This weeks topics was pretty simple, compared to understanding binary, but without understanding these simple procedures you will not get the full use of your computer. You do not have to be a master of the BIOS or understand how to properly use command line, which I do not, yet. If we can understand the basic of these subjects we can arm ourselves with the proper questions to ask the professionals.
In 2006 I bought a basic Dell Laptop for about $500, it had 512MB RAM and a 1.5GHz processor, nothing too fancy. With just my basic knowledge and understanding of how to take care of the computer and properly use it, I still have it today. It has some minor upgrades to it, I just recently upgraded to 2GB of RAM at a whopping cost of $70. I also upgraded to Windows 7, so it can communicate easier with my desktop. Since 2006 one of my good friends who does not have the basic knowledge, has bought two laptops and spent nearly $2,000 on them.
A great website you can use to find free downloads and paid downloads to help you protect your computer and help optimize it is www.downloads.cnet.com/windows. Some other downloads I would recomend to get are a cleaner, this utility is built in to your computer but if you do not know how to open it this does it for you and it is free, and a HDD Health Checker that can be downloaded from CNET for free.
One more website that will run a scan of you computer to know what kind of upgrades are available for you computer and you can order them right from the website of just get the information you need to go to you local computer store to purchase.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Week 6: Clear
This week I finished up the Computer Hardware topic. As a partner in a small business in Jacksonville we are trying to be paperless, so we are storing a lot of information on an external hard drive right now. When ever we recieve any invoice it gets scanned and saved in the proper folder. What else is making this process easier, businesses that we deal with direct offer online services to view our invoices and recieve them via e-mail rather than mail. While this is becoming the trend to be paperless, the issue of backing up is becoming more important than ever. If you were to lose all that data now you do not have a paper trail to fix it.
Being a small business at this point we do not have all that much funding for tape back up. We are relying on online backup. This is becoming a popular method for individuals and businesses. The monthly or annual fee for these services is pennies on the dollar compare to any of the other backup methods talked about in the lectures. Carbonite is one of the options that cost $60 a year for unlimited backup capacity. This method requires almost no human interaction on your behalf. Once you setup you can set scheduled backups, or you can run manually. This allows you to focus on more of your business needs. This is a great way to backup your business and personal needs for a low cost.
Being a small business at this point we do not have all that much funding for tape back up. We are relying on online backup. This is becoming a popular method for individuals and businesses. The monthly or annual fee for these services is pennies on the dollar compare to any of the other backup methods talked about in the lectures. Carbonite is one of the options that cost $60 a year for unlimited backup capacity. This method requires almost no human interaction on your behalf. Once you setup you can set scheduled backups, or you can run manually. This allows you to focus on more of your business needs. This is a great way to backup your business and personal needs for a low cost.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Web 2.0 Project
This project, I found to be fun. I allowed me to really look back at a time in my life when a lot of things happened. It allowed me to put it all together and share with others my experiences. I tried a couple different sites out that were listed on the site provided in the instructions. I watched alot of different presentations about a dog named Dominoe.
The site I decided to use was One True Media. I found this site to be very user friendly and very easy to create. You can view my project on my blog or from here the One True Media site. Both sites allow you to leave comments, any comment left is appreciated. Putting this montage together was fairly easy becasue I had all the media already I was going to use. I just needed to put it all together in a story format.
When relating this to business, I think it would be useful if you were having an employee who has worked for the company for many loyal years retire. If you had the media to put something together to commerate their service to the company. With One True Media you can order a DVD of your montage, that could be a good departing gift.
"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother." - William Shakespespeare
The site I decided to use was One True Media. I found this site to be very user friendly and very easy to create. You can view my project on my blog or from here the One True Media site. Both sites allow you to leave comments, any comment left is appreciated. Putting this montage together was fairly easy becasue I had all the media already I was going to use. I just needed to put it all together in a story format.
When relating this to business, I think it would be useful if you were having an employee who has worked for the company for many loyal years retire. If you had the media to put something together to commerate their service to the company. With One True Media you can order a DVD of your montage, that could be a good departing gift.
"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother." - William Shakespespeare
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Week 5: Clear
I watched lectures up to disk storage and I found the ones I watched to be fascinating. In particular the lecture on processors, 80 cores wow. I found it hard to believe that there could be that many any time soon. I looked into it, sure enough 80 cores, this website talks about the cores and how they may have some problems after 16 cores with a diminishing return. The article was written in 2007, so some of that may have changed since. But still, I have an Intel Dual and it works just fine for what I use my computer for. I could not imagine what programs would be running to need 80 cores.
I have a 700GB external hard drive and I have taken all of about 50GB of space. There is an article talking about the NSA building a facility to house a yottabyte of storage, a warning if you read the article it talks about all this big-brother stuff. A yottabyte is 1,000,000,000,000,000GB of storage, holy s*&%. According to Wikipedia site on Yottabytes, as of 2009 the internet contained close to 500 exabytes which is two steps down from a yottabyte. Right now I just find that much storage hard to believe, ask me again in about two weeks and I may have a different answer for you.
I have a 700GB external hard drive and I have taken all of about 50GB of space. There is an article talking about the NSA building a facility to house a yottabyte of storage, a warning if you read the article it talks about all this big-brother stuff. A yottabyte is 1,000,000,000,000,000GB of storage, holy s*&%. According to Wikipedia site on Yottabytes, as of 2009 the internet contained close to 500 exabytes which is two steps down from a yottabyte. Right now I just find that much storage hard to believe, ask me again in about two weeks and I may have a different answer for you.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
