Hi, If I have a windows oem cd but use the key from my technet account, does this in any way, effect the windows installation? Does this have any legal repercussions? Thanks

I downloaded and installed VMWare Player. I already have Windows XP installed on this drive. I would like to be able to run XP via VMWare Player off of the installation instead of creating an image and duplicating my existing installation. What is the easiest way to do this? Do I need VMWare W...

I asked Windows 7 to index my entire "Media" folder. After it was done it'd find anything in there, no problem. Then I reorganized it a bit and moved some folders around, and now it doesn't find things inside those folders anymore. For example, I'm looking at a folder with the files: 01. Ferry ...

I change my active playback devices often so I need a responsive way to make the changes. Unfortunately, when I right click volume system icon and select playback devices, it takes 10 to 15 seconds for the Sound window to finally show. Why would this be? No other issues with slowness. More info...

What version of java (if any) comes with Windows 7 default install? Is java even installed by default in windows 7?

I have a gigabyte UDR5 with 12GB Ram, and i7 920. The os runs of 2 x 80GB x25 SSDs in raid0 (mobo software raid) and I have 4 x 320GB raid5 for storage (2 year old drives). Running windows 7 Ultimate x64 In the last 2 or 3 weeks my PC started freezing randomly, recently every 20 minutes or so. T...

I was wondering what was a good easy utility to use for merging avi and wav files? Thanks in advance!

I'd like openSUSE to automatically load a kernel module (e.g. libsas) at boot time even no device requires it. In Ubuntu, you would add the module name to the file /etc/modules. Is this the correct place for openSUSE as well?

I'm using Casper 6.0 to create an image of my XP machine. After upgrading from version 4.0 I started getting a strange error when doing a SmartClone of my hard drive. Warning: The contents of folder "\?\D:*.*" could not be accessed. Warning: The file "\?\D:\" could not be copied. I kn...

Hello, I'm trying to configure openvpn client on ubuntu lucid lynx 10.04. We have configured openvpn server with certificate as keys to connect. Its works with Debian. But how do configure it in ubuntu. The ubuntu documentation did not satisfied me and also it tells me to use username & pass...

Is there an easy way to increase hard disk space on VirtualBox?

Hello, I installed 3M MT7.13 Touchscreen software on win7 x64. Immediately after I did I lost the ability to double click an icon on the desktop using the mouse (not the touchscreen). Also, in save/open dialogs and media player double clicking will rename the file instead of open/play/save it. I...

I just moved into a new house and it's wired for ethernet. There's a junction box that has a "Bridged Telecom Module TM-8" in it. My cable modem's phone jack is plugged into the "Line In" on that box and their are 8 slots all running to various ports in the house. All the jacks in the house are R...

Somewhat predictably, removing iTunes on Mac OS X is a long arduous process, described at http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1224 — which I have followed. As far as I can tell, I have purged every trace of the accursed iTunes from my system. Yet Software Update repeatedly prompts me with updates for i...

Hi, I am looking to get a new corpoarate VOIP solution, but dont know where to turn. I need one that offers an affordable option to backup and monitor all phone activity conversations and that will work with our intercome system. we have around 40 users. i need to the solution to automatically...

I was able to install the driver and make it work. However, tap-to-click appears to be on by default, and I think this would work much better if I could turn that off. The problem with just installing the drivers is you don't get the boot camp control panel so you can't adjust settings. Has an...

I would like to backup my dad's home computer to a remote server. Challenges: His machine runs Windows XP I would like to backup his whole drive (40GB) His upload bandwidth is not spectacular (384kbps) My current plan is to install cygwin on his box, and configure rsnapshot on my remote serve...

Hello. I own an iPad and an iPhone 4 and my Mac has a Dell UltraSharp 3008WFP 30-inch (2560x1600) display connected to it. I have a wealth of both 720p and 1080p ‘MKV’ videos of various television shows and movies and I wanted to convert them to a format that would be compatible with both my iOS...

How can I learn to debug network problems? Seeing as I never studied networking at university, my knowledge of networks is quite limited and I don't really have any idea of where to start. I found a list of networking tools.

my pc was running normally an hour ago, when i restarted it because i installed something, after the welcome screen, there are no desktop icons already and the programs in the start menu are also limited, and i cant ctrl+alt+delete and i cant even right clicked on my desktop, when i hover into my...

