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Sorry was on my phone and didn't want to put in the effort if the thread died.
http://www.howtogeek.com/80096/open-office-easter-egg-play-space-invaders-in-calc-2/
If you google Microsoft excel games there is a lot of them as well.
Yep. Black hats usually try to find vulnerabilities in a system or software and then sell them to the highest bidder. White hats also find vulnerabilities but then turn around and fix them or at least flag them so they get fixed. Of course it all depends on what's considered ethical
http://www.howtogeek.com/157460/hacker-hat-colors-explained-black-hats-white-hats-and-gray-hats/
Technically, if you are the original owner, this unit is still under support warranty. It falls under the Legacy category, which was for products between Sept 1992 and April 1996. They offered lifetime support for those products, as long as you are the original owner, or a family member of the original owner. Can't find the original Apple page, but heres a 3rd party link. http://www.howtogeek.com/didyouknow/apple-lifetime-support/
"A car door is essentially a hollow shell with parts placed inside it. Without careful design the door frame amplifies the rattling of mechanisms inside. Car companies know that if buyers don’t get a satisfying thud when they close the door, it dents their confidence in the entire vehicle.
To produce the ideal clunk, car doors are designed to minimise the amount of high frequencies produced (we associate them with fragility and weakness) and emphasise low, bass-heavy frequencies that suggest solidity.
The effect is achieved in a range of different ways – car companies have piled up hundreds of patents on the subject – but usually involves some form of dampener fitted in the door cavity. Locking mechanisms are also tailored to produce the right sort of click and the way seals make contact is precisely controlled.
On average it takes 1.8 seconds to close a car door but in that time you’re witnessing a strange kind of symphony composed by engineers and designers whose goal is to reassure you that its rock solid."
http://www.howtogeek.com/94336/five-fake-sounds-engineered-to-make-your-feel-better-science/
TL;DR car door "slams" are purposely engineered.
What browser do you use? Safari 5 will automatically concatenate articles like that for you with the Reader function, and iReader will do the same on FF and Chrome.
You can set QoS to assign priority to certain applications, or mac addresses, or ports. For instance my QoS is set so that my Playstation gets priority over other traffic, because if I'm using that then I know I'm not actively using my other stuff and I don't want my downloads to create lag.
http://www.howtogeek.com/75660/the-beginners-guide-to-qos-on-your-router/
It could. Some ISPs employ traffic shaping to restrict the speed of specific types of data, sometimes streaming video. If you’re wondering if this makes them giant cockbags, it does.
SlySoft has a Virtual Clone Drive which works pretty much like Daemon Tools. If, for some reason, parental units are particularly distraught by Daemon Tools, one may want to use Virtual Clone Drive instead.
Or make a separate, virtual desktop, of course, using something like this.
Other than that, I've seen others that have completely misread something and been concerned. Good job on trying to set them straight!
Personally I would upgrade her to Gold internet (chromes gold icon). Tell her it is an upgrade on the old version for W7 and let them run w/ it.
If you want to to be believable, spec a VM with something reasonable, and then install the Top 10 things from download.com without unchecking anything.
The machine will crawl like a glacier and the scammer will think he's found the sucker of the year.
That's already an option in normal windows.
You can enable it in Ease of Access, works the same in each OS since.
The official answer from disk providers says that horizontal or vertical positions are preferable but since it seems a solid structure it won't make a big difference if you put the drive at any angle.
Before I spent $200+SSD cost($89)+new oem battery(~$60?) on an aging heavy business laptop for the tasks you mentioned, I would also consider buying a new chromebook and running linux on it with crouton.
This unlocks the potential of a chromebook turning it into an all around laptop and still lets you run chromeOS and linux side by side, easily, switching between the two with a keystroke.
Unless you need to run premium creative apps, like Adobe Creative Suite, linux is the ultimate frugal OS. Most of the other apps you need are available for linux free, and linux itself is free, and crouton is free.
They depend on low input lag. CRTs have virtually no input lag and they are able to work. Newer TVs have too much input lag. The light gun is a light sensor that would sense the light of the image changing for an instant.
The picture your talking about is probably from this article. Wifi signals can go through walls, it's just that they have a hard time doing it. You can even do a heat map of your house to find bad spots.
No.
I can't find the true source, but there has never been an instance of anyone ever recovering data after ONE overwrite pass.
