Just like the title states. How come this setting is disabled (2 in about:config rather than 0) under Linux by default? Is there a reason to not turn it on?
After a cold boot, the hard drive in my notebook jumps to 56? within an hour or so of idling. Is 56? a cause for alarm?
Notes:
The notebook is on a flat desk and none of the vents are obstructed.
The video card is currently at 55? and the CPU at 50?.
It's a Western Digital 250GB hard drive.
SMART reports the drive healthy but does warn that:
Edit: this problem had a very surprise ending. I inverted the notebook and unscrewed some of the panels on the back (there was one covering the hard drive, and one that provided access to the memory). I couldn't see any dust, so I simply screwed everything back together and powered it on... and it worked!
The temperature is now staying at 46?, and it feels notable cooler to the touch. So I can only assume that some internal fan was malfunctioning or something. Whatever the case, it's working now so I won't complain.
Edit: I have an SSD now, so temperature isn't as big an issue as it was when I had a mechanical drive.
I have just installed the DuckDuckGo add-on in Firefox 11.0, running on XP SP 3.
I would like to add additional parameters to the query string. However, any changes I make are not reflected in the query string when doing a search.
I found the duckduckgo.xml file at C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\Profile Name.default\searchplugins. I opened it up with Notepad++ and added the line for kl=uk-en:
<SearchPlugin xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/" xmlns:os="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
<os:ShortName>DuckDuckGo</os:ShortName>
<os:Description>Search DuckDuckGo (SSL)</os:Description>
<os:InputEncoding>UTF-8</os:InputEncoding>
<os:Image width="16" height="16">data:image/x-icon;base64, -Removed to shorten-</os:Image>
<os:Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="https://duckduckgo.com/">
<os:Param name="q" value="{searchTerms}"/>
<os:Param name="kl" value="uk-en"/>
</os:Url>
</SearchPlugin>
However, the kl=uk-en parameter does not appear in the query string when searching (despite several Firefox restarts).
I have a problem with IIS: if I ask an unknown file extension, such as .flv, it doesn't serve it and displays "page not found".
I can configure it in the Mime Types, but I want to be able to specify a wildcard, like in IIS 7, where I can allow all types under "Request Filtering".
Is it possible?
Thanks!
I have a virtual machine containing Windows XP SP3.
When I resized the VHD file (and the embedded partition), and tried booting, I got:
A disk read error occurred
Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart
Some notes:
FixBoot and FixMBR don't help.
ChkDsk doesn't help.
The partition is indeed active.
The partition starts at sector 63 (it also did so before the problem) of cylinder 1, head 1, and is marked as type 0x07 (NTFS)
My host OS reads the VHD and the partition completely fine
I'm interested in knowing the cause rather than the fix. So "re-format the disk", "reinstall Windows", etc. aren't valid solutions.
It's a virtual machine after all... I have nothing to lose, so I don't care about fixing it.
I just want to know what's causing this problem, in case I run into it again on a physical machine (which I have done before).
More info:
The layout of the original, dynamic VHD (which works correctly):
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
¦ Disk: 3 MBR/GPT: MBR ¦
¦ Size: 127.00GB CHS: 16578 255 63 ¦
¦ Sectors: 266338304 Disk Signature: 0xEE3EEE3E ¦
¦ Partitions: 1 Partition Order: 1 ¦
¦ Media Type: Fixed Interface: SCSI ¦
¦ Description: Msft Virtual Disk ¦
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------¦
¦Pos Idx Type/Name Size Boot Hide Start Sector Total Sectors DL Vol Label ¦
+--- --- --------- ---- ---- ---- -------------- -------------- -- -----------¦
¦ 1 1 07-NTFS 1.5G Yes No 63 3,148,677 F: <None> ¦
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
The layout of the resized, fixed-size VHD (which doesn't work):
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
¦ Disk: 3 MBR/GPT: MBR ¦
¦ Size: 1.50GB CHS: 196 255 63 ¦
¦ Sectors: 3149824 Disk Signature: 0xEE3EEE3E ¦
¦ Partitions: 1 Partition Order: 1 ¦
¦ Media Type: Fixed Interface: SCSI ¦
¦ Description: Msft Virtual Disk ¦
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------¦
¦Pos Idx Type/Name Size Boot Hide Start Sector Total Sectors DL Vol Label ¦
+--- --- --------- ---- ---- ---- -------------- -------------- -- -----------¦
¦ 1 1 07-NTFS 1.5G Yes No 63 3,148,677 F: <None> ¦
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
For some reason when watching quicktime moves in firefox the transport bar is completely black. I can still use it to fast forward and rewind but I can't actually see any of the buttons. Any clue how to fix this?
