While fifteen years ago, common culture had little idea of what a computer crash was, it has now become a subject of commiseration for most people in most workplaces. This book is for anybody who has to analyze and prevent Windows 2000 crashes, especially device drive authors and debuggers. It takes readers, step-by-step, through crash dump analysis and kernel debugging, including how to interpret every element of a Windows 2000 stop screen. WinDbg, configuring options, symbol paths, and DLLs are explained, as is the debugging hardware such as ports, BIOS, PCI and SCSI buses, chipsets and more. Contains some illustrations and many code samples to allow the advanced user to diagnose, and hopefully repair, the cause of the crash. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Windows 2000 Kernel Debugging

Computers & Technology

McDowell, Steven

Computer Science

Prentice Hall PTR

The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a low-to-high-speed technology that provides a shared-access, highly available, robust, self-configuring, extensible, and easy-to-use serial bus that is host-computer independent and consistent across computer architectures. The advent of multimedia and the proliferation of relatively inexpensive processing power has left the venerable RS-232 a relic of times past. The USB was invented and standardized by a group of computer manufacturers and peripheral vendors in early 1995 under the auspices of an organization called the Universal Serial Bus Implementers Forum. It's goal was to define a high-speed serial bus technology to replace, or phase out, the existing RS-232 serial port technology. Today's serial bus technology must cover a full range of technology that can deliver everything from digital joysticks for high-precision game playing, to digital audio peripherals to high-resolution "live" video inupt and output devices to data networks and telephony equipment. The USB can do all of this at speeds faster than the RS-232 serial port was designed to handle. The biggest difference between a single-ended serial port (like RS-232) and a serial bus like the USB is that the traditional serial port is a point-to-point connection between a computer and a device, whereas on a "serial bus" many devices can communicate and share the connection to the computer. In the USB, up to 128 bus devices can simultaneously communicate with the host computer.

USB Explained

Pearson Technology Group

Book by McDowell Steven, Race Phil, McDowell Steve

500 Computing Tips for Teachers and Lecturers (500 Tips)

McDOWELL, STEVE

RACE, PHIL

Routledge

This text provides user friendly advice and support for school teachers and lecturers in further and higher education who need to know what information technology and computers can do for their work.

500 Computer Tips (500 Tips)

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Schools & Teaching

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