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I have recently purchased a new laptop from an OEM with Windows 7 64-bit. This system came pre-installed with (among other stuff) the Java Runtime Environment (64bit). This has put the "jusched.exe" (Java update scheduler) process in my start-up processes. I want to disable this however, because I want to schedule the update process myself. Now, on my other 32-bit system, this was simply a matter of going to the Control Panel, selecting Java, clicking the 'Update' tab, and there it could be disabled. However, there is no update tab on this 64-bit version of the Java config tool. I have been trying a number of things so far to disable jusched: Running the config tool as admin: still no tab remove it from the start up folder: there was no entry for jusched trying to disable it from msconfig: again no entry for jusched So, does anyone have any other suggestions (apart from uninstalling java)? Thanks! Answer Search for it in Administrative Tools / Task Scheduler. You ca...

I have auto recovery on my Excel program and I save my work several times a day. Tonight, I turned on the computer and it had shut down down for some apparent reason. When I pulled up my Excel program it only showed one auto recovery file form 8am this morning even though I worked/added onto my Excel sheet for several hours this afternoon. Is there any way to recover my work I did this afternoon?

There's a utility called the Lexar BootIt utility that flips the Removable Media Bit on certain USB flash drives. I want to flip the bit on my USB flash drive (it's supported) but really am not too comfortable downloading this utility from random file-sharing sites, nor do I see a license anywhere for it. The end goal is to recommend a tool for corporate customers so they may flip the bits themselves. Are there any free or open alternatives to this tool? Answer Why would you want to flip the removable bit on your USB Drive? Which USB Drive do you have? If you want to partition your USB Flash Drive then you can use Bootice http://agnipulse.com/2011/11/partition-usb-flash-drive/ If you really want to flip the removable bit then you have use Mass Production tools to reprogram the microcontroller in your USB Flash Drive. However this procedure varies for all USB Flash Drives. Most Mass Production tools are used to repair USB Flash Drives or to add or remove CDFS Partition; Howeve...

UPDATE: Thanks everyone for the ideas! This was an area I knew very little about but now I can talk with a little more expertise about it. Much appreciated! Visited my dad this weekend and he wants to pipe some internet radio he's found down to a tuner on quite a distance away in the house. He uses computers for only very basic things: e-mail, getting the Post crossword, checking Yahoo!, checking recipes, etc. There's currently one computer in the house (no router). My initial suggestion (without any research whatsoever) was to get a wireless router and a netbook for downstairs near the tuner, but he initially wasn't too keen about having another computer down there. Anyway, is there any computer hardware that could magically pipe the audio output from the computer down to one set of (RCA) audio inputs on the tuner? Wireless isn't necessary but it probably would be easier. Anyway, thanks for your suggestions! UPDATE Thanks everyone! Voted up all of your suggestions no...

Say i have some hard drives, and each of them needs to install its own OS to it, and i have a windows machine, and i can also hot swap these hard drives, is it possible to take for example a Ubuntu ISO, mount it THEN install the OS to the hard drive without making a bootable usb, restart windows, boot to usb, then use it to install to this hard drive? the idea is take any installer ISO and sort of emulate so i can run it like I'm running it as a bootable drive but instead inside windows (or any other OS) then use it to install the OS. Answer You could run the ISO inside a virtual machine software (such as VirtualBox ), connecting the hard drives to the VM, and following the installing procedure as usual. Connect your hard drive to the computer. Open Windows Disk Management ( Win + X > Disk Management) Identify your disk's number. For example, in the case of the picture below, the disk number we're interested in is #0 (imagine that it didn't have C: in it). You ...

I'm trying to: Take a system image of my current WIndows 7 x64 setup, which is using IDE-mode storage Enable RAID in the BIOS Install two new drives and set up a RAID mirror Restore my system image onto the new mirrored C: drive The problem is - my existing Windows 7 install won't boot if the storage controller is set to RAID or AHCI mode (instead of IDE) in the BIOS. The Windows 7 system recovery process works fine - will quite happily restore my old C: drive image onto the new mirrored C: drive - but then this won't boot, either. I'm guessing that I need to install the Intel Matrix Storage Manager RAID drivers - but if I try to do this with the BIOS configured to use IDE, the installer reports: "This computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software." So - I can't boot with RAID enabled in order to install the drivers, and I can't install the drivers first in order to boot with RAID enabled. Any bright ideas? Really rather n...

