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Can I tranform my dvd drive in Acer TravelMate into hdd case?
I would like to transform my dvd drive into HDD/SDD socket in my Acer TravelMate 5742G (so that I can use 2 hard drives). I have been looking for something similar on the web but unfortunately I have ...
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Will Ivy Bridge CPU's use LGA 1155 Socket? [closed]
I'm looking for info on the socket that the upcoming Intel Ivy Bridge CPU's will use.
I found some saying that it will be LGA 1155 but the most recent article I found is at least 4 months old.
Does ...
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What Can I Do With US Laptop's Power Plug's Ground Pin?
DELL Latitude E6420 that i have got in USA has this plug:
While i have these 2 UK adapters:
Usually neutral and live fit, but ground pin creates here a problem as the plug won't fit into israeli ...
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UDP Hole Punching impossible with non-well-behaved NATs?
Normally a NAT will keep the public end point of a local end point the same for all packets that are coming from it, thus making UDP hole punching easily possible.
However, some NATs will map the ...
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Sending Packets to tap0 interface
I've been trying to send packets to a tap interface using python. I'm monitoring the tap interface using wireshark and no packets are being received. I'm doing this as an exercise mainly to help my ...
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Linux init local socket with '@'
I have experience with using local named and network sockets in C, but on Linux (Fedora 14), using GNOME system monitor, I notice that a local socket, being used by the init process, has the path ...
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OSX: how to check what is taking ports or sockets
I am having trouble with L2TP/IPSec on my OS X 10.7.2 machine and I was wondering what is the best way to figure out which process is taking particular sockets or ports;
My related posts (below), ...
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OS X: how to figure out what prevents L2TP/IPSec from running correctly
It seems that an old installation of Cisco Anyconnect prevents the OS X built-in L2TP/IPSec client from running (I posted a question here: OS X 10.7, can't log into any L2TP VPN server, but didn't ...
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Does Windows take care of closing sockets when processes exit?
I've read up this question about Linux, Can a port be bound when the process has terminated?
Linux appears to clean up after processes exiting, and leaving open sockets. I was wondering if there's any ...
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What's the convention for a directory to store unix domain sockets in?
On Ubuntu or *nix systems is there a convention to store Unix Domain Socket files in a specific directory? I've seen applications store it in /tmp, but I thought /tmp can get periodically cleared, no?
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Does TCP/UDP send file sequentially or randomnly?
Does TCP/UDP protocol always send or receive file packets sequentially? Would it possible to make a choice which data packets will be sent first using sockets API?
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Will socket 1155 cpu work in 775 mobo
will INTEL Celeron G440 BOX (s. 1155) work in ASROCK G31M-S R2.0 (s. 775) motherboard?
I belive I heard that AM3 cpu can work in AM2 mobo is it the same case with intel.
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Sending a file via TCP/UDP socket
I'm reading about TCP and UDP from a article. In the end what I understood is that UDP is faster than TCP but it is unreliable. So if I'm going to a send a file, If use UDP, would it
be faster than ...
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Accessing serial port via sockets
I'm on windows and I need to access my com5 serial port via sockets. I tried serproxy but it does not work. Is there a better tool to do it?
This serial port com5 is a virtual serial port of my 3g ...
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TCP/IP on the transport level
I'm trying to understand what happens when I send a packet using a socket on the transport level. Do all packets which leave my computer go first to a geographical location designated by my ISP? Then ...
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Video player that can be controlled by Socket / TCP
Is there a Video Player that can be controlled with TCP?
I think VLC supports this - but I can't find any easy to follow instructions on how to do this.
I will be using this on a windows 7 machine, ...
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Is sharing a tmux sockets between hosts possible?
I'm wondering if it's possible to share a tmux server socket between different hosts. For example, I have a virtual machine (guest) running inside my host, and I'm running a tmux session in the guest, ...
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How does the Inetutils telnet utility determine if a connection is still alive?
I've started using sockets in programming with Java (I have experience with Python), and while testing a server that I'd written with the telnet command, I noticed that the utility responds ...
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Java - SocketException: Address family not supported by protocol family: connect
My Java connections seem to be failing a lot at the moment.
When I run one piece of software with cmd open I get the above exception and sometimes class files don't load for web based Java programs.
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Can I avoid the 10 connection limit in IIS by transferring through socket?
If i transfer a file through a socket, can I avoid the problem of the 10 connection limit in IIS on Windows XP?
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SocketSniff equivalent for 64-bit applications
SocketSniff allows you to watch the Windows Sockets (WinSock) activity of the selected process.
On x64 version of Windows, SocketSniff can only work with 32-bit programs.