I've updated to the latest version of quicktime but it didn't help.
I've also verified that this behavior is the same in both firefox and chrome.
I would like to watch DVDs from two different regions on a Mac mini. Can I do this by connecting an external DVD drive and using the internal drive for one region and the external for the other?
Are there additional restrictions in the DVD playing software? If so, how can they be circumvented?
I had an idea of using my Windows VM (on a Ubuntu host) to open itms:// links (for iTunes) from the host. So, I'm using vboxmanage guestcontrol to make this happen.
I have a script (win_vm_launcher.sh) that takes a link as the argument, and passes it to the host like this:
vboxmanage guestcontrol "$VM" exec --image 'C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe' --username "$USER" --password "$PASSWORD" -- /c start "$@"
This works if I copy a link from my browser, and change http to itms. E.g., for https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/new-york-city/id3202598, I can do win_vm_launcher.sh itmss://itunes.apple.com/us/album/new-york-city/id3202598 and it works fine. The album opens up in iTunes on my VM.
However, when I click a "View in iTunes" link from the iTunes site, it adds an extra parameter to the URI (specifically, the referrer), so it looks something like itmss://itunes.apple.com/us/album/new-york-city/id3202598?ign-msr=https%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fus%2Falbum%2Fit-came-upon-midnight-clear%2Fid578946739
Unfortunately, if I try to run win_vm_launcher.sh itmss://itunes.apple.com/us/album/new-york-city/id3202598?ign-msr=https%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fus%2Falbum%2Fit-came-upon-midnight-clear%2Fid578946739 it insteads opens up a regular Command Prompt window with the title "itmss://itunes.apple.com/us/album/new-york-city/id3202598?ign-msr=https%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fus%2Falbum%2Fit-came-upon-midnight-clear%2Fid578946739". I don't even know how to set the command prompt window title, so I'm not sure how that's happening.
If I run the command in the guest, it works fine, opening the album in iTunes:
cmd /c start itmss://itunes.apple.com/us/album/new-york-city/id3202598?ign-msr=https%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fus%2Falbum%2Fit-came-upon-midnight-clear%2Fid578946739
I found a VirtualBox bug that seems somewhat related, but not exactly.
It probably doesn't matter, but my host is Ubuntu 12.04, and my guest is Windows 7.
So, any idea if vboxmanage is incorrectly passing the arguments, and if so, is there a way around it?
If I can't figure out the right way to do it, I'll end up having to process each argument, and stripping out any parameters on any URIs.
P.S.
I tried creating a batch script (out.bat) like this:
echo %1 > %TEMP%/testing.txt
and then running it from the host like this: vboxmanage guestcontrol "$VM" exec --image 'C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe' --username "$USER" --password "$PASSWORD" -- /c "C:\path\to\out.bat" "itmss://itunes.apple.com/us/album/new-york-city/id3202598?ign-msr=https%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fus%2Falbum%2Fit-came-upon-midnight-clear%2Fid578946739"
It ran as expected, and when I open %TEMP%/testing.txt, it contained:
"itmss://itunes.apple.com/us/album/new-york-city/id3202598?ign-msr=https%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fus%2Falbum%2Fit-came-upon-midnight-clear%2Fid578946739"
including the quotes. So, it sort of passed the parameter correctly (not sure why it still had quotes), so maybe the problem is with cmd.exe, or even the start command. I'm stymied.