I have two Windows 10 computers on the same home network. Prior to the 1803 update I used to keep them in sync by sharing a folder on one, connecting to it on the other, and using sync software. The update has broken this. Now I can always ping the other machine by IPv4 address, but most of the time pinging the hostname returns "Ping request could not find host $hostname". Occasionally it does work, and returns an IPv6 address. So far, so annoying, but I could simply use the IP all the time in UNC paths instead of the hostname. However, even though I can ping the other machine, I cannot connect to the share. Trying to open \192.168.xxx.xxx through Explorer gets me a lengthy pause and then "Windows cannot access \192.168.xxx.xxx" with Error 0x80070035, "The network path was not found.". How can I share files between the computers now? Info that may be useful: Neither machine has ever had Homegroups enabled. The only firewall present is Windows Firewall. Ava...

I need to write an Unix Shell Script tran.sh that moves the csv input files from /exp/files folder to /exp/ready directory. The csv input files are written to /exp/files folder by an SFTP server whose behavior I cannot trivially change. In tran.sh shell script I need to ensure before doing a move of that csv input file from /exp/files directory no longer any other process is writing to the file. How can I move it?

I have 220 png images of equal height and width with the following naming convention: A1.png, A2.png, ... V9.png, V10.png I need to merge them into one giant image, with A1 being the top left corner, letters increasing horizontally and numbers increasing vertically. Is there a way to do this that does not involve tediously putting it together piece by piece?

I've switched over to Windows 7 full time but really miss using Ultramon, is there any other similar software out there that works on Windows 7?

I have 4 GB of RAM and would like to make use of ReadyBoost to speed up hard drive access, by taking advantage of its hard drive cache method. However, as I understand the technology, ReadyBoost focus is reducing RAM usage, instead of increasing hard drive access times. That is, before anything gets sent to RAM, if it can be stored in the ReadyBoost enabled pen drive, it will. For a 4GB system that doesn't do much memory paging between RAM and the hard drive, isn't this going to actually make my system run slower since reading access times on a USB flash drive, while faster than on a hard drive, is still much slower than on RAM? Or, in other words, does ReadyBoost slow down systems with more RAM than what they usually require? Answer I don't know that I agree with the statement: "ReadyBoost focus is reducing RAM usage, instead of increasing hard drive access times." It is primarily used for caching files, so they do not have to be read from the hard disk again, ...

I'm running Debian Linux "Squeeze" 6.0.6. Squeeze is stable but changes very slowly. It includes Chromium (similar to Google Chrome) 6.0. The Chrome Web Store doesn't show the "Add to Chrome" button unless you're running Chromium 8.0 or higher . If I write a long blog entry and something goes wrong, I don't want to lose it all. I want to install a Web-form-saver extension . How can I install extensions from the Chrome Web Store on Chromium 6.0? Keywords: 4.x, 4.0, 4.1, 5.x, 5.0, 6.0, Debian, Squeeze, Debian 6.0, Debian 6.0.6. Answer I have adapted the following steps from emb1995 's answer to a related question . On the Chrome Web Store website, visit the extension's detail page. For Lazarus, that's https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lazarus-form-recovery/loljledaigphbcpfhfmgopdkppkifgno?hl=en >. Copy the extension's ID from Chromium's address bar to the clipboard. Lazarus's ID is loljledaigphbcpfhfmgopdkppkifgno ....

I've got an alias to open files in Sublime Text 2: alias sub='/Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/MacOS/Sublime\ Text\ 2' But this spins up another instance of Sublime Text 2 (complete with restoring all the open files and folders in my other instance). I would like to get files to open up as a tab in the current instance, which must be possible, since this is what right-click > Open with... > Sublime Text 2 does. Any idea how to do that from the command line? Answer The reason it doesn't work is that you have the wrong alias. Here's the correct one for Sublime Text 3: alias subl='/Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl' This is an alias that Sublime Text specifically provides for macOS. It will not block execution and—by default—open files in a tab next to the ones that are already open. If you want to know more about why your alias didn't work, read on. Application packages in OS X have an .app suffix, but when...

I have a "haier laptop y11b" it have 2 disks: SSD card of 29 GB, C drive on which windows 10 is installed HDD 465 GB Previously Windows 8.1 was installed on this laptop and all the apps were installed on drive D. It was fine, showing no problems. There was always 13 GB or more free space available on C. Then I installed windows 10. After installation on drive C, 15 GB was still free. Then due to low space on C, I installed all of my apps on drive D, but space was still occupied on drive C. And now only 938 MB is free on C, and its marked red with error "low space on c". Now I don't understand what is consuming drive C's space in windows 10, while there was no such problem with windows 8.1. How do I free out the space on C, while only windows 10 is installed there? I downloaded WinDirStat and scanned C. I found a few large folders and files: Windows\WinSxS = 8.0 GB Windows\Installer = 3.1 GB ProgramData\Package cache = 1.2 GB pagefile.sys = 1.4GB hiberfile.sy...

