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  2. Watchdog timer - Wikipedia

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    Watchdog timers are also used to monitor and limit software execution time on a normally functioning computer. For example, a watchdog timer may be used when running untrusted code in a sandbox, to limit the CPU time available to the code and thus prevent some types of denial-of-service attacks. [2] In real-time operating systems, a watchdog ...

  3. Polling (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    Polling (computer science) Polling, or interrogation, refers to actively sampling the status of an external device by a client program as a synchronous activity. Polling is most often used in terms of input/output (I/O), and is also referred to as polled I/O or software-driven I/O. A good example of hardware implementation is a watchdog timer.

  4. Timer - Wikipedia

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    A timer or countdown timer is a type of clock that starts from a specified time duration and stops upon reaching 00:00. A simple timer is an hourglass. Commonly, a timer triggers an alarm when it ends. A timer can be implemented through hardware or software. Stopwatches operate in the opposite direction, upwards from 00:00, measuring elapsed ...

  5. Command Loss Timer Reset - Wikipedia

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    Most spacecraft have more than one Command Loss Timer Reset for subsystem level safety reasons, with the Voyager craft using at least 7 of these timers. Technically the Command Loss Timer Reset is a glorified array of Watchdog timers, each with different settings. Overall spacecraft safety is very important for missions of multi-year duration.

  6. Heartbeat (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Heartbeat (computing) In computer science, a heartbeat is a periodic signal generated by hardware or software to indicate normal operation or to synchronize other parts of a computer system. [1][2] Heartbeat mechanism is one of the common techniques in mission critical systems for providing high availability and fault tolerance of network ...

  7. Watchdog journalism - Wikipedia

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    Detached watchdog. Detached watchdog journalism, one of the four identified journalism cultures, puts emphasis on neutrality, fairness, objectivity, and impartiality. [citation needed] This is the most familiar and pervasive type of a few forms of watchdog journalism. Detached watchdog refers to observing issues in a detached manner. [19]

  8. Diameter (protocol) - Wikipedia

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    e. Diameter is an authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) protocol for computer networks. It evolved from the earlier RADIUS protocol. It belongs to the application layer protocols in the Internet protocol suite. Diameter Applications extend the base protocol by adding new commands and/or attributes, such as those for use with the ...

  9. IRIG timecode - Wikipedia

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    IRIG J-1 timecode consists of 15 characters (150 bit times), sent once per second at a baud rate of 300 or greater: <SOH>DDD:HH:MM:SS<CR><LF>. SOH is the ASCII "start of header" code, with binary value 0x01. DDD is the ordinal date (day of year), from 1 to 366. HH, MM and SS are the time of the start bit.