I've got a Dell xps13 which I bought new about 4 months ago. It's a "Developer Edition", so it came with Ubuntu pre-installed. Today it suddenly...

Yesterday I was browsing on https://stackexchange.com and noticed that the list of all Stack Exchange has an animated favicon: How is this possible? I tho...

In Google Chrome 42, it is combining a user's history from home to work and school. A teacher saw the history and saw very questionable pornographic ...

if I do run (Winkey + R) and type "C:\", explorer shows up in "C:\". I'd like to know how to do the same for the My Computer folder in Windows Vista ...

I am used to monitor system's characteristics by lm-sensors hddtemp psensor in Ubuntu Linux. I would like to get a similar monitoring setting as psen...

I want to check what version of Java is installed on my PC before installing the latest Java update. How can I do this?

I want to add a user named "nexus" with uid as 1234567 (example number) and gid 1234567. I'm running the following command: sudo useradd -r -U -u 123...

I downloaded and installed the latest version of WAMP package to my PC, and what I want to do is to connect it using FTP. How to do this?

I am looking for a windows video player with the seek preview feature, like the one in the Hulu player described as follows: "Seek Preview displays a prev...

How can one write a script that accept input from either a filename argument or from stdin? for instance, you could use less this way. one can execute les...