A bulging disc can occur in the neck (cervical region), lower back (lumbar region) or, less commonly, in the mid-back (thoracic spine). Bulging discs usually remain asymptomatic unless they compress a spinal nerve rootlet or the spinal cord itself.
protected mode. Protected mode is a mode of program operation in a computer with an Intel-based microprocessor in which the program is restricted to addressing a specific contiguous area of 640 kilobytes. Intel's original PC microprocessor, the 8088, provided a one megabyte (1 Mbyte) random access memory (RAM).
Vista's Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) includes a feature called Protected Mode.. It sounds good, but what it is and what does it do? In this article we'll look at this feature and offer some recommendations on whether you should use it.