The funny thing about having CPU registers narrower than your architecture's address bus is that you can't store some of the larger memory addresses in a single register. Although still somewhat of an issue on certain embedded platforms and microcontrollers, this issue gained a large amount of exposure ...
Right now, my laptop is running about 290 processes within a little over 8 GB of physical memory—and everything is solid as a rock. Have you ever wondered how all the processes on your computer manage to share the same physical memory without stepping on each other's toes ...
Many people, when they think of PGP, think e-mail encryption. Sure, PGP can be used to encrypt the body of an e-mail, but the fact that headers go out on the wire unencrypted make it a fairly unattractive solution for secure communications.
Personally, when I think PGP I think about ...
