Forum: Hardware / Peripherals

Dear all, I discovered how to secure erase drives using hdparm which is incredibly useful. However, it appears that the commands dont work when the...

It's either a 750GB 7200RPM SATA hard drive, or a 256GB SSD. Which one should I use? Would the smaller SSD be worse than a larger regular hard...

Many years ago, Creative released an official GPL Linux driver for their X-Fi sound card lineup, which eventually made its way into the kernel. This...

Hi, I've got a question about power management event on different manufacturers of processors. I write a c++ program where I use TSC timer, but...

I'm trying to attach an external 3TB HDD via USB to a NAS running NSLU2 Linux, but the disk doesn't get recognized properly. The disk was formatted...

Hi, I'm looking for some kind of a small computer with low power usage that, when on the Internet, can save webpages. Then when away from a...

Hi There, I'm running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Release 5 (Tikanga) I have a suspected failing drive. The drive configuration is a...

Hi, I upgraded to squeeze last week, and finally rebooted yesterday. My sound is no longer working since the reboot: things like audacious2,...

Hello! The mac of my son is busted and so I got the HD to be able to make use of it. I can't seem to copy or delete files from it. I cannot...

Hello, I am working on a tablet that runs Linux, but due to its low level of ram(256 mb) I was wondering what type(if any) of lightweight Linux...

Hello, I have a driver which has the following format: "ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, ARM, version 1(SYSV), dynamically linked, not stripped" ...

I have BT running from HD on my Vaio, everything's perfect apart from synaptics touchpad. Im a networking student but went into Sec and Eth hacking...

Hello, Lubuntu will not recognize my microphone. I am trying to do some recording with Audacity. The mic worked fine with Windows XP. This mic is...

I have a netbook, intel atom, 2 GB ram, integrated graphics. I run Linux Mint LXDE. The problems are: I can't reboot, which I could with Ubuntu...

Hi everyone! I'm a linux newbie, I have a Toshiba a300-22z laptop and really want to migrate from windows, I have tried multiple distros (...

I've been meaning to buy a scanner, but I'm not sure which to buy. In my search, I found some full page handheld scanners . There aren't many...

Is anyone aware of a combo unit that will copy VHS protected tapes to DVD and DVR (cable box) to DVD ? I OWN many old tapes that I want to preserve...

Hello All, I've been reading these forums for a while now and found allready alot of usefull information on it. First time posting now :) I've...