Posted in tech on Aug 11th, 2008
Internet web servers and HTML are closely related. Although web servers are not responsible for producing or rendering HTML, they do have the task of sending the HTML from the web site’s location to the client browser. Web servers must fulfill requests from web browsers quickly, as requests from clients are often made simultaneously. Without [...]
Posted in tech on Aug 8th, 2008
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is a computer language created to instruct applications (web browsers) how to display text and images (Shannon, 2007). The language is called a “markup language” because it uses special tags to change, or mark-up, plain text. Tags surround the effected text and let the web browser know how the text should [...]
Why someone thought the topic of searching on Google and plagiarism are relevant is beyond me. Nevertheless, enjoy.
The first entry listed in Google when searching for “double-entry accounting” is a Wikipedia page. Listed above the Wikipedia entry is a sponsored link. Sponsored links are advertising. A company, in this case Intuit, has paid Google to [...]
Posted in tech on Jul 29th, 2008
Although all word processing applications have similar capabilities in terms of editing and formatting, Microsoft Word has several advanced capabilities. These capabilities provide special tools to assist the writer. These tools are the thesaurus, research, spell check, and grammar check. Together, they help the writer perform a significant part of the revision process.
The Microsoft Word [...]
Posted in tech on Jul 20th, 2008
Designing a directory structure is much like designing any other kind of organizational system. A user could decide to use a single, flat directory space to store all files. Although having thousands of files in a single directory can lead to performance problems, this is not usually a concern for the common desktop user. When [...]