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In 1975 Wozniak started attending meetings of a club called the Homebrew Computer Club. New microcomputers like the Altair 8800 and IMSAI inspired her to put a microprocessor into his video teletype to make it a complete computer.

At that time a lot of CPU available is the Intel 8080, $ 179 and Motorola 6800 $ 170. Wozniak is more interested in the Motorola 6800 but the price is too expensive. He was then unconscious and only computer design on paper.

When the MOS Technology 6502 chip manufacturing in 1976 with $ 20, Wozniak wrote a version of BASIC for the chip and started to design a computer to run it. 6502 chip was designed by the same person who had designed the Motorola 6800. Wozniak then managed to make the machine and took it to the meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club to be exhibited. At one meeting Wozniak met his old friend Steve Jobs is interested in the commercial potential of small computers.

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak had been friends since long. First met in 1971 when a friend introduced Wozniak who was then aged 21 years to Jobs who was 16 years old. Jobs persuaded Wozniak to make computers and sell them. Jobs approached a local computer store The Byte Shop who are interested in buying a computer but only the computer that came fully assembled, the store owner Paul Terrell said he would order 50 units pay $ 500 only.

Wozniak artificial computer only has a few advantages. One of them can use the TV as a monitor in which time many computers do not have a monitor at all. This monitor is not like modern monitors and displays only the text at 60 characters per second. This computer named Apple I and bootstrap code on ROM, which makes it easier to start. Finally, with coercion Paul Terrell Wozniak also designed a cassette mechanism to open and save the program with the speed of 1.200 bits / sec, a speed high enough at the time. Although the computer is fairly simple design is a masterpiece, using the number of components that are much less with similar computers and managed a reputation as a master designer Wozniak quickly.

Assisted by another friend Ronald Wayne, the three started to build the machines. By using a variety of ways, including borrowing space from friends and family, sell a variety of personal property (such as a calculator and a VW Combi), scavenging and a little deceiving. Jobs managed to get the components needed while Wozniak and Wayne make these computers. Completed and sent in June, they were paid as promised by Paul Terrell. In the end, 200 units of the Apple I's were built.

But Wozniak was more advanced than Apple I. Many of the design the Apple I made because of limited funds held by them to create a prototype. But with revenues from sales of the Apple I, he could begin production of more sophisticated computers, Apple II, Apple II was introduced to the public on the West Coast Computer Faire in April 1977.

The main difference with the Apple I is designed total TV view, where the view is stored in memory. In this way the monitor can display not only text can also display color pictures and in the end. At the same time emphasizing Jobs casing and keyboard design better with the idea that the machine should be complete and ready to lit. Apple I could almost like that but users still need to attach various parts together and write code to run BASIC.

Realizing make the computer as it will take a lot of cost. Jobs start looking for cash but Wayne's little doubt because he never experienced the company's failure four years earlier and eventually left the company. Jobs finally met with Mike Markkula which guarantees bank loans of $ U.S. 250,000 and the three of them form the company Apple Computer on April 1, 1976. With the funding and design new forms, the Apple II was released in 1977 and became a computer that is usually associated with the emergence of the PC market. Millions were sold until the 1980s. When Apple went public in 1980, they generate the most funds since Ford went public in 1956.

He was also awarded a national medal for technology, also getting honorary doctorates from Kettering University and Nova Southeastern University.

This time he was not working full time again at Apple and a senior lecturer in a technology school.

Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, KBE (TimBL or TBL) (born in London, England, June 8, 1955) is the inventor of the World Wide Web and the chairman of the World Wide Web Consortium, which regulate their development.

In 1980, when still a free contractor at CERN, Berners-Lee proposed a project based on the concept of hypertext (hypertext) to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers. With help from Robert Cailliau he built a prototype system named Enquire.

After leaving CERN to work at John Poole's Image Computer Systems Ltd, he returned in 1984 as a fellow researcher. He used similar ideas that he used in Enquire to create the World Wide Web, which he designed and built the first browser (called WorldWideWeb and developed on NeXTSTEP) and the first Web server called httpd.

The first website Berners-Lee (and therefore it is also the first website) located at http://info.cern.ch/ (archived) and put online for the first time on August 6, 1991.

In 1994, Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Until now, Berners-Lee still remain humble and have no desire to get the popular status. Many still do not know this man's work force, the World Wide Web.

One of the greatest contributions in advancing the World Wide Web is by no patent so that still may be used freely.

On July 16, 2004 he was given an honorary KBE by the Queen Elizabeth II in honor of his services.

Linus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish software engineer who is known as a pioneer of the Linux kernel development. He now acts as the coordinator of the project.

Linux inspired by Minix (an operating system developed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum) to develop a Unix-like operating systems (Unix-like) that can be run on a PC. Linux now runs on a variety of other architectures.

