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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20binary
The universal binary format is a format for executable files that run natively on either PowerPC or Intel-manufactured IA-32 or Intel 64 or ARM64-based Macintosh computers. The format originated on NeXTStep as "Multi-Architecture Binaries", and the concept is more generally known as a fat binary, as seen on Power Macin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTMD
KTMD (channel 47) is a television station licensed to Galveston, Texas, United States, serving as the Houston area outlet for the Spanish-language network Telemundo. Owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group, the station maintains studios on I-610 (North Loop) and Bevis Street on Houston's northwest ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KXTX-TV
KXTX-TV (channel 39) is a television station licensed to Dallas, Texas, United States, serving as the Dallas–Fort Worth market's outlet for the Spanish-language network Telemundo. It is owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group alongside Fort Worth–licensed NBC outlet KXAS-TV (channel 5). Both statio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KUVN-DT
KUVN-DT (channel 23) is a television station licensed to Garland, Texas, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Univision network to the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Irving-licensed UniMás owned-and-operated station KSTR-DT (channel 49). Both stations sh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC%204000%20multiprogramming%20system
The RC 4000 Multiprogramming System (also termed Monitor or RC 4000 depending on reference) is a discontinued operating system developed for the RC 4000 minicomputer in 1969. For clarity, this article mostly uses the term Monitor. Overview The RC 4000 Multiprogramming System is historically notable for being the first...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco%20Catalyst
Catalyst is the brand for a variety of network switches, wireless controllers, and wireless access points sold by Cisco Systems. While commonly associated with Ethernet switches, a number of different types of network interfaces have been available throughout the history of the brand. Cisco acquired several different c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag%20cloud
A tag cloud (also known as a word cloud or weighted list in visual design) is a visual representation of text data which is often used to depict keyword metadata on websites, or to visualize free form text. Tags are usually single words, and the importance of each tag is shown with font size or color. When used as webs...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seequa%20Chameleon
The Seequa Chameleon was an early 1980s luggable personal computer; it was capable of running both the DOS and CP/M operating systems. It did so by having both Zilog Z80 and Intel 8088 microprocessors. While it ran MS-DOS and approximated the hardware capabilities of the IBM PC, it was highly PC compatible, being able...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Yeller-Belly
"Old Yeller-Belly" is the nineteenth episode of the fourteenth season of the American television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 4, 2003. Santa's Little Helper fails to help Homer when he is trapped in a fire. He is rebuffed by the family, but eventually accepted ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logie%20Awards%20of%201994
The 36th Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Sunday 17 April 1994 at the World Congress Centre in Melbourne, and broadcast on the Nine Network. The ceremony was hosted by Ray Martin and guests included Michael Crawford and Grant Shaud. Winners Gold Logie Most Popular Personality on Australian Television Winner: R...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%20Halliwell
Robert James Leslie Halliwell (23 February 1929 – 21 January 1989) was a British film critic, encyclopaedist and television rights buyer for ITV, the British commercial network, and Channel 4. He is best known for his reference guides, Filmgoer's Companion (1965), a single volume film-related encyclopaedia featuring bi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20Secure%20Voice%20Communications%20Network
The Automatic Secure Voice Communications Network (AUTOSEVOCOM) was a worldwide, switched, secure voice network for the United States Armed Forces, which was operational from the late 1960s to the end of the 1980s. It was closely related to the Automatic Voice Network or AUTOVON, which was the main non-secure switched ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe%20Baby%20Blues
"Moe Baby Blues" is the twenty-second and final episode of the fourteenth season of the American television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 18, 2003. Moe, unhappy and suicidal, inadvertently saves Maggie's life. The two of them grow to love each other. Plot The w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandom%20binary%20sequence
A pseudorandom binary sequence (PRBS), pseudorandom binary code or pseudorandom bitstream is a binary sequence that, while generated with a deterministic algorithm, is difficult to predict and exhibits statistical behavior similar to a truly random sequence. PRBS generators are used in telecommunication, such as in ana...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil%20Con%20Carne
Evil Con Carne is an American animated television series created by Maxwell Atoms for Cartoon Network. The series centers on wealthy crime lord Hector Con Carne, who is reduced to his brain and stomach after an assassination attempt and subsequently implanted onto Boskov, a purple circus bear. Aided by his scientist Ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRLESC
The BRLESC I (Ballistic Research Laboratories Electronic Scientific Computer) was one of the last of the first-generation electronic computers. It was built by the United States Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory (BRL) at Aberdeen Proving Ground with assistance from the National Bureau of Standards (now the National...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20610
The IBM 610 Auto-Point Computer is one of the first personal computers, in the sense of a computer to be used by one person whose previous experience with computing might only have been with desk calculators. It was controlled interactively by a keyboard. The principal designer of this machine was John Lentz, as part o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%20Support%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29
Life Support was a comedy programme on Australia's SBS network which satirised lifestyle television programs. It ran for three seasons. On Australia Day 2006, a Life Support Marathon was shown on the Comedy Channel showing the first series and half of the second. Concept A satirical, sometimes dark look at Australian...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeverse%20Inc.
