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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 [...]

Evolution (software) – Distribution

Evolution is released as part of GNOME. GNOME is the default desktop environment for several Linux distributions, most notably Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu. Foresight Linux showcases the latest releases of GNOME. Novell distributes Evolution with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and the openSUSE community project. Evolution is also available as source code. Some pre-built install packages [...]

Windows Preinstallation Environment – Introduction

Windows Preinstallation Environment (aka Windows PE, WinPE) is a lightweight version of Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows Server 2008 R2 that is used for the deployment of workstations and servers. It is intended as a 32-bit or 64-bit replacement for MS-DOS during the installation phase of Windows, and can [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Smalltalk YX – Availability

One of the goals of Smalltalk YX is to be very portable and to have the image to be compatible to all kind of systems. Currently tested platforms include: * Debian GNU/Linux (x64) * Gentoo Linux (x86, x64) * Slackware Linux 12.0 * Foresight Linux 1.4.1 * Arch Linux 2007.08-2 * Solaris 2.10 and 11 [...]

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 [...]

Remote administration – Popular software

Windows Windows Server 2003/2008, Windows XP, Windows XP Media Center and Tablet PC Editions, and Windows Vista Ultimate, Enterprise and Business editions come with Microsoft’s Microsoft Management Console, Windows Registry Editor and various command-line utilities that may be used to administrate a remote machine. One form of remote administration is remote desktop software, and Windows [...]

Internet Explorer 8 – Introduction

Windows Internet Explorer 8 (abbreviated as IE8) is the latest web browser developed by Microsoft in the Internet Explorer browser series. The browser was released on March 19, 2009 for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7. Both 32-bit and 64-bit builds are available. It is the successor to [...]

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 [...]

X Window System – Implementations

The X.Org implementation serves as the canonical implementation of X. Due to liberal licensing, a number of variations, both free and open source and proprietary, have appeared. Commercial UNIX vendors have tended to take the open source implementation and adapt it for their hardware, usually customizing it and adding proprietary extensions. | |- | |} [...]









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