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Posts tagged hardware
For context, suppose I ask (on Linux) a process to report to me about the exact bytes I send it - say, with xxd -. I press the right arrow key on my keyboard, then Enter, then Ctrl-D (to signal the...
I currently have a single disk in my computer, containing the boot partition, as well as all my data. I also have one or more secondary disks that I'd like to insert into the motherboard (either NV...
My current computer is about 10 years old. It suits my current needs well enough, but in the future I'd like to do a bit more, so I'm think about some budget upgrades for CPU, motherboard and memor...
My hard drive is making a screeching/scraping/scratching sound. Is this bad? Will it explode? What I do? How do I figure out which hard drive is doing it, if I have multiple?
Sorry if the title is weird, please feel free to suggest a rephrase. I have a personal server in my closet. I host various software on this for my family's use. The vast majority of the time I con...
I regularly use two computers with the same keyboard and monitor(s) with a KVM switch. With one button press, the KVM switch can transfer both the video output (monitors) and input (keyboard and mo...
I use computers heavily, both for work and out of personal habits. It's probably typical for me to spend ~60 hours a week at a computer (how depressing, I know). Over the years, this has caused so...
