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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20cyberpunk%20works
This is a list of works classified as cyberpunk, a subgenre of science fiction. Cyberpunk is characterized by a focus on "high tech and low life" in a near-future setting. Print media Novels and novellas Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick The Girl Who Was Plugged In (1973) by James Tiptr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational%20data%20store
An operational data store (ODS) is used for operational reporting and as a source of data for the enterprise data warehouse (EDW). It is a complementary element to an EDW in a decision support environment, and is used for operational reporting, controls, and decision making, as opposed to the EDW, which is used for tac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar%20W.%20Greenberg
Oscar Wallace Greenberg (born February 18, 1932) is an American physicist and professor at University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. In 1964, he posited the existence of quarks that obeyed parastatistics as the fundamental constituents of hadronic particles. , Educational backgro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20Management%20BIOS
In computing, the System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) specification defines data structures (and access methods) that can be used to read management information produced by the BIOS of a computer. This eliminates the need for the operating system to probe hardware directly to discover what devices are present in the comput...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaksala%20Runestone
The Vaksala Runestone, designated as U 961 under the Rundata catalog, is a Viking Age memorial runestone that is located close to Vaksala Church, near Uppsala, Sweden. Description The Vaksala Runestone is one of the approximately forty runestones made by the successful runemaster Öpir, who signed this inscription and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen%20%28disambiguation%29
Oxygen is a chemical element with symbol O and atomic number 8. Oxygen may also refer to: Computing Oxygen XML Editor Oxygen Games, a defunct video game developer Oxygen Project, a theme set for KDE Plasma Workspaces OxygenOS, an Android-based OS for OnePlus smartphones Film and television Oxygen (1999 film),...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCIgen
SCIgen is a paper generator that uses context-free grammar to randomly generate nonsense in the form of computer science research papers. Its original data source was a collection of computer science papers downloaded from CiteSeer. All elements of the papers are formed, including graphs, diagrams, and citations. Creat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LED%20%28disambiguation%29
A LED is a light-emitting diode. (light source) LED or Led may also refer to: LED (editor), a programmers' editor by Norsk Data Led (river), a river in northern Russia L.E.D., former stage name of Skydiver Elley Duhé Ledbury railway station's National Rail station code Local economic development, an approach to d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Lamprecht
Chris Lamprecht (known as MinorThreat or mthreat) is an American software developer based in Texas. Lamprecht was the original author of ToneLoc, a wardialing program written in the C programming language for the DOS operating system. He was the first employee and lead software architect for indeed.com, a metasearch en...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult%20of%20the%20Dead%20Cow
Cult of the Dead Cow, also known as cDc or cDc Communications, is a computer hacker and DIY media organization founded in 1984 in Lubbock, Texas. The group maintains a weblog on its site, also titled "Cult of the Dead Cow". New media are released first through the blog, which also features thoughts and opinions of the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon%20%28video%20game%29
Dungeon was one of the earliest role-playing video games, running on PDP-10 mainframe computers manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation. History Dungeon was written in either 1975 or 1976 by Don Daglow, then a student at Claremont University Center (since renamed Claremont Graduate University). The game was an u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid2
Acid2 is a webpage that test web browsers' functionality in displaying aspects of HTML markup, CSS 2.1 styling, PNG images, and data URIs. The test page was released on 13 April 2005 by the Web Standards Project. The Acid2 test page will be displayed correctly in any application that follows the World Wide Web Consorti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree%20of%20parallelism
The degree of parallelism (DOP) is a metric which indicates how many operations can be or are being simultaneously executed by a computer. It is used as an indicator of the complexity of algorithms, and is especially useful for describing the performance of parallel programs and multi-processor systems. A program runn...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeleton%20%28disambiguation%29
A skeleton is a biological system providing support in a living organism. Skeleton or skeletons may also refer to: Science and computers Human skeleton, human anatomy Skeletonization (forensics), refers to the complete decomposition of the non-bony tissues of a corpse, leading to a bare skeleton n-skeleton, the su...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computerized%20adaptive%20testing
