Archive for September, 2007

“Comparison shopping for a computer”: Help!

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

I’ve been working on this assignment for several hours now, trying to make sense of the various advertisements on the Web.  Well, I got frustrated with that and decided to go ahead and, at least, try to format the comparison table on Excel.  I am so incredibly lost.  Anyone, please, help!  Is it simpler to [...]

happy birthday!

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/09/18/emoticon.anniversary.ap/index.html
 
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E-mail for Ms. Benson

Monday, September 17th, 2007

When I try to click on the e-mail link I get an “error on page” message.  I have a question regarding the Deeper Investigation for Lab 4 (CSCI 1300).  What information do you want included in the returned assignment?  Do you want an answer to the question regarding characteristics of an S-R latch or other [...]

Progams of study at Georgia tech

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Do you guys know if they a CIS program @ tech?
i looked on their site and it gave me no indication =/

What Kind of Laptop for School?

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

What kind of laptop and hardware/software capabilities would be good for school use?  Right now I’m “sharing” my son’s and it is bare-bones basic - it doesn’t even have Microsoft Word on it.  If I get one of my own (IBM-compatible), what should I look for?
– Danni

Q&A on the in-class exercise

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

Q:  “Hi Mrs.Benson,
This is Jessica Neal. I am in your section 202 M/W 11-12:15 class. I’ve been working with this assignment all afternoon and i’ve tried it many ways and i’m not sure if i’m doing it correctly.Can you use the same algorithm to convert any base to another base? For example, [...]

in need of major HELP on chapter 2 exercises/extra credit

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

i am having a hard time with a few of the problems on the homework
#30 and 31 - how do i go about converting octal to hexadecimal and vice versa.  am I supposed to convert the number to base 10 and then back to hexadecimal? if that’s not right someone PLEASE HELP!
#33 I wound up [...]