A "server" means/refers to a distributing or transhipment centre which has the specific function in the communication system. ... Moreover, they can set an official file server so that the staff and manager can use this server administering the files, the application program, the data, and the security system. ... A server is a computer often a high-capacity PC or workstation with a large hard disk. Here, server is a central computer dedicated to controlling access to resources in the LAN, so each node becomes a client of the server. ... This server computer not only controls other computers, ...

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Replace the BBS with a server the modem with an ISP to give you access and the phone with your cable or DSL and you have a modern day BBS or internet. The main difference's being instead of just one person a server can have hundered or thounsands of people accessing it all at once, we can also access the information much faster than any modem ever could and instead of having 10 BBS's all seperate that you would have to call up and connect to individually all of the servers are linked together so you can just jump from one to the other. ... The ability to be sitting at your desk typin...

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People can create a desktop or tower into a server that goes through the server and networking systems to the multiple computers. ... People cannot, however, have a Laptop act as a server like a Personal computer can. ...

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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). ... He then proceeded to bomb [bombing sends to much information to a computer and makes it crash] our server, which made our server bomb "fbi.gov" needless to say; this caused a lot of confusion that I won't get into. ... After about six months, the server's software needed to be re-written again, but Jon couldn't do it. ... October 14th 2001 Freeze Webhosting went out of business because its server crashed and lost everything that it ...

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The BlackICE Defender comes in two versions: Workstation and Server. ... It has the same protection and detection engine as Server. ... Server offers a specially configured engine that is ideal for protecting web, file, database, or application servers. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 BlackICE Defender is a revolutionary new way to detect, monitor, and block intrusions This personal firewall can conveniently be downloaded from the internet for $29.95 but a downfall is that BlackICE Defender req...

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Computer Networking-Reasons and usage Before we begin, one must know the reasons to network and how to utilize a computer-networking environment. We begin by gathering some of the key hardware and software related to networking. We also introduce several key networking concepts. Much of the materi...

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Dell's product is build to order computers including desktops, workstations, network servers, and laptops. ... Gateway sells desktops, laptops, workstations and servers via the Internet and telephone. ... Dell has expanded into other areas of computer direct sales such as the network server market. ...

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Palm m505 The Palm m505 is a new PDA that, unlike many PDA's, comes with a color screen, a Motorola Dragonball VZ processor, 8MB of memory, a 160x160 pixel color display with over 65,000 colors. This PDA is one of the first in a new breed of color displays. Palm has also incorporated two expan...

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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. ...

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Microeconomics I chose my article from the March 2nd edition of the USA Today. It is entitled "Net's Next Phase Will Weave Through Your Life." This article discusses the changes in the near future of the Internet. Since its invention less than a decade ago, the Internet has become part of our...

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A young man named Shaun Fanning who attended high school in Harwich, Massachusetts had two loves, sports and computers. As he became more interested in computers, he decided to stop playing sports and turn his attention toward working with computers. He focused on two aspects of computers, programmi...

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Operating system Type of interface Platform PC DOS, MS-DOS command-line interface PC Windows graphical user interface PC Datacenter Server graphical user interface PC Macintosh OS 8, OS X graphical user interface ...

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• In 1996, PC vendors sold 2.1 million desktop PCs, notebooks, and servers in China, an increase of nearly 40 percent from the previous year, which shows that the Chinese computer market is thriving due to the increased interest in personal computers among Chinese consumers. (1) • While customers used to be nervous about purchasing items over the Internet, they are now enthusiastic toward on-line buying and company interaction...

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The main difference is that full ATX motherboards have a maximum size of 12"x9.6", and Mini ATX boards have maximum dimensions of 11.2"x8.2".You may also come across motherboards, particularly high-end models used in performance workstations or servers, that use the "Extended ATX" form factor. ... SCSI drives are typically used in high-end servers, because SCSI is available as a fault tolerant disk subsystem (RAID systems), while IDE drives are found in most desktop and laptop machines. ...

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Computing machines can be dated back to the advent of the abacus, a wooden rack holding two horizontal wires with beads strung across them. Several different types of arithmetic operations could be performed when these beads were manipulated. Another early calculator, later called Napier's Bones, made its debut in the early 1600's. This device, invented by Charles Napier, consisted of a series of rods that could be used to perform multiplication. The first digital calculation machine was built by Blaise Pascal in 1642. ...

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