1 Vocabulary
focus. Study the words and word combinations, practise
their translation, spelling. Check your knowledge
in the test. Play vocabulary game and set your own vocabulary game record.
2
Watch the video and answer the Questions
1.
When did GNU Project programmers develop their kernel?
2.
When did Linus Torvalds develop Linux kernel? What was
his goal in developing Linux kernel?
3.
What was the source of inspiration for Linus Torvalds?
4.
What type of OS did L. Torvalds create? In what way
was it different from other programs? What was the kernel made of?
5.
In what way was Linux kernel different from GNU
Project kernel? What was the design of GNU kernel?
6.
Was Linux connected to GNU Project?
7.
Did Linus Torvalds cooperate with GNU Project in
developing his kernel?
8.
What are the relations between Linux and similar
programs today?
9.
What program was essential for creation of Linux?
10. What is L.
Torvalds’ attitude to GPL?
3 Fill in
the blanks in the sentences with words and word combinations, words and word
combinations are used more than once.
debug; kernel; unstable; goal;
monolithic; inspiration; asynchronously; relatively; figure out; connect;
symbiosis; solidly; philosophical; compiler; entity; infancy.
1.
The zero-day vulnerability in the Windows _____ discovered by security was fixed.
2.
Earlier this month, Intel launched a free service
which provides developers with software to develop, test and _____ Web applications across different
mobile and desktop platforms.
3.
The toxic
chemicals have the potential to damage the environment and harm human health
and their elimination has been a major _____
of Greenpeace's new guide was published on Thursday.
4.
New magnetic
video recording device that allows you record short video messages and leave
them for others to find can be purchased
for $60 and allows you to communicate _____
with friends and family.
5.
Ask a hundred entrepreneurs where they draw _____ and you’ll probably get a hundred
different answers.
6. I have recently moved to Windows 8, and can't _____ how to log off as one user and log on as another.
7.
Adobe this week provided a sneak peek at new Photoshop
software running on a tablet, but stressed that project is still in its _____.
8.
The _____ includes
a large number of driver updates, bug-fixes and platform-specific changes.
9.
The Dell monochrome
laser printer is your standard
medium-sized printer. It's _____ constructed and its standard warranty lasts one year.
10.
We'll get behind the wheel of new cars and have our
passengers _____ with iPads as soon
as possible.
11.
This new earphone design can keep the driver _____ in your ear canal.
12.
Mozilla and Google have updated their browsers with
features that help developers more effectively write and _____ their websites.
13.
Connected smartcar will be able to serve up data
faster, stream videos, and _____ to
the roadway at high speeds.
14.
The resulting buffer overflow can elevate privileges
to _____ level, but the attack
requires that the user be a trusted, logged-on user.
15.
The smartcar is going to be able to _____ to the Web, download rich
content, share the signal to phone and tablet users in the car.
16.
Dell is so _____
a PC company, and its new smartwatch surprises specialists.
17.
Google will have a "meeting room" that will
include its own management account, that users will be able to _____ to and "schedule" a
meeting on their own calendars.
18.
With a _____
instructions can be created on the fly targeted at solving specific problems.
19.
Complex formulas can be hard to _____, and in the process you can easily lose your original
formula. To avoid this, enter your formula without the equal sign.
20.
Vidyo will also provide a special tool to _____ to its videoconferencing systems,
and users will join via a number from UberConference.
21.
A lot of Automata’s effectiveness lies in the _____ provided with Micron’s software
development kit.
22.
Once you’ve selected the gadgets and accessories
you’re going to bring on jour vocation, you have to _____ how to carry them with in train or plane.
23.
The _____ purposes
Automata’s architecture and memory units, after which the raw data is streamed
through the processors.
24.
Specialists claim that the new IonMonkey JavaScript
JIT _____ is more efficient and
faster than its previous versions.
25.
The new version can also run scripts _____, which should speed load times of
pages that have multiple scripts.
26.
Facing fierce competition in the market, hosting
provider Rackspace has decided to help its users _____ the programs they’ll run on Rackspace’s platform.
27.
The data is copied _____, so performance of the primary database will not be slowed
waiting to complete the backup.
28.
The newest update to the Linux operating-system _____ features a number of enhancements
that would boost running databases and other programs that require maximum
resources from the server.
29.
An analysis of a piece of Android spyware targeting a
prominent Tibetan political figure suggests it may have been built to _____ the victim’s exact location.
