Super User Weekly Newsletter - Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Top new questions this week: Why does 1366x768 resolution exist? I know that there's a previous question about this (here: What's with the 1366x768 resolution for laptops/notebooks?) But it doesn't have any real answers despite having been viewed 12,400 times, ... laptop video resolution pixels   asked by meed96 35 votes answered by mtone 57 votes 65536 +1 Connection on a system There are 65536 ports for every system in the network, and every connection or Send/Receive will use one of those. My question is: what happens if we have 65536+1 connections?! I know that it ... networking operating-systems   asked by user191183 28 votes answered by Spiff 53 votes How do you stop the "Google Privacy Reminder" message from constantly appearing? Incredibly annoying as when I edit all options and set them all to Off (although I doubt this makes any difference!) and accept the review, the same message comes back the following day. What am I ... windows-7 firefox google privacy   asked by Joseph 9 votes answered by gronostaj 13 votes Over-provisioning an SSD - does it still hold? Multiple (but not very recent) sources suggest that ~7% of the SSD space should be left unallocated in order to reduce the drive wear. Is it still valid as for now or has the situation changed? partitioning ssd   asked by marmistrz 9 votes answered by sourcejedi 9 votes How to run a command in background with no output unless there's an error How to suppress a command's output but show it if the command exit codes an error? shell fish   asked by Xster 9 votes answered by Bob 15 votes Chrome adds weird HTTPS:1 header to all requests I've been getting a lot of weird errors on websites that relate to HTTPS. These sites works great in FF and IE, but fail to load in Chrome. It appears that though I'm requesting an unsecured URL ... google-chrome browser ssl https https-everywhere   asked by TwoDiv 8 votes answered by TwoDiv 2 votes HDD performance spikes I have a Dell Precision T1700 I purchased for about $1500 almost a year ago. I am having some moderate hard drive issues. I think it's not as fast as it should be. Booting seems quite long considering ... windows-7 hard-drive performance   asked by Ondrej 7 votes answered by gronostaj 16 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Where does Chrome save its bookmarks on Windows? I'm trying to recover a Windows system from backups and can't seem to find where Chrome saves its bookmarks. Does anybody know where Chrome saves its bookmarks on Windows? windows-7 windows google-chrome bookmarks favorites   asked by Fernando 28 votes answered by Filipe Oliveira 39 votes How to reset shortcuts (.lnk file) in Windows 7? Somehow I went to open a shortcut and Windows couldn't find the target but instead of pointing the shortcut to the .exe it pointed the .lnk file handler to the .exe, so now all my .lnk files are ... windows-7 windows-registry shortcuts   asked by Joel Barsotti 29 votes answered by Sun 17 votes Can you answer these? how to hide a partition with active VHD? i'm trying to create a partition where it'd store an image of the OS with all the necessary software installed(i still need to find out how to do it) and an active VHD attached something like this ... windows-7 windows windows-8.1 partitioning   asked by 1832vin 2 votes How do I use Google data compression proxy on Firefox? I am using GNU Icecat (GNU version of Mozilla Firefox) on Trisquel GNU/Linux. In order to minimize/optimize data usage while web surfing, I want to use google data compression proxy. So, How do I use ... firefox proxy google compression open-source   asked by Pandya 2 votes Remap Super_R to control (Fedora 22) I have verified that keycode 134 (0x86) is my Super_R key on my keyboard. But I would like to remap this to control. However, I've tried nearly every permutation. What am I doing wrong? ... linux keyboard fedora remapping   asked by Dan Jenson 2 votes

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