Drop Roll

ŠThe BORDERLINE by Gabe Martin

Stop, Drop, Roll...C...O...N...T...R...O...L...A...L...T...D...E...L...E...T...E is that all one word?
But safety is no accident, Trend Micro makes Housecalls.
computer Computer basics
  1. Keyboard...the typewriter thing with a few extra keys...it is QWERTY.
      2. Practice with the keyboard
    1. Fingers on the home row...and take a typing test.
    2. Learning to type from 21st Software Corp.
  2. CPU or Central Processing Unit or hard drive...really the control center.
  3. Monitor...I'm so old, I can remember that the color monitor debate revolved around green vs. amber. See what old computer monitors displayed. And now size counts.
  4. Mouse...the device that helps you interact with GUI or the Graphical User Interface. You can change the clickspeed.
Anna Kournikova playing tennis
  1. Match Point Match, An Official Anna Kournikova Licensed Product.
    Oh, well, the game is gone and I am blue. You needed to match pictures of Anna in a 5 by 5 matrix. Hours of ammusement.
  2. a poor substitute, but similar principle Memory Match which requires Flash 5
  3. a game of tic-tac-toe; now that's a bold move.
  4. for the more athletic, a game of Hacky-Sack or kick-ups!
  5. for the Tetris inclined, try Yahoo! Games Collapse and click away!
  6. Celebrity games Puzzles et cetera; to practice mouse skills, of course.
  7. MSN Gaming Zone offers Blender.
  1. Storage devices...
    1. the hard disk drive is inside the CPU usually referred to as the C:\ drive.
    2. Vintage Computer Advertisements.
    3. a little maintenance might help like "scandisk" and "defrag".
    4. What vendor, type, model, stepping and speed is your CPU? Download MyCPU from Mad's crazy site.
    5. That's one cool Motherboard. Check out the articles. And the Forums.
    6. the A:\ drive probably a 3½ diskette, but I can remember not only 5¼ but real 8" floppies!
    7. the D:\ or E:\ et cetera may be a drive that takes a Compact Disk or a Zip disk.
    8. Hey, what happened to the B:\ drive?
  2. Printers, I still have a dot matrix. If I want nice laser printer output, I borrow someone else's! Hey, I am an economist!
  3. Other Devices...scanners, speakers, microphones, cameras...
  4. Joystick? Remember Pac Man? Beat George Costanza's score with this download.
  5. "The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware..."
  6. Operating Systems...DOS...Windows...Mac OS...Linux...I miss VMS on the VAX. And some haiku to ponder.
  7. Windows Operating System Information from run MSINFO32.EXE including Hardware Resources, Components, Software Environment, and Applications.
  8. Cleaning Windows is no fun, try G-Lock's Temp Cleaner.
  9. Nokia helps monitor the Monitor.
  10. The paper less office? Turn your PC into a filing cabinet by Kim Komando.
  11. Kim Komando, America's Digital Goddess
  12. some people take exception to the term geek, except a helpful computer geek.
  13. Sunshine Coast Home Computer User Guide
Use the "idiot box" to learn; TechTV broadcasts
  1. Call for Help and
  2. The Screen Savers.
Computer Fundamentals from CSU Chico.
Hardware Fundamentals v2.1 by Robert Brian Brown.
In Windows, there is a GUI for the Control Panel, the Desktop, the " Explorer", and the Program Manager.
If there was a problem, yo The Troubleshooting Flowchart will solve it,
Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it; Ice Ice Baby...(not everything on the web is worthwhile).
This site can answer a lot of your what is? questions.
For information on operating systems and those programs running in the background, consult Black Viper.
A little dated Windows 95 but the screen shots are still cute. You can navigate through by choosing "Next Page".
From Hewlett-Packard, Learning Center, a place to learn something!
A little help from Microsoft to get you to upgrade to Office 2000.
If your MS software is a little worn out, you might need to update unless you are going for that retro look.
A little free training from computers and training.com couldn't hurt.
The free-ed.net site has a Windows 98 tutorial.
Some tutorials on Trouble-shooting and Microsoft Products could help too.
Some on-line training sites to check out from the Moscow Center for Specialized Education.
Hey, you got 15 Minutes for some Training from the InterNIC, in partnership with the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).
PC Instruction by Technically Teaching take a quiz, buy a video
PC Pitstop offers a free utility that will scan your computer system and make suggestions on how to tune up your computer's performance.
Sysinfo dot org's Startup Applications List is handy for seeing what junk is delete worthy, but double check.
are those metal spike golf shoes!Where are my shoes?
Knowing where you put things on your computer is important.
the DOS construct drive:\directory\subdirectory\filename.ext
What is an extension according to About.
Or the cyber guy provides a listing or Ext Search allows you to search.
screen shots of icons here...someday. Find some for me, please.
Organizing and Classifying things
Scientific Honey Bee Where Location
Class Insecta Disk or Drive A:\, C:\, or
Order Hymenoptera folder C:\documents
Family Apidae subfolder C:\documents\homework
Genus Apis subsubfolder C:\documents\homework\biology
Species Apis Mellifera file C:\documents\homework\biology\bees.doc
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