30.
Apple has been apparently getting some _____ from Google's mobile OS. A series
of screenshots show Apple is using a version of the iOS lock screen with the
gesture-based lock system found on Android phones.
31. Our new application tells you what you did with your
time and helps you _____ whether or not it was time well-spent. In
other words, it makes it obvious just how badly you waste your time instead of
completing important tasks.
32.
Still in its _____,
you can't pay with bitcoins at the local store, or even major retailers. But
those with bitcoins burning a hole in their pocket last week had the chance to
cash out.
33.
Apple looked to Sony for _____ in designing its first iPhone but the resulting designs did
not look like any actual Sony phones of the time.
34.
Intel will release new Atom chips for smartphones and
tablets next year as it wants to reach a _____
of boosting mobile chip graphics performance by 15 times by 2016.
35.
There's a big difference between looking for _____ from a competitor's design
philosophy and copying a finished product and calling it your own.
36.
Four of the biggest names in the electronics industry
have missed an important _____ when
they ignored toxic chemicals from their products.
37.
The human form is bad for a robot, the humanoid shape
is inherently _____.
38.
Click fraud stayed _____ low in the fourth quarter.
39.
On some operating systems, such as Windows, it's _____ easy to infect a system without
the user being aware that anything is happening.
40.
The site now can handle about 25,050 users at a time
before it slows down, although it was _____
in past weeks.
41. PhotoDirector is a very effective photo editor, but
only for _____ small batches of files and editing.
42.
Twitter started out using a _____ Ruby on Rails application and not a distributed platform.
43.
Desktop Linux users who enjoy a _____ malware-free lifestyle should get ready because new virus the
"Hand of Thief" Trojan, which specifically targets Linux, has been
developed
44.
The _____ in
charge of the Internet's addressing system is declaring victory over an abusive
trend in registering domain names.
45.
This allowed the company to break the _____, single application into
different services such as a service that specifically handles messages.
46.
Twenty-two major software and security companies are
being sued for alleged patent infringement by a little-known _____ now controlling the two patents
in question.
47.
The Internet may have its roots in the United States,
but it is a global _____ now. For
better, or for worse, the United
States can no longer have sole control over
an organization like ICANN which impacts global commerce and productivity.
48.
The problems with Bitcoin are eroding the _____ point of Bitcoin.
49.
The software companies won't compete, they will work
in _____.
50.
Games are a great way to help get young people
interested in things and offer engaging tools to understand complex _____ ideas.
4 Match
the word combinations to their translation.
Word Combination
|
Translation
|
||
1
|
come along
|
A
|
меня не волнует
|
2
|
good fortune
|
B
|
в тот момент
|
3
|
I don’t care
|
C
|
неожиданно приходить
|
4
|
at that point
|
D
|
счастливая случайность
|
5 Fill
in the blanks in the sentences with the word combinations. Watch the video to
check your answers.
good fortune; came along; at that point; I don’t care
1.
And I really _______ how people pronounce my name…
2.
The initial goal was my very personal goal to be able
to run a similar environment on my computer that I had _______ at the
university computers
3.
And that’s when Linus Torvalds ______.
4.
Having been doing computers for all my life,
basically. ______, I decided that I’ll do my own.
6 Further practice. Fill in
the blanks in the sentences with the word combinations, each word combination
is used more than once. Pay attention to the subject and verb agreement and
tenses.
good fortune;
come along; don’t care; at that point
1.
If your organization is not careful about effective
media sanitization, your data loss incident could become your competitors' _____ and your worst corporate and
legal nightmare.
2.
When digital ______,
Kodak spent billions on trying to make it profitable, they didn’t have major
other business units.
3.
Your data keeps hopping from one node to another until
a limit is reached. ______ it exits
the Tor network and continues on to its destination.
4.
In IT Blogwatch, bloggers assemble the story from its
key components, leaving out the bits they _____ about
5.
I found myself searching for a simple yet powerful
Android app with a clean and modern design. Then Talon ______ and won me over.
6.
Apple’s ______ here is that while others are
trying to differentiate their products, its own offering is fundamentally
differentiated.
7.
People want free stuff. They ______ how or from who, they just want it free, hence the piracy
and open source crap we see today.
8.
After three years customer service had dramatically improved, ______ I saw that business units were becoming interested in
using IT's services a bit more to improve their productivity.
