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Internet Explorer 1. Internet Explorer 1, first shipped in Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95: The codename O'Hare ties into the Chicago codename for Windows 95: O'Hare International Airport is the largest airport in the city of Chicago, Illinois — in Microsoft's words, "a point of departure to distant places from Chicago".
The United States Secret Service uses code names for U.S. presidents, first ladies, and other prominent persons and locations. [ 1] The use of such names was originally for security purposes and dates to a time when sensitive electronic communications were not routinely encrypted; today, the names simply serve for purposes of brevity, clarity ...
Cairo — Microsoft Windows NT 4.0. Calais — Sun Next generation JavaStation. Calexico — Intel PRO/Wireless 2100B. Calistoga — Intel chipsets for Napa platforms. Calvin — Sun SPARCStation 2. Camaro — AMD Mobile Duron. Cambridge — Fedora Linux 10. Camelot — Sun product family name for Arthur, Excalibur, Morgan.
[citation needed] TRIGON, for example, was the code name for Aleksandr Ogorodnik, a member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the former Soviet Union, whom the CIA developed as a spy; [4] HERO was the code name for Col. Oleg Penkovsky, who supplied data on the nuclear readiness of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. [5]
Codenames is a 2015 party card game designed by Vlaada Chvátil and published by Czech Games Edition. Two teams compete by each having a "spymaster" give one-word clues that can point to multiple words on the board. The other players on the team attempt to guess their team's words while avoiding the words of the other team.
In the case of Windows 95, the code name "CHICAGO" was left embedded in the INF File structure and remained required through Windows Me. At the other end of the spectrum, Apple includes the project code names for Mac OS X as part of the official name of the final product, a practice that was started in 2002 with Mac OS X v10.2 "Jaguar".
Jane Bond is the name of a fictional spy played by supermodel Claudia Schiffer in the first season of MADtv. In an obvious spoof of James Bond ( For Your Eyes Only ), Jane Bond went undercover as a temporary office secretary in order to stop an evil corporation (led by Dr. Boss , played by Mary Scheer and her office manager, Part-Time Job ...
Eagle Lake is the name of many places in North America, including a town in Texas. 2007 Eagle Ridge Bus controller Intel L123TA46 Thunderbolt controller chip. Copper, 2 channels, 10 Gbit/s. Essentially half of a Light Ridge. Reference unknown. 2011 East Fork: Platform Digital home PC platform, branded Viiv and combining a wide range of CPUs and ...