I've finally decided that pen and paper/whiteboards are not up to the job as my workload increases so I'm looking for a good task tracking system.
I need something that can track tasks in categories (projects) and allow me to assign priority to each task.
I've tried iTeamWork which requires projects to have an end time which is no good for me as at least one of my projects is ongoing. I also tried Teamly which was required tasks to be set to a specific day which is no good as tasks sometimes take more than a day and I would like them organised by priority rather than specific days.
Preferably looking for something hosted but I'm happy to install on our servers if it supports PHP/MySQL.
Oh, and an iPhone client would be the icing on the cake!
Can anyone recommend anything?
Guys, can anyone help me with the following problem?
I've made an image of a QNX 6 machine by Norton Ghost. An I want to open this image on my Windows XP machine and to change some files in it. When I'm trying to do so, ghost32 says "Filesystem is not supported".
Is there any solution for that?
I'm on a company network and I want to protect my private files (or folders) from others (i.e. those who can access my computer) to view and copy. Those files are mostly MS Office and PDF files. What kind of free protection methods can I use?
In order to consolidate all my email, I wanted to forward all my Gmail(2 accounts) to a new Live(Hotmail) account.
I wanted all email arriving at my Gmail account to be forwarded to my Hotmail(easy enough) BUT I ALSO want all email arriving at Gmail to be replied back to sender with a message like: "Your email has been delivered BUT the user has moved onto [email protected] . Please further all communication to this email".
Using Outlook as my email client, how can I work this out?
Does Windows provide a command line utility that lets me check a domain user's password? It is sufficient that the utility returns success(0) if I provide a matching domain user name and password. Alternatively, is there a simple VB/JS script that can do this?
I'm the Intranet admin of my company and have the default password set for corporate staff, so I'd like to quickly scan which users have not changed their default password.
Better yet, are there any books or websites which cover such topics so that I can get more information?
I am trying to do dynamic portforwarding using openssh through a remote computer following this command:
ssh -D 6789 rohan@<remote_ip> -p <remote_port>
This should set up a socks server on my comp as I assume.
I am able to use this for normal browsing but can't connect to IRC or remote ssh (through proxychains).
I get this error:
channel 3: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused
A high verbosity level output of the error:
$ debug1: Connection to port 6789 forwarding to socks port 0 requested.
debug2: fd 9 setting TCP_NODELAY
debug2: fd 9 setting O_NONBLOCK
debug3: fd 9 is O_NONBLOCK
debug1: channel 3: new [dynamic-tcpip]
debug2: channel 3: pre_dynamic: have 0
debug2: channel 3: pre_dynamic: have 4
debug2: channel 3: decode socks5
debug2: channel 3: socks5 auth done
debug2: channel 3: pre_dynamic: need more
debug2: channel 3: pre_dynamic: have 0
debug2: channel 3: pre_dynamic: have 10
debug2: channel 3: decode socks5
debug2: channel 3: socks5 post auth
debug2: channel 3: dynamic request: socks5 host 4.2.2.2 port 53 command 1
debug3: Wrote 96 bytes for a total of 3335
channel 3: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused
debug2: channel 3: zombie
debug2: channel 3: garbage collecting
debug1: channel 3: free: direct-tcpip: listening port 6789 for 4.2.2.2 port 53, connect from 127.0.0.1 port 33694, nchannels 4
debug3: channel 3: status: The following connections are open:
#2 client-session (t4 r0 i0/0 o0/0 fd 6/7 cfd -1)
debug3: channel 3: close_fds r 9 w 9 e -1 c -1
I googled for this too, but couldn't find any solutions.
I have a Brother MFC-J615W printer/scanner and I wish to use the scanning feature across a network with a computer running 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04. I have installed the drivers from the Brother website and followed all of the instructions, and printing works fine, but xsane (installed from repositories) produces a popup with the message "no devices available" on startup. I recently had success with a similar approach when installing drivers for a Brother MFC-495CW on 32-bit Unbuntu 9.10, so I am aware of issues such as requiring root access if the driver permissions are not set correctly, but running xsane as root does not solve this problem.
