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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 [...]

Concurrent Versions System – Features

CVS uses a client–server architecture: a server stores the current version(s) of a project and its history, and clients connect to the server in order to “check out” a complete copy of the project, work on this copy and then later “check in” their changes. Typically, the client and server connect over a LAN or [...]

Imeem – imeem technology

imeem is primarily written in C#; while most of the front-end web servers run under Windows, the rest of their servers run the Linux operating system. The website heavily uses Ajax and Flash to deliver the content and allow users to access it. Video and audio are both encoded as FLV files, audio is delivered [...]

Verdana – Legal restrictions and prevalence

Released in 1996, Verdana was bundled with subsequent versions of the Windows operating system, as well as their Office and Internet Explorer software on both Windows and Mac OS. In addition, it was long available for download from Microsoft’s web site allowing it to be used by any system supporting TrueType fonts. The downloadable file [...]

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 [...]

History of the graphical user interface – The 80s: Early commercial developments

Apple Lisa and Macintosh (and later, the Apple IIgs) Beginning in 1979, started by Steve Jobs and led by Jef Raskin, the Lisa and Macintosh teams at Apple Computer (which included former members of the Xerox PARC group) continued to develop such ideas. The Macintosh, released in 1984, was the first commercially successful product to [...]

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 [...]

Home directory – Introduction

Home directory is a file system directory on a multi-user operating system containing files for a given user of the system. The specifics of the home directory (such as its name and location) is defined by the operating system involved; for example, Windows systems between 2000 and 2003 keep home directories in a folder called [...]

Gordano Messaging Suite – Introduction

Gordano Messaging Suite (GMS) is a commercial mail and groupware server developed by Gordano Ltd. It runs on Windows, Linux, Solaris, and AIX. Originally called NTMail which was the first commercially available mail for the Windows platform, the products were rebranded to the Gordano Messaging Suite in August 2002 to reflect the support for additional [...]

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 [...]

Download.ject – Attack of June 23, 2004

Computer criminals placed Download.ject on financial and corporate websites running IIS 5.0 on Windows 2000, breaking in using a known vulnerability. (A patch existed for the vulnerability, but many administrators had not applied it.) The attack was first noticed June 23, although some researchers think it may have been in place as early as June [...]









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