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Computer Stupidities: The World Wide Web

Computer Stupidities: The World Wide Web
One time, I caught my Mom working at the computer, printing out information for my brother's report. She was reading an article at Wikipedia, and she didn't know that if you edit Wikipedia, it stays there for the entire world to look at. So she was editing most of the links, pictures, and headings out -- and even put a little more at the top: "Here is the info, sweetie, good luck!" She almost pressed 'Save' when I went over and asked her what she was doing. I used to do tech support for a company that made computer accessories and video game accessories. Tech Support: "Well, just go to [URL]." Back in 2001 our public library had a bunch of Internet terminals running Windows 98 with Internet Explorer. Login to his library account.Open Internet Explorer.Go to a web site.Click on a link, which took him to another page.Read the page.Reboot.Wait.Login to his library account.Open Internet Explorer.Go to the same web site he was just on.Click on a different link on that page. Teacher: "Great!

Coolsig - Find Great Email Signatures hollywood.txt from nand.net /************************************/ /* Guidelines to development */ /* on the */ /* HOLLYWOOD OPERATING SYSTEM */ /************************************/ 1. Any PERMISSION DENIED has an OVERRIDE function. 2. Complex calculations and loading of huge amounts of data will be accomplished in under three seconds.

ASCII Art Collection To explore and enjoy the many ASCII art pictures on this site, just pick an Art Category from the menu on the left. The 10 Most recently updated files: (The rest can be found here.) Christopher Johnson's ASCII Art Collection was revealed to the Internet in November of 1994, back when Netscape 1.0 was "soooo much better than Mosaic" and Internet Explorer didn't exist yet. Here we are 22 years later, and if my web-server traffic statistics are any indication, ASCII art is more popular now than it's ever been. Shameless begging starts now: Running this site for the last 22 years hasn't been cheap. Important note: I am not an ASCII artist.

NintendoLand: The dreamland for every Nintendo enthusiast since 1998! Carlos Bootleg RSS Feedpalooza Anti-Spam - Fight Back Against Spammers | How To Ask Questions The Smart Way In the world of hackers, the kind of answers you get to your technical questions depends as much on the way you ask the questions as on the difficulty of developing the answer. This guide will teach you how to ask questions in a way more likely to get you a satisfactory answer. Now that use of open source has become widespread, you can often get as good answers from other, more experienced users as from hackers. This is a Good Thing; users tend to be just a little bit more tolerant of the kind of failures newbies often have. Still, treating experienced users like hackers in the ways we recommend here will generally be the most effective way to get useful answers out of them, too. The first thing to understand is that hackers actually like hard problems and good, thought-provoking questions about them. Despite this, hackers have a reputation for meeting simple questions with what looks like hostility or arrogance. We're (largely) volunteers. (Improvements to this guide are welcome. HELP!

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Top 10 Geek List | Geek 24: Gadgets, Techn This is the mother of all top 10 geek lists. We just scoured around and put together a list of all the Top 10 stuff you would find interesting. Starting first with our own Top 10 Geek Movies. Top 10 Geek Movies Top 10 Worst Gadgets 2005 Top 10 Geek Gifts Top 10 Geek T-Shirts Top 10 Geek Novels Top 10 Science Fiction Movies Top 10 Geek Alumni Top 11 Scariest Geek Movies (oops..11) Top 10 Geek Watches Top 10 Sexiest Geeks - 2005 But, after we reached the end of our top 10 of top 10 geeks list we couldn't resist adding a few more as some of them were down right funny, so here they are: Top 10 Worst Geek Pickup lines Top 10 Signs that you are an Internet Geek Top 10 reasons to date a geek Top 10 differences between Nerds and Geeks Drop a comment if you know more of the interesting top 10 geek's.

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