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  • Flash stream makes my internet slow and cpu rush

    - by user1225840
    When I try to watch a live Flash stream, my CPU usage goes up to 75% and my Internet speed goes down. If I run a test before the video-stream, my speed is ~40/10Mbps and during the stream it drops to 0.1-0.5Mbps. The stream is laggy and I can only watch one to two seconds at a time, start/stop/start/stop. I have cleared my history, cache, cookies, temp files, and so on. I have searched for malware and took care of that. I have updated my drivers, reinstalled Flash and everything else I can think of, but it remains slow. I had this problem before and it just started working normally from one day to another. Could it be a hardware problem?

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  • What's throttling the database?

    - by Troels Arvin
    Hardware: Intel x86_64 with 192GB of RAM. OS: CentOS 5.4 x86_64. DBMS: DB2 v. 9.7.1 64 bit. During certain special workloads (e.g. parallel REORGs/RUNSTATs), I've seen the server transporting 450MB/s with 25000IO/s (yes, there is probably some storage system caching happening here) while all CPU cores were happily working in an even mix of usermode/wait. And disk benchmark tools can also bring some very satisfying bandwith and IO/s numbers to the table. On the other hand, we also have another scenario: A single rather complex query with at least one large table scan. db2's "list applications" reports that the query is Executing (not locked). IO: At most 10MB/s, 500 IO/s; CPU: two cores in 99.9% wait state, all other cores 100% idle. The tables which the query reads from have been altered to have LOCKSIZE=TABLE, so I would think that lock list work is zero. What's going on in such a situation? What tools/snapshots/... can I use to gain better insight in such a case?

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  • Monitoring User Login time

    - by beakersoft
    Hi, i have recently been given the task of trying to work out why the login time (not machine boot time) for some of our users seems slow. The vast majority of clients (95%) are running on XP sp3, Windows 2003 domain controlers. Most users have the same model of machine. I would like to be able to see how long each of the polices are taking to load (if possable split user and computer) and any other info that might help (services starting etc) I changed the userenvdebuglevel reg option to generate the userenv.log file but it did'nt contain very much info Thanks Luke

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  • windows 2000 freezing during large disk write

    - by robert
    We have a windows 2000 sp4 server which freezes up for about 1 minutes while its web-app does a ~500mb write operation. I can see the webapp start to do I/O activity (through process explorer) then the RDP session becomes unresponsive, you can click on windows and buttons but nothing happens. When the disk write finally finishes the session 'catches up' on all the mouse clicks you did during the freeze in a mad flurry of window activity and the server returns to normal. During the freeze the web-app stops as well. The same behaviour happens on the console of the server. (so I know its not a network thing) Nothing appears in the Event logs. Its like nothing happened. I have upgraded all the HP hardware drivers to the latest proliant support pack. And also run a HP hardware diagnostics which found nothing wrong. What would cause a disk write to lock the rest of the OS?

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  • CPU and HD degradation on sourced based Linux distribution

    - by danilo2
    I was wondering for a long time if source based Linux distributions, like Gentoo or Funtoo are "destroying" your system faster than binary ones (like Fedora or Debian). I'm talking about CPU and hard drive degradation. Of course, when you're updating your system, it has to compile everything from source, so it takes longer and your CPU is used at hard conditions (it is warmer and more loaded). Such systems compile hundreds of packages weekly, so does it really matter? Does such a system degrade faster than binary based ones?

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  • how to rewrite or redirect old or missing or invalid url to 404 page

    - by kath
    I recently upgraded a site and almost all URLs have changed. I have redirected all of them (or so I hope) but it may be possible that some of them have slipped by me. Is there a way to somehow catch all invalid URLs and send the user to a certain page I am using PHP Thanks so much! error file is already in .htaccess but seems nothing going to change you can see the error file as below AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5s .php ErrorDocument 404 /content/404.php <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / here are 2 different url one the first one is old one which i edited and the secound one is edited one #1 old one (which is no longer on the server) http://adsbuz.com/vehicles-cars/toyoya/2009-toyota-land-cruiser-gxr-4686.htm #2 the editet one which is on the server http://adsbuz.com/vehicles-cars-for-sale/toyoya/2009-toyota-land-cruiser-gxr-4686.htm i need only the secound one with the vehicles-cars-for-sale because the other directory is already modified and its not on the server but as you can see after the (adsbuz) site name vehicles-cars and vehicles-cars-for-sale both are opening for same location I hope I made myself clear

