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How to put together a PC

How to put together a computer

So you have all of your parts but they are spread across your bedroom floor and want to put them together huh? Well first of all, GET THOSE EXPENSIVE PARTS OFF YOU FLOOR MR. AND PUT THEM ON A TABLE. YOU GRAB DADDYS CREDIT CARD AND BUY 1500$ WORTH OF PARTS AND TREAT THEM LIKE THAT. GOOD, KEEP THEM ON THE TABLE. Now we can get to work.

First, get your motherboard and set it in an easily accessible place while taking your cpu out of the box. The place match the arrows on the motherboard and cpu and slowly place the cpu into the motherboard and lock it in. Now apply a tiny amount of thermal paste on top of the processor. Now install your cooling system and screw the motherboard inside of the case. You just completed the hardest part of the build.

 

Next you can install your power supply if it already isn’t installed already. Then place your hard drive, and dvd rom if you have them, some computers you have to screw them in but others you just lock them into place. Then take out your graphics card and install it into your motherboard by locking it into the PCI express slot. Now you can take your RAM and place them into the correct slots, easy to tell which is which. FInally instal any other extra things you might want inside of that beast gaming computer such as fans, and if you go with the water cooling route then you will have extra installation steps.

 

Now we can start connecting everything together with the correct cords that should come with your parts. You can start by connecting all of the power cords from the power supply which should be self explanatory. Then connect the mobo to the hard drive and anything else that needs to be connected. Finally put the case cords to the correct part of the mobo. Now you can install your operating system and now you have your 10/10 PC :).

How to create Windows 10 ISO for USB flash drive

Hi there, today I’m going to give you a quick tutorial on how to install a windows 10 iso onto a flash drive. If you are constantly disappointed in Windows 10 not being able to run for two months without becoming glitchy, blue screening, and tired of it attempting to fix itself without any success, or you’re just running an old version of windows…Simply just buy an 8GB flash drive and follow my directions below (Note: Upgrading to Windows 10 is no longer available for free):

  1. Receive/buy a flash drive and remove anything you need (it will delete everything on it).
  2. Go to: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 . Click download tool now.
  3. Now press the Windows key and R (Winkey + R).
  4. You should see a small window show in the bottom left, type “CMD” (no quotes) and press enter.
  5. Another window shows, this time type: “control /name Microsoft.System” and press enter.
  6. Good job, you now have two things you need to know, your current windows version and whether your CPU is 32 or 64 bit.
  7. Your current Windows version doesn’t matter, but more the edition of that version. For example home, enterprise, pro, educational, or server. If you have already activated windows 10, otherwise home edition is the best option. (See picture below if help is needed).
  8. Record your CPU architecture type, if you’re going to use this ISO on multiple computers then skip this step. Otherwise,  it will be either 32 or 64 bit. (See picture below for help finding this number).
  9. Now open your file explorer by typing: “file explorer” into the search box after clicking the lower left windows button (also typing explorer.exe in cmd works (for win 10 only)).
  10. Navigate to your downloads folder and run MediaCreationTool.exe. If prompted for the allowance to make changes your PC click yes. 
  11. Select  USB flash drive to install and click the drive you wish, everything will be DELETED off the drive.
  12. Enter both your architecture type (the 32/64 number) and your edition of windows (use chart below to convert your current operating system).
  13. Let the installation creation media tool finish downloading (you can still use your PC at the same time).
  14. You’re done 🙂
  15. Simply reboot your computer, then hit either spam F1 or the delete button when it turns back on, navigate until you find boot priority and make your USB drive the number one priority.
  16. Click exit button, save and reboot and then follow the directions on the screen to install windows 10.

How-to for beginners: LMMS

You want to create music for free, but not have it be poor quality?                Use LMMS. It’s a great place to start.

  1. So, you’ll want to start off with sampling other songs to give you a general idea of what you’d like to create. It’s a good thing to do, because it boosts your creativity with ease.

