... -up- batches of cross-linked HTML documents. There was only one web server at CERN but by the end of 1992 there were over 50 web servers in the world. Most of these web servers were located at universities or other research centers and they were using line-mode interfaces. By June of 1999 there were more than 720,000 public information ... servers and in April of 2001 there were more than 24 million servers across the world. In 1993 Marc Andreessen, an undergraduate student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was working on a project for the National ... ...

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... the college network has to have a wireless card, usually in the PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) slot. At the moment the hierarchical structure of the school involves five servers, each handling a different aspect of the network from mail to file storage. Recently the school purchased a SAN (Storage Area Network) increasing the storage capacity of the school to just over ... 1.5 terabytes. Connected to the servers are switches, which transfer the information to the appropriate wireless connection points. The wireless connection points distribute the signa...

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... an invaluable tool for military leaders and their war-fighting efforts. A Local Area Network (LAN) is a conglomerate of interconnected computers and or workstations sharing the resources of a single or many servers within a relatively small geographical location. Within the military LANs can be found in offices, whole buildings, ships and field units. They can even be dispersed throughout several buildings or through ... information can be sent. They are also designed for different purposes. One type of card can be used by a client workstation solely to connect that computer to a networ...

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... well as the lower priced computers. The Intel Pentium II has now branched its logo into several markets. These markets include: set-top boxes, information appliances, notebook computers, workstations, and servers. The Intel Pentium II is on the rise as it is incorporated into new products and new markets. The Intel brand is a valuable logo that helps customers recognize that a high ... a high quality product and can now be purchased at a cheaper price. Intel is entering new markets that include: set-top boxes, information appliances, lower priced PCs, notebook computers, workstations, a...

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... aren't willing to wait very long for pages to load so simplifying pages can make the web a lot faster. Another way to make things faster is to make sure that servers can handle the load applied to them. Internet providers want to make money just like all other businesses so they try fitting as many customers on to one server as ... can. Putting less people on each server would create faster service. Also popular businesses or sites should have big enough capacities to handle the amount of people that visit. Slow servers will lose a lot of business. Internet providers and businesses shou...

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Apple, the computer of "yesterday?" Steve Wozniak and Steve Job, two good friends from high school started a revolution that will never end. They invented the first Apple computer (1976, www.apple-history.com) the basis for all personal computers to come, the Apple I. It ran on one megahertz...

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... of the largest and most common disadvantages are server failure and initial start up cost. When the server fails, the whole system is considered useless until the server is fixed. Servers can also be very expensive, ranging from $5000.00 to $150,000.00. Also, in order to cut down on server failure, special-purpose server software, hardware and expert staff ... ...

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... sales, installation, and support - no other major PC vendor offers the local presence and personalized approach that Gateway does. Dell sells a range of personal computers, laptop computers, enterprise and workgroup servers, storage solutions and graphics workstations direct to business, education, the government and consumers, bypassing the traditional distribution channel. Dell is expanding services such as its Web site (which processes half ... ...

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... SonicWALL Vulnerability Scanning Service. This will provide 1 scan a month for 8 years on all computers on the network that have I.P. addresses. It provides a hacker's eye view of a network perimeter, including public servers, routers and gateways, and remote ends of VPN connections. Using a Web-based interface, this service generates detailed reports of security weaknesses and provides administrators with in-depth guidance on how ... ...

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