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All three of my machines have the same public IP address. Can someone explain to me how this is possible? How is my internet working? This just doesn't make any sense to me. I must be missing something.

Sorry, the computer I'm building is different from the computer I plan on using. It's just a tiny little experiment. Anyways, I think I figured it out. The manufacturer puts a chipset on the motherboard that interfaces the front-side bus, which connects the CPU to the rest of the computer, with...

First of all, I'm running Linux. You can't just assume people use Windows. Second of all, I'm not talking about the OS specifically. My BIOS does a great job at telling what sort of hardware I have, and I'm sure it doesn't have every type of driver hard-coded into a tiny little ROM chip. Does...

I mean like when my system boots up, the BIOS detects my hardware, displays a menu on my screen, and asks me what media I want to boot from. How does it know I have a monitor and a keyboard and a hard drive?

I've never been able to figure out how operating systems detect the hardware they're hooked up to. Google searching has so far been futile. Does the OS send a signal through all the buses asking for identification? This is important since I'm building a computer from scratch.