Also, http://www.howtogeek.com/115573/htg-explains-why-you-only-have-to-wipe-a-disk-once-to-erase-it/
edit, more source here: http://digital-forensics.sans.org/blog/2009/01/15/overwriting-hard-drive-data/
Actually they changed that. I just installed windows 8.1 with my windows 8 product key. (The key is for Windows 8 Pro, if that makes a difference).
http://www.howtogeek.com/187525/how-to-perform-a-clean-install-of-windows-8.1-with-a-windows-8-key/
It let me download an .iso file, but you can also use other boot media.
I really have no opinion on the panties thing, but I have advice on pictures!
Don't include your face or distinguishing birthmarks/tattoos. Also try to take your photos in an empty area with no unique furniture or paint colors.
Be mindful of EXIF data so that no creeps know where you live.
Above all, only do this if you feel truly comfortable with it! If this makes you happy, awesome. If not, it's not at all worth it. You're important!
Good luck!
Because it hasn't been updated in months, and even Microsoft is recommending you don't use it.
http://www.av-test.org/en/tests/home-user/windows-7/julaug-2013/
I think this is MacGyver-esque enough, but have you heard about "Stereo mix"? Not all sound cards have this option, but it's a lot simpler.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/39532/how-to-enable-stereo-mix-in-windows-7-to-record-audio/
That...doesn't even compare. Build an ultra res LCD with Wacom digitizer that can run full Windows 8.1 and most modern games in some capacity, has 8 hour battery life and weighs just a few pounds, can go anywhere you can carry a notebook (the real kind, with paper) and can convert your sloppy handwriting to text, can solve equations you write etc., for ~£600 then we'll talk.
Check out this link for an overview of directory structure.
There are a few major directories that you should know.
/etc holds system wide configuration files, it will contain almost all config files for daemons and other programs.
/var contains data that will be written too, for example logs are stored in /var/logs and if you are running a mail server, the emails are stored in /var/mail.
/proc is a special directory containing files with hardware information. For example /proc/cpuinfo is a file that contains information about your CPU.
/dev contains files representing your systems hardware. An example is /dev/sda which would be a harddrive on your system.
The various bin directories contain binary files for programs.
/media and /mnt are used to mount different file systems to your own system.
There are many other directories, keep exploring the system and you can begin to learn where important files are stored.
It is. Flash under linux has always been an annoyance. I basically install the flash plugin only because I need youtube. And if you are using something other than chrome you're even using an old one whose support is going to be discontinued apart from security updates.
There's finally a strong effort to make flash less relevant.
for Windows 7: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/27994/how-to-change-the-priority-of-wiredwireless-network-cards-in-windows/
IMO, it should be the default. I'm not sure if there's a GPO to push that out or if there's a drawback, though.
Hoverzoom lost all credibility when it was revealed to be spyware.
Edit: See information below
Here's a couple reddit discussions:
https://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/1wjrc8/ysk_that_the_hover_zoom_extension_is_spyware/
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1t4ubn/hoverzoom_for_chrome_is_infected_with_malware/
And here's an article with a nice overview of spyware extensions including Hoverzoom and how they work:
http://www.howtogeek.com/180175/warning-your-browser-extensions-are-spying-on-you/
Let me attempt to help here (I am no expert): DNS - Domain Name Server -- the one your cable modem defaults to, is usually the one supported/managed by your ISP (Internet Service Provider - Comcast Time Warner etc.).
When you change it to 8.8.8.8 etc. you are using Google's DNS.
Domain Name Servers have caches of domain names (it's what they do, take one out for tea and ask sometime).
The frequency of those caches being updated is higher with Google than with the ISP DNSes (the latter are cheapskates, saving money and bandwidth by reducing the frequency at which they update their cache).
So: basically when you use your default DNS, you are "looking at the past," compared with what you're seeing with the Google DNSes.
As a big system on the internet comes up, it takes awhile for the new info about ip addresses to propagate to all the DNSes. Google's gets the news faster.
So, eventually, whatever DNS you use will have latest info, depending on when its cache has been refreshed.
For more info:
http://www.howtogeek.com/167239/7-reasons-to-use-a-third-party-dns-service/
Hope that helps! Feel free to correct.
The support person you were talking to were beyond dumb, they do have windows ISOs. In fact, doing a google search would have been faster than contacting the support in the first place.
