...Discovering Computers 2012 Your Interactive Guide to the Digital World Objectives Overview Define system software and identify the two types of system software Summarize the features of several stand-alone operating systems Describe the functions of an operating system Summarize the startup process on a personal computer Briefly describe various server operating systems Summarize the features of several embedded operating systems Explain the purpose of several utility programs See Page 397 for Detailed Objectives Discovering Computers 2012: Chapter 8 2 System Software • System software consists of the programs that control or maintain the operations of the computer and its devices Operating systems Page 398 Utility Programs Discovering Computers 2012: Chapter 8 3 Operating Systems • An operating system (OS) is a set of programs containing instructions that work together to coordinate all the activities among computer hardware resources Start and shut down a computer Coordinate tasks Provide a user interface Manage programs Establish an Internet connection Control a network Manage memory Configure devices Monitor performance Provide utilities Pages 398 - 399 Automatically update Administer security 4 Discovering Computers 2012: Chapter 8 Operating Systems Pages 398 – 399 Figure 8-1 Discovering Computers 2012: Chapter 8 5 Operating System Functions • The process of starting or restarting a computer is called...
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...Installing the SCCM 2012 client for Windows This article details the supported ways of installing the SCCM 2012 client for Windows. ------------------------------------------------- Before You Begin You must install the SCCM 2012 client on computers you want to manage with SCCM 2012. ------------------------------------------------- Client Installation Methods The supported installation methods at Illinois State University include the following: * Client Push - The client can deployed from the SCCM server to computers automatically discovered in Active Directory. This is the recommended installation method. * Manual - The client can be manually installed onto computers. ------------------------------------------------- Client Requirements SCCM 2012 at Illinois State supports the following: * Windows XP with SP3 * Windows Vista with SP2 * Windows 7 A list of all supported operating systems can be found in the Computer Client Requirements Microsoft TechNet documentation. ------------------------------------------------- Client Push Installation (Recommended) The SCCM 2012 server can be configured to discover computer accounts in Active Directory and allows SCCM administrations to push client installations from the SCCM console. The client can be pushed to a single computer or to an entire collection of computers from the SCCM 2012 console. ------------------------------------------------- Client Push Prerequisites The following prerequisites...
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...Howard Mayo NT1230 4/3/12 8 Common Types of Computer Viruses Dictionary.com defines a computer virus as “a segment of self-replicating code planted illegally in a computer program, often to damage or shut down a system or network (“Virus,” 2012).” The term virus has become more generic over the years and has come to represent any type of malware, or malicious software. There are many types of malware that can be classified as viruses but it is the intention of this paper to examine 8 of the most common types. These types are virus, worms, trojans, adware/pop-up ads, spyware, keyloggers, rootkits, and scareware. * Virus- as defined above, a virus is self-replicating code planted in a computer program. This malware’s sole purpose is to destroy or shut down systems and networks. (“Virus,” 2012). * Worms- These are standalone programs whose sole purpose is to replicate and spread themselves to other computers. Their main use is to search for and delete certain files from computers. * Trojans- This malware is designed to look like a useful program while giving control of the computer to another computer. It can be used for several malicious things: * As part of a botnet to use automated spamming or distribute denial-of-service attacks. * Electronic money theft * Data theft * Downloading or uploading of files to the computer * Deletion or modification of files * Crashing the computer * Watching the viewer’s screen * Anonymous...
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...Final Project: Expository Essay Samantha A. Medina University of Phoenix Final Project: Expository Essay Computer technology has developed tremendously over the decades and centuries to become so modern in every aspect including education and personal leisure. It is breath taking to see how modernized out computer technology is today as opposed to the limited computer technology that was available in history. The changes that have occurred over history to today will be discussed and focused upon in this essay. The Mechanical Era: Early Computing Devices The Abacus The abacus was the first machine to be used computational science. It is considered to be the first computer. This machine was inspired by one of Charles Babbage’s designs. The abacus could process 15 digit numbers and calculate fourth-order differences. In 1885 the machine won gold medal at an exhibition in Paris and also helped calculate the orbit of mars! The abacus is still in use today. Imagine that a computing device from centuries ago still being used to this day! Charles Babbage Charles Babbage was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer ("Charles Babbage", 2012). Babbage is known to have invented the first programmable computer. As stated earlier his design inspired the abacus and other complex designs. He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society for inventing an engine for calculating mathematical and astronomical tables. Babbage was also Lucasian Professor...
