Refimprove date October 2011 OS In computing, a devicedriver or software driver is a computer program allowing higher level computer programs to interact with a computer hardware hardware device. A driver typically communicates with the Peripheral device through the computer bus or communications subsystem to which the hardware connects. When a calling program invokes a subroutine routine in the driver, the driver issues commands to the device. Once the device sends data back to the driver, the driver ... necessary asynchronous time dependent hardware interface. Purpose A devicedriver simplifies programming by acting as translator between a hardware device and the applications or operating system s that use ... memory. Development Writing a devicedriver requires an in depth understanding of how the hardware and the software ... can use their hardware in an optimum way. Typically, the logical devicedriver LDD is written by the operating system vendor, while the physical devicedriver PDD is implemented by the device ... written device drivers by creating a new framework for driver development, called Windows Driver Foundation ... in user mode is improved stability, since a poorly written user mode devicedriver cannot crash the system ... higher level interface e.g. Video BIOS using another lower level devicedriver e.g. file system drivers ... operating system to access the hardware are routed to the virtual devicedriver in the host operating system as e.g. function call s. The virtual devicedriver can also send simulated processor ... dxd C open source cross platform driver framework for KMDF and IOKit Identifiers A device on the PCI ... driverDevicedriver synthesis and verification Firmware Interrupt Loadable kernel module Makedev ... Linux Operating System DEFAULTSORT DeviceDriver Category Device drivers Category Linux drivers ... ro Driver rue ru simple Devicedriver sk Ovl da informatika sr ... hardware the end user is using. Physical layers communicate with specific device instances. For example ... more details
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orphan date January 2009 AirJack is a devicedriver or suite of device drivers for IEEE 802.11 a b g raw frame injection and reception. It is meant as a development tool for all manner of 802.11 applications that need to access the raw Protocol computing protocol . External links http www.sourceforge.net Category Device drivers operating system stub ... more details
unreferenced date January 2009 IBM Subsystem DeviceDriver SDD , formerly Data Path Optimizer is software available for multiple platforms, where the core component is a devicedriver designed to support the multipath I O configuration requirements in IBM storage environments. Platforms supported IBM AIX operating system AIX HP UX Linux Both Redhat & SUSE Solaris Operating System Solaris Microsoft Windows Windows See also IBM SAN Volume Controller IBM Enterprise Storage Server IBM System Storage External links See Official Documentation at http www 01.ibm.com support docview.wss?rs 540&context ST52G7&q ssg1 &uid ssg1S7000303&loc en US&cs storage software stub Category IBM operating systems Subsystem DeviceDriver Category Storage software ... more details
The devicedriver is a program which allows the software or higher level computer program s to interact ... kernel and the devices below. File Driverarch.gif thumb alt The DeviceDriver architecture. Devicedriver The devicedriver . Usually the operating systems comes with a support for the common device drivers and usually the hardware vendors provide the devicedriver for their hardware devices for most ... made the devicedriver development process cumbersome and complex. When the size and Function engineering ... drivers. Motivation for automatic driver synthesis and verification The device drivers are the principal ... BOINC project found that OS crashes are predominantly caused by poorly written devicedriver code ... , drivers account for 85 of the reported failures. In the Linux kernel 2.4.1 devicedriver code accounts ... of the device and operating systems can lead to more reliable drivers. The other motivation for driver ... system requires the availability of corresponding devicedriver combination. Hardware vendors usually ... on a Windows devicedriver. Avinux ref H. Post,W. K chlin. Integration of static analysis for linux devicedriver verification . In The 6th Intl. Conf. on Integrated Formal Methods, 2007. ref is another ... components are replaced on the fly. Devicedriver Synthesis An alternative to verification and isolation of faults is to deploy techniques in devicedriver development process to make it more robust ... driver for that device. This helps to reduce the human introduced errors as well as the cost and time ... language for device drivers . SIGPLAN Not. 39, 2004. ref is an enhancement to Devil, describing the driver .... For a devicedriver generation, one have to first write the driver functionalities in these interface ... is another domain specific devicedriver specification language. The driver developer needs to write ... sheet the driver developer extracts register and memory layout of the device and the behavioral .... Automatic devicedriver synthesis with Termite . In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Symposium on Operating ... more details
