Oxeo Web Hosting provides a broad range of customizable solutions from basic web and eCommerce hosting to complex arrays of managed servers. ... Static Content Hosting - Basic shared hosting for sites concentrating on serving pictures and/or movies. Virtual Hosting - Shared hosting, with scripting capabilities. Managed Hosting - Mission critical hosting, for clients which require their own server. ... Through a strategic partnership with Dell Computer Corporation we are able to offer Dell PowerEdge servers at prices below what many hosting companies charge for generic servers. ...

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This prevalence of computers in homes and at work, have produced an increasing need for protection of the threats to computer systems and their data from harm, theft, and unauthorized use. ... "A virus is a piece of program code that, like a biological virus, makes copies of itself and spreads by attaching itself to a host, often damaging the host in the process. The host is another computer program, often a computer operating system, which then infects the applications that are transferred to other computers. A computer worm is a self-replicating computer program, similar to a computer virus...

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The Computer Underground: A Modern Threat to Computer Security The meaning of the word "computer" appeared in the dictionary long before many knew what a computer was. ... Computers are gaining more and more popularity. ... A computer hacker could be defined as an individual, associated with the computer underground, who specializes in obtaining unauthorized access to computer systems. ... For the average computer user, the most feared of the computer underground is that of the computer virus creator. ... It can also be used to facilitate system penetration by being attached to or imbedd...

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Computer Viruses and Known Disinfectants Computer viruses in the world of computing today are a well known threat. ... A virus searches for and attaches itself to a host program. ... They have the potential to infect any computer system. ... Although it is not technically a virus, as it does not require a host. ... By 1995 hundreds of viruses were in circulation spreading from computer to computer over the internet. ...

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In this system, if someone wants computer A to communicate with computer B, there must be a wire or circuit between the two computers. ... Computer A could communicate with any computer in the network. Computer B could also communicate with any of the other computers. ... Since computer time sharing experiments at MIT and at Dartmouth had demonstrated that it was possible to link different computer users to a single computer, the cross country experiment built on this advance." (Cerf, 1993) Working with Thomas Merrill, Roberts linked the TX-2 computer at MIT and the Q-32 comput...

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The bonds between military and computers started getting stronger. ... The idea was to come up with other jobs within the computer other than using the computers as calculators. ... (pg 83) At that time Lick, advised the government to get a contract from his company using new computers, Ken Olsen, who owns a computer company was trying to advertise his new computers called PDP-1 to BBN. ... By this time BBN had started to focus on computer technology. ... For months, Heart's team and Roberts had been discussing the possibility of connecting many new users to the net without going through ...

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Modern society relies heavily on technology, from the computer-guided systems in control towers at airports, to mobile telephones. ... For buyers looking specifically for computer software' Epinions.com (Fig 1.1) at first glance does not make computer software visually apparent. ... Epinions.com does however host a search' tool bar for quick site browsing. Cnet.com (Fig 1.2) on the other hand at first glance solely focuses on computer software and hardware. ... An in-depth exploration of Cnet.com reveals a range of computer/IT related topics. ...

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The invention of the telegraph, telephone, radio and computer formed the base of series of innovations that has enabled communication and transmission of data between computers at different locations. ... It was comprised of 4 host computers. ... In the early 1980s, when the Internet started its operation properly, there were more computer hosts linked to the net than had originally been envisaged and the volume of traffic per host was much larger. ... This made the name of host computers easier to remember. ... By 1989 the number of hosts surpassed 100,000 for the first time and had climbed ...

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The Internet is a worldwide computer network of home, organizational, corporate, and government computers. It is necessary to understand that the Internet is not just composed of web pages, but of files, e-mails, newsgroups, internal computer networks, personal computers, etc.; the media that most often provide the deemed controversial content are explained here. Electronic mail (E-mail) "enables computer users to communicate with and transmit digital material to other groups of users" ("Internet"). ... A specific case deals with a French model, Estelle Hallyday, who won a copyright-infringe...

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By the end of the 1960's, four college campuses" had put the program into place, sharing data between their computers. ... By 1983 all computers connected to ARPA had to begin using a new protocol for sending and receiving data. ... In 1988 a worm or a set of malicious computer instructions which act to replicate and disable other computers, made its way thru out the Internet. The worm took 10% of the roughly 60,000 Internet hosts off line (Abatte, 2000). ... Many companies are creating policies banning the use of company computers for personal use during time on the clock. ...

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When I was 12 I was really interested in the Internet and extremely interested by large mainframe type computers, I don't really know why but the immense power of these huge computers intrigued me. I would always visit sites about "legacy" hardware (very old sometimes ancient computer systems). ... We got to know each other and after a while he decided he wanted to try and run a web server (a computer on the Internet that hosts websites). ... The computer was a state-of-the art system with an extremely fast Internet connection. ... The name of the company is "slaque computer services". ...

