Pretty easy Prog to start with. Today I learned a few things, and got a feel for what the prog is capable of. If you wanted to get started in access like most progs just goto file new.. if you look to your right on the screen you will notice a list of options near the bottom right there are templates that can get you started you can check them out. The tutorial I was following today allowed me to make an inventory listing and a personal finances listing. It was very simple and shows your results in a fairly attractive manner. I'll see about adding infos in the next little while although try a search engine I'm sure you'll get many results. If you have any questions just ask.
msFrontpage
You can get some nice looking results with this app. The NVS/vibesolarium page is an example of a word export to frontpage.
Other progs
I've ran accross some other progs recently one being a ports monitor which is pretty simple to use and it can determine dns for all the connections you have active. I like the prog. Other then that not much has gone on the system.
My first tidbit is about m/f connectors 8pin and 25 pin.. why do 25pin connectors only use 8pins? am I missing something here.. have to do more reading on this.
Note if your new to computers there's lots of information. Computers are broken down to two main catagories Hardware and Software.
Hardware is the physical devices. This stuff gets upgraded quite regulary while some emerging standards have developed, the progression that really matters seems to be slowing down for home use where as a .2 ghz speed increase was revolutionary 10 years ago when we are dealing with x.x ghz now what does this speed increase really mean for homeuse computing.. really it is great I'm just wondering.. the one thing of note hardware wise that has caught my attention a little is movement from 32bit systems to 64 bit systems what this means for computers I'm unsure I'll have to read something on it..:)... micronization of hardware is nice and the smaller this stuff gets the better,(except perhaps repairing the stuff.. wheres my isolinear chips.. note when computers turn into holographic images is when we know it's going on. Speaking of which I just had another idea for computers.. picture a holograph now picture a sensor that can read the holograph and know the states that are going on.. you then have VISUAL hardware component the electrnoic signal processed as light in a "light maze". Yes INTEL I would like that cheque now thankyou.. is this revolutionary or what... anyway.. you cant get much smaller then a lightwav.
So hardware changes but it pretty much stays the same every so often somebody figures out a better way of doing something. Costs are going DOWN.. while inflation going UP.. where as a top line system would have cost you over 1k in the past now you can pic up an 80's supercomputer for well under a k. Really these beasts are impressive and you can do allot of computing on these things.. HARDWARE IS REALLY SIMPLE loops, caches, failsafes, operating conditions, and intercommunability.
Software.. and there is lots of it does allot of stuff. Wether its a video game blahblahblah.. software uses COMMANDS that can be recognized by the hardware. We have whats called os's.. os's are a way that stuff happens on a computer COMMANDS are sent through this OS to the hardware. This is done by drivers.. drivers are an filteration system, drivers allow data to be sent to the hardware from the OS. Its like you speaking english and the hardware speaking russian.. the driver is your interpretor. Now when you program software it's just a bunch of logic structures.. loops conditionals .. uhm and hardware interface.. that's pretty much it.. but its done in a way that really good results can happen. It's just a matter of time and memory.. it seems we have allot of that though.
So simply put computers arn't complex they are simple. Like all logical things it is just a matter of looping yourself. I'm just some guy not a computer tec, engineer etc.. etc..I just thought i would share computer tidbits
I have allot of old mother boards laying around there are like 5 computers in the house only two of which I have set up in my room. I'm running a linux box and an amd running xp currently. I also have some NCD x connectors that I want to see about hooking up to linux as a project. I've tried quite abit of software, and have been introduced to several programming language still not fluent in any of them beyond basic use, essentially programming structures and I understand logic processes. Right now I'm looking for ramchips and hardrives and monitors although no rush at all.. alternatively I would maybe try to hook the processors up into a cluster.. which would be interesting.. definately a project to look into since the compaqs have built in ethernet..tidbits at the top
