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- 1731: Gates World
- ... Bill using Microsoft much like a chess move for world-wide Gates time! But dont worry, Im sure Bill has some pretty exciting plans for us. Microsoft will probably offer the Gates Home Computer. Provided that you paid your monthly fees, Windows2050 will connect you to the Gates Network where you would be linked to anyone and everyone. Firms will buy and sell through the high speed Gates Network ... angry postal worker! Forget about writing checks for bills, with the Gates Network you can electronically transfer your funds directly from your own personal Gates Bank account to any account in the world. The Gates Computer will provide your home with digital clarity sound! And with the Gates Radio Network you can listen to any style of music any time! Forget all those annoying radio advertisements, youll get interesting and ... coming Microsoft products and services! The Gates Home Network can also control any type of electronic product in your home. Imagine your lights automatically turning on when you return home at night because your Gates Computer knows youre home! The Network also provides top-of-the-line household security. The Gates Patrol will be storming to your household in no time flat! Not only will you be surfing Bill ...
- 1732: Why Y2K?
- ... the year 2000. And even if some computers ARE compliant, what about those computers that they contact or link to Via the internet that are NOT compliant? They'd only be spewing in garbage the computer cant use, and can may even screw up compliant computers as well. I know what your thinking: "Its not going to happen, someone is going to make some "wonder program" that will fix all the ... of Code, that the programmers have to go into, find each mistake, correct it, then test it to make sure it dont crash. According to programmers, for every hour spent in finding and repairing the computer code, four hours are needed to test it. I havent even gotten to the part about modified dates (MM/DD/YY, YY/DD/MM, etc) *Lemme give you an example:The SSA started correcting their ... be a little paranoid to protect those I love? Rebuttals Y2K Problem: The Y2K problem is only really a problem for IBM computers, and software that uses only 2 digits to store the year. Other computer systems like Unix wont suffer fom this problem untill the year 2535 or there abouts. As for 'the world as we know it' coming to a halt, I think it most unlikley, the only ...
- 1733: The History of the Internet
- ... time the loose collection of networks which made up the ARPANET is seen as an "Internet", and the Internet as we know it today is born. The mid-80s marks a boom in the personal computer and super-minicomputer industries. The combination of inexpensive desktop machines and powerful, network-ready servers allows many companies to join the Internet for the first time. Corporations begin to use the Internet to communicate with ... dramatically demonstrated on Nov. 1, 1988 when a malicious program called the "Internet Worm" temporarily disables approximately 6,000 of the 60,000 Internet hosts ("Net Timeline."). These concerns lead to the formation of the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to address security. In the early 90's the ARPANET was decommissioned and forced to leave, leaving only the vast network of networks the Internet. The number ... at Internet shopping malls, and Internet related companies like Netscape are the darlings of high-tech investors. Users in almost 150 countries around the world are now connected to the Internet and the number of computer hosts approaches 10 million (Howe). The Age of the Internet has arrived. Traffic on the Internet expands at a 341,634% annual growth rate (Pedroni). Within 30 years, the Internet has grown from a ...
- 1734: Windows 95 or NT
- ... performance, stability and ease of use. The final results will give one a clear view to the superior operating system for years to come. As one already knows, that if you keep up with the computer industry, that Microsoft Windows has been around for a long time. The Majority of all PC users use some type of windows for their working environment. Microsoft has spent a great deal of time trying ... hardware and new hardware that could be added at a later date in time, Windows NT does not carry this very useful feature. If one has ever tried to install a new peripheral to ones computer it can be a headache alone trying to decipher the instruction manual that comes along with the device. Windows 95 will do this on its own, one of the downfalls to it is the fact ... to for a network, however Windows NT does a much better job of handling a network environment. Conclusion In the race for the best operating system Microsoft for sure is the leader in the Personal computer industry. Microsoft has proven that it can meet anyone's needs by releasing to different Operating systems. Each one of them having there own benefits, so when it comes down to deciding which level ...
