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Computers
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How many computer cookies can you have?
Every website you visit places a small file onto your computer harddrive called "a cookie". A cookie tracks web visiting behavior. But it also contains information for your userID, loggin, and the last time you visited the site. If you look at a list of computer cookies saved onto your computer, often you will see a number in brackets after it showing the number of visits. Computer cookies are also useful when a person buys via the Internet.
Computer users dislike cookies, feeling that cookies invade the users' privacy. Cookies also accumulate over time. So there are programs that will reliably delete cookies from your computer without harming the harddrive.
As to how many cookies there can be or might be, the number on your computer depends on how many different websites you visit in a day, week, month, or year. If you use the Internet a lot and browse a lot, you probably have accumulated a lot of cookies.
What are two unethical uses of internet?
1.Spreading viruses knowingly
2.Illegally downloading/pirating software and movies
What does the computer term SID mean?
Short for security identifier, a security feature of the Windows NT and 2000operating systems. The SID is a unique name (alphanumeric character string) that is used to identify an object, such as a user or a group of users in a network of NT/2000 systems.
Windows grants or denies access and privileges to resources based onACLs, which use SIDs to uniquely identify users and their group memberships. When a user requests access to a resource, the user��s SID is checked by the ACL to determine if that user is allowed to perform that action or if that user is part of a group that is allowed to perform that action.
Why is a compiler a necessary part of a computer system?
A compiler isn't technically part of the computer. A compiler takes the source code of a program and compiles it into a usable program. However, without a compiler, there will be very few programs, and thus computers won't be much use.
What is the best gigs on a desktop computer?
Desktops support up to 4gb Ram per slot. Many personal desktops support 4-6 slots. So 24 Gigs would be the highest amount of ram for a high end personal desktop
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How do you use recovery button on laptop?
In many laptops Recovery Button (named in different ways, depends on laptop manufacturer) is used to start process of recovering operating system to its initial state. Most popular way of use is to press this button (press or press and hold) just after powering your notebook.
Be cautious - you will probably lose all of data on laptop's hard drive during system recovery.
How do you make a flip book rubric?
I think you can use some free tools for making a flipbook. Codebox and Issuu are two famous free online tool for making flip book out of PDF files.
Data mining is the term given to extracting Informationfrom a Pool of Data.
Some times when studying a problem, you will be working on a set of data collected by another person. But most often you will be studying data you have collected.
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For example, - At the moment in my district, folk are encouraged to note how many birds are on their property, for a 5 minute period, each hour. A sheet has been handed out showing all the expected species of birds. Similar counts have been made over a number of years. These observations form a pool of data.
From this pool we may determine the most frequently-seen birds, and we can establish whether a certain type of bird is more commonly seen at morning or evening. We could also see if certain areas have more observers than others. This is data-mining.
How does network cable length affect attenuation?
longer cable lengths have greater signal attenuation
How do you write a short note on blue pacific Super Computer?
At the high end of super computing are computers like IBM's "Blue Pacific," announced on October 29,1998.Built in partnership with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, Blue Pacific is reported to operated at 3.9 teraflop (trillion floating point operations per second), 15000 time faster than the average personal computer.It consists of 5800 processors containing a total 2.6 trillion bytes of memory and interconnected with five miles of cable.
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Can a spike cause the destruction of chips and other electronic components of a computer?
Definately. I would imagine a huge spike could sever the connections between many electronic components, and may also damage the box as well. Depends on the size of the spike of course and how well the components are physically protected.
How do you convert REM files to MP3?
You probably may or may not, depending on the situation. The .REM files come from a Blackberry Smartphone, and encrypted ones can only be decrypted by the phone. So you have to disable that first. Plus the files might contain other data such as images. In some cases, you could try to rename them and see what happens. If that fails, look for a converter program.
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What is the laptops fourth row called?
If your talking fourth row counting the F1, F2,etc down from the top, that fourth row is called home row. The F key and J key are where your two index fingers go. If you take a typing class you will learn to memorize the keys.
Why does computer take so long to come on after the welcome screen appears?
Windows has a tendency to clog up over time. Reinstalling every few years is advisable. If this happened sooner, you might have a virus.
PSTN stands for a public switched telephone network. A PSTN gateway is hardware components that third parties use to translate signaling.
What is integer addition in computer science?
Integer addition is simple adding two non-decimal numbers together. For example 2+2 is integer addition.
What are the Standard ASCII code from A to Z?
the ASCII code for A is 65... just count up 1 for each subsequent letter.
What does bookmarks and history mean in computer terms?
Bookmarks - are 'shortcuts' to websites. Instead of having to type the URL each time, you simply click on the bookmark - and the computer locates the webpage.
History - is a list of websites you've previously visited.
How are man better than computer?
Well computers have evryones mind in one thing whereas a man only has his own thoughts and ideas.
