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My Raspberry Pi needs a Swap

About Swap: Linux divides its physical RAM (random access memory) into chucks of memory called pages. Swapping is the process whereby a page of memory is copied to the preconfigured space on the hard disk, called swap space, to free up that page of memory. The combined sizes of the physical memory and the swap space […]

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Hardware Technical

Task Manager Info

If you have taken a look at Windows Task Manager, and wondered what does all this mean. This brief guide should help you understand what these values represent. The performance information is broken down into four categories: CPU, Physical Memory, Kernel Memory, and System CPU: CPU (Central Processing Unit) usage represents the percentage of CPU capacity currently being used by […]

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Hardware How-To Technical

How to find your IMEI Number – Galaxy S2 II

This is very simple to do. Go to dial pad and press the following as if you were placing a phone call: Type the following:  *#06# The phones IMEI number will show in a box on the screen. You could also go into settings > about phone > status, then scroll down until you find it. […]

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Hardware Personal

Samsung Galaxy S – “Skype has stopped working.”

Day 1 on the Galaxy Android and I download Skype and cannot sign in.  I am greeted with the non-informational message of “Skype has stopped working” and I have two options, Exit Skype or Sign in. Wait… Sing in?  That’s thing that doesn’t even work.  For testing purposes I attempt to create an account – […]

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Hardware News

RadioShack

… Not so long ago (Back in the day).  There was a place named RadioShack  and it was the first place many of us looked for parts.  The parts to fix that which was broken.  Today the Shack isn’t what it once was and now  RadioShack is now looking for input from us to help […]

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Hardware How-To Software Technical

ESXi 4 on USB Thumb Drive

I have no doubts there are many people writing about this; so add me to the list.  I wanted to setup my small ESXi 4 Server to boot from USB media so that I no longer needed to have a local drive in the machine I use as a server. Using VMware Player and a […]