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It has come to my attention that the latest definition update has made Sophos Antivirus has been causing false positive detections that may leave the client in a broken state. This is relevant because Montclair State Office of Information Technology uses Sophos as a primary virus protection agent on all university machines and distributes it's copies to all students and instructors.

The hard drive is the hardware component responsible for permanently storing all your data. Whenever you save documents, grab vacation pictures from your phone, download music from the internet, or mark websites as favorites, that information is stored on the hard drive. In most cases, your computer has only a single hard drive, and if anything happens to it, all your data can be lost. It is quite ironic that the hard drive is actually the most fragile and damage prone part of your computer.

The scaling of memory measurement units can be a little bit ambiguous. An unscrupulous hardware manufacturers used a technicality to swindle thousands of customers until they got caught. All because of a disagreement about what the exact meaning of the prefixes such as "Mega" and "Giga" when talking about computer memory.

I have noticed that OIT does not provide documentation on how to mount and access MSUWEB shares on Unix and Linux. They only provide instructions on how to mount it under Windows XP, Windows 7 and OSX. Here is my attempt to fill that void.

IBM PC was not an exceptionally powerful machine. There was nothing special about it's hardware specifications, performance or even the CPU architecture. It was nowhere near the best, fastest of most competently designed machine on the market. But, the way IBM went about selling it drastically changed the computing landscape for years to come.