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Computer Viruses
729 Words - 3 Pages.... Trojan horse. The time bomb is
a virus triggered by the computers clock reaching a certain date and time (often
Friday the thirteenth). The logic bomb is a virus triggered by a certain value
appearing a certain part of the computers memory, either relevant to the viruses
purposes or at random. The Trojan horse is an innocent seeming program
deliberately infects with a virus and circulated publicly. There is a cure for
these viruses, though. These "cures" are called vaccines. A vaccine is a
program that watches for typical things viruses do, halts them, and warns the
computer operator.
"Put a kid with the chicken pox together with a bunch of healthy kids and not
all of ....
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The Internet Its Effects And Its Future
6049 Words - 22 Pages.... known as TCP/IP was developed to allow disparate devices to work together. The original network has long since been upgraded and expanded and TCP/IP is now a ¡§de facto¡¨ standard.
Millions of people worldwide are using the Internet to share information, make new associations and communicate. Individuals and businesses, from students and journalists, to consultants, programmers and corporate giants are all harnessing the power of the Internet. For many businesses the Internet is becoming integral to their operations. Imagine the ability to send and receive data: messages, notes, letters, documents, pictures, video, sound- just about any form of communication, as eff ....
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Why We Should Stick To Qwerty
787 Words - 3 Pages.... that develop from continuous typing.
Third, and most importantly, standardization has led the qwerty keyboards to
firmly hold the position as the keyboard.
There are major differences between the two types of keyboard users; the regular
users and the other typists. The regular users are people who uses the keyboard
for word processing, e-mailing, and internet; there is not much of a need for
them to type extremely fast. They do not type mechanically but rather based on
their thought, and thinking takes time. In other words, faster keyboards are
irrelevant for them because they are not continuously typing. They need to
think what they are going to write, one sentence on ....
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The Computer And Mass Communication
4603 Words - 17 Pages.... Occasionally I broadcast requests for information.
On top of the modem sits the telephone, and that, too, ties me in to an information network. There are more than 500 million phones in the world, and if I knew the number and were willing to pay the bill, I could reach any of them. And as I do my work, I almost always have the radio on, picking a station from dozens of possibilities of broadcast entertainment and news. There is an astonishing electronic information infrastructure surrounding me - surrounding us all.
But the electronic part of the information infrastructure is only a tiny fraction of what's available to me. Every morning the newspaper is thrown into the ....
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Home Computer Network
684 Words - 3 Pages.... files, games, etc., you can do this through the network. This also eliminates the need for copying files to floppy diskettes, hand-carrying them to the other computers, and copying the files one-floppy-at-a-time to each, individual computer. This would be a very slow process, compared to a fast network speed. Additionally, if one computer on your network crashes, you can move to another computer and continue your work. So, if you use your network and file server effectively, you can have a high degree of reliability, security, and efficiency.
Second, an in- can allow you to have only one Internet connection while giving Internet access to all computers on your network. Thi ....
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F117 Nighthawk Stealth Fighter
848 Words - 4 Pages.... The wingspan from side-end to side-end is 43¢ 4² and the area of one wing is 1,140 ft. squared The speed of the Nighthawk is in the high subsonic range because the cruise speed is from Mach .8 to Mach .9 and the maximum speed is Mach 1 at 36,000 ft. The range of the Nighthawk is unlimited with air refueling from another plane. The engines of the Nighthawk are two
12,500lb. General Electric F404-F1D2 non-afterburning turbofan engines with 10,600 lbs. of thrust. The Nighthawk’s armament is a non-fixed internal weapons carriage and the primary weapons on the Nighthawk are the paveway series GBU-10 and GBU-27 laser guided bombs. There is usually one person to ....
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Year 2000: Fiction, Fantasy, And Fact
682 Words - 3 Pages.... a total of $600 billion to remedy." (p. 1) The fallacy that
mainframes were the only machines to be affected was short lived as industry
realized that 60 to 80 million home and small business users doing math or
accounting etc. on Windows 3.1 or older software, are just as susceptible to
this "bug." Can this be repaired in time? For some, it is already too late. A
system that is devised to cut an annual federal deficit to 0 by the year 2002 is
already in "hot water." Data will become erroneous as the numbers "just don't
add up" anymore. Some PC owners can upgrade their computer's BIOS (or complete
operating system) and upgrade the OS (operating system) to Windows ....
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Software Piracy
2448 Words - 9 Pages.... some countries, legal
protection for software is nonexistent (i.e., Kuwait); in others, laws are
unclear (i.e. Israel), or not enforced with sufficient commitment (i.e., the
PRC). Significant piracy losses are suffered in virtually every region of the
world. In some areas (i.e., Indonesia), the rate of unauthorized copies is
believed to be in excess of 99%.
Why do People Use Pirated Software?
A major reason for the use of pirated software is the prices of the
REAL thing. Just walk into a CompUSA, Electronics Boutique, Computer City,
Egghead, etc and you will notice the expensive price tags on copies of the most
commonly used programs and the hottest games. Take t ....
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