Assign Home and End to Fn + arrows
Is is possible to assign Home/End/PgUp/PgDown to combinations of Fn+arrow keys in Windows 8.1 (I have HP Elitebook 8540p if that matters)? Motivation: in particular I like keyboard of my current laptop a lot, but it's time to move on - and there are quite some offers of new laptops that don't have s...
How to restore an environmental variable on Windows 10
Ok, I did a really, really stupid thing the other night while trying to install JDK 1.6 (older version, I know, but it's for an online class I'm taking and for some reason that's the version the teacher is using). I went to environmental variables to create a path for my Java and inadvertently delet...
Thunderbolt 3 vs 10 Gbit ethernet
I am not sure if I chose the right stack to ask this but here it goes... I try to find the differences/competitive advantages/disadvantages of thunderbolt compared to ethe et from a technological perspective And thats without including speed as in "transfer rate" What I would like to know is if thun...
Small dormitory wireless routers can not connect to internet
To all experts in network engineering, I got some weird problems occurring in a small dorm house (30 rooms total) inte et co ection that i currently in charge to manage, i couldn't figure out the reason yet. I do know a little bit knowledge on computer networking. Before posting about the problems, ...
Why is a home fiber connection asymmetric?
I recently switched from an ADSL to a fiber co ection and was surprised to see that the bandwidth is asymmetric (1 Gbps down / 250 Mbps up). While this is understandable in ADSL, I do not understand why fiber at home is asymmetric as well? It is not a limitation of the technology (I have symmetric f...
How to compile efivar?
I am trying to compile efivar-0.23 for my LFS, but when I untar it end run the following command: make libdir="/usr/lib/" bindir="/usr/bin/" mandir="/usr/share/man/" includedir=/usr/include/" V=1 -j1 I get an error, that NVME_IOCTL_ID is undeclared. I have looked through the whole inte et for the an...
How do I monitor packets to and from a specific MAC on my LAN?
I have a small LAN with a few Wifi IP cameras. I want to monitor the number of packets sent to and from a specific Wifi IP camera. I want to do this from another computer with a different LAN address. Preferably I would like to see the number of packets sent and the time the activity occurs. Is ther...
Trick PC into having a physical and virtual DVD Drive
At school, I've got a server ru ing to which I can make a VPN. Now, I need to set up a few VM's with all having a need for a different OS. I can't physically go to school to change a boot DVD, so I need a way to trick that server into thinking it has two DVD drives plugged into it. One is a physical...
Chrome: Extension to update a bookmarked link
I'm reading forums quite often were each page has its own URL. I always have the page bookmarked where I last left off. When I continue reading new posts, I always have to delete the old bookmark then add the new bookmark. Or edit the existing one and copy the current URL (including an anchor to the...
Understanding package management systems for Linux
I have a low-end laptop and am looking to install a lightweight linux distribution on it, but I have certain requirements regarding package management systems, since I will be contributing to a web development project. I'm looking at Elementary OS which is a Debian distro (like ubuntu), and it seems...
Is pg_ident.conf working?
When i'm trying to run psql, is says: psql --version psql (PostgreSQL) 9.3.12 psql psql: FATAL: Peer authentication failed for user "testuser" Here is my pg_hba.conf: # Database administrative login by Unix domain socket local all postgres peer # TYPE DATABASE USER ADDRESS METHOD # "local" is for Un...
I can't shutdown of the tails OS
Environment: tails 2.2.1dell inspiron 15 3000 serieslegacy mode(boot)this os is installed from ubuntuthere is persistent volume After shutdown, a lot of string was streamed until forced end. For example: [ 0.000123] [] ? ***** . . . [ 0.504123] [] ? ***** . . . [ 2065.058658][] ? ***** (* is unknown...
Samba share guest readable but group writable
I am trying create a samba share which is readable by anyone (guest/anonymous access) but only writeable by a particular system group. However it is not writeable to anyone. I have created a new directory and set permissions as follows: sudo mkdir /mnt/testshare sudo chgrp testgroup /mnt/testshare s...
Catch Metadata from Icecast-audio-stream
I want to receive metadata from this station: http://ice1.somafm.com/deepspaceone-128-mp3 In order to achieve this I did the following request via shell: $ GET -H "Icy-MetaData: 1" http://ice1.somafm.com/deepspaceone-128-mp3 Although I expected to receive the Icy-metaint value, it don't throws any o...
Delete clipped image in Inkscape
I'm doing some work in Inkscape which involves lots of images being heavily clipped. How can I remove the parts of the images that I've clipped from a file? In these cases, I don't need to release the clip again. The images are upwards of 1mb bit, where I'm using about 1/10th of the image. It's beco...