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Introduction of COMPUTERS for beginners

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Computers are referred to in the press, on the radio and television. They now have invaded our govt. policies too.

If a developing nation has to invest in this technology, we must have a good set of reasons. Let us try to answer basic questions like

(1) What is computer?

(2) What can it do?

(3) How can one communicate with it?

(4) What are implications of computerization over a short as well as long period of time?

 

A computer was created for computing fast of purely mathematical function. Today they are used in all areas such as forecast the weather, to operate machines, to cut steel to size and even to guide a space craft to the moon. Computers help to trace criminals using Artificial Intelligence, today the whole world of airlines functions efficiently with the help of the computers. Hotels make use of them from managerial capacities to kitchen. Industries used for accounting, invoicing etc. India has excelled in this technology through the invention of the super computer par am -10000 which is supposed to be the second largest in the world

Electronic Cigarette

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It is a electronic devices that replicate a cigar or other smoking pipes are called  "e-cigarettes"or "e-cigs". A public consultation on the discussion Anvisa (National Agency of Sanitary Surveillance) to prohibit the entry into the country of electronic cigarettes. These devices, usually made in China, are identical to a common cigarette in appearance and format, but contains no tobacco, but a refill for nicotine and flavorings. The idea of the inventors of e-cigarette was to create a device that does not release smoke pollution and help to contain the anxiety of smokers who can not let the smoke from the side. A study by the FDA, the U.S. agency equivalent to Anvisa, pointed out that these devices are just as carcinogenic as cigarette policy and recommended that its trading is suspended in the United States, where there is no rule prohibiting this. In Brazil, the legislation requires that any food, drug or product that affects human health to be recorded in Anvisa before being marketed. Nevertheless, electronic cigarettes can be found on newsstands, street trading or auction sites on the web. Sought by Plantao INFO, Anvisa said a public consultation in the final analysis is defining a standard that completely prohibit the entry of these devices in Brazil. Although their trade is not allowed, it is now possible to bring the e-cigarettes to the country on the grounds of their own use.   The electronic cigarette has a small nebulizer that generates steam every time the User aspires. The process removes nicotine and flavoring a refill inserted into the cigarette and generates a mist inhaled by the User. The idea is to simulate the effect of a common cigarette. Some models produce heat, and contains an orange lamp on the edge of the device in order to better simulate the burning of tobacco. The smoke exhaled by the consumers, producers say, would be composed only of water vapor and non-aggressive to the "passive smokers", people who are on the side of those who smoke. The whole process is fed by a lithium battery, which can be recharged. As the use of refill to quantitate the amount of nicotine consumed, in theory the electronic cigarette could help smokers to quit the addiction side, gradually diminishing the content of the substance in refills. On the Internet, these devices are found for between $ 150 and $ 300.

What is INTERNET ?

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The internet is a vast network of computers, which links many different types of computers all over the world. It is a network of networks, which share a common instrument for identifying computers, and a common set of communication protocols for communication between two computers on the network. It has basically four types of services that are to be provided by the internet to its users which are:

1) Electronic mail - The electronic mail service, it is also known as e-mail allows user to send messages to another internet user in any part of the world in a very short time. The message takes anywhere in just a few seconds to arrive at its destination. It has many similarities with the postal mail services. It facilitates the user to use their email address and has own logical mailbox like each one of us has a mailbox in our house. It also has an alternative to the receivers, either it save or deletes.

Messages in email services can contain not only text documents, but also images, audio and video data. With email services, the Internet has proved to be quick and dynamic communication tool for its users. As compared to paper mail and telephone, email is preferred by many because of its advantages such as under follows:

1. It is more rapidly than paper mail.
2. Unlike telephone, the persons need not be available at the same time.
3. Unlike fax documents, email documents can be stored in a computer, and can be easily edited using editing programs.

2) File Transfer Protocol - The file protocol services, it is also known as FTP allows an internet user to move the file from one computer to another on the internet. A file may contain any type of digital information such as text document, images, artwork, movie, sound, software, etc. Hence, anything that can be stored on a computer can be moved with FTP service. Moving a file from a remote computer to one own computer is known as downloading the file, and moving a file from one’s own computer is known as uploading the file. Its takes place in the following method:

1. A user executes the ftp on his local computer, specifying the address of the remote computer as a parameter.
2. An FTP process running on the user’s computer establishes a link with an FTP process running on the remote computer.
3. The user is the prompted for login name and password to make sure that the user is allowed to access the remote computer.
4. After successful login, the preferred files are downloaded by using get (for downloading) a put (for uploading) commands.

But a user could transfer files from a remote computer, only if he has access rights for the remote computer. With this restriction, it is almost impossible to provide access rights to the vast number of the user of the internet to a computer that contain sharable information. The concept of anonymous FTP site is used to overcome this problem.

The anonymous FTP site is a computer, which allows the user to log in with the username of anonymous and a password that is the user’s email address. The user can than download files from the computers, which have been stored on it for sharing. Such are called publicly reachable sites because they can be accessed by any user on the internet. It is also used for more secure file transfer operations. In such cases, a user needs a valid username and password to access a particular computer.

3) Telnet - The telnet service allows an internet user to log in to another computer somewhere on the internet. That is, a user can execute the telnet command on his local computer to set up a login session on a remote computer. This act is also called “remote login”.

