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| Pretty Good Privacy Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is a computer program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication. PGP is often used for signing, encrypting and decrypting e-mails to increase the security of e-mail communications. It was originally created by Philip Zimmermann in 1991.PGP and other similar products follow the OpenPGP standard (RFC 4880) for encrypting and decrypting data. Pretty_Good_Privacy | |
| Pixies Pixies are an American rock band that formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1986. The band disbanded in 1993 under acrimonious circumstances but reunited in 2004. Black Francis, Joey Santiago, Kim Deal, and David Lovering have been the band's continual members. The Pixies found only modest success in their home country, but were significantly more successful in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe, although never achieving mainstream success with their studio albums. Pixies | |
| PlayStation PlayStation | |
| PowerPC PowerPC (short for Power Performance Computing, often abbreviated as PPC) is a RISC architecture created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM. Originally intended for personal computers, PowerPC CPUs have since become popular embedded and high-performance processors. PowerPC | |
| PlayStation 3 PlayStation_3 | |
| Richard Dawkins Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He was formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford and was a fellow of New College, Oxford.Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the term meme. Richard_Dawkins | |
| Red Hat Linux Red Hat Linux, assembled by the company Red Hat, was a popular Linux based operating system until its discontinuation in 2004.Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released on November 3, 1994. It was originally called "Red Hat Commercial Linux" It is the first Linux distribution to use the packaging system, the RPM Package Manager as its packaging format, and over time has served as the starting point for several other distributions, such as Mandriva Linux and Yellow Dog Linux. Red_Hat_Linux | |
| RSA Talk:RSA | |
| Scientology Talk:Scientology | |
| Sun Microsystems Sun_Microsystems | |
| Silicon Graphics Silicon_Graphics | |
| Sniper Sniper | |
| SMS Short Message Service (SMS) is a communication service standardized in the GSM mobile communication system, using standardized communications protocols allowing the interchange of short text messages between mobile telephone devices. SMS text messaging is the most widely used data application on the planet, with 2.4 billion active users, or 74% of all mobile phone subscribers sending and receiving text messages on their phones. SMS | |
| Principality of Sealand Principality of Sealand is a micronation located on HM Fort Roughs, a former World War II Maunsell Sea Fort in the North Sea 10Suffolk, England. Since 1967, the facility has been occupied by former radio broadcaster British Army Major Paddy Roy Bates; his associates and family claim that it is an independent sovereign state. Principality_of_Sealand | |
| Spyware Spyware is computer software that is installed surreptitiously on a personal computer to collect information about a user, their computer or browsing habits without the user's informed consent.While the term spyware suggests software that secretly monitors the user's behavior, the functions of spyware extend well beyond simple monitoring. Spyware | |
| Slobodan Milošević Slobodan Milošević, whose last family name sometimes is transliterated as Miloshevich ( ; Serbian Cyrillic:Požarevac, Yugoslavia – 11 March 2006, The Hague, Netherlands) was President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia. He served as the President of Serbia from 1989 until 1997 and as President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000. He also led the Socialist Party of Serbia from its foundation in 1990. Slobodan_Milošević | |
| Steve Ballmer Steven Anthony Ballmer (born March 24, 1956) is an American businessman who has been the chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation since January 2000. Ballmer is the second person after Roberto Goizueta to become a billionaire in U.S. dollars based on stock options received as an employee of a corporation in which he was neither a founder nor a relative of a founder. Steve_Ballmer | |
| The Texas Chain Saw Massacre The_Texas_Chain_Saw_Massacre | |
| Tape-out electronics design, tape-out or tapeout is the final stage of the design cycle of integrated circuits or printed circuit boards, the point at which the description of a circuit is sent for manufacture.The roots of the term are traced back to early techniques of printed circuit board design, when the enlarged (for higher precision) "artwork" of PCBs was manually "taped out" of tape and adhesive-covered PCB footprints on sheets of PET film. Tape-out | |
