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| | Hexapedia - System call |
 | | On Posix and similar systems, popular system calls are for example: close, execve, fork, kill, open, read, wait, write | | | In computing, a system call is the mechanism used by an application program to request service from the operating system. | | | System calls often use a special machine code instruction which causes the processor to change mode (e.g. |
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http://www.hexafind.com/encyclopedia/system_call
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| | TekTone CM800 Emergency Call System |
| | To save a file on your computer to open later, right-click on its link and choose "Save Target As" (in Internet Explorer) or "Save Link As" (in Netscape). | | | The system visually and audibly annunciates mechanically latched dry contact switches for apartment buildings, schools, court rooms, etc. The annunciators may be used as remote extensions for other system, or build a stand-alone emergency call system by adding pull-cord or push-button switches. | | | The CM800 Emergency Call System is a modular annunciator system suitable for emergency call, security alarm, and equipment monitoring. |
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http://www.tektone.net/cm800.htm#install
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| | xic2.5.38 |
| | The script can call functions that have been previously defined in a regular library file. | | | When set, Xic and WRspice (next release) will use the system memory allocator and not the one supplied in Xic/WRspice. | | | When the script is executed, 1) The "standard output" is to the file being generated, and not to the console window as for normal execution. |
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http://www.wrcad.com/xic_docs/xic2.5.38
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| | Welcome to Teacher's@ssistant.com |
| | Systems are designed to open standards so your investment is protected from proprietary inflexibility and expense when requiring system upgrades. | | | The system supports a custom call routing tree of 11* 49 levels. | | | The system is easy to use for both the teacher’s and the students or their parents while at the same time keeping the lines of communication open between these groups of very busy people. |
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http://www.ssistant.com/teachers.htm
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| | Massachusetts mandates open-format docs, edges toward Linux |
| | Quinn said the state runs a "vast majority" of its office and system computers on Windows and that "only a very small percentage of them run Linux and other open source software at this time. | | | The state of Massachusetts will revamp its digital output during the next 16 months to create only open-format documents and is increasing its use of Linux and free and open source software (FOSS) among its workers, the state's chief information officer told DesktopLinux.com Thursday in a conference call. | | | CIO Peter Quinn challenged Microsoft and other companies who sell software that uses proprietary document formats to consider enabling open-format options as soon as possible. |
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3926478427.html
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| | Speech recognition -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | Furthermore, open-ended questions used by such systems encourage callers to speak quickly and be creative in their responses in a way that often makes it difficult for computers to understand what they mean. | | | If a system is well-designed and is repeatedly unable to understand the user (typically due to the caller misunderstanding the question, having a thick accent, mumbling, or speaking over a large amount of background noise or interference), it should fall back to some other input method or transfer the call to an operator. | | | For example, recognition systems optimized for telephone applications can often supply information about the confidence of a particular recognition, and if the confidence is low, it can trigger the application to prompt callers to confirm or repeat their request (for example "I heard you say 'billing', is that right?"). |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/s/sp/speech_recognition.htm
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| | Text/Relational Database Management System Project |
| | We concurrently developed a prototype distributed federated database system which allows data accessed via the Oracle (Oracle) Relational Database System, the DB2 (IBM) Relational Database System, the SearchServer (Fulcrum) Text Engine, and the Pat (Open Text) Text Engine to be integrated. | | | Fulcrum Technologies Inc., Systèmes Grafnetix Systems Inc., InContext Corporation, Dataware Technologies Inc., Open Text Corporation, Public Sector Systems Ltd., and SoftQuad Inc. were the other members of this consortium, which disbanded in 1997. | | | Kar Yan Ng, ``The Use of a Combined Text/Relational Database System to support Document Management,'' Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Technical Report |
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http://db.uwaterloo.ca/OED/trdbms.html
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| | Accelr8 Open Libr8 Technical Paper |
| | Accelr8's Open LIBR8 Run-Time Library and System Services product is a library of routines designed to provide the functionality of the VMS Run-Time Library and System Service routines on UNIX or Windows NT platforms. | | | Some VMS System Service routines allow you to issue a call, continue processing asynchronously while that call executes, and then be interrupted when the call is complete. | | | These routines use a service known as Asynchronous System Traps (AST). |
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http://www.accelr8.com/libtech.html
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| | Sonus Networks, Inc. - Open Services Architecture |
| | GSX9000™ Open Services Switch - Sonus designed an advanced media gateway that could not only support toll-quality voice transport capabilities, but also a distributed softswitch module for call control and signaling in the media gateway itself. | | | Sonus Insight™ Management System - A feature-rich management system was developed in parallel to provide flexible, easy to use system management and billing mediation, while integrating with existing back-office systems. | | | With systems commercially deployed for years, the OSA is field-proven to meet the needs of today's carrier. |
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http://www.sonusnet.com/contents/products/openservices.cfm
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| | Conference Call |