To start a remote login session, the user types the command telnet and the address of the remote computer of the terminal of his local computer. The user than receives the prompt asking to enter a login name i.e. user ID and a password to ensure that the user has the access right for accessing the remote computer. If the user specifies the accurate login name and password, he gets logged in to the remote computer. Once the login session is established with the remote computer, telnet enters the input mode, and anything typed on the terminal of the local computer by the user is sent to the remote computer for processing. It has some common uses such as:

1. Using the computing control of the remote computer. The local computer may be an ordinary personal computer and the remote computer may be powerful super computer.

2. Using software on the remote computer. The software that the user wants to use may not be accessible on the local computer.

3. Accessing remote computer’s database. The information records, such as the public database or library resources may be available on the remote computer.

4. For logging in to one’s own computer from another computer.

4) Usenet News - The Usenet services allow a group of internet users to exchange their views/ideas/information on some common subject, which is of interest to all the members belonging to the group. Several such groups exist on the internet and are called newsgroups.

It is like a notice board, which is accessible to all the members belonging to the group. A member, who wants to exchange his views with another member, sends a specially formatted message, which is processed and interpreted as a notice to be posted on the notice board by the member’s computer, which has an appropriate software running for this purpose. After the processing of the message is over, it can be read or seen from any member’s computer just like a notice posted to the notice board can be read by anyone having access to the notice board.

There are two types of newsgroup. First are moderated group and another one is non moderated group. In moderated newsgroup, only selected people have the right to directly post a message to the virtual notice board, whereas in a non moderated newsgroup, any member can directly post a message to the virtual notice board. In a moderated newsgroup, a message sent by any ordinary member first goes to the computer of one of the selected members having the right to directly post the message to the notice board.

The message is then checked by this member who decides whether the message is appropriate for being posted, and does any editing that might be required to improve the quality of the message. This member than posts the message on the notice board. After this only, the message becomes readable to (can be seen by) other members. The main idea of it is to ensure the quality of the newsgroup.

As no one moderates the quality of the message of a non moderated newsgroup, anyone can post anything. However the member of such newsgroup should be careful in posting a message, because other member may react angrily by sending a flaming message in response to an ill mannered message.

What is Sharepoint?

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This topic explains about the history of new technology named sharepoint. Nowadays most of them can hear the word sharepoint. Sharepoint is now becoming most wanted technology in big organizations. what sharepoint do is manage all level of employees under one umberlla. that umberlla is called sharepoint. Microsoft has release first version of sharepoint, called SharePoint Team Services. STS could run on Windows 2000 Server or Windows XP. After that Windows SharePoint Services 2.0(freeware software) was marketed as an upgrade to SharePoint Team Services, WSS is completely redesigned application. SharePoint Team Services stored documents in ordinary file storage, keeping document metadata in a database. Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 on the other hand, stores both the document and the metadata in a database, and supports basic document versioning for items in Document Libraries. Service Pack 2 for WSS added support for SQL Server 2005 and the use of the .NET Framework 2.0. Windows sharepoint services 2.0 is freeware software come along with windows server 2000. Sharepoint portal server 2003 is actual core sharepoint built on WSS2.0 which gives full fledge functionality. Next version is windows sharepoint services 3.0 is also freeware comes with windows server 2003. In this version microsoft integrated lot of office functionalities so they named as Microsoft Offiece Sharepoint Server ie. MOSS2007 built upon WSS3.0 Upcoming sharepoint version is Microsoft sharepoint 2010(twenty ten) We shall discuss on this more in future

KINDLE! The next revolution in reading.

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Like any self-respecting reader, I have a healthy collection of books, and consequently an overflowing bookcase. I also live in Mumbai, where all the enemies of books namely, heat, dust, humidity and above all shortage of space exist in abundance. I try to keep my books well, without tears, creases, folds, dog-ears or any form of marking. Given that much of my reading takes place on the trains and stations of Mumbai’s local train system, this is far from easy to do, especially when one hand is occupied in desperately holding on to any available support for the duration of the commute. My success rate at book maintenance is beat lower too. The development of e-ink and electronic paper technologies has therefore been of great interest to me, and the growth of the e-book reader market too. The Amazon Kindle, now available in India and many other countries around the world, allows users to browse Amazon.com and download e-books directly on their device either over WI-FI or over WhisperNet, which connects to Amazon over wireless telephone networks such as GPRS/Edge or 3G. One can download e-books onto a computer and sync them with your Kindle, and there’s no need for itunes. The current edition of the kindle which I happen to see at one of stores here, offers 2 GB of storage, which is approximately 1,500 books. Now that’s a library I can easily accommodate in my Mumbai apartment. Though I have still not bought one, but what I could see with it in my hands at the store is that the viewing screen comfortable 6” and display as announced during its launch is exactly like ink on paper. As told and experienced by me at the stores it has an text to speech feature which reads out the text of an e-book through a onboard speaker which is very similar to PDF format that is in currency on our laptops or desktop. It also features a mp3 player. The file format is AZW that supports many readability enhancements on the Kindle namely page orientation, text size and others. It also protects PDF file format that are unprotected. Kindle is currently selling at INR 12,000. However, the e-books are required to be purchased separately which ranges nearly around USD 3 per book which INR 150. Hope you enjoyed the article!  

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