I'm working out of a hotel with somewhat poor internet. I need to download a large 5 gig file. It looks like the estimate is about a day. I'm sure this will probably have 2 issues, the connection itself being interrupted at some point AND even if the download completes, it may be corrupted due to the nature of http. Aside from discussion of how and why this is, is there an actual solution in my given situation? I think my biggest problem is corruption, is there an http client which can prevent that altogether? Details of my machine: Acer Aspire "Timeline" M5 Model number: -581TG (I bought it from the official Acer store in Thailand, Pantip Plaza). It has the default network drivers on it: Broadcome 802.11n Network Adapater (version 5.100.196.18, 3/19/2012) Broadcom NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter (version 6.1.17600.16385, 6/21/2006)

How can I monitor an EXE file when it is running to see what URL it is connecting to? I assume there must be free software out there that can do this fairly easily? Answer For in depth analysis, Wireshark is your best bet as Phoshi has already mentioned. For a quick look at the URL, you can use netstat from the command line, or TCPView . C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>netstat -b Active Connections Proto Local Address Foreign Address State PID TCP john:1969 85.65.97.58.dynamic.barak-online.net:27645 [deluged.exe] TCP john:1604 vx-in-f100.1e100.net:http ESTABLISHED 2904 [firefox.exe] TCP john:1716 79-114-229-43:60126 ESTABLISHED 732 [deluged.exe]

I updated some entries in the hosts file at C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\etc . As a test, I decided to make Google point to 127.0.0.1 . # Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual # lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol. # # For example: # # 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server # 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost 127.0.0.1 google.com This works fine on Windows Vista, but not on Widows 7. When I type google.com into my browser, it goes directly to Google's website. I am not using a proxy server, and I think there might be some temporary DNS settings that need to be flushed, but I'm not sure. Does anyone know how to fix this? Answer You may have to restart Internet Explorer or Firefox, or whatever browser you are using. Also, try going to command prompt and typing: ipconfig /flushdns Lastly, double check you are...

I made a boo boo! I executed the following commands in cmd : diskpart list volume select volume 13 remove all dismount exit I have one of those dual-slot card readers with one slot for SD and one slot for CF cards. The volume 13 was drive letter P for the SD cards. I also had drive letter N for the CF cards. I still have the N drive for CF cards and it works properly. But I have lost drive P for the SD cards. I tried unplugging the card reader and then plugging it back in. The result of it was that I could see both the P and N drive in Explorer, but only the N drive worked properly. Inserting an SD card in the reader and trying to open P drive resulted in some error message saying something like "there is no disk inserted". diskpart did say that I needed to reboot after the remove all dismount command. DiskPart successfully removed the drive letter, but your computer needs to be rebooted before the changes take effect. Diskpart successfully dismounted the volume. So I reboo...

98% of what I download is music, so I set the download location to my music folder. However, the other 2% has no place there, so every time I download .doc files or PDF files I have to remove them. Is there a way to make Firefox change the download folder based on file extension? I'll settle for all non-MP3 files getting saved to the desktop. I know I can right click, choose Save Link As and pick the download location myself, but it seems like there should be a better way.

On a remote private network there are two servers -- a file server and a database server (these are both Win machines, in case it matters). The file server has its own fairly robust authentication mechanisms, and allows me to connect directly from a remote location. The database server uses a simple username and password, so to prevent unauthorized access, it's locked down to the local network -- external traffic is blocked. To access the database server, I'm using the OpenVPN client on Windows to connect to a VPN server on the private network. By default, OpenVPN routes all network packets destined for the remote network on which the VPN server resides, through the VPN. Unfortunately, accessing the file server through the VPN is extremely slow! Question: How can I configure the OpenVPN client to ONLY route traffic through the VPN that is destined for a single, specific IP address -- namely the database server??

I started forkbomb from normal user account say - "user1" I'm running a script which says killall -u user1 But it didn't fix the situation. Answer reboot the computer if you can't, you could try: killall -STOP -u user1 killall -KILL -u user1 If by "permanent solution", you mean preventing this happening again, well you can't really, but you can simply reduce the ulimit for the problem users and ignore them.

