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  • What operating systems are used in airplanes, and what programming languages are they developed in?

    - by adhg
    I was wondering if anyone knows what is the operating system used in commercial airplanes (say Boeing or Airbus). Also, what is the (preferred) real-time programing language? I heard that Ada is used in Boeing, so my question is - why Ada? what are the criteria the Boeing-guys had to choose this language? (I guess Java wouldn't be a great choice if the exactly in lift off the garbage collector wakes up).

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  • What's your main development operating system? Why? [closed]

    - by Anto
    What do you use as your main operating system for developing software (you might use another for testing, gaming, entertainment etc.), and most importantly, why? To speak for myself, I use Ubuntu and Kubuntu (it varies between those two Linux distributions), because it is easy to get stuff done with, has all the development tools I need, is fast, stable and safe. And I think I would never make it without the UNIX utilities anymore.

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  • Best Book on Operating Systems

    - by qp
    What is the best, up-to-date and comprehensive book on operating systems? Voice your opinion. I have seen recommendations for Tanenbaum's Modern Operating Systems but the reviews saying the latest edition has many conceptual errors and numerous typos make me worry.

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  • *Hidden Features* in your operating system that increase productivity?

    - by AdityaGameProgrammer
    As developers how much time, or do you spend time, In learning the hidden features tricks of your operating system ? How important do you feel is this for productivity in day to day programming? tasks. What do you mean when you list knowledge of an OS in your resume? What are your most useful hidden -less known features For example: A common problem of How can i open the cmd window in a specific location a do it yourself solution in say xp and what to do if something breaks Or are these something you look into as and when you find the need to do so?

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  • Roadblocks in creating a custom operating system

    - by Dinah
    It seems to me that the most common overly ambitious project that programmers (esp. Comp. Sci. grads) try to tackle is building your own operating system. (Trying to create your own programming language + compiler is probably even more common but not nearly as ambitious.) For those (like myself) foolish enough to try: aside from the sheer size, what are the biggest *gotcha*s or unexpected roadblocks you've encountered in trying to create your own OS from the ground up? Edit: A great OS question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43180/how-to-get-started-in-operating-system-development/

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  • DotNet Get User Operating System (HTTP_USER_AGENT)

    - by rockinthesixstring
    I'm looking at building an exhaustive function that returns a friendly name for the Users Operating System. I think I have most of the Windows stuff down, but I'm not sure about Linux, OSX, and others. Does anyone know where I can find an exhaustive list of HTTP_USER_AGENT's 'Gets the users operating system Public Shared Function GetUserOS() As String Dim strAgent As String = HttpContext.Current.Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_USER_AGENT") 'Windows OS's If InStr(strAgent, "Windows NT 6.1") Then : Return "Windows 7" ElseIf InStr(strAgent, "Windows NT 6.0") Then : Return "Windows Vista" ElseIf InStr(strAgent, "Windows NT 5.2") Then : Return "Windows Server 2003" ElseIf InStr(strAgent, "Windows NT 5.1") Then : Return "Windows XP" ElseIf InStr(strAgent, "Windows NT 5.0") Then : Return "Windows 2000" ElseIf InStr(strAgent, "Windows 98") Then : Return "Windows 98" ElseIf InStr(strAgent, "Windows 95") Then : Return "Windows 95" 'Mac OS's ElseIf InStr(strAgent, "Mac OS X") Then : Return "Mac OS X" 'Linux OS's ElseIf InStr(strAgent, "Linux") Then : Return "Linux" Else : Return "Unknown" End If End Function 'GetUserOS

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  • How to understand the programming of an operating system

    - by piemesons
    Hello, I want to learn the operating system. How it works. I don't want to make my own operating system. I just want to learn how it works. As I can find out source code of any open source OS. But how to start. Like starting from the first elementary kernel (whatever it is). Somebody suggested I try to implement Linux from scratch etc. Please guide me in a proper way. I want to know about the proper path to follow. I am ready to invest three to four years just to understand the basics. I have good fundamentals of C, C++, PHP, OOP and compiler design.

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  • Do different operating systems have different read and write speeds?