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  • MySQL hangs if connection comes from outside the LAN

    - by Subito
    I have a MySQL Server operating just fine if I access him from his local LAN (192.168.100.0/24). If I try to access hin from another LAN (192.168.113.0/24 in this case) it hangs for a really long time before delivering the result. SHOW PROCESSLIST; shows this process in Sleep, State empty. If I strace -p this process I get the following Output (23512 is the PID of the corresponding mysqld process): Process 23512 attached - interrupt to quit restart_syscall(<... resuming interrupted call ...>) = 1 fcntl(10, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) fcntl(10, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 accept(10, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(51696), sin_addr=inet_addr("192.168.113.4")}, [16]) = 33 fcntl(10, F_SETFL, O_RDWR) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {SIG_DFL, [CHLD], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x7f9ce7ca34f0}, {SIG_DFL, [CHLD], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x7f9ce7ca34f0}, ) = 0 getpeername(33, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(51696), sin_addr=inet_addr("192.168.113.4")}, [16]) = 0 getsockname(33, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(3306), sin_addr=inet_addr("192.168.100.190")}, [16]) = 0 open("/etc/hosts.allow", O_RDONLY) = 64 fstat(64, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=580, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f9ce9839000 read(64, "# /etc/hosts.allow: list of host"..., 4096) = 580 read(64, "", 4096) = 0 close(64) = 0 munmap(0x7f9ce9839000, 4096) = 0 open("/etc/hosts.deny", O_RDONLY) = 64 fstat(64, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=880, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f9ce9839000 read(64, "# /etc/hosts.deny: list of hosts"..., 4096) = 880 read(64, "", 4096) = 0 close(64) = 0 munmap(0x7f9ce9839000, 4096) = 0 getsockname(33, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(3306), sin_addr=inet_addr("192.168.100.190")}, [16]) = 0 fcntl(33, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY) = 0 fcntl(33, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) setsockopt(33, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVTIMEO, "\36\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 16) = 0 setsockopt(33, SOL_SOCKET, SO_SNDTIMEO, "<\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 16) = 0 fcntl(33, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 setsockopt(33, SOL_IP, IP_TOS, [8], 4) = 0 setsockopt(33, SOL_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, [1], 4) = 0 futex(0x7f9cea5c9564, FUTEX_WAKE_OP_PRIVATE, 1, 1, 0x7f9cea5c9560, {FUTEX_OP_SET, 0, FUTEX_OP_CMP_GT, 1}) = 1 futex(0x7f9cea5c6fe0, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 1 poll([{fd=10, events=POLLIN}, {fd=12, events=POLLIN}], 2, -1) = 1 ([{fd=10, revents=POLLIN}]) fcntl(10, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) fcntl(10, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 accept(10, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(51697), sin_addr=inet_addr("192.168.113.4")}, [16]) = 31 fcntl(10, F_SETFL, O_RDWR) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {SIG_DFL, [CHLD], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x7f9ce7ca34f0}, {SIG_DFL, [CHLD], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x7f9ce7ca34f0}, ) = 0 getpeername(31, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(51697), sin_addr=inet_addr("192.168.113.4")}, [16]) = 0 getsockname(31, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(3306), sin_addr=inet_addr("192.168.100.190")}, [16]) = 0 open("/etc/hosts.allow", O_RDONLY) = 33 fstat(33, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=580, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f9ce9839000 read(33, "# /etc/hosts.allow: list of host"..., 4096) = 580 read(33, "", 4096) = 0 close(33) = 0 munmap(0x7f9ce9839000, 4096) = 0 open("/etc/hosts.deny", O_RDONLY) = 33 fstat(33, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=880, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f9ce9839000 