Win7 Home Prem 32-bit
Is there a way to set the default location of the windows explorer window when you open it?
For example whenever i open windows explorer i want it to open on the 'My Documents' folder.
Background:
I am writing a test script for a piece of computational biology software. The software I am testing can take days or even weeks to run, so it has a recover functionality built in, in the case of system crashes or power failures.
I am trying to figure out how to test the recovery system. Specifically, I can't figure out a way to "crash"…
How does one judge potential memory and processor needs for linux web servers? Specifically, given:
A Debian or Ubuntu OS
Running a web server (apache2), and
A database (MySQL), and
A DNS server (bind), and
Being used by up to 100 concurrent users, at some points each downloading high-resolution (0.5 to 1 MB) images via a web app.
How much…
My parents have a reasonably ancient Visioneer 4400 USB scanner. The power supply has died. (I figured this out because I have a hard drive enclosure with a very similar power supply, and it worked.)
Where can I find a replacement one?
I was messing around with solaris and decided to give Solaris 11 a try so I downloaded it from the Oracle website. After installing the OS, I went into the package manager and did an update. It told me that there were to available updates! I find this hard to believe considering that it's running a vulnerable version of firefox and java, its own…
For some reason, MS decided to completely kill the status bar's functionality in Win7 (and maybe Vista, but I don't know for sure). I have tried all possible options such as Classic Shell and so on. Basically, the one thing I miss most is seeing at a glance the total size of my selected files. I know I can press Alt+Enter or whatever, but that's…
I am newbie struggling to move a file on a Linux VPS using PuTTY.
I can log in with a user in PuTTY at this point I can navigate to see the file I wish to move (~/servers/apache-solr-3.6.2/example/webapps/solr.war).
By using cd .. a couple of times from the directory I begin at when I first log in to PuTTY I can then navigate to the location I…
I want to measure the overhead in creating a TCP connection.
I know of many tools like hping and netperf, but they seem oriented at measuring latency.
I want to know how long the 3-way handshake takes, and allocating any buffers, etc., and then closing it. So I want to open a real, legitimate TCP connection, and then close it.
Are there any…
I’ve set up ten Windows 7 user accounts, so that I can test different versions of Google Chrome*. I’ve named the accounts “Chrome 01”, “Chrome 02”, and so on.
Ideally, I’d like the accounts sorted on the login screen by Chrome version, which is why I added the leading zero to the version number (assuming it was an alphabetic sort). However,…
I have a need to provide an high-availability ftp/http file repository. Upload will happne to one server, but the uploaded file must be immediately visisble on all other servers
I can handle the failover of the servers themeselves using load balancers. But in the event of failure of one server, the other servers must see the same contents…
I've got a problem pasting data from the result grid of SQL Server 2005 to an excel 2007 spreadsheet.
I have a query in SQL Server that returns 2 columns (a number column and a text column)
On one computer here i can happily copy (right-click copy) and then just right-click and paste into an excel spreadsheet. no problem.
On another…
Why can a mp3 file-name be 165 characters long in its original folder, but when searching that folder, the search results window only allows editing of the first 130 characters of that same mp3 filename? This did not happen in XP! The problem occurs with both local and external drives. The act of searching doesn't somehow add to the…
I have a growing number of PCs and laptops in my home that need a backup solution. My question is 2 fold:
Most commercial backup vendors
appear to license by the machine,
are there any products that give a
license that can be used on all your
machines, without a per machine
cost?
An alternative is to have a
centrally controlled back up…
At work (UK university) we use a set of Windows servers running WS2008R2 and RRAS which offer VPN service to students in our accommodation. We do this to associate the network connections with individuals. Before they've connected to the VPN all they can talk to is the stuff thats needed to setup the VPN and a local web site with…
We have a Dell 2950 with PERC and 14 external SAS 15K 73GB drives. An Oracle database job takes 3 hours to run with the drives set as hardware RAID 10 (striped across 7 mirrored pairs). The same job with the drives in RAID 1 takes only 1 hour. OS is Win 2008 R2 I think.
Before we change the RAID level (with considerable…
For a programming project I would like to access the temperature readings from my CPU and GPUs. I will be using C#.
From various forums I get the impression that there is specific information and developer resources you need in order to access that information for various boards.
I have a MSI NF750-G55 board. MSI's…
I'd like every tweet about certain topics saved, so tweets with a certain hashtab, word, user, etc.
To reiterate, if I see a tweet, I want to save it forever and ever.
I'm running ubuntu linux, but a web app is fine.
FC11 beta upgraded to FC12. When I do yum list I see listing on the far right column as follows: 'fedora' 'installed' and '@fedora'. Previously I never had '@fedora' and only seemed to appear when I upgraded from FC11-FC12.
Also when i look at the kernels installed I have
kernel-PAE 2.6.30-0.97.rc.fc12 installed…
I want to download the following subdomain with the recursive option using wget:
www.example.com/A/B
So if that URL has links to www.example.com/A/B/C and www.example.com/A/B/D, these two should also be downloaded.
But I don't want anything outside the www.example.com/A/B subdomain to be downloaded. For example,…
I was trying to remove a virus and foolishly did not backup registry keys I deleted because I (thought) I only deleted entries from the folders of programs I did not care about. However, I think I have done something wrong here:
Now when I open a context menu (right click) in any location and hover over the…
Recently, an in-house Microsoft Small Business Server 2011 was installed where I work. Unfortunately, our buildings have a bad electrical power supply and we suffer frequent outages. We have a large percentage of staff working off-site. Now when the power goes off here, everyone everywhere loses email…
I know i can use Domain Tools and the like for checking if a domain name is available but is there some way to be alerted when a certain domain name becomes available that is currently taken?
On my Exchange server I can drop appropriately formatted text files in the "pickup" directory and Exchange will process them.
I'd like to split this bulk mailing functionality onto another box to protect our business mail IP from the bumpy ride that our monthly newsletter gives us.
I should note at…