Freeverse Inc. (originally Freeverse Software) was a developer of computer and video game and desktop software based in New York City which was acquired by Ngmoco in 2010. Ngmoco was itself acquired later that year, and shut down in 2016. History Ian Lynch Smith founded Freeverse in 1994 as a shareware company. The fi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEORGE%20%28computer%29
GEORGE was an early computer built in 1957 by Argonne National Laboratory, was based on the IAS architecture developed by John von Neumann. (The name "GEORGE" is apparently not an acronym. It may have been derived from the sentence, "Let George do it," which was said when a person didn't want to do something himself)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isochronous%20media%20access%20controller
Isochronous media access controller (I-MAC) is a media access control whereby data must be transferred isochronously—in other words, the data must be transmitted at a steady rate, without interruption. Media access control Telecommunications equipment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20systems%20technician
An information systems technician is a technician whose responsibility is maintaining communications and computer systems. Description Information systems technicians operate and maintain information systems, facilitating system utilization. In many companies, these technicians assemble data sets and other details nee...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAC
iMac is a line of Apple Macintosh computers. IMAC or Imac may also refer to: iMac (Intel-based), the Intel line of the iMac iMac (Apple silicon), the Apple silicon iMac Necmettin Imac (born 1987), Netherlands footballer Immobilized metal ion affinity chromatography, a technique to purify proteins Independent M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian%20Dvir
Adrian Dvir (1958 in Bucharest, Romania – 6 June 2004) was an author and medium. He held a B.Sc. (Bachelor of Science) in Engineering and an M.Sc. (Master of Science) in Computer Engineering, specializing in computer architecture. Married with two children and living in Israel since 1965, Dvir was employed as a develo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanmeter
A LANMeter was a tool for testing Token Ring and Ethernet networks introduced by Fluke Corporation in 1993. It incorporated hardware testing (cable and network interface card) and active network testing in a handheld, battery operated package. It was discontinued in 2003. Variants Computer network analysis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessella
Tessella was an international analytics and data science consulting services company owned by Capgemini. It is now the Hybrid Intelligence team, within Capgemini Engineering. History Tessella was founded in 1980 by Kevin Gell. Tessella moved to its first permanent office in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1987. Tessella es...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive-by%20download
Drive-by download is of two types, each concerning the unintended download of computer software from the Internet: Authorized drive-by downloads are downloads which a person has authorized but without understanding the consequences (e.g. downloads which install an unknown or counterfeit executable program, ActiveX co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blosxom
Blosxom is a free-software weblog program (and simple content management system) written in Perl by Rael Dornfest. It uses the pre-existing file system instead of a database management system, unlike most blog software. The design of Blosxom is minimalist. It is distributed as a single Perl script, and all configurati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regularization%20%28mathematics%29
In mathematics, statistics, finance, computer science, particularly in machine learning and inverse problems, regularization is a process that changes the result answer to be "simpler". It is often used to obtain results for ill-posed problems or to prevent overfitting. Although regularization procedures can be divide...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential%20function%20chart
Sequential function chart (SFC) is a visual programming language used for programmable logic controllers (PLCs). It is one of the five languages defined by IEC 61131-3 standard. The SFC standard is defined as Preparation of function charts for control systems, and was based on (itself based on binary Petri nets). It ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stackless%20Python
Stackless Python, or Stackless, is a Python programming language interpreter, so named because it avoids depending on the C call stack for its own stack. In practice, Stackless Python uses the C stack, but the stack is cleared between function calls. The most prominent feature of Stackless is microthreads, which avoid ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enter%20key
On computer keyboards, the enter key and return key are two closely related keys with overlapping and distinct functions dependent on operating system and application. Functions The return key has its origins in two typewriter functions: carriage return, which would reset the carriage to the beginning of the line of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer%20at%20the%20Bat
"Homer at the Bat" is the 17th episode of the third season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 20, 1992. The episode follows the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant softball team, led by Homer, having a winning season and making th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclura%20tricuspidata
Maclura tricuspidata is a tree native to East Asia, occasionally grown for its fruit, somewhat similar to that of the related mulberry (Morus spp.). It is also known by common names including cudrang, kujibbong, storehousebush, mandarin melon berry, silkworm thorn, zhe or che (), and Chinese mulberry (but not to be co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgrade%20Meteorological%20Station
