Sentence examples for switched on computer from inspiring English sources

When the power is switched on, computer systems execute an initial set of operations that usually perform memory tests and load the final runtime environment.

It is a far cry from 27 October 1986, when after years of negotiations with the government, the LSE switched on computer screens and shut down its dealing room.

8 45 -- Reluctantly switch on computer.

In the past year, hundreds of thousands of people across the world have switched on their computers to find distressing messages alerting them that they no longer have access to their PCs or any of the files on them.

That can usually be switched on at a computer's pre-boot settings.

Downing Street says it has detected no breach of computer security and as usual the leak is thought more likely to be down to human error – forwarding emails by mistake, leaving a computer switched on in the office, etc – than electronic hackery.

However LDRA found this to be untrue; Launch control could be switched on by connecting a computer to the gearbox control unit.

The advent of fixed broadband connections means that home users, who often leave their computers switched on around the clock, now need firewalls too if they are to protect their machines from intruders.