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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMNET
SIMNET was a wide area network with vehicle simulators and displays for real-time distributed combat simulation: tanks, helicopters and airplanes in a virtual battlefield. SIMNET was developed for and used by the United States military. SIMNET development began in the mid-1980s, was fielded starting in 1987, and was ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nethergate
Nethergate is a computer-based historical fantasy role-playing game published by Spiderweb Software for the Macintosh and Microsoft Windows platforms. The game was released in 1998 by Jeff Vogel, and was Spiderweb Software's first game to feature a 45° isometric viewing angle. Nethergate offers players the choice to pl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzzle%20Velocity%20%28video%20game%29
Muzzle Velocity is a computer wargame released by Digi4fun in 1997. The program is a hybrid of standard two-dimension map-based tactical gaming, and first-person action. It is set in World War II. The game was developed by Code Fusion and Digi4Fun. Development The game was in development for two years. Reception Co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communities%20%28magazine%29
Communities: Life in Cooperative Culture is a quarterly magazine published by the Global Ecovillage Network - United States. It is a primary resource for information, issues, and ideas about intentional communities in North America. Articles and columns cover practical "how-to" issues of community living as well as pe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell%20Eastlake
Darrell Eastlake (11 July 1942 – 19 April 2018) was an Australian radio and television presenter, commentator and sports journalist, best known for his long association with the Nine Network. Prior to his media career, Eastlake worked as a Qantas baggage handler, before making surfboards and running a surf shop. His ca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Gossage
Tim Gossage (born 27 February 1965, in Perth) is an Australian sports commentator and Australian rules football coach based in Perth, Western Australia. Media Gossage joined Network 10 in Perth in 1990. During his time at Ten, he'd featured on the network's Melbourne Cup Coverage & an AFL commentator or boundary ride...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finalize%20%28optical%20discs%29
Finalizing (also spelled finalising) an optical disc is the process of writing out support data such as DVD menus, directory data, and the like to an optical disc in order to make it playable on a system other than the one it was recorded on. As a general rule, finalization means that the disc cannot have any additiona...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20French%20Democracy
The French Democracy is a 2005 English-language French short political film made by Alex Chan using computer animation from Lionhead Studios' 2005 business simulation game The Movies. The plot centers on three Moroccan men who turn to rioting after facing different forms of discrimination. Chan, a French native of Chin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt%20RaQ
The Cobalt RaQ is a 1U rackmount server product line developed by Cobalt Networks, Inc. (later purchased by Sun Microsystems) featuring a modified Red Hat Linux operating system and a proprietary GUI for server management. The original RaQ systems were equipped with MIPS RM5230 or RM5231 CPUs but later models used AMD ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybris
Hybris may refer to: Hybris or hubris, exaggerated self pride Hybris (mythology), a Greek spirit (or god) of insolence 430 Hybris, a typical Main belt asteroid Computing hybris (company), a software products company Hybris (video game), a 1987 computer video game Hybris (software), a compatibility layer for Lin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rouge%20FM
Rouge FM is a network of French-language adult contemporary radio stations broadcasting throughout Quebec, Canada. Established in 1990 as RockDétente, they are owned by Bell Media. All "Rouge FM" stations broadcast in the same markets as Bell's mainstream rock network, Énergie, although Énergie also has a few stations...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML%20for%20Analysis
XML for Analysis (XMLA) is an industry standard for data access in analytical systems, such as online analytical processing (OLAP) and data mining. XMLA is based on other industry standards such as XML, SOAP and HTTP. XMLA is maintained by XMLA Council with Microsoft, Hyperion and SAS Institute being the XMLA Council f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHL%20on%20Fox
The NHL on Fox is the branding used for broadcasts of National Hockey League (NHL) games that were produced by Fox Sports and televised on the Fox network from the 1994–1995 NHL season until the 1998–1999 NHL season. NHL games continued to air on the Fox Sports Networks in the form of regional game telecasts until the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taonui%20Branch
The Taonui Branch was a minor branch line railway in New Zealand's national network. Located in the Manawatū District of the North Island, it opened in 1879 and operated until 1895. Construction In the late 1870s, sleepers were needed for the Foxton & Wanganui Railway (later the Wanganui Branch, the now-closed Foxton...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%20Temptation%20of%20Homer
