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The Cuckoo's Egg: Cliff's Persistence
Number of Words: 1935 / Number of Pages: 8
... Cliff hooks up a
few computers to the line that comes from the Tymnet. Tymnet is a series of
fiber-optic cables that run from a major city to another major city. So if you
were in LA and wanted to hook up to a computer in the Big Apple you could call
long distance, have a lot of interference from other callers and have a slow
connection, or you could sign-up to Tymnet and dial locally, hop onthe optic
cable and cruise at a T-3 line. The lab had only five Tymnet lines so Cliff
could easily monitor every one with five computers, teletypes, and five printers.
That was the difficult part, where t ...
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Isdn For Small Business
Number of Words: 2271 / Number of Pages: 9
... INTENTION OF ISDN 2
USES OF ISDN 2
TYPES OF ISDN 3
INTERFACES 3
Usage of PRI 3
How BRI Works 4
USAGE CONFIGURATION 4
EQUIPMENT NEEDED 4
RATES AND CHARGES 6
EXPLANATION OF CHARGES 6
CONFIGURATION CONSIDERATIONS 6
USAGE CONSIDERATIONS 7
AVAILABILITY OF SERVICE 7
ALTERNATIVES 8
SUMMARY 9
WORKS CITED 10
List of Illustrations
Figure 1 PRI Usage…………………………………………………….3
Figure 2 BRI Channels…………………………………………………4
Table 1 Wisconsin ISDN Rates……………………………………….6
Introduction
Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) is a high speed phone connection that can be used for vo ...
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Hacking
Number of Words: 3551 / Number of Pages: 13
... 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
handle, or real
phone number on any system that you access illegally. They *can* and
will track you down from your handle! IV. Be careful who you share
information with. Feds are getting trickier.
Generally, if yo ...
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Computer Crime: A Increasing Problem
Number of Words: 2548 / Number of Pages: 10
... of dollars every day over inter-linking networks, and more than one
billion pieces of electronic mail are passed through the world's networks daily.
It is the age of the computer network, the largest of which is known as the
InterNet. A complex web of communications inter-linking millions of computers
together -- and this number is at least doubling every year. The computer was
originally designed as a scientific and mathematical tool, to aid in performing
intense and precise calculations. However, from the large, sixty square foot
ENIAC (Electronical Numerical Integrator and Calculator) of 1946, ...
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Computer Security
Number of Words: 2495 / Number of Pages: 10
... can cause as much
as harm as any physical hazard. For example, a cashier in a bank can
transfer some money from one of his customer's account to his own account.
Nonetheless, the most dangerous thief are not those who work with
computer every day, but youthful amateurs who experiment at night --- the
hackers.
The term "hacker "may have originated at M.I.T. as students'
jargon for classmates who labored nights in the computer lab. In the
beginning, hackers are not so dangerous at all. They just stole computer
time from the university. However, in the early 1980s, hackers became a
group of crimina ...
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Privacy And Anonymity And Information Network Technologies
Number of Words: 1692 / Number of Pages: 7
... age has been a period that has allowed rights to privacy
to beocme seriously jeopardized by new information technologies.
Richard A. Spinello, has defined two distinct phases to the systematic
erosion of information privacy. The first he calls the 'data base
phase'. The emergence of sophisticatd data base technology in the early
eighties made it possible to store and retrieve large amounts of
information efficiently and economically. During this time,
considerable amounts of personal data were transfered to computerized
records, which have been stored on record. Another ...
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Complete Car Stereo
Number of Words: 2401 / Number of Pages: 9
... This has stirred an enormous growth in the personal car stereo businesses(Kelly, 58).
Small shops along with big ones are popping up all over taking advantage of the publics new interest in car stereo. “Our biggest customers are the youth. They come in here, have what they want already picked out and then shell out 1000 to 2000 dollars without any questions,” stated Steve Frame, a local car stereo store manager(Frame,Interview). Along with the youth, adults are becoming more and more interested in quality sound. They have formed leagues and competitions to show off their stereos and cars.
To b ...
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Hacking
Number of Words: 996 / Number of Pages: 4
... 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 alike... we've been spoon-
fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak.. the bits of meat that you
did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by
sadists, or ignored by the apatheti ...
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Y2K: A Problem Or Not?
Number of Words: 773 / Number of Pages: 3
... try to solve this problem, but she wasn't aware that Herbio had Mother Nature as a secret weapon.
Herbio and Mother Nature went to look for Morpheus once they found out she was the one who created the problem. As soon as they caught up with her, using Mother Nature's mind skills, they tried to defeat her. Herbio had to leave Mother Nature with Morpheus to find the main computer to fix the problem. Mother Nature soon met up with Herbio.
"So did you defeat Morpheus?" asked Herbio.
"Yes, I defeated Morpheus and locked her up in the closet at the hotel nearby," said Mother Nature.
Herbio and ...
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America And The Computer Industry
Number of Words: 2602 / Number of Pages: 10
... first Ňdigital calculating machineÓ. It could only add numbers and they had to be entered by turning dials. It was designed to help PascalŐs father who was a tax collector (Soma, 32).
In the early 1800Ős, a mathematics professor named Charles Babbage designed an automatic calculation machine. It was steam powered and could store up to 1000 50-digit numbers. Built in to his machine were operations that included everything a modern general-purpose computer would need. It was programmed by-and stored data on-cards with holes punched in them, appropriately called ŇpunchcardsÓ. His inventions were failures ...
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