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  THE DAEMONS HOME
DAEMON Tools Pro build 218 is released on 8-th September 2007:
DAEMON Tools Pro build 217 is released on 4th September 2007:
DAEMON Tools Pro Adware version includes mandatory adware.
www.daemon-tools.cc   (980 words)

  
  daemon - definition by dict.die.net
Daemon and demon are often used interchangeably, but seem to have distinct connotations (see demon).
Daemon and demon are often used interchangeably, but seem to have distinct connotations.
The term `daemon' was introduced to computing by CTSS people (who pronounced it /dee'mon/) and used it to refer to what ITS called a dragon; the prototype was a program called DAEMON that automatically made tape backups of the file system.
dict.die.net /daemon   (662 words)

  
 The BSD Daemon
In the general sense, daemon is an older form of the word demon.
``Daemon'' is actually a much older form of ``demon''; daemons have no particular bias towards good or evil, but rather serve to help define a person's character or personality.
The ancient Greeks' concept of a ``personal daemon'' was similar to the modern concept of a ``guardian angel'' --- ``eudaemonia'' is the state of being helped or protected by a kindly spirit.
www.freebsd.org /copyright/daemon.html   (244 words)

  
 Julia Cat's ReBoot Corner - Characters - Daemon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Daemon creates a war for the Net because she was created to infect the entire thing.
Daemon, having infected all the Guardians save for Bob and Matrix, does not have access to any keytools to open portals to these locked systems; the keytools ran away when the guardians were infected.
Daemon needs Bob to be her messenger, to open portals to all the remaining systems in order for her function to be complete, because he is one with his keytool.
www.rbcorner.com /characters/daemon.html   (253 words)

  
 what is daemon??? - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums
More specifically, when you create a new thread in Java and flag it as a daemon by passing true to setDaemon, you are indicating to the VM that the thread should be terminated when thread which spawned it has terminated.
Daemon threads are basically threads that are there to provide a service to user threads.
So if you spawn any daemons off of the main thread, they will be killed when the app exits, since the main thread will be terminated.
www.gamedev.net /community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=208423   (744 words)

  
 Daemon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The earliest use appears to have been in the phrase daemon of Socrates, which was his "attendant, ministering, or indwelling spirit; genius".
It was a short time later that the term demon came to refer to "an evil spirit" by influence of its usage in various versions of the Bible.
By the late 16th century, the general supernatural meaning was being distinguished with the spelling daemon, while the evil meaning remained demon.
www.angelfire.com /empire/serpentis666/Daemon.html   (151 words)

  
 Daemon - WoWWiki
Daemons were summonable by the Warlock unit of Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, and later appeared as the minions of Gul'dan in a mission of Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness.
The daemons of Warcraft: Orcs and Humans are refrenced in Chess Event in Karazhan in the form of the Summoned Daemon chess piece.
Daemons are unlikely to associate with devils, demons or demodand, that is they are rarely found working together, unless under the guidance of a powerful leader.
www.wowwiki.com /Daemon   (1063 words)

  
 GW Online : Warhammer : Hordes of Chaos : Daemon Name Generator
Daemons use a number of false names and titles so as to keep their true names a secret.
Daemons will apply such 'use-names' to themselves as they think fit or as amuses them.
Daemons of Khorne, for instance, have names which echo nothing but their love of violence and destruction: Warfiend, Thrashblood Hackflesh and Manblight Gnaw-weapon.
uk.games-workshop.com /hordesofchaos/name-generator/1   (643 words)

  
 Metallian.com
Daemon was formed by Lundemark as an outlet for playing Swedeath.
The Second Coming was, appropriately enough, underwhelming in 1999 and with Andersson off doing his own thing and the band unable to sustain a real line-up the whole affair seemed to be destined for the flash-in-the-pan file.
Still with Daemon, the members and producers are in a constant state of change.
www.metallian.com /daemon.htm   (2752 words)

