DID YOU KNOW?
October 10th 2006 16:28
Your text goes hØ Titanium is the name of a popular laptop computer from Apple. It’s called so because it is encased in titanium.
Ø To ‘quiesce’ is to put the computer, a program, a thread or other computer source into a temporary inactive or inhibited source.
Ø The ‘quiet zone’ is the blank margin on either side of bar code that is used to tell the barcode reader where a barcodes symbology starts and stops.
Ø ‘Project Banjara’ was the code name given by Microsoft to its development of JUMP (Java User Migration path). The project was executed in Hyderbad.
Ø The first Indian software enterprise to create a video that went to win a Grammy was Bangalore-based ‘Thinking Pictures’, for the video Deep Forest.
Ø PERL, Larry Wall created this programming language with the intension of re-humanising computing technology.
Ø A special parallel processing computer called ‘Beowulf’ was used for the special effects in the multi-Oscar-winning movie Titanic.
Ø The NEC Turbografx-16, released in Japan as the PC engine, was the first system to have CD player attachment.
Ø The original Apple computer logo pictured Sir Isaac Newton.
Ø SWF/LFM-926 was the first computer virus to use Macromedias Shockwave Flash files to transmit itself when a victim ran the Flash movie.
Ø The first product to have bar code on its package was Wrigley’s Chewing Gum.
Ø Adobe, or Adobe Systems Incorporated, is the second largest PC software company in the world, after Microsoft.
Ø Project Chicago was the code name for Windows 95.
Ø MP3 stands for ‘MPEG Layer3’.
Ø The first computer that was operated with a mouse was the Xerox alto.
Ø “Stewardesses” is the longest word you can type with your left hand using the usual two-handed typing method.
Ø Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajapayee was the first subscriber to India’s first private Internet service provider, Stayam Infoway.
Ø Seagate was the first company to manufacture hard disks for microcomputers.
Ø Infosys is the first Indian company to release its annual report in CD-ROM format.
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Ø To ‘quiesce’ is to put the computer, a program, a thread or other computer source into a temporary inactive or inhibited source.
Ø The ‘quiet zone’ is the blank margin on either side of bar code that is used to tell the barcode reader where a barcodes symbology starts and stops.
Ø ‘Project Banjara’ was the code name given by Microsoft to its development of JUMP (Java User Migration path). The project was executed in Hyderbad.
Ø The first Indian software enterprise to create a video that went to win a Grammy was Bangalore-based ‘Thinking Pictures’, for the video Deep Forest.
Ø A special parallel processing computer called ‘Beowulf’ was used for the special effects in the multi-Oscar-winning movie Titanic.
Ø The NEC Turbografx-16, released in Japan as the PC engine, was the first system to have CD player attachment.
Ø The original Apple computer logo pictured Sir Isaac Newton.
Ø SWF/LFM-926 was the first computer virus to use Macromedias Shockwave Flash files to transmit itself when a victim ran the Flash movie.
Ø The first product to have bar code on its package was Wrigley’s Chewing Gum.
Ø Adobe, or Adobe Systems Incorporated, is the second largest PC software company in the world, after Microsoft.
Ø Project Chicago was the code name for Windows 95.
Ø MP3 stands for ‘MPEG Layer3’.
Ø The first computer that was operated with a mouse was the Xerox alto.
Ø “Stewardesses” is the longest word you can type with your left hand using the usual two-handed typing method.
Ø Seagate was the first company to manufacture hard disks for microcomputers.
Ø Infosys is the first Indian company to release its annual report in CD-ROM format.
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