Computer club discussion

Why buy ‘new’ computer equipment when you can get the same refurbished computer at up to 80% savings and there is no difference in the quality or warranty? Statistics show that people who have already bought a factory refurbished computer will never buy ‘new’ computer again! Manufacturers are so sure about their refurbished computer equipment that they offer the original warranties.

Exactly what is considered factory refurbished computer equipment?

A lot of things can be labeled factory refurbished. So frivolous are some that it’s silly enough to make you laugh! Consumer laws prevent manufacturers from selling anything considered factory refurbished as new, so the second consumer gets the best deal and it’s just like a new computer!

For example, most major retail stores offer a 30 day money back guarantee on their computer equipment and some consumers take advantage of this. So when the new computer is returned, the manufacturer inspects the product and repackages it like new. But it can’t be sold as new now so you get a great price with the original warranty, now it’s considered a refurbished computer. Other reasons may be the box was damaged in shipment and so it was returned, a slight defect, the defective part is replaced by the manufacturer, tested and then repackaged just like new. Maybe a minor cosmetic blemish on the casing that was corrected. Demonstration units are also considered factory refurbished computers. They are also inspected, tested and repackaged. The box was simply opened or brand new items that have been overstocked are also labeled factory refurbished.

It’s hard to tell the history of each and every refurbished computer item but whatever the reason for the refurbished label you can be sure that the computer equipment has been inspected and serviced by the manufacturer then tested and repackaged to meet original product specifications, just like a new computer. And like I said before, all computer equipment merchandise is warranted by the original manufacturer unless otherwise specified.

Why buy a refurbished computer?

Well, to save MONEY! Why not get the best value while getting the exact same computer equipment? Also, you get the original manufacturer’s warranty and get a much, much lower price on your new computer.

Now with refurbished computer equipment you can afford that item which has been just out of your reach because it cost too much. And you will get the same performance! Actually refurbished items have a much lower defect rate than new ones. Only one in ten units that come back for repair is usually a factory refurb! That is because they are closely tested before they are sold. The only difference you may notice is a little label on the outside of the box or simply a brown box. So think hard before your purchase, are you shopping smart?

A strong password really helps in securing your computing environment. In modern computerized working environment, you need to choose different passwords at different places or devices to implement system and network security. The password restricts unauthorized access to the system, network and specific devices secured with a password.

However, it will be a surprising fact for people with less IT knowledge (or just working knowledge of computing) that common passwords are only for novice people. Hackers and IT experts with sound knowledge of network security can break normal passwords within minutes. Even best firewalls and security hardware cannot protect you from brilliant and destructive mind of sophisticated cybercriminals.

Well the question arises, do we have any solution to keep our home of office systems, networks and devices secure from any such intrusion? The answer is YES. But, that is not possible through any software or hardware, because any security software or hardware is secure only for some time. Hackers and sniffers find out the way to break this security implementation very soon. The only solution is choosing a strong password for you. Well, choosing a strong password that is tough to guess, break or crack is not too tough, but tricky.

You need to follow some very old rules and guidelines for selection of a perfect password. Normally, people choose a convenient password for them that is easy to remember for them but tough to guess to others. A common password selected by a normal people can be the name of his/her spouse, kids or the place where they live; sometime people choose their date of birth or anniversary as password; some smart people make a combination of both. However, all these strategies are unsecure for you.

Always remember, that hackers don’t only rely on guessing a password. They believe in using several strong password-cracking programs to crack your password. These smart and destructive programs can try to match all words of a dictionary as your password within minutes. So you will end up losing your password if it’s a word found in dictionary. So it’s better to keep your smartness aside and follow these simple guidelines:

1. Never use a word from dictionary as your password,

2. Don’t think that a word or phrase with multiple characters is an ideal password,

3. Use a strong combination of alphabets, numbers and special characters as your password,

4. Keep your password secret, never share password with anyone,

5. It’s better to choose a passphrase as your password, and at last

6. Keep changing your password periodically.

Following the above guidelines can save you from password theft and provide you a secure working environment.