I am running a localized (Italian) version of Windows 7. At the bottom of the start menu, when I click the arrow next to "Shut Down", here is what I see (I have listed the correspondence between the entries in Italian and those in English below the image): Arresta il sistema: Shut down Cambia utente: Switch user Disconnetti: Log off Blocca: Lock Riavvia il sistema: Restart Sospendi: Sleep Ibernazione: Hibernate Judging from the following pictures, found on the Internet, it seems like some Windows systems come with both a Sleep option and a Hibernate option, whereas others only have a Sleep option. I've always thought that the difference between Sleep and Hibernate is that Sleep makes the screen go blank, while the hard drive keeps spinning. Whereas Hibernate copies the contents of memory to disk, and restores them to disk once a keyboard key or mouse button has been clicked. However, what I find is that in both cases the screen goes balnk and the session is immediately lo...

Many addons for firefox don't work on seamonkey. Is there any risk in overriding the security settings? Or is there perhaps a tool that allows for compatibility? I like the idea of a calendar and mailclient in the same piece of software, but if I can't use the addons I use in firefox, I'm sticking with firefox. Answer Have you checked through the Seamonkey addons list ? Here is also a blog reference from PuppyLinux (which uses Seamonkey). There are many addons for SeaMonkey, and many Firefox addons can also work in SeaMonkey. There is a site that has some Firefox addons modified for SeaMokey: http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmisc.html Seamonkey is great if you are already using PuppyLinux .

Using the device manager I am able to retrieve the inf file name of a device, is there command in Powershell capable to give the inf file name ? I need it because I am using devcon to install my usb devices with a script. I had a look at Get-WmiObject Win32_USBControllerDevice and Get-WmiObject Win32_DiskDrive but neither of these commands seem to give information about the inf file of the device.

I know that WinKey + M and Winkey + D will essentially minimize all windows and show me my desktop. However, I have been unable to locate a similar shortcut key that either maximizes or restores all windows. Is there a pre-existing way to do this in Windows 7? I'd rather not mess with the BiOS if I don't have to. Answer Well, I doubt that it is really the answer that you are looking for, but on Windows 7, you could save this as a powershell script somewhere: $dllInfo = '[DllImport("user32.dll")] public static extern bool ShowWindowAsync(IntPtr hWnd, int nCmdShow);' Add-Type -MemberDefinition $dllInfo -name NativeMethods -namespace Win32 foreach($proc in Get-Process){ $hwnd = $proc.MainWindowHandle # Restore window [Win32.NativeMethods]::ShowWindowAsync($hwnd, 4) | Out-Null } Then bind a key to run that script.

I have a dual-boot laptop with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04. I am trying to boot the ubuntu partition from windows using Virtualbox. I have successfully created the .vmdk, and created the virtual machine. However, I can't get it to boot (in Virtualbox). All I get is a black screen with the cursor in the top left. I wonder if I'm specifying the partitions correctly. My Ubuntu install has 3 partitions: \, \boot, \home. No swap partition. These are all in Disk 0, partitions 3,4,5 respectively. The command I used to create the .vmdk is: VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename C:\Users\abalter\.virtualbox\ubuntu.vmdk -rawdisk \\.\PhysicalDrive0 -partitions 3,4,5 Then I create a virtual machine based on that .vmdk. Why won't it boot?

I'm encountering a very frustrating and confusing problem with my desktop and I am really hoping someone has experienced either a similar problem or knows what I can do to fix this. To start off, here are my system specs: CPU: AMD FX8120 RAM: Ripjaw 2x 8GB DDR3 1333Mhz HDD: 1 Samsung 1TB, 1 WD 160GB and 1 Seagates 2TB GPU: Asus 7950 Direct CU II (the one with the massive heatsink) Mobo: AMD Sabertooth 990FX PSU: Coolermaster Silent Pro 700W (Modular) OS: Windows 7 Latest Version Graphics Drivers: Latest Stable Version on AMD I've been using it for roughly 2-3 years without any major issues (though Windows 7 has a few minor driver issues with the network adapter from time to time, but that's about it). Now one night, I was playing a game on my desktop and suddenly there was major graphic corruption (lots of weird horizontal bars that garbled the screen) until an eventual system crash. When it started up, even from the bios there was more graphical corruption (2 vertical bars...

I was looking for a convenient way to keep links to web sites between multiple computers on Monday. After a bit of searching, I found out Google offers a service that covers my desires just fine, Google Bookmarks. Fast forward to today, Wednesday afternoon, I loaded up Google Bookmarks to find this: Sorry, I don't speak Portuguese. I cacheless-refreshed my gmail tab to make sure something wasn't up with my whole account, and it's fine. Hitting the translate button works... ...sort of. It works enough to at least know what's going on. I can work with this, but... It really seems backwards. How do I tell Google I don't understand Portuguese in my Bookmarks? Answer You set your default language across all Google products from your Google account. To do this, navigate to your Google account page . You should get a page similar to the above page. Now, just click on the language tab and you should be presented with a list of your preferred languages in their respective ...

