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OU M257 Revision notes

Next week I’m sitting an Open University exam on the Java course M257.  I’ve made some notes on most of the units which you can see below:
Unit 3

Implement classes in which you have specified the access level of methods and instance variables;

private access level: never inherited, so can never be accessed by subclasses as if [...]

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Fix: CPU is unworkable or has been changed.

Today I fixed a friends computer that was suddenly displaying the message “CPU is unworkable or has been changed” at boot time and performing very slowly. After running one of my diagnostic tools I found that the CPU, an AMD athon 2800+ was running at a speed of 1.25Ghz. The processor should normally run at [...]

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Emailing Play.com

If you ever need to email play.com You’ll find that on there website you can’t find an email address. After a bit of googling I found this email address for them customercare@play.com which I’ve used and had a response from. I don’t know why they don’t put this on there website so I’ve shared it here.

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How to speed up Mac OS X

I’ve had an iMac for about 2 years and have recently noticed that it’s getting a little slower at booting up. So I’ve spent so time trying to improve it. This is what I found and how I recommend speeding up a mac in the future.

Check login items for your user account and remove programs that [...]

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