I’m probably the last expert on the planet to comment on Microsoft’s latest operating system, Windows 7. But I doubt if anyone is more of a fan.
After installing, configuring and testing software on 4 new computers, which I designed for one of my clients, and after installing these PCs at their site, networking them and [...]
These days, most of the hardware one needs to add to their Windows computer uses a USB (Universal Serial Bus) type of port, hardware, software and cable connectors. USB technology provides a big improvement in ease of installation and speed. Not to mention that you don’t have to open your computer case and install or wire [...]
It’s gonna get hot!
Squeeze 410 Million transistors onto a CPU (Central Processing Unit) chip that’s smaller than a dime and you’ve got some serious heat to deal with. Note that the CPUs above are shown laid out on their production “wafer” – before being cut up into individual “chips”. The latest chip fabs (fabrication facilities [...]
Pop quiz time: What’s your display’s aspect ratio?
For an eternity (at the 3x or more speed of computing life Vs real-world life) display screens for Windows have had an aspect ratio of 4:3 (ratio of width to height, in pixels). Like 640 x 480, 800 x 600, 1024 x 768, etc.
Standards?
This is the same aspect [...]
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