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Unsourced image removed Image ADevice.jpg thumb 105px right A Device attached to medals and ribbon The A Device is an United States military award devices award device of the United States military which is presented as an attachment to the American Defense Service Medal and the Overseas Service Ribbon Air Force Overseas Service Ribbon . The A Device is a bronze colored letter A , pinned to the center of both awards. Atlantic Device in World War II The American Defense Service Medal was the first decoration to use the device and the award was originally known as the Atlantic Device and also as the Axis Device . The A Device was awarded to any member of the United States Navy who, while deployed to the Atlantic Ocean between June 22 and December 7, 1941, engaged in armed conflict, or potential armed conflict, with naval forces of the Germany German Kriegsmarine . Those having done so were awarded the American Defense Service Medal with A Device, the intent being to recognize those who had participated in the undeclared war when the United States of America was assisting United Kingdom Britain with war convoys and German U Boat interdiction. USAF Arctic Device The A Device became obsolete ... States Air Force declared that the A Device would be awarded to those who had received the Air Force ... and Alaska . Now known as the Arctic Device , the A Device is awarded as an attachment to the Air Force Overseas Short Tour Service Ribbon. The device is not authorized for any other United States military decorations. Note, however, that the two representations of the A Device are different. The Atlantic Device does not have feet sans serif , but the Arctic Device does have serif s. Although ... 8, 2007, only Thule Air Base qualifies for this device. External links http www.history.navy.mil medals atlantic.htm Atlantic A Device for American Defense Service Medal Eligibility http wwa.afpc.randolph.af.mil ... exploration it A Device ... more details
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About the film the Buddy Rich album The Driver album Infobox Film name The Driver image TheDriverPoster.jpg caption The Driver director Walter Hill filmmaker Walter Hill producer Lawrence Gordon producer Lawrence Gordon writer Walter Hill filmmaker Walter Hill starring Ryan O Neal br Bruce Dern br Isabelle Adjani br Ronee Blakley music Michael Small cinematography Philip H. Lathrop editing Tina Hirsch br Robert K. Lambert distributor 20th Century Fox North America br EMI Films International released July 10, 1978 runtime 91 min. country Film US language English language English budget 4,000,000 ... Filmmakers Series . Lanham, Maryland Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978 0810842441. p234 ref The Driver ... driver Ryan O Neal steals cars to drive as getaway vehicles for big time robberies. Hot on the Driver s trail is the Detective Bruce Dern , a conceited cop who refers to the Driver as the cowboy ... so obsessed that he sets up a bank job in order to entice, trap, and ultimately arrest, the Driver. Cast Ryan O Neal as The Driver Bruce Dern as The Detective Isabelle Adjani as The Player Ronee Blakley ... DRIVER Review of The Driver in the Reader. ref The film grossed a total of 1,102,183 admissions in France ... title The Driver 1978 publisher JPBox Office date accessdate 2012 04 06 ref In popular culture Both ... Fiction is copied from the opening chase of The Driver and Beatrix Kiddo being described as the cowgirl ... in The Driver as the cowboy who could not be caught. According to Wensley Clarkson s book, Tarantino The Man, the Myths and His Movies, Tarantino lists The Driver as one of the coolest movies ... links imdb title id 0077474 title The Driver amg title id 14823 title The Driver Walter Hill DEFAULTSORT Driver, The Category 1978 films Category 1970s action films Category 1970s crime films Category ... films bg de Driver Film fr Driver film, 1978 it Driver l imprendibile ja no Driver film pl Kierowca film 1978 ru fi Keikkakuski sv The Driver ... more details
File Vista Device Manager.png thumb Screenshot of the Device Manager tool under Windows Vista . File Device Manger Windows 2003.png thumb Screenshot of the Device Manager tool under Windows Server 2003 showing hardware components organized under categories. The Device Manager is a Control Panel Windows Control Panel applet in Microsoft Windows operating systems. It allows users to view and control the hardware attached to the computer. When a piece of hardware is not working, the offending hardware is highlighted for the user to deal with. The list of hardware can be sorted by various criteria. For each device, users can Supply devicedriver s for the hardware Enable or disable devices Tell Windows to ignore malfunctioning devices View other technical properties Device Manager was introduced with Windows 95 and later added to Windows 2000 . In NT based versions, it is included as a Microsoft Management Console snap in. See also List of Microsoft Windows components Microsoft Management Console References reflist External links http support.microsoft.com default.aspx?scid kb en us Q304514 Displaying detailed information in Windows XP device manager http support.microsoft.com default.aspx?scid kb EN US Q315539 Displaying unconnected devices in Windows XP device manager http support.microsoft.com default.aspx?scid kb EN US Q311272 The DevCon utility Windows Components Category Windows components Category Article Feedback 5 fa ko ru vi Tr nh qu n l thi t b zh ... more details
