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  Rob Slade's Security Glossary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The BIOS is located in the ROM area of the system and is usually stored permanently.
Since boot sector infectors run before the operating systems starts, and require only the BIOS programming, they are sometimes called BIOS viruses, although the term can create confusion and should be avoided.
A BSI is able to take control of interrupts and machine functions, and may be able to subvert some protection and detection measures, and is also considered to be a virus of the base computer hardware, rather than the operating system.
www.philosophy.niu.edu /~rslade/secgloss.htm   (14720 words)

  
 War of the Minds - Archive - V
He looked like a man with a foot in the grave, and scarcely the strength of a louse, Yet he tilted a poke of dust on the bar, and he called for drinks on the house.
According to the positions of A and B and the bearings given for C, we form a triangle with the points A,B, and C. This triangle has one known side, AB, which is 312 miles long.
If you call the (BIOS) interrupt 13h, you would have to specify a specific function (using the AH register), since the 13h functions correspond to different floppy disk functions (e.g., reading and writing sectors, formatting tracks, etc...)
www.kyphilom.com /www/warmind5.html   (7451 words)

  
 Newsgroops - comp.os.msdos.programmer FAQ part 2/5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The cure is to call an f-p function, or at least force
extended keyboards, INT 15 AH=4F is not called.
to hook INT 15 AH=85, which is called when SysRq is pressed or released.
www.newsgroops.org /group/alt.answers/article-546298.html   (4327 words)

  
 PsychSymposium.com
For instance, after group introductions and initial discussion, you may interrupt the group with a process comment.
Covalt, calling for a replication of European findings in the United States, conducted a study with five healthy women taking weekly saunas for twelve weeks.
In addition to reporting the results of basic measures of body weight, blood pressure, and body temperature, Covalt reported that the sauna caused the women to experience a sense of well-being.
psychsymposium.com /categorylist_html?cat_id=1   (17681 words)

  
 categories | Linux Gazette   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Multithreaded HTTP Server for Linux built up by the pool of threads utilizing select()system call.
Calling All Ubuntu, Python and SchoolTool Bounty Hunters
Booting Linux From USB/CD if your BIOS doesn't support it.
www.linuxgazette.com /taxonomy_dhtml   (2786 words)

  
 x86 Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Talks about spin locks without mentioning that they are mostly used (and needed) in multiprocessor system
Glaring erros like calling spin_lock_irqsave() and unlock by spin_unlock_irq()
The sample chapter should be the best chapter of the book.
www.booksunderreview.com /Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/x86/DOS...   (1465 words)

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