"The Last Temptation of Homer" is the ninth 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 December 9, 1993. In the episode, an attractive female employee named Mindy is hired at the nuclear power plant. Homer and Mindy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaurote
Amaurote is a British video game for 8-bit computer systems that was released in 1987 by Mastertronic on their Mastertronic Added Dimension label. The music for the game was written by David Whittaker. Plot From the game's instructions: The city of Amaurote has been invaded by huge, aggressive insects who have built ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigation%20Discovery%20%28Latin%20American%20TV%20channel%29
Investigation Discovery (Investigação Discovery in Brazil) (stylized as ID since 2020) is a television channel in Latin America dedicated to crime- and investigation-themed programming, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery History The channel was launched in October 1997 as the local version of Travel Channel. After the pu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level%20%28magazine%29
Level is a computer and video games magazine originating in the Czech Republic with branches in Romania and Turkey. These three brother divisions occasionally exchange content. In addition to publishing the magazine, Level also organizes many yearly gaming competitions for players in two of the countries (Romania's pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaging%20spectroscopy
In imaging spectroscopy (also hyperspectral imaging or spectral imaging) each pixel of an image acquires many bands of light intensity data from the spectrum, instead of just the three bands of the RGB color model. More precisely, it is the simultaneous acquisition of spatially coregistered images in many spectrally co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox%20NoteTaker
The Xerox NoteTaker is a portable computer developed at Xerox PARC in Palo Alto, California, in 1978. Although it did not enter production, and only around ten prototypes were built, it strongly influenced the design of the later Osborne 1 and Compaq Portable computers. Development The NoteTaker was developed by a tea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat%20poison%20%28disambiguation%29
Rat poison is a pest control chemical for killing rodents. Rat poison may also refer to: ratpoison, a computer program Rat Poison, a remix of "Poison" (The Prodigy song)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sting%20%28Futurama%29
"The Sting" is the twelfth episode in the fourth season of the American animated television series Futurama, and the 66th episode of the series overall. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on June 1, 2003. In the episode, the Planet Express crew is sent to collect space honey, and find themselv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Connolly%20%28computer%20scientist%29
Dan Connolly (born 1967) is an American computer scientist who was closely involved with the creation of the World Wide Web as a member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Early years and education Connolly was born in 1967 and grew up with four siblings in Prairie Village, in the Kansas City metropolitan area, wh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20One%20with%20the%20Cat
"The One with the Cat" is the second episode of Friends fourth season. It first aired on the NBC network in the United States on October 2, 1997. Plot Tired of having to turn sideways every time he enters or leaves his bedroom or risk getting his clothes ripped, Chandler suggests he and Joey sell the entertainment cen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit%20dummy%20force%20method
The Unit dummy force method provides a convenient means for computing displacements in structural systems. It is applicable for both linear and non-linear material behaviours as well as for systems subject to environmental effects, and hence more general than Castigliano's second theorem. Discrete systems Consider a d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property%20equivalence
In metadata, property equivalence is the statement that two properties have the same property extension or values. This usually (but not always) implies that the two properties have the same semantics or meaning. Technically it only implies that the data elements have the same values. Property equivalence is one of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Gadgets
Microsoft Gadgets are lightweight single-purpose applications, or software widgets, that can sit on a Microsoft Windows user's computer desktop, or are hosted on a web page. According to Microsoft, it will be possible for the different types of gadgets to run on different environments without modification, but this is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playmen%20TV
Playmen TV is a Canadian English language specialty channel. It is a premium adult entertainment television channel aimed at gay men, with programming consisting mainly of adult films and adult-related television series. Playmen TV's licensee is 4510810 Canada Inc. which is wholly owned by Fifth Dimension Properties I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank%20Asher
