experimental gismu

Hardware and Kicking Things

...or 'la .mak.gaivr.'

• computer - skami
  • hard disk - cukmakyvelvei

• • compact disk
    • compact disk drive

• • jump/thumb/pen drive
  • flash media

• • motherboard
  • video card

• • sound card
  • microphone - snaveitci (I absolutely -HATE- this lujvo. A microphone is not a recording utensil. What about live venues? At conferences? Telephones? Voice chat? It's a sound-to-voltage transducer, the exact opposite of a speaker, which has nothing to do with recording. -lindar)

• • central processing unit (cpu) -
  • heat sink

• • power supply
  • random access memory

• • read-only memory
  • magic smoke - makfa danmo

• • neckbeard -
  • compressed air -

• • keyboard
  • mouse

• • universal serial bus (USB)
  • firewire

• • DIN connector
  • Router - gidva tcana

• • Routing table - gidva tcana cartu
• Common Phrases

• • "Reboot the computer."
  • "Start up the computer."

• • "Shut down the computer."
  • "It's a software problem."

• • "It's a hardware problem."
  • "Plug in the..."