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Portable UNIX
Why is UNIX more portable than other operating systems?
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Multiple Users
How to create the multiple users in Solaris 10 OS?
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Operating System
What are Batch Operating System and a Time-Sharing Operating System?
pravin_thapa
- Sep 22nd, 2009
Batch operating system are those where we collect similar kind of process make a batch and than submitted to processor to process.
Time sharing where processor jumps between process when a process in its input
session or output session processor jumps to the process which is in process
phase.jsharon
- Aug 29th, 2009
Time-sharing refers to sharing a computing resource among many users by multitasking.Because early mainframes and minicomputers were extremely expensive, it was rarely possible to allow a single user ...
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UNIX GREP Command
How will you find the file in UNIX if you dont know the file name or Extensions using GREP?
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Describe four general strategies for dealing with deadlocks.
nilupul21
- Aug 23rd, 2009
Strategies to dealt with deadlocks are: Ignore deadlock (This is done in systems which are infrequently meeting with deadlocks) Detection and recovering Avoiding deadl...
visitnitya
- Jan 15th, 2008
The four techniques are-1)mutual exclusion2)circular wait3)hold & wait4)no premption
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Hidden Files
How to create hidden files in UNIX?
kranth.pothuganti
- Aug 19th, 2009
Unix will treat all the files whose names start with a '.'?as hidden.So you can prevent your files from getting listed by LS command by changing it's name such that it starts with a '.'
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Resource Allocator
What is the function of resource allocator in Operating System?
kranth.pothuganti
- Aug 19th, 2009
Resource allocator is a module of the operating system that is used to assign the resources to the processes that reqoested those resources in an economical way so that the utilization of resources is optimal.
vimalat
- Jul 28th, 2009
Resource allocator is used to assign the available resource in a economic way. It is a part of the resource management.
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How to configure RAID controller
How to configure RAID controller in Windows server 2003 standard edtion?
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Installing XP and Vista together
What are the advantages and disadvantages of installing XP operating system and Vista operating system on to one computer?
simple_anagh
- Aug 13th, 2009
Installing XP and Vista doesnt have any drawback. Having two OS system helps you to retrive data if one OS crashes then from another OS you can easily reterive the data.
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What would system restore do? Technically what would it do?
simple_anagh
- Aug 13th, 2009
System restore will go back to proper settings our best configuration Point to be notted it deletes all applications installed but not documentations.
indiansysengg
- Dec 11th, 2006
Its is a kind backup utility,which help when the O/s gets corrupted or we lose our setting of O/s .Always this should be enabled in windows so that we can restore the latest settings when we face any problems
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What do you mean by KERNEL THREADS?
karthika bn
- Aug 4th, 2009
These are the threads that performs thread creation, scheduling and management in kernel space. These are supported directly by os but these are slower than user threads. However, since the kernel is...
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Disable Data From Recovery
How to disable and protect private data from recovery?
saif.paktin
- Aug 2nd, 2009
When you plan to delete your personal data from your computer and you do not like to some one recover it back then do this.1. Change the extension of file which you want to delete.Example the file you...
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Process and a Program
What is the difference between process and program? Is this difference important in single process operating system? Why? Why not?
indu_sweety
- Jul 10th, 2009
Program is passive entity. After executing the program it becomes process, means it is active entity.
ankscorek
- Mar 8th, 2009
Process is a passive entity whereas Program is an active entityProcess can fork out to enable exec of their children.
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UNIX Scheduling
Which is the scheduling used by UNIX?
anukriti
- Jul 5th, 2009
FCFS schedulingSJFS (premptive and non premptive)Priority SchedulingRR scheduling!
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IRQ
What is IRQ?
ROHIT_4444
- Jun 26th, 2009
Stands for "Interrupt Request." PCs use interrupt requests to manage various hardware operations. Devices such as sound cards, modems, and keyboards can all send interrupt requests to the processor. F...
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Dual Core Processor
What is difference between dual core and core 2 duo processors?
rustosubhash
- Jun 8th, 2009
These term are related to speed of processor in the machine ,The Dual core is four ?time faster than the pentium4 and the core 2 duo is two times faster than the dual core, it means core 2 duo is 8 time faster than a pentium4.Subhash patel
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Service Pack and Patches
What is the differences between service pack and patches?
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Speed Screen
Explain What is Speed Screen?
rritesht
- May 14th, 2009
Quite simply, SLR is technology built into MetaFrame Presentation Servers and ICA clients that allows users to experience smooth typing in environments where there is high latency between the ICA clie...
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