I want to connect my laptop's bluetooth to an audio jack. Of course there has to be some sort of receiver on the audio jack side. Are there any devices for this?
Back in the day, with older iPods, you could copy music onto them using Winamp's Music Library. I heard that newer iPods and iPhones have all sort of encryption that prevents this from being fully functional. I'm looking to buy a new iPod soon, and would really like to avoid installing (or at least keeping) a copy of iTunes on my PC.
Are solutions still available through WinAmp? Other software? What iPod/iPhone models would work better?
I have a machine with 4G of RAM, but running 32bit windows 7, so can only see 3G. I have read somwhere recently that that unused 1G can be used as a RamDisk. Is this true? What sort of program allows that, and how does it address that gig of RAM?
I am in the process of collecting laptop recommendations for a friend. I need a way to show to her the size differences of the various formats (15" 4:3, 15" 16:9, 15" 16:10 .... up to 17.3") in a graphical way, so she can compare them to the laptop she currently has (15").
Does anybody know a simple comparison chart where those sizes are shown side-by-side?
We have E-Mail connection only right now, so I would need some sort of a link or PDF document.
We have recently migrated from a Win 2003/SQL Server 2000 system to Win 2008 64 bit R2, SQL Server 2008 R2.
Our websites are in classic asp, and this can't be changed to another scripting language at this time.
On the old server, if I got stuck in some kind of endless loop, the page would throw an error.
On the new server, I have a page that has some sort of looping problem, that even though the SQL SP is called only once (and runs fine run as a query on the server) it pegs SQL server and therefore locks all of our websites.
I'll get my code figured out, no biggie. But I need to make sure the server times out when this happens. (The page I'm working on runs fine with certain instances of the query, and locks with others using a different query variable. I can't have something like that sneak up on me on a page I haven't touched for three years.)
I can't figure out how an SP that runs once on the server, from an ASP page, is tying up SQL server this way. It's obviously some sort of a timeout issue, but I can't figure out where/which timeout values to change.
I actually have to remote desktop to the server and kill the process in SQL server.
I'm afraid I'm a generalist, and server management is not my thing, even though it's my responsibility, so I am almost certain to have questions about any answer that I receive.
How can I track this down? What settings do I need to change?
More info: It's not SQL Server
On our test site, I created an ASP file that just did an endless loop (do while 1=1) and had the same problem - the other websites wouldn't load - without SQL server being involved. So I think the reason the process was hanging is that the page wasn't timing out as it should, and so the connection to SQL was never closed. Killing the process in SQL server would reset the page somehow.
For my intentional endless loop, I had to refresh the app pool to get rid of it. This points more to either IIS or the ASP settings.
The ASP timeouts are set to whatever the default were when the server was first loaded.
I still can't figure out why one file is locking up all websites, though. Again, that didn't happen on the old server.
I want to make certain directories on my drives read-only except to particular programs who will have full permissions.
For example, the Microsoft Word might be allowed to modify the files in my Documents folder, but other programs (such as the Command Prompt) would not be allowed to.
I'm guessing this requires a file system filter driver of some sort, but I don't know which programs have this capability.
Is there any (free) program that can do this for me?
Disclaimer: I'm totally new to Fink.
I'm trying to install Octave (Matlab open source clone) on Mountain Lion using Fink, following instructions at http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_MacOS_X It's a new installation of Fink, and I've also installed X11 per instructions.
I'm using this command (which I believe is correct since everything's 64 bit now):
sudo fink install octave-atlas
It's hanging after a while, showing this as it's last output:
...
Setting up xft2-dev (2.2.0-2) ...
Clearing dependency_libs of .la files being installed
Reading buildlock packages...
All buildlocks accounted for.
/sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/x11/xinitrc_1.5-1_darwin-x86_64.deb
(Reading database ... 14871 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace xinitrc 1.5-1 (using .../xinitrc_1.5-1_darwin-x86_64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xinitrc ...
Setting up xinitrc (1.5-1) ...
I did notice the process name on the terminal's tab was "sort", so the second time I hit this I tried Control-D (End-of-File), and this did seem to unstick it. I'm wondering if there's some misformed command and sort was trying to read from stdin?
Questions:
1: Has anybody else seen this? Google wasn't helpful
2: Fink outputs a LOT of warnings and errors.... is that normal?
3: wondering if anybody's got Fink to compile Octave on Mountain Lion specifically? And whether they used just "octave" or "octave-atlas". Or if you got it working with MacPorts or Homebrew?
4: later Fink failed with "Failed: phase compiling: gnuplot-minimal-4.6.1-1 failed". I haven't started googling that yet... but wondering if anybody's see that?
Also tried MacPorts but got other errors with Octave.
And reading online it looks like HomeBrew also has issues with Octave on Mountain Lion.
5: Generally looking for anybody who's got Octave running on Mountain Lion with any of the package managers. I've been at this for a couple days ;-)
I've been using OSX's VNC service to connect remotely from a Windows XP box, via TightVNC. Everything seems to work normally, except that frequently - anywhere from ten seconds to ten minutes - the connection locks up entirely, without any sort of error message. The only solution is to reconnect and wait for it to lock up again.
How can this be fixed permanently?
When I execute the following whois command on my Ubuntu server, I get all sorts of other domains which contain google.com in the name, but clearly aren't owned by google. As this appears to be some sort of spam, I won't paste the output here. I'd like to check for exactly the name I typed in. I thought the following would work, but it doesn't. What is the proper way to do an exact match?
whois -Hx google.com
I have an HP Laserjet 1500 that is supported by Windows XP, but not supported by Windows-7. I want to print from my 7 machine(s) to my XP machine on this printer. Is there some sort of way to send a generic job (like sending raw postscript or something) to the XP machine, which will then print it with the proper drivers? Is there a virtual printer that has drivers for both XP and 7 that will just re-print it on the XP machine using the real printer?
