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Please bear with it, as it's gonna be a long post.  Pro tip: You may use it as a reference as and when you encounter HTTP errors.  Server: It is from where the data is retrieved to your computer.  Client: You, your computer.  HTTP Status Codes HTTP status codes are divided into 5 “classes”. These are groupings of responses that have similar or related meanings. Knowing what they are, can help you quickly determine the general substance of a status code before you go about looking up its specific meaning. The five classes include: • 100s: Informational codes indicating that the request initiated by the browser is continuing. • 200s: Success codes returned when browser request was received, understood, and processed by the server. • 300s: Redirection codes returned when a new resource has been substituted for the requested resource. • 400s: Client error codes indicating that there was a problem with the reque...

Ever cared about projection and display modes in PCs? This is an explainer.  Note: This article is designed, keeping up with the Windows 7 interface. However, the name of tge options and function are same across all Windows OSs. Behold, there are just some graphical interfaces changes. In Windows Systems,   there are four display modes. They’re Duplicate, Extend, Computer Only and Projector Only. These modes work when you have connected one or more external displays to your computer. If you had only one monitor, your computer monitor, there is no difference no matter which mode you’ve selected. Generally, "Computer Only" and "Projector Only" work as what they’ve been designed as. Only, Duplicate and Extended needs understanding.  Simultaneously press the ‘windows’ + ‘P’ key on your keyboard There pops out a box with four options. Hit one of them and it will be highlighted with a blue background, and you will enter the corresponding mode. Such a...

Hi Peeps !!! This is Booopathy...             There are several video games came across our mobile phones, PCs and cassettes. And also gained their reputations for a while. But one legend remains the unbeatable character in the video game history which goes by the name Super Mario. It was initially called as 'Jumpman'. It was his first appearance in 1981 as a carpenter, who had to jump over barrels that were being thrown by Donkey Kong(villain) in order to save a Damsel(heroine) from danger.             In 1985, Super Mario Bros. defined Mario and Developed its game structure  which turned the character into a mega star. It still remains an incredible character as well as game behind all the latest updates and advanced games. This game began the concept of game addiction.              Mario's uniform was designed because of the technological limitations of video games in 1981. He has a ha...

A hard disk drive (HDD) is an old-school storage device that uses mechanical platters and a moving read/write head to access data.  A solid-state drive (SSD) is a newer, faster type of device that stores data on instantly-accessible memory chips. Beware! The above image shows price comparison of a laptop with a HDD and another with an SSD. 😱 How they store? HDDs : An enclosure contains a series of platters covered by a ferromagnetic coating. The direction of the magnetization represents the individual bits. Data is read and written by a head (similar to  the way vinyl record albums work ) that moves extremely fast from one area of the disk to another. Since all of these pieces are “mechanical,” the hard disk is the slowest component of any computer – and the most fragile. SSD : These newer types of disks store information on flash memory, which consists of individual memory cells storing bits that are instantly accessible by the controller. ...

Wakin' up from hibernation... The previous blog post explained basic information about MBR and GPT, and this part devotes to how to choose partitioning scheme. BIOS + MBR If motherboard in your computer is BIOS or UEFI with BIOS mode, MBR partition plan is the correct choice. UEFI + GPT Oppositely, if your computer is using UEFI motherboard and enables UEFI mode, then please employ GPT partition scheme. You might be confused by the conclusion above, as there are many guides online teaching users to install operating system on BIOS+ GPT or UEFI +MBR . My advice is that if you are not technical geek or professional user , you'd better choose BIOS + MBR or UEFI +GPT , as you can benefit: 1. Better performance in hardware and software, faster speed. 2. Avoid many potential issues that may occur to installation or running Windows. Professional users can easily fix these problems, but common users can't get rid of any system errors easily. Some users may ask whether...

Booting-in... What a partition is? Computer contains at least one hard drive (HDD) for data storage, but the physical drive can't store data directly before partitions are created. Strictly speaking, partition can't store data if files system is not built. Partition should be formatted to NTFS or FAT files system before storing data. One physical hard drive can be divided into several partitions (it is OK to have one partition only). How to create multiple partitions? This is when partition table come to use. Partition table defines and stores partition information, locating certain disk space on the beginning area. Operating system gains partition information by way of accessing data in partition table. There are essentially two basic partition schemes: MBR & GPT . MBR stands for Master Boot Recorder.  GPT stands for GUID Partition Table.  And GUID =Global Unique Identifier.  What is? and Elucidation on MBR: The MBR partitioning...

Before one gets into work with the Windows, there are several steps taken to boot (technical term for load) Windows Operating System(OS). The loading of any OS and the system resources like display monitors, USB Controllers, CD Drives, Hard Disk Drives(HDD) and several others are handled and configured by a frimware. This frimware is provided by your PC or Desktop manufacturer and it depends in who it is, DELL, HP, ASUS or any other manufacturer. This frimware has undergone several changes overtime and now stands as 2 main types. This article addresses this issue. Let's not get into the years and chronology. Let's boot-in. BIOS and UEFI are two firmware interfaces for computers to start the operating system. BIOS uses the Master Boot Record (MBR) to save information about the hard drive data while UEFI uses the GUID partition table (GPT). Compared with BIOS, UEFI is more powerful and has more advanced features. BIOS stand for Basic Input Output ...