Git and GitHub for Beginners: Your First Repository, Branch and Push
A hands-on Git and GitHub beginner guide with real terminal output: init, commit, branch, diff, merge, .gitignore, SSH keys and your first push.
How computers, operating systems, file systems and hardware work, explained for beginners, plus basic PC repair
A hands-on Git and GitHub beginner guide with real terminal output: init, commit, branch, diff, merge, .gitignore, SSH keys and your first push.
How NTFS works inside, the features admins use (ACLs, journaling, compression, EFS, shadow copies), its limits, and how to inspect and repair a volume.
NTFS, exFAT, APFS/HFS+ and ext4 compared, which operating systems can read and write each, and which to pick for USB drives, Macs and Linux servers.
What the Hardware Abstraction Layer does, where hal.dll sits in Windows, how Linux and Android achieve the same goal, and why it matters for portability.
A dated tour of Windows from 1.0 to 11: the DOS-based line, the NT line, internal version numbers, and why NT won.
The main Linux families (Debian, Red Hat, SUSE, Arch), release models, popular distros compared, and a simple guide to choosing one.
How Unix, the GNU Project and a student hobby in 1991 became Linux, with the milestones from Debian and Red Hat to Android and containers.
Free software, open source and copyleft explained: where they came from, the four freedoms, and how GPL, MIT and AGPL licences differ in practice.
Bits, bytes and every unit up to petabytes, why 1 TB shows as 931 GB in Windows, and how to convert between megabits and megabytes.
Follow one click from bits and transistors through boot, the CPU fetch-decode-execute cycle, memory and the operating system to the screen.