In case you can't find it yet: scroll down to links of various windows version ISOs:
http://www.howtogeek.com/186775/how-to-download-windows-7-8-and-8.1-installation-media-legally/
And yes, those links are the legal, official ISO distribution used by Microsoft.
"47 Keyboard Shortcuts That Work in All Web Browsers"
And also the specific pages for each browser:
Google "browsernamehere key commands/shortcuts" for the other ones.¨
Key commands should also be able to be modified from the settings.
Instructions with pictures! :)
http://www.howtogeek.com/120743/how-to-install-extensions-from-outside-the-chrome-web-store/
While I know it's a pain to have to install them this way, but I think it's for the greater good. If you've ever had to help friends or family with their computers, you'll know that they all manage to successfully manage to install all the spyware and malware extensions out there. Hopefully this new process for installing non-Chrome store extensions will prevent a majority of these infections.
First off, to semi-quote my Wireless Technology professor "Most people claim to know how wireless signals work but know very little". So with that said lots of advice might be useless or not needed etc. So keep that in the back of your mind when people post their suggestions including mine.
Since you are in an apartment my best guess would be interference. This is when more than one device(computer in this example) are using the same channels as another device. So your router is using the same channel as another router or possibly 5 + other routers.So picture two cars driving on a highway in one lane rather than you each taking your own lane. That is a very dumbed down example and if you write that on a test probably get .5 for trying but it is the best way to explain it dumbed down.
Use this free tool called inSSIDer and the tutorial and follow the guide. If the issue is interference it will be able to tell you what settings to put on your router and that should help for speed and signal just being dropped.There are two different bands 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. Most routers now made within the last year or two come with the option to select 2.4 or 5. Others allow for the router to automatically find and select the band and channel with the least amount of interference from others.
Edit:Spelling is my enemy and it has beaten me.
Microsoft Security essentials hasn't been recommended for like two years. It's gone down the drain
Edit: For those disagreeing with me, Microsoft itself advises people to not use MSE and to use a third party anti-virus program
>In an interview with Dennis Protection Labs, Holly Stewart, the senior program manager of the Microsoft Malware Protection Center, said that Microsoft Security Essentials was just a “baseline” that’s designed to “always be on the bottom” of antivirus tests. She said Microsoft sees MSE as a first layer of protection and advises Windows users to use a third-party antivirus instead.
Looks like there's a DNS issue. Stick this in your C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file to get on:
64.37.171.24 lp.soe.com 64.37.174.148 lvspsn-liv-l01.planetside2.com 80.239.178.24 manifest.patch.station.sony.com 68.232.45.253 pls.patch.station.sony.com 69.174.204.11 forums.station.sony.com 69.174.202.136 account.station.sony.com 64.37.171.29 auth.station.sony.com 64.37.171.22 planetside2.com 64.37.171.22 www.planetside2.com
I don't have apk, but I am trying to get it on my phone with changed device id and market country following this guide: http://www.howtogeek.com/138500/the-ultimate-guide-to-installing-incompatible-android-apps-from-google-play/
Will update with results.
Edit: I tried both Market Enabler for changing the country and Market Helper for changing phone ID which worked but it didn't help me install Hearthstone (google play store saying it's incompatible with this version). Maybe it will work for someone.
drop box + symbolic link. Track down the folder where RES data is stored, move it to drop box and make a symbolic link back to where it came from. Delete RES data on other system and make a symbolic link to replace it.
edit: Switched the dropbox link to my referral.
FYI, here's how you do it in Windows 7/Vista:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/39532/how-to-enable-stereo-mix-in-windows-7-to-record-audio/
Then you can just set your Stereo Mix as your recording device in Audacity. Enjoy!
It's more than just processes. I'm not really good at explaining this but essentially your computer builds up a lot of, essentially, junk over time of different types. The best and most efficient way of cleaning this is by resetting your computer because it just clears most of it away in one go. It's also better for people who have no idea what processes they're looking at in their task manager, rather than having them deleting processes they have no idea about.
This site has a pretty good explanation
This one has some of the things that are fixed by restarting
For someone like Gavin, who going by his explanation in this video has no idea what a computer needs, restarting is just much more efficient at just clearing everything up.
Yep. I'd recommend using this: http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
Using custom DNS servers should also help.
