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A user level system uses multi-threading (a.k.a blocking threads), however for most interrupt driven code, system multi-threading is not used. This document describes a set of macros called MT_CALL which simulate multi-threading systems. Using these macros has two major advantages: (1) it uses only one system thread to support thousands of I/O threads, (2) an operating system is not required and (3) it supports threads on the interrupt level....
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I knew about Google Latitude from a friend when I bought my HTC mobile. I used it few times before I update my ROM to a cooked ROM that has no Google latitude app installed. The story begins when I noticed by chance that my Google latitude gadget on iGoogle reflects my location although I had not accessed google latitude from my mobile recently. I googled for geo features of Google gears and discovered that they are able to give you your location using wifi-towers only. In the following are disc...
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One of the most popular articles on this site over the last year has been our must-read feature explaining svchost.exe and why it's running, and now there's an even easier way to see what's going on behind all of those svchost processes in Task Manager....
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If you’ve got a PC infected with malware, spyware, or rogue/fake antivirus applications, the best tool for removing them is the free SUPERAntiSpyware Portable edition. Here at How-To Geek HQ, this is the tool we use to clean nasty infections like Antivirus Live....
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Are you worried about running an application on your machine because you’re not sure how it will affect it? Today we take a look at Sandboxie, which lets you run your browser, email, or other apps in a secure sandbox environment without making changes to your Windows system....
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Author: Asian Angel
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We shown you how careless downloading can infect you with spyware, how to clean it up with Spybot or Ad-Aware, and in the final part of our series we’ll illustrate how to use Malwarebytes to remove all that crapware from your PC....
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Are you looking for a way to keep your computer, settings, and files safe around young children that love to “play” with the keyboard? Then you will want to take a look at KidSafe....
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VirtualBox from Sun is a great free virtual machine that lets you run multiple operating systems on your PC. Today we take a look at installing the Guest Additions feature which provides enhanced performance of the guest operating system....
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In today’s tough economic times the last thing you want is to lose important data because you couldn’t afford a quality backup utility. Today we look at GFI Backup Home Edition, a completely free professional grade backup solution....
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You might be looking for a way to try out Ubuntu Linux but don’t like the idea of creating a partition, using a slow live CD, or don’t have enough resources to run a virtual machine. Today we take a look at using the Wubi installer to get Ubuntu running on your computer with very little effort....
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You’ve been doing some serious work on your computer and have a bunch of apps, browsers, spreadsheets, and documents open. You’re done for the day, but closing each app and document individually is going to be a hassle. Here we take a look at an awesome utility that will close all of your running applications at once with one click....
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So far in our series we’ve covered how to reset your Windows password with the Ultimate Boot CD, but if you are a little more technical you might want to simply use the excellent System Rescue CD, which is based on Linux....
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Author: Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News Network
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CodeWeaver's released a port of Google's Chrome browser (review) for Linux. CrossOver Chromium is a Mac and Linux port of the open source Chromium web browser. CrossOver Chromium is free and available for download here....
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Darwin Streaming Server is Apple's open source streaming server for the internet. This article will get you started with it, and if you choose to, take you to a certain depth regarding how to tinker with its code to add what you need. It has a very well supported modular architecture, which means you can add one or more custom module(s) - just dropping the binary in a certain folder is sufficient for the server to pick it up and use it. That's what I call plug an play. This is very useful if you...
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Historically, moving from a Linux mail system- such as Postfix/Dovecot -to a Windows mail system- such as Smartermail -was not a seamless process. Mail formats are so largely different that it is next to impossible to copy mail over. Users were best suited to POP3 all mail off the Postfix server and then connect to the Smartermail server to achieve a complete migration. But how useful is this when you have possibly 1GB of mail? Or is this scalable if you have a company with many non-technical us...
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So, let's get to the subject. First of all, I was never interested in chats or instant messengers and actually I don't know how they work. Maybe just a little. ;) I decided to build my own project to implement my own way and see how it will work. Ok, P.I.C. (Private Internet Communication) System is written in Perl, it uses Perl gtk2 module for every user interface and works with mysql database, it is designed for Linux systems and will not work on Windows. The main purpose of this paper is to s...
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A Java class to shutdown Apache James Mail Server via TCP/IP. It shuts down Apache James Mail Server by passing shutdown command via simulated telnet session....
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emphatic from Microsoft's point of view, but analysts predict that sales of netbooks will grow nearly 80% this year to 21 million units, while overall PC sales decline by 11.9%. And Microsoft is quite aware of that. WSJ reports that Windows XP at a discounted rate is already on the cards for netbooks. Unnamed sources report that Microsoft is charging less than $ 15 for per copy of Windows XP in a netbook. And if XP and Vista (which was a failure for netbooks considering the hardware support it n...
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Imagine you had a way to edit any web page instantly in the browser itself to experiment with the look and layout or copy some code? Here is a Firefox bookmarklet to make any web page editable [Edit] in the browser itself. Just drag it to your bookmarks and you are ready to use it. Whenever you see a page you would like to edit click on the bookmarklet and you will find the page instantly editable within your browser....
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Partimage is a Linux utility which saves partitions having a supported filesystems (see below) to an image file. It is a free and open source alternative to the popular software Norton Ghost or DriveImage. Most Linux and Windows filesystems are supported. The partition image file can be compressed with the gzip / bzip2 programs to save disk space, and can be split into multiple files to easily copy them on CDs / DVDs. Partitions can also be saved across the network using the partimage network su...
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