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MIT License – Comparison to other licenses

The MIT License is similar to the 3-clause “modified” BSD license, except that the BSD license contains a notice prohibiting the use of the name of the copyright holder in promotion. This is sometimes present in versions of the MIT License, as noted above. The original BSD license also includes a clause requiring all advertising [...]

Bill Joy – Early career

After growing up in suburban Detroit, Michigan, Joy received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and his M.S. in EECS from UC Berkeley in 1979. Joy’s PhD advisor was Bob Fabry. As a UC Berkeley graduate student, Joy worked for Fabry’s Computer Systems Research Group CSRG in managing the BSD support [...]

PBKDF2 – Systems that use PBKDF2

*Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA and WPA2) used to secure Wi-Fi wireless networks *Microsoft Windows Data Protection API (DPAPI) *OpenDocument encryption used in OpenOffice.org *[http://www.zetetic.net/software/sqlcipher SQLCipher], an encrypted variant of SQLite *WinZip’s AES Encryption scheme. *JBoss Seam Framework JpaIdentityStore.generatePasswordHash (as of 2.1.2) *Grub 2, for password hashing. Disk encryption software *FileVault (Mac OS X) from Apple [...]

AMD Lance Am7990 – Uses

* Amiga 2065 the first Ethernet controller for Amiga computer family. Uses the Zorro-II bus interface and equipped with the NMOS Am7990 chip. * MicroVAX Q-Bus Ethernet controllers (like the DELQA). * DECstation 2100/3100 MIPS architecture motherboard Ethernet. * DEC 3000 AXP 64-bit Alpha AXP architecture motherboard. * Sun Microsystems Sun Hydra 3/80, SPARCstation 1, [...]

FreeBASIC – Introduction

FreeBASIC is a free/open source (GPL), 32-bit BASIC compiler for Microsoft Windows, protected-mode DOS (DOS extender), Linux, FreeBSD and Xbox. FreeBASIC allows a high level of support for programs written for QuickBASIC, by using the “QB” dialect. Many programs written for QuickBASIC will compile and run in this mode without any changes needed. However, most [...]

Wind River Systems – Products

VxWorks VxWorks is the original product of Wind River. It is a real-time operating system intended for embedded devices. It runs on many architectures, and supports features such as SMP, IPv6, TIPC and memory protection. Wind River Linux Wind River’s Linux product is source code and a build system that generate runtime images suitable for [...]

Gentoo Linux – History

Gentoo Linux was initially created by Daniel Robbins as the ”Enoch Linux” distribution. The goal was to create a distribution without precompiled binaries that was tuned to the hardware and only included required programs. At least one version of Enoch was distributed: version 0.75, in December 1999. Compilation issues revealed problems with the GNU Compiler [...]

Multipurpose Transaction Protocol – Compatibility

Because MTP/IP uses proprietary algorithms, compatible software must be installed on both ends of a communication path. Use of the UDP packet format permits compatibility with standard Internet Protocol (IP) network hardware and software. MTP/IP applications may use any available UDP port number. MTP and the applications which use it have been implemented for several [...]

Smalltalk YX – Availability

One of the goals of Smalltalk YX is to be very portable and to have the image to be compatible to all kind of systems. Currently tested platforms include: * Debian GNU/Linux (x64) * Gentoo Linux (x86, x64) * Slackware Linux 12.0 * Foresight Linux 1.4.1 * Arch Linux 2007.08-2 * Solaris 2.10 and 11 [...]

Lazarus (software) – Introduction

Lazarus is a free cross-platform IDE which provides a Delphi-mimic development experience for Pascal and Object Pascal developers. It is developed for, and supported by, the Free Pascal compiler. , Lazarus is available for Microsoft Windows, several Linux distributions, FreeBSD, as well as Mac OS X. The Lazarus project has an active community and a [...]

TIGCC – Related programming tools

There are tools which may aid programmers using TIGCC. * TiEmu is a m68k TI graphing calculator emulator. * TiLP is an alternative linking program to TI-Connect that works on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and on Mac OS X. * Virtual TI was the first TI graphing calculator emulator supporting the TI-89 and the TI-92 Plus, [...]

Page (computer memory) – Huge pages

Intel x86 supports 4MB pages (called Page Size Extension) (2MB pages if using PAE) in addition to its standard 4kB pages, and other architectures may often have similar features. IA-64 supports as many as eight different page sizes, from 4kB up to 256MB. This support for ”huge pages” (known as ”superpages” in FreeBSD, and ”large [...]

OpenVPN – Introduction

OpenVPN allows peers to authenticate each other using a pre-shared secret key, certificates, or username/password. When used in a multiclient-server configuration, it allows the server to release an authentication certificate for every client, using signature and Certificate authority. It uses the OpenSSL encryption library extensively, as well as the SSLv3/TLSv1 protocol, and contains many security [...]









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