Monday, December 21, 2009
Installing Husband
A woman writes to the IT Technical support Guy
Dear Tech Support,
Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and I noticed a distinct slowdown in the overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jewellery applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0..
In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as
Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, and then installed undesirable programs such as NEWS 5..0, MONEY 3.0 and CRICKET 4.1.
Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and House cleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system..
Please note that I have tried running Nagging 5..3 to fix these problems, but to no avail.
What can I do?
Signed,
_______________________________________________________________________________
Reply
DEAR Madam,
First, keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while Husband 1.0 is an operating system.
Please enter command: ithoughtyoulovedme. html and try to download Tears 6.2 and do not forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update.
If that application works as designed, Husband1..0 should then automatically run the applications Jewellery 2.0 and Flowers 3.5..
However, remember, overuse of the above application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Silence 2.5 or Beer 6.1.
Please note that Beer 6.1 is a very bad program that will download the Snoring Loudly Beta.
Whatever you do, DO NOT under any circumstances install Mother-In-Law 1.0 (it runs a virus in the background that will eventually seize control of all your system resources.)
In addition, please do not attempt to reinstall the Boyfriend 5.0 program. These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0.
In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly.
You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance.
We recommend: Cooking 3.0 and Hot Looks 7.7.
Good Luck Madam!
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
HTTP and HTTPS
HTTP stands for HyperText Transport Protocol, which is just a fancy way of saying it's a protocol (a language, in a manner of speaking) for information to be passed back and forth between web servers and clients.
The important thing is the letter S which makes the difference between HTTP and HTTPS.
The S (big surprise) stands for "Secure".
If you visit a website or webpage, and look at the address in the web browser, it will likely begin with the following: http://.
This means that the website is talking to your browser using the regular 'unsecure' language. In other words, it is possible for someone to "eavesdrop" on your computer's conversation with the website. If you fill out a form on the website, someone might see the information you send to that site.
This is why you never ever enter your credit card number in an http website!
But if the web address begins with https://, that basically means your computer is talking to the website in a secure code that no one can eavesdrop on.
You understand why this is so important, right? If a website ever asks you to enter your credit card information, you should automatically look to see if the web address begins with https://.
If it doesn't, there's no way you're going to enter sensitive information like a credit card number!
Friday, March 28, 2008
First Website Ever ...

About Timothy John Berners-Lee :
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA (born June 8, 1955) is an English developer who invented the World Wide Web in March 1989. With the help of Robert Cailliau, and a young student staff at CERN, he implemented his invention in 1990, with the first successful communication between a client and server via the Internet on December 25, 1990. He is also the director of the World Wide Web Consortium or W3C (which oversees its continued development), and a senior researcher and holder of the 3Com Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Thursday, March 20, 2008
First Web Server ...

This NeXT workstation (a NeXTcube) was used by Tim Berners-Lee as the first Web server on the World Wide Web. Today, it is kept in Microcosm, the public museum at the Meyrin site of CERN, in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
The document resting on the keyboard is a copy of "Information Management: A Proposal," which was Berners-Lee's original proposal for the World Wide Web.
The label on the cube itself has the following text: "This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!"
Just below the keyboard (not shown) is a label which reads: "At the end of the 80s, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web using this Next computer as the first Web server."
Thursday, November 8, 2007
55 Cancri

Name
55 Cancri (pronounced /ˈkæŋkraɪ/, abbreviated 55 Cnc) is a binary star located around 41 light-years away in the constellation Cancer. It has the Bayer designation Rho1 Cancri. The system contains a yellow dwarf star (55 Cancri A) similar to our Sun and a red dwarf (55 Cancri B). The two components are separated by over 1000 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
As of 2007, five extrasolar planets are known in orbit around 55 Cancri A. Four of the planets are comparable to Jupiter in mass, while the innermost planet has a mass similar to that of Neptune. The 55 Cancri system was the first known five-planet extrasolar planetary system.
55 Cancri A is ranked 63rd in the list of top 100 target stars for the NASA Terrestrial Planet Finder mission.[1].
Distance and visibility
The 55 Cancri system is located fairly close to our solar system: the Hipparcos astrometry satellite measured the parallax of 55 Cancri A as 79.80 milliarcseconds, corresponding to a distance of 12.5 parsecs.[2] 55 Cancri A has an apparent magnitude of 5.95, making it visible through binoculars. It is just visible to the naked eye under very dark skies. The red dwarf 55 Cancri B is of the 13th magnitude and only visible through a telescope.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
New technology Future images ...
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Birth oF The PC ...
The IBM PC was announced to the world on 12 August 1981, helping drive a revolution in home and office computing.
The PC came in three versions; the cheapest of which was a $1,565 home computer.
The machine was developed by a 12-strong team headed by Don Estridge.
We take a look at changes in home computing over the last 25 years. IBM Unleashed The $1,565 IBM PC bought a computer and a keyboard. There was no monitor included and disc drives were optional. It included Microsoft's BASIC programming language.
"This is the computer for just about everyone who has ever wanted a personal system at the office, on the university campus or at home," said CB Rogers Jr of IBM at the time of release. Computer Costs IBM's machine cost between $1,565, for a home model, and $4,500, for a machine designed for the office.
The cheaper model would cost �1,872 today, taking 25 years of adjustments in the retail price index into account.
So what kind of PC can you buy for �1,872 today? What are the differences between the first PC and the latest PCs? Computing Power
The first IBM PC had a 4.7Mhz processor and the cheapest model had 16K of memory.
Disk drives were an optional extra but each 5.25inch disk could hold 160K of data.
The machines could display four different colours of graphics and 24 different colours for text. It also included a built-in mono speaker for music and audio. Future Shock
Consumers are spoilt for choice if they have �1,872 to spend on a PC. This machine, the Area-51 5500, has a dual core 1.8GHz processor - more than 765 times more powerful than the IBM.
It has 1GB of memory - 65,000 times more capacity than the IBM. The 160GB hard drive is equivalent to more than a million floppy disks used by the 1981 machine. Games
The IBM PC launched with rudimentary games and tools, including a music tutorial.
There was also a game called Microsoft Adventure. It was a text adventure game with no graphics and a home version of similar games that had been played on more powerful university computers. High Definition
Modern PCs are capable of running games in high definition and with surround sound.
The �1,800 computer comes with a dedicated graphics card, which would be needed to play a game like the one shown, called Crysis.
The graphics card itself contains vastly more processing power than the original PC. Impact Of The PC
Microsoft supplied the disk operating system (DOS) to PCs and it became an essential part of machines worldwide.
The PC also helped standardise business information; ensuring that data on one PC could be read on another.
There are now a billion PCs in operation globally.
Friday, October 12, 2007
WATERFALL model
Atlantis' Mission in Photos!
The five-day docking marked the creation of the largest spacecraft ever placed into orbit at that time in history, the first ever on-orbit changeout of a shuttle crew, and the 100th manned space launch by the United States from Cape Canaveral. During the docked operations, the crews of the shuttle & station carried out various on-orbit joint US/Russian life sciences investigations aboard SPACELAB/Mir and a logistical resupply of the Mir, along with the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment-II
(SAREX-II) experiment.
Mission statistics :
Mission name: STS-71
Shuttle: Atlantis
Launch pad: 39-A
Launch: June 27, 1995, 19:32:19 UTC
Landing: July 7, 1995, 14:55:28 UTC, KSC, Runway 15
Duration: 9 days, 19 hours, 23 minutes, 9 seconds
Orbit altitude: 170 nautical miles (315 km)
Orbit inclination: 51.6 degrees
Distance traveled: 4.1 million miles (6.6 million km)



