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  2. Single-event upset - Wikipedia

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    Single-event upsets were first described during above-ground nuclear testing, from 1954 to 1957, when many anomalies were observed in electronic monitoring equipment. Further problems were observed in space electronics during the 1960s, although it was difficult to separate soft failures from other forms of interference.

  3. Sudden unintended acceleration - Wikipedia

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    "Sudden acceleration incidents" (SAI) are defined for the purpose of this report as unintended, unexpected, high-power accelerations from a stationary position or a very low initial speed accompanied by an apparent loss of braking effectiveness. In a typical scenario, the incident begins at the moment of shifting to "Drive" or "Reverse" from ...

  4. Windows Installer - Wikipedia

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    Once prepared, an installer package is "compiled" by reading the instructions and files from the developer's local machine, and creating the .msi file. Windows Installer may be slower than native code installation technologies, such as InstallAware , [ 10 ] due to the overhead of component registration and rollback support, which often involves ...

  5. Windows Preinstallation Environment - Wikipedia

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    Windows RE is installed alongside Windows Vista and later, and may be booted from hard disks, optical media (such as an operating system installation disc) and PXE (e.g. Windows Deployment Services). [23] A copy of Windows RE is included in the installation media of the aforementioned operating systems. It is a successor to the Recovery Console.

  6. Wise Solutions - Wikipedia

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    Wise Installation System is a tool for creating Windows setup programs based on WiseScript, which later was renamed to Wise InstallBuild, InstallMaker or InstallMaster and but back to Wise Installation System in version 9. [2] Wise Installation System started 1992 as a shareware tool originally distributed via CompuServe. In 1994 John McMillan ...

  7. Portal:Aviation/Anniversaries/March - Wikipedia

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    Student pilot, instructor eject, parachute to safety, but crewman occupying the navigator's position does not eject and is killed. Both accidents are due to unexpected fatigue issues in the B-47 fleet. 1954 – A BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) Lockheed L-749 A (G-ALAM) crashes in Kallang Singapore, killing 33 of the 40 on board ...

  8. Unintended consequences - Wikipedia

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    An erosion gully in Australia caused by rabbits, an unintended consequence of their introduction as game animals. In the social sciences, unintended consequences (sometimes unanticipated consequences or unforeseen consequences, more colloquially called knock-on effects) are outcomes of a purposeful action that are not intended or foreseen.

  9. SpaceX CRS-7 - Wikipedia

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    SpaceX CRS-7, also known as SpX-7, [1] was a private American Commercial Resupply Service mission to the International Space Station, contracted to NASA, which launched and failed on June 28, 2015. It disintegrated 139 seconds into the flight after launch from Cape Canaveral , just before the first stage was to separate from the second stage. [ 2 ]