Tag: hardware

  • Dell Warranty Info

    I hate navigating the Dell website. It’s inconsistent and messy and noisy, and all I generally want is a single date (when the warranty expires or expired on a given box). So I wrote this. It scrapes the Dell website, and returns the warranty info for the service tag it’s been passed. I’ve CGI’d it…

  • DDR RAM identification and naming conventions

    All (modern) PC memory is SDRAM (Synchronous Dynamic RAM). DRAM, the predecessor, responded to requests as soon as it could after the control voltages changed, SDRAM replies according to a clock cycle (which synchronises it with the system bus). Pretty much all modern PC memory is also DDR, Double Data Rate. With Single Data Rate…

  • Using Synergy to share a keyboard and mouse across PCs

    Synergy is a really neat way of using multiple computers at the same time, like a more convenient KVM switch (you do need to be physically close to all of them). It basically allows you to have a monitor for each PC on your desk, and one keyboard and mouse with which to monitor them.…