eckertd

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• Feb 5th, 2008

The 'format' command will present you with a list of drives attached to the system.Be careful, because this is also where you can set/change partition tables (like fdisk)You could also run 'ls /dev/dsk/c*t*d*s0' - but it will also list cd/dvd drives

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eckertd

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• Feb 5th, 2008

Unix groups provide a way to group together user accounts by function, role, department, etc.A user belongs to a primary group, which is typically contained in the /etc/passwd file.  A user may a...

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eckertd

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• Feb 5th, 2008

Guessing you mean the Solaris OpenBoot prompt "ok>"Boot off cd-rom to single use mode (boot cdrom -s), mount your root filesystem to /mnt, cd to /mnt/etc.  From there you can view & edit hosts, passwd, shadow files.

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What are the difference between grep and awk commands and where can use these in UNIX scripting.

vipul_se

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• Jan 29th, 2008

Grep is a simple pattren searching command. if you want to search some pattren in file or database you can search.But you can not work on the field of a file or some operation on that.Awk is like sql ...

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What is segmentation? how does it remove the external fragmentation?

vipul_se

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• Jan 28th, 2008

Fragmentation arise due to inefficient use of memory or due to the memory management algorithm.Talking about latest techniques that is used by the present operating system.main memory of a c...

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What are the different Beep SoundsExplain about Single Beep , Double beeps and Continous Beep

ganesh_mys11

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• Jan 14th, 2008

Single beep stands for error in RefreshingDouble Beep stands for error in memoryContinous beep sound tells stands for RAM notworking or RAM properly not inserted in slot

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itcoll

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• Jan 11th, 2008

At the time of buying the hard-disk you will have full 80 GB. but after you format it, you will see that the size is reduced to 78 GB or so. That is bcoz the entire hard disk is divided in to several...

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Can we execute a program with out installing Operating system? If yes, how it can be done?

jeetendrabhattad

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• Jan 10th, 2008

Yesusing EPROM

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prasul

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• Dec 26th, 2007

Boot process goes on like BIOS -> POST -> BOOTLOADER -> KERNEL -> INIT -> RUNLEVEL

sarathi trichy

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• Oct 25th, 2007

Bootstrap loader program

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prasul

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• Dec 26th, 2007

Touch is the same command that is used to create a zero byte file on the server.

anonymous

• Oct 30th, 2007

For 2nd question, use Unix/Linux utility called 'touch'

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prasul

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• Dec 26th, 2007

Unix treats the directory names as separate entity so the directories with capitals will be displayed in CAPS itself and this is different to what windows treats to its directories.

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prasul

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• Dec 26th, 2007

Kill -9 pidor kill -SIGHUP pidThis should kill the process with nohup command

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prakash82x

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• Nov 30th, 2007

1: Data Transfer Rate of USB 2.0 is 480 MegaBits /Second Maximum.2: ATAPI :- Acronym for Advanced Technology Attachment Power Iterface, Basically an Interface use to connect the CDROM with t...

GSRINIVAS

• Nov 20th, 2006

USB 2.0 IS 480 MEGABITS/SECATAPI IS CD ROM DRIVEACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface)Disk management software including utilities for data recovery, drive imaging,

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md naushad

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• Nov 29th, 2007

DHCP stands for Dynamic Host Configuratio Protocol It assigns addressing information to client so it works only in server client mode.Client asks addressing informatio from DHCP Server by four way commuication.

esun23

• Oct 11th, 2007

DHCP stands for dynamic host configuration protocol. What it does is dynamically assign network settings from a server.hence a DHCP configured PC boots, it requests its IP address from the DHCP server...

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paravashu

• Nov 23rd, 2007

Actually paging is nothing to do with any particular OS like Windows or Unix.It is a memory mechanism used to organise the main memory. There are two approaches to allocating memory to the application...

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swati poddar

• Nov 16th, 2007

Fault tolerence is a concept in kernel. There are basically two types of kernel [1] monolithic kernel [used in windows XP or generally][2] microkernel [used in robotics]Monolithic kernel has hierarchi...

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murali

• Nov 6th, 2007

1.alt+ctrl+delete. u will get taskmanager? goto "newtask"and? type "msconfig"there? u?? can? find?? "system restore? console"

sanjeetdaga

• Sep 8th, 2007

The reason is your explorer.exe is corrupted. explorer is responsible for displaying start menu and desktop.You can confirm by seeing that there is no process running by this name in "Windows Task Manager"

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bcl

• Oct 31st, 2007

Just a note: In user mode, only non-privileged instructions are available. In privileged mode _all_ instructions are available. Thus the user mode has access to a subset of the CPU's available instruc...

ramesh kattamuri

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• Sep 18th, 2007

There are some schedulling algorithms?to control the?multiple interrupts?so many os ?mostly used priority based algorithm in this each process alloted with their priorities in that time they will execute.If not used any algorithms tat may lead to deadlock state.

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How can I set these registry settings on win XP?Path: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindows CurrentVersionScreensaversBubbles - SpanMultiMon [DWORD] 0/1Enables/disables multiple monitor spanning support.Enable this to have one set of bubbles travel acrossscreens. Disable this to have bubbles on each (and possiblydifferent configurations)- SphereDensity [DWORD] intSelf explainatory- Radius...

umj5782

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• Oct 24th, 2007

A self-contained operating environment that behaves as if it is a separate computer  

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