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By donmc, 6 April, 2008

HTML Colors

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Technology
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HTML Color Names

The table below provides a list of the color names that are supported by all major browsers.

Note: If you want your pages to validate with an HTML or a CSS validator, W3C has listed 16 color names that you can use: aqua, black, blue, fuchsia, gray, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive, purple, red, silver, teal, white, and yellow. If you want to use other colors, you must specify their RGB or HEX value.

Click on a color name (or a hex value) to view the color as the background-color along with different text colors:

By donmc, 4 April, 2008

IBM ThinkCentre 8187

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Technology
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General Information - M50 - 8187 Desktop

System board/
Form factor

Supports Intel Northwood processors with 533MHz or 800MHz Front Side Bus (FSB), 512KB L2 cache, and built on a 0.13 micron core

Supports Intel Prescott Pentium 4 processors with 800MHz FSB, 1MB L2 cache, and built on a 0.13 micron core

Supports Intel Northwood Celeron processors with 400MHz FSB and 128KB L2 cache

uATX

478 pin mPGA socket

Processor

By donmc, 30 March, 2008

GOOGLE Tricks & Tips

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Technology
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Google Is a Calculator

When you can’t be troubled to reach over and pick up the handheld calculator sitting on your desk, you can use Google as a high-tech web-based calculator. All you have to do is enter your equation or formula into the standard Google search box, and then click the Google Search button. The result of the calculation is displayed on the search results page; it’s that simple.

By donmc, 10 January, 2008

Is IT on the way out ?

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Technology
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In his new book, Nicholas Carr poses some interesting questions about the way we use technology...

"In the long run, the IT department is unlikely to survive, at least not in its familiar form," Carr writes. "It will have little left to do once the bulk of business computing shifts out of private data centers and into the cloud. Business units and even individual employees will be able to control the processing of information directly, without the need for legions of technical people."

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