Are there any tools available to debug this problem further or does anyone have advice on how to proceed?
I have a netbook running Windows 8.1 Pro that will no longer allow more than one user to be logged in at the same time. The steps necessary to reproduce this are as follows:
The current user presses WIN to bring up the start screen.
The user clicks his name in the corner and a list of other users appears.
As soon as one of the other names is clicked, the user is unceremoniously logged off without any prompts.
This behavior seems to have started some time after upgrading to Windows 8.1 from Windows 8. Before that point, everything worked fine and more than one user could be logged in at the same time. I've tried searching for others experiencing similar problems but this appears to be unique.
System Details:
CPU: Intel Atom N455 @ 1.66 GHz
RAM: 1 GB
OS: Windows 8.1 Pro w/ Media Center 32-bit
Is it possible to create an SSH tunnel over http-proxy when https access is denied?
I had such configuration in .ssh\config
Host home
User root
Hostname *my-home-pc-with-ssh-access-allowed*
Port 8090
ProxyCommand corkscrew db-isa-01 8080 %h %p ~/.ssh/.corkscrew-db-isa-auth
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
Where db-isa-01 is my corporate proxy server. Today the admins blocked all https access and allowed it only for few servers on the white list.
I used this command to create a tunnel:
ssh -D 7070 -o 'GatewayPorts yes' -A -q -g -t root@home
and now it doesn't work. As I can understand, that's because our proxy denies all https connections
Proxy could not open connnection to ***: Proxy Error ( The specified
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) port is not allowed. Forefront TMG is not configured to
allow SSL requests from this port. Most Web browsers use port 443 for SSL requests. )
P.S. I use Windows 7, and corscskrew with cygwin, so Linux solutions not suitable for me.
I want to install and use the famed LargeFile plugin to help make opening large files quicker and easier. I've installed other plugins for gVim successfully, by simply placing the '.vim' file in the /plugins folder. But this plugin is a little different, in that it comes as a gzipped '.vba' file. After I unzip it, what do I do next? As I understand it, the same author created vimballPlugin.vim, which is supposed to execute it?
i have a situation here, i bought a new dell xps 15z and was successful in making drive partitions through the help of this site (http://superuser.com/questions/313082/dell-xps-15-l502x-hard-drive-partition)
now i have
drive C with 100.55gb and a new volume with 578.45gb
im planning to use EaseUS again to undo this and resize my drive C but im scared i might cause damage to my drive, is there a proper way to undo this and transfer the remaining 78.45gb from the new volume back to my drive C again? please help
hi i have an iphone 2g firmware 3.1.3 ifone is jailbroken have install0us and appcake on it. i have downloaded tunein radio version 1.4 from apptrckr. it installed fine but i cannot open it. i wuold click on it, it would start i mean for like 1 second, then just close. i dont know whats wrong with it. can some please help me. i have kill sb on it, which restarts the spring board. i tried turning it off n back on again. deleted and re-installed. deleted it and turnt ifone off and back on, then re-installed it. it doesn't seem 2 work at all. any one know what 2 do. mind it is a cracked app. thankz..!!
Let's say I open Outlook and compose an email and choose a totally random font and hit send.
Let's assume I have Outlook set to send in HTML format, and my mail server sends HTML and the recipients server receives HTML, and their client displays HTML etc.
However, let's assume their PC doesn't have the font I chose installed (could be Windows, Mac, Linux, anything).
What happens next with regards to how it chooses a font to display the message?
I would like to setup a gaming VPN. Ie. I have some games that work over LAN and would like to play them with people that are not on my LAN. I know I can do this with OpenVPN.
