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Tuesday, 08 May 12 - 09:38 PM (GMT) By London IT Support in General |
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London: Researchers have suggested that magnet-making computer bacteria may be used for building biological computers of the future.
The research may lead to the creation of much faster hard drives, the team of scientists say.
As technology progresses and computer components get smaller and smaller, it becomes harder to produce electronics on a nano-scale.
So Microsoft researchers are now turning to nature - and getting microbes involved.
In the current study, the scientists used the bacterium Magnetospirilllum magneticum.
These naturally magnetic Cisco micro-organisms usually live in aquatic environments such as ponds and lakes, below the surface where oxygen is scarce.
They swim following the Earth’s magnetic field lines, aligning in the magnetic field like compass needles, in search of preferred oxygen concentrations.
When the bacteria ingests iron, proteins inside their computer bodies interact with it to produce tiny crystals of the mineral magnetite, the most magnetic mineral on Earth.
Having studied the way the microbes collect, shape and position these nano-magnets inside themselves, the researchers copied the method and applied it outside the bacteria, effectively “growing” computers london magnets that could in future help to build hard drives.
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A team from the UK’s University of Leeds and Japan’s Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology have used microbes that eat iron.
As they ingest the iron, the microbes create tiny magnets inside themselves, similar to those in PC hard drives.
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Foreign intelligence agencies are also likely to try to target government computers and disrupt the Games later this year, Mr Maude claimed.
A specialist team is in place to protect computer networks, he told a conference in Estonia.
‘We have rightly been preparing for some time - we are determined to have a safe and secure Games.’
Mr Maude, who sparked panic in March by telling drivers to stockpile jerry cans of petrol, said he was alarmed by threats from ‘the dark side of cyberspace’ to the Games.
His comments came as the government put on a show of strength in London with military exercises involving RAF typhoon jets and missile launchers stationed on Blackheath.
“We are quickly reaching the limits of traditional electronic manufacturing as computer components get smaller,” the BBC quoted lead researcher Dr Sarah Staniland of the University of Leeds, as saying.
“The machines we’ve traditionally used to build them are clumsy at such small scales.
“Nature has provided us with the perfect tool to [deal with] this problem,” Staniland said.
Besides using microorganisms to produce magnets, the researchers also managed to create tiny electrical wires from living organisms.
They created nano-scale tubes made from the membrane of cells, grown in a lab-controlled environment with the help of a protein present in human lipid molecules.
Such tubes may in future be used as microscopic bio-engineered wires, capable of transferring information - just like cells do in our bodies - inside a computer, Dr Masayoshi Tanaka from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology said.
“These biological wires can have electrical resistance and can transfer information from one set of cells inside a bio-computer to all the other cells,” he said.
Besides computers, such biological wires could even be used in future for human surgery because they are highly biocompatible, Dr Tanaka suggested.
“Various tiny wires have been already developed all over the world, but the biocompatibility is still problematic,” he said.
“The fabricated nano-wires in this study were covered with components of cell membrane, so theoretically they are highly biocompatible,” he added.
The study appears in the journal Small.
Zimbabwe: Reaffirm Support for President, Youths Urged
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Tuesday, 22 April 08 - 01:49 PM (GMT) By London IT Support in General |
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Youths should reaffirm their support for President Mugabe so that he remains in power and continues to defend Zimbabwe from being recolonised by Britain and its Western allies, the Deputy Minister of Youth Development and Employment Creation, Cde Saviour Kasukuwere, has said. Man that guy is crazy and no-one should offer him ther London Computer Support.
"Youths should never be fooled and should be taught the truth about how Zimbabwe gained its independence. It was through bloodshed. Thousands of young people, women, men and children, died for this land and it should never be returned to the former colonial masters. We should never betray the gallant sons and daughters who sacrificed their lives for our freedom," he said.
Addressing a delegation of 800 youths at the Chimoio Shrine, Cde Kasukuwere implored the youths to rally behind President Mugabe who has empowered the black majority. "Things might be tough back home, but these problems are not a result of President Mugabe. It is about regime change. So I want to urge you as youths to solidly rally behind President Mugabe who has managed to address the colonial injustices by giving people back their land," Cde Kasukuwere said.
