I turned a forgotten laptop into a full media server—no money, no pain.

Your faithful companion still has some life left in it ...

Self-hosting a few services on one’s own hardware is a great way to wrest some control over your online presence while ...

Most of us have dealt with hardware that stays in service well past its planned end-of-life date or that, for reasons of budget and bureaucracy, doesn’t even make it into service until well into its ...

There are few mid-to-large enterprises at this point that haven’t migrated at least some of their IT operations to the cloud. The cost-savings at scale are real, but shifting infrastructure outside of ...

Good afternoon, all. I consider myself "server dangerous", I know enough to make my simple server ideas reality, but not enough to know my way around truly enterprise level tech. After lamenting the ...

Take a tour inside of your desktop PC to learn how all the hardware in a traditional desktop PC connects to create a complete computer system like the one you may be using right now. Here are some ...

In a nutshell: Microsoft has partnered with computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Washington on an initiative designed to limit the environmental impact of hardware ...

Two key factors affect a processor’s efficiency: the cores & size of it and its clock frequency. To install Windows Server properly, your system has got to have at least a 1.4 GHz 64-bit processor ...