I have a folder which have some log files. I want to open the latest log file through command prompt i.e. the file having the latest modified date/time. I am able to go to the folder through command prompt but how can I access the last modified one?

For example the Alienware m17x offers 3 connections, HDMI, DisplayPort, and VGA. Is it possible to connect two independent external monitors, one through the DisplayPort and one through the HDMI port? Answer Simple answer is yes so long as your drivers support it. It would certainly be possible if you were using a usb displayport adapter I'm just not sure whatever chipset your running would support different output to 3 connections (assuming you want to extend your desktop not just have it cloned on multiple screens)

A client contacted me, complaining of Excel spreadsheets that were taking far too long to open. They use Excel for creating invoices, so they have hundreds of Excel spreadsheets with light formatting and very simple calculations. When sorting the spreadsheets by size, I saw that while most of the spreadsheets ranged from 10-250k, there were a handful of spreadsheets with filesizes of 2-3 MB and more. Oddly, the filesizes weren't huge, they aren't holding much data, just a bit of formatting, maybe two or three pages of printed invoices, but they amount of data was almost identical to the smaller sized (and normal opening) spreadsheets. When opening the file, the amount of RAM needed would spike from 3 MB to 400 MB, and it would completely occupy a single core (tested on a dual-core in the office, and my quad-core laptop), while starting. I thought that they had somehow caught some VBA code, but there are no macros, no VBA code. Ctrl+End shows 39 rows and about 12 columns (ends ...

Long time ago, I saw someone use a software (on Windows) that was specifically created to annotate pictures. It made it simple to add arrows, boxes, circles in "outstanding" colors to the image. Unfortunatly, I don't remember what program that was. Now, I have to document a GUI and I'd like to use this software in order to annotate screenshots of the software so that I can show the order of flow and dependencies between various aspects of the GUI. I'd be very happy if someone could point me into the right direction. Answer Have a look at Greenshot (GPL). It's the best Windows-Screenshot maker I've seen so far, including direct editing of the taken images.

The monitor wouldn't normally be detected until after I log-in, but I can't because my main screen is broken. How can I make it go straight to the external monitor, or go straight into windows without login? Answer To make sure your laptop goes to the external monitor, most laptops will have a function-fx key combo to toggle through the 3 presentation video modes (laptop only, external only, laptop and external). Most laptops I have seen use a Fn-F4 or something similar. It is the key with the monitor inside of a monitor icon. If you would like to use auto login, read below on how to enable auto login. I don't have a vista box in from of me, so this was taken from http://www.lockergnome.com/windows/2007/02/20/configure-vista-for-automatic-logon/ : To do so, click Start and type netplwiz in the Search field and then press Enter. Click Continue when the User Account Control window appears. From the User Accounts window that appears, verify that your own user account is sel...

The list of users one can click to log in from the login screen has disappeared. This is what I have done so far: My C:\Users folder was in reality a NTFS Junction that pointed to D:\Users, so when D:\ was unavailable due to a temporary hardware problem, I got into some problems with my setup. After removing the junction pointing to the other volume copying all the profiles back into C:\Users mucking around in the Registry in the HKLM.../Windows NT/CurrentVersion/ProfileList and reverting any profiles that had gotten a .bak postfix setting the "Flags", "RefCount" and "State" values to 0 in the same key (I only did this on my own user accounts - not all) logging in finally worked as before. With one difference. The login screen no longer showed the list of available users ! Previously I could just select an icon, but now there is only an icon for the last logged in user, as well as "Other user". I have tried many tips so far, most of which involve...

On my personal home PC I want to change where windows downloads it updates to: C:\ProgramData\Package Cache (in folders with long ID numbers). When installing Python I found that it needs an update ( a windows 10 feature that it can install on older systems - for me windows 7 ). The Python installer goes ahead and tries to run the update but can fail with security errors unless run as admin - I don't want to have to run as admin, especially since I am installing to a non-system access area on D:\ So my question is, can I get windows to use a different folder so that I don't need to run with full admin rights? for example: D:\myWindowsUpdates

I have no any CD for this laptop but I have HP recovery partition there and I need to install Vista back on main partition. I do not see any option to boot from recovery partition Could anyone please let me know how to do it?