Computerized adaptive testing (CAT) is a form of computer-based test that adapts to the examinee's ability level. For this reason, it has also been called tailored testing. In other words, it is a form of computer-administered test in which the next item or set of items selected to be administered depends on the correc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trustworthy%20computing
The term Trustworthy Computing (TwC) has been applied to computing systems that are inherently secure, available, and reliable. It is particularly associated with the Microsoft initiative of the same name, launched in 2002. History Until 1995, there were restrictions on commercial traffic over the Internet. On, May ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20variable
In computer programming, an automatic variable is a local variable which is allocated and deallocated automatically when program flow enters and leaves the variable's scope. The scope is the lexical context, particularly the function or block in which a variable is defined. Local data is typically (in most languages) ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmuel%20Winograd
Shmuel Winograd (; January 4, 1936 – March 25, 2019) was an Israeli-American computer scientist, noted for his contributions to computational complexity. He has proved several major results regarding the computational aspects of arithmetic; his contributions include the Coppersmith–Winograd algorithm and an algorithm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegira%20%28novel%29
Hegira is a 1979 science fiction novel by American writer Greg Bear. It deals with themes including cyclic time, artificial intelligence, artificial life, and artificial structures of planetary scale. Plot summary In the novel, "young" humans (recreations of the medieval originals) are transported through the Big Coll...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega%20%28Chilean%20TV%20channel%29
Mega is a Chilean television network owned by Mega Media, a Bethia holding company. It began its transmissions on 23 October 1990 as the first private television network in the country on channel 9 in Santiago, replacing Señal 2 of Televisión Nacional de Chile. The station is a member of the Asociación Nacional de Tele...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic%20Mapping%20Tools
Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) are an open-source collection of computer software tools for processing and displaying xy and xyz datasets, including rasterization, filtering and other image processing operations, and various kinds of map projections. The software stores 2-D grids as COARDS-compliant netCDF files and comes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SONIC%20%28Ethernet%20controller%29
SONIC (System-Oriented Network Interface Controller) DP83932 is a National Semiconductor 10 Mbit/s Ethernet controller. In the early 1990s, integrated ethernet subsystems based on the SONIC controller were used in computer workstations such as the MIPS Magnum family and the Olivetti M700, inter alia. External links SO...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project64
Project64 is a free and open-source Nintendo 64 emulator written in the programming languages C and C++ for Microsoft Windows. This software uses a plug-in system allowing third-party groups to use their own plug-ins to implement specific components. Project64 can play Nintendo 64 games on a computer reading ROM image...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Misuse%20Act%201990
The Computer Misuse Act 1990 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, introduced partly in response to the decision in R v Gold & Schifreen (1988) 1 AC 1063. Critics of the bill complained that it was introduced hastily, was poorly thought out, and that intention was often difficult to prove, with the bill in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-paging%20code%20No.%201
Radio-paging code No. 1 (usually and hereafter called POCSAG) is an asynchronous protocol used to transmit data to pagers. Its usual designation is an acronym of the Post Office Code Standardisation Advisory Group, the name of the group that developed the code under the chairmanship of the British Post Office that use...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVOS-TV
KVOS-TV (channel 12) is a television station in Bellingham, Washington, United States, broadcasting the digital multicast network Heroes & Icons. It is owned and operated by Weigel Broadcasting alongside Seattle-licensed MeTV station KFFV, channel 44 (which KVOS simulcasts on its third digital subchannel). While KVOS-T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS%20North%20Carolina
The University of North Carolina Center for Public Media, branded on-air as PBS North Carolina or commonly PBS NC, is a public television network serving the state of North Carolina. It is operated by the University of North Carolina system, which holds the licenses for all but one of the thirteen PBS member television...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multigrid%20method
In numerical analysis, a multigrid method (MG method) is an algorithm for solving differential equations using a hierarchy of discretizations. They are an example of a class of techniques called multiresolution methods, very useful in problems exhibiting multiple scales of behavior. For example, many basic relaxation m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OEC