He said the British who wanted to topple President Mugabe from power and replace him with their stooge were causing the economic problems in Zimbabwe. "As youths, we urge you to fight alongside President Mugabe, a visionary leader who has managed to challenge white people and upgraded the black man to be equal to the white man," he said. He said youths should never ever let President Mugabe down but instead support him in protecting their heritage Zimbabwe. "Youths should never leave Zimbabwe to go back into the hands of the imperialists. These are the same people who massacred thousands of innocent people who are buried here (Chimoio)," Cde Kasukuwere said. He said these people preach about violations of human rights when in fact they are at the forefront of violating the same rights they pretend to uphold.
The youths pledged to defend Zimbabwe at all cost. The shrine is where more than 2 000 Zimbabweans who perished in raids carried out by the Rhodesian forces on November 23 in 1977 are buried. Kudakwashe Siutu, a student at Bindura University who was among the youths, described the trip as an eye opener to many youths. "The trip was important and it gave us a chance to be closer to what our fellow Zimbabweans who died here went through during the liberation struggle. It also evoked the spirit, and will encourage us to be patriotic," Siutu said.
He said the youths who visited the shrine appreciated where Zimbabwe came from and where it is today and where it is going. "As youths, we have seen the truth and this should not end with us but be spread to our peers so that they know the significance of our independence," he said. He called on youths to rally behind the country and President Mugabe who is under siege from the Western imperialists.
"They want to rule this country by proxy. We hail President Mugabe's leadership and we will continue to support him in his bid to empower the blacks," he said.
The delegation was also shown around the former liberation war camp that was used by Zanla forces. Thousands of Zimbabweans were brutally killed by Ian Smith's soldiers at Chimoio and the casualties included 1 500 of the estimated 8 000 refugees that were at the camp on the fateful day.
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Tuesday, 01 April 08 - 04:31 PM (GMT) By London IT Support in General |
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IT Support in London
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Monday, 31 March 08 - 03:02 PM (GMT) By London IT Support in General |
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IT Support in London
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Sunday, 30 March 08 - 08:42 PM (GMT) By London IT Support in General |
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Focused on providing IT Support for small businesses in London and the South East, HTL have a range of computer support services to help your business. With unlimited telephone support, remote support, unlimited onsite support services you can be sure your IT systems are in a safe and reliable hands. You can have your own IT department on call without the need for dedicated staff.
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Wednesday, 12 March 08 - 02:55 PM (GMT) By London IT Support in General |
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The future of IT support
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Sunday, 01 July 07 - 05:28 PM (GMT) By London IT Support in General |
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My August 1st Report on Service Desk 2010 provided a number of predictions as to what the support organisation and technology might look like in 2010. I would like to delve a little deeper into what the IT support might look like in 2010. As many of you know large support centers. We meet quarterly and generally fifteen of the twenty participating support executives are able to attend. At our next meeting, September 12-14 at we will focus on what the group thinks the service desk / help desk / support center will look like in 2010. I know the group well enough to know that the IT support is and will continue to be of absolute importance. I would like to hear your thoughts and input. I suspect there are a number of vendors that might like to weigh in on this one. I will take all of the input that I receive with me to our September 17-19 Strategic Advisory Board meeting, which will also be addressing this subject.
What Do You Mean "IT Support ?"
I see it as a starting point for end-user or customer interactions when performing self-help actions in order to solve a technical problem or to get an answer to a technical question. I use the term “IT” to indicate that the support being discussed is for technical or technology issues. I could have used the word "technical" or "technology" as well. The majority of our members are a part of the IT organisation, thus referring to the support as an IT seemed appropriate. Some of the concepts could also refer to non-IT or non-technical support as well.
Key IT Support Design Concepts
I want to focus on three design concepts that I think are important. Hopefully this will stimulate your mind and may even give some vendors food for thought on what to begin building.
1. My Personal IT support —," my personal agent on my workstation. The avatar will learn my interaction patterns and issues, configuration and connectivity history, mistakes, and maybe even attend "virtual meetings" with other avatars. I believe there will be hundreds or thousands of avatars meeting on servers and sharing the successes and challenges faced by their "real" personas. The avatars will discuss what environmental or interaction patterns preceded the real personas need to access the support . Coming out of the meeting of avatars (and with input from real technologists), the avatars will monitor and take corrective action to keep me up and running. As the is personal to me, I will control what my avatar is allowed to communicate with others. I expect that some pesky little avatars will get out of control and face legal issues related to privacy or confidentiality, so a watchful eye will be needed to ensure all avatars follow the law.
