...1. INTRODUCTION A. Purpose The purpose of this report would be to gain insight regarding a successful entrepreneur’s journey in creating their own businesses as well as the attributes that led them to success. The entrepreneur that I have chosen is Drew Houston, the founder of Dropbox. Also, this report would include my reflections on how the research has helped me develop my entrepreneurial abilities and aspirations. B. Background of Dropbox Dropbox (Appendix 1) is a file hosting service founded by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi (Appendix 2) in 2007. The main function of Dropbox is to allow users to synchronize their documents to the cloud using a special folder on their computers. As a result, users would be able to view their documents on any device in real time, syncing changes immediately. Currently, Dropbox is used by 400 million people and 150,000 businesses worldwide (Appendix 3). Dropbox is proven to be a success as it is one of the best cloud storage companies alongside Google Drive and Apple iCloud (Appendix 4) C. Methods of Investigation Methodology used includes secondary research. Reference was made to Dropbox’s website. Additional information was obtained from video interview of Drew as well as articles written about him. D. Scope Besides an overview of Drew Houston, this report looks into the challenges faced by Drew, his views on the attributes that make a successful entrepreneur as well as the keys to entrepreneurial success. In addition...
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...operating system choosing from either Ubuntu or Windows that able to leverage cloud computing enabling faultless access to the organization data and with services, applications and features that are vibrant and updatable immediately. User interface As most of the employees have better understanding on using Windows more than Ubuntu. This is because Windows’s reputation is far higher than Ubuntu at the outside world. But when come inside to IT field, the result is opposite. This is because Ubuntu has ability to customize the OS and make it more even better. By referring to appendix, from figure 1to figure 10 is mentioning about Windows vs Ubuntu of the OS interface. From here, you will know the differences between Windows and Ubuntu. Nowadays there are a lot of applications provide cloud computing like Skydrive from Outlook, Google Drive, Dropbox, Youtube, Ubuntu One and etc. These applications are easy to use and most of the applications are free, hence it is friendly user. Users who use Ubuntu as Operating...
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...more data is being stored and having reliable means of storage has become a challenge that IT professionals will continue to deal with in the future. In this paper, I will outline the different types of backups that have been used over the years. I will talk about how data backup and storage has move to an online arena. Finally I will talk about cloud storage and cloud computing. I will discuss how cloud computing will become the future of how we operate in the online world. Background The need for backing up data has existed for as long as we have been using computers. When we first started using computers, data was stored on floppy disks or tape drives. In the beginning the amounts of data being stored were relatively small. Floppy disks and tape drives provided a sufficient amount of space to store the amounts of data being produced. Over the years, technology has evolved and the amounts of data have increased. As the world moves closer and closer to being completely online, the need for online data storage has increased. The way that we store, share, and manipulate data has...
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...store, access, and process data. Before cloud computing, the only other way to store and process data was through in-house servers, which are simply a server located within the company. The invention of all new technology brings controversy because the amount of issues that could come from it must be compared to the amount of benefits. There are three different types of cloud computing, all of which can be incredibly beneficial for both personal and business use: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) (Turim-Nygren). Although they all function similarly, they take on their own roles and process information differently. The most commonly known is cloud storage such as Dropbox and Google Drive, which are categorized as SaaS. The pros and cons of cloud computing have been debated over the past decade, and individuals and businesses alike have weighed the good against the bad when choosing whether to use it to store and process their data. The decision whether to use cloud computing or in-house servers depends on the type of company and resources it has at its disposal, along with the size and computing needs of the company. Many companies are choosing to follow the hybrid model of computing...
