I have someone telling me that malloc() requests a contiguous physical address space in real RAM chips, and fails if it doesn't exist. From everything I've read (I'm not a programmer myself), there is ...

A quick look at the pinouts of an Intel 8086 & 8088 processor reveals a 20 bit address bus. There was high demand for the ability to address 1 meg (2^20) of address space, and Intel delivered. However ...

A report by the Harvard Business Review found a significant gap between employee needs and employer benefit offerings for treatment of physical and emotional pain, with a holistic approach associated ...

There are various reasons why files on a hard disk may not be properly accessible. Here are some reasons and ways to identify and address each in OS X. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, ...

Logical block addressing (LBA) for NAND Flash memory—that's what Toshiba says its done with the LBA-NAND, a new range of high-capacity devices integrating the new addressing method. NAND Flash memory ...

We design different kinds of System-on-Chips (SoCs/Chips) tailored for different electronic products. Let’s explore how we approach designing various electronic products like embedded microcontrollers ...

Folks designing The Machine speak absolutely correctly about the need to have integrated security and integrity throughout The Machine’s design. So let’s start by looking at one very low level aspect ...

Every week, the major media and the trade press have stories on physical and/or psychological violence in the workplace. After 43 years in the federal government and 12 years studying workplace ...

Brionv Google has published an announcement inside its developer portal informing all app developers that as of September 30th it will be mandatory for them to supply a physical address, and that this ...