I've been trying to figure out a way to make this work for the past days, yet I could not come up with a good solution. I have a friend who currently lives in Portugal. We've been trying to play a game called Hearts of Iron IV, a strategy game basically. I have a great PC, that's suitable to run the...

Some sites I visit tend to use heavy JS scripting causing some lags if they are open in multiple tabs simultaneously. I would really love to disable JS for all of them that might not require JS to work properly. However, I've also noticed that disabling JS for a site causes installed extensions back...

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My computer is not co ecting to the Inte et. And we have an Intranet website which requires Java applet. It is found that whenever I enter the Intranet website, the Java console states that it is trying to download "securitypack.jar" from the Inte et: network: Checking for update at: https://javadl-...

I installed rEFInd 0.10.3 on my MacBook Pro and after installation by Windows 7 bootcamp installation will not boot; it says "no bootable OS found". If there is a workaround to get this working I haven't found it. I would like to completely remove rEFInd. When installing I ran: mkdir /Volumes/ESP th...

I have multiple CSV files with similar data. which is retrieved from an automation module, I want to compare two adjacent Time Stamps and if they are less than 15 min apart add a new time stamp (row) in between with the new time stamp equal to the previous time + 15 min and value equal to the previo...

I know this may be a strange question, but I figured if anywhere knew anything about straight up networking on consoles, it'd be this sub-forum. Here's my question, straight up: What settings can I change in my router (Nighthawk Netgear R9000 (AC3200)) to enhance my latency, download and upload spee...

I have a computer which will go to the lock screen once windows start (the account is set to auto logon to windows). so basically when i power on the pc, i will see a lock screen of that user account. my issue is that when i go into the gpo, Computer ConfigurationAdministrative TemplatesControl Pane...

I've been trying to install Java JDK 8 for like 3 days, but after clicking yes to the UAC, no installer or anything pops up. I've tried downloading older versions, tried fixing any registry errors, restarted my inte et, but nothing works. I know I'm downloading the right version for my operation sys...

I know the different capabilities of W8.1 and W8.1 Pro. Anyway, a friend wants to sell me an activation key for Windows 8.1 Pro but I have Windows(R) and its description says RETAIL cha el, it means I have Windows 8.1 (not the Pro version). The question is: can I activate my windows 8.1 with that ke...

When some software reads rewrited CD-RW or DVD-RW or BD-RW on the optical drive of one's notebook(or desktop) machine, is it possible that some malwares get the erased data in that CD-RW or DVD-RW or BD-RW? Off course, this subject is related to whether we can erase the optical medium completely. Fo...

I am using SoftEther VPN for a long time. Recently I have reinstalled the Windows and it does not co ect using TCP, and just co ects over UDP. When I try to co ect over TCP, the software instantly (it is so fast, that I believe it doesn't try to reach over network, and it is local problem!) shows fo...

I have a machine ru ing Ubuntu 16.04 with UEFI and SecureBoot enabled. dmesg shows me that some certificates are loaded in order to verify ke el module signatures: midas@Mothership:~$ dmesg | grep 'EFI: Loaded cert' [ 0.680418] EFI: Loaded cert 'ASUSTeK MotherBoard SW Key Certificate: da83b990422ebc...

So, I saw another question that shows how to open multiple files in vim using the line of code ps: & vim @(Get-FarPath -Selected) # But that seems to work only with files selected from the active panel. If i were to have two panels that I was doing a directory/file compare on, how would I open an in...

I'm sure others have faced this frustrating issue in the past. Say you have a dozen tabs open in a browser and you are at a hotel or cafe attempting to use their wifi. You select the wifi ID and all of a sudden, the wifi login screen populates all of your tabs, with no option to go back to the previ...

I'm at my wit's end. Here is the situation. I have three devices co ecting to my WiFi router: two laptops and one Galaxy S2 tablet. On the first laptop, I can access any web site, no issues at all. On the second laptop, I can only access a few web sites, but not others. On the tablet, I can only acc...

So, I'm trying to read the Barcode via the Serial Port but the Sca er isn't showing up as a Com port.... the sca er works fine as a Keyboard, but when I scan the code to set it to 'Serial' nothing...

I have a dead-ish SSD drive. BIOS can't read it, Linux and Windows can't read it. It seems like the controller is not completely dead (it does identify itself). Is there any hope of recovering the data on the drive using soft methods (without voiding the warranty)? There is nothing essential there (...

I´ve purchased a new monitor with 144Hz refresh rate. My old monitor support 60Hz. It got me thinking: How does vsync for a window work when it cover both screens? Do developers (like myself) have to make any special considerations for this to avoid performance drops or tearing? This question makes ...

I'm using Windows 8.1 and ru ing some old games on it (they are fully compatible). Lots of them use 800x600 or even 640x480 resolutions, but I have 1920x1080 display. While scaling, Windows provides some kind of smoothing (Nearest-neighbor algorithm, I guess), but it's quite poor. I want to use some...