Is it a little bit boring to see such disk icon in Windows? Let’s do something fun! Get some interesting .icon images as you like. If you have no idea where to get such images, you can try this website. Or you can diy by using PhotoShop. And then, open your target disk, let it …
How to delete app icon from Launchpad
I wanted to download a video game through steam on my Mac, but I decided to uninstall it later. I tried uninstall it from steam, however I noticed the app icon still remains on my launchpad. So I write this blog to remind me of how to delete the app icon in launchpad. 1.Open a …
Notes on “Threads”
Threads The thread defines a sequential execution stream within a process. Processes The process defines the address space and general process attributes (everything but threads of execution) Kernel-level thread OS-managed threads are called kernel-level threads or lightweight processes. Thread operations still require system calls Kernel-level threads have to be general to support the needs of …
Notes on “Process” and “Process API”
Process The abstraction provided by the OS of a running program is something we will call a process. The process is the OS abstraction for execution A process is sometimes called a job or a task or a sequential process A sequential process is a program in execution A process contains all state for a …
Notes on “Mechanism: Limited Direct Execution”
Architecture must support (at least) two modes of operation: Mode is indicated by a status bit in a protected control register User programs execute in user mode OS executes in kernel, privileged mode (OS == “kernel”) User mode code that runs in user mode is restricted in what it can do. For example, when running …
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