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Ubuntu load average spikes but CPUs are idle

We have a server on a cloud network, provided by a third party. We are running Ubuntu 10.04 Server Edition. The problem happens at seemingly random times, around one to three times a day. The load average in top usually sits around 2 and the server runs peachy, but at [...] read more

Map network drive programmatically in C# on Windows 10

I followed the approache to map a network drive programmatically in the following link:Mapping Network Drive using C# The drive seems to be connected correctly because I can query directories and files within C#. BUT I do not see the drive on my computer. My target is to map certain [...] read more

Windows metro apps not working after renaming default user account

I just renamed my main user (belongs to administrators), and now many metro apps including the Store-App won't open. The outer border appears but then they crash and disappear. A second user that I created afterwards doesn't have this problem. So something is broken in my main user account. Those [...] read more

"Anomaly" in signed integer in C

I'm currently writing a lecture on ARM optimization, specifically on vector machines such as NEON as the final target. And since vector machines don't fare well with if-else slaloms, I'm trying to demonstrate how to get rid of them by bit-hacking. I picked the "saturating absolute" function as an example [...] read more

Getting key names for keyboard codes in Swift

I know others have asked similar questions, but I haven’t seen a definitive answer, and I’m still stuck. I’m trying to write a Swift function that takes a hardware-generated keyboard scan code, such as from an NSEvent, and returns the alpha-caps-locked name of the key, for the particular key arrangement [...] read more

gcc arm executable "no such file orr directory", wrong dynamic lib

I am trying to make a usable setup for gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.8-2013.11 on windows. Something happens at dynamic link: $(CC)-gcc -o test main.c -Wall -lc The program compiles fine, but when deployed to ARM shows: "No such file or directory" Searching the issue, seems that static build works but executable is huge: [...] read more

Android Lollipop 5.1: Fatal signal 11 (SIGSEGV), code 2, fault addr 0x9e985ff8 in tid 4093 (RenderThread) / when using lot of nine patch graphics

I'm using quite a large amount of NinePatchDrawables in the app views. The underlying Bitmaps are cached, so there is no memory issue. While preparing/drawing the screen, the app crashes with the following log entry: 04-03 19:37:42.651: A/libc(4064): Fatal signal 11 (SIGSEGV), code 2, fault addr 0x9e985ff8 in tid 4093 [...] read more

How to fwrite and fread endianness independant integers, such that I can fwrite and fread on many machines and always have the same result

fwrite an integer depends on endianness, but is there a way to write an integer 0x00000004 to a file such that it can be fread always as 0x00000004 regardless of machine it's run on. * One thought is to write the first bit, then second, then third always in a [...] read more

Check if a field has been set in protocol buffer 3

I am migrating a java application from protocol buffers 2 to protocol buffer 3. In proto 2 to check if a field is set you have hasfield() method for which an example Java code generated is: public boolean hasText() { return ((bitField0_ & 0x00000004) == 0x00000004); } However in proto [...] read more

Why is there a memory space between my function local variables in the stack?

I have a C program compiled with gcc on Ubuntu x86. This is a function I am calling from main void addme() { long a = 5; char c = '3'; long array[3]; array[0] = 2; array[1] = 4; array[2] = 8; } If I break at last line, and [...] read more

App exits instead of going to next activity

I am calling an activity through a simple intent: Intent startNewActivityOpen2 = new Intent(this, TransitionLandscape.class); if (extras != null) { if (!extras.isEmpty()) { startNewActivityOpen2.putExtras(extras); } } startActivity(startNewActivityOpen2); Does it matter that this current activity is also TransistionLandscape.class? The app exits (without crashing) when I start the new activity. Going through [...] read more

How do I branch/jump to an arbitrary address in Clang?