Hank Asher (May 9, 1951 – January 11, 2013) was a businessman who founded several data fusion and data mining companies that compile information about companies, individuals and their interrelationships from thousands of different electronic databases. He was known by industry insiders as "the father of data fusion." ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%20Window%20authorization
In the X Window System, programs run as X clients, and as such they connect to the X display server, possibly via a computer network. Since the network may be accessible to other users, a method for forbidding access to programs run by users different from the one who is logged in is necessary. There are five standard...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navteq
Navteq (styled as 'NAVTEQ') was an American Chicago-based provider of geographic information system (GIS) data and a major provider of base electronic navigable maps. The company was acquired by Nokia in 2007–2008, and fully merged into Nokia in 2011 to form part of the Here business unit. The unit was subsequently sol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow%20White%20design%20language
The Snow White design language is an industrial design language which was developed by Hartmut Esslinger's Frog Design. Used by Apple Computer from 1984 to 1990, the scheme has vertical and horizontal stripes for decoration, ventilation, and to create the illusion that the computer enclosure is smaller than it actually...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%20Kreiter
Ann Kreiter (formerly Ann Werner) is a studio host for the Big Ten Network, which she joined when that network was launched in 2007. Personal Kreiter is a native of Wisconsin. She graduated from Northwestern University in 1993. Career Kreiter began her career working at stations in La Crosse, Wisconsin and Green Bay,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal%20Halpin
Hal Halpin (born September 1, 1969) is an American computer game executive and entrepreneur, and is the president and founder of the Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA). Background Halpin is perhaps best known as the founder of the US video game industry's retail trade association, Interactive Entertainment Merc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanson%20Tramway
The Sanson Tramway in the Manawatu region of New Zealand operated from 1885 until 1945. Owned by the Manawatu County Council, it connected with the national railway network at Himatangi on the Foxton Branch. It was never part of the national network. Construction After the construction of a tramway (later upgraded to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauldron%20%28video%20game%29
Cauldron is a video game developed and published by British developer Palace Software in 1985 for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and Amstrad CPC home computer. It contains both platform game and horizontally scrolling shooter sections. Players control a witch who aims to become the "Witch Queen" by defeating the "Pumpk...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole%20pour%20l%27informatique%20et%20les%20techniques%20avanc%C3%A9es
The École Pour l'Informatique et les Techniques Avancées (), more commonly known as EPITA, is a private French grande école specialized in the field of computer science and software engineering created in 1984 by Patrice Dumoucel. It is a private engineering school, member of IONIS Education Group since 1994, accredite...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baillie%E2%80%93PSW%20primality%20test
The Baillie–PSW primality test is a probabilistic or possibly deterministic primality testing algorithm that determines whether a number is composite or is a probable prime. It is named after Robert Baillie, Carl Pomerance, John Selfridge, and Samuel Wagstaff. The Baillie–PSW test is a combination of a strong Fermat p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20One%20with%20the%20Halloween%20Party
"The One with the Halloween Party" is the sixth episode of Friends eighth season. It first aired on the NBC network in the United States on November 1, 2001. Phoebe Buffay's actor Lisa Kudrow said in 2014 that it is her favorite Friends episode, for several reasons. She said "number one was it was the first show we sh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster%27s%20reactance%20theorem
Foster's reactance theorem is an important theorem in the fields of electrical network analysis and synthesis. The theorem states that the reactance of a passive, lossless two-terminal (one-port) network always strictly monotonically increases with frequency. It is easily seen that the reactances of inductors and cap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk%20data%20format
The SNIA common RAID disk data format (DDF) defines a standard data structure describing how data is formatted across disks in a RAID group. The DDF structure allows a basic level of interoperability between different suppliers of RAID technology. The common RAID DDF structure benefits storage users by enabling in-plac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outram%20Branch
