COMPONENT OF THE INTERNET

9. MUD/MUSH/MOO/MUCK/DUM/MUSE

MUD stands for Multi User Dimension. MUDs, and their variations listed above, are multi-user virtual reality games based on simulated worlds. Traditionally text based, graphical MUDs now exist. There are MUDs of all kinds on the Internet, and many can be joined free of charge. For more information, read one of the FAQs devoted to MUDs available at the FAQ site at http://mud.ca

COMPONENT OF THE INTERNET

4. FTP

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. This is both a program and the method used to transfer files between computers. Anonymous FTP is an option that allows users to transfer files from thousands of host computers on the Internet to their personal computer account. FTP sites contain books, articles, software, games, images, sounds, multimedia, course work, data sets, and more.

If your computer is directly connected to the Internet via an Ethernet cable, you can use one of several PC software programs, such as WS_FTP for Windows, to conduct a file transfer.

FTP transfers can be performed on the World Wide Web without the need for special software. In this case, the Web browser will suffice. Whenever you download software from a Web site to your local machine, you are using FTP. You can also retrieve FTP files via search engines such as FtpFind, located at /http://www.ftpfind.com/. This option is easiest because you do not need to know FTP program commands.

COMPONENTS OF THE INTERNET

3. TELNET

Telnet is a program that allows you to log into computers on the Internet and use online databases, library catalogs, chat services, and more. There are no graphics in Telnet sessions, just text. To Telnet to a computer, you must know its address. This can consist of words (locis.loc.gov) or numbers (140.147.254.3). Some services require you to connect to a specific port on the remote computer. In this case, type the port number after the Internet address. Example: telnet nri.reston.va.us 185.

Telnet is available on the World Wide Web. Probably the most common Web-based resources available through Telnet have been library catalogs, though most catalogs have since migrated to the Web. A link to a Telnet resource may look like any other link, but it will launch a Telnet session to make the connection. A Telnet program must be installed on your local computer and configured to your Web browser in order to work.

With the increasing popularity of the Web, Telnet has become less frequently used as a means of access to information on the Internet.

4 alternatives way before crash your harddisk

Do not trigger the hardisk although you do not use it again. Discover how other, more telling, than the need to dredge the warehouse to find a hammer. 

A leading consumer magazine advise owners to destroy computer hard drives if the computer will sell. Section, there are many risks involved personal data from hard drives will be revealed, although the former is already formatted. 

Quoted detikINET from ITportal, Saturday (10/1/2009), this is the way that some consider to be used on the computer before the end (if necessary), decided to destroy hard drives: 

1. Use DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke) if you plan to sell computers through Ebay. DBAN work "clean" computer. All content can be automatically erased before you gave it fell in the hands of other people. But you need to create a CD that can be in the first-boot, or you use a DVD ISO file. 
   
2. Other way is to fill the space on the disk drive with the files to the full and suppress the files before. For example, ISO download copies of any Linux distribution and all the coffee (if you use Windows). After all filled, and format. 
   
3. You can also retrieve all the data available, mengkompresnya, them use a strong password, and then format the disk drive is. This is to cope when there are people who will be fraudulent merecover files that. 
   
4. But if you want to remove your computer and the levying of all, if not better, if only for the menyumbangkannya charity events or to your nearest friend?