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Year 2000 Problem Millennium Bug
2,087 wordsThe year 2000 problem could have been completely prevented had some early people envisioned the degree to which the microprocessor would change our lives. Surely, no one would have thought that in the early days of ENIAC that everything from your alarm clock to your car would be computerized. Even the IT managers of the 80 's could not be blamed: The disk space savings from dropping the two digits of the date over 100 Million Records would represent almost 200 Megabytes! Space requirements aside...
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Anti Virus Software Host Cell
910 wordsIn Todays Society we are so Dependent on I. T that the Consequences of its Failure May be Catastrophic. Discuss the Threats and Causes of Failure, and Steps Taken to Minimise it. In todays world it is impossible to run a large organisation without the aid of computers. Businesses hold massive amounts of important data, hospitals hold large amounts of confidential patient information and large scientific research projects hold important codes, formulae, and equations. The bottom line is that loss...
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Caller Id Sound System
1,341 wordsThis file lists the main functional enhancements, additions, bug fixes, and known incompatibilities for the SM 56 PCI Modem. 3 Com Network Interface Card (NIC) Interrupt Sharing Problem After investigating a periodic (approx. once every 8 seconds) desktop freeze (no mouse response for a second or so) we found that the offending device was actually 3 Com's 3 C 905 B-TX NIC. This NIC/driver has an interrupt sharing problem. The problem shows up with any devices that share the interrupt with it, in...
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Year 2000 Problem Y 2 K
1,265 wordsArgument for the statement "The Year 2000 bug will have such extensive repercussions that families and individuals should begin planning now for the imminent chaos. " The Ticking Bomb Introduction A serious problem called the "Millennium Bug", and also known as the "Year 2000 Problem" and "Y 2 K", is bringing a new century celebration into a daunting nightmare. In the 1860 s and 1970 s, when computer systems were first built, the computer hardware, especially information storage space, was at a ...
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Crime Scene Santa Ana
1,096 wordsAfter Kait was shot, her car traveled 719 feet, crossed the median, and came to a rest on the sidewalk east of the intersection of Lomas Blvd. and Arno Street. The first officer on the scene (not in uniform -- just passing by) observed two vehicles parked on the sidewalk, Kait's red Ford Tempo and a VW Bug parked next to it. He also saw a man standing next to Kait's car. The officer drove past the vehicles while he radioed in to ask about an accident (none reported), then returned to the scene t...
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Y 2 K Face To Face
1,033 wordsComputers seem to control our lives. It is hard to live without a computer, and no matter how hard you try to remove yourself from computers, they always affect your life. Many people think it is good that computers make things simple. "The Jetsons" was a cartoon where computers controlled the world; their maid was a robot while a computer guided the family to do simple tasks, such as showering and styling hair. It seems that the Jetsons world would be an ideal world to live in, so looking at wh...
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Trojan Horses Operating System
2,148 wordsSecurity is the discipline of using effective protection measures to safeguard important assets from abuse. In other words, security is about protecting important things. Protection involves not just mechanisms (such as locks and doors), but also proper selection and use of mechanisms. Properly applied, the various disciplines of information security really come down to risk management that is not fundamentally different from risk management in other situations such as finance and insurance. In ...
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January 1 2000 Year 2000
1,710 wordsThe year 2000 is practically around the corner, promising a new era of greatness and wonder... as long as you don't own a computer or work with one. The year 2000 is bringing a Pandora's Box of gifts to the computer world, and the latch is slowly coming undone. The year 2000 bug is not really a "bug" or "virus, " but is more a computer industry mistake. Many of the PC's, mainframes, and software out there are not designed or programmed to compute a future year ending in double zeros. This is goi...
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Competition Among Processor Makers Amd And Intel
1,199 wordsIt is hard to imagine that there is any other processor than Intel. There is a processor called AMD (advanced micro devices) currently leading in the silicon race for the fastest processor at an affordable price. No longer shall Intel lead the market when AMD makes its name superior. A CPU is a microprocessor that is generally constructed with millions of tiny switches called transistors that are imbedded in silicon. The outer shell is ceramic with gold pins protruding out of the processor to ma...
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Forensic Science Unauthorized Access
1,421 wordsThe "Love Bug" Virus The virus dubbed the "love bug" started to rapidly spread throughout the world on May 4, 2000. According to David Ruppe (May 5, 2000) in an article on the ABCNEWS. com website, The virus came in the form of "ILOVEYOU" in the subject line, which seemed harmless and greets people in a friendly way. They have no idea that they are in for a big surprise as they opened their email. The message inside reads: "kindly check the attached LOVELETTER coming from me" (Ruppe, May 5, 2000...