read(33, "# /etc/hosts.deny: list of hosts"..., 4096) = 880 read(33, "", 4096) = 0 close(33) = 0 munmap(0x7f9ce9839000, 4096) = 0 getsockname(31, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(3306), sin_addr=inet_addr("192.168.100.190")}, [16]) = 0 fcntl(31, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY) = 0 fcntl(31, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) setsockopt(31, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVTIMEO, "\36\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 16) = 0 setsockopt(31, SOL_SOCKET, SO_SNDTIMEO, "<\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 16) = 0 fcntl(31, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 setsockopt(31, SOL_IP, IP_TOS, [8], 4) = 0 setsockopt(31, SOL_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, [1], 4) = 0 futex(0x7f9cea5c9564, FUTEX_WAKE_OP_PRIVATE, 1, 1, 0x7f9cea5c9560, {FUTEX_OP_SET, 0, FUTEX_OP_CMP_GT, 1}) = 1 futex(0x7f9cea5c6fe0, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 1 poll([{fd=10, events=POLLIN}, {fd=12, events=POLLIN}], 2, -1^C <unfinished ...> Process 23512 detached This output repeats itself until the answer gets send. It could take up to 15 Minutes until the request gets served. In the local LAN its a matter of Milliseconds. Why is this and how can I debug this further? [Edit] tcpdump shows a ton of this: 14:49:44.103107 IP cassandra-test.mysql > 192.168.X.6.64626: Flags [S.], seq 1434117703, ack 1793610733, win 14600, options [mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK,nop,wscale 7], length 0 14:49:44.135187 IP 192.168.X.6.64625 > cassandra-test.mysql: Flags [P.], seq 106:145, ack 182, win 4345, length 39 14:49:44.135293 IP cassandra-test.mysql > 192.168.X.6.64625: Flags [P.], seq 182:293, ack 145, win 115, length 111 14:49:44.167025 IP 192.168.X.6.64624 > cassandra-test.mysql: Flags [.], ack 444, win 4280, length 0 14:49:44.168933 IP 192.168.X.6.64626 > cassandra-test.mysql: Flags [.], ack 1, win 4390, length 0 14:49:44.169088 IP cassandra-test.mysql > 192.168.X.6.64626: Flags [P.], seq 1:89, ack 1, win 115, length 88 14:49:44.169672 IP 192.168.X.6.64625 > cassandra-test.mysql: Flags [P.], seq 145:171, ack 293, win 4317, length 26 14:49:44.169726 IP cassandra-test.mysql > 192.168.X.6.64625: Flags [P.], seq 293:419, ack 171, win 115, length 126 14:49:44.275111 IP 192.168.X.6.64626 > cassandra-test.mysql: Flags [P.], seq 1:74, ack 89, win 4368, length 73 14:49:44.275131 IP cassandra-test.mysql > 192.168.X.6.64626: Flags [.], ack 74, win 115, length 0 14:49:44.275149 IP 192.168.X.6.64625 > cassandra-test.mysql: Flags [P.], seq 171:180, ack 419, win 4286, length 9 14:49:44.275189 IP cassandra-test.mysql > 192.168.X.6.64626: Flags [P.], seq 89:100, ack 74, win 115, length 11 14:49:44.275264 IP 192.168.X.6.64625 > cassandra-test.mysql: Flags [P.], seq 180:185, ack 419, win 4286, length 5 14:49:44.275281 IP cassandra-test.mysql > 192.168.X.6.64625: Flags [.], ack 185, win 115, length 0 14:49:44.275295 IP cassandra-test.mysql > 192.168.X.6.64625: Flags [F.], seq 419, ack 185, win 115, length 0 14:49:44.275650 IP 192.168.X.6.64625 > cassandra-test.mysql: Flags [F.], seq 185, ack 419, win 4286, length 0 14:49:44.275660 IP cassandra-test.mysql > 192.168.X.6.64625: Flags [.], ack 186, win 115, length 0 14:49:44.275910 IP 192.168.X.6.64627 > cassandra-test.mysql: Flags [S], seq 2336421549, win 8192, options [mss 1351,nop,wscale 2,nop,nop,sackOK], length 0 14:49:44.275921 IP cassandra-test.mysql > 192.168.X.6.64627: Flags [S.], seq 3289359778, ack 2336421550, win 14600, options [mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK,nop,wscale 7], length 0

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  • SQL Server Full Text Search resource consumption

    - by Sam Saffron
    When SQL Server builds a fulltext index computer resources are consumed (IO/Memory/CPU) Similarly when you perform full text searches, resources are consumed. How can I get a gauge over a 24 hour period of the exact amount of CPU and IO(reads/writes) that fulltext is responsible for, in relation to global SQL Server resource usage. Are there any perfmon counters, DMVs or profiler traces I can use to help answer this question?

