bisayan language family and is closely related to other Philippine languages. Its speakers are shifting to Tagalog. In 2000, there were o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratagnon%20people
Ratagnon (also transliterated Datagnon or Latagnon) is one of the eight indigenous groups of Mangyan in the southernmost tip of Occidental Mindoro and the Mindoro Islands along the Sulu Sea. The Ratagnon live in the southernmost part of the municipality of Magsaysay in Occidental Mindoro. Their language is similar to t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL%20ES
OpenGL for Embedded Systems (OpenGL ES or GLES) is a subset of the OpenGL computer graphics rendering application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D computer graphics such as those used by video games, typically hardware-accelerated using a graphics processing unit (GPU). It is designed for embedded sy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kottke
Kottke may refer to: Leo Kottke - acoustic guitar player Jason Kottke - blogger Daniel Kottke - U.S. computer engineer and the first official Apple Computer employee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose%20computing%20on%20graphics%20processing%20units
General-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU, or less often GPGP) is the use of a graphics processing unit (GPU), which typically handles computation only for computer graphics, to perform computation in applications traditionally handled by the central processing unit (CPU). The use of multiple video ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Chronicle%20Herald
The Chronicle Herald is a broadsheet newspaper published in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, owned by SaltWire Network of Halifax. The paper's newsroom staff were locked out of work from January 2016 until August 2017. Herald management continued to publish using strikebreaker labour, and were accused by the union of ref...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%20Control%20Block
A File Control Block (FCB) is a file system structure in which the state of an open file is maintained. A FCB is managed by the operating system, but it resides in the memory of the program that uses the file, not in operating system memory. This allows a process to have as many files open at one time as it wants, prov...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided%20technologies
Computer-aided technologies (CAx) is the use of computer technology to aid in the design, analysis, and manufacture of products. Advanced CAx tools merge many different aspects of product lifecycle management (PLM), including design, finite element analysis (FEA), manufacturing, production planning, product Computer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wily%20%28text%20editor%29
Wily is a text editor created by Gary Capell for the X Window System. It is based on Acme, the mouse-centric editing environment for the Plan 9 operating system. Wily is one of the few editors that supports mouse chording. Unlike Acme, it does not support mouse scrolls and its interface is black and white. Developmen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%2010303-21
STEP-file is a widely used data exchange form of STEP. ISO 10303 can represent 3D objects in computer-aided design (CAD) and related information. Due to its ASCII structure, a STEP-file is easy to read, with typically one instance per line. The format of a STEP-file is defined in ISO 10303-21 Clear Text Encoding of th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuMATH
muMATH is a computer algebra system (CAS), which was developed in the late 1970s and early eighties by Albert D. Rich and David Stoutemyer of Soft Warehouse in Honolulu, Hawaii. It was implemented in the muSIMP programming language which was built on top of a LISP dialect called . Platforms supported were CP/M and TRS-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated%20database%20system
A federated database system (FDBS) is a type of meta-database management system (DBMS), which transparently maps multiple autonomous database systems into a single federated database. The constituent databases are interconnected via a computer network and may be geographically decentralized. Since the constituent datab...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derive%20%28computer%20algebra%20system%29
Derive was a computer algebra system, developed as a successor to muMATH by the Soft Warehouse in Honolulu, Hawaii, now owned by Texas Instruments. Derive was implemented in , also by Soft Warehouse. The first release was in 1988 for DOS. It was discontinued on June 29, 2007, in favor of the TI-Nspire CAS. The final ve...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grail%20%28web%20browser%29
Grail was a free extensible multi-platform web browser written in the Python programming language. The project was started in August 1995, with its first public release in November of that year. The last official release was version 0.6 in 1999. One of the major distinguishing features of Grail was the ability to run ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace
Myspace (formerly stylized as MySpace) is a social networking service based in the United States. Launched on August 1, 2003, the site was the first social network to reach a global audience and had a significant influence on technology, pop culture and music. The site played a critical role in the early growth of comp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore%20900
The Commodore 900 (also known as the C900, Z-8000, and Z-Machine) was a prototype microcomputer originally intended for business computing and, later, as an affordable UNIX workstation. It was to replace the aging PET/CBM families of personal computers that had found success in Europe as business machines. The project ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Media%20Server
Microsoft Media Server (MMS), a Microsoft proprietary network-streaming protocol, serves to transfer unicast data in Windows Media Services (previously called NetShow Services). MMS can be transported via UDP or TCP. The MMS default port is UDP/TCP 1755. Microsoft deprecated MMS in favor of RTSP (TCP/UDP port 554) in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingers%20%28TV%20series%29
Stingers is an Australian police drama television series. It premiered on 29 September 1998, and ran for eight seasons on the Nine Network before it was canceled in late 2004 due to declining ratings, with its final episode airing on 14 December 2004. Inspired by true events, Stingers chronicled the cases of a deep und...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STN
STN may refer to: Broadcasting Score Television Network, a Canadian specialty channel Shalimar Television Network, a Pakistani television network Student Television Network, in the United States Transport London Stansted Airport, England Stanley station (North Dakota), an Amtrak station Stonehaven railway st...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFTM-DT
CFTM-DT (channel 10) is a television station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, serving as the flagship of the French-language TVA network. Owned by Groupe TVA, the station has studios on Boulevard de Maisonneuve East and Rue Alexandre de Sève in the Ville-Marie borough of Montreal, and its transmitter is located on Voie Cam...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFJP-DT
