I am wondering if I get a better graphics card could it speed up h264 encoding on my machine using handbrake? If so how can I tell what graphics card will...

I am running Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop using VMware Player. I am not sure why but I have an account called "User Account" in addition to my account that I...

I have a device (An NVIDIA Jetson Nano) with four USB ports. How can I tell which /dev/tty* locations are mapped to each of these? I have gone through man...

I installed the Ubuntu desktop on a Ubuntu 9.10 VPS server and am able to connect to the server using TightVNC. However, the VNC server on this VPS can on...

There are some circumstances where I would like to switch off power to a USB port, but still allow the port to function as normal. Is it possible to switc...

andrew-mx-02.andrew.cmu.edu is an MTA. It is unlikely to have a web server running. I telnet to this host on port 25 and I get the mail server's resp...

I have two 4GB temporary files. I did a quick visual inspection using a hex editor and see they appear to be the same. Is there a command I can use in som...

I have a MKV video file. Can you please tell me how I can find out the video/audio codec of that file, and how I can find out if it is 1080p or 1080i? I h...

I have a Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 3000 v2.0 that was bought paired with a Microsoft Wireless Mouse 5000. They're both Bluetooth and use the same r...

How to compress GIF animations? For example by reducing the color index. The files are generated using Imagemagick but optimization seems complicated. For...