The shutdown button became more prominent and easy to spot, but Microsoft kept the lack of visual elements and flat text for shortcuts.
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The tiny, emotive characters—from 😜 to 🎉 to 💩—represent the first language born of the digital world, designed to add emotional nuance to otherwise flat text.
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"The most technologically advanced society in the world, and we're still dealing with flat text communication in an emergency scenario," said Jonathan Thompson, the executive director of the National Sheriffs' Association.
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The first released version of Ikonboard was 0.9 beta, in September 1999. It was written by Matthew Mecham in Perl and stored all data in flat text files. Compared to present-day message board software, such as Mecham's own Invision Power Board, it contained only basic features.
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The original (and most common) implementation of the termcap library retrieves data from a flat text file. Searching a large termcap file, e.g., 500 kB, can be slow. To aid performance, a utility such as reorder is used to put the most frequently used entries near the beginning of the file.
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PDF files may contain a variety of content besides flat text and graphics including logical structuring elements, interactive elements such as annotations and form-fields, layers, rich media (including video content) and three dimensional objects using U3D or PRC, and various other data formats. The PDF specification also provides for encryption and digital signatures, file attachments and metadata to enable workflows requiring these features.
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Most operating systems, even those which are aware of the Domain Name System (DNS), still offer backward compatibility with a locally administered list of foreign hosts. This configuration, for historical reasons, is stored in a flat text file that by default contains very few hostnames and their associated IP addresses. Editing this hosts file is simple and effective because most DNS clients will read the local hosts file before querying a remote DNS server. Storing black-hole entries in the hosts file prevents the browser from accessing an ad server by manipulating the name resolution of the ad server to a local or nonexistent IP address (`127.0.
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In September 2000, security watchdog website Securitywatch.com notified Digital Convergence of a security vulnerability on the Digital Convergence website that exposed private information about CueCat users. Digital Convergence immediately shut down that part of their website, and their investigation concluded that approximately 140,000 CueCat users who had registered their CueCat were exposed to a breach that revealed their name, email address, age range, gender and zip code. This was not a breach of the main user database itself, but a flat text file used only for reporting purposes that was generated by ColdFusion code that was saved on a publicly available portion of the Digital Convergence web server.
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The web interface of OMPdb offers the user the ability not only to view the available data, but also to submit advanced queries for text search within the database's protein entries or perform protein and domain searches. The most up-to-date version of the database can be downloaded in various formats (flat text, XML format or raw FASTA sequences). In the download page, the user may download the complete dataset of β-barrel proteins, which is compiled following the regular updates of the PDBTM database, the OPM database and the list of membrane proteins of known 3D-structure from Stephen White's laboratory at UC Irvine. During 11–12 August 2014, OMPdb participated at the Protein Bioinformatics and Community Resources retreat in the Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, brought together the principal investigators of several specialized protein resources as well as those from protein databases from the large Bioinformatics centres.
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