I saw the intel-microcode in the ubuntu repositories and was wondering if it was worth installing on my Yorkfield-6M based system. If so, what are the benefits from this package?
Periodically, while using my Windows 7 Pro desktop installation, the screen suddenly dims. The brightness is about 75% normal (estimate). It's as if I am in a power-saving mode on a laptop running on batteries. But this is a full desktop installation.
I know it is not a hardware glitch or monitor adjustment issue because the Windows cursor is still bright white while everything else goes dim.
The Control Panel Power Options have not been changed. They are set to "Balanced [active]" and I have tried restoring the default settings. Flipping through the power and display settings, everything looks "normal." There is no screen saver or power-off-after settings apparent.
Rebooting the system resets everything to full brightness but I can't find a way to restore it in Windows or to keep it from happening in the first place.
Suggestions?
I'm trying to use FreeBSD's pkg_add command to install and upgrade binary packages in a build-once-install-on-multiple-machines sort of scenario. It works well when installing a new package, but upgrades are baffling me. For example, if I want to upgrade a package that is depended on by another package, I can't just install it:
# pkg_add /path/to/somepackage-2.0.tbz
pkg_add: package 'somepackage' or its older version already installed
At this point, I can delete the older version of the package if I pass -f to the pkg_delete command:
# pkg_delete -f somepackage-1.0
pkg_delete: package 'somepackage-1.0' is required by these other packages
and may not be deinstalled (but I'll delete it anyway):
anotherpackage-1.0
But...and this is the killer...now the dependency information is gone! I can install the upgrade:
# pkg_add /path/to/somepackage-2.0.tbz
And now attempts to delete it will succeed without any errors:
# pkg_delete somepackage-2.0
How do I handle this gracefully (whereby "gracefully" means "in a fashion that preserves dependency information without requiring me to rebuild/reinstall and entire dependency chain").
Thanks!
Using the Windows Pidgin Options plugin, I can make the buddy list be dockable. If I dock it, other windows avoid it when maximising themselves. How do I do the same thing in X?
I'm having a rather tough time finding information on this since almost everything I read requires Management Studio installed in the server which I prefer not to do.
Also, to connect to it using SQL Server Management Studio installed on the client, are these settings ok?
ServerName: 10.232.234,1433\SQLEXPRESS
Login: sa
Password: password
Yes, I want to specify the port number in the client side since I have to go through a few firewalls which I have poke holes through to get to the SQL Default port 1433.
Currently when I close the lid of my Acer laptop running Windows Vista, the laptop does not power down; however, when I open the lid it does. When looking at the power settings it is set to power down when closing the lid. The trigger to this seems to be the lid being opened not being closed.
I seem to recall this behaviour changing when I installed Windows Media centre.
Any ideas on how I can get the power down to work on the lid closing?
Thanks.
I'm using pm-hibernate, and would like to reboot the machine after it's done hibernating, rather than having the machine turn off.
Is there a way to do this with pm-hibernate, or any other Linux hibernate thing?
I don't know enough about Ram & sharing to know what the difference is here.
Normally, I run Chrome in one desktop for personal use, and Firefox on a second desktop for business. I like the separation of saved passwords and whatnot.
However, I recently learned that I can open two different profiles in Firefox at the same time, so I was wondering if that would be cheaper to my system resources, or not? Out the door, I don't think it would save more than 40-60mb of ram... but I'm wondering, 3 hours later, if ram handling will be better using just one browser for all my heavy lifting.
I only have 2gb of ram and I run iTunes and Photoshop as well, almost all day. So I like to save ram where I can.
Any thoughts?
UPDATE: I've been centering around chrome more recently and using firefox for testing. Dev isn't bad on Chrome and it's great at releasing memory when I close tabs. In retrospect, I think the best answer to this question is simply for me to buy another 2gb of ram.
My goal is this: I have a library, say it's called Series. I store my series in two different places, one for watched episodes and one for unwatched episodes.
