Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
RAM, or random access memory is the temporary memory that the computer uses to perform its functions while being used; that is, the when the computer is actively running, it is constantly storing and erasing bits of information. When you shut off your computer, that information is gone. It is ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
The difference between Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl are the creatures and control over Dialga (diamond) or Palkai (pearl). You cannot collect the same characters in Pokemon Diamond as in Pokemon Pearl, so for those who are completists out there, you will want both. The game is virtually identical in ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Hardware refers to the physical components of the computer that run the software; such as the hard drive, the motherboard, the video and sound cards, the monitor, the printer, the keyboard and the mouse. Hardware also includes removable storage devices such as a CD Rom Drive or Zip Drive.
Software refers ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
If you spend any time learning to program in an object oriented programming language, like C++, Java, Python or Ruby, you're going to run across these two concepts. But what is the difference between an abstract class and an interface?
As you probably know, a class acts like a blueprint. It ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
If you're reading this article, you probably know they're both programming languages, but what is the difference between C and C++?
C came first, developed as a procedural block programming language back in 1972. Many of the programming trends we use today, like functions, loops, if/else blocks were used in C. ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Procedure and functions are generic terms used in computer science, interchangeably with method, subroutine, etc. However, in database programming they mean very specific things. So I'm going to assume you want to know, what is the difference between procedure and function in databases.
Both procedures and functions are used in Oracle's ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Routers and switches are both pieces of networking equipment that help data move across the network to their final location, but they work differently, and actually function at different levels of the networking stack. What is the difference between a router and a switch?
The least intelligent kind of networking device ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
When you connect a computer to a network, you have the choice of either giving it a static or dynamic IP address. What is the difference between them?
A fixed, or static IP address assigns a computer a specific IP address on a network. The computer knows what IP it's supposed ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
A computer uses RAM or memory as a place to store data in between times that the processor is using it. For example, a processor might be adding up a series of numbers, and would use the RAM as a place to store all the numbers it's working with. There ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
When you browse the Internet, you use a web browser. This is an application that runs off your local computer, connected to the Internet. It requests web pages from distant web servers, and translates the HTML programming language into the familiar web page that you read, with embedded pictures. What ...
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