  
 Unix Daemons in Perl
The word daemon is derived from the Greek word daimon, meaning a "supernatural being" or "spirit", rather than demon, referring to the fallen angels or followers of Satan.
Daemons typically spend most of their time waiting for an event or period when they will perform some task.
These particular daemon programs are responsible in part for making the Internet useful, but daemons also serve other purposes that are not as visible to users.
www.webreference.com /perl/tutorial/9   (685 words)

  
 Urban Dictionary: Daemon
Unlike Demons, which are extradimensional creatures, Daemons are what are best described as negative beings, or walking vortexes of dark matter.
Daemons are unstoppable, except by the Demons and Gods.
1) daemon: i.e, a demon A typical Victorian word associated with any of the many beasts and "demons" which were supposed to be born in hell.
www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=Daemon   (452 words)

  
 Daemon | English | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
Daemon Sadi (SaDiablo) is a character in the Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop.
Daemon or Demon [from Greek daimon, Latin daemon] A god, angel, or celestial power or spirit, of varying degrees of ethereality, and ranging from the supreme deity of the hierarchy, through the greater gods, down to mere genii and lemures.
We often find two daemones accompanying the individual, one prompting to good, the other to evil; while again it may be the same genius, whose influence is defined as at one time good, at another evil.
info.babylon.com /onlinebox.cgi?rt=ol&cid=CD776&term=Daemon&tl=English&uil=English&tid=AffToolbar   (390 words)

  
 NetLingo.com Dictionary of Internet Terms: Online Dictionary
Technically, in terms of operating systems, a daemon is a background process, which can be defined as a single program with a single thread of control separate from the kernel.
The most common daemons likely to be encountered on the Internet are the HTTPD (HTTP daemon), also known as the Web server.
Daemons then made their way from CTSS to Multics to Unix.
www.netlingo.com /right.cfm?term=daemon   (197 words)

  
 Microsoft Database Daemon
The daemon is also used to run the option in the the Database Utility to "Verify Automatically in Background".
A daemon is a networking program that performs a housekeeping or maintenance utility function without being called by the user.
A daemon sits in the background and is activated only when needed, for example, to correct an error from which another program cannot recover.
www.entourage.mvps.org /glossary/daemon.html   (558 words)

  
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Daemon commands The verbs in the command names should be interpreted as statements made to the daemon.
The daemon is given commands by sending them over the same connection.
The daemon will continue to process commands until the connection is closed.
www.ietf.org /rfc/rfc1179.txt   (3177 words)

  
 daemon
There are many tasks that need to be performed to correctly set up a daemon process.
Daemon is freely available under the GNU General Public License.
Names the daemon by creating and locking a PID file to guarantee that only one daemon with the given name can execute at any given time (optional).
libslack.org /daemon   (350 words)

  
 What is daemon? - a definition from Whatis.com
Each server of pages on the Web has an HTTPD or Hypertext Transfer Protocol daemon that continually waits for requests to come in from Web clients and their users.
Daemon can be confused with demon, which has a different but similar meaning.
The New Hacker's Dictionary says that a daemon is a program that runs by itself directly under the operating system whereas a demon is part of a larger application program.
searchwebservices.techtarget.com /sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci211888,00.html   (227 words)

  
 CiscoWorks Blue Maps Daemons
This is an introduction to the role of tables and daemons in the operation of RSRB Map, followed by a detailed description of each daemon.
The RSRB database is not affected by device removal until the Discover daemon operates and marks nonexistent routers as inactive due to lack of response to SNMP.
You use the Discover daemon for RSRB networks to identify if each IP device in your network is active and to verify which routers are RSRB-enabled.
www.cisco.com /univercd/cc/td/doc/product/rtrmgmt/bluelist/maps10/bluebook/daemons.htm   (1325 words)

  
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ABOUT The regulatory daemon is responsible for controlling and configuring aspects of the hardware required to operate the device within compliance of various regulatory agencies.
To support this model, the daemon supports the '--timeout' parameter which can be used to specify how long the daemon should look for the driver before giving up.
User id of the regulatory daemon process The first item is to remove root privileges from the regulatory daemon itself.
bughost.org /ipw3945/ipw3945d/README.ipw3945d   (1160 words)

