Software licensing – Part 1
When purchasing software you don’t actually buy the software, but a licence to use it under specific restrictions. Below is a list of licence types […]
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Software licensing – part 2
When purchasing software you don’t actually buy the software, but a licence to use it under specific restrictions. Below is a list of licence types. […]
Digital Signatures
Digital signatures are very much like handwritten signatures, they are proof of authenticity. Digital signatures are one of the three data protection methods of authentication. […]
Centralised vs Distributed Databases
Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) support centralised and distributed databases. A centralised database system is in one location (head office, data centre) and accessed from […]
ICT Code of Conduct
An ICT (Information, Communication and Technology) Code of Conduct is an agreement between a business and its employees. It outlines the expectations of how employees […]
Role of Drivers
A computer driver (or device driver) acts as an interface between an Operating System and a hardware device. Each hardware device (mouse, keyboard, graphics card, […]
Roles of an Operating System
While you may consider Graphical User Interface (GUI) as a prime role of an OS that would be in error (some Embedded OS’s have no […]
Types of Operating Systems
When referring to types of Operating Systems in this course you do not refer to “Windows”, “Linux”, “Mac OSX” etc. We refer to the category […]
Network performance
There are a number of factors that affect the performance of a network. Bandwidth Bandwidth is how much data is transferred over time. It is […]
Network Attached Storage and Storage Area Networks
Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Network (SAN) are both types of storage available to multiple computers over a network. They provide centralised storage […]