I'm using Keil µVision for an embedded project that jumps back to the bootloader for updating. Keil previously used ARMCC as a compiler and the following code worked fine. void run_bootloader(void) { uint32_t runBootloaderAddress; // Read the entry point from bootloader's vector table runBootloaderAddress = *(uint32_t*)(0x00000004); void (*runBootloader)(void) = (void [...] read more

ARM PC value after Reset

I am new to MCU and trying to figure out how arm (Cortex M3-M4) based MCU boots. Because booting is specific to any SOC, I took an example hardware board of STM for case study. > Board: STMicroelectronics – STM32L476 32-bit. In this board when booting mode is (x0)"Boot from [...] read more

"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message

One of my server (Ubuntu 12.04, 16CPU, 32GB RAM) runs the app section of my website (Nginx 1.1.19, PHP5-FPM, Php 5.3.10, Symfony2 Web Framework) Suddenly, users started getting HTTP 5** Errors. When I went on the server, there was huge disk IO and the culprit was [flush]. When I went [...] read more

Large write with dd fail on RAID-5

I have a server with a RAID controller which connects to a JBOD over SAS. JBOD is populated with 16 SAS-HDDs of 3TB (8 of one make and 8 of other, same rpm). I have configured 3 logical drives with RAID-5, each having 5 physical HDDs (+1 as hot-spare). Now [...] read more

Windows 10 - Remote access failed error. Start Menu, Action Center, Cortana, cannot be opened

After receiving some updates from windows, right when i'm clicking one of the Start Menu, Action Center, Volume , Battery, LAN Button in the taskbar here is the log that i receive from event viewer. Event Viewer > Windows Log > Application Event ID 1000 (Application Error) > Faulting application [...] read more

Upgrade from Windows 7 Enterprise to Windows 8 Enterprise

I tried to upgrade a Windows 7 Enterprise to Windows 8 Enterprise, however it fails a quarter of the way through the initialization process. Could this have something to do with the Assembly cache? This is the error: Error MigGather caught exception: Win32Exception: Falscher Parameter. [0x80070057] void __cdecl Mig::CGACRootEnum::Reset(void) Error [...] read more

First-chance exception at ...: Access violation reading location ... when debugging using Visual Studio 2010

I try so hard to catch from legacy code access violation keep getting : First-chance exception at 0x57e77e1c in YouTubeLocal.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x0000000c. My stack looks like this: Qt5Guid.dll!57e77e1c() [Frames below may be incorrect and/or missing, no symbols loaded for Qt5Guid.dll] Qt5Guid.dll!57e75604() Qt5Guid.dll!57ed520b() Qt5Guid.dll!57dcf18b() > msvcr100d.dll!_unlock(int locknum=0x00000004) [...] read more

How to specify to createfilew function get uncached result?

I need to check whether a file (on a remote server via UNC path) exists or not (permission is not a problem here; I make a required impersonation etc.). I use CreateFileW function for creating file handle. I've also tried GetFileAttributesEx but the behavior is the same. HANDLE CreateFileW( LPCWSTR [...] read more

My program is crashing at 0x16 even with my ROP chain

So I recently started working on my binary which is vulnerable to Use-After-Free. I found it too easy to just jump to secret(). So I added a variable to the _DATA section and set its value to 0. and then I added a hard coded check in secret: if(check == [...] read more

VXFS (veritas) File system filling up - except it's not

I have a Solaris 10 server which is reporting that a file system is filling up: # df -h /opt/CSCObac/var Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/vx/dsk/RDU-VAR-DG/RDU-VAR-VOL # df -F vxfs /opt/CSCObac/var/ /opt/CSCObac/var (/dev/vx/dsk/RDU-VAR-DG/RDU-VAR-VOL): 4469796 blocks 558723 files # df -h | fgrep '/opt/' /dev/vx/dsk/RDU-APP-DG/RDU-APP-VOL 68G 547M 63G 1% [...] read more

Bing Food & Drink app always crashes

My Food & Drink app that came pre-installed on my Windows 8.1 PC keeps crashing to the start screen immediately after opening. Other Bing-based apps work fine. I've taken several steps to try to fix this, but to no avail. I know there're about three duplicates of this, but none [...] read more

Safari dosen't open anymore "reopen"

