I recently’ got a couple of second hand APC network management cards (一个 AP9617 和 AP9630). Both had static IPs set (即. they didn’t get an address from DHCP) so in order to access their web interface I needed to locate them.
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I recently’ got a couple of second hand APC network management cards (一个 AP9617 和 AP9630). Both had static IPs set (即. they didn’t get an address from DHCP) so in order to access their web interface I needed to locate them.
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我最近有一个新的 GPU 为了我的 HTPC which required a replacement power supply as the old one wasn’t suitable for powering a GPU 与 8 销 的PCIe 电力电缆. 该 HTPC is in use for an average of around 6 hours per day and with electricity at 15p/kWh any reduction in power at the wall works out at 33p a year per Watt. This isn’t a big saving, but if consumption is reduced by several watts the saving can add up.
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I have a couple of old USFF Dell Optiplex 760 电脑 that have a built-in Intel 82567LM‑3 gigabit ethernet connection. Getting this adapter to work with both Sleep (S3 Suspend to 内存) 和SAL (网络唤醒) 已被证明非常棘手. The PC originally came with Windows Vista and as a business class PC you’d expect these 2 features to work but it has always been a battle to get them working.
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I recently posted abiout my search for a new storage server case. My next search involves finding a suitable 电源供应器! It seems in recent years it has got much harder to find the type of hardware I like to use, probably because the fashion has been to go smaller and sleeker which is generally more possible in this era of improved performance-per-watt devices. However, if you have space and you want systems to be cool, 安静, and efficient then large is still the way to go.
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I have an original CoolerMaster Stacker case (STC-T01-UW) that I use for my server. 这是伟大的,因为它有 12 5.25″ external drive bays. Strictly speaking it has 11 可用作 1 of them is taken up by the power button and front-usb module, but this can be modified if necesary. This spectacular case is great for fitting lots of HDDs for a storage array. My system currently has 10 regular size HDDs and 2 SSDs in it which fit easily with plenty of cooling. As I want to build a second server to migrate the older drives into I am looking for another case with equally impressive capacity…
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With the news that WiFi will get a new version next year, 并且它会被称为无线网络 6, I thought I’d knock up a little guide to the previous versions of WiFi that we’ve had
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A couple of xmases ago I bought my better half an Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet as she wanted a budget tablet to read books on at night, 和玩免费的Android游戏,如部落冲突. 火似乎是一个理想的选择,因为它会链接到她的Kindle账号,没有任何麻烦, 并且还基于Android. It was also possible to get a good sized device within the price limit we set each other.
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In September 2013 I wrote an article about the apparent end of regular PC price drops. 仅仅过了一年后, I thought I’d return to see if things had improved.
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我的主要的基础 HTPC is an AMD E350 Brazos in the form of an Asus E35M1‑M Pro. I had quite a lot of problems with the system when I first built it, which were caused by issues with the Seagate Momentus XT storage drive I used. These were fixed a good while ago via firmware update from Seagate, and since then the system has largely worked without any issue.… 阅读全文
I regularly build 电脑 人, and have recently been looking at a high end spec for someone. I started, 因为我经常这样做, by looking at what I’d got for a high end system about a year ago, to see if it was worth moving up the the new generation, or if a substantial drop in the older spec made it tempting to repeat. In the past the year old system has always been substantially cheaper, so I was quite surprised to find that this time it wasn’t. … 阅读全文
“Hi James I realise it has been a long while, but I just checked this on windows 11 (build 23H2)…”