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Hello, How I can bridge two calls in SIP by sending A party an indication to change SDP to B party and start playing the B party annoucement to A so A party will be hearing the ringing of B or annoucement of B. A Party SIP/GW B Party 1|---------INVITE---------->| …

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When I synced on iTunes all my contacts were lost. Favorites became just numbers with no names. What happened? If any way to transfer my iPhone contacts to computer without itunes? Thanks in advance.

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I am having Acer 5920 (64bit ,intel mobile express 965 chipset family) laptop. I have been using ubuntu 8.04 64bit on it for a while.Even internet browsing makes the temprature of laptop to shoot to above 50C.I have tried configuring it a lot(using pwmconfig , gkrellm ...). But they either …

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This may be a bit more complex situation than someone wants to take on. I am not looking for the simple solution of reinstalling. There is something simple I am overlooking. The system boots to the point of selecting the OS. The only one is Windows 7. Win 7 was …

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I can't send out any mail from my hotmail account for some reason! I do get incoming mail but when I try to reply it gives me an error. Please help!!

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Hi Quick question, this is theoertical by the way. If i had 3 departments for a businesss: * Human Resources * Finance * Marketing If i had a total of 300GB of space on the netrwork, how could i allocate 100GB to each department, and ensure that one department cant …

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Hello, I have a M-Series Gateway W650i laptop that will no longer boot when the power button is pressed, nor do any of the LED indicators display, such as the laptop receiving power, when the power adaptor is plugged in. I've tried several methods to combat this issue, such as …

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how to edit a pdf file in ADOBE READER 9 ? like adding text in boxes and putting check marks ?

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Hi As we know we can make image of HD and Clone Hard Disks and Partitions with dd.exe(http://www.chrysocome.net/dd) but How can I re-create a bootable disk from a raw image dd format to a bootable and executable HD installation?which commands I have to use? I appreciate your help

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Hello, I have a major problem with my Win Xp Professional. Every time I enter the Internet, windows shuts my computer automatically within a minute. The message presented is as the following: "This system is shutting down. Please save all work in progress and log off. Any ansaved changes will …

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Hi eveyone. I am trying to read a file using vi editor and sort its content inside the file alphabetically which is only names on CAPITAL LETTERS, second field (JOHN, MIKE, JAYSON and TYLER). The file is smth like this inside: 1:JOHN:Morgan:90:24 2:MIKE:Smith:95:11 3:JAYSON:Ty:99:9 4:TYLER:Edward:89:5 This is my vi script: …

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Greetings everybody, I have been trying to acquire data from my Sound Blaster audio device through USB using libusb library. Have been trying to implement isochronous communication mode and having an error related to busy device, errno = 16. While I was searching in the web, I see when asound.state …

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I am having issues with bookmarks directing to other webites. I can save bookmarks but when I click them later it goes to another website like http://www.adcash.com/script/pop_packcpm.php?k=5223ae7e0c776178106.541145&h=59ebbf60230047531bf2e60d5ae2390545fce553&id=0&ban=178106&r=136690&ref=h&data=&subid= I have windows 8 and am using Firefox which says it is up to date. How do I get rid of the virus? …

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Assuming I just bought laptop. Pretty cheap; and I have pretty good processor (let's say 48-bit) and RAM around. I start computer it works as it would. I turn off computer. Correctly change processor/RAM. I start computer again. Is there any type of risk?