Our Gateway PC crashed, and necessitated a re-install of Windows 7. We did not have an OEM version of Windows 7 lying around, so I grabbed an old (genuine) copy, and installed that. Evidently, the product key for the old Windows is being blocked by Gateway. According to the Microsoft tech, this isn't a big deal, we just need Gateway to unblock that key. However, Gateway will not even get on the phone (or e-mail, or chat) with you, unless you have either your serial number or your SNID. The problem is that the motherboard has been moved from the original Gateway case to a different case in order to accommodate a larger power supply. The only instructions I have to retrieve the SNID are to look on the case, and we no longer have the original case. So, my question is, where (if anywhere) can I find the SNID for the machine, without looking on the case? I assume it's got to be on the motherboard, or hidden in the BIOS or something. I can't find the serial number via the OS, bec...

How can I change Notepad++ setting so that wrapped lines gets indented automatically? Right now I have something like this: some text that wraps to next line some indented text that also wraps What I want to get is: some text that wraps to next line some indented text that also wraps Answer In Settings → Preferences... → Editing set the Line Wrap option to Indent .

Windows 10 has been referred as “the last version of Windows” based on paradigm “Windows-as-a-service”, an ongoing product, constantly updated, with both patches and new features added on over time. In contradiction to the above statement, Windows Lifecycle Fact Sheet says that Windows 10 will reach end of life on 2025-10-14. These statements seem contradicting. If the latter is true, it could still be better to purchase OEM Windows with new computer (the same way as before Windows 10) because there will be no need to keep it longer than the computer. But if the first statement is true, more costs could be saved by purchasing retail version of Windows 10 and just migrating it between computers with each purchase of the new computer. Which of the above Microsoft statements should be trusted in relation to choosing Windows 10 license? Answer I have found that Ed Bott is usually one of the more reliable sources when it comes to Microsoft policies. He watches their support cycles rathe...

For example, if you have a 4TB hard drive with one solid 4TB disk (which I do not believe exists yet but that is besides the point), and you have another 4TB hard drive with 4 discs, does the one with 4 discs have a greater chance of failure? How about 2 platters vs 3 platters? 10 platters? etc. Answer Backblaze published one of the biggest real-life studies to life expactancies of hdd´s . I looked up the number of platters and the platter capacity for each of the hdd´s they tested ( data in Excel format here ). I tested the number of platters vs. age and the capacity per platter vs age. Here are the graphs: My conclusion, (without further statistical testing or conditional probability analysis) is that the number of platters isn't really much of an issue (in this test pupulation), but the platter capacity is. You are better off (in terms of expected age) with more platters and less capacity per platter .

This isn't the same question as this one , but what is the best mouse for RSI? What sorts of alterative pointers have people used that weren't awkward, clumsy, or overly expensive? Answer If you're worried about RSI, a trackball is definitely the way to go. They're a little difficult to get used to, but you'll notice a difference really quickly.

I am currently working on a problem which requires me to generate a set of MS-Word files which will have almost 90% of their content same only varying in certain fields. Since these documents are supposed to be classified hence i need my generated documents to be highly precise. Kindly have a look below. Addressee Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, ImportantText sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam. Quis nostrud exercitation ullamco ImportantDate laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum ImportantDate . Now i am supposed to use something other that inbuilt MS- Mail Merge. Is there any way to generate such documents where these Addressee, ImportantDate and ImportantText are plenty in number. A...

I want to have my system with me in another city. I know that it strongly depends of my chipset. I have P35 (Gigabyte P35DS3R). Another machine also Intel-based but chipset is G31 (MSI G31TM-P35). Is it possible that my system will start on that machine when I plug in my hdd? Answer Windows 7 will be aware that the hardware has changed and will ask you to call an automated 1-800 number to verify and re-activate your Windows installation and again on your return when you plug your HDD back into your current system. Always remember Microsoft can and will limit your number of activations, eventually making it more and more difficult to re-activate. I wouldn't recommend switching on a regular basis.

I'm running Windows 10. I've found that uninstall button is grayed out for some apps at Start > Settings > System > Apps & features. Which means I can't uninstall such apps. For example here is a screen-shot for Movies & TV app which I want to uninstall: So, why is Windows not letting me uninstalling some apps? Are those apps essential to have or without which Windows may not work? And how do I uninstall those apps that I feel no need and want to uninstall? I've also tried Control panel but it doesn't list those apps at Control Panel > Programs & Features > Uninstall a program.