I've just started out learning to program and I'm making a "Radio Scheduler" for my brother as a mini project. I wanted to make an "install" script, which would add an item to Ubuntu's Main Menu. I believe all that is necessary is to create a .desktop file and place it it /usr/share/applications/...

Even though I've written quite a bit of software myself, and consider myself relatively knowledgable, computer-wise, I have never successfully built someone else's project from source. NEVER. And I've tried--oh, I've tried. There are always missing header files, obscure errors, ridiculously long ...

I am using HDMI to connect the monitor to my computer (running windows xp). Before leaving the office I turn off the monitor while being still logged in (I am only locking the screen). On the next day, I have the problem after turning on the monitor again that it cannot find any signal. Now I hav...

Trying to find this file on the CD.

I have the following autocommand, which basically strips whitespace at the end of each line. Unfortunately, at each save, it inserts a step into the undo to jump to the beginning to the file, which is quite annoying. Is there a way to make vim ignore jumping around in the following command, so th...

I'm considering buying a Sun Ultra 24 workstation case, however I'd like to know the limitation of such a case. Such as; Compatible motherboards, and whether a full length pci-x express board would fit in. Will it take any off the shelf power supply? How to hook up the firewire and USB ports o...

I've got new version of grub from the newest linux. Do you know how to disable quiet booting ? Because I've got problem with my graphics card and to fix it I need recovery mode.

Hello there, i saw ur message in how to create my own certificate chain page. can you help me to configure my openssl.cnf file please? its long time i am spending on this one. should i add anything for my CA section in openssl.cnf? thans a lot. regards

Hello, i want to setup a ramdisk for various purposes and among them i would want to set the TEMP variable to point to a folder in the ramdisk. I haven't done this yet, but the ramdisk will be initialized before logging on and i have a certain problem: if for some reason the ramdisk fails to s...

This has been bugging me for ages, I'm assuming it's not just "etcetera"..!? I don't like not knowing the meaning of stuff, especially important directories!

Lately I've been using ichat for some time and sometimes it's boring to alt+tab windows to read the next text. Snow Leopard (and other macosx versions) have a text to speech feature, but I see it only works for selected text and pressing a combo key. Is it possible to somehow hack ichat to read ...

wget -N http://host/path/file.jpg will retrieve the file if the file exists at target but either file size or its timestamp has altered. My problem is that the source server alters timestamps but the file is the same, and I do not want to download files that have not been altered. So if t...

I need to build a ASP web site on my machine (Windows 7). So I installed IIS 7, and attempted to configure it to run classic ASP pages using this guide. When I access my web site, HTML pages work fine but when access ASP pages they get downloaded and not executed. What am I doing wrong ?

I have hundreds of files with names in the XYZ-[string].xml pattern. They're all the in the same folder. How can I quickly rename them all so that their names are now in the XYZ-5-1-[string].xml pattern? Examples: From XYZ-01010.xml to XYZ-5-1-01010.xml From XYZ-abc123456.xml to XYZ-5-1-abc1...

I'm not sure if I have the best title. I have several photos of similar subjects on the same background. As they were taken outside at different times, the lighting conditions are different, and so the colours in the photos aren't equivalent. For example, in some photos the grass is much bluer...

Are there any hacks for iTunes which make it less laggy? Something which replaces the UI with a more windows like one or something? On my laptop (1.6 Ghz/1GB RAM) it's completely unusable.

Hello, I'm doing a config for a small server. Motherboard : ASRock H55M Pro (Intel H55 Express) - Micro ATX CPU : Core i3 530 Could you tell me, if I can use the output HDMI, DVI, and VGA with this config ? The VGA it's enough it's just to install Windows Server after all in remote Thanks

I don't know if anyone else has experienced this so just thought I'd find out if it's a known issue or if it's just happening to me, but ever since I've had my 3GS, I've had it sync'd with MS Exchange (initially 2003, now 2008). If I go into my contacts on the phone and add a new contact, it imm...

