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  1. Posted · Edited by grimreaper423 (see edit history) · Report reply

    Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG and LSE: GGEA) is an American multinational software corporation, first incorporated as a privately held corporation in September, 1998, that specializes in search engine, information retrieval technology and online advertising. With a market capitalization of US$118.32 billion as of June 2006, Google is the largest internet search company in the world, almost twice as large as rival Yahoo![1] The company employs approximately 6,800 employees[2] and is based in Mountain View, California. Eric Schmidt, formerly chief executive officer of Novell, was named Google's CEO when co-founder Larry Page stepped down.
    The name "Google" originated from a misspelling of "googol," [3] which refers to 10100 (a 1 followed by one-hundred zeros). Google has become well known for its corporate culture and innovative, clean products, and has a major impact on online culture. The verb "to google" has come to mean "to perform a Web search", usually with the Google search engine.

    Google's services are run on several server farms, which, in 2004, consisted of over 30 clusters of up to 2,000 PCs per cluster. Each cluster contains one petabyte of data with sustained transfer rates of 2 Gbps. Combined, over four billion web pages, averaging 10 Kb each, have been fully indexed.[4]

    well thats what wiki thinks lol
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google

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    nice where can i get fluxbox

    any one who does not know what is its

    In Unix computing, Fluxbox is a window manager for the X Window System based on Blackbox 0.61.1.
    It aims to be lightweight and highly customizable, with only minimal support for graphical icons, and only basic interface style capabilities. The basic interface has only a taskbar and a menu accessible by right-clicking on the desktop. Fluxbox also supports user-created keyboard shortcuts.

    In accordance with Fluxbox's goal of simplicity, the main menu, the keyboard shortcuts and the basic configuration are all controlled by simple text files, though there are also graphical tools such as Fluxconf available to change settings.

    Colors, gradients, borders, and several other basic appearance attributes can be specified; recent versions of fluxbox support rounded corners and graphical elements. Fluxbox also has several features Blackbox lacks, including tabbed windows, a feature familiar from PWM, and a configurable titlebar.

    Fluxbox's themes used to be 100% compatible with Blackbox, but Blackbox 0.70 has added new style features.
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxbox


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    What is SA:MP?

    San Andreas Multiplayer (SA:MP) is a modification for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas which turns it into a multiplayer game. You can play over the internet (or LAN) with up to 100 other people.
    Features
    In SA:MP you are able to do almost anything that you can do in single player GTA. SA:MP also features the ability to create your own scripted gamemodes.
    System Requirements
    SA:MP will run on any computer that will run San Andreas single player, but give better performance in most cases. However, if you are playing on larger servers, the game may run slower at times if you have a lower spec.
    Requirements
    Minimum
    1 GHz Processor
    Pentium 3 / Athlon or equivalent
    256MB RAM
    64MB Graphics Card (DirectX 9 compatible)
    Radeon 8500 / GeForce 3 or equivalent
    8X DVD-ROM Drive
    3.6GB free HD space
    DirectX 9 compatible soundcard
    SA:MP specific

    In addition to the standard Single Player requirements, SA:MP needs the following:
    4.7MB free Hard Drive space
    An Internet Connection (512k+ Broadband is highly recommended for smooth online play)
    A copy of GTA San Andreas for PC (V1.0 only - not V1.01 or V2.0)


    info from
    http://wiki.sa-mp.com/wiki/Main_Page

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    why buy a PC

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer

    A personal computer (PC) is usually a microcomputer whose price, size, and capabilities make it suitable for personal usage. The term was popularized by Apple Computer with the Apple II in the late-1970s and early-1980s, and afterwards by IBM with the IBM PC.

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    History

    Before their advent in the late-1970s to the early-1980s, the only computers possibly available, if the user was privileged, were "computer-terminal based" architectures owned by large institutions. In these, the technology was called "computer time share systems", and used minicomputers and mainframe computers. These central computer systems frequently required large rooms — roughly, a handball-court-sized room could hold two to three small minicomputers and its associated peripherals, each housed in cabinets much the size of three refrigerators side by side (with blinking lights and tape drives). In that era, mainframe computers occupied whole floors; a big hard disk was a mere 10–20 Megabytes mounted on a cabinet the size of a small chest-type freezer. Earlier PCs were generally called desktop computers.

     

    The first generations of personal microcomputers were usually sold as kits or merely instructions, and required a somewhat skilled person to assemble and operate them. These were usually called microcomputers, but the name "personal computer" was also used. Later generations were sometimes interchangeably called by the names "home computer" and "personal computer." By the mid-1980s, "home computer" was becoming a less common label in favor of "personal computer." These computers were pre-assembled and required little technical knowledge to operate. In today's common usage, personal computer and PC usually indicate an IBM PC compatible. Due to this association, some manufacturers of personal computers that are not IBM PCs avoid explicitly using the terms to describe their products. Mostly, the term PC is used to describe personal computers that use Microsoft Windows operating systems.

     

    One early use of "personal computer" appeared in a November 3, 1962 New York Times article reporting John W. Mauchly's vision of future computing as detailed at a recent meeting of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers. Mauchly stated, "There is no reason to suppose the average boy or girl cannot be master of a personal computer.

    Some of the first computers that might be called "personal" were early minicomputers such as the LINC and PDP-8. By today's standards they were very large (about the size of a refrigerator) and cost prohibitive (typically tens of thousands of US dollars), and thus were rarely purchased by an individual. However, they were much smaller, less expensive, and generally simpler to operate than many of the mainframe computers of the time. Therefore, they were accessible for individual laboratories and research projects. Minicomputers largely freed these organizations from the batch processing and bureaucracy of a commercial or university computing center.

