UAC under Windows 7 – Expect Improvements

Caught this over at Mary Jo Foleys All About Microsoft Blog. It seems that Microsoft has gotten a mouthful on the security feature UAC in Vista (which actually had a lot of good intentions). So the folks on the Windows Team are working to make it a more palatable experience in the next release, Windows 7. The focus is to make it more informative and less repetitive. I think these are good points, because a lot of prompts don’t give a clear understanding why a location requires permission before proceeding. The concept of UAC is that when an Application triggers it, that means it wants access to critical part of the system that needs to be written to. Here is a quote from my ActiveWin.com Windows Vista Review:

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“The new account setup only allows users with Administrative privileges or a limited account to all operate as a Standard user with a set of specific requirements and a deeper awareness of the actions a user takes while performing task throughout the operating system, Microsoft recommends this account for daily use “finally”! You might wonder what the deeper awareness is; well it’s a new improvement to the security model

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Written by Teching It Easy: Windows Vista & 7 on October 9th, 2008 with no comments.
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Embedded Linux System Kernel Considerations

The kernel is the most fundamental software component of all Linux systems. It is responsible for managing the bare hardware within your chosen target system and bringing order to what would otherwise be a chaotic struggle between each of the many various software components on a typical system.

In essence, this means the kernel is a resource broker. It takes care of scheduling use of (and mediating access to) the available hardware resources within a particular Linux system. Resources managed by the kernel include system processor time given to programs, use of available RAM, and indirect access to a multitude of hardware devices— including those customs to your chosen target. The kernel provides a variety of software abstractions through which application programs can request access to system resources, without communicating with the hardware directly.

The precise capabilities provided by any particular build of the Linux kernel are configurable when that kernel is built. Kernel configuration allows you to remove support for unnecessary or obscure capabilities that will never be used. For example, it is possible to remove support for the many different networked filesystems from an embedded device that has no networking support. Conversely, it is possible to...

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Could Computers have Melamine Too?

Computers normally originate from Taiwan but that is perhaps only borders away from China. China, a country now famous for scandals such as recalls and melamine infestation, may also be tagged as contributors to technology. Why? Food is certainly one of the leading products that China has been criticized over the past months but lately it has also extended towards cosmetics. With that in mind, could technology be not far behind?

The thought seems crazy but you would never know how anyone could suddenly associate melamine or any confounded product would make its way towards threatening lives. Computer rays? Radiation emissions? Any one of these factors can be easily associated with scientific discoveries and for sure, people today have become cautious on health especially when Chinese characters are concerned.

It does sound crazy for now. Computers are far from being China’s cup of tea. But when it comes to parts outsourcing, you never know when China would join the computer market. It can happen given time.

Computer parts can likewise be associated to mercury, a waste product that comes from improper disposal of used up computers. Mercury has thus far not been among the controversial elements that have made up China’s

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Written by PC Freak on October 9th, 2008 with no comments.
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How to Change a Computer Password Using Command Prompt

Ever thought of becoming an actual “hacker”? This article shows how to change a computer password and do other things using a command prompt. A command prompt is a command using the special built-in program that comes with every computer which allows you to do almost anything on a computer.

Open Command Prompt. If you don’t know how, open the Start menu, go to Programs (or on Windows 2000 and up, all programs), go to Accessories, then you’ll see Command Prompt, click it.
You’ll see a black screen pop up.
Type in: “Net User”
It will then show you a detailed little chart of all the User Accounts on the computer.
Choose which account you want to hack.
Say it says the user accounts are: Owner, Administrator, John, Alice, Christopher, and Guest.
You choose Alice (Say you wanted to annoy your wife or girlfriend, I told you this would be a useful guide ;) ).
Now type: “Net User Alice”, it’ll give you A LOT of information about the account. This step isn’t necessary, but it gives you information on other things you can do to the account, such as set it as innactive and delete it.
Type in: “Net User Alice *” It’ll tell you to enter

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How to Convert from Decimal to Binary

As Piseth my friends just walk in to IT Subject, He ask me how to convert from Decimal to Binary or Binary to Decimal. I’ve left it for long time ago, So I might be forget how to do it. Hope this article will help you or me to do it again.

The decimal (base ten) numeral system has ten possible values (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, or 9) for each place-value. In contrast, the binary (base two) numeral system has two possible values, often represented as 0 or 1, for each place-value.

To avoid confusion while using different numeral systems, the base of each individual number may be specified by writing it as a subscript of the number. For example, the decimal number 156 may be written as 156₁₀ and read as “one hundred fifty-six, base ten”. The binary number 10011100 may be specified as “base two” by writing it as 10011100₂.

Since the binary system is the internal language of electronic computers, serious computer programmers should understand how to convert from decimal to binary. Although, converting in the opposite direction, from binary to decimal, is often easier to learn first.

Choose a method of conversion

Comparison with descending powers of two and subtraction
Short division by

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Written by Myhouse on October 8th, 2008 with no comments.
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