In computer programming , housekeeping can refer either to a standard entry or exit routine appended to a user written block of code such as a subroutine or Function computer science function , sometimes known as a Function prologue function prologue and epilogue at its entry and exit or, alternatively, to any other automated or manual software process whereby a computer is cleaned up after usage e.g. freeing resources such as virtual memory . This might include such activities as removing or archiving logs that the system has made as a result of the users activities, or deletion of temporary files which may otherwise simply take up space. Housekeeping can be described as a necessary chore, required to perform a particular computers normal activity but not necessarily part of the algorithm. ref http www.computerhope.com jargon h housekee.htm Housekeeping , ComputerHope.Com. Accessed July 20, 2009 ref For cleaning up Disk storage computer disk storage , utility software usually exists for this purpose such as data compression software to shrink files and release disk space, defragmentation programs to improve disk performance. ref http www.namastecafe.com computer housekeep.htm Basic Computer Housekeeping Tips . Accessed July 20, 2009 ref Examples Housekeeping could include but is not limited to the following activities Saving and restoring program state for called Function computer science functions including general purpose register s and return address Obtaining local memory on the Stack data structure stack Initializing local variables at the start of a program or function Freeing local memory on the Stack data structure stack on exit from a function Garbage collection computer science Garbage collection data conversion Backup and or removal of un needed files and software Execution of Disk maintenance utilities e.g. ScanDisk , Harddrive Defragmenters, Virus Scanner See also Computational overhead Subroutine s References references Category Computer performance c ... more details
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. File system check and defragmentation tools typically only account for file fragmentation in their fragmentation ... occurred. Many file systems provide defragmentation tools, which attempt to reorder fragments of files .... The defragmentation process is almost completely stateless apart from the location it is working on , so that it can be stopped and started instantly. During defragmentation data integrity is ensured for both metadata and normal data. See also Fragmentation computer Fragmentation Defragmentation File system List of defragmentation software Locality of reference Notes and references See http ... more details
cleanup linkrot date August 2011 Infobox album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Humanure Type studio Artist Cattle Decapitation Cover Humanure.jpg Released 2004 Recorded Silvercloud & Bvtthole Studios Genre Deathgrind Length 47 31 Producer Bill Metoyer Label Metal Blade Records Last album To Serve Man album To Serve Man br 2002 This album Humanure br 2004 Next album Cattle Decapitation Caninus split br 2005 Album ratings rev1 Allmusic rev1score Rating 3.5 5 ref Allmusic class album id r699203 pure url yes Allmusic review ref Automatically generated by DASHBot Humanure is the fourth full length by deathgrind band Cattle Decapitation . Gabe Serbian, Justin Pearson and Robert Bray of The Locust ANTI were guests on this album, along with former member Scott Miller. A music video was produced for Reduced to Paste . The cover was deemed grotesque by many retailers and they refused to carry it unless it was changed. The cover was edited, removing the cow, and leaving just a barren wasteland. ref cite web url http www.roadrunnerrecords.com blabbermouth.net news.aspx?mode Article&newsitemID 26340 title BLABBERMOUTH.NET CATTLE DECAPITATION Humanure Album Cover Censored publisher Roadrunnerrecords.com date accessdate 2012 02 22 ref The album cover and the first track spoofs Pink Floyd s album Atom Heart Mother and the song Astronomy Domine . Citation needed date November 2009 Track listing tracklist title1 Scatology Domine intro length1 1 02 title2 Humanure length2 3 05 title3 Reduced to Paste length3 4 13 title4 Bukkake Tsunami length4 4 33 title5 Cloacula The Anthropophagic Copromantik length5 3 05 title6 Chummified length6 3 43 title7 Applied Human Defragmentation length7 5 19 title8 The Earthling length8 3 27 title9 Polyps length9 4 24 title10 Lips & Assholes length10 4 56 title11 Men Before Swine outro length11 9 40 Credits Travis Ryan Vocals Josh Elmore Guitar Troy Oftedal Bass Michael Laughlin Drums Bill Metoyer Engineering & Mixing Brad Vance Mastering References ... more details
