Google Android - Google Mobile OS (Operating System)
Android is software for mobile devices that includes mobile operating system and key applications. Android is based on Linux kernel. Android is an open source application and you can download Android Software Development Kit from here. This tool provides necessary APIs to develop applications on Android platform using Java programming language.
Current Features:
- The platform is adaptable to both larger, VGA, 2D graphics library, 3D graphics library based on OpenGL ES 1.0 specifications, and traditional smartphone layouts.
- The Database Software SQLite is used for data storage purposes.
- Android supports GSM/EDGE, CDMA, EV-DO, UMTS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and other connectivity.
- Integrated web browser available.
- Android will support advanced audio/video/still media formats such as MPEG-4, H.264, MP3, AAC, OGG, AMR, JPEG, PNG, GIF.
- Android is fully capable of utilizing video/still cameras, touch screens, GPS, accelerometers, and accelerated 3D graphics.
- Software written in Java can be compiled into Dalvik bytecodes and executed in the Dalvik virtual machine, which is a specialized VM implementation designed for mobile device use, although not technically a standard Java Virtual Machine.
For more details, on Google Android, kindly visit Android (operating system) and What is Android?.
Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator
Sometime you receive the message “Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator” when you press ALT+CTRL+DEL or the option “Task Manager” is disabled. It may possible that Task Manager has been disabled or it may be possible that it has been disabled by any virus or Trojan.
You can get rid of it by following the below steps:
[1] Edit Registry value:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
“DisableTaskMgr”=dword:00000000
Write the above code in notepad and save it in .reg format and then double click on it. It will add the required entry in Registry to enable Task Manager.
[2]
- Open Registry (Start -> Run -> regedit)
- Navigate to following path:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
- From right-side, delete the value named DisableTaskMgr and close the registry editor.
In most cases, one of the above solution works.
For other solutions, you may refer Microsoft kb 555480
Microsoft Windows 7 - Next Windows Operating system
Windows 7 is the next version of Microsoft Operating system. Windows 7 will be available for 32 bit and 64 bit editions. It will have both client and server versions. So far there are three Builds released for this new operating system. But still the beta version is not available for public to
test it. The builds are Milestone 1 (M1), Milestone 2 (M2) and Milestone 3 (M3). Microsoft will distribute a new pre-beta build of Windows 7 at its Professional Developers Conference. According to Softpedia, the first beta will arrive in December 2008. So far, Microsoft has not announced the release date of Microsoft Windows 7 operating system.
Kevin
Operating system
An Operating System (abbreviated as OS), is a software that is responsible to manage the system resource. An operating system contains many applications in it. Operating system is directly handle the request which are received from Hardware devices (i.e. Keyboard, Mouse, Motherboard etc.).
There are many operating systems provide GUI (Graphical User Interface) through which you can manage it and some others provide CLI (Command Line Interface). It is easy to manage the Operating system which provides GUI. For CLI operating systems, you should have strong knowledge of commands.
Now a days, most cmmonly used operating systems are Windows, Linux, Unix, Solaries, CentOS etc. Some of them are commercial version and you will need to purchase the license to use it.
Linux is the open source and hence it is freely available. However if you want enterprise edition of Linux then you will need to purchase the lincese for Commercial version.
Kevin
What is FSCK?
What is FSCK? Why is it required? There are several reasons behind the system file corruption. For example, you forgot to shut down your system properly, suddenly cut off the power supply, a storage device was removed when system is in process to write the data on it, accidentally press the restart button of your system.
In Linux some data is kept in the memory before it is written to the disk. This speeds up the process and it used in many systems including Windows OS. If the system is turned off or improperly shut down before it writes the data from memory to disk then there is a chance of the system file corruption. Hence, it is required to shut down the system properly. During improper shut down, the file systems are unmounted from the memory. FSCK will unmount these file systems during boot automatically. You can also run FSCK program manually using the below command:
To check root file system:
fsck -V -a
For all other than root file systems:
fsck -R -A -V -a
The last command will check everything except root (-R) file systems.
You can also tell fsck to show what it did using echo option as below:
fsck -A -V ; echo ==$?==
The fsck codes are listed in the below table:
Code Explanation
0 No errors
1 File system errors corrected
2 System should be rebooted
4 File system errors left uncorrected
8 Operational error
16 Usage or syntax error
128 Shared library error
Generally, fsck repairs the file systems automatically. If it fails to repair the file systems then you probably have a corrupted superblock.
Kailash Aghera
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