Currently the same sender address appears differently in my inbox for different mails. The variations are:
[email protected]
Doe, John
That is because I received some mails before I changed the name to "John Doe" and some after. It is now very annoying to find mails from John because I have to look at two places in my inbox after I sort them by sender. How can I make Outlook always sho "Doe, John"?
I have created an application in c++ using VS .Net. There is only the windows.h dependency in my application, all other header files are standard. But the problem is when I make the release of my application and run on other system it show the error dialog box,
"This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect".
Kindly help me to sort out this problem.
I'm trying to find all duplicate files based upon md5 hash and ordered by file size. So far I have this:
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -I "{}" sh -c 'md5sum "{}" | cut -f1 -d " " | tr "\n" " "; du -h "{}"' | sort -h -k2 -r | uniq -w32 --all-repeated=separate
The output of this is:
1832348bb0c3b0b8a637a3eaf13d9f22 4.0K ./picture.sh
1832348bb0c3b0b8a637a3eaf13d9f22 4.0K ./picture2.sh
1832348bb0c3b0b8a637a3eaf13d9f22 4.0K ./picture2.s
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e 0 ./test(1).log
Is this the most efficient way?
I have a 10G XPF+ optical cable with market updates from a stock exchange. This cable goes into a switch, which then multicasts every packet to a couple of computers. The problem with using a switch for multicast is that there is latency overhead, even with a pass-through switch (~200ns).
Are there "optical" solutions (I'm thinking of a beam splitter of some sort) which would allow for close to zero latency 10G multicast?
I want to rearrange rows with the mouse in Calc.
In Excel, I select the whole row, then drag and drop it while holding SHIFT. This causes the drag and drop cursor to turn into a bar rather than cells, and the cells are inserted at the bar's position.
Is there a way to accomplish the same sort of thing in Calc without going round the houses inserting columns before the drag operation?
What would happen if an ordinary .exe file is copied to explorer.exe? Will it be automatically running as long as explorer.exe is running? This seems like a major security whole...is it even possible? Does anti-virus protect against that sort of thing?
I know almost everything on windows [opening any sort of application] can be done from the command prompt or from the run menu.
How can I put my computer to sleep or Shut it down? What is the command for that?
I am after a solution which will enable me to enter all my hardware/software elements (sort of like resource management), create a set of 'test environments' and assign hardware and software to that test environment for a given period. The idea is so that everyone can see and update what they need in any given environment to meet their project needs.
Does anyone know of any systems out there which can achieve this? Vendor recommendations are welcome, but please call out your interest in it.
We have a System Center Essentials (SCE) server to filter updates to our laptops. We've configured it to download the update, and then the laptops get the update from this server; this of course reduces our internet bandwidth and the time it takes for employees to receive the updates, which reduces the complaints we get about how long updates take.
However we currently have a total of 2,255 updates stored on the server. SCE gives a breakdown:
Updates with installation errors: 29
Updates needed by computers: 280
Updates installed/up-to-date: 0
Updates with no status: 1946
Our little server has 68gb of hard disk space, and the updates are currently taking 32gb and counting.
Some of the updates date back to 2003, but we can't figure out a way to delete them to free up space on the server. Right-clicking an update and clicking Uninstall threatens to remove the update from all computers, which is not what we want. Some of the updates even inform us upon viewing:
This update has been replaced by a newer update. Before declining this update, it is recommended that you approve the new update first and verify that this update is no longer needed by any computers.
How do you prevent your SCE server from filling its hard drive space? Is there a way to configure the server to only keep updates that are still needed?
Furthermore, why (in the above breakdown of updates) are there so many updates with "no status" and 0 updates that are "installed/up-to-date"?
I am looking at the following two drives for a RAID device, which will be streaming normal things but also a lot of video:
Seagate Constellation ES.3 ST4000NM0033 - hard drive - 4 TB - SATA-600
TOSHIBA DT01ACA300 3TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5"
Will the 128 MB cache on the Seagate have an effect in my described scenario, compared to the 64 MB on the Toshiba? If so, what sort of difference can I expect?
I'm using a qnap device, if that matters.
I love idea of TextMate that any directory opened in it is already a project. But sometimes I it would be good to ignore files for certain dir and I don't like idea of creating project file in that dir or remembering how I named project file in some special folder like ~/.tmproject. Is there some sort of plugin or something like this which will allow me to ignore files in dir? Perfect solution would be reading .gitignore file.
Hi all,
I overclocked my nVidia GPU, and now I get it to be much faster, but after a ~40% overclock, I start getting "mistakes" on the screen, like wrongly coloured pixels, glitches and the sort. Temperature is still within limits, as I added extra coolers. So my question is: is this a permanent problem which is damaging the GPU or is only something related to the intrinsic quantum mistake rate of processing calculations?
Thanks for your opinion :-)
I wish to share my hard drives between my two computers but I seem to be running along some sort of error... my windows XP Computer is picking up my "XGaming" hard drive but when clicked it says access is denied, despite there is no password set up(I followed this: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-7/share-files-and-printers-between-windows-7-and-xp/)
I also tried to share my C and J drives on my windows XP computer but my windows 7 computer doesn't seem to even detect them!
What I want to do is to setup a "sort of" radio in my college LAN in which, when I play music in any of the media player installed in my computer, I can share the same to other PCs on LAN via just an M3U file. Also, other PCs should be playing the music on that M3U file, what is being played right now on my "music" server (just like a radio station). I'm looking for a free solution that works on Windows 7 (and if possible, also on Linux)
Thanks.