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Archive for December, 2009
Always Connected
Dec 29th
Communication is how we transfer information to one another. What sets us apart from other species in our planet is that we have a higher level of communication skills. By learning how to speak we can convey our feelings and our thoughts.
Aside from the ability to speak, we can also communicate through gestures. Humans, having developed the ability to communicate both through speech and gestures, were able to dominate this planet. Because of our insatiable appetite for information, humans throughout our existence developed other forms of communication, from writing to telecommunications.
Telecommunication is the assisted transmission over a distance for the purpose of communication. In earlier times, this may have involved the use of smoke signals, drums, semaphore, flags or heliograph (source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunication).
Keeping Businesses Up and Running
Dec 28th
Computer networks and servers are a complex addition to the business world that have become commonplace in companies of every size. In office building in particular computer networks are linked to the mainframe server that is housed in a special room that only the computer technicians are allowed into.
Connecting every other computer in the office to a server group through a router the technicians ensure that everyone in the office has access to the information that they need and are linked through the servers to the outside world via the internet. As computer equipment has become more sophisticated so to have the technical aspects of the service technicians who regularly monitor the servers and keep the mainframe cool through ventilating the special rooms where servers are housed.
Even in smaller organizations servers, routers, and peripherals are responsible for the day-to-day operations of the business and must be kept up by IT service technicians that check on the performance and continued functionality of the computer networks. IT services in Utah are adept at working with small or large businesses and ensure that no matter what is happening on the computer world the local business leaders are kept in the loop and that their servers, routers, and networks are able to handle the demands of the digital world that has bombarded the business world with new technologies and fast more efficient computers that are moving business at greater and greater speeds. Through the incorporation of regular IT services Utah based companies are not only competing on the world stage, they are helping to advance the computer industry through the variety of programming and development companies that call Utah home.
How Should We Handle the Possibility of Cyber Attacks?
Dec 23rd
With Internet increasingly growing in technological capability and sheer number of users, the threat of Internet based cyber attacks is on the rise. With groups spanning countries, groups with different political and ideological affiliations, the idea of how to defend against a possible cyber attack is becoming more real.
This was recently made painfully obvious by a so called “cyber attack,” by the concentrated efforts of a group of Koreans, angry at some comments made on the popular Japanese web site “2 Channel,” regarding figure skater Kim Yu Na. Kim won the gold medal in the women’s figure skating, while the Japanese figure skater, Mao Asada, came in a distant second. 2 Channel is a popular forum based web site in Japan. Due to the anonymity of the Internet, it is not uncommon to find racially motivated and nationalistic diatribes by some users.
The trouble began when some anonymous posters on the Japanese web site “2 Channel” made some statements alluding to Kim winning her gold medal through bribery rather than skill. People In South Korea didn’t take too kindly to this insult to their national hero, and decided to launch a counter attack against the Japanese web site. An Internet group was formed specifically to launch this “attack.”