OEC may refer to: Finance The Observatory of Economic Complexity, a data visualization site Ordre des Experts-Comptables, French association of chartered accountants Transportation Orion Expedition Cruises, Australian based luxury expedition cruise line Otis Elevator Company, an American company that manufacture...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Thomas%20Erlewine
Stephen Thomas Erlewine (; born June 18, 1973) is an American music critic and senior editor for the online music database AllMusic. He is the author of many artist biographies and record reviews for AllMusic, as well as a freelance writer, occasionally contributing liner notes. Erlewine was born in Ann Arbor, Michiga...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDI
NDI may refer to: Organisations National Dance Institute, a not for profit organization National Democratic Institute for International Affairs National Datacast Incorporated, the PBS datacasting subsidiary Science and technology Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, a form of diabetes insipidus due primarily to pathol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OsiriX
OsiriX is an image processing application for the Apple MacOS operating system dedicated to DICOM images (".dcm" / ".DCM" extension) produced by equipment (MRI, CT, PET, PET-CT, ...). OsiriX is complementary to existing viewers, in particular to nuclear medicine viewers. It can also read many other file formats: TIFF (...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurowings
Eurowings GmbH is a German low-cost carrier headquartered in Düsseldorf and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group. Founded in 1996, it serves a network of domestic and European destinations and formerly also operated some long-haul routes and maintains bases at several airports throughout Germany and Austria...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-9
The PDP-9, the fourth of the five 18-bit minicomputers produced by Digital Equipment Corporation, was introduced in 1966. A total of 445 PDP-9 systems were produced, of which 40 were the compact, low-cost PDP-9/L units. History The 18-bit PDP systems preceding the PDP-9 were the PDP-1, PDP-4 and PDP-7. Its successor w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empresa%20Nacional%20de%20Ferrocarriles%20del%20Per%C3%BA
The Empresa Nacional de Ferrocarriles del Perú (Enafer) is a public company which ensures the management and the commercial use of the railway network of Peru. Created by decree on September 19, 1972, it was formed by the nationalization of several foreign-owned companies which had serviced mostly two separate network...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-5
The PDP-5 was Digital Equipment Corporation's first 12-bit computer, introduced in 1963. History An earlier 12-bit computer, named LINC has been described as the first minicomputer and also "the first modern personal computer." It had 2,048 12-bit words, and the first LINC was built in 1962. DEC's founder, Ken Olse...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-14
The PDP-14 was a specialized computer from Digital Equipment Corporation’s Industrial Products Group designed to replace industrial level relay controls for machinery and machine tools that performed repetitive tasks. It was specifically designed to function in the harsh electrical environment encountered in facilities...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-15
The PDP-15 was the fifth and last of the 18-bit minicomputers produced by Digital Equipment Corporation. The PDP-1 was first delivered in December 1959 and the first PDP-15 was delivered in February 1970. More than 400 of these successors to the PDP-9 (and 9/L) were ordered within the first eight months. In addition ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-chance%20function
In software engineering, a double-chance function is a software design pattern with a strong application in cross-platform and scalable development. Examples Computer graphics Consider a graphics API with functions to DrawPoint, DrawLine, and DrawSquare. It is easy to see that DrawLine can be implemented solely in t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism%20Network%20International
Autism Network International (ANI) is an advocacy organization run by and for autistic people. ANI's principles involve the anti-cure perspective, the perspective that there should not be a goal to "cure" people of autism. History ANI was started by Jim Sinclair, Kathy Grant, and Donna Williams in 1992. The advocacy ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play%20UK
Play UK was a television channel broadcasting in the United Kingdom as part of the UKTV network of channels. Play UK broadcast all day on the digital platforms, but on the Sky Analogue platform on the Astra 19.2°E satellite system it broadcast between 1am and 7am when UK Horizons was not broadcasting. History The chan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed%20code
Managed code is computer program code that requires and will execute only under the management of a Common Language Infrastructure (CLI); Virtual Execution System (VES); virtual machine, e.g. .NET, CoreFX, or .NET Framework; Common Language Runtime (CLR); or Mono. The term was coined by Microsoft. Managed code is the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Comedy%20Company
