With DVD players readily available and getting cheaper by the day, using a computer to watch DVD movies is not a common use for IT. Smooth viewing (no stutters in sound or breaks in the picture) and an acceptably high-quality picture need a relatively high specification and therefore expensive computer. Even so, there may be times that an alternative DVD player is useful. What is required?
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Anyone regularly using a computer will be familiar with the times when the computer seems to slow right down, for no apparent reason. It takes longer than usual to start up applications, and switching from one window to the next takes irritatingly long. What could be the cause?
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Cyclone Xavier made a sudden and early start to cyclone season this week, forming just above the top of Vanuatu. It is a timely reminder of the need to be prepared for cyclones, including making handy references to online sources of information on current cyclones.
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The internet not only gives a global voice to anyone with internet access, it also allows global access to knowledge. Much of human knowledge can be found online, although large proportions may be hidden in pay-for-use databases. Nonetheless, the internet can readily provide additional information or even second opinions for almost anything you can think of. One such area is health – but be sure you can trust what you find.
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The path of an email from sender to receiver is unpredictable – delays, detours, blockages and disbelieving guards. Yet still, they make it through the numerous communications links, mail servers, routers and all the other stuff that makes up the World Wide Web. Getting email from one place to another demonstrates one of the main objectives of the founders of the internet – resilience in the face of unreliable or damaged technology.
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Emails exhorting recipients to “forward this to everyone you know” continue to do the rounds in Vanuatu. While those people that do send them on are acting in the interests of their friends and colleagues, alas the result is quite the opposite – wasted time, wasted internet resources and slower systems. More cynicism is required whenever dealing with such emails.
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