Ubuntu 16.04 VM Guest - Boot on TTY
On my VM guest Ubuntu 16.04 (host Win10), X server seems to fail start. The tricky thing is that installation + 1st reboot are OK, it's only on the next ones that I always fallback on TTY and console prompt. Furthermore, while arriving to login prompt, screen seems to flicker. startx command fails w...
Outlook 2013 Appointment through Visual Basic Excell; I want to have an appointment that my calendar says busy and others say free
I'm creating an excel document with a number of different required settings to make the process of logging vacations and business trips in my companies division easier than the current system. Currently I'm stuck on one small part of the assignment and would like some advice. I am creating an email ...
CREATE a VPN Connection on Windows Command Line
I need to be able to CREATE a new VPN co ection through the command line. I have seen things like rasdial but they are all for co ecting to an existing VPN, not creating one, then joining it. The only way I know, is in the Create a VPN co ection GUI. If anyone knows a way to do this out of the Windo...
Why did iOS have an encrypted kernel?
It was recently reported that the upcoming version of iOS has stopped storing the ke el encrypted on the device storage. The piece suggests that this might be a mistake, because it weakens the operating system against reverse engineering or something. Apple later confirmed that it was no mistake, si...
How to "forget" network wifi configuration in windows 10
In previos Windows versions I can to "click" forget the network configuration for a given wifi name. I could'n do it in Windows 10. I try to "right click" in the network name but nothing apears. With a "left click" I see the disconect button, but lack of "forget" button. I'm looking in "settings" Ne...
Excel Graph Display Data
I have been attempting to create a line chart where my month data is on the left and my name is on the bottom, and for the graph data labels are added to show the count for the past 90 minutes and I can NOT get it right! Can someone show me how to achieve this result before I go completely bald by r...
2 HDDs a constantly going out of sync in "safe" (RAID-1) mode
I have rather old LaCie 2Big model. I purchased it approximately 3 - 4 years ago equipped with 2 1 TB HDDs. Recently one of them got out of order and I decided to install 2 2 TB HDDs. Now I run into many strange problems. One of them is that now the firewire co ection (which I normally used) gives m...
USB Flash Drive Not Accessible
I have a USB flash drive that has worked up until yesterday. I think I may have forgot to safely eject the USB drive under Windows 7 since that was the last time I remember it working. On my Ubuntu machine, I can see the drive show up in the Disks GUI utility, but there is not meta-data associated w...
Laptop water damage?
So, water got spilled on my laptop, It was not co ected to power when it happened, but I didnt know that water was spilled on it so I tu ed it on and it went into system repair mode.. I realised that water got into my laptop, so I tu ed it off, and let it dry, without using it for 2 days. And now, w...
Updating link paths with Word VBA
I have the following links to Excel in a word document: [URL=http://s12.photobucket.com/user/hypersonik/media/links_zpsy9hghggl.png.html][IMG]http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a212/hypersonik/links_zpsy9hghggl.png[/IMG][/URL] The issue is that when changes are made the document version on both the e...
Why can I boot from a USB device without "making it bootable"?
It seems like you can boot from a USB device without a bootloader to me. Even my 6 years old computers that still have a BIOS. From what I read the BIOS simply looks for an mbr, loads it and executes it. But I have never knowingly written an mbr to any of my USB devices. So how is it that I can stil...
Windows 10 Upgrade for many PCs
I am supposed to upgrade about 70 PCs from Windows 7 to Windows 10 (via the free method of Windows Update). The thing is, that the inte et is slow, and when I am trying to download about 3 Windows 10s at the same time it is very slow, I mean like really slow (a few % of progress every hour). My ques...