I want to develop an application that can retreive information such as, DLL version, DLL build mode(debug or release), info. regarding OS, memory, processer, processes/threads, program version etc. I am developing this mainly for Windows, but it'd be good if the application supports Linux too(wherever applicable).
I am basically a java ...
A semaphore is a mechanism for avoiding race conditions. But what's the significance of the initial value of a semaphore?
Say that a semaphore has an initial value of 5, is it that 5 processes can access some shared resource simultaneously?
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I've been taking note of the .exe file size of many applications.
I saw that Visual Studio 2005 has an .exe size of 453KB, and VS2008 of 1.04MB because they divide the application into many parts (.exe + many .dll files).
I saw also that MS Outlook has a very large .exe file (11.8MB) while MS Word is very small (398KB)!
After ponderi...
I'd like to know how to get hold of the kind of Operating System the jvm is running on. It has to be "secure" as well, so System.getProperty("os.name") is not really an option because it can be trivially circumvented with the -D directive.
By "secure" I mean nontrivial to circumvent. It's for a desktop application. The user could always...
Does anyone have sample VBS code that creates a switch statement based on whether the client OS is Windows XP, 2000, NT, or 95?
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Is there any way to get system status in python, for example the amount of memory free, processes that are running, cpu load and so on.
I know on linux I can get this from the /proc directory, but I would like to do this on unix and windows as well.
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Hi,
I want to know does CSS behaviour changes with different operating system. My css is working bit different for vista and win xp proffesional for same version of browser. I was testing my application on vista + ie8 and xp + ie8. It worked bit different.
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Normally boot strap loaders are written using assembly languages.
Is it possible to dot it using java with native interface.
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MenuetOS is an example of an OS written entirely in Assembly. Is there any advantage to writing it in Assembly instead of a low-level programming language such as C?
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Which OS would you recommend for a development machine:
Windows Server 2008 R2
or
Windows 7
As of now, most "web developers" probably use Windows Server 2008 because of IIS and Vista SuckingBigTime.
Does this change with Windows 7? Can we finally use a client OS on a client computer again or the time has yet to come?
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Hi everybody,
I was thinking about starting to write my own OS, but it seems that most of the time you start by putting the bootloader & OS on a floppy disk. Problem : my laptop has no floppy disk reader. I'm pretty afraid of putting the OS on the hard drive, and I guess I won't be able to load it through an USB key, as there is no OS ru...
I am trying to detect three operating systems - Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux.
I use the navigator.oscpu which alerts the following OS/values -
Windows XP SP3 - Windows NT 5.1
Windows Vista - Windows NT 6.0
Ubuntu 9.04 - Linux i686
I am doubtful about the number 5.1 shown for XP. Will it show 5.1 for ALL configurations or XP - ...
Hi,
My only experience in O/S development before this has been to create a 'Hello World' OS running from a Floppy drive.
What I need now is to develop a simple O/S to boot from a USB stick. And I have a few roadblocks:
How do I write to the boot "sector" of a USB stick? Are there any tools available?
Do you know of any good tutorial...
What are the differences between User Mode and Kernel Mode, and why & how do you activate either (use cases?).
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In the process of installing a new server on minix (servers/dfs) we created a system call to communicate with the server via the message passing interface minix provides. The problem is that when we try to build the dfs we take the following error:
Undefined _m_in
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In the way of developing a new server (Distributed File System server) on minix3, we thought about implementing some system calls will be used to communicate with the server via the message passing interface minix3 provides.
The problem comes for the system call. After changing the appropriate files, installing a new image and rebooting...
When you want to change the mobile system date or time in your application, how do you go about doing it?
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Is there any resource or book for creating own linux distro.Only good resource i found is this
And also what specialities need to start project like this?
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I'm not planning on doing this right now, as I don't have the experience in this area to even attempt it at the moment, but I'm curious about something.
If implementing an operating system from scratch, what would it take to build an application like VirtualBox? Not necessarily as user friendly with a nice GUI or anything, but somethin...
Can we identify an application is how much bit ie 16/32/64 bit from its extension.
.com,.exe,.bin specifies anything like that?
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