computers in cheat sheets
Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer
Cheat Sheet Well users can download or stream BBC content broadcast during the preceding seven days and watch it on their computers. Is this another one of those shiny Apple gadgets from Cupertino? Not quite.iPlayer is actually the BBC's online on-demand TV... [05 Mar 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Encryption
Cheat Sheet Say two computers want to communicate via a web server, the digital certificate is basically a rubber stamp that says the web server is trusted by an independent source known as a certification authority. [28 Nov 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Supercomputing
Cheat Sheet Well, it's all about speed, with the fastest computers being labelled as supercomputers. But the term supercomputing is rather fluid, with the supercomputers of today often becoming the common-or-garden computers of tomorrow. [20 Nov 2007]
Cheat Sheet: The $100 laptop
Cheat Sheet The laptops only use a fraction of the software that most computers run and by manufacturing in real bulk - a hundred million is the aim - they hope to save a bit of cash. It's green and has a handle - is it a watering can? [29 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet: M2M
Cheat Sheet Other sensor carriers will include two billion smart devices, including appliances, machines, vehicles and building equipment, one billion handheld smart devices such as mobiles and 300 million personal computers according to the Focal Point Group. [09 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Blade servers and PCs
Cheat Sheet Server blades are generally self-contained high-density mini computers (containing processors, storage and memory) that slot into a server rack, often as part of a data centre. The rack provides power, cooling and networking while the blade... [24 Jan 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Software as a service
Cheat Sheet However, computers fail - we all know this - and the SaaS vendors claim they would not trade their uptime for that of their users' servers and computers. Software? As a service? I don't understand. You're not the only one. [31 Oct 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Grid computing
Cheat Sheet Grids connect up computers - usually not in the same building or even the same country - with the idea of joining up power and resources of disparate machines. Grid computing. Sounds like something out of the Matrix. [05 Jan 2005]
Cheat Sheet: The WEEE Directive
Cheat Sheet It's about introducing measures to force companies and individuals to dispose of electrical equipment such as computers in a responsible fashion. But, these computers will eventually become obsolete - even in Africa, right? [29 Oct 2004]
Cheat Sheet: VoIP
Cheat Sheet Also, remember, your phone system will be controlled by computers - if the computers crash (as they can do) you can't use the phone. What's that stand for? It's short for Voice over Internet Protocol. [15 Jun 2004]
Cheat sheet: The mini iPod
Cheat Sheet The company has been the subject of morbid fascination in recent years as a perceived lack of innovation and falling sales for its computers led some to fear for its long-term future. It's the 'must have' item of 2004. [08 Apr 2004]
Cheat Sheet: MMS
Cheat Sheet MMS allows you to send pictures and sound to other mobile phones or even computers, as well as text, of course. Yes, afraid so. MMS stands for Multimedia Messaging Service. Which is. It is simply a jump up from your standard text message. [09 Aug 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Itanium 2
Cheat Sheet This puts it in the same league as high-end Sun SPARC processors and those IBM puts in some of its biggest computers. What's all the excitement about? Intel's Itanium 2, known pre-launch as McKinley, is said to be a revolutionary product as it is... [05 Jul 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Grid computing
Cheat Sheet Some grid enthusiasts talk about the second version of the internet where data is exchanged in real time, often at high speeds, by connecting powerful computers together. In the near future, computers will even co-operate on their own rather than... [11 Apr 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Computer viruses
Cheat Sheet When you run an infected program, the virus code activates and will try to infect other programs, either on the same computer or on other computers connected to it over a network. I think I know but what actually is a computer virus? [26 Mar 2002]
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