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Bucaro TecHelp Newsletter
Maintain Your Computer and Use it More Effectively
to Design a Web Site and Make Money on the Web.
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A Lot of Beepen and Tooten But No Booten?
By Stephen Bucaro
You start your computer and all you get is a blank screen and some beeping noise.
You panic because you think you have some very serious computer problems. Actually,
your concern is justified. The reason your computer is beeping is because it has
a serious problem that prevents it from communicating via its standard output,
the screen. But don't lose hope, here are some troubleshooting steps you can take.
The beeps coming from your computer are most likely not coming from your sound
board or on-board sound circuitry. They are coming from a tiny PC speaker mounted
inside the computer case for the specific purpose of communicating with humans when
it can't communicate via the screen.
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Replace Drop-down with Drag-and-drop
By Stephen Bucaro
We are all familiar with drop-down lists. From a webpage designers point of view,
they require a lot of html tags. When used in a form that is submitted to the server,
it's a bit complicated to extract data from a drop-down list. Wouldn't it be nice
if you could just let the user drag-and-drop text into a simple text box. You can!
In this article, I'll show you how to replace a drop-down list with a simple text
box. I'll also show you how to test your server-side form processing code with
client-side simulation. And for an extra kicker, I'll throw in a dieting tip!
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Fedora 3 Linux File Management
By Stephen Bucaro
We all know the advantages of the Linux operating system. It's more stable,
more secure, and free of abusive licensing and product activation schemes.
But Linux hasn't taken over as the desktop operating system of choice. That's
because of its reputation as being complicated to install, difficult to use,
and lack of practical applications.
Installing Fedora is as simple as inserting the first CD-ROM into the drive
and rebooting. With the release of the OpenOffice.org office suite, the lack
of practical applications problem is gone. The first thing you need to know
when moving to a new operating system is how to manage files.
In this article, you'll learn that managing files in Linux is just as easy
as iit is with Windows, but without the abusive licensing and product
activation schemes. The version of Linux we'll explore is Fedora 3 , but all
versions of Linux will work similarly.
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