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41Privilege escalation — is the act of exploiting a bug, design flaw or configuration oversight in an operating system or software application to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected from an application or user. The result is that an application… …
42AQuoSA — (Adaptive Quality of Service Architecture) is an open architecture for the provisioning of adaptive Quality of Service functionality into the Linux kernel. The project features a flexible, portable, lightweight and open architecture for… …
43Component Object Model — Not to be confused with COM file. Component Object Model (COM) is a binary interface standard for software componentry introduced by Microsoft in 1993. It is used to enable interprocess communication and dynamic object creation in a large range… …
44C (programming language) — C The C Programming Language[1] (aka K R ) is the seminal book on C …
45Interrupt handler — An interrupt handler, also known as an interrupt service routine (ISR), is a callback subroutine in an operating system or device driver whose execution is triggered by the reception of an interrupt. Interrupt handlers have a multitude of… …
46Comparison of operating systems — Usage share of web client operating systems. (Source: Median values from Usage share of operating systems for August 2011.)   Windows XP (35.21%) …
47Server Message Block — In computer networking, Server Message Block (SMB), also known as Common Internet File System (CIFS, /ˈsɪfs …
48MinWin — is a term used informally by Microsoft to describe the kernel and operating system components that form the basis of releases of Microsoft Windows starting with Windows Vista. The term was first used in 2003 to describe approximately 95% of the… …
49Paging — This article is about computer virtual memory. For the wireless communication devices, see Pager . Bank switching is also called paging. Page flipping is also called paging. For calling people in a public place see Public address. In computer… …
50Cell (microprocessor) — Cell is a microprocessor architecture jointly developed by Sony Computer Entertainment, Toshiba, and IBM, an alliance known as STI . The architectural design and first implementation were carried out at the STI Design Center in Austin, Texas over …
