Personal Computer Secrets

Additions and Corrections

Books are the fruit of a long, collaborative process that inevitably has a stopping point. As a result, there's never enough time to get everything into a book that you want. So, here are a few extra secrets and other additions, in printer-friendly form, that didn't make it in the first edition.

In addition, books are done by human beings. In other words, mistakes happen. In recognition of that fact, here's a list of corrections from the first printing of "Personal Computer Secrets."

Location	Correction
Front Cover	936 pages isn't quite 1,000 but it's close (the cover had to be finished before we knew the final page count).
Pg. 19	In the first sentence at the top of the page, the list of items after the colon (:) should not include a monitor.
Pg. 21	The text at the bottom of the page is improperly formatted.
Pg. 58	The Processor Family Tree diagram is missing dashes in the K6-2 and K6-3 processor names (they're also out of order). In addition, it should be the AMD (not AMX) K7--which is now being called the Athlon.
Pg. 74	Not necessarily a correction, but a clarification in the sidebar on RAM speeds is missing. After the last sentence at the bottom of the page it should read. "Note, however, that because SDRAM operates differently than EDO and FPM RAM, it's not fair to directly compare their timing measurements. SDRAM measurements do not include the initial delay time that the EDO and FPM ratings do."
Pg. 288	In the second paragraph down, the first sentence is missing a colon (:) after the word "on" (the third line of that paragraph).
Pg. 367	Again, not a correction, but a clarification. After the very last sentence on the page it should read, "Theoretically, newer parallel ports can support multiple devices per port, but practically speaking, they usually don't."
Pg. 407	The last line on the page is missing the word "or" right after the parentheses.
Pg. 488	At the end of the second paragraph, the following clarification was left out. "If you have an internal DSL or cable modem, then you'll typically only need one network card."
Pg. 489	In the last sentence of the second paragraph the word "assisting" should be "assigning".
Pg. 574-575	The web site URL should be http://www.everythingcomputers.com/book.htm (singular).
Pg. 614-615	An additional point about the automated backup procedure described here is that the backup application will launch at the scheduled time, but it doesn't automatically start the backup at that time. You still have to do that manually.
Pg. 658	The Windows Media Player is not included on the book's CD-ROM.
Pg. 713	A sentence was accidentally cut out of the last paragraph. After the first sentence it should read, "You may have to choose between the new profile and your former profile on your next startup."
Pg. 752	Again, a clarification that was supposed to be included in a new paragraph right before the Summary reads, "Once you've created the partitions and re-installed the operating system, you need to individually reinstall each application. Once that's done, you can re-install any application updates you've backed up. Finally, you can complete the process by copying back over your data files."
Pg. 807	In the last paragraph of the page, the sentence inside the parentheses should refer to a file called Start.htm (instead of Start Here.htm).
Pg. 808	In the paragraph that starts, "Clicking on The Book..." the version of Acrobat on the CD is listed incorrectly. It should be 3.0. Also, there are several PDF files (one for each chapter, plus the front and back sections), not a single file.
Pg. 810	Again, the version of Acrobat on the CD is 3.0, not 4.0 (because 4.0 didn't have the Search feature complete when the CD-ROM was mastered).
Pg. 832	In the definition of DFP, the acronym DVI actually stands for Digital Visual Interface.
Pg. 837	Similarly, in the definition of DVI, the acronym should be written out Digital Visual Interface, not Digital Video Interface. Also, the acronym LCD is transposed.
Pg.. 848	In the definition, of HiFD, it should say 3 1/2" floppy.
Pg. 859	In the definition of LPC, the parenthetical note should say "without support for ISA".
Pg. 860	In the definition of LS-120, it should say 3 1/2" floppy.
Pg. 890	In the definition of Streaming SIMD, the second sentence should read. "Streaming SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) Extensions, which are often referred to as SSE, are designed to enable applications such as software decoding of MPEG-2 video, 3D graphics and more."
Pg. 905-926	An upgraded version of the index with both more entries and more complete entries is available in PDF form by clicking here.
Pg. 936 (the last page)	In the first paragraph, the file on the CD to double-click is actually called Start.htm.

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