Trello - for organising nearly anything, from meeting agendas to product pipelines to ideas. You need to become a "power-user" though - there are so many hidden features that are incredibly useful.
Google Analytics - goes without saying
GoodTodo - the best ToDo list ever. Doesn't look like much but it has two bits of functionality that no other ToDo list app that I know of has. Watch the video on their site to understand.
Gmail Multiple Inbox + Custom hack - see here: http://www.howtogeek.com/136198/efficiently-manage-your-gmail-with-the-multiple-inboxes-lab/ - this changed my life!
Notepad - not the Windows app, but the real thing. There's something in writing things down the old fashioned way. Plus research has shown that you're far more likely to remember things that you've written down on paper.
Macbook Pro, two 24" screens and a mobile WiFi dongle with support for international roaming.
It doesn't matter. Take it off the charger when you want to. Modern batteries have circuitry to prevent over charging that would damage lithium ion batteries. I just wouldn't let the battery stay or get to 0% charge often. So keep your phone plugged in whenever you want
Ninja edit: http://www.howtogeek.com/169669/debunking-battery-life-myths-for-mobile-phones-tablets-and-laptops/
I know you're joking, but when I see people claiming how secure their password is I liken it to people who want to make their house more secure so they install stronger and stronger front doors. You end up with a person with a hardened steel front door that you couldn't even cut into with a grinder.
However, you've ever worked on a house you'd know that the walls are made of 2x4s spaced 16" apart with nothing but 4 weak layers separating the outside from the inside: 1 layer of cheap vinyl siding, 1 layer of glorified cardboard sheathing, 1 layer of fluffy fiberglass insulation, and 1 layer of drywall. To break into such a house you can either bring heavy duty machinery to cut through that expensive steel front door or you can kick through the wall next to the door.
My girlfriend works at a military base and they had someone steal computers from their office at night. You might wonder how a guy could get onto a base with armed guards. Apparently he just said that was a janitor who forgot his badge, signed for a guest badge, and was let in.
Also:
Links for the lazy:
Make sure phone is debug mode and is restarted after installing apk
Even to people with an advanced background in data recovery, one full pass of randomly generated data on a drive is plenty to make the data completely unrecoverable.
http://www.howtogeek.com/115573/htg-explains-why-you-only-have-to-wipe-a-disk-once-to-erase-it/
IMPORTANT QUOTE:
>In fact, there have been no reported case of anyone using a magnetic force microscope to recover overwritten data. The attack remains theoretical and confined to older hard disk technology.
There's plenty of other sources like this. You just can't recover data if it is reliably and completely overwritten.
I was thinking the same thing. SMBC, maybe?
EDIT: I believe I have found the graph this comic reminded me about. Kind of similar, but the bottom axis of that graph should probably say something along the lines of "% of task complete" instead of "task size".
You chose to buy your iPod.
I don't have a choice but to use Flash on most websites that stream video.
If you made the misinformed decision of buying an iPod without realizing the software that it locked you to, that is your own fault.
Complaining about buying an iPod and being forced to use iTunes, is like buying a car and complaining that you have to put a specific type of fuel in it.
With that said, there are a few alternative programs that replace iTunes for media synching: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/29716/heres-five-alternatives-to-itunes-10-for-easily-managing-your-ipod/ If your iPod is not supported by any of those, that is still your fault though.
> free as in freedom
Thanks I had that confused, here is a short read for anyone else How to Geek
Of course it scores lowest, Microsoft are not competing and share everything with the antivirus industry.
>“We’re providing all of that data and information to our partners so they can do at least as well as we are. The natural progression is that we will always be on the bottom of these tests."^[1]
Hidedesktopicons.exe
I put it into my task bar which lets me hide all desktop icons in one click for reasons of pretty. link with instructions+dl link
Notepad++ just so many amazing things you can do with it.
Powerstrip. It's a nice screencolor managing software.
http://chart.av-comparatives.org/chart1.php
Independent 3rd party comparison of AV, with listing of false positives, updated frequently.
Some reading material, about MSE and why you shouldn't use it most of the time.
I use avast. It hasnt let me down, ive installed it on tons of clients pcs. its a great simple antivirus that gives decent reminders with few adds. Basic av is free.
