How can I undo rm -rf command? For example, I have Application folder, and I have mistakenly removed it by running rm -rf Application. I want to recover that Application folder, but it's not in the Trash folder. What should I do now? Is there any command to undo rm -rf?
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When I disable it and click accept, and then open the property pages again, it appears Enabled aga...
So I do not know my administrative password. I read up on how to reset it by clicking left shift after the BIOS page upon start up. going to the recovery option, then root, then doing mount -o rw, remount / but then I believe I must do passwrd to change the password, HOWEVER, my keyboard does no...
like even if your opponent has played extremely well and fought you into a corner and you're sure to lose by momentum, if you have a pyroblast and fireball, gg
no, the secrets are pretty balanced overall... ice block is very powerful but the rest aren't especially good or especially bad
it's the enormous direct damage spells that make it just a stupid class to play against
unless i'm playing arena, i just flat-out Alt+F4 whenever I see I'm facing a mage
yeah, but it's not even worth my time to wait for them to pick their cards and then concede, because i know without having even seen their first turn that i lost
i can completely dominate them the entire game and then WHOOPS 30 DAMAGE GG
so, fastest way to avoid the frustration is to simply not play them
and i can get back into a game faster by alt-f4 than conceding because they tend to be obnoxious pricks that take 10 minutes to pick their starting hand
the mage hero power has the best value in the game because of how many minions it can eliminate, and the mage doesn't even take any damage in the process of eliminating them, whereas with paladin and druid, you have to face check them and take damage to eliminate something with your hero power
and the mage class cards, particularly freezing and direct damage, are the best value cards in the game because you can eliminate the enemy's board AND still have mana left over to build up your own board
and if you're losing, never fear! just pull a pyroblast out of your ass and you win
when i first started playing hearthstone i played a lot of mage, and i was very successful and i liked it, until i realized how imbalanced they are, then i decided i will never play mage again
it's basically cheating, and i don't want to cheat myself out of needing true skill to win, so i don't play mage ever
in fact the ONLY time I ever went 9-0 in arena is with a mage deck, i've never done anywhere near that well with any other class
they have nerfed mage cards twice and they are still the best class in the game, because all they do is increase the mana cost, they don't make the combos any less effective
you can tell that they are imbalanced because EVERY SINGLE competitive tournament player who has ever competed in any hearthstone tournament to date has run a mage deck somewhere in their deck list (usually you get 3 decks to work with, and you lose when all your decks have lost a game, or you win when your opponent reaches that state)
I have literally never seen someone play a tournament without a mage deck somewhere in their list, and it's only one of nine classes, so the chances are not extremely high if all things were equal
no other class is guaranteed to be in a competitive player's deck list except mage, because mage is the "I win" button
nowadays people who don't play mage are mostly playing rush-down decks, which makes a LOT of sense when you think about it... the best mage cards cost 4, 6 and 10 mana, so if you can win before they have enough mana to cast some of those cards, your odds are greatly improved
the entire meta-game of the whole game has shifted towards fast decks because people are so tired of getting pyroblasted when they play control decks or pretty much anything else other than win on turn 6
I am trying to register a technical forum as a member.
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Hi, I don't know if this is where I should be asking this
but I am currently upgrading to Windows 8.1 from my newly bought Windows 8 laptop.
I don't know the serial number (though it's asking me for one for some reason), so I was wondering, do I enter the OEM BIOS MSDM key, or how do I retrieve my key?
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I was okay with the Mass Effect game for tablet, but I'll probably plug in my bluetooth mouse and keyboard and make another attempt at Miracast to play it on my TV :P
presumably the game at least works with mouse/keyboard
@Bob No, it's USD 8 to me. There is some taxes on the credit card, and they always consider the dollar a little higher than what google says it is, but I doubt I'd end up paying more than USD 10 for it. The problem is, it is a bit expensive for my casual game buying habits. I have never paid for a game more than I'd pay for, say, movie tickets. So it is actually on the limit of what I'd pay for a full feature game on Steam.
