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If you’ve ever wondered what parts go into the making of a computer, ExtremeTech has an article for you. A Beginner’s Guide to What Goes on Inside that PC thoroughly covers all the parts in a computer and their function. It covers everything from power supplies and hard drives all the way to the POST and boot routine.
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After a long, hard day of fetching and editing tables, MySQL can become overburdened and create overhead. This can be almost directly compared to how defragmentation occurs on a hard drive. For example, something needs to be replaced in one location but there is not enough space so part of it goes here and part goes there; discontinuous. Over time, overhead for very active tables in your database can reach high levels and the result will be something like what happened to me in March. You can ensure a healthy database by following this quick fix every once in a while. [click to continue…]
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The night before a squirrel killed my internet connection, I had spent some time on making my site a little more tolerable when viewed in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. Over of a fifth of my readers commute here via Internet Explorer. As many people already know, Internet Explorer does not fully support up and coming web technologies and does not completely embrace web standards as set forth by the World Wide Web Consortium. The point of this post is for me to find out why people still use Internet Explorer. As readers of this tech-related blog, you must know the joys of using a browser such as Firefox or Safari. [click to continue…]
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After the closing of a case filed by Apple, a California appeals court judge has ruled that internet journalists and bloggers alike are protected by law just as traditional journalists are. Apple filed a case claiming that AppleInsider and PowerPage make known their sources for a 2004 story on those websites revealing an in-development Apple product dubbed Asteroid, which is to be a breakout box for Garageband. [click to continue…]
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Sorry for the lack of updates and replies to emails lately. For some reason my Time Warner RoadRunner cable service at home has stopped working. I’ve been without internet for the past two days, with the exception of checking email via my phone’s Opera Mini browser. Hopefully a technician from Time Warner will stop by tomorrow anytime between 8AM and 8PM to fix everything.
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