Maybe it depends on your email app, but in my experience you are incorrect. Here are some other folks who have shared this pain:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=13809
Maybe you are thinking of the case where all the recipients are BCC'd? That is not what I was talking about.
Google is your friend.
How to Electronically Sign Documents Without Printing and Scanning Them
Wasn't photoshop. Internet Explorer Web Developer tool (the only thing IE is good for).
Edit: Found a site describing what I did so you can learn to master troll as well. Enjoy!
A lot of misinformation here - you do NOT need to purchase a disc. Download the ISO for the version your computer came with here.
Download and use any of these tools (I personally use the Windows USB/DVD Download Tool) to create a bootable usb drive.
Use this USB drive to do a fresh installation on the SSD. You will have to call Windows to activate your installation.
What you mentioned in the second edit is called an exif tag, just google "ways to remove exif data from a photo." Here's a random link I found on the topic. http://www.howtogeek.com/203592/what-is-exif-data-and-how-to-remove-it/
Hope that helps
There are drivers to allow access from windows, see for example this article.
I used ext2fsd some years ago and did not encounter any problems.
Another option is to transfer the data using another laptop, e.g. via samba you could either make the external harddrive available or the internal one and push there. For speed reasons in this case a connection with ethernet cable would be much better than wifi. Or you could take out the internal harddrive, put it into an enclosure and copy directly using your linux laptop.
This is actually super easy. I'm not sure why people are saying you need access to a PC, because you don't. You can just use an .iso with the current bootcamp utility and an >8GB USB drive. Apple has made the process painless, and I've personally used this method 3 times.
It's something like this in case you need more directions: http://www.howtogeek.com/186907/how-to-install-windows-on-a-mac-with-boot-camp/
Yes, it is.
Short version: Windows stores caches which might end up as corrupted files if you're unlucky.
Long version: http://www.howtogeek.com/172931/why-exactly-do-you-need-to-safely-eject-usb-media/
Don't use a vacuum cleaner. It builds up static, and can potententially kill your components.
This isn't news, not by a long shot. The silent thing is a little fucked up, though. Does Server 2012 do the same thing I wonder.
Not true - modern batteries (lithium ion) don't exhibit memory effect: http://www.howtogeek.com/169669/debunking-battery-life-myths-for-mobile-phones-tablets-and-laptops/
Also, modern phones have battery controllers built into the chipset- it's not possible to "overcharge" the battery.
The fuck.
If he had the credentials, he could have just booted off something like DEFT (assuming he wasn't imaging an extX FS which is one of few use-cases where forensic liveCD's init.d might screw with FS/journal if setup wrong -- but since it was a USB probably FAT).
Or, hell, he could have even gambled it and tried a registry hack to make Windows not write data (not guarantee).
Or, if he's only comfortable in Windows (sigh), he should always have extra hardware.
This can also occur with cordless phones and other devices that live in the 2.4Ghz band. Ideally, you should replace your microwave. Otherwise, you can probably dodge the problem by changing the channel that your wireless access point is on. You can check out points 11 and 13 of this Cisco white paper if you have doubts (I'm only an undergrad, after all) and here is more info on changing your wifi channel.
Godspeed.
Dishwasher; do not use the heated dry setting, let it sit for about a week upside in an area with plenty of air movement (a cold air return for a furnace is great)
Alternatively, here is an article that suggests taking the keyboard apart before you wash it - probably a better idea - http://www.howtogeek.com/65915/how-to-clean-your-filthy-keyboard-in-the-dishwasher-without-ruining-it/
Hiding the SSID does nothing for security on your own network and makes your devices LESS secure when you're away from home.
Not only that but if you use 32-bit anything you can only utilize a maximum of 3GB of RAM in Windows.
With a 64-bit system you can utilize up to 16.8 million terabytes, theoretically.
There are better ways at preventing this than disabling Windows Update, disabling Windows Update is just a plain bad idea.
How to disable auto-restarting, the method works for Windows 7 too.
