The first post in the PC Purchase series, this covers a now basic peripheral of any new PC: the network card (NIC). NIC is an acronym for the official name which is Network Interface Controller. Under certain circumstances, this card acts as your computer’s gate to the internet.
Background
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Archive for January, 2007
PC Purchase Series: What is a Network Card?
Published by January 11th, 2007 in Computers, Hardware, Question, Series:PC Purchase and Series:Parts of a Computer. 0 CommentsSeries: Buying and Customizing a PC
Published by January 10th, 2007 in Question and Series:PC Purchase. 0 CommentsThe other day someone looking into purchasing a new computer asked me a number of questions. Each dealt with the various parts of a computer that many manufacturers now let you customize. This, I thought, would make a great series of posts! A number of the items that he asked about were both included by […]
I don’t know jack when it comes to RSS feeds. All I know is that it’s possible to subscribe to a feed which allows a subscriber to view the new content in a reader. Since I’ve only ever dealt with the BBC Feed built into Firefox, I have little idea of how to set my […]
I fully understand that I may not be able to either fully address or successfully portray an answer to a submitted question. Because of that, I will post links to tutorials, descriptions, Wikipedia pages, or any other information that I think will help to create a full picture. While I wish that I could become […]
Hi,
My dad recently won a Skype phone, but I have no clue what this is or what it does. Can you explain?
Sure! I’ll break this down into two parts: a description of Skype followed by the definition of a ‘Skype phone’. Skype uses a technology called Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP). It’s the same […]