    - by Ivan
    If I have two different operating systems, such as Windows 8 and Ubuntu, running on the same hardware, will the two operating systems have different read and write speeds? My guess is that there would be minimal difference between operating systems and read and write speeds to the hard disk since the major limited factor is seeking; however, different operating systems may use different file systems in order to attempt to reduce seek time in the hard disk. Likewise, I'm sure that modern operating systems will not actually write directly to the hard disk, and instead will just have it in memory and marked with a dirty bit. Are there any studies that show differences in read and write speeds between OSs? Or would the file system being used by the OS matter more than the OS itself?

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  • What Does an OS Actually Do?

    - by Ell
    What exactly does an operating system do? I know that operating systems can be programmed, in, for example, C++, but I previously believed that C++ programs must be run under an operating system? Can somebody please explain and give links? thanks in advance, ell

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  • Naive question of memory references in Operating system

    - by darkie15
    Hi All, I am learning memory references pertaining to Operating systems and don't seem to get to the crux of understanding it. For example, I am not able to visualize this scenario properly: "A 36 bit address employs both paging and segmentation. Both PTE and STE are 4 bytes each". How are they related? I can guess that this question might be too simple for many. But any help understanding the above basic concept would be appreciable. Regards, darkie15

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  • Detecting operating system or computer name through a Java servlet

    - by Ankur
    I have a Java web app that I develop on a Windows machine and will deploy on a Unix machine. There are some file path settings and permissions details that differ on the two (and there is nothing I can do to change this). Is there some way of detecting which machine the app is sitting on (it's only one of two), either by detecting the operating system or the computer's name so I can then using the appropriate settings.

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  • Operating System Development

    - by j-t-s
    Hi All I'm looking for any website(s) devoted and/or related to Operating System Development, and would love for you to kindly share any links you may have. I have searched myself, but keep winding up at the same old sites, and am wondering if there are others that just don't get noticed by the major search engines or something. I've put this as a community wiki, simply because I don't think it's very fair to judge an answer based on a single link. Thank you.

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  • What route to take to become a systems developer?

    - by Ramin
    In the past I have done a lot of Java and Python coding. Mostly, I worked on web apps and some simple console or gui apps. I also have a formal education in computer science. What route should I take to become a systems developer? I always did like C++, but never had a chance to use it for anything. Would mastering C++ be one of the steps? If so what resources can you suggest? Also, I would like to know how much different is the work between plain old development and systems development. There seem to be a lot of overlapping between the two.

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  • The History Of Operating Systems [Infographic]

    - by ETC
    Earlier this week we shared a history of operating system names with you. This infographic complements that with a timeline of quotes and facts from the annals of computer history. Hit up the link below to check out the full infographic. The History Of Operating Systems [MakeUseOf] Latest Features How-To Geek ETC Have You Ever Wondered How Your Operating System Got Its Name? Should You Delete Windows 7 Service Pack Backup Files to Save Space? What Can Super Mario Teach Us About Graphics Technology? Windows 7 Service Pack 1 is Released: But Should You Install It? How To Make Hundreds of Complex Photo Edits in Seconds With Photoshop Actions How to Enable User-Specific Wireless Networks in Windows 7 The History Of Operating Systems [Infographic] DriveSafe.ly Reads Your Text Messages Aloud The Likability of Angry Birds [Infographic] Dim an Overly Bright Alarm Clock with a Binder Divider Preliminary List of Keyboard Shortcuts for Unity Now Available Bring a Touch of the Wild West to Your Desktop with the Rango Theme for Windows 7

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  • Advantages of Thread pooling in embedded systems

    - by Microkernel
    I am looking at the advantages of threadpooling design pattern in Embedded systems. I have listed few advantages, please go through them, comment and please suggest any other possible advantages that I am missing. Scalability in systems like ucos-2 where there is limit on number of threads. Increasing capability of any task when necessary like Garbage collection (say in normal systems if garbage collection is running under one task, its not possible to speed it up, but in threadpooling we can easily speed it up). Can set limit on the max system load. Please suggest if I am missing anything.