| | Specifically, Datatec Systems’ conference and collaboration network is made up of file servers running Netware 6.0 distributed throughout the United States at the company’s branch offices. | | | Deployed by Datatec Systems as a rich media conferencing solution and as an automatic call distributor–an application it developed in-house with Sonexis management tools–ConferenceManager is Windows 2000/Intel-based customer premises equipment. | | | With the virtual meeting room–an open forum on the conference bridge setup for each open project–FSEs are collaborating and exchanging information and experiences that their colleagues can use, instead of spending time on hold waiting for a particular individual to join a call or an operator to complete a discussion with another FSE. |
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http://www.comnews.com/stories/articles/c1202cover.htm
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| | Free, dependable IDS InfoWorld Review 2002-01-24 By Mandy Andress |
| | The kernel audit module wraps critical system calls such as mkdir, open, and execve and gathers information about the process and the user that executed the call. | | | HISTORICALLY, ANY enterprise search for a host-based IDS (intrusion-detection system) to protect its Linux environment has found itself stymied by a lack of available solutions. | | | Continuiing on its plan to offer Solaris OS technologies via open source, Sun Microsystems on Thursday is releasing the ZFS (Zettabyte File System) file system for Solaris. |
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http://www.infoworld.com/infoworld/article/02/01/24/020128tcsnare_1.html
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| | nastyj01.txt |
| | Sources say that if the problem persists GNU may rethink its open policy somewhat, since deliberate abuse of the system's non-security defeats the nature of trust trying to be demonstrated in having such a system. | | | Aside from that, there are also numerous attempts to call this system using MCI and subsidiary long-haul lines, with illegitimate calling cards, to this system. | | | First, we are not going to create any new accounts because the System Operator will more than likely notice new accounts appearing on the system. |
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http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/NASTY/nastyj01.txt
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| | The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System |
| | A system call usually is implemented as a hardware trap that changes the CPU's execution mode and the current address-space mapping. | | | While a file is open, the system maintains a pointer into the file indicating the current location in the file associated with the descriptor. | | | System calls are used to cause the kernel to execute complicated operations, such as writing data to secondary storage, and simple operations, such as returning the current time of day. |
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http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/design-44bsd/book.html
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| | Open It Up: Open Source/Open Culture |
| | If the proprietary software world is enamored of patents and wishes to continue that system, at least for now, while making an exception for GNU/Linux software, I call that a positive move. | | | Flemming is the filmmaker and mad scientist creator of Free Cinema, a film activism experiment inspired by the free culture and open source software movement. | | | OSC members include consultancies, and service, support, and solution providers specializing in open source software. |
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http://openitup.blogspot.com
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| | The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System |
| | A system call usually is implemented as a hardware trap that changes the CPU's execution mode and the current address-space mapping. | | | While a file is open, the system maintains a pointer into the file indicating the current location in the file associated with the descriptor. | | | System calls are used to cause the kernel to execute complicated operations, such as writing data to secondary storage, and simple operations, such as returning the current time of day. |
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http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/design-44bsd/book.html
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| | Physics Today February 2002 |
| | At the top of any Grid system are the user applications, which are constructed in terms of, and call on, the components in any other layer. | | | Ian Foster is a senior scientist and associate division director in Argonne National Laboratory's mathematics and computer science division, a professor in the University of Chicago's department of computer science, and a senior fellow in the Argonne-Chicago Computation Institute. | | | As computer networks become cheaper and more powerful, a new computing paradigm is poised to transform the practice of science and engineering. |
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http://www.aip.org/pt/vol-55/iss-2/p42.html
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| | Red Hat Global File System |
| | The open source cluster file system for enterprise deployments | | | For more information, or to give Red Hat Global File System (GFS) a try, contact sales on the web or call 1-866-273-3428 x45555. | | | Red Hat Global File System (GFS) is supported for use with Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES on x86, AMD64/EM64T and Itanium. |
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http://www.redhat.com/software/rha/gfs
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| | MODx Content Management System Home |
| | Techies call MODx a Content Management Framework ("CMF"): equal parts custom web app builder and Content Management System ("CMS"). | | | With a flexible API and a robust event override system, MODx makes building engaging web projects straightforward — or changing core functionality without hacking the core code possible. | | | MODx is an open source PHP Application Framework that helps you take control of your online content. |
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http://modxcms.com
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| | Networked unmanned aircraft to play strong military role |
| | For example, a soon-to-be-released DARPA solicitation will call for an integrator to broker the development of a new operating system, called the Common Operating System, to be used by UAVs being developed by the Boeing Co. of Chicago and Northrop Grumman Corp. of Los Angeles. | | | Another aspect that hampers network flexibility is the seven-layer Open Systems Interconnection stack, long the foundation for building network protocols. | | | The operating system developers, he said, will work in a consortiumlike environment. |
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http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/19_1/telecom-it-infrastructure/23177-1.html
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| | numberics |
