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    fault tolerance‚ and automatic recovery must be integral to the system. Second‚ files are huge by traditional standards. Multi-GB files are common. As a result‚ design assumptions and parameters such as I/O operation and blocksizes have to be revisited. Third‚ most files are mutated by appending new data rather than overwriting existing data. Random writes within a file are practically non-existent.Given this access pattern on huge files‚ appending becomes the focus of performance optimization and

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    Windows NT is a unique and powerful operating system. It has been an entirely different operating system than Microsoft’s initial Windows desktops operating systems. It was simply better and more secure ("Survey of operating Systems" pg125.) Windows NT offers you a high degree of performance and a wealth of capabilities and features. ("Windows NT 101"‚ 1998.) NT supports two file systems: NtFS4 and FAT16. It can use up to 4 Gigabytes of RAM and also uses virtual memory. Windows NT doesn’t work well

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    Unix File Access POS/355 UNIX® is provides security to directory and the file system. For security reason a file or directory has assigned permissions to use them and every user in the UNIX system is assigned set of permission while creating user account. Before going to discuss the file permission‚ let’s discuss the user account types in the UNIX. There are three types of user accounts on a UNIX system that are root account‚ system account and normal user account. Root account: It is a

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    eventually take the form of an operating system kernel‚ Linux version 0.01. Linux evolved into a fully functioning Operating System (OS) with one of its first distributions created by the Manchester Computing Center‚ MCC Interim Linux‚ using a combined boot/root disk (Hayward‚ 2012). Linux luminaries‚ Slackware‚ RedHat and Debian began to rise between 1992 and 1994 as well as the Linux kernel growing to version 0.95‚ becoming the first kernel to run the X Windows System. The Big Three‚ Slackware‚ Debian

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    If you loved Vista in Aero Glass mode‚ then you’ll love Windows 7 even more. Windows 7 addresses many of the shortcomings in Vista‚ including management for those annoying popup notification messages‚ gadgets which are no longer locked in the sidebar (they can now be moved anywhere on the desktop)‚ several UI enhancements which are not only attractive‚ but also require less mouse clicks to carry out routine functions‚ HomeGroup networking which automatically separates out your business and home network

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    Linux vs Mac vs Windows File and Process Management POS/355 March 9‚ 2014 Linux vs Mac vs Window Process & File Management Process Management One of the key functions of an operating system is the process management. Linux OS system is very dynamic with constantly changing computing needs. These needs tend to be centered on the process. Processes can be either long or short lived‚ so managing these processes is very important. Linux incorporates a very flexible design which contains

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    INTRODUCTION Education is a process wherein a child learns something new and progressive and it is important factor in a child development. This will help them to prepare for the near future. Pre School is extremely beneficial for early childhood development. It provides both an academic and social foundation that can give a child leg- up in future scholastic areas children during the preschool years are growing so fast and have the ability to learn and grown in leaps and bounds. A quality preschool

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    NTFS (New Technology File System) This system was developed by Microsoft. For the first time‚ it was included in Windows NT 3.1. Since then‚ it is default system used in windows NT. NTFS has many advantages over other systems like FAT and HPFS such as improvements in metadata‚ it used advanced data structures‚ and disk space utilization‚ reliability‚ and additional extensions‚ such as file system journaling and security access control lists (ACL). In the mid-1980s‚ IBM and Microsoft  formed a

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    Linux - The shell ------------------------------------------------- Introduction to the shell The command interpreter is the interface between the user and the operating system‚ hence the name "shell". The shell therefore acts as an intermediary between the operating system and the user thanks to command lines that are entered by the latter. Its role consists in reading the command line‚ interpreting its meaning‚ carry out the command‚ and then return the result via the outputs. The shell

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    5 Files’ Directory and 5 chmod Commands These lines are list of permissions that are out putted to a user when they use the command ls-1. This is the information about the file‚ what will be returned is similar to the lines below. Each line describes one file. From left to right each part of line has a specific meaning. These lines can be broken down like this: -The first letter represents the File Type‚ this tells the file type for example d stands for directory and a – means it is a

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