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...The Impact of the Cloud on Higher Education Douglas Rosette (VP Sales) July 2012 Agenda • • • • • • • • Introduction Traditional Access with AT Software How Computing has and is Changing What this means for AT in the future Examples of Cloud Computing Example of AT in the Cloud What Texthelp is working on Questions Introduction • I'm not Martin McKay..sorry to his fans • I am Doug Rosette VP Sales • Spent 20 plus year working with Assistive Technology LD, Blind and Visually Impaired. • Worked for or with the following companies: Texthelp Inc, Cambium Learning, Optelec, EVS, AiSquared • Self proclaimed lover of technology Different Types of Assistive Technology Standalone Systems • • • • Work on their own Do not need Word / Outlook / Browser Single task / Simple use Examples: • Clicker • Boardmaker • Simple AAC software Accessibility Layer Systems • Simply put…they help you to do something else. • • • • • • • Jaws Read&Write Gold ZoomText Hal Supernova Braille Output Devices Co Writer How Accessibility Layer Systems Work USER Screen Readers Word Prediction Braille Output Input Devices Magnifiers Etc. Accessibility Layer ( provided by OS ) MS Word Internet Explorer Outlook Firefox Open Office Safari How has computing changed? A few years ago there where only a few viable platforms to develop AT in. Today there are many and the list keeps growing! What does “more platforms” mean? • For AT Companies ...
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...SWIFTSTACK TECH BRIEF Cloudy Weather for Enterprise Storage – an Enterprise Storage Veteran Looks Forward July 2014 by Dave Roberson Executive Summary This whitepaper looks at the root causes of user demands for better, cheaper storage services and IT’s options to meet those demands. In particular, it explains how the shift in value off proprietary hardware and onto open software stacks is happening in storage just as happened over the last decade with server virtualization. Enterprise storage as we have known it for the last four decades is facing significant internal and external pressures. The rapid growth of inexpensive or even free public cloud storage for consumers has created a bring-your-own storage grass-roots revolution demanding IT deliver simple self-service storage at costs far below current chargeback levels. At the same time the capacity requirements for user-generated content from sources like mobile applications is becoming a driving force in storage expansion. While public cloud options exist for enterprises they still have often unacceptable gaps in security and control despite their favorable economics compared to legacy on-premise storage. All of these factors are making it both technically and economically indefensible to just keep expanding your reliance on existing legacy NAS and SANs that suffer from years of vendor lock-in and are burdened by costly proprietary hardware. Something new is needed and the option of pushing data out to public cloud providers...
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...take advantage of speed and capacity of its other compo, list of operations called a program, these operations read from memory, interpreted and carried out one at a time (stored program concept). –Cache memory: high speed, high cost storage, used as intermediary between control unit and main memory, compensates for speed mismatches built into the comp system. –Multiple processor configurations: a comp system usually contains more than one processor, dual processor contain two physical separate processors as two separate chips, dual core contain two complete processors manufactured as a single chip, dual processor are better and faster. –Input: devices allow users to enter data into the comp for processing, common devices: keyboard, disk drive, magnetic ink character, etc) –Terminal: Simpler than PC, design for input and output, connected to computer with telecommunication line. –Output: devices produce results in usable format, common output methods: printer, output to paper using various types of printers, video display unit, displays output on a screen. –Data: Streams of raw facts representing events occurring...
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...Master Your Mac simple ways to tweak, customize, and secure os x MAT T CONE Master Your Mac Master Your Mac Simple Ways to Tweak, Customize, and Secure OS X MAT T CONE MASTER YOUR MAC. Copyright © 2013 by Matt Cone. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher. First printing 16 15 14 13 12 123456789 ISBN-10: 1-59327-406-8 ISBN-13: 978-1-59327-406-1 Publisher: William Pollock Production Editor: Serena Yang Cover Design: Serena Yang Cover Photo: Kazuya Minami Interior Design: Octopod Studios Developmental Editor: Tyler Ortman Technical Reviewer: Wayne Linder Copyeditor: Paula L. Fleming Compositor: Serena Yang Proofreader: Ward Webber Indexer: Nancy Guenther For information on book distributors or translations, please contact No Starch Press, Inc. directly: No Starch Press, Inc. 38 Ringold Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 phone: 415.863.9900; fax: 415.863.9950; info@nostarch.com; http://www.nostarch.com/ Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record of this book is available from the Library of Congress. No Starch Press and the No Starch Press logo are registered trademarks of No Starch Press, Inc. My New is a trademark of No Starch Press, Inc. Other product and company names mentioned herein...
