I have one swap partition, and 3 installed Linux OSes. So I'm just wondering, are there any safety risks or potential problems that can come about as a result of having all 3 OSes use this partition? Only one of them can be booted at any given time, and each one releases the swap partition when powe...

I have a high performance USB drive and decided to use it for multiple purposes: it should have an OS installed in, like Ubuntu (possibly server version for a lighter weight OS), then when I boot from this drive it can start the OS in it. it should act as a recovery disk, so I can use this one to in...

I have Lenovo Vibe K5. I have several contacts in my Google account, and tried to sync them to my phone. But, a weird issue happened. Contacts with same name (with possible permutations) were not syncing. Look at the examples to understand better. Example 1: In google, if I have these contacts: Ram ...

I have proxy with SSL bump configured. While this is on, WhatApp we doesn't show, why?

In the registry, I have a cached logons count of 10. Does this mean that I can logon 10 times without the Domain Controller?

I Have a Raspberry Pi which has one USB exte al hard drive attached to it (via a separatly powered USB hub). The thing is that sometimes this disk becomes unresponsive (I can't access its mounted directories any more). A quick fix I found for this is just to restart the Pi. The Pi is ru ing a minor ...

So I have an intenet co ection that lets me use 600Mbs initially when I plug in my ethe et cable I can see 1 Gbps co ection speed (in ethe et status window). The issue is that I can see that every now and then 5-10 min I see duration reset (in ethe et status window) and usually on the first reset (s...

I have some rules that I want to be toggled on and off. In Windows 10, how do I enable/disable these rules using the cmd prompt?

deathstar> VBoxManage showhdinfo XP.vdi UUID: fa2d24af-bd52-4928-89d3-c8c5feeb7b75 Parent UUID: base State: created Type: normal (base) Location: /root/VirtualBox VMs/XP/XP.vdi Storage format: VDI Format variant: dynamic default Capacity: 60000 MBytes Size on disk: 4276 MBytes In use by VMs: XP (UUI...

I need to fresh install Windows 8 in Lenovo G505. I have Win8 DVD which is booting fine in any laptop but not in this laptop. I have tried to boot from Win10 DVD as well which didn't work. Able to boot from Windows Vista DVD, Using DISKPART I Have deleted all the partitions except one which has my p...

I can see I have the all the checkboxes checked in S3 panel with me as the Grantee. But when I try access the URL or downloading the file, it says access is denied. I don't want to change permission to everyone. Why can't I download my own file?

I use windows os and my question is:what's the diference between git-cmd.exe and cmd.exe?i tried to run some tools on both and git-cmd.exe seems better,why?and seems a bit more faster, why?

I am using buffalo router WZR-HP-G300NH with DD-wrt firmware. The inte et sometimes slow down and devices ca ot even join the the WIFI. If I reboot the router, everything is back to normal. This can happen several times a day. Is there any script to detect the the problem in the router and restart a...

I want to re-arrange my Windows 10 taskbar icons. I've unlocked the taskbar, and I've tried right clicking and dragging icons but they would not drag.

I am ru ing a Java web server and occasionally I see high ke el cpu and the machine pauses for a number of seconds. During this time network activity, interrupts, context switches all drop off but the perfmon counter "System/Exception dispatches per second" becomes very high and correlates exactly w...

I have a Realtek RTL8188EE 802.11bgn Network Adapter on an HP Pavilion 15 Notebook PC. For a few days, the adapter has been disco ecting from the network on and off. When I check Device Manager, the main issue I have is Code 45: "Currently, the hardware device is not co ected to the computer. To fix...

I know how HTTP proxies work, but I am unsure about HTTPS ones. More specifically, I am confused about the encryption part. So, the client co ects to the proxy using HTTPS. That I understand. Now say the user wants to co ect to gmail through that proxy. Does the proxy have to estabilish a HTTPS co e...

Cloning will be much. much faster. I cant say how much, as it will depend on the speed of your setup. However, it shouldnt take more than a few hours. Copying has to open a file, read it, write it, and then close it. Virus sca ers will look at every file you open, as well. Other file system based ho...

I am ru ing Linux Mint on an Acer Aspire E 5 574G. The problem I am facing is, I have to press and hold the power button for a bit to trigger the lock screen or suspend or whatever option I have set in the power management section. But if I hold it for even half a second longer, the machine powers d...

I've read on many articles and i've seen on my previous PC that the default Windows virtual memory formula is : 1.5 X RAM Size (for initial size). But on my new Pc with 6GB of RAM , with windows 10 x64 v1511 , the recommended Virtual memory Size is 1663 MB and allocated is 6144 MB. Is there any chan...