Obviously I can simply add the root folder of each location to a series library. What I would prefer to do is have a sub-library within Series for each series, for example:
Series \ Lost
Lost (Unwatched series)
Episode 3
Episode 4
Lost (Watched series)
Episode 1
Episode 2
Is there a way to achieve this, or something approximating this (without having a full library for each series)?
P.S. I've read the other topic, but I was wondering if there was a possible workaround for this specific need. More out of hope than anything else. ;)
How do you keep track of all your passwords?
Personally I host a personal copy of clipperz, I used keepass and passpack in the past.
What password manager would you recommend, what features does it have that make it awesome?
Now at 70+ "answers" it's a pretty good bet that your favourite program is already mentioned. Upvote that if that's the case.
If you can't yet upvote, come back when you've gained enough reputation instead of posting a duplicate answer.
I don't have floppy drive on my computer.
Is there any way that i can make the password reset disk in a folders so that when i lose my passowrd then i can choose that folder to work as password reset disk.
Is there any other option available beside Floppy drive
A while back, as relatively new Mac OS X user, I was surprised to learn that you cannot easily delete files. Directly, that is, without moving them to the trash first. On Windows and Linux this can obviously be done with ease, but not so on the Mac.
I noticed this when trying clear up files from a USB memory stick — removing the files ("move to trash") does not free up space; that happens only after emptying the whole system-wide Trash. Not particularly convenient! (It seems stupid to have to empty the whole trashcan just to make some space on the USB stick. There might be gigabytes of stuff in there, and this sort of defeats its purpose - what if you'd actually need to restore something from the trash some day.)
So, what's your way of getting around this? Have you bought a 3rd party application like RAW Trash for $16.95 just to delete files, or do you diligently empty the trashcan whenever needed? Or did I miss something? Also, can you convince me that this is actually the way it should be — that users shouldn't be able to fiddle with the filesystem easily? :)
Okay, we all care about security so users should change their passwords on a regular basis (who said passwords are like underwear?).
On redhat and centos (5.x and 6.x), it's possible to make every real user password expires after 45 days, and warn them 7 days before.
/etc/shadow entry then looks like :
testuser:$6$m8VQ7BWU$b3UBovxC5b9p2UxLxyT0QKKgG1RoOHoap2CV7HviDJ03AUvcFTqB.yiV4Dn7Rj6LgCBsJ1.obQpaLVCx5.Sx90:15588:1:45:7:::
It works very well and most users often change their passwords.
Some users find it convenient not to use any password but ssh public key (and I'd like to encourage them).
Then after 45 days they can't log in as they forgot their password and are asked to change it.
Is there a way to prevent password expiration if and only if password is disabled?
Setting testuser:!!:15588:1:45:7::: in /etc/shadow did not work : testuser is asked to change his password after 45 days.
Of course, setting back password expiration to 99999 days works but :
It requires extra work.
Security auditors might not be happy.
Is there a system wide parameter that would prompt the user to change expired password only if he really has one ?
Is there a way to fool windows desktop to think that it is running off a battery (like in a laptop) ?
I need to do this to do some testing in battery mode, but I don't have a laptop on hand to do this.
I tried to find utilities on the net that could do this but I had no luck. What do you think guys?
This is really puzzling. I have lots of videos that were stored using Mac OS, and now I have to edit them on Windows XP. I copied files using HFSExplorer. Editing software refuses to open the files with their current names, and so far I have not found a way to batch rename all the files.
Names of the files look like this:
clip-2009-10-01 21;26;00.mov
But I suspect in OSX the time was 21:26:00.
I would like to replace the space with an underscore, and semicolons with dash.
I've tried several bulk rename applications, with ; and :, but in vain. Also I've tried rename.pl, but also in vain.
We've got a cluster of 75 Win2k3 nodes at work in a coarse grained compute cluster. The cluster is behind a mountain of firewalls and resides in its own VLAN. Jobs of all sizes and types run on the cluster and all of the executables running are custom-made.
(ed: additional notes on our executables) The jobs range from 30 seconds to 7 days in duration, and may contain one executable or 2000 sub-jobs (of short duration). Obviously we are trying to avoid the situation where our IT schedules a reboot during a 7 day production job.
