... it, may become an industry where computer crime and hacking is a thing of the past'. REFERENCES ABIX (Australasian Business Intelligence) 1999. Safety fears slow down e-commerce. http://www.sofcom.com.au/technews/archive/1999feb/16.15.html (16 Feb. 1999) AGPS Press (Australian Government Publishing Service Press). 1995. Computers for small business. Australian Government Publishing Service. 1995 ... it, may become an industry where computer crime and hacking is a thing of the past'. REFERENCES ABIX (Australasian Business Intelligence) 1999. Safety fears slow down e-commerce. http://www.s...

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... devices that function in several capacities: as a cell phone, fax sender and personal organizer, among other things. PDA's use a stylus, or pen, rather than a keyboard (www.darwinmag.com). The topics discussed in this paper include how this technology works, the business and technical problems PDA's are designed to solve and any possible limitations. In addition, how this technology ... appears on Palm's Connected Organizers, but also has been licensed to third-party handheld manufacturers such as Handspring. It all depends on the consumer's needs when shopping for a PDA (www.handheldco...

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... arthritis, previous injuries, and other conditions. Smoking may also increase the risk. Anyone with any of these conditions --- particularly obesity --- should be especially careful about prevention- (www.office-ergo.com/alternat.htm). It is not uncommon for people to have to leave computer-dependent careers as a result, or even to be permanently disabled and unable to perform tasks such ... research has determined that if these biomechanical conditions are present, the incidence of work-related injuries increases. These conditions are therefore known as risk factors for musculoskeletal ...

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... in technology and the design and performance of the Power4 only serves to reinforce there leadership status. Annotated Bibliography Anonymous, "IBM Power4 and Power4+ Processor Table,"" Geek.com: ChipGeek, http://www.geek.com/procspec/ibm/power4.htm. This website displays a table that compares the old power4 processor to the newer modified power4 processor. The new chips are dubbed the power4+ processor ... components provide concurrent and deferred maintenance, multilevel recovery from error, and runtime diagnostics."" C. King, "IBM POWER4 wins best microprocessor award,"" Press Release...

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... founding the Microsoft Corporation. His software and new ideas have transformed personal computing throughout the world. His idea of "a computer in every household and business" has come true (http://www.microsoft. com/billgates/bio.asp). Bill Gates has used his excellent education and love of computers to make himself a rich and powerful entrepreneur. William Henry Gates III was born on October 28th ... friend Paul Allen, quickly used up this computer time, spending hours at a time in the lab. The students formed the Lakeside Programmers Group and quickly outsmarted their teacher (http...

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... gamers is at gatherings known as Local Area Network meetings (LANs for short). An organization, which holds very large LANs of up to 300 players at one venue, is AusGamers (www.ausgamers.com). These LANs are held nationally and include Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Hobart and various smaller cities around the country. Sponsorship usually entails giving away prizes for the competitions held ... will be expanded as development of the site provides more relevant keywords. Affiliation will be sought with the previously mentioned AusGamers organization to cross-promote the site on t...

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... they could have a good laugh at people. In a few words they were not "exactly what we call today "hackers", but instead practical jokers" (Michelle Slatalla, 2001). A switchboard Source: http://www.powercom.com/ If someone wants to discover when the first hacking attacks against computers started then it is more logical to think back when then first computer was introduced. As an article ... famous glossary terms are: a. "Back door in the security of a system, a hole deliberately left in place by designers or maintainers, and was intended for use by service technicians." (http://www.dis...

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... htm 2. Howard Lovy's NanoBot (2003). Nano goes back to school for Ethics 101 http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2003_08_24_nanobot_archive.html#106190202923248397 3. Foresight institute (2002). Nanomedicine http://www.foresight.org/Nanomedicine/ 4. Institute for Molecular Manufacturing (2003). http://www.imm.org/ 5. Nanodot.org (2003). The Nano-Brain Barrier http://nanodot.org/article.pl'sid=03 ... of Quantum Computing http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_quantum_computing 9. ABC News (2003). Light Speed http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/cuttingedge010302.html 10. Reuters (2...

