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Best free Enterprise Linux distro for a Tomcat hosted Web App
by Guest Mr_Linux_Nut_Brain- 0 replies
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Hi Everyone, I am looking for some general advice about a suitable Enterprise Linux distribution for the development and implementation of a Web App which is to run inside Apache Tomcat. Here is a list of the Linux distributions key requirements - Free Secure Easy to implement High compatibility with Apache Tomcat (latest version) Here is a mock up of the 'components' that will surround the Web App - 2014-06-13 09.45.25.jpg I can provide further technical details should they be required, however at this stage I am looking at the 'bigger picture' and need some broad guidance and recommendations about which Linux distribution will work well for my sc…
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Detecting Hard Drive Errors; Linux Installation and whatnot
by Guest sohnata- 0 replies
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Hey folks! I'm afraid I'm going to be one of those guys. One of those who's had to use Linux in a pinch, doesn't know anything about it and frankly, just isn't that smart. Some background - couple days ago, my computer wouldn't boot correctly, of which friends much smarter than me decided it's probably a hard drive failure. It's just unclear which hard drive. So in the meantime, I've got Xubuntu 14.04 on a USB in order to try and figure out what's happening. Two issues - a) I can seem to access all the files on both hard drives fine on Xubuntu which is making me wonder if it actually is a Hard Drive issue and b) I have NO idea how to check for a failure on Linux. I'…
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Hands-on with Magic 2015: Duels of the Planeswalkers at E3
by Guest Simon Sage- 0 replies
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The upcoming edition of the mobile Magic: Duels of the Planeswalkers game made an appearance at E3. The biggest addition to this iteration of the classic fantasy card game is that now you can custom build your decks card-for-card. Previously, you would be given a core deck and would unlock additional cards to swap in through gameplay. As usual, players put on their robe and wizard's hat in the role of an elementally-attuned planeswalker. They duel one-on-one against other interdimensional mages by summoning powerful allies, hurling spells, and wielding ancient artifacts. Five colors of spells represent different elements, each with their own play style and themes. …
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Best Le Mans 24 Hours apps for iPhone and iPad: 24 Heures du Mans, Audi Sport, Real Racing 3...
by Guest Richard Devine- 0 replies
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This coming weekend sees the annual running of the world's greatest motor race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The ultimate test of man and machine, every year 52 teams and tens of thousands of fans decend on Northern France for the occasion. Sadly, not all of us can make that trek – though it remains top of my own personal list – and as such we're resigned to following from home. Watching a 24 hour race is an endurance in itself but thankfully with your iPhone and iPad in hand you can make it a little easier! 24 Heures du Mans - Official App The official WEC app has been rebranded for the 24 hour race given that it's the highlight of the Championship season. Tha…
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Apple's retail vision is to bring 'surprise and delight' to every Apple customer
by Guest Chuong H Nguyen- 0 replies
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Apple Senior VP of Retail and Online Stores Angela Ahrendts had recently sent out her first memo to retail employees, outlining Apple's vision for retail ahead while also asking for employee feedback to improve the experience in stores. "Looking forward to the future, I feel our greatest opportunity will be continuing to focus on and evolve the consumer journey online and in our stores," Ahrendts said. "Although technology is rapidly changing how customers shop, they will still want to feel surprised and delighted by the personalized Apple experience we provide at every turn." This shouldn't come as a surprise given Apple's late CEO Steve Jobs had considered Apple to…
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iTunes Store, App Store, Apple TV experiencing server problems, don't panic
by Guest Derek Kessler- 0 replies
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Update: iTunes services appear to be coming back online, though it make take some time to restore services for everybody and all devices. Original story follows. The iTunes Store and App Store are currently down for some people in some parts of the world, taking with it a bunch of the iTunes ecosystem. You aren't going to be downloading any movies, music, or TV shows, you won't be streaming off iTunes Radio, and your Apple TV won't even let you watch any such items. Poof, they're gone. iMessage, FaceTime, and other Apple web services don't appear to be affected. Apple's system status tracker is currently showing green across the board, though if this outage per…
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Apple's new employee cafeteria is nicer than any cafeteria you've ever been in
by Guest Derek Kessler- 0 replies
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Between the glass, concrete, steel, wood, and trees, what we have here might be the nicest cafeteria on the planet. It's no surprise that it comes from Apple, purveyor of fine modern architecture and a few electronic gizmos. Apple's new cafeteria in Cupertino, not far from their existing Infinite Loop campus, is a massive space that would be instantly recognizable as an Apple structure. Whereas most Apple retail spaces are more or less mixes of steel, glass, and occasionally some concrete or stone, this cafeteria trades in the stainless steel panels for long strips of wood. It makes for an open and inviting space, as does the presence of several trees inside and …
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Adapting app content to the user’s location
by Guest Windows Apps Team- 0 replies
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This blog was written by Gilles Peigné, Program Manager, Developer Ecosystem & Platform When we think about localization, we typically think in terms of translating UI strings and making sure we use globalization APIs for needs like number formatting, handling dates and times, and other region-specific settings. However, a user’s preferred language and settings do not necessarily reflect where they are located on the earth. This is commonly encountered with users who travel, where they want the UI of their apps to appear in their preferred language but want the content presented by those apps to be sensitive to their travel destinations. This is also a common need …
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lastpass
by Guest JeffThoele- 0 replies
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How do I uninstall Lastpass? Continue reading...
