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Title: How do drivers and proxys work?
Post by: !~*:.Pink Floyd.:*~! on September 22, 2008, 06:24:37 PM

Hey Dudes can you guys simply explain to me

Proxys

Web proxys

And drivers?


Im trying to learn but cant get a simple answer...

Title: Re: How do drivers and proxys work?
Post by: computeruler on September 22, 2008, 07:43:15 PM

im pretty shure that proxys go through like another server and drivers have code that like link the thing to the computer so the computer knows what to so with it i think

Title: Re: How do drivers and proxys work?
Post by: Broni on September 22, 2008, 07:54:51 PM

Proxy server is more, or less like a router, only more powerful in features:



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Title: Re: How do drivers and proxys work?
Post by: Broni on September 22, 2008, 08:00:15 PM

Driver is a piece of software, which allows communication between any computer program, and a device.
For instance, M$ Word talks to printer driver in order to print whatever you typed in.
It's like a cab passenger, telling the cab driver to turn right. Driver's brain allows driver's hands to turn steering wheel to the right.

Title: Re: How do drivers and proxys work?
Post by: Dias de verano on September 23, 2008, 01:44:25 AM

The plural of "proxy" is "proxies".

Title: Re: How do drivers and proxys work?
Post by: !~*:.Pink Floyd.:*~! on September 23, 2008, 01:59:31 PM

thanks for the simple explanations.

So lemme get this straight Ms word will tell the DRiver to print?

Title: Re: How do drivers and proxys work?
Post by: Dias de verano on September 23, 2008, 02:08:46 PM

Quote from: !~*:.Pink Floyd.:*~! on September 23, 2008, 01:59:31 PM

thanks for the simple explanations.

So lemme get this straight Ms word will tell the DRiver to print?

Yes. Any software program that needs to print will use the printer driver.

Title: Re: How do drivers and proxys work?
Post by: drmsucks on September 23, 2008, 02:30:51 PM

...and the driver will translate the program instructions into instructions for the hardware, in this case, the printer.

Title: Re: How do drivers and proxys work?
Post by: !~*:.Pink Floyd.:*~! on September 23, 2008, 06:05:02 PM

Quote from: Dias de verano on September 23, 2008, 02:08:46 PM

Quote from: !~*:.Pink Floyd.:*~! on September 23, 2008, 01:59:31 PM

thanks for the simple explanations.

So lemme get this straight Ms word will tell the DRiver to print?

Yes. Any software program that needs to print will use the printer driver.

Thanks Dias.

Title: Re: How do drivers and proxys work?
Post by: Carbon Dudeoxide on September 23, 2008, 08:19:56 PM

Imagine you are typing on your keyboard.
How do all the electrical signals get to the computer?
Every time you press a key, a signal is sent, and imagine that every signal is a bus.
You will need someone to drive the bus to the computer. That is the driver.

Heh, yes. Pretty bored.