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Why are my speakers crackling?
In April I bought these speakers - http://www.ebuyer.com/94472-logitech-x210-2-1-speakers-970191-0120 - The speakers connect to the sub-woofer and the sub-woofer is connected to the mains, the audio ...
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'View your active networks' icon in system tray windows 7
To view the window, I went to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Network and Sharing Center. I want to create a system tray shortcut to view the same. How can I create a such one ?
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Open port for Microsoft SQL database connection from outside the Windows7 computer
My Firewall seems to be blocking the connection from anywhere to my local MS Sql Server on my Windows7 development machine.
On Linux and Mysql I could telnet the database ports and it gives response ...
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Windows 7 - How to make hidden files count when it comes to hard disk space?
I have noticed that hidden files do not count when I hover the mouse to see information on directory size, however hidden files get counted when I click on folder's "Properties".
How do I make hidden ...
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How to calculate sum based on cells that have a specific text next to them?
I have a list of prices and sum them up in a cell at the right.
Next to some prices I have the work "select".
How do I calculate the sum of all prices which next to them have the word "select"?
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OS-X: Web Sharing disabled, still 8 httpd processes
I'm trying to find out why my MAMP Pro server is so notoriously slow and the first thing i did was taking a look at the activity monitor. It showed alot of httpd processes so I quit MAMP Pro and half ...
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Kernel panic when trying to setup rootfs over NFS on ARM board
I have a ARM board on which I am trying to configure NFS so that the rootfs will be mounted over a network. How can I resolve this?
My server configuration:
OS: Scientific Linux 6.0
My NFS shares:
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Veerendra Mattaparthi
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Does It Make Hard Drive More Fragmented When Having Multiple Copying Dialogs?
To make copying quicker from my hard drive to external hard drive and the other way around, I sometimes have several transfers windows together transferring multiple files/folders.
Does this method ...
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How do I control the volume with a non-Mac keyboard?
I just bought an iMac with a bluetooth keyboard. The F keys were brilliantly working to control the volume, but then I exchanged it for a wired keyboard to save batteries. Now my F keys have their old ...
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How can I access a music video (youtube) that Chrome has already downloaded?
I have a youtube video I am listening to, having waited for it to download from youtube. Now, if I close the Chrome browser tab it is in, I will have to wait for the download again. The file must ...
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Failure in connecting FTP via FTP clients
I set up an FTP server by Serv-U 10.2. It ran normally until recently. Now I cannot connect it by FTP client. Everytime I make a connection, FTPRush will complain "Socket operation on nonsocket(10038)"...
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Why are remote desktop clients (RDP) very slow on my Mac?
I have a Mac Pro and a 120 Mbps up (2 Mbps down) broadband cable connection over my Fritbox 7390.
When I use the Microsoft RDP Client or the CorD-Client on OS X (Lion, Snow Leopard, Leopard - all ...
Tex
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Understanding 64 bit [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
32-bit vs. 64-bit systems
From my understanding, saying that a system is 64 bit means that it has a processor that recognizes and handles the x64 instruction set (instead of ...
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directory listing is showing "+" sign
In one of my directory listing I get following output:
drwxrws---+ 7 sip sip 4096 Aug 5 13:25 USSDG
I am the member of the group sip but I am not able to create any file if I ...
pjain
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How to stop Word from creating temporary files in the same directory?
When I open a Word document, it creates files in the same directory with a syntax like ~$documentname.docx.
Is there a way to eliminate it or tell Word to save those to a temporary directory? It ...
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nfs really slow on one specific client
I have a fileserver in my network, with the storage accessible via NFS.
From one particular client machine, reading from this NFS share is really slow. Or rather, it stops all the time. The pattern ...
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Why does an instance of a program sometimes not merge with his icon on the taskbar?
Allow me to explain by showing you this picture:
As you can see, it is a picture of my Windows 7 taskbar, no modifications made.
Now let's take a look at the right 3 active Icons. You have Navicat (...
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Corrupted the hard drive after planned write of RAMDisk image to SD card went awry
I was trying to write a RAMDisk image to my SD card but unfortunately I wrote the image to my hard disk instead. The size of the RAMDisk image is about 7 MB (approximately 16000+ sectors) and it was ...
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Install windows on external harddrive and use it with my mac?
I know there is lot's of guides out there on the net, but I havn't really found a good one which explains step by step how it works :/ For that reason I hope some of you guys could give me some ...
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Chrome, Firefox and IE all blank pages
IE, Chrome and Firefox are, no matter what page I go to, coming up blank. No content whatsoever.
If you view source in all three browsers it is blank.
Yet, if you use Wireshark the appropriate ...
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recover hard drive after careless low-level section rewriting
I was trying to write a ramdisk image to my sdcard but unfortunately I wrote the image to my hard disk instead. The size of the ramdisk image is about 7M and it was written to the first sections of my ...
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Connect Router with Access Point by WiFi
Is it possible to connect a Router with an Access Point by pure WiFi?
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Category totals within a pivot table
Assuming I have a pivot table such as
Category Year Amount
A 2009 100
A 2010 150
A 2011 120
Total A: 370
B 2009 50
B 2010 60
B 2010 70
Total B: 180
C 2009 100
C 2010 180
C 2011 50
Total C: 320
Grand ...
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How to use ftp command to get files on remote unix?
I run a putty to connect to a remote unix server.
How can I down load files in that server to local windows directory?
user2195
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How to change color in a line drawing
I have a SVG drawing with black foreground and white background.
What is the easiest way to change foreground to white and the background to transparent (in InkScape or similar free program)?