| Tandy Corporation Tandy Corporation was a family-owned leather goods company based in Fort Worth, Texas, which is best known for purchasing and giving its name to the Fort Worth, Texas-based RadioShack Corporation. Tandy was founded in 1919 as a leather supply store, and acquired RadioShack in 1963. The Tandy name was dropped in May 2000, when RadioShack Corporation was made the official name, apart from in the United Kingdom where the RadioShack name was already in use. Tandy_Corporation | |
| Vi vi is a family of screen-oriented text editors which share common characteristics, such as methods of invocation from the operating system command interpreter, and characteristic user interface features. The portable subset of the behavior of vi programs, and the ex editor language supported within these programs, is described by, and thus standardized by the Single Unix Specification and POSIX. Vi | |
| William Gibson William_Gibson | |
| Blog A blog (a contraction of the term "weblog") is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. Blog | |
| Windows XP Windows_XP | |
| Windows Media Audio Windows Media Audio (WMA) is an audio data compression technology developed by Microsoft. The name can be used to refer to its audio file format or its audio codecs. It is a proprietary technology that forms part of the Windows Media framework. WMA consists of four distinct codecs. Windows_Media_Audio | |
| XFree86 XFree86 is an implementation of the X Window System. It was originally written for Unix-like operating systems on IBM PC compatibles and is now available for many other operating systems and platforms. It is free and open source software under the XFree86 License version 1.1. It is developed by the XFree86 Project, Inc. The lead developer is David Dawes. The current version is 4.8.0. XFree86 | |
| X-Ray Spex X-Ray Spex are an English punk band from London that formed in 1976.During their first incarnation (1976 – 79), X-Ray Spex were “deliberate underachievers” and only managed to release five singles plus one album. Nevertheless, their first 45, Oh Bondage, Up Yours!, is now acknowledged as a classic punk rock single and the album, Germ Free Adolescents, is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest albums of all-time. X-Ray_Spex | |
| HP-UX HP-UX (Hewlett Packard UniX) is Hewlett-Packard's proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system, based on System V (initially System III). It runs on the HP 9000 PA-RISC-based range of processors and HP Integrity Intel's Itanium-based systems, and was also available for later Apollo/Domain systems. HP-UX | |
| Philip Pullman Philip Pullman CBE (born 19 October 1946) is an English writer. He is the best-selling author of His Dark Materials (a trilogy of fantasy novels), and a number of other books. Philip_Pullman | |
| Shawn Fanning Shawn "Napster" Fanning (born November 22, 1980, Brockton, Massachusetts), is a computer programmer. He is best known for developing Napster, the first popular peer-to-peer filesharing platform, in 1998. Shawn_Fanning | |
| Tru64 UNIX Tru64 UNIX is a 64-bit UNIX operating system for the Alpha instruction set architecture (ISA), currently owned by Hewlett-Packard (HP). Previously, Tru64 UNIX was a product of Compaq, and before that, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), where it was known as Digital UNIX (formerly DEC OSF/1 AXP). As its original name suggests, Tru64 UNIX is based on the OSF/1 operating system. DEC's previous UNIX product was known as Ultrix and was based on BSD UNIX. Tru64_UNIX | |
| Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 Regulation_of_Investigatory_Powers_Act_2000 | |
| Denial-of-service attack A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to carry out, motives for, and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of the concerted efforts of a person or persons to prevent an Internet site or service from functioning efficiently or at all, temporarily or indefinitely. root nameservers. Denial-of-service_attack | |
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| Freddie Mercury Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara) (5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991) was a British singer-songwriter, pianist and guitarist, best known as the frontman and co-founder of the rock band Queen (inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001). As a performer, he was known for his vocal prowess and flamboyant performances. Freddie_Mercury | |
| Vi Talk:Vi | |
| Tin foil hat A tin foil hat is a piece of headgear made from one or more sheets of aluminium foil or similar material. Alternatively it may be a conventional hat lined with foil. Some people wear the hats in the belief that they act to shield the brain from such influences as electromagnetic fields, or against mind control and/or mind reading.The concept of wearing a tin foil hat for protection from such threats has become a popular stereotype and term of derision; the phrase serves as a byword for paranoia and is associated with conspiracy theorists. Tin_foil_hat | |
| Ozone depletion Ozone depletion describes two distinct, but related observationsozone in Earth's stratosphere (ozone layer) since the late 1970s, and a much larger, but seasonal, decrease in stratospheric ozone over Earth's polar regions during the same period. The latter phenomenon is commonly referred to as the ozone hole. In addition to this well-known stratospheric ozone depletion, there are also tropospheric ozone depletion events, which occur near the surface in polar regions during spring. Ozone_depletion | |