When Linus Torvalds, a Finnish student taciturn distributing source code (source code) floppy-sized Linux kernel via the Internet in 1991, he had no idea that what gave birth to the commencement of a business worth billions of dollars in the future.

He even did not expect Linux became the most promising operating system, which can be embedded into the servers, desktop computers, tablet PCs, PDAs, mobile phones, GPS, robots, cars up to NASA's shuttle-made.

Not only that, a lot of maniacs Linux (Linuxer) who bought the device made by Apple and replace with a Linux operating system. For me it is a little crazy, remember to delete the operating system Mac & iPod means throwing money and replace the operating system is quite difficult compared to Windows-based desktop. Currently, 20% desktop market share around the world use Linux well above Machintosh and continue to pursue the Windows desktop. And 12.7% servers around the world are using Linux, well above the UNIX, BSD, Solaris, and continued to increase its market share erode Microsoft's servers.

Currently, Linus left promising position at a semiconductor company Transmeta and lives with his wife and 3 children on a hill in the village in Portland, Oregon, USA, adjacent to the headquarters of the Open Source Development Labs. This nonprofit organization is staffed by 20-something programmer who has a passion almost equal to Linus. They continue to develop the Linux kernel is now of size 290 megabytes or more than 9 billion lines of code. Linux and his team received input lines of code from around the world, sort, set priorities and incorporate the most brilliant idea into the kernel. LSD itself backed by dozens of IT giants like IBM, HP, Dell and Sun, both in terms of material and human resources.

Linus not the first to give away the source code for this pattern is common in the early growth of the computer industry. But Linus successfully set a standard that forces many developers come to free the source code of their programs, ranging from BSD, Solaris, Suse, Java up to Adobe.

Although only paid hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, Linus has created many multi in the computer industry ranging from RedHat, Suse, Debian, Mandriva, Ubuntu and many other open source software developers. Almost nothing had changed from Linus. When he arrived late at an IT conference, he did not even hesitate to sit on the floor in shorts and shoes, her favorite sandals. He did not even angry when giving a speech at the lectern and interrupted by several BSD programmers who come to the front stage claiming that the BSD kernel is much more powerful than the Linux kernel. He even did not hesitate to wear a T-Shirt protesters posed BSD and continued his speech.

According to Linus, what it does is just to share. In contrast to Richard M. Stallman a fanatic with the concept of free software, Linus only emphasize the openness (open), regardless of whether then in a mixed operating system and proprietery free program.

Any words of Linus nearly became the word among Linuxer which creates a certain standard of value. Any publications, speeches, press release email dab always been waiting for millions of people. In his busy, Linus took a ride down the hill and drink at the bar the village.

until now he still promotes free software (free software campaign)..



5. Tsutomu Shimomura


Sumber: itsecurity, wikipedia, Kaskus

5.Windows 7 : Relying Strength "7"

Windows Vista? Sounds lovely right? But what happens after the product launch is the destruction of a name that has been thought carefully using that philosophy. Windows 95 and XP is still far better than Vista. For this time, Mike Nash from Microsoft say that they really are betting on the number "7 " which he said could bring good luck and be confident ahead of Vista.

6. ThinkPad : Superior Simplicity

Model PC laptop that is now being praised this, first appeared in 1992. Although the concept is already very mature, but IBM still confused what to call him. A group of pen-computing IBM wants to keep it simple and they like the ThinkPad. But the committee did not giver IBM corporate names, since these names do not possess the numbers and all IBM products should possess a number. Somehow, the name of the winning ThinkPad, and it is a blow to IBM, which eventually sold it to Lenovo in 2005.

7. Android

Do you think if the story behind the naming of the open-source platform for mobile devices owned by Alliance, which eventually spawned G1 brand name is cool. Emmm .. it is not. In 2005, Google quietly acquired a company called Android Inc. mysterious., which operates in secret to develop software for mobile phones. However, results of Google's stealth and Internet trends actually bring up the name "T-Mobile's G1" on October 22, 2008.

8. Wikipedia

According to Wikipedia, the name Wikipedia is a portmanteau of "wiki" (meaning: the technology for creating collaborative websites) and "encyclopaedia". In addition, portmanteau itself means it is a cool way to take two different words and combine them with the hope of creating a new concept that people liked.

9. Mac OS X dan "The Big Cats"

Actually is a denotation of the Roman numeral for 10, since the OS is the tenth release after Mac OS 0. But, many Apple fans who interpret it as the letter "X". And the names of big cats is also associated with an image of smooth, neat, and elegant like the Cheetah (10.0), Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, and the last is Leopard (10.6). Gossip says that Lynx and Cougar are under development.

