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How to Determine Hardware Mode of Intel CPU

Consider the following output: # grep flags /proc/cpuinfo flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc pni monitor ssse3 lahf_lm How can you the maximum size of a long that can be used with this CPU? The answer is 64-bit because of the presence of the lm flag. The following flags can be used to determine the maximum size of a long for a CPU: lm – Long Mode (64 bits) tm – Protected mode (32-bit) rm – Real Mode

Sudo and Globbing

The question is how we can use the sudo utility to display a list of files in a directory to which we have absolutely no Unix filesystem privileges Consider the following directory and files contained therein: $ ls -l total 4 drwxrwx—. 2 root root 4096 May 22 21:14 demo $ su Password: XXXXXXXX # ls -l demo total 0 -rw-r–r–. 1 root root 0 May 22 21:14 file1 -rw-r–r–. 1 root root 0 May 22 21:14 file2 -rw-r–r–. 1 root root 0 May 22 21:14 file3 # exit exit Note the directory permissions are 770 and the user and

Check Available Text and Graphic Modes From UEFI Shell

This post provides source code for a simple UEFI shell utility to list the available graphic and text modes for the current screen.