The Comedy Company was an Australian sketch comedy television series that first aired from 16 February 1988 until 11 November 1990 on Network Ten. It was created and directed by cast member Ian McFadyen, and co-directed and produced by Jo Lane. The show largely consisted of sketch comedy in short segments, much in the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonmist
Moonmist is an interactive fiction computer game written by Stu Galley and Jim Lawrence and published by Infocom in 1986. The game was released simultaneously for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, TRS-80, TI-99/4A, and Macintosh. It is Infocom's twenty-second game. Mo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer%20Goes%20to%20College
"Homer Goes to College" is the third episode of the fifth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 14, 1993. In the episode, Homer causes a nuclear meltdown during a plant inspection and is required to study nuclear physics at...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital
Digital usually refers to something using discrete digits, often binary digits. Technology and computing Hardware Digital electronics, electronic circuits which operate using digital signals Digital camera, which captures and stores digital images Digital versus film photography Digital computer, a computer that han...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tv%20%28TV%20channel%29
.tv (formerly The Computer Channel, pronounced as Dot TV and referred to on-screen as .tv - the technology channel) was a British television channel dedicated to technology. .tv was owned and operated by British Sky Broadcasting. The channel first broadcast on 1 September 1996 and broadcast between 18:00 and 20:00, tim...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon%20Software
Jargon Software Inc. is a computer software development company that specializes in development and deployment tools and business applications for mobile handheld devices such as Pocket PC and Symbol PDA devices. The company is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, and is a privately held Minnesota corporati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20ecosystem
Human ecosystems are human-dominated ecosystems of the anthropocene era that are viewed as complex cybernetic systems by conceptual models that are increasingly used by ecological anthropologists and other scholars to examine the ecological aspects of human communities in a way that integrates multiple factors as econo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return%20to%20Eden
Return to Eden is an Australian television drama series starring Rebecca Gilling, James Reyne, Wendy Hughes and James Smillie. It began as a three-part, six-hour mini-series shown on Network Ten on September 27–29, 1983. Gilling and Smillie reprised their roles, with Peta Toppano replacing Hughes, for a 22-part weekly ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late%20night%20television%20in%20the%20United%20States
In the United States, late night television is the block of television programming intended for broadcast after 11:00 p.m. and usually through 2:00 a.m. Eastern and Pacific Time (ET/PT), leading out of prime time; informally, the daypart can include the designated overnight graveyard slot (encompassing programs airing ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kents%20Bank%20railway%20station
Kents Bank is a railway station on the Furness Line, which runs between and . The station, situated north-west of Lancaster, serves the village of Kents Bank in Cumbria. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains. History The station building was designed in 1865 by the Lancaster-based architects, Pa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MO5
MO5 may refer to: Memories Off 5 The Unfinished Film, a Japanese visual novel Thomson MO5, a home computer Former name used by MI5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Haralick
Robert M. Haralick (born 1943) is Distinguished Professor in Computer Science at Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). Haralick is one of the leading figures in computer vision, pattern recognition, and image analysis. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20accelerator
A web accelerator is a proxy server that reduces website access time. They can be a self-contained hardware appliance or installable software. Web accelerators may be installed on the client computer or mobile device, on ISP servers, on the server computer/network, or a combination. Accelerating delivery through compr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current-mode%20logic
Current mode logic (CML), or source-coupled logic (SCL), is a digital design style used both for logic gates and for board-level digital signaling of digital data. The basic principle of CML is that current from a constant current generator is steered between two alternate paths depending on whether a logic zero or lo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E24
The European route E24 is part of the United Nations international E-road network. It runs for from Birmingham to Ipswich. Route The route of the E24 begins at the E5 near Birmingham, where the M6 Toll merges with the M6 and the E5 switches from the M6 Toll to the M42. The E24 heads east on the M6 to its end at the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Entertainment%20Rating%20Organization
The (CERO) is a Japanese entertainment rating organization based in Tokyo that rates video game content in console games with levels of ratings that informs the customer(s) of the nature of the product and what age group it is suitable for. It was established in June 2002 as a branch of Computer Entertainment Supplier...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrary%20code%20execution
