Porting software to other computer platforms is usually prohibitively difficult without source code.

Porting a GFA program to DOS usually required changing colour values to match the DOS system pallette.

Some manufacturers, such as Creative Technology, also provide legacy MTP drivers for some of their players ; these usually consist of MTP Porting Kit files with a customized INF file describing their specific players.

Porting involves creating ports or holes that are precision-drilled into the forward part of the barrel ( and slide on pistols and shotguns ).

Porting is most commonly used on shotguns, where recoil is most significant and makes rapid firing difficult.

Porting such a program between two standards-compliant platforms ( such as POSIX. 1 ) can be just a matter of loading the source code and recompiling it on the new platform.

Porting is also the term used when a video game designed to run on one platform, be it an arcade, video game console, or personal computer, is converted to run on a different platform.

* I do like to be beside the Saline ( I Do Like To be Beside the Seaside ) and We're Porting along on a Tidal Displacement ( We're Riding Along on the Crest of a Wave ), sung by the whole group in 1. 5.

* Porting, the process of modifying software so as to make it compatible with other operating system and / or hardware architectures

* Porting Authorisation Code, a unique identifier which telephone network providers issue to a customer so they can port their number to another network

Porting too early can also dramatically increase noise, as the gas is still under a significant amount of pressure.

Porting Small-C requires only that the back-end code generator be rewritten for the target processor.

* Jolitz, William F. and Jolitz, Lynne Greer: Porting UNIX to the 386: A Practical Approach, 18-part series in Dr. Dobbs Journal, January 1991-July 1992.

Porting has obvious advantages for faster follow-up shots, especially for 3-round burst operation.

BS2000 V1. 0 – Porting of the TSOS operating system to models of the Siemens system 7. 700

Porting games between those systems is somewhat easy.

Porting software to new machines, for example, becomes far easier this way.

Porting code from TOC to TOC2 is remarkably easy as well.

Porting between the two is not difficult.

* " eCos Porting Guide " article by Anthony J. Massa 2001-12-28

In the United Kingdom, Ofcom directs fixed-line telephone network providers, mobile phone providers and broadband service providers to provide number portability under the Porting Authorisation Code rules and Migration Authorisation Code code of practice respectively.

Microsoft have also made available an MTP Porting Kit for older versions of Windows back to Windows 98.

For older versions of Windows, specifically, Windows 2000, Windows 98 and Windows Me, Microsoft has released the MTP Porting Kit.

Porting Half-Life to console platforms ( each with new game content ) followed, building the company's experience in console game-making, in addition to enhancing and building upon the successful Counter-Strike branch of the Half-Life franchise.

* Porting WWIV 4. 23 to FreeBSD UNIX Experimental port of WWIV to the FreeBSD operating system

Porting HotSpot is difficult because the code, while primarily written in C ++, contains a lot of assembly language.

For large assemblies, the speaker will usually speak with the aid of a public address system or microphone and loudspeaker.

The microphone and earphone are usually built into a handset which is held up to the face to talk.

Like her microphone, her tambourine usually features scarves and / or streamers.

This is usually done via the microphone cable screen.

A hearing aid usually consists of a microphone, amplifier, and receiver.

A covert listening device, more commonly known as a bug or a wire, is usually a combination of a miniature radio transmitter with a microphone.

All of the early electrical recordings for Victor were made with a single microphone, usually placed near or above the conductor, a process Victor called " Orthophonic "; the Brunswick electricals used the company's proprietary non-microphone " Light-Ray " selenium-cell system, which was much more prone to sonic distortion than Victor's.

It was also usually the case in 78rpm recordings that the same microphone source fed each of the two turntables.

The term Unplugged has become a term used to describe music usually heard on amplified instruments such as electric guitar and synthesizer that is rendered instead on instruments that are not electronically amplified, for example acoustic guitar or traditional piano, although a microphone is still used.

It is usually fitted on the side of the microphone or other obvious position.

For the lyrics " One, Two, Three, strikes you're out ...." Harry would usually hold the microphone out to the crowd to punctuate the climactic end of the song.

) On mobile radios, the microphone is usually stored in a hang-up clip or hang-up box.

Acoustic guitars have a normal microphone, designed to convert acoustic vibrations into an electrical signal, but usually they do so from direct contact with the strings ( replacing the guitar's bridge ) or with the guitar's body, rather than having a membrane like general-purpose microphones.

A DI unit, DI box, Direct Box, or simply DI ( variously claimed to stand for direct input, direct injection or direct interface ), is a device typically used in recording studios to connect a high-impedance, line level, unbalanced output signal to a low-impedance microphone level balanced input, usually via XLR connector.

The principal responsibility of the boom operator is microphone placement, usually using a boom pole ( or " fishpole ") with a microphone attached to the end, their aim being to hold the microphone as close to the actors or action as possible without allowing the microphone or boom to enter the camera's frame.

During his high-energy performances, he usually dresses in bright, colorful outfits with his trademark scarves hanging from his microphone stand.

Bands who play in glam metal genre may have instruments with an unusual colour / attribute, like guitars with pink, violet, dalmatian or pink rose colour ; microphone stands with ( usually ) a leopard or silk scarf ( there may be some different attributes attached to the microphone stand, but mostly only leopard-colour scarfs have been seen ); drumkits with some artwork ( this kind of drumkit is seen in other metal genres as well, not only in glam metal ).

: The sensitivity of a microphone is usually expressed as the sound field strength in decibels ( dB ) relative to 1 V / Pa ( Pa = N / m < sup > 2 </ sup >) or as the transfer factor in millivolts per pascal ( mV / Pa ) into an open circuit or into a 1 kilohm load.

When a judgment call is made, the official scorer is obligated to immediately communicate that decision to the media in the press box and to the broadcasters, usually through a microphone.

This tool is usually used by piping pink noise into the system and measuring the result with a special calibrated microphone connected to the RTA.

An " I Quit " Match is a type of professional wrestling match in which the only way to win is to make the opponent say the words " I quit " ( usually into a microphone ).