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Font Basics

By Stephen Bucaro | Published 06/22/2005 | Software |

A font is actually a graphic shape, for example a triangle, which can be used to create a typographic character. A group of fonts of similar design can be used to create a typeface. A set of typefaces in different sizes and weights, created from the same group of fonts, is a type family. These terms are often misused, the term "font" being used to mean a typeface.

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How to Backup Windows XP Home Edition

By Stephen Bucaro | Published 06/22/2005 | Software |

Your computer cost you from hundreds to thousands of dollars, but the computer itself is not the most valuable part. The data on the hard disk is the most valuable part. How many hours of work did you put into creating that data? One little event, like a power line spike from a lightning strike, and all that work could be lost. Unfortunately, backing up with Windows XP Home Edition is not as simple as it should be....

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Basic Computer Thermodynamics

By Stephen Bucaro | Published 06/23/2005 | Hardware |

That desk in front of you and everything else around you is made up of atoms. An atom consists of electrons orbiting around a nucleus. An atom is increadibly tiny. You could line up 10 million of them inside a millimeter. What if we could scale up an atom so that the nucleus was the size of a basketball? The orbits of its electrons would then be 15 miles away.

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Creating a Backup Plan

By Stephen Bucaro | Published 06/23/2005 | Hardware |

Your company's data may be its most important asset. Imagine a large corporation with millions of dollars of account receivable and account payable data stored on their network. A fire causes massive data loss. How much work would be required to re-create the lost data? Without backups, the company may not survive the disaster....

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Device Driver Basics

By Stephen Bucaro | Published 06/23/2005 | Hardware |

Most people understand that the "hardware" part of their computer is the real physical parts, like the keyboard, mouse, modem, hard drive and so on. They understand that the "software" is computer bits stored on the hard drive, CD-ROM, or other storage media. But most people are a little hazy about exactly what a "driver" is....

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Hard Drive Does Not Boot

By Stephen Bucaro | Published 06/23/2005 | Hardware |

When your computer does not boot, the first thing a technician must ask is; what do you mean by "it won't boot"? Many times the problem is simply that the user doesn't have their monitor turned on, or that they received the "Invalid system disk" message because they left a floppy in the drive. Or does the user mean WINDOWS won't start?

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