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Thistime the router uses the IP address of thebrowser computer to work out the bestavailable path for each packet.As the packets arrive at the browsercomputer they're combined to form theLISTENING SCRIPTwebpage you requested and aredisplayed in your browser.UNIT 15IJInterview: Wepage CreatorInterviewer How long has your site beenup?John Just a couple of months. It's brandnew.I What's your site all about?J It's called The Movie Shrine, www.themovieshrine.com, and it's just a sitewith movie reviews, strange things I'venoticed about certain films, and lots oflinks to other movie sites.I Why dedicate your site to this subject?J I decided to make a site about moviesbecause I've been a huge movie fan fora longtime.
Right now, films are mybiggest hobby.I What makes your site special?J I guess my site is just a little lessformal than most of the film sites onthe Internet. I've tried to make thelayout unique and include material formovie fans of all types. It's for peoplewho like movies of all kinds.
There areplenty of sites for fans of particularactors or genres of movies like sci-fi,horror, films noirs and so on.I How did you create your site?J I created the site pretty easily usingNetscape Composer, which is aprogram contained in NetscapeCommunicator. The actual address iswww.geocities.com/orangecow, but Igot a free domain name whichredirects it to the site.I What was the most difficult part?J Oh, the design. Just working out howthe site would look and how the pageswould link up. I'd tried to put up acouple of websites before but afterconstructing the main page, I'd lostinterest.I How did you get your domain name?J I got a free domain name fromwww.domainzero.com.The price of a'free' domain is that all kinds ofadvertising is sent to your email, butthat's a small price to pay.I Have you registered your site on asearch engine?J No, I haven't gotten around toregistering on a search engine yet.
I'mtold you have to really persevere to getlisted. Yahoo! just seems to swallowsubmissions.I Have you included links to other sites?J I include many links to other sites.That may be the best thing about myIJIJIJIJIJsite, the huge number of links. I'm alsoin a lot of Yahoo! Clubs and I've linkedto them too.Has anyone linked to you?Since my site hasn't been around forvery long at all, I don't think anybodyhas linked to me yet except for acouple of Yahoo! Clubs.How long do you spend updating yoursite?As often as possible but it's difficultduring the week.
My studies don'tleave me a lot of time and I've gotother interests. And I need to watchmovies sometimes! Generally oneupdate will take from forty-fiveminutes to an hour.What sort of feedback do you get fromvisitors?I haven't really gotten much feedbackso far except from people I know andthey like it, or say they do! I'm hopingthat after more people discover thesite I'll start to get more reactions viaemail.Do you have any tips for otherscreating a homepage?Pick a topic you're really interested in.Get a good domain name. Keep yoursite updated - nobody likes a staticsite.
I would look at lots of other sitestoo for good ideas.What do you intend to do next withyour site?I'm going to update the Movie Journalsection and I'd like to build in newlinks.What's your favourite site?It would ... my favourite site wouldhave to be the Internet MovieDatabase www.imdb.com. That's not avery original answer but that site justhas such a wealth of information aboutevery kind of movie that it's probablymy favourite.UNIT 16Communications SystemsIn the short term, computers are certainlygoing to become more powerful andthey'll also get cheaper. Erm, that meansthey'll become much more commonlyavailable.
It's likely they'll be integratedwith other devices, erm, and may evenbecome specialised ... specialised devicesyou throw away when they go wrong.Monitors are going to change fromcathode ray tube monitors to flat screenpanels because they take up less spaceand use less power. Erm, there's likely tobe devices used for security, biometric199devices, for scanning your eye or takingyour fingerprints. They'll be used insteadof passwords. Printing... printers ...colour printers, colour laser printers arebecoming cheaper so more printing willbe done in colour. Erm, you'll print yourholiday snaps straight from a laser. Theshape and design of computers are likelyto change and become much more variedbecause we can now construct themotherboards in flexible form. Er, on thesoftware side, companies are trying hardto improve voice control so you'll be ableto talk to your computer to control itwithout using a keyboard.Erm, yeh, another development which Iexpect to become more common in thenear future is video.