In computer security, arbitrary code execution (ACE) is an attacker's ability to run any commands or code of the attacker's choice on a target machine or in a target process. An arbitrary code execution vulnerability is a security flaw in software or hardware allowing arbitrary code execution. A program that is designe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanmon%20Bridge
The (Asian Highway Network ) is a suspension bridge crossing the Kanmon Straits, a stretch of water separating two of Japan's four main islands. On the Honshū side of the bridge is Shimonoseki (, which contributed Kan to the name of the strait) and on the Kyūshū side is Kitakyushu, whose former city and present ward, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specular%20highlight
A specular highlight is the bright spot of light that appears on shiny objects when illuminated (for example, see image on right). Specular highlights are important in 3D computer graphics, as they provide a strong visual cue for the shape of an object and its location with respect to light sources in the scene. Micr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC%20Australia%20%28Southeast%20Asian%20TV%20channel%29
ABC Australia, formerly Australia Television International (or just Australia Television), ABC Asia Pacific, Australia Network and Australia Plus, is an Australian pay television channel, launched in 1993 and operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as part of the ABC television network of services. The cha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagle%27s%20algorithm
Nagle's algorithm is a means of improving the efficiency of TCP/IP networks by reducing the number of packets that need to be sent over the network. It was defined by John Nagle while working for Ford Aerospace. It was published in 1984 as a Request for Comments (RFC) with title Congestion Control in IP/TCP Internetwo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint%20Handling%20Rules
Constraint Handling Rules (CHR) is a declarative, rule-based programming language, introduced in 1991 by Thom Frühwirth at the time with European Computer-Industry Research Centre (ECRC) in Munich, Germany. Originally intended for constraint programming, CHR finds applications in grammar induction, type systems, abduct...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberhose%20%28file%20system%29
In computing, rubberhose (also known by its development codename Marutukku) is a deniable encryption archive containing multiple file systems whose existence can only be verified using the appropriate cryptographic key. Name and history The project was originally named Rubberhose, as it was designed to be resistant t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer%E2%80%93Moore%E2%80%93Horspool%20algorithm
In computer science, the Boyer–Moore–Horspool algorithm or Horspool's algorithm is an algorithm for finding substrings in strings. It was published by Nigel Horspool in 1980 as SBM. It is a simplification of the Boyer–Moore string-search algorithm which is related to the Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm. The algorithm tra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound%20Recorder%20%28Windows%29
Sound Recorder (known as Voice Recorder in Windows 10) is an audio recording program included in most versions of the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. Its user interface has been replaced twice in the past. History Sound Recorder has been in most versions and editions of Windows since Windows 3.0, inclu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinxter
Jinxter is an interactive fiction video game developed by Magnetic Scrolls and published by Rainbird in 1987 for 8-bit and 16-bit home computers of the time. Jinxter tells the story of a man on a mission to save the fictional land of Aquitania from the looming threat of evil witches. The game was well received by criti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maddington%20railway%20station
Maddington railway station is on the Transperth network. It is located on the Armadale Line, 17.7 kilometres from Perth Station serving the suburb of Maddington. History From 26 December 1895 until February 1952, Maddington was the junction for a 700-metre branch line to Canning Racecourse. In 2013, a major upgrade w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenwick%20railway%20station
Kenwick railway station is located on the Transperth network. It is located on the Armadale Line, 15.8 kilometres from Perth Station serving the suburb of Kenwick. History Kenwick station opened in 1914. In 1982–83, the platforms were extended. The station closed on 31 March 2014 for a six-month upgrade. It reopened o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beckenham%20railway%20station
Beckenham railway station is on the Transperth commuter rail network in Western Australia. It is located on the Armadale line, from Perth Station serving the suburb of Beckenham. History The station opened in 1954 as Higham. The additional station, with two others on the Armadale line, marked the introduction of dies...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens%20Park%20railway%20station%2C%20Perth
