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How Stuff Works: Short Questions... Short Answers...

• Can I have more than one monitor on my Windows 98 machine?
• Could I power my computer or my TV with a bicycle generator?
• Do you know why some Web pages end in htm, others end in html, others end in asp and so on? Why all the different extensions?
• Does adding more RAM to your computer make it faster?
• How can a totally logical machine like a computer generate a random number?
• How can I burn MP3s from my computer onto CD-Rs?
• How do CD-R discs work?
• How do CD-RWs (rewriteable CDs) work?
• How do developers get such realistic environments in video games?
• How do digital signatures work?
• How do I add another USB device to my computer if I am out of USB ports?
• How do I add applications to the task bar in Windows 98?
• How do large Web sites handle the load of millions of visitors a day?
• How do optical mice work?
• How do touchscreen monitors know where you're touching?
• How do viruses and worms spread in e-mail?
• How does a computer's parallel port work?
• How does a computer's uninterruptible power supply (UPS) work?
• How does a FireWire (IEEE-1394) connection work?
• How does a quantum computer work?
• How does a T1 line work?
• How does a Zip drive store so much more data than a floppy drive?
• How does disk defrag work?
• How does JavaScript work and how can I build simple calculators with it?
• How does my computer know when to activate the screensaver?
• How does Napster work, and why is there such a huge fight around it right now?
• How does safety glass work?
• How does satellite Internet operate?
• How does SETI@home work?
• How does the Melissa virus work?
• How hard is it to set up a network between two computers in my home?
• How is the LCD in a laptop computer so bright?
• I hear so much about relational databases. What are they?
• I'm looking for a new computer monitor. What does the salesperson mean when he says I need a monitor with a .28 dot pitch or better?
• If I want to get started creating my own Web site, what do I have to do?
• In Windows, what is 'Safe Mode' used for and why?
• Is it better to turn my computer off when I am not using it or leave it on all the time?
• Is it true that the Mac G4 processor is twice as fast as a Pentium III?
• My scanner has a resolution of 9,600x1,200 dpi -- what do those numbers mean?
• On a microprocessor like a Pentium or a G4, why can't they simply crank the speed up to 1,000 MHz?
• Someone started controlling my computer over the Internet -- what happened?
• What are Gouraud shading and texture mapping in 3-D video games?
• What are MP3 files and how do they work?
• What are system resources, and why do I run out of them?
• What are the best settings when e-mailing digital pictures to friends, and what settings do I use if I want to print the picture?
• What are the bumps at the end of computer cables?
• What are the different types of computers?
• What are the standard top-level domain names and who controls them?
• What are TrueType fonts?
• What causes the faint horizontal lines on my monitor?
• What causes things like fatal exception errors and invalid page faults?
• What do you call the @ symbol used in e-mail addresses?
• What does it mean when a hard disk has a "head crash"?
• What does open source mean?
• What does the computer in a car do?
• What is a "computer algorithm"?
• What is a packet?
• What is Aimster?
• What is an Internet "cookie"?
• What is an IP address?
• What is Linux and why is it so popular?
• What is MIME?
• What is the churning sound I hear from my hard drive whenever it is retrieving data?
• What is the difference between a Pentium and a Celeron processor?
• What is the difference between static RAM and dynamic RAM in my computer?
• What is the world's fastest computer?
• What is the Year 2038 problem?
• What is "virtual memory"?
• When you delete files from your computer and after you empty it out of the Recycle Bin, where exactly does it go?
• Where are all the Internet domain names registered and maintained?
• Which is better to use for a cable modem -- a USB connection or an Ethernet card?
• Why are my digital photograph files so huge while photos on other Web sites are much smaller?
• Why are the keys arranged the way they are on a "QWERTY" keyboard?
• Why are there so many broken links in search engines?
• Why are there so many different image formats on the Web?
• Why can I play some DVD movies, but not others, on my computer DVD-ROM?
• Why do some Web sites include "www" in the URL while others don't?
• Why does my computer need a battery?
• Why does my PC try to access my floppy disk drive when there is no diskette in it?
• Why does my Web browser display some book-marked sites with a custom icon?
• Why is it that some Web pages seem to trap me so I can't get out?
• Why the difference in speed with my cable modem?