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...0 Porter’s 5 Forces Analysis 12 4.1 Rivalry among Existing Competitors 12 4.2 Threat of New Entrants 14 4.3 Threat of Substitute Products 15 4.4 Bargaining Power of Suppliers 16 4.5 Bargaining Power of Buyers 17 4.6 Summary 18 5.0 Conclusion 19 References 20 1.0 Introduction Computers are can be found at everywhere around the daily life, the modern world will be incomplete without computers and their applications. Therefore, computers are extremely important and indispensable. The importance of computers cannot only be denied in the corporate or business world, even in people’s personal life. Nowadays, more and more people are relying on computers; most of them will feel crippled without a computer, and for many individuals computer means personal computer (PC), including laptop and desktop computer, on which they can search information, chatting, watch movies, play games and prepare office sheets. The PC industry has become a highly profitable industry, which is worth hundreds of billions of dollars worldwide. Driven by consumer demand to access the Internet, the demand for PCs has continued to climb (Arvidson, 2011). According to the computer industry almanac (2012), worldwide PCs in-use surpassed 1.6 billion in 2011. Therefore, as PCs are widely used and play an essential role in the daily life. They have tremendous significance to affect the fast moving life of the modern world of today. An investigation of PC retail industry is significant and worthwhile...
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...The computer hardware industry consists of companies that manufacture and assemble personal computers, computer hardware, and computer peripherals. This industry is highly competitive, which means that companies must continuously be innovative in order to sustain a competitive advantage. The major companies of this industry include Oracle, IBM, HP, Dell, Apple, and Toshiba. This analysis will focus on computer manufacturing since it is the largest component of the industry, containing 43.7% of the market’s total value. The computer industry has been rapidly growing and shows no signs of slowing despite the recent economic downturn. This report relies on secondary research sources. Many of them from online sources such as; company websites, S&P Net Advantage industry reports and IBISWorld. Primary research includes the IBC mentor and additional faculty and library staff. PEST Political Beginning with the political and legal aspect of PEST, this industry is subject to several regulations. First, like any company in the US, the companies in the computer manufacturing industry must follow GAAP accounting laws. Some companies are subject to regulations regarding ethical business practices such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act. The American Inventors Protection Act of 1999 addresses the rights of inventors as well as how they can effectively submit and use patents. Legal battles among major firms in the industry are quite common and depending...
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...Request for Proposal Magic Computer Repair Request for Proposals (RFP) - Computer Training Services Sealed Proposals Due: Oct. 8, 12 at 10:30 A.M. Proposals shall be sealed and submitted to: Magic Computer Repair 6149 S. Desert Blvd El Paso, TX 79932 Phone: (915) 549-6988 Introduction: Magic Computer Repair was founded in 2010 to provide computer repair services to Firms, Doctors, and Residential clients. Magic computer repair is seeking a software training company to design and implement an employee training program for Microsoft office Suite 2010 programs, Word, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, and Power Point. Purpose of the Procurement: Magic Computer Repair will be upgrading our current software to MS Office 2010. Personal Computer training will be provided to 25 of my employees. The company contracted to provide this training will be expected to conduct 28 classes in total. The classes will take place in the Magic Computer repair training rooms, which is equipped with 14 workstations and one instructor’s work station. The contract will be awarded Oct. 8, 2012, and commenced Nov. 1, 2012. Training will be for all levels of experience from beginner to advanced, in Microsoft Office Suite 2010. The contractor will be expected to: Conduct the workshops listed in the Training Workshop Schedule. Distribute a survey to each student at the end of each class, for the purpose of evaluating the content and presentation. The completed surveys will be turned in to my...