Some disk chart programs reported a big file on partition C. This file has no path and its change varies. The system was scanned with Antivirus software and I also checked for Alternate Data Streams in NTFS. Any suggestions of how to read that file first and second how to delete it ?

In Linux you can choose things like ext3 and reiserfs for partitions. For the swap partition, you just choose "swap." What file system is this, actually? Can you just create an ext3 partition and make it a swap partition? How would that be different?

I'm creating a Word 2003 Template with some fields in it as these are the only bits of text that should change (things like Company Name, Address etc.). Now, if the person using the form fills in the Company Name field at the top (which I've created as a Text Form Field), how can I reference that...

Hello, I have a customer who has 2 computers, one with XP installed and one with Windows 7 installed. To print with both computers to 1 printer, those people bought a belkin peripheral switch. Everything seems to work fine, till I switch a few times, Windows 7 comes with a message that the drive...

I am having an issue with a machine on my company network where it has joined the domain OK and the machine itself can happily connect with play with other machines on the network but nothing can connect to it (or indeed ping it). What I would like to achieve to to be able to remote desktop onto...

I want to run a script that takes arguments in a currency format. Example: ./myscript $55.50 total is $55.50 ./myscript $3.40 total is $58.90 Now, no matter how hard I try to escape the dollar sign in the argument, I get: ./myscript $55.50 total is $5.50 ./myscript $3.40 t...

is there a tool to modify windows default shortcuts.. like " Ctrl + ESC " opens Start menu.. with the tool i could change ot to " Ctrl + M " stuff like that

I've subscribed to FACT mag's RSS feed which is quite verbose and i'm only interested in updates related to their mixes. These can be easily identified by looking at the subject line, as they contain "FACT mix". So I've set up a Mail rule like this: -if ALL of the following conditions are met: ...

Whenever I try to run a windows game under Wine I get an error that depict I have no proper sound driver. I checked the wine config and there was only OSS option that I think it would not help me to get sound working. I think I have to use Alsa Instead but I don't know how to add Alsa support to ...

Hi folks, I'm running Ubuntu 10.4 64bit, and I would like to run python 32bit. The current Python version used is the 64bit one. What can be some good ways for installing the python 32bit version without compromising the OS. I'm kind of new to this, so I don't really know if I could substitut...

I just moved into a new house and it's wired for ethernet. There's a junction box that has a "Bridged Telecom Module TM-8" in it. My cable modem's phone jack is plugged into the "Line In" on that box and their are 8 slots all running to various ports in the house. All the jacks in the house are R...

I'm currently using Windows XP SP3 32 bit, using C2D E6320 with 2GB RAM. When I am playing Starcraft 2, I encounter an error where it says my system is running low on page pool memory. Starcraft graphic settings suggested a high settings for me. I do not think it has to do with my GC but with my ...

Does any one know how to call iphone calendar controls in my application? sample code will be helpful for me waiting for a quick reply......

I am using µTorrent v2. Is it possible to remove a file from µTorrent when a download has finished automatically? I want to keep µTorrent open rather then closing it down.

hello, I have installed ubuntu 9.10 and if i play songs it is getting played in both laptop and headphone...how can i try to play it only on headphone ....

When reading web pages it would be a nice feature to be able to underline text from a page. Is there any possibility to achieve this in browsers (Firefox, IE, Chrome etc.)

I'm running RHEL 5. When using the GUI System>Administration>Users and Groups, I get the error: The user database cannot be read. This problem is most likely caused by a mismatch between /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow or /etc/group and /etc/gshadow. The program will exit now. Some research sho...

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Is there a way to underline text in Adobo Reader?

When I create bookmarks into editor code with Bookmarks window, work for a while adding methods, removing statments ecc. and then I reopen the IDE the line number for bookmarks are wrong... Any idea?

Questions says it all. I've looked in site and app prefs, but can't find anything. Seems like a no brainer for such a nice FTP app, so I gotta think I'm just missing it. Thanks.

I installed a sound card but when I go to System->Preferences->Sound and go to Hardware it's not showing anything at all. If I boot from the Live CD then it will show the card and it works. How can I make my Linux installation detect this card? I was thinking that I could somehow copy the necess...