  1. Next, go ahead and play around. See what you like, don’t like, and etc. Don’t underestimate the left side menu! Inside there, you should find a program called ZynSubAddFX. That’s where you can really start to experiment. Personally, it’s my favorite system to use for creating various sounds.

  1. Once you’ve played around for a bit, pick an instrument and create a bassline; the main beat. This can be done through whatever instrument you want, but I prefer Kicker and Zyn. Make sure to time your beats, or they’ll eventually go off the intended rhythm.

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  1. Stay on key, use chords, and off-beats to your advantage.

  1. Don’t just randomly throw stuff on. Try to make it coordinated and fleshed out. It may take longer, but it’ll sound better.

  1. Try adjusting stuff like tempo, automation, pitch, and etc.

  1. Once you’re satisfied with what you’ve got, go to project>export>(file destination)

  1. Locate and find your mp3/wav file.

  1. Upload to your choice platform.

how to make a app on code.org

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how to create a app on code.org

  1. first you are going to figure out a general idea about what you want the home page to look like.
  2. next you are going to draw a sketch of your vision for the home page.
  3.  Then you are going to have to go to code.org and create a account. And scroll down tell you see “App Lab”. click on it and select create app.
  4. when you get there you are going to have to start creating your home page. click on design and start playing with the different design aspects.
  5. you can also start to just create your app from this website as well. if you go to the “code” tab the you will get a bunch of different codes.
  6. your project will save automatically so you wont have to worry about forgetting to save. and good luck on your new app.

How to Github to host a website [FREE]

Perhaps you need to have a site for some reason, maybe it’s a download page, maybe it’s an information page, or maybe it’s just a site in general, anyways, what you made your site for is not important. What is important is that you will need to get it hosted somewhere, luckily I’ve got your back on this one. All we need to do is make a GitHub Page, and fortunately for you, this guide will show you how, and it’s free just in-case you were wondering.

Things that you may need: GitHub Desktop (So we can actually do this), A website, and a bit of common sense, also a web browser.

Go here: https://github.com, then do as the pictures below do.

 

Now, we must open up GitHub desktop, and, then after logging in, we’re going to want to open the Git Shell, a picture below will show you what to do to open it.

After you get the shell open, you wan to type the below in, also, make sure that after each line ends, you press enter, because this is not all just one line.

echo "# *yourrepository*" >> README.md
git init
git add README.md
git commit -m "first commit"
git remote add origin https://github.com/*yourgithubusername*/*your repositoryname*.git
git push -u origin master

We then need to do is move the site, and all of its files into the place where the Blue arrow points into, and then make sure that we choose “Make a new branch” and in the new branch name it ABSOLUTELY NEEDS TO SAY “gh-pages” if you don’t do this then you won’t get a working site.

Then you can find your site at *your github user name*.github.io/*your github repository*

AND there we go! Now we have free hosting for our website which is great.

How to create a virtual machine using Virtualbox

In this post, I’ll be telling you how to create and use a virtual machine using Virtualbox. Virtualbox is a free service that allows you to have as many virtual machines as your hard drive can have. A virtual machine allows you to emulate another operating system without changing anything on your personal drive. When you create a virtual machine, the service allocates hard drive storage to a file stored in your computer. Enough about logistics, let’s create one our selves.

 

