Computers and Technology

Friday, 02 January 2009
By Victor Epand Is your computer been running a little slower than normal? Are you worried that some one may be able to access your computer and steal your private information and use it against you? If so, these are feelings I have shared with you in the past. Some time back, my three year old computer was running so slow that I had to buy a new computer. Or at least I thought I needed a new computer. Then within a matter of weeks of surfing on the Internet, my new computer was also running so slowly. In addition, some programs did not run well on my computer, and I did not recognize some of the programs that were running on my computer. That scared me most. Were these programs that were tracking my keystrokes on my computer or programs I just not remember installing? I knew I had to find a answer and solution fast. The truth is, we can all put up with a slow computer, but very few of us would want others to have access to the information on our computers, Tag it:
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Friday, 02 January 2009
By Victor Epand Computer systems or simply computer hardware, form the back bone of a computer along with its operating software is the sum of many parts, namely monitor, central processing unit, keyboard, mouse and more. The system unit is the actual computer, while every thing else is called a peripheral device. The hardware includes the physical components, such as the mother board, chips, memory and hard drives. The hardware is constantly improving in a kind of leap frog fashion. It is most often the bottle neck when it comes to data transfer speeds or how fast a software program can work. A mother board is the central or primary printed circuit board, PCB, making up a complex electronic system of a modern computer or laptop. It is the under lying circuit board of a computer. The central processing unit, CPU, random access memory, RAM, hard drive, disk drives, and optical drives are all plugged into interfaces on the mother board. A video interface and sound card can be optionally built in or added. The CPU, which is also known as the central processing unit Tag it:
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