  
 Technical Note TN2083: Daemons and Agents
This file allows the daemon to be launched based on a variety of criteria (connections to listening sockets, items being modified in the file system, periodically, and so on).
The daemon just knows that it's expecting one of the agents to provide the answer to the question; it doesn't care how many agents there are, what type of login context they're running in, or how they go about interacting with the user.
If your daemon dies with a message like that shown in Listing 5, and you can't think of any reason why it should be attaching to the window server, there are a variety of things you can do to debug the problem.
developer.apple.com /technotes/tn2005/tn2083.html   (9088 words)

  
 Daemon
A Daemon is only slightly more complicated than a Fuse, in that while a Fuse fires a one-off event by executing a method after a set number of turns, a Daemon repeatedly calls a method at fixed intervals (unless or until the Daemon is terminated).
Because we start a new daemon when the PC starts carrying the gold tablet and kill the daemon when the PC stops carrying the tablet, we can use the existence or otherwise of the daemon to check whether or not the PC was carrying the tablet the previous turn.
The first four lines of the daemon method are thus devoted to identifying the object we want the rest of the routine to work with.
www.tads.org /t3doc/doc/tourguide/daemon.htm   (1302 words)

  
 Unix Daemon Server Programming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The term 'daemon' is used for processes that performs service in background.
A server is a process that begins execution at startup (not neccessarily), runs forever, usually do not die or get restarted, operates in background, waits for requests to arrive and respond to them and frequently spawn other processes to handle these requests.
This daemon groups messages into classes (known as facility) and these classes can be redirected to different places.
www.enderunix.org /docs/eng/daemon.php   (1228 words)

  
 DAEMON Tools - Download   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
DAEMON Tools has enjoyed a lot of support, being the number one choice for several years thanks to its light system footprint and distinct lack of strings attached.
With support for a wide range of formats, DAEMON Tools makes a good choice for users who travel frequently and would prefer to do so without lugging their CD and DVD library everywhere they go.
Daemon Tools is not the only drive emulator that lets you load disk images but from what I've seen it's the most convenient.
daemon-tools.en.softonic.com /ie/24297   (599 words)

  
 Daemon : Java based daemons or services - Daemon
Or, for example, if an attacker finds out what is the required message to send to the server, and discovers a way to send this message to the running server application, he can easily interrupt the operation of a server, bypassing all the security restrictions implemented in the operating system.
Most multi-user operating systems already have a way in which server applications are started and stopped, under Unix based operating systems non interactive server applications are called daemons and are controlled by the operating system with a set of specified signals.
One written in C that makes the interface to the operating system and the other in Java that provides the Daemon API.
jakarta.apache.org /commons/daemon   (407 words)

  
 The Origin of the word Daemon
Today daemon can mean "a supernatural being of a nature intermediate between that of gods and men" or "a guiding spirit".
Maxwell's daemon was only imaginary, of course, but as it seemed to evade the laws of thermodynamics it caused quite a stir.
This is so reminiscent of Maxwell's daemon watching his molecules that we can only assume that whoever dubbed these "system processes" had Maxwell's daemon in mind.
ei.cs.vt.edu /~history/Daemon.html   (722 words)

  
 Daemon (Apache JMeter API Specification)
Create a new Daemon with the specified port and target, using the specified class to handle individual requests.
Configure the Daemon to listen on the specified port.
Main method which will start the Proxy daemon on the specified port (or the default port if no port is specified).
jakarta.apache.org /jmeter/api/org/apache/jmeter/protocol/http/proxy/Daemon.html   (246 words)

  
 Debian -- avahi-daemon
For example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to print to, files to look at and people to talk to.
This package contains the Avahi Daemon which represents your machine on the network and allows other applications to publish and resolve mDNS/DNS-SD records.
Utopia Maintenance Team, Sjoerd Simons and Sebastian Dröge are responsible for this Debian package.
packages.debian.org /unstable/net/avahi-daemon   (138 words)

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