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Computer Viruses are the bane of every computer user (especially Windows users) and this article explains the origin of the computer virus. A graduate student named Fred Cohen was the first person to do an academic proof of concept for computer virus demonstrating how they could work on a UNIX machine. However he was not the first person to write a computer virus he just coined the term. The first virus was written by a 15 year old and ran on an Apple II (which is incredibly ironic)

This is about computer and education together.A computer can expand a person's knowledge but over all it may not help in teaching you like a real professor.

This article details a new type of anti virus software currently being developed at Wake Forest University. The software uses small crawler programs called ants to identify worms so administrators can tackle the problem. This is relevant to CIT in that when we graduate we may be using this type of software as network admins. i like the fact that the programs are smaller than your normal antivirus software, and dont have to be loaded onto every computer. a single program can take care of an entire network.

For us, being CIT majors, the blue screen of death been a common mishap. Late night papers due first class period, or printing out that lab report the morning of its due date. " IT SUCKS! "A PROBLEM HAS BEEN DETECTED." What the hell just happened?" There are millions of ways that this problem can show its ugly face. It ranges from hardware to software. It is even our operating systems. So what causes this problem? When it comes to the application side of this terror it is due to programs using more memory then what should be allowed. So who is to blame? Those pesky programmers! Next we come to system crashes. Yes those are the ones that you run to mommy and dad for repair money. " There's a few reasons for that. A major reason", says Maximum PC Editor Maximus Will Smith, "is that Apple and Microsoft have spent a lot of time moving stuff that used to run at really low level, deep in the guts of the OS, up a few layers into the user space, so an application error that would've crashed a whole system by borking something at the kernel level just results in an annoying program-level hang up." What that means is, instead of crashing your whole computer, most application have a self destruct button which tells them application to shut down before your whole computer goes south. The easiest fix for this is to keep drivers up to date. So why are computers crashing less now? Well Apple and Microsoft have been embedding many brutally annoying "send error report" emails within many programs. This has led to many advancements and preventable maintenance on their part. With the new Windows 7, it has many programs to "feel" a problem about to happen, and limit that problem from happening. Yet, there will always be forces of nature causing hard drive problems, and the lazy operator ability to prevent dust from entering the system. So for as long as we wish to make advancement in hardware, programmers will always be there to embed program errors for us

This site excells at describing careers for students looking to go into a career involving computers. This would be terrific for many of the students here involved in the learning community.

I picked slashdot.org because...well...slashdot is for NERDS! GEEKS!!! Someone who might be in the Computer Information Technology learning community! LIKE ME! On a more serious note though, I picked slashdot because it involves people like the CIT learning community. We are nerds/geeks we know it, and love it. Slashdot is composed of authors that are IT gurus and love to talk about as what there title says, 'news that matters' which is straight and to the point.\n\nLike any good nerd we like to put in our two cents. Slashdot added a message board to reply to any post the authors make. The articles composed by Slashdot will always involve technology in someway. Whether it's a post on the internet's birthday or a post about how red hat enterprise linux 5.4 has been released. Slashdot has posts to the point for people like "us". Its not filled with clutter or garbage about stupid news about Jon and Kate + 43000, its news that MATTERS. Simple as that.\n

I chose to bookmark this website because I believe it can relate to many of us in the CIT major. I'm planning on focusing on network security, and I feel that this website helps to represent this interest. With the NSA coming to campus to show us internship opportunities I feel this network security training website fits right in with what is going on in todays computer world. This website gives training courses that can make you a better IT admin in charge of network security of a company, for the FBI, or even the NSA. I can't with for the NSA to visit to see what kind of career opportunities await us after Purdue.

This site has the latest and greatest technology reviews. From desktop computers, laptops, mobile devices, hardware, or software, this site has it all. I use this site to determine the best piece of hardware I can get for my money. In this day and age, having the fastest thing on the market means a lot. The new technology on this site could potentially help me out in my school work.