10. Red Hat Linux : Nama yang Kaya Arti

The inventor, Bob Young (pictured below) provides a multi-dimensional origin of the name Red Fedora. First, in the history of the West, Red (red) is the symbol of freedom and resist authority. Second, co-founder Marc Ewing wore his grandfather's red hat in college and became known for its technology expertise. Third, Ewing and then give the name of its projects with the name of Red Hat 1, Red Hat 2, and so on. So, according to Young, when Ewing started the Linux project, he only gave the name of Red Hat Linux.

Source : Kaskus dan disarikan dari pcworld.com

Research conducted by Secunia, the reliability of software testing specialist company stating that FireFox has 115 vulnerabilities recorded in the year 2008. Far more than IE which only has 31 problems, which have 32 hole Safari, and Opera, which turned out only has 30 security holes.

However, when compared to Internet Explorer, Mozilla is able to overcome the security hole is much faster and no need to provide notification to users that a patch is underway.

For instance, Microsoft took 110 days to address two vulnerabilities published in the category of "high to moderate" while Mozilla's only takes 43 days to fix three vulnerabilities are uncovered and into the category of "less critical" and "not critical".

FireFox continues to erode the dominance of Internet Explorer. Currently, according to reports NetApplications, Mozilla has a 21.77 percent share of the global browser market, while IE left with 67.44 percent. Fell more than 7 percent in the last year.

Firefox 3 requires a much longer time is 2399 milliseconds, indicating the speed of this browser is much less than the browser that requires less time.

Even the latest beta version of Firefox 3.1 (Firefox 3.1) is also developing an improved JavaScript engine speed and said a lot faster than Firefox previously only reached the figure of 1034 milliseconds in testing.

While in this test Internet Explorer shows the worst performance. The time needed to complete testing of 19 902 milliseconds. But the Internet Wxplorer 8 is much better with the numbers 4137 milliseconds.

The only thing that could pursue Chrome Safari 4 Beta is 1.0. Browsers that developed it, although still slower than Safari 4 but shows the results that are not too far away, 853 milliseconds.

All tests are run on iMac computers with the Windows Vista operating system. Tests run on iMac with Mac OS X Leopard shows Safari 4 Beta scored 639 milliseconds, and Firefox 3.0 in 2535 scored in milliseconds.

With such performance, no wonder Apple somewhat inflated. "Safari is always talking about its performance, innovative features and web standards. Safari 4 is a major step in encouraging innovation browser, "said senior director of system software, Apple's global product marketing, Brian Croll.

Sumber : Artikel di atas, BlogiVan

He quickly mastered BASIC, a computer programming language, and hackers along with its own study on the Lakeside, he spent time with hours and hours writing code, doing games, and generally learn a lot about computers. "He was an eccentric," as one of his teachers to give Gates the surname. Bill Gates took classes at Harvard University in Cambridge starting in 1975. There he met with Paul Allen at school together. Together with Paul Allen, Bill Gates continues to develop his talents in the field of computer programming. However, Bill Gates decided to leave (drop out) to donate wakunya to Microsoft.

Through his hard efforts, the company that he founded called Microsoft Corporation Bill Gates became a success and soar to become a millionaire. In 1990 Bill Gates successfully released a very successful operating system in the world market. However, Bill Gates also got a bad reputation in his career. Not just once, even Bill Gates made several errors in its software business. In 1990 Bill Gates received demands from the United States Department of Justice indictment of Gates has a monopoly on small firms. And once again Bill Gates tripped by the law of business law the United States in 1999. In 2000, Bill Gates resigned from his position as Chief Executive Officer and he chose to return to his old profession that he loved the Head of Research and Development of Software in his own company, Microsoft Corp.. And in early 2008, Bill Gates decided to resign from the management of Microsoft and concentrate on philanthropic work through the charitable foundation she founded, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

In life peribadinya, Gates married Melinda French on January 1, 1994. They have three children, Jennifer Katherine Gates (1996), Rory John Gates (1999) and Phoebe Adele Gates (2002). With his wife, Bill Gates has founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is a Social Foundation of attention pederita AIDS, scholarships to universities and concern in the third world. Critics say this is proof against anger many people about monopolistic practices, corporate superpower and several crimes he had done, but some people close to Bill Gates saying that he has long planned to donate most of his property. In 1999 the Washington Post reported that "Gates has stated that he decided to donate $ 5 billion to their organization. This is certainly not surprising because, according to a survey by Forbes Magazine, Bill Gates has always been the richest man in the world in succession during the years 1996 to 2004 with the amount of $ 90 billion. With hard struggle and determination that now Bill Gates has reached his goal. To achieve the success necessary sacrifice and struggle hard, but hard work and unyielding attitude of Bill Gates has produced results that he can enjoy this moment .