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A Brief Description of Power Supply Units

Power supply units

This is a computer component responsible for supplying power to other components in the entire system. Power supply units do this, typically, by converting the general-purpose alternating power; which originates from the mains into a low voltage direct current power which can be used by other components in the computer.

There are some power supply units which contain a switch that controls voltage ranging from 150V to 230V, but other power supply units has built-in sensors that automatically switch voltages; accepting voltages between the limits. Majority of the power supply...

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gatling online N/A Written on 05/09/2011 in Article

Data Link Layer: The 2nd layer of OSI Model

Data Link Layer

The Data Link layer is basically use for transfer frame data from one node (hop) to next adjacent node. It’s a second layer of OSI model. Basically it takes data packets from network layer put a header and trailer make frames and send it to physical layer.

Data Link Layer has two sub layers:
  1. Logical Link Control (LLC)
  2. Multiple Access Control (MAC)
Logical Link Control Logical link control use for design and procedure for communication between two adjacent nodes means node to node communication. Its functions are Framing, flow and error control and software implementation protocol.
Haseem1 N/A Written on 05/09/2011 in Article

File System Conversion. Fat32 to NTFS

I want to change the file system of my drive without formatting. I experienced FAT32 is working very slow with Windows XP. Someone suggested, to change the type of file system. My question is “How I can convert Fat32 File System to NTFS File System of a drive without formatting?

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mali5 N/A Written on 05/09/2011 in Question

I can’t share Mac OS X Server volume.

Hello Everyone,

I have a business Centre and my all IT base platform is on Mac. I’ve a Mac OSX Server. It’s a standard 2008 R2 domain. I’ve two partitions, one is server and another is Public. I want to share public with all my colleagues. I popped onto server admin Volume and created a share and attempted to share it via auto mounting, ensuring that I had moved the group students into the permissions, but it won't work. I've tried in different ways but failed to fix it up. Any solution please let me know.

Regards,

Arifuzzaman

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Arifuzzaman N/A Written on 05/09/2011 in Question

Booklet Printing in office 2007 word file

I am feeling very happy to see this, very informative and valuable site. I have read nearly about 50 questions and implemented the solutions. It’s very helpful for me to work and understand the computer on hardware and software both levels.

All experts have done very appreciative work. I also have a question and want the solution. I want to print a document in booklet form, in Office 2007.

Guide me through, so that I can get the desired result.

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Faheem N/A Written on 05/09/2011 in Question

HTTP: Know your Networking Protocol

HTTP (Hyper Text Terminal language)

HTTP is a stateless protocol. It’s used to access data on World Wide Web (www). HTTP is use TCP port number 80 HTTP works from client request to server and server response to client.

HTTP operation: 1) The client opens a connection 2) Client send request to server that is http request 3) Server sends response to the client http response 3) Server closes connection. General scenario as described above is just client is request and server response. Sometimes there is no direct connection between the client and the server and there is one intermediate such as...

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Kurt Dempster N/A Written on 05/09/2011 in Article

How to identify 32 bit Windows from 64 bit Windows?

My cousin told me that it is better to have a 32-bit operating system, since you will find a great range of applications and software that are compatible with the platform. As for 64-bit platform, you have to be certain that the software you like to install, is compatible with 64-bit platform. I somehow got his idea but how exactly can I tell, which one I am using? I am using Windows XP Home Edition SP3.

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Annabelle Yokoyama N/A Written on 05/09/2011 in Question

Efficient usage of Database Compression

Database Compression

In the world of today, IT service providers constantly face problems of storage space. Under these circumstances, administrators and users turn to database shrinking and compression. By this practice, limited storage space can be used efficiently. There are many ways to achieve this. There is software that accomplishes the same task and there are various commands in different servers that can do the same job.

For SQL 2008 R2 databases ‘DBCC SHRINKDATABASE’ can be used. All you have to do is, state the name of the database and state the target percentage compression. Read more
lonelyboy N/A Written on 05/09/2011 in Article

How to take Screenshots then insert to MS-Word?

How to take a screen shot, then put the capture item to word file? Is there a tool or an in built way to do this? Should I save it first? Please help.

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anonymous N/A Written on 05/09/2011 in Question

HTML Editors That Pros Use!

HTML Editors Pros Use

HTML hot picks for all the experienced coders and the newbies. If it’s HTML editing or web page building you’re interested in, then look no further.

Listed below are software that can be used to build web pages; written in a text editor. Communication with remote servers where you want to upload your site is an added bonus that HTML editors provide.

HTML PAD 2010   This HTML editor includes basic features like a flexible preview and HTML code validation. HTML PAD...

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Thierry Henry N/A Written on 05/09/2011 in Article