"This does awesome ****" a quote professor Barlow. Point Grey has just setup an incredible demo of its latest technology. It is a new webcam using the new USB 3.0 technology. It shoots and yields an uncompressed video in FULL 1080p at 60fps! I am not going to lie, this is awesome! Just picture watching on a high definition television : a long distance pen pal, your husband or wife that is constantly traveling, or your mother and father from college with HD technology and no latency. "It's pretty stunning" says gizmodo.com. The camera uses technology from the newest Sony camera that has recently been able to shoot not only very high resolution pictures, but also HD videos. Now this is just a prototype but it has set a market release date of very late 2009 or early 2010. Now since it is using USB 3.0 technology it will be able to display and stream the high definition of video (depending on if the user has a decent internet connection). The camera prototype currently lacks an autofocus but has a manual focus to let it capture nice clear images. The only downfall is the lack of users that do not use the rare PCI-Express-to-USB-3.0 card. I personally cannot wait for this to come out. Depending on the price, I will keep this in mind. This could be a neat thing to play around with, or easy to troubleshoot computer problems without the need to leave my favorite chair. \n

My parents use to tell me all the time how technology use to be back in their days. I always thought how hard it would have been to survive in their days without the internet, a computer, cellphone, a color tv, and numerous other things. This article lays out some ideas that the author thinks we will be telling our grankids in the future. When we are explaining how life use to be in our days, we might say how we use to only need 140 characters on a text message or twitter post. We could explain how our tv's use to be a lot bigger, and movies were only on at certain times. The author also thinks that English won't be the dominate language, but Chinese.

I chose this article because I think it can connect to literally almost everyone in the computer world and beyond. This article talks about how Facebook almost has as many users as the entire US population. According to their statistics, they gain 800,000 new accounts per day which is pretty insane. It seems like this is the first truly successful social networking site because it finally gained a profit and it hoping to keep that trend going through 2010. Facebook is here to stay for a while I think, and that's just fine with me.

This article is a very interesting one for the computer geeks of the world and maybe even for government. Google is wanting to map out the inside of businesses and large buildings so that you can no only find your way to the building but the nearest door and which stair case to take and which hallway to turn down. Google is starting a new generation of maps online.   Government on the other hand might not like this. If you map out the inside of the building isn't that making it more accessible to terrorists to plan an attack or for thieves to plan and escape after a jewelry heist? Where will google go from there? Could this turn into and invasion of privacy?   What this means to the CIT majors is that almost anything is possible. If google can map out the indoors what is to stop us from doing anything? The sky.... The basement is our limit.

So have any of you ever considered building a new computer and not know what processor to get, and the best processor for the least amount of money? I found this article which helps clarify things immensely! This can relate to CIT because at some point, if we stay in this career plan, we will all need to know something about processors and their performance. It also proves a great source if you are just wanting to work on a project at home. It can definitely help you find the best deal for your dollar.

This is a follow up article on my previous diigo post. This one shows how well the game actually did. For us computer geeks this is a big deal. This game is predicted to become the most successful game to ever hit the market. If we can learn something from this we can be successful too. The reason i think that they sold 7 million copies world-wide is because of the previous game CoD4. Not to mention that they had game stop hosting release parties and that there was a huge party in New York for its release. This could be the biggest game of the century, lets make sure you get in on it.

It seems like one of the big deals with technology anymore is how energy efficient it is. This is why I chose to bookmark this site. This site fills you in on all of the current news about green technology's. This can be useful to anyone because anything that uses electricity can be made to be more energy efficient. This also includes computers which we all love so dearly.

This is a website about one of the biggest resold game to ever hit the market. As computer nerds this is a big thing for us. Any of us into gaming or might want to make game need to take a look at what they did right and wrong. One of this big things this game has going for it is it predecessor. CoD 4 is one of the most online played games. So people anticipate that such a good game cant have a bad squeal. On tuesday we will find out if it was worth it

At Harvard, Microsoft Chief Research Officer Craig Mundie argues that computer science is on the brink of breakthroughs that can crack daunting energy and environmental problems. Read this blog post by Martin LaMonica on Green Tech.

This is so cool! Like it says, it explains how we all know too many video games can be harmful. Microsoft and leading scientists are trying to figure out how to use the Xbox 360 to help build a computer generated image of the human heart. Basically, while you're playing your games, you're checking to see how healthy your heart is at the same time! What an amazing break through!

This article describes how a modified game chip within an XBOX 360 can detect damaged cells around the heart to detect and prevent heart attacks. It's much cheaper and faster than using a supercomputer to create a 3D model. Video games seem to be the future of our medicine I chose this article because it can go hand in hand with our game night coming up this Friday. The fact that a video game console can save lives makes it seem as if anything is possible. When Guitar Hero is blazing and Wii Bowling is entering the final frame we can all say to ourselves yes, we are saving lives this night!