Computers

What is torrent? I guess that the subject doesn’t need any explanation as the one of the most popular, lightweight and efficient client for Windows or Mac with many features. engaged daily and widely. The most common clients are µTorrent, Deluge, Vuze, BitTorrent, and Opera.

It’s intereting that for instance UK Government uses BitTorrent to distribute details about how the tax money of UK citizens was spent. Facebook uses BitTorrent to distribute updates to Facebook servers and Twitter uses BitTorrent to distribute updates to Twitter servers.

And all of us use µTorrent as a quick way to get everything fresh though it were music movie books etc.

It’s a hard disk drive back in 1956… With 5 MB of storage. In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first ‘SUPER’ computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored a ‘whopping’ 5 MB of data.

Do you appreciate your 8 GB memory stick a little more now?

Just read the history of hard disk drives on Wiki then you will discover a lot:-)

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There is a text–to–speech utility, Narrator in Windows designed to help blind or have low vision people to work on computer. Narrator can be used with Notepad, WordPad, Control Panel programs, Internet Explorer, the Windows desktop, and some parts of Windows Setup. Narrator may not read words aloud correctly in other programs.

How to turn on?
Mouse actions.
Point to Start menu
Point to All Programs
Point to Accessories
Point to Accessibility
Select Narrator

Keyboard actions.
Display the Start menu by pressing CTRL+ESC.
Press R.
Type narrator.
Press ENTER.
Notes: A message box with a link to more information about Narrator may appear. To close the box, press ENTER.

To use Narrator but hide the Narrator dialog box, select Minimize by pressing ALT+SPACEBAR, N.

To turn off Narrator, in the Narrator dialog box, press ALT+X, Y.

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Have you ever faced with Internet Explorer error messages? I guess you have got it. So here is the maning of errors you can see trying to onnect to the Internet

If you see 52 Runtime Error it means that it’s a “bad file name or number” error in JavaScript, just the script cannot find a file it is looking for (web-page, course component) and is most likely a connectivity problem. You can try to clear your temporary internet files which should resolve any further problems then check again.

400 Bad File Request means the syntax used in the url is incorrect (e.g. uppercase letter should be lowercase letter; wrong punctuation marks)

401 Unauthorised means that the website server is looking for some encryption key(s) from the client (your computer) and is not getting it. Also, a wrong password may have been entered. Try it again, paying close attention to case sensitivity..

403 Forbidden/Access Denied is similar to 401, and needs to be accessed the website A password and/or username may not be correctly registered on the websites database. Other times the website server may not have the proper permissions set up on its directories…

404 File Not Found means server cannot find the file you requested or the page is no longer available. Try to refresh the page (F5) to resolve this problem.

408 Request Timeout just means that your computer stopped the request before the server finished retrieving it. You have to click on a link before the page loads. Usually occurs when servers are slow or file sizes are large.

500 Internal Error means it couldn’t retrieve the HTML document because of server-configuration problems then contact website administrator.

501 Not Implemented – web server doesn’t support a requested feature.

502 Service Temporarily Overloaded means too many connections; high traffic.

503 Service Unavailable

Server busy, site may have moved, or you lost your dial-up Internet connection!

Bad File Request

Browser may not support the form or other coding you’re trying to access.

Connection Refused by Host

Either you do not have permission to access the site or your password is incorrect. Try again!

Errors on Page

This error message is a catch-all statement meaning there is something on the web page that the browser either hasn’t read properly (connectivity problem) or there are missing items in the web page itself. This problem normally affects the graphics on a web page.

This can be a temporary glitch (caused by insufficient bandwidth), and may be quickly resolved, or it can have a more complex and longer term problem. With regard to most cases of this Internet Explorer Error message, it is due to not having given sufficient time to download the page you are requesting.

It is necessary to wait until the bottom left hand corner of the page reads ‘done’ before selecting any other links on the page to move forward.

Failed DNS Lookup means that the Domain Name Server can’t translate your domain request into a valid Internet address. The website server may be busy or down, or incorrect url (web address) was entered

Runtime Error

(The information in this solution applies to: Internet Explorer 5.5 (SP1) 95 / 98 / 98 Second Edition / NT4.0 / 2000). When you attempt to browse to various websites, you may receive an error message similar to the following ‘A runtime error has occurred. Do you wish to debug? Line number Error: Permission Denied.’

This can occur if you upgrade to IE 5.5 (SP1). The upgrade enables the script-debugging and script-error-notification options. (Note: Because there are several versions of Windows, the following steps may be different on your computer. If they are, please consult your product documentation to complete these steps:)

To resolve this issue, disable the script-debugging and script-error-notification options. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Start Internet Explorer.
2. On the Tools menu, click Internet Options.
3. Click the Advanced tab .
4. Click to select the Disable script debugging check box .
5. Click to clear the Display a notification about every script error check box .
6. Click Apply, and then click OK.
Fortunately this is a very rare Internet Explorer Error message.

The five Owners of Apple, Dell and Hewlett-Packard laptops including a Louisiana man who bought an Apple MacBook Pro a year ago, have made their lawsuits against Nvidia, filed an amended complaint last week in a San Francisco federal court, accusing Nvidia of violating consumer-protection laws, computerworld.com reports.

Nvidia admitted to the problem in July 2008, when it said some older chipsets that had shipped in “significant quantities” of notebooks were flawed. In a subsequent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company argued that its chip suppliers, the laptop makers and even consumers were to blame.

Nvidia later told the SEC that it would take a $196 million charge to pay for replacing the graphics processors.

Apple, Dell and HP have all told users that some of their laptops contain faulty Nvidia chipsets. Apple, in fact, essentially said that Nvidia had misled it. “Nvidia assured Apple that Mac computers with these graphics processors were not affected,” Apple said in a support document posted last October. “However, after an Apple-led investigation, Apple has determined that some MacBook Pro computers … may be affected.”

Chinese authorities have chosen the most secure sites for their citizens the rest of resources will be permanently blocked. Such practice is encouraged by the Russian and Belarusian officials.

Actually there is no country which do not practice one or another form of restriction of access Internet and content filtering. One of the most severe forms of control is filter for “white list”.

A new Chinese government’s program of Internet filtering has started to move from the policy of “black lists” to a policy of “white lists” – which means that if before the ordinary people of China could go on all sites, except for prohibited, but now they have access only to network resources, approved by the government.

According to Reuters, the formation of “white lists” and registration of new domains Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China requested the local Internet providers and domain registrars. “Domain names that are not listed in our list will not be served” – ministry said.

Though the new rules do not prohibit access to the foreign pages, Chinese media claim that the foreign registration page will also have to take place in the general procedure. Thus, the Beijing News publication wrote that if access to legal sites will be blocked, the Internet will not perform its basic function – just to comunicate people around the world.

Have you ever used your PC for conference call to listen the number of people on a call whether you need to wish a Merry Christmas your friends or discuss your business deals with professionals wherever they are? The Christmas is fast approaching. That’s right, December is the time when love weighs more than gold and despite of economic downturn impacting on many families’ budgets this year, the physical distance between family members or friends cant apart them especially on Christmas.

Today it doesn’t mean the holidays will be bleak. And this is not just allegations because regarding yrchnical progress you can keep your loved ones connected during not only the holidays but any time of year. And audio conference calls can very help you on the way. Video conference call has become mainstream technology. From home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another the warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other.

I would wish everyone Happy Christmas!
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect.

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