- Industry: Computer; Software
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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 self-contained part of a product. A product can have one or more components. The Mac OS X file system contains special locations for several types of components. For example, application binaries are placed in Application directories, plug-ins are housed in Plugin directories, fonts live in Fonts directories, and so on.
Industry:Software; Computer
In the Carbon Event Manager, an execution loop that obtains events from the Window Server and places them in an event queue. The event loop also fires timers.
Industry:Software; Computer
A server that has access to a store of authentication information and that can authenticate users. For example, an authentication server might verify a user’s identity by prompting the user for a name and password and comparing that information to the names and passwords in a database. In Kerberos authentication, the authentication server also looks up the user’s private key, generates a session key, and creates a TGT. See also ticket-granting server.
Industry:Software; Computer
A file that contains a packaged or unpackaged product. The two container types are disk image and ZIP archive.
Industry:Software; Computer
A first-in-first-out stack where events pertaining to a thread are stored. Each preemptively scheduled thread has its own event queue.
Industry:Software; Computer
The process by which an entity such as a user or a server gets the right to perform a privileged operation. (Authorization can also refer to the right itself, as in “Bob has the authorization to run that program.”) Authorization usually involves first authenticating the entity and then determining whether it has the appropriate permissions. Compare authentication.
Industry:Software; Computer
The file-system directory that contains a project file, the project’s source code and resources, and the build directory.
Industry:Software; Computer
An I/O object that corresponds to a type of event that a device driver can be expected to handle; there are currently event sources for hardware interrupts, timer events, and I/O commands. The I/O Kit defines a class for each of these event types, respectively IOInterruptEventSource, IOTimerEventSource, and IOCommandGate.
Industry:Software; Computer
A parameter or field that instructs the Security Server how to proceed with a request. Options include requesting preauthorization, requesting partial authorization, appending rights, and interacting with the user.
Industry:Software; Computer
In WebObjects, a component that can be nested within other components and acts like a dynamic element.
Industry:Software; Computer