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Unable to download update for XP (Kb2749655)
by Guest rcl61- 0 replies
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Each time I try to install windows update KB2749655, I get erroe code 0x8020000E. I am using Windows XP on a Dell computer. I am using McAfee for anti virus and spyware, and also Super Antispyware, and Windows firewall. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Continue reading...
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Suitable Windows XP laptop replacement?
by Guest dhinged- 0 replies
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I have an old Windows XP laptop (Dell D600 Pentium 4) that is adequate for reading email and surfing the web, but it's getting slow and I am looking for a replacement. I've looked at Chromebooks and read about the Surface Pro 3 but they all seem to be missing things I have on this laptop and I hate widescreen laptops. I have a small Macbook but it's a little old too and I prefer to use that for specific things and portability and not just a general kitchen computer. I have a small laptop stand (the kind you buy at Walmart) and anything bigger than my D600 makes it a little awkward to use the mouse. The Surface Pro 3 looks better than the current widescreen lapto…
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How to automatically start apps in order on Windows?
by Guest dhinged- 0 replies
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I'm writing this from an XP laptop (haven't found a suitable replacement yet) but it would be nice to know how to do this on any version of Windows, but I would like to know how to auto-start apps on log in so that a folder opens up, my Live Mail app opens up (preferably only after WiFi is connected), and then Chrome, and preferably so that they show in the right order in the task bar. Also, if there is some setting to have Live Mail only Sync after WiFi is connected, that would be great to know. Whatever you can give me I will take! Continue reading...
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Total DISASTER after installing Emachines Windows XP Home recovery disc.
by Guest DonAmerex- 0 replies
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Hello I recently reinstalled Windows XP Home SP2 with a eMachines recovery disc on an eMachines PC. After installing it i have had NOTHING but problems! Microsoft Security essentials won't install it wants it says "MSE cannot install on your OS and it wants me to install MS Download Manager which won't install either. The screen is streched and looks horrible! I can't get it to work with my widescreen monitor. Microsoft Update fails to find updates so i can't update to XP SP3. My sound won't work. The sound icon is no where to be found. When i go to control panel it says "No audio device". What the heck does that even mean??? HELP!!!!!!!!! Continue reading...
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how to boot the lumia 2520 from a bootable flash drive
by Guest holeck- 0 replies
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Does anyone know how to boot from the flash drive on the Lumia 2520 running Windows RT 8.1? How do I tell the 2520 to boot from the flash drive and not the main "disk". Continue reading...
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Original Title: Microsoft Exchange Using Outlook.com, but accidently put MS Exchange in setup, not POP or IMAP. It won't let me change it. How do I do it and is Outlook POP or IMAP? Continue reading...