| | Open Group Group formed in February 1996 by the consolidation of the two leading open systems consortia: X/Open Company Ltd (X/Open) and the Open Software Foundation (OSF). | | | ODBC is based on the call level interface specification of the X/Open SQL Access Group and was developed by Digitial Equipment Corporation, Lotus, Microsoft, and Sybase. | | | Using this application programming interface, database applications can access data stored in database management systems on a variety of computers even if each database management system uses a different data storage format and programming interface. |
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http://www.megabitwest.com/glossary/o.htm
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| | Action Request System |
| | From AR User: Choose Open Query from the File menu | | | AR User will automatically enter the time that the entry was made, so you dont have to worry about filling that in. | | | Every time you call the user (regardless of whether or not theyre there) make sure to enter a diary entry saying that you called. |
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http://www.people.memphis.edu/~cscsupport/manual/ars.html
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| | International Callback, Cheap Long Distance Calls, Discount International Long Distance |
| | Within seconds, our system calls you back at the phone number you have registered with us -- with an open line ready to make cheap long distance calls anywhere in the world. | | | As international callback services place the call through the phone system, we are able to offer you dramatically reduced rates for discount international long distance calls. | | | By dialing an access phone number, you access our state-of-the-art digital switching system. |
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http://www.callrewards.com
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| | XEmacs Lisp Programmer's Manual - Text |
| | This variable provides a way of transferring killed text from other programs, when you are using a window system. | | | Before a character with close parenthesis syntax, or after a character with open parenthesis or expression-prefix syntax, no space is also appropriate. | | | The functions you use in these hooks should save and restore the match data if they do anything that uses regular expressions; otherwise, they will interfere in bizarre ways with the editing operations that call them. |
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http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/RZ/software/emacs/xemacs/lispref_35.html
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| | Virtual Phone Line Service |
| | Virtual Phone Line gives you the capability to open a Virtual Office or get a Toll-Free number with Class 5 Services like Call Recording, Interactive Voice Response System, Custom Call Routing, and Follow Me Features. | | | Virtual Phone Line is a call forwarding service that offers you a Virtual Phone Number on your existing number or SIP Address, no matter where you are. | | | Call Recording - Record your calls to remember what you talked about, and listen to them whenever you like. |
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http://www.virtualphoneline.com/main.htm
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| | CRN Sun Plans Java Enterprise System, |
| | At LinuxWorld, Sun also plans to preview a desktop solution for developers that combines Java Studio Creator with the Java Desktop System and the NetBeans open-source integrated development environment. | | | Simon Phipps, chief technology evangelist at Sun, said in an interview with CRN that plans call for the JES for Linux to ship midyear and the Java Studio development tools line to ship generally in 2004. | | | The system, which includes an application, portal and identity management middleware stack, was developed as part of the code-named Project Orion. |
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http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=47370
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| | IBM AIX PS/2 OPERATING SYSTEM VERSION 1.3 |
| | IBM reaffirms its commitment to open systems by announcing AIX (R) PS/2 (R) Version 1.3, its entry level member of the AIX family. | | | Support for greater than 16MB of system memory is provided for IBM PS/2 Models 90 XP 486 and 95 XP 486 and support for 32 bit Direct Memory Access (DMA) and Error Correcting Code (ECC) Memory in PS/2 models offering these functions. | | | Customers with a volume commitment for IBM AIX RISC System/6000 Licensed Programs in effect must be sent the Notice to IBM Customers and the revised volume commitment exhibit. |
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http://os2ports.com/docs/aix/announce.html
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| | Compilation of Functional Programming Languages using GCC -- Tail Calls |
| | It also shows how many C compiler constraints which make tail call support such a difficult feature in terms of implementation, date back to design issues made in early versions of the UNIX operating system. | | | The changes enable the open source compiler to optimise a class of indirect tail calls on Intel-based 32 and 64-bit platforms and are designed to be portable to any other platform which is not bound by its ABI to not support this notion. | | | Compilation of Functional Programming Languages using GCC -- Tail Calls |
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http://home.in.tum.de/~baueran/thesis
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| | alphaWorks : Call Control XML Interpreter |
| | It is an XML-based mark-up language that is designed to provide call control for telephony systems, thereby enabling developers to write documents that perform advanced call handling. | | | CCXML follows the VoiceXML model by enabling applications to be written entirely in an open, non-propriety mark-up language, which allows simple migration of applications from one system to another. | | | This particular implementation is designed to run on the IBM WebSphere Voice Response IVR (Interactive Voice Response) system and provides a partial implementation of the full CCXML specification. |
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http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/ccxml
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| | GigaLaw.com Daily News |
| | The states had planned to call the witnesses, including a software testing consultant, to testify that Microsoft has already done much of the work needed to create a stripped-down version of the Windows operating system that the states want the court to require. | | | Still, rather than swallowing their losses and moving on, the companies like Adobe Systems and Microsoft that make e-book software are standing firmly behind the business, insisting growth rates are strong and getting stronger. | | | Microsoft has opened a new chapter in its long-running dispute with open-source software developers -- and it could have antitrust implications. |
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http://www.gigalaw.com/newsarchives/2002_05_09_index2.html
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