64 Things Every Geek Should Know - laptoplogic.com The term ‘geek’, once used to label a circus freak, has morphed in meaning over the years. What was once an unusual profession transferred into a word indicating social awkwardness. As time has gone on, the word has yet again morphed to indicate a new type of individual: someone who is obsessive over one (or more) particular subjects, whether it be science, photography, electronics, computers, media, or any other field. A techie geek is usually one who knows a little about everything, and is thus the person family and friends turn to whenever they have a question. 1. USB – Universal Serial Bus GPU – Graphics Processing Unit CPU – Central Processing Unit SATA – Serial ATA HTML – Hyper-text Markup Language HTTP – Hypertext Transfer Protocol FTP – File Transfer Protocol P2P – Person to Person data sharing 2. If you rolled your eyes here, that is a good thing. 3. Here’s what one looks like: 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.
Some 15 Awesome Widescreen Abstract Wallpapers by Humza / October 29, 2011 In this post we have wound up some really amazing abstract wallpapers. The special thing is the fact that majority of these wallpapers are huge, 1920×1200 resolution or so to fit your widescreens perfectly. We hope you love what we collect and share. The credit goes to the following artists: Bruno Kenzo, David Fuhrer, Casperium, Jason Benjamin, BOBBb12345, NKeo, skam4 دماغنا يخضع لغسيل حقيقي يوميا | علوم وتكنولوجيا | DW.DE | 02.11 يعمل جسمنا في الواقع مثل مصنع معقد جداً. ففي مختلف المفاعلات النووية تحدث عمليات الأيض باستمرار، حيث تتشكل كميات كبيرة من النفايات. وفي جسم الإنسان يعد الجهاز اللمفوي هو المسؤول عن تخليص الجسم من مسببات الأمراض والأجسام الغريبة أو إزالة الخلايا السرطانية مثلاً. وبالرغم من أن أكبر عمليات الاستقلاب تحدث داخل الدماغ إلا أن خدمة التنظيف الذاتي لجسمنا والتي يقوم بها الجهاز اللمفاوي لا تصل إلى الدماغ، ففي كل دقيقة يتم التخلص من أعداد كبيرة من البروتينات التي يمكن أن تتلف الخلايا العصبية. كيف تتم عملية التنظيف؟ ولكن كيف يتعامل الدماغ في جسم الإنسان مع المخلفات الزائدة أو السموم، هذا ما توصل إليه مؤخراً فريق دولي من العلماء من المركز الطبي بجامعة روشستر في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية. الكثير من الأمراض تنشأ بسبب عدم التخلص من السموم في الدماغ كمرض الزهايمر وتحتاج عملية التنظيف إلى الكثير من الوقت، إذ يعتقد العلماء أن عملية تنظيف الدماغ تحتاج إلى حوالي 8 ساعات يومياً. وفي حالات النوم القليلة جداً لا يمكن أن تتم عملية التنظيف بشكل تام وهو ما يحذر الباحثين منه.
Recommended Reading for Developers Code Complete 2 Steve McConnell's Code Complete 2 is the Joy of Cooking for software developers. Reading it means that you enjoy your work, you're serious about what you do, and you want to keep improving. In Code Complete, Steve notes that the average programmer reads less than one technical book per year. The very act of reading this book already sets you apart from probably ninety percent of your fellow developers. I like this book so much that the title of this very website is derived from it – the examples of what not to do are tagged with the "Coding Horror" icon. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) Arguably the only classic book in our field. I challenge any developer to pick up a copy of The Mythical Man Month and not find this tale of a long-defunct OS, and the long-defunct team that developed it, startlingly relevant. Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability Er… yeah. Rapid Development Why?
Creating Truly Powerful Batch Files By Brien M. Posey, MCSE Published in TechRepublic's Windows NT Administrator Report At first glance, the Windows NT® command prompt appears to be just another MS-DOS window. The Power of the Question Mark Because the whole point of this article is to show you how to build truly powerful batch files, we should show you how to figure out which commands to use. Figuring out the necessary command is easier than you might think. Figure A: Find the filename and the location of the utility you wish to automate. Now that you know the filename and location for the utility you need to use, you can create a batch file command that calls the utility. Go to your \%SystemRoot%\system32 directory and type ntbackup /?. Figure B: You can follow a command with the /? The Extended Command Set As we mentioned earlier, the Windows NT command prompt lets you use commands that other operating systems don't support. Figure C: Windows NT contains many new and enhanced commands. DEL and ERASE CD and CHDIR MD and MKDIR