The advent of electromechanical controls in the 1970s, analog controls in the 1980s, direct digital control (DDC) in the 1990s, and complete building control integration in the 2000s has progressively ...

Be careful with single-phase motors, as most single-phase motors have components to help them start or continue to run ...

As noted in last month’s article, troubleshooting an air conditioning system often concerns refrigerant, airflow and mechanical problems, either individually or in combination. This installment in ...

The prtdiag command on Solaris systems is both a script and an executable. The script, /usr/sbin/prtdiag, does a little fact checking — such as whether your “uname -i” command yields a proper response ...

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If you have been using the Windows operating system for a while, you may have occasionally run into problems on your PC from time to time. Most of these problems ...