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The first book I was given as a young kid was a science encyclopedia type book for kids. Someone knew a good gift.

I really liked chemistry in school.

I will say I have done quite of a bit programming on and of accounting systems, even was on a team that created a complete acct system for pcs.

Bean counting, as some say.

You're pretty rounded, Pigeon.

...and that does sound like a great gift. Opened the world right up for a young mind.

I didn't get stuff like that unless it was the kindness of strangers or until I was older and could go to the library.

Application firewalls examine packet by packet rather than packet header (Network firewalls)

VAN's use batch processing, not individual processing.

VAN is also an acronym for value-added network. Also see virtual private network (virtual private network).A virtual area network (VAN) is a network on which users are enabled to share a more visual sense of community through high band-width connections. As conceived by PennWell Media Online, an online directory for specialized networking products, a virtual area network is something like a metropolitan area network (MAN) or extended local areanetwork (LAN) in which all users can meet over high-bandwidth connections, enabling "face-to-face" online "coffeehouses," remote medical diagnosis and legal consultation, and online corporate or extracorporate workgroups, focus groups, and conferences. A VAN requires multi-megabyte data flow and can be implemented through the use of Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line but more likely through the installation of cable modem. Since the high-bandwidth connections imply a common infrastructure, the first VANs are likely to be local or regional. However, a VAN can also be national or international in geographic scope, assuming all users share similar capabilities.

All backdoors should be eliminated after purchasing software.

EDI uses a set of standards used worldwide. Requires translation software.

One benefit of EFT is the reduction of data entry errors.

Encryption performed by hardware is more secure than encryption performed by software.

A data warehouse stores operational and management data.

Relational databases, two dimensional, are related via keys.