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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.
~ ~ ~ February 2, 2005 Volume 5 Number 3 ~ ~ ~
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FREE Ebook - Color Harmony in Web Design
All 12 parts of the series "Color Harmony in Web Design" compiled into an ebook.
You'll learn how to choose a color scheme that is in agreement with the purpose
of your website. You'll learn to design a color scheme that communicates a
message that increases the effectiveness of your website.
- The Physics of Color
- The Subtractive Color System
- The Additive Color System
- The Color Wheel
- Creating Color Harmony
- Fine Tuning Colors
- Warm and Cool Colors
- Schemes for Power or Calm
- Business Color Schemes
- Food and Nature Color Schemes
- Accessibility, International, and Branding Considerations
- Hexadecimal Color Notation
Plus - Decimal to Hexidecimal Converter and Color Scheme Designer
Anatomy of a Hard Drive
By Stephen Bucaro
The operation of a computer requires some means to store programs and data.
The programs and data could be stored in some type of semiconductor memory.
RAM (Random Access Memory) is a type of semiconductor storage that loses
its data when the power is removed. ROM (Read Only Memory) doesn't lose its
data when power is removed, but data can be written to a ROM only once.
Flash memory is a special kind of semiconductor that doesn't lose its data
when power is removed, and it can be read and written to many times. but
flash memory is expensive. A hard drive is basically a low-cost mechanical
means of storing a large amount of data that isn't lost when the power is
removed, and can be read and written many times.
A hard drive contains a spinning metal disk. The surfaces of the disk have a
magnetizable coating. An actuator arm with a read/write head on its end is
passed over the surface of the spinning disk. The hard disk drive contains
circuitry to control the position of the actuator arm and provide a signal
to the read/write head.
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Installing Fedora 3 Linux
By Stephen Bucaro
We all know the advantages of the Linux operating system. It's more stable,
it's more secure, and it's 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 it's reputation as being complicated to install,
difficult to use, and lack of practical applications.
With the release of the OpenOffice.org office suite, the lack of practical
applications problem is gone. In this article, I'm going to determine if
the "complicated to install" problem has been solved. I will install Fedora
Linux to an Athlon XP 1800 machine with 256 MB RAM and 40 GB hard drive,
blowing away Windows XP in the process.
Installing Fedora is as simple as inserting the first CD-ROM into the drive
and rebooting. But first make sure that your system is set to boot from the
CD drive. Watch the on-screen messages as the system boots, you should see
a message like "searching CD-ROM for boot sector" before the computer boots
from the hard drive.
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