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In computing, a hang or freeze occurs when either a process or system ceases to respond to inputs. A typical example is when computer's graphical user interface (such as Microsoft Windows [ a ] ) no longer responds to the user typing on the keyboard or moving the mouse.
On 5 January 1975, the 12-bit field that had been used for dates in the TOPS-10 operating system for DEC PDP-10 computers overflowed, in a bug known as "DATE75". The field value was calculated by taking the number of years since 1964, multiplying by 12, adding the number of months since January, multiplying by 31, and adding the number of days since the start of the month; putting 2 12 − 1 ...
Year 2038 problem: a time formatting bug in computer systems with representing times after 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038; GPS week number rollover: time keeping integer rollover caused by the design of the Global Positioning System, which occurs every 19.6 years; 512k day: an event in 2014, involving a software limitation in network routers
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A computer mouse with the most common features: two buttons (left and right) and a scroll wheel (which can also function as a button when pressed inwards) A typical wireless computer mouse. A computer mouse (plural mice, also mouses) [nb 1] is a hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface
In this podcast episode, Medical News Today shares three actionable resolutions that can help improve brain, heart, and metabolic health in the new year via diet, sleep, and exercise. Brain health ...
They moved together to California the following year, married and began their creative life together, both working with clay, but in very different ways. Her cartoon pieces began in the late 1970s.
Many times there is no apparent action that causes a crash to desktop. During normal function, the program may freeze for a shorter period of time, and then close by itself. Also during normal function, the program may become a black screen and repeatedly play the last few seconds of sound (depending on the size of the audio buffer ) that was ...