Several companies have posted free software that will test system BIOS, such as Symantec ( www . symantec . com / sabu / n2000 / n2000 _ ret / ) and the computer utility software publisher McAfee . com ( www . mcafee . com ).
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Almost all the modern-day characteristics of cloud computing ( elastic provision, provided as a utility, online, illusion of infinite supply ), the comparison to the electricity industry and the use of public, private, government, and community forms, were thoroughly explored in Douglas Parkhill's 1966 book, The Challenge of the Computer Utility.
