A Better Use For The AGP Slot, Decades Later

For a while around a quarter century ago PC motherboards came with a special slot, a little shorter than the PCI slots which ruled the roost back then, and offset from them further into the case. T…

How Intel Gave Us The PCI Bus While Burying VESA’s VL-Bus

The early days of home computing were quite a jungle of different standards and convoluted solutions to make one piece of hardware work on as many different platforms as possible. IBM’s PC wa…

Cheap Hack Gets PCI-X Card Working In PCI Slot

PCI and PCI-X are not directly compatible, and you’d be forgiven for thinking that means you’re out of luck if you need to use a PCI-X card in a machine that only has basic PCI slots. A…

Running A Modern Graphics Card In A 33 MHz PCI Slot

If you ever looked at a PCI to PCIe x16 adapter and wondered what’d happen if you were to stick a modern PCIe GPU in it, the answer apparently is ‘it works’ according to an attemp…

A Dedicated GPU For Your Favorite SBC

The Raspberry Pi is famous for its low cost, versatile and open Linux environment, and plentiful I/O, making it a perfect device not only for its originally-intended educational purposes but for ba…

Use sysfs to restart failed PCI devices (WiFi cards, sound cards, etc.) - Fedora Magazine

If you have a buggy WiFi card or sound card, use this neat trick to restart your PCI devices without having to restart your PC!

Server Network Cards Made Extra Cool

Using cheap and powerful server expansion cards in your desktop builds is a tempting option for many hackers. Of course, they don’t always fit mechanically or work perfectly; for instance, so…

How Gramsci Went Global

50 years ago, the publication of an English translation of 'Selections from the Prison Notebooks' catapulted Antonio Gramsci onto the world stage – and gave Marxism its most influential post-war intellectual.