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| Thread ID: 114123 | 2010-11-18 20:42:00 | Illiterate PC People | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 1154391 | 2010-11-19 20:01:00 | The entire of Southland calls vacuuming "luxing". " I luxed the floor". Or it might be called 'Hoovering' if you came from the UK.... |
R.M. (561) | ||
| 1154392 | 2010-11-19 20:07:00 | There again it may be similar to vehicles. Lots of people manage to drive without knowing the difference between a tappett and a con rod. :-) | Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1154393 | 2010-11-19 21:52:00 | There again it may be similar to vehicles. Lots of people manage to drive without knowing the difference between a tappett and a con rod. :-) You are ******* kidding |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 1154394 | 2010-11-19 22:02:00 | You are ******* kidding Not really. Might be somewhat tongue in cheek but it's not actually a crime to use wrong terminology as some people here would imply. |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1154395 | 2010-11-19 23:19:00 | Is a household router really a...?Most home routers combine a modem and a router, and often a switch as well, in the same box. The main exception to that is TelstraClear cable connections, where the modem really is just a modem, and if you wish to use the connection from more than one device, you need to connect the modem to a separate router. And is a modem a router?No. A modem is a completely different device. A modem (MOdulator / DEModulator) is a device that encodes & decodes digital information on an analogue carrier. This includes things like dialup, xDSL, cable, and various forms of wireless. I mean a router connects to a diff network or is that a Gateway?A router and a gateway are the same thing; which name you use is up to you. A router is a device that logically connects two or more separate networks at the IP level in such a way that packets from any connected network, directed to any other connected network, can be sent to the correct destination. Almost all home routers also provide NAT, in such a way that allows one or more devices on the 'home' network to share a single IP address on the Internet. This is achieved by keeping a record of all connections originating from the 'home' network, changing the IP header on the packet to appear to originate from the IP address of the Internet interface of the router. Any packets originating from the Internet side are checked against the router's record of outgoing packets to see if it can figure out where to send it. If it can, the IP header is rewritten to change the packet's destination to be the device on the 'home' network's IP address, and the packet is sent there. If not, then the packet is dropped. Many routers also include some kind of firewall service; this is effectively a policy filter that defines what should and should not be forwarded. Is a household router really a switch?No, although it may include one in the same box. Unlike a router, a switch combines multiple ethernet connections or networks into a single physical domain, in such a way that an ethernet frame from any mac address, anywhere on the physical network (i.e. directly connected to the switch, or to another switch or hub that is connected to the switch, and not on the other side of a router), can be sent to any other mac address in the same physical network. A switch is distinct from a hub in that the switch will only send traffic out the ports necessary for the frame to reach its destination, whereas a hub will rebroadcast traffic from any port on all the other ports. A switch (but *not* a hub) can be effectively thought of as a layer 2 router, whereas a traditional router operates at layer 3 (if this confuses you, see here (en.wikipedia.org)). |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 1154396 | 2010-11-19 23:55:00 | Saw some stupid thing on a "25 facts about Windows" (www.v3.co.uk) 23. It's impossible to name a folder as 'Con' on Windows. Try it. On the desktop, in the hard drive, wherever you try, it will just revert back to the name 'New Folder'. The desktop IS ON THE HARD DRIVE. You morons. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1154397 | 2010-11-20 01:41:00 | Saw some stupid thing on a "25 facts about Windows" (www.v3.co.uk) 23. It's impossible to name a folder as 'Con' on Windows. Try it. On the desktop, in the hard drive, wherever you try, it will just revert back to the name 'New Folder'. The desktop IS ON THE HARD DRIVE. You morons. I wonder why they chose just 'Con' as an example, there are heaps more DOS commands symbols and devices etc that are are not permitted to be used in naming in Windows (For those to whom DOS is a mystery, con is short for console in DOS, eg the copy con command was used to copy keystrokes to a file) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1154398 | 2010-11-20 02:36:00 | It's not just that, it actually IS possible to create a 'con' folder :D | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1154399 | 2010-11-20 02:41:00 | It's not just that, it actually IS possible to create a 'con' folder :D As they say...where there is a will, there is a way ..............! |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1154400 | 2010-11-20 03:05:00 | EDIT > fail, wrong comment to reply to, :p anyway, i'll say it anyway ANOTHER lie! 2. The release of Windows 1.0 in 1985 was actually two years later than planned. We'd be on Windows 8 now if they'd stuck to their schedules. R if they had stuck to their schedule we would be on windows 12 or the likes, XP was left just to fester and rot (not a bat thing though) |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
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