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Routing packets to different available networks using process' pid / uid
I need to route packets from some processes(unique pids/uids) to desired network connection.
So, Suppose we have 4 processes with pids 10, 11, 12, 13 respectively; and we have two network connections ...
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OS For Custom NAS
I am building a Custom NAS at home and need some suggestions on OS to use. Here is the configuration I will be using.
Intel Atom 1.8 GHz (D425) Processor - (Consume less power, and less noisy)
2 GB ...
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Grouping folder contents universally in XP
I want to arrange all my folder contents in Windows XP so all of them are grouped by type.
Can this be done for all folders and sub folders just by configuring it in the main(parent) folder rather ...
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nLite Windows XP Bootable USB Drive
I've found a number of tools for writing a Windows XP install to a bootable USB drive, but they all remove the customization from nLite. The target computer lacks a CD drive (it's technically an IO ...
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Buying a new power adapter for an external hard drive?
I bought an external drive a while back (this one) and now I seem to be unable to find the power adapter for it. Are power adapters more or less universal? Would there be an easy way to pick up a ...
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Thunderbird 5.0 minimize to tray?
I just upgraded to thunderbird 5.0 and I noticed that my minimize to tray plus does not work with thunderbird 5.0
is there any other plugins that do the same thing? Kinda sucks that still in 5.0 it ...
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Permission problems at mounting ext4 filesystem on fstab
I have installed 2 linux distributions, Fedora 15 and Ubuntu 11.04. I have a partition formated in ext4 filesystem and i mounted using the /etc/fstab file on /mnt/files/ mountpoint. It mounts ...
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What is the current state of Linux video driver support?
I am thinking of buying a new video card.
My primary OS is Linux, so I want to know whether ATI or Nvidia has better Linux driver support. I know that both companies support Linux, but am wondering ...
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Windows 7 freeze after wake up from stand-by or hibernation
Not sure why my HP Pavilion m9300t wakes up itself during the nights or the day time when I am at work, it has been like this for a long time. It wakes up and go back to stand-by after a while.
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Process Monitor tracking registry events but doesn't show me the new values written in
I have Process Monitor showing me the events happening in my registry and what keys are being changed, but it doesn't show the changes themselves. In other words, I's like it to show (in addition to ...
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File and print sharing disabled after each reboot
I have an XP Pro SP3 fully patched, T60 notebook with recent install of the OS, all drivers present and updated. It is set up with local home network.
In my Local area connection properties, the "...
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Creating clean Win 7 media for laptop
I have a new Lenovo ThinkPad T520. I want to install Linux on this and keep Win 7 HP on the side. I haven't used Windows for 10+ years, so this turned out to be more complicated than expected.
The ...
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VPN to server, then access files on same server... and RDP to same server
For a month or so (up to about 2 weeks ago), I was regularly VPN'ing to our work server, and then immediately RDPing to the SAME server using the servers IP address (we aren't behind a NAT).
So ...
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Is it risky to use the laptop in the bus?
Especially for the laptop's hard drive, due to all the vibrations while the hard disk is active?
What about putting laptops in rolling backpacks?
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What are my options for reverse-KVM?
I've been asked to create reverse-KVM terminals in a small doctor's office. There would be a terminal in each visiting room and they would all control the same computer (the doctor's office desktop). ...
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How do you remove META-INF from minecraft.jar without any manual file deletion?
How can I remove META-INF from minecraft.jar, without administrator privileges? I can't install new software.
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What happens when you stick a USB drive in for readyboost, and then suddenly take it out?
And what happens to the virtual memory in the RAM stick? nothing seems to happen on the computer
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How do routers prevent automatic port forwarding from being abused
I have a Verizon FIOS router and when I install most applications that need a port forwarded, magically the entry is automatically set up in the router. I searched on google and found out this is ...
jack
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Why does pinging a local router return "Destination Host Unreachable"?
I have two tomato routers. One is bridged wirelessly with the other.
I have a new server on the network. It's running Ubuntu Server 11.04.
They are all connected like this:
A - Linux PC
B - New ...
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windows 7 ultimate, how can I make it so autorun happens only when I insert a specific removeable disk? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Disable AutoRun for specific external drive
I have a memory stick with my password vault on it. More specifically, I have an 8G Micro SD HC (the tiny ones) inside a MicroSD ...
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How do I install the Python module for Gnash?
My actual problem is: How do I install the Python module for Gnash?
But apart from that, what basic concept am I not understanding about installing packages on Linux?
I am used to installing ...
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How can I run Adobe CS5 in Ubuntu?
I have recently messed in Ubuntu and enjoyed the experience I had with the software.
I would like to use Ubuntu instead of Windows (yet keep Windows on the computer for use) but what prevents me from ...
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VGA DVI to HDTV HDMI intermittent output problem
I have a PC connected to my 42" HDTV.
In my PC I have an nVidia 8600 GT video card with two DVI outputs and it is currently connected to my HDTV with a VGA to VGA cable that connects to the graphics ...
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Install Windows on Mac Natively
I'm interested in buying the new 2011 Mac Mini. I want it because of the hardware. I can't seems to find a comparable PC that is as fast, small and quiet. I don't care for Mac OS X at all.
Is it ...
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PC booting and rebooting repeatedly without completing POST
I have a custom build PC:
Corsair HX620 PSU
Intel 6870 C2D
Geforce 8800GT
Asus P5Q-E
I've recently moved from the UK to Canada, upon plugging my UK built PC into the wall socket it gets stuck in an ...