Refimprove date June 2008 In Unix like operating systems , a device file or special file is an interface computer science interface for a devicedriver that appears in a file system as if it were an ordinary ... software to interact with a devicedriver using standard input output system call s, which simplifies many tasks and unifies user space I O mechanisms. Device files often provide simple interfaces to peripheral ... s. Generally, the major number identifies the devicedriver and the minor number identifies a particular device possibly out of many that the driver controls in this case, the system may pass the minor number to a driver. However, in the presence of dynamic number allocation, this may not be the case e.g. on FreeBSD 5 and up . As with other special file types, the computer system accesses device ... Serial Bus USB , IEEE 1394 , etc. sd mass storage driver sda first registered device sda4 ... is not entirely trivial. The devfs approach is for the devicedriver to request creation and deletion ... resources on those devices, such as Disk partitioning disk partitions . Finally, device files are useful ... device such as data sink s and random number generator s. MS DOS borrowed the concept of special ... device attributes.html ref PIPE, MAILSLOT, and MUP are other standard Windows devices. ref http support.microsoft.com kb 102985 ref There are two general kinds of device files in Unix like operating .... These together can be called device special files in contrast to named pipe s, which are not connected to a device but are not ordinary files either. Implementation By definition, device nodes correspond ... of device files exist, differentiated by the type of hardware with which they interface and the way ... transmits data one character at a time by, for example, getchar . These device nodes often serve ... each character from the device immediately or writes each character to the device immediately. Block ... data storage blocks by, for example, fread . These device nodes interface the devices, such as hard ... more details
format required for each device, using devicedriver s typically provided by the hardware ...Primary date May 2010 Device independence is the process of making a software application be able to function on a wide variety of devices regardless of the local hardware on which the software is used. Desktop computing In the early days of computer design and development up until about 1980, software was typically specifically written to operate on the specific hardware where the software was used. The software was intimately linked to the hardware, and could not function independent of it. As computers became less expensive generalized personal computer s, the concept of peripheral device s was introduced, where the base hardware could have a variety of different accessory devices from different manufacturers. At first, software which was to use this accessory hardware was required to be specifically designed to support it. In the time of MS DOS , game programmers typically had to write custom control software for each type of sound card or video card that might be installed in the user s computer. The need to provide custom support for so many devices consumed a considerable amount of time for software development. Eventually hardware abstraction layer s HAL such as DirectX were ... brought about the development of the hypervisor and device Hardware virtualization virtualization ... device. World Wide Web Usage the web accessible by any device under any circumstance and by all people. The W3C World Wide Web Consortium W3C has initiated the Device Independence Working Group, which ... can access. One key publication of the Device Independence Working Group is the Composite Capability ... External links http www.w3.org 2001 di Device Independence activity at W3C http www.w3.org TR di princ Device Independence Principles http www.w3.org 2005 04 di mmi wai.html Device Independence ... web stub Category World Wide Web Category World Wide Web Consortium sv Device Independence ... more details
A Detrainment device is equipment on a Passenger car rail rail vehicle that provides an evacuation route for the passengers. It usually consists of a set of steps or a ramp, located at a doorway, allowing passengers to leave the vehicle in an emergency, vehicle breakdown or Train wreck accident . A detrainment device is moved from a stored location into an operational position, usually above the Coupling railway coupler at the end of a Passenger car rail passenger car . A detrainment device may consist of a manually placed, hinged, foldable or telescopic ladder or ramp. A detrainment device may allow evacuation to track level, or to a coupled railcar. A detrainment device may be fitted with handrails. In other cases, evacuation may be via the vehicle passenger side doors to a trackside walkway in a tunnel, without the use of a detrainment device. Main Types Examples of the main types of detrainment device currently in service include a Steps, stored loose inside the driver s cab or the passenger saloon Historically the most common arrangement b Hinged steps, stored inside the driver s cab or the passenger saloon London Underground S Stock London Underground S Stock ref http lurs.org.uk articles10 htm files sstock.pdf ref ref http www.dca design.com new detrainment system for underground metro vehicles.html ref c Steps, folding, hinging or sliding out from the doorway London Underground refurbished 1973 tube stock 1973 Tube Stock ref http www.squarewheels.org.uk rly stock 