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hi everyone, i am a fledgling in this field, can any one please explain what are hard links and soft links in context of OS and why are they required? Also can u also give some practical application of hard links and soft links to further clarify the concept!!
So someone tell me if this is illegal or not before I get myself in trouble. I have a little bit older computer that had it's operating system taken out of it or something like that. It used to have Windows XP on it. I have a newer laptop that …
I upgraded my operating system from Win 98 to 2000, but I could never use it because it asked for a password that I didn't know (and the person who did the upgrade for me didn't remember it!!!!) So, finally, I reinstalled Windows 2000, thinking I would loose everything. But …
I recently came upon Haiku OS, which is pretty much a port of BeOS for the modern era. I downloaded "haiku.image" from the developer's download page. Here's what I want to do: The file is 100MB. I have a 256MB flashdrive. What I want to do is boot my computer …
folks! i,have came through a problem that is the operating system is a driver or not,though i,know that an OS provides an environment to the drivers and specfically speaking it is drive the data from source(H/W orS/W)to the destination.but does really an OS is a driver though it also provides …
Hello everyone. So I've been reading the threads in this forum for a while now and haven't really found what I'm looking for. Basically I need to install a Linux-based system (onto my Windows PC) for work purposes. According to someone who's used the software etc, that I'm going to …
i have reformatted the hard drive several times first format hard drive then i use dos and type sys c: system transferred as soon as i go to install a operating system it says no hard drive but in system setup it say 2.1 gb hd so im at a …
So here's the deal -- I'm dual-booting Mac OS X and Windows XP on my MacBook. On Mac OS X, I have the clock synced to network time. And, being a good Unix system, it sets the system time to GMT. That's all fine and dandy until I install Windows, …
Hi! For the past few months, I've been having an issue where I hit the power button on my computer (built it in February), and the lights come on and the fans spin, but I get nothing on the monitor, and no POST beep. A month and a half ago, …
Why do they make computers harder to use and program than they need to be? Here are some examples: - Why do most spreadsheets and programming languages do trigonometric functions in radians, when most people use degrees? - Why do most of the C-based languages (including Java, JavaScript, and Perl) …
I just bought an HP ZE 4145 notebook computer that needed repair. When I turn it on, it comes up with an error message - PXE-E61 Media test failure, check cable and then Operating system not found. I tested the hard drive on another computer but couldn't get anything to …
i needed to reinstall my operating system (XP), so i used symantec ghost to clone the entire drive (C:) to an external 350Gb drive (F:). before i cloned it, however, i partitioned the target drive into two parts, 200 F: and 150 G:. the larger partition will contain the copy …
i would like to know if windows xp can work with windowss CE over a TCP network. if i have a client server program and i put the client portion on the windows XP or 2000 or vista machine and i put the server portion on the CE machine then …
Hi, My application is on Solaris mashine, It has got 1 gb Ram. i set the swap of 1.5 gb. While running the application even the free memory is lesser than 20 MB, the swap memory is not getting used. I did swapon with priority, But its not really reflecting. …
Friend has a laptop that has Windows XP, but someone put in a new hardrive and every since she can't get the computer to come up. I'm not a tech kinda guy, but she wanted me to mess with it. When it comes up, I have to hit enter when …
Hi. Iv been looking at macs for a while now and iv done my look arounds and im buying me one of the new mac books. But any ways i was wondering if anyone could give me some webpages or just some tips to learning Darwin. If ppl wouldent mind …
[quote]The Windows operating system is fairly resilient when it comes to recovering from errors. Even so, file system corruption, viral infections, disk controller failures and similar catastrophes can cause Windows to experience an unrecoverable error. When this happens, Windows displays the error in full-screen, non-windowed, text mode -- better known …
Hi. First of all I just want t say that I do not know a lot about PC's. Lately I bought my brothers "old" PC (2005). I want to format it, but have huge problems. My main question is: Is there any way to format the PC from the BIOS-menu? …
hi. i am planning on assembling a computer by buying and putting together motherboard, processor, memory etc. The problem is an operating system. windows vista costs a fortune. But worse is my intended use for this computer. i am planning on learing the C programming language on this computer mostly. …
Hello there, is there a corresponding function or struct in linux for the the struct SystemTime in windows? Thanks! :)
Hey I was wondering if there was anyway, when installing software from the packet manager, how can I choose the installation path directory? Thanks
hi , i recently had the missfortune of receving a virus , which ment i had to clear my laptop, the only problem is that a few of the drivers that i need to restore are not included on my windows xp operating disk(ie my modem driver and multimedia driver) …
How Can I make a simple kernal and OS to run on my computer (if possible) apart from windows please? How Would I go about designing a kernel for my laptop? Thanks.
[B]I would appreciate any help I could get on this. [/B] [I]I was organizing the network at my work and I moved a series of folders starting with the letter a into a "A" folder I had just created. I dragged the folders into the "A" folder, and it appeared …
Has anyone ever chainloaded multiple operating systems with lilo the way you can with grub? I mean added the extra systems later than when PClinuxOS was installed ? I want to install PClinuxOS but I don't want to wreck my chainloaded systems so they can't boot. Will PClinuxOS see all …
Hi... In MS-DOS, how could I hide the text cursor NOT the mouse cursor?.. Thanks..
