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Does printer ink evaporate with time?
I have an HP Photosmart C6300. I bought brand new colour cartridges half year ago and have not used the printer since then. Yesterday when I tried to print something, the ink levels were about 20% down. Does ink evaporate or do I have a leak?
How do I restore my Master Boot Record?
I have installed Autocad 2011 trial on my system and then I found out that Autocad Changes the MBR. (see here) Now I want to restore my MBR to before last time of installing autocad 2011 trial (in fact to original MBR). How can I do that? Please be specific, I'm not a pro hardware technician. i'm u…
Is it worth buying SSDs for a RAID?
Im seeing people using SSDs for RAID-0 and getting excellent improvements in read/write rates. But now there is a good opportunity to acquire another SSD Force Corsair F60 identical to mine. I'm thinking of buying another and bind the two to RAID-0. Is it worth it? I'm getting about 285MB/s of read…
How to specify wildcards in proxy exceptions in Firefox?
IE supports wildcards in proxy exceptions like: What I have to insert in the proxy exceptions in Firefox? I read wildcard * is not supported at all, but found no solution. And how can I exclude a few sites from a global wildcarded domain? eg. I have excluded from proxy, but then I have to enable pr…
Filtering top command output
I'm running a Mac and want to filter the output of the command for a particular process such that only the PID, COMMAND and %CPU columns are displayed. After getting the PID of the process, I run: However this displays more than 15 columns for that process. Can I pipe the output of 'the command in …
Where are the Vista/Win7 Volume Mixer settings stored?
Vista/Win7 appear to persist the sound level settings per application. I'd like to have a look at that list. The reason? According to a Microsoft blog, the settings are stored against the PID of the application, and I'd really like to find out what that PID is. I'm having trouble isolating which pr…
How does one install Windows 7 using USB 3?
I want to install Windows 7 onto an SSD from a USB 3 drive, however it won't let me boot using USB 3, however it does work using USB 2. I guess that's because Windows PE doesn't have the needed USB 3 drivers so my question is how can I fix that? Edit: Sorry for being slightly unclear. The installer…
Is there any replacement for putty
Is there any nice looking terminal with more features and sexy looks than putty? I find it very boring.
Where is the recycle bin in Finder on Mac OS X?
At the bottom of my screen there is the recycle bin. Is there someway to unpin it from there? By the way, where is the recycle bin in Finder?
Linux: How to set default directory of terminal emulators?
After upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04, my terminals (gnome-terminal and urxvt) start in instead of What can cause this behavior? I imagine that the working directory of Gnome or X is set to , or something like that, but I have no idea on where to start debugging this. I use zsh, config can be included.
How to hide admin account and only show main user at logon screen in Windows?
When a user boots Windows is there a way to only show a single user that then asks for a password. For example, I have an admin user and a regular user. When the computer boots I do not want the user to see the admin account. Is this possible? If so, how would an admin then login? I have Windows 7 …
How to make htop sort by PID
How can you make htop sort the list of processes by PID?
Why do most Windows 7 laptops come with the 64 bit version?
It seems increasingly popular for laptop manufacturers to preinstall the 64 bit version of Windows 7 on laptops. Whilst there are well understood benefits of 64 bit OS over 32 bit, how much of that is realisable on a laptop? What is the real advantage of 64 bit OS when the hardware otherwise limits…
How to fix F5, F6 keys on Macbook Pro?
On Macbook Pro, F5 and F6 seems to be the "keyboard illumination keys". However, the keyboard's illumination doesn't seem to change at all after pressing those keys. Also, I noticed a small "no entry" sign whenever I hit those keys, how do we fix these problems?
How can two users be the owners of a file?
As per the title, I have to create a file, for example: I created a user and a group, and , and set them to be the owner and group of this : I have another user named . This user must be able to read this file. How can I change the permissions to allow this? Important: I want to allow only the "mym…
Understanding phishing/basic internet security guide, for teens?
I just helped a 13 year-old relative set up a new Windows 7 desktop, making it as secure as I can remember knowing how to. I has been an hour, and he just came to me saying "I seem to have a virus.". It was a website scam showing the big "You have a virus! ====== scan 100% complete.", with clever p…
How to log connections in OpenWRT?
I've got a public network configured using OpenWRT. How can I log all connections (not the traffic) that flows through the public network? I need those entries: source MAC source/dest IP time destination hostname if possible source hostname if possible
What is the SYSTEM group in Windows 7?
I want to disallow access to a drive in Windows 7, to all the users except myself (admin). So I have deleted all the users and groups in the drive's Security dialog but I am not sure whether I should also delete the "SYSTEM" group or not. If I delete it, does it mean that Windows won't have access …
Is there software that will organize files and folders?
I'm looking to organize my files and folders and was wondering if there was a software that fits some of these criterion: Scans specified folders, and pulls them up so that I can easily identify what the file is Ability to "categorize" each file, or large amounts of files at a time and then sorts t…
How can I quickly zoom in on the Mac OS X version of Word without having to use the menu?
(I'm using the Mac version MS Word 2011) I used to happily use the wheel mouse to zoom but, after upgrading to the Mac Magic mouse (using only finger slide movement to scroll and pan) I can no longer hold Ctrl and roll the mouse to zoom (driving me crazy) and I can't see a useful keyboard shortcut …