Meteorology was first practiced in Serbia when meteorological data was gathered, monitored and recorded on a daily basis, in 1848, in Belgrade. Daily, meteorological forecasts started in 1892. The first meteorologist was Vladimir Jakšić. While the first meteorological observation post was in a nearby private house, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20McKinnon
Gary McKinnon (born 10 February 1966) is a Scottish systems administrator and hacker who was accused in 2002 of perpetrating the "biggest military computer hack of all time", although McKinnon himself states that he was merely looking for evidence of free energy suppression and a cover-up of UFO activity and other tech...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrag
Scrag can refer to: Global Rocket 1, given the NATO reporting name SS-X-10 Scrag A monster, also referred to as a "wizard", in the 1996 computer game Quake A type of aquatic troll in Dungeons & Dragons A derogatory term for a girl or woman, especially in Australia Scrag end, a cut of lamb taken from the neck To ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%E2%80%9306%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule
The 2005–06 network television schedule for the six major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers primetime hours from September 2005 through August 2006. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 2004–05 season. Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss%20%28image%29
Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default computer wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a virtually unedited photograph of a green hill and blue sky with white clouds in the Los Carneros American Viticultural Area of California's Wine Country. Charles O'Rear took the photo in J...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Love%20Lisa
"I Love Lisa" is the fifteenth episode of the fourth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 11, 1993. In the episode, Lisa gives Ralph Wiggum a Valentine's Day card when she sees that he has not received any. Ralph misinter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer%20the%20Vigilante
"Homer the Vigilante" is the eleventh 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 January 6, 1994. In the episode, a crime wave caused by an elusive cat burglar plagues Springfield. Lisa is distraught when her saxoph...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large%20Marge
"Large Marge" is the fourth episode of the fourteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 24, 2002. In the episode, Marge decides to get liposuction, thinking that Homer does not find her attractive anymore. However, sh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude%2C%20Where%27s%20My%20Ranch%3F
"Dude, Where's My Ranch?" is the eighteenth episode of the fourteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox Network in the United States on April 27, 2003. It was written by Ian Maxtone-Graham and was the first episode directed by Chris Clements. Plot At Christm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Star%20Is%20Burns
"A Star Is Burns" is the eighteenth episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 5, 1995. In the episode, Springfield decides to hold a film festival, and famed critic Jay Sherman is invited to be a judge. The story...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971%20in%20country%20music
This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1971. Events No dates Seeking younger, more urban viewers, CBS cancels nearly all of its rural-themed programming. Among the most notable casualties: The Beverly Hillbillies – a sitcom which had aired since 1962, about the misadventures of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fin%20Fin%20on%20Teo%20the%20Magic%20Planet
{{Nihongo foot|Fin Fin on Teo the Magic Planet|TEO-もうひとつの地球-|TEO - mō hitotsu no chikyū -|lead=yes|group=lower-alpha}} (stylized as fin fin: On TEO, the Magic Planet) is a 1996 computer game for Windows-based computers made by Fujitsu about a creature that is a hybrid of a bird and a dolphin which the user can communic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojo
Mojo may refer to: Mojo (African-American culture), a magical charm bag used in Hoodoo Arts, entertainment and media Film and television Mojo HD, an American television network Mojo (play), by Jez Butterworth Mojo (2017 film) Mojo Jojo, the main villain in The Powerpuff Girls Games Mojo (board game) Mojo!, a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20Born%20Kissers
"Natural Born Kissers" is the twenty-fifth and final episode of the ninth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 17, 1998. Homer and Marge discover that the fear of getting caught while making love is a turn on and start making ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%E2%80%93Weber%20precedence%20relationship
In computer science, a Wirth–Weber relationship between a pair of symbols is necessary to determine if a formal grammar is a simple precedence grammar. In such a case, the simple precedence parser can be used. The relationship is named after computer scientists Niklaus Wirth and Helmut Weber. The goal is to identify ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-pass%20compiler
In computer programming, a one-pass compiler is a compiler that passes through the parts of each compilation unit only once, immediately translating each part into its final machine code. This is in contrast to a multi-pass compiler which converts the program into one or more intermediate representations in steps betw...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple%20precedence%20parser
In computer science, a simple precedence parser is a type of bottom-up parser for context-free grammars that can be used only by simple precedence grammars. The implementation of the parser is quite similar to the generic bottom-up parser. A stack is used to store a viable prefix of a sentential form from a rightmost ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV2%20%28Canadian%20TV%20channel%29
