Articles tagged “hardware”

• Eyestrain A few months ago, I left the com­pa­ny, but it's only to­day that I un­der­stood why I of­ten had headaches and eye­strain at work, and I rarely have that when work­ing at home. At home, I un­con­scious­ly fol­low the next pat­tern: work for ten min­utes to an…
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• Trial-screens setup: the definitive guide You got your sec­ond mon­i­tor. You've seen how much it en­hances (or de­grades) your pro­duc­tiv­i­ty. Now, you are dream­ing of hav­ing three mon­i­tors. Or maybe you don't have dual-screens set­up and you're jump­ing straight to three mon­i­tors set­up. Or maybe…
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• Cables labeling Re­cent­ly, I was adding new serv­er hard­ware. I took it as an op­por­tu­ni­ty to rewire all net­work ca­bles. This ar­ti­cle ex­plains how the task was per­formed. Ca­bles man­age­ment is like reg­u­lar back­ups: every­body (by every­body, I mean peo­ple who ac­tu­al­ly…
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• Cloud computing: a rather expensive alternative I was al­ways con­vinced that buy­ing own servers is the most stu­pid thing a com­pa­ny can do at the era of cloud com­put­ing. If I deal with servers, it is ex­clu­sive­ly be­cause: I love deal­ing with servers. This alone is enough. There are a lot of things to…
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• Quiet fans with high static pressure for 2U servers Re­cent­ly, I pur­chased a bunch of 2U chas­sis for a SAN. Since the servers are in my home of­fice, they should be qui­et. This wasn't a prob­lem when I used 4U servers, but with 2U size fac­tor, and es­pe­cial­ly in the con­text where the front pan­el is all…
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• Silencing a 2U UPS I have a home of­fice with a bunch of servers and net­work hard­ware. In or­der to pro­tect my­self against oc­ca­sion­al prob­lems with the pow­er grid, I had two Eaton UPS units, but a firmware up­grade bricked both of them, so I had to buy an­oth­er one. I…
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• Fixing RTSP in a Vivotek camera I own a Viv­otek cam­era. It ap­pears that I haven't been to se­ri­ous up­dat­ing the firmware—but nei­ther is the man­u­fac­tur­er—since the cam­era was bought in 2015, but didn't have the lat­est firmware re­leased in... 2014. Al­though the de­scrip­tion of the…
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• Silencing PWS-741P-1R power supply I have a bunch of Su­per­Mi­cro 2U chas­sis 825TQ that I use for the tasks which don't re­quire a lot of CPU pow­er. The orig­i­nal chas­sis makes a lot of noise. When I say a lot, I mean it. You can't pos­si­bly stay in the room when this thing is on. I…
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• Beyerdynamic T51p repair I own a Bey­er­dy­nam­ic T51p head­phones. I bought them in 2017, and a few months af­ter its war­ran­ty ex­pired, it start­ed to ex­pe­ri­ence a com­mon prob­lem for this mod­el: the right dri­ver would work only when the wire was put in a spe­cif­ic po­si­tion. A few…
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• Nvidia control panel not showing Nvidia con­trol pan­el is soft­ware that al­lows users to ad­just the dri­ver set­tings. It be­comes manda­to­ry for the user to ac­cess this con­trol pan­el through which they can change the set­tings of the graph­ics dri­ver. Un­for­tu­nate­ly, there are in­stances…
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• Poor man’s temperature monitoring for data closets A few months ago, I ex­plained how I re­placed the fans in a serv­er pow­er sup­ply unit, in or­der to re­duce the noise made by the serv­er. Sim­i­lar­ly, in an­oth­er ar­ti­cle, I de­scribed how to si­lence an UPS.…
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