Mirror? It's usually on Youtube by now but no joy :( Edit: Nevermind, problem running shockwave flash in Chrome. Fixed. If you have the same problem go here: http://www.howtogeek.com/103292/how-to-fix-shockwave-flash-crashes-in-google-chrome/
Steam game mover http://www.traynier.com/software/steammover/
Or in Vista/7 you can do the same thing manually using the mklink command. Start>All Programs>Accessories>Command Prompt, right click and run as administrator
mklink /j "link" "target"
"link" is the original steam folder path and "target" is the folder's new path. Include the quotes or it won't account for spaces in the folders' names. http://www.howtogeek.com/?post_type=post&p=254
Once you understand how to use the command it's really easy. Just cut/paste your game's folder to the new location, and then an example command line would look like
mklink /j "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\hot new game" "D:\hot new game"
(Learning to use mklink comes in handy for a lot of other stuff, too. For example, you can have Steam keep all your save game files in your Dropbox folder and easily keep them all backed up remotely.)
Install Windows 7 (the version you'll eventually purchase) without an activation code. You can use it for 30 days without having to do anything special, or extend the trial from 30 up to 120 days by rearming Windows.
Honestly as a gamer, I think you'll prefer Windows 7 to Windows 8 at this time. Everything works, and the bugs have been worked out. Plus, no Metro UI to muck with.
Those are called "Pay per Install" is commonly used by Free software to make money per install of buddle software (i.e. toolbar) or change your browser's Home page and default search engine, Mostly of the free softwares use this to gain revenues, you should : 1. Use utorrent 2.2.1. instead of the BitTorrent Client (imo is way better). 2. Pay more attention during install/update process, don't go willy nilly clicking on the next because these type things need your approval prior the install, like this pic.
Hiding your network's SSID is pointless. It's not how the protocol was designed to work, barely even slows down potential attackers, and causes your mobile device to broadcast your SSID to anyone who is listening for it, regardless of whether or not you are near your wireless AP. (which should really bug you if you're paranoid enough to try hiding your SSID in the first place)
MAC filtering is about as useless. Use WPA2, anything else is just a useless waste of effort.
>Would I have to jailbreak my Kindle to do this?.
No.
>What is the process?
Just copy the files (ebooks) over to the "documents" folder of your Kindle and you're good to go.
Here's a cool trick:
Customize your Kindle's screensaver/wallpaper This requires jailbreaking, though.
There's a few ways this can be done depending on your router. This is one way.
Be aware that network-level blocks are indiscriminate and will affect all sites, even ones you wish to support.
You may also render many sites unusable if they need content from somewhere you have blocked (e.g. Google, grapeshot etc).
Carriers have the ability to customize everything from the bootloader to SIM locking to disabling small features like the "unknown sources" checkbox.
Not every carrier makes all of these changes, but since they could have modified almost anything, Google has to leave it up to the carriers to figure out what impact their changes might have made.
I worked on Motorola phones 10 years ago, (pre-smartphones) and the carriers would do the same thing back then, demand that Motorola make changes to the code for their specific needs. The carriers are used to being able to make almost any change they want.
If you ask me, it's a little crazy that people buy their phones from the carrier. It's like we still have one foot back in the era when you had to rent your phone from AT&T. You don't buy your lightbulb from the electric company, or your furnace from the gas company, so why do Americans do this with their cell phones?
Wasn't sure if you could recover deleted files from a usb stick but it turns out you can. How To Geek did a guide/explanation on it.
In short don't write any new information to the usb stick, plug it into the computer, use a 3rd party data recovery tool to try and recover the data.
If you're worried about ebooks from Amazon, you can remove the DRM like this:
Then download Marvin for your iPhone or iPad and you can then read your DRM-free books on that app instead (or whatever app you choose that can read epub files).
There is no such thing as "overcharging" any modern laptop (this has been true for a long time). Laptops are way too smart to let something so simple cause any trouble.
The best advice is usually to simply not worry about it, because in most cases any gains in battery performance you might eek out over the life of a device will be tiny compared to the effort needed to obtain them. Apple has been telling users not to worry about it for years, and they tend to have pretty happy users.
Here is a decent guide with some guidelines if you'd prefer to worry about it: http://www.howtogeek.com/169669/debunking-battery-life-myths-for-mobile-phones-tablets-and-laptops/
you can change the order of applications and services on boot. The LAN driver might be dead last behind something else that is taking a long time to load. Or your driver sucks and needs to be reinstalled. Or your router sucks and is taking forever to give your pc an ip address.
Good luck!
AutoHotkey could be a good solution for you, use it for a lot of stuff like this myself. And someone already made a nice little tutorial for your exact issue. :)
Similar arrangements exist in other countries. In France, for instance, it looks like this:
- Every guest user is connected through a tunnel, and has his own IP address.
