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Katherine Johnson’s mathematical calculations helped guide some of America’s most important early space missions while she confronted the racial and gender barriers faced by Black women in twentieth-century America.
MORE →Reflects the personal views, recollections, and perspective of the author, Mike Davis.
This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
| HWiNFO | |
|---|---|
| Other names | HWiNFO64, HWiNFO32 |
| Original author | Martin Malik |
| Developer | REALiX |
| Release | 1995, MS-DOS |
| Written in | C++, Assembly |
| Operating system | HWiNFO 16: MS-DOS HWiNFO 32: Windows 95 OSR2 and later HWiNFO 64: Windows 7 and later |
| Platform | x86-32, x86-64, ARM64 |
| License | Freeware for non-commercial use |
| Website | www |
HWiNFO (also known as HWiNFO64[1] for 64-bit builds) is a proprietary system monitoring, system profiling and system diagnostics program for Windows and MS-DOS-based systems.[2] It is developed by Martin Malik and REALiX.
It was used by NASA during several tests of different microprocessors, including AMD's Ryzen 3 1200 and Intel's i5-6600K.[3][4]
The program displays, monitors and logs the following items:[5]
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HWiNFO (also known as HWiNFO64 for 64-bit builds) is a proprietary system monitoring, system profiling and system diagnostics program for Windows and MS-DOS-based systems. It is developed by Martin Malik and REALiX. It was used by NASA during several tests of different microprocessors, including AMD's Ryzen 3 1200 and Intel's i5-6600K. The program displays, monitors and logs the following items: CPU GPU (granted the appropriate operating system drivers are installed) RAM (including speed and memory timings) Storage (certain SMART information and OS counters) not limited to HDD and SSD The number of hardware errors Virtual memory use
KInfoCenter (an abbreviation for KDE Information Center) is an open-source graphical system profiler, hardware enumeration and diagnostic monitoring utility developed by the KDE community. Designed as the primary hardware and software introspection interface for the KDE Plasma desktop environment, KInfoCenter provides both casual end-users and advanced system administrators with deeply granular, categorized telemetry regarding the host machine's underlying operating system, hardware components, low-level kernel configurations, and the graphical display stack. Originally integrated deeply into the core system configuration utility of early KDE desktop releases, KInfoCenter was systematically decoupled to function as a standalone, highly modular application. Although engineered primarily for Linux distributions—where it natively hooks into virtual pseudo-filesystems such as procfs (`/proc`), sysfs (`/sys`), and device managers like udev—its architectural reliance on the KDE Frameworks allows it to abstract hardware data collection. This hardware abstraction layer (HAL) enables KInfoCenter to function seamlessly across various Unix-like operating systems, including FreeBSD and other BSD derivatives, without requiring platform-specific recompilation of its core logic. Beyond merely listing hardware specifications, KInfoCenter functions as a critical bridge for user technical support. It features built-in, automated tools for generating exhaustive hardware manifests, exporting system configurations, and verifying the real-time operational statuses of graphical display servers (both the modern Wayland protocol and the legacy X11). Consequently, it is heavily utilized by developers and support technicians for diagnosing system bottlenecks, troubleshooting kernel-driver hardware incompatibilities, or identifying graphical rendering anomalies within the Linux ecosystem.
The Sony Xperia 1 IV is an Android smartphone manufactured by Sony. Launched on May 11, 2022, it succeeds the Xperia 1 III as the latest flagship of Sony's Xperia series. The device was announced along with the mid-range Xperia 10 IV, with expected release dates by June 2022 (Asian markets) and as late as September 2022 for other markets, including the US. US shipments were delayed and ultimately began in late October 2022.
VESA BIOS Extensions (VBE) is a VESA standard, currently at version 3, that defines the interface that can be used by software to access compliant video boards at high resolutions and bit depths. This is opposed to the "traditional" INT 10h BIOS calls, which are limited to resolutions of 640×480 pixels with 16 colour (4-bit) depth or less. VBE is made available through the video card's BIOS, which installs some interrupt vectors that point to itself during boot up. Most newer cards implement the more capable VBE 3.0 standard. Older versions of VBE provide only a real mode interface, which cannot be used without a significant performance penalty from within protected mode operating systems. Consequently, the VBE standard has almost never been used for writing a video card's drivers; each vendor has thus had to invent a proprietary protocol for communicating with its own video card. Despite this, it is common that a driver thunk out to the real mode interrupt in order to initialize screen modes and gain direct access to a card's linear frame buffer, because these tasks would otherwise require handling many hundreds of proprietary variations that exist from card to card. Like INT 10H, VBE provides x86 machine code; using its interfaces on other systems requires x86 emulation. In EFI 1.x systems, the INT 10H and the VESA BIOS Extensions (VBE) are replaced by the EFI UGA protocol. In widely used UEFI 2.x systems, the INT 10H and the VBE are replaced by the UEFI GOP.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
MORE →Mae Jemison, aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.