William Gibson And The Internet
.... mappings of our present moment and its future trends during the
past decade. The present, in these mappings, is thus viewed from the persceptive
of a future that is visible from within the experiences and trends of the
current moment, from this perpscetive, cyberpunk can be read as a sort of social
theory.
Chapter 1
Internet history
The Internet is a network of computer networks, the most important of
which was called ARPANET(Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork), a wide area
experimental network .....
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Windows 95 The O/S Of The Future
.... of being a completely user friendly operating
system and it pretty much is as far as the average user is concerned. The
compatibility with most hardware makes it easy for someone to upgrade their
computer. The desktop is designed so the user has point and click access to all
their open and closed programs. Utilizing the 32 bit programing it was written
with, users are able to work with more than one program at a time and move
information between programs. This gives the user the freedom they .....
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Windows 95
.... on the application's button on the task bar and
the appropriate window will come to the fore. According to Aley, "the most
gratifying, and overdue, improvement is Windows 95's tolerance for file names in
plain English" (29-30). Traditionally, users had to think of file names that
summed up their work in eight letters or less. This was a constant problem
because frequently a user would look at a list of files to retrieve and think
"now what did I save that as?". Those days are over. Windows 95 will let .....
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Windows NT Vs Unix As An Operating System
.... single user version of MULTICS but Thompson actually got the
system to work and one of his colleagues jokingly called it UNICS (UNiplexed
Information and Computing Service). The name stuck but the spelling was later
changed to UNIX. Soon Thompson was joined on the project by Dennis Richie and
later by his entire department.
UNIX was moved from the now obsolete PDP-7 to the much more modern PDP-11/20 and
then later to the PDP-11/45 and PDP-11/70. These two latter computers had large
memories as well as mem .....
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Windows NT
.... that will take it to its
destination, but no two packets need to follow the same path. The Internet is
designed so that packets always take the best available route at the time they
are travelling. 'Routers' which are boxes of circuit boards and microchips,
which do the essential task of directing and redirecting packets along the
network. Much smaller boxes of circuit boards and microchips called 'modems'
do the task of interpreting between the phone lines and the computer. The
packets are all s .....
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Windows 95 Or NT
.... for the sole purpose as an alternative to Windows NT. But has
ended up in the work place more then the home. Windows 95 carries an average
price of ninety-five dollars in stores. Which makes it an expensive system
worth the money. On the other hand Windows NT 3.51 carries a price tag of
three-hundred and forty nine dollars. Making this software very expensive but
also worth every penny.
Windows 95 is much easier to use then Windows NT. It was designed to
make the PC user have more of an easi .....
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Windows 95 Beats Mac
.... on older PCs. Mac userw
will claim that they always had the convenicnce of a plug and play system, ubt
the difference shows in teh flexibility of the two systems.
Another set of arguments Mac users use in favor of their sysstems over PCs is in
multimedia and networking capabilities. Mac users gloat that the Mac has
networking technology built in the system. Even if a user did not use it, the
network is included with the system. They cited that for the PC users and Pc
users hate the fact that they need .....
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Wire Pirates
.... killed."
To understand how the Internet, on which so many base their hopes for education,
profit and international competitiveness, came to this pass, it can be
instructive to look at the security record of other parts of the international
communications infrastructure.
The first, biggest error that designers seem to repeat is adoption of the
"security through obscurity" strategy. Time and again, attempts to keep a system
safe by keeping its vulnerabilities secret have failed.
Consider, for example, th .....
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Hacking
.... They're all alike. And then it happened... a door opened to a
world... rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins,
an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is
sought... a board is found. "This is it... this is where I belong... "I know
everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never
hear from them again... I know you all... Damn kid. Tying up the phone line
again. They're all alike... you bet you ass we're all al .....
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Hacking
.... to
ensure that not only you stay out of trouble, but you pursue your craft without
damaging the computers you hack into or the companies who own them.
I. Do not intentionally damage *any* system. II. Do not alter any system
files other than ones needed to ensure your
escape from detection and your future access (Trojan Horses, Altering
Logs, and the like are all necessary to your survival for as long as
possible.) III. Do not leave your (or anyone else's) real name, real
hand .....
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Knowledge Is Power: How To Buy A Computer
.... more
computing power than others. In order to figure out how powerful a computer the
consumer needs, therefore, a person must first determine which programs he wants
to run. For many buyers, this creates a problem. They cannot buy a computer
until they know what they want to do with it, but they cannot really know all
of the uses there are for a computer until they own one. This problem is not as
tough as it seems, however. The consumer should go to his local computer store,
and look at the softwa .....
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The Internet
.... order to access the internet you require a good computer and a
powerful modem . If you have these it is much easier and faster to "Surf the
Net". I would recommend a 28.8 kbs modem manufactured by U.S Robotics.
The Internet can give you access to both legal & illegal sites on the
net. There is pirated software e.g. full version of games that you can access
without actually paying for them.
The internet can only be accessed with a browser. There are a few web
browsers but two main ones are Netscape Na .....
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Morality And Ethics And Computers
.... these questions all the more
important for today's society to answer.
There are also many moral and ethical problems dealing with the use of
computers in the medical field. In one particular case, a technician trusted
what he thought a computer was telling him, and administered a deadly dose of
radiation to a hospital patient.2 In cases like these, it is difficult to decide
who's fault it is. It could have been the computer programmer's fault, but
Goodman asks, "How much responsibility can you place o .....
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Software Piracy
.... know that they are unlikely to serve hard jail time when prisons are
overcrowded with people convicted of more serious crimes. The software industry
loses more than $15.2 billion annually worldwide due to software piracy.
Software piracy costs the industry:
$482 every second
$28,900 every minute
$1.7 million every hour
$41.6 million every day
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Software Piracy
.... 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 the recent Midwest Micro
holiday catalogue for example and notice the prices. Microsoft Windows 95: $94,
Micros .....
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