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Operating System Characteristics (Features)

The Crazy Programmer

The operating system is the software that enables an ideal environment for all these application software to work effectively. And without using an operating system, it is not possible to use smartphone devices to computer devices efficiently. What is an Operating System? Operating System Characteristics.

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Detecting Risky Third-party Drivers on Windows Assets

Tenable

Kernel-mode drivers are critical yet risky components of the Windows operating system. Windows is an operating system that, over its 40-plus years of history, has developed more than a few arcane components that are a mystery to many systems administrators. What is a kernel-mode driver?

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Types of Operating System

The Crazy Programmer

An operating system is the basic mechanism behind the working of the computer systems and mobile devices and so, understanding the operating system becomes very important from a user’s perspective. The various types of Operating systems are as follows: Types of Operating System.

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A Hitchhiker?s Guide to Windows Containers

Linux Academy

This article will give you the full lowdown on Windows Containers, to prepare you to do just that. Why Windows? First, I want to acknowledge that there is a big difference between Linux and Windows containers. So why do we even need Windows containers? Docker on Windows is a port of Docker (not a fork).

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Not-so-Portable Document Format

The Daily WTF

Adrian worked for a document services company. Adrian's boss, Lester, was too busy "developing high-end printing solutions on a Unix system" to spend any time in that sub-sub-basement, and instead embedded himself with the client's IT team. "It's "The high speed printer is a Unix system, you know this."

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Microsoft’s June 2024 Patch Tuesday Addresses 49 CVEs

Tenable

Critical CVE-2024-30080 | Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2024-30080 is a RCE vulnerability in the Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) component of Windows operating systems that was assigned a CVSSv3 score of 9.8 and rated critical. and rated as “Exploitation More Likely.”

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Building for Windows using the MSIX orb

CircleCI

The MSIX orb is the first “Windows-only” orb from CircleCI. When Microsoft approached us with the opportunity to build an orb that would help Windows developers build on our platform, we were enthusiastic. Code signing allows users and operating systems to verify the author of a particular binary or bit of code.

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