- 1735: Telnet
- Telnet PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT Before gophers, hypertext, and sophisticated web browsers, telnet was the primary means by which computer users connected their machines with other computers around the world. Telnet is a plain ASCII terminal emulation protocol that is still used to access a variety of information sources, most notably libraries and local BBS ... HISTORY AND FUTURE OF TELNET "Telnet" is the accepted name of the Internet protocol and the command name on UNIX systems for a type of terminal emulation program which allows users to log into remote computer networks, whether the network being targeted for login is physically in the next room or halfway around the globe. A common program feature is the ability to emulate several diverse types of terminals-- ANSI, TTY ... ago, the "internet" more or less consisted of telnet, FTP (file transfer protocol), crude email programs, and news reading. Telnet made library catalogs, online services, bulletin boards, databases and other network services available to casual computer users, although not with the friendly graphic user interfaces one sees today. Each of the early internet functions could be invoked from the UNIX prompt, however, each of them used a different client program ...
- 1736: Technology Advances
- Technology Advances My report is on Computer Games and the advancements in technology. I am very intersted in this field because of the rapid change in out society that pretty much requires a person to own a computer. Whenever there is work, there must be pleasure; thus resulting in computer games. In the beginning there were games like "Pong", single pixel tennis. On each end of the screen there were two bars and the object was to hit a square pixel back and forth ...
- 1737: The Future of the Internet
- ... theirlivelyhood and that it should be stopped, but the Commission has made no move to stop it yet. Video Conferencing allows the same thing, except that, if you have a camera hooked up to your computer, you can see the other person while you talk. To make matters worse, you no longe have to own a computer to access the Internet. Now, devices such as Web TV allow your television to browse the Web and use Electronic Mail. Cellular phones are now also dialing up the Internet to provide E-mail and ... electronic devices, through the lines. (Reid, page 52.) Others besides the telephone companies are attempting to come up with solutions for the problem as well. Two companies that make modems, the device that allows a computer to connect to a phone line, (Fenton, page 43-44) television from satellites in space to your home. However, like cable modems, the information can only be sent one way. Faster ways of connecting ...
- 1738: Interactive Television
- Interactive Television Technology is now innovating new ways to view information. Technologies that once existed by themselves are now coming together as one. Television, communication, and computer industries are merging their technologies, and the result is interactive television. Large corporations are betting that if interactive television is offered to the public at a reasonable price, Americans will eat it up. However, interactive ... to overtake the American home. So what exactly is interactive television and what does it do? Interactive television is the ability literally to interact with the television set just like we do with a home computer on the Internet. With the advent of fiber optics and satellite communications, the communications industry will be able to transfer megabytes of information in fractions of a second. This will allow every American access to ... go to, your office, your home or your cabin? Click one address and you are done--the menus disappear and Seinfeld picks up where it left off. Just as you'll already have taught the computer about your credit cards and addresses, you will have had your body measured by a 3-D version of supermarket scanners, so the system will know your exact sizes. And it will send the ...
- 1739: Cognitive Artifacts & Windows 95
- ... Within Windows 95, Microsoft has included a little tool called the wizard that guides us through the steps involved in setting up certain applications. This wizard is a very helpful tool to the non experienced computer user, in the way that it acts like a to-do list. The wizard takes a complex task and breaks it into discrete pieces by asking questions and responding to those questions based on the ... of artifacts, we see that the system views the wizard as an enhancement. For example, we wanted to set up the Internet explorer, you click on the icon answer the wizard's questions and the computer performs the work. Making sure everything is setup properly without the errors that could occur in configuring the task yourself. The wizard performs all the functions on its little to-do list without having the ... the applications operation. With the icons a user can retrieve applications and their files by a click of a button. The icons lead the user directly into the application without showing all the commands the computer goes through to open the application. The icons make the user more efficient in accomplishing tasks because it cuts done on the time of trying to find an item when the user can relate ...
- 1740: CMIP vs. SNMP : Network Management
- ... pick up the phone and give that branch office a call, notifying them not only that they have a problem, but how to fix it as well. Early in the days of computers, a central computer (called a mainframe) was connected to a bunch of dumb terminals using a standard copper wire. Not much thought was put into how this was done because there was only one way to do it ... a complex connection of computers joined together using various types of interfaces and protocols. Figure 2 shows a modern day WAN. Last year, a survey of Fortune 500 companies showed that 15% of their total computer budget, 1.6 Million dollars, was spent on network management (Rose, 115). Because of this, much attention has focused on two families of network management protocols: The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), which comes from ... retrieve or update the information at the device. The information is viewed as a logical database, called a Management Information Base, or MIB. MIB modules describe MIB variables for a large variety of device types, computer hardware, and software components. The original MIB for Managing a TCP/IP internet (now called MIB-I) was defined in RFC 1066 in August of 1988. It was updated in RFC 1156 in May ...
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