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Autopackage, a package management system for installing software on Linux systems


2002 Canadian Grand Prix

Ferrari were also testing at Monza while BAR had a private session at Circuit Paul Ricard to test the new components to be used here and that includes a new engine, gearbox and aero package.

2009 Scottish League Cup Final

A highlights package was also broadcast late on 15 March 2009 on BBC One Scotland also on Sportscene.

Abel Magwitch

(The other is the 'Anwerks package' scene in Martin Chuzzlewit when Jonas Chuzzlewit, the murderer, is turned back as he boards ship for the Low Countries).

Acura RDX

This package includes the latest version of Acura's navigation system, complete with a rear view camera, XM Nav-Traffic real-time traffic monitoring, and Zagat restaurant reviews.

Animal Planet Nordic

From 2007, the channel is also broadcast terrestrially in Norway via the RiksTV package.

Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur

The package for Arthur contained a copy of a Book of Hours, which explains the Canonical hours such as Matins, Lauds and Vespers.

Australia's Funniest Home Videos

At the end of each year there are semi finals and a grand final, where third place receives a home theatre package from JVC, second place receives a prize package worth around $100,000, normally two or three cars and the winner receives $250,000 in cash although in 2012, the winner received $150,000.

Battle.net

A group of gamers reverse engineered the network protocol used by Battle.net and Blizzard games, and released a free (under the GNU GPL) Battle.net emulation package called bnetd.

BMW E9

The full aero package earned the racing CSLs the nickname "Batmobile".

Capital Life

'Life' relaunched as Capital Life in 2005, under Programme Controller Micky Gavin (who left very shortly afterwards to run Hereward FM) and Digital Content Director Kevin Palmer, and a full presenter line up joined the station, along with a new sung jingle package from Reelworld.

Chasse et Pêche

Created in April 1996 for the AB Sat package, Chasse et Pêche is a channel based around hunting and fishing for sport, and those who enjoy them.

Clig

Included is a TCL package to instrument TCL scripts in the same way as C programs.

Debbie Yow

On December 1, 2012, Dave Doeren was announced as the new head coach of the NC State Wolfpack football team, with an estimated total annual compensation package of $1.9 million.

E. Pierce Marshall

Teamed with SCCA racers Dave Faust and Kirby Goodman, Marshall drove a Chevrolet Malibu with the 9C1 Police Patrol Package and a 350 cubic inch LT-1 Z-28 Chevrolet Camaro engine, finishing 13th in a field of 47 competitors, completing the run from Darien, Connecticut to Redondo Beach, California in 36 hours, 51 minutes.

Economy of Seychelles

The decision to let the currency trade freely as part of the IMF rescue package means that Seychelles is the smallest country in the world that has a completely independent currency - one that is neither pegged, nor an adopted foreign currency, nor a common currency used within a larger monetary union.

Egis

An acronym for Erieye Ground Interface Segment, military software package which is part of the Erieye radar system and is sometimes confused with the Aegis combat system.

Fabien Chéreau

Fabien Chéreau (born 17 September 1980 in Villefranche-sur-Saône, France) is a French Research Engineer and computer programmer best known for authoring the planetarium software Stellarium, a free, open source astronomy software package which renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time.

Forecast: Tomorrow

The 4th disc in the package is a 2-hour DVD of a concert in Offenbach am Main, on September 29, 1978 for the German TV program Rockpalast.

Friendly Floatees

--where did "Friendly" come from? original package just says "Floatees"-->are plastic bath toys marketed by The First Years, Inc. and made famous by the work of Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an oceanographer who models ocean currents on the basis of flotsam movements including those of a consignment of Friendly Floatees, containing 29,000 plastic yellow ducks, red beavers, blue turtles and green frogs, washed into the Pacific Ocean in 1992.

Fsc2

fsc2 is well documented; the documentation with more than 350 pages in HTML, info, PostScript and PDF format is part of the package, covering all aspects of fsc2, i.e. the graphical interface, the EDL language, device functions and the writing of new device modules etc.

FTBFS

Traditionally it has been used to call attention to a problem reported about a Debian package, early in its lifecycle.

G. William Miller

In November 1978, only 11 months into his term, the dollar had fallen nearly 34% against the German mark and almost 42% against the Japanese yen, prompting the Carter administration to launch a "dollar rescue package" including emergency sales from the U.S. gold stock, borrowing from the International Monetary Fund, and auctions of Treasury securities denominated in foreign currencies.

Garibaldi biscuit

In the British sitcom Men Behaving Badly, Series 1, Episode 6, "My Brilliant Career" (1992), George (played by Ian Lindsay) tells his co-worker Anthea (played by Valerie Minifie), after Anthea hands him a package of biscuits, "I was wondering Anthea, maybe next week we could experiment, tentatively, with some Garibaldi."