I cant open Safari anymore! :( Every time I try it opens a window with this message instead: Process: Safari [336] Path: /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari Identifier: com.apple.Safari Version: 8.0.2 (10600.2.5) Build Info: WebBrowser-7600002005000000~1 Code Type: X86-64 (Native) Parent Process: ??? [1] Responsible: Safari [336] User ID: 501 Date/Time: 2014-12-22 22:12:30.768 +0200 OS [...] read more

Windows 8.1 apps Calculator, Alarms, Weather (just a few) crash immediately when opened

When I open some apps from the Start Screen in Windows 8.1, it just closes right away and brings me back to Start. It won't show me why it closed at all, but I looked in Event Viewer and it says in the description of the event: Activation of app [...] read more

Cancel curl_easy_perform while it is trying to connect

Is there a way that I can cancel a curl_easy_perform in C++?? I have a scenario where I am trying to connect to network resource that is offline and the curl_easy_perform take a certain amount of time before it returns CURLE_COULDNT_CONNECT. But in the meantime the user has closed the [...] read more

Why static final int is used in android standard classes avoiding enum?

In standart android classes static final int vars is used to represent different flags. For example, View visability flags: /** @hide */ @IntDef({VISIBLE, INVISIBLE, GONE}) @Retention(RetentionPolicy.SOURCE) public @interface Visibility {} /** * This view is visible. * Use with {@link #setVisibility} and <a href="#attr_android:visibility">{@code * android:visibility}. */ public static final [...] read more

Normalizing a two complement number

I am working on some Tensilica processor and I don't understand the normalization process. NSA - Normalized Shift Amount NSA at, as NSA calculates the left shift amount that will normalize the twos complement contents of address register as and writes this amount (in the range 0 to 31) to [...] read more

Why doesn't reading back from the address of an int give me back the correct value of the int (C & gdb)

I have a c program that I am debugging with gdb. This is done on Ubuntu x86 and c program is compiled with gcc. I declare two int variables one after other int a = atoi (argv[1]); int b = atoi (argv[2]); The values I pass to these are 2 [...] read more

Kernel panic with exitcode=0x00000004 after /init

I have an embedded ARM system with processor AT91SAM9G45. I try to build linux kernel with initramfs for this system. Kernel version is 4.14.79. After loading kernel and initramfs image at device I have following: 1. Kernel definitely finds out initramfs image, unpacks it and sets it into memory. 2. [...] read more

Alternative to dynamic creation of variable names

I have a header file (not written by me, which I cannot change) which contains definitions in the following format: #define SPC_TMASK0_NONE 0x00000000 #define SPC_TMASK0_CH0 0x00000001 #define SPC_TMASK0_CH1 0x00000002 #define SPC_TMASK0_CH2 0x00000004 #define SPC_TMASK0_CH3 0x00000008 #define SPC_TMASK0_CH4 0x00000010 #define SPC_TMASK0_CH5 0x00000020 #define SPC_TMASK0_CH6 0x00000040 #define SPC_TMASK0_CH7 0x00000080 #define SPC_TMASK0_CH8 0x00000100 [...] read more

How can I play an already streaming H264 RTSP data with VLC - dumped to file with wireshark

Backstory I have an IP-Camera on my lan, I have connected to it using VLC (CTRL + N, adding rtsp://192.168.1.10 <- IP camera configured ip address), and after the VLC connected, i started sniffing the traffic using Wireshark. After about 30 seconds, on Wireshark, I clicked "Follow TCP stream", and [...] read more

c# Windows Shutdown process weirdness

I need help on an issue which is kind of simple but weird. The problem is with the shutdown and restart windows from my app. I know its simple and there are many examples online, but here's the deal. The shutdown/restart performed by these methods like process.start() or win api [...] read more

Segmentation fault in pthread_cond_signal()

First let me provide some background. There are two threads in the production code and synchronization is done via wait and signal. Basic Structure of the code given below. main.c create the thread. main.c also calls funca() which signals the other thread. The mutex and condition variable is declared and [...] read more

