Linux operating system problem in sony vaio vpceb16fg

Asynchronous Reading from Input

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/11/kbhit-asynchronous-read-linux-fdzero.html Asynchronous Reading from Input IntroNormal working of a C program taking an input is done via the scanf method. The problem in scanf is that when we invoke scanf it waits until we input something i.e, our program is waiting for the user input. This valuable time could be used for processing other things. Let us consider an example of a chat client made using C. When we want to send some message we type them and send. In all other cases it is required that the chat client listens for incoming ...

Introduction to Windows - Programming for Windows

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/09/windows-and-c-programming.html Introduction to Windows - Programming for Windows History - DOSDisk Operating System aka DOS was one of the earlier operating systems, it was a single task system, where the whole system and the OS was devoted to executing a single program and was basically a text based OS.With the advent of the Windows Operating System, multiple process or applications could be run and it became a graphical OS (interface). So in order to support new features the basic structure of C/C++ programs changed from ...

Google Chrome for Linux finally available

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2009/12/google-chrome-for-linux-finally.html Google Chrome for Linux finally available Click Here ...

Power plans missing - Restore power plans on Windows 7

http://digitalpbk.com/laptop/restore-power-plan-missing-saver-high-performance-balanced-windows-7 Power plans missing - Restore power plans on Windows 7 Power saver plan on Windows helps you to give longer battery backup by reducing performance of certain hardware components like processor, graphics card, wireless network card etc and turning off devices which are not used. One sudden day my power saver option went missing on my sony vaio running Windows 7. Since the battery backup is drastically reduced when the power saver option is missing, I had to desperately find a fix and here ...

Making symbolic links on Windows xp using junction from sysinternals

http://digitalpbk.com/2009/12/making-symbolic-links-windows-xp-using-junction-sysinternals Making symbolic links on Windows xp using junction from sysinternals Symlinks is a utility that allows two paths to point to the same set of files and subfolders. This is a handy utility on linux which lets you point one path on linux to another path. To do achieve the same functionality on Windows XP, software called junction can be used. provided by SysInternals. Here is the help from the junction.exe D:\>junction /? Junction v1.05 - Windows junction creator and reparse point viewer ...

Windows 7 showing Different Installed (4 GB) and Usable Memory (2.96 GB)

http://digitalpbk.com/hardware/different-installed-usable-memory-windows-7 with shared memory of 1 GB. Therefore only 2.96 GB of the RAM is usable by the processes. It is better to buy graphics cards with Dedicated memory even if the memory size is less than that is being shared from RAM. This is because, in shared memory the memory buses might be mostly occupied by the graphics system that can slow the system down. In dedicated memory this problem is avoided because the RAM is not touched for graphics rendering and hence the bus is free for your processes. Laptop Windows ...

Why cant a folder be named "CON" or "LPT1" in windows?

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2006/11/why-cant-folder-be-named-con-or-lpt1-in.html done? Read on ...Why is this so?Inorder to find out why this doesn't work we have to go back to the age of MS-DOS. Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS-DOS) is a command-line operating system that existed before the advent of GUI OS (Graphical User Interface). Everything from making ,renaming, deleting etc was done using commands. Some of the commands are COPY Copies one or more files to another location.DEL Deletes one or more files.DIR Displays a list of files and subdirectories ...

Server Not Found, Fix DNS Problems.

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2008/07/fix-server-not-found-dns-problem.html Server Not Found, Fix DNS Problems. Sometimes wierd things happen,Server Not Found www.google.comOr you can get www.kitiyo.com but not rgb.kitiyo.comOr you cannot get www.somesite.com but your friend can!Silly DNS Problems.When we browser and enter a url in the browser's address bar, one of the first step is to resolve the domain name. ie convert the www.server-name.com to the IP address.If our dns server settings are wrong or if the dns server does not respond, we get the familiar ...

microsoftpowerpoint.exe win32 usb worm manual removal

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2008/04/microsoftpowerpointexe-win32-usb-worm.html microsoftpowerpoint.exe win32 usb worm manual removal MicrosoftPowerPoint.exeMicrosoftPowerPoint.exe is a worm that spreads throught the USB Memory Sticks/Pen Drives from computer to computer. It slows down all usb operations.Manual RemovalSince the virus automatically hides all the files, you cant easily find it.First run msconfig, and look at the start up values to find the location of the virus.Remove that entry by unchecking the tick mark.Reboot the system.Do the steps given below ...

Connecting Laptop to TV using HDMI Port

http://digitalpbk.com/hdmi/connect-laptop-tv-using-hdmi-port Connecting Laptop to TV using HDMI Port HDMI or High Definition Multimedia Interface is a new technology to connect Multimedia devices like laptops, DVD Players and TVs. HDMI is capable of upto 10 Gbps transmission of High Definition Videosin Full HD Resolution (1080p). Unlike other ports that connect to screens like VGA, SVideo, the advantage of HDMI is that a single cable connection carries both the audio and video channels. The picture shows an HDMI port on the new Sony Vaio CW laptop ...