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  2. Ansible (software) - Wikipedia

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    The term "ansible" was coined by Ursula K. Le Guin in her 1966 novel Rocannon's World, [4] and refers to fictional instantaneous communication systems.[5] [6]The Ansible tool was developed by Michael DeHaan, the author of the provisioning server application Cobbler and co-author of the Fedora Unified Network Controller (Func) framework for remote administration.

  3. Directory structure - Wikipedia

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    For example, a program may store specific information needed to operate DVD recorders or image scanners connected to a computer, because all users use them. Windows itself uses this folder. For example, Windows Defender stores its virus definitions in \ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender. Programs do not have permission to store files in ...

  4. Virtual folder - Wikipedia

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    BeOS included a version of virtual folders referred to as "saved queries", that has since influenced the development of virtual folder features in operating systems like Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. These virtual folders are populated dynamically by executing a search on the entire file system , or a subset of it, or by using the cached version ...

  5. Program Files - Wikipedia

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    Program Files is the directory name of a standard folder in Microsoft Windows operating systems in which applications that are not part of the operating system are conventionally installed. Typically, each application installed under the 'Program Files' directory will have a subdirectory for its application-specific resources.

  6. Special folder - Wikipedia

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    Figure 1: Windows Explorer's folder view in Windows XP uses virtual folders as the root.. Windows uses the concept of special folders to present the contents of the storage devices connected to the computer in a fairly consistent way that frees the user from having to deal with absolute file paths, which can (and often do) change between operating system versions, and even individual ...

  7. Windows File Manager - Wikipedia

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    The program's interface showed a list of directories on the left hand panel, and a list of the current directory's contents on the right hand panel. File Manager allowed a user to create, rename, move, print, copy, search for, and delete files and directories, as well as to set permissions such as archive, read-only, hidden or system, and to associate file types with programs.

  8. Loop-level parallelism - Wikipedia

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    Loop-level parallelism is a form of parallelism in software programming that is concerned with extracting parallel tasks from loops.The opportunity for loop-level parallelism often arises in computing programs where data is stored in random access data structures.

  9. List of DOS commands - Wikipedia

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    For example, in DOS 7.1, if the current directory is C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM, then C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM> TRUENAME ..\WIN.INI C:\WINDOWS\WIN.INI The argument does not need to refer to an existing file or directory: TRUENAME will output the absolute pathname as if it did.