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For the last month my OneDrive (business) is constantly switching between "looking for changes" for about a minute then "Backed up and Synced" and back to "looking for changes". Before, it used to look for changes and then stay in the "Backed up and synced" state, unless I made a change. This is also btw how OneDrive behaves at my work PC (different 365 account) running 26.139.xxx The problem is…
Had the RAM fail on my Windows 11 PC. So now I am concerned that some of the user data on my PC may have been corrupted. For instance, possibly I opened a file and then saved it and it was written with bad data from the RAM. (This would not be protected by the SSD's error protection.) I know about SFC and DISM and CHKDSK and the like, but those do not check the user data. I am talking about the…
There are many questions like this one, i.e. why hosts on the VPN LAN cannot be pinged, and I went over dozens of them, but in each instance the difference is that they forgot to open their firewalls or something silly along those lines, which I had eliminated along the way of setting things up. In the process of setting up an edge router in a remote office, I configured the NAT and firewall to…
When I run yt-dlp, I get the following warning: Your yt-dlp version (2026.03.17) is older than 90 days! It is strongly recommended to always use the latest version. You installed yt-dlp with pip or using the wheel from PyPi; I am pretty sure I did it with PIP as I don't use PyPi, so I have done the following: pip install --upgrade yt-dlp which responds Requirement already satisfied: yt-dlp in ->…
I have changed my router, and the new router's LAN uses subnet 192.168.178.0/24 . The original LAN subnet was 192.168.1.0/24 . I need to be able to connect (occasionally) to another device with a fixed IP address of 192.168.1.12 . How can I do this?
A couple years ago I bought a laptop (Thinkpad Yoga 14) and followed a professor's tutorial to change its system from Windows to Ubuntu for class. After I changed majors, I tried to change it back to Windows on my own and sort of (badly) managed to do so. However, I messed up and I can't access the majority of my laptop's storage. It originally had 1TB. Can anyone help me access the rest of it? I…
I am planning to change the display panel on my MSI laptop. The stock panel currently installed is an AUO B173ZAN03.3 . I am considering swapping it for an AUO B173ZAN06.8 . According to panel specifications, both displays share matching physical dimensions and interface types: Form Factor: 17.3" Slim (No mounting tabs, 389.89 × 238.31 × 3.5 mm) Resolution: 3840 × 2160 (UHD) Interface: 40-pin eDP…
For the past couple of weeks, my PC has been randomly playing this jarring, dissonant digital chord. It happens unpredictably. Sometimes immediately on boot, sometimes when opening my IDE, and sometimes randomly while watching a movie. Recently, it even repeated three times in a row. I've ruled out almost everything: It plays even when Systems Sounds are muted in the Windows Volume Mixer It’s not…
I'm relatively new to Linux and trying to check the available disk space via the terminal on Ubuntu. What command should I use to see a human-readable list of all mounted filesystems and their current usage? Is there a standard tool for this?
I'm working with some virtual machines, using Hyper-V technology. Apparently, the speed with which files are copied back and forth might depend on the kind of session mode (basic or enhanced). When I log onto my virtual machine, I get the opportunity to enter username and password and I'm logged in a basic session mode. When I click on the keyboard button in order to go to enhanced session mode,…
I have two machines. One is my Windows PC, and the other is my NAS, running Linux. They're both connected to the Internet via my router with a 1 Gbit/s Ethernet link. But they're directly connected via a 2.5 Gbit/s Ethernet link. How can I force Windows to use the 2.5 Gbit/s link preferentially? Currently, when I copy files, the speed is limited to 1 Gbit/s. If I disconnect the 1 Gbit/s link, I…
I have been using NoMachine for some time now on its free version. I haven't connected it to my remote machine for about 3 weeks. But when I tried to connect to it, it does not allow me to anymore. After some research I found that they've essentially shut down their free version after the release of version 10 and their community forum was shut down also. Nevertheless, I am still using the…
When I call the exit directive from a script file in Android Terminal Emulator or Debian Terminal, it does not terminate the command line GUI. It is counterpart of exit /B directive of Windows OS. I am looking for Windows exit command's counterpart which belongs to Linux based systems as standalone (parameter-free) exit directive in Windows script file terminates not only execution of the script…
I received a ZIP file containing an .MSG file through Outlook. I downloaded the ZIP file and extracted it successfully, but when I try to open the .MSG file, it opens in Google Chrome instead of Outlook. I also tried using “Open with,” but Outlook doesn't appear in the list of available apps. What should I do to open the .MSG file in Outlook? Is there a way to set Outlook as the default…
I currently am trying to create a SMB share for a Time Machine backup for a Mac. My NAS runs Ubuntu 24.04 and I'm running ksmbd, which currently does not support the features needed to run a Time Machine backup . I'd like to run a instance of Samba (the regular, mainline userspace version), with the required settings, and connect to it via Tailscale (so I don't need to give it a separate IP, and…
I have both Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Windows 11 installed in a Lenovo V15 G4 IRU notebook. Every time I shift from Ubuntu to Windows I have to perform a manual synchronization because the clock is two hours off (I am from Italy). Is there any way to tell Windows to automatically set the correct time? I consulted two different sources, both suggesting to instruct Windows to use UTC in place of local…
I see apparently random glitches when drawing on PowerPoint slideshow using the annotation tools. There would be a short vertical displacement form the line I am drawing. I tried to search about it on the internet but couldn't find any lead that works for me. Link 1 , Link 2 , Link 3 Disabling hardware acceleration don't change anything for me. Microsoft inking personalization is among the things…
Yesterday I installed ubuntu server on an old laptop to use as home server for Jellyfin and other applications. Everything is going great, until I run the 'df -h' command to check available space on disk, and it says I only have 98G total on /. homeserver@homeserver:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on tmpfs 380M 1.7M 379M 1% /run /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv 98G 19G 75G 20% /…
For IPv4, it is easy to create a rule that only accepts connections from hosts of the same subnet, for example (assuming my computer is 192.168.42.2 , and the incoming connection is 192.168.42.20 ): table ip firewall { chain incoming { type filter hook input priority 0; policy drop; ip saddr 192.168.42.0/24 tcp dport 8080 accept } } How does one do this for IPv6? I know there's always the…
Is there a way to get desktop alerts or notifications for when a new email is sent to a shared mailbox on outlook? I've tried looking around in rules and alert flags but none seem to give me the right result. Any suggestions?