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router is able to display list of devices that are connected to the wifi,which could be a pc or mobile....but is it possible to hide our device from being displayed on the list

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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 * 2048 499711 248832 83 Linux /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 501758 573366271 286432257 5 Extended /dev/cciss/c0d0p5 501760 573366271 286432256 83 Linux Okay, we are building a new data server that has 6 disks - we partitioned the first 4 as a RAID 1 and the …

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Just changed out internet provider, including our 5 static IPs. Reconfigured sonic wall, and basically everything works (Internet, email, etc) but not Outlook Web Access / outlook anywhere. In fact, typing the usual mail.domain.com/exchange simply brings up search results now, rather than trying to connect. Our name servers are still …

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My SAMSUNG mobile phone has faced to a virus attack(I think).It stucks sometimes.And sometimes it restarts automatically.When i connect it to my laptop & browse it's memory card,it shows a file calls "_UnqiueId.dat".I deleted that file.But when i reconnect the phone to laptop,it shows that file again.I think that file …

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Hello, I am simply following setup instruction and one of them mention to type in linux: $ mv red52/ /usr/lib ------------------------- davy@ubuntu:~/Desktop/openmeetings$ mv red52/ /usr/lib mv: cannot move `red52/' to `/usr/lib/red52': Permission denied davy@ubuntu:~/Desktop/openmeetings$ -------------------------- Permission denied, what should I do to make it work?

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Hello, I have tried to install mysql in linux and it said that I already installed it. Then the problem is I do not know the password to enter it. What should I do? davy@ubuntu:~$ mysql -uroot -p Enter password: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: …

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Burned DVD will NOT play. Err. Msg: "Disc Error", Please eject the disc. Playback feature may not be available on this Disc. PLATFORM: Win7 Pro, XP Three different players external to any server connection give the same basic message. All are less than a year old. Commercial discs play fine. …

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My motherboard got fried after an update to Windows 8.1 I don't know how, it did. Before I send the laptop off for repair, I want to backup my drives. I've removed the HDD and am reading it through an exertnal HDD reader to my Win 7 laptop. Now, I …

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Hey there, I have been using windows 8.1 for quite a while now and just got a new laptop (Lenovo ideapad y510p). the first odd thing (not the main issue in this thread) is that the resolution of my laptop according to whatismyscreenresolution.com is 1536x864, while Lenovo advertises the laptop …

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I've dealt with this error before and thought it was a rootkit that corrupted the internals... heh turns out playing with your network settings can actually cause this error... problem is I don't know how to fix :/ I just recently got a new 1TB HDD, and I can't run …

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Hi, i am facing a great problem to hide my mac address. Well my problem in brief is, my isp authenticates me by my ip and mac address, now any person with a ipscanner can detect my ip and mac address. So by cloning my ip and mac address they …

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Here's my current setup Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop 42" digital TV with just about every input imaginable Wired/wireless router What I want to do is stream audio/video from my laptop to the TV wirelessly. Is there a device I can connect between the router and the TV, along with software …

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Hi I try to disable UAC in Windows 7 via Command Prompt but I got ERROR: Access is denied. Anyone know how I solved it?maybe my commands is wrong!!! C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k %windir%\System32\reg.exe ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v EnableLUA /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f ERROR: Access is denied.

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As the subject says, I really don't know where to put this, but since Windows folk are usually more versed in router set ups than Mac users, I thought this would be the place. Move it if it's not, thank you. Whenever I go out to my folk's place, they …

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Hey everyone. I need to use apt-get and ipkg in my CentOS. I have tried many tutorials about installing apt-get but non of them worked for me. Also I haven't found anything regarding installing ipkg. Can anyone help?

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Hello Am looking for a good tool which will enable me to convert my pdfs to word format, and vice-versa, without losing formatting in the documents in question. Anyone can suggest some tools (could be free or paid)?

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Recently I came across this problem. The company I work in has about 30 computers and some servers. Some of the computer I try to turn on the network and sharing connecting to the domain and save changes but it did not save and don't have any error on the …

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My old hard drive with Linux Mint 15 Olivia refused to boot yesterday: kernel panic etc. I tried to repair the file system and now some shared libraries are missing. On this computer, I have a brand new second hard drive with Kubuntu 13.10 freshly installed. From this OS, I can …

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So, I may be kind of paranoid. I know some friends, which claim themselves being hackers. Well, I am eager to not try to even thinking of messing with anyone. Cause one showed me the "another side of software". To avoid problems when being hacked, I could just tape webcam …

