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edited November 2006 in Technical Stuff and Help
I work in IT and have some decent knowledge about computers. hopefully other smart people around here can help answer questions as well.

lets have it.
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    I also work in IT and this could easily turn into a thread where we laugh at all the stupid IT questions we get throughout the day as it is.
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  • West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    IT people unite!

    I hate it when I have to explain what alphanumeric means. I mean "Alpha + Numeric" I thought this was self explanatory?
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    IT also :). Where are all the people whos speakers are broken because their volume is down?
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    I was attempting to configure a firewal today and 3 different laptops I was using didnt work. after further investigation I noticed the power supply wasnt plugged it.

    nice work Sr. Network Admin. nice work.
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    All-in-One printers suck. I'm ashamed I even bought one.
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    I love any issue that ends with "Turn your computer back on."
  • Posts: 10,560
    Pop Quiz nerds!

    What routing protocol is used to connect via the shortest number of hops?

    What routable protocol in the TCP/IP suite creates a connection-less link?

    What type of memory requires light to erase it?

    What re-writable memory maintains it's data after power-cycling?

    What flying creature crashed the first computer?

    What was the first PC?

    How much did Microsoft purchase DOS for?

    Bonus Question!
    What famous phreaker invented the "blue box"?
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
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    Ahnimus wrote:
    What type of memory requires light to erase it?

    Flash Memory...
    "Feel it rising, yeah next stop falling!"

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    ItsEvolutionBaby74 wrote:
    Flash Memory...

    Good one, that was an easy one though ;)
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • Posts: 490
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Good one, that was an easy one though ;)

    I know :D but I don't work in IT ;)
    "Feel it rising, yeah next stop falling!"

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    ItsEvolutionBaby74 wrote:
    I know :D but I don't work in IT ;)

    Well that's really good then!

    You could probably look most of them up online, I tried to formulate them to make that harder.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
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    jlew24asu wrote:
    I work in IT and have some decent knowledge about computers. hopefully other smart people around here can help answer questions as well.

    lets have it.

    A question, I've been thinking about starting a bunch of webpages, I know HTML, a little XML, and basic JavaScript, but is PHP any use? And if so where can I learn it? I also know a little C++ but not enough that it would be useful, if it is at all usable for my purpose.
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    ItsEvolutionBaby74 wrote:
    A question, I've been thinking about starting a bunch of webpages, I know HTML, a little XML, and basic JavaScript, but is PHP any use? And if so where can I learn it? I also know a little C++ but not enough that it would be useful, if it is at all usable for my purpose.

    You don't use C++ for web development. I personally like PHP, it interfaces with MySQL well.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
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    Ahnimus wrote:
    Pop Quiz nerds!

    What routing protocol is used to connect via the shortest number of hops?
    OSPF?

    What re-writable memory maintains it's data after power-cycling?
    Well, that would be the Non-Volatile memory

    What flying creature crashed the first computer?
    Windows :D


    Hi, I am a student ICT-electronics
    might later specialise in networking


    nice to meet the 'nerds' on the board :p
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  • Posts: 10,560
    Jamal wrote:
    Pop Quiz nerds!

    What routing protocol is used to connect via the shortest number of hops?
    OSPF?
    Correct! OSPF or Open Shortest Path First

    What re-writable memory maintains it's data after power-cycling?
    Well, that would be the Non-Volatile memory
    Correct! NVRam or Non-Volatile Memory, I would have also accepted EEPROM, Electrically Erasable Programable Read Only Memory

    What flying creature crashed the first computer?
    Windows
    Incorrect! This creature predates windows by a few billion years.

    Thanks for participating!
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
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    Thanks, good initiative, but the first crash was caused by a bug in a computer the size of an entire room

    not quite sure about the nature of the bug tho, could've been a fly, I suppose
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  • Posts: 10,560
    Jamal wrote:
    Thanks, good initiative, but the first crash was caused by a bug in a computer the size of an entire room

    not quite sure about the nature of the bug tho, could've been a fly, I suppose

    That's a very very close guess. It was actually a Moth.

    "In 1946, when Hopper was released from active duty, she joined the Harvard Faculty at the Computation Laboratory where she continued her work on the Mark II and Mark III. Operators traced an error in the Mark II to a moth trapped in a relay, coining the term bug. This bug was carefully removed and taped to the log book September 9th 1945. Stemming from the first bug, today we call errors or glitch's [sic] in a program a bug. [2]"
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug
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    Ahnimus wrote:
    Pop Quiz nerds!
    What routable protocol in the TCP/IP suite creates a connection-less link?
    UDP, took me some time to find my book of datacommunications :p, wasn't quite sure
    Surf little waves big... Charge big waves hard

    - Antwerp '06, Nijmegen '07, Werchter '07
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    Jamal wrote:
    UDP, took me some time to find my book of datacommunications :p, wasn't quite sure

    Correct! User Datagram Protocol!

    Good stuff, I'm suprised you know the network answers, perhaps you should pursue a career in networking.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire

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