I am bullied by windows 8.1 to upgrade for windows 10. I have two choices: Upgrade now Upgrade tonight How can I stop windows 8.1 from upgrading to windows 10 and leave me alone?

I would be glad if you prove me wrong but apparently Selenium IDE is fairly unreliable. For example, the last command in the following script does not have any effect inside the script but if I double click on it separately it opens the file selection dialog. Why? Another question, how do I provide ...

I am at the point where I have no idea what I can try next after 4 hours of failing. I have tried following options enabled/disabled in ALL possible combinations: Secure Boot ON/OFF UEFI/LEGACY AHCI ON/OFF XHCI ON/OFF I have an Acer Aspire V 15 Nitro "VN7-571G-51R8" which had Windows 10 pre-installe...

I'm ru ing systemd 229-3 on an up-to-date Arch Linux installation. Lightdm is launched on startup, and starts my XFCE desktop environment. Furthermore, laptop-mode-tools is installed and run on startup. Sometimes, after logging in, I experience huge reaction times on my system, and I already noticed...

I copied the RetroPie image (2.6 GB) to a microSD card by ru ing the following command in bash: sudo dd bs=1m if=retropie-v3.6-rpi2_rpi3.img of=/dev/disk4 with the result 2600000000 bytes transferred in 2090.362756 secs (1243803 bytes/sec) So it took 2090 seconds (~35 minutes). I have two questions:...

Recently, I bought myself a pair of Bluetooth headphones. I have managed to pair them with my Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 and HP laptop upgraded to Windows 10. However, my problem comes when attempting to pair with my Windows 7 laptop. The computer is a Dell Latitude 3440 with Windows 7 Enterprise. When I ...

How important is it to make sure that my intake and exhaust fans are moving equal amounts of air? I have seen various answers to this online, ranging from that it is unimportant, to it could strain the fans if the intake is significantly more or less than the exhaust. I even had one person tell me t...

Most people know that RAM memory is cleared when shutting down a computer. Since RAM is a type of memory/storage, why can't we just keep everything in the RAM, and shutdown without clearing it. Therefor, when the computer tu s on, it doesn't take a good ten seconds to read a few gigabytes of data fr...

I added the following co ection string to dovecot-sql.conf.ext: co ect = host=localhost dbname=<dbname> user=<dbuser> password="<password>" The following error appears in /var/log/dovecot.log: Apr 02 20:53:27 auth: Fatal: mysql: Missing value in co ect string: XXX Where XXX is the second word in <pa...

Does anyone know how to write a bash script to cycle through the following IP addresses continually making data requests to check if they are up and working? "74.137.80.250 129.3.143.6 206.174.13.111 71.178.64.248 96.55.138.7"

I would like to subscribe myself to e-mail spam for research purposes. How can I do it? I have already tries leaving my address here and there, seems nobody is picking it up. Thanks for every reply.

I use this docker image instead of installing ffmpeg directly to my OS X. What I want to achieve is to split some .avi file into pieces with duration of 30 seconds each. Here is my command: ffmpeg -i /mounted/fixed.avi -c copy -map 0 -segment_time 30 -f segment /mounted/cutted_video/output%03d.avi T...

I recently enabled inte et co ection sharing on my Ethe et co ection and I'm now trying to disable it. The tab that I enabled it in ("Sharing") looks like it has disappeared, which is odd, so I don't know where to go to disable this.

I'm considering purchasing a NAS, a Synology DS216 (or perhaps a DS216j). I have 2x 2TB drives available; one is full of data; the other is blank. I want to use the NAS in a RAID-1 configuration, to replicate the data from drive 1 to drive 2, and use them for backups going forward. I'm on a Mac: the...

I've been experiencing bizarre behavior with my home router, Linksys WRT610N. I have between four and seven devices ru ing on it on average using the DD-WRT v24-sp2 (08/07/10) std firmware. Specifically, random devices will regularly claim they can not co ect to the inte et even when on the network ...

I installed and repeatedly used Debian Linux on my macBook Pro. Initially, I held control+command to boot linux. Recently, I would simply power up the computer, no key-holding (not sure what changed, if anything). To boot unix, I would hold "option" while booting. Only one option would appear (Macin...

Starting yesterday, I have a very odd problem on my Windows 10 desktop-- my CPU is constantly ru ing at 100% (according to Task Manager), and it isn't throttling down. Because of this, it's constantly ru ing at 3.3 GHz and the temperatures are rising to the point where the fans kick in at full force...

I have bunch of files with similar keyword like computer-stock-photo.jpg computer-stock-picture.jpg computer-picture.jpg What I want to do is suffix serial wise 2 digit numbers like computer-stock-photo-01.jpg, computer-stock-picture-02.jpg, computer-picture-03.jpg Also, the batch script should work...

I have the following: #!/bin/bash a=0 for d in ./*/ ; do ( cd "$d" ((a++)) echo $a ); done Which goes into each directory in my path, increments a and prints a. However, the output is always 1. Why is that?

I would like to know if it's possible to save a large arborescence / file tree using Robocopy with /CREATE switch (which creates zero byte files -- the purpose is to have a reference of the files/folders organization and timestamps before making significant changes) directly into a WinRAR archive, i...