If you need a laugh

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 02:41:16PM -0500, Stephen W. Clarke wrote:
> Descriptions I've found work well when talking to the over 60 crowd are:
> 
> CPU: The part of the computer that actually does work.
> Memory: The workspace for the CPU. Where the CPU does the work. The more
> workspace you have the more work the CPU can get done.
> HDD: The filing cabinet for the computer. The more files you have the more
> disk space you need.
> Motherboard: The piece that allows all of the other bits to communicate.
> 
> Unfortunately, I have yet to find a term I'm happy with to distinguish a
> "computer" with monitor, keyboard and mouse and one without monitor,
> keyboard and mouse. As a result I usually use the word "computer" for both
> situations.
> 
> I've also described a swap file as being like a "box under your desk where
> you store files your are using that you can't fit on your workspace". It
> seemed to work for the situation. :)

Just hard to explain that you might move things between the box and your
desk 100 times in a second. :)

To some extent swap space is like a large table in another room that you
can store some of your work on, but there is no chair in there so you
can't do anywork unless you bring it back to your desk first.

-- 
Len Sorensen
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists