I’ll use this space to tell you about new stuff I’ve discovered; it may be a medical advance made possible through technology, or it may be a real working invisibility cloak.
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What you’ll find in Generalities
You’ll find definitions here, explanations, basic stuff. It’ll be computing terms in very broad descriptions.
RAM–What “Ewe” Need to Know (pun warning came too late)
what it is–in real people’s terms RAM stands for for Random Access Memory. It’s not storage, and it’s not the hard drive. It’s the thing your computer uses to keep track of stuff it’s working on right now or very recently. Your computer can’t start without it; if you don’t have RAM installed, it simply won’t complete the startup process. […]
Airflow
Somewhere on your computer—regardless of whether it’s a laptop or desktop—is a collection of vents. You can probably at times hear fan noises in that vicinity, and if you put your hand near the vents, you should be able to feel air coming out (assuming the machine is up and running). Airflow is VERY important to the health […]
How to use RSS to keep up with your Favorite Websites
I can’t possibly keep up with all the websites I like to keep up with. I don’t have time to visit them all every day, and there are some days I don’t have time to visit any of them. And yet I don’t want to miss anything, geek that I am. How ever would I cope if I didn’t have […]
Welcome to Grown Up Tech
I love technology, but I didn’t grow up speaking the language of it. I learned to type on a typewriter that didn’t require power and rang a bell when I got to the end of the line, and the bell was to remind me to move the apparatus back to the beginning of the paper. If that sounds familiar to […]