I was reading on the Yahoo news website that a new Mersenne prime number has been discovered by UCLA mathematicians last month. It has 13 million digits! They discovered the number by using a network of seventy five different computers running Windows XP. (Take THAT Vista!) (I don’t like Vista!)
The discovery makes them eligible for a [...]
I got an email from my cousin in Germany who tells me that she has just joined a free dating cafe called the WestEastCafe.eu. She is really excited about having joined it because first of all, it’s a free dating service that covers all of Europe, but also because it is a community where you can [...]
As I was saying, I was helping to teach my younger cousin about computers. So I spent some time explaining to her that file extensions are the three letters (or in some cases four letters) that follow the “period” or “dot” after the file name of whatever file the computer user is creating, saving, modifying, [...]
I found myself in the unique position of helping my younger cousin learn a little bit about computers this past weekend. She knows how to use one to write documents, and spreadsheets, and browse the Internet and do email, but she really knew very little bit about the inner workings of the computer and how [...]
Ronix wakeboards are the wakeboards of choice for my brother and his friends. They love to wakeboard every chance they get in the summer if they can find a way to get out on the lake with a boat and play in the water all day long. The buywake.com website is currently having an end-of-the-season clearance [...]
