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Many of you might know that it is possible to add a spacer to the Mac OS dock icons with: $ defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{"tile-type"="spacer-tile";}' $ killall Dock but the problem is, I find them a bit wide. I'm wondering if anyone knows a way to adjust the space of those spacers An image of the spacers I'm talking about can be found here Let's block ads! بخوانید...

I have been trying to install the Nvidia drivers on the latest version of Debian, but all I have been getting is a black screen. When I hit ctrl alt f2, I can get to a terminal, but I am not sure where to go from here. When I try to reinstall the drivers, the terminal basically says that these 3 packages encountered errors while processing: libgl1-nvidia-glx:amd64 Nvidia-driver Xserver-xorg-vidia-nvidia So clearly this is my issue, I just do not know how to fix it. My graphics card is a gtx 970 and I DID NOT use the driver installers from the nvidia website, I got them from the non-free Debian repositories. Any help would be appreciated! Let's block ads! بخوانید...

I have a pair of earbuds with a microphone that I would like to record with instead of the terrible inbuilt one. Unfortunately, when I plug it in it still uses the inbuilt one. The icon next to the jack indicates that it is speaker and microphone, and the end of my audio jack does have four rings. The microphone works fine on my Android phone, so I know it isn't the earbuds' fault. I remember when I first plugged them, there was a dialogue menu that asked what I wanted to coect it as, and I selected sound and tried to select microphone, but it only let me use one so I selected sound and told it not to ask again. How can I get the microphone to work on those earbuds? Getting sound and mic to ...

Info: I'm using acer aspire 5733 (windows 8). I recently bought a new battery online that has a capacity of 112 Wh (which is double the original 48 Wh AS10D31 battery that the laptop came with). It came with the same voltage as the original one which is 10.8 V. Charger supplies 19 V 3.42 A 65W. Problem: I caot charge the new battery past 43% even after two days of charging. I tried to calibrate the battery by draining it all the way and uninstalling Microsoft ACPI compliant control but all attempts were to no avail. Any suggestions/advice. Thanks! Let's block ads! بخوانید...

So as the title says, I bricked my laptop. I'm not that good at explaining but let me try. I reformatted my laptop and installed the drivers given by the acer support, driver and manual site. and noticed my speakers aren't working. I opened my laptop to check if the speakers are still okay or the pins might have been discoected. So it was still okay, after a couple of minutes searching, I found out I needed to update my BIOS. and so I did (yes I checked the version first). everything was doing well as plaed except for some reason there was an error on memory block 0xFFFFF100. it didn't give me any more details except Error on Memory Block 0xFFFFF100 and decided to shut it self down. I re sta...

I have Aspire E5-571G-55ST laptop and tools like CPU-Z and Speccy show that I have 2/4 slots used... Even Windows Task Manager shows that I'm only using 2/4 slots... But when I opened up the laptop to put in 2 RAM's in the 2 leftover slots, I found out that the motherboard has only 2 physical slots, or I'm not seeing good??? The motherboard is: Acer EA50_HB Chipset is: Intel Haswell-ULT rev. 0B South bridge: H8x/P8x rev. C1 Bios: Insyde corp. v 1.32 Can someone help me out to figure this out? Does it have 2 or 4 slots? Edit: Here are the pictures: If you guys would agree, I think tools like Speccy & CPU-Z can indeed make a mistake... But it shows I have 4 slots on Windows's task manage...

When iPhone is plugged in computer ruing Windows 10 it starts installing drivers. Windows doesn't show UAC screen, or user permission to install drivers. Sure, it is convenient, but what is the security model here? Does it mean that any usb stick can silently gain permission for arbitrary code execution? Or this usb stick would needs a signed certificate to do so? Let's block ads! بخوانید...

I am trying to dual boot windows and linux by putting my second ssd in this optical drive caddy. However, the caddy is not recognized by the BIOS. As far as I can tell from this site, I am ruing the latest version for my model (v1.21). When I tu on the computer, the blue light on the caddy lights up so I am assuming there is at least getting stata power if not data. Did I get a bricked caddy? Unfortunately I do not have another laptop to test it in. The ssd works perfectly if I put it directly in the hard drive slot. Any suggestions? Let's block ads! بخوانید...

I want to buy a new SSD to clean install Windows 10 from a USB drive I created via the app on Windows' website. However, someone has waed me that my computer might not have the Windows 10 drivers. How would I check this? my laptop is a Samsung Series 7 Chronos (NP700Z5C-S02UB) Let's block ads! بخوانید...

I recently bought a Zenbook UX305UA and the standard smart gesture driver offers almost no options for costumization. I have tried to install some Synaptics and ELAN drivers but i can't seem to get any to them to work. Does anyone know of a touchpad driver that offers more options for costumization and is compatible with the Asus Zenbook? Let's block ads! بخوانید...

For the love of all all that is holy, remove that program immediately. Most of these driver programs/websites are complete scams. Even the ones that arent are just plain bad. It would appear Driver Reviver is "legitamate" but is know for installing older and the wrong drivers. For the average user, there is no need to use any driver other than what Windows gives you. If you really want to look for a newer driver, go to the manufacturer's website. There you will find compatible drivers for your hardware, not some best guess from a piece of software. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

I would like the fans to automatically adjust speed based on appropriate inteal temperatures. I have a dual-boot with Windows 10 and it works as expected under Windows. However, when I log in to Ubuntu, the fans are quiet for about 30 seconds and then spin up to what I'm guessing is about 70-80%. I took the following steps: sensors-detect service kmod start sensors pwmconfig The output of each of these commands can be found in this pastebin. I don't know much about hardware/drivers/modules, so I'm a little out of my element. pwmconfig obviously isn't finding the fan(s), but I don't know why or what driver/module to look for to get it to work. Any help is greatly appreciated. Let's block ad...

I am ruing Linux Mint on an Acer Aspire E 5 574G. The problem I am facing is, I have to press and hold the power button for a bit to trigger the lock screen or suspend or whatever option I have set in the power management section. But if I hold it for even half a second longer, the machine powers down. Is there a way to make it respond to a tap of the power button and not a hold down? When I tried to test detecting the power button tap with xev, it couldn't. Holding it did detect the stroke though. The following is the system details: thekindlyone@deepthought ~ $ inxi -F System: Host: deepthought Keel: 4.4.0-28-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Ciamon 3.0.6 Distro: Linux Mint ...

As we all know that BIOS is important part for accessing boot option. So now UEFI will do that? How? BIOS boots by reading the first sector on a hard disk and executing it; this boot sector in tu locates and runs additional code. The BIOS system is very limiting because of space constraints and because BIOS runs 16-bit code, whereas mode computers use 32-bit or 64-bit CPUs. By contrast, EFI (or UEFI, which is just EFI 2.x) boots by loading EFI program files (with .efi filename extensions) from a partition on the hard disk, known as the EFI System Partition (ESP). These EFI boot loader programs can take advantage of EFI boot services for things like reading files from the hard disk. As a pr...