Essays on Windows

Abstract

Information systems are an important part of any business organization. They are responsible for the passage of information within the business. In some cases, information systems are directly linked to marketing. In this case, the information on the sales available and the cost of the product are issued to the customers through the systems. The systems could be manual systems, where pamphlets are printed and distributed to customers, or electronic systems, where the company uses websites or technology oriented ways to market the products. On the other hand, information systems are important in keeping the company’s records. In Continue reading...

Foundation Course – Fundamentals of Networking

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Contents2

Introduction..3

Pricing4

Discussion of Design Considerations5
VLANs 6
Protocols Involved in Constructing a VLAN Based Switched Network7
Cisco VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP).8
Classless Sub-Netting.9
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)9
Router on a Stick.9
Network Diagram for the Gaming Competition10
Three Layer Hierarchical Model11
Bandwidth Requirements for a Gaming Network..11
Conclusion12

References13

Introduction
This paper includes the monetary quotation that will require to setup a network for playing Online and LAN games. All the state of the art technology used in the gaming industry is present in the quotes at the current market price. This Continue reading...

5. Results and analysis of mystery points, hardware and software system for the business
6. Bus topology diagram
7. Analysis of journey map
8. Overall Budget plan for the business.
1. Business description: Semesh is a business organization that wants to incorporate information technology in business. The business management wishes to determine the lowest cost for installing hardware and software and spend less than $25,000.The budget should not include expenses such as cost of the ISP-set up and communication system. The business, however, intend to get a router that is free as part of the ISP-set up package Continue reading...

Broken Window Theory

The broken window (theory) refers to a criminological theory devised by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling. The theory states that monitoring and maintaining urban environments in a structured and well-ordered condition can stop vandalism. The theory investigates the effects of social disorder such as anti-social behavior as it relates to community life. Additionally, it correlates vagrancy, social norms and quality of community life. It is imperative to define social norms and disorder in order to efficiently examine how the broken windows concept requires both police and neighborhood participation.

Disorder and Social Norms

According to Keizer and Lindengard (2008), social norms and Continue reading...

IT in business.

3.1The business organization needs to know the type of Computer software that can operate computer programs in the business system. The software is the non-tangible computer component that will enable the computer system of the business to operate its services efficiently. The business need to know the contrast of the computer software contrasts in the organization and its computer hardware that is the physical parts of computers. The software to be acquired should be compatible with the computer hardware .Computer software that business organization will need to buy includes computer programs depending on the architecture that the organization need Continue reading...

Management Information systems

Management Information Systems

Cisco “WAAS is a technology developed by Cisco Systems that optimizes the performance of any TCP- based application operating in a wide area network environment while preserving and strengthening branch security” (Laudon). According to the Cisco WAAS sales support webpage, 80% of Fortune 100 companies have purchased WAAS.

Importance of Monsanto Connection portal

It is important to Monsanto that employees worldwide are able to use their Monsanto Connection portal with ease because Monsanto tries to ensure that it is located near its customers, many of whom are in rural areas. Furthermore, a lot of their research is conducted in tropical zones Continue reading...

Report On Security Survey

Abstract
Security is one of the necessary merit products that are offered by the government to the public. It is essential for a safe neighborhood. It is the responsibility security departments to improvise methods through which security can be ensured in every homestead (Broder, 2006). Ideally, the security agencies are responsible for laying out a security strategy that they can use to make it easier to monitor security in the areas that they monitor. A security survey and report with recommendations are necessary for the security agencies to carry out their activities efficiently.

Introduction

This report aims at analyzing the Continue reading...

1-Strategic rationale: what are the primary reasons for the acquisition?

In September 2013, Microsoft acquired Nokia at a cost of $7 billion in a bid to strengthen its (Microsoft) position as one of the leading players in the mobile universe. The strategic rationale was in response to the fierce competition in the industry. Microsoft desires to enhance its market competitiveness. Before the partnership with Nokia, Microsoft was virtually irrelevant in the mobile market but its acquisition of Nokia has enabled the company makes inroads in the lucrative smartphone industry. Nokia smartphones run on Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 operating system. Sale of Nokia smartphones has gradually increased, and Microsoft Continue reading...

Business Process Reengineering at Seminole Industries

A person’s success in life isn't based on his ability to simply change. It is based on his ability to change faster than his competition, customers and business [1]. It is a known fact that many large companies have lost their businesses and have had to shut down owing to the notion that technology would alienate their customers. If we are to take the case of Seminole Industries, the global economic downfall of 2008 had hit the company hard, with reduction in factory orders from 8% in 2009 to 11% in 2010. These trends cannot be considered in Continue reading...

As an Information Technology analyst, I act, upon my mandate, to provide a network solution for XYZ LLC. The proposed network will ensure high connectivity, secure access and scalability for future expansion. Already, a WAN connectivity is in place with ample bandwidth to deliver excellent connectivity.