CFJP-DT (channel 35) is a television station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, serving as the flagship station of the French-language Noovo network. It is owned and operated by network parent Bell Media alongside CTV outlet CFCF-DT (channel 12). Both stations share studios at the Bell Media building (formerly the Montréal T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKMI-DT
CKMI-DT (channel 15) is a television station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, part of the Global Television Network. Owned and operated by network parent Corus Entertainment, the station maintains studios inside the Dominion Square Building in downtown Montreal. Its primary transmitter is located atop Mount Royal, with reb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJNT-DT
CJNT-DT (channel 62) is a television station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, part of the Citytv network. Owned and operated by network parent Rogers Sports & Media, the station maintains studios inside the Rogers Building at the corner of McGill College Avenue and Cathcart Street near the Place Ville Marie complex in down...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content%20Addressable%20File%20Store
The Content Addressable File Store (CAFS) was a hardware device developed by International Computers Limited (ICL) that provided a disk storage with built-in search capability. The motivation for the device was the discrepancy between the high speed at which a disk could deliver data, and the much lower speed at which ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixx
Mixx was a user-driven social media platform where peers may publish or find material based on their interests and location. It incorporated social networking and bookmarking, as well as online syndication, blogging, and personalization options. The service was sold to Chime.in in December 2011, and it was eventually s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EB%20Games
EB Games (formerly known as Electronics Boutique and EB World) is an American computer and video games retailer. First established as an American company in 1977 by James Kim with a single electronics-focused location in the King of Prussia mall near Philadelphia, the company has grown into an international corporation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBBS-PC
RBBS-PC (acronym for Remote Bulletin Board System for the Personal Computer) was a public domain, open-source BBS software program. It was written entirely in BASIC by a large team of people, starting with Russell Lane and then later enhanced by Tom Mack, Ken Goosens and others. It supported messaging conferences, que...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20Spoken%20at%20Home
Language Spoken at Home is a data set published by the United States Census Bureau on languages in the United States. It is based on a three-part language question asked about all household members who are five years old or older. The first part asks if the person speaks a language other than English at home. If the an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantek%20%C3%87elik
Tantek Çelik is a Turkish-American computer scientist, currently the Web standards lead at Mozilla Corporation. Çelik was previously the chief technologist at Technorati. He worked on microformats and is one of the principal editors of several Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) specifications. He is author of HTML5 Now: A St...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatPulse
WhatPulse is a key-counting program that monitors computer uptime, bandwidth usage and the number of keystrokes and mouse clicks made by a user over a period of time. Unlike keyloggers, the authors claim WhatPulse does not record the order in which keys are pressed but instead counts the number of times keys are presse...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTN
MTN may refer to: MTN Group, mobile telephone network operator in African and Middle Eastern countries MTN-Qhubeka, cycling team sponsored by the telephone company Maritime Telecommunications Network, satellite phone network Martin State Airport, Baltimore, US, IATA code Mauritania, IOC and ITU code Manitoba Telev...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNN
SNN may refer to: Shannon Airport (Ireland), whose IATA airport code is SNN Simulated neural network or static neural network, another term for an artificial neural network Spiking neural network, a type of artificial neural network Spatial neural network, another type of artificial neural network SNN (gene), a h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut%20de%20g%C3%A9nie%20informatique%20et%20industriel
Ingénieur en Génie Informatique et Industriel (IG2I, EC-Lille) is an information engineering school in Lens, France. Founded in 1992 by "Ecole Centrale de Lille", it offers courses in computer Science, networking, and industrial engineering. References IG2I web-site in French IG2I page on Facebook Grandes écoles Educ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lite-On
Lite-On (also known as LiteOn and LiteON) is a Taiwanese company that primarily manufactures consumer electronics, including LEDs, semiconductors, computer chassis, monitors, motherboards, optical disc drives, and other electronic components. The Lite-On group also consists of some non-electronic companies like a fina...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting%20information%20system
An accounting information system (AIS) is a system of collecting, storing and processing financial and accounting data that are used by decision makers. An accounting information system is generally a computer-based method for tracking accounting activity in conjunction with information technology resources. The result...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20ledger
In bookkeeping, a general ledger is a bookkeeping ledger in which accounting data are posted from journals and aggregated from subledgers, such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash management, fixed assets, purchasing and projects. A general ledger may be maintained on paper, on a computer, or in the cloud. A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched%20Multi-megabit%20Data%20Service
Switched Multi-megabit Data Service (SMDS) was a connectionless service used to connect LANs, MANs and WANs to exchange data, in early 1990s. In Europe, the service was known as Connectionless Broadband Data Service (CBDS). SMDS was specified by Bellcore, and was based on the IEEE 802.6 metropolitan area network (MAN...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Available%20bit%20rate
Available bit rate (ABR) is a service used in ATM networks when source and destination don't need to be synchronized. ABR does not guarantee against delay or data loss. ABR mechanisms allow the network to allocate the available bandwidth fairly over the present ABR sources. ABR is one of five service categories defined...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylver%20Stone
The Kylver stone, listed in the Rundata catalog as runic inscription G 88, is a Swedish runestone which dates from about 400 AD. It is notable for its listing of each of the runes in the Elder Futhark. Description The Kylver stone was found during the excavation of a cemetery near a farm at Kylver, Stånga, Gotland in ...