Windows 2000
Windows NT Workstation 5.0 is now called Windows 2000 Professional
Windows NT Server 5.0 is now Windows 2000 Server
Windows NT Server Enterprise Edition becomes Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Plus there is a new offering: Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
Windows 2000 Professional will be limited to support only two processors. Windows 2000
Server will be able to support up to four processors.
Windows 2000 Advanced Server will support up to eight processors.
And Windows 2000 Datacenter Server will support up to 32 processors and additional clustering functions.
It is recommended to have at least 64 MB RAM and 700- 900MB of disc space for Professional and even more for the other packages. For multi-processor configurations, 128MB of memory should be considered minimum.
Adobe had helped develop a new font called OpenType. That font builds Type 1 and TrueType capabilities into the OS.
The new “Find” command will allow the user to search for available printers on the network. You can specify search criteria to locate all the color printers on the network and then narrow the search by say, the tabloid-size color printer nearest you. Then, with a right click, the systen installs the printer driver, downloads a color management device profile automatically and you’re ready to print. It also has been revamped to now display graphical previews of found graphic images. It also offers a number of Internet-savvy features, uncluding live web links and Net searching.
It has a new color management system developed by Linotype-Hell to produce system wide color management that will also extend to Internet Explorer, so that on-line purchases will result in the color the customer expects.
Quark a former Mac-only product is now being ported for Windows.
The most obvious new feature of Windows 2000 is it’s so-called “intelligent menus”, which remember a user’s most-used selections. Thus, Windows 2000 learns to hide commands you don’t use often, although these hidden items can be seen by simply pausing at the Start Menu destination for a few seconds.
There is a brand new Device Manager that, combined with its plug and play hardware detection and large list of supported hardware, makes it a huge improvement over NT in overall hardware compatibility. New hardware supported it Windows 2000: Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP), DVD, FireWire (IEEE 1394), USB Devices, Advanced Configurable Power Interface (ACPI), Multiple monitors, etc.
“IntelliMirror” feature: the ability to automatically restore uninstalled drivers, deleted DLL’s, and other user settings, even if the user’s machine is replaced with a different one.
Windows hardware’s has played a vital role in current technology of computer era. Computer application has significantly changed the workloads and manual records and information keeping has been significantly managed easily. This has been tremendously associated with the respective improvements with the software and hardware application development and Windows Xp and windows 7 have been most powerful operating system used by many computer applicants and users.
For that hardware virtualisation is more beneficial to handle all servers together and provide data from data centre of server to user virtual desktop.
In Let America be America Again, Langston Hughes employs literary devices such as repetition and metaphors to convey the emotions of his hope, that one day America will return to the country of freedom it once was. Hughes starts the poem revealing that “equality is in the air we breathe”. He contradicts this within the first few stanzas of the poem, repeating phrases similar to “America never was America to me”. By constantly demonstrating his feelings of disappointment about the country, he calls home, he is able to express his longing for it to be the place he once remembers. Hughes is also able to convey his dissatisfaction with America’s ability to handle issues regarding equality within social statuses. Hughes states, “I am the young man,
This paper will argue that the industrial revolution allowed for the proliferation of fonts in the 19th century for two main reasons. First, there was an unprecedented need for new and eye-catching lettering to grab the attention of consumers a new variety of choices on the market. Secondly, the creation of new fonts was more affordable than ever due to the advancements in technology during the industrial revolution.
The ancient Maya once occupied a vast geographic area in Central America. Their civilization inhabited an area that encompasses Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and parts of the states of Chiapas and Tabasco, as well as Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador. "From the third to the ninth century, Maya civilization produced awe-inspiring temples and pyramids, highly accurate calendars, mathematics and hieroglyphics, and a complex social and political order" ("Collapse..." 1). Urban centers were important to the Maya during the Classic period; they offered the Mayans a central place to practice religion.
