Monday, July 28, 2008

Computer Literacy : COMPUTERS

Apparently computers do have their advantages and disadvantages.

ADVANTAGES
Speed
Reliability
Storage
Consistency
Communication

DISADVANTAGES
Violation of piracy
public safety
impact on labor force
health risk
impact on environment

Then there is this thing called the "Network"

Network is basically used to share resources, hardware devices, software program, data AND information. Besides that, it saves time and energy.

And then there is the "Server"

The server is something like the 'supervisor' of the network. It basically controls access to resources on a network. Usually clients (or resources) request resources from the server.