I've just had to install Windows 7 on my Media Center machine because my Vista installation had a faulty drive.
I've got the latest drivers that I can find - Intel 945GM integrated Graphics, Realtek audio drivers.
Things are working OK with one exception.
Playback of old recordings, from dvr-Microsoft format files, is choppy. The picture freezes…
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I'm running Windows 7, and am connecting to a Linux server using Putty. For some programs I'm writing, I need to be able to pass EOF to the input. On Linux I'd normally type Ctrl-Z, but in Putty that seems to exit the program. Ctrl-D doesn't seem to work either.
I have had a look at:…
I have a server running an older version of Ubuntu and with /var stored on a separate partition on a separate hard drive. I am attempting to update Ubuntu to 10.04, but I still want to store /var on a separate partition and hard drive. However, I don't want to format the drive which…
I created a custom service in Automator to open a new finder window from whatever app I'm in, and assigned it to CMD+E (I was trying to get the WIN+E effect from Windows.) I tried it for a few days, restarted the computer daily, but found it didn't work that well. So I removed the…
It'll take a little long to describe my situation but here goes the story :
In January 2009 we bought (the OEM parts) two similar systems with just one difference. One of them had a Phenom X4 cpu and the other one (mine) a Phenom X3 cpu. At the beginning we had problems with both…
I'm building a home office and looking for the ultimate desk. Lot's of resources about the great desk chairs, but very little on great modern desks.
Requirements: $1000-$2000. Straight. No side cabinets. Attractive.
Electric adjustable would be nice, but I haven't found…
http://superuser.com/questions/73327/can-i-use-a-windows-7-professional-32-bit-oem-licence-to-install-the-64-bit-versi
This questions asks it generically, but does anybody know specifically about Lenovo outlet computers?
I want to buy an outlet computer with Windows 7 Home…
I have a Powerbook G4 17" and I recently updated to the Mac OS 10.5.8 and got a monitor. I put it to sleep by closing the lid and sometimes it resumes normally and sometimes it doesn't. It doesn't matter if it's on sleep for a day or 10 minutes, it just happens randomly. It…
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I am currently enjoying the powerful features of screen sharing. I was wondering though, if it would be possible to share my screen with another Mac. I have a Macbook Pro that can connect to a Mac mini (which in its turn is connected to a flatscreen). Is this possible…
Specifically, I'm running Mint 8 (Helena). I'm extremely new to Linux, and was searching for a solution that was user-friendly and GUI oriented. The box won't be used for much other than web browsing and word processing.
Anyway, it runs relatively smoothly, except for…
I developed a website and it loads in every other system but certainly not in mine ... WHen i used firebug my request show 503 Service Unavailable
EDIT:
My response was,
Server squid/2.6.STABLE21
Date Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:25:18 GMT
Content-Type text/html…
All partitions are NTFS. The system is Windows 7 Pro. It does not belong to a domain. I do use shared folders occasionally (both via the Homegroup and old school sharing). Should I set the owner to be Administrators or SYSTEM for a
A) fixed drive?
B)…
I have installed LMDE (with grub in MBR) after I installed Windows 8.1. I then installed the grub-efi package and added the custom Windows options:
#!/bin/sh
exec tail -n +3 $0
menuentry "Windows" {
search --fs-uuid --no-floppy --set=root…
I'm using Outlook Web Access to read my email. When I receive a meeting notice and acknowledge it, Outlook adds it to my calendar then deletes the email. Is there a way to disable Outlook automatically deleting the meeting email?
There doesn't…
In VLC Player (v1.01), how do I zoom video and control aspect ratio with fine control, as is possible with Media Player Classic Home Cinema (MPCHC)? The standard zoom appears to only support double, normal, quarter size etc, not useful to me at…
This is a problem for me because this site is important to me.
It's MY website. And sadly my email is hosted on my site (which I cant access either)
When I try to access my website when connected to my Linksys E3000 router, these days it…
In one column I have a bitstring encoded as a string type. In a different column I wish to have the same bits (potentially starting with a leading 0), but as a binary value type. Ultimately, I want to have it in hex representation (string…
I like to use the mouse as little as possible, but I find Nautilus useful enough to use it when browsing for files. If I want to rename a file while in Nautilus I can hit the F2 key; is there a way I can chmod, too? I really hate going…
I'm getting the below error message while trying to browse to a local share on a Windows Server 2003 machine:
Windows cannot find ### this file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an…
I don't know if this is a configuration issue or a hardware issue, but I have a Kinesis Advantage USB keyboard and for some reason the F3-F5 keys aren't responding as they used to. They don't respond to anything and, when I…
Under Ubuntu 8.10, bash shell, the LANG and LC_ALL variables are not set:
user@machine1:~$ locale
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"…
A friend of mine has recently purchased a laptop in the U.S. that has Windows 7 Home Premium on it with an English interface. Not being a native English speaker, I'm trying to change the interface language to…