For those of us who have owned computers for a few years now, have, without a doubt had an experience with a computer virus of some sort. Have you ever wondered how, or even why these viruses got started in the first place? We know that computer viruses are created by people. Someone has to write the code and test it. That someone also has to figure out the attack phase. This attack phase may come in the form of a silly message popping up on the screen, all the way to the destruction of the…
Types & Description Models Functions Support Multiprocessing? Environment to Used Mid-range servers Medium-sized computer that can handle large scale processing of Business and Scientific applications. (Bytes notes, 2013) ADM Opteron Servers • Multi-gigabytes of RAM and multi-terabytes of hard disk space • Ideal for file/print server, firewall applications, mail server, web server for small business, server appliance, cluster node, etc. Yes • Business • Networking, • Real time • Education…
Do preschool aged children benefit or are they hindered from the use of computers at school? This question is answered in the article “The Impact of Information Technologies on Preschool Child Development.” By, Svetlana Andelic, Zoran Cekerevac and Nikola Dragovic. The research conducted for this article takes an in depth look at how computer use affects children pedagogically, psychologically, sociologically and medically. Information technologies particularly computers and computer like…
This site defines cookies and some of the ways they are used. The site states, "a ‘cookie’ is a small text file placed on your local computer sent by a web server so that your data can later be read back from that website." This file will tell the Internet information specific to the user’s computer, and if the user ever visits that site again. The video, on the referenced site, goes on to explain in more detail…
Internet, one of the greatest inventions in the 1970s, originally came from a communication system developed by the United States during the Cold War. As technology has improved, the network system has grown rapidly. From the beginning of military communication system to now which everything is possible through Internet. Based on the record of the company Internet Live Stats, the number of the Internet users had grown from three hundred and sixty million in 2000 to three billion in 2014. More…
In the article “Are We Puppets in a Wired World?” author Sue Halpern gives us an overview of how the internet has progressed over the years. The first technology only allowed information to be sent to another computer which was called ARPANET. This was the start to the beginning of the internet. At this time, computers were very slow and expensive. Today, the internet is fast, inexpensive, and a permanent part of the culture. With the internet, this has changed what the meaning of valuable…
MidTerm Exam Question 1 Cloud computing is open space where you can place all our music and videos at one place. We can listen to the music, play video games and watch videos from anywhere and not necessarily connect to the computer. So, after turning off computer we can listen to music and watch videos through other device. Question 2 (c) Maintenance: First of all, you do not have to spend more money on the high ended hardware devices to store and retrieve your data. All the hardware and…
1. Goal Following the introduction of Windows-based systems into our virtual environment in Lab 3, this final individual lab takes the base Microsoft administrative technologies put in place such as Active Directory, and pushes them forward with more advanced systems administration features. The major new additions to the infrastructure are Group Policy and fine-grained password policies where users, computers, and groups are given a more personalized as well as secure computing experience based…
Yadira Pichardo Assignment #1 Criminal Law Scenarios Read each of the following scenarios and answer the question(s) after each. Save this document to your computer; you will need to rename it, then type your answers on this document. Upload the document to the Assignment page: 1. John Lions was shopping at Target. He had a number of items in his cart when he approached the checkout counter. He had placed 2 unpaid for items in his pants pocket: a pair of earrings for his girlfriend and a…
Sync Many people exchange files between their computers by synchronising them with any one of the cloud storage solutions like Dropbox, Google Drive, or SkyDrive. This can take a while — the file first gets uploaded to your cloud storage provider’s servers and then it gets downloaded back to your other computers. This process makes syncing a large file take forever.…