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...……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 4 Journal Post (8/17) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 13 Chapter 1 Questions …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 14 Journal Post (8/24) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 16 Chapter 2 Questions ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 17 Journal Post (9/7) ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 18 Chapter 3 Questions ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 19 Journal Post (9/12) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 20 Chapter 4 Questions …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 21 Chapter 5 Questions …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 23 NOS 120 Test 2 …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 24 Linux File System vs. Windows File System …………………………………………………………………………………………. 27 Journal Post (9/14) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 28 10.04 Sources List ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 29 Things to do after installing Ubuntu 10.04 …………………………………………………………………………………………. 37 Journal Post (9/21) …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 45 How to make Ubuntu look like a Mac ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 46 Journal Post (9/28) …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 50 Journal Post (10/6)...
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...NETW-561-11244 2013 GSM: The New Wave to the future Wireless Technologies Professor Raef Yassin Anthony Garcia Table of Contents Introduction3 Strategic Business Assessment4 Technology5-7 Design a Wireless System8-10 Compatability Plans11-12 Planned Competitive Improvements13-14 Other Competitive Technological Solutions15 Upgrading to Next Generation16-17 Summary18 Work Cited19 Tiered Cell Tower20 3G vs 4G Chart21 Introduction In today’s society there are many different choices you can make concerning your wireless provider, and type of phone with many limitations and what we can do to counter act the norm of today is to go into a new direction. Now the US is predominately made up of CDSM with smaller companies that use the towers of the big four, but these are mostly just a pay as you go established business, what needs to happen is making a universal to match the rest of the world, and that standard is GSM (Global Systems for Mobile Communications). What we want to achieve is giving the same options that the rest of the world have, letting them take their phones where ever they want whenever they want and not be tied down to a country. GSM operates in the 900MHz and 1.8GHz bands in Europe and the 1.9GHz and 850MHz bands in the US. GSM services are also transmitted via 850MHz spectrum in Australia, Canada and many Latin American countries. The use of harmonized spectrum across most of the globe, combined with GSM’s international roaming capability...
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...Introduction Nowadays, game apps tend to rely on good gameplay rather than graphics. One major problem for developers and publishers of this kind of games is describing the game in such details that it gives the users enough information/attraction to decide to continue on the game. Our focus in this PBA project is the game called AlphaFlip developed by CopenhagenConcept. We aim into developing a better game experience for the upcoming launch of AF. This will include the user (game) experience enhancement, technology implementation and e-mk strategy. How to play? Rearrange a row of scrambled letters to the target phrase. Flip a chain of letter to have them in the right order. AF has 4 game modes: Classic Mode, UTP, GTP and Speed Flip. Personal Implication Viorela – as a community manager, involvement in game experience development and e-marketing. Expectations The theory that a game needs to have a good game experience for its first time gameplay means that the users are interested and focused in so called the “first 5 minutes”. Our motivation is a contribution to a successful launch for AF on 2 different digital platforms: Fb/iOS. We want to bring solutions to AF game experience problem and launching strategy. Also to correctly cross-work on both fields, requires a vast amount of research and a clear idea of the final goal: to have a good product that will be marketed in the best strategy possible. Problem Formulation Based on the statement of Mads Ehrhardt (the...
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...2011 Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing ACC 626: IT Research Paper Emily Chow 20241123 July 1, 2011 I. Introduction Due to the increasing vulnerability to hacking in today’s changing security environment, the protection of an organization’s information security system has become a business imperative . With the access to the Internet by anyone, anywhere and anytime, the Internet’s “ubiquitous presence and global accessibility” can become an organization’s weakness because its security controls can become more easily compromised by internal and external threats. Hence, the purpose of the research paper is to strengthen the awareness of ethical hacking in the Chartered Accountants (CA) profession, also known as penetration testing, by evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of the information security system. 2 1 II. What is Ethical Hacking/Penetration Testing? Ethical hacking and penetration testing is a preventative measure which consists of a chain of legitimate tools that identify and exploit a company’s security weaknesses . It uses the same or similar techniques of malicious hackers to attack key vulnerabilities in the company’s security system, which then can be mitigated and closed. In other words, penetration testing can be described as not “tapping the door” , but “breaking through the door” . These tests reveal how easy an organization’s security controls can be penetrated, and to obtain access to its confidential and sensitive information asset by hackers...
