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Computer hardware is the collection of physical elements that comprise a computer system.

There are multiple, physical components that are required for a computer to function. This is collectively referred to as the "hardware". The most notable components inside of a computer system is the RAM, Hard Disk (or hard drive), CPU, and Power Supply.

Outside of the case, however, hardware exists as well. Some of these components include the keyboard, mouse, and monitor.

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Choosing hardware for Flash Media Server

Having read the answers in this discussion, I still would like to come up with the same question: What should I buy to run Flash Media Interactive Server 3.5? I just have slightly different boundary conditions. We plan to serve video to ca. 1,000…
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Hardware issue: UI freezes and hard drive light goes solid several times per hour

I have a workstation that has been acting up for the last few weeks. It currently has Windows Server 2008 R2 installed on it, and 2 HDD mirrored. A few times per hour the screen will freeze up, applications will say "not responding", sometimes the…
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How to know the number of CPUs and spec for each CPU/Core in Ubuntu Karmic?

How to know the number of CPUs and spec for each CPU/Core in Ubuntu Karmic?
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How to prevent Windows from safely removing hardware?

We have HP laptops with a Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet card. For some reason, it is possible to 'safely remove' the network card from Windows. Obviously this disconnects the machine from the network. Even worse, removing the network cable…
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Is it possible to dedicate the physical screen of a vmware server machine to a guest vm graphically?

I have a vmware server 2.x running on ubuntu server (8.04). So the graphics card and the screen of the physical box are unused (I log in remotely and the host os has only the cli console installed). I wonder if it is possible to assign this graphics…
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How can i easily gather hardware information for bug report submission?

I think I have found a bug in Ubuntu 10.04 beta, but since its a fairly vague problem of non booting after an install (Question Here) i wanted to know what information to gather? Summary of question: Install of 10.04 goes happily, but boots to a…
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Evaluate a vendor laptop before deployment to user?

I get numerous requests from executives and users for new smaller laptops for travel purposes. Most of my evaluation is based upon whether or not it can run certain applications. Mainly lotus notes, office, and video. Most of the laptops include…
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Web App Server hardware question. Which configuration?

I am pricing some new servers and I am not sure which configuration to get. The server will be running several web applications for our company. Some of them are ASP.Net sites and some are ColdFusion. The OS will be Win Server 2008 Web or Standard…
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What are the minimum specs for Ubuntu server to host a subversion repository?

I need to build an server (Ubuntu 9.10 server) to host source control (subversion) from my house. What are the minimum specs (processor and RAM) to do this with good performance? I'll need to buy some new parts from newegg and just need enough to…
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I am planning to build a small home sever, What would be best configuration?

My requirement is to build a custom server. On which I will install vmware esxi and then create 2 hardware level virtual machines one Windows server 2008 r2 and one ubuntu server. What do you think best configuration would be particular name and…
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Best hardware (MB/graphic) for Linux

I am planning to build a new computer on which I will run Ubuntu Linux. Now, which motherboard and which graphic card has the best support for Linux? I have a NVidia MB which you can get to work in Linux, after some work. And an ATI graphics card…
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restoring a failed SBS 2000 box

I read a post where you had mentioned you have had a PERC card blow up on you in an SBS box... I've got a similar situation where one of my RAID drives failed and then the power supply failed before I could replace the drive... I then replaced the…
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How to detect undetected hard drive volume in Windows Server 2003

I have a Dell PowerEdge 2650 and I'm running Windows Server 2003. Here is some back ground on the hardware of this Dell PE 2650. I have 4 (not 5) 17GB RAID drives and has set up two containers. In the first container (17GB) I have drive-0 and…
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CPU-Optimized or Memory-Optimized server do I need?

I have a crawler written in Go that I would like to move from my computer into a cloud server. Therefore I am searching for a cloud service and I see that most droplets, instances, etc... have memory and cpu optimized solutions. Which one do I need…
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Access wireguard using hardware Authentication like yubikey

At our company we use wireguard vpn to access our cluster. In our server, we install wireguard which will add a network interface that acts as a tunnel interface. The access with this tunnel will be encrypted via private/public keys association…
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