THINGS TO AVOID FOR YOUR COMPUTER


WHAT IS A UPS?
UPS is an abbreviation of Un-Interruptible Power Supply that is a device which you can attach to your computer that will guard against power or indeed someone tripping over your power cable and pulling the plug out. It contains batteries that Will keep your computer alive long enough for you to use the shutdown command and turn off the computer in the proper way. This is especially important for PCs on a network which  might provide data for many users on the network.

ELECTRICAL SURGE PROTECTION
The voltage which is supplied to your computer via tje power cable can vary from time to time and there are occasional power surges. Power surge protection devices are readily available and offer low cost protection again these occasional power surges.

THINGS COMPUTER LIKE
There are things computer always like are sa following below:-


  • Good ventilation
  • Clean environment
  • Stable and vibration free surface.


THINGS TO AVOID FOR PCs OR COMPUTER

  • Dust
  • Drinking and Eating over the keyboard.
  • Heat, cold
  • Moisture.
  • Do not move the system while its switched on
  • Do not place floppy disks near monitor. Since monitors produce a strong electromagnetic field, which can damage floppy disk.
  • Do not place object on the top of monitors. This can block the ventilation holes and cause it to overheat.
  • Do not just switch the computer off at the mains. Follow the procedures during shutdown since can lead loss of data.
SOME OF THE COMPUTER ABBREVIATION AND TERMINOLOGY.

Here also I decide to list some of abbreviation and their meaning commonly used in use of our computers. 

ITEM                 MEANING 

  1. ADSL     Asymmetric Digital Subscriber line.
  2. Bit          1 or 0 level of storage 
  3. BPS        Bits Per Second 
  4. IS            Information System 
  5. IT            Information Technology 
  6. LAN        Local Area Network 
  7. RAM       Random Access Memory
  8. ROM       Read Only Memory 
  9. USB         Universal Serial Bus
  10. WWW    World Wide Web
  11. VDU        Visual Display Unit
  12. MHz        Million Hertz
  13. Hz           Hertz ( is measurement of frequency)
  14. FTP         File Transfer Protocol
  15. ISDN       Integrated Services Digital Network.
  16. GHz         Gigahertz( measurement of computer speed)
  17. GUI          Graphics User Interface.
  18. CPU          Central Processing Unit 
  19. CD            Compact Disk

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