Although he believes it was better in the past, he sees America as some sort of fraud because it was never a bastion of freedom. This quote, “O, let my land be a land where Liberty / Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, / But opportunity is real, and life is free, / Equality is in the air we breathe. / (There’s never been equality for me, / Nor freedom in this “homeland of the free.”) (Hughes, 11-16) captures the fabrication that America was never the home of the free. There is this concept that America is a place of freedom and equality but Hughes understandably does not see it this way. He utilizes examples of many groups of people that have been persecuted either racially or economically such as poor white people, black slaves, Native Americans, and immigrants (Hughes, 19-22). These persecuted groups are overlooked and not given the basic freedoms promised in
During the nineteenth century and The Second Great Awakening, the rising market and the changing of women’s roles in society began affecting everything around society. Before the growth of the women’s roles, Matthias and the rest of the men in the community had control over the women, but as the women began gaining freedoms, the men lost their complete control over the ladies, and Matthias began to feel as if his rights as a man and as a laborer had been taken away (Fiorini, 3/10). The book’s has a strong relation to women’s rights during the era of The Second Great Awakening and the equality between men and women during the nineteenth century.
Everywhere in the world many different societies had many different great achievements that stood out like the Chinese built the Great Wall and the Egyptians made pyramids. But, one society I doubt you’ve heard of or talk about a lot are the Maya. The Mayans lived in current day Central America, which used to be called Mesoamerica. They lived there for 3,000 years, until 500 years ago. They had many great achievements and did many great things that is still in use today.
Another analysis of Hughes wishing America to be America again is when he refered to himself in the fifth stanza , line one, two and three; "Negro bearing slavery scars, red man driven from the land, and the immigrant clutching hope I seek--". Tracing back to history on how everything began, Hughes refrenced slavery...
For example on page 111, Hughes says, “Democracy will not come today, this year, nor ever through compromise and fear.” These first stanzas of his poem show that his freedom will not come anytime. Another example, on page 112, is, “I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course.”Tomorrow is another day. I do not need freedom when I’m dead.” Hughes is tired of people telling him to wait and “go with the flow” for freedom. He won't need freedom when he is dead, because he would not be alive anymore. Finally, in the very last stanzas on page 112, Hughes says, “Freedom is a strong a seed planted in a great need. I live here, too. I want freedom. Just as you.” Hughes says the freedom is seed that is needed to his people. He lives in America too, and he wants freedom just like another fellow from another race.
Maya civilization was based mainly on agriculture and religion. Maya every day life revolved around an innumerable number of earth Gods. The most important God was chief, ruler of all Gods. The Mayans prayed to these God’s particularly about their crops. For example, they prayed to the Rain God to nourish their crops. They practiced their religion during ceremonies conducted by priests. They also practiced confession and even fasted before important ceremonies (Gann and Thompson 1931 118-138). The Mayans also b...
As mentioned before, there are two ways that files may be accessed within Windows. One way is through the Command Line or otherwise known as the DOS (Disk Operating System) Command Prompt. This is the operating systems text-based command line shell program that allows for file access and file manipulation. Files are viewed, accessed, modified, and manipulated by typing text-based commands into the command line or DOS prompt.
"Alan Kay has remarked that had Vannevar Bush enjoyed working in all-night coffee shops, he would have invented the portable computer." (Press, 1993, p.31)
Over the past thirty years, Human Rights Watch has become one of the most recognized non-governmental organizations in the world due to its global promotion of human rights. But despite its claims to be an advocate of international human rights law, the reports issued by Human Rights Watch over the past decade have increasingly exhibited a bias towards certain rights over others. More precisely, Human Rights Watch repeatedly focuses on political and civil rights while ignoring social and economic rights. As a result, it routinely judges nations throughout the world
Overall Eliot’s allusions used in his poem The Waste Land all had purpose and related to something deeper. Wither it is love or the creation of life Eliot was able to make several connection to the reader and other writings. Eliot wrote his poem to announce to the world the devastation of the First World War. Eliot made references to biblical, mythical or and other forms of literary. Eliot used them to his advantage to show the social break down of the US after WWI. The Waste Land is truly a testament to T.S. Eliot and his modernistic style of writing.