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Is there any sort of protection in our linux based operating systems such as any anti virus or spyware for open-suse o-systems.

Hi, I have a 32-bit operating system of Vista Home Premium, with 3 GB of RAM, and a processor running at 2 GHz. I have passed the system requirements from Windows Upgrade Advisor. I want to upgrade to Windows 7 Professional, but I'm having a difficult time deciding which OS …

I am trying to get cygwin and nachos working on my computer which runs vista for my operating systems class. The site I am following to try and get it to run is "http://www.mcs.utulsa.edu/~papama/cs3053/nachos_in_windows.htm" I have cygwin installed in what i think is my home directory named USer. Then I …

Hello programmers :), I'm creating a program that requires too many command line parameters to run. I noticed that many system programs in Ubuntu (my operating system) have the feature of auto-completion of the command line parameters. So, for example, if you type the following in Ubuntu: sudo apt-get i<tab> …

Hi ,,, My Name is Prasant ,I am fairly new to linux ,the problem which im facing is ,i have forgotten my sudo password of my operating system(I am using Fedora 14 ) ,,,,kindly help me on this ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

circle.h [code] // // circle.h // defines the functions to draw circle. // #ifndef CIRCLE_H #define CIRCLE_H #include <windows.h> typedef struct tagCircle { int x; int y; int radius; } Circle; /* set the window handle */ void SetWindowHandle(HWND); /* set pixel @parms int x xposition @parms int y yposition …

I am working on the following computer and have had a interesting thing happen. The video display for the monitor started to shimmer. It is a flat screen monitor. The name of the monitor is Samsung. Machine name: DUSTY Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 …

I'm a coder that doesn't know much about hardware, but I have a question that's been bugging me for a long, long time. If I took a pretty new and fast machine (and I'm mostly interested in laptops) such as a recent XP or Win 7 and tried to put …

I have a computer with a hard disk that contains two partitions. One partitition was FAT32( C drive) on which windows 98 was installed and the other partition was NTFS on which windows xp was installed. Things were working fine until windows 98 was affected with a virus. After removing …

Title tell me .model small .stack 100h .data msg1 db 0Dh,0Ah, "TYPE A DECIMAL NUMBER >> $" msg2 db 0Dh,0Ah,0Dh,0Ah, " In BINARY >> $" buffer db 7,?, 5 dup (0), 0, 0 binary dw ? illegal db 10,13,'not valid, TRY AGAIN: ','$' ctr DB ? PROMPT_2 DB 0DH,0AH,0Dh,0Ah,' In …

[ATTACH=right]14395[/ATTACH]Microsoft [URL="http://www.mobilemag.com/2010/04/13/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-specs-and-perspective/"]released a couple of phones[/URL] on Monday, Kin 1 and Kin 2, supposedly aimed at teens. Kin 1 is shaped like a hockey puck. Kin 2 looks more like a conventional smart phone (but it's not). The only thing these phones appear to have going for them is a …

i am thinking of doing a project ''controlling a pc using a mobile". can u just give some guidance. Thanks. i need to write a proposal on it and i dnt kw ow to go about it but i kw i need a mobile fone with the facility to send …

Hi daniweb community. I have a problem when connecting to our school server. When I accessed our server, it keeps asking the username and the password of the server but I already typed the correct one. How can I fix this problem? By the way my operating system is windows …

What is a driver? A driver is a program that controls a particular type of device that is attached to your computer. It consists of software code that allows your PC's operating system to interact with a hardware device. Every driver performs a different function due to the fact that …

I am using a HP laptop pavillon dv6 operating under windows 7 home premium. The problem I am facing is that when I open any windows based application and click in the menu bar to select a main menu item, the menu items under this main menu are displayed on …

I recently upgraded both my mobo, cpu and ram. The new mobo and cpu are 64-bit. When I try to boot into my old hard drive, it does not see any operating system and wants to load cd/dvd. I had previously used a 64-bit Windows 7 install disk to install …

Dear all, I am using linux fedora system.I cannot able to understand localhost.localdomain localhost Even i can able to change the localhost to some other name xxxx.Still it works . What is that exactly localhost.localdomain.? Thank you, With Regards, Prem

AVG Antivirus moved the mfc45.dll to the virus vault because it was corrupted. Is it necessary? If so, how can I get a replacement file?

i have developed a GPS proj. in solaris now i need to invoke this application at the time of operating system start up only. In which location i have to keep this application....

How to kill all running applications using terminal command. we usually kill by command top and got the code of the application.

Hello everyone, I am currently employed by a cell phone provider and i am looking for a place to spread my knowledge and help those who need help. I know alot about phones and thier operation and the systems they opperate on. if I can't answer your question ill use …

I have windows 7 on my pc with 2 gig memory, 350 gig harddrive and 2.67 GHZ CPU. I run slimbrowser most of the time. This problems does it in IE,Firefox and slimbrowser. What ha}ppens is if I open like 15 websites aat once will close the browser down , …

Hi there, i am a naive in CS, i wanted to know the use of configuration files in the OS. And how the registry in Windows platform is used for configuration files? PLEASE HELP THANK YOU

I'm trying to reinstall Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit on my Dell INSPIRON 15 laptop. I have moved all of the files and folders that I would like to keep off of my computer, and was planning on simply overwriting all the leftover data with the Windows installation. So I …

Hi everyone, I was formatting my computer and suddenly this message appeared on the screen. A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent further damage to your computer. KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR If this is the first time you’ve seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. If …

msdn is quite confusing and im wondering if anyone could explain simply how memory mapped files differ from other approaches of reading bytes of a file on disk? -thx

Hi, I am using Centos 5.5, my server is continuously showing high cpu and memory utilization. I used top and ps command but couldn't find the which child process or whats happening on server because of which some process utilization going high. Note:- network, ram, disk utilization is normal.

