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Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers.
A special user with very little access. To prevent someone running as root or as an administrator on one system from gaining control over another system through a network connection, such users are often mapped to the nobody user on the remote system.
Industry:Software; Computer
A programmatic mechanism for alerting interested recipients (observers) that some event has occurred during program execution. The observers can be users, other processes, or even the same process that originates the notification. In Mac OS X, the term is used to identify specific mechanisms that are variations of the basic meaning. In the kernel environment, notification is sometimes used to identify a message sent via IPC from kernel space to user space. Distributed notifications provide a way for a process to broadcast an alert (along with additional data) to any other process that makes itself an observer of that notification. Finally, the Notification Manager (a Carbon manager) lets background programs notify users—through blinking icons in the menu bar, by sounds, or by dialogs—that their intercession is required. In Enterprise Objects, it’s a mechanism that provides an asynchronous communication infrastructure between objects.
Industry:Software; Computer
WebObjects class that encapsulates format properties for an NSXMLOutputStream object.
Industry:Software; Computer
WebObjects class that serializes objects and data into XML documents.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) In object-oriented programming, a programming unit that groups together a data structure (fields) and the operations (methods) that can use or affect that data. Objects are the principal building blocks of object-oriented programs. (2) In Mach, a collection of data, with permissions and ownership. (3) In AppleScript, an instantiation of a class definition, which can include properties and actions. (4) A group of bright, high-intensity pixels in an image, as opposed to the darker pixels, which are considered part of the background.
Industry:Software; Computer
A file containing executable code and data. Object files in the Mach-O executable format take the suffix.oand are the product of compilation using the GNU compiler ( gcc ). Multiple object files are typically linked together along with required frameworks to create a program. See also code fragment, dynamic linking.
Industry:Software; Computer
A free collection of digital codecs for multimedia, including Ogg Vorbis for lossy compression of audio at medium-to-high bit rates, and Ogg FLAC for lossless audio.
Industry:Software; Computer
A free, open source, lossless audio codec. Ogg FLAC typically compresses CD audio by 50% with no data loss. FLAC is an acronym for Free Lossless Audio Codec. See also lossless compression.
Industry:Software; Computer
A free, open source, lossy audio codec intended to compete with MP3.
Industry:Software; Computer
