Can someone give me some little known interesting facts about computers. Anything and everything to help me learn more about them.
2006-06-28 07:43:08 · 5 answers · asked by doll face 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
As far as pulling up information looked at or things like how to clean it and keep it moving fast and things like that... i just figured i would leave it wide open becaue if i specified i might not get anything.
2006-06-28 07:49:46 · update #1
1. You can't create or name a folder "con". (Go ahead and try. It can't be done.)
2. Lots of your internet browsing (that you may think you've deleted) is in a folder called content.ie5.
3. Shutting off and turning on your computer every day can wear it out faster than leaving it on 24/7. (Heating and cooling expands and contracts the circuits, causing shorts).
4. Your monitor consumes way more electricity than your computer.
5. If you don't know what FDisk does, you never want to do it.
6. Imagine a 747 flying 600 mph, 1 inch off the ground. Relatively speaking, the heads on your hard drive are going about 100 times faster than that.
7. If you DO know what FDisk does, you still probably don't want to do it.
8. If you set the calendar one year ahead on your server, you can utterly destroy the network. (DHCP crashes... no computers can log on and even if they could, all user passwords are expired. DNS craters, software you've licensed by the year expires (even if you reset the calendar, you'll still have to pay to relicense)... the list goes on and on.
9. 90% of all computer errors are BKAC errors. (Between Keyboard and Chair)
10. Well, heck... let somebody else come up with # 10.
2006-06-28 08:08:20 · answer #1 · answered by antirion 5 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Bill Gates did not write the DOS (disk operating system)program that made Microsoft a powerhouse. It was bought from a programmer and submitted to IBM through his father, a lawyer for IBM. The beauty of the deal was that not only did Bill sell the rights to a program that someone else wrote, he retained the rights to it that allowed him to sell it to all the clones that popped up, hence allowing IBM compatibility.
2006-06-28 14:51:35 · answer #2 · answered by xtowgrunt 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm... facts I got. Little known or interesting is tough.
Ever hear the story of the first computer bug?
http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/tek1/first_computer_bug.htm
2006-06-28 14:48:36 · answer #3 · answered by scott.braden 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you should go to wikipedia.org and look up these things oledb, object oriented programing, sql, network administration, debugging, ascii, binary, octal, 64 bit programming, and 32 bit programming and im sure you'll have an abundance of knowledge that im not sure what use it will be to you considering the vague question
2006-06-28 14:48:05 · answer #4 · answered by kenshiro 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All data is stored as 1's and 0's. Simple computer logic.
2006-06-28 14:47:08 · answer #5 · answered by kdog 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