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[Problem] Windows 8.1 is not booting correctly - it shows a screen with the "shutdown/restart" button bottom right and another button for screen tools bottom left. There is no login prompt and all the shortcuts don't work (e.g. to bring up task manager or explorer, ...) [Solution] That on...

[Problem] I started my steam client and for whatever reason it was reduced to a very small window with no access to the "maximize" icon. I could not enter settings or anything else to change the window size, so steam became practically useless. [Solution] Check your home directory for the...

[Problem] A WLAN did work for some devices (notebooks, tablets, ...) but not for all. Default checks brought nothing - we made sure there is no channel crowding or a particular strong wireless network close that 'shouts' over all others and also used a WLAN repeater so reception wouldn't be an issu...

XSane and Skanlite etc. "only" offer 8 and 14bit color depth per channel for this scanner. I'm currently trying to find out why this is the case. I've tested using the command line to force the scanner to 16-bit color depth per channel: scanimage --device "plustek:libusb:003:003"...

Wow, this thing is a bitchy princess! Ordered SDCard did also not boot while the replacement stick did, also the performance was pretty bad (tried to do a MDRaid 32GB SD Card + 32GB USB Stick, both on the internal connectors). So... trying now the (confirmed to boot) new USB Stick on the internal po...

[Problem] I just tried to install Debian on Disks that had been a raid array earlier. The installer recognizes this but delete fails because one of the old arrays was somehow active. [Solution] The issue was that a swap partition was a raid1 and the installer did recognize it as such, and use it. T...

[Problem] To archive analog family photos and bring them to the digital world, we've recently found a very cheap "Epson Perfection 1260 Photo" at a pawn shop. It came without a driver disk but being a not-that-old USB-Scanner, we've expected it to work out of the box on Windows. The scann...

To make sure there's nothing clawing itself to the stick, we've zeroed it out with dd: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX iflag=nocache oflag=direct bs=4096 (Source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Securely_wipe_disk ) "[Solution"] Unfortunately this issue could not be solved in a reasonab...

Tried installing a minimum Debian 8.4.0 and ran into the exact same issue... The debian installer allows for more options when partitioning the disks (compared to the proxmox installer), so we've tried manual setup to make sure that the /boot is indeed in the beginning of the device. The manual setu...

Equality is not fair - that's, for whatever reason, a thing a lot of people can't wrap their heads around. Thus, someone made a very nice image to explain it more easy! https://discardstudies.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/equalityandequity.jpg # (Source: https://discardstudies.files.wordpress.com/2013...

[Correction] These settings are global and not by vhost. So one way to do it is to create config files with the above changes like this: 1. Create an apache conf file in /etc/apache2/conf.d/security.conf with: ServerSignature Off ServerTokens ProductOnly 2. Create a php ini file in /etc/php5/apach2...

[Problem] When displaying an empty page or an error, the server exposes the apache/php/ssl versions, like: Server: Apache/2.4.10 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.5.30-1+deb.sury.org~precise+1 OpenSSL/1.0.1 X-Powered-By: PHP/5.5.30-1+deb.sury.org~precise+1 [Solution] Change in vhost (for each site + default): ServerS...

[Problem] Installing an SSL certificate, the necessary files came in a .zip but apache expects a .ca-bundle, key and crt file. Some of those files have to be combined into one ca-bundle file and configured in the site config. [Solution] Three files have to be cat'ed together to get the ca-bundle fi...

[Problem] After downloading and installing the SmartCaptcha plugin for Oxwall and activating it, it throws an Internal Server Error when trying to configure it from the "Manage Plugins" Admin page. The more detailed error is about a table missing. [Solution] The install.php script for the...

NOTE: Whatever you do, we're not responsible if you break things by using fixes we found. [Problem] After everything was set up, i wanted to log on with the admin/admin creds. You are forced to change the password, so i entered the data and wanted to continue. I got the error that an email must be ...