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I don’t want to remove Nilesoft Shell as I find it very useful, but I need to be able to open files with Notepad++ from the context menu. Has anyone encountered this specific conflict between Nilesoft Shell and Notepad++, and found a solution?

I received a notice from Verizon stating that my Actiontec router needed to be replaced. It said that my old router would still run OK past its obsolescence date, but that if I chose to keep it, they would no longer provide support for it. I agree that I should […]

I want a quick interface that can display some information and let me click on different parts of the information for details. I felt like keeping this inside the terminal. After a bit of reading it feels like details element in HTML’5 would be a nice approach for – because […]

I have a windows laptop which had windows eleven. I was using it today and for some reason all of my apps stopped responding and then my pc shut down. When it tried to turn it on; it showed a message : No bootable device found. I figured out my […]

I am trying to use getUserMedia({video:true}) to detect a PCI Magewell Capture Card in Ubuntu 22. The goal is to detect the device and stream the video into an html video element. While Chrome can detect a video input device when I have a usb webcam attached, it cannot with […]

I’m basically trying to configure mdadm.conf so that RAID assembly at boot is run with the equivalent of: mdadm --assemble --scan --no-degraded instead of: mdadm --assemble --scan Otherwise, if I temporally unplug one or two RAID6 devices to free the SATA ports, MDADM assembles the array in degraded state on […]

I am looking for a way to mount ISO files that are on an SMB share. Unfortuantely I do not have any other way to access them. Is there a way with insmod to let grub load from an SMB share or is there any other way to boot from […]

After waking up my monitor all app’s windows moves to the left top corner of the monitor and their sizes are shrinked. This is old issue and there is a lot of threads related to this issue all over the web, I tried to google about it many times during […]

I’ve set up a server, which is meant to be used as terminal server by our students. I’m using Ubuntu Server 24.10 together with KDE Plasma 6.1.5 over xrdp. The home directories for the students are mounted on demand using autofs and sshfs. I don’t manage to hide these mount […]