Becoming a Computer TrainerWritten by Roger Younce
Have you ever attended a computer course at a computer training center and really thought about much money they make on teaching students? I know when I first started taking classes it just amazed me on how much money training centers make for teaching many of most popular Microsoft Office courses offered today. Of course there is big money in certification courses, but majority of home and small business users just want to learn how to use products like Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook FrontPage and Access. That is were computer trainer comes in to equation. You see, many people do take courses at computer centers but many don't like to or have to travel to centers. Some students don't like large classroom environments so many don't even go. Don't even get me started on Computer Based Training (CBT) and Web Based Training (WBT) methods of teaching. Don't get me wrong, computer training centers are good and very attractive to public. Many of centers offer very good courses and have very knowledgeable instructors. The problem is they can't offer one-on-one assistance to customer like personal computer trainer can.
| | No Operating SystemWritten by Paul Siegel
Imagine a computer with no operating system. If you can do that, you can imagine a computer that is extremely difficult to hack into. A computer that is almost immune to viruses. A computer that rarely crashes. Too good to be true? No, such a computer has been invented. Eric Hauk and Eric Uner, 2 former Motorola engineers, invented this computer. They became so frustrated and annoyed by hack attacks and by all time they wasted installing software patches, that they decided to change their server. Instead of an operating system, they designed a chip storing a "kernel" of only about 4 Kilobytes of code. They founded Bodacion Technologies Inc. (http://www.bodacion.com) to market their computer, which is called Hydra. This is essentially same idea that is used for medical devices and for game-playing machines like Nintendo. Nintendo rarely breaks down even though young hackers are constantly trying. Why is an operating-system-less computer more sturdy than one with an operating system? What do many viruses do? Once they get into system they manage to modify operating-system instructions to kill whole system. But if operating-system instructions do not exist, or rather they exist in hardware, they cannot be modified. Result: a computer you can depend on.
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