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Help with Windows 8 mail required - error - my email address was unavailable
by Guest ConfusedJM- 0 replies
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I have just bought a new Samsung laptop. It came with Windows 8 installed on it and after about 3 weeks, the mail stopped working, it came up with a message that said my email address was unavailable. I tried disconnecting and reconnecting and that doesn't work. I then tried to set up via a Microsoft account, this doesn't seem to work either, I have tried putting the code in that was sent to me, but the process goes round in circles with the same screens. (fortunately I still have my old laptop and the email address works on that). Now I can't even get in to the Windows 8 mail, never mind send or receive emails from it. Any idea's what's wrong and what I can…
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Error 0xC1900101–0x40017 when updating to Windows 8.1 from 8
by Guest JohnLondal- 0 replies
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After downloading more than 3GB data and have the pc using 3 hours on installation. I get the message that windows could not upgrade to 8.1 and has rolled back to my previous installation. Error code 0xC1900101 – 0x40017 Windows8, x64 Geforce GTX 670. With Nvidia 337.88 Boot/system disk Samsung SSD 830 with 250GB 2 GB standard harddisk as file storage, nu programs or system files Gigabyte X79-UD3 Intel I7 3820 @3.60GHz 2x8GB Kingston DDRIII SDRAM PC3-12800 750W power supply I have tried the following Upgrading with different graphic drivers, and also only with native windows VGA Removing all USB device. Removing al…
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Windows 8 - Purchase and Activation (US/UK)
by Guest GVK5904- 0 replies
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Hi, I have a laptop purchased in UK.Can i purchase Windows 8 from Microsoft US and instal on UK laptop and activate it from UK. Thanks Continue reading...
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Windows Smartscreen, Search and store not able to connect to internet.
by Guest JonnyD100- 0 replies
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Whenever I try to install any program it comes up "Windows Smartscreen Cannot be reached at the moment" My internet connection is good and it still appears. Also whenever I use the built in search thing to try and search the internet. "Something went wrong with your search". Lastly., when I try to go onto the store it says "We weren't able to connect to the store". Any ideas to fix these problems? Continue reading...
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No MS tools can fix this, stuck by DISK.SYS
by Guest Marcus J S- 0 replies
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Hey tech guys, I was trying to install a MacOS on my laptop while it damaged my Partition Table, thank god I rebuilt it without any data loss which is the best from the worst, but the only thing that did NOT get back to normal was the original WinOS, which stuck at the bootscreen both for Win7(starting windows) and Win8, and when tried safe mode both stuck at DISK.SYS. What I attempted to do is listed below according to what I learned from this MSanswer, but failed to make it right. 1 tried fixing this automatically with Windows Installation Media 2 tried bootrec.exe cmdline in WinRE, /fixMBR /fixBoot 3 tried removing DIMMs and reinstalling them 4 tr…
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error code 31 in windows 7 home basic while connecting to lumia 720
by Guest bipinphilip- 0 replies
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hello!!! i am experiencing a very tough time with my lumia 720 and windows 7 home basic. earlier my pc used to get connected easily with the phone . Some days back (cant really remember ) my phone is not detected by the pc . when i tried to update my drivers from device manager it shows (This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device , error code 31 ) . my phone is showing in the portable device list but with a yellow alert symbol. I really dont have a clear idea about doing what , as i found that the similar cases in this forum having different solutions. I understand the solution might differ according to …
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I cannot post photos on facebook and it is showing error
by Guest shobhitasachdeva- 0 replies
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i'm not able to post photos on facebook and every time i try to post photos it shows error. also i can't order anything online or pay online. it shows ssr connection error when i place any order. Continue reading...
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Defender Real-Time Protection Causing Applications to Crash on Invocation
by Guest ThomasFilliman- 0 replies
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We have a few customers who have been experiencing a strange behavior with Windows 7 within the last month or so. The symptom is that when a user launches an application from the first level folder of a share, for example from explorer, that the application will have it's startup directory changed to the root of the share and if the explorer window is open the window will exit out of the folder to display the root of the share as if someone also clicked on the back button in explorer. I have reproduced this failure mode on an in-house computer, and have discovered that if I disable the option "Scan programs that run on my computer" within Windows Defender, the pro…
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XP to win 7
by Guest Yancyd66- 0 replies
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HDD died and need to replace. PC had XP which I upgraded using Win 7 Upgrade disk. Question can I reinstall XP on the new drive and then use the original Win 7 Upgrade disk. I'm assuming that I can as the PC has all original hardware except for HDD and that Win 7 will see it as a reinstall on the same PC. Am I correct in this assumption? Continue reading...
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All antimalware updates and sites blocked.
by Guest michael@HAPORTZIM- 0 replies
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i am running windows 7 and have installed several anti-malware programs on my pc. i am unable to update them, and cannot get to any site that has an anti-malware program. plus, the computer is running much to slow. also, i cannot get some of the anti-virus programs to run. i downloaded a couple of other anti-virus programs on another computer, loaded them onto a flash drive and loaded them on the pc. each program - superantispyware, microsoft windows malicious software removal tool; and malwarebytes said i didn't have any viruses on the computer, but malwarebytes was unable to download updates, just like the other anti-virus programs already on the pc. …