Chrooted from LiveCD: Bad IO performace

my Ubuntu Server installation is broken, so I grabbed a Ubuntu Desktop CD, mounted my Ubuntu installtion on my hard disk and chrooted into it. But now my IO performance is really bad: # time dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/foo count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 512 bytes (512 B) copied, [...] read more

Apps crashing with EXC_BAD_ACCESS when changing to a custom keyboard layout

I have a custom layout installed (svdvorak_mac6.keylayout). After a reboot another keyboard layout was selected, so I selected my usual one instead. This lead to a lot of apps suddenly starting to crash (Chrome, Skype, Adium etc). I can change to any other built in layout for OS X, but [...] read more

Force NetworkManager to restart and reload network drivers without a reboot

I have a recurring issues with NetworkManager and its dependent components that always fail when I don't have time to debug or fix the issue. I'm trying to figure-out how I can aggressively restart and unload / load both the kernel modules to restart NetworkManager. Think of it as soft [...] read more

How can I remove LibUSB on Windows 7?

I've installed LibUSB, a software that modifies your USB driver so that programs can access it easily. I didn't know that in Windows 7 you have to run it in compatibility mode for Windows XP, so now my Windows 7 can't access any USB port (including keyboard and mouse). Now [...] read more

Linking error while cross compiling Qt5 for Beaglebone

Dear stackoverflow community. I'm cross-compiling Qt 5.12 for my Beaglebone Black with EGL support. The host OS is Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (x64) running in a VM. I have installed any possible dependcies (I could find in different posts) on the target (and some on the host as well) and copied [...] read more

how to authenticate to proxy with wininet.dll?

I have this code for connect a process to proxy, but it returns false: The code works if I do not enter username and password in SetConnectionProxy() and send only the two options PROXY flags and PROXY name. When I add the INTERNET_PER_CONN_OPTION set username and set password, it returns [...] read more

ReadConsoleInputA throws an Access Violation

I am trying to learn how to use the windows api (instead of just using C calls, irvine32 or masm32) And are running into issues with ReadConsoleInputA (WriteConsoleA works fine). Also, I don't get why in the PROC prototype for the function, most examples append either an A or a [...] read more

WM_TOUCH event not received anymore after screen disconnection

I have a C# application handling touch by hooking to the Windows API message loop and listening to WM_TOUCH event. It work perfectly except when the screen is disconnected or switch off. Windows OS still has touch but the application don't receive touch event anymore. Here the code used. On [...] read more

How to enable UART Interrupt in imx6q?

I am using I.MX6Q Sabre SD board. I am trying to build custom image with my own start script and ld script. The image is to be loaded with u-boot. I am trying to enable the UART receive interrupt for UART1. But it does not enter the Interrupt service routine. [...] read more

Why do I get the Debug exception reason: Stack canary watchpoint triggered (main)?

I'm writing a program for esp32-wroom-32 using esp-idf-v3.0. I'm trying to add logs, which will be saved in fatfs. After some logs I get: 21:54:21.306 -> Debug exception reason: Stack canary watchpoint triggered (main) 21:54:21.306 -> Register dump: 21:54:21.306 -> PC : 0x40089827 PS : 0x00060b36 A0 : 0x40082179 A1 [...] read more

Cannot write to serial

I am using the ESP32 DevKitC-v1 (clone) with FreeRTOS and attempting to write bytes to the serial port. My code (below) causes the following exception: Guru Meditation Error: Core 0 panic'ed (LoadProhibited). Exception was unhandled. Core 0 register dump: PC : 0x400ea8fe PS : 0x00060730 A0 : 0x800eb825 A1 : [...] read more

Monotouch sqlite crash when inserting a lot of rows

I've an app built with xamarin iOS. The database is sqlite. Both in simulator and device, after the app starts to work on data, it gives me a SIGSEGV error. Stacktrace: at (wrapper managed-to-native) Mono.Data.Sqlite.UnsafeNativeMethods.sqlite3_prepare (intptr,intptr,int,intptr&,intptr&) at Mono.Data.Sqlite.SQLite3.Prepare (Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteConnection,string,Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteStatement,uint,string&) [0x00044] in /Developer/MonoTouch/Source/mono/mcs/class/Mono.Data.Sqlite/Mono.Data.Sqlite_2.0/SQLite3.cs:268 at Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteCommand.BuildNextCommand () [0x00019] in /Developer/MonoTouch/Source/mono/mcs/class/Mono.Data.Sqlite/Mono.Data.Sqlite_2.0/SQLiteCommand.cs:230 at Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteCommand.GetStatement [...] read more