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  • Brand new Seagate HDD has high raw read error rate

    - by kpax
    I've just purchased a brand new Seagate ST31000524AS 1TB HDD. Manufacture date shows as January 2012 (yes that's as new as new can get), so must be one of the new batches from the post-flood Thailand. Anyway, I downloaded a copy of Active Hard Disk Monitor tool to check the S.M.A.R.T. parameters and I find the parameter Raw Read Error Rate is very low. Should I be worried? Will this rectify over time? This hdd is just 7 hours old; what gives? Edit: I meant high raw read error rate - Title updated accordingly

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  • Lost Page Write I/O Errors on CentOS LVM setup

    - by Gregg Leventhal
    I have a CentOS 6 box with LVM setup and one of the PVs is a USB disk (I know). One of them is getting the error: Oct 30 10:57:07 alpha01 kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on dm-3 Oct 30 10:57:07 alpha01 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device dm-3, logical block 4 Which is causing problems with all of the LVs on it. pvs shows the PV as unknown device. I can ls to the logical volumes and they show up in lvdisplay, but first I get a bunch of IO errors. I made sure the cables are secure between the USB drive. What should I do to get this back up and running for the meanwhile? Should I unmount each LV and run an fsck.ext4 on each one like fsck.ext4 -y /dev/vg1/lv_logvolname ?

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  • Email server for huge number of subscriber

    - by bogha
    My question is that my company is thinking of providing a free email account for each of its customers. As a new company we will assume that our corporate email system will be MS Exchange server which will support about 1000 employees. They are asking why not adding the customer list to be a part of Exchange users. My suggestion was to separate the two systems, for the corporate we can use Exchange but for customers (around 30000) we have to use a Linux based system. My only argument was that Linux can be used for enterprise services like this and Microsoft may fail. What do you suggest? And if you are with me on choosing Linux as the server platform, what do you suggest to use as an alternative for Exchange in Linux? Thank you.

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  • Serve mirrored (static) web-page with original headers

    - by aioobe
    I have a dynamic webpage which I want to create a "frozen" copy of. Typically I would do something like wget -m http://example.com, and then put the files in the document root of the web-server. This site however has some dynamic content, including dynamically generated images, for instance http://example.com/company/123/logo This means that in order to mirror the page, I need to Save whatever headers the server currently serves for each URL. This can be done using the wget option --save-headers. Serve the static pages and serve the proper headers for each file. (This I have no idea of how to do.) What is the best way to solve this? Any suggestions are welcome.

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  • Finding, which web component is causing problems during page loading

    - by Juhele
    I am using windows version of Firefox 5.0 and last few days I found that on one website (similar focus as stackexchange but in Czech), is something wrong as my browser loads it very slowly (while the connection is ok and never had problems with it). There is also another guy trying to solve the almost the same problem, but no help yet. So I would ask, whether there is some Firefox plugin showing which page components are loading and which could help me to find out the problem. I am writing from office pc so we have blocked all the social networks like FB, Twitter etc. and I also use Adblock Plus - however, deactivating it does not have any effect on it. thanks

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  • How to calculate required switch speed based on network usage?

    - by tobefound
    I have a 48 port HP Procurve Switch 2610 (J9088A) that can handle 13.0 million PPS (packets per second) and features wire speed switching capacity at 17.6Gbps. First off, what does that REALLY mean? Where do I start when trying to figure out if my office (with 70 employees) will be well setup with this switch? How to calculate through-put based on a user average load of X MB per day? 90% of the folks will only be sending email, access random websites, etc... the other 10% will be conducting heavier tasks like moving image files (10 MB) across network shares, constant external FTP streams through the switch to a server etc... Is this switch good enough?

