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Im currently 19 and going to school to become a computer engineer. However im taking general education courses now and want a had start. Want can I do to become more tech savvy, and also what kind of entry level jobs should i pursue that deal with computers; require little computer exp.

Find jobs that focus on your internet knowledge. Technology jobs are very circular. Once you get into IT somewhere, its easy to branch into another department. Heck, Ubisoft is hiring people that hve 500 friends on Facebook. You might want to look into learning about SEO too. Try www.azimuthsix.com.

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We have 3 computers that we use daily. Today for some reason 2 of the computers were on and one of the computers was kicked off the internet. When we turned on the 3rd computer, it would no longer connect to the internet either. How do I get these 2 computers to reconnect back to the internet?

First I’d check with your Internet Provider (who you pay for internet) and see how many connections they allow at once. I used to run with Charter and they only allowed 1 wireless at once, but as many ethernet as we wanted… so we had to ground all but one of our connections.

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I want to network my laptop and desktop computers together so that I can share files between the two. Is it possible to network them together without also networking the other two computers in my house to have access to my files. My laptop is connected via ethernet cable to the internet and my desktop computer is not currently connected to the internet. I’m open to all suggestions, I have moderate knowledge with computers.

Moderate knowledge with computers? In that case I would think you realise there’s some information missing from your question. Anyway, I would recommend you start here: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/home-network.htm

and take it from there.

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here is what I want, I want three other computers to get internet from my laptop. Is this possible? My laptop is the only computer that is plugged in. All the other computers have wireless receivers/senders and my computer has a wireless sender/receiver. How can I make this work?

u will need wifi devices and just setup a new ad-hoc connection with internet sharing.

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I am looking at buying a wireless router mainly for playing multiplayer games between my PC and laptop. I want one that I can use in the future for broadband + more computers.
What feature on a wireless router decides how many computer can connect to it?

Thanks.

Most machines use something called DHCP (Dynamic Host Connection Protocol) to hand out IP addresses. Typically home routers are configured to allow about 250 machines available to connect.

In practice, you need to figure out how much bandwidth one player uses, and then figure out how much bandwidth is available from your Internet Service Provider. Divide, and you will see how many players can co-exist on a wireless router without degradation.

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I’m going back to school next semester to study a computer related field, but I want to get started on my career now by putting something on my resume so when I graduate I can show that I’m serious about my career path. But I am having trouble finding a good computer related job right now. What is a good computer related job to begin with if you’re looking into a career involving computers later on?

Alienware is the latest and greatest. However I would ask your proffesor he would give you the best answer

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When I say "computer" I mean a desktop or a laptop computer. I am not referring to the countless devices you own that have computers in them (your car has microcontrollers in it which one could computers). Calculators, cell phones, etc meet the technical criteria to be considered a computer. They have RAM, a processor, etc, but we’re not counting those.

My husband and I are both geeks. We have the following:

2 home-built i7-based machines running Windows7
1 2009 Mac Mini
1 2010 Mac Mini
1 home-built machine used as a Linux server, running Ubuntu 10.10.
1 home-built machine used as a media server
1 old Macbook Pro, G4 based, running Tiger.
1 Lenovo laptop running Vista
1 Dell netbook running Vista
There’s also two original iPads and one new Motorola Xoom, if those count.

I think that’s it. There are various stripped carcasses around the place, because we can’t bear to toss anything. Someday we’ll get rid of the stack of ISA cards and IDE drives. We tend to put bits and bobs together to give to friends and family who have even more antiquated machines.

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I have two computers connected in my house with a router, both wired, although they are wireless capable(no wireless cards, yet, just the router). How can I share files between the two computers? Can I use a web browser to browse through the HD of the other computer? Or am I going to have to do some sort of artificial server set-up?

You have to run your set up a home or small office network wizard which is in your network connection window on the left side. You have to do this on both computers and make sure you give both computers the same work group name or they can’t connect to each other. Then after you establish a connection between the to you just have to right click on the folders you want to share and go down to sharing and security and click on that and check share this folder, you can also check allow user you make changes so you can make changes to that folder from the opposite computer. Might sound complicated but it’s not the wizard is easy to use and if you don’t want to share a folder any more just go back through and uncheck share folder.

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Brothers computer got hacked, he basically lost his yahoo/gmail/facebook accounts. His running a malware scan so that should be cleared up. However, whatever malware or virus that got his computer, can it infect other computers that are connected to the same router my brothers laptop uses? I mean ya, a malware program can come from anywhere, but can it spread through a router like that?

Yes, absolutely. Think about what you’re asking. Can a virus, that’s transmitted through the internet to one machine, infect another machine on the same internet connection!!!☺

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I just bought a new PC for my room. It is using a wireless adapter, not a cable. I also have an old computer in my basement, which hold all my school work. I want to send my school work to my new computer, but I don’t have a USB flash drive. Is there a way to share files with other computers at home? Old computer is using windows vista, and the new one is using windows 7.

You should check out Office Live Workspace. It’s a cloud storage system that lets you upload, share, and edit your documents virtually, so you can access your documents anywhere as long as you have an internet connection. And, you get 5GB of storage for free.

Here is an article explaining some of the great features in Office Live Workspace: http://ask.officelive.com/workspace/blogs/workspace_team/archive/2009/10/09/top-5-reasons-you-should-be-using-office-live-workspace.aspx

Cheers,
KIM
MSFT Office Live Outreach Team

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