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Should This Business Update To Windows 2000 From Windows 98
Number of Words: 455 / Number of Pages: 2
... it when you can devote time to the changeover. If you have multiple machines, make the change in stages running the old operating system during the transition.
First of all, the first thing is to determine that Windows 2000 is compatible with your machines. According to Windows 2000ˇ¦s description, ˇ§you need, at minimum, a PC with a 133-MHz Pentium-compatible CPU, 64 megabytes of RAM and one gigabyte of disk space. It is better with a faster CPU (300 MHz or better) and several gigabytes of disk space. A bit more memory would be nice too.ˇ¨ Therefore, some small businesses would like to upgrade W ...
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Propaganda In The Online Free Speech Campaign
Number of Words: 5040 / Number of Pages: 19
... first amendment, and other groups favor the lowering of laws
involving the use of encrypted data on computers. All of these groups, however,
speak out for free speech on the Internet, and all of these groups have utilized
the Internet to spread propaganda to further this common cause of online free
speech and opposition to the CDA.
Context in which the propaganda occurs
Five years ago, most people had never heard of the Internet, but today the
Internet is a term familiar to most people even if they are not exactly sure
about what the Internet is. Along with the concept of the Internet, it i ...
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The Motor And How It Works
Number of Words: 346 / Number of Pages: 2
... current through 2 and 3 are reversed every time the motor spins half way around. The metal pieces touch the solenoids in just the right places to give solenoids 2 and 3 a magnetic field that attracts 1 and repels 4 and visa versa.
The end result is that as 2 or 3 approaches 1 or 4, it is given a magnetic field that is opposite to that of 1 or 4. Therefore, the two are attracted to each other. As the moving solenoids line up with the other solenoids, the metal things on top of 5 reverse the current. That means that 1 and 4 now repel the rotating solenoids. That causes the middle solenoids to spin ...
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The Anti-Trust Case Against Microsoft
Number of Words: 2404 / Number of Pages: 9
... Trade Commission decided to hand the case over to the Department
of Justice. The Department of Justice moved quickly, with Anne K. Bingaman, head
of the Antitrust Division of the DOJ, leading the way.(Check 1) The case was
finally ended on July 15, 1994, with Microsoft signing a consent
settlement.(Check 1)
The settlement focused on Microsoft's selling practices with computer
manufacturers. Up until now, Microsoft would sell MS-DOS and Microsoft's other
operating systems to original equipment manufacturers (OEM's) at a 60% discount
if that OEM agreed to pay a royalty to Microsoft for every single ...
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Auditing Computer Security
Number of Words: 1201 / Number of Pages: 5
... performed on the individual computer.
You will first plan the policy, then implement it, and finally view the results.
You can set up on audit policy for a domain to: track the success and failure of events, such as when users attempt to log on, read a file, make changes to user and group permissions, change the security policy, and make a network connection. Eliminate or minimize the risk of unauthorized use of resources. Track trends over time by maintaining an archive of security logs. Tracking these trends is useful in determining the use of printers or files.
Audits and volumes.
Audi ...
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Technology
Number of Words: 799 / Number of Pages: 3
... Depression during the 1920's.
Technology has so wondrously and destructively marveled the human
mind and body throughout the centuries. From out of the dark depths of the
mind have sprung explosive ideas, producing inventions that have
transformed minute villages into gigantic civilizations; stimulating
population increases throughout the world. Simple tasks such as the
automatic traffic signal, and railway air brakes (the first safe method of
stopping trains) have advanced growing cities tremendously. As the
technology increased, so did the business.
Western civilization was the heart o ...
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Computers: Productive Tools In Our Lives
Number of Words: 795 / Number of Pages: 3
... you
need some sort of software. Software is a set of instructions to the C.P.U. from
a source such as a floppy disk, a hard drive or a CD - ROM drive, in zillions of
1's and 0's. Each of these tiny little instructions makes up a bit. Then they
assemble to form a byte. Bytes make up a program, which you run to use the
computer's various applications.
Now that you know more about computers than Einstein did, let me tell
you something more about them, so that you will beat the President in the field
of computing. In your computer, you require a good amount of RAM, which is there
to randomly acc ...
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Censor The Internet?
Number of Words: 1620 / Number of Pages: 6
... in democratic constitutions and international laws (Silencing the Net…). It would be a breach of the First Amendment. The Constitution of the united States of America Declares that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to asse3mble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances" (Constitution). Therefore it would be unconstitutional for any sort of censorship to occur on the Internet.
Even though it is illegal, restriction ...
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AirBags
Number of Words: 855 / Number of Pages: 4
... column or in the airbag assembly itself. An accelerometer is more sophisticated than the ball-in-tube crash sensor, and will likely see more widespread use in future models. Nearly all airbag designs are engineered to inflate when the sensors register a crash equivalent to hitting a solid barrier at 10-12 miles per hour. When a car is involved in an accident, and it loses velocity, and the impact is hard and fast enough, it triggers the airbag’s sensors. When the sensors detect that a high-impacted front-end collision has occurred it sends an electric current to a wire. This wire heats up, send ...
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5 Modes Of Transportation
Number of Words: 1431 / Number of Pages: 6
... include freight trains and passenger trains. Freight trains are
used to transport goods and materials between cities while passenger trains are
used to transport people. Although freight trains are still used all across the
nation, rail intercity freight has accounted for a decreasing share of the total
ton mileage over the past 30 years. This is mostly due to the increase in truck
transport. Rail passenger traffic had also declined over the years until better
service was offered by Amtrak and the price of fuel increased. Much of the
decline in rail passenger traffic has been due to th ...
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