I have a portable hard drive that has been formatted as NTFS with all the default values in Windows xp, the drive shows up on my Windows XP computer but doesn't show on my Windows Seven laptop. It's enclosed in a Western Digital Passport case, and when I attach it to the USB port it does make tha...

I recently ran Disk Cleanup (with the "compress old files" option) and Disk Defragmenter on a PC with Windows XP. This computer was purchased in 2004, and was a "middle of the road" computer at the time. After using it, I tried to open a relatively new invoice file with "Simply Accounting" and it...

Hello- Can anyone recommend a quality source to learn databases? I am changing careers and have no background in computers but this is what I have chosen to do now. I was thinking of taking an intro course at a community college but I have no problem teaching myself with a book and some softwar...

I'm not sure if it's possible to disable the thumbnails that we get with Ubuntu Lucid (Gnome UI), or if I installed something that enabled it and just can't seem to remember what it was. Does anyone know how to disable them? Also, if I installed them somehow, then it would have been by installin...

The Apple website basically says: "install the OS over again". I'm hoping there is something I can do other than that. I'm testing a Java app that has known problems with JRE 1.6.0_18 and above. Somewhere along the line I accepted an OS update that installed JRE 1.6.0_20. I really want to dro...

Hello, Is there any service which anybody can recommend that lets me buy a virtual visa card through my paypal funds with which I can make purchases online? Thank You.

Tool to chart (in spreadsheet) the call volume and call length of calls to a Google Voice #? I want to chart the incoming call volume to a sales # listed on my website (to have as a companion to Google Analytics web traffic conversions.) That way I could chart incoming sales call volume as one ...

Some non-Latin-based scripts(alphabets) have more detail in their glyphs than do the Latin-based-script equivalents, and typically need a larger font to give the same degree of legibility (resolution-wise). Sometimes, both script types need to be present in the same file. Notepad++ allows d...

Is there a way to programmatically retrieve start-up time/duration for all the Windows Services that have started during boot in Windows XP? That is, the time the service was initialized to getting to the "started" state. Thank you in advance! P.S. I'm not asking for software recommendation.

I'm working on my personal laptop and attach to various drives, machines, printers, etc. as needed. I'm NOT connected directly to the domain. Due to password change restrictions, I do not let it store my password, instead I reauthorize each time I need a resource (not that big a deal really). ...

I recently install MediaWiki on Ubuntu 10.04 using all the default settings. I'm looking to install an extension. Where is the extensions directory located by default? Thanks!

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I've got a working Xming / Cygwin installation set up on my Windows. Well, mostly... I did set my home directory to /cygdrive/d in /etc/passwd. When I start the Cygwin Bash Shell (the pimped-up DOS window), this works - $HOME is set to /cygdrive/d, Cygwin finds my ~/.bash_profile, everything is ...

I installed two of the Netgear Powerline AV networking adapters last night and they work great. I went through and got both of the endpoints configured to use encryption. I'm relatively new to these, I'm curious: With sending my traffic out over my electrical wiring (Presumably encrypted now) ...

I have no idea why, but the debugger for a specific project has spontaneously stopped working. I say spontaneously because it worked one day, I went home for the weekend, came back, and suddenly it didn't work. When I build the solution, the local web server starts up and the site loads in a br...

I want to remap the following keys on my Asus AspireOne running Ubuntu Lucid: Brightness down (Fn-Left) -> Home Brightness up (Fn-Right) -> End Volume up (Fn-Up) -> Page up Volume down (Fn-Down) -> Page down xmodmap -pke says this (only relevant lines shown): keyc...

I installed a sound card which is not detected by my Linux installation, but it is detected and working when I boot off the Live CD. I have tried to do all kinds of things with Alsa to get it to work and haven't been successful. I'm wondering if Alsa can even help with this problem since I'm not ...

I want to grab a few pages from a large (600+ pgs) document using pdftk. How can I do this? example: suppose the pages I need are 300, 307-310, and 315-318 from a file named "bloated.pdf". This doesn't seem to work: pdftk A=bloated.pdf cat A300,307-310,315-318 output slim.pdf

I have HP Pavilion laptop with two jack outs for audio and both of them work if only one is plugged in. If both of jacks are used, then in only one headphones set there is a sound. I would like to have sound on both of them, so for example two people can listen the same thing on their own headpho...

