computermdbismarck.com – It’s not easy to erase/delete/wipe out information on the computer by accident. (In the computer biz, we use the word “delete” for that, so I’ll stick with that term here). First, you would have to know how to delete things in general. Secondly, you would have to ignore the message that asks if you’re sure you want to delete the thing.
Forget about computers for a moment and think of the real world. The simple rule in the real world is “If you don’t want to get rid of something, don’t put it in the trash”. The same basic rule applies to computers: “If you don’t want to get rid of something, don’t delete it”.
Of course, things might be a little fuzzier in the computer world than in the real world. For example, you might have the option to delete something, but maybe you’re not so sure what that something is. So here’s a good general rule of thumb: If you have to ask “Is it OK to delete this?”, the answer is “No.”
Of course, there’s always the temptation to delete unknown things on the grounds that doing so will help make life easier, or will help you conserve disk space. Still, neither is a good reason to delete something. In fact, here is the absolute worst reason in the world to delete anything:
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computermdbismarck.com – In the movies, brilliant good-looking kids are able to break into other peoples’ computers just by typing some nonsense at a keyboard and luckily guessing a password. In real life, that’s impossible. Even if you leave your computer on and connected to the Internet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, nobody can log into your computer and rummage around through your files. Nobody can steal stuff off your hard disk. Such things never happen, because they can’t happen, despite what the media tells you.
There is a form of hacking, however, that’s worth protecting yourself against. It’s computer-to-computer hacking, where one computer (which we’ll call an ad server) manages to get irritating messages and pop-up ads onto your screen. Or worse yet, a worm like the infamous Blaster Worm that managed to infect thousands of computers a few months ago. In both cases, though, there is no human “looking around” your computer and stealing stuff. The hacker is, instead, just another computer who doesn’t know (or care) who you are, where you are, or what’s in your computer. It’s just trying to make some money for its unscrupulous owners.
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December 31st, 2008
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computermdbismarck.com – Unlike a virus that a human or animal catches, which was created by Mother Nature, a computer virus is a program, written by a human being, to do bad things to your computer. (Or, at the very least, open up a “hole” in your Internet connection through which advertisers can send annoying pop-up ads).
These programs are called viruses (or worms) only because they behave like viruses found in nature. When you (as a human) get a virus, you get sick because the virus replicates itself (makes copies of itself) and starts spreading throughout your body. A computer virus is much the same. It’s a program that’s able to make copies of itself, and spread itself throughout files in your computer.
Most viruses can also spread themselves by e-mailing themselves to people in your address book. You won’t be aware that you’re sending out these viruses, even if you’re sitting at your computer while it’s happening. Your friends will just start receiving e-mails from you with the virus attached. Likewise, when a friend of yours receives a file, it’s likely that the virus will e-mail itself from their computer to yours.
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December 23rd, 2008
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computermdbismarck.com -The Internet consists of tens of millions of computers throughout the world, all connected by cables. Your ISP (Internet Service Provider) is a company that has a very high-speed (and very expensive) connection to the Internet. Your ISP makes its money by renting little “chunks” of that high-speed connection to consumers who don’t want to spend thousands of dollars each month for an Internet connection.
If you’ve ever wondered why it takes so long to download certain Web pages or other files to your computer, it’s all determined by the bandwidth of the connection between your computer and your Internet Service Provider. Which is to say, it all hinges on that wire connecting your computer to your modem to your ISP. That connection is often referred to as the last mile, as illustrated in Figure 1.
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computermdbismarck.com – Did you ever run out of storage space on your hard disk? How is the solution? Whether buying a new hard disk or backup the data on this HD to a CD?
It may be that both of the above it can be done. Just weaknesses / shortcomings (in my opinion personally) is in terms of the relatively expensive cost.
Post time will discuss other solutions from other storage alternatives disk and CD R. I think no matter if from now on we start thinking about alternatives other than HD storage and CD.
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