Python 3 - comparing enums against hex value

as newbie to python and hex based enums, I'm trying to wrap my head around something. My scenario is that I have a device that is sending me flags and I'm trying to determine which flags are set. I'm using python 3.7. I've play around with the Python enum(Flag) class [...] read more

Firebase C++ admob crash for android release build in cocos2dx 3.17

I have configured Firebase Admob in cocos2dx 3.17 version. I will be able to see test ads when debug build. I have set the following dependancies. implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-ads:17.2.0' implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:12.0.1' implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-base:16.1.0' I have created an Android release build using android studio. When I launch a release build on the [...] read more

Trouble Converting Smart Card Program to UWP

I'm working on converting what was originally a web forms .NET application to UWP. The application is for using company-issued badges to record meeting attendance instead of our current paper sign in sheets. The original program uses an Omnikey 5427 CK in keyboard wedge mode and has no problems. For [...] read more

stm32l476 ADC not ready

I am trying to bring up one of the ADC's on the STM32L476 Nucleo board. I think i have things configured ok, but i must be missing a step. I know this can be done use the HAL API and CubeMX, but i prefer register level access when bringing up [...] read more

Problem compiling IDL created with OleView

To correct a problem with the name of the value for the enum, after searching, that I need to modify the TLB file of my DLL. The first step that I need to do is to create the IDL file. So I use Oleview to create the file. Before doing [...] read more

How hook touch event globally and know X Y position of a touch?

Need pickup the position X Y of touch over the screen on Windows 10, outside of my wpf app. I read in some post can use RegisterPointerInputTarget I try redirect all touch to my app. Is supposed use RegisterPointerInputTarget should so easy as the code I show, bu not work [...] read more

How to find a WACOM tablet screen?

I trying to fill Wacom tablet screen with my application. How can I find this screen working area? At this moment I just trying to find this screen by Device Friendly name using ScreenInterrogatory class (code below), but it requires me to know device name. I looking for a way [...] read more

How to track EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) error?

I got this crash when debugging my project using Xcode, but I cannot find the way to resolve this issue. The app itself didn't force close, but my xcode stop debugging when this problem showing. I've tested on another mac (same Xcode version) and it do same thing (debugger crash, [...] read more

cannot access memory at address 0x10084 when trying to set breakpoint via gdb

I wrote this simple assembly-program (based on a tutorial, only slightly changed.) @ p = q + r + s @ let q=2, r=4, s=5 @ this version of the simple-equation stores in memory p: .space 4 @reserve 4 bytes in memory for variable p q: .word 2 @create 32-bit [...] read more

How to delete source cache of dev_appserver?

I'm using sftp code from github.com/pkg/sftp as a starting point to make google app engine an sftp server where the server side files are actually gcs. dev_appserver is complaining about syscall in attrs.go so I commented out all the uses of syscall and deleted the import. Somehow dev_appserver is still [...] read more

Getting device friendly name - incorrect result

I'm getting a device friendly name using code written by @G.A (link). Everything works good until I lock my windows account for couple of minutes. After unlock, calling function DeviceFriendlyName(screen) giving me wrong screen name - first screen got name of second, and second screen got name of first. Do [...] read more

How to install WCF class library project as a windows service programmatically in C#

Trying to create the windows service programmatically. Found out the reference from stackoverflow to do it. However the parameter filename in InstallAndStart method expects a .exe In my case, my WCF project which i want to host as windows service is a Service library project. Hence the output is in [...] read more

Unhandled Exception during list push_back C++

I am implementing two lists of class objects in my project. Originally, I had one vector container for one group of class objects and a list for the other but have just converted the vector implementation to a list. Everything worked fine with the vector and list implementation, however, when [...] read more