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  • Efficiently separating Read/Compute/Write steps for concurrent processing of entities in Entity/Component systems

    - by TravisG
    Setup I have an entity-component architecture where Entities can have a set of attributes (which are pure data with no behavior) and there exist systems that run the entity logic which act on that data. Essentially, in somewhat pseudo-code: Entity { id; map<id_type, Attribute> attributes; } System { update(); vector<Entity> entities; } A system that just moves along all entities at a constant rate might be MovementSystem extends System { update() { for each entity in entities position = entity.attributes["position"]; position += vec3(1,1,1); } } Essentially, I'm trying to parallelise update() as efficiently as possible. This can be done by running entire systems in parallel, or by giving each update() of one system a couple of components so different threads can execute the update of the same system, but for a different subset of entities registered with that system. Problem In reality, these systems sometimes require that entities interact(/read/write data from/to) each other, sometimes within the same system (e.g. an AI system that reads state from other entities surrounding the current processed entity), but sometimes between different systems that depend on each other (i.e. a movement system that requires data from a system that processes user input). Now, when trying to parallelize the update phases of entity/component systems, the phases in which data (components/attributes) from Entities are read and used to compute something, and the phase where the modified data is written back to entities need to be separated in order to avoid data races. Otherwise the only way (not taking into account just "critical section"ing everything) to avoid them is to serialize parts of the update process that depend on other parts. This seems ugly. To me it would seem more elegant to be able to (ideally) have all processing running in parallel, where a system may read data from all entities as it wishes, but doesn't write modifications to that data back until some later point. The fact that this is even possible is based on the assumption that modification write-backs are usually very small in complexity, and don't require much performance, whereas computations are very expensive (relatively). So the overhead added by a delayed-write phase might be evened out by more efficient updating of entities (by having threads work more % of the time instead of waiting). A concrete example of this might be a system that updates physics. The system needs to both read and write a lot of data to and from entities. Optimally, there would be a system in place where all available threads update a subset of all entities registered with the physics system. In the case of the physics system this isn't trivially possible because of race conditions. So without a workaround, we would have to find other systems to run in parallel (which don't modify the same data as the physics system), other wise the remaining threads are waiting and wasting time. However, that has disadvantages Practically, the L3 cache is pretty much always better utilized when updating a large system with multiple threads, as opposed to multiple systems at once, which all act on different sets of data. Finding and assembling other systems to run in parallel can be extremely time consuming to design well enough to optimize performance. Sometimes, it might even not be possible at all because a system just depends on data that is touched by all other systems. Solution? In my thinking, a possible solution would be a system where reading/updating and writing of data is separated, so that in one expensive phase, systems only read data and compute what they need to compute, and then in a separate, performance-wise cheap, write phase, attributes of entities that needed to be modified are finally written back to the entities. The Question How might such a system be implemented to achieve optimal performance, as well as making programmer life easier? What are the implementation details of such a system and what might have to be changed in the existing EC-architecture to accommodate this solution?

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  • EMEA Engineered Systems Partner Update Call&ndash;October 30th 2013

    - by JuergenKress
    EMEA Engineered Systems Partner Update Call: Engineered Systems (Including Exalogic) updates from Oracle OpenWorld on 30th October, 2013 at 15:00 CET (UTC/GMT +1 Hour) We are pleased to invite you to the next Webcast from our Engineered Systems Partner Update Series. This time it will be all around "Engineered Systems updates from Oracle OpenWorld – all the news from Exalogic included" on Wednesday 30th October, 2013 at 15:00 CET (UTC/GMT +1 Hour). One more year, San Francisco hosted the Oracle OpenWorld, in the month of September. Every year, thousands of partners and customers attend this event to discover new products and solutions, improve their technical proficiency and knowledge, learn tips and tricks for currently installed products and understand where the industry is headed. In case you could not make it to San Francisco this time, we want to provide you with the key updates announced at Oracle OpenWorld around Engineered Systems. Please mark your diaries. You can also attend Larry’s keynote around the Oracle Database 12c In-Memory Database and M6 Big Memory Machine and many more on the Oracle OpenWorld On Demand website. Agenda: Overview of latest Engineered Systems including Exalogic and how Oracle Fusion Middleware performs on the machine How to articulate their value to customers Webcast Joining details: To Join the webcast CLICK HERE For audio reception please use the following details: Global Dial-in Numbers Session/Conference ID: 595 534 979 Password: 12385 WebLogic Partner Community For regular information become a member in the WebLogic Partner Community please visit: http://www.oracle.com/partners/goto/wls-emea ( OPN account required). If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center. Blog Twitter LinkedIn Mix Forum Wiki Technorati Tags: Engineered Systems,Exalogic,OOW,Oracle OpenWorld,WebLogic,WebLogic Community,Oracle,OPN,Jürgen Kress

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  • topics in distributed systems

    - by scatman
    what do you think is an interesting topic in distributed systems. i should pic a topic and present it on monday. at first i chose to talk about Wuala, but after reading about it, i don't think its that interesting. so what is an interesting (new) topic in distributed systems that i can research about. sorry if this is the wrong place to post.