| Independent Media Center Independent Media Center (aka Indymedia or IMC) is a global participatory network of journalists that report on political and social issues. It originated during the anti-WTO protests worldwide in 1999 and remains closely associated with the global justice movement, which criticizes neo-liberalism, and its associated institutions. Indymedia uses an open publishing and democratic media process that allows anybody to contribute. Independent_Media_Center | |
| Slough Slough (), situated west of Charing Cross, is a borough and unitary authority within the ceremonial county of Berkshire, England. At the time of the 2001 census, the population of Slough was 119,070 (est. 122,000 in 2006) and the borough area was the most ethnically diverse local authority area outside London in the United Kingdom. Slough | |
| Psion Organiser The Psion Organiser was the brand name of a range of Pocket Computer developed by the British company Psion (now Psion Teklogix) in the 1980s. The Organiser I (launched in 1984) and Organiser II (launched in 1986) had a characteristic hard plastic sliding cover protecting a 6x6 keyboard with letters arranged alphabetically. Psion_Organiser | |
| Psion Psion PLC () is a consumer hardware company that developed the Psion Organiser as well as a whole range of more advanced, clamshell-design Personal Digital Assistants. Psion is now focused, through its Psion Teklogix operation, on rugged mobile computing solutions. Its operations are based in Canada but its Head Office is in London. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. Psion | |
| Solaris (operating system) Solaris is a UNIX-based operating system introduced by Sun Microsystems in 1992 as the successor to SunOS.Solaris is known for its scalability, especially on SPARC systems, and for originating many innovative features such as DTrace and ZFS. Solaris supports SPARC-based and x86-based workstations and servers from Sun and other vendors, with efforts underway to port to additional platforms. Solaris_(operating_system) | |
| Advance-fee fraud An advance-fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance sums of money in the hope of realizing a significantly larger gain. Among the variations on this type of scam, are the Nigerian Letter (also called the 419 fraud, Nigerian scam, Nigerian bank scam, or Nigerian money offer), the Spanish Prisoner, the Black money scam as well as Russian/Ukrainian scam (also extremely widespread, though far less popular than the former). Advance-fee_fraud | |
| Cunt Cunt () is a vulgarism referring generally to the female genitalia, specifically the cleft of venus. The earliest citation of this usage in the Oxford English Dictionary, c London street known as Gropecunt Lane. Germaine Greer has said that "it is one of the few remaining words in the English language with a genuine power to shock." Cunt | |
| The Register The Register ("El Reg" to its staff and readers) is a British technology news and opinion website. It was founded by John Lettice and Mike Magee in 1994 as a newsletter called "Chip Connection", initially as an email service. Mike Magee left The Register in 2001 to start The Inquirer, and later the IT Examiner.The Register frequently uses sarcasm and satire in its articles, in the manner of the British satirical magazine Private Eye, and often provides an iconoclastic stance e.g. The_Register | |
| James T. Kirk James_T._Kirk | |
| All your base are belong to us All your base are belong to us" (often shortened to "All Your Base", "AYBABTU", or simply "AYB") is a broken English phrase that was central to an Internet phenomenon, or meme, in 2000-2002, with the spread of a Flash animation that depicted the slogan. The text is taken from the opening cut scene of the European Sega Mega Drive version of the video game Zero Wing, a Japanese video game by Toaplan which was poorly translated. All_your_base_are_belong_to_us | |
| Caesar cipher In cryptography, a Caesar cipher, also known as a Caesar's cipher, the shift cipher, Caesar's code or Caesar shift, is one of the simplest and most widely known encryption techniques. It is a type of substitution cipher in which each letter in the plaintext is replaced by a letter some fixed number of positions down the alphabet. For example, with a shift of 3, A would be replaced by D, B would become E, and so on. The method is named after Julius Caesar, who used it to communicate with his generals. Caesar_cipher | |
| Hybris (computer worm) Hybris, also known as Snow White, Vecna.22528, and Full Moon, is a computer worm believed to be written by Brazilian virus writer Vecna, member of the computer virus writing group 29A. It first appeared in September 2000 and became more common in January 2001.Hybris is probably best remembered for the e-mail it distributes itself in, typically coming from hahaha@sexyfun.net. Hybris_(computer_worm) |
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