Group Voyagers

marketed globally as Globus and also known as Globus Travel Group is United States headquartered worldwide group of escorted tour, river cruise and independent travel package companies, including the brands Globus, Cosmos Holidays, Avalon Waterways and Monograms.

Hot Animal Machine

It is only available now in the same 2-in-one package as Drive by Shooting.

Hprints

May 2007 the Nordic funding agency for libraries, Nordbib, granted the hprints project 287,000 DKK as part of its financing programme Work Package 2: Focus area on Content and Accessibility.

Korn Digital EP 2

The EP contains three tracks, including a demo of "Holding All These Lies" by Jonathan Davis, a live recording of "System" from the Queen of the Damned soundtrack recorded in Fargo, North Dakota on May 18, 2010, and an exclusive in-studio music video of "People Pleaser" not included in the Korn III: Remember Who You Are deluxe edition package.

Leigh Marble

The long-awaited collection – fifty tracks in all, including digital bonus tracks – was released on October 12th 2010 as a two CD package digital bonus tracks) with cover illustration from Carson Ellis.

Life expectancy

Analyses and forecasts using this approach can be done with any common statistical/ mathematical software package, like EViews, R, SAS, Stata, Matlab, or SPSS.

Lonely Road of Faith

Also, as part of World Wrestling Entertainment's "Tribute to the Troops" special, "Lonely Road of Faith" was used in a video package with highlights of wrestlers' arrivals and performances as well as interaction with the wounded U.S. troops in Iraq.

MicroBlaze

Xilinx's EDK (Embedded Development Kit) is the development package for building MicroBlaze (and PowerPC) embedded processor systems in Xilinx FPGAs.

National Football League on Canadian television

In addition to Monday Night Football, TSN broadcasts NBC Sunday Night Football and the NFL Network's package.

NOVA Greece

Nova Satellite Package includes digital satellite receivers manufactured by Pace.

Patrick Corbin

The Angels traded Corbin to the Diamondbacks in 2010 as part of a package for Dan Haren.

Pyglet

Images, video, and sound files in a range of formats can be done natively, with more additional capabilities supplied by the optional AVbin plugin, which uses the Libav package to provide support for audio formats including MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, and Windows Media Audio, and video formats such as DivX, MPEG-2, H.264, WMV, and XviD.

Redwood Cottage

The Land that the house was built on was originally given to Charles Minton Baker, (Robert's father), in 1838 by the City of Lake Geneva as part of a "compensation package" for becoming the first District Attorney of Walworth County, Wisconsin.

Reference re Persons of Japanese Race

On September 22, 1988, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney gave a formal apology and the Canadian government announced a compensation package, one month after President Ronald Reagan made similar gestures in the United States.

SciPy

While SciPy has its own optimization package, OpenOpt has access to more optimization solvers and can involve Automatic differentiation.

Scott Skodnek Business Development Center

In cooperation with the Frank G. Zarb School of Business, the center provides a comprehensive package of expertise and services promoting economic development and job creation for the Hofstra community and Long Island.

Southern Compromise

Compromise of 1850, package of five bills regarding slavery in new territories, designed to avoid secession or civil war

Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961

Comcast's Versus network attempted to bid for the eight-game package the NFL gave to their own network, but lost.

Tahltan Bear Dog

Raised by the Tahltan Natives to hunt bear, the Tahltan Bear Dog was a mighty power in a small package.

Tamam Shud

Tamam Shud reformed in 1993 with the line-up of Barron, Bjerre, Gaze and Macara to record an album Permanent Culture released in 1994 before disbanding in 1995; and reformed with the same line-up for the Long Way to the Top package tour in 2002.

The Pac-Man/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show

The Pac-Man/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show was a package show produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1982 for ABC Saturday mornings.

U80701

It was manufactured by VEB Mikroelektronik "Karl Marx" Erfurt (MME) in NMOS technology and encased in a CQFP-68 package.

Vivacom

In addition to the three main stations, the Bulgarian National TV (BNT), bTV and Nova Televizia, the package includes bTV Cinema, bTV Action, bTV Comedy, Fox Life, Diema, CNN, Euronews, DW; the sports channels Eurosport and RING.bg; Fiesta TV, Animal Planet; the musical channels MAD, City TV, T rock, Planeta Folk, Fen TV, Balkanika; and the children's channels Е-KIDS and Super 7, among others.

Web design program

Many programs, such as Microsoft Word that are not dedicated to web design also have the ability to function as a web design package

Wong v. San Francisco Board of Education

San Francisco District 11 Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval introduced a resolution urging Ackerman not to accept her severance package, which later was adopted by a 6 to 4 vote.

Yuneec Power Drive 10

The family of engines is designed to use the company's own power controller, Lithium polymer battery pack and charger, as an integrated package of components.


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