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Is Hybrid Sleep the same in Linux as in Windows?
I see a question about this on Windows.
Also here:
" When you put the computer into a hybrid sleep state, it writes out all its RAM to the hard drive (just like a hibernate), and then goes into a ...
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How can "Primary Partition" be located in "Extended Partition"?
AFAIK, there can not be more than 4 primary partitions in one HDD because of the size limit of the MBR.
I've installed Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7 together.
Here is the screenshot captured from ...
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How do I install Windows 7 (with Intel RST) and Linux to dual boot on a Dell XPS 15?
I have recieved a new $work laptop, a Dell XPS 15 with a 128GB mSATA drive and a a 1TB 5400 HDD. It came with Windows 8 installed, which is not supported by my employer and must be re-installed with ...
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monitoring ISP bandwidth data
On Windows/Linux, what would be a way to run a sample measurement of the bandwidth that I have available? I need to run a measurement at periodic intervals. There are many website which will give you ...
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How to format pendrive from fat32 to ext3 in windows7?
I am trying to make a live USB of OPHCRACK, and I tried to boot from a fat32 pendrive. But after making a live USB, it wouldn't boot. After searching awhile, I came to understand that ophcrack will ...
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Windows Command Prompt auto-completion with forward slashes?
I switch between Linux and Windows quite a lot and it's annoying the hell out of me that the Windows command prompt won't auto-complete directory paths when I press Tab if I use forward slashes like ...
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Installing Windows Update 3033929
I am using grub as default boot loader for my dual boot laptop (DELL Vostro 3750). My system is currently undergoing a reboot loop (infinite) because of Windows Update 3033929.
As described here:
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WinRM - what it is and how to use it?
During installing updates I noticed 'PowerShell 2.0 and WinRM' update. Upon reading some Microsoft & Wikipedia pages I read that it is remote management system that runs on SOAP and that it is ...
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How to use SSH Public Key with PuTTY to connect to a Linux machine
I am trying to set a public SSH key connection from a Windows 7 machine to a Red-Hat Linux machine. The ultimate purpose is to use pscp (PuTTY's version of scp) from the command terminal w/o the need ...
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The requested security information is either unavailable or cannot be displayed
Something or someone had recently deleted 90% of the files on the network. The recovery was done by copying backup files from a Linux based NAS (Baffalo Terastation Pro) back into the win2k8 servers.
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Setting up a multiseat configuration
I am trying to set up a multiseat computer configuration. In this arrangement, I have a laptop with an external keyboard, mouse, and monitor connected. I would like to allow two user sessions to be ...
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Why does it take longer for Linux to tell me that my user password is wrong, than it does for Windows?
I use both Linux Mint and Windows 7 depending on the task. I've noticed that when I try to login in with an incorrect password it takes longer to tell me so in Linux than it it does in Windows 7.
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Can I chainload MBR from Grub on secondary GPT drive? And can I nuke MSR on secondary drive?
So I have a UEFI capable motherboard and three hard drives:
/dev/sda - 256G SSD (MBR)
/dev/sdb - 230G HDD (MBR)
/dev/sdc - 512G SSD (GPT)
For historical reasons sda and sdb have MBR partition tables ...
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Virtualbox windows raw disk guest: blue screen error 0x0000007B at boot
I've been dualbooting Windows 7 and Manjaro for about a year now, and I'm getting tired of rebooting every time I want to switch operating systems. I recently heard about the Virtualbox option to run ...
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Show slideshow with pictures and videos [closed]
I'm mostly a Linux guy but I don't think the software I'm looking for is available in Linux so I ask this presumable easy question for those of you that knows Windows.
The thing I want to do is to ...
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