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Computer Myths
- 1. We Fix Computers Presents Busting the Biggest Computer Myths
- 2. Magnets Zap Your Data! FACT • A cheap dollar store magnet will ruin data! On old 3.5” floppy disks TRUTH • Most modern storage devices, such as SD and CompactFlash memory (camera storage) are immune to magnetic fields.
- 3. Magnets Zap Your Data! BUT WHAT ABOUT HARD DRIVES? FACT • The only magnets powerful enough to scrub data from a drive platter are laboratory degaussers or those used by government agencies to wipe bits off media. "In the real world, people are not losing data from magnets," says Bill Rudock, a tech-support engineer with hard-drive maker Seagate
- 4. Hackers Can Destroy EVERYTHING on your Hard Drive! FACT • The MyDoom.f worm that was written is just one example of data destroying infections. •MyDoom.f sniffed around on infected PC’s looking for Word, Excel, and graphics files and then randomly deleted some of what it found. Of the people whose PC’s got the worm, 40 percent lost Word files and 60 percent lost Excel files.
- 5. Hackers Can Destroy EVERYTHING on your Hard Drive! FACT • Today's hackers want to hijack systems, not destroy them. Rather than wipe out data, worms and viruses want intact PC’s to send spam or to attack Web sites. "Just like a biological virus, if a computer virus kills the host before it propagates, it can't propagate.
- 6. If you don’t run your laptop battery down to zero, you will lose battery life! FACT • This was a syndrome that plagued old laptop NiCd batteries. • Newer laptops now use Li batteries that prefer a partial charge rather than a full charge. • Running new batteries down to zero, every 30 charges or so, will recalibrate the fuel gauge (the little indicator that tells you how much juice you have left)
- 7. My 4-Year Old Computer is slow now but wasn’t before! • A computer is considered “obsolete” after a maximum of 2 years. (They just don’t make them like they used to). • Software & internet applications become exponentially more sophisticated faster than hardware can keep up. • Dust, normal wear-and-tear, & hardware degradation all contribute to the overall slowdown of computers over time.
- 8. My 4-Year Old Computer is slow now but wasn’t before! FACT • Manufacturers actually want to constantly sell you new computers to make $$$ which is also why “They don’t make them like they used to”. • Just like the 60’s Cadillacs. They could make it wear the bumpers don’t fall off but they won’t!
- 9. FUN COMPUTER FACTS! Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer. On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second. 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women. The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
- 10. FUN COMPUTER FACTS! For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com. Facebook reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico. There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet. The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has exchanged 250,000 e-mails, instant and text messages and has spent 10,000 hours on the mobile phone.
- 11. SHAMELESS SELF EXALTATION APPLAUSE!!!