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  2. Watchdog timer - Wikipedia

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    For example, the watchdog and CPU may share a common clock signal as shown in the block diagram below, or they may have independent clock signals or in some cases the watchdog may have no clock signal at all. A basic watchdog timer has a single timer which, upon timeout, typically will reset the CPU:

  3. Year 2038 problem - Wikipedia

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    Many computer systems measure time and date using Unix time, an international standard for digital timekeeping.Unix time is defined as the number of seconds elapsed since 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970 (an arbitrarily chosen time based on the creation of the first Unix system), which has been dubbed the Unix epoch.

  4. Timeout Detection and Recovery - Wikipedia

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    Timeout Detection and Recovery or TDR is a feature of the Windows operating system (OS) introduced in Windows Vista. It detects response problems from a graphics card (GPU), and if a timeout occurs, the OS will attempt a card reset to recover a functional and responsive desktop environment .

  5. Dr. Watson (debugger) - Wikipedia

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    A crash dump file can also be created, which is a binary file that a programmer can load into a debugger. Dr. Watson can be made to generate more exacting information for debugging purposes if the appropriate symbol files are installed and the symbol search path ( environment variable ) is set.

  6. Blue screen of death - Wikipedia

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    This is not a crash screen, however; upon crashing, Windows 1.0 would simply lock up or exit to DOS. This behavior is also present in Windows 2.0 and Windows 2.1 . Windows 3.0 uses a text-mode screen for displaying important system messages, usually from digital device drivers in 386 Enhanced Mode or other situations where a program could not run.

  7. 2024 CrowdStrike-related IT outages - Wikipedia

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    On 19 July at 04:09 UTC, CrowdStrike distributed a faulty configuration update for its Falcon sensor software running on Windows PCs and servers. A modification to a configuration file which was responsible for screening named pipes, Channel File 291, caused an out-of-bounds memory read [15] in the Windows sensor client that resulted in an invalid page fault.

  8. Time formatting and storage bugs - Wikipedia

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    On 18 September 2042, the Time of Day Clock (TODC) on the S/370 IBM mainframe and its successors, including the current zSeries, will roll over. [ 5 ] [ 61 ] Older TODCs were implemented as a 64-bit count of 2 −12 microsecond (0.244 ns) units, and the standard base was 1 January 1900, UT .

  9. Timeout (computing) - Wikipedia

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    In the Microsoft Windows and ReactOS [2] command-line interfaces, the timeout command pauses the command processor for the specified number of seconds. [3] [4] In POP connections, the server will usually close a client connection after a certain period of inactivity (the timeout period). This ensures that connections do not persist forever, if ...