Possible Duplicate: What will Formatting C:\ do? What i am trying to do is just wipe my c drive and reinstall an OS is the command the one iwant? After i wipe the drive i want to install windows 7 64 bit. I would really like some advice, i am not a computer guy but my friend who is a web developer suggested i try this site if i have questions...

I have a Windows 10 computer with 1 HDMI port (it also has a VGA port but that's irrelevant as I don't want to use it). I have ordered an additional monitor. What do I need to order to be able to extend the desktop over 2 monitors using a single HDMI port? There are some cheap adopters on Amazon but I'm not sure whether these extend the desktop or just mirror it, so that it's the same screen on both monitors?

I have just installed Windows 10 final (from USB stick as my laptop does not have DVD). Everything went without a problem. The computer restarts correctly while an USB device is inserted (it does not have to be a bootable drive, it can even be an empty USB stick). If I remove the USB drive, Windows boot does not complete. Safe mode boots ok without the stick. Boot log without the USB stick ends like this: BOOTLOG_LOADED \SystemRoot\System32\drivers\UsbHub3.sys BOOTLOG_LOADED \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\RTKVHD64.sys Successful Boot log (with stick in) goes past: BOOTLOG_LOADED \SystemRoot\System32\drivers\UsbHub3.sys BOOTLOG_LOADED \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\RTKVHD64.sys BOOTLOG_NOT_LOADED \SystemRoot\System32\drivers\dxgkrnl.sys BOOTLOG_LOADED \SystemRoot\System32\drivers\USBSTOR.SYS BOOTLOG_LOADED \SystemRoot\System32\drivers\monitor.sys BOOTLOG_LOADED \SystemRoot\System32\drivers\hidusb.sys Any ideas on what to remove/change/proceed? I really don't want to restore/reinstall. T...

Is there a way to have GNU Screen detect when it is being attached and to execute a shell script that I have whenever it is attached? The reason for this is that I want to keep my display variables correct for X11 forwarding, but I need to detect when screen reattached to a different computer to trigger my script. Thanks. Answer You can run screen -S foo -X setenv DISPLAY "$DISPLAY"; screen -S foo -rd to change the environment of the screen process before attaching. This won't affect existing windows. You can perhaps configure your shell to check for an updated DISPLAY (and any other relevant variable such as XAUTHORITY ) each time they show a prompt. (This means you may have to press Enter once if the shell was sitting at a prompt when you attached the session.) Bash evaluates $PROMPT_COMMAND before displaying each prompt. Zsh runs the precmd function before displaying each prompt. For example, if you've put the desired environment assignments in a script ~/v...

I've been searching for bash_profile / bashrc themes on google for awhile but I'm not finding any kind of aggregation for themes. Most of them I find are small snippets like: export TERM="xterm-color" export CLICOLOR=1 export LSCOLORS=GxFxCxDxBxegedabagaced For the record, this will be used for my Ubuntu bash profile, which the above doesn't even work for. There are tons of VIM themes I've found, but no bash_profile. Any idea? Answer Your shell, per se, doesn't have a "theme". The shell itself is more or less just the command prompt and the functions behind that. Every other color information will be determined by other programs. For example, the LSCOLORS you found is an environment variable for the ls builtin to use these colors in its output instead of plain text. Similarly, vim also just outputs certain color based on its scheme. The programs will use color codes for that. These are "escape sequences". For more info, see: Bash P...

I'd like to setup three virtual network interfaces ( veth ) which can communicate with each other. To simulate a three node cluster, each program then binds to one veth interface. I'd like to do it without LXC if possible. I tried using: Created three veth pairs: sudo ip link add type veth Created a bridge sudo brctl addbr br0 Added one of each pair to the bridge: sudo brctl addif br0 veth1 sudo brctl addif br0 veth3 sudo brctl addif br0 veth5 Configured the interfaces: sudo ifconfig veth0 10.0.0.201 netmask 255.255.255.0 up sudo ifconfig veth2 10.0.0.202 netmask 255.255.255.0 up sudo ifconfig veth4 10.0.0.203 netmask 255.255.255.0 up Then I verified if is works using: ping -I veth0 10.0.0.202 but it doesn't :( The I added IP addresses to the veth1 , veth3 , veth5 and br0 interfaces in the 10.0.1.x/24 range. But that doesn't help. Any ideas? or a guide, all I find in how to use it with LXC. Or am I trying something that isn't possible? Answer For veth to work...

In Excel I have two columns, one with about 3000 rows and one with about 100. I need to find all of the matches between the two columns and put them in a separate column. I have to do this every morning so if there is a way to do so, I'd like to make it as automated as possible.

