CAT5 or Category 5 is a copper cable used in computer networks and cable TV. It is popularly used in Computer Network start Ethernet which is very popular in LAN computer networks. Cable standards like CAT5 are defined by the Electronic Industries Association and Telecommunications Industry Association simple EIA\TIA. The naming of the CAT5 comes from Category 5 because it is the 5th generation cable standard which is superior to...
KillDisk is a software used to erase and wipe disk securely and completely on operating systems like Windows, MacOSX, Linux. KillDisk can be used from inside the operating system or by booting the KillDisk without an operating system. It is also called as Hard Drive Eraser by its developer. KillDisk Features KillDisk provides a lot of different features for different versions. Paid versions have business or enterprise level features like...
The server is a computers type which consists of purposeful hardware and software used to provide different services to the clients. Servers generally use different and special applications to provide services. A server can contain a single service or multiple services to serve. Types Of Servers There is a different type of servers. We can create a very long list which contains different types of servers but in this part,...
The motherboard is the main component of a PC, Server, Laptop, Tablet which is used to connect different devices, components and peripherals to the system. It holds many of the crucial components of the system like CPU (Central Processor Unit), RAM (Memory), HDD (Hard Disk Drive), NIC (Network Interface Card), Graphical Processing Unit (GPU). Form Factor Mainboards have different size and structures designed for different type of devices like mobile,...
A Flash Drive is a small device which provides portable storage for IT systems. Flash drives are very practical to connect into a computer or a laptop because mainly they are using the USB port. Flash drives become very popular in the last 15 years. Flash drives also named as thumb drives because of its size and shape which is similar to the human thumb. Flash drives provide easier usage...
Hard Disk Drive is computer hardware used to store different type of data like a file, folder, image, video, office documents permanently in a computer. Hard Disk Drive may have different names like Drive, Hard Drive, HDD, Disk etc. In computer terminology, Hard Disk Drive is named as secondary storage. Types Of Hard Disk Drives Mainly there two types of Hard Disk Drives according to their internal design and price/performance....
Linux provides lspci command in order to list PCI bus and devices information. This command will provide brief or detailed information about currently connected PCI devices like GPU, USB Card etc. Install For Ubuntu, Debian, Kali, Mint We can install lspci tool with the following command to the deb based distributions.
1 | $ sudo apt install pciutils |
Install For Fedora, CentOS, Fedora In yum or dnf based distributions we can use the following command which...
Windows Operating systems starting from Windows XP provides System Information Panel. System Information Panel provides detailed information about the computer hardware, software and operating system. Open System Information Panel From Start Menu System Information Panel can be opened in different ways. The most basic and fast way is starting it from Start Menu . After opening Start Menu we can type System Information which will list System Information icon. Then...
Disk and Data Availability is important for systems administrators. There are different ways to implement. RAID or Redundant Array Of Independent Disks is one of the most popular one. RAID 6 is complex disk architecture which is used to protect against two disk failure. We have all ready examined RAID types in this following tutorial. How Raid Disk Configuration Works and Information About Raid 0 , Raid 1 , Raid...
dmesg is used to print and control kernel ring buffer. This explanation may be confusing for the most of the readers. Here simplified explanation. dmesg provides logs for troubleshoot, diagnose or save which is created by Linux kernel. It provides low level messages which is not logged by other subsystems. Provided Information Type dmesg command and buffer provides a lot of different type of messages and logs. Here the list...
