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Entries from October 23rd, 2010

Important Laptop Heat Warning – How Heat Can Hurt You And What To Do

October 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Cooling, How To Maintain

Most people use a laptop almost every day now. They have become so affordable that most people have a few around the house or one for their school work while away at college. For the most part, things are fine with your laptop. One problem that does occur is that the heat from the bottom [...]

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Understanding the Differences in PC Monitors

October 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Displays

Purchasing a new PC monitor can sometimes be a headache with all of the technologies in pc monitors it can be a hard choice. PC monitor prices have decreased dramatically over the last 5 years and even the sizes have increased to allow higher resolutions and a better experience on the PC. The first thing [...]

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How To Determine A CMOS Battery Failure

October 21st, 2010 · No Comments · How To Diagnose

Often overlooked but highly essential to your personal computer system is something called your CMOS battery. CMOS is actually a chip which is built into your computer’s motherboard; it retains your system data and its settings. It is stored here so that the data is maintained and not erased, corrupted or accidentally edited. This chip [...]

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Five “DO NOTS” to Keep Your Computer Healthy

October 20th, 2010 · No Comments · How To Keep Secure, Security

There is a lot of advice around about what you can do to keep your computer running as sweetly and efficiently as when you first purchased it, however it is not very often that you will get advice on what NOT to do, so here are 5 tips that will help you to avoid a [...]

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Wireless Network Monitor – The Promiscuous Mode

October 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Networking

The Promiscuous mode is a specific receive mode for network-technology devices such as wireless network cards. It is normally used for packet sniffing and bridged network for hardware virtualization. The frames include the MAC (Media Access Control) address of the hardware. In this mode the device submits all incoming traffic to the network interface and [...]

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How Does the Hard Disk Function?

October 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Hard Drives, Storage

The hard drive is a device that is used for reading/writing digital data. It is a general section of every computer. The HDD keeps all the information we have. The hard drive might basically be separated into 2 general pieces – the mechanic one and the electronic one. The mechanical part of the hard drive [...]

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What Is a NAS, and How Does RAID Work?

October 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Network Devices, Networking, Storage

NAS is an acronym for Network-attached storage. It actually represents a storage system for hard drives and can include different things within it, like configuration of RAID. When used in along side LAN IP, NAS can be configured to send different applications to network users spread across different workstations. NAS typically has its own set [...]

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The Different Types of Computer Viruses

October 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Security

The reason that viruses are constantly floating around the Internet is their ability to replicate themselves. They can make copies of themselves in various types of data files. A virus may start harming your computer the moment that the file that it has corrupted is executed. This can cause serious damage to your computer although [...]

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