My ultimate goal would be to run OpenVPN portably on my host OS and not even need any virtualization. As such i don't want to install it on my host, but i'm fine with running it portably. I'm even fine with temporarily adding registry keys, and then running a .reg file to remove these entries once i'm done. To this effect i have installed OpenVPN on a virtual machine and diffed the registry. I then manually (using a .reg file) added all the keys that seem important on my host OS and copied the installation folder of OpenVPN onto my host machine. Then i try to run openVPN GUI 1.0.3 as a test and it says "Error opening registy for reading (HKLM\SOFTWARE\OpenVPN). OpenVPN is probably not installed". I verified that that key is indeed in the registry with all subkeys and it looks correct. I have tried running the GUI as an administrator and in compatibility mode with no success. I am running Windows 7.
If this fails then i would be happy with installing OpenVPN on a virtual machine in VMWare but they key is that i will be running the game installed on my host machine. The first question for this option is if this is even possible. The second is, that I can't get the VM to have internet access if I use bridging but i can if i use NAT. Is it possible to do this game VPN setup with VMWare guest OS running using NAT?
Summary of questions:
-Is it possible to run openVPN portably and if so what did i miss above?
-If it's not possible to run it portably, then can setup a gaming LAN by installing OpenVPN in a guest OS with NAT and how can i do this?
-If the above is not possible then can i install OpenVPN in a guest using bridging and if so how can i set this up with a Windows 7 host and Windows XP guest as currently i can't get the guest to be able to access the internet in bridging mode, but it working in NAT mode.
-In general is there any good documentation on setting up a gaming LAN with OpenVPN (i am using 2.1.4) as i have never set up a VPN of any sort before so any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
I have a co-worker that is no longer able to see his start menu. He used to have it pinned to the left edge of his screen. I tried to troubleshoot it a bit and discovered if we do Windows + R then "cmd" [enter] the command prompt opens (but we don't see the start menu or run box), meaning the start menu is somewhere, just off screen. Restarting doesn't help. Is there some way to force Windows to think it only has a single monitor? It seems to "think" it has two but there's only one and we can get the Start menu back. Or, is there a way to restore the start menu to the bottom?
Additional info
We are able to right-click the desktop for display settings, etc. We can also get into Windows Explorer (via Ctrl + E) so if we need any of that to restore settings we can do it.
I've set up a scheduled task in Windows 7 Pro to open up Internet Explorer 9 (x86 version) in kiosk mode. The scheduled task executes when a certain user logs in, and this user is logged in automatically when Windows starts.
This is the command I'm using to start IE:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" -k http://example.com
So far so good - the computer boots up, the user gets logged in, and IE opens up in kiosk mode. The problem is that IE seems to open behind the taskbar - so the taskbar (start menu, pinned programs, etc.) appears at the bottom of the window, and the bottom of the IE window is visible through the taskbar (since the taskbar is translucent).
Is there anything I can do, preferably without installing any third party programs (although I will go for that option if none other is available), to ensure that the IE9 kiosk window always opens in front of the taskbar?
Hi,
My Goal here is to be able to transfer files from my Ubuntu 10.04 box to my PS3 over a wireless network. My PS3 and my Ubuntu Box is on the same home network.
These are some stuff that I tried:
I can't see my PS 3 from 'Places ? Network' nor other computer that is running on windows. I am still puzzled by this fact. I have not tried ping-ing my PS3. I'll try that later today and post the result in the forum
I install PS3MediaServer (http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/). Someone in the PS3 chat forum (http://www.ps3chat.com/playstation-3...lp-please.html) claims that it will enable your ubuntu box to browse PS3. So I downloaded PS3MediaServer, and ran the software. The status tab keep showing "Waiting ...". It seems that PS3MediaServer can't find my PS3.
Some how I feel that 1 and 2 are related somehow.Perhaps that there is something wrong with my Ubuntu network settings that is preventing my ubuntu box from looking up other device on the network. I can go to the Internet fine, but I can't see other device on my network.
Does anyone have any experience in this area. I would like to hear your experience and perhaps some solution. Any kind of hints or help will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers