In many virtual machines/physical systems which act as servers, the development libraries and tools like gcc are not installed by default. So, whenever developers need them the most preferred way of  installing  them is through the Graphical Software Installer or Package Manager (like Synaptic in Ubuntu, Add Remove Software in Fedora etc..) And that needs [...]

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Almost all of the kernel developers must have come across the 2 Macros  likely() and unlikely() in their coding process. At a first glance, the impression made on their minds is that likely() should be something related to a successful conditions and unlikely() should be something related to unsuccessful conditions. Some of the developers may [...]

Cloud storage From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cloud storage is a model of networked online storage where data is stored on virtualized pools of storage which are generally hosted by third parties. Hosting companies operate large data centers; and people who require their data to be hosted buy or lease storage capacity from them and [...]

Storage virtualization From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (July 2011) Storage virtualization or storage virtualisation is a concept and term used within computer science. Specifically, storage systems may use virtualization concepts [...]

What cloud computing really means By Eric Knorr, Galen Gruman Created 2008-04-07 02:00AM   Cloud computing is all the rage. “It’s become the phrase du jour,” says Gartner senior analyst Ben Pring, echoing many of his peers. The problem is that (as with Web 2.0) everyone seems to have a different definition. As a metaphor [...]