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Nosocomial Infections L Interrogate Leptospirosis
731 wordsBug Report My bug was the Leptospira interrogate which causes Leptospirosis. Some of the common names of this bug are Weils Disease, Mud Fever, Fort Bragg fever, and Swamp Fever. This particular bug will manifest in the kidney and in the liver. It can in its most severe form cause kidney failure, heart failure, and shock. This bacteria, L. interrogate, multiplies inside of the organs, generally it is in the kidney, liver, CNS. L. interrogate is normally a zoonosis, and is found commonly in dogs,...
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Vicious Circle Copyright Law
865 wordsCanadas Copyright Law Canadas copyright law is one of our hardest laws to enforce. The reason the police have so much trouble enforcing this law, is due to technology. This law is very easy to break, and once broken, it is very hard to track down violators. So although some form of a copyright law is needed, the one we have has, too many holes to be effective. There are three main ways in which the copyright law is broken in everyday life. They is audio / video tape copying, plagiarism, and soft...
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Amd Athlon Pentium Iii
2,492 wordsIt is hard to imagine that there is any other processor than Intel. There is a processor called AMD (advanced micro devices) currently leading in the silicon race for the fastest processor at an affordable price. No longer shall Intel lead the market when AMD makes its name superior. A CPU is a microprocessor that is generally constructed with millions of tiny switches called transistors that are imbedded in silicon. The outer shell is ceramic with gold pins protruding out of the processor to ma...
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Computer Systems Year 2000
290 wordsLawyers circling over 2000 time bomb Summary In the year 2000 on January 1, there will be a shutdown of half the computers world wide. This is due to the much talked about year 2000 bug. The bug deals with a computers ability to read years as two digits such that 1997 reads 97 and 2000 reads 00. Unfortunately the 00 is understood as 1900. This means that any computer on Jan. 1, 2000 will either shut down or be damaged. It is this idea that leads to the judicial area of the problem. There faces c...
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People Who Suffer People In Society
577 wordsIn society today, Metamorphosis Normal? In society today, there are many stereotypes and prejudices against people who do not fit into the norms of society. Society tends to regard these people as outsiders and therefore alienate them from many common social activities. One of the most prominent examples of people who suffer from this alienation are those with the HIV virus, more commonly known as AIDS. AIDS victims suffer through many of the same difficulties and discriminations as the main cha...
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Operating System Information System
715 wordsThe Millenium Bug Millenium Bug The year 2000 is practically around the corner, promising a new era of greatness and wonder... as long as you don t own a computer or work with one. The year 2000 is bringing a Pandora s Box of gifts to the computer world, and the latch is slowly coming undone. The year 2000 bug is not really a bug or virus, but is more a computer industry mistake. Many of the PC s, mainframes, and software out there are not designed or programmed to compute a future year ending i...
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Ted Bundy Serial Killers
2,719 wordsMurder is the most vindictive crime society can commit. Society often wonders, what makes an individual want to commit such a crime. As individuals in society, the belief of being born a murderer is false. No one is born a murderer; society gives birth to that murderer. In Ted Bundy? s case the lack of parental guidance and constant rejection of women contributed to him evolving into a vicious serial killer. Bundy was a man who let his fantasies run his life, he believed that life was a game. Al...
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Quot Microsoft Microsoft Excel
3,601 wordsFiction, Fantasy, and Fact: " The Mad Scramble for the Elusive Silver Bullet... and the Clock Ticks Away. " Wayne Anderson November 7, 1996 The year 2000 is practically around the corner, promising a new era of greatness and wonder... as long as you dont own a computer or work with one. The year 2000 is bringing a Pandora's Box of gifts to the computer world, and the latch is slowly coming undone. The year 2000 bug is not really a " bug" or " virus, " but is more a ...
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Air Traffic Controllers Y 2 K
1,811 wordsEveryday people use computers in one way or another. From starting a car in the morning to listening to the stereo, computers are utilized everywhere. Our reliance on machinery is astounding. For example, social security numbers that were at one time used strictly for our retirement are now our sole identity. As computer use and reliance have overwhelmed society, a problematic computer aspect, now referred to as Y 2 K, was absentmindedly ignored. Becoming the global hype of today, Y 2 K is justi...
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Cruel And Unusual Punishment Boot Camp
3,199 wordsThe historians cant seem to settle whether to call this one The Third Space War (or the fourth), or whether The First Interstellar War fits it better. We just call it The Bug War. Everything up to then and still later were just incidents, patrols or police actions. However, you are just as dead if you buy the farm in an incident as you are if you buy it in a declared war. Welcome to the 22 nd century as depicted by Robert Heinlein in his book Starship Troopers. Around 1987, the Russo-Anglo-Ameri...
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