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To be honest for $40 you may as well not bother looking, if your after 200+ fps in games. Your probably better of saving a little and getting something around the $150, thats when the gpu you buy will actually make any difference

While there are a lot of people here that really care about Royals and the wedding, there is also a LOT of people here that dont. I guess its hard to describe to people that dont have a monarchy, but essentially our entire history is based around the royal family and monarchy. Throughout school we are taught history and what influence different monarchs have had on the world, its something you grow up with. Inherently you are involved even if you dont particularly like the royals, for example I have no views either way on the royals, they have nothing to do with me, and they have no influence over my life, but even today Iv'e probably read 2-3 articles on various things to do with the wedding, whether it be the crowds in London, the church, whatever, Im not particularly interested in the wedding, but its something which is effecting the entire country. Our media understands this and so hypes the event up even more as they know it will do well. I guess what im trying to say is that our media portrays this as a huge event (because they know that it will do well) this means that it effectively will always be a huge event (because the media promote it so much) and subsequently a large proportion of the population are dragged into reading or seeing things on tv which they probably wouldnt otherwise. One final note, there is also a significant amount of people that dispise the royal family and what they stand for (and in some respects I agree with them) and the other hand there is probably a similar amount of people that adore them (again I can see why in some respects) but most of us dont really care either way, and just get dragged along for the ride.

it depends on what you want to do with your server and how quick. What do you want to use the server for

As others have said start small. Web languages are a great way to introduce yourself to coding, they are free form and interpreted, meaning they can be messy and you dont need to compile your code every time you want to see if the thing you changed worked. I personally started out trying to copy the design of a website (business ones are usually great to begin with, because there mainly text and images but often have some tricky formatting that takes a while to get perfect). After that do the same website again but make it dynamic so it scales with window size and works on all displays. After youve done that a few times you may be getting a bit tired of it, so start thinking about javascript (i know this is a bit old now but jQuery imo is still a great way to start) and try to make you website do some cool animations or stuff like that. Then finally start to look into PHP, SQL etc how can you make your website functional and do things. You'll find by then end you will have a website that works, but the code will be a god awful mess. This is when you need to consolidate what you've done. As others have said learn coding standards and be strict with yourself to add comments etc, It sounds silly but getting a job as a developer can often be the difference between clean code and messy stuff. Once you've watch some stuff on coding standards and how to keep code clean, re-write the same site again, make it perfect, make the SQL as efficient as you can. Then repeat. It will take time, and sometimes you wont feel like getting home and doing code, my advice dont... Do it when you feel motivated to do so, and make sure you always end your coding sessions on a succes (dont leave a piece of code broken because your stuck on it, you wont want to return to it EVER). The only other thing i would say is as you advance i would definately recommend playing with strict format complied languages, they will really force you to learn clean code and can often be transferred into web stuff. Good luck !!

First off MySQL is great for anything that isnt enterprise level.... Sure its not the "most" efficient thing ever however it is very close to Vanilla SQL and has by far the most useful tutorials, software etc around for it. I personally would recommend downloading a piece of software called SQL Workbench, at a basic level it connects to your SQL database and checks your syntax + allows you to easily run / manage queries. I would then be writing the SQL in that environment trying to roughly mimic what you think your system will need to do. If you dont have a database environment XAMPP is a great little tool you can install on any windows pc and allows you to very quickly using a GUI set up a MySQL environment with the default config and PHPmyAdmin (a web interface that allows you to browse SQL tables etc.). From there you kinda need to get into the language a bit, as others have mentioned W3schools is great and has some good examples, however I would urge you try to understand the basics of INSERT, SELECT, DELETE etc as well as JOINS and relationships before trying to code. Joins and unions make your life much simpler when it comes to storing data in multiple tables. For now thats probably enough to be getting on with, but if you have specific examples your stuck on once you've had a go and im sure someone on here will be willing to help out

is there any drivers for the monitor?

Because when you get efficient enough with the keyboard your hand is almost never on the mouse

It is, but it was a one off, I actually got it from a Tesco outlet seller on ebay, they were selling it as damaged in the title, but when you actually looked, there was 1 hdmi cable included which had a squished connector. Might be worth looking about tho

Hmm The fact its showing as a device but not in windows disk manager is concerning, is this a new device or does it have data on it?

Have you tried on multiple ports or even better multiple windows devices?

Have you checked if it needs drivers? I know normally they are installed on being plugged in but prehaps not?

I just picked up a 34inch ultrawide off ebay for like £200 quid and honestly would really struggle to go back, my only gripes are some arcade type games dont scale well, some movies dont scale well etc. But Most stuff is fine and eh you get used to black borders real quick on no ultrawide content. Would recommend even at a low res, but defo try find a deal on it if at all possible

As previously mentioned there should be no issues, you may get a prompt in the bios of a hardware change, but windows shouldnt be effected.

If its already installed with ubuntu you could first just play with the current version and create a network drive (plenty of youtube videos on it), then when you feel comfortable using the gui to create it move onto doing it with command line (the terminal) and finally when your confident with the commands you need install a fresh server version of linux and try that. Do little steps, the best way to learn is to experiment and break things, at the end of the day the worst you can do is break something you cant fix using google and have to re-install the O/S. Just be sure not to load any real files onto it until you've finished tinkering

Anything in theory can be a server, a server is simply a computer which is connected to by clients. With regards to what you actually want to do with it, if you want something super simple that acts as a "file server" you could just set-up a shared network drive on windows within a home/work-group and use that to store files. I mean realistically it may be better as a backup (as it wouldn't be in raid 1 or anything like that) and would be super simple to do at no extra cost. Erm with regards to wireless or wired, while it could be done wirelessly it would make much more sense to plug a ethernet connection in to speed up the connection and make it more consistent. My final thought would be what your intentions are in doing this, if its simply to have some fun and learn some things then this is great, if you want something to be an actual file server it may be better to look at a linux box or something like that.