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  2. Hang (computing) - Wikipedia

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    In many cases programs may appear to be hung, but are making slow progress, and waiting a few minutes will allow the task to complete. Modern operating systems provide a mechanism for terminating hung processes, for instance, with the Unix kill command, or through a graphical means such as the Task Manager's "end task" button in Windows (select the particular process in the list and press "end ...

  3. Magic SysRq key - Wikipedia

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    The key combination consists of Alt+SysRq and another key, which controls the command issued. SysRq may be released before pressing the command key, as long as Alt remains held down. The combinations always assume the QWERTY keyboard layout; [ citation needed ] for example, on the Dvorak keyboard layout , the combination to shut down the system ...

  4. Halt and Catch Fire (computing) - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Later, HCF became a humorous catch-all term for instructions that may freeze a processor, including intentional instructions for testing purposes, and unintentional illegal instructions. Some are considered hardware defects, and if the system is shared , a malicious user can execute them to launch a denial-of-service attack .

  5. Kernel panic - Wikipedia

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    A panic might also be triggered if the init process terminates, as the system would then be unusable. [ 11 ] The following is an implementation of the Linux kernel final initialization in kernel_init() : [ 12 ]

  6. Spectre (security vulnerability) - Wikipedia

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    Chrome 63 users could manually mitigate the attack by enabling the site isolation feature (chrome://flags#enable-site-per-process). [ 106 ] As of Firefox 57.0.4, Mozilla was reducing the resolution of JavaScript timers to help prevent timing attacks, with additional work on time-fuzzing techniques planned for future releases.

  7. Blue screen of death - Wikipedia

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    systemd, a software suite providing system components for Linux operating systems, implements a blue screen of death similar to that of Microsoft Windows using a systemd unit called systemd-bsod since August 2023, which was fully added on December 6, 2023 starting with version 255 of systemd. [38]

  8. Command-line interface - Wikipedia

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    A command-line interface (CLI) is a means of interacting with a computer program by inputting lines of text called command lines. Command-line interfaces emerged in the mid-1960s, on computer terminals, as an interactive and more user-friendly alternative to the non-interactive mode available with punched cards. [1]

  9. COMMAND.COM - Wikipedia

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    COMMAND.COM is the default command-line interpreter for MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Me. In the case of DOS, it is the default user interface as well. It has an additional role as the usual first program run after boot (init process). As a shell, COMMAND.COM has two distinct modes of operation: interactive mode and batch mode.