Today on my desktop was a dramatice picture of what appeared to be a mining facility. Please tell where and when that picture was taken and anything else of interest regarding the picture. Very dramatic. Kind regards, Jea e MccCowan

I want to set fish_greeting to date --rfc-2822 | cowsay -f tux | lolcat (don't judge me). When I run date --rfc-2822 | cowsay -f tux | lolcat interactively, I get the proper output (the date in a speech bubble above tux in rainbow colors). However, when I set fish_greeting date --rfc-2822 | cowsay -...

I have been asked to setup a site-to-site IPSEC VPN Tu el from a Vigor 2820 (at the client's premises) to a Cisco ASA 5505 (hosted at Rackspace). I have input all of the details that Rackspace had provided and these have been double checked to confirm that they are the correct details however, I ca ...

I wanted some clarification on the differences between real-time linux process priority (-99 - -1) and normal user-level 'niceness' (0 - 40) priority, and the effects on scheduling and pre-emption. Niceness scheduling is done (nowadays) by CFS- uses the the 0-40 priority as part of a calculation to ...

I want to do the following: for the first row in Excel, create a formula with named range. say: A1=1, B1=3. Create named range A1:B1 called "amounts". cell C1=sum(amounts). this makes row1 very readable. now row1 is one of many rows with data in col A and col B. So I want to fill the formula from C1...

I'd like to use the VNC protocol to remotize keyboard and mouse only, that is just like a regular VNC session but without the video. Typical usage scenario could be controlling a PA video system, a multimedia PC attached to a TV screen, and other situations where you can directly see the video outpu...

I would like to extend the WiF in my house using a MoCA kit (like the ECB2500CK01). All the examples I see online have the second unit ru ing to a TV, PlayStation, etc., but I would like to run it to a router (like an Airport Express), just to extend my network range. Does that make sense, or am I m...

I have created a new Key Pair from Network & Security > Key Pair A new .pem file is downloaded. Using PUTTYGEN i created Private key. When i tried to login using newly created .ppk file it throws following error as shown in screenshot. Screenshot error Please Help how to resolve issue. Let's block a...

I've installed Windows 10 on my new Lenovo G50-70 with Bios set to legacy boot, At first i didn't know how to enter to the bios so i pressed alt+f12 to choose which device to boot from so i found 4 options where there efi+HDD so i used that option to install windows 10 with GPT partitions. after tha...

I have been having issues with a pc that's randomly losing power. Ever since, I've been finding new ways to stresstest everything to try and find a way to force the power loss in order to be able to debug it. (Still haven't found it). Today, I got a lot of disk errors before the crash, according to ...

I read a couple of place that i am not the only person who this trouble occurs. 1 time on 5 my video are corrupted on my gopro. It's always appen if my gopro miss battery, so my video file as seen not be writed correctly on my SD card. I can't find any tool on gopro website, i found a tool who it's ...

Here I have a Sony VPCS12C5E. There should be a WiFi module but I can't use it. The laptop is ru ing Windows 7 and shows no sign of the existence of wifi, it does not even appear in the device manager panel. I downloaded drivers from Sony and installed them, for no improvement. I just launched a liv...

I am having troubles with Bluestacks Android. One specific app is not working, although it works on my phone. Could you tell me if there are better alte atives? I tried: Bluestacks (doesnt work) youwave Android (doesnt boot anymore after some time - without doing something, apparently a bug) Android...

I have converted a DjVu file to PDF format from a converter; the resulting PDF contains--in "upper layer"--labels, advertising the converter. Is there any way to skim off this layer?

I've create a drive with the Letter Z: and shared it so that the Network Path is: \GOELA2682012SRVsrv2012r2 I now want to create a folder on there using PowerShell. This doesn't work: New-Item -Path "\GOELA2682012SRVsrv2012r2Userstest" -ItemType Directory While this does work: New-Item -Path "Z:User...

I need to access my PC using ftp , how to do that? there is FILE Z but i can't configure it right any ideas , not necessarily FILE Z I tried shiftedit but i have no clue what is that windows7 basic home

I'm facing a really wierd situation. Let me explain what happened. I recently took an old laptop in my possession . It has an Nvidia 520M and an Intel Graphics HD 3000 gpus. At first i tried to install windows 10. After leaving it ove ight to install i woke up to a black flicker desktop. It seemed o...

Problem I have near-critically low levels of free space on the Windows' partition. I have a bigger partition right next to it, and a new disk with enough space to move it. Bigger partition has a lot of programs on it, and I don't want/can't reinstall them all. Details My PC is operating on a single ...

I have a .mp4 mpeg-4 video which has no audio track and is about 11 minutes long and a mp3 file which is about 30 seconds long. I would like to combine the two, with the audio looping. Also I would like to keep the base resolution of the video. Is this possible to merge the two without re-encoding, ...

I want to find a way to change the name of the cpu on the Guest OS of a virtual machine (either virtualbox or vmware). For example, while my real pc has an intel i5-5200u I want the virtual machine report an other brand or even other manufacturer (like an AMD A6-6310 APU). Let's block ads! (Why?)