Cannot Access External Hard Drive From Windows 8
So basically whenever I try to copy something into the hard drive, the "You need permission screen will pop up." I will click continue, and it will copy for a few seconds, then it will abort telling me that I need permission, now I can edit this hard drive on the mac partition without a problem and ...
Does a consumer Router have a Switch built into it?
I am lea ing about Networking, and based on what I have lea ed so far, this is how a LAN network is set up: So basically all of the computers and the Router are co ected to the Switch. If a computer wants to send data to another computer, the data will go through the Switch without reaching the Rout...
Why do I have an IPv4 and IPv6 address at the same time?
Why do I have an IPv4 and IPv6 address at the same time? Because your ISP supports IPv4 and IPv6. They're not mutually exclusive. … some servers see my exte al network address as an IPv6 while others as an IPv4. Why? Some servers support both IPv4 and IPv6, so the OS chooses to co ect via IPv6 and t...
My mac is automatically formatting usbs?
I have a feeling that my mac is reformatting disks automatically. For instance, I co ected my TDK 16GB usb to my windows machine first to see what was on it (it worked), and then I plugged it into my mac to put a windows software on it (the windows 10 wifi driver isn't working), and then when I plug...
Start Mplayer without extra cmd window (on windows)
I know in Linux it's just (nohup mplayer video.flv >/dev/null &) && exit i want to do the same in windows , start the mplayer from cmd without the extra cmd window ,how can i do it ? (solutions can be "progrematicly using c/c++ , as long that it's work :) ). Let's block ads! (Why?)
Windows 10 sleeps fine from menu, won't sleep from timeout
I have a power meter on a Windows 10 box. If I sleep from the menu, it drops down to about 3 watts. If I wait for a timeout (set at two minutes) it blanks the screen but keeps using the same amount of power. I've noticed that browser tabs with videos or ads, even if paused will block sleep. But clos...
Using Pocket for bookmarking
I've been looking for an alte ative to Xmarks for a little while. I stumbled across Pocket. It seems like it has some cool features and I'm very interested in its organizational capabilities. It seems though it is geared more towards providing the ability to keep articles to read for later, and then...
Why is there no walk through on how to build reputation?
I understand why there is a large step to entry - but it should be possible to contribute almost immediately because, well that's why I came here in the first place. Is there a walk-through our best practice for building reputation in a legit way? It's making it hard to adopt and find use if I'm blo...
Asus laptop shows only BIOS
My laptop always takes me to BIOS setup menu no matter what I do. I restored changes, tried everything and I hear the CD spi ing but won't boot up the Windows 8 installation disc. It spins and spins but nothing and if I leave the disc out it still does the same thing. What do I do I need help Let's ...
Understanding how LCD colors really work
A yellow pixel is created by filtering out only the blue component. In a yellow pixel, 1/3 of the area is red and 1/3 is green. This means that within a yellow 2 x 2 area on the screen, there are 4 open red filters and 4 open green filters. What would be the perceived color, if in that same 2 x 2 ar...
Laptop CPU Frequency Dropping
I am looking for some help on what is going on with my laptop. Whenever I try to play a game on this machine the CPU will not reach its max frequency (2.5 GHz non-turbo, 3.6 GHz turbo) and instead sit at 1.5 GHz at 100% utilization. As a test for thermal issues I ran prime95 will providing chilled a...
How to take a screenshot when not signed in?
Is it possible to take a screenshot in Windows (10) when not signed in to a user - (I.e. user select/sign-in screen, ke el panic, etc.)? In such situations the clipboard is inaccessible so the print screen button doesnt work. For instance: I have an error message which comes up after a particular us...
Textedit "make plain text" still retains fancy single quotes
I'm trying to do what I used to regularly do with notepad on Windows, copy a bunch of text from another program into Notepad so I could lose the text formatting, then copy into a code editor or other program as plain text. TextEdit claims to have a option to lose the formatting, but it doesn't work ...
VirtualBox Guest Shared Folder Ignoring umask
I have a folder on my host system (Arch Linux) which is being shared with an Ubuntu VirtualBox guest. Instead of using automount, I am mounting the folder at boot using the following line in my guest's fstab file:sharedfolder /var/sharedfolder vboxsf rw,exec,uid=root,gid=mods,umask=0002 0 0 The fold...
Scripting with tmux
Can I script several bash/sh instructions to open and run in separate tmux panes? I have about 5 or so different commands that need to be executed simultaneously or consecutively. I usually type them all out manually in their separate panes; I have a bit of a custom layout going on. Let's block ads!...