MTV2 is a Canadian English language discretionary specialty channel focused on lifestyle and general entertainment programming aimed at youth and teen audiences. The channel is owned by Bell Media, with the MTV2 name and branding used under an agreement with the Paramount Networks Americas division of Paramount Global....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m%20Spelling%20as%20Fast%20as%20I%20Can
"I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can" is the twelfth episode of the fourteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 16, 2003, and was seen by around 22 million people during this broadcast. The episode is referred to as the 301...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.E.D%27oh
"C.E.D'oh" is the fifteenth episode of the fourteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 16, 2003. Plot A sleepy Marge is too tired on Valentine's Day to have sex with an eager and well-prepared Homer, who dejectedly leaves th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canoe.com
Canoe.com is an English-language Canadian portal site and website network, and is a subsidiary of Postmedia Network. The phrase Canadian Online Explorer appears in the header; the name is also evidently a play on words on canoe (or canoë in French). Canoe's head office is in Toronto at 333 King Street East. At launch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart%20the%20Lover
"Bart the Lover" is the 16th episode of the third season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 13, 1992. In the episode, Bart, playing a prank on his teacher Edna Krabappel, responds to her personal ad pretending to be a man named Woo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLAV
KLAV (1230 AM) is a commercial radio station located in Las Vegas, Nevada. Owned by Lotus Communications, the station airs a betting-focused all-sports radio format featuring programming from the locally-based Vegas Stats & Information Network and programming from SportsMap. Its studios are located in the unincorporate...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma%20%28disambiguation%29
Karma, in several Eastern religions, is the concept of "action" or "deed", understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect. Karma may also refer to: Computing KARMA attack, an attack capable of exploiting some WiFi systems Karma, a physics engine used in Unreal Engine 2 Karma, a trust metric i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPECint
SPECint is a computer benchmark specification for CPU integer processing power. It is maintained by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). SPECint is the integer performance testing component of the SPEC test suite. The first SPEC test suite, CPU92, was announced in 1992. It was followed by CPU95, CPU2...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil%20registration
Civil registration is the system by which a government records the vital events (births, marriages, and deaths) of its citizens and residents. The resulting repository or database has different names in different countries and even in different subnational jurisdictions. It can be called a civil registry, civil registe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBMDOS.COM
IBMDOS.COM is the filename of the DOS kernel. Loaded and initially invoked by the DOS BIOS in IBMBIO.COM during the boot process, it contains the hardware-independent parts of the operating system, including the embedded FAT12, FAT16 and, in newer versions, the FAT32 file system code, as well as the code to provide the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Genoa
Project Genoa was a software project commissioned by the United States' DARPA which was designed to analyze large amounts of data and metadata to help human analysts counter terrorism. Program synopsis Genoa's primary function was intelligence analysis in order to assist human analysts. The program was designed to su...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SX-Window
SX-Window is a graphic user interface (GUI) operating system for the Sharp X68000 series of computers, which were popular in Japan. It was first released in 1989 and had its last update in 1993.. It runs on top of the Human68k disk operating system, similarly to how Windows 3.1 runs on top of MS-DOS. History SX-Window...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish%20Meteorological%20Institute
The Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI; ; ) is the government agency responsible for gathering and reporting weather data and forecasts in Finland. It is a part of the Ministry of Transport and Communications but it operates semi-autonomously. The Institute is an impartial research and service organisation with exp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20Channel
Science Channel (often simply branded as Science; abbreviated to SCI) is an American pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The channel features programming focusing on science related to wilderness survival, engineering, manufacturing, technology, space, space exploration, ufology and prehistory. , ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband%20Global%20Area%20Network
The Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) is a global satellite network with telephony owned by Inmarsat using portable terminals. The terminals are normally used to connect a laptop computer to broadband Internet in remote locations, although as long as line-of-sight to the satellite exists, the terminal can be used ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20job%20entry
Remote job entry is the procedure for sending requests for non-interactive data processing tasks (jobs) to mainframe computers from remote workstations, and by extension the process of receiving the output from such jobs at a remote workstation. The RJE workstation is called a remote because it usually is located some...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temp
