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Whether you're a first-time computer builder or a seasoned pro, deviantART user Sonic480's computer hardware poster, which helps you identify countless different types of hard drives, RAM, ports, CPU sockets, power connectors, and more, is a great reference

Technibble, the Australian site for aspiring computer techies, recently released the second version of its popular Computer Repair Utility Kit, a collection of 57 hand picked tools to ...

Part of a computer's boot process is the Power On Self Test (POST) that tests the hardware of the computer. POST communicates successful or failed tests with beep codes. These BIOS beep codes provide the user with information about the system's state and aid in the troubleshooting process in case one of the boot tests failed.

Project being run out of Stanford University: NetFPGA, a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) geared toward network device development. As in, building your own hardware IP router and/or Ethernet switch. It's essentially a mini-computer with four GigE interfaces that can be installed as a PCI card.

The Open Source Digital Forensics site is a reference for the use of open source software in digital investigations (a.k.a. digital forensics, computer forensics, incident response). Open source tools may have a legal benefit over closed source tools because they have a documented procedure and allow the investigator to verify that a tool does what it claims.

Setting up a network, wired or wireless, isn't an easy task - it's far from it. Most of the time, this involves fooling around out of your domain and ending up