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Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category

How To Find Specs on Apple Computers

Apple has put up a great web page for those of us who support Macintosh Computers and wish to know the specific specifications on them. Apple Support Spec page: http://support.apple.com/specs Machines can be searched for by name or much better, by serial number. If you enter the serial number it pulls up the fulls specifications [...]

Home Network Setup

Originally Posted 11/20/2000. Ironically a lot of this is still useful.   Home Networking                 In the day and age of Multi-computer families, a frequent argument is, who gets to be online? The answer is simple, Modem Sharing or networking. Modem Sharing can be done one of several ways, using a regular Analog Modem [...]

Classic Article: Case Cooling

Originally posted: 10/06/2000   As we discussed last month, the internals of a case can go a long way to improving the cooling inside the case. Proper air flow both in and out of the case is hard to achieve under normal circumstances. Over clocking merely amplifies this problem. Remeber though that normal users can benifit from some of [...]

How To: Find MAC Address on local computer

How To: Find MAC Address on local computer One of the ways to increase security on a wireless (or really, ANY) network is to only allow computers with certain MAC Addresses to connect. Many wireless routers made for the consumer market have this feature built in and can be set in the security settings. Any [...]

DRAM Plant in Boise on hold

In a world of rising dropping prices, Micron’s planned plant in Boise Idaho has been put on hold. At this point in time, it looks to be an indefinite hold. The plant was slated to build 200mm wafers and employ up to 1500 people. There are talks about changing the plant to produce something like [...]