Jump to content

Search results

View (previous 20 | ) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)
  • Thumbnail for Buffer overflow
    information security, a buffer overflow or buffer overrun is an anomaly whereby a program writes data to a buffer beyond the buffer's allocated memory, overwriting...
    46 KB (5,132 words) - 08:55, 25 May 2025
  • Buffer overflow protection is any of various techniques used during software development to enhance the security of executable programs by detecting buffer...
    25 KB (2,836 words) - 13:59, 27 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Z-buffering
    A z-buffer, also known as a depth buffer, is a type of data buffer used in computer graphics to store the depth information of fragments. The values stored...
    16 KB (2,450 words) - 22:42, 7 June 2025
  • feature, the buffer zone (or just buffer). A buffer is likely the most commonly used tool within the proximity analysis methods. The buffer operation has...
    6 KB (714 words) - 04:55, 28 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Mesa (computer graphics)
    do low-level stuff. Mesa, which runs in user-space, houses the implementations of several APIs for software, e.g. VLC media player, GStreamer, HandBrake...
    92 KB (9,314 words) - 14:15, 13 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Design by contract
    designing software. It prescribes that software designers should define formal, precise and verifiable interface specifications for software components...
    16 KB (1,734 words) - 22:13, 5 June 2025
  • The Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) is an open source software project managed by the Linux Foundation. It provides a set of data plane libraries and...
    15 KB (1,520 words) - 22:12, 24 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Scanline rendering
    of Z-buffer-based GPUs now common in PCs. Sony experimented with software scanline renderers on a second Cell processor during the development of the...
    7 KB (1,058 words) - 01:14, 18 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for GNU Emacs
    GNU Emacs (category Free integrated development environments)
    GNU Emacs is a text editor and suite of free software tools. Its development began in 1984 by GNU Project founder Richard Stallman, based on the Emacs...
    56 KB (5,093 words) - 16:48, 13 June 2025
  • into the software, this ensures that there will be protection against insider attacks and reduces the threat to application security. Buffer overflows...
    8 KB (988 words) - 17:30, 1 September 2024
  • Stack overflow (category Software bugs)
    software, a stack overflow occurs if the call stack pointer exceeds the stack bound. The call stack may consist of a limited amount of address space,...
    11 KB (961 words) - 20:17, 25 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Plug-in (computing)
    add-in (also addin, add-on, or addon) is a software component that extends the functionality of an existing software system without requiring the system to...
    9 KB (1,004 words) - 02:49, 7 June 2025
  • final stage of software deployment. Transformation of a mistake committed by an analyst in the early stages of the software development lifecycle, which...
    40 KB (4,704 words) - 21:28, 8 June 2025
  • a stencil buffer". John Carmack of id Software independently discovered the algorithm in 2000 during the development of Doom 3. id Software was allowed...
    16 KB (2,270 words) - 02:37, 17 June 2025
  • stencil buffer to specify areas of the screen that correspond to surfaces that lie in a "shadow volume", or a shape representing a volume of space eclipsed...
    6 KB (796 words) - 06:45, 15 December 2024
  • Emacs (category Free integrated development environments)
    to each buffer as well as globally across all buffers, while major modes can only be toggled per-buffer. Any other data relevant to a buffer but not bundled...
    53 KB (6,387 words) - 07:46, 30 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Android software development
    Android software development is the process by which applications are created for devices running the Android mobile operating system. Google states that...
    25 KB (2,387 words) - 03:03, 16 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Deferred shading
    lighting at each pixel using the information of the texture buffers in screen space. Screen space directional occlusion can be made part of the deferred shading...
    27 KB (2,159 words) - 20:17, 20 May 2025
  • to the GPU and also require management of buffers and free space within that memory. Initially, user-space programs (such as the X Server) directly managed...
    108 KB (10,082 words) - 18:03, 16 May 2025
  • needed to complete the tasks can be accommodated by "buffering" (holding one or more cars in a space between the stations) and/or by "stalling" (temporarily...
    15 KB (2,207 words) - 16:47, 23 February 2025
View (previous 20 | ) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)