Desktop Environment is for the human user of the computer to perform work on an Operating System. Desktop Environment can be Graphical or Command Line Based. Although, sometimes Desktop Environment wrongly used to indicate a GUI based environment those comes with some name like Aero for Windows OS, Aqua of Mac OS X, Unity of Ubuntu, these are based on Shell and the Criteria for the architecture … [Read more...]
Hardware
Detailed article on computer hardware parts like RAM, Motherboard, Processor, Graphics card. Hardware also covers topics on hardware of Server, Single Board Computers like Raspberry Pi to Libre Hardware Projects.
Computer Appliance : What are Computer appliances ?
Computer Appliance is an approach to design and program a combined system of computer hardware and hardware optimized software to run on for optimal performance. The word Appliance is denoted to highlight the form factor and usage factor - like home appliance, Computer Appliance is designed as a prototype idea of converged infrastructure. What makes a Computer Appliance In case of … [Read more...]
Car Cigarette Lighter Socket and Cigarette Lighter Receptacle
Car Cigarette Lighter Socket is a socket and designed to work as coil lighter. Now the wide usage of Car Cigarette Lighter Socket is to use it as a power port. Car Cigarette Lighter Socket has a standard (SAE J563) which specifies the polarity and determine the exact dimensions. That results in universal sized Car Cigarette Lighter Socket, regardless of manufacturer. Before USB ports were … [Read more...]
OpenVMS or Open Virtual Memory System : The High End Server OS
OpenVMS or Open Virtual Memory System is a high end 32 and 64 bit server operating system that has a graphical user interface (GUI) with complete graphics support. It is maintained by Hewlett Packard and the Source Code of this Server OS is available for purchase - this is the reason for the "Open" naming. OpenVMS is an example of paid software, not Open Source Software rather OpenVMS is … [Read more...]
In-circuit emulator (ICE) : Brief Details
In-circuit emulator or ICE is a tool for the software for an embedded system. The term is a misnomer, the softwares used for embedded system are analyzers. So, In-circuit emulator (ICE) is very closely related to our specific article on embedded system. Brief details of in-circuit emulator (ICE) For the realization of the in-circuit emulator, there are several ways of … [Read more...]
Kernel Panic : What is Kernel Panic and What are Trigger Factors
Kernel Panic is an output error message without graphical interface when an UNIX or UNIX Like Operating System like Mac OS X is halted in an undefined state. The term Kernel Panic is mainly used in the context of the UNIX Like Operating Systems and is name based on the name subroutine panic() function. Possible causes of a kernel panic can be a hardware failure, faulty memory accesses or a … [Read more...]
Data Logger : What is a Data Logger and How Data Logger Works
Data logger is a microprocessor controlled storage unit, which receives data in a certain rhythm of an interface and records it on a storage medium. If the information is however only available in non-electrical form, then the data logger from a special sensor combined with hardware to capture the physical measurement of data over a certain period of time, examples of such form of data logger can … [Read more...]
Geolocation Basics
Geolocation is the geographical origin identification of a person or object. IP addresses are frequently used in Analytics as a metric for Geolocation. As because most users uses a dynamic IP, proxy servers and NATs, the are clearly not ideal to be assigned to identify an use, but still it is the widely accepted way. Geolocation in this article is mainly elaborated for the usage of visitor … [Read more...]
Server OS and Desktop OS : Prominent Differences
Server OS and Desktop OS has differences. The same Operating System like Ubuntu is different on Server and on Desktop. Lets see Server OS and Desktop OS closely. This is itself not only a question, but also an answer to another question. If you read any of our guide where we have installed an OS on a Server, like Installing OpenPanel on Rackspace Cloud Server, you might think why we are not using … [Read more...]
How to Build a Private Cloud
Building a Private Cloud infrastructure is not very easy for building a Company™s IT Infrastructure. To help the businesses, many brand and Open Source Projects offer additional information on various websites, tutorials and tools on how to How to Build a Private Cloud. As a continuation of previous article on Private Cloud Platform Selection, here is a dedicated article on How to Build a Private … [Read more...]
Perfect Data Center : Economical, Reliable and Flexible are the Keywords
Perfect Data Center is still among the list of requirements by many organizations and companies who need more privacy and secrecy of their data on own server. Previously we wrote the basics about a Data Center and some points how they are maintained like a dedicated work - Data Center Cooling and Server Cooling. With time, many things has been changed and a Perfect Data Center in 2012 is not the … [Read more...]