PROPOSED SOLUTION

businesses competitive edge lies in its ability to develop regional and global presence while offering and maintaining best services at par or better than rivals. In an attempt to control a larger market share in solar panel manufacturing and distribution, XYZ has three branches, Los Angeles, Dallas and Houston. Remote users in Los Continue reading...

- Hardware specification for server and client’s compatibility
The hardware requirements specification for server and client’s compatibility will involve network adaptor which consists of hardware and software that allows communication between interface and physical network as well as operating system to communicate with the interface. PCMI card, USB or Serial devices are some of the hardware choices. The firmware and operating system driver will be needed to run card and enhance communication with the device respectively.(Wepman,2014).For 100 clients(fewer than 250 users) in this case,1 single core CPU(2.13 GHz),2Gb of RAM Continue reading...

English Course Identification

In 2007, William Henry “Bill” Gates III, the richest man in the world and Chairman of Microsoft Corporation, received an honorary doctorate degree from Harvard University and delivered the commencement speech to Harvard’s graduating class. Six years later, in 2013, Oprah Winfrey, the richest African-American in the twentieth century, and the only black billionaire in North America, received an honorary doctorate degree from Harvard University and delivered the commencement speech to that year’s graduating class. In addition to their enormous wealth, both Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey are internationally recognized for their extraordinary philanthropic commitments. In their Continue reading...

Topology and Media

The Hierarchical (tree) topology is best for this system. Winkelman (2013) asserts that this topology expands a star topology by allowing several star topologies to interlink through a linear bus. This topology would allow an Ethernet to include a main server, smaller servers, and PCs. Since the network fits within only two floors of the same building, the best media would be twisted pair cable (CAT5 or CAT6 UTP).

Architecture and Protocols

The network would be housed within one building forming a server-client local area network (LAN). However, the network would need some WAN capabilities in the form of an internet connection Continue reading...

My interest in the Apple Company did not go beyond curiosity and reading news lines connected with it. I never understood the people who are the fans of products from Apple and did not understand their devotion to only one brand. For me, it was simply impossible to imagine how not to try a gadget of one brand after using of previous another one. Yes we all know that Apple manufactures devices of sufficient quality However, many other vendors do so as well. So why are there multi-million army of fans of Apple who would not for the world Continue reading...

Introduction

Antitrust policies are a threat to companies welfare; most of these laws are detrimental to monopolistic firms. This is due to the extensive market power that they dominate over a given sector in the economy. Most companies have suffered antitrust penalties due to their dominance in the market. This causes a negative effect to the statement of financial position of such firms. Microsoft is one of the best examples of companies that were subjected to antitrust laws. Microsoft is a monopolistic firm in the computer software sector. It deals with manufacturing and selling of computer chips to all the Continue reading...

Introduction

Success is an abstract concept which is difficult to be defined in one single sentence. Success means different things to different people. One may weigh success in terms of material gains; another may weigh success in terms of spiritual values. Most of the people define success in terms of achieving a mission or a goal. For instance, in Genesis 1.28 of Bible, God while entering into a covenant with Noah blessed him with "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the Continue reading...

Industrial Organization and Resource Based Value model

Our focus for this model will highlight the competitive advantage given to IBM by the extensive research it has done on semi- conductor technology. This is real for IBM because it has used this resource from a team point of view rather than individual experts employed by IBM. Handling this resource in deep connection with other existing resources has enabled the management of IBM to use this advantage to acquire a big share of the electronics market.
Coca cola has made use of the internal environment to enhance its position in the market. Using the vast array of financial Continue reading...

Introduction

Each application creates its own file structure and a file created by one application is usually not usable by another except for some universal formats like ASCII, PDF, HTML, and RTF. However there is a basic underlying similarity in storage media in that all storage media are divided into storage blocks of 512 bytes each. In this paper we shall discuss the file structures in three operating systems – Mac OSX, Windows OS, and Linux/Unix.
Mac OS is Apples GUI (Graphic User Interface) based operating system. The newest releases since 2001 have been released under the brand name Mac OSX. Continue reading...

Introduction

Efficient energy utilization is an important aspect of human life. The principle of conservation of energy states that energy can never be created nor destroyed. Thus, it is essential to utilize the energy available for us effectively and efficiently. Energy can be transformed from one form to another by use of appropriate transducers. When designing a house, it is essential to do it with the greatest regard to efficient energy use as well as safety to the environment. House designers should always come up with designs that promote efficient energy use. For instance, utilization of renewable energy should be Continue reading...