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  • Oracle Systems and Solutions at OpenWorld Tokyo 2012

    - by ferhat
    Oracle OpenWorld Tokyo and JavaOne Tokyo will start next week April 4th. We will cover Oracle systems and Oracle Optimized Solutions in several keynote talks and general sessions. Full schedule can be found here. Come by the DemoGrounds to learn more about mission critical integration and optimization of complete Oracle stack. Our Oracle Optimized Solutions experts will be at hand to discuss 1-1 several of Oracle's systems solutions and technologies. Oracle Optimized Solutions are proven blueprints that eliminate integration guesswork by combing best in class hardware and software components to deliver complete system architectures that are fully tested, and include documented best practices that reduce integration risks and deliver better application performance. And because they are highly flexible by design, Oracle Optimized Solutions can be implemented as an end-to-end solution or easily adapted into existing environments. Oracle Optimized Solutions, Servers,  Storage, and Oracle Solaris  Sessions, Keynotes, and General Session Talks DAY TIME TITLE Notes Session Wednesday  April 4 9:00 - 11:15 Keynote: ENGINEERED FOR INNOVATION - Engineered Systems Mark Hurd,  President, Oracle Takao Endo, President & CEO, Oracle Corporation Japan John Fowler, EVP of Systems, Oracle Ed Screven, Chief Corporate Architect, Oracle English Session K1-01 11:50 - 12:35 Simplifying IT: Transforming the Data Center with Oracle's Engineered Systems Robert Shimp, Group VP, Product Marketing, Oracle English Session S1-01 15:20 - 16:05 Introducing Tiered Storage Solution for low cost Big Data Archiving S1-33 16:30 - 17:15 Simplifying IT - IT System Consolidation that also Accelerates Business Agility S1-42 Thursday  April 5 9:30 - 11:15 Keynote: Extreme Innovation Larry Ellison, Chief Executive Officer, Oracle English Session K2-01 11:50 - 13:20 General Session: Server and Storage Systems Strategy John Fowler, EVP of Systems, Oracle English Session G2-01 16:30 - 17:15 Top 5 Reasons why ZFS Storage appliance is "The cloud storage" by SAKURA Internet Inc L2-04 16:30 - 17:15 The UNIX based Exa* Performance IT Integration Platform - SPARC SuperCluster S2-42 17:40 - 18:25 Full stack solutions of hardware and software with SPARC SuperCluster and Oracle E-Business Suite  to minimize the business cost while maximizing the agility, performance, and availability S2-53 Friday April 6 9:30 - 11:15 Keynote: Oracle Fusion Applications & Cloud Robert Shimp, Group VP, Product Marketing Anthony Lye, Senior VP English Session K3-01 11:50 - 12:35 IT at Oracle: The Art of IT Transformation to Enable Business Growth English Session S3-02 13:00-13:45 ZFS Storagge Appliance: Architecture of high efficient and high performance S3-13 14:10 - 14:55 Why "Niko Niko doga" chose ZFS Storage Appliance to support their growing requirements and storage infrastructure By DWANGO Co, Ltd. S3-21 15:20 - 16:05 Osaka University: Lower TCO and higher flexibility for student study by Virtual Desktop By Osaka University S3-33 Oracle Developer Sessions with Oracle Systems and Oracle Solaris DAY TIME TITLE Notes LOCATION Friday April 6 13:00 - 13:45 Oracle Solaris 11 Developers D3-03 13:00 - 14:30 Oracle Solaris Tuning Contest Hands-On Lab D3-04 14:00 - 14:35 How to build high performance and high security Oracle Database environment with Oracle SPARC/Solaris English Session D3-13 15:00 - 15:45 IT Assets preservation and constructive migration with Oracle Solaris virtualization D3-24 16:00 - 17:30 The best packaging system for cloud environment - Creating an IPS package D3-34 Follow Oracle Infrared at Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn  to catch the latest news, developments, announcements, and inside views from  Oracle Optimized Solutions.

