It's happened to all of us at some point while gaming -- you line up the perfect shot, pull the trigger… and nothing happens. Or worse, your tackle lands a full second after the ball is halfway down ...
I want to be able to arbitrarily ping a Windows computer using its NetBIOS name. (Windows hostname.)<BR><BR>In Linux, all I had to do was install winbind, then edit /etc/nsswitch.conf and add "wins" ...