Analysis of Bedove’s Decision to Develop Windows Phone in Partnership with Microsoft

Introduction
Management’s decision making is a crucial foundation for an organization and better decision making results to effective problem solving that has a great ability to improve organization’s performance. In that respect, the quality of decisions made by management is important hence forming the objective of this discussion which seeks to analyze a decision made by an organization’s management. To achieve the objective, the discussion refers to Bedove’s need to partner with Microsoft for purpose of using Microsoft’s windows for its touch screen mobile phones as a strategic way to enhance competitiveness. To begin Continue reading...

Technology surrounds us in various forms, and we accomplish results that would have been highly impossible without the commonly used technology, the Computers. As we become more familiar and assimilated to the computers, their flaws become our weaknesses. Every computer system runs on an operating system such as Windows, Linux, or Mac OS, and these systems can be prone to threats from attack sources, which exploit the weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Windows and Linux have their own advantages and disadvantages; however, their vulnerabilities cannot be ruled out. This paper discusses the differences of Windows and Linux vulnerabilities and a few Continue reading...

A hypervisor is a computer application that allows computers to run more than one operating system. Thus takes place through a process known as virtualization. The software “tricks” the operating system into thinking that it is the only one accessing a given hardware resource. The location of the hypervisor is in between the physical hardware and the OS and presents a virtual hardware environment to all other OS running in the machine. Hypervisors also manages the flow of information between the virtualized hardware, physical hardware and software. A hypervisor has found acceptance in both enterprise and consumer settings.
Usually, Continue reading...

Sarbanes-Oxley Act is an act by the United States congress in 2002 aim at protecting investors through corporate disclosures accuracy and reliability. It mandated strict reforms aimed at improving financial disclosures and possibly prevent accounting fraud. The scandals of early 2000s such as Tycoon, WorldCom and Enron predicated the enacted of SOX. These scandals shook investor confidence, and an overhaul of regulatory standards was required. The SOX Act outlined rules as well as enforcement policies, which amended or supplemented existing legislation. There are two key provisions of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act which are section 302 and section 404. Section Continue reading...

Education

West Virginia University – Morgantown, WV
Major in Management
Minor in General Studies
GPA: 3.18/4.0

Diploma in Banking and financial business

Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency
Work Experience
Full-time job:
The ministry of Education – Riyadh, KSA October 2003 – October 2009
- Manage the administrative transactions of the schools as well as providing necessary tools and equipment such as teaching and educational aids.
- The liaison between the Ministry of Education and the schools, the Educational Supervision Department, Ministry warehouses, as contacts these authorities and manage all matters related to administrative issued with these authorities.
- Performing secretarial works, and administrative tasks.
- Oversee the development of a Continue reading...

The windows 7 operating system can be better maintained through the control panel where the operating system status can be monitored. In this section, backups to create an alternate location for information to be stored can be configured. This will allow for automatic backups to another location such as a drive. When set, information and other sensitive data will remain safe in case of virus attack at one drive or any other location within the operating system. In other cases, reliability and system history can be used to configure the operating system to enable it perform optimally.
The following Continue reading...

There is no doubt that Microsoft SharePoint is here to stay as a custom for sharing customized information. Microsoft SharePoint is big and has a 70% adoption rate among enterprises. Users are largely embracing SharePoint for connecting disconnected islands of data, targeting and personalizing information and integrating technology for individual and group users. Microsoft SharePoint is an effective strategy to manage information growth instead of being overwhelmed by it. In this case, by use of Microsoft SharePoint, Wild Frontier will be able to manage its information growth as a result of its expansions without any difficulties.
One of the Continue reading...

This paper seeks to introduce the subject with a brief history of Windows Operating System and Linux Operating System with relevance to the subject herein. The paper will then highlight and explain the differences in memory management between Windows and Linux.
Both Windows and Linux are operating systems common to personal computers, however, Linux traditionally as was written operated with a wider range of devices; from Personal Digital Assistants to Super Computers. Windows was introduced way back in 1985 as an add-on to Microsoft DOSand Linux was written in 1991.
One of the primary roles of an operating system Continue reading...

Introduction

Leadership entails the ability to influence individuals or groups towards the achievement of the organizational goals. It helps in shaping the goals of a group or organization and motivates behavior towards the achievement of these goals. This is accompanied by the assistance of defining the group or organizational culture with the main aim of influencing. Leaders appointed to a certain position in the organization carry the mandate of recognizing that a functional and constructive organizational culture plays an important role in ensuring that their organizations perform to their potential (Daft, 2011). Over the years, this is an issue that Continue reading...

A database or a databank is an application where data can be stored and retrieved quickly. It is also important to know how the data is stored and organized in a database. Database mainly refers to a relational database, indeed a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). Collection of data items that are structured as a group of officially defined tables from which data can be retrieved in various ways without having to restructure the database tables is known as Relational Database. In relational database, the complete data is stored in tables. The structure of these tables is similar to Continue reading...