The Outram Branch was a branch line railway near Dunedin, Otago, that operated from 1877 to 1953 and formed part of New Zealand's national rail network. Construction The line was built at the urgings of local residents in and around Outram, even though there was little promise of traffic to actually justify the line'...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Day%20the%20Violence%20Died
"The Day the Violence Died" is the eighteenth episode of the seventh season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 17, 1996. It was written by John Swartzwelder and directed by Wes Archer. Kirk Douglas guest stars as Chester J. Lampw...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DotComGuy
Mitch Maddox is a computer systems manager and former Internet personality. In a promotion for several Internet companies, he changed his name to DotComGuy and lived the entire year of 2000 in his house in Dallas, Texas, buying all food and other necessities online. Video from the house was streamed on the dotcomguy.co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISCSI%20Management%20API
In the field of storage area networks, the iSCSI Management API (IMA) is a SNIA's standard for managing both iSCSI initiators and hosts containing them. References SCSI Storage area networks fr:ISCSI Management API
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Query%20Management%20Facility
IBM Db2 Query Management Facility (QMF) for z/OS is business analytics software developed by IBM. It was originally created to be the reporting interface for the IBM Db2 for z/OS database and is used to generate reports for business decisions. In its inception QMF's reports were "green-screen" reports that could be ac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska%20Press%20Club
The Alaska Press Club is a network of journalists and media in Alaska. The club holds an annual journalism conference and awards banquet in Anchorage, Alaska, known as J-Week. The organization also awards scholarships to individuals. The club was incorporated in 1951. The club consists of several hundred members and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLNV
KLNV (106.5 FM, "Que Buena 106.5") is a Regional Mexican radio station broadcasting to the San Diego metropolitan area. It is owned by TelevisaUnivision, and is a part of the Uforia Audio Network. Studios are located on West Broadway in San Diego, with its antenna located near 60th Street and Tooley Street in San Diego...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne%20tram%20route%2078
Melbourne tram route 78 is operated by Yarra Trams on the Melbourne tram network from North Richmond to Balaclava. The 6.5 kilometre route is operated out of Kew depot with A class trams. History A section of Chapel Street was first served by a cable tram line opened in 1888, which ran from Brighton Road to Toorak Roa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne%20tram%20route%2079
Melbourne tram route 79 was operated by Yarra Trams on the Melbourne tram network from North Richmond to St Kilda Beach. The 7.5 kilometre route was operated out of Glenhuntly depot with Z and A class trams. Operated after 19:00 as an extended version of route 78, it was one of the few Melbourne tram routes that did n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%203705%20Communications%20Controller
The IBM 3705 Communications Controller is a simple computer which attaches to an IBM System/360 or System/370. Its purpose is to connect communication lines to the mainframe channel. It was a first communications controller of the popular IBM 37xx series. It was announced in March 1972. Designed for semiconductor memo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20computer%20worms
See also Timeline of notable computer viruses and worms Comparison of computer viruses List of trojan horses References Computer worms Worms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right%20Stuf
Right Stuf Inc. (formerly known as The Right Stuf International Inc.) was an American video publisher and distributor of video programming that specializes in Asian entertainment (anime and live action films). The company has been operated by Crunchyroll LLC since 2022 through a joint venture run by Sony through its So...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngapara%20and%20Tokarahi%20Branches
The Ngapara and Tokarahi Branches were two connected railway branch lines in northern Otago, New Zealand, part of the national rail network. The Ngapara Branch opened in 1877 and almost all of it closed in 1959; the remaining few kilometres, called the Waiareka Industrial Line, were removed in 1997. The Tokarahi Bran...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ArenaBowl%20broadcasters
The following is a list of the television networks and announcers that have broadcast the ArenaBowl over the years. 2010s Source: Notes The Arena Football League took a one-year hiatus in 2009, but returned in time for the 2010 season with a reformed business model. The AFL signed a one-year deal with the NFL Networ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20tabletop%20role-playing%20games
This is a list of notable tabletop role-playing games. It does not include computer role-playing games, MMORPGs, play-by-mail/email games, or any other video games with RPG elements. Most of these games are tabletop role-playing games; other types of games are noted as such where appropriate. 0-9 A B C D E F G...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Continuous%20Simulation%20Language