- The router has a virtual interface for every guest, so that no guest have access to your LAN.
- The router uses QoS to prevent people watching Netflix from taking up all of your bandwidth.
So it's really not that bad. I don't know the specifics of this exact thing, but if it's anything like the French Freebox, which is an opt-out service, it isn't all that bad.
Not to be that guy, but hiding your SSID provides no security and can in fact make your network more vulnerable. You're better off using a strong password and changing it regularly. You can do MAC address filtering on most routers, but this is also pretty trivial to circumvent.
Please don't use MSE, it is by far the worst option. You should use Avast. http://avast.com
You should not use MSE, even Microsoft says that.
Those look like they connect to the USB 2.0 pins on your computer, so it won't be much different from getting a USB flash drive and enabling ready boost on it. Please read these articles [1] [2] [3] to get a better understanding of ready boost. Essentially, is good for systems with 1GB or less system memory, but cannot match the performance gain of actually increasing system memory (2GB is better than 1GB + 4GB USB ready boost drive).
If your computer has less than 1GB or less, then go for it. If not, then you won't see as much impact on performance. If you really want to, and you have the free USB 2.0 pins, I guess you could put it onto a computer with adequate memory.
I could be mistaken... but I don't believe Chromium 12.04 is a thing. You may mean Ubuntu 12.04, in which case I've never had the displeasure of it not prompting for a password. If you have nothing important on the system yet, just go for a simple reinstall. Also if it is a chromebook with an ssd inside, there are some extra steps you may want to take to improve overall performance and the lifetime of the drive.
If you want to extend the lifetime of the ssd on the system(disregard if there is no solid state hard drive) here are some helpful links I've used. If you're not too comfortable with Linux, please be sure to read carefully. For this link, do NOT add the nodiratime as noatime already takes care of it: http://www.howtogeek.com/62761/how-to-tweak-your-ssd-in-ubuntu-for-better-performance/
This thread is where I found the first link and it might be helpful. The post which contains the first link I've given you has other helpful links as well: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1960003
Best of luck!
EDIT: If you have any important or precious files on the system already, boot into the live cd/usb and copy the files to another drive or area off of the system drive.
EDIT #2: Just an opinion/thought- chromebooks generally have no more than a 16GB ssd or so... so if you're not fond of the Chrome OS, you might want to consider getting a normal laptop. Even just casual web browsing/emailing type folks will fill up 16GB.
FFS turn UAC back on... The 'Startup' folder was deprecated with Win7 (there is even a GPO object to prevent processing it altogether)
If you want an elevated process to run automatically, create a scheduled task that runs with highest privileges and is triggered on user logon.
Point the task to the executable/parameters you want to use, Robert is your mother's brother, and you now have an application running as an Administrator on logon without an UAC prompt, and without having to create and embed a manifest on the executable and/or creating a compatibility shim.
Bonus Points, if you have an application that requires administrative privileges, but you don't want to deal with the UAC prompts, create a scheduled task that points to it, set it to run with highest privileges, set it to be allowed to be run on demand, but set no other triggers. Then, create a shortcut to the scheduled task. When the shortcut is activated, the application is launched with highest privileges, but no UAC prompt.
URL/content says Vista, but it's applicable to 7/8 as well: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/create-administrator-mode-shortcuts-without-uac-prompts-in-windows-vista/
tl;dr - You're doing it wrong... Stop it...
The PS3 also has a Data Transfer Utility that will let you copy everything from your old PS3 to your new one.
That's the infamous Android UI lag that has plagued the platform from the start. Supposedly it's fixed with Jellybean 4.1 though.
Boot off the install media and reinstall grub. If you installed Windows after linux then Windows most likely overwrote your MBR.
You can always just reinstall linux (if there isn't anything in there that you need to save) as most linux installs will recognize Windows installs and automagically add them to grub. If not, it's easier to edit grub and restore your Windows partition than vice-versa.
Take a look at this: How to reinstall grub...
Don't quit.
Toward a couple of people here so far:
Why would bother even lurking in a /r called "Linux Questions" if this is your attitude toward people who come here looking for answers to questions (easy or hard) or simple guidance? Why?
This is not the place for snarky, profane, name calling.