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... to identify them. I wanted to be sure that what I thought were my strengths and weakness, were realistic of what society saw as a strength or weakness. I found a website (www.sbishere.com), which gave an excellent approach on how to identify your strengths, as well as your weaknesses. So I began my journey. Strengths I started by identifying my strengths using the following criteria ... I took a positive approach to identifying my weaknesses. Dr. A.J. Schuler said, "A Negative Attitude will sabotage any success you may seek" (www.schulersolutions.com) The definition I found for weaknesses...

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... becomes so great that they stop using them. Works Cited 1. http://www.ibew.org/stories/02journal/0212/p12.htm 2. http://www.hackershomepage.com/index.html 3. Apprehending the Computer Hacker, http://www.shk-dplc.com/cfo/articles/hack.htm 4. Computer Hacker, http://computerhacker.newstrove.com/ 5. CYBER-TERRORISM THE POLITICAL EVOLUTION OF THE COMPUTER HACKER http://www.businessit.bf.rmit.edu.au/aice/events/AICEC99/papers1/WAR99024.pdf 6. http ... ://virusall.com/worms.html 7. Steven Levy's Hackers Page, http://www.echonyc.com/~steven/hackers.html 8. http://www.catb.org/~esr ... ...

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... reader. The page did not have a "date stamp", but its reliability was good enough and it was hosted from a education page. 2: http://www.howstuffworks.com/cell-phone.htm This page hosted by the how stuff works team is mostly like its other pages. It's chockfull of info relating to mobiles, ... they use and a good history. Nice clean website, good for really techy stuff but unfortunately slightly dated. Written by John Scourias 4:http://www.mysiemens.com/MySiemens/CDA/Index/0,2730,HQ_en_0_product%253AMW%252FHD%252FHD%252FSL45%252Fdesc,FF.html The siemens website provided the latest informa...

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... ADigital use of movies sparks free speech fight in lawsuit@ 7Aug 2000 http://www.post﷓gazette.com/headlines/20000807dvdsuit1.asp KopyKatz http://www.kopykatz.com 13 Nov 2000 Napster. http://www.napster.com/win/download/ 13 Nov 2000 ANapster may be the King of Sales Spin@ 9 Nov 2000 http://www.post﷓gazette.com/interact/20001109radin.asp Oz, Effy. Management Information System. Cambridge, MA : Course 2000 AVideo ... on demand: Any DVD movie can be copied, sent online@ 6 Aug 2000http://www.post﷓gazette.com/businessnews/20000806interact7.asp ... ...

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... of an internet connection prior to your purchase). Start your favorite Web browser, enter a URL in the locator; that is: www.Company.com, (replacing the word "Company" with the name of a company). For instance, www.compaq.com (Compaq), www.ibm.com (IBM), www.gw2k.com (Gateway 2000), or www.dell.com (Dell). Usually these hardware/software/component(s) manufacturers, will have a complete listing of their line of products, the system specifications ... ...

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... best deal on the market. Lindows History Lindows was started by Michael Robertson, the founder and former Chief Executive Officer of MP3.com. He now is the current Chief Executive Officer and founder of Lindows. Kevin Carmony has served as the Lindows president and Chief ... has no stock symbol nor does it appear in any markets currently. Interested investors can fill out a contact mailing list at www.lindows.com to be notified if Lindows goes public or if any other investment opportunities in the company become available. Lindows Trademark Lawsuit Lindows was ... History Wall-Mart ope...

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... network that was damage-proof, therefore being an effective communication method for military use in the event of a nuclear war (Leiner, Barry. http://www.isoc.org ). As ARPANET grew in the 1970s, with more and more universities and institutions connecting to it, users found it necessary to ... Bob Kahn and Vinton Cerf, two Internet creators, developed the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP) (Kristula, Dave. http://www.davesite.com ). During the 1970s various government, scientific, and academic groups developed their own networks. "In 1990, the ARPANET was...

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... very good website is hosted by the Gibson Research Corporation and has several helpful feature like "Shields Up", the address for this site is www.grc.com. Another popular site with many useful utilities would be www.dslreports.com. If these sites show you some holes in your security they will recommend several actions. One of the easiest and most effective would be to ... computer and can be either automatically configured of manually. Hardware involves connecting your computer into another device. Two of the more popular software firewalls are Zone Alarm (www.zonelabs.com) and Norton ...

