I have one of those DELL XPS M1730 ‘s with a fried Nvidia graphics card. It still booted, but I obviously couldn’t do much, as the screen was not functioning. These were the steps I took to access the data: I downloaded rescuecd pld-linux , a linux live cd that has a SSH Server enabled … Read moreHow to access data from a headless m1730 DELL with broken graphics card
When using NAT with the VMWare Player, you might want to make sure that there aren’t applications on your PC that are using the ports you want to forward. When you try to forward a port that is in use, the network will stop functioning as a whole. Here is an example of a NAT … Read moreVMWare Player : NAT not working when forwarding some ports
After countless security issues, Oracle has decided that only applets that can present a valid certification can run. And there is no “opt out”. Well, I guess they just got fed up with being blamed of all sins in the world and made their security ridiculously strong. As such, many applets, especially those on small … Read moreApplication blocked by Java Security
With version 2.3 of Hangouts Google introduced some new features, but unfortunately also disable many good things like swiping. Before you could switch between hangout chats, archive chats or delete messages just by swiping. Until they bring back that feature you can downgrade to the last version that supported swiping: 3.1.317 ++== Disclaimer ==++ I … Read moreDowngrade Hangouts to get swiping feature back