Replacing old, discontinued drivers
I have a laptop mounting an ATI HD 3000 series graphic cards, and the ATI Radeon website says that those drivers have been discontinued in 2013. The most recent upgrade of a game I'm ru ing wa s me about this and tells me that my drivers are outdated and that some graphics might not show. Their webs...
How to extend browser-based VPN to other applications?
If I Google for "what's my IP" before and after I enable a VPN add-on (Zen-Mate) on my browser (chrome), I get two different IP addresses. I'll call these two addresses my base IP and VPN IP addresses, respectively. When the VPN chrome add-on is enabled, the VPN IP address seems to work only for req...
Xming not working with Cygwin
I have two Windows 10 machines with Cygwin + Xming, one of them works fine, but I can't get the other one to work, if I try to start ddd for instance, I get: Error: Can't open display: If I manually set $DISPLAY it works, but X11 forwarding from remote hosts doesn't The second machine works flawless...
What is this cable? (DVI/VGA/USB)
I can't seem to find any information about this cable which can be seen all over eBay. Apparently it looks like a VGA to DVI cable, but I don't get why there also is a USB cable co ected to it. Can someone please explain what they are for? Here are some links of it:http://www.dhgate.com/product/30-5...
Tool for writing zeroes to HDD that ignores write errors
I have a HDD which I need to overwrite completely at least once (zeros or random i dont care). While there are a lot of free windows tools for that, the ones I tried stop or even crash when encountering write errors. The disk is quite large (6TB) and the errors appear in the second half, so it alway...
OpenVPN multiple IPv4
I have got OpenVPN ru ing & listening on all IPs on port 1194: # netstat -tunlp | grep 1194 udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:1194 0.0.0.0:* 1629/openvpn But I am only able to co ect on the first IPv4 & when I change "remote first.ip 1194" in client.ovpn to "remote second.ip 1194", it doesn't work & show the followin...
Cannot connect to internet in Kali Linux
I have installed Kali linux in dual boot with my windows. At the time of installation I received an error that says:- “DHCP failed to auto-configure”. So I selected to install it manually and move up with my installation ,& successfully installed the OS. Now, when I tried to co ect to inte et from m...
Laptop cant boot from ssd when hdd is connectd
I've just installed a new ssd on my laptop instead of the previous hdd.When only the ssd is co ected - everything works great (I've copied the os and data from the hdd to the sdd). But when I also co ect the hdd, the laptop doesn't succeed booting from the ssd. I can boot from ssd if it's the only d...
How to kill a daemon in Linux?
I have a possible theory for this. When you run the application as $ rake resque:work QUEUE='*' & [1] 13031 The application inte ally does a fork+exit, to run in background. C code equivalent of that would be: if(fork()) exit(0); So, the process with PID==13031 will spawn a child process & exit itse...
How to check if Windows 10 have latest updates? [duplicate]
Is there a way (preferably command line) to know what hot fixes are missing? I am looking for a solution that depends only native utility that is readily available on Windows (such as wmic) or Microsoft (such as Sysinte als) Assuming you don't mind downloading scripts from the Microsoft Technet Gall...
Batch to move files from root folder into sub-folders
I have a root folder: C:Usersuse ameDesktopNew folder which contains .mp3 files that are named like this: 20162406_3346_234958_97270791720411 20162305_3315_163017_97620734220699 I tried creating a batch that would sort them by the first 5-digits of the 4th series of numbers ( the 97270 or 97620 in t...
alias IP in the home LAN network
Is it possible to assign alias to router IP Address 192.168.1.1 to a readable string? Mybe something like this: 192.168.1.1 -> router.home There is no need for router.home to be reachable from the outside web, but only in the LAN. In fact, it shouldn't be reachable from outside web. I guess the goal...