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... for people wanting work at home or people already working at home (see appendix). Appendix Here are some websites about home-working for helping people to work at home. http://www.working-from-home.biz/index.asp?p=login http://www.workathome.com/ http://www.homebusinessmag.com/ http://www.gohome.com/ http://www.homebusiness.co.nz/index.php3 ...

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... .thinkquest.org/2705/applications.html'tqskip=1 http://library.thinkquest.org/2705/Approaches.html http://library.thinkquest.org/2705/history.html'tqskip=1 http://molmed.ummed.edu/`dal/mytexts/aipaper.html http://www.cs.berkely.edu/`russell/intro.html http://www.pcai.com/pcai/ Encarta science technology channel.com encyclopedia.com Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Vers. 7.0. http://www.pathfinder.com/time/ai/particle12/12particle1.html ...

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... of ZoneAlarm). 3. Answer all the usual questions. 4. Re-boot computer 5. Configure download --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 ZoneAlarm Firewall Installation Cited Works 1. Goncalves, Marcus. "Firewalls: A Complete Guide", McGraw Hill, 2000: pages 253, 2. BlackICE Defender. http://www.black-ice-firewall.com/ 3. ZoneAlarm vs. BlackICE Defender. http://cws.internet.com/reviews/lannet-zonealarm5.html 4. Four Personal Firewalls Reviewed. http://www.computerworld.com 5. ZoneAlarm Firewall Installation. http:...

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... a network can't even protect it's own files. The underground net is where many people are able to get software to help crack passwords and tap into all sorts of files. (www.computerworld.com) From the Pentagon: Democratic and Republicans; Israelites and the Palestinians; as well as emails and personal websites, satellites, or lockers; hackers are using their special skills to terrorize and ... a loophole and get in. Not only can they find the loophole but also they can also totally crash the unit if they want to as many consumers have reported. (www.sonicwall.com) Another prevention met...

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... Your PC: When to do it, Why you should & What to replace." PCNovice/Smart Computing Guide to Upgrading 7.10 (1999): 4-8. Bakke, Eric. "Build your own PC." Granite 6 Jul. 1999. http://www.stdout.org (14 Nov. 1999). Denton, Chad. "How to Install...Diskette Drives." PCNovice/Smart Computing Guide to Upgrading 7.10 (1999): 52-55. Dodd, Jeff. "What's on Your PC: Do Your ... -42. Kent, Dean. "How to Install...Motherboards." PCNovice/Smart Computing Guide to Upgrading 7.10 (1999): 86-92. Kleppinger, Joel and Scott Wainner. "How to Build Your PC." SysOpt.com. 5 Feb 1999. http://www.sysopt.com/bu...

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... schools but also shopping, working, research and even playing games on line. There are many sites designed to protect your children from pornography and predators on line. www.protectkids.com & http://www.enough.org/ offer many great tips and hints on how to keep your child sake on line. They explain how to teach your child to safely use the ... computers worth millions of dollars. But there are also many sites to report this kind of activity. The federal bureau of investigation has a site to report terrorist activity. www.ifccfbi.gov. These kinds of sites help people to let the FBI know ...

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... future. I feel that in the future the hardware is going to change and possibly become smaller and faster. PC's may become smaller and I"m sure mainframes will become smaller. Reference: http://www.kmsitltd.co.uk/pcvsmf.html http://www.mainframes.com/whatis.htm http://www.thocp.net/hardware/mainframe.htm ... ...

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... through their overpricing/shoddy products." This forced the worlds leading computer manufacturer (Compaq) to start making their systems with the AMD processor. In 1994, Intel Pentium had a FPU bug. www.computerhope.com/help/cpu.htm says "This bug evolved the Pentium incorrectly performing floating-point calculations with certain number combinations, with errors anywhere from the third digit on up. This issue can ... , There is also a security scare. Intel's Pentium III processor put individual number tags on each chip that could search the programs on a system when a person goes online. ...

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... Workbench, Oracle Designer/2000, Rational Rose, and the Logic Works suite. In my research, I found a site which lists hundreds of them. The "CASE tool index" can be found at http://www.cs.queensu.ca/Software-Engineering/tools.html. The main reason CASE tools were developed was to increase the speed at which systems could be developed. They allow analysts to spend ... with the advent of personal computers, and the development of 'Upper-CASE' tools to help automate the upstream activities of systems analysis and design." (original source unknown. Taken from http://www.khoral.com/staff/ste...

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