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  • operating systems - TLBs

    - by stabGreeol
    I'm trying to get my head round this (okay, tbh cramming a night before the exams :) but i can't figure out (nor find a good high level overview on the net) of this: 'page table entries can be mapped to more than one TLB entry.. if for example every page table entry is mappped to two TLB entries, this is know as 2-way set associative TLB' My question is, why would we want to map this more than once? surely we want to have the maximum number of possible entries represented in the TLB, and duplication would waste space right ? What am i missing? Many thanks

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  • Oracle's Integrated Systems Management and Support Experience

    - by Scott McNeil
    With its recent launch, Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g introduced a new approach to integrated systems management and support. What this means is taking both areas of IT management and vendor support and combining them into one integrated comprehensive and centralized platform. Traditional Ways Under the traditional method, IT operational teams would often focus on running their systems using management tools that weren’t connected to their vendor’s support systems. If you needed support with a product, administrators would often contact the vendor by phone or visit the vendor website for support and then log a service request in order to fix the issues. This method was also very time consuming, as administrators would have to collect their software configurations, operating systems and hardware settings, then manually enter them into an online form or recite them to a support analyst on the phone. For the vendor, they had to analyze all the configuration data to recreate the problem in order to solve it. This approach was very manual, uncoordinated and error-prone where duplication between the customer and vendor frequently occurred. A Better Support Experience By removing the boundaries between support, IT management tools and the customer’s IT infrastructure, Oracle paved the way for a better support experience. This was achieved through integration between Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g and My Oracle Support. Administrators can not only manage their IT infrastructure and applications through Oracle Enterprise Manager’s centralized console but can also receive proactive alerts and patch recommendations right within the console they use day-in-day-out. Having one single source of information saves time and potentially prevents unforeseen problems down the road. All for One, and One for All The first step for you is to allow Oracle Enterprise Manager to upload configuration data into Oracle’s secure configuration repository, where it can be analyzed for potential issues or conflicts for all customers. A fix to a problem encountered by one customer may actually be relevant to many more. The integration between My Oracle Support and Oracle Enterprise Manager allows all customers who may be impacted by the problem to receive a notification about the fix. Once the alert appears in Oracle Enterprise Manager’s console, the administrator can take his/her time to do further investigations using automated workflows provided in Oracle Enterprise Manager to analyze potential conflicts. Finally, administrators can schedule a time to test and automatically apply the fix to all the systems that need it. In the end, this helps customers maintain their service levels without compromise and avoid experiencing unplanned downtime that may result from potential issues or conflicts. This new paradigm of integrated systems management and support helps customers keep their systems secure, compliant, and up-to-date, while eliminating the traditional silos between IT management and vendor support. Oracle’s next generation platform also works hand-in-hand to provide higher quality of service to business users while at the same time making life for administrators less complicated. For more information on Oracle’s integrated systems management and support experience, be sure to visit our Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Resource Center for the latest customer videos, webcast, and white papers.

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  • How does operating system software maintains time clocks?

    - by Neeraj
    Hi everyone, This may sound a bit less relevant but I couldn't think of a better place to ask this question. Now consider this situation, you install an OS on your system, set the timezone and time, do some stuff and turn it off. (Note that there is no power going in to the computer). Now next time (say after some hours or days) you turn it on again, and you see the updated time. How is this possible even when my computer is not connected to the internet and was consuming no power during the period it was down.(Is there some kind of hardware hack?) please clarify!

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  • Engineered Systems Production Tour

    - by Javier Puerta
    Oracle's Engineered Systems are shipped fully assembled and tested, and ready to be simply wheeled into the datacenter, plugged in and turned on. If you are curious to know how Oracle manufactures the Engineered Systems, watch this short video from our manufacturing plant.The video covers the assembly, test, packing and shipping of these systems and shows the extensive quality assurance steps that are taken:     Engineered Systems Production Tour from Cameron O'Rourke on Vimeo.

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  • Operating System Widget Side Project

    - by Calpis
    I want to start on a side project and here's my idea: Whenever the user's mouse is pressed down, I want a small ring around the cursor to show up. I'm mainly doing this to learn more about programming and get myself to think outside of work related materials. My questions are: 1) is there a good source I can reference to start a project that deals with something like this? 2) Is visual studio a sufficient software to create such an application? Or would I need some other tool to do this. 3) What language should I choose to do this task? Thanks in advance!

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