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How to prevent VLC from automatically resizing its window according to viewed content resolution?
In a case of mine a very high (compared to the video stream) resolution graphical frame (saying "access denied" (when my IP changes)) can appear instead of a video stream, which makes VLC window to resize, getting bigger than my screen is. This annoys me. Can I set up VLC to never resize its window when I don't do it myself and resize content instead?
Disable Alt + Arrow display flip keyboard shortcut
Whenever I click Alt + Arrow up/Arrow down my screen will do an unwanted flip. I'd like to disable this shortcut behaviour. I've already looked at Super User question How to stop my laptop's screen from rotating when I press Alt + Arrow?. But Ctrl + Alt + F12 doesn't start any menu for me. How can I fix this problem? I have an Nvidia graphic card, 2100M, and Windows 7 on a Toshiba computer.
How can I direct a query to specific DNS server?
I would like to issue a query to a specific DNS server, whose IP address I know. It doesn't really matter if it's on Windows or *nix. In Windows I can do something like: But this uses the local machine's DNS settings. Instead, I would like to query a specific DNS server to test if it is responding to my queries correctly or responding at all. So it should be something like:
How to access a BitLocker-encrypted drive in Linux?
I have a laptop running Windows 7 Ultimate. I have encrypted my drives using BitLocker. Now I have also installed Lubuntu along with Windows. But my encrypted drives are not visible in Linux. How can I fix this?
OpenSSL missing during ./configure. How to fix?
I was trying to install node.js and found OpenSSL support missing during . How can I fix it? Is it a mandatory step? Would the option fix the problem?
How do I figure out which /dev is a USB flash drive?
I want to mount a USB drive, two of them and I need two different mount points. Unfortunately, the Linux kernel underwent a name change and I can't figure out which location is the right one. Is there a way to look through or or somewhere else to find out which device node is a USB drive. (I'm using ArchLinux if that helps any... is the first hard drive, is a dvd drive, etc.) edit: The USB drive is connected to a USB hub. I looked through and it says the hub was connected and it scanned for the 3 devices connected to it. Still can't see where my USB drive is though.
Mac OS X equivalent of the Ubuntu "tree" command
Is there an equivalent to the Ubuntu command for Mac OS X?
What disk image should I use with VirtualBox, VDI, VMDK, VHD or HDD?
Latest versions of VirtualBox supports several formats for virtual disks, but they forgot to provide a comparison between them. VDI VMDK VHD HDD Now, I am interested about a recommendation or comparison that considers the following: be able to use dynamic sizing be able to have snapshots be able to move my virtual machine to another OS or even another free virtualization solution with minimal effort (probably something that would run fine on Ubuntu). performance
How to disable Ctrl+Shift+U?
Ctrl+Shift+U is a combined shortcut in Eclipse. But when I press it, it shows up a , just like input with an underline. I guess this shortcut has been declared by Ubuntu, so I can't use it. I used to solve this problem by typing Caps Lock first. Is there any better method?
How to delete cookies for a specific site
I need a button or bookmarklet to delete the cookies from the current context. Clearing the cache would be another option. Specifically, I am logged into too many Google sites and have multiple accounts active. If I log out, it logs everything out. I want to delete the cookies for a given context (eg. on , delete cookies for but leave cookies for ever other site like , thus refreshing the page prompts me for which account I'd like to use.
Does it make sense to keep different SSIDs for 2.4GHz and 5GHz wireless networks?
My router can have different SSIDs for 2.4 and 5 GHz and I'm not sure if it's better to have the same SSID or not. Initially I put the same network but I got confused when the MacBook Pro displayed me two networks with the same name, an I was not able to distinguish between then. So the next step was to configure two networks, "home" and "home-slow". I would like to know what are the pros/cons for these configs. Note, I do have a Cisco E4200 router, configured: 5GHz - SSID "home" - Mixed - Auto 20 MHz/40MHz - Auto-DFS 2.4GHz - SSID "home-slow" - Mixed - Auto 20 MHz/40MHz - Auto Note, iPhone4 and HTC Desire HD do not see the 5GHz network, only the 2.4 one, not sure why. MacBook Pro seems to detect both of them.
How to change the Login Shell on Mac OS X from bash to zsh?
I'm trying to change the Login Shell of Mac OS X from to . I see it is possible in Mac OS X Leopard, but for OS X Lion I can't find a way. I really hope it is possible to change the Login shell from bash to something else. I am not exactly sure where to look for.
How do I get the output and exit value of a subshell when using "bash -e"?
Consider the following code outer-scope.sh inner-scope.sh I'm trying to get to exit when a call to fails. Since invokes a sub-shell, this doesn't happen. How else do I get the output of a function while preserving the fact that the function may exit with a non-zero exit code?
Native alternative to wget in Windows PowerShell?
I know I can download and install the aformentioned library (wget for Windows), but my question is this: In Windows PowerShell, is there a native alternative to ? I need simply to retrieve a file from a given URL with HTTP GET. For instance:
How to show the current column in the statusbar in vim?
I would like to show the current column in the statusbar, as is common in many other text editors. E.g. it's good to know if you are around column 80 or above. How to show the current column in the statusbar?
Can a 32-bit OS machine use up all 8GB RAM + 20GB page file?
What I understand about 32-bit OS is, the address is expressed in 32 bits, so at most the OS could use 232 = 4G memory space -- I assume the unit is bytes, so 4GB. Does this mean if any machine with a 32-bit OS (be it Windows or Unix) has more than 4GB total of RAM + page file on hard disk, for example 8GB RAM and 20GB page file, its memory will never be "used up"? By "used up" I mean that increasing RAM or page file won't help the performance; of course, it's always possible an application will keep requesting memory from the OS but failing. Similarly, if this 32-bit OS machine has 2GB RAM and 2GB page file, increasing the page file size won't help the performance. Is this true?
How can I make ctrl+left/right keys to move by whole word in tmux?
In both zsh and bash, Ctrl+arrows allows me to move the position I'm typing at by whole word, but this does not work in tmux, which is a problem as I'm currently launching it automatically every time I open a shell. How can I fix this?
How to connect to a website that has only IPv6 addresses without a domain name?
If a server has only IPv6 addresses without a domain name, how can I connect to the server from my web-browser?
Preserve colors while piping to tee
Without pipe/tee it's colored. How can I make it so that it stays colored while using (can be colored only on the screen, I don't care about colors in logs).
How to have Linux ls command show second in time stamp
Something annoying about command is it shows only hour and minute for a file(like 08:30). How can I see the second portion(like 08:30:44)? and search for 'second' does not give any clue.