Temp or Temps may refer to: Temperature Weather, by association Temporary file, in computing Temporary folder Temporary variable Temp track, or temp score or temp music, audio used during editing of TV and film production Temp, a temporary worker, a person engaged in temporary work Temp., for tempore, denotin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata%20%28CLI%29
Metadata, in the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI), refers to certain data structures embedded within the Common Intermediate Language (CIL) code that describes the high-level structure of the code. Metadata describes all classes and class members that are defined in the assembly, and the classes and class members t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20702
The IBM 702 was an early generation tube-based digital computer produced by IBM in the early to mid-1950s. It was the company's response to Remington Rand's UNIVAC—the first mainframe computer to use magnetic tapes. As these machines were aimed at the business market, they lacked the leading-edge computational power o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telus%20Mobility
Telus Mobility (normally typeset as TELUS Mobility) is a Canadian wireless network operator and a division of Telus Communications which sells wireless services in Canada on its numerous networks. It operates 5G, LTE and HSPA+ on its mainstream networks. Telus Mobility is the second-largest wireless carrier in Canada, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisioning
Provisioning may refer to: Provisioning (technology), the equipping of a telecommunications network or IT resources Provisioning (cruise ship), supplying a vessel for an extended voyage Provisioning of USS Constitution Provisioning, forms of parental behavior in ethology and entomology Mass provisioning, in which...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen%20Gems%20Network
The Screen Gems Network (SGN) was an American afternoon television program which ran in syndication from September 20, 1999 to September 9, 2002, launched by Columbia TriStar Television Distribution and produced by Evolution Media. The concept for the program was announced on January 11, 1999 and it began airing on Sep...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20CAD%20Standard
The National CAD Standard (NCS) is a collaborative effort in the United States among computer-aided design (CAD) and building information modeling (BIM) users. Its goal is to create a unified approach to the creation of building design data. Development of the NCS is open to all building professionals in a collaborativ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%27s%20Sax
"Lisa's Sax" is the third episode of the ninth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 19, 1997, to overwhelmingly positive reviews. In the series' sixth flashback episode, it is explained how Lisa got her saxophone. The epis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended%20System%20Configuration%20Data
The Extended System Configuration Data (ESCD) is a specification for configuring x86 computers of the ISA PNP era. The specification was developed by Compaq, Intel and Phoenix Technologies. It consists of a method for storing configuration information in nonvolatile BIOS memory and three BIOS functions for working with...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SixDegrees.com
SixDegrees.com was a social network service website that initially lasted from 1997 to 2000 and was based on the Web of Contacts model of social networking. It was named after the concept of six degrees of separation and allowed users to list friends, family members and acquaintances whether registered on the site or n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachikoma
are fictional walker robots endowed with artificial intelligence (AI) that are featured in the Ghost in the Shell universe. They appear in the manga created by Masamune Shirow (as Fuchikoma) and in the Stand Alone Complex sub-universe. Nine of them are initially deployed to Section 9. They are spider-like, multi-legged...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitmap%20index
A bitmap index is a special kind of database index that uses bitmaps. Bitmap indexes have traditionally been considered to work well for low-cardinality columns, which have a modest number of distinct values, either absolutely, or relative to the number of records that contain the data. The extreme case of low cardina...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least%20mean%20squares%20filter
Least mean squares (LMS) algorithms are a class of adaptive filter used to mimic a desired filter by finding the filter coefficients that relate to producing the least mean square of the error signal (difference between the desired and the actual signal). It is a stochastic gradient descent method in that the filter is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive%20least%20squares%20filter
Recursive least squares (RLS) is an adaptive filter algorithm that recursively finds the coefficients that minimize a weighted linear least squares cost function relating to the input signals. This approach is in contrast to other algorithms such as the least mean squares (LMS) that aim to reduce the mean square error....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join%20selection%20factor
Within computing, author O'Connell defines join selection factor as "[t]he percentage (or fraction) of records in one file that will be joined with records of another file". This can be calculated when two database tables are to be joined. It is primarily concerned with query optimization. References Database algor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DED