1973tubeStock detrain ref ref http www.percylane.com cms index.php?option com content&task view&id 42&Itemid 98 ref ref http www.trainweb.org tubeprune 73 20tube 20stock.htm ref London Underground 1996 Stock 1996 Tube Stock ref http www.squarewheels.org.uk rly stock 1996tubeStock ref Bombardier Transportation Bombardier Class 378 Capitalstar ref http www.londonhealthandsafetygroup.org downloads 091019 ... Overview and key features.jsp Toronto Rocket detrainment device Category Rail technologies Category ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 A filter driver is a Microsoft Windows driver that adds value to peripheral device s or supports a specialized device in the personal computer . It is a driver program module that is inserted into the existing driver stack to perform some specific function. A filter driver should not affect the normal working of the existing driver stack in any major way. Written either by Microsoft or the vendor of the Computer hardware hardware , any number of filter drivers can be added to Windows. Upper level filter drivers sit above the primary driver for the device the function driver , while lower level filter drivers sit below the function driver and above the computer bus bus driver. Filters may work on a certain brand of device such as a mouse computing mouse or computer keyboard keyboard , or they may perform some operation on a class of devices, such as any mouse or any keyboard. Another type of filter driver is the bus filter driver, which may be added on top of the bus driver. For example, an Advanced Configuration and Power Interface ACPI bus filter is added to support power management for each device. See also Windows Driver Model DeviceDriver Advanced Configuration and Power Interface DEFAULTSORT Filter Driver Category Device drivers Category Microsoft application programming interfaces ... more details
Unreferenced date March 2009 A Device Register is the view any device presents to a programmer . Each programmable bit in the device is presented with a logical address and it appears as a part of a byte in the device registers. Then programming of these bits can be achieved by reading from or writing to these device registers. Most devices have at least these two device registers Data Register to which the data to be input output is read from written to the device. Control Status Which selects shows the mode of operation of the device. Category Digital registers compu hardware stub ... more details
The term nexus driver refers to a Computer bus bus driver which interfaces leaf driver s to a specific I O bus and provides the low level integration of this I O bus. Category Device drivers Computer stub ... more details
Storage device may refer to Box , or any of a variety of containers or receptacles Data storage device , a device for recording information, which could range from handwriting to video or acoustic recording, or to electromagnetic energy modulating magnetic tape and optical discs Object storage device , computer storage device Portable storage device , small hard drive Nintendo DS storage devices , used for Nintendo game systems See also intitle storage disambig Box , or any of a variety of containers or receptacles ... more details
A device fingerprint or machine fingerprint or browser fingerprint is information collected about a remote computing device for the purpose of identification. Fingerprints can fully or partially identify individual users or devices even when cookie s are turned off. Basic web browser configuration information has long been collected by web analytics services in an effort to accurately measure real human web traffic and discount various forms of click fraud . With the assistance of client side scripting languages, collection of much more esoteric parameters is possible. ref cite web url http gemal.dk browserspy title BrowserSpy publisher gemal.dk date accessdate 2010 01 28 ref ref cite web url http mypage.direct.ca s schinke defaultbehaviors clientCapsExtra.html title IE default behaviors sic& 93 browser information disclosure tests clientCaps publisher Mypage.direct.ca date accessdate 2010 01 28 ref Assimilation of such information into a single string comprises a device fingerprint. Recently ... date 1970 01 01 accessdate 2010 01 28 ref Essentials Motivation for the device fingerprint concept ... www.sandia.gov news resources releases 2006 images wireless fingerprinting.pdf title Wireless DeviceDriver Fingerprinting format PDF date accessdate 2010 01 28 ref and hardware clock skew . ref cite web url http www.cs.washington.edu homes yoshi papers PDF title Remote Physical Device Detection publisher ... fingerprints Passive collection of device attributes below the web browser layer may occur at several ... Collection of device fingerprints from web clients web browser browser software relies on the availability ... device s and those running privacy software . A separate issue is that a single device may have multiple ... has distinct internal parameters, one may change the device fingerprint by simply running a different ... of your browser s device fingerprint and estimates how identifiable it makes you Julia Angwin, Jennifer ... trier.de webFingerprint , online browser fingerprinting test German DEFAULTSORT Device Fingerprint ... more details
Did you mean Loopback related to electronic communication interfaces Loop device a pseudo device in Unix like operating systems disambig ... more details