Hi, What do you think of this OS ? [url]http://sharpos.sourceforge.net[/url]
primery master s.m.a.r.t command error at startup (f4 to resume) what would I do. Last operating system was xp pro.
hi ppl this is mmmm my third post in this website i amwondering i have the linux enterprise 10 and i got the windows xp ppl which is better i need u to give me the bad things in win-xp and in linux then the good things :) in linux …
When asking for help there are several items of interest that should be stated in the beginning. What is the problem, what os you are using with sp number and have you added any new hardware or programs before the problem presented itself. Also it would help those who respond …
my windows 2000 computer has an error that "missing or corrupt ntoskrnl.exe"... i dont have erd. i tried to used windows 2000 installer but it doesnt continue... my question is, can i used the ntoskrnl.exe of WIndows xp bootcd and copy the ntoskrnl.exe there in my windows 2000 operating system??? …
hello I'm jorge from Portugal, student in computers and informatics systems engineering, my interest are in programing languages and operating systems for short software engineering, currently I'm a electronic of computers and microelectronic technician I wish the best for all hove you. Best regards Jorge
[font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff][i][size=2][color=black][font=Verdana][color=black][i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i][/color][/font] [/color][/size][/i][/color][/size][/font][font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Creating a Boot Disk for an NTFS or FAT Partition [/color][/size][/font][size=2][color=#000000][font=Arial]This article describes how to create a Windows boot disk to access a drive with a faulty boot sequence on an Intel x86-processor-based computer. This …
The next most important apps are: (2) My Video Camera Software & My VB5.0 Search compiler, (3) Net Browser, (4) Paint & NotePad, (5) Operating Systems, (6) PrintKey 2000, (7) games,,, ----------------- Individual preferences may change the above order. The OS will seldom be in #1st place. With a good …
Hypothetical question, does anyone here plan (at this point based on what they have seen) to buy any new hardware to run vista? What are some of the things that make you happy or tick you off about the Operating System? I am doing research for my website... Mike [url]http://www.windows-vista-update.com[/url]
Okay heres the deal... I turned my Dell computer on today and it went to a black screen that said Error loading operating system at the top left hand corner. Can anyone help me on what to do? P.S. I dont know much about computers. TX P.S.S. i have a …
In the past few weeks I've essentially bricked my laptop. XP won't boot any more and in an attempt to sort it i've stuffed the hard drive. I won't go into detail mainly cos i can't be bothered. Anyways, I'm away to go reformat the hard drive but I can't …
There's a new version of MEPISLite out. It is called AntiX. It is based on SimplyMEPIS 6.5 and is designed to work on older boxes with low ram. It comes with fluxbox and doesn't come with kde. It has the MEPIS installer as well as some other MEPIS goodies. It …
I just reformatted the hard drive (Windows XP Pro both before and after), and I get that message to Please select an operating system. The thing is, I don't think I have any partitions (when I reformatted, it looked like there was a second partition with 8 MB on it, …
hi there... im relatively new to the world of unix and to the Dani Web community too... I am interested in the memory management techniques followed in the UNIX OS. when i read thru a document related to that i came upon a paragraph, which im not able to decipher... …
I'm trying to do an assignment to implement a unix shell and run commands using java. commands include read file, copy file, remove file and find substring in a file. I have managed to create the file and try out all commands individually but I've failed to run the threads. …
Hey all, My mate tried to fix my c drive and he move some files around. Now im unable to start my computer. How can i get into my computer to move the files back. Thank you
Hi I have a problem with my (optical) mouse in that it freezes during use of my computer. Itially it will be jerky in operation and if you try and move the mouse too fast or simply during careful use ithe mouse cursor will freeze. It can be "released" a …
Hi, this problem has AOL tech support and me out of idea's on how to solve it. Operating System: Windows XP Professional Router: BT Voyager 105 / BT Voyager 2110 Firewall: Nortan (disabled) The problem started 2 days ago, when in the middle of my connection the DSL Light on …
Okay I found this laptop at my job,and so i decided to bring it and see if it still works and running there is a problem thou.I turned it on first there was a problem with the bios time and set i set that all up,and then they said operating …
Hi Every1 This is my Computer Configuration Mainboard : Asus A7V400-MX Chipset : VIA KM400 Processor : AMD Athlon MP @ 1333 MHz Physical Memory : 512 MB (2 x 256 DDR-SDRAM ) Video Card : VT82C570 MV IDE Controller KM400 Graphics Adapter Network Card : VT82C570 MV IDE Controller …
In some, but not all, my strategy games that have French or German accented letters in their texts, the accented letters fail to be represented correctly on screen. Most recently this problem occurred with Silent Hunter III, a licensed copy (?) of which I bought here in Moscow and to …
Since I want to get into OS development I decided to install and try to use the bochs emulater. I have a sample floppy operating system called c.img. How do I tell bochs to boot from c.img? whenever I start bochs I just get panics and fatal errors.
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