     

    In addition, minicomputers were relatively interactive and soon had their own operating systems. Eventually, the minicomputer included VAX and larger minicomputers from Data General, Prime, and others. The minicomputer era largely was a precursor to personal computer usage and an intermediary step from mainframes.

     

    Development of the single-chip microprocessor was an enormous catalyst to the popularization of cheap, easy to use, and truly personal computers. Arguably the first true "personal computer" was the Altair 8800, which brought affordable computing to an admittedly select market in the 1970s. However, it was arguably this computer that spawned the development of both Apple Computer as well as Microsoft, spawning the Altair BASIC programming language interpreter, Microsoft's first product.[MORE on the site]

    Uses

    Personal computers are normally operated by one user at a time to perform such general purpose tasks as word processing, internet browsing, internet faxing, e-mail and other digital messaging, multimedia playback, video game play, computer programming, etc. Other more specific functions usually performed with the help of a PC include working, teleworking, learning, researching, printing, online banking, online shopping and dealing online with public sector institutions and services. The user of a modern personal computer may have significant knowledge of the operating environment and application programs, but is not necessarily interested in programming nor even able to write programs for the computer. Therefore, most software written primarily for personal computers tends to be designed with simplicity of use, or "user-friendliness" in mind. However, the software industry continuously provide a wide range of new products for use in personal computers, targeted at both the expert and the non-expert user.

    why buy a MAC/Apple

    Mac OS

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS

    Mac OS, which stands for Macintosh Operating System, is a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Computer for their Macintosh line of computer systems. The Mac OS is often credited with popularizing the graphical user interface. It was first introduced in 1984 with the original Macintosh 128K.

     

    Apple deliberately played down the existence of the operating system in the early years of the Macintosh to help make the machine appear more user-friendly and to distance it from other operating systems such as MS-DOS, which were portrayed as arcane and technically challenging. Apple wanted Macintosh to be portrayed as a computer "for the rest of us". The term "Mac OS" didn't really exist until it was officially used during the mid-1990s. The term has since been applied to all versions of the Mac system software as a handy way to refer to it when discussing it in context with other operating systems.

     

    Earlier versions of the Mac OS were compatible only with Motorola 68000-based Macintoshes, while later versions were also compatible with the PowerPC (PPC) architecture. Most recently, Mac OS X has become compatible with Intel's x86 architecture.

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    Versions

    he early Macintosh operating system initially consisted of two pieces of software, called "System" and "Finder", each with its own version number. System 7.5.1 was the first to include the Mac OS logo (a variation on the original "Happy Mac" smiley face Finder startup icon), and Mac OS 7.6 was the first to be named "Mac OS" (to ensure that users would still identify it with Apple, even when used in "clones" from other companies).

     

    Until the advent of the later PowerPC G3-based systems, significant parts of the system were stored in physical ROM on the motherboard. The initial purpose of this was to avoid using up the limited storage of floppy disks on system support, given that the early Macs had no hard disk. (Only one model of Mac was ever actually bootable using the ROM alone, the 1991 Mac Classic model.) This architecture also helped to ensure that only Apple computers (and later licensed clones with the copyright-protected ROMs) could run Mac OS.

     

    The Mac OS can be divided into two families of operating systems:

    "Classic" Mac OS, the system which shipped with the first Macintosh in 1984 and its descendants, culminating with Mac OS 9.

    The newer Mac OS X (the "X" refers to the Roman numeral, ten). Mac OS X incorporates elements of OpenStep (thus also BSD Unix and Mach) and Mac OS 9. Its low-level BSD-based foundation, Darwin, is free software/open source software.

    Thats all for now

    PC information here

    Mac information here

     

     

    i would buy a mac but i have got windows

     

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  16. Posted · Edited by grimreaper423 (see edit history) · Report reply

    a little information about Work experience

    Work experience is the experience that a person has working, or working in a specific field or occupation.
    The phrase is sometimes used to mean a type of volunteer work that is commonly intended for young people - often students - to get a feel for professional working environments. This usage is common in the United Kingdom (the American equivalent is intern). Though the placements are usually always unpaid, travel and food expenses are sometimes covered, and at the end of the appointment, a character reference is usually provided. The trainee usually has the opportunity to network and make contacts among the working personnel, and put themselves forward for any forthcoming opportunities for paid work.

    However, in competitive freelance industries, the demand for placements can often be overwhelming. Though many people have professionally benefited from this type of experience, it’s advisable for persons to consider the financial implications of a placement -- there is a gentlemen’s agreement that it should never last more than one month -- and how exactly they would get their effort's worth once it’s over in the correct give and take relationship.

    Work experience is compulsory for students in Year 10 in the United Kingdom and Australia. The majority of the students have to arrange the two week placement at the employer by themselves however help from the school or college is offered. Often, the students are given placements by the school without the student having a choice. If a student fails to find a placement then they are forced to attend school everyday aiding the caretaker. Recent regulations restricted the availability of locations as students are not prohibited from working at a company outside the conurbation of the city or abroad. Safety checks on the companies are now more thorough and students who arrange placements at failed companies are forced to find a new placement. Students are not permitted from working at companies with an employee count below 5 due to insurance problems. This often ruled out small shops which were run by the student's relatives or friends. It is not banned for the employee to pay the student however it is not encouraged. These regulations do not apply to people who take work experience when it is not compulsory.

    what i think its not fair cuz you dont get paid :)

    sorry i forgot the link i got it from
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_experience
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