A disadvantage to using open source software is it may restrict your ability to customize the software to suit your needs.

a higher level of technical skill may be required to install, use, or modify it.

you will need to find the developers who created the software to request their permission to reuse the source code.

you can use the software only if you make a donation to an open-source nonprofit organization

It is vital to research each of the services you plan to disable before implementing any change, especially on critical machines such as the: a. servers in the test environment. b. domain controller and other infrastructure servers. c. desktops that have previously been attacked. d. desktops used by upper-level management.

4. a1. vince owns a television repair shop that is insured undera commercial package policy. the policy includes thebuilding and personal property coverage form and thecauses-of-loss broad form. the declarations page indicatesthat coverage applies to both the building and the namedinsured's business property. explain whether or not thefollowing losses would be covered under his policy.a. a fire occurs on the premises, and the building isbadly damaged.b. a burglar steals some money and securities from anunlocked safe.c. a business computer is damaged by vandals whobreak into the shop after business hours.d. a tornado touches down near the store. several tel-evision sets of customers in the shop for repair aredamaged in the storm.til

When making changes to optimize part of a processor, it is often the case that speeding up one type of instruction comes at the cost of slowing down something else. for example, if we put in a complicated fast floating-point unit, that takes space, and something might have to be moved farther away from the middle to accommodate it, adding an extra cycle in delay to reach that unit. the basic amdahl's law equation does not take into account this trade-off. a. if the new fast floating-point unit speeds up floating-point operations by, on average, 2ă—, and floating-point operations take 20% of the original program's execution time, what is the overall speedup (ignoring the penalty to any other instructions)? b. now assume that speeding up the floating-point unit slowed down data cache accesses, resulting in a 1.5ă— slowdown (or 2/3 speedup). data cache accesses consume 10% of the execution time. what is the overall speedup now? c. after implementing the new floating-point operations, what percentage of execution time is spent on floating-point operations? what percentage is spent on data cache accesses?