Very useful info-graphic showing the many sockets and connections on your computer and their names.

This infographic is a comprehensive guide to the many sockets and connections that modern computers use. There are CPU sockets pictured all the way from the oldest 8088 machines up to the Core 2 DUO and the Celeron M processors as well as various hard drive connectors. This is a good image to print out … Read more

Taking care of your computer, preventing overheating and keeping it clean.

The best tip to give a computer user is to clean the dust out of your computer regularly, if your computer is in a dusty environment, the fans that cool the CPU and GPU will gradually fill with dust until the efficiency of the heatsink and the fans is reduced. Switching off your computer and … Read more

Listing the free space on your Linux system. And other useful Linux shell commands.

Listing the free space on your Linux system. Using the df command to list this on the command-line. The df command for Linux will display a listing of your partitions and how much space is available. The -H parameter shows the outputs in human readable formats. ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Documents$ df -Hla Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted … Read more