The term Hoffman device may refer to The Hoffman external lengthening fixator , a prosthetic limb device The Hoffman tank gunfire simulator , a tank gun fire simulator . disambig ... more details
about the vision aid device the surgical technique Bioptics surgery BiOptics , also known as a biOptic in the singular, and sometimes more formally termed a biOptic telescope , is a term for a pair of Visual perception vision enhancement Lens optics lenses with extreme magnification, used to improve distance vision for those with severely impaired eyesight, especially those with albinism . They may take the form head mounted Glasses eyeglasses similar in appearance to goggles and binoculars , although several brands are designed to be attached to existing glasses rather than being a self complete form of eyewear. NOTE The following reference sources all text before this point. If text is inserted, it should be separately sourced, this citation moved to the point before the insertion, and a ref name NOAH 1 added where this citation now appears. ref name NOAH 1 Cite web title Low Vision Aids url http www.albinism.org publications driving.html work NOAH.org author Staff writers no by line. location East Hampstead, NH publisher National Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentation year 2002 accessdate April 22, 2009 ref In some jurisdictions, those with low vision may be permitted to drive automobiles when using BiOptics. ref name NOAH 2 Cite web title Albinism and Driving url http www.albinism.org publications driving.html work NOAH.org author Staff writers no by line. location East Hampstead, NH publisher National Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentation year 2002 accessdate April 22, 2009 ref BiOptic driving BiOptic written with uppercase O to differentiate with other types of bioptic driving is a method of driving that utilizes both the patient s general vision in combination ... the wheel driver s training. Determining whether a visually impaired individual may become a biOptic driver requires a multidisciplinary approach. This may include the low vision specialist, physicians ... identifying those with the potential to be a safe biOptic driver. References Reflist External links ... more details
The Hutchens device is a device for protecting race car drivers in the event of an accident by controlling head movement, reducing Human head head and neck injuries due to Whiplash medicine whiplash . It consists of a series of straps, attached to the helmet and connected across the chest and at the waist , depending on the lap belt for anchoring. The device was developed beginning in 2000. From 2001 until 2005 NASCAR mandated that drivers use either the Hutchens device or the HANS device . Beginning in 2005 the Hutchens device was no longer sanctioned as an acceptable restraint device as it failed to live up to its former performance claims when tested to the independent SFI 38.1 standard. References references Category Auto racing equipment Category Automotive safety technologies autoracing stub no Hutchens enhet ... more details
In the Linux kernel , the device mapper serves as a generic Software framework framework to map one block device onto another. It forms the foundation of LVM2 and Enterprise Volume Management System EVMS , software RAID s, dm crypt disk encryption, and offers additional features such as file system Snapshot computer storage snapshots . Device mapper works by processing data passed in from a virtual block device , that it itself provides, and then passing the resultant data on to another block device. Applications Applications like LVM2 and Enterprise Volume Management System EVMS that need to create new mapped devices talk to the device mapper via the libdevmapper.so Library computer science shared library , which in turn issues ioctl s to the dev mapper control device node . Developers can also access device mapper from shell script s via the dmsetup tool. Device mapper applications LVM2 Enterprise Volume Management System EVMS kpartx dm crypt dmraid providing access to RAID configurations via device mapper cryptoloop deprecated Multipath I O Multipath using device mapper multipath ref http sources.redhat.com dm Device mapper Resource Page Bot generated title ref The Linux version of TrueCrypt http visa.cs.fiu.edu ming dmcache dmcache A generic block level disk cache http www.acis.ufl.edu ming dmcache dmcache A generic block level disk cache External links http sources.redhat.com dm Device mapper home at Red Hat cite web url http linuxgazette.net 114 kapil.html title Right To Your Own Devices work Linux Gazette year 2005 month May an article that illustrates the use of various device mapper targets http people.redhat.com heinzm sw dmraid readme userspace tool to set up software RAID using various RAID metadata formats http lwn.net Articles 124703 Multipath support in the device mapper LWN.net References reflist Category Linux kernel features linux stub de Device Mapper fr Carte des p riph riques ... more details
Distinguish mnemonic device pneumatic device wiktionary A pneumonic device is any equipment designed for use with or relating to the lungs. The iron lung and medical ventilator may be considered pneumonic devices. The term may also refer to any device used in the field of respiratory therapy . References Unreferenced date November 2008 references references Category Respiratory therapy medical equipment stub ... more details
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