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Windows Defender Waking Up Hard Drive

I have an external hard drive that I only use for storage, I almost never write data to it but it can be useful if I want to access some data that I have in it. When it’s possibile I’d like for the ...
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1 answer
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Raspberry Pi won't bring up wlanX interface - multiple wireless interfaces

Let me jump straight in. I am using a raspberry pi 3 running latest version of raspbian (pixel) as a router/wifi hotspot I have 3 wireless interfaces: built in wifi interface (brcmfmac) TP-Link ...
10 votes
3 answers
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Attach to the same tmux session from different nodes of a cluster

I'm working on a computing cluster which has several hundreds of nodes. A load-balancing scheme picks an idle node to login to when ssh-ing into the cluster. As a result, it is very unlikely to re-...
9 votes
2 answers
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NTFS external hard drive formatted on Linux is not recognized by Windows

I fully formatted a hard drive in NTFS on Linux from a completely empty (zeroed) drive and it is not recognized by Windows 10. It is not listed in the Windows File Explorer nor with the fsutil fsinfo ...
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What IP/ports should be opened for Docker Hub?

Given our client's restrictions, we cannot have our VMs completely open to the internet. However, we sometimes need to pull Docker images from Docker Hub. We can white-list IP addresses and ranges, ...
9 votes
1 answer
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Windows XP installation disk for XP Mode under Windows 7?

I am running XP mode under Windows 7, for testing / troubleshooting software. I am trying to install a third party driver(unidrv printer), and I get stuck at Setup failed to locate required files. ...
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2 answers
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Cannot make mobile broadband Vodafone USB connection Ubuntu 13.04

I have Ubuntu 13.04 and I bought yesterday a Vodafone USB stick for internet connection. I am located in Romania. This is what I've did: First Thing Network Connections, added connection. Selected ...
9 votes
1 answer
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sshfs: cannot set file timestamp

Using sshfs with autofs on Ubuntu, I cannot set timestamps on remote files: $ touch /sshfs/server/some/file touch: setting times of `/sshfs/sshfs/server/some/file': Permission denied I do have write ...
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1 answer
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ssh randomly can connect, and sometimes "kex_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host"

Connecting to my server has never been a problem. But now I've added a mesh router in bridge mode to my regular router, and when I try to ssh to my server, sometimes it works fine, and other times ...
8 votes
3 answers
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Laptop won't boot, restarts on its own + black screen

yesterday I was playing on my Win 7 laptop when suddenly my screen went into this colorful faulty state, something of this , though not exactly. And a second after my laptop died starting itself up ...
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2 answers
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Shared connection frequently closes when opening a new connection

I'm making heavy use of reusing a shared connection which I open to a remote box at the beginning of my workday. My .ssh/config looks somewhat like this: ControlMaster auto ControlPath ~/.ssh/...
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Bad Block on Virtual Machine (Virtual or Physical Problem?)

I am dealing with a virtual machine that is receiving the following entry in the event log: TIME OF EVENT: 7/30/2011 3:47:05 PM EVENT LOG: System EVENT SOURCE: disk EVENT ID: 7 SEVERITY: Error ...
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Enable SMB file sharing on OS X - "Incorrect Password"

I have a Mac running Snow Leopard connected to an Active Directory domain. I can share folders on the Mac and view files from Windows without problems. When I try to enable my Mac account for write ...
8 votes
1 answer
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Pass VirtualBox Guest connections through proxy

The computer is inside a company and only have internet access through proxy. I want the guest inside the VirtualBox to access the internet without changing anything in the guest. The host is Windows ...
8 votes
1 answer
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How to prefer ipv6 over ipv4 only for specific websites?

I only have ipv6 connectivity via a HE tunnel on my router, so normally I want to prefer ipv4 over ipv6. For some websites however, I would like to prefer ipv6. Right now I have just set ...

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