... separated into four groups of 8 bytes each, no more and no fewer. The Domain Name System is a method for equating hard to remember IP addresses with (relatively) easier to remember word groupings. There are two primary categories of domains: the country code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs), and the generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). Examples for domains are: • .com for commercial ... ) Telnet works on windows operations systems and UNIX. FTP is a fast way to deliver software and information from a computer to another and its used mostly by big companies such as Microsoft and IBM to provide ...

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... 2003). There are many different Web browsers available but the two most widely used are Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator (learnthenet, 2003). They are both available for download at their respected company's website. Microsoft Internet Explorer is a graphical type web browser which allows the user to access and experience ... commercial web browser called Netscape Navigator. Eventually there was another web browser created, Internet Explorer (itep, 2003). It was developed by the Microsoft Corporation and can be used on PCs that were running Windows 3.1 or better, or on M...

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... ever I send a picture to on the internet, then what do you think these professional hackers can do to your own home computer? Microsoft has been trying to prevent piracy of their programs for years, yet it is looked at to be a lost cause. Over the past years ... friends and I have found on the Internet many different web sites that people have established that have programs to download and use. Some of these programs are the operating systems that Microsoft has produced. Microsoft didn't think to make their programs copy-proof, they made them almost break-in-proof from the keyboard and ...

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... are amazed at how useful their computers are such that the invention of computers in the United States has been enormous. Computers allow students to learn various skills such as word processing, such that students and teachers could work more collaboratively. One of the reasons why computers have a tremendous impact in our lives because they are not just a piece of ... machines that only performing a single task. With the availability of computers, people could net surfing, download music, watch movies, do research, and more. In addition, computers are mainly used in education and comm...

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... repeaters are simple devices that interconnect group of users. Hubs forward any data packets they receive over one port from one workstation; including e-mail, word processing documents, spreadsheets, graphics or print requests; to all of their remaining ports. All users connected to a single hub or stack of connected ... and make your own Web Site. The basic tool for creating a Web site is Web authoring software, which can be as simple as a word processor with the ability to convert the final result to HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) for publishing on the Web. HTML is a cross-platform ...

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... in annual sales.   AOL, generated $1.2 billion in sales in only 10 weeks. The next big thing in e-commerce was Napster.   Napster allowed people to download music from the Internet for free.   Founder Shawn Fanning announced on August 13, 1999 that the number of people using his website had quintupled in a week. ... $2 trillion in value " the equivalent to Germany's entire economy. Worst hit was Nasdaq, the stock exchange favored by hi-tech companies such as Microsoft. Bill Gates saw his personal fortune drop $30 billion in a few hours and Amazon.com and other famous e-commerce compan...

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... digital form. It is quick and simple to make perfect copies of digital data, without altering the original. Digital theft made its first appearance in software in the 1970s when Microsoft Corp. found that people were making copies of its BASIC program without paying for it. Software piracy is still a problem. For digital information, the Internet eliminates the need to sell ... expires, or you can't print it. In the wake of Napster and the declining music CD sales, several publishers have launched online music distribution services. For a certain fee, you can download a certain number o...

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... without a computer, appreciates the convenience and efficiency of writing electronically opposed to by hand. He has become dependant on consulting Microsoft Word's thesaurus, as well as its spell check program. Pehme says: Personally, I have so long been entrenched in the use of word processors that I scarcely write by hand now, especially if I am attempting to compose anything longer than a letter. Writing ... a speed much more closely approximating that at which I think. By contrast, now when I write by hand I quickly lose focus and become fatigued. (Pehme, p1) Despite his dependence ...

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... and such. As Internet technologies improve, people started demanding more. They wanted to be able to enjoy video and music using their computer. People now prefer streaming videos than to download the whole content from the Internet for later viewing. However, with the current Internet traffic, streaming can be quite slow that it frustrates the web surfer. Currently, most network researchers ... with encoding and decoding video files. The result is known as a codec. Codec stands for compressor/decompressor, which is used for compressing and decompressing video data. The author uses the ...

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