CSIT 301: Week of 8/27/12

CSIT 301: The Week beginning Aug. 27

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Homework:

In a single Word document (which you can email)
- Read and summarize (in your own words) three of the following articles. Your combined summaries should be at least one page, double spaced.
  - Apple v. Samsung verdict is in: $1 billion loss for Samsung(Ars Technica)
  - New BIOS security standards aimed at fighting rootkit attacks (NetworkWorld)
  - Google raises ante for next Chrome hacking contest to $2M (ComputerWorld)
  - Inside the second: Gaming performance with today's CPUs(Ars Technica)
- Paste a screen capture of the System Information summary into your homework document. (Look up System Information in the computer's Help or run the msinfo32.exe command.) (Ask me if you don't know how to make a screen capture. It's very simple and very useful.)
- Define the following terms found on the system information summary: BIOS, physical memory, virtual memory, and page file space. (Cite any source you use.)
Due: Sept. 3
Monday:

Syllabus
Basic Units
Wednesday

Instructions from the Bottom Up

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