Computer multitasking

Scientists throughout history have dedicated their time and livelihoods to discovering, asking, testing, working, and eventually answering questions of the world around them. Without them the world we know and love, complete with IPhones and super computers, could not exist. These men and woman did what they did for progress, no matter what age they were alive in. That being said, the atmosphere in the world of a scientist can direct them to, or from, progress. The scientific revolution,…

Working in the electronics retail space for over half a decade, computers can get updated and replaced very quickly. Commonly you can have several new models release shortly after the previous one, which can mind blowing. What happens to those aged computers once their owner deems such equipment obsolete? After doing a great deal of research, it turns out most of those computers make their way into local landfills and that in itself has become a major environmental issue. Below are a few of the…

These various types of electronic flip flops were first introduced by a computer design course at UCLA by Montgomery Phister. Another important person in the history of electronic flip flops was known as Dr. Eldred Nelson, which came upon in the introduction of the most commonly known JK Flip Flop. The foundation of the name…

In a society like today we take for granted many things; things such as computers and other technology. Does Alan Turing ring a bell? However, it may not to some; he was a pleasing brilliant mathematician that was persecuted because of his homosexuality rather than being seen for his brilliance. Turing’s invention of defeating the enigma of the Nazi code made an ostentatious impact on human history. The Imitation Game a boundless film based on a real story that can be a great addition to the…

When video games and computers are mentioned, what often comes to mind are consoles that microchips are inserted into and controls that are used to change what is happening on a screen. However, in the future, this technology that is used for entertainment could become a simulation that people have their consciousness downloaded into so that they can experience what is happening inside the video game themselves. Virtnet, a place in The Game of Lives by James Dashner, is a virtual world created…

During the laboratory section two devices were used; these were the DE2-115 board and a computer, containing the software system Quartus II. Each of these devices were very significant for gathering information during the duration of the lab and shall be explained further. The DE2-115 board was the device provided in the lab that displayed the output for viewing by the student. The portions of the DE2-115 board that were used during the duration of the lab were the switches, the LEDs, and the…

Presentation Rationale Purpose: The purpose of this speech is to persuade my audience that businesses can benefit from moving services and infrastructure to cloud based computing platforms. I want to portray that businesses will have less staff to maintain and much lower technology costs are incurred from technology purchases and replacement cycles, by not housing hardware on premises. This also benefits them by having lower application downtime due to resources spread redundantly across…

We live in an era of intelligent technology where our watches tell us not only the time, but they also remind us to exercise. Our phones recommend the best places to hang out, and our computers predict our preferences, helping us to do our daily work more efficiently. However, all of these digital assistants demonstrate only a tiny sliver of artificial intelligence, and it’s plain to see how we’re still ages away from Skynet and Blade Runner scenarios. Or are we? Since the beginning of the…

knowledge about computers and computer systems. I will also have to go to college for four years and major in some form of computer technology. The reason I want to be a IT technician is because I love to fix things and make things work that normally would not work. The role of an IT technician is to fix people’s computer problems, or to monitor computer systems and make sure everything is working correctly. This goal is not hard to reach if I learn all I need to know about computers and how…

So you have an old Dell PowerEdge 2900 Server laying around with a few hard drives and your thinking I would really like to use this equipment as a NAS drive. It could happen, in our case it did. There were some stumbling blocks on the way though. Here is how we got through them… The goals we wanted to accomplish were creating a RAID5 array of 8 (7+1 Hot Spare) 1TB hard drives and then wanted to connect this FreeNas volume through and iSCSI channel to a file server that will present the NAS…