Word: users
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After years of expectations and months of compilation, the College has published a "User's Guide" to the Administrative Board and will likely distribute it to students next week...
...What the guide does is provide the information systematically. Students don't spend the time looking through the handbook. This is certainly more user-friendly," he said...
Complete power over every file and every user is held by anyone with the root password. My friends at MIT deem Harvard's security too pathetic to be worth a challenge...
...word "modem" was coined to spare the everyday user from having to refer to the device's more descriptive but longer name: modulator/ demodulator.Simply put, a modem takes analogsignals coming in over the phone line and converts them to digital 0's and 1's your computer can understand, and vice versa. Like the digital-to-analog converter (DAC) in your compact disc player, the modem is a link between the analog and digital worlds...
...tier up are modems with speed rated 9600 baud, which, despite of a price tag of more than $100, are winning over many a computer user. Most of these modems are actually able to work faster than the rated spped of 9600 baud; equipped with the so- called V.42bis data- compression standard, they can compress and decompress data at a ratio of 4:1, which means up to 38,400 bits of data, or orughly three double- spaced pages of text, can be sent or received per second...