Is there any SocketSniff ...
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Distinct Proxying for any TCP-related Protocol
I'm not sure what to call it (proxy/redirection/relay), and I am hoping some software or solution possibly exists for linux.
My intention is to be able to listen on a single public facing ip:port ...
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Limit access to a windows box on one port?
On my windows box I only need one port open, so I can open a socket connection to an AIR app and retrieve some status data occasionally. This is the only outside connection need.
How can I do this on ...
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installing Gevent on OSX
>>> import gevent
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/gevent/__init__.py", line 41, in ...
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is there a single-end available bandwidth measurement tool
i am doing my graduation thesis,currently i need a tool that is capable of measuring the
available bandwidth between client and servers.i have googled that, the link
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UDP network connection not routing properly if 2 external ports are mapped to the same internal port
I have a networking app where I have a device out in the great wide world that is connecting back to a specific machine inside my work network. The router has a static ip address and I'm routing all ...
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Latency concerns on Receiving a multicast on a multicore system
I have 10 processes running on a 2 6core-Xeon-X5680 system. All of them are trying to receive a multicast stream ( UDP socket ) and process the data as fast as possible. I was unclear on how multicast ...
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Why has mysql stopped working on localhost and how do I fix it?
I use a MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.6.4
For a few years I have used MAMP to test websites locally but suddenly and for no apparent reason when I start the MAMP servers the mysql light stays red.
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How to create tunnel to utilize for telnet connection
The scenario is as follows:
Machine A is located behind client firewall. The machine runs telnetd. This is Linux machine with Python 2.5.4 installed. I do not know the IP addy of the router and ...
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What is the simplest way to test a plain socket server
I have a server which listens on a socket for incoming connections and outputs a welcome text ("Hello world"). What is the simplest way to test this with plain tools from the operating system (here OS ...
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Difference between localhost and the ip address
If bind a socket in Python to localhost,8200 this is accessible via http://localhost:8200/. but not http://x.x.x.x:8200/
If bind a socket in Python to x.x.x.x,8200, machinename,8200 this is ...
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force all sockets to close in linux
How can I force all currently open sockets in linux to close from the command line?
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Better bang for buck: 1156 vs 1366 [closed]
I want to make a new gaming rig. I do plan on spending quite a bit, but not waste money.
I believe ars technica would categorize it as hot rod..
I want to get a $300 (+/- $100) Intel Core i7.
Whats ...
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Emacs daemon not deleting socket
I run Emacs through the
emacs --daemon
command, which sets up a socket file /tmp/emacs100/server for emacsclient to communicate through. When I kill the server as:
emacsclient --eval ...
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Remote listening of UNIX sockets
I'd like to be able to remotely listen to UNIX sockets in order to make programs such as dtach, which only support listening to UNIX sockets, work remotely. I've read about socat and how it's able to ...
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Force socket close
Is it possible to close an established socket connection in Windows "manually" (e.g. using a command prompt tool)? I have several open sockets connected to a listening server, I can see them using ...
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Does Mac OS X throttle the RATE of socket creation?
This may seem programming related, but this is an OS question.
I'm writing a small high performance daemon that takes thousands of connections per second. It's working fine on Linux (specifically ...
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Manually closing a port from commandline
I want to close an open port which is in listening mode between my client and server application.
Is there any manual command line option in Linux to close a port ??
NOTE: I came to know that "only ...
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MySQL socket connections working, but not port connections
I installed MySQL community 5.1.45 on my Snow Leopard 10.6, using the pkg from their site. I had previously installed a MySQL binary from entropy.ch. In the previous installation, the connections were ...
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Can we add more RAM sockets on a motherboard?
If a motherboard has only 4 RAM sockets, then can we add more up to 5 or 6 sockets?
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Tell GNU screen where to save the sessions?
My GNU screen stores its sessions in the /tmp directory.
That means that after a reboot, all sessions are lost:
$ screen -list
No Sockets found in /tmp/uscreens/S-dehmann.
How can I tell it to ...
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Access machine in a subnetwork after a router
Is it possible to access a machine in a sub network?
This is the situation:
Main-router
+ sub-router
- machine (2)
- machine
- machine
- ...
- machine (1)
- machine
- machine
- ...
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Power socket networks: setup for home use?
I am planning on setting up a home network when moving into a new apartment. After much bad experience with wireless networks, I was going to go with a wired connection (with cat5's snaking through to ...
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Why can't I delete a file marked as a socket from my linux ext3 filesystem?
I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 with a ext3 filesystem. A while ago I was hacking on the flock 2.0 source and I have just tried to delete the source directory, but a single file could not be deleted when ...