So stop being insufferable whinging cunts and leave if you cannot be bothered to offer anything more than rudeness tinged with an hint of smug superiority. Yeah, really.
For Windows ponies: http://www.mediafire.com/?nmt1l3mc4pnn4u8
Use the icons in the folder called "32" for your Start Menu icons and Win7 Taskbar.
Use the icons in "48" for your desktop icons.
If you switch those up, it won't look good.
If you don't know how to change icons, CallNumber4 posted this nice tutorial.
[](/c01)I'll try to answer any questions.
Apple is a unique use case. At least in the US, all smartphones and feature phones sold as a specific carrier version (which is basically any phone you buy at a brick-and-mortar store) still exist under the infrastructure that your carrier is actually the one in charge of your phone (and in exchange, the carrier helps promote the phone, provide support etc), which is the way the cell phone business has worked for the past 40 years.
If you had a cell phone 15 years ago, it made perfect sense. Manufacturers didn't have a big material interest in rolling out minor updates to dozens of SKUs (every model for every carrier), and carrier services could be widely varied and/or significantly changed in ways that would make it impractical to put that kind of burden on the manufacturer. Plus, the carriers themselves were usually quite involved in every phone they released (most people would go to the store to buy a "Verizon Juke," for example, not a "Samsung Juke"). So they were actually providing a very real and necessary service.
Today, it is simply a carried-over business model that carriers now cling on to in order to add their own bloatware and plaster their logos and advertising everywhere. Is it time for a change? YES. Unfortunately, only Apple has had the negotiating power (and the desire) to make that happen. The only way to download direct updates would be to have a completely unlocked phone, like the Nexus phones sold directly from Google. But these phones can generally only be activated on GSM networks like T-Mobile or AT&T
For more on this: http://www.howtogeek.com/163958/why-do-carriers-delay-updates-for-android-but-not-iphone/
He missed it again, so I'll answer.
Yes, it will, if it's a decent AV. I'd advise Avast Free for general use, or ESET NOD32 if you're willing to drop some cash on it.
If you want a more detailed explanation of how the AV programs do their thing, HowToGeek has a pretty decent writeup.
Use Pseudotv Live instead of Pseudotv add-on(Psuedotv doesn't work with gotham). The howtogeek article is pretty helpful (http://www.howtogeek.com/195099/how-to-recreate-the-channel-surfing-experience-on-xbmc/), for initial setup. After setting it up and using the main forum post on xbmc is pretty helpful (http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=169032). Once you figure out how items are set up, you can use notepad++ and edit the settings2.xml file and add other channels, just make sure pseduotv live is not being used when you edit this file being XBMC will overwrite all your settings when you shut down pseudotv live. I was in the same situation and not having any idea how to configure this, but after playing around with it for a couple of weeks I have got my configuration set up pretty nicely, here is an image of the schedule guide http://i.imgur.com/1xW1QwK.jpg
I like Python for all the mind-numbingly tedious tasks I have to do at work, e.g. parsing output into excel, creating lots of similar config scripts in whatever weird format an application wants, etc. I use the OP's trick to generate a list of commands to paste every day. Remember this graph? A lot of these things are not quite painful enough to whip up something in C++, but the barrier using Python is much lower, and it's done sooner.
Recently my advisor gave me a project that involved writing some code from scratch. I knew it would have to be in C eventually, but I built prototype of the algorithm in Python to check all the logic, and after that I was relatively easy to port to C.
Of course MSE isn't bloated, it isn't doing anything to begin with... even Microsoft admits MSE is garbage.
Only the other hand you mentioned open source, there is no such thing as an open source antivirus so that comment doesn't make sense.
FYI, you don't need a phone to use Google Authenticator. Check out the options here - http://www.howtogeek.com/129014/how-to-use-google-authenticator-and-other-two-factor-authentication-apps-without-a-smartphone/
Just trick the site into thinking you are a googlebot. Most sites usually let you through logins and pay walls with this trick.
If you have a new computer with plenty of RAM chrome should be your go-to browser, but for my older devices, I prefer FireFox because it doesn't eat-up as much memory as Chrome. Chrome runs every extension and tab in a separate process, while this saves you in the /unlikely/ situation that a tab or plugin crashes, by only crashing said process. But this causes Chrome to use a large amount of memory when doing simple stuff, like listening to music. here is an explanation.