Queens Park Station is a railway station on the Transperth network. It is located on the Armadale and Thornlie lines, 11.4 kilometres from Perth Station serving the suburb of Queens Park, Western Australia. History Queens Park Station opened in 1899 as Woodlupine, being renamed Queens Park on 16 April 1912. In 2012,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20backup%20service
A remote, online, or managed backup service, sometimes marketed as cloud backup or backup-as-a-service, is a service that provides users with a system for the backup, storage, and recovery of computer files. Online backup providers are companies that provide this type of service to end users (or clients). Such backup s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Slovenian%20computer%20scientists
This is a list of the best-known Slovenian computer scientists. B Vladimir Batagelj (1948–) Ivan Bratko (1946–) J Primož Jakopin L Ivo Lah (1896–1979) Jure Leskovec M Andrej Mrvar P Marko Petkovšek (1955–) Tomaž Pisanski (1949–) Bogdan Pogorelc T Denis Trček (1965–) V Jurij Vega (1754–1802) Z Egon ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slackpkg
slackpkg is a software tool for installing or upgrading packages automatically through a network or over the Internet for Slackware. slackpkg was included in the main tree in Slackware 12.2 in 2008 - previously it had been included in since Slackware 9.1, which was released in 2003. It is licensed under the GNU Genera...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverdale%20railway%20station
Silverdale is a railway station on the Furness Line, which runs between and . The station, situated north-west of Lancaster, serves the village of Silverdale in Lancashire. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains. Facilities There is no footbridge or underpass; passengers cross the line at track l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binder
Binder may refer to: Businesses Binder FBM, a former German jewelry manufactory Binder Dijker Otte & Co., the expansion of "BDO" in BDO International Computing Binder Project, package and share interactive, reproducible environments File binder, software that binds files into one executable Microsoft Binder, a d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnside%20railway%20station
Arnside is a railway station on the Furness Line, which runs between and . The station, situated north-west of Lancaster, serves the village of Arnside in Cumbria. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains. A short distance west of the station, the railway crosses the River Kent on an impressive 50-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection%20mapping
In computer graphics, environment mapping, or reflection mapping, is an efficient image-based lighting technique for approximating the appearance of a reflective surface by means of a precomputed texture. The texture is used to store the image of the distant environment surrounding the rendered object. Several ways of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonton%20Journal
The Edmonton Journal is a daily newspaper in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is part of the Postmedia Network. History The Journal was founded in 1903 by three local businessmen — John Macpherson, Arthur Moore and J.W. Cunningham — as a rival to Alberta's first newspaper, the 23-year-old Edmonton Bulletin. Within a wee...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDonkey%20network
The eDonkey Network (also known as the eDonkey2000 network or eD2k) is a decentralized, mostly server-based, peer-to-peer file sharing network created in 2000 by US developers Jed McCaleb and Sam Yagan that is best suited to share big files among users, and to provide long term availability of files. Like most sharing...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KYAZ
KYAZ (channel 51) is a television station licensed to Katy, Texas, United States, serving as the Houston area outlet for the classic television network MeTV. Owned and operated by Weigel Broadcasting, the station maintains studios at One Arena Place on Bissonnet Street on Houston's southwest side, and its transmitter i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WUDT-LD
WUDT-LD (channel 23) is a low-power television station in Detroit, Michigan, United States, owned and operated by the Daystar Television Network. The station's transmitter is located at 8 Mile and Meyers Road in suburban Oak Park. History The station took to the air on January 4, 1989, as low-power W05BN on channel 5....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eventual%20consistency
Eventual consistency is a consistency model used in distributed computing to achieve high availability that informally guarantees that, if no new updates are made to a given data item, eventually all accesses to that item will return the last updated value. Eventual consistency, also called optimistic replication, is w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromford%20railway%20station
Cromford railway station is a Grade II listed railway station owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway. It is located in the village of Cromford in Derbyshire, England. The station is on the Derwent Valley Line north of Derby towards Matlock. History Originally known as Cromford Bridge, it was open...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whatstandwell%20railway%20station
Whatstandwell railway station is a railway station owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway. It serves the villages of Whatstandwell and Crich Carr in Derbyshire, England. The station is located on the Derwent Valley Line from Derby to Matlock. There is a ticketing machine on the single platform; a f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20LeBlanc
