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How to change hdd read error timeout?
I'm recovering data from an hdd using . With "retry" disabled, it takes roughly 30 seconds for every unreadable sector. The hdd has tens of thousands of bad sectors and the process is taking forever. Can I shorten the read error timeout to, say, 3 seconds? Perhaps with ATA commands? Kernel options?…
How to get Google Chrome without installing it?
I know that some Windows applications are stand-alone in the sense that you can just start the EXE directly and it works - no installation required. Can Google Chrome do this? I'd like to run Google Chrome, but I am looking for a way to run it on a Windows XP system without having to install it fir…
Why does my iTunes use so much CPU time?
I have a roughly 2 year old Macbook (10.5). I have iTunes 10. When iTunes is playing MP3s, I see CPU usage of the iTunes process in the system monitor ranging from 65%-75%. When I pause the music, I see CPU usage of about 65%-75%. I do not have any visualisations going, to my knowledge I have not t…
Are two fans at half rpm always more silent that one fan at full rpm?
I am new to silent pc building so if I am making some lame assumptions please correct me. For example this is claimed properties of Noctua NF-S12-1200 fan. If I recall high school physics correctly two 6dB are summed as this: So two Noctua fans running 600rpm should make considerably less noise tha…
When using synergy, it lags sometimes
Update: They fixed the macOS wifi lag on Synergy 1.9.0! https://symless.com/forums/topic/2587-download-synergy-190-to-fix-the-wifi-macos-bug/ I use . My linux desktop acts as the server, and my macbook connects as a client. While using synergy, they are both connected to a linksys WRT-45GL router, …
why is WinSCP so slow
the interface is handy but the file transfer rate is freakishly slow compared to pscp or scp in my VM on the same windows machine. i'm only getting about 17kb/s when my overall connection speed can go up to about 1Mb/s (what i've seen not what my provider tells me they're giving me) and i'm pretty …
Email Client with Vim Editing
I've been using vim for about 5 years now and have grown quite effective with it, to the point where writing things without vim feels so painfully slow. Just about everything that I write, I write in vim with the exception of email. All of my email accounts are google hosted, and right now I just u…
School Management System
I am looking for a school management system to replace a homegrown Access db. It should be able handle the following for both a Primary and Secondary school Scheduling classes Student Enrollment Allow teacher to enter grades and comments Generate transcripts and report cards Handle attendance Handl…
Are .docx or .pdf files potentially dangerous?
Just a general question of computer security - if I download a .pdf or .docx from an untrusted source, can it seriously harm my machine/give a malicious user access to my information? Or is it sandboxed somehow? (Sorry if there's a different Stack Exchange I'm supposed to be posting this on.)
What do I have to take care of when hibernating both Ubuntu and Windows (dual-boot environment)
I've got both Windows 7 and Ubuntu (finally) installed on my laptop. For the sake of comfort, I usually hibernate Windows instead of shutting it down. And I think when using Ubuntu regularly, there will be times when I do that to quickly switch from Windows to Ubuntu to check or do something quickl…
Graphing by time in Excel
I have a data set (~2000 rows) with the following form: I'd like to graph this data using a Stacked Area chart in Excel 2003. Where I'm having difficulty is I'd like to present the chart on a scale of each hour. Could someone please provide the steps for producing a Stacked Area chart using time sc…
Are living insects in my laptop dangereous?
My laptop become a house of Ants, Every time I am seeing some ants creeping to my laptop. Do the ants cause any problem to my laptop? How can I get rid of them?
What do I need? a digital pen or a pen tablet or something else?
I use lot of regular pen and paper. Most of my work includes I write a lot of lengthy articles in my native language (not English). Solving maths problems => writing a lot of mathematical equations Solving chemistry problems => chemistry especially organic chemistry Design Diagrams (UML, Class, E-R…
Windows 7 can not rename a file to 'aux.svg': "The specified device name is invalid"
I use Windows 7 x64. You can try this on your computer, too. Go take any file. Try to rename it to 'aux.svg'. Windows will answer with The specified device name is invalid. I tried this on two different computers (also Win7 x64), with the same results. You can take any file you want. You can not re…
How to fix Time Machine's "This backup is too large for the backup disk"?
Why I am always seeing this window on my system? I have changed the disk with a new one, bigger and after a while the message shows again. As far as I know, TM deletes old backups to store the new ones but it seems that this is not the case. Any way to solve that?
Can't access select websites on Linux (but can on Windows)
My internet connection used to be a direct LAN connection to my provider. Back then, everything would load fine on both Windows and Ubuntu (dual boot). However, a while ago they started needing me to dial using a username and password (over a PPPoE connection). But since then, I haven't been able t…
increase LCD screen resolution in Windows 7 beyond its native resolution
In Windows XP, I could use any resolution bigger than the lcd's natural resolution very easily by disabling, "hide resolutions monitor cannot display" option buried in Device Manager. On Windows 7, I have been unable to find something similar.
Show connected network shares (even those that aren't mapped) in Windows 7
So I can use on the command line to see all connected network shares, including those that aren't mapped to a drive letter. Is there a way to see this list in GUI form in Windows 7? I particularly want to see the connections that aren't mapped to drive letters but have authentication (perhaps becau…
Vim: "brace matching" for languages without braces? (Ruby, Python, etc)
Vim is great at highlighting matching braces. But lately I'm working in Ruby, where method definitions generally start with and end with instead of and . Similarly, statements and statements and others don't use braces, just keywords. Does anybody have a configuration which can highlight matching k…
If 'To' and 'From' headers are the spammer's email address, how did I get this email?
I tried to check header 1. I see my email address in "Envelope-to: my_email@my_domain.com" but not in To/CC/BCC how sender is able to do this? I think I'm not a BCC recepient because Thunderbird didn't tell me about this. Please see headers below (changed some names):