Refimprove date July 2007 http www.automise.com automise.aspx Automise is a commercial task automation tool for Microsoft Windows . Developed by VSoft Technologies , Automise offers a graphical user interface for automating repetitive tasks through the creation of Automise projects. Automise includes a library of 390 built in actions which can be combined with point and click to develop automation projects. Automise automation projects can be run using the Automise Integrated development environment IDE , Automise command line executable or the free run time version called Automise Runner. Infobox Software name Automise screenshot Deleted image removed Image AutomiseScreenshot1.png 150px caption Automise IDE developer VSoft Technologies latest release version 2 latest release date April, 2007 operating system Microsoft Windows genre Automation license Proprietary software Proprietary website http www.automise.com automise.aspx www.automise.com Built In Actions Automise s built in actions provide functionality to automate Graphical user interface GUI applications by waiting for windows or controls and sending keyboard input or mouse clicks, File and directory creation and manipulation, Text file and database administration and editing, Windows Active Directory , Sending email, ICQ and Windows Live Messenger Windows Live Messages , File Transfer Protocol FTP , Hypertext Transfer Protocol HTTP get and TELNET client, Windows security including file and folder permissions, Executing programs, running Command line interface command line applications or Windows PowerShell scripts, Installing, uninstalling, reinstalling and manipulating Windows Installer MSI packages , Retrieving a variety of system information for local or remote machines, Analysing and Defragmentation defragmenting local and network computers, Burning CD DVDs, creating and burning ISO image s, erasing discs, Creating, converting, editing and merging Portable Document Format PDF files, PsTools suite for Wi ... more details
2000s electronic album stub Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name 8 Bit Head Complete Remix of Easy Listening Other Stuff Type remix Artist Pigface and Defragmentation DJ Defrag Cover 8 Bit Head Cover.jpg Released Start date 2004 10 12 Genre Industrial music Industrial Label Underground Inc Chronology Pigface Last album Crackhead The DJ? Acucrack Remix Album br 2004 This album 8 Bit Head Complete Remix of Easy Listening Other Stuff br 2004 Next album Pigface Vs. The World br 2005 Misc Extra chronology Artist Defrag Type remix Last album Self Construct br 2002 This album 8 Bit Head Complete Remix of Easy Listening Other Stuff br 2004 Next album 8 Bit Head Complete Remix of Easy Listening Other Stuff is a 2004 album by Pigface . Track listing tracklist title1 Intro length1 1 56 title2 Insect Insect Insect Insect note2 Insect length2 3 01 title3 SweetMeat note3 Camplathora length3 3 24 title4 Closer to Heaven note4 Light Beer Mix length4 2 36 title5 Everything note5 Nothing Like Everything Mix length5 3 27 title6 Bitch note6 DANCE H x0RZ length6 2 56 title7 MYOB note7 SUPER FAST FAST FAST length7 0 06 title8 King of P.O.S. length8 2 34 title9 Closer to Heaving length9 2 51 title10 MYOB Disco Who note10 Rambling Pete Mix length10 2 01 title11 Closer to Heaving note11 Sounds Like Spinning British Fags Mix daehoidaR length11 2 50 title12 MYOB note12 SUPER FAST FAST length12 0 31 title13 Bitch note13 Extraordinary Skipping Glitch Mix length13 2 16 title14 MYOB note14 Ice Cream for Your... length14 3 29 title15 Untitled Promo Material A length15 1 58 title16 Untitled Promo Material B length16 2 32 title17 Scratches length17 7 33 title18 MIDI Junkies... Don t Smoke Carl Crack length18 2 31 title19 One Moment of Peaceful Reconciliation length19 1 58 title20 Bside Jesus Was a Robot length20 1 46 Category Pigface albums Category Collaborative albums Category 2004 remix albums ... more details
Unreferenced date September 2008 Infobox Software name FIPS logo caption screenshot developer Arno Sch fer latest release version 1.5 latest release date release date 1995 08 22 operating system MS DOS genre Partition computing Disk partitioning license GNU General Public License GPL website http bmrc.berkeley.edu people chaffee fips fips.html FIPS Fully Interactive Partition Splitter is a DOS program for non destructive splitting of FAT hard disk partition s. Splitting partitions is an alternative to deleting the partitions and creating new ones using software such as fdisk , the advantage of which is that the data is not lost. The most common use is installing multiple operating systems on a single computer. FIPS is free software , licensed under the GNU General Public License GPL . Limitations FIPS only works on primary partition s that are formatted using the File Allocation Table FAT file system. Most new machines with Windows pre installed use NTFS , leaving FIPS obsolete for its intended purpose of resizing existing Windows installations to install Linux. In addition, FIPS cannot grow partitions due to technical limitations with the design, and partitions shrunk with it have some wasted space since it does not shrink the File Allocation Table . The filesystem to be shrunk must also be Defragmentation defragmented before FIPS is run since FIPS does not move data, any data near the end of the partition prevents it from being resized. These limitations have caused it to be largely superseded by more modern tools with better filesystem support, more advanced resizing methods and more complete partitioning functionality, such as GNU Parted and PartitionMagic . See also Portal Free software fdisk cfdisk GNU Parted GParted is a GTK based graphical version of Parted QtParted is a Qt toolkit Qt based graphical version of Parted External links http replay.web.archive.org 20090413115233 http bmrc.berkeley.edu people chaffee fips fips.html FIPS homepage archived FLOSS DE ... more details
