Autodesk Self-Extract Initializing Crash Issue

Autodesk Inventor or other products use the self extracting program:
  Autodesk Self-Extract


It disappears or crashes after Initializing. Solution which solved the issue was to make sure the self-extract files are not coming from a network drive.

Solution:
Place .sfx files in a local folder, then try again.

I hope this helped you!

MacBook Pro Battery Drain Issue With Lid Closed - Solved

If you find your MacBook Pro battery drains from 100% full to 30% in about a day, you confirmed Apple has bad software quality assurance.

The solution I found was to type the following at the terminal window (Command + Spacebar, type terminal and press enter):

sudo pmset -b tcpkeepalive 0

This sets a power management setting to turn off a periodic network related item, getting rid of the battery drain.

Shutdown or Restart your laptop.

Android SDK fastboot adb location in Mac OSX

Android SDK tools such as fastboot and adb can be found in the following location by default:

/Users/[your osx username]/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/

Useful for running commands like ./fastboot etc.

Android Nexus 5 not detected for USB File transfer in Windows 7

After setting the Android phone on MTP mode in phone's Settings -> Storage -> (... menu) ->  USB computer connection,
Windows may still not show the phone under My Computer.

To fix:

• In Windows 7, go into Device Manager
• Portable Devices
• Nexus 5
• Properties -> Driver
• Update Driver
• Let it search and detect by itself

Windows should now detect the MTP device and it will pop up in My Computer.

How to fix Bittorrent periodic slowdown, download speed dropping

Sometimes Bittorrent downloads will regularly slow down, causing the download speed to look like a sinusoidal up and down slowing and speeding up as below (bottom graph):

This periodic slowing down and speeding up is caused by setting the upload speed limit too low.

For example, if your upload speed is 3,000 KB/s and upload is limited to 40 KB/s, you will see this behavior.  Try increasing the upload limit in your Bittorrent client such as Deluge, Transmission or uTorrent such that it is at least 1/20th of your download speed (3,000/20 = 150, so the upload limit should be at least 150 KB/s).

Hope this helps!  If so, leave a thank you comment!

SSH Putty SOCKS proxy Connection Reset error

If you are trying to connect to your SSH Tunnel to setup a secure proxy, yet receive a "Connection Reset" error in Firefox this may help.

In Firefox, go to this address "about:config" and make sure this value is set to true:
    network.proxy.socks_remote_dns = true

Note the dynamic forwarding port in Putty settings:

In Firefox, network Connection settings window, make sure "Manual Proxy" is selected and make sure that only the SOCKS fields are populated. All other proxy fields should be blank, and "0" for the ports.  See example below:

The SOCKS proxy should have the Putty dynamic tunnel port number.

That's it.  You can check your IP address before and after using the proxy at www.whatismyip.com

Lenovo Thinkpad Fan Speed Control under Linux

Note: Written and tested with Ubuntu 12.04.

• Install thinkfan:

sudo apt-get install thinkfan

• Start thinkfan:

sudo thinkfan

• Change fan speed to a custom level (0 through 7):

echo level 1 | sudo tee /proc/acpi/ibm/fan

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