I was wondering if it’s possible to set up webcam to monitor my house while I’m out. What’s the best way to do this?
Tag: hardware
How can I host my server farm?
I’ve been playing with Virtual Machines for some time now, and after realising I can host a number a machines on one server I’ve come up with a plan to put all my company’s servers on one box. The tower I bought for my plan isn’t cutting it though, what do you recommend?
Why is my cursor jumping from one place to another?
My wife’s laptop has a strange problem. While typing in a Word document or an email the cursor seems to jump from away from where it’s suppose to be, which makes a major mess of the document. What can I do to avoid this?
Why is my UK keyboard showing wrong characters?
I have a desktop PC running Windows 7. With this, I use an old Samsung wireless keyboard. This has always performed faultlessly, but the supplied driver doesn’t seem to work with Windows 7. I recently tried to set up another user account for my wife, but although the keyboard is set to UK English, the… Continue reading Why is my UK keyboard showing wrong characters?
What’s that bulge on my USB cable?
I have USB cable that has a cylinder at the end. I’m wondering what it’s for and if my other USB cables should have one too?
My microphone doesn’t seem to work. How do I turn it on?
Recently I decided to speak to my son over Skype using my wife’s Windows 7 laptop computer, which has a built-in webcam and microphone. However it’s tells me a ‘sound-recording device can’t be found’ and to plug in a microphone. Surely I should be able to use the inbuilt microphone?
What’s the capacity of my USB memory key?
I have a USB memory key and it doesn’t say how big it is. Is there any way of finding out how much storage it has?
Can adding more memory to my computer speed it up?
My computer has been getting slower and slower. Will it go any faster if I add more memory?