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A cache is properly a hole in the ground used for hiding and preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to carry. They were used by settlers in the western states of America and Arctic explorers.
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Traprain Law is a conical hill some 220 metres tall in East Lothian, Scotland. In May 1919 excavations of the hill revealed an imprtant treasure of ancient silverwork comprising vessels bearing classical pagan designs, and church plate with biblical scenes and Christian emblems, beside Roman imperial coins and Teutonic ornaments. The hoard is believed to have been a robbers cache hidden during the 5th century and looted from religious and secular establishments along the Gallic coast.
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The hypodermis is a fatty subcutaneous tissue below the dermis. This tissue is rich in fat and blood vessels. The fat cells serve as a cache of energy and are consumed when nutrients run short in the blood stream. Subcutaneous tissue also cushions the muscles, bones, and organs against shocks and shields the body from cold.
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In computer terms, cache-busting is preventing web browsers and proxy servers from serving content from their cache, so as to force the browser or proxy server to fetch a fresh copy of each web site file in response to each user request. Cache-busting is used by web site administrators to try and provide a more accurate count (hit-meter) of the number of the actual requests for files or web pages.
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In computer terms, a cache is a region of very fast memory in a computer that is used to temporarily store a block of data retrieved from a mass storage device such as RAM or a disk. When the CPU requires a block of data it first refers to the cache, as accessing that memory is faster than accessing the storage device itself.
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The G6-233 is a Personal Computer by Gateway 2000. It is built around an Intel 233Mhz Pentium II Processor with 64MB of SDRAM (expandable to 384MB), 512KB L2 Cache, 4.3GB, 10ms Ultra ATA Hard Drive, 1 3.5' 1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive, Mitsumi 32X 90ms CDROM, STB AGP 3D Graphics Accelerator with 4MB DRAM, and supplied with a 15 inch EV500 TCO-92 0.28dp Monitor.
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A proxy cache is a computer cache system on a network, such as the Internet, often located near to a network gateway and used to reduce the bandwidth required over expensive dedicated internet connections. Proxy caches serve many users with cached files from many remote servers. Their primary usefullness is in caching files requested by one user for later retrieval by another. Some
proxy caches are part of cache hierarchies, in which a cache can ask neighboring caches for a requested file to reduce the need to fetch the file directly from it's source.
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In computing, web caching is the temporary storage of files, such as HTML documents and images, by a computer for later retrieval. Web caching provides reduced bandwidth consumption, because there are fewer requests and responses transmitted over the network, reduced requests to the individual servers, and faster responses files as for cached requests are available immediately, and are closer to the user. Web caching takes various forms. The simplest is the cache often present in the software used by the user on their own computer for retrieving web pages, the web browser. Further along the network are proxy caches and on some servers server caches which reduce the number of requests made to the actual web server software program. Typically, most internet service providers (ISPs) utilise a proxy cache to greatly reduce the network traffic from their computers to the rest of the network. It has been reported that in some cases a proxy cache can issue as many as 80% of requested files.
In practise, if two or more users from an ISP, such as perhaps Comcast, both try to access the same web site during a short period of time, perhaps on the same day, the web site files will be transferred along the network to the ISP on the first request, taking a little time, but the second and subsequent users will be served the files straight from the ISP proxy cache, without the need to fetch the files again from the remote web site server.
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Above The Law is a martial arts action thriller starring Steven Seagal, Pam Frier, Sharon Stone, Daniel Faraldo and Henry Silva in a story about a Chicago policeman and a former CIA agent pursuing a cache of military explosives stolen by a notorious drug dealer. Above The Law was directed by Andrew Davis in 1988.
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Three Kings is a satirical comedy starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze, Nora Dunn, Jamie Kennedy and Mykelti Williamson in a story about three American soldiers, who, following the first Gulf War find a map leading them to a cache of stolen Kuwaiti gold. Three Kings was directed by David O Russell in 1999.
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