Posts Tagged ‘Hardware’

Hardware Guide : The power supply

After writing a lot about Java concurrency, I wanted to write about something else, I chosen Hardware, so I wrote a new guide about power supplies.
Introduction
The power supply provide electrical power to the computer and to the several components. Without power supply, a computer cannot start. The power supply is connected to the power distribution system of your home and convert this power into …

How to choose a monitor for your computer ?

The monitor is a very important part of your computer. Indeed without it you cannot display anything. There is several types of monitors and the price varying a lot. The most limiting criteria will be your budget when you’ve to choose a new monitor.
In this post, we’ll see what to watch before buying a new monitor.

Links of the Week

Here are some interesting links of this week :

Three Monitors for Every User : Jeff Atwood explain how to works with three monitors on the same computers and what that give to the user.
Tip: When you can’t throw an exception : Elliotte Rusty Harold explore solutions on how to works with exceptions in public APIs
How to Write a Memory Leak Unit Test : Tor …

Hardware Guide : The memory chips

1. Introduction
The RAM memory (Random Access Memory) of a computer is used to stock data during their treatment. The operating system will load in memory the useful files and all the datas of the launched programs. Its necessary to have an adequate quantity of memory.
The RAM has two important caracteristics :

Speed data access : The access to data in RAM is very fast, a …

Hardware Guide : The Hard Disks

You want buy a new computer, but you cannot which hard disk to buy ? Or you want to buy a new hard disk for your computer ? So, this article is done for you. It will describe all the things you must be careful of when choosing a hard disk.