Wikipedia, Kini Tidak Boleh Edit Sembarangan

SAN FRANSISCO - Setelah mendapatkan tantangan serius dari Encyclopedia Britanica, Wikipedia pun berbenah. Mereka akan membatasi proses edit sehingga tidak sembarangan.

Proses editing yang dilakukan tanpa kontrol telah menjadi masalah serius yang dihadapi situs penyedia ensiklopedia seperti Wikipedia. Masalah ini sering muncul dan bahkan belakangan telah terjadi salah informasi dalam situs tersebut. Pasalnya seorang editor virtual Wikipedia telah menulis bahwa senator Ted Kennedy dan Robert Byrd telah meninggal saat menghadiri inagurasi presiden baru AS Barack Obama.

Wikipedia pun akhirnya memutuskan untuk membuat proses editing konten yang lebih aman dan bertanggung jawab. Revisi kebijakan editing Wikipedia ini akan terkait dengan proses registrasi terlebih dahulu dan adanya sebuah tim editor terpercaya yang dapat mempublikasikan perubahan tersebut secara cepat.

"Semua hasil editan tidak akan langsung kami tampilkan sebelum mendapat persetujuan verifikasi dari editor yang kami tunjuk dalam tim kami," ujar pihak Wikipedia, seperti dikutip Cnet, Senin (26/1/2009)

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Apple Rilis Server Admin 10.5.6

SAN FRANSISCO - Apple telah berhasil merilis perangkat remote administration yang memungkinkan pengguna me-manage Mac OS X.

Dilansir melalui MacWorld, Senin (26/1/2009), server admin tools 10.5.6 akan memudahkan pengguna menjadi admin bagi Mac OS X Server miliknya dari lokasi yang jaraknya cukup jauh. Perangkat ter-update tersebut terdiri dari update tools, dokumentasi dan penggunaannya.

Dua buah perubahan dibuat dengan system image utility. Perubahan pertama adalah ketika men-deploy sebuah sistem image yang dibentuk melalui volume di dalamnya sehingga memungkikan komputer target tidak akan lagi memiliki file lokal KDC yang sama. Kedua, filter model telah ditambahkan untuk macbook terbaru, macbook pro, dan macbook air dalam netboot/netinstall.

Server admin tool 10.5.6 dapat di download melalui mekanisme update software dalam mac OS X atau langsung melalui situs Apple

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Hard disk drive ABCs

The hard disk drive is the primary storage location where data is permanently stored. Below is an illustration of what the inside of the hard disk drive may look like. The four main components of a hard disk drive are the platters, head arm, chassis, and the head actuator.

The majority of computer hard disk drives are permanently stored in an internal drive bay at the front of the computer and are connected with one ATA / SCSI cable and power cable. Unlike other drives, the hard disk drive is the only drive that is not physically accessed by the user like the floppy disk drive or the CD-ROM drive
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How USB Ports Work

Just about any computer that you buy today comes with one or more Universal Serial Bus connectors on the back. These USB connectors let you attach everything from mice to printers to your computer quickly and easily. The operating system supports USB as well, so the installation of the device drivers is quick and easy, too. Compared to other ways of connecting devices to your computer (including parallel ports, serial ports and special cards that you install inside the computer's case), USB devices are incredibly simple!

In this article, we will look at USB ports from both a user and a technical standpoint. You will learn why the USB system is so flexible and how it is able to support so many devices so easily -- it's truly an amazing system!

Anyone who has been around computers for more than two or three years knows the problem that the Universal Serial Bus is trying to solve -- in the past, connecting devices to computers has been a real headache!

• Printers connected to parallel printer ports, and most computers only came with one. Things like Zip drives, which need a high-speed connection into the computer, would use the parallel port as well, often with limited success and not much speed.

• Modems used the serial port, but so did some printers and a variety of odd things like Palm Pilots and digital cameras. Most computers have at most two serial ports, and they are very slow in most cases.

• Devices that needed faster connections came with their own cards, which had to fit in a card slot inside the computer's case. Unfortunately, the number of card slots is limited and you needed a Ph.D. to install the software for some of the cards.

The goal of USB is to end all of these headaches. The Universal Serial Bus gives you a single, standardized, easy-to-use way to connect up to 127 devices to a computer.

Just about every peripheral made now comes in a USB version. Detail

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