Self-tutoring about Bash scripting: the tutor mentions a few hints. The following is according to my understanding. It’s been a while since I’ve done any Bash scripting, so I had to re-learn a few details. Within brackets, such as ones …
Self-tutoring about physical connectivity: the tutor mentions a case of ethernet cable. The following is according to my understanding. I recently resurrected an old laptop by loading Linux onto it. That’s likely a topic for numerous other posts. Anyway, while …
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Self-tutoring about computer science: the tutor mentions some theory about asymmetric encryption. The following is according to my understanding. Asymmetric encryption refers to the situation where, to encrypt plain text, one key is used, but to decrypt it, a different …
Self-tutoring about c programming: the tutor mentions quotes versus angle brackets for header files. The following is according to my understanding. In c programming, one might need to include one or more header files that define functions, constants, etc. They …
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Self-tutoring about computer science terms: the tutor mentions one he’s noticed. The following is according to my understanding. When I was a kid, computer ideas were measured in Kilobytes, or KB. A computer might have, back then, 5KB of RAM: …
Self-tutoring about computer science: the tutor mentions one motivation behind the change to 64-bit systems. The following is according to my understanding. I recall hearing about 32-bit computers back in the late 80s. I wasn’t sure what it meant at …
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Self-tutoring about computer specifications: the tutor mentions the distinction between logical processors and cores. The following is according to my understanding. I was looking at the Task Manager, specifically the Performance option, which says this computer has 10 cores but …
Self-tutoring about computer science: the tutor begins about files that become too big to open. The following is according to my understanding. I heard, in a recent investigation, that so much data was recovered, it’s very hard to sift through. …
Self-tutoring about computer software entities: the tutor mentions Apache and Mozilla. The following is according to my understanding. Over the years I’ve gotten many answers by researching the Web. Mozilla and Apache have both figured prominently in said research. To …
Tutoring computer science, data structures come up. The tutor mentions json. The following is my understanding. json stands for JavaScript object notation. It refers to a format for storing data. json essentially follows the concept of an associative array (see …