Binary Bomb phase 6 no nodes

This question is based on the same project as the other Binary Bomb Phase 6 questions (most likely will be related links), but for some reason I can't find the nodes themselves, to check their increasing/decreasing values. When I try to use the function: x/3x $eax, it returns: Cannot access [...] read more

gcsfuse touch: cannot touch ‘test2/test.txt’: Input/output error

I am trying to mount a google bucket using gcsfuse. I am able to mount it but am getting an input/output error message when I try to use touch to test making files inside of it. The command below shows that there are no errors trying to connect to the [...] read more

JNA can not pass Integer as Enum in method

I have an method here HRESULT GetImage( SIZE size, SIIGBF flags, HBITMAP *phbm ); which takes SIIGBF as an parameter. SIIGBF is an enum you can see here. As described in this post I create the enum like this: public static interface SIIGBF { public static final int SIIGBF_RESIZETOFIT = [...] read more

How to simulate mouse click in a Directx game

I have a game written in Directx (not mine it's mmo game). The game window isn't active (not minimized, just it's behind other windows but if is possible it can be minimized also). I want to simulate mouse click on x, y position. Spy++ doesn't show anything in message when [...] read more

Solaris mdb debugger doesn't show correct stack info

I am analysing a core dump of a process under SPARC Solaris. mdb doesn't show functions in the stack correctly. Why could that be?No optimization compiler flags are used to build the process. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An update SPARC keeps return addresses in %i7 and %o7 registers. Code that doesn't manipulate these [...] read more

RestoreFile Call (File Management API - fmapi.dll) Returns Invalid Handle

Background: I'm trying to write a C++ application that can scan for and attempt to restore deleted files from a WinPE environment, mostly as a learning exercise. This app utilizes the FMAPI library (fmapi.dll), which is a scarcely-documented library that only works in a WinPE environment (does not work in [...] read more

FreeIPA Unable to establish trust with Active Directory

I am trying to establish a trust between FreeIPA and Active Directory. Details on the infrastructure: * 3 x IPA Servers all with replication between eachother (CentOS 7) * 3 x Domain Controllers for AD (Windows Server 2016) When attempting to run the following command: ipa trust-add --type=ad ad.example.net --admin [...] read more

Unable to configure/start mssql-server

I get an error after following this guide: https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-install-ms-sql-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts/ and running the configuration command. I've searched for a couple hours trying to find the specific issue I have but I can't seem to find anything. I believe it's something to do with me running Ubuntu 18.10 because installing mssql inside [...] read more

Routing from LAN into OpenVPN

I need to set up a route from our local network into our VPN. That is, anybody from inside the LAN should be able to communicate with machines in the VPN, without being a VPN client itself. Problem is, I'm somewhat of a dummy when it comes to networks... The [...] read more

Linux Kernel messages in log - disk write seems to be hanging on database

I was having database issues whereby commits were not completing (PostgreSQL) and it seems to be related to these messages that are filling up my server log: Jan 30 02:29:45 server001 kernel: [3521062.240540] postgres D 0000000000000000 0 23220 8154 0x00000004 Jan 30 02:29:45 server001 kernel: [3521062.240550] ffff8800174c9d08 0000000000000082 ffff88041cd24728 0000000000015880 [...] read more

Why doesn't pppd over ssh work here? Why can't I kill pppd?

I'm trying to setup a simple ppp tunnel over ssh. It works on several machines just fine. But on one machine, pppd gets "stuck": > pgrep pppd | xargs ps up USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 4178 0.0 0.1 3020 1088 pts/1 Ds+ [...] read more

Mystery stack traces in /var/log/messages

I am seeing the following messages in my server's /var/log/messages. They look like stack traces and are not preceded by any narrative (e.g. "such-and-such has gone wrong"). I am almost certain they are related to I/O problems I am experiencing, but it would be instructive to understand what exactly these [...] read more