  1. Go to https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads and select the latest version under your platform (i.e. Windows, Mac, Linux distrobutions)
  2. Download and install Virtualbox
  3. Once you have installed Virtualbox and started it up it should look something like this: Your machine list will be empty. I have some because I am experimenting and working on a project using a Linux kernel called Fedora. This is not important.
  4. To create a machine, click on the New button in the top left
  5. You will get a screen that looks like this: 
  6. Depending on what your project requires, this step will be different. We’re going to make a machine based on the OS I mentioned earlier which is Fedora.
  7. You can do this two ways. The easiest is typing the OS name in the dialog box and it will auto-select for you.
  8. When you click Next, you will get a screen like the image below. This asks you to define the amount of RAM to give this machine. Usually the recommended amount is plenty. Click Next to go to the next page.
  9. This screen asks if you want to create a virtual hard disk. If you are wanting to store things on the machine, you will want to select create virtual hard disk now. This will create a file in your computer that will hold all of the things you put in into it. As the name states, it’s like your hard drive in your personal computer or phone.
  10. If you chose to create a virtual hard disk, it will present a screen like the one below. The way I decide to create my virtual machines is using a live virtual disk image. A live disk image is an image that includes every operating file that an operating system needs to run including operating system, and in our case, hard drive storage. http://www.osboxes.org/virtualbox-images/ This link is where I got a fully functional version of Fedora. The reason I say fully functioning is that some distributors will only give you the live media version of the OS which means that you would have to install the full version to the hard drive and firmware. This link will give you a fully installed version of Fedora. Just scroll down to Fedora, download and unzip the image to a folder you want and hold of on it for right now.
  11. The next screen you will get when you continue in the virtual machine setup is one asking whether the file size of the virtual hard disk should be fixed or grow as used. if you are looking to save space on your hard drive, choose fixed size. This make the virtual hard disk seem like a natural hard drive where it has a fixed size that you must stick to. This also may take longer to create but it is often faster to use. If you’re not worried about it, choose dynamically allocated. This will grow the file as it’s used but this uses your physical hard drive space so be careful with this option.
  12. Now we will choose how big the virtual hard drive is. If you recall a few steps ago, it told us that the recommended size for the hard disk for Fedora is 8 GB. Depending on your goals and physical hard drive’s current storage available, 8 GB should be plenty. If not, you can add more here.

Depending on what you chose in the last step, this will tell how big your virtual hard drive is and how big the stored virtual machine file is on your physical hard drive.

13. The final piece to this is getting the virtual hard disk file we downloaded earlier into the machine and making it work. The image below shows how we’re going to do that. 

With the machine we just created selected, go into the Settings tab at the top left.

14. In the Settings, select the storage settings on the sidebar. You’ll get a screen like the one below.

15. In the SATA controller slot where says fedora.vdi or whatever the name of your machine is, click on that and go over to the right side where there are other options. On the image below, you will see that it says Fedora 25.vdi. This is the disk image file we downloaded earlier. Yours will need to be replaced with the file we downloaded earlier. To do this, click on the part that says fedora.vdi or what ever you named it and go over to the right side and click on the blue icon next to the dialog box. Choose the option that says Fedora 25 (64bit).vdi.

This will replace your original VDI file with a fully built and functioning Fedora Linux kernel.

16. To start it up, double click on the machine name in the machine list. Upon startup, you will get a menu with two options and possibly more if you update the kernel every so often. When this screen is presented, always choose the first option because it is the one that you will want to use. After waiting for the system to load, you will get a login screen like the one below. The password for logging into the system is osboxes.org. You can change along with the username in the settings later. If you plan on using the Terminal for a project in the future, the password for using the root user or running a command with the word “sudo” is the same as the login password. Note: Terminal will not be covered in this tutorial.

Congratulations! You can now use this virtual machine for basically what ever you want! If you want to learn more about other operating systems and their uses in VirtualBox, search around Google for tutorials on how to acquire the VDI file and install it into VirtualBox. If you do try this, be very cautious of what you download! Only follow a tutorial if the website it is on is credible and follow all directions in the tutorial to make sure you don’t ruin your system. Have fun with virtual machines and expanding your knowledge of computers!

Clean Energy

There weren’t very many  things that I was able to find that related my project out there on the web; which is promising, but also a bit of a letdown. However, I was able to find one article on the Forbes website about a game called “Path to Luma”. This game is about a robot that travels to abandoned planets in search for life giving forces, and hidden clean energy sources.

info sources below:

http://www.thepathtoluma.com/home/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2015/09/15/path-to-luma-clean-energy-fueled-by-a-video-game/#693211f53a88