Ded or DED may refer to: Ded (band), an American nu metal band from Tempe, Arizona Ded, Bishop of Vác, Hungarian 12th-century prelate Data element definition, associated with a data element within a data dictionary Dead End Derby, a roller derby league in Christchurch, New Zealand Death effector domain, a signall...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Homer%20They%20Fall
"The Homer They Fall" is the third episode of the eighth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 10, 1996. After Homer realizes he has a bizarre medical condition that renders him unable to be knocked out, Moe Szyslak convin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write%20once%20read%20many
Write once read many (WORM) describes a data storage device in which information, once written, cannot be modified. This write protection affords the assurance that the data cannot be tampered with once it is written to the device, excluding the possibility of data loss from human error, computer bugs, or malware. On ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Quest%20of%20Ki
is a 1988 video game developed by Game Studio and published by Namco for the Family Computer. It is the third game in Babylonian Castle Saga series which started with the 1984 arcade game, The Tower of Druaga. The game was ported to the Nintendo Switch in the Japanese game compilation Namcot Collection in August 2020,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini%20Office%20II
Mini Office II, published by Database Software in 1986, was an office suite available for several home computers, among which were the Amstrad CPC, the Atari 8-bit family, the BBC Micro, the Commodore 64, and others. The software package could be purchased on cassette tape or floppy disk. Mini Office II was originally ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APX
In computational complexity theory, the class APX (an abbreviation of "approximable") is the set of NP optimization problems that allow polynomial-time approximation algorithms with approximation ratio bounded by a constant (or constant-factor approximation algorithms for short). In simple terms, problems in this class...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Deep%20Thunder
Deep Thunder is a research project by IBM that aims to improve short-term local weather forecasting through the use of high-performance computing. It is part of IBM's Deep Computing initiative that also produced the Deep Blue chess computer. Deep Thunder is intended to provide local, high-resolution weather prediction...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%20Gazdar
Gerald James Michael Gazdar, FBA (born 24 February 1950) is a British linguist and computer scientist. Education He was educated at Heath Mount School, Bradfield College, the University of East Anglia (BA, 1970) and the University of Reading (MA, PhD). Career and research Gazdar was appointed a lecturer at the Univer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS%20Digital
NHS Digital is the trading name of the Health and Social Care Information Centre, which is the national provider of information, data and IT systems for commissioners, analysts and clinicians in health and social care in England, particularly those involved with the National Health Service of England. The organisation ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRED%20%28disk%20magazine%29
FRED was a disk-based magazine for the SAM Coupé brand of computer. It was owned and run by Colin Macdonald during the 1990s and lasted for 82 issues. References External links FRED Archive indexed with content information, screenshots and download links. Defunct computer magazines published in the United Kingdom D...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne%20Russell
Lynne Russell is an American journalist and author. She was the first woman to solo anchor a prime time network nightly newscast as the host of CNN Headline News from 1983 to 2001, as well as six years as co-host of The Week in Review with Bob Cain on CNN. Early life and education Russell was born in Orange, New Jerse...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Allen%20%28journalist%29
James Allen (born 5 November 1966) is a British former TV commentator and journalist, now President, Motorsport Business & F1 Liaison of Motorsport Network who worked as Formula One (F1) commentator for ITV from 2000 to 2008, and subsequently as BBC Radio 5 Live F1 commentator, BBC F1 Correspondent, Financial Times F1 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapor%20pressures%20of%20the%20elements%20%28data%20page%29
Vapor pressure Notes Values are given in terms of temperature necessary to reach the specified pressure. Valid results within the quoted ranges from most equations are included in the table for comparison. A conversion factor is included into the original first coefficients of the equations to provide the pressure ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APRN
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Family%20Channel
Black Family Channel (launched in 1999 as MBC Network) was an American cable television network which featured programming aimed at African-American audiences. The network's schedule included a variety of programs including religious programs, sports, music, talk shows, and children's programs. During much of the time...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Big%20Fat%20Geek%20Wedding
"My Big Fat Geek Wedding" is the seventeenth episode of the fifteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 18, 2004. The episode was originally planned to air on April 4, 2004, but due to the voice actors going on strike, Fox air...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikto
Nikto may refer to: Nikto (Star Wars), a fictional species in the Star Wars franchise Nikto (vulnerability scanner), computer security software "Klaatu barada nikto", a phrase from the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatribe%20of%20a%20Mad%20Housewife
"Diatribe of a Mad Housewife" is the tenth 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 25, 2004. Marge is inspired to write a romance novel, though after Homer hears rumors that Marge is secretly in love ...