Rules to follow as well as Technology

In order to fulfill the responsibility of protecting your children online, you must master the basics of the computer. Only then can you guide them and teach them the do’s and don’ts of the internet. Teach them to use the internet safely, encourage them to share their experiences with you and enjoy the internet along with them. Children should basically show respect to others online, just as you teach children rules of good behavior when they move in society.

However, there is technology available, which can help to protect your children from any content that is not appropriate for them. So you can use software to block this inappropriate content. Microsoft software, for example, has different types of software for this. ‘Windows Vista Parental Controls’ helps parents to manage, monitor and administer the use of computer by the children. Another software called ‘Windows Live OneCare Family Safety’ filters the information, so that even the child’s searches can be blocked, if they are inappropriate for their age. Even DVD movies and games can be restricted by a software called Xbox parental controls.

Besides, you can increase your security and privacy by making your children limited users in your Administrative Account, by giving them Limited User accounts. This restricts the children to change system settings, install any new software which includes chat programs, games, etc.

Protection of your child can also be done through your web browser. All that you have to do is to adjust your web browser security settings and web sites can then be assigned security levels.

Also you can keep track of the websites that the children are surfing. If you check out the History List in Internet Explorer, it is possible to see where the children have been surfing. Even email addresses, correspondence and downloaded files can be viewed by you.

Children should be taught to be careful during chats and instant messaging sessions and not to disclose personal identity, names, addresses and telephone numbers. This is how they become victims to impostors and predators.

Sit down with your children and make them aware of the hazards of the internet and teach them how they can come out of difficult situations. Having talks and discussions with children about the risks is important, and as parents one should set certain limits. If the safety of the children is taken care of, only then can internet be a source of fun and information, without which the environment is incomplete.

 

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If you need more storage space on your computer, you could add a new hard drive to it. Before you start the process, you must do a little bit of research inside the computer, to find out for yourself how difficult or easy it will be for you to install the extra hard drive. Of course you need to know, first of all, what kind of drive you need before you buy it. Read through the computer’s manuals, or you can just open the machine case and have a look into it.

Firstly, find out how many hard disk drives already exist in the machine. Most of the machines have only one, and hence it is relatively easy to install another one. You will find the optical drive for the CD or DVD, maybe a floppy disk drive and the single hard disk drive. If you do not know what the hard drive looks like, look at the photos and diagrams in the manual.

The cable system is very important when adding an extra drive to the computer. There are two common cable systems used to connect drives to the motherboard. One system includes the IDE drives, which are also known as PATA or Parallel ATA. These cables are flat or thick and are as wide as your finger.

The other system has the SATA drives or the Serial ATA drives. For this the cables are thin and are about the diameter of a pencil. By looking at the cables, you should know which of these cables have to be bought for installing your extra hard drive.

It is also possible that your computer has SCSI hard drives, for which you need SCSI cables. The common and mass-market computers will generally have the PATA or the SATA drives.

But if your machine already has two drives, then it is a little difficult to install a third one. Check out whether there is space for a third drive and if there is no more space left inside the cage, just add an external drive.

An external enclosure system is probably the easiest way to add an extra hard drive to your computer. The system is fairly simple because here a standard hard drive is put into a desk-friendly case and then plugged into your computer via USB or FireWire. After you format your new hard drive, it immediately registers as an extra drive on your computer. Now you can perform normal actions like adding, changing, creating and deleting files.

The biggest advantage of an external enclosure system is that it is possible to change the hard drive without any trouble if you need even more space. Besides, you don’t even need to open up the old machine to make any changes.

 

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Wireless-N Broadband Routers which one do I need? I found this video on the net that takes some of the mystery out of it.

This is the description that came with the video:
These Wireless-N Broadband Routers are really three devices in one box. First, there’s the Wireless Access Point, which lets you connect to your network without cables. There’s also a built-in 4-port full-duplex 10/100 Switch to connect your wired-Ethernet devices together. Finally, the Router function ties it all together and lets your whole network share a high-speed cable or DSL Internet connection. The Access Point built into the Router uses the very latest wireless networking technology, Wireless-N (draft 802.11n). By overlaying the signals of multiple radios, Wireless-N’s “Multiple In, Multiple Out” (MIMO) technology multiplies the effective data rate. Unlike ordinary wireless networking technologies that are confused by signal reflections, MIMO actually uses these reflections to increase the range and reduce “dead spots” in the wireless coverage area. The robust signal travels farther, maintaining wireless connections up to 4 times farther than standard Wireless-G.

 

 

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