I am getting no sound at all when playing songs?
Make sure the Windows volume is tu ed up with the icon in the bottom-right. Also make sure the application which is playing the song has it's volume tu ed up. Also make sure your speakers are plugged into the computer properly. If it's not working after attempting those steps, right-click the audio ...
Python Script with .py Extension Data Recovery
I have deleted some of my python scripts about 3 months ago and now I want to recover them, I tried Data Rescue 4 which is told as the best data recovery software but it was unable to find .py extensions, however it found the files which I deleted with .py files together. They told me that there is ...
cannot associate program with context menu action
I installed a program called GitKraken and it's pretty nice; But one thing it does during installation is to forcefully add a context menu item to open the current folder in it. Unfortunately, since day 1, this has been broken. I've tried setting the association manually and it doesn't work. Setting...
WLAN with 2 mile radius
I have a farming operation that requires I have a WLAN reach out a 2 mile radius from my house. I have been looking at products such as the Bullet or Rocket AC/M from Ubiquiti Networks, but I am unsure what else I would need. Would these products require some kind of WISP client appliance on the oth...
Photoshop, how to draw a double line
I just drew a squiggly line with fuzzy edges, then duplicated the layer, then used paintbucket at 166 with black to make the line larger and solid. Then I went to the duplicated layer and used the magic wand tool to select & delete the fuzziness of the line, then I painted the line white, and VOILA!...
Windows: Creating global key mapping
I'd like to create a global key mapping in Windows 10 to emulate a dedicated "next song" button (my keboard only has a play/pause button). How do I do this? Incidentally, I'm surprised this is so difficult in Windows 10: my search tu ed up empty, and it's a relatively straightforward process on othe...
Keyboard - Typing quotes behaves strangely
I'm on Windows 7 Professional. Since a few months ago, I can no longer type a quote (' or ") anymore by pressing the key once.Instead, now I have to press the key twice, then backspace. Oh the other hand, I got a new feature which I don't need: I can now type 'a and it becomes á, etc. How can I rest...
Cutting strings in GRUB2 shell
Is it possible to cut strings in GRUB2's shell like I can in bash? Let's say I have a variable str that is set to This is a test.. How can I extract a substring from it? Things like ${str:2} don't work even though GRUB2 is supposed to have sh-like environment. Let's block ads! (Why?)
Windows 10 hangs for 5-10 seconds during normal use
Specs: Dell Inspiron 3531 ru ing Windows 10 Home 64-bit (free upgrade from 8.1) Intel Celeron N2830 2.16 GHz, 4.00 GB RAM Intel HD Graphics For a few days now, I have noticed that my laptop hangs for about 5-10 seconds at a time. If any audio/video was playing, that freezes; the cursor freezes, etc....
Who was last to update an issue in Jira?
In Jira, in Issue Navigator, I want to see who was the last person to update an issue. Is there a field that does this? I have tried "Updated" which shows the time of the last update. I want to know who did the update.
Access files from a backup vbox file
Using Windows 10, I attempted to update my Ubuntu 14.04 virtual machine over ssh (using Vagrant) and the update failed. After that, I could not log back into the virtual machine, so I pulled from a backup, unfortunately, the backup doesn't have some of the files I was working on. I still have the or...
Is ping's handling of incomplete IPv4 addresses standard?
I accidentally hit retu too early when attempting to ping a device, so instead of ping 10.111.12.4 I typed C:Usersroadierich>ping 10.111 Pinging 10.0.0.111 with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. I was surprised to see that the IP address was expanded to fill the missing octets. After further expe...