When: December 13, 2000
Where: Heritage Hall
Time: 10:00 A.M.
Speaker: John F. Stroiney
Channel Marketing Representative
Microsoft HRD Field Sales Team
New England, New York & New Jersey
Topic: Learn, Have Fun, Get Things Done

  Enhance your life through the magic of software.

  The PC can be a powerful tool for both home and business. However, it takes great software to transform the PC from a static device into a robust medium for learning, entertainment, and productivity. At Microsoft, the mission is to create great software that enhances and enriches the everyday lives of people, empowering them to make new discoveries, enjoy time off, and be more productive at work.
  Come and explore a few of the Microsoft solutions designed to help you learn, have fun and get things done.

Featured products

Encarta Language Learning
Combat Flight Simulator 2: WWII Pacific Theater
MSN Explorer
MSN Companion
Office 2000

Computer Classes

Computing I - 9:00 A.M. - 10:30 A.M.
November 27,29, December 1,4,6,8

Register at the Activities Desk. Next classes will begin in 2001. Watch for dates and times.

Introduction

  "Cookies" have become an increasing topic of discussion in the online world. A cookie is a small piece of information written to the hard drive of an Internet user when he or she visits a website that offers cookies. Cookie files are extremely small, comprising no more that 255 characters and 4k of disk space. Cookies can contain a variety of information, including the name of the website that issued them, where on the site the user visited, passwords, and even user names and credit card numbers that have been supplied via forms. Cookies are supposedly only retrievable by the site which issued them, and they link the information gathered to a unique ID number assigned to the cookie so information is available from one session to another.

The Cookie Concept

  The World Wide Web (WWW) is built on a very simple, but powerful premise. All material on the Web is formatted in a general, uniform format, Hyper Text Markup Language, referred to as HTML. All information requests and responses conform to a similarly standard protocol. When someone accesses a server on the Web, such as the Library of Congress, the user's Web browser will send an information request to the Library of Congress computer, a Web server. The Web server responds to the request by transmitting the desired information to the user's computer. There the user's browser will display the requested information on the user's screen.
  Cookies are pieces of information generated by a Web server and stored in the user's computer, ready for future access. These cookies are embedded in the HTML information flowing back and forth between the user's computer and the servers. Cookies were implemented to allow user-side customization of Web information. For example,