Would you be interested in finding a software program system that provides lists of thousands of double opt-in prospects, state of the art software, operated from your desk top, which allows you to present your ads daily at the click of a button.

Traffic

• The No.1 thing you must have to be successful online.
• It doesn’t matter what you sell you simply must have traffic. Getting Targeted Traffic, not just any old traffic, is the key to success. You may have the best gizmo in the world, the best website money can buy, but if you don’t have traffic you don’t make sales.

There are many ways to get traffic to your website.

• There is Pay per Click through Google and other similar sites.

• You can buy traffic
• You can pursue free traffic methods.
• There is social networking, Blogs, traffic exchanges and an endless list of similar systems available.

All of these can be successful to some extent if you are an expert in these fields. However, you will find problems along the way with most systems requiring lots of time and money.

• If you have been trying to find a successful method of attracting traffic to your site you will know the frustrations involved.
• Like most people you will have wasted time and money on useless products.
• You know all about the money being in the List. But how do you get a list if you can’t even get visitors to your site.

Problem solved.  You no longer need to use these costly time consuming and uncertain marketing methods.             .

Thankfully with modern technology you can now benefit from software that can take away the guess work and the time consuming effort required to pursue any of these methods.

• You are now able to have your own Click of a Button software program that will provide you with selected double opt-in leads and allow you to email your ads to them daily.
• The software used to deliver this program is state of the art that allows you to perform the total operation from your desk.

Yes, a software program such as this does exist and can be a magical boost to all of your online marketing programs.

I have studied internet marketing for several years and seen the endless problems faced by the online marketer, the constant and costly search for a way to get traffic to their site.

As a way to get connected with a large number of prospective buyers I consider this to be the best method of reaching selected Targeted traffic I have seen.

If you are serious about internet marketing it will certainly be in your interests to thoroughly check out the contents and benefits included in this program.

Your problem is you need to reach more customers? You have nagging concerns that you could be doing a lot more with your business. You may even have an existing web site but like most people it’s static and not very active. Your situation is that you have limited exposure to the internet and the World Wide Web.
You also do not have enough knowledge to make good use of the internet and in-house expertise is not something you want or needed. However you know for a fact that you need to gain more business and help your business succeed through the use of technology.
Imagine how much more money you could make with your very own additional sales person helping increase your internet marketing capabilities 24 by 7. Imagine this sales person costs very little to operate once the sales person is set, trained and educated on your business. Imagine even better that this sales person can communicate with your customers on the issues that are top most on their mind at that moment. Further imagine this very inexpensive sales person can help coach your customers and make a decision to buy your product and service.
Now envision that all of these internet, office, voice and customer focused capabilities are being done without you being in attendance. Sounds too good, to be true? Well read on and I think you will see these benefits are worthwhile to investigate further.
A dozen reasons to explore electronic sales help in the use of your internet marketing online campaigns are because electronic sales help can:

- deliver your internet marketing message using both sight and sound

- make you seem alive and working 24 x 7

- help you maintain and increase your customer base

- takes advantage of IOVC extremely customer focused technologies

- serve your customers when you are not physically present

- actually converse with your customer

- help you address a specialized market

- help you to go international very inexpensively

- address the many diverse cultures of the world in their language

- be adapted to each market as you change the focus of your sales campaigns

- grabs people’s attention and cause them to spend more time on your website

- deliver a way to differentiate yourself from your competition
As stated, since the World Wide Web is just that, world wide, you need tools and technology that provide these benefits. These benefits are powerful because in conjunction with IOVC technology, electronic sales help speaks and reflects a real world character that can be human like in nature.
IOVC technical office services and solutions with an electronic sales help character allow you to build human like characters that speak, dress, think and respond to your customers as electronic sales people. An electronic sales person as part of your internet marketing strategy is powerful because it allows you to rapidly provide customer focused solutions. Your office processes become enhance because you now have office personal on the web and of course using their voice to communicate with customers. So electronic sales help meets the IOVC (internet, office and voice and customer) focus paradigms.
Your internet marketing strategy is great because you can just place them on a standard sales website page. But more importantly and definitely more relevant, is the electronic sales person speaks to a specific need based on customer action of the moment.
Research has shown that virtual electronic salespeople, such as those provided by various characters based development companies can increase your conversion and sales. As some early implementers’ have stated “These tools give your business the opportunity to talk directly to site visitors about a complex subject and make them feel welcome and comfortable.”
Now that you understand the major benefits and you know that a static non interactive websites loses customers, animated talking characters become a major benefit to helping you acquire and retain business as part of your online internet marketing strategy.
Knowing that your website and internet marketing tools are critical success factors in today’s global economy; you need to get on with using and understanding this key online internet marketing tool that is part of the IOVC technology framework. With the proper introduction to the electronic, animated talking business technology, you can quickly learn how to use this electronic sales tool to improve your profits, gain more customers and improve your bottom line. You owe it to yourself to get additional electronic sales help that works for free 24 x 7.

The market for open source and free software is surging high with its appreciation in mainstream segment also. The free software products like Linux or others are moving from the walled boundaries of servers to desktops and laptops. Recently, launched Ultra low cost laptops were supported on Linux and that came as a major breakthrough for it to garner some spotlight from tech analysts.

But still the concept of free software and open source software is not clear with many of us. We are confused at the basic level and interchanging the terms for each other. We use the terms Free Source and Open Source interchangeably and get them confused with the concept that they are available for free.

To some extent the concept gels with what we consider “available for free” but not in complete sense. The word “free” is basically the misnomer. We confuse it with “free burgers” but it should be considered for “free speech”. No doubt that some softwares from both the communities are available for free of cost and are offered as free downloads but not all utilities.

The two communities working with the aim of offering freedom to developers are working in the same direction but are literally and fundamentally different in their approaches. Till 1998, they were more or less same but after that the two movements separated with a different prospective, a different philosophy, and different motives.

The commonality in both the approaches is the open availability of source code to developers but the aim backing this approach is different with both the communities.

Where Free Software Community lays stress on providing source code to developers with the aim that user is free to do what he wish with the software’s source code. It is more philosophical in nature.

However, Open Source believes in offering source code to users with the aim that collaborative efforts can bring more subtle results. It has motivation that users can freely provide their suggestions for the source code and can append it to the existing one if results provided are efficient enough.

Both the communities lay stress on redistribution of code with no restrictions but the principles and motivations are different.

Where one seeks the liberty provided to users; the other targets the development of more efficient software programs with collaborative approach. Against the philosophical methodology of Free Software Community, the Open Source Community is driven by more practical reasons.

To some years the movements were working as a common alliance and Open Source was used as a marketing term for free software to reduce the ambiguity; but to worst it added more problems. So finally the two movements parted and started their own way.

Where the software developed by open source are more or less fits to zero-cost category, nothing like that can be defined for free software. To define it better, nothing which is free of cost can be a tailored fit for both the communities but cannot be turned off even.

Open Source is opposite to original context of Free Software. Free Software aims the freedom of users but Open Source aims the collaborative approach. The former stresses that users can freely see, modify and redistribute the code but latter has the approach that users can see the code but cannot modify it to suit its needs. In OSS, the liberty availed is in accordance of specific licensing agreements allowing one to fiddle with the code.

Free Software values freedom offered to users but Open Source believes in team development of software. Where one can be attached to social movement, the other is a development methodology. Both are against the patents and proprietary software, but cannot go hand in hand due to disagreement on certain principles.

To ask you, is GNU/ Linux is a free software or open source software? Cannot answer surely; Linux is not an open source software but a product of free software community (as you are free to make modifications).

At crux, it can be said that both are different movements with differing principles but are fighting against the common objective “Proprietary Software”.