Can I put a desktop Core-i3 CPU in a laptop?
This is a mirror-image of this question: Can I put a laptop Core i7 CPU in a desktop? I would like to buy a laptop that I will use mostly at home and at the office. I need a laptop rather than a desktop because I need to be able to carry it between the home and the office. But other than that, I wil...
webserver configuration doesn't let public connection
I ca ot access the local webserver in my home for testing and college purpose,and I ca ot understand why, because I have ssh and vnc fully functionals. The particular thing is that the server is a virtualbox bitnami machine, with bridged co ection, ru ing on a laptop This is the IP configuration: mo...
What does it mean if an enterprise is "entirely virtualized"?
If someone on the IT staff of an enterprise describes their company as "entirely virtualized", what exactly does that mean? (In reference to the workstations) Does it mean that instead of each PC in the company having its own copy of (for example) Windows 7 installed on the hard drive, there is some...
Browser settings for large web pages?
I use Firefox and Chrome to download web pages that are pretty large (also containing thousands of thumbnail images that are also saved to HDD), when page is more than 30-40MB browser becomes very slow and sometimes crashes. Is there a way to change settings so that browser can deal with large web p...
Migrating Shared Workstations from 7 to 10
I'm looking for suggestions on how to easily migrate Windows 7 workstations to Windows 10. maybe some sort of tool similar to window easy transfer. (free tool?) I have some computers that are shared by multiple users and I would like the transition to be as smooth as possible. some features that wou...
Package-grub2 failed to install into /target
I am having MAJOR problems installing Linux on my computer. Windows 10 came pre-installed. I then installed Zorin OS 10 alongside Windows to create a dual-boot computer. Everything went according to plan until I found out that Zoring OS 11 had been released. Since OS 10 was buggy and continuously ge...
Why do I need to run Winsock Reset every day?
I know there are answers out there to this question, but that's just the problem - there are so many answers to so many similar (but not quite the same) situations that I am overwhelmed. So here is my situation. Every day, at some point, my computer suddenly stops working properly. Here are all the ...
File Open Dialog Box on Restart
Recently I've been seeing this dialog box pop up whenever I restart my computer and log in. It wants to open a file named after me, it appears to be one located in my C:Users folder. Why would Windows suddenly want to open this file on login?
Does KeePass have permanent inner master key to encrypt data?
Does KeePass have permanent i er key to encrypt data? Or the key for encryption is a password (and keyfile)? On some website I've run eyes over the discusstion about ways to hack KeePass base. One of assumptions was that there are two ways: one to brutforce the passphrase and other was about to brut...
Windows 10 desktops resize when monitors go to sleep
I have a Windows 10 setup with 2 different monitors (brands, resolutions, sizes, and DPI) and when my computer wakes up from sleep, all of my applications are moved to one monitor. The applications that were maximized are also all improperly sized (they don't extend across the whole monitor like the...
Implications of AC power failure on suspended Linux box
My Linux box will be automatically shut down by the attached UPS if it is ru ing and the AC power fails. If I have the Linux box suspended and the AC power fails, I assume the UPS can not shut it down. What are the consequences of AC power failure on a suspended Linux system? This entry passed throu...
Can a Smarty PHP site run on Azure Web Apps
I'm new to the Smarty templating engine but have been given a site to modify. I have it working locally on a Linux Mint box. I want to put it on Azure Web Apps (not a VM) temporarily to show the client. I have successfully created an Azure Web App ru ing PHP 5.4, uploaded the site files, created a M...
rlogin: ipaddress : connection refused
I have host only network setup with two linux distributions virtual machines (kali and security-onion). Co ection bw both vm is fine as both able to ping each other successfully. I tried rlogin but it said co ection timedout. Then I used traceroute command which only printed asterisk on console. I t...
RAID1 Partitioning Scheme for a Linux Server
I'm having trouble setting up a RAID1 for my server where both drives are bootable. What I'm doing now is /biosboot and /boot partitions on both drives, then I have my LVM volume group with logical volumes on each which contain /swap, /, and /home. The installation goes fine and the drives sync but ...