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Back It Up With Backup
It’s happened to so many of us at one time or another in our technologically obsessed lives. We process important information in the computer. We’ve been so engrossed for hours, that we pretty much lose track of everything else. And just when you are almost done, something major happens, and you will regret it for […]
Directory Assistance, Please? Directories in the Computer World
Directories, in computer science parlance, are the listings of files, documents, and other directories within a file system. Most people think of directories as electronic folders that contain various files.
A directory is one of the first concepts anyone learning computers encounters aside from files. He or she soon learns that these files are all […]
Your Friendly Neighborhood Database
For the lay person, the term database is just another geek word that is just so prevalent in today’s society. From the office, to the home, and to just about any industry, people refer to their information as being kept in a ‘database’.
So somehow, we all get this idea that the database is some […]
The Removal Of Sin: Post-Infection Cleaning
Computers have become a central part of our daily lives since the first personal computer rolled of the assembly line. It has been doing most of our encoding and word processing chores since then on.
Schools, libraries and classrooms have deployed computers to be an aid in teaching children the basics of learning. And it […]
Send Me An Email If You Want To Take Me To Dinner
In this time and place, is there anyone among us who does not have at least one email account to their name? I have several email addresses to my name, and each one of those serves their respective purposes.
I keep one for my friends’ emails, another for free e-newsletters, and one as a back […]
Keep Your Computer Cool
If the computer after several hours’ use suddenly rebooted and does not show any sign of system failure, there could only be one thing. The computer is overheating.
Unknown to many, (especially those who are not into technological stuff) the computer could generate a large amount of heat when it is in use. Adding video […]
Broadband and Internet 101
Internet is the World Wide Web. Broadband is the medium that carries it. Internet is the international computer network linking together thousands of individual networks. Broadband is the transmitter of these signals.
The most popular features of the Internet include electronic mail (of course you know e-mail), discussion groups (called newsgroups or bulletin boards, where users […]
Essentials of an Effective Backup Strategy
What will you do if you lost thousands of Megabytes worth of data because you never saw the importance of a backup system? If your personal computer or laptop suddenly crashes, the irretrievable data can sum up to a staggering amount and even cause irreversible damage to a company.
Most people and businesses make the mistake […]
