OPERATING SYSTEMS UNIT 1 Learning Objective Understand the purpose of the operating system Distinguish between a resource‚ a program‚ and a process Recognize critical resources and explain the behavior of semaphores Describe various memory page replacement algorithms Describe how files are stored in secondary storage © Bharati Vidyapeeth’s Institute of Computer Applications and Management‚‚ New Delhi-63‚ by Parul Arora. U1. 4 Introduction • • • • • • • • •
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Analysis of the Running Man Sometimes there are hurdles in life that require great courage to overcome. We must utilize our inner strengths to motivate these courageous actions. Loren Eiseley sets an example of this in The Running Man- a chapter from his autobiography‚ All the Strange Hours. In this essay he reveals memories that show his lonely childhood which gives him the courage to overcome his problems. Loneliness is what ultimately sparks his courageous action later on in his life
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Rebecca Casarez Caddell Comp. 1301 9/23/12 The Company Man In “The Company Man” by Ellen Goodman‚ Phil is a fifty-one workaholic who lost everything to his job. He had lost connection to his family and had no outside or extracurricular activities. In the story‚ Goodman uses repetition‚ precise statistics‚ irony‚ and different viewpoints from his family to show and describe Phil’s life. Once you read the
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In the story‚ “There Will Come Soft Rains” the author‚ Ray Bradbury writes about a detrimental nuclear explosion that has wiped out the entire human race. One thing is left standing‚ a smart house which had been designed to fit the needs of a human’s everyday life. The house spends it’s day going through a scheduled routine‚ but when a tree falls through a window causing a substantial amount of damage‚ everything starts to plummet. The family is gone‚ and the house has to figure out how to survive
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Pure Wisdom: A Rhetorical Analysis Very little has been written about the over two-hundred plus people who jumped to their deaths from the World Trade Center Towers on September 11‚ 2001. There came a moment‚ as they clung to those windows high above the streets of New York with the unbearable heat and smoke drawing near‚ that they chose to jump‚ and in that moment of complete surrender they became graceful sacred angels returning to their source. “Falling Man” is an article focusing on the identity
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Cloud Storage I Need a Place to Store My Stuff In one of his comedic sketches‚ George Carlin talked about the whole point of life was to acquire new stuff. With the acquisition of new possessions‚ a place to store them becomes necessary‚ thus bigger houses are purchased to provide more space for storage of our possessions or companies are paid for storage spaces. The same can be said about computer information‚ as data accumulates storage needs increases. To satisfy that need‚ larger hard disk
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PSG COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS WORKSHEET-2 COURSE : OPEN SOURCE SYSTEMS LABORATORY (11MX09) SEMESTER : 5 DATE : 24/06/2014 INTRODUCTION TO OPEN SOURCE SYSTEMS Download any open source tool (preferably‚ written in JAVA) with source code‚ use it and modify the source code to add extra functionality. Note: You can also choose a tool from one of the following: 1) http://www.jedit.org/ Edit is a mature programmer’s text editor with hundreds (counting
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Title: There Will Come Soft Rains Author: Ray Bradbury Text type: Short story ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ made me feel absolutely devastated. Immersing me slowly in its melancholy world of rubbles‚ dust and ashes burning away in a nuclear war. Is by far the shortest‚ sharpest and most depressing short story that I have ever read. ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ is a snapshot that perfectly captures all of the social paranoias in society during the post war period of the 1950s. Rendering the beautiful
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“Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled several new Apple services‚ including iCloud‚ that underscore a major shift taking place in the tech world as users’ information moves from gadgets to the cloud‚ where it is stored on remote servers and accessible from any device with an Internet connection” (Bosker‚ 2011). The Cloud is an online set amount of storage where users can put data and other things that are on their apple products‚ for backups‚ syncs‚ emails‚ and other personal usage. The iCloud takes away
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Distinguished ladies and gentlemen. Acid rain is becoming a widespread problem around the world. The amount of acid in rain has dramatically increased in the past decade in certain areas like America and Europe by 70%. How is it caused? It is formed by the chemicals in the process of burning fossil fuels mixing with the moisture in the Earth’s atmosphere. Acid rain come in two forms‚ wet and dry. Dry deposition‚ a more accurate term for acid rain‚ can appear to be snow‚ hail or other dry particles
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