I went through all of the suggestions here: Windows unable to resolve hostnames I recently discovered that I cannot resolve any Windows host name (i.e., the computer name). For example, if open a command prompt (all machines run Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit) and enter NSLOOKUP TEMP, I receive the message: *** router.asus.com can't find TEMP: None-existent domain . I can PING -a 192.168.3.101 (the static-IP of my desktop computer), and that's not only successful but also reports the correct host name TEMP while doing so. What could be the broken link here that's preventing NSLookup from being able to resolve the name TEMP? P.S. My ethernet adapter's properties point to my router's gateway as the primary DNS: 192.168.3.1. I can do an NSLookup on external internet sites successfully, such as msn.com. Answer So like in the thread before your router most likely isn't your DNS server its just proxy which forward your requests to real DNS server somewhere else. So if...

I plan to buy a notebook that is equipped with an old magnetic disk drive and Windows 7 Pro 64-bit and eventually want to replace the drive for a new SSD, later. Is it possible to migrate a Windows 7 installation to another HDD by just making a 1:1 copy of the old drive? I ask because on Windows XP exchanging the HDD by coping it had not worked without tricking the installed Windows XP (this issue is caused by the HDD's serial number). Answer while it is easy to clone (ghost) the disk and replace it, you may consider a different approach with an SSD where disk space is a rather scarce commmodity. for example, the cost per GB of an Intel X-25m SSD easily exceeds 7 dollar. it's better to trim the heck out of windows 7 (vLite) and install the OS from scratch without the bloat that comes with a OEM installation. so, if you're able to save 10 GB installation size, you saved disk space worth $70 or more.

I want to mount an sshfs folder at boot under Mac OSX: I'm using Macfusion right now, that is a GUI for MacFUSE, but I have to mount the folder manually. How can I achieve that? Answer If you maintain a remote machine, it can be really useful to mount that machine's filesystem locally to move files around. MacFuse and sshfs make this really easy, although getting it set up and mounted automatically at login can be a bit tricky. First, make sure you can ssh to your remote machine without entering a password. Do the setup in Leopard finally supporting ssh-agent at login and verify that it works: ssh USER@HOSTNAME: If it logged you in without prompting for a password or passkey, you're ready to proceed. Next, install sshfs and MacFuse as per Installing sshfs 1.9 with MacFuse 1.7 on OS X Leopard 10.5.5 . Figure out where you want to mount your remote volume. I wouldn't recommend using /Volumes since it appears that OS X automatically deletes directories in there when ...

I have a large number of tiles, with the following naming convention: A-x-y.jpg where 0 0 Now I know that we can use the Montage tool in ImageMagick, to merge them into one whole image. Ideally I could have used the following command line: montage *.jpg -geometry +0+0 -tile 17x15 all.jpg but my files are such that A-0-0.jpg is directly above A-0-1.jpg, which is above A-0-2.jpg and A-1-0.jpg is to the right of A-0-0.jpg. So when I use the above command the order is wrong. I have a text file with the correct order. Can I use the text file as an input to montage. If so, how do I do it?

I use Ubuntu 14.04. I cannot open github.com and many other websites since two weeks, I tried opening in my laptop and phone but nothing works. I also tried in many browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Ubuntu's built-in browser) but nothing works. Is it a problem in my router's IP address or internet service provider? Because I use internet in phone and laptop via router. I have a TP-Link router and service from BSNL.

Somebody on Youtube claims to have a keylogger on Ubuntu that was neither executed nor installed as root. The link below shows a demo of it working. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1fZAZTwyPQ Despite their claims to the contrary, this person could have installed it as root before demonstrating for the video. Is there any other semi-credible evidence that this is really possible without root for installation or execution? UPDATE: The software referenced in the June 24 answer wouldn't install without sudo/root. I've added a bounty to whoever gives a link to a working Linux keylogger software that can be installed and run with regular user privileges.

I have created some useful VBA macros for Word, Excel Outlook and PowerPoint 2007. Now I want to have them always available in the corresponding application via keyboard shortcut or icon to click and also have a possibility to share them easily with colleagues so if anything gets updated that they can easily use the new version. have an overview over changes (version control) Already creating custom commands in the "ribbon" in Office 2007 seems very difficult for me and I have the problem that when I store the macros in a certain file, this file has to be opened to make the macros work - I'd like to have that open in the background. Does anyone know a good tutorial or book which covers that? Can I create my own AddIn? If I remember correctly, and AddIn can not be modified directly any more, so if the code is constantly growing I'd need to save the source code in one place and the addin in another - is that true?