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Install windows 11 created on flash drive with windows creation tool. installing from flash drive windows does not notice the c drive to install on. I cannot figure out what the problem is.

I plugged in an ethernet cable between my desktop and laptop for faster, direct, file transfer. Both run Linux Mint, and both are connected to the same WiFi (probably WiFi is irrelevant here). Both have only dhcp client package installed but, AFAICT from dpkg -l, neither has dhcp server installed. […]

I’m using excel. I have an array of data that I need to duplicate to the same column in different amount of times. the array of data can change in length, in the example picture I put 3 lines but it is much larger and can change in length. the […]

I encountered a strange problem when using a Windows system for VPN dial-up. In my work scenario, I need to use Windows system to connect to several customer networks at the same time through VPN (PPTP, L2TP, etc.) and maintain the connection: If I do VPN dial-up (L2TP) on Windows […]

I initially gave my Linux partition 30GB, 27GB to root and 3GB to swap system. the problem is that my swap is on the end of the disk and is not adjacent to D. (So that I can extend D, shrink it, extend linux, shrink D again, create swap (though […]

If I use any of these powershell commands to return the LastBootUpTime… (Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_OperatingSystem).LastBootUpTime or Get-CimInstance -ClassName win32_operatingsystem | select csname, lastbootuptime or Get-WmiObject win32_operatingsystem -ComputerName myserver | Select-Object @{LABEL='LastBootUpTime';EXPRESSION={$_.ConverttoDateTime($_.lastbootuptime)}} I get the 11th Dec 2024 at 03:31:07. I’m assuming this timestamp refers to a particular Event ID in […]