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There is the gap between those who have ready access to computers and the Internet, and those who do not. This gap is referred to as the Digital Divide.

1. Name at least five things that are easier to do with fast internet access.

2. If you had online homework, but did not have a computer, how would you go about completing this homework?

3. If you needed a job and wanted to find places that were hiring, how could you do that without fast internet access?

4. What do you think could be done to close the digital divide gap?

When you type the pwd command, you notice that your current location on the linux filesystem is the /usr/local directory. answer the following questions, assuming that your current directory is /usr/local for each question. a. which command could you use to change to the /usr directory using an absolute pathname? b. which command could you use to change to the /usr directory using a relative pathname? c. which command could you use to change to the /usr/local/share/info directory using an absolute pathname? d. which command could you use to change to the /usr/local/share/info directory using a relative pathname? e. which command could you use to change to the /etc directory using an absolute pathname? f. which command could you use to change to the /etc directory using a relative pathname?

Based on your knowledge of a good network, describe what you think is a perfect network would be. what kind of information and resources could users share on this network. what would the network administrator do? what kind of communication would be used?

Write a fragment of code that reads in strings from standard input, until end-of-file and prints to standard output the largest value. you may assume there is at least one value. (cascading/streaming logic, basic string processing)