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Aeronautics: Aviation Powerplants
Number of words: 964 - Number of pages: 4.... of up to 185+. They were used in such famous aircraft as the Sopwith Camel and Moth. A variation of the rotary engine was used in the most famous aircraft of the war: The Fokker Dr.1 Triplane flown by Baron Von Richtofen. A unique feature of these engines is that they had no throttle, but ran at a constant speed. Also the cylinders were not fixed in place as one might expect. They instead rotated around a fixed crankshaft. The propeller was attached to the cylinders. The advantage of this configuration was lowered production time and elimination of a costly and vulnerable cooling syste .....
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Wire Pirates
Number of words: 1088 - Number of pages: 4.... so many base their hopes for education,
profit and international competitiveness, came to this pass, it can be
instructive to look at the security record of other parts of the international
communications infrastructure.
The first, biggest error that designers seem to repeat is adoption of the
"security through obscurity" strategy. Time and again, attempts to keep a system
safe by keeping its vulnerabilities secret have failed.
Consider, for example, the running war between AT&T and the phone phreaks. When
hostilities began in the 1960s, phreaks could manipulate with relative ease the
long .....
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Modernization Of Air Warfare
Number of words: 1522 - Number of pages: 6.... of war called surprise" (Goodall 9).
After it was found that aircraft could be very useful in war, it
was used for large scale reconnaissance. Then people started to add bombs
to aircraft and then airplanes started to become an essence of war. After
World War 2, new bombers were developed with fast speed, and could travel
far distances. They could also carry nuclear bombs and missiles. The use
of the bomber aircraft then led to the fighter, which was equipped with
guns and missiles. Helicopters were also found to be good strike aircraft.
They were armed with cannons, machine guns, rockets, .....
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Year 2000 Fiction, Fantasy, And Fact
Number of words: 682 - Number of pages: 3.... it is already too late. A
system that is devised to cut an annual federal deficit to 0 by the year 2002 is
already in "hot water." Data will become erroneous as the numbers "just don't
add up" anymore. Some PC owners can upgrade their computer's BIOS (or complete
operating system) and upgrade the OS (operating system) to Windows 95, this
will set them up for another 99 years. Older software however, may very well
have to be replaced or at the very least, upgraded.
The year 2000 has become a two-fold problem. One is the inability of the
computer to adapt to the MM/DD/YY issue, while .....
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Are "Good" Computer Viruses Still A Bad Idea?
Number of words: 4796 - Number of pages: 18.... this technique
can be improved further.
The paper also demonstrates that the main reason for the conflict between those
supporting the idea of a "beneficial virus" and those opposing it, is that the
two sides are assuming a different definition of what a computer virus is.
1. What Is a Computer Virus?
The general public usually associates the term "computer virus" with a small,
nasty program, which aims to destroy the information on their machines. As usual,
the general public's understanding of the term is incorrect. There are many
kinds of destructive or otherwise malicious computer .....
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The Year 2000 Problem
Number of words: 852 - Number of pages: 4.... down.
Date computation functions are used on millions of software applications, thus affecting millions of computers world-wide. It not only affects calculations for interest rates, inventories, or insurance policies, but every major aspect of our modern economic infrastructure. Government agencies, businesses, and financial institutions use software applications that contain date computation functions. The following types of organizations would be affected: utilities, transportation, manufacturing, banking, finance, defense, education, healthcare, and government agencies. Should the comp .....
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The Evolution Of The PC And Microsoft
Number of words: 767 - Number of pages: 3.... in 1977, when Apple, a company formed
by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, released it¹s Apple II. Now the nerds were
satisfied, but that wasn¹t enough. In order to catapult the PC in to a big-time
product, Apple needed to make it marketable to the average Joe. This was made
possible by Visical, the home spread sheet. The Apple II was now a true-blue
product.
In order to compete with Apple¹s success, IBM needed something to set
its product apart from the others. So they developed a process called ³open
architecture.² Open architecture meant buying all the components separately,
piec .....
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