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What is the D-shaped icon next to my USB-C port on my Asus Zenbook?
There's a small D-shaped icon next to my USB-C port on my Asus Zenbook. It looks like two Ds or a P and a D, one smaller (P) placed inside a larger one. I have tried looking for it online but I can't seem to find it anywhere. What does it stand for…
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How to disable sticky corners in Windows 10
It seems Microsoft has tried to solve this problem Multi-monitors and the corners of the screen.
In Windows 7, there is no boundary between monitors and the mouse can move freely across the top of the screen between my 3 monitors, provided I had set…
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What is the power output of a USB port?
As the title says, what's the power output of a USB port?
Is it a standard value, or it may change depending on manufacturer/model, and so on?
If that value is not standard, how can one determine it?
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How to selectively route network traffic through VPN on Mac OS X Leopard?
I don't want to send all my network traffic down to VPN when I'm connected to my company's network (via VPN) from home. For example, when I'm working from home, I would like to be able to backup all my files to the Time Capsule at home and still be…
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What do green folders mean in Windows 7 Explorer?
I downloaded a ZIP file and dragged the files out of the ZIP into a directory. The subdirectories I copied displayed in Windows Explorer in green instead of the default black.
What does the green folder text mean?
(In case you're wondering, the…
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What does export do in BASH?
Possible Duplicate:
Difference between “a=b” and “export a=b” in bash
It is hard to admit, but I have never really understood what exactly export does to an environment variable. I know that if I don't export a variable I sometimes can't see it…
Chas. Owens
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Windows 10 Search not loading, showing blank window
The Search menu on my Windows 10 suddenly stopped working. When I click the Search icon or type something in the Start menu, it just shows a blank search window.
I've tried rebuilding the index, SFC /scannow, DISM Restore, and creating a new local…
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Hex editors for Windows?
Are there some hex editors for Windows? Preferably open source or free since I don't need a hex editor all that often...
Things I do need is the ability to search in different types (text, raw hex, little endian short, big endian short, etc.) and…
Kris Erickson
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Path to current desktop backgrounds in Windows 10?
There is another question on here that allows users to find the path to their current background image through a cmd command.
How could I find out the path to the current desktop image?
In Windows 10 this no longer works. It only returns the first…
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How does Linux know that the new password is similar to the previous one?
A few times I tried to change a user password on various Linux machines and when the new password was similar to the old one, the OS complained that they were too similar.
I always wondered, how does the system know this? I thought that the password…
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How do I get a static IP address for my teapot?
I maintain this teapot:
It returns a 418 error when it is pinged, and it is pinged regularly by people arriving from the relevant Wikipedia page. (For those interested, and there appear to be a few of you, the relevent story is here)
It sits on a…
Joe
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Permanently remove/disable Touch Keyboard in Windows 8 taskbar?
I have Windows 8 (final, MSDN) on my Macbook Pro Retina.
Windows 8's ongoing, continuous tantrum of insisting that it's on a tablet device is causing it to always have a touch keyboard 'icon' on the taskbar.
The 'icon' is actually a toolbar and I…
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How do I unzip a tar gz archive to a specific destination?
I want to unpack a .tar.gz file to a specific directory.
The archive file is in /root/Documents. I want to unzip it into /root/Desktop/folder. The folder structure in zipped file should be preserved in the destination directory.
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Why does Chrome sometimes download a PDF instead of opening it?
When I go to certain addresses of PDF files, Chrome downloads the PDF instead of opening it using its built-in PDF viewer. The page is then blank white.
There is no problem with my Chrome settings: I try addresses of other PDF files, and Chrome…
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SHA256 ssh fingerprint given by the client but only md5 fingerprint known for server
When connecting to a new/unknown server (with recent OpenSSH), for example:
ssh example.com
You get the fingerprint like below:
The authenticity of host 'example.org (192.0.2.42)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is…
JonnyJD
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