powered down drive still manages to fail
I installed a primary disc as a slave disc in order to recover data from it. It was already failing at this point, I believe, due to a brief power spike. Eventually I powered it down, leaving it in the desktop. Things were fine for a while. Then, I started hearing clicking sounds coming from the sla...
Computer Receiving WAN IP instead of LAN IP
I ca ot for the life of me figure out what is going on. I recently purchased a Netgear CM400 cable modem and a Netgear N300 router. I was able to successfully configure my CM400 with Time Wa er Cable, my inte et provider and successfully co ect while having my laptop plugged directly into the cable ...
Windows 10 freezes randomly and won't boot
So, I recently installed Windows 10 and I have this issue where it freezes randomly while I'm browsing the web or something. Then I've to do a hard reset, but it won't boot and there is a black screen on boot. I have to use ntfsfix on a Ubuntu Live session(from usb) to get Windows to boot again. I t...
Can I put DD-WRT on my wireless range extender?
My extender is a netgear ex6200, im just wondering if DD-WRT will still function properly not having it on the main wireless router. someone else owns the main wireless router and I don't want to start loading custom firmware onto it just in case I break it. I'm interested in remote access of my com...
Why the discrepancy between devolo cockpit and iperf
I have set up a Devolo dlan 1200+ network in my home. According to the devolo Cockpit software my bandwidth is displayed at > 200 Mbit/sec. However when I do an iperf test between two computers on the network I only get a throughput of < 40 Mbit/sec. Can someone tell me why the discrepancy is so lar...
Attached devices change /dev/sd value
I have a script which auto mounts my Windows partition based on UUID, reason: my attached devices change their /dev/sd value. After booting up, my exte al hard drive might take on /dev/sda or /dev/sdb, What causes these values to change?
If Windows 10 (Upgraded from Windows 7) can be activated by digital entitlement after Windows 10 free upgrade offer ends?
I want to know if the Windows 10 can be installed and activated on PC on which Windows 10 was once activated by digital entitlement, after upgrading to Windows 10 from Windows 7, even after the Windows 10 free upgrade offer ends. Actually I want to change HDD of my desktop PC but that will be availa...
Wifi access point no internet connection
SituationThere's a intranet with access to the inte et. However, you can only gain access to this network, and therefore the inte et, if your device has a whitelisted MAC address. This is no problem though, as you can easily use a MAC changer to bypass this barrier by using one of the already whitel...
windows batch, program started by 'start' command minimized
I am writing a windows batch file to launch my java gui application, but when I run my batch file, my application starts in minimized, how can I bring it to front at start ? I run it on windows 10 start "" !JAVA_HOME!binjavaw.exe -Datfsim.platformAddress= -Datfsim.toOrgId= -DtoTGOrgId= -Datfsim.toOr...
nm-applet doesn't use appindicator
I've been trying enlightenment as DE in Debian Jessie. Unfortunately, they dropped the xembed support in E20, so only libappindicator-aware applications show up on the systray. Theoretically, nm-applet supports appindicator since 0.8.3, but it doesn't show up in the systray. blueman for example does...
automatically append images in a table with imagemagick
I know this solution to append images in rows and columns. Btw i'd like to arrange the images in a square table automatically regardless of their number (without grouping them with the parenthesis). Example output: Is it possible to do that with imagemagick? Let's block ads! (Why?)
Readyboost is a replacement for Pagefile [duplicate]
ReadyBoost does produce a huge performance increase regardless of how much RAM you have installed in your system. ReadyBoost works by caching frequently used data to the flash memory of the device that is allocated to use ReadyBoost. The ReadyBoost cache works in tandem with the system page file. Th...
Replacing a specific font in Google Chrome
I'd like to replace a specific font in Google Chrome, Meiryo with Yu Gothic, as I personally find Meiryo very ugly. I first tried using this method Replace only a specified font in Chrome and replacing Verdana with Meiryo and Courier New with Yu Gothic, but that didn't work for me, and I don't curre...
btrfs contains much more data that fi df claims
Sorry, I not this btrfs sf question #1012819281. I converted my data grave from ext4 to btrfs (due to the need for incremential backups). I used a ubuntu trusty live system, since there is a wa ing about conversion with btrfs 4. As far as I can see, everything went well, looking at the data. However...
Hosted network dying after some time
So thanks to my landlord who set a damn MAC filter on the router out of paranoia and is unable/unwilling to come over and add new devices any other day than rent collection day, I had to outsmart him. My laptop can redistribute a wireless network using the standard Windows hostednetwork feature. Fir...
Enable OCR in Greenshot
I run Windows 10 with Microsoft Office professional Plus 2016 on my computer. Looks like MS OCR functionality is enabled in my system since OneNote is able to copy text from image. But how to enable this functionality for Greenshot? Currently I have following menu after making screenshot: I does not...
Virtual Box doesn't start
So, as already said, my Virtual Box doesn't start and every time I try, I get this message: Could not open the medium '/home/dawn/VirtualBox VMs/Windows XP/Snapshots/{7011221c-c093-408f-98c1-0dd24e699a39}.vmdk'. VD: error VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND opening image file '/home/dawn/VirtualBox VMs/Windows XP/S...