I re-installed my Windows 7 installation and I am being asked for the Product Key. But alas, stupid me, I had jotted down the Product ID and not the actua...

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I need to send an e-mail with screenshots in PNG format without losing the quality of the screenshots. Outlook 2003 and 2010 converts the images copied fr...

I'm trying to set up ssh keys and I don't do this often. That said, I have 3-4 key pairs in my .ssh/ dir already. WHen I do ssh my_user@mydomain...

I was recently using the device speed test functionality on Google Wifi (https://support.google.com/wifi/answer/7578264) and it got me wondering how this ...

I came across few configuration of a monitor and they include many different port along with some USB ports. Monitor: DELL P2214H, DELL P2414H In the moni...

I have just bought a new PC from a PC Builder, but they disabled all the power savings settings in the BIOS, and I think that affected the ability to use ...

If there's a bad hardware driver that is causing Windows to crash during startup, how can you update the driver? Do I need to make a boot disk? I hav...

I use alsa, and I don't have a volume control applet on my Gnome Panel. When I right click and select "add to panel", there is nothing that has to do...

There is a directory 'dir1' owned by root:root. Stat shows: Access: (0750/drwxr-x---) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) and when I log in as root ...