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I have an HP Chromebook and a Nexus 6P smartphone, and both of them use USB-C connections for charging.  When I plug the Chromebook into the Nexus’s charging cable, it works fine and I just get a message that says I am connected to a “low-power charger”.  However, is it safe to plug the cell […]

I’m trying to use the RBC9 SpaceNavigator TEST x64 build drivers for my SpaceNavigator 3d joystick so that it can work as a normal joystick in games like Quake. Unfortunately, I get the error “This version of windows requires all drivers to have a valid digital signature” and in the “Device status” in device manager,

I’m building a new computer over the summer. I’m fairly competent in computer hardware, and am thus building the computer from scratch. I have everything planned out, but I was wondering if I should consider RAID, and if so, which RAID to use. I plan to purchase 2x1TB drives. Currently I’m leaning toward RAID 1

Is it possible to gain a speed benefit of an SSD if you create a software RAID with a big SSD + two small HDDs? At the moment I have a system with only two 320GB HDDs. And I thought about inserting a 640GB SSD in. Maybe the SSD could be the main disk and

Does anybody know how to hide this “Start” button in Windows 8.1 so that the task bar looks like it did in “old” Windows 8? Solution: You can’t as of current versions, maybe in later version but not currently.   Microsoft has indeed brought back the Start button, but contrary to what people expected, an

I’m trying to change the permissions to my key file key.pem in Cygwin 1.7.11. It has the permissions flags: -rw-rw—- chmod -c 600 key.pem Reports:   mode of ‘key.pem’ changed from 0660 (rw-rw—-) to 0600 (rw——-) However: ls -l key.pem still reports   key.pem’s permission flags are still: -rw-rw—- This reason why I’m asking is

I would like to share a folder from a Linux Guest with a Windows host (with read and write access if possible) in VirtualBox. I read in these two links: here and here that it’s possible to do this using Samba, but I am a little bit lost and need more information on how to

I need to fill an excel column with a sequential series, in this case from -500 to 1000.  I’ve got a macro to do it, but it takes a lot of lines for something that seems like it should be a single function [something like FillRange(A2:A1502, -500, 1000, 1)].  But if that function exists, I

Sometimes I need to work on EXTREMELY large text files.  200-300 megs or more. My favorite text editor on my MacBook Pro is TextMate.  However, TM chokes on very large text files.  Even ones around the 100MB mark. Is there a text editor that can handle such files for Snow Leopard?   Thanks! Solution: Vim.