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December 29, 2006

Necessary Skill Sets of a Competent Computer Technician

Filed under: Computers — bruce @ 10:30 pm

Today, the world is ruled by people who dominates science and technology. A+ certification training is meant to contribute in providing the necessary skills and knowledge for a competent computer technician. CompTIA A+ certification is one of the most significant recognitions that any IT may hold. Taking an A+ course is a decision that may change your life as a professional, opening the doors to countless opportunities. A typical A+ course includes diverse aspects of computer, security and networking, such as installation, configuration, upgrading and maintenance. A+ certification training often includes a simulated test quizzer with practice test questions to prepare students towards the A+ certification exam. A+ training makes sure that every computer technician understands and identifies the different procedures to install peripheral devices, choosing the appropriate sequence, an example of transceivers and modems, including dial-up, cable, DSL, and ISDN connectivity. In addition, compTIA A+ certification includes exhaustive testing on digital cameras, external storage, UPS (uninterruptible power supply), printers, suppressors, monitors, PDA, infrared devices, and wireless access points. The A+ course cover topics such as the optimization of PC operation in particular situations, taking advantage of the knowledge acquired through the A+ training for predicting certain procedures that occurs in specific scenarios such as installation of additional processors, cooling systems, memory, specialized video cards, NICs, or disk subsystem enhancements. A competent computer technician, how has taken the A+ certification training, will always be able to determine whatever issue that requires upgrading a PC and will be able to identify the components that require such upgrade, as an example memory hard drives, motherboards, BIOS, adapter cards, CUP, laptop power sources, or the addition of PCMCIA cards. A+ certification is only awarded to technicians who are enrolled either in an A+ training or an A+ course, this last is also available in multimedia format to study at home. CompTIA A+ certification is basic for diagnosing and troubleshooting, as well as for preventive maintenance, safety and environmental issues. A+ certification training teaches students about the different maintenance services that a true computer expert can perform periodically. Otherwise, implementing preventive maintenance measures, recommending products and procedures, as well as instructions on how to use them can make companies save hundreds and thousand of dollars for the inadequate handling of equipment. Such maintenance measures may include liquid cleaning compounds, and other non-abrasive or harmful materials for cleaning contact and connections, such as non static vacuums. A+ certification training teaches IT how to clean ventilation, monitors, removable media devices, along with the caring of moisture and dust control on hardware and hard disk.

December 26, 2006

Internet, HTML and Blog

Filed under: Computers — bruce @ 6:46 pm

The Web was predicated as the 4th dimension or 4th generation of media at the inception of the World Wide Web in late 1980s. Printing, radio, and TV are refereed to as three dimensions of traditional media. In 1989, I was reading an Oreilly books talking about the Web when only universities and government agencies had access to the Internet via text-based and Unix-based interface at the time. The Web would be really nice I though.

There’re three milestones in the course of the Internet becoming a true media for average people, not just a tool for scientists and scholars.

The first milestone is the Internet that use a standard communication protocol TCP/IP. Without a simple yet powerful standard, a computer network will never be able to grow into a global network that connects millions of computers seamlessly.

The second milestone is the HTML, which give the boring Internet a colorful interface. Anyone could master the basic HTML tags for creating Web pages. Just like the TCP/IP, HTML is a simple and powerful standard for rendering web pages. The simplicity again prevails. The Web, without participation of mass, will never be a interactive media.

The third and the latest, sure it won’t be the last, milestone for the birth and popularity of the new generation of media is the Blog. Blog refers to both a software tool for easy publishing and writing styles that is conversational. Wordpress.com, one of the most popular free blog hosting services, caters a community of bloggers close to half million. There goes Spring Snow Blog. With the blog software, one can easily setup a new website in less than 30 minutes without knowledge of computer or HTML. Once again, simplicity prevails. Technorati.com is a blog search engines that indexed 55 millions of blog posts. Blog search engines work better that general search engines, like Google or Yahoo Search!, when it comes to locate a blog site or specific blog posts.

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