W hat is a computer? I guess the easiest way I can explain it is as a little machine that follows very specific instructions over and over. A computer cannot learn and, unless told to do so, won’t respond to anything. Think of it as a very dumb dog that you have to teach to catch a ball every day and every time you want to play. Computers do very complex math. Mind you, it is always related to the basics: add, subtract, multiply and divide. But as anyone who has had algebra and calculus will tell you: if you do enough of these basics, you can get approximations of more sophisticated math that are pretty close to reality. Computers do this math very quickly. Often the secalculations are done in millions per second. Imagine multiplying 10 million pairs of multi-digit numbers per second. I have a hard enough time myself doing a 3-digitmultiplication in less than a minute. Computers can store a vast amount of information and retrieve it at extraordinary speeds. When everything work...
Peer to Peer Networking • Designed for ten or less workstations • Only moderate network security – Users manage their own account information. • No centralized storage of information • No centralized administration control – Lack of management for users and critical files – Inability to centrally back up important files • Slower response times when sharing resources • Examples: – Windows for Workgroups – Windows 9x, 2K, XP – LANtastic – AppleTalk • Advantages: cheap to create and operate than a client-server network, users control their own resources, no dedicated server is required, no additional software is required, beyond a suitable operation system. • Disadvantages: no central management, each user must manage shared resources on their machine. If a workstation is unavailable, those resources are not available. If there are more than ten users or if the network will gr...
How To Convert File System, fat - fat32 to ntfs open a dos prompt and give the command convert d: /fs:ntfs this command would convert your d: drive to ntfs. if the system cannot lock the drive, you will be prompted to convert it during next reboot. Normally you should select yes. Conversion from fat/fat32 to ntfs is non-destructive, your data on the drive will NOT be lost. Be aware that converting to ntfs will make that partition of yourdrive unreadable under dos unless you have ntfs utilites to do so.