Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category.
10th July 2009, 03:08 pm
Question:
Today on Fox News web site was an article about vulnerability to hackers of many free wi-fi internet systems that put travelers on vacation at risk when they use their computer on these systems. Since I’ll be doing that to log in to my home computer, I’m wondering if there are any security measures I can implement when using my laptop on vacation when logging in to my office from hotels, etc.?
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14th May 2009, 04:15 pm
Question:
I have a friend whose daughter purchased a 32GB iPod touch and it has slowed down their computer tremendously. My son would like to get the 16 GB iPod touch and I can’t seem to get a consistent answer from the Apple people about how it would affect our computer. My daughter has a 4GB nano and my son has a 16GB nano also. They share an iTunes account. Do you know anything that can help me? Is it needing a ton of hard drive space to just save all the downloads from i-tunes? Or is the issue something else?
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7th April 2009, 11:48 am
Question:
I have been trying to find out why a friend’s 2002 IBM Windows XP PC keeps turning itself on and off unattended. This behavior has been continuing for many years since shortly after they bought it. So I recently decided to take a look at it for them.
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13th June 2008, 08:50 pm
Question:
Hey, thank you soo much for ur review of the “Story of Stuff”, i had tons of disagreements in mind so i wanted to do some research, but u did a lot of that for me haha. One thing im rly curious about, why cant the CPU just be replaced? is it cuz everything else must be reprogrammed to accomodate it?
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16th March 2008, 07:21 pm
Question:
No one can seem to tell me the difference between the two (45nm and x38)? What do these numbers mean, and are they both just CPU’s of different generations? I can’t seem to see these numbers in any specifications for processors, so how do you know which processors are which? I hope you can help, since no one I know can tell me. It’s important because I want to buy a new motherboard and want to make sure everything is compatible. Also, if you can tell me, what does the 775 number mean? I sent a copy of this to my brother, who knows a lot more about computers than I do.
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