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  • sys.dm_exec_query_stats interaction with recompilation

    - by Sam Saffron
    We use sys.dm_exec_query_stats to track down slow queries and queries that are IO offenders. This works great, we get a lot of very insightful stats. It is clear this is not as accurate as running a profiler trace, as you have no idea when SQL Server will decide to chuck out a an execution plan. We have quite a few queries where the wrong execution plan is cached. For example queries like the following: SELECT TOP 30 a.Id FROM Posts a JOIN Posts q ON q.Id = a.ParentId JOIN PostTags pt ON q.Id = pt.PostId WHERE a.PostTypeId = 2 AND a.DeletionDate IS NULL AND a.CommunityOwnedDate IS NULL AND a.CreationDate @date AND LEN(a.Body) 300 AND pt.Tag = @tag AND a.Score 0 ORDER BY a.Score DESC The problem is that the ideal plan really depends on the date selected (screenshot of ideal plan): However if the wrong plan is cached, it totally chokes when the date range is big: (notice the big fat lines) To overcome this we were recommended to use either OPTION (OPTIMIZE FOR UNKNOWN) or OPTION (RECOMPILE) OPTIMIZE FOR UNKNOWN results in a slightly better plan, which is far from optimal. Executions are tracked in sys.dm_exec_query_stats. RECOMPILE results in the best plan being chosen, however no execution counts and stats are tracked in sys.dm_exec_query_stats. Is there another DMV we could use to track stats on queries with OPTION (RECOMPILE)? Is this behavior by-design? Is there another way we can for recompilation while keeping stats tracked in sys.dm_exec_query_stats? Note: the framework will always execute parameterized queries using sp_executesql

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  • Laptop is super slow on network

    - by Gary
    So on our network we have a bunch of wireless macs and window Operating laptops, we have a network setup with 802.11g,b,n. All the laptops seem fine except one which is only getting speeds of 54Mb. I have changed the encryption from AES to TKIP and reset the connection, i have updated the drivers, tried plugging it into the LAN and still same slow speed. Apparently the laptop with the slow speed is fine on other networks. I don't know what to do, can anyone help me?

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  • High disk I/O activity in CentOS server

    - by triiim
    I have about 16 websites in a CentOS dedicated, and I am having some problems on high traffic hours, it seems to be a high disk I/O activity causing a general slowdown. I've installed atop and this is what I see on the bottom (the server has been restarted thats why the values are so low): *** system and process activity since boot *** PID RDDSK WRDSK WCANCL DSK CMD 1/18 2176 1.7G 7.3G 854.4M 39 mysqld 671 1248K 3.0G 0K 13 flush-8:0 566 0K 1.1G 0K 5 jbd2/sda2-8 2401 124.2M 529.1M 22408K 3 crond 2032 2.2G 502.0M 0K 12 nginx 2360 425.8M 115.3M 4188K 2 httpd flush-8:0 and jbd2/sda2-8 are the processes I see with iotop using 99% on the IO column, and they are the processes that write the most on the hdd (after mysql). From what I saw in google this could be caused by some ext4 related bug, the current kernel is: Linux srvr.com 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 27 19:49:27 BST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I asked the hosting support to update the kernel and they tried but they now say that the server wont boot with the new installed kernel and they had to go back to the previous, they are not helping very much. Does someone has any idea how could I solve the high disk usage caused by flush-8:0 and jbd2/sda2-8 processes?

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  • .htaccess rewrite all queries to static page

    - by user127219
    I have an account where hundreds of inbound links to their calender are showing up as 404 (they moved their site to a new platform). I would like to make a wildcard redirection of all URLs with a query to their old event calender to land on a new static page, and do the same for their webstore queries. I've tried several variations, but can't seem to get it to work. CASE 1: I need to redirect URLs like these (note the difference between "showDay" and "showWeek"): apps/calendar/showWeek?calID=5107976&year=2011&month=7&day=10 apps/calendar/showDay?calID=5107976&year=2011&month=9&day=10 To: http://domain.com/events/ CASE 2: And also URLs like these: apps/webstore/products/show/1927074 TO: http://subdomain.domain.com/ I can't seem to get the syntax right to take all of the URLS and redirect them. I'm looking for the equivalent of a wildcard like "apps/calendar/*" would give you at a command line. Any help is appreciated!

