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  2. Squid (software) - Wikipedia

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    The LAMP stack with Squid as web cache.. Squid is a caching and forwarding HTTP web proxy.It has a wide variety of uses, including speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests, caching World Wide Web (WWW), Domain Name System (DNS), and other network lookups for a group of people sharing network resources, and aiding security by filtering traffic.

  3. Glossary of computer science - Wikipedia

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    Pictures and films created using computers. Usually, the term refers to computer-generated image data created with the help of specialized graphical hardware and software. It is a vast and recently developed area of computer science. computer network. Also data network. A digital telecommunications network which allows nodes to share resources.

  4. 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 ...

  5. Glossary of operating systems terms - Wikipedia

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    semaphore: In computer science, particularly in operating systems, a semaphore is a variable or abstract data type that is used for controlling access, by multiple processes, to a common resource in a parallel programming or a multi user environment.

  6. Category:Computing terminology - Wikipedia

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    From Category:Terminology: Articles belonging to this category and its subcategories are devoted in whole or in large part to a discussion of terminology.... It should not be used as a category for articles about those topics in general; when suitable specific categories don't exist to hold them they should be placed into the root category for that topic until a better categorization presents ...

  7. Talk:Daemon (computing) - Wikipedia

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    ..a daemon is a computer program that runs as a background process, As is noted later in the article, in the jargons of others (Microsoft, Android, etc) a "daemon" is what is referred to as a "background service". The phrase "background process" is even linked to Process (computing). Daemon doesn't seem to me to merit an article as it is ...

  8. Daemon (computer software) - Wikipedia

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  9. Pointer swizzling - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, pointer swizzling is the conversion of references based on name or position into direct pointer references (memory addresses).It is typically performed during deserialization or loading of a relocatable object from a disk file, such as an executable file or pointer-based data structure.