Marc "Mahk" LeBlanc is an educator and designer of video games. LeBlanc attended MIT where he received a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science. Through his work with Looking Glass Studios, LeBlanc contributed to a number of important video game titles including Ultima Underworld II, System Shock, Flight Unlimited, Terra ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%20Cellular
United States Cellular Corporation (doing business as UScellular and formerly known as U.S. Cellular) is an American mobile network operator. It is a subsidiary of Telephone and Data Systems Inc. (which owns an 84% stake). The company was formed in 1983 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. UScellular is the fifth...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kad%20network
The Kad network is a peer-to-peer (P2P) network which implements the Kademlia P2P overlay protocol. The majority of users on the Kad Network are also connected to servers on the eDonkey network, and Kad Network clients typically query known nodes on the eDonkey network in order to find an initial node on the Kad networ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20literacy
Computer literacy is defined as the knowledge and ability to use computers and related technology efficiently, with skill levels ranging from elementary use to computer programming and advanced problem solving. Computer literacy can also refer to the comfort level someone has with using computer programs and applicatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20Spirit%20Alliance
The Free Spirit Alliance (FSA) is a non-profit spiritual networking organization serving the Pagan and pantheist communities. Founded on May 21, 1986 and based in the Mid-Atlantic area of the United States, FSA's focus has been presenting regional and local events where people from diverse backgrounds can learn and sha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickPar
QuickPar is a computer program that creates parchives used as verification and recovery information for a file or group of files, and uses the recovery information, if available, to attempt to reconstruct the originals from the damaged files and the PAR volumes. Designed for the Microsoft Windows operating system, in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%20Roads
Curtis Roads (born May 9, 1951) is an American composer, author and computer programmer. He composes electronic and electroacoustic music, specializing in granular and pulsar synthesis. Career and music Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Roads studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts and the University of Cal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC%20computerized%20engine%20control
The Computerized Engine Control or Computerized Emission Control (CEC) system is an engine management system designed and used by American Motors Corporation (AMC) and Jeep on 4- and 6-cylinder engines of its own manufacture from 1980 to 1990. It is one of the three major components for proper engine operation: the com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek%20Research%20and%20Technology%20Network
The Greek Research and Technology Network or GRNET () is the national research and education network of Greece. GRNET S.A. gives internet connectivity, e-infrastructure and other services to the Greek Educational, Academic and Research community. Additionally, GRNET makes digital applications. It also provides services...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extension%20%28Mac%20OS%29
On the classic Mac OS (the original Apple Macintosh operating system), extensions were small pieces of code that extended the system's functionality. They were run initially at start-up time, and operated by a variety of mechanisms, including trap patching and other code modifying techniques. Initially an Apple develop...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyph%20Bitmap%20Distribution%20Format
The Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) by Adobe is a file format for storing bitmap fonts. The content takes the form of a text file intended to be human- and computer-readable. BDF is typically used in Unix X Window environments. It has largely been replaced by the PCF font format which is somewhat more efficient,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Sampson
Tony Sampson is a Canadian musician, oiler and retired actor. From 1999 to 2009, he voiced Eddy in the Cartoon Network animated series Ed, Edd n Eddy. Biography Tony Sampson was born on in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He has played the role of Flash in the Canadian television drama The Odyssey and Eddy from E...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics%20encoding
A semantics encoding is a translation between formal languages. For programmers, the most familiar form of encoding is the compilation of a programming language into machine code or byte-code. Conversion between document formats are also forms of encoding. Compilation of TeX or LaTeX documents to PostScript are also c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIEGO
Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a Manchester-based global research - policy network focused on improving conditions for workers in the informal economy. WIEGO's members include membership-based organizations of workers in the informal economy, researchers and development professional...