Infobox Software name Double Tools for DoubleSpace logo screenshot Image Double Tools Front Box.jpg 150px caption The product packaging developer Addstor, Inc. latest release version 1993 1.20 latest release date operating system MS DOS MS DOS 6.0 and Microsoft Windows Windows genre Disk compression license Proprietary software Proprietary website Double Tools for DoubleSpace is a software utility released in 1993 by the Menlo Park, California Menlo Park based company Addstor, Inc. Addstor, Inc . The utility functioned as an add on to the disk compression software DoubleSpace , supplied with MS DOS MS DOS 6.0 , adding a number of features not available in the standard version. ref cite web url http www.byte.com art 9402 sec6 art1.htm title How Safe Is Data Compression? author Tom R. Halfhill year 1994 ref Features Most of the Double Tools utilities worked from Microsoft Windows , providing a graphical view and control panel of the compressed drives on the computer the utilities supplied with MS DOS only operated from DOS mode . Double Tools also contained a number of disk checking and rescue recovery utility. Some of the included utilities were called Silent Tools . One of the unique features of its time were the capability to defragment a DoubleSpace compressed drive in the background. Some of the features, including the background defragmentation capability, required the user to let Double Tools replace the standard compression driver for MS DOS DBLSPACE.BIN with one developed by Addstor, claimed to be 100 compatible with DoubleSpace and the Microsoft Real Time Compression Interface introduced in MS DOS 6.0 This driver added a number of extra features, such as the use of 32 bit code paths when it detected a Intel 80386 or higher CPU , caching capabilities and in addition to its supporting the use of the Upper Memory Area also permitted the use of Extended Memory for some of its buffers reducing the driver s total footprint in conventional memory conventional and U ... more details
Refimprove date April 2010 Computer maintenance is the practice of keeping computers in a good state of repair. Computer cleaning Computer cleaning is the practice of physically cleaning the interior, and exterior, of a computer including the removal of dust and debris from cooling fans, power supplies, and hardware components. Backup Main Backup Important data stored on computers may be copied and archived securely so that, in the event of failure, the data and systems may be reconstructed. When major maintenance such as Patch computing patching is performed, a backup is recommended as the first step in case the update fails and Reversion software development reversion is required. Disk maintenance Disk storage, such as your hard drive, fills up with unwanted Computer file file s over time. Disk cleanup may be performed as regular maintenance to remove these. Files may become fragmented and so slow the performance of the computer. Disk defragmentation may be performed to combine these fragments and so improve performance. Dust Dust and other cruft may accumulate as a result of air cooling. If filters are used to prevent this then they will need regular service and changes. If the cooling system is not filtered then regular Computer cleaning may be required to prevent short circuits and overheating. Law Computer maintenance activities are specifically exempt from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and so copies of copyright files may be made in the course of maintenance provided that they are destroyed afterwards. ref citation title Internet and online law author Kent D. Stuckey year 1996 pages 6 47 ref Registry Operating systems files such as the Windows registry may require maintenance. A utility such as a registry cleaner may be used for this. Security Main computer security Service intervals Depending on your environment computers should be serviced at least once per quarter, though monthly service is optimal. This will ensure your computers run at their peak ... more details
