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Sometimes the liquid contact indicators are placed in such a way that they can be inspected from the outside. For instance there is an LCI in the SIM-card slot of Apple iPhones and in the dock connectors and headphone jacks of iPods made since 2006. [1] In a Samsung Galaxy smartphone there is a LCI underneath the battery cover near the battery ...
In servers, height for expansion cards is limited by rack units. A unit (U) is the traditional measurement used for server height. One server unit is equal to 1.75", 2U servers are 3.5", and so forth. Traditional 1U riser cards each fit 1 PCI slot, and 2U riser cards can fit 2 or 3 PCI slots, depending on whether they obstruct access to any PCI ...
Accessing the test jack disconnects the customer premises wiring from the public switched telephone network and allows the customer to plug a "known good" telephone into the jack to isolate trouble. If the telephone works at the test jack, the problem is the customer's wiring, and the customer is responsible for repair.
A level control valve or altitude control valve is a type of valve that automatically responds to changes in the height of a liquid in some storage system. A common example is the set of ballcocks in a flush toilet, where each stage of the flush cycle is actuated by the emptying or filling of the tank.
Typical uses of sound cards or sound card functionality include providing the audio component for multimedia applications such as music composition, editing video or audio, presentation, education and entertainment (games) and video projection. Sound cards are also used for computer-based communication such as voice over IP and teleconferencing.
POST cards for PCs, while originally high-priced, cost from just a few US dollars upwards in the 21st century. Some motherboards have a built-in display to diagnose hardware problems. Most also report POST errors with audible beeps, if a PC speaker is attached. Such motherboards make POST cards less necessary.
Wear leveling algorithms distribute writes more evenly across the entire device, so no block is used more often than others. The term preemptive wear leveling (PWL) has been used by Western Digital to describe their preservation technique used on hard disk drives (HDDs) designed for storing audio and video data. [2]
The word mezzanine, derived from the Italian mezzanino and also commonly used to refer to a platform inserted between two floors of a building, describes the way in which a PMC fits between two adjacent host cards in a standard card rack, attached to one of the cards by connectors and mounting pillars. A single PMC measures 74 mm x 149 mm.