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What is nim server in aix?

Asked By: rakesh.keepgoing | Asked On: Dec 29th, 2011

Answered by: Lokesh M on: Feb 10th, 2012

NIM Server stands for Network Installation Management server. It is used for maintenance as well as management of AIX images on LPARs and also on individual stand alone servers. NIM can group instance...

Password protect win XP folder

Asked By: tomsyjose | Asked On: Sep 11th, 2008

How can we password protect a folder in win xp?

Answered by: srimurthyb on: Nov 22nd, 2011

Hai
If i use the first option i am not getting the sharing tab

My OS is Windows XP
it s a multi usable desktop with 4- 5 users in it,

and more ever it says admin password is required ..please suggest me how can i bypass all the thing and protect my folder

Thank you

Answered by: mummanakal on: Aug 20th, 2009

Password Protect Folders in XP Do you share a computer with other users and want some extra security on your folders? There are two ways to password protect a folder built into Windows XP (for other W...

Scheduler and dispatcher

Asked By: abhishek_rawat | Asked On: Feb 25th, 2008

What is the difference between medium term scheduler and dispatcher?

Answered by: Anurag Singh on: Nov 10th, 2011

Fragmentation:- Fragmentation is a problem which is occurs during the partition of memory. When memory size bricked in to several partition using the static or dynamic partitioning technique in the fr...

Answered by: yuvaraj23 on: Aug 31st, 2009

Normally there are 3 types of schedulers are available in operating systems.1. Long term scheduler2. Mid term scheduler3. Short term schedulerThe short term scheduler is also called as the dispatcher ...

What is the difference between UNIX and LINUX?

Asked By: bajjuri.thirupathi | Asked On: Jan 5th, 2007

Answered by: ilushka on: Nov 3rd, 2011

Linux does not have to have a GUI. Unix is an OS built in the 60s and 70s at the Bell Labs and later it gave rise to many Unix-like, or *nix, operating systems. One example is Linux, kernel of which h...

Answered by: AVINASH BANSAL on: Oct 29th, 2011

unix i s created by AT&T BELL LABS AND MIT invited year in 1960's
linux is created by LINUS TORVALDS invited year in 1991
unix is not support processor Intel 386
linux is support processor Intel 386

Difference between computer architecture and computer organization?

Asked By: ashish kumar gupta | Asked On: Nov 1st, 2006

Answered by: harpinder mahal on: Oct 22nd, 2011

1.The architecture indicates its hardware whereas the organization reveals its performance.
2.for designing a computer, its architecture is fixed first and then its organization is decided.

Answered by: anandad0007 on: Jan 2nd, 2008

A computer's architecture is its abstract model and is the programmer's view in terms of instructions, addressing modes and registers. A computer's organization expresses the realization o...

Need of operating system

Asked By: pavuluri | Asked On: Mar 5th, 2008

What is the need of operating system in computer science?

Answered by: kamaldeev on: Oct 4th, 2011

Need of Operating System: In earlier day’s user had to design the application according to the internal structure of the hardware. Operating System was needed to enable the user to design the applic...

Answered by: Manvender Singh Rathore on: Aug 3rd, 2011

In earlier day’s user had to design the application according to the internal structure of the hardware. Operating System was needed to enable the user to design the application without concerning t...

I/o burst and cpu burst

Asked By: bhaskar tripathi | Asked On: Sep 18th, 2009

What is pre-emptive short job?What is the i/o burst?What is cpu burst?

Answered by: keerthiga on: Sep 27th, 2011

cpu burst is.. process waits for io completion and io burst is .. process waits for cpu completion

Sytem calls

Asked By: SHESH KUMAR MISHRA | Asked On: Aug 15th, 2010

What is system calls and what is the term preempted and dispatching in it?

Answered by: jyoti on: Sep 25th, 2011

system calls are the interface for the services provided by the operating system

Answered by: mapunda on: Jul 31st, 2011

signals

Which line will be actiVATed when an output device require attention from cpu?

Asked By: Anoop | Asked On: May 28th, 2007

Answered by: priya on: Sep 4th, 2011

Interrupt line

What are the memory management techniques?

Asked By: Vidya | Asked On: Jun 1st, 2006

Answered by: Ayedero Adebayo on: Aug 31st, 2011

Memory techniques:
1. Fixed partitioning
2. Dynamic partitioning
3. Simple segmentation
4. Virtual memory page
5. Virtual memory segmentation.

Answered by: srinu on: Nov 1st, 2006

 differnt memory mangement techniques r Paging and Segmentation

32 bit and 64 bit os

Asked By: aamirz | Asked On: Oct 5th, 2009

What is the 32bit and 64bit platform os? What is difference between 32bit and 64bit? Which latest os from Microsoft does not suppourt 32bit?

Answered by: Honest Liar on: Aug 20th, 2011

32 bit and 64 bit....its size of instruction code , 64 bit...

Answered by: devraj420 on: Aug 7th, 2010

It depends upon two thing first architecure such as x64, x32 and processor.

Blue screen dump error

Asked By: bathini | Asked On: Sep 13th, 2009

List the possible causes for blue screen dump error in windows operating system?

Answered by: radhakrushna on: Dec 17th, 2010

There could be a lot of problem for Blue Screen Error. There are some answers which I can think:


Miss mathed of driver.
Any Hardware Problem.
Any system file corruption.

But must of the system in my experience I have seen the problem due to RAM issue.

Answered by: avisri on: Feb 21st, 2010

It is considered that the system has RAM problem.

Optimal page replacement

Asked By: cranjolkar | Asked On: May 17th, 2010

What do we mean by optimal page replacement?

Answered by: bhavna123 on: Nov 2nd, 2010

Optimal Page Replacement refers to the removal of the page that will not be used in the future, for the longest period of time. It is the reverse of Least Recently Used.For Eg: You have the reference ...

What is the function of virtual memory?

Asked By: Neeraj Mondal | Asked On: Oct 1st, 2007

Answered by: SKPasu on: Aug 19th, 2010

With virtual memory, the computer can look for areas of RAM that have not been used recently and copy them onto the hard disk. This frees up space in RAM to load the new application. Because it does t...

Answered by: s_kalaiselvan on: Oct 11th, 2007

Hai When we use the application goes to over the RAM capability some amount of space in the HDD act as a RAM for  managing the application.that is called Virual memory.if the system run...

Solaris hba card model

Asked By: sathish_us | Asked On: Aug 24th, 2009

How to find the hba card model, type or make in solaris 10?

Answered by: Ragyapa on: Aug 18th, 2010

# prtdiag -vThere  look for "IO Cards":========================= IO Cards =========================              &n...

UNIX console

Asked By: prashantyelpale | Asked On: Jul 31st, 2010

Where we can run two programs in UNIX console at the same time?

Install os over network

Asked By: suganthansss | Asked On: Jul 26th, 2010

How to install os from server to all system?

Burst time

Asked By: Hariprasath Mohankumar | Asked On: Jul 14th, 2010

How to find the burst time of the process?

Diffrence between segmantation and paging

Asked By: dheeraj | Asked On: May 3rd, 2006

Answered by: Sujitha_Dhanaraj on: Jul 10th, 2010

Question in reference to VIDYA VENKITESWARAN's answer...
In what sense do you say segmentation is visible to the user while paging is not. Can you elaborate on it..
Thanks in advance

Answered by: raj on: Apr 7th, 2007

paging is a technic which uses fixed size memory(physical)allocation & segmentation is variable size allocation.paging suffer from internal fragmentation & segmentation is suffer from external fragmentation......

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