The Advanced Continuous Simulation Language, or ACSL (pronounced "axle"), is a computer language designed for modeling and evaluating the performance of continuous systems described by time-dependent, nonlinear differential equations. Like SIMCOS and TUTSIM, ACSL is a dialect of the Continuous System Simulation Languag...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norpak
Norpak Corporation was a company headquartered in Kanata, Ontario, Canada, that specialized in the development of systems for television-based data transmission. In 2010, it was acquired by Ross Video Ltd. of Iroquois and Ottawa, Ontario. Norpak developed the NABTS (North American Broadcast Teletext Standard) protocol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methven%20Branch
The Methven Branch was a branch line railway that was part of New Zealand's national rail network in Canterbury. It opened in 1880 and operated until 1976. Construction In 1877, the District Railways Act was passed to enable districts to construct railway lines whose construction would not be financed by the governme...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSTN
GSTN may refer to: General Switched Telephone Network Goods and Services Tax Network, an Indian not-for-profit, non-government firm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Richardson%20%28Australian%20journalist%29
David Richardson is an Australian journalist who has been with the Seven Network for more than 30 years, 23 years with Today Tonight. As a senior investigative journalist he has broken numerous stories as well as covering national and international events. He now leads a small team from Sydney for Today Tonight. Early...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLH%20Orion
The Orion was a series of 32-bit super-minicomputers designed and produced in the 1980s by High Level Hardware Limited (HLH), a company based in Oxford, UK. The company produced four versions of the machine: The original Orion, sometimes referred to as the "Microcodeable Orion". The Orion 1/05, in which the microcod...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taito%20Type%20X
The Taito Type X is an arcade system board released in 2004 by game developer and publisher Taito. Based on commodity personal computer hardware architecture, Type X is not a specification for a single set of hardware, but rather a modular platform supporting multiple hardware configurations with different levels of g...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure%20Mountain
Treasure Mountain may refer to: Treasure Mountain!, a computer game Treasure Mountain (Colorado), a mountain peak See also Monte Tesoro Treasure Hill Treasure Hill (White Pine County, Nevada)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux%20Game%20Publishing
Linux Game Publishing (sometimes also referred to as LGP) was a software company based in Nottingham in England. It ported, published and sold video games running on Linux operating systems. As well as porting games, LGP also sponsored the development of Grapple, a free software network library for games. As well as ac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20state%20machine
The algorithmic state machine (ASM) is a method for designing finite state machines (FSMs) originally developed by Thomas E. Osborne at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) since 1960, introduced to and implemented at Hewlett-Packard in 1968, formalized and expanded since 1967 and written about by Christopher R...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20access%20network
A radio access network (RAN) is part of a mobile telecommunication system implementing a radio access technology (RAT). Conceptually, it resides between a device such as a mobile phone, a computer, or any remotely controlled machine and provides connection with its core network (CN). Depending on the standard, mobile p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claris%20Organizer
Claris Organizer is a personal information management (PIM) computer program for the classic Mac OS that Claris acquired from a small company called Trio Development and sold during the 1990s. Trio Development was founded by James Harker, Jack Welde and Joseph Ansanelli, afterward joined by Seth Odam. It was sold to P...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish%20Chess%20Computer%20Association
The Swedish Chess Computer Association (, SSDF) is an organization that tests computer chess software by playing chess programs against one another and producing a rating list. On September 26, 2008, the list was released with Deep Rybka 3 leading with an estimated Elo rating of 3238. Rybka's listing in June 2006 was t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSDF
SSDF can refer to: Swedish Chess Computer Association Somali Salvation Democratic Front South Sudan Defense Forces, a rival group to the Sudan People's Liberation Army
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Round%20Springfield
"Round Springfield" is the twenty-second episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 30, 1995. In the episode, Bart is hospitalized after eating a piece of jagged metal in his Krusty-O's cereal and sues Krusty ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Peyton%20Jones
