Computer Hardware

Master the technical and soft skills you need to succeed as an IT Help Desk expert — complete with lessons, practice, and real examples.

You have used a cross-compiler. But have you ever built one? This book takes you from first principles to a production-matched, containerised GCC and Clang toolchain — the hands-on deep-dive that the embedded Linux world has been missing.

The history of M.2 SSDs traces back to the need for faster, smaller, and more efficient storage in modern computing. Originally known as the Next Generation Form Factor (NGFF), M.2 was introduced around 2012 by the SATA-IO and PCI-SIG groups to replace older interfaces like mSATA and mini-PCIe.

A 1986 text adventure game written inside the Cray I/O Subsystem turns out to be architecturally isomorphic to modern transformer design. This capstone volume uses the playable game and its assembly language source as a case study in constraint-based design, including the bare metal thinking we stopped teaching around 1995.

Stop renting visibility. Start owning the infrastructure. Learn the protocol that delivered 548k hits and 95% Edge efficiency on a 20-year-old "rottame".

Secure boot is what separates a trusted device from a compromised one — but the chain of trust from hardware fuses to a verified OS is rarely explained clearly. This illustrated guide walks you through every layer: root of trust, key provisioning, bootloader handoffs, certificate chains, and real-world attack vectors. 8 chapters, all visual, zero fluff.

If a humanoid robot carries about $28,000 a year in fixed cost, then at $60 contribution per billable hour it breaks even at roughly 467 billable hours per year, or just under 9 hours per week. But if supervision is heavier and contribution drops to $28 per hour, break-even jumps to 1,000 hours per year, or about 19.2 hours per week.

I am a programmer who knows clever tricksI convert integers to bases two to thirty sixBy using character arrays as stringsI can show you amazing math things While others talk about politics and sportsI read about computers of all sortsProgramming languages are all the sameWhen you see arithmetic as a game I don’t write code for a job to be paidBut to understand the video games I playedTo see what works and find out whyTo create, use, study, share, and modify

Ветеран Cray Research (Крей Рисёрч) рассказывает, как первопроходцы справлялись с подавляющей сложностью: распознавание закономерностей, предвосхитившее Мидуэй, системное мышление, изобретшее память на магнитных сердечниках. Опыт из одной области, применённый по-новому, сформировал суперкомпьютерную отрасль.

No es un libro sobre productos. Tampoco es un manual técnico.Es una historia sobre cómo la infraestructura llegó hasta acá.Sobre decisiones inevitables, modelos que dejaron de escalar y plataformas que surgieron cuando la complejidad ya no podía sostenerse. Sobre virtualización, cloud, negocio y personas. Sobre aciertos, errores y aprendizajes que marcaron una era.Este primer volumen no intenta explicar VMware Cloud Foundation. Intenta explicar por qué era inevitable que existiera.Porque antes de discutir arquitectura, conviene entender el camino.

This reference volume consists of revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized articles from the Software Diagnostics and Observability Institute and the Software Diagnostics Library (former Crash Dump Analysis blog) about software diagnostics, root cause analysis, debugging, crash and hang dump analysis, and software trace and log analysis written from 15 April 2024 to 14 November 2025.

This is a work of fiction that attempts to document what might happen if a fictional Wisc senior citizen named Lefty Insider attempts to seek justice against exploitation from a fictional monopolistic corporation, (identified as Charpectrum), through the Federal and State Consumer Protection systems.This fictional tale seeks to imagine what a realistic experience would be like if a well-informed, educated and technically competent persistently stubborn consumer, of German ancestry, sought the protection of government agencies against the financial and marketing exploitation from a rapacious and malevolent incumbent monopoly Internet service provider corporation.This is also a story about elected idiots, liars, fools, incompetents, bureaucrats, and of course is but a fictional story about imagined government run Consumer Protection systems.

Even if you're a total newbie to the world of GPUs, this book will take you from the basics of CPUs to the current world of GPU programming. All you need is some Python experience and a willingness to explore and try the techniques it offers.This book will walk you through the basics of GPU architectures, show you hands-on parallel programming techniques, and give you the know-how to confidently speed up real workloads in data processing, analytics, and engineering.

Build your own IoT projects including, environmental monitors that alert in real time, QR-code generators on tiny screens, ethical jamming demonstrations for protocol study, and alarm clocks that buzz and send notifications at the right moment.