If you are an operating system developer and using bochs as your simulator, you will love it. [URL="http://code.google.com/p/peter-bochs/"]http://code.google.com/p/peter-bochs/[/URL]

Hi Folks, I have stuck in problem. I want to record keyboard events like key up and key down in Linux OS but I couldnt able to find any proper answer. I have got function but thats lib is very specific to Dev C++ in windows.[CODE]void GenerateKey(int vk , BOOL …

Please help on creating my own operating system ............. I try too much to search on google but I did not get any help for me.......... I hope some good enough too help.... I have knowledge about c/c++. Thanks.

Just deleted my Ubuntu partition and went through the steps to fix Windows's boot process. I used the Installation CD to fix the MBR (typed 'bootrec /fixmbr' and 'bootrec /fixboot' in cmd prompt). That didn't work. I tried it while having the operating system selected and not selected in the …

guys good day!! i need ure help with this problem. we are going to make a program. 1. Store first memory location og program into base register (for memory protection). 2. Set program counter (it keeps track of memory space used by the program) equal to address of first memory …

Due to the uselessness of the IT team in my place of work, I have written a small batch file for the people in my department to map a network folder to a drive letter since the network path is too long and Windows will not allow us to open …

I need to make an OS For my school baisically it is for children's i am a 10 year old boy the poster of this question is my uncle i have 1 year of experience in doing C++ Regards Hayzam,

Is there any command to close any already opened file browser using command in linux. I need so. plz help me.

Iam a new member ,just joined in ,so hello everyone .Well iam in my 5th sem doin B.tech in comp.sc .Well it may sound unrealistic but i wanted to make a small working OS as my final year project.Or may be any application programme like a media player.Is it feasible. …

Hi, I have just got my computer back from the shop and to my surprise a 1TB harddrive which is dedicated to the root partition is nearly full. I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit and according to the command "du -hc" there is only 157M total in there. But when …

Hi Guys, I seem to be having no end of problems with Windows 7.The sound keeps switching on and off.It would come for a day or so then switch off for about a week, then switch back on again for another day or so. Whenever I try to play a …

I encountered this message recently on my new Sony Vaio under warranty. The laptop was not recognizing the hard drive. Sony has shipped a new hard drive. A mobile tech company has represented that they can slave the old hard drive with a SATA cable and access the data because …

I'm working on a project that utilizes producers and consumers for an operating systems class. Each producer and each consumer will be its own thread. The producers will generate records that will be stored in a global buffer, in which the consumer will then access to use the data. I …

hello i have a toshiba tecra 8100...i am trying to load windows 98 se but every time it gets to fdisk options it won,t delete the partition...and it won,t go back to the fdisk options window....how do i fix this?

does somebody knows what are different system softwares being used in the market today that is very easy to make or manipulate???any suggestions pls??...

I'm working from a powerbook operating OSX and I've not been able to log into MSN Messenger for Mac since I installed it (several times, mind!). This has been about two months. MSN have been spectacularly unhelpful over this two month period, taking at least a week or two to …

hi,.,.. i knwo its sound too fasicinating (about title)... and u might b thinking i would be a some kind of rocket programmer or hve gr8 skill over various programming languages ,,.... :icon_question: but unfortunately i dont fall in any these category ,.. actually i'm a student of computer science …

Hi everyone, I'm creating my own OS from scratch, and I'm first producing an installation CD so that I can easily install my kernel on a hard drive. So far, I've written a CD-based bootstrap loader in NASM that finds a program within the root directory of the CD, loads …

hi. can somebody helping me, i have a hp pavilion dv6500 lcd screen went blank.but it works with external monitor i therefore suspect the lcd screen is faulty.i have replaced the lcd screen,display inverter and screen cable, still have not resolved the issue.i now intend to replace the system board …

[ATTACH=left]17212[/ATTACH]In the past, the word [I]embedded[/I] was limited to specialty devices that a lot of us used, but few programmers really cared about. Embedded devices meant things like the controllers on your microwave oven or the computer that ran your car's fuel injection system. There are certainly a lot of …

I'm still a beginner, so please bear with me;) I'm supposed to write a code that generates the Fibonacci series. Here is the sample program output: Please enter n (This program generates 0 to Fn) : 5 0 1 1 2 3 5 So, that's what I did.. [CODE] .data …

Hello everybody, I am trying to get four operating systems running on my Laptop: Windows 7, Fedora, FreeBSD, OpenSolaris. I am have them on my hard-disk( because I can see them when I boot my computer from GParted CD), but I am not able to boot them. At any point …

Hello, I have an assignment where we are supposed to populate an operating system's ready queue with processes and try various process scheduling scheme and record their wait times. To do this i made a rudimentary structure for a process: [CODE]typedef struct{ int ID; int wait_time; int exec_time; }process; [/CODE] …