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- 191: Secure Electronic Transactions
- The Internet is a revolutionary new exciting tool that puts large amounts of information at the click of a mouse. Logging on the Internet is like walking through the biggest shopping mall. It allows you to buy tickets for concerts, reserve a hotel, and even purchase stocks. The Internet allows the consumer to have freedom of choice and convenience. Shopping online offers many benefits that stores cannot offer. For example, the Internet is always open [seven days a week, 24 hours a day]. ...
- 192: Vpn
- ... these executive and sales types just happy to connect for whatever reason, to copy a file or update a database, there was never a question about speed or the cost of this infrastructure. As the Internet continues to dominate our personal life and billions of dollars are spent improving the Internet infrastructure so that it can be used to its greatest potential, speed is the name of the game and everybody wants to connect. This presents new and difficult problems for IT departments at companies of ... that is generic enough to solve all of these networking issues: access for mobile users, remote site connectivity, E commerce with trading partners and a solid internal structure that leverages investments in infrastructure. Use the Internet. By implementing a Virtual Private Network (VPN), a remote user, site or trading partner can connect to another network through the existing Internet infrastructure. (Figure A) Using a combination of tunneling, encryption and access ...
- 193: Mayan Beliefs
- ... a creator who lived beyond the sky, and believed it was male and female. Mayans also believed that males were more important (Burland 1771). They explain this with the fact that man came first (Thompson Internet). They also believe in satisfying the creators and fear death. The Mayans had similar beliefs of creation and similar and not similar gods with the Greeks, had a belief in a Heaven and a Hell ... Heaven where the father and mother of all creatures lived. The other is the house of the Ahauab de Xibalba, which is Hell. In Hell, Hun Came and Vucub Caquix, Lords of Hell lived (Eufraccio Internet). The Mayans had many gods: Ah Puch, a god of death; Akhushtal, the goddess of childbirth; Cit Bolon Tum and Ahau Chamahez, the gods of medicine; Kan-u-Uayeyab, the god who guarded cities; Kukucan, the wind god; Ekahau, the god of travelers and merchants (The Mythical Encyclopedia Internet); Ixtab, the goddess of the noose and the gallows. The Mayans believed that if a person committed suicide by a noose, he or she would go to her paradise. And Izamna is the sun ...
- 194: Electronic Money
- Electronic money is quickly becoming mainstream for many households. Electronic money takes several forms. It can range from using a debit card at Dillions to using electronic cash on the Internet. Many people use electronic cash and feel there are relative benefits, there are also people who find disadvantages to using electronic cash. Just like with anything, there are pros and cons to electronic cash . DEBIT ... advises to never forget that stored-value cards are the equivalent of cash and if the card is lost or stolen the issuer is probably not obliged to refund the money. ELECTRONIC MONEY ON THE INTERNET Digital cash is the newest form of electronic cash. It is designed to allow Internet users to shop on the net without using a credit card. There are many concerns with this new technology. Several companies have developed software systems that allow shopping on the net. They each claim ...
- 195: Electronic Money
- Electronic money is quickly becoming mainstream for many households. Electronic money takes several forms. It can range from using a debit card at Dillions to using electronic cash on the Internet. Many people use electronic cash and feel there are relative benefits, there are also people who find disadvantages to using electronic cash. Just like with anything, there are pros and cons to electronic cash . DEBIT ... advises to never forget that stored-value cards are the equivalent of cash and if the card is lost or stolen the issuer is probably not obliged to refund the money. ELECTRONIC MONEY ON THE INTERNET Digital cash is the newest form of electronic cash. It is designed to allow Internet users to shop on the net without using a credit card. There are many concerns with this new technology. Several companies have developed software systems that allow shopping on the net. They each claim ...
- 196: Media Effect
- ... to be our main window to the world. Media has evolved from simple text in papers, to voices in radios, to voices with pictures in television and movies, to the very broad and information packed Internet. But as we all know, media has changed and evolved since then. Media then was primarily used to deliver news across the town and to beef up the people with the information they need for ... When radio came it became the most popular form of media. Then when television was born, it replaced radios and people turn to television for sources of information. But before the end of the millennium, Internet was born. Internet is now the most popular form of media not only to youngsters but also to adults because of its diversity and usefulness. As kinds of media evolve, contents also evolve. From recorded news to ...
- 197: Cisco Systems
- Cisco Systems - World's Leading Network Hardware Products Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Cisco operates in one industry segment and creates hardware and software solutions that link computer networks so that people have easy access to information without regard to differences in time, place or type of computer system. Networking is a multi-billion dollar global market whose growth is spurred by the belief that the Internet is changing the way we work, live, play, and learn. Over the last year, there has been a key shift in the role of the Internet and in how the Internet is perceived. What was once a fairly complex tool used by an elite group of highly technical individuals is now a technology driving economic change globally by creating new ...
- 198: Linux 2
- ... about $1500. LINUX is a free version of a UNIX-type system, developed primarily by Linus Torvalds at the University of Helsinki in Finland, with the help of many UNIX programmers and wizards across the Internet. Anyone with enough know-how and gumption can develop and change the system. The LINUX kernel uses no code from AT&T or any other proprietary source, and much of the software available for LINUX ... LINUX a performance lead even in future. It will be an interesting battle to watch. In April this year, a benchmark conducted by a company called Mindcraft reported that Windows NT with Microsoft's IIS (Internet Information Server) performed 2.5 to 3.7 times faster than LINUX as a Windows fileserver (running Samba) and as a webserver (running Apache). This is somewhat surprising, because it is contrary to what several ... all, not everyone runs servers that are as high-end as that used in the benchmark. Microsoft admitted after internal testing that on the same hardware, Netscape Navigator on LINUX was 30-40% faster than Internet Explorer on Windows NT. "Benchmarking", of course, ranks with lies, damned lies and statistics, but from a variety of sources, the impression one gets is that LINUX is one of the leanest and fastest ...
- 199: New High-speed Connections Will Change How We Work And Play
- ... is becoming ever more dependent on being electronically connected with every other part of the world. Worldwide communication and commerce are just two areas where people benefit from living in an information age. Using the Internet, business can be conducted from anywhere in the world, and you can even talk to get to know other people, anywhere in the world. These online activities became possible only very recently. Applications, that utilize the Internet, are being developed every day. However, because of the nature in which most of us are connected to the Internet, there are limitations to what we can do online. Nearly everyone connects to the Internet using an analog modem. To get online, we boot up our PC s, and using our telephone line, dial ...
- 200: Linux Operating System
- Linux is a free Unix-like operating system that was developed on the Internet. Linus Torvalds first created it, and then he put the source code on his web page. After that, hackers and programmers developed it. With time, it became a big organization and now it is a ... 32Mb is recommended). Users that have limited systems can use Linux, whereas they could not use Windows. Linux has all the features that you should expect from an operating system. (Linux.org) (Using Linux) The Internet features of Linux make it more popular. Linux was developed on the Internet so it has a wide support for Internet tools and protocols. Free e-mail software called Pine comes with Linux. It was developed at University of Washington and it has all features of a ...
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