* While the copy protection in Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders was not hidden as such, the repercussions of missing the codes was unusual: the player would end up in jail ( permanently ), and the police officer would give a lengthy and condescending speech about software copying.

NetZero has versions of its proprietary dial-up software for computers running Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X. NetZero previously offered a Linux version of the NetZero software advertised as being for Linspire, however the software could be installed on any Debian-based i386 or x86-64 Linux distribution ; NetZero can also be installed on any RPM-based Linux distribution as long as Alien is used to convert the NetZero Debian package into an RPM package.

* UFO: Alien Invasion, a free software game similar to X-COM: UFO Defense

The Source SDK is a software development kit compiled by Valve Software that is used to create maps or mods for the Source engine, with the exception of Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Alien Swarm, and Portal 2.

* Alien ( law ), a non-citizen resident of a country

* Alien ( film ), a 1979 film by Ridley Scott

** Alien ( franchise ), the film franchise, including other sequels

* Alien ( album ), by Strapping Young Lad

* Alien ( band ), a 1980s Swedish rock group

* " Alien " ( song ), by Pennywise

* Alien ( shipping company ), a Russian company

* The Alien ( film ), an incomplete 1960s Indian-American film

* The Alien ( Animorphs ), the eighth book in the Animorphs series

* Alien Sun ( born 1974 ), Singaporean actress

Stemming from this, the Parliament of England decided that, to ensure the stability and future prosperity of Great Britain, full union of the two parliaments and nations was essential before Anne's death and used a combination of exclusionary legislation ( the Alien Act of 1705 ), politics, and bribery to achieve it within three years under the Act of Union 1707.

* Ash ( Alien ), the android antagonist in the film Alien ( 1979 )

* Alan Taylor, " The Alien and Sedition Acts " in Julian E. Zelizer, ed., The American Congress ( 2004 ), 63 – 76

* UbuWeb: William S. Burroughs featuring a cut-up, K-9 Was in Combat with the Alien Mind-Screens ( 1965 ), made with Ian Sommerville

In the 1970s and 1980s, British studios established a reputation for great special effects in films such as Superman ( 1978 ), Alien ( 1979 ), and Batman ( 1989 ).

By the mid-eighties, bands began proliferating and became increasingly popular, including The Sisters of Mercy, The Mission ( known as The Mission UK in the US ), Alien Sex Fiend, The March Violets, Ausgang, Kommunity FK, Xmal Deutschland, Dead Can Dance, This Mortal Coil, The Bolshoi, and Fields of the Nephilim.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Giger directed a number of films, including Swiss Made ( 1968 ), Tagtraum ( 1973 ), Giger's Necronomicon ( 1975 ) and Giger's Alien ( 1979 ).

Spader filed for divorce from Kheel in 2004 and,, has plans to marry his girlfriend ( and former Alien Hunter co-star ), Leslie Stefanson, with whom he had a child in August 2008.

Other film roles include Alien Nation ( 1988 ), Yentl ( 1983 ), Dick Tracy ( 1990 ), and The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland ( 1999 ).

Alien is a program that converts between different Linux package formats.

By using Alien, Debian is LSB-compatible for all intents and purposes, but according to the description of their < tt > lsb </ tt > package, the presence of the package " does not imply that we believe that Debian fully complies with the Linux Standard Base, and should not be construed as a statement that Debian is LSB-compliant.

Alien is a computer program that converts between different Linux package formats, written by Joey Hess.

Alien supports conversion between Linux Standard Base, RPM, deb, Stampede (. slp ), Solaris (. pkg ) and Slackware (. tgz ) packages.

The latter feature should be used with caution since Linux distributions may vary significantly from one another, and using install scripts automatically converted from an Alien format may break the system.

Alien Arena has been released for Microsoft Windows, Linux and FreeBSD.

To use foreign LSB-compliant RPM packages, the end-user needs to use Debian's Alien program to transform them into the native package format and then install them.

* In the Discovery program Alien Planet, the planet Darwin IV orbits a binary system.

To that end he appeared on a Japanese TV program which featured dubbed extracts from the National Geographic channel's Alien Invasion series in June 2012.

* Nova's Alien from Earth documentary website, complete program available through Watch Online feature

Alien implants have featured in fictionalized treatments of the alien abduction scenario, such as in the popular 1990s television program The X-Files and an episode of the ABC comedy drama Castle.

* Alien Worlds or Extraterrestrial, a similar program aired on Channel 4 and the National Geographic Channel

* ANIMAL ( image processing ), an interactive software environment for image processing

In computer systems, an algorithm is basically an instance of logic written in software by software developers to be effective for the intended " target " computer ( s ), in order for the target machines to produce output from given input ( perhaps null ).

* Alfred ( software ), an application launcher for Mac OS X

* Auriga ( company ), a software R & D and IT outsourcing services provider

* Ark ( software ), an archiving tool

AIX was the first operating system to utilize journaling file systems, and IBM has continuously enhanced the software with features like processor, disk and network virtualization, dynamic hardware resource allocation ( including fractional processor units ), and reliability engineering ported from its mainframe designs.

All units ran much faster than the original TRS-80, at 4 MHz, ( with a software selectable throttle to the original speed for compatibility purposes ) and the display supported upper and lower case, hardware snow suppression ( video ram bus arbitration logic ), and an improved character font set.

The Artistic License refers most commonly to the original Artistic License ( version 1. 0 ), a software license used for certain free and open source software packages, most notably the standard Perl implementation and most CPAN modules, which are dual-licensed under the Artistic License and the GNU General Public License ( GPL ).

* ABC ( Yet Another BitTorrent Client ), a free software, open source BitTorrent client based on BitTornado

* Metamath-a language for developing strictly formalized mathematical definitions and proofs accompanied by a proof checker for this language and a growing database of thousands of proved theorems ; while the Metamath language is not accompanied with an automated theorem prover, it can be regarded as important because the formal language behind it allows development of such a software ; as of March, 2012, there is no " widely " known such software, so it is not a subject of " automated theorem proving " ( it can become such a subject ), but it is a proof assistant.

* 1991: Sofmap begins its rise as a major seller of new and used Japan-market computer parts and software, including popular systems from NEC ( PC-8801 and 9801 ), Sharp ( X68000 ) and Fujitsu ( FM-Towns ).

In order to use AIM Phoneline users must download the latest version of an AIM Triton software ( the free one ), and must have a good set of headphones that has a microphone attached.

In the case of software, acceptance testing performed by the customer is known as user acceptance testing ( UAT ), end-user testing, site ( acceptance ) testing, or field ( acceptance ) testing.

During the mid-1980s, many sysops opted for the less expensive, ubiquitous Commodore 64 ( introduced in 1982 ), which became popular among software pirate groups.

Though most BBS software had been written in BASIC or Pascal ( with some low-level routines written in assembly language ), the C language was starting to gain popularity.

Additionally, Borland was known for its practical and creative approach towards software piracy and intellectual property ( IP ), introducing its " Borland no-nonsense license agreement ".

Dr. White built a software system to find the genes ( fragments of genomic sequence that encode proteins ), the transfer RNAs, and to make initial assignments of function to those genes.

The BIOS provides a small library of basic input / output functions used to operate and control the peripherals ( such as the keyboard, text display functions and so forth ), and these software library functions are callable by external software.

The notation aspect of the Booch method has now been superseded by the Unified Modeling Language ( UML ), which features graphical elements from the Booch method along with elements from the object-modeling technique ( OMT ) and object-oriented software engineering ( OOSE ).

* Cone ( software ), a text-based e-mail and news client for Unix-like operating systems