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When I was 12 I was really interested in the Internet and extremely interested by large mainframe type computers, I don't really know why but the immense power of these huge computers intrigued me. I would always visit sites about "legacy" hardware (very old sometimes ancient computer systems). ... We got to know each other and after a while he decided he wanted to try and run a web server (a computer on the Internet that hosts websites). ... The computer was a state-of-the art system with an extremely fast Internet connection. ... The name of the company is "slaque computer services". ...

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Information and the Internet Without standards, there would not be a way for two computers to communicate with one another. ... The internet layer uses directs packets from a source host to the destination host using a different router(s). A route is what is used to describe when a specific message travels between two hosts at the internet layer. ... The data link layer uses switches to govern the movement of messages between a source PC to the computer in which the message is sent to. ... At the internet layer (layer 3) a router is used to transport packets between host computers. ...

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Your computer connects via modem to the ISP, which in turn is connected to the Internet with a high-speed link. ... When that person connects to their ISP and run their e-mail program, the message is downloaded to a mailbox on their computer. ... It is temporarily stored in an outgoing mailbox on a computer known as an SMTP server. ... If a person were to start a small business today, they would probably begin by contacting three or four common ASPs, like a Web hosting company Companies like Verio and Web hosting provide a common ASP scenario, virtual web hosting. ... Another would be an email...

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There are three types of computer infestations. ... The only way to infect a computer with a boot sector virus is to attempt to start a computer from an infected floppy disk. ... A Trojan horse is a third type of computer infestation that, like a worm, does not need a host program to work. ... There are some key elements to watch for to suspect whether or not there is a computer infestation on the computer. ... Keep these symptoms in mind and always guard your computer with complete and updated anti-virus software. ...

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Many ISP's also offer services such as web site building and virtual hosting. ... Your computer connects via modem over a regular old phone line to the ISP's computer, which in turn connects to the Internet backbone with a high-speed link and then routes data between your computer and the Internet backbone. ... I also found out that hosting accounted for almost 30 percent of all business revenues for ISPs. ... Companies such as Verio provide a common ASP scenario, virtual web hosting. These companies provide hardware, software, bandwidth and people to host Web sites for companies...

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With the introduction of the computer into the modern classroom students are getting to see entirely new aspects of their chosen degrees. ... As I progress onward and upward through the program and get into more and more modern day topics I expect to see more and more interaction with computer-based technology. Computers are now heavily used in design labs and simulation environments to defer the costs of actually producing an end result. In the design lab we can build from scratch a complete computer-generated model of our object, which we can transfer directly ...

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Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) has become an ever expanding. CALL was created to help people learn different languages with the use of computers. ... We can also have access to the internet in more ways than just with computers. The year is 2014 and we have computers, laptops, smart phones, and tablets. ... We have facebook, twitter, tumblr, Instagram, YouTube and a host of other networks that support forums and communication with other people. ...

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DNS allows us to refer to computers by host names as well as by Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. ... DNS allows us to use host names and domain names, which can represent IP addresses. ... A domain name is a computer name suffix shared by a group of computers in the same organization. ... ARP uses only local broadcasts to a hosts or a gateway. ... If an ARP request is initiated from the host to a destination host on a remote network, the ARP request is sent to a router or gateway. ...

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Researchers at four United States campuses created the first hosts of the ARPANET in 1969 connecting Stanford Research Institute, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, and University of Utah. ... In 1971, the ARPANET grew to 23 hosts connecting universities and government research centers around the country. ... On November 1, 1988, a malicious program called the "Internet Worm" temporarily disabled many Internet host. ... The number of computer host approached 10 million at that time. ... The beginning of the address tells the Internet routers what network you are part of and the right end of the addres...

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Just before the train crashes, slams into and most likely kills a car full of helpless people, the computer freezes and won't load. ... Wondering if at that exact moment you're sitting there staring at your loading computer screen, if there is a car smashed in by a multi-ton pile of metal. ... "Having destroyed it's host, the host agent is now coming out of every orifice, and is 'trying to find a new host.'" (24, Preston) this piece of the chapter "Jumper" shows how incredibly contagious this disease is. ... Why would we want to allow someone with this contagious of a ...

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This perceived technical superiority of the Soviets was the trigger that prompted the American government to research new uses for computer systems. ... Each of the IMPs were made from a Honeywell DDP-516 mini computer with 12KB of memory, and AT&T was to provide a 50kbps line for the connections between each IMP. ... By 1970 ARPANET hosts started using the first host-to-host protocol, called Network Control Protocol (NCP), and the first cross-country link was established by AT&T between UCLA and BBN at 56kbps. ... Since IMPs were limited to 4 host connections each, BBN developed a termin...

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How does one get two computers to interact with each other? ... Rules are needed so that the computers know how to communicate. ... Any computer on the same segment of a NetBEUI network can access that network if the NetBEUI protocol is loaded on that computer. ... The server or host computer running FTP accepts commands from the client. ... ARP creates a database that maps the host's IP address to its MAC address. ...

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Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI) is a teaching process in which students gain mastery over a specific set of skills by executing training programs on a computer. ... Host is a network computer that receives data from other computers. ... Network is multiple computer systems linked together. ... With computers come technical problems. ... Financial Aid and student loans cover expenses for computers. ...

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