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This Computer lab, called the I.T. room by Marling School for boys, is laid out in such a way as to reduce cabling clutter, and maximise space for workstations.
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A computer lab is a room which contains many computers, printers and other electronic equipment designed for public use. Computer labs can be found in libraries, schools, government buildings, science labs, and research centers. In addition, some companies such as Kinkos or Mail Boxes Etc. provide labs with computers to use for an hourly fee. Computers are used for research and other reasons. Computers in these labs may have software installed to limit, trace, or block certain activities. Macintosh computers may have software such as the older At Ease or the newer MacAdministrator. Windows computers may have protection software such as Fortres or Deep Freeze, and often contain network applications, like Novell NetWare for network security and administration. Due to the high number of computers in a lab, many lab administrators choose to use remote administration software such as VNC. Computer labs in schools often have classroom management software installed to manage and control student computer activity from the teacher’s computer, to monitor or prevent web browsing and to remotely control student computers.

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The computers are often in a computer network. The computers may also be thin clients.

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computer is a machine which manipulates data according to a list of instructions.

Computers take numerous physical forms. The first devices that resemble modern computers date to the mid-20th century (around 1940 - 1941), although the computer concept and various machines
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A computer printer, or more commonly a printer, produces a hard copy (permanent human-readable text and/or graphics) of documents stored in electronic form, usually on physical print media such as paper transparencies.
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library is a collection of information, sources, resources, and services: it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual. In the more traditional sense, a library is a collection of books.
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school is an institution where students (or "pupils") learn while under the supervision of teachers. In most systems of formal education, students progress through a series of schools: primary school, secondary school, and possibly a university ,
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government is a body that has the power to make and the authority to enforce rules and laws within a civil, corporate, religious, academic, or other organization or group.[1]
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laboratory (informally, lab) is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific research, experiments, and measurement may be performed. The title of laboratory
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FedEx Kinko's

Subsidiary
Founded 1970
Headquarters Dallas, Texas

Key people Kenneth A. May, CEO
Industry Office services
Products Photocopying, printing, shipping
Employees 19,000 (2006)
Parent FedEx Corporation
Website Kinko's Homepage
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Mail Boxes Etc., Inc.

Subsidiary
Founded 1980
Headquarters San Diego, California

Products Packing, Shipping, Postal, & Business Services
Parent United Parcel Service
Mail Boxes Etc., Inc.
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Computer software is a general term used to describe a collection of computer programs, procedures and documentation that perform some task on a computer system. [1]
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Macintosh, commonly known as Mac, is a brand name which covers several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. Named after the McIntosh variety of apple, the original Macintosh was released on January 24, 1984.
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At Ease was an alternative to the Macintosh desktop developed by Apple Computer in the early 1990s. It provided a simple environment for new Macintosh users to help them to work without supervision.
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MacAdministrator is a network administration product developed, supported and distributed by Hi Resolution. It is used on Macintosh computers and computer networks running Mac OS - from Mac OS 7.5.3 to 9.2.
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Microsoft Windows

Screenshot of Windows Vista Ultimate, the latest version of Microsoft Windows.
Company/developer: Microsoft Corporation
OS family: MS-DOS/9x-based, Windows CE, Windows NT
Source model: Closed source

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Deep Freeze is a "reboot to restore" piece of computer software created by Faronics software company of North America.

Operating Systems

Deep Freeze is compatible with Microsoft's Windows Operating Systems - including Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000,
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NetWare is a network operating system developed by Novell, Inc. It initially used cooperative multitasking to run various services on a PC, and the network protocols were based on the archetypal Xerox XNS stack.
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In computing, Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a graphical desktop sharing system which uses the RFB protocol to remotely control another computer. It transmits the keyboard and mouse events from one computer to another, relaying the graphical screen updates back in the
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as a college campus, industrial complex, or a military base. A CAN, may be considered a type of MAN (metropolitan area network), but is generally limited to an area that is smaller than a typical MAN.
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thin client (sometimes also called a lean client) is a client computer or client software in client-server architecture networks which depends primarily on the central server for processing activities, and mainly focuses on conveying input and output between the user and the
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internet café or cybercafé is a place where one can use a computer with Internet access, most for a fee, usually per hour or minute; sometimes one can have unmetered access with a pass for a day or month, etc.
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Tech Center may refer to:
  • Temple TECH Center
The TECH Center is a computer lab and technology center, located at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Temple University is a university in Philadelphia. Temple University was founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell and became known as Temple College in 1888. In 1907, the college became a fully accredited university.
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Computer Laboratory at Cambridge is the computer science department of University of Cambridge. It was founded as the Mathematical Laboratory under the leadership of John Lennard-Jones on 14 May 1937, though it did not get properly established until after World War II.
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The Oxford University Computing Laboratory (OUCL) is the computer science department at Oxford University in England. It was originally set up under the direction of Leslie Fox in 1957.
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Computer science, or computing science, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems.
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