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Single user mode – Mac OS X

Mac OS X users can accomplish this by holding down Command-S after powering the system. The user may be required to enter a password set in the firmware. Single User Mode is different from a Safe Mode boot in that the system goes directly to the console instead of starting up the core elements of [...]

Free software licence – Permissive versus Copyleft opinions

Many users and developers of BSD-based operating systems have a different position on licensing. The main difference is the belief that the copyleft licences, particularly the GNU General Public License (GPL), are undesirably complicated and/or restrictive. The GPL requires any derivative work that is released to be released according to the GPL while the BSD [...]

Gentoo/Alt – Gentoo for Mac OS X

Gentoo for Mac OS X was the first non-Linux project of Gentoo and focused on making the Gentoo experience available on Apple’s operating system by introducing the Portage system as a separate entity. This was roughly similar to Fink and Macports, but it used Portage instead of a Debian-like or Ports-like system. Later on, Gentoo [...]

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 [...]

ProvideX – Introduction

ProvideX is a computer language and development environment derived from Business Basic (a business oriented derivative of BASIC) in the mid-1980s. ProvideX is available on several operating systems (Unix/Linux/Windows/Mac OS X) and includes not only the programming language but also file system, presentation layer interface, and other components. The language is primarily designed for use [...]

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 [...]

Netpbm – Introduction

Netpbm is an open source package of graphics programs and a programming library, used mainly in the Unix world. It is a highly portable package, working under many Unix platforms, Windows, Mac OS X, VMS, Amiga OS and others and is included in all major open source Unix-like operating system distributions. Adapted from the Wikipedia [...]

ConcourseConnect – Software Requirements

The product is a pure-Java server-side web application and will run on any platform where Java (JDK 5 or better) is installed. *Operating Systems ** Microsoft Windows ** Linux, Solaris ** Mac OS X *Application Servers ** Apache Tomcat (5.5 or better recommended) *Databases ** Postgres (8.0 or better recommended) Adapted from the Wikipedia article [...]

Ioctl – Uses

Hardware device configuration The most common use of ioctls is to control hardware devices. For example, on Win32 systems, ioctl calls are used to communicate with USB devices, or to discover drive geometry information for attached storage devices. Ioctls are used on Unix systems to configure the network interfaces. For example, on BSD Unix systems [...]

Prelink – Introduction

prelink is a free program written by Jakub Jelínek of Red Hat for POSIX-compliant operating systems, principally Linux (because it modifies ELF executables). It is intended to speed up a system by reducing the time a program needs to begin. Actual results have been mixed, but it seems to aid systems with a large number [...]

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 [...]

Multi-touch – Software

Many recent operating systems support multitouch, including Mac OS X, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition and Ubuntu (since version 7.10), Samsung’s Bada, Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android, Palm’s webOS, Symbian ^3 OS, Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry OS 6.0, Xandros and Neprash Technology’s N-Touch Platform. Adapted from the Wikipedia article Multi-touch, under [...]

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 [...]









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