We have scheduling software which accomodates all of the normal tasks for a coarse grained cluster and we can control which machines are active for submission, etc. If WSUS was in some way scriptable (or the client could state it's availability for shutdown) we could coordinate the two systems and help out.
Currently, the patch schedule is the Sunday after Super Tuesday regardless of what is running on the cluster. We have to ask for an exemption every time we want to delay patching a machine for a long running production job. Basically, while our group is responsible for the machines we have little control over IT's patch schedule.
Is patching monthly with MS's schedule sane for a production Windows cluster?
Are there software hooks in WSUS where we could say, "please don't reboot just yet"?
Is there some way to configure HP Power Manager to not assume that there's an email server running locally?
We recently acquired an HP T1500 G3 UPS, which we're trying to control using HP Power Manager 4.2. The main reason we wanted to get this particular UPS is because it says it's capable of sending notifications (of the "Yo, the power's out, you may want to look into it" type) via email, as opposed to SNMP. Turns out, that's not entirely true.
The server is running Windows Server 2003. It is not running an email server of any sort - we do that via two different providers. Outlook email is provided by Verizon, and our SMTP email service is provided by a small local company.
When we use CDO to send auto-generated notification emails, we have to provide the SMTP server name, port, username, and password. The HP Power Manager interface only allows us to enter the server name and the username. Thus, not surprisingly, the emails never go anywhere.
Help?
Is there a way to reset Photoshop's file associations without having to reinstall? I had CS6 and CS5.5 installed side by side, and when I uninstalled CS5.5 it removed the file associations.
I tried searching around but everyone seems to have the opposite problem (wanting to remove Photosohp's file associations).
Oh, and just doing Open Width - Photoshop and setting that as default doesn't really work right. It displays the wrong icons (which really gets on my nerves).
Running Windows 8 RP (but the fix should be the same as in Windows 7).
I need a service which allows me to edit a hosted text file by email.
For example: I write an email to [email protected] with subject "ADD LINE 10" and sending it the mail body is inserted into myfile which is hosted on a server of someservice.ext. Same for "DELETE LINE 12" or "SUBSTITUTE LINE 15". If I write "ECHO FILE" or something similar, the service should send me an email with the updated content of the text file.
Does it exist?
We want to give access to some Windows Server users so they can remotely have access to our server and download from a special folder of the server.
The licenses we give to users, are time base. There should be 1 month, 2 month, ..., 1 year, ... licenses.
CURRENT SITUATION (WHAT I DON'T WANT):
When users are created and added to the OS, a solid expiration date is given.
WHAT I WANT:
Users' expiration date should be calculated automatically after first login. The user might not need his account right when purchases the license.
In another words:
When a license of the user we create is purchased at Jan 1st, he should use the license until Feb 1st. No matter whether he really logs in or not. He cannot come Feb 5th and begin using his license because that has expired then.
What I want is that when he comes at Feb 5th and begins using, the license update until March 5th.
CLARIFICATION (Update after MDMarra's comment)
Working environment is Windows Server 2012.
By the word 'user', I mean Native Windows Server Users. Whenever a new person purchases a license with me, I create them manually using net user command like this:
net user ali pass /add /expires:2013-12-25
I want to compress a large nuber of files that have near identical headers, and also some data, however I do not wish to archive them, nor do I wish to zip them individually(because the copression ratio would be much higher if substitutions of similar blocks could be done using a single table). Does a compression method exist to do this already, or should I implement it myself.
Note: Don't say "Disk space is cheap", because I may want to use this on an embedded system.
I live in the USA, I am curious about plugging in too many computer items into 1 to 2 power plugin outlets.
Most power outlets have 2 plugins, some have 4 and more though. Many people will plug in a power strib/bar into 1 of these outlets so that they can plugin even more items.
So if I have 2 plugins near my computer, would it be bad to plugin...
- My PC
- 3-4 monitors
- Stereo amp for PC sound
- Lamp
- External drives
- other similar items