The first thing every morning when she washed her face she could see the scar on her chin where he'd cut her with a boot cleat, and maybe she saw him heaving it again, the dirty sock popping out as it flew.

The BIOS software is built into the PC, and is the first code run by a PC when powered on (' boot firmware ').

The term BIOS ( Basic Input / Output System ) was invented by Gary Kildall and first appeared in the CP / M operating system in 1975, describing the machine-specific part of CP / M loaded during boot time that interfaces directly with the hardware ( a CP / M machine usually has only a simple boot loader in its ROM ).

Other uses of Forth include the Open Firmware boot ROMs used by Apple, IBM, Sun, and OLPC XO-1 ; and the FICL-based first stage boot controller of the FreeBSD operating system.

* 1982 – Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called " Elk Cloner ".

* Master boot record, the first sector of a partitioned data storage device, used for booting

The Windows 2000 boot screen in the final version first appeared in Beta 3 build 1994.

The first stage of boot loaders located on fixed disks and removable drives must fit into the first 446 bytes of the Master Boot Record in order to leave room for the default 64-byte partition table with four partition entries and the two-byte boot signature, which the BIOS requires for a proper boot loader — or even less, when additional features like more than four partition entries ( up to 16 with 16 bytes each ), a disk signature ( 6 bytes ), a disk timestamp ( 6 bytes ), an Advanced Active Partition ( 18 bytes ) or special multi-boot loaders If an active partition is found, the MBR code loads the boot sector code from that partition, known as Volume Boot Record ( VBR ), and executes it.

The 13-year old took a series of odd jobs to support himself, working first as a boot black, a porter, a general laborer, and a construction worker who assisted with the erection of the Brooklyn Bridge.

It has an additional role as the first program run after boot, hence being responsible for setting up the system by running the AUTOEXEC. BAT configuration file, and being the ancestor of all processes.

Seeing the blood dripping on Wales's boot, Fletcher says that he will give Wales the first move, because he " owes him that.

The final version boot screen was first featured in Beta 3 build 2513.

* 1962: Lange produces the first plastic ski boot.

* Appearance of Lehigh virus, boot sector viruses such as Yale from USA, Stoned from New Zealand, Ping Pong from Italy, and appearance of first self-encrypting file virus, Cascade.

In order for recruits to pass boot camp, they will be physically and mentally tested on a 12 hour exercise called Battle Stations which consists of 12 different scenarios consisting of firefighting, first aid knowledge, survival at sea, mass casualties, shipboard flood control, bomb detection and many other skills that they have been learning in the past 7 weeks.

Although the pause in the advance of general business activity this year has thus far been quite modest, it is hard to escape the conclusion that the softening process will continue into the first quarter of 1961 and possibly somewhat longer.

Jim Gentile bounced a hard shot off Kunkel's glove and beat it out for a single, and when Lumpe grabbed the ball and threw it over first baseman Throneberry's head Brandt took third and Gentile second on the error.

By 1977, in its first edition, Disk / Trend, a leading hard disk drive industry marketing consultancy segmented the industry according to MBs ( decimal sense ) of capacity.

When the PC starts up, the first job for the BIOS is the power-on self-test, which initializes and identifies system devices such as the CPU, RAM, video display card, keyboard and mouse, hard disk drive, optical disc drive and other hardware.

Armand and Germain developed several prototypes of the lightweight snowmobile and finally, the first Bombardier snowmobile went on sale in 1959. Bombardier BR100 + Groomer, mid engine, hard cab model

In spite of these first impressions, the game has generally received positive reviews: Lafayette, for example, goes on to say that it is " really hard to fault GURPS Bunnies & Burrows ", as it is educational, realistic, whimsical and clever, while the game has also been described as a " work of genius ".

But as the halting problem is not generally solvable, and therefore calculating any but the first few bits of Chaitin's constant is not possible, this just reduces hard problems to impossible ones, much like trying to build an oracle machine for the halting problem would be.

According to one nineteenth-century writer, at a time when it was hard for unknown painters to come to the attention of the Royal Academy, he first found notice by displaying a painting at the " small Corpus Christi " ( held eight days after the regular one ) on the Place Dauphine ( by the Pont Neuf ).

Most lossy compression reduces perceptual redundancy by first identifying sounds which are considered perceptually irrelevant, that is, sounds that are very hard to hear.

