synecdoche A figure of speech is which a part is used to represent the whole‚ the whole for a part‚ the specific for the general‚ the general for the specific‚ or the material for the thing made from it. As in ’hired hand’‚ ’a fresh pair of legs’‚ ’No 10 announced today’‚ ’have you seen the latest Spielberg?’. • "Take thy face hence." (William Shakespeare‚ Macbeth V.iii) • "I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas." (T. S. Eliot‚ "The Love Song of
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Windows PC’s versus MAC by Apple While shopping for a computer many people ponder if they should buy a MAC or Windows PC. It is a debate that has been ongoing since both computers came into the tech scene. There are loyal and devout followers to both companies and computers. For some‚ it can be a tough decision with the many options and features of each computer‚ but for others the choice to be made is not very tough to make. A Windows laptop is a better complete computer then a MAC book because
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the rest of the book. Windows Processes and Threads Every process contains one or more threads‚ and the Windows thread is the basic executable unit. Threads are scheduled on the basis of the usual factors: availability of resources such as CPUs and physical memory‚ priority‚ fairness‚ and so on. Windows has supported symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) since NT4‚ so threads can be allocated to separate processors within a system. From the programmer’s perspective‚ each Windows process includes resources
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1.1 WHAT WINDOWS VISTA Windows Vista is the latest operating system from Microsoft®‚ released in January 2007. Available in Windows Vista Home Basic edition‚ Windows Vista Home Premium edition‚ Windows Vista Business edition‚ Windows Vista Ultimate edition and Windows Vista Enterprise edition‚ Vista provides improved security features along with dramatic new graphics and easy-to-use features. 1.2 HISTORY OF WINDOWS VISTA Window operating system simplifies the process of working with
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history in the making. Fast forward 3 years to October 2008 and we come to a time which has the right to be heralded as a "milestone in the history of Technology". The event? The first Android phone was sold. Now rewind to 1985 when the Microsoft Windows OS was unveiled to the world as the brainchild of Microsoft (partnered with IBM). The world witnessed something that was never seen before-Technology so advanced at that time that the fine line between magic and science appeared to be crossed. If
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How to Install Windows Server 2008 Step by Step Installing Windows Server 2008 is pretty straightforward and is very much like installing Windows Vista‚ but I thought I’d list the necessary steps here for additional information. For those of you who have never installed Vista before‚ the entire installation process is different than it used to be in previous Microsoft operating systems‚ and notably much easier to perform. Using Vista’s installation routine is a major benefit‚ especially for
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UNIX versus Windows Compare and Contrast Analysis of Solaris 10 and Windows 2003 Team "A" University of Phoenix Online POS 420 Introduction to UNIX Carlie VanWilligen February 20‚ 2007 Compare and contrast of operating systems There are many operating systems in use today. There are basically three types of operating systems Windows‚ Macintosh‚ and UNIX/Linux. In this paper we are going to compare and contrast Solaris and Windows Server 2003. Solaris is part of the UNIX family and
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Sliding Window Protocol Introduction: Sliding window protocol is used where a reliable transmitting of frame is required. It relies on packeting the frame queue to a definable window size which is provided to sender and receiver. Sliding window protocol defines maximum transmitter window size‚ Ws which is always one less than the sequence number. How transmitter window is defined: It is contains the data that are ready to be send. The lower limit in transmitter window which is waiting for
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Windows XP Analysis Windows XP was produced by Microsoft and released on August 24th‚ 2001 (Wikipedia‚ 2012). Wikipedia (2012) stated‚ Windows XP “was the first consumer-oriented operating system produced by Microsoft to be built on the Windows NT kernel.” Windows XP offers functions other previous versions do not‚ making it a popular operating system. It is the first version with product activation to diminish copying the software illegally. Microsoft XP was named “Whistler”‚ in its conception
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operating system. Since Windows XP is now affordable and a lot of people like it‚ I will explain to you how to install it on your computer. Before installing Windows XP on your computer you will need to get together a small list of things. Your computer or laptop and the Windows XP compact disk that came with your computer or you bought at your local store. The first thing you need to do is look at your computer specifications to see if it meets the hardware requirements of Windows XP. It is located
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