This has happened a few times, when I haven't used my laptop for 10 minutes or so, it just freezes. I had to power cycle it. Does this sound like a hardware issue? What can I do to diagnose this issue? Software: Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit Hardware: Acer Aspire 5517; AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core TK...

I have a device (for example, a music player or a TV) that has a USB port and will read files off a thumb drive and play or display them. Is there a way connect that USB port to a PC and in software on the PC serve up files to a virtual drive that would then be recognized by the music player or ...

I have a 3rd generation ipod that I wanted to charge which song are store on it but discovered that it will not keep a charge long enough to sync it. I normally listen to it through by ipod connector in my which supplies power to it just fine but the battier no longer keeps a charge long to sync...

I'm trying to install Windows XP on my macbook w/ boot camp, like I've done before, but I'm getting a 'Disk error' now whenever I try. Here's how far I get: - Use boot camp to partition the drive, it then says to insert the cd, and I can press a button after the partitioning is done to restart a...

I have a live cd of linux. named Knoppix. I want to run it as a virtual OS on my windows. I have installed windows xp on my PC. And I am using "Microsoft Virtual PC" for using Virtual OS. What My aim is "Run Knoppix live cd" as a virtual os on my windows. Is it possible ? How ? I have convert...

Is there a way in Windows to prevent an opening application from taking control of the keyboard/mouse and displaying on top of other windows? I cannot stand when I have my browser open and am reading a news story while the application is deciding to load and then all of a sudden in the middle of...

I need to change the time on my VirtualBox winxp machine (I have an ubuntu host), but it automatically syncronizes with the host. I need different times on the machines because I'm developing something which won't rely on the client's time.

I have tried searching for a .CAB file for .Net Compact Framework 3.5 and every link I've found seems to be broken. And all Microsoft will give me is an .MSI file that forces me to use an external computer and configure ActiveSync and all that on my phone. Does anyone know of a link that works?...

I have a personal dev box which has SSH running on it. I am using it as web development server. Although I can SSH, SCP and SFTP into it, using SFTP but it takes me to the user home directory. How do I go to the web root using SFTP? I believe I might have to expose the /var/www/ in order to do th...

I'm intended to package up quite a lot of data in to archives so that I can store them using an on-line file storage service and to various local backups - the intention being that this will be fairly long term static storage. I'm currently planning to compress them using 7zip into .7z files, bu...

I don't know if this was a bad burn or it was damaged in the sun or what. There are visible ripples on the disc that are not typical. I'm running Linux, but I have access to Windows if need be. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to recover the data on this disc?

All the time I am editing emails or text documents and I copy and paste text from another source. This changes the the current text formatting styles to that of what was copied and it is always a big hassle for me to change back to the original style for formatting text that is immediately after ...

I move constantly from Windows at home to Mac and Linux at work. I've been using Mac Mail to organize my email from multiple addresses because I didn't like using the browser clients. Mainly because setting up mail filters and rules wasn't as simple as it was with a Desktop client (at least a few...

My internet connection works perfectly but when trying to update iphone 4 version, it says cannot connect to server ? Is iphone server like twitter : often breaks down ?

For some reason my localhost Apache server is taking forever to return pages to the browser. I'm talking well over a minute of loading time. I have no idea why this should be. I haven't used the computer for a few weeks but it was working perfectly fine when I last did. Any suggestions as to wha...

We are considering migrating our Linux hosted, courier-imap/qmail email solution to Google Apps. Big question: Can we easily download all the email to migrate to another platform if Google Apps doesn't meet our needs. How specifically do you export/migrate away from Google Apps? a. email b. doc...

image link i have the attached quicktime movie. but it has huge borders. could you please recommend a program which i can use to get rid of these borders? thanks.

Can I make google analytics reports public, or accessible to some users ? I only know I can send e-mails so far, I would like my customers to visit google analytics pages instead. thanks

When viewing page source in Google Chrome, the browser opens a new tab and basically pastes the URL in with the view-source: prefix. This is undesirable. As a developer, I may include some diagnostic output that is only visible in the source after submitting a form. Refreshing the page makes thi...

