Video camera shows red light but didn't record
I am checking an SD card that was filmed with a Panasonic 4K AG-DVX200 camera. During the filming, the time-code on the viewfinder stopped ru ing but the red light (indicating that it's recording) was on. When the problem was realized, the videographer tried to restart the camera but no buttons were...
Dealing with a chmod gone wrong
I could use some advice to unfuck a system. My colleague shot himself in the foot with Linux and now at least his Docker doesn't work properly anymore, but god knows what other issues will come up later. In a dev project he executed sudo chmod -R 755 /var where he used /var instead of the local var ...
Windows 10 Ubuntu run eclipse [duplicate]
I was just reading this article yesterday. Install an X Server - Xming is a good and free Install the Program - for example Vim sudo apt-get install vim-gtk Set Your Display Environment Variable - export DISPLAY=:0 Launch an Application - gvim You can combine the steps 3 and 4 if you want. DISPLAY=:...
What is the Communications Port (COM1) in Windows 7?
Ensure that the COM port isn't disabled in the BIOS of your PC. You may also need to configure the COM with terminal emulation software with appropriate settings which the co ected devices both use for the communication e.g. speed, parity, data, and so on. The Microsoft MS-DOS and Windows environmen...
Route cloud services to VM on laptop via domain URL
I hope I explain the need properly and even more that there is a solution to it. What I am looking for is a way for cloud services to access my web server via a domain registration (not direct IP). Sounds straight forward, except the web server is a VM on my laptop. The laptop isn't always going to ...
How is wifi used to detect network location?
I'll try to keep it simplified. Every router puts off a beacon. This beacon contains unique identifiable information, namely the MAC address of the broadcasting device. Now assume there are a billion people with phones and their phone's software asks to use wifi to improve GPS. What do you think is ...
Create a shared network folder between VM and host machine
I have a virtual machine with Linux setup and host machine on Windows. I would like to create a network folder that the Windows and Linux machine could share. Note that I would like a shared network folder, and not a shared folder (since I had problems with shared folders for locked files, etc). The...
Snow Leopard installation kernel panic
Okay so, I'm trying to install Snow Leopard on a partition of a mid-2010 13" MacBook Pro that's otherwise ru ing El Capitan completely fine (I'm typing this message using it right now). I need Snow Leopard in order to test some software for my company as well as to install some older Mac OS applicat...
Issue using 'force_style' for subtitles in FFMPEG
I've recently run into an issue in using FFMPEG's 'force_style' filter. Adding subtitles by themselves works just fine, but when force_style parameters are included, I get "Option 'force_style' not found." Here's the input: ffmpeg -i (input.mp4) -vf "subtitles=(input.srt):force_style='FontSize=20,Bo...
Windows 10 excess bandwidth use with updates off?
On a small business (2008R2 Domain) with about 20 PC's recently upgraded a few to windows 10 Pro and shortly thereafter our puny 1.5 Mb download was maxed out. I did some reading and ensured that all machines are set to only share updates over the LAN, NOT over the inte et. Next change was via Group...
Windows Media Player 12 wont play mp4, mp3, wmv files through IIS local hosted website when PC is disconnected from the Internet
I have an IIS 6.1 website on a local Windows 7 32-bit machine that serves HTML and MP4 videos through Inte et Explorer all on the local machine. An inte et co ection is not required as this is all local storage and local hosting via IIS. IIS is configured to serve the MP4 videos as downloadable file...
Command line to permanently get access to folder
I ca ot access certain folders e.g. c:Program FilesWindowsApps. On command line I get error "access is denied" and windows explorer pops up a dialog box Clicking on continue here gives me access, but I would like get access using the command line; so that my other scripts do not run into this proble...
Block gps/geolocation Pokemon go
I've notice Pokemon everywhere with the new Pokemon app. I'm not as interested in catching them all but I'm conce about physical privacy (private property, at private events,etc etc) How can I block Pokemon go in areas I own from being invaded by people trying to "catch them all "? Gps jammers are i...
How to configure intel rapid storage in laptop widh hdd+msata?
I have have a loptop with two hard disk's, one is HDD of 320 GB and a msata drive of 32 GB. Now I have Windows 10 installed directly in msata, and I want to swap for windows 8.1. The situation is that I need to use this msata as cache, with intel rapid storage technology, but I don't know well what ...
Mac OSX Yosemite on Mac Mini, self assigned ip address
I have had a situation where I ca ont access the inte et and the network preferences list ethe et interface co ected to DSL modem has self assigned ip address and ca ot co ect. It is set to co ect via dchp I googled this problem and the instruction was to remove a file called com.apple.alf.plist fro...