Stuff you should probably know about tech but dont...

[Maximilian]

...despite being on anandtech and other tech forums and maybe even studying/working with computers.

Heres my list of knowledge gaps

- What H.264 is
- The difference between sleep and hibernate and hybrid sleep
- What an RSS feed is
- What a proxy is and how to use one
- "newsgroup"? Its something to do with the news right??
- What usenet is and how to use usenet
- What SATA stands for, Serial ATA... Whats ATA though!? Same deal with SCSI
- On a similar subject why is SATA better than PATA, i thought parallel > serial? Serial ports sucked
- Why RAM is called random access memory, surely if its randomly accessed then its useless right? You need to access a certain part not a random part

In b4 "google it" I dunno why but despite these things showing up semi-frequently ive never bothered or been interested enough to google them, probably should know some of this stuff though :\

Anyone else have techy knowledge gaps?

 

[dave_the_nerd]

How to make it do the things I want it to.

Srsly, though: programming in general, web development in particular.

 

[Chaotic42]

- "newsgroup"? Its something to do with the news right??
- What usenet is and how to use usenet

Why those are just jibberish words created by your crazy imagination!

Walk... away...

 

[lxskllr]

Networking in general. I'm very weak with that, and have to look things up when something goes wrong, which fortunately is quite rare.

 

[runzwithsizorz]

Oh, we're gonna be here all night. I can get professors to explain how something could happen, but never why it did.

 

[Mixolydian]

Whats ATA though!? Same deal with SCSI

AT Atachment, small computer system interface.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

- What H.264 is

A video codec. More knowledge is not generally required.

- The difference between sleep and hibernate and hybrid sleep

Sleep is a low power mode where the computer is on and uses power. For Hibernate, the RAM contents is written the the HDD. The computer is off and uses no power, but when turned on will restore itself to it's initial condition without a reboot. never heard of Hybrid sleep.

- What an RSS feed is

Subscription to a news server.

- What a proxy is and how to use one

A go between for you and the rest of the internet. Traffic from you looks like it is actually coming from the proxy. Proxies can be used to "anonymize" your traffic. They can also be used to control traffic in and out of an organization (web filters, etc.) and as caches.

- "newsgroup"? Its something to do with the news right??

Not really. More like ATOT before WWW.

- What usenet is and how to use usenet

Also like ATOT before WWW. Never used it myself, but I hear there's a lot of porn.

- What SATA stands for, Serial ATA... Whats ATA though!? Same deal with SCSI

ATA = Advanced Technology Attachment. As in IBM PC AT. SCSI = Small Computer System Interface.

- On a similar subject why is SATA better than PATA, i thought parallel > serial? Serial ports sucked

Serial means "one at a time." Parallel means "many at a time." One at a time can be better than many, if "at a time" happens a lot more frequently. Controllers and cabling for parallel interfaces tend to be more complicated, more expensive, and more error prone. So as the line speed grew, the move to serial became necessary.

- Why RAM is called random access memory, surely if its randomly accessed then its useless right? You need to access a certain part not a random part

it's random because you can access any old random piece of it without having to rewind or ffwd the tape.

In b4 "google it" I dunno why but despite these things showing up semi-frequently ive never bothered or been interested enough to google them, probably should know some of this stuff though :\

Anyone else have techy knowledge gaps?

 

[Greenman]

There is no need to know any of that, we have geeks for such things.

 

[brianmanahan]

There is no need to know any of that, we have geeks for such things.

it pays good to be a "geek"

 

[shortylickens]

I never got into RSS feeds until they were on the wane.

 

[mmntech]

Networking is my Achilles heel. Still can't get my HTPC to play nice with my PC via SSH. I have no idea how I managed to program my modem either.

I don't know how to program at all or how to solder properly. I'm good as assembling systems and setting them up but I've never created any electronics or software from scratch.

 

[Maximilian]

@dave_the_nerd

I am learning things

 

[John Connor]

Woman & Linux commands.

Fuck, I don't even know DOS commands without looking them up. I know IPconfig, IPconfig/all, IPconfing flushdns and the one to register a driver I have to look up. I think it's regsvr?

 

[chalmers]

anyone who uses 'in b4' I have a hard time taking seriously. are you 12?


Posted from Anandtech.com App for Android

 

[brianmanahan]

Posted from Anandtech.com App for Android

and i have a hard time taking anyone seriously who ends a post with "posted from"

 

[lxskllr]

and i have a hard time taking anyone seriously who ends a post with "posted from"

Fsck you!


Posted from my Iceweasel Linux kernel 3.2.0-2-amd64

 

[mnewsham]

programming for the most part really pisses me off, it may have just been my first programming teacher was an illiterate.

 

[Mixolydian]

and i have a hard time taking anyone seriously who ends a post with "posted from"

heh i was totally gonna post that.

 

[mnewsham]

Woman & Linux commands.

Fuck, I don't even know DOS commands without looking them up. I know IPconfig, IPconfig/all, IPconfing flushdns and the one to register a driver I have to look up. I think it's regsvr?

Only thing I really use the command prompt for regularly is for vwifi

netsh wlan start hostednetwork

 

[ImpulsE69]

I wish I'd learned a bit of programming past BASIC. I can script a bit and I'm kinda learning VB scripting, but overall it would be nice to be able to write the little things I would like on occasion.

 

[Maximilian]

Theres another one... scripting... i dont know what scripting is, "script kiddie" has always mystified me.

Im learning Java right now and i dont know this

 

[coldmeat]

Networking is my Achilles heel. Still can't get my HTPC to play nice with my PC via SSH. I have no idea how I managed to program my modem either.

I don't know how to program at all or how to solder properly. I'm good as assembling systems and setting them up but I've never created any electronics or software from scratch.

This is pretty much me.

 

[clamum]

Lots of hardware stuff. It used to interest me but not anymore, I find it boring and just care that it works now.

Software and programming I'm good at, but I am lacking in design patterns in general.

 

[lxskllr]

Theres another one... scripting... i dont know what scripting is, "script kiddie" has always mystified me.

Im learning Java right now and i dont know this

Scripting is like programming. a .bat file in Windows is a script. A script kiddie is a "hacker" that can't hack. They download easy to use exploits for breaking systems, but don't know how it really works, and can't find exploits on their own,

 

[Greenman]

it pays good to be a "geek"

I hear they did well in the side shows as well.