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...about OS/2 if it acts like Windows? The most important difference is that OS/2 is a true multi-tasking operating system. In other words, it can run many programs at the same time. You can check e-mail while your computer prints your hundred-page thesis, formats a floppy disk or recalculates a spreadsheet--all while having a dictionary program open for reference at the same time. Multi-tasking can totally change the way one uses a computer...
...write a search warrant for computer evidence. Warrants for physical evidence are relatively easy, but finding the ``location'' of computer evidence on a network -- or on the Internet -- can be downright metaphysical. Is the evidence really on this computer terminal, or is it being accessed from a hard disk in another state? In addition, searching a computer bulletin-board system with two gigabytes of data on it may require agents to spend weeks scanning through irrelevant material to find what they want. Last year Charney co-authored a set of federal guidelines for searching and seizing computers, designed to provide...
...Randy said his minutes were on a disk and the disk was lost or demagnetized," he said...
There are about 10,000 user accounts on "fas," and over 2000 megabytes of disk space are dedicated to the mail spool. If too many individual users unwittingly let their inboxes grow without deleting or filing old mail, the overall mail spool may fill to capacity (currently it hovers around 87 percent). A full mail spool means that nobody's incoming mail can be stored--and thus the e-mail system comes to a screeching halt...
...system, built in collaboration with Silicon Graphics, AT&T, Scientific-Atlanta and a long list of subcontractors, is almost dizzyingly complex. Huge racks of computer disk drives called file servers store movies and other "video assets" in digital form. Giant switches called ATMS shuttle prodigious quantities of data at blistering speeds. A set-top box with five times the computing power of a top-of-the-line IBM PC downloads images from the server at the rate of 30 pictures a second. Press a button on the remote, and the signal travels through cable-TV lines, fiber-optic wires, switches...