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...has a classic but really attractive design. Benefits: I was kind of surprised when I start used it, because it has so many functions and different useful programs, such as dropbox, polaris office, goggle map and so on. Disappointments: The one thing that really disappointed me was the camera. The qualities of taken pictures are so bad and also this Smartphone as all these new devices don’t have a life-long charge. Recommendations: Well, if this company wants to have a loyalty relationships with their consumers they should improve like a lot in their phones, for example make the camera more powerful and maybe add some colors to their design such as red, blue, pink, green e.t.c. so it will look more positive. Chapter 2. In my opinion, business ethics is important in providing a foundation for understanding how to succeed in business. Codes of ethics are generally used in the business and professional context to assure the public that corporations and members of regulated professions are acting in a socially and professionally acceptable manner. Here is the list of the companies and their ethics codes: 1. Google Code of conduct: • Serve our users • Respect each other • Avoid conflicts of interest • Preserve confidentiality • Protect Google assets • Obey the law...
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...Full Circle THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE FOR THE UBUNTU LINUX COMMUNITY ISSUE #90 - October 201 4 Photo: miss_millions (Flickr.com) P R I S O N AR C H I T E C T BUILD YOUR OWN OPEN SOURCE PRISON Fu ll Ci rcle M a g a zi n e i s n e i th e r a ffi li a te d wi th , n o r e n d o rse d b y, Ca n o n i ca l Ltd . full circle magazine #90 1 contents ^ HowTo OpenConnect to Cisco p.1 4 Full Circle THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE FOR THE UBUNTU LINUX COMMUNITY Linux News p.04 BACK NEXT MONTH LibreOffice p.1 5 Command & Conquer p.1 2 Arduino p.25 LinuxLabs p.XX Broadcast With WCS p.1 7 Linux Labs p.28 Review p.36 My Story p.37 BACK NEXT MONTH Blender p.XX Letters p.40 Tuxidermy p.41 Q&A p.42 BACK NEXT MONTH Inkscape BACK NEXT MONTH Ubuntu Women p.XX Ubuntu Games p.44 Graphics p.22 Security p.XX The articles contained in this magazine are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. This means you can adapt, copy, distribute and transmit the articles but only under the following conditions: you must attribute the work to the original author in some way (at least a name, email or URL) and to this magazine by name ('Full Circle Magazine') and the URL www.fullcirclemagazine.org (but not attribute the article(s) in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you must distribute the resulting work under...
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...Introduction to bench marketing If a company is to be successful, it needs to evaluate its performance in a consistent manner. In order to do so, businesses need to set standards for themselves, and measure their processes and performance against recognized, industry leaders or against best practices from other industries, which operate in a similar environment. This is commonly referred to as benchmarking, in management parlance. The benchmarking process is relatively uncomplicated. Some knowledge and a practical dent is all that is needed to make such a process, a success. Therefore, for the benefit of corporate executives, students and the interested general populace; the key steps in the benchmarking process are highlighted below. A Step-by-Step Approach to Benchmarking Following are the steps involved in benchmarking process: (1) Planning: Prior to engaging in benchmarking, it is imperative that corporate stakeholders identify the activities that need to be benchmarked. For instance, the processes that merit such consideration would generally be core activities that have the potential to give the business in question, a competitive edge. Such processes would generally command a high cost, volume or value. For the optimal results of benchmarking to be reaped, the inputs and outputs need to be re-defined; the activities chosen should be measurable and thereby easily comparable, and thus the benchmarking metrics needs to be arrived at. Prior to engaging in the...
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