Peter A. Franaszek is an American information theorist , an IEEE fellow, a research staff member emeritus at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and a former member of the IBM Academy of Technology . ref name rwh He received his Sc.B. from Brown University in 1962, and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1966. His work was mainly on the representation of information for storage and transmission, and the placement and movement of such information in computer systems. Specific areas include constrained coding, compression algorithms, I O architectures, switching networks, disk defragmentation algorithms, concurrency control techniques, operating system schedulers, and compression techniques and architectures for systems with memory compression. Franaszek s coding research determined fundamental aspects of constrained coding, and obtained algorithms for code construction. His work served as a basis for key components in the proliferation of disk drives, compact disks CDs , and digital versatile disks DVDs . Specific codes he developed have been widely used in commercial data storage and transmission products. His 2,7 RLL code found widespread application in disk drives in the 1980s and later in magnetic and optical recording applications. Together with Albert Widmer , he designed 8b 10b encoding used in gigabit telecommunication systems. Awards 2009 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal for his contributions to the theory and practice of run length limited channel coding for magnetic and optical storage. ref name IBM http ibmresearchnews.blogspot.com 2009 07 ibm receives three ieee awards.html IBM receives three IEEE awards , IBM Research News, July 6, 2009 retrieved October 1, 2010 ref ref name rwh http www.ieee.org about awards bios hamming recipients.html IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients , an IEEE webpage retrieved October 1, 2010 ref ref cite web url http www.ieee.org documents hamming rl.pdf title IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients publisher IEEE accessda ... more details
about contig in DNA sequencing the contig defragmentation program Contig defragmentation utility A contig from contiguous is a set of overlapping DNA segments that together represent a consensus region of DNA. ref name contig assembly Gregory, S. Contig Assembly . Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, 2005. ref In Shotgun sequencing Whole genome shotgun sequencing bottom up sequencing projects, a contig refers to overlapping sequence data reads ref name textbook Gibson, G. and Muse, S. V. A Primer of Genome Science . 3rd ed. P.84 ref in Shotgun sequencing Hierarchical Shotgun sequencing top down sequencing projects, contig refers to the overlapping clones that form a Gene mapping Physical Mapping physical map of the genome that is used to guide sequencing and assembly. ref name genome map Dear, P. H. Genome Mapping . Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, 2005. Doi 10.1038 npg.els.0005353. ref Contigs can thus refer both to overlapping DNA sequence and to overlapping physical segments fragments contained in clones depending on the context. Sequence contigs A sequence contig is a contiguous, overlapping sequence read resulting from the reassembly of the small DNA fragments generated by Shotgun sequencing bottom up sequencing strategies. This meaning of contig is consistent with the original definition by Rodger Staden 1979 . ref Staden R 1979 http www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov articlerender.fcgi?artid 327874 A strategy of DNA sequencing employing computer programs , Nucleic Acids Research 7 2601 2610. ref The bottom up DNA sequencing strategy involves shearing genomic DNA into many small fragments bottom , sequencing these fragments, reassembling them back into contigs and eventually the entire genome up . Because current technology allows for the direct sequencing of only relatively short DNA fragments 300 1000 nucleotides , genomic DNA must be fragmented into small pieces prior to sequencing. ref name genome sequencing Dunham, I. Genome Sequencing . Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, 2005 ... more details
data. Alternatively, running Defrag.exe systemdrive b from the command line forces a defragmentation of the prefetcher files without requiring a full defragmentation. Citation needed date April 2008 ... more details
about a band the medical condition cyanosis citations missing date January 2011 Infobox musical artist See Wikipedia WikiProject Musicians name Cyanotic image caption image size background group or band alias origin South Bend , Indiana genre Industrial rock years active 2002 present label Glitch Mode Recordings , Bit Riot Records associated acts website current members Sean Payne br Chris H Ski br Drew Rosander past members notable instruments Synthesizer br guitar br sampler Cyanotic is a Chicago based industrial rock collective fronted by Sean Payne that formed in 2002 and released its first full length album in 2005. Cyanotic is known for its genre blending work, which fuses traditional industrial beats and vocals with drum n bass , sampling music sampling and Heavy metal music heavy metal to create a very hard sound. The band s lyrics contain many tongue in cheek references to transhumanism . Biography Cyanotic defines aggressive electronic rock, melding elements of classic Wax Trax , drum n bass , rhythmic noise , intelligent