I've setup an OpenVPN server which uses tap device mode and everything works allright if I accept to work with dynamically assigned IP addresses. When I want to assign static addresses to the clients, I put ifconfig-push 192.168.5.4 192.168.5.1 in the Advanced Settings section of Client Specific Ove...

I am trying to use TightVNC to co ect to a computer at work through a SSH Tu el. I am using PUTTY to create the tu el. I am on a Windows 10 Home computer and trying to co ect to a Windows 2008 R2 Server. I can co ect using PUTTY to the SSH, but when I try and co ect thru VNC it gives me "Error in ti...

I would like to move the default position of the "Find" dialog box in windows 8 notepad. I'm fairly certain that it would require an edit of the windows registry and I'm comfortable using the registry editor, I just haven't been able to zero in on the right key to do so! Any help would be much appre...

After a puzzle in puzzles.SE which involved a hidden file appended to a gif, I have a question regarding appended .rar files. By this question I understand why I can add a .rar file content at the end of any known image format, as long as such format declares their data length in some way that any c...

I would like bash to filter out backup files, with a name ending in ~ (tilde), when auto-completing filenames. I have written a script to set this when using vim (I have very little experience with shell scripting): #!/bin/bash no_backups_complete() { local cur=$2 COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -o plusdirs ...

I'm working on a friend's 3 year old Dell Inspiron 15-3521 laptop which has not worked properly since he attempted to upgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 10. After he completed the upgrade, he could not boot into Windows and would get 1 of 2 outcomes. Request an Automatic Repair or it would boot to a ...

The colon/semicolon button doesn't work on my macbook pro because i spilled water on it. I don't ever use the left command key on my Macbook, how can I remap these keys? I have searched the web and tried Karabinier but it doesn't work! Thanks guys! Let's block ads! (Why?)

I have searched far and wide, and I see many things that come close, but nothing that solves my problem... I work for a police department, and our city is broken up into reporting "districts." Every time a report is made, it is placed into an excel sheet and then sorted by date. Each row contains th...

Is it possible to assign IPs to only those on a static lease list, but not give dynamic IPs to unknown MACs? It seems DHCP is required to have a static lease list?

I would like to add parentheses to several columns in excel that will show items sold and will be subtracted from the finals column.

I can't co ect to my wireless inte et. It has been confirmed that it is not the router, the wireless adapter, virus related, or outdated drivers. I ran sfc /sca ow and get errors that can't be fixed (I'll post the log below). Reinstalling Windows is not an option. I would like to know if there is a ...

I have a mac bootcamp partition ru ing windows 8.1 that used to work perfectly. I've been using it for about 9 months exclusively under vmware fusion and all has been fine. I have recently however needed to use OpenCL and so I tried booting it up normally. However it gets to the point where it would...

Under mac and Windows, the updates can be done automatically. For old people, this is great. In linux Mint 17, I don't find the option to enable the updates automatically. I know there is a trick, based on Ubuntu, with command line, to enable the autoupdates, but the security levels of Mint in updat...

I using VirtualBox in Windows and I have installed Kali Linux on it. I have configured NAT network so that I can co ect to the Apache server in the Linux VM through Windows browser. It works fine and I can access files in /var/www folder in my VM. I have set a shared folder that can be accessed by b...

recently I got an Android for my father instead of the iPhone he always had. Well, his main complaint is that his contacts have no picture associated, that would be simple to sync with facebook. I had done that before in the old days for my phone using an app, but now, since facebook removed the cap...

I installed Aptana and heard you can have it search all your code for debugging. Please help me find that area to do this. I am searching for a file being used that is messing up my CSS and my code that I use can be stacked layers deep between pages. Let's block ads! (Why?)

I am using ubuntu server edition 14.04 and installed vsftpd. I have created a new user in0006 with home directory /var/www/localdev/in0006/ and I have set chroot_local_user=YES in vsftpd.conf file so that the user in0006 can access only to the particular folder /var/www/localdev/in0006/ through ftp....

I need to remove all lines starting with number 8. Please help. My document contains few hundred lines. All starting with number 8 needs to be removed.

Something I've done but not yet identified has hosed my working-for-years Gnus<->offlineimap<->GMail setup. Gnus gives me a bunch of errors like: Wa ing - invalid active: [Gmail].Starred 26 2 y for each of the 8 standard GMail folders being synced (Sent, Important, Trash, Spam, All Mail, Bin, Starre...

I have used GPG to encrypt some long-term backups, but I am conce ed whether over time data corruption might make it impossible to recover the archives. Can you decrypt partially corrupted files?