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34 votes

What is the little twist in this floppy ribbon cable for?

21 votes

What is the rationale behind safely removing USB media from windows PCs?

12 votes

How come one user can delete another user's 755 files?

11 votes

Why is the first BIOS instruction located at 0xFFFFFFF0 ("top" of RAM)?

8 votes

Where is the BIOS stored?

8 votes

Why can't we write over a CD/DVD after it's been burned/finalized?

6 votes

If DOS is single-tasking, how was multitasking possible in old version of Windows?

6 votes

What does opening a serial port do?

6 votes

Why so many modes are in CPU?

5 votes

Mean Time to Failure (MTTF): When disk manufacturers post this, how should you interpret their numbers?

5 votes

Why does just splitting an Ethernet cable not work?

5 votes

Why do operating systems have an option to shut down?

4 votes

Why do we have CPUs with all the cores at the same speeds and not combinations of different speeds?

4 votes

What sense does it make for "sharpness" to be adjustable on a monitor?

4 votes

Why are they putting "processors" on hard drives?

4 votes

Why does emptying disk space speed up computers?

3 votes

What is the maximum amount of ram a 64bit machine can theoretically address?

3 votes

Unplugging USB hard drive can damage computer? Seriously?

2 votes

TRIM for SSD -- Is is really that good?

2 votes

Does formatting really remove everything on a physical hard drive?

2 votes

Are modern drives able to be low-level reformatted by an end user or is this strictly a factory OEM process?

2 votes

Should the sticker on top of a HDD be peeled?

1 vote

4K sectors transition: Why are hard drives moving to 4096 byte sectors, vs. 512 byte sectors?

1 vote

Does wear leveling function normally without TRIM?

1 vote

How should I format/repair a write-protected laptop SSD with I/O errors?

1 vote

"Turn off router for 10 seconds" - Quantifiable?

1 vote

DIN 5 keyboard to USB?

1 vote

When a CPU sends an address to memory

0 votes

USB keyboard works in windows but not in games

0 votes

Problems with US International Keyboard Layout - dead keys