You'll be able to useyour computer as a video-recorder andedit video on your computer. I expect theway that software is sold will change too.Erm, instead of buying individualpackages people may rent or hire thecomponents they need - wordprocessoror whatever - and connect to them overthe Internet. Service providers will makedifferent components available and you'llbe charged a fee for the ones you use.In the longer term they won't be ableto make computers any more powerfulusing electronics so other methods maycome in for the data signals in thecomputer. Perhaps laser lights or evenquantum methods will be used.Computers will probably be integratedmore with TV systems and with telephonyand become much more communicationdevices. It's likely much smaller deviceswill be made ... probably built intoclothing so that you can walk aboutwearing a computer which will allow youto communicate wherever you go.
Athome our fridges, cookers and otherdevices almost certainly will be computercontrolled. In the longer term there mayeven be devices implanted into ourbodies to help people with disabilities.Computers might be implanted into thehuman brain. We might not call themcomputers in the future but they'll beeverywhere.UNIT 17Computing SupportDavid Hello, this is Apricot ComputersService Division. My name's David, howcan I help you?Jennifer Hello, my name is Jennifer andwe're having a problem with one of ourApricot computers.D Now can you tell me what model of200LISTENING SCRIPTcomputer you have?I Yeh, it's an Apricot LS 550.D An Apricot LS 550.
OK, is the computerstill under warranty?J Yes, we only got it a month ago. So itshould still be covered.D Can you give me the service tagnumber?J Yes, let me have a look. It's AM 964 ...70.D That's AM96470. Wait a moment andI'll just look it up in my database.... Isthat University of Edinburgh, 21 HillPlace?J Yes, that's us.D So can you describe what the problemis.) Well it doesn't seem to be playing MIDIsound files from the Internet.D Erm, MIDI sound files. Does it playother types of sound files?J Yeh.D And is it only when you're in thebrowser on the Internet that you'rehaving this problem?) No, we're getting the same fault whenwe use other programs like ... erm ...Microsoft Encarta.D Right.
What operating system are youusing?J Microsoft Windows.D Which version of Windows?) It's Windows 2000.D And what type of processor do youhave in the computer?J It's got a Pentium 3.D And how much RAM is installed?J Let's see ... 128 Megabytes.D Is the computer connected to any kindof network?J Yes, we have a LAN.D What type of network?J It's a Windows NT network.D OK. Right. It sounds as if you may havea driver fault.
Do you still have theoriginal driver disk you got with themachine?J Yes, we've only had it a month so it'sall there.D Well, you could try to reinstall thesound drivers and see if that cures theproblem. If that doesn't cure theproblem, can you contact us again andwe'll send you out some new drivers totry.I OK, I'll give that a try and get back toyou if we have a problem.D Er, if you're going to contact us againwith this problem, can you quotethis job number.If's E83095.I Er, just a moment. I need to get a pen.Can you repeat that?D OK, E ... 83095.) E83095.D That's correct.J Can I take down your name?D Yes, my name's David, David Lister.J OK, thank you, David and ...
er... we'llbe in touch if there's any furtherproblems.D OK.J Bye.D Bye.UNIT 20Interview: The ex-hackerPART 1Interviewer Ralph was one of two 18year-olds arrested in the 1990s forhacking into a large Americancompany. They got into the CEO'spersonal files and left a very rudemessage. Well, he's grown up a bit andhas been putting his knowledge tovery good use. He's now a computersecurity expert, a 'white hat" hackerwho uses his skills to make cyberspacesafer. Ralph, what exactly is hackingand how do you go about hacking intoa system?Ralph Hacking simply means getting intocomputer systems... you don't havepermission to get into.
Erm, there arevarious ways of doing it. You can get inby trying to guess somebody'spassword. Or you find a bug in acomputer system that will allow peoplewith certain passwords to get in wherethey shouldn't.I So you're sitting in front of yourcomputer... somewhere, how do youset about getting into someone else'ssystem?R Sometimes it's very simple. Peoplewho hack into systems for a livingbecause they're employed bycompanies to test their systems would say the first thing you do is tophone up someone who uses thesystem and you say 'Hello, I'm fromyour company.
We want to test a newsystem.... We need your password,please, so that we can include you inthe trial.' People are too trusting. Theynormally hand it over.That's the easy way. If that doesn'twork, then you find out by trying toconnect to it over the Internet. Andnormally that's not desperatelydifficult.Once you connect to the computer itwill...
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