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  2. Kernel panic - Wikipedia

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    In all versions above 10.2, the text is superimposed on a standby symbol and is not full screen. Debugging information is saved in NVRAM and written to a log file on reboot. In 10.7 there is a feature to automatically restart after a kernel panic.

  3. Fork bomb - Wikipedia

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    The concept behind a fork bomb — the processes continually replicate themselves, potentially causing a denial of service. In computing, a fork bomb (also called rabbit virus) is a denial-of-service (DoS) attack wherein a process continually replicates itself to deplete available system resources, slowing down or crashing the system due to resource starvation.

  4. Thread-local storage - Wikipedia

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    One of the entries in this block is the thread-local storage table for that thread. [1] Each call of TlsAlloc returns a unique index into this table. Each thread can independently use TlsSetValue(index, value) and obtain the specified value via TlsGetValue(index) , because these set and look up an entry in the thread's own table.

  5. kill (command) - Wikipedia

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    The kill command is a wrapper around the kill() system call, which sends signals to processes or process groups on the system, referenced by their numeric process IDs (PIDs) or process group IDs (PGIDs). kill is always provided as a standalone utility as defined by the POSIX standard.

  6. Python (missile) - Wikipedia

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    Subsequently, the missiles were given the western name of "Python" by the parent company for export purposes, starting with the Python-3 in 1978. Since then, it has been further developed and evolved into the Python-4, Python-5, Derby and also, the SPYDER, an advanced ground-based air-defence system. Currently, the missiles are in service with ...

  7. pax (command) - Wikipedia

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    pax is an archiving utility available for various operating systems and defined since 1995. [1] Rather than sort out the incompatible options that have crept up between tar and cpio, along with their implementations across various versions of Unix, the IEEE designed a new archive utility pax that could support various archive formats with useful options from both archivers.

  8. Clipboard (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Applications communicate through the clipboard by providing either serialized representations of an object, or a promise (for larger objects). [6] In some circumstances, the transfer of certain common data formats may be achieved opaquely through the use of an abstract factory; for example, Mac OS X uses a class called NSImage to provide access to image data stored on the clipboard, though the ...

  9. Delirium tremens - Wikipedia

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    Delirium tremens is most common in people who are in alcohol withdrawal, especially in those who drink 10–11 standard drinks (equivalent of 7 to 8 US pints (3 to 4 L) of beer, 4 to 5 US pints (1.9 to 2.4 L) of wine or 1 US pint (0.5 L) of distilled beverage) daily. Delirium tremens commonly affects those with a history of habitual alcohol use ...