Hardware

What is a UPS?

Paul Salmon March 12, 2008 Hardware 1 Comment

I have discussed topics such as backing up your data and securing your computer to protect your personal information on your computer. The one topic I have not discussed is protecting your actual computer hardware. This is just as important…Continue Reading →

Connecting an Older Printer to USB in Windows XP

Paul Salmon March 7, 2008 Hardware, Windows 9 Comments

I recently published a post titled What is USB? where I briefly mentioned the problem of new computers only have USB ports. For many this may not seem like a problem, but for those that have devices that don’t use…Continue Reading →

What is USB?

Paul Salmon February 27, 2008 Hardware, Technology 3 Comments

Last year, someone I know updated his desktop PC. Once we begin to connect all the peripherals such as the keyboard and mouse we noticed something was missing: the serial ports. The only ports included in the desktop were USB…Continue Reading →

What is ATA?

Paul Salmon February 20, 2008 Hardware 1 Comment

I recently had to install a new hard drive in a computer that was about 2 years old. Before purchasing the new hard drive I needed to determine the interface the hard drive uses. There are currently two interfaces in…Continue Reading →

What is RAID?

Paul Salmon February 15, 2008 Hardware 5 Comments

Recently I noticed a 1TB (terabyte) external hard drive on sale, and thought it would be great for storing my digital photos and digital videos. A terabyte is 1000 gigabytes so it is quite large, at least by today’s standards….Continue Reading →

How to Reset the D-Link DI-524 Wireless Router

Paul Salmon February 1, 2008 Networking, Networks, Security 80 Comments

Some time ago I wrote a post titled Securing D-Link DI-524 Wireless Router. In that post I outlined the steps needed to secure that particular wireless router. More recently I wrote another post title How to Reset the Linksys WRT54G…Continue Reading →

How to Reset the Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G Router

Paul Salmon January 23, 2008 Networking 271 Comments

One of the most popular pages on Technically Easy is the post titled Securing Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G Router. In that post I outlined the steps needed to secure these particular wireless broadband routers to maintain your wireless network security. The…Continue Reading →

DNS Issue when Accessing a Web Page

Paul Salmon January 11, 2008 Networking 2 Comments

I recently experienced a problem that looked like a DNS error. The error appeared in the web browser after trying to load a Web page. I have never seen the error message before, but after reading the message it was…Continue Reading →