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  2. Daemon (computing) - Wikipedia

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    The term was coined by the programmers at MIT's Project MAC.According to Fernando J. Corbató, who worked on Project MAC around 1963, his team was the first to use the term daemon, inspired by Maxwell's demon, an imaginary agent in physics and thermodynamics that helped to sort molecules, stating, "We fancifully began to use the word daemon to describe background processes that worked ...

  3. Data recovery - Wikipedia

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    Data recovery cannot always be done on a running system. As a result, a boot disk , live CD , live USB , or any other type of live distro contains a minimal operating system. BartPE : a lightweight variant of Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 32-bit operating systems , similar to a Windows Preinstallation Environment, which can be run ...

  4. Docker (software) - Wikipedia

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    Docker Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications. [29] It uses YAML files to configure the application's services and performs the creation and start-up process of all the containers with a single command.

  5. Windows Preinstallation Environment - Wikipedia

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    Recovery platform to run 32-bit or 64-bit recovery tools such as Winternals ERD Commander (now known as Microsoft DaRT) or Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE). Platform for running third-party 32-bit or 64-bit disk cloning utilities. The package can be used for developer testing or as a recovery CD/DVD for system administrators. Many ...

  6. Disk diffusion test - Wikipedia

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    The disk diffusion test (also known as the agar diffusion test, Kirby–Bauer test, disc-diffusion antibiotic susceptibility test, disc-diffusion antibiotic sensitivity test and KB test) is a culture-based microbiology assay used in diagnostic and drug discovery laboratories. In diagnostic labs, the assay is used to determine the susceptibility ...

  7. Maxwell's demon - Wikipedia

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    In 1982, Charles Bennett showed that, however well prepared, eventually the demon will run out of information storage space and must begin to erase the information it has previously gathered. [ 8 ] [ 12 ] Erasing information is a thermodynamically irreversible process that increases the entropy of a system.