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  • Soundtest works, but no other sounds and windows starts very slowly

    - by Kristian Kari
    So suddenly all sounds on my computer stopped working expect the sound test works, but when I go to control panel and audio it says there's no audio device. And audio players and audio on website doesn't work either. and Also windows starts very slowly. I'm not sure if this helps but I'll tell what happened before this. I downloaded this program from a little shady website, I hesitated and for a good reason I guess cos the moment I finished downloading it, my antivir detected it as unwanted program and put it on quarantine. I thought everything was fine, but had some problems with program (won't go to details about it cos it's not really related to audio) so rebooted the computer and I was suprised that windows started really really slowly. It took like 5 mins to load the desktop such. After that I noticed the sounds were missing, I immediately deleted the program since I thought it was causing the problem. But it didn't change much. I tried to find the solution with no success and now I'm just scanning again my computer. I'd be thankful if anyone would be able to help me. I might have left a thing or ten things out, so feel free to ask. oh and I'm using windows xp

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  • Ultra-lightweight web browser?

    - by zildjohn01
    Are there any good super-lightweight graphical web browsers out there? I'd like to be able to browse the web on an old PC, but the mainstream crop of browsers is just too heavy, and I don't want to resort to something like Lynx. There must be something decent out there that'll fit in 16 or 32MB of RAM comfortably. 100% standards compliance isn't necessary, but I'd like something that supports the most widely used parts of CSS and JavaScript. The goal is to get 98% of sites usable in a nice, graphical format.

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  • iptables, blocking large numbers of IP Addresses

    - by Twirrim
    I'm looking to block IP addresses in a relatively automated fashion if they look to be 'screen scraping' content from websites that we host. In the past this was achieved by some ingenious perl scripts and OpenBSD's pf. pf is great in that you can provide it nice tables of IP addresses and it will efficiently handle blocking based on them. However for various reasons (before my time) they made the decision to switch to CentOS. iptables doesn't natively provide the ability to block large numbers of addresses (I'm told it wasn't unusual to be blocking 5000+), and I'm a bit cautious over adding that many rules into an iptable. ipt_recent would be awesome for doing this, plus it provides a lot of flexibility for just severely slowing down access, but there is a bug in the CentOS kernel that is stopping me from using it (reported, but awaiting fix). Using ipset would entail compiling a more up-to-date version of iptables than comes with CentOS which whilst I'm perfectly capable of doing it, I'd rather not do from a patching, security and consistency perspective. Other than those two it looks like nfblock is a reasonable alternative. Is anyone aware of other ways of achieving this? Are my concerns about several thousand IP addresses in iptables as individual rules unfounded?

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  • Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center - Slow response for App-specific shortcuts

    - by Darrel Hoffman
    So a few months ago, I bought a new MS mouse, and was surprised that they'd discontinued Intellipoint in favor of this Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center. It seems to have the same functionality underneath all the bloat, but there's a very serious drawback - when I set up application-specific functions for the extra buttons on the mouse, they work, but sometimes with a very long delay, like up to a minute or more. For example, I often set up the left side button as an "Undo" in various programs for convenience. But sometimes, when I try to use that Undo button, nothing happens, so I'm forced to use the standard Ctrl-Z or whatever. But then, a minute or so later, it suddenly remembers that I hit that button a while back, and calls the Undo unexpectedly on something entirely different. It's infuriating. No modern computer function should be this slow. It's not the software or the computer itself, because doing an Undo via Ctrl-Z or the menu still works instantly. It's very definitely a side-effect of delayed response to the mouse button. Usually after it delays the first time, it'll work quickly after that, but if you haven't used a given shortcut in several minutes, it "forgets" again and you get another inexplicably long delay. Intellipoint never had this problem, but it's not supported any more, and not compatible with the newer mice. Has anyone else noticed slow-downs with MS M&K C and app-specific shortcuts? Any ideas how to get around this? I use these shortcuts extensively in my workflow and it's just entirely unacceptable to have such a long delay in what should be a pretty basic feature.

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