Review and comparison among Dell's Latitude Z, Inspiron 11z and MacBook Pro

  Ask your friend or any teenager having some money in their pocket, which brand would they like to buy if they were to buy a  computer? I guess their answers would vary from person to person and yet it's predictable that most people's answer would either be Apple's MacBook or Dell's... »read more

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Google Latitude broadcasts your location from your mobile phone, letting your friends know where you are and keep in touch anywhere in the world..

   Google Latitude is a location-aware mobile app developed by Google. Latitude allows a mobile phone user to allow certain people on to track their location. Via their own iGoogle accounts, the user's cell phone location is mapped on Google Maps. The user can control the accuracy and... »read more

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Optical Fiber

An optical fiber (or fibre) is a glass or plastic fiber designed to guide light along its length by confining as much light as possible in a propagating form. In fibers with large core diameter, the confinement is based on total internal reflection. In smaller diameter core fibers, (widely used... »read more

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Knowing if a user has been there before is often required and therefore something known as cookies and sessions have been implemented in order to cope with that problem.

Introduction HTTP is a stateless protocol. This means that each request is handled independently of all the other requests and it means that a server or a script cannot remember if a user has been there before. However, knowing if a user has been there before is often required and therefore... »read more

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PLC

PLC, which stands for Powerline Communications, is a breakthrough communications technology for high-speed data, voice and media transfer over existing power lines. PLC provides home networking and broadband internet access using existing electric infrastructures without the need to install new... »read more

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Potential Impact of Computer Security

  A computer can be considered secure if it and its software can be depended upon. This does not mean that it is absolutely impenetrable to crackers, viruses and other forms of unauthorized entry. The only computer that is absolutely secure is unplugged and locked in a vault somewhere.... »read more

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Research Completion date: 19th March 2008

Introduction   Software Engineering is an engineering discipline that is concerned with all aspects of software production from early stages of system specification to maintaining the system after it has gone into use. Software engineering is not just concerned with the... »read more

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- A collection of software packages and tools used to develop expert systems

Can… Explain their reasoning or suggested decisions Display intelligent behavior Draw conclusions from complex relationships Provide portable knowledge   Expert system shell A collection of software packages and tools used to develop expert systems... »read more

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To what extent should one trust a statement that a program is free of Trojan horses? Perhaps it is more important to trust the people who wrote the software.

TURING AWARD LECTURE by KEN THOMPSON   INTRODUCTION I thank the ACM for this award. I can't help but feel that I am receiving this honor for timing and serendipity as much as technical merit. UNIX 1 swept into popularity with an industry-wide change from central mainframes to... »read more

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A short list of interesting development in Operating Systems

A brief time line of the operating systems throughout the history that caught my interest which are very study able; these systems, I thought to have some major impact on how the world is today. The information given here is collected from different websites. 1956: GM-NAA I/O 1959: SHARE... »read more

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