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*Virtual situation.* I am about to take my nasty hands to buy seperate hardware and build computer. The computer will be ready, I will run image on CD and install Linux on SDD/HDD (storage). How do I provide drivers to it? I think I have to download them from website …

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Actually, What happens? I am having two a/c one is admin, and other as standard. And As I am not logging to Admin a/c I forgot my password... and I tried many password which can I put, but all failed. And Now it's a time where I can't install any …

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I really didn't know where to post something like this so sorry guys if this not the right section I have a text file looks like this ![2fa901c9913d09a179701ace860f9afa](/attachments/large/3/2fa901c9913d09a179701ace860f9afa.jpg "2fa901c9913d09a179701ace860f9afa") ![95c4115e80bcf8e3e28c3dc9842a1917](/attachments/large/3/95c4115e80bcf8e3e28c3dc9842a1917.jpg "95c4115e80bcf8e3e28c3dc9842a1917") I want to import it into Excel file so each info will be in seperated coloumn , even the …

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2^64 / (1024^2) = 17.592.186.044.416MB = 16 exabytes 2^32 / (1024^2) = 4.096MB = 4 gigabytes 2^16 / (1024^2) = 0,0625MB = 64 kilobytes 2^8 / (1024^2) = 0,000244140625MB = 0,25 kilobytes = 256 bytes **How the heck you guys managed to do anything on "computers" which had maximum of …

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Ok so I try to do it this program by myself and I can't do it mysfelf. Im a new to this programming stuff. So I came here to ask help. Hope you can help me. My prof gave me program that will convert any base to bae 10. "Conversion …

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So I finally bought a domain name via GoDaddy. Only problem is, I don't know how to map it to my server! I assumed that they would let me use their nameservers to map my domain name to my server's IP address. So they give me 3 pairs of nameservers …

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I am currently running vmware 10 and I am running CentOS 6.5 in it for a class I am taking. The last time I used it was last thursday, (it is currently monday) and it worked perfectly. Now it seems that everytime I want to load a browser I get …

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I performed a clean full install of Windows 7 Ultimate. After the numerous updates and re-installing drivers, I attempted to set up a VPN, which I have been able to do in the past. However, when I click on "Connect to a network" under Network and Sharing Center, nothing happens. …

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Hello. I have a MB Asus P5B-VM, with 4 memory slots (dual channels). I already have a 2GB DDR2-800 RAM installed, and recently got 2 more RAMs, one a 2GB DDR2-800 same as my old one, and a 1GB DDR2-800. Can I install these 2 along side my old RAM? …

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Is the MySQL database and the SQL query language part of the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system If yes, is there something I need to do to activate them? If not, where would I get them?

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I'm not sure if this is a malware, or a mis-config... but what happens is this: http://lh6.ggpht.com/-UgZ3wjjfkkI/UwBhDk9LihI/AAAAAAAAF_0/lssTEhz4cQ4/s1007/Screenshot%202014-02-16%2001.54.44.png a new explorer.exe process is created and terminated every minute, causing the first (highlighted process) to eat nearly 4GB of memory. (this is built up after a while of letting it run) aside …

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Hey there. I am decent gamer. I'd like to go through 100% of visuality and emotions (adrenaline, joy, aggresivity, action) that game can deliver. But as you can guess you need very good computer for it. And yes, you could buy a gamer computer, that costs 9000 dollars. Or make …

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http://s27.postimg.org/b350970w3/whasd.png Something is connected to my Wi-Fi without my permission. I don't know what/who this is. How do I get rid of? Is it hacker/virus? I should be only one listed.

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Allow others access files in your home directory by granting them "search" permissions. Create a publicly searchable, but not listable, subdirectory to your home directory, ~/pub. Create two subdirectories of ~/pub, both searchable and listable to only the members of the groups music and wrestle, respectively: ~/pub/music and ~/pub/wrestle. Note …

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