dance music IDM and Heavy metal music heavy metal to create their sound. The band enjoys a rapidly growing fan base, thanks to strong support via word of mouth and relentless shows with the likes of Skinny Puppy , Front Line Assembly , The Dillinger Escape Plan , Meat Beat Manifesto , Chemlab , 16 Volt , Andrew W.K. , Stromkern , Dismantled , Acumen Nation , DJ? Acucrack , Rabbit Junk , Bile , Nocturne , Defragmentation artist Defragmentation and many more. ref cite web last Gibson first Doug aka deathbringer title Cyanotic s Sean Payne Featured In 16volt s American Porn Songs Album url http www.metalunderground.com news details.cfm?newsid 48684 publisher Metal Underground.com accessdate 16 November 2011 date 27 September 2009 ref Sean Payne and Drew Rosander formed Cyanotic in 2002 and released the Mutual Bonding Through Violation demo EP in 2003 via their own Glitch Mode Recordings label. Transhuman was released in mid 2005. and was Cya ... more details
System programming or systems programming is the activity of programming system software . The primary distinguishing characteristic of systems programming when compared to application programming is that application software application programming aims to produce software which provides services to the user e.g. word processor , whereas systems programming aims to produce software which provides services to the computer hardware e.g. Defragmentation disk defragmenter . It requires a greater degree of hardware awareness. Overview In system programming more specifically the programmer will make assumptions about the hardware and other properties of the system that the program runs on, and will often exploit those properties for example by using an algorithm that is known to be efficient when used with specific hardware usually a low level programming language or programming language dialect is used that can operate in resource constrained environments is very efficient and has little Run time system runtime overhead has a small runtime library , or none at all allows for direct and raw control over memory access and control flow lets the programmer write parts of the program directly in assembly language debugging can be difficult if it is not possible to run the program in a debugger due to resource constraints. Running the program in a computer simulation simulated environment can be used to reduce this problem. Systems programming is sufficiently different from application programming that programmers tend to specialize in one or the other. In system programming, often limited programming facilities are available. The use of garbage collection computer science automatic garbage collection is not common and debugging is sometimes hard to do. The runtime library , if available at all, is usually far less powerful, and does less error checking. Because of those limitations, monitoring and data logging logging are often used operating system s may have extremely elab ... more details
primary sources date September 2011 Infobox filesystem name AdvFS full name Tru64 UNIX Advanced File System developer Digital Equipment Corporation introduction os OSF 1 introduction date 1993 partition id directory struct file struct bad blocks struct Table max filename size 255 bytes max files no sup max volume size 16 Tebibyte TiB max file size 16 Tebibyte TiB filename character set dates recorded date range forks streams attributes file system permissions compression encryption OS Tru64 UNIX AdvFS , also known as Tru64 UNIX Advanced File System , is a file system developed in the late 1980s to mid 1990s ref cite web url https sourceforge.net forum forum.php?thread id 2091877&forum id 833655 title Revision history? publisher SourceForge.net accessdate 2008 06 25 ref by Digital Equipment Corporation for their OSF 1 version of the Unix operating system later Digital UNIX Tru64 UNIX . In June 2008, it was released as free software http www.gnu.org philosophy free sw.html under the GNU GPL license. ref name PressRelease http www.hp.com hpinfo newsroom press 2008 080623a.html Press release concerning the release of the AdvFS source code ref Its features include a Journaling file system journal to allow for fast crash recovery undeletion support high performance dynamic structure that allows an administrator to manage the file system on the fly on the fly creation of snapshots defragmentation while the domain has active users AdvFS uses a relatively advanced concept of a storage pool called a file domain and of logical file systems called file sets . A file domain is composed of any number of block devices, which could be partitions, Logical volume management LVM or Logical Storage Manager LSM devices. A file set is a logical file system created in a single file domain. Administrators can add or remove volumes from an active file domain, providing that there is enough space on the remaining file domain, in case of removal. This was one of the trickier original features ... more details
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