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...Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) operating system prerequisites for the Microsoft Exchange 2013 Mailbox, Client Access, and Edge Transport server roles. It also provides the prerequisites required to install the Exchange 2013 management tools on Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 7 client computers. What do you need to know before you begin? Active Directory preparation Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 prerequisites Mailbox or Client Access server roles Edge Transport server role Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 prerequisites Mailbox or Client Access server roles Edge Transport server role Windows 7 prerequisites (admin tools only) Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 prerequisites (admin tools only) What do you need to know before you begin? The information in this topic is applicable to Service Pack 1 and later versions of Exchange 2013. The Edge Transport server role is available starting with Exchange 2013 SP1. Make sure that the functional level of your forest is at least Windows Server 2003, and that the schema master is running Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2 or later. For more information about the Windows functional level, see Managing Domains and Forests. The full installation option of Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 must be used for all servers running Exchange 2013 server roles or management tools. You must first join the computer to the appropriate...
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...not only state and national boundaries, but the international boundaries as well. At the Tenth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders, in a workshop devoted to the issues of crimes related to computer networks, cybercrime was broken into two categories and defined thus: * In a narrow sense, the term cyber crime has been defined as any illegal behavior directed by means of electronic operations that target the security of computer systems and the data processed by them. * In the broader sense, cyber crime has been defined as any illegal behavior committed by means of, or in relation to, a computer system or network, including such crimes as illegal possession [and] offering or distributing information by means of a computer system or network. The extent of cyber crime is so vast and complicated that an act which may be crime in one nation may not be so in another. Some of the basic examples of cyber crime are unauthorized access, damage to computer data and program, computer sabotage, unauthorized interception of communications, computer espionage, etc. Thus, the fact is that there can be no exhaustive and complete definition of this term, as it is so wide that its arena increases every day. Once computer had been regarded as a boon for the human world, but today, there has been a change in the outlook. To the utter disgrace, India had been ignorant of such a law as cyber law until the last decade. It was only when there was...
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...GSM5301 Accounting for Decision Making MID TERMEXAMINATION 3 July 2013 8 pm - 10 pm Instruction: Answer ALL questions. Show all workings and answers in answer book provided. QUESTION 1 (10 marks) If you are looking to invest in a publicly listed company, what are the types of financial and non-financial information inside the annual report of that company that are important for you? Why are these two types of information important for you? QUESTION 2 (25 marks) Maisarah& Associates Consulting (MAC)Sdn. Bhd. is an engineering consulting firm incorporated on 1 July 2005. As at 1 July 2012, the Statement of Financial Position for MAC Sdn Bhd. is as follows: RM Non-current Assets Building (less Depreciation) 500,000 Furniture and Fixtures (less Depreciation) 30,400 Current Assets Bank 120,000 650,400 Owner’s Equity Share Capital 500,000 Retained Earnings 150,400 650,400 For the year ending 30 June 2013, the following transactions occur: a) Paid annual fire insurance premium of RM12,000 for the building on 30 June 2013 for the next financial year coverage. b) Billed clients RM53,800 for jobs completed and received cash RM50,000 from clients. Included in cash receipts was RM5,000 paid in advance for jobs yet to be started at the year-end. c) Maisarah completed a building renovation design for her brother, Ishaq. The fee for such design is RM28,000. Maisarah has not billed his brother for any...
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...Parker Devry University MDD 410 September 23, 2012 Professor Kimberley Martin A New 3-D Innovation: The Leap “The distance between you and the virtual world is about to get smaller.” (Trinh, 2012). Leap Motion is about to release a new device that will change how we control and interact with our computers. The device is called The Leap and it is a 3-D motion tracking device. It can be connected to a computer or any other computing device and the user can use the gestures of their hands instead of keyboard or mouse. It is kind of like the X-box Kinect but “more powerful, more accurate, smaller, cheaper, and just more impressive.” (Pierce, 2012). The Leap is set for public release in February of 2013. Leap Motion has set the price at $69.99. The device is currently about the size of an usb flash drive but could end up being as small as a dime before being released to the public (Pierce, 2012). It can track your movement to 0.01 mm (Pierce, 2012). Also it can track all ten of your fingers and thumbs individually as well as anything you may have in your hands. It creates a 3-D workspace of about eight cubic feet, however multiple devices can be linked together to create a bigger space. According to David Pierce on the website www.theverge.com, “VGA camera sensors within the device create the space”. The Leap can open up the possibilities for many different uses. The most basic thing it does is virtually turn any computer type display into a touch screen. However you don’t...
