Super User Weekly Newsletter - Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Top new questions this week: Can a massive MySQL data import on an SSD damage it? I have to import quite a lot of data (~100 million rows, ~100 times) into a MySQL database. Currently, it is stored on my hard disk drive, and the bottleneck of my import seems to be the hard disk ... hard-drive ssd performance mysql   asked by christophetd 21 votes answered by AthomSfere 21 votes Laptop buzzing (not HDD, not fan). How to hush it? I have a new Dell Inspiron 15 7547 laptop here. It makes an annoying high-pitched buzzing sound whenever on AC power. This is not HDD noise (there's a separate, usual sounding HDD noise when the HDD ... dell-inspiron noise   asked by Szabolcs 11 votes answered by Josip Medved 19 votes How can I replace a broken M.2 SSD mounting standoff for my motherboard? I just bought an ASUS Z97M Plus motherboard. It has an M.2 socket. Here's a pic of the socket: I want to install this M.2 SATA drive: The drive is held in the socket by a screw in a standoff, ... ssd motherboard sata storage computer-building   asked by Ethan 7 votes answered by JakeGould 3 votes How to extend USB beyond the recommended maximum cable length of 5m? I'm planning to use USB port for an application(from a device to a PC) but the distance between the device and the PC will be around 15m. The recommended maximum USB cable length is 5m. How can I ... usb   asked by user16307 5 votes answered by Dave M 7 votes What other IP addresses can/should I use for my home network? I've been using 192.168.1.x for my home network, which has been perfectly happy for quite some time. However, I just started a new job, and they use the same set of IP addresses when I connect over ... networking vpn   asked by Wayne Werner 5 votes answered by Francisco Tapia 19 votes Does the JPEG file format support RGB data? I am doing some programming that involves encoding image data using WIC. I used RGB data but WIC always treats it as BGR. I have a related question on Stack Overflow dealing with the programming ... jpeg image-processing   asked by mhs 4 votes answered by fixer1234 5 votes Google Chrome - Mouse Not Changing I'm currently running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (not in a VirtualBox) with Chrome, and I have a interesting issue. Currently there is a solution to a similar problem listed here and here, but my problem is ... ubuntu google-chrome mouse opera webkit   asked by Brian Leishman 4 votes answered by harrymc 1 vote Greatest hits from previous weeks: Convert a column into a comma separated list I have the task of creating a simple Excel sheet that takes an unspecified number of rows in Column A like this: 1234 123461 123151 11321 And make them into a comma-separated list in another cell ... microsoft-excel   asked by muncherelli 55 votes answered by muncherelli 10 votes How to let my friends upload their files to my Dropbox account? I have a bunch of friends, and we will share our documents and photos. My original idea is that we can use "public folder" or "shared folder" in Dropbox so that each of us can easily upload photos to ... dropbox   asked by user4478 27 votes answered by Peter 23 votes Can you answer these? Cloning Cloned HDD's One thing I do for my job team is create master hard drives for a software platform that they develop for. We get these installer disks that are inserted into a machine (laptops in this case), which ... hard-drive disk-cloning cloning   asked by user441726 2 votes Something I'm not "getting" about SSH keys: OS portability (Mac to Windows, etc.) Let's say I create SSH keys in a Mac to connect to my remote server. My server has my public key. My Mac has my private key. So far so good. A few days later, I want to connect to my server by ... windows mac ssh openssh ssh-keys   asked by user1883050 2 votes why am I not seeing traffic using TCPDUMP while sniffing on wireless interface with the station in WDS mode I've 2 wireless interfaces one has the type of AP and the other has the type monitor. the AP is attached to a bridge br-lan. When I run for example: tcpdump port 5201 -s 0 -ni wlan0 TCPdump is ... linux wireless-networking wireshark sniffing tcpdump   asked by Alberto 3 votes

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