Simon Peyton Jones (born 18 January 1958) is a British computer scientist who researches the implementation and applications of functional programming languages, particularly lazy functional programming. Education Peyton Jones graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Fair%20Laddy
"My Fair Laddy" is the twelfth episode of the seventeenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 26, 2006. This is the first episode that centers on Groundskeeper Willie. The title and plot are based on the Broadway musical and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86%20memory%20models
In computing, the x86 memory models are a set of six different memory models of the x86 CPU operating in real mode which control how the segment registers are used and the default size of pointers. Memory segmentation Four registers are used to refer to four segments on the 16-bit x86 segmented memory architecture. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%206847
The MC6847 is a Video Display Generator (VDG) first introduced by Motorola in 1978 and used in the TRS-80 Color Computer, Dragon 32/64, Laser 200, TRS-80 MC-10/Matra Alice, NEC PC-6000 series, Acorn Atom, and the APF Imagination Machine, among others. It is a relatively simple display generator compared to other displa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20Mortgage%20Disclosure%20Act
The Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (or HMDA, pronounced ) is a United States federal law that requires certain financial institutions to provide mortgage data to the public. Congress enacted HMDA in 1975. Purposes HMDA grew out of public concern over credit shortages in certain urban neighborhoods. Congress believed th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer%20Loves%20Flanders
"Homer Loves Flanders" is the sixteenth 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 March 17, 1994. In the episode, Ned Flanders invites Homer to a football game and the two become good friends. However, Ned soon gro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point%20code
An SS7 point code is similar to an IP address in an IP network. It is a unique address for a node (Signaling Point, or SP), used in MTP layer 3 to identify the destination of a message signal unit (MSU). In such a message, you will find an OPC (Originating Point Code) and a DPC (Destination Point Code); sometimes doc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotives%20of%20New%20Zealand
Locomotives of New Zealand is a complete list of all locomotive classes that operate or have operated in New Zealand's railway network. It does not include locomotives used on bush tramways. All New Zealand's main-line locomotives run on a narrow gauge of 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm). Early locomotives The first locomotive ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintipartite%20Deed
{ "type": "ExternalData", "service": "page", "title": "West and East Jersey Dividing Lines.map" } The Quintipartite Deed was a legal document that split the Province of New Jersey, dividing it into the Province of West Jersey and the Province of East Jersey from 1674 until 1702. On July 1, 1676, William Penn, G...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Edinburgh
Edinburgh is a major transport hub in east central Scotland and is at the centre of a multi-modal transport network with road, rail and air communications connecting the city with the rest of Scotland and internationally. Transport is an area under the control of the Scottish Parliament and Scottish Government who hav...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%20Chuvakin
Anton Chuvakin is a computer security specialist, currently a Research Director at Gartner for Technical Professionals (GTP) Security and Risk Management Strategies (SRMS) team. Formerly he was a principal at Security Warrior Consulting. Previous positions included roles of a Director of PCI Compliance Solutions at Q...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z4
The term/code Z4 has several uses, including the following: Z4 (computer), the first computer in the world to actually be sold in 1950 Z-4 plan, a plan that was meant to stop the Croatian War of Independence in 1994 BMW Z4, a BMW sports car model Hafdasa Z-4, an Argentine submachine gun German destroyer Z4 Richar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Tube%20Music%20Network
The Tube Music Network, Inc., or The Tube, was an American digital multicast television network. The network was a fully owned subsidiary of The Tube Media Corp., an independent company that was founded by David Levy in 2003. The Tube focused classic and modern music videos in a format similar to the original format of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Panel%20%28Irish%20TV%20series%29
The Panel is a talk show produced by Happy Endings Productions for RTÉ, based on the Australian programme The Panel, produced by Working Dog Productions for Network Ten. The theme song was "Waterfall" by The Stone Roses. Until 2006 it was hosted by Dara Ó Briain. Ó Briain, having presented Echo Island, came to popular...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush%20%28American%20game%20show%29
