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Inside Intel's Core architecture review
Reviews Core is a four-wide machine, with portions of five or six wide, meaning it can execute at least four instructions at once. Originally, processors took in one instruction from memory and took as long as it needed to fully execute it before starting...
[July 28, 2006, 9:10]
Benchmarks: Intel's 64-bit Pentium 4 660 review
Reviews The Athlon 64, Athlon 64 FX and Opteron processors also offer this feature, which AMD calls No eXecute (NX). There's also improved power management in the shape of Enhanced Intel Speedstep Technology (EIST) and protection from malware infection via...
[March 3, 2005, 11:00]
Windows XP SP2 more secure? Not so fast review
Reviews To fully block the aforementioned buffer overflow and the Internet worms that feed on them you'll need to follow fine print: turns out the necessary No Execute (NX) setting isn't present in the current hardware architecture of most 64-bit and 32...
[August 17, 2004, 13:55]
Windows XP Service Pack 2: a first look review
Reviews Under Service Pack 2, protection from memory overflow -- which can be exploited by malicious code -- is ensured by new processors that support the NX (No eXecute) feature in hardware (AMD Athlon 64, AMD Opteron, Intel Itanium).
[March 23, 2004, 23:30]
Running Mac OS X on standard PCs review
Reviews For example, it's not possible to execute 64-bit programs with an AMD processor. For a stable operation, you should also ensure that the CPU extension for protecting against buffer overflow (No Execute/Execute Disable or NX/XD) is enabled in the BIOS.
[May 14, 2008, 7:46]
WhatsUp Gold v12 Premium Edition review
Reviews The software provides standards-based monitoring of any network device, service or application on TCP/IP and Windows networks; it will discover devices on the network, initiate monitoring of those devices and execute actions based on device state...
[July 29, 2008, 15:48]
What to look for in a desktop PC review
Reviews The faster the processor's clock speed, which is measured in megahertz (MHz) or gigahertz (GHz), the faster it can execute instructions -- although many other factors also affect overall performance. Processor
[January 21, 2003, 14:47]
Processor benchmarks: Intel versus AMD review
Reviews For example, the Athlon 64's support for the NX (No Execute) feature safeguards it from certain virus attacks, and could be reason enough to choose an AMD processor. This evaluation of current desktop processors utilises over 60 benchmark tests...
[August 24, 2004, 8:45]
Sharp GX-10 review
Reviews Navigation is performed using a rocker-type joystick, a central button to execute your current selection and two soft keys whose function is illustrated at the bottom of the screen. This dual-band GSM/GPRS phone's chrome-effect plastic finish looks...
[March 26, 2003, 16:35]
VirusScan 6.0 review
Reviews It guards against all kinds of intruders, including viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and -- on the Web -- ActiveX Controls or Java applets, which can execute malicious commands without your knowledge. Although this update costs slightly more than its...
[January 15, 2002, 23:00]
Firefox 2 Alpha 2 review
Reviews The Mozilla team decided recently to disable Places in future releases of Firefox 2, although it -- along with the new MozStorage system, which lets you execute a search query of your browser history to find pages you may have visited long ago...
[May 16, 2006, 11:05]
Inside Firefox 2 Alpha 1 review
Reviews With the new MozStorage system, you can now execute a search query of your browser history to find pages you may have visited 100 Web pages ago. Inside Firefox 2 Alpha 1 Following the successful launch of Firefox 1.5 last November, the Mozilla...
[March 23, 2006, 7:40]
Benchmarks: Google Chrome review
Reviews As well as displaying text and images, a modern browser must execute applications such as JavaScript, DOM and XML-based AJAX programs. In its innovative comic-book, Google explained the motivation behind, and the essential technical details of, its...
[September 4, 2008, 15:07]
VirusScan Wireless review
Reviews To get VirusScan Wireless to detect this, we had to alter the default options to scan inside application data -- normally there's no risk from application data, since you can't directly execute this on your PC.
[May 3, 2001, 0:00]
Firefox 2 Alpha 1: a first look review
Reviews And deeper in the interface, Mozilla has added a new MozStorage system, which lets you execute a search query of your browser history to find pages you may have visited long ago. Following the successful launch of Firefox 1.5 last November, the...
[March 23, 2006, 7:45]
Inside Intel's Sonoma review
Reviews The only other addition to the Pentium M architecture is support for the Execute Disable bit, which with operating system support -- provided by Windows XP Service Pack 2, for example -- can prevent buffer overflow virus or trojan attack code from...
[January 19, 2005, 8:40]
Windows Vista and the coming criminal diaspora review
Reviews Researchers at Sophos discovered that four Internet viruses and worms — Stratio.zip, Netsky.d, and MyDoom.o — were able to execute on the Windows Vista system when an email client other than the one native in Windows Vista was used.
[December 4, 2006, 9:48]
Dreamweaver 4 review
Reviews You can set breakpoints and inspect variables at breakpoints or while the script is running, and either execute or step into functions. Macromedia has taken the brave step of revamping the user interface, implementing the common interface first...
[January 10, 2001, 23:00]
Inside Windows Vista beta 2 review
Reviews Type 'word', and instantly find and execute your copy of Microsoft Office Word -- or, if you prefer, Wordpad. Amid speculation that Microsoft might again slip in its own timetable for the successor to Windows XP, the software giant has released the...
[May 24, 2006, 14:10]
Creator 7 review
Reviews The suite's Media Manager is great for previewing and organising all of your files, but it's not always the most efficient way to execute tasks such as editing a group of photos or videos. Installation & interface
[March 5, 2004, 14:40]
