Archive for July, 2007

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The epic of !apic

Posted by Satya Das
July 27, 2007

APIC standing for Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller, is the basis of PC interrupt architecture today. An APIC can deal with more interrupts than a PIC (or Programmable Interrupt Controller also referred to as 8259) used to and can route interrupts to multiple processors effectively. The APIC architecture has 2 components

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Rebootophobia – Security software afraid to prompt a computer reboot

Posted by Satya Das
July 12, 2007

By now every company should have got the memo from Microsoft regarding limiting or eliminating reboot requirements of software. Most of the security products today (such as security suites that package personal firewall, antivirus, antispyware, email filtering etc etc) involve kernel-mode drivers and thus may need to reboot at install so they can start