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Here’s a tip for the do-it-yourself crowd: Go to your computer’s Start menu, and either go to “run” or just search for “cmd.” Open it up, and type in “ping [website address],” Once you have the IP for a website, all you really need to do is enter it like you would a normal URL and hit enter/press go.
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Computer Stupidities: Operating Systems
A girl walked into the computer center where I work. She said she was having problems with her Mac. I asked what kind of Mac she had.
The Face of Watson
Preparing Watson for the Jeopardy! stage posed a unique challenge to the team: how to represent a system of 90 servers and hundreds of custom algorithms for the viewing public. The result? A dynamic visual avatar based on the smarter planet icon. A speaking voice that clearly pronounces a vast vocabulary.
Awesome things about Korea: Holy Lightning Speed Internet, Batman!
By Heather Bucurel Nothing makes me happier than to be able to sit at my computer and stream YouTube and Hulu videos in half the time it took at home. (Of course, if I used too much bandwidth at the house, my dad would complain and eventually shut off the router.) Compare that to the US, which runs at 3.88Mbps.
This is the old home for cl1p.net. As of Oct 31, 2011 cl1p.net has been shutdown. But in some ways cl1p.net lives on, the source code to the cl1p.net site has been posted to github so anyone that wants to can run a their own copy can.