Sunday, August 24, 2008
Assignment Blog 25.08.08
Today cassandra and me formed our own group and began researching again. We picked up from where we left of last time. I finished one of the assigned tasks. I have 5 more to do now. We made our new piczo. We made our two seperate pages to post the work that we have to do. I was having difficulties with researching the last question i don't understand it that well. I can't find any research on future preferences.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Bits and Bytes:
1) What is a Digit?
A single unit or numeral in a counting system.
2) “normal” counting numbers used in everyday life a based on what sequence of numbers?
A statistical measure of usually observed structures, typical, or represenative type
3) Where does the word bit originate from? A mathematical term
4) Binary numbers don’t use base 10. What base do they use? What digits are available in base 2? the base they use is units. The digits available are always twice as big.
5) You would write it as 4000, 300, 20, one
6) -
7) what is a byte ? Abbreviation for binary term, a unit of storage capable of holding a single character. On almost all modern computers, a byte is equal to 8 bits. Large amounts of memory are indicated in terms of kilobytes (1,024 bytes), megabytes (1,048,576 bytes), and gigabytes (1,073,741,824 bytes).
8) How many bytes in a kilo, mega, giga and tera bytes?
kilo: 1000
Mega: 1000000
Giga: 1000
tera: 1000000000000
9)
Complete the following conversions;
1000 Mb = 1000Gb
500 Gb = 5000000Mb
5000 Kb = ?Mb
A single unit or numeral in a counting system.
2) “normal” counting numbers used in everyday life a based on what sequence of numbers?
A statistical measure of usually observed structures, typical, or represenative type
3) Where does the word bit originate from? A mathematical term
4) Binary numbers don’t use base 10. What base do they use? What digits are available in base 2? the base they use is units. The digits available are always twice as big.
5) You would write it as 4000, 300, 20, one
6) -
7) what is a byte ? Abbreviation for binary term, a unit of storage capable of holding a single character. On almost all modern computers, a byte is equal to 8 bits. Large amounts of memory are indicated in terms of kilobytes (1,024 bytes), megabytes (1,048,576 bytes), and gigabytes (1,073,741,824 bytes).
8) How many bytes in a kilo, mega, giga and tera bytes?
kilo: 1000
Mega: 1000000
Giga: 1000
tera: 1000000000000
9)
Complete the following conversions;
1000 Mb = 1000Gb
500 Gb = 5000000Mb
5000 Kb = ?Mb
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Assignment blog- 20.08.08
Today Sam and I began working on the project. We created our on seperate pages for piczo. When we finish the work we're going to press print screen of microsoft word and make the research for the assignment in a picture format. We are then going to upload it to our pages on piczo. Today i answered all 5 of the questions on my first task which was Secondary Storage: includingHard Disk Drive Blu-ray Disks DVD (standards – single layer, dual layer,) & CDUSB memory storage.
Next lesson im going to work on the last 2 tasks and then we are going to work on the uploading of the project. We might also add some videos to the assignment so people can understand where we are coming from.
Next lesson im going to work on the last 2 tasks and then we are going to work on the uploading of the project. We might also add some videos to the assignment so people can understand where we are coming from.
Monday, August 18, 2008
CPU Term 3 19.08.08
1. What is the function of the CPU?
A Central Processing Unit is a description of a class of logic machines that can execute computer prgrams.
2. What was the name of the first CPU?
The name was the 4004
3. Referring to the graph on page 2 of the article, describe how the speed of CPU’s has changed.
I've noticed that the speed has increased and it's gotten alot faster.
4. What does MIPS measure?
It is a rough measure of the performance of a CPU.
5. Research (Google it) what is a dual core processor, what is multitasking and how do the two work together.
A dual core processor is a CPU with two separate cores on the same die, each with its own cache. It's the equivalent of getting two microprocessors in one.
A Central Processing Unit is a description of a class of logic machines that can execute computer prgrams.
2. What was the name of the first CPU?
The name was the 4004
3. Referring to the graph on page 2 of the article, describe how the speed of CPU’s has changed.
I've noticed that the speed has increased and it's gotten alot faster.
4. What does MIPS measure?
It is a rough measure of the performance of a CPU.
5. Research (Google it) what is a dual core processor, what is multitasking and how do the two work together.
A dual core processor is a CPU with two separate cores on the same die, each with its own cache. It's the equivalent of getting two microprocessors in one.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
11.08.08 Assignment blogs
Today Sam and I began working on the assignment and researching the softwares and tools we assignmend eachother. We also invited Cassandra in the group and she's decided shes going to research three software programs or tools
The topics she's chosen are:
4) Motherboards
9)Digital TV transmission, HD TV transmissions
12) Software License types (commercial, shareware, freeware)
The topics she's chosen are:
4) Motherboards
9)Digital TV transmission, HD TV transmissions
12) Software License types (commercial, shareware, freeware)
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
6.08.08 1st assignment blog term 3
Today Sam and I became a group. We decided that we are going to create a hotmail account for the both of us so we can share a piczo account. We are going to use piczo because it is an easy fun and enjoyable website that makes it easy to do everyday things. Seeing as we have to do 6 questions we decided to split the questions up and do 1 or a few from each coloured topic.
Marina's Questions:
2)Secondary Storage: including
Hard Disk DriveBlu-ray DisksDVD (standards – single layer, dual layer,) & CDUSB memory storage
7) Ports (and uses) USB Firewire
11) Piracy and Copyright
Sam's Questions :
1) Primary storage: including
RAM (amount, types, cost)ROM
5) Graphics Cards
10) Hand held multimedia devices ( eg. umpc, ipod, itouch, iriver, touch screen phones)
Marina's Questions:
2)Secondary Storage: including
Hard Disk DriveBlu-ray DisksDVD (standards – single layer, dual layer,) & CDUSB memory storage
7) Ports (and uses) USB Firewire
11) Piracy and Copyright
Sam's Questions :
1) Primary storage: including
RAM (amount, types, cost)ROM
5) Graphics Cards
10) Hand held multimedia devices ( eg. umpc, ipod, itouch, iriver, touch screen phones)
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