• software, proprietary software only available as a binary executable is referred to as a blob or binary blob. The term usually refers to a device driver module...
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  • Opaque binary blob (OBB) is a term used in network engineering and computer science to refer to a sizeable piece of data, which looks like binary garbage...
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  • Object storage (redirect from Database blob)
    later eclipsed by the retroactive explanation of blobs as "Binary Large Objects". According to Starkey, "Blob don't stand for nothin'." Rejecting the acronym...
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  • storage, or blob storage, that manages data as "blobs" or "objects" Binary blob, or blob, a non-free object in open source software Blob URI scheme, a...
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    enabling all free operating systems to become or remain blob-free. The issue of binary blobs in the Linux kernel and other device drivers motivated some...
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  • The Blob is a 1958 American science fiction horror film directed by Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. from a screenplay by Theodore Simonson and Kate Phillips, based...
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    repository, contains binary blobs released under the terms of the GNU GPLv2 license. Linux can also search filesystems to locate binary blobs, proprietary firmware...
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  • entries it is just the base to produce binary packages, so the total number of packages is the number of binary packages. For Arch based entries, it is...
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  • Oliver B. Bumble, comic series and name of its main character Opaque binary blob, a file format, which is (among others) used by the Android operating...
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    proprietary, meaning its source code is not publicly available, but the binary blob can be freely redistributed. An experimental open-source alternative...
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    established as a distribution of coreboot, but with some proprietary binary blobs removed from coreboot. Libreboot makes coreboot easy to use by automating...
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    a primary focus to remove some binary blobs. osboot - A variant similar to Libreboot that scrapped its only some blobs policy to increase hardware support...
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    licenses, as well as the Beerware license. Some device drivers include a binary blob, such as the Atheros HAL of FreeBSD versions before 7.2.[failed verification]...
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    Linux-libre is a modified version of the Linux kernel that contains no binary blobs, obfuscated code, or code released under proprietary licenses. In the...
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  • a binary blob. Pirates could trivially produce an ELM327 clone by purchasing the same microcontroller chip and programming it with the copied blob. ELM327...
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  • The Blob franchise consists of American science fiction monster-horror films, including the Steve McQueen-led original, its campy comedic sequel, and its...
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    objections to binary-only drivers based on copyright, security, reliability and development concerns. As part of a wider campaign against binary blobs, OpenBSD...
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  • DKMS supports both the rpm and deb package formats out of the box. Binary blob Free and open-source software portal "Fixes for ldtarball · dell/dkms"...
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  • longer mentioned in later manuals. Mimer SQL 11.0: supported. Binary large object Binary blob "Oracle CLOB in JavaDB". docs.oracle.com. Retrieved 2018-08-16...
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  • Facebook build engineer Chuck Rossi, Facebook compiles into a 1.5 GB binary blob which is then distributed to the servers using a custom BitTorrent-based...
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    only binary drivers for most of their product line and one partially free and open-source driver for the G550 card which comes with a binary blob to enable...
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  • labeling can operate on a variety of information. Blob extraction is generally performed on the resulting binary image from a thresholding step, but it can be...
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    uses a version of Ubuntu's modified kernel, with the non-free code (binary blobs) removed. Trisquel relies on user donations. Its logo is a triskelion...
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    combine GNU packages with a Linux kernel which contains proprietary binary blobs. The GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines (GNU FSDG) is a system distribution...
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    non-existent domains, and blocking internal requests to those domains. Removing binary blobs from the Chromium code and replacing them with custom alternatives. Adding...
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  • Software Personalization). The term “SHSH blob” is unofficial and based on abbreviations for signed hash and binary large object. An alternative term, ECID...
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    database. It can also index through binary columns, and use iFilters to extract meaningful text from the binary blob (for example, when a Microsoft Word...
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    and core dumps. First published in the specification for the application binary interface (ABI) of the Unix operating system version named System V Release...
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  • Larabel, Michael. "Purism's Librem 5 To Rely On Secondary Processor For Binary Blobs - Phoronix". www.phoronix.com. Amadeo, Ron (26 September 2019). "Purism's...
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  • cookie technology Opaque binary blob, in network-engineering and computer-science technology, a large set of binary data (a blob) that looks like garbage...
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