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Windows 2000 – Support lifecycle

Windows 2000 has now been superseded by newer Microsoft operating systems: Windows 2000 Server products by Windows Server 2003, and Windows 2000 Professional by Windows XP Professional. The Windows 2000 family of operating systems moved from mainstream support to the extended support phase on 30 June 2005. Microsoft says that this marks the progression of [...]

Common Information Model (computing) – Implementations

Many vendors provide implementations of CIM in various forms: * Some operating systems provide a CIM implementation. For example, the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) API available in Microsoft Windows 2000 and higher implements CIM, so do some GNU/Linux distributions with the [http://sourceforge.net/projects/sblim SBLIM project] on sourceforge. * The storage area network industry has heavily bought [...]

Home directory – Introduction

Home directory is a file system directory on a multi-user operating system containing files for a given user of the system. The specifics of the home directory (such as its name and location) is defined by the operating system involved; for example, Windows systems between 2000 and 2003 keep home directories in a folder called [...]

IExpress – About the tool

IExpress is a tool provided by Microsoft in Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. It was also bundled with installations of Internet Explorer 6 on Windows 2000. It can be useful for distributing multiple files to Windows end-users. It makes a self-extracting DPInst installation package or a compressed CAB file. All self-extracting files creating [...]

PortableApps.com – Compatibility

The majority of applications can run on almost any computer with Windows 2000 or later Some applications will also run on Windows 95/98/Me and under Wine on Linux-based operating systems. However, it was announced on April 27, 2010 that Windows 95/98/Me support is ending as of version 1.6.1, in both the menu and any apps [...]

Download.ject – Attack of June 23, 2004

Computer criminals placed Download.ject on financial and corporate websites running IIS 5.0 on Windows 2000, breaking in using a known vulnerability. (A patch existed for the vulnerability, but many administrators had not applied it.) The attack was first noticed June 23, although some researchers think it may have been in place as early as June [...]

Windows 2000 – Service packs

Windows 2000 has received four full service packs and one rollup update package following SP4, which is the last service pack. These were: SP1 on 15 August 2000, SP2 on 16 May 2001, SP3 on 29 August 2002 and SP4 on 26 June 2003. Microsoft phased out all development of its Java Virtual Machine (JVM) [...]

Page (computer memory) – Huge pages

Intel x86 supports 4MB pages (called Page Size Extension) (2MB pages if using PAE) in addition to its standard 4kB pages, and other architectures may often have similar features. IA-64 supports as many as eight different page sizes, from 4kB up to 256MB. This support for ”huge pages” (known as ”superpages” in FreeBSD, and ”large [...]

OpenVPN – Introduction

OpenVPN allows peers to authenticate each other using a pre-shared secret key, certificates, or username/password. When used in a multiclient-server configuration, it allows the server to release an authentication certificate for every client, using signature and Certificate authority. It uses the OpenSSL encryption library extensively, as well as the SSLv3/TLSv1 protocol, and contains many security [...]

NTBackup – Introduction

NTBackup is the built-in backup application introduced in Windows NT around 1997 and part of all subsequent versions up to and including Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. It uses a proprietary backup format (BKF) (also known as “Microsoft Tape Format” or MTF) to back up files. Files can be backed up to [...]

Windows NT – Introduction

Windows NT is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993. It was originally designed to be a powerful high-level-language-based, processor-independent, multiprocessing, multiuser operating system with features comparable to Unix. It was intended to complement consumer versions of Windows that were based on MS-DOS. NT [...]

Symbolic link – Introduction

symbolic link (also ”symlink” or ”soft link”) is a special type of file that contains a reference to another file or directory in the form of an absolute or relative path and that affects pathname resolution. Symbolic links were already present by 1978 in mini-computer operating systems from DEC and Data General’s RDOS. Today they [...]

SpaceTime – Introduction

SpaceTime is a patent-pending three dimensional graphical user interface that allows end users to search their content such as Google, Google Images, Yahoo!, YouTube, eBay, Amazon and RSS. The 3D Search system allows end users to visually search through the actual web pages, videos, products, RSS or other items in a three dimensional visual stack. [...]

Corsairs: Conquest at Sea – Reception

Corsairs generally received mediocre reviews, and was released in few countries. It was often deemed as being buggy and having outdated sound and graphics, but praised for having a decent storyline and being creative. The game has limited ability to run on Windows 2000 and newer Windows operating systems, even with compatibility modes. Adapted from [...]









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