Need advise.... !!

[Muffinness]

Hey every one.
I'm new to this whole forum thing and this site. I'm Running windows 98, and i'm not exactly the smartest when it comes to computers, but i'm trying to change that for my own good, and just becasue i'm interested in learning every thing i can.
If any one could give me a site to look at on a PC tutorial of sorts, i would appreciate it, unless, you know how to teach me. Lol,
Thanx
Muffin

[mike breck]

Hi Muffiness,

Welcome to PC Mechanic.

The first thing to remember here is if you want to know something then just ask a question - no matter how silly it seems.

You'll always get an answer.

As for tutorials, why not try PC Mechanic's homepage. Down the left-hand side there is more than enough to get you started.

Hope this helps,

Mike.

[jet_rider]

What kind of tutorials are you looking for? Let me rephrase the question. What about computers do you want to know more about. I do agree with Mike about the home page, but if there is a specific itch you are trying to scratch you have to tell us what it is. Also, I have found some of the best tutorials are just reading the forums. You will learn a great deal and you can get direct feedback if you don't understand something.

[Muffinness]

Originally posted by mike breck Hi Muffiness, Welcome to PC Mechanic. The first thing to remember here is if you want to know something then just ask a question - no matter how silly it seems. You'll always get an answer. As for tutorials, why not try PC Mechanic's homepage. Down the left-hand side there is more than enough to get you started. Hope this helps, Mike.

Thanx for the welcome Mike
I think i will! - ask all my questions that is - even though I do feel like a silly ass, but hey, how else can I learn right? And thanx for the tip about reading the home page. I'm proud of myself for knowing to do that first, lol, I read almost every thing on pc hardwear. Although I have a horrid memory for any thing. But, as for now, i will go through it again and take in to more consideration how it might help me!
And as a reply to Jet_rider, I 'm not sure yet if i do have a spcific "itch" to scratch. I know enough to get me by on many occasions, I'm just not a fulll blown whiz, and due to mathematical problems i have i'm also not fully sure of the amounts in say.... GHz, or MHz and so on, or say even the differences between ether or intranet! So, as you can see i dont have an extremly vast field of knowledge, although I love learning, and I would love to learn every thing from hardwear to realising the difference between what makes one amazing video game from a bad rated one, programming, and so on.
I know this doesnt give much in the way of helping, and i'm sory about that, but i thank you for your replies, and i will take any advise you have for me.
Thanx again.
Muffinness

[mosquito]

Hmm mathematics in computers. That's fun. All numbers in bytes, megabytes.. are all powers of 2 because a computer only knows two numbers, 0 and 1.
So, here comes bits and bytes:
1 bit is a zero or a one.
1 byte = 8 bits or 2^3 (the ^ means 2 to the power 3)
1 kb = 1024 bits or 2^10 (kb means kilobit)
1 Kb = 1024 bytes or 2^10 (Kb means kilobyte)
1 Mbyte = 1024 Kbyte or 2^20 (Mbyte means Megabyte)
1 Gbyte = 1024 Mbyte or 2^30 (Gbyte means Gigabyte)
1 Tbyte = 1024 Gbyte or 2^40 (Tbyte means Terrabyte)
The numbers go higher than this, but this is what is in use nowadays. Do note that hard disk manufacturers usually use 1,000,000 bytes for 1Megabyte. So if they quote a disk as 20Gb you don't have 20Gb when you format the disk.

Now Mhz and Ghz:
1hz = one clockcycle per second of a processor
1Khz = 1,000 clockcycles per second
1Mhz = 1,000,000 clockcycles per second
1Ghz = 1,000,000,000 clockcycles per second