IIS crashes at startup - inetinfo.exe - memory could not be read

Running * Windows XP SP3 * IIS 5.1 I get this error when I boot my PC. Application popup: inetinfo.exe - Application Error : The instruction at "0x5aa3b134" referenced memory at "0x00000004". The memory could not be "read". when I try to navigate to a http://localhost/ I get this error [...] read more

App "Hay Day" doesn't start in Genymotion

I'm trying to run the app "Hay day" in Genymotion. I used this guide to install the play store. Then, I installed hay day from the play store. I did not make any other changes to the virtual system. When I tap/click the hay day icon, the screen orientation changes [...] read more

Some Microsoft apps cannot be upgraded, uninstalled or launched

Windows 10 Desktop 10586.420, please watch my screen record https://youtu.be/tZrGTll9muY These 7 Microsoft apps are stuck in my store update list for ever, all of them had exact the same error code in the end 0x80073CF6. The rest of apps have no problem at all. What is even worse is [...] read more

Please explain what the Error with OS X 10.10.2 and MacWinDjVu (does not open any more) is and how to solve it

Please explain what the Error with OS X 10.10.2 and MacWinDjVu (does not open any more) is and how to solve it. I use DjVu regularly, and until today I did not have any problem. I just turned on my MacBook Pro, tried to open a .djvu file and this [...] read more

What is this WWAHost.exe[...] Error? An unhandled exception occurred in WWAHost.exe

It's now 4days, I keep getting this Error from Start up. Am using windows8.1, since about a year now, first time I get any Error. I can't tell what really caused it, I am a Web/Desktop programmer and for the past 1 month, I haven't done any Desktop programming or [...] read more

Linux RAID Re-Shape Stopped, unmountable

I added another drive to my RAID 5 and migrated it to a RAID 6. Everything went fine, but now the process seems to be stuck at 63.2% and md2_raid6 takes 99.9 of the CPU. RAID Details: > /dev/md/2: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Thu Jan 16 21:17:54 2014 [...] read more

IIS crashes at startup - inetinfo.exe - memory could not be read

Running * Windows XP SP3 * IIS 5.1 I get this error when I boot my PC. Application popup: inetinfo.exe - Application Error : The instruction at "0x5aa3b134" referenced memory at "0x00000004". The memory could not be "read". when I try to navigate to a http://localhost/ I get this error [...] read more

Customizing Fantacy Remote .INI file

I am using Fantacy Remote to remote view other machines. I have attached the default .INI file that Fantacy Remote uses. When i connect to a machine, the client user should not have mouse and keyboard access of the Remote machine. It should be a View only remote connection. And [...] read more

GT-511C3 Fingerprint Scanner with STM32F407G Microcontroller

I am working on a project that requires using the GT-511C3 fingerprint scanner with a STM32F407G microcontroller board. I am using Keil uvision 5 and can't figure out how to initialize and turn on the scanner. I've written this code and it seems correct, based off the datasheet, for starting [...] read more

STM32F4 (Nucleo) SPI line doesn't transmit

I can't seem to get my SPI line to work. It doesn't want to transmit at all although it does generate a clock signal on sck pin. The Clock signal has a frequency of 62 kHz, the MOSI and MISO pins remain high indefinitely. I've built the code according to [...] read more

Unable to mount root file system - nfs if the CONFIG_CGROUP is not enabled in Linux Kernel?

I am unable to mount a root file system, if I don't make the CONFIG_CGROUP=y in the kernel defconfig. Here is my bootlog Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 130048 Kernel command line: console=ttyS1,115200 root=/dev/nfs rw ip=dhcp nfsroot=10.30.98.239:/home/sd/sira_server_rootfs PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, [...] read more

Arduino Yun Mini Bricked linux (kernel panic) SQUASHFS ERROR, Reflashing with serial YMODEM or Kermit, O WIFI, SD card, Eth, or USB

INTRODUCTION I am actually newbie to this advanced perspective of linux routers based systems as openWRT and i faced a problem with my Arduino Yun Mini board which found to be operated with this firmware for linux interfacing and WiFi module, So: THE PROBLEM: i tried to upgrade the system [...] read more

Can I access a shared folder with a different user configured in IIS?

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