Hi there, Problem: Just installed Acronis, didn't do anything. Just installed it. Reboot. Error loading operating system. Anybody an idea what happend. And how to fix it?

Hi, I want to install Windows 7 64-bit for my physical machine, and then install Windows 7 32-bit as a guess OS in a virtual machine, can this be done? If yes, what virtual machine software to use? My CPU is i5 760. Thanks in advance!

I'm interested in the upcoming Firefox Account Manager and I've been flirting with Firefox Sync. Should I abandon LastPass and switch to Firefox's Password Manager? I know they both have their points of weakness, but is the potential convenience worth the switch? What are the prevailing opinio...

Hello, I'm trying to prevent people from modifying (most) of my spreadsheet while still alowing them to use the sort function of the AutoFilter. What I've done so far is used the Worksheet_Change event and Application.Undo to automatically undo any values entered into cells that I don't want to ...

I have a Lenovo T61 laptop. The LCD panel cracked recently. I decided to try my hand at fixing it. I bought a replacement LCD on ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180399351582 for $85 shipped. I opened the laptop, removed the old panel, installed the new one, and turn...

Hello. When I enter the page: http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js I am getting Error 330 (net::ERR_CONTENT_DECODING_FAILED). But when I try to use FF, it works. BTW, the facebook social widgets (which load this file) is not working on Chrome. I have the latest version. What is wrong ? ...

I often cycle through my Firefox tabs using Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab. But whenever it reaches a tab that is running a Flash (or similar) plugin, Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab won't work anymore, because Flash has the focus and overwrites the general keybindings. I have to stop and click outside ...

I've been using an Ati HD4670 graphic card mounted on an Asus M2NPV-VM mobo for months. One month ago PC started switching off about 1 minute after booting. So I removed the graphic card and reactivated the onboard integrated graphics: PC worked like a charm. Recently I tried another graphic car...

I'm planning on buying a new 15" MacBook Pro and I'm deciding whether or not to stick with the default 5400 rpm drive, or to upgrade to the 7200 rpm drive. The performance boost is nice, but the main thing I'm wondering is does the 7200 rpm drive have a fairly large impact on battery life, or is ...

I just installed a new motherboard, cpu, ram, and a psu. I am having problems because my computer will randomly crash(restart) and I can't seem to associate it with any specific thing that I'm doing or the computer is doing. I noticed that when I first put it together I couldn't run an os or anyt...

When playing a full screen movie with the built-in DVD Player in OS X 10.5 "Leopard", not with Front Row, the movie will occasionally exit fullscreen mode automatically. No message box has popped up, so I don't know why this happens. Other running applications usually include Safari, Time Machine...

I want to encrypt my main hard drive (where I have my OS, programs, etc.) and I have looked for tutorials online but each one seems to follow different steps, some say that I need another partition to put the recovery file (main, system reserved and other one) and others say that I have to modify...

Is there a hotkey I can use or configure to mute the Mic on a 13" MacBook Pro (MPB)? I would prefer an icon or notification to confirm that it is set (even if I need to toggle the option).

I've got ubuntu installed on virtual box, on a windows7 host The default resolution for ubuntu is 800 x 600, how can I increase this? My windows7 resolution is high, this makes my virtual box window very small and difficult to use On ubuntu, I can't seem to find a way to increase the resoluti...

I've got this Dynex keyboard, with the fancy buttons on the side for play, pause, etc, and the browser button, stop, reload, and open the calculator, and so on. I can't use any of the buttons except for the computer button, which opens My Computer. I've enabled support for multimedia button in W...

How to clear Google Earth Cache

So my girlfriend gave her old iPhone 3g to my mom who had an iPhone 2g, took them into AT&T, they swapped the sim cards and activated the iPhone 3g. But we need to access her old iPhone 2g to get her contacts and maybe text message data if possible. However, the issue is that the iPhone 2g ...

What is a util i can use to recursively delete empty folders? empty is considered to be true if the directory has no directory no files exist excepting useless/generated files (thumbs, .DS_Store, etc)

how can i disable RPC on my system..