Saturday, April 30, 2016

Some Interesting Facts
  1. A single Google query uses 1,000 computers in 0.2 seconds to retrieve an answer.
  2. Mark Zuckerberg’s original Facebook profile number ID is 4.
  3. The first YouTube video was uploaded April 23, 2005. It’s called “Me at the zoo,” and features Jawed Karim, one of the founders, at the San Diego Zoo.
  4. The first tweet was sent on March 21, 2006 by Jack Dorsey.
  5. The first email was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson to himself. He doesn’t remember what it said.
  6. The first ever webcam was deployed at Cambridge University computer lab. No, it wasn’t to Skype or Facetime. It was used to watch a pot of coffee.
  7. The first registered domain was symbolics.com
  8. The world record for the fastest time to log into a Gmail account is 1.16 seconds.
  9. Every second there are approximately 1158 photos uploaded to Instagram, 1382 Tumblr posts posted, 1438 Skype calls, 85,500 videos viewed on Youtube and 2,317,342 emails.
  10. About 250 billion emails are sent every single day and approximately 81% of them are considered spam!

Friday, April 29, 2016

How to create a bootable USB flash drive

  1. Insert a USB flash drive into a running computer.
  2. Open a Command Prompt window as an administrator.
  3. Type diskpart.
  4. In the new command line window that opens, to determine the USB flash drive number or drive letter, at the command prompt, type list disk, and then click ENTER. Thelist disk command displays all the disks on the computer. Note the drive number or drive letter of the USB flash drive.
  5. At the command prompt, type select disk , where X is the drive number or drive letter of the USB flash drive, and then click ENTER.
  6. Type clean, and the click ENTER. This command deletes all data from the USB flash drive.
  7. To create a new primary partition on the USB flash drive, type create part pri, and then click ENTER.
  8. To select the partition that you just created, type select part 1, and then click ENTER.
  9. To format the partition, type format fs=ntfs quick, and then click ENTER.
  10. Type active, and then click ENTER.
  11. Type exit, and then click ENTER.
  12. When you finish preparing your custom image, save it to the root of the USB flash drive.