Typically associated with mainframes, it is a hardware mode in which the operating system executes instructions unavailable to an application program; for example, I/O instructions. Contrast with program state.
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- Online Voting - Destroying the integrity and fabric of democracy.On-line voting without safe guards against vote selling and guarantee that each vote was registered in private invalidates the intent and meaning of "one person, one vote."It's bad enough that this hole currently exists with the current mail-in voting process.RE: FCC...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Could 'The Toyota Way' & Enterprise 2.0 Rescue the Big 3 US Auto Companies?
- Andrew McAfee of Harvard Business School, who coined the term Enterprise 2.0 and with whom I am on the advisory board for the conference of that name, wrote a fascinating blog post earlier this month: 'The Enterprise 2.0 Recovery Plan'. It's a long...
- Blog posts 2008-12-14
- Telecommuting not so great for those left in office
- Telecommuting not so great for those left in officeOne word, "Envy" nt.Email and Blogs have to be for everyone.The USA just did not ensure that the infrastructure for commuting was maintained. We see this so clearly after the Mississippi bridge collapse and Ferry Boat issues in Washington...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-11
- Just what do techies really need to know?
- Just what do techies really need to know?HmmmCommunication Skills is a primary one. To have the patience to listen to a user and to understand/listen to what they say is key skill for any tech and one that many lack. This is true for more than just the K12 market.BTW...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-26
- U.K. government reveals its 'biggest privacy disaster'
- U.K. government reveals its 'biggest privacy disaster'Not arrived in the UK yet?Where do you live? The disease has been here for much longer than anywhere else.What is a Government? Even if it is prefaced by Her Majesty's. Can any unelected government be wrong ever? Ask George W not Washington, Bush!...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-21
- Telecommuting is good for all of us
- According to two Penn State researchers in management, telecommuting is good both for workers and their employers. The two psychologists looked at 20 years of research on flexible work arrangements, covering 46 previous studies of telecommuting involving more than 12,000 employees. And they found that 'telecommuting is a win-win for...
- Blog posts 2007-11-20
- My Alienware Experience - Amazing gaming system!
- My Alienware Experience - Amazing gaming system!Battery LifeExcellent, I look forward to that review. Would help me make up my mind where to buy a laptop from!That will be interesting.Check out how long the battery will last under full game power. I will give it 120 minutes tops.Price? Weight? Battery...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-12
- Police Blotter: Fired worker blames porn on malware
- Police Blotter: Fired worker blames porn on malwareagreed nt.He could have been set upWhat's to say that his employer set him up for a fall? Surely a supervisor has his username and password. What's to stop them from using his account and going to a bad site or even placing...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-03
- Google: Reinventing management?
- Google: Reinventing management?Soon...... there'll be a post mortem in which Google management is accused of wasting money on frivolity and closed markets, while failing to obtain substantial new sources of revenue.The company could become one of the largest if not the largest portal. That could take advantage of the...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-15
- CompUSA to close more than half of U.S. stores
- CompUSA to close more than half of U.S. storesCompUSA to close more than half of U.S. storesThis sucks. Not that its closing, but the stores that are not closing in my area. I could have gotten a mac mini for cheap, but oh no, they don't want to...
- Discussion threads 2007-02-28
- FL guv wants to junk all touch-screen machines
- In Florida, its back to the future. The state whose election irregularities sent the presidential election of 2000 to the Supreme Court and spawned a crisis in the trustworthiness of electronic voting machines wants to go back to all paper ballots. Gov. Charlie Crist will ask the Florida...
- Blog posts 2007-02-01
- How to halve your cable/broadband bill
- How to halve your cable/broadband billSwitching Costs?I stand corrected about the top speed, thank you.While I think that 50 Mbps is incredible (I can still remember my initial amazement at 5 Mbps cable access), I think the cost is prohibitive. What incentive does a typical broadband user--one who is used...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-18
- Program brings biomed practice to MD high schools
- Come 2008, juniors and seniors at ten Maryland high schools will get a chance to experience what it would be like to be a forensic scientist, reports The (Frederick, MD) Gazette. The Frederick County, MD, school district received a grant that funds programs where students will be used...
- Blog posts 2007-01-11
- Google gets gruff over click fraud
- Google gets gruff over click fraudClarence Briggs & AIT reputed to have orchestrated massive SPAM campaignREPORT: [b] Advanced Internet Technologies alleged to have directed employees to orchestrate a massive campaign of blog spam .[/b]Clarence Briggs company AIT.COM, a person accusing others of multiple activities, reportedly are themselves involved in SEARCHENGINE...
- Discussion threads 2006-12-16
- Iz txtng styl aprprt fr trm pprs?
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- Blog posts 2006-12-14
- Q&A with Mik Kersten, Mylar project lead
- This week, the Mylar project reached its 1.0 production milestone. Variously described by its users as "addictive", "revolutionary", "innovative", and "a killer app", Mylar represents a fundamental shift in the way IDEs work. I caught up with Mik Kersten, project leader for Mylar, and asked him to explain what Mylar...
- Blog posts 2006-12-13
- Bad sample ballot may explain voting shortfall in FL
- Its looking increasingly likely that those 18,000 missing votes in a congressional race in Floridas Sarasota County really were never cast, rather than being lost in a e-voting snafu. One possible reason for the shortfall: In efforts to save money the county sent out a sample ballot that didnt match...
- Blog posts 2006-12-11
- Gateway tech support: "what wireless security problems?"
- One of my readers who is a customer of Gateway computers sent me this interesting exchange with Gateway tech support about the recent critical Broadcom Driver flaw. Well refer to our reader as "Kausik" and Ive masked out some information for privacy reasons.[Kausik writes to Gateway]Issue Description One: It...
- Blog posts 2006-11-27
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- Blog posts 2006-11-17
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- Discussion threads 2006-11-07
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