I have a folder containing normal files and directories but also Windows junctions. When I try to zip the folder I get an error that some files cannot be read. These files are Windows junctions. Is it possible to create a ZIP archive supporting junctions? Or is there another archive format supporting junctions?
I've two computer both running Windows 10 (1909). PC 1 has a 4k 27" screen and I've set custom scaling to 160 %. When I open a RDP connection to PC 2 it has set the same scaling for the RDP connection, as well to 160 %. But since last Friday it sets the scaling to 150 %. I've no idea why? Then I tried the following settings: PC 1 160 % --> RDP PC 2 150 % <-- last week this was 160 % PC 1 100 % -->…
My cat pressed on a function key on my keyboard and now a playlist or song plays somewhere in the background. I don't know how to stop it, there is no suspicious task in the task manager or in the tray. How can I figure out where the sound is coming from?
I have an ISO file name lfs-ms.iso located at the following directory: F:\MS\lfs-ms.iso This ISO file contains an executable called lfs-inst.exe. I use this file many a times so I have to mount the ISO file manually every time and then open this executable. I wish to automate this process by using a command line script (.cmd). So I am building a script that first navigates to this directory,…
I have (had) Google Drive installed on a Windows 7 laptop. Normally Drive starts during logon, and the system tray icon appears. However, now the system tray icon never appears. Google Drive is set to load at startup in msconfig (C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Drive\googledrivesync.exe). 2 instances of googledrivesync.exe are showing in Task Manager. 1 is using 56,000 K, the other 760 K. I'd like…
With Windows 8.1, I would like the current day of the week (or abbreviation thereof) to show in my taskbar along with or alongside time and date, without ramifications for Excel and, preferably, no other consequences either * . Adding the day of the week is easy applying Anand Khanse’s tip but this causes changes to Excel’s operation that are not acceptable to me. My Google foo is not turning up…
I have to perform a task on frequent basis and that is scanning a bunch of pages(all pages with same size) and create a PDF file out of it so that the PDF will appear as close to original pages as possible which means no margins, no cropping. Now I know a clumsy way to do this. Fire up Word, set correct page size and set margins to zero. Import images(if you import multiple, Word messes up the…
For the past week or so, my internet connection has been anything but stable. Restarting my modem/router always fixes the problems, but since it has occurred so often, I'm noticing confusing patterns which I was hoping someone could help answer. My internet connection kicks out about 4-5 times a day. The sure-fire way to fix it is to restart my all-in-one modem/router. Sometimes I can diagnose the…
Currently I am agonizing over several large presentation files, which I happened to reprint to PDFs... One thing I wondered: Do PPT's (from Microsoft Powerpoint) always to have to be that big? And what would be the strategies to make a PPT smaller? (If we say "ceterus paribus" at e.g. 25 slides and assuming that one isn't allowed to use a cloud-based service like GDocs, rocketslide or Prezio.) Of…
I have a normal LCD monitor as my primary monitor and an HD LCD television as a 2nd monitor (connected through HDMI). I also have a set of normal speakers for the computer (a Windows 7 machine) that I previously used (before I was using the TV as a 2nd monitor). When I am using the TV as a 2nd monitor, I would like audio to come from it. However, I'm oftentimes using the TV as a TV, in which case…
I would like to combine multiple images into one image using ImageMagick. To explain a little better, I want the result to look similar to this: That is, I have a number of screenshots, and I want to turn them into one image with the original images on top of each other. By Googling, I have come across the 'composite' command, but I don't know if, and in that case how to use it to get the result I…
I'm quite fond of munin and using it also at home to monitor my PCs. What was super-duper easy under Linux is pretty much unsolvable for me under Windows: I'd like to monitor CPU and Motherboard temperatures as well as fan speed. On Linux I'm using lm-sensors and the plugin for munin was basically there . I access already some information from my Windows machine via SNMP (disk space, CPU usage ,…
