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Odin is a utility software program developed and used by Samsung internally which is used to communicate with Samsung devices in Odin mode (also called download mode) through the Thor (protocol). It can be used to flash a custom recovery firmware image (as opposed to the stock recovery firmware image) to a Samsung Android device .
The software may be updated by downloading the update directly on the PlayStation 3, downloading it from the user's local Official PlayStation website to a PC and using a USB storage device to transfer it to the PlayStation 3, or installing the update from game discs containing update data.
Rufus was originally designed [5] as a modern open source replacement for the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool for Windows, [6] which was primarily used to create DOS bootable USB flash drives. The first official release of Rufus, version 1.0.3 (earlier versions were internal/alpha only [ 7 ] ), was released on December 4, 2011, with originally ...
UEFI requires the firmware and operating system loader (or kernel) to be size-matched; that is, a 64-bit UEFI firmware implementation can load only a 64-bit operating system (OS) boot loader or kernel (unless the CSM-based legacy boot is used) and the same applies to 32-bit.
Firmware hacks usually take advantage of the firmware update facility on many devices to install or run themselves. Some, however, must resort to exploits to run, because the manufacturer has attempted to lock the hardware to stop it from running unlicensed code. Most firmware hacks are free software.
Microsoft Software Updater (earlier Nokia Software Updater and Ovi Suite Software Updater) is a Windows [1] [2] and OS X [3] (though the Mac version is only in Beta) [4] based application launched in 2006, [5] that enables customers to update and recover their mobile device firmware [6] of a S40 or S60 or Lumia device from any Internet enabled access point.
The native operating system of the PlayStation 4 is Orbis OS, which is a fork of FreeBSD version 9.0 which was released on January 12, 2012. [6] [7] The software development kit (SDK) is based on LLVM and Clang, [8] which Sony has chosen due to its conformant C and C++ front-ends, C++11 support, compiler optimization and diagnostics. [9]
Windows Update MiniTool (also called WUMT) is a freeware application client created by a Russian programmer named stupid user, and was released in 2015. It is an alternative to Windows Update for the Microsoft Windows operating systems by allowing users to search, install, postpone, and disable updates.