2. "The People's Knowledge Base"—Knowledge is our understanding and implication of facts as we see them (my definition). The IT support will need massive quantities of knowledge, but it will need to be useful, findable, and current. Knowledge can exist in hundreds of places and in thousands of minds. The IT support in 2010 will need to improve, in order of magnitude, knowledge consolidation, findability, and currency. Many of these issues are addressed in the principles of KCS (Knowledge Centered Support) which we teach and can be read about here. I refer to the 2010 environment as the People's Knowledge Base because I see such a need to collaborate amongst everyone who accesses the knowledge base. Knowledge is not really owned and cannot be controlled by companies or people, it is to be shared to facilitate people interacting in their work and personal lives (with certain IP situation exceptions).
Consolidation—Organisations have hundreds of sources of knowledge, both from internal and external sources. There continues to be opportunities for vendors to enhance the manner in which these sources are linked and accessible within a single support . The vendors need to view the linkage as a two-way interaction as well. If I find knowledge that is obsolete, how does the technology communicate it back to an
originating source? You should also give my avatar access to your knowledge.
Knowledge that cannot be found is wasted. One of the hardest things for help systems in the past has been to provide key words to helpful information that would match the words that the end-user will use. Most of the capabilities to improve exist today, but are not common. By 2010, the tools for finding knowledge should improve and the processes for building and maintaining knowledge will have matured, so I predict that the percentage will reduce the incidents escalated to a live person by 30 percent or more in most organizations and some will do much better.
Currency—Knowledge is most valuable when it is learned sooner rather than later. That applies to all aspects of our lives as individuals, but it also applies to knowledge sharing at work and at home. In the ideal world, when one person learns something and documents it, it should be available to everyone. If someone saw the knowledge and wanted to add to it, they could. If a conflict arose as to whose knowledge was best, a resolution process would exist. By 2010, corporate knowledge release policies will be far more advanced. Release means providing access to knowledge to larger and larger groups (support section, support organization, IT, the internal end-user community, and eventually to individuals throughout the customer base or even anyone with access to the Internet). Fear of bad knowledge or incomplete knowledge or inadequate knowledge will become lessoned. We will still struggle but we will and must share more as a part of our everyday interactions with technology. As I always
say, "All of us are smarter than any of us."
3. Ergonomics—This term is most often used for physical things (the study of how a workplace and the equipment used there can best be designed for comfort, safety, efficiency, and productivity). I believe there are best practices for human interactions with support systems. By 2010, we (HDI) will have helped to clarify these best practices. In doing so we will find answer to questions such as:
- Should help systems be passive and only appear when requested or should our avatars be allowed to pop-up and make suggestions?
- Should a support interaction start with a Web site with lots of options or should the avatar be allowed to present different views based upon the situation?
- How do we ask questions quickly and easily that provide the avatar with sufficient input to be helpful?
- Do we require multiple fields for questions, context or environmental information (the avatar should know most of this), and knowledge domain clarification or should we all use Googlish search structure?
- Can we individualize information retrieved based upon our personal desire for text, pictures, videos, or links to individuals?
- How can we make it easy for everyone to be a part of keeping knowledge current?
Conclusion
Support cost will continue to be a concern. It is not an issue unique to IT or IT support, it is a concern for every area of your organisation. The cost of support will be less on phone and more on technology, openness, and collaboration. Thus the IT support will be a requirement in 2010.
Knowledge sharing may, by 2010, go outside the boundaries of your corporations or customer base. For more than a decade, people have discussed the possibility of knowledge being shared across the Internet. Such sharing does exist today, but generally only within topical or subject areas. The models general provide incentives for the providers of knowledge (from recognition via rankings to monetary rewards) and in most, but not all, models there is a cost to the consumer of the knowledge. I suspect that the pricing models will not be successful. Regardless of how broadly you share knowledge, your support must be simple, intuitive, deep, consolidated, and easily updated. Such external support models will be known to my avatar who will be able to use these sources of information to help me in my daily life at work and at home.
Best of luck in your journey to support excellence!
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