Yeah I've vaguely heard about smoothing out voltages, but I don't get why the capacitors just don't stop the flow of electricity completely. When a capacitor charges up fully it stops the flow of electricity in the direction that it was charged in. Electrolyte capacitors that computers use are...
I am wondering what purpose capacitors serve on a motherboard? I learned from my college electricity class how capacitors block DC voltage, and since motherboards have DC voltage I don't understand how the capacitor works on a motherboard.
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I don't have any wireless networking stuff but I have been curious about it. Is it possible to do a computer to computer network (non base station) with 802.11 PCI cards? Say you have a cable modem or phone modem connected to a computer with a regular NIC. Could you just stick a wireless PCI...
It's actually not a tech school (as far as specializing goes), most of the students at the school are there to get a teaching degree. I am going for a Computer Science degree and a networking degree. I forgot to list one other fun laptop customization they made:
They installed Norton...
My College makes each student lease a laptop as part of the tuition fee. I don't feel like reinstalling Windows or anything on the Laptop, so I am left with the default crap that the school puts on the laptop.
My question is this: They really customized Internet Explorer to hell and back on...
I don't have the laptop yet so I can't test stuff out and I want to get it right the first time. I suppose nothing is wrong with Slackware, its just that Slack doesn't have built in drivers for anything (except the kernel of course), and I want minimum headaches getting Linux to work on the laptop.
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I am a Slackware Linux user and I don't have any experience installing Linux on a laptop at all so I would like to know what would be the best distro to install onto an IBM Thinkpad? I would guess Red Hat but I really don't know what happens when you try to install Linux on a laptop...
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I know how hexadecimal numbers work, but whenever you see them on a computer there is usually an "x" with the regular hex digits. What does the "x" mean since there is obviously no x in hexadecimal?
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Yeah, well UPS sucks too. My UPS tracking number says a 60 dollar order of mine was supposed to be delivered yesterday. However there hasn't been any scan updates since last Friday. I sent an email out and learned that UPS doesn't know where my order is at all, just like the tracking update...
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While this isn't strictly a PC hardware question: I would like to know if there is any adapter/cable that allows hooking a video game console's RCA video jack to a standard VGA monitor? If there is, what are they called?
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Jesse Racine
Hello, I accidentally got rid of the virtual desktop switcher on the KDE taskbar. Its that button with the four windows that allows switching of the desktops. How can I get this back?
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