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Is there any program that logs the CPU usage of all programs? I want to know, over a period of one month, which programs use the CPU more intensely. Solution: Windows has this built-in. It’s called the Performance Monitor. Create a data collector set to start collecting performance data.
I am testing a Python3 program in several computers. To do that, I need to install a library of Python with pip3. So first, I was installing python3-pip in each computer (everyone is running Kubuntu OS). Everything was OK, and then I installed the package I needed with pip3, and I managed to do that…
The other day I had what I thought was a great idea – I could buy up a bunch of cheap USB 2.0 drives and fill up the spaces in my 7-port USB hub for a super-fast RAID device! But in the light of day it isn’t looking so good. I think that this would…
I’ve got alot of DVDs and have been slowly ripping, encoding, and tagging them and I’ve nearly filled my WD MyBook 1TB. I’m estimating that I’ve got about 1.5 or 2Tb to go to complete my current collection. I’ve spent alot of time on the files, and the peril they are in recently struck home….
How important is RAM speed for computationally expensive tasks like gaming, video encoding, video editing, graphics software (Photoshop/Sketchup)? Solution: For video encoding & editing : Marginal improvement, as the hard disk is the real bottleneck, not RAM. Graphics software : Marginal improvement, and only on some very rare operations. Format conversions will improve, but…
If you have a drive that totatly encrypted using Truecrypt and somehow the boot sector / disk header is corrupted and you can no longer mount the truecrypt volume, is it somehow possible to recover the data on the corrupt disk? The password and algorithms used are all known but there are no backups of…
I have a 500GB hard drive I’ve been keeping around to recover data from that I removed from a failing NAS drive that got sort of… erratic at the end. I finally got rid of the NAS when during a firmware update it removed the partition table. Fast forward to a week ago, when I…
I have a 2 GB Kingston microSD card which is about three years old. I put it in a reader today in my Windows Vista computer, wrote a 32 MB file onto it, safely removed it, and then tried to read it elsewhere. Nothing. Putting it back in the Windows Vista computer it now says: You…
I’m using ubuntu 9.10 and accidently deleted a specific file within a directory on my system. I checked in the Trash bin and could not locate the file. I deleted it 10mins ago, are there any tools available that I can recovery this file? It’s a really important file. Any help would be highly appreciated…
Today, in all my drives in Windows 7 appeared a red icon. I try to delete the IconCache.db but doesn’t work. Solution: Update: it’s caused by a change in the Windows system by the updates in combination with Dropbox. The Dropbox icon from folders is used on all devices. To fix it whithout deinstalling Dropbox…
