A short update to my plans for the site.
Since I wrote that I would be posting stuff related to flight simulators and FSX on this blog, so far I’ve found the time to add three posts related to the subject. I’d hoped to be able to balance the computer technology posts out with them a little more than that, but that hasn’t quite worked out the way I’d planned.
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This probably isn’t something that I’ll do to often, but as the events of the last couple of weeks have resulted in me not getting my energy levels or concentration up enough to be able to post anything here, I felt that it was relevant and decided to make a brief note of explanation.
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An introduction to how computers and peripherals communicate
As has been identified in other posts I’ve made here, personal computers are made up of a number of various components in order to form a complete system. Each of these components need to be able to communicate with others in order for the system to function correctly.
A mobile digital device is defined as an electronic device that provides portable computing power.
A mobile digital device is defined as an electronic device that provides portable computing power. Examples of such devices include (but aren’t limited to);
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A great little collection of freeware military airfield
If you’re an owner of FSX or FS2004 and you’re a fan of VFR or military aircraft flying, then you may well be interested in this small range of freeware military airfields, available from JustFlight.com.
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Two very different types of storage device – Tape drives and eMMC
You’ll have to excuse the linking of these two subjects into one post. Although very different entities, I’m not planning to cover either of these in too much detail and felt it was probably more time efficient to combine them into a single post and finishing off my look at storage devices by tidying up loose ends.
A review of optical discs and their many incarnations
Optical discs are a removable storage media that stores information and data on it optically as opposed to magnetically such as the way HDDs do. The majority of us will have used optical discs on an almost daily basis in the form of compact discs (CDs), digital versatile discs (DVDs) and Blu-Rays.
A short tutorial to add a gops screen to any FSX aircraft
There comes a time in (pretty much) every flight-simmer’s career when they install a really great new aircraft into their software, only to find that it doesn’t have a GPS capability.
An introduction to a great virtual airline that I pilot for.
When I returned to flight simulators at the start of 2017, I quickly started getting interested in virtual airlines that might be able to offer my sim experience a little something more.
I scouted around a little and came across the guys at FlyUK.
A look into drives that combines the best features of HDDs and SSDs
SSHD stands for Solid State Hybrid Drive, a relatively recent development in storage devices that combines the best features of magnetic HDDs and those of the faster SSDs.
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