Crush is a game show which aired on USA Network from March to August 2000. The series was also broadcast in Canada on YTV's teen-oriented "Limbo" block. It was hosted by Andrew Krasny and was known as "The show that begs for an answer to the question, "Should friends try love?". External links Official Website (via I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMCC
MMCC may refer to: Margaret Morrison Carnegie College Mid Michigan Community College Multinational Medical Coordination Centre, to coordinate e Mountfitchet Maths and Computing College, a former school in Stansted Mountfitchet, now Forest Hall School Mobile Multi-Coloured Composite, 2D colour barcode 2200 in Roma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal%20instruction%20set%20computer
Minimal instruction set computer (MISC) is a central processing unit (CPU) architecture, usually in the form of a microprocessor, with a very small number of basic operations and corresponding opcodes, together forming an instruction set. Such sets are commonly stack-based rather than register-based to reduce the size ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq%20Deskpro
The Compaq Deskpro is a line of business-oriented desktop computers manufactured by Compaq, then discontinued after the merger with Hewlett-Packard. Models were produced containing microprocessors from the 8086 up to the x86-based Intel Pentium 4. History Deskpro (8086) and Deskpro 286 The original Compaq Deskpro (re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor%20Trend%20%28TV%20network%29
Motor Trend is an American sports television network owned by Motor Trend Group, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery through its sports unit. It primarily broadcasts automotive-themed programming, including motorsports events. It was originally founded in 2002 as Discovery HD Theater (later HD Theater), the first 2...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Prison%20Break%20episodes
Prison Break is an American serial drama television series that premiered on the Fox network on August 29, 2005, and finished its fifth season on May 30, 2017. The series was simulcast on Global in Canada, and broadcast in dozens of countries worldwide. Prison Break is produced by Adelstein-Parouse Productions, in asso...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Roberts%20%28footballer%29
Michael Roberts (born 27 July 1959) is a former Australian rules footballer and now television sports journalist and reporter with the Nine Network and Triple M. Football career Roberts was recruited from Beaumaris, Victoria, and is the son of former St Kilda Football Club great Neil Roberts. He made his debut with S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC%201050
The UNIVAC 1050 was a variable word-length (one to 16 characters) decimal and binary computer. It was initially announced in May 1962 as an off-line input-output processor for larger UNIVAC systems. Instructions were fixed length (30 bits – five characters), consisting of a five-bit "op code", a three-bit index regis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FanDuel%20Racing
FanDuel Racing (formerly TVG2 and HRTV) is an American sports-oriented digital cable and satellite television network. It is part of the TVG Network and is owned by Paddy Power Betfair. Dedicated to horse racing, it broadcasts events from U.S. and international racetracks, as well as a range of English and Western hor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FanDuel%20TV
FanDuel TV (formerly TVG) is an American sports betting-oriented digital cable and satellite television network owned by FanDuel Group, the U.S. subsidiary of Irish bookmaker Flutter Entertainment. It primarily airs live coverage of U.S. and international horse racing as well as studio shows focused on mainstream sport...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNC%20%28disambiguation%29
CNC typically refers to computer numerical control, the automated control of machining tools by computer. CNC or cnc may also refer to: Companies China Netcom, a Chinese telecommunications provider China Xinhua News Network Corporation, state-run television news channel in China aimed at a foreign audience Communi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butadiene%20%28data%20page%29
Butadiene Chemical data pages cleanup
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vmstat
vmstat (virtual memory statistics) is a computer system monitoring tool that collects and displays summary information about operating system memory, processes, interrupts, paging and block I/O. Users of vmstat can specify a sampling interval which permits observing system activity in near-real time. The vmstat tool i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iostat
iostat (input/output statistics) is a computer system monitor tool used to collect and show operating system storage input and output statistics. It is often used to identify performance issues with storage devices, including local disks, or remote disks accessed over network file systems such as NFS. It can also be us...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHL%20on%20NBC
The NHL on NBC is an American presentation of National Hockey League (NHL) games produced by NBC Sports, and televised on NBC properties, including MSNBC, CNBC, Golf Channel, USA Network and NBCSN in the United States. While NBC covered the league at various points in its history, the network's last relationship with ...