Introduction

The building to be assessed in this paper is the Menards hardware store located at 3210 North Clairemont Avenue, Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The store belongs to the Menards hardware chain stores. It stocks essential hardware supplies such as nails, gardening tools, light fixtures, furniture as well as groceries. The primary users of this building are shoppers and employees.

Risk Analysis

The likely perpetrators of violence at this site are domestic and international terrorists and individuals. The terrorists are likely to use explosives while individuals are likely to use guns such as shot guns or automatic rifles. The target victims are likely Continue reading...

Databases consist of information, which can be implemented to manage and store information. It can be created using various softwares such as Microsoft access. This database uses the Microsoft office suite, particularly access to design the table, layout and create specifications. This database aims at managing friends and family information by holding their information. It contains a table that contains fields which hold information. It consists of fields such as name field, contact address, email address, street address and phone contacts fields. In these fields, attributes such as text or auto number that specifies the information that can be Continue reading...

High noon

Edward Hopper is one of America’s finest artists that ever lived. His work has always been dominated with lonely people either looking outside the window or seated at the café table or just standing at the door staring anxiously outside. Usually, there is no presence of any activity within the pictures. The “high noon” is one of these paintings depicting a woman standing at the door staring outside, lit by direct sunlight and surrounded by an enormous house. The skies behind the house are large and very blank. This unusual composition, displaying a house cropped off at one Continue reading...

Creating databases is so common today because the lifestyle that exists is busy. The activities are so many that if you do not have a plan, you will miss other important things. A database allows one to store information in one place. This requires a database, which store large amounts of information. The information in the databases is helpful in making decisions and acts as point of reference in future. It makes the retrieval of information become easy. The computer has allowed data manipulation and storage. The accountants could use traditional means of organizing data but with the advent Continue reading...

Contoso, Ltd

The company network users have reported that the local private network on their computers, are unable to use the host names to link to the internet destinations, like www.microsoft.com. In spite of using the host names to connect to it. The administrator can choose one of the following actions from the list given below to connect to the host names and enable user’s network:
- The administrator can take action on NS2 and NS3 by disabling recursion
- The administrator can take action on NS1 by enabling net-mask order
- The administrator can use NS1 as a forwarder Continue reading...

Microsoft and Apple are among the companies that have provided advanced and exciting technology products that are in use today. Considered as premiere companies in the information technology industry, both companies continue to create innovative IT solutions and gadgets that make life easier and interesting for humans. The good news about this is that they have a wide reach of audience considering that their products are globally-accepted and looked up to as top products in the industry. Thus, every time Microsoft and Apple launch new products, people are keen in understanding and purchasing the latest product offerings of both Continue reading...

Introduction

Large homes that have several employees and visitors may require regular dusting. Bearing in mind that there are several materials that are purchased for dusting, it is strictly advised that a proper dusting procedure be adopted. Dust is a health hazard as it can hinder normal breathing and cause respiratory problems. In the kitchen, proper dusting is required so that the water and other food materials are not soiled. It is also important to ensure that sitting rooms and bedrooms are kept in good air condition free from dust particles.

Audience

This document provides home managers with the proper illustration, Continue reading...

It simply takes opening of the mind's shutters to let in the sunshine and colour in life. Many people spend an entire lifetime searching for happiness. They shop, they achieve, they run blindfolded -- however, the key to happiness cannot be found. Ask most of the successful people and their answer would be the same -- unless they achieve more, they will not be happy. Farther they go, farther they want to go. So where is the end? No one has answer to that; accept that the answer lies right outside their windows. In the race to be the Continue reading...

- There are many business personalities out there, people who can inspire thought and dread in equal measure. For their successes seem like fairy tale, yet only a few have remained committed to the ideals of humanity.
- These individuals have invested billions of dollars on philanthropy and sought to change lives of people so far away from home. Bill Gates has remained at the forefront of philanthropy for more than a decade now, showing the same dedication to giving out money as he has in making it.

Program Area

- Of all the business personalities that I have come to Continue reading...

INTRODUCTION

Worldwide Advertising Inc. is a new advertising firm located in Los Angeles and New York. The firm is looking to hire new IT support staff to take over IT management. Prior to that, they need their IT services configured and as such requires a solution which takes into consideration implementation and configuration of core IT services.WAI looks forward to starting with 90 employees distributed in executive departments, accounts and sales, creative media and production, human resource and finance and IT departments. Most of these staff will be located in Los Angeles with at least one person in each of Continue reading...

Essay

English

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) – an American writer, poet, literary critic and editor, a representative of American Romanticism. He has received the greatest popularity for his "dark" stories. He is a creator of the forms of modern detective. Poe's creativity contributed to the emergence of the genre of science fiction.
"Mask of the Red Death" is the story of Edgar Allan Poe, written and published in 1842. The story begins with description of a terrible disease called the Red Death, devastating the country. Prince Prospero did not want to die from the disease; Continue reading...