skipping Haswell, skipping Radeon R9, skipping Nexus 7 2013, skipping Surface Pro 2, ... the only thing I will never skip on is my phone because it's my lifeline, so, when Moto releases their next smartphone, I'm all over it
depending on how expensive it is, I might go Haswell-E, when it's released, for the enthusiast-scale hardware and simplified architecture (no on-chip iGPU, yay)
@Bob Moto sells the Droid Maxx in a Developer Edition now, which has an unlocked bootloader and you can run it on GSM networks and such, it's fully customizable out of the box
you'd have to foot full retail tho... something like $649
although in theory with a dev edition phone you could do absolutely anything to it including modifying the BBP and nobody would be able to stop you
unsure if there's a hack out there to do just that, though
a lot of people from outside the United States have an interest in the Droid Maxx and a community of people trying to get them unlocked and working abroad has sprung up
I've seen posts from Iran, India and China in the xda forums for the droid ultra / droid maxx
radio flashing is definitely a thing, and with an unlocked bootloader, you can disable the signing verification and flash custom radios (which overwrites the firmware in the cellular baseband processor)
then it just becomes a matter of some smart programmer actually telling the baseband to use certain frequencies
if it weren't for all the legacy x86 Windows programs I need, I would be in the market for an ARM ultrabook... probably not the Surface or Surface 2, but definitely Android or GNU/Linux; ARM kicks ass on power efficiency, so you can get like 10 hours out of a wafer-thin battery
with x86 you either get great battery with a unit that weighs as much as a brick and is impossible to hold in your hand for any length of time, or you get terrible battery with a usable unit
@JourneymanGeek been there done that; sucks. but then again I wasn't using 802.11ac
I kinda want a power efficient device in the ultrabook form factor, but usually when I am typing on a keyboard and using a trackpad, I'm like, "where are my x86 Windows apps?!"
@Bob yeah, chromebooks are !!no. if I went ARM I'd probably go Android, because relatively speaking, there are more apps and you can do more with Android than any other non-Windows OS right now, except maybe iOS which is on a somewhat-equal footing
(except for the occasional snobbish vendor that will produce iOS apps and pretend Android doesn't exist even though it has a majority market share)
personally I wouldn't mind at all if Android eventually became a viable alternative as a desktop OS, but as of yet there are too many killer apps with no equivalent on Android. it's definitely far enough along to be impressive, at the very least, though
there are awesome media players on Android, both audio and video; there are very featureful office suites that rival Libreoffice (but not MS Office, yet)
well, the benchmarks of x86 ULV against high-end tablet ARM SoCs has heavily favored x86 all the way, but if they can't make higher energy density batteries, ARM ends up being better unless you need that extra meat that x86 can provide
and a significant portion of x86's extra meat is wasted by things like the CISC firmware (x86 microcode is translated down to run on the processor's physical RISC setup) and, at least on Windows, by legacy cruft that's totally unnecessary and inefficient on today's systems
DCOM is a super inefficient IPC mechanism that involves lots of context switching and buffer copying, yet it's used extensively in almost all Windows programs, because it's baked into the Win32 API so much that it's hard to avoid
and to make matters worse, all those context switches require an IPI, which effectively limits the throughput of certain resources on the system to the performance of a single core
@allquixotic Actually, I have a question I've been trying to answer for a while now. What's a good way to do IPC? I'd prefer .NET, but really anything.
Currently I am working on a multi-process desktop application on Windows. This application will be a shrink wrapped application which will be deployed on client machines across the world. While we can have broad specifications for the machines - e.g. Windows XP SP3 with .Net 4.0 CF, we wont have ...
on localhost to localhost, TCP is probably comparable, because on the loopback interface you can set a huge receive window and eliminate much of the overhead of the TCP, because you're basically guaranteed to get an ACK every time; no resends
basically: construct one enormous packet for each logical message sent by the program, do your TCP socket setup, send the one enormous packet, whee we got an ACK in less than 1 ms, process the data, then idle the socket or teardown or whatever
How can I undo rm -rf command? For example, I have Application folder, and I have mistakenly removed it by running rm -rf Application. I want to recover that Application folder, but it's not in the Trash folder. What should I do now? Is there any command to undo rm -rf?
How can I disable the "Advanced Printing Features" option (in Windows, go to Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Devices and Printers, right click the printer, go to Printer Preferences -> Advanced)?
When I disable it and click accept, and then open the property pages again, it appears Enabled aga...
I am trying to register a technical forum as a member.
As usual, we need to answer some captcha as this is a common security question to prevent spam.
And here is their security question:
Of the following characters "pACh4pay!$%" please type the second 3:
I stare at the question for a few se...
I have been doing further research, the special site has "PayPal, Inc[US]" certificate and the paypal original site has "PayPal, Inc.[US]" certificate (note the dot after Inc).
The certificates contain this (relevant) information:
CN = www.paypal-special.com
OU = Partner Support
O = PayPal, I...
