Recent content by cas

This is absolute nonsense Coug, and Brian Livingston is obviously no Windows guru. I am a Windows guru, yet it should be plain to anyone that access control does not automatically encrypt files on disk. This is true of every major OS is use today.

The physical layer of SAS is exactly the same as SATA II (which will be available around the same time), such that you will be able to plug SATA drives in to an SAS HBA. The advantages of SAS are additional features, like dual ported drives, rather than raw performance.

While I recognize the wording of the poll is something of a rhetorical device, the very implication is absurd. Even if we set aside the moral overtones, each of the listed companies (even AOL), has made significant contributions to the industry. When I started using PCs, there was essentially...

Sort of. Like Mercutio says, new x86-64 OS binaries and device drivers will be required for 64bit operation(what AMD calls Long Mode). Like the transition from 16 to 32 bit, older application software will work, and will execute without emulation. The fundamental difference this time, is...

I would be interested to know what the server logs say. From similar polls I have looked at recently, far more people claim to use something other than IE, than actually do. SF is a pretty small community however, so who knows?

I bought some Microsoft stock a few years ago, when it was worth a bit more than it is now. With the dividend, I can’t decide whether I want to let it accrue to reduce my cost basis to break even, or go to the movies; by myself.

Actually, this should read “There is nothing about a register that inherently limits it to synchronous or asynchronous designs.” At a certain level, all common logic is inherently asynchronous.

When working with computer systems, we tend to think of a buffer as a temporary storage space (eg print buffer). Applying this thinking to circuit design can be misleading. A buffer is strictly electrical, and is typically used to increase the drive strength of a signal, while a register...

Let me know if you have trouble with netperf

I have written such a piece of software. It's crude, but it should do what you request. I have an engagement this morning, but I will dig it out for you tonight.

For those who are interested in this topic, but don't follow SR regularly, an XP Cache Filter driver can be found here.

Actually, it means that the difference in one particular case isn’t very large. cascopy was not developed to test this issue, and is not representative of all usage scenarios. It was used because it is known not to pass the FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH flag to CreateFile. For applications which...

“In 1985, Gates signed a long-term joint development agreement with IBM to create a new operating system from scratch, known at the time as Advanced DOS. Eventually, it took the name OS/2.” All of the dates I quoted are documented in Hard Drive by Wallace and Erickson. Much of the same...

You may want to double-check that before your next lesson. Work on Interface Manager(Windows) began in late 1981. The first screen shots made the trade publications in 1983. Microsoft didn’t agree to work on Advanced DOS (OS/2), until 1985. The impetus for the creation of Windows, were the...

Say what? If NAV changes any binary (through auto-clean, or any other mechanism), those changes are the responsibility of NAV. They are not the responsibility of the binary that was changed. If NAV were to modify ntoskrnl.exe, terrible things could happen. This is not the fault of...