* The preface of Concrete Mathematics includes the following anecdote: " When Knuth taught Concrete Mathematics at Stanford for the first time, he explained the somewhat strange title by saying that it was his attempt to teach a math course that was hard instead of soft.

While it would take sometime for this novel concept to catch on with the " die hard Vinyl DJs ", This would soon become the first step in the new Digital DJ revolution.

The AMS was originally designed to leverage Technicolor's DVD manufacturing and distribution arm but when the first feature came to post production too late for reproduction Technicolor leveraged the AMS removable hard disk drives to the transport the files.

( The date of compositions of Babylonian epics is often hard to determine, as they may survive on manuscripts that are much later than the first composition.

In the published version of Henry IV, Part 1, Falstaff's name is always unmetrical, suggesting a name change after the original composition ; Prince Hal refers to Falstaff as " my old lad of the castle " in the first act of the play ; the epilogue to Henry IV, Part II, moreover, explicitly disavows any connection between Falstaff and Oldcastle, a dancer declaring: "... where, for anything I know, Falstaff shall die of a sweat, unless already ' a be killed with your hard opinions ; for Oldcastle died a martyr and this is not the man ".

It is very hard to connect skills if the first skill is not performed correctly.

As the story unfolds, Melanie becomes progressively physically weaker, first by childbirth, then " the hard work she had done at Tara ," and she ultimately dies after a miscarriage.

The complementary term soft science fiction ( formed by analogy to " hard science fiction ") first appeared in the late 1970s.

Skilled workers were hard to replace, and these were the first groups to successfully advance their conditions through this kind of bargaining.

The first IBM PC model with an internal non-removable hard disk was IBM's model 5160, the XT.

Due to the heavy, guitar-driven blues rock sound of their first two albums, Led Zeppelin are frequently recognised as the progenitors of heavy metal and hard rock.

* These systems can be hard to maintain, improve, and expand because there is a general lack of understanding of the system ; the staff who were experts on it have retired or forgotten what they knew about it, and staff who entered the field after it became " legacy " never learned about it in the first place.

:" then they joined arms one upon the other, made a circle, went round the circle, with their feet stepping hard and stamping ; one sang first, with the others all following after.

Children who are first in birth order are more likely to be hard working.

" Her combination of attractive appearance – centered around her large eyes – and somewhat distant and understated manner made her hard at first for MGM to cast and publicize.

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.

The first version of the Aster consisted of four " Eurocard's ", one Z80 CPU card with 64KB memory, one Motorola MC6845 based video card, one double density floppy disk controller card and one " keyboard / RS232 / cassette interface " card.

Additionally, a wide range of first and third party hardware extensions such as external disk drives, printers, and memory extensions, was available.

The first commercially sold disk drive, the IBM 350, had 50 ( not 32 or 64 ) physical disk " platters " containing a total of 50, 000 sectors of 100 characters each, for a total quoted capacity of " 5 million characters.

The first code, due to Seltzer and Yigit, attempted to create a disk hash table that performed better than any of the existing Dbm libraries.

Nevertheless, the 1541 became the first disk drive to see widespread use in the home and Commodore sold millions of the units.

Only later when first Fast Hack ' em then other disk backup programs were released was true drive to drive copying possible.

One could then unplug the C64 itself from the drives ( i. e. from the first drive in the daisy chain ) and do something else with the computer as the drives proceeded to copy the entire disk.

DOS-11 was the PDP-11's first disk operating system, but was soon supplanted by more capable systems.

The light is not focused to a point but forms an Airy disk having a central spot in the focal plane with radius to first null of

The Rayleigh criterion specifies that two point sources can be considered to be resolvable if the separation of the two images is at least the radius of the Airy disk, i. e. if the first minimum of one coincides with the maximum of the other.

* Creation of the first diskette track buffering schemes, read-ahead algorithms, file directory caches, and RAM disk emulators.

* The first microprocessor disk operating system, which eventually sold a quarter of a million copies.

It included new hardware drivers and the FAT32 file system which supports disk partitions that are larger than 2 GB ( first introduced in Windows 95 OSR2 ).

Instead, the first models of " Winchester technology " drives featured a removable disk module,

* IBM RAMAC 305 ( vacuum tube logic, first computer with disk storage ; see: Early IBM disk storage )

The first 32768 bytes of the disk are unused by ISO 9660 data structure, and therefore available for other use.

True Reversi ( that according to the game's original rules ) starts with the board empty and the first 2 moves by each player are played into the middle 4 squares with no disk flips.