External HDD formatted to ZFS, another external HDD as (offline) backup. How do I protect my data against silent corruption?
I am an amateur photographer using a base model MacBook Air (128 GB SSD) with a macOS/Ubuntu 16.04 dual boot. Because the SSD is too small to store my photo library on, I used to store it on a 500 GB 2,5" exte al HDD that I previously used as a backup drive. Obviously I no longer had a backup of my ...
Does Facebook for windows 10 broken?
Does Facebook for windows 10 broken? I tried to ask many people, until now I got no clear answer, I'm just upgrade from windows 7 pro to 10 pro. And I want to tried facebook, but it's not working, just open facebook apps for windows and then closed. I just wanted to know, is ther any people have som...
How to configure NixOS with nvidia on an Optimus laptop?
I have an Acer Aspire E15 laptop model E5-57G-38HC with integrated intel graphics card and a nvidia GeForce 840M card. I enabled bumblebee in my configuration.nix but only the intel card is working and when i look at the list of modules, the nvidia module is missing. When installing bumblebee i noti...
Ubuntu not recognizing external hard drive
I have 2TB Wester Digital exte al hard drive. I co ected it to USB 3.0 port on my laptop with Ubuntu 14.04 (64 bit) installed. It was working fine till yesterday (Haven't tried on any other OS). While moving some files, It freezed my OS and I have to hard reboot my laptop. Since then, nautilus is no...
Skype login page
Recently, the Skype login page in the Windows client looks different from usual. In particular, the background has been changed from blue to white. Should I be conce ed? I checked the certificates of the TLS session with the Skype server using Wireshark, but I'm still not convinced that they would j...
Share Tethered connection to other devices
What I want to do is the following: Tether my android device's inte et co ection to a Raspberry Pi (USB cable). Then via ethe et cable co ect the Raspberry to a router. Other devices are then co ected to the router for inte et co ection. How do I do this? Let's block ads! (Why?)
What is the RPM equivalent for a SSD drive performance?
I've been reading about hard disk drives performance and I've noticed that a lot of users agree that from the day-to-day point of view there isn't a huge difference in using SATA 3G or Sata 6G as long as you're using a regular spi ing-mechanism HDD (link to forum). Yet most of them agreed that a may...
Lighttpd Proxy to Service on Another Port
I have an issue, which I hope is common enough to be resolved quickly. Specifically, I have a server on which I wish to host several web-applications at the same time for my own personal use. I would like it to be well-organized however. My current approach is to install/setup each of the web apps w...
amazon windows server 2012 users
i have started a new team based working enviroment, we needed, few vps (windows) so our workers can login and work on them, but since im adding more people into the teams, i need bigger workplace, if any one can guide me, i want to have users on windows server 2012 each user will remote desktop logi...
Connection failed when I try to update my cell phone firmware
I have Android cell phone (Lenovo A7000 Plus) and I get inte et from my router through Wifi, all the applications and Google play work normally but when I try to check for firmware update I get co ection error message I tried my cell phone on other routers and the update check work normal so I think...
Blocking stackexchange
I want to block every website on the stackexchange network (as I often tend to waste a lot of time on those). How can I do it? One solution is to obviously write all the sites' entries manually in the hosts file, but is there a better solution? Note that just blocking on the regex *.stackexchange.co...
Connection failed when I try to update my cell phone firmware
I have Android cell phone (Lenovo A7000 Plus) and I get inte et from my router through Wifi, all the applications and Google play work normally but when I try to check for firmware update I get co ection error message I tried my cell phone on other routers and the update check work normal so I think...