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...Accounting Information Systems July 28, 2012 Summary of United States vs. Bo Zhang Bo Zhang, a Chinese computer program, was a contract employee assigned to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY), between May 2011 and August 11, 2011, to work on further developing a specific portion of the Government Wide Accounting program (GWA) source code (FBI, 2012). Mr. Zhang was not a United States citizen and was here on a VISA. The United States had spent approximately $9.5 million to develop the GWA code. The FRBNY was given the task of moving the Government Wide Accounting program, developed to help track the billions of dollars the United States government transfers daily, from an antiquated IBM mainframe computer to the Internet, according to a person familiar with the project (Chicago Tribune, 2012). In the summer of 2011, Zhang stole the GWA Code and, without authorization from FRBNY, copied it onto his hard drive at the FRBNY and an FRBNY-owned external hard drive. He then transferred the code to his private office computer, his home computer, and his personal laptop (FBI, 2012). Zhang used the GWA code to access the government system and submit fraudulent documentation to immigration authorities to help foreign nationals obtain visas to enter and work in the United States. Zhang falsely represented to immigration authorities that certain foreign nationals worked full-time for his computer training business. At least one individual...
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...affect marketing for a particular product or service. These five are economic, technological, regulatory, competitive, and social. Depending on the industry, some or all may affect the marketing strategies used by that particular industry. The industry chosen is the computer manufacturing industry. Below are three chosen environmental forces that impact this industry. The first market force that impacts the computer industry is economic and the decline of consumer spending. Since the economic downturn in 2007, consumers tightened their wallets and began to spend less than what they had been spending in prior years (Hartley, Kerin, & Rudelius, 2013, p. 73). This led to slumped sales within the computer industry. Several other markets experienced this slump, and it primarily occurred from consumers judging their purchases on necessity instead of desire. In addition, computer parts such as hard drives, motherboards, peripherals and more were already experiencing a drop in price over the last ten years. Currently, the prices for manufacturer parts dropped to 50 percent (Hoover’s INC, 2012, ch. 11). As the economy slowly heals, consumers are still wary about spending excess money (Chappell, 2011). The computer parts industry and others rely on consumer spending in order to make a...
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...integrated with the server operating system will address the threats of data theft. Data on a lost or stolen computer will be vulnerable to different unauthorized access, either by running a software-attack tool against it or by transferring the computer's hard disk to a different computer. It help us to mitigate unauthorized data access by enhancing file and system protections. It help us in rendering the data inaccessible when BitLocker-protected computers are decommissioned or recycled. This Locker provides a very high protection, while using with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) version 1.2. The TPM is a hardware component which is installed in many newer...
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...Be able to apply cost concepts to the decision-making process 2 2. Be able to apply forecasting techniques to obtain information for decision making 4 3. Be able to participate in the budgetary process of an organization 5 4. Be able to recommend cost reduction and management processes for an organization 7 5. Be able to use financial appraisal techniques to make strategic investment decisions for an organization 8 6. Be able to interpret financial statements for planning and decision making 10 References 12 1. Be able to apply cost concepts to the decision-making process 1.1 explain the importance of costs in the pricing strategy of an organisation The pricing strategy becomes the major element in marketing mix of Dell Computers as it is related to product positioning. When there is a planning for new product launch pricing strategy is important and it requires general sequence of stages involved during pricing the new product. The different steps are as follows: (Daft, 2011) * Developing marketing strategy – helps the company to develop marketing strategy based on market analysis, market segmentation and positioning * Marketing Mix decisions – Defining a product, distribution and its promotional tactics * Estimation of demand curve – Estimating the demand and understand how it varies from quantity wit price * Cost Calculation – Calculation of fixed cost and variable cost associated with product development * Knowledge about environmental factors...
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