It is possible to access the Windows Store from a remote desktop session and initiate the Windows 8.1 Update from the Windows Store, but the update hangs after the first reboot, likely waiting for the user to accept the license check. This leaves the computer unusable remotely.
Is there a way to pre-accept the license terms so that the update can…
I'm trying to provide a wired ethernet connection (wireless is not an option for this device) to a device (Samsung blu-ray player) without running Cat5 cable all over the home. I have a PC sitting next to this device and the PC is connected to the network via a wireless USB adapter.
Is it possible to provide a wired connection from the PC to…
Is there something fundamentally different about hard drives and optical drives regarding how they communicate with the computer? I ordered a SATA to USB adapter from Monoprice and I want to know whether it will work with an SATA optical drive removed from a MacBook Pro.
Can anyone shed some light on the subject?
I've run into an issue with my KVM host which runs VMs on a LVM volume. As of last night the logical volumes are no longer seen as such (I can't create snapshots of them even though I have been for months now).
Running any scans all result in nothing being found:
[root@apollo ~]# pvscan
No matching physical volumes found
[root@apollo ~]#…
Hi there,
I bought a new notebook that came with Win7 Home Premium.
I know want to sell my home premium license and buy a profesionell one.
Is it possible to just change the key in my current running and ready-configuerd win7 home premium, or do I need ti reinstall the system?
Thanks for your help!
I'm working towards getting NGINX working with PHP5 in fastcgi mode. I've grabbed a config from the net and followed the instructions, and tried starting the service, which throws the message below.
root@zedfastdev:/var/www/nginx-default# /etc/init.d/php-fastcgi restart
* Restarting php-cgi in external FASTCGI mode php-fastcgi …
Is it possible to configure Lotus Notes to not show images in emails? Some external image links contain tracking data and I'd rather not let spammers know I've got their messages.
I have written a query that results in data being retrieved for the top 5 customers in my table per account manager.
Here is the query:
SELECT account_manager_id, mgap_ska_id, total
FROM
(SELECT account_manager_id, mgap_ska_id, mgap_growth + mgap_recovery AS total,
@grp_rank := IF(@current_accmanid =…
I have an odd error that doesn't seem to fit in with any of the other odd Windows 7 x64 USB errors that have been kicked up on Google. Here we go:
Uninstalled Tortoise SVN and clicked restart computer. My machine had been up for around 28 days
On reboot my mouse and keyboard failed to work anymore, couldn't log…
I have a Windows 2003 Server running IIS with php 5.2.8, I'm trying to use CURL, and it works in CLI mode (if i execute php.exe) but it does not seem to be registered when running under IIS.
The output of PHP info in both CLI and IIS show the same 'Loaded Configuration File', but under IIS it does not give the…
I have a lab of computers running Ubuntu 9.10. Most of the people who log on to these computers are users from an LDAP server, and not local users. We discovered that if an LDAP user has a crontab with an entry marked to be run @reboot, the command will not actually run upon the reboot of a machine.
I'm pretty…
I'm working on a new server built with Unbuntu 10.04, running php-fastcgi, nginx, and memcached.
phpinfo() script loads and works great, same as a test memcached script. For any script using sessions, page load time rockets through the roof.
--- memcached.ini ---
extension=memcached.so
memcache.hash_strategy…
I'm trying to fix the floppy drive in my Roland MC-500. The floppy drive inside is a Matsushita DDF3-1 which doesn't seem to be in production anymore. The DDF3-2 is still available, however it is an HD drive.
Does anyone know off the top of their heads if there is any issue with simply swapping the two…
Is it possible to perform a shell operation from a bash script through a secure shell.
Here is an example of why you may want to do this. Lets say you have a simple unix operating system that you need only build and run on, but you want to do all of the development on another machine. I want to write…
I've tried deleting a directory using "rm -rf" and I'm getting the message "Directory not empty":
Bens-MacBook-Pro:please benjaminhocking$ ls -lart empty_directory/
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 5 benjaminhocking staff 170 Aug 27 14:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 benjaminhocking staff 102 Aug 27 15:28 ..…
We run IIS websites on a VMWare production server that pull image content and video content from a separate IIS instance on another server (media server). The media calls (images and video) are straight http:// calls and not using a streaming application. During peak traffic periods,…
How do i change defalut colors for a new Textbox in PowerPoint 2007? I am using a custom themed presentation template that someone gave me and every time I create a new text box it is white text on white background.
I want keylogging software on my laptop for lifelogging purposes. But the software I can find is targeted towards stealth activity. Can anyone recommend a keylogging software targeted towards personal backup.
Ideal Functionality
Runs publicly (like in the task bar).
Easy to turn off…
Windows XP/2k3 and earlier (can't attest to Vista, but suspect it's the same) all appear to become more sluggish over time as applications are installed and uninstalled.
This is not a scientifically tested observation, but more of a learned-through-experience piece of wisdom. (I've…
On my site there are some digital files which can be downloaded through a PHP script. The script works fine for small files but large files i.e. 115MB cannot be downloaded successfully. The connection dies after around 15 minutes but it's not consistent - sometimes longer sometimes…
I have written a custom puppet function, which is working fine, that depends on the cloudservers gem (a Rackspace client library). This is fine if I have pre-installed the gem on a server before running puppet but totally breaks if I have not installed the gem as the function seems…
I have written some scripts which I use to configure various servers in a uniform way. Each time I deploy a server I run the relevant scripts so that I know they're all configured the same.
I then have some patch scripts, which are changes to the originals which I can then run to…
Is there a good task manager or utility for Windows XP that gives deep visibility into the processes and threads running on the current system? I know that the task manager on my Windows 7 PC has a lot more information than does Windows XP. Any ideas?
Chrome's new tab offers the 8 websites you like to visit. Unfortunately for one of the sites, 4chan.org, the main page is a directory, not somewhere I want to go. I would like the 4chan.org thumb to instead open to 4chan.org/u/, taking me directly there instead of the main…