Computer:

• Consumer Electronics Show 2004
• How 3-D Graphics Work
• How 3-D PC Glasses Work
• How 3DO Creates Video Games
• How accessDTV Works
• How Affiliate Programs Work
• How AGP Works
• How ASPs Work
• How Augmented Reality Will Work
• How Banner Ads Work
• How BIOS Works
• How Bits and Bytes Work
• How Blogs Work
• How Bluetooth Works
• How Boolean Logic Works
• How C Programming Works
• How Cable Modems Work
• How Caching Works
• How Car Computers Work
• How Carnivore Works
• How CD Burners Work
• How CDs Work
• How CGI Scripting Works
• How Chess Computers Work
• How Computer Keyboards Work
• How Computer Memory Works
• How Computer Mice Work
• How Computer Monitors Work
• How Computer Viruses Work
• How Computerized Clothing Will Work
• How DNA Computers Will Work
• How Domain Name Servers Work
• How DSL Works
• How E-commerce Works
• How E-learning Works
• How E-mail Works
• How E-Voting Will Work
• How Electronic Ink Will Work
• How Elumens Vision Station Works
• How Encryption Works
• How Ethernet Works
• How EUV Chipmaking Works
• How Facial Recognition Systems Work
• How File Compression Works
• How File Sharing Works
• How Fingerprint Scanners Work
• How Firewalls Work
• How Flash Memory Works
• How Floppy Disk Drives Work
• How Hard Disks Work
• How Holographic Environments Will Work
• How Holographic Memory Will Work
• How Home Networking Works
• How IDE Controllers Work
• How Identity Theft Works
• How Inkjet Printers Work
• How Instant Messaging Works
• How Internet Cookies Work
• How Internet Infrastructure Works
• How Internet Radio Works
• How Internet Search Engines Work
• How Interplanetary Internet Will Work
• How IP Telephony Works
• How Java Works
• How Joysticks Work
• How LAN Switches Work
• How Laptops Work
• How Laser Printers Work
• How LCDs Work
• How Magnetic RAM Will Work
• How Microcontrollers Work
• How Microprocessors Work
• How Modems Work
• How Motes Work
• How Motherboards Work
• How MP3 Files Work
• How Network Address Translation Works
• How Newsgroups Work
• How Online Degrees Work
• How Operating Systems Work
• How OSI Works
• How Parallel Ports Work
• How PC Power Supplies Work
• How PCI Works
• How PCs Work
• How PDAs Work
• How "Penny Per Page" Might Work
• How PERL Works
• How Phone-line Networking Works
• How Power-line Networking Works
• How Printable Computers Will Work
• How Quantum Computers Will Work
• How RAM Works
• How Removable Storage Works
• How Robots Work
• How ROM Works
• How Routers Work
• How Routing Algorithms Work
• How Scanners Work
• How Screensavers Work
• How SCSI Works
• How Serial Ports Work
• How SETI Works
• How Shockwave 3-D Technology Works
• How Sound Cards Work
• How Spam Works
• How Stereolithography (3-D Layering) Works
• How Surge Protectors Work
• How the Airborne Internet Will Work
• How the Old Napster Worked
• How the Year 2000 Problem Worked
• How Ubiquitous Networking Will Work
• How USB Ports Work
• How VDSL Works
• How Video Editing Works
• How Video Game Systems Work
• How Virtual Memory Works
• How Virtual Private Networks Work
• How VistaPrint Works
• How Web Advertising Works
• How Web Animation Works
• How Web Pages Work
• How Web Servers Work
• How Webcams Work
• How WiFi Works
• How Wireless Internet Works
• How Workplace Surveillance Works

Internet

• How Affiliate Programs Work
• How ASPs Work
• How Banner Ads Work
• How Blogs Work
• How Cable Modems Work
• How CGI Scripting Works
• How Computer Viruses Work
• How Domain Name Servers Work
• How E-commerce Works
• How E-learning Works
• How E-mail Works
• How E-Voting Will Work
• How Identity Theft Works
• How Instant Messaging Works
• How Internet Cookies Work
• How Internet Infrastructure Works
• How Internet Radio Works
• How Internet Search Engines Work
• How Interplanetary Internet Will Work
• How IP Telephony Works
• How MP3 Files Work
• How Newsgroups Work
• How Online Degrees Work
• How "Penny Per Page" Might Work
• How Routing Algorithms Work
• How SETI Works
• How Spam Works
• How the Airborne Internet Will Work
• How the Old Napster Worked
• How Virtual Private Networks Work
• How VistaPrint Works
• How Web Advertising Works
• How Web Animation Works
• How Web Pages Work
• How Web Servers Work
• How Webcams Work
• How Wireless Internet Works

Security

• How Carnivore Works
• How Computer Viruses Work
• How Encryption Works
• How Facial Recognition Systems Work
• How Fingerprint Scanners Work
• How Firewalls Work
• How Identity Theft Works
• How Internet Cookies Work
• How Motes Work
• How Surge Protectors Work
• How Virtual Private Networks Work
• How Workplace Surveillance Works

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