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Computing | Helen Keller mode n. 1. State of a hardware or software system that is deaf, dumb, and blind, i.e., accepting no input and generating no output, usually due to an infinite loop or some other excursion into deep space. (Unfair to the real Helen Keller, whose success at learning speech was triumphant.) See also go flatline, catatonic. 2. On IBM PCs under DOS, refers to a specific failure mode in which a screen saver has kicked in over an ill-behaved application which bypasses the very interrupts the screen saver watches for activity. Your choices are to try to get from the program's current state through a successful save-and-exit without being able to see what you're doing, or to re-boot the machine. This isn't (strictly speaking) a crash. Source: Jargon File. |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 45 4C 45 4E 4B 45 4C 4C 45 52 4D 4F 44 45 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000101 01001100 01000101 01001110 00100000 01001011 01000101 01001100 01001100 01000101 01010010 00100000 01001101 01001111 01000100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H E L E N   K E L L E R   M O D E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0045 004C 0045 004E 004B 0045 004C 004C 0045 0052 004D 004F 0044 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42394639482453946463952247493839 |
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