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How to stop windows resizing when the monitor display channel is turned off / switched to different source
I have a new 6870 Amd Radeon adapter with its drivers set to 1080p 60Hz resolution hooked up to a 2008 47" high end Samsung HDMI based TV. However, when the tv is turned to a different HDMI input -(when I come back into windows) somehow Windows decides to resize all the open apps to a lower resolution - including some of the side docked hidden pop-outs. When it resizes those though - it just sticked the pop-outs in the middle of the screen and all the resized windows from the open applications in the top left corner - all of them stacked on top of each other and resized to the smaller resolution. The things that seem to be ok after returning are the icons on the desktop, the taskbar, and the sidebar. Anyone have any knowledge of 1) how this happens 2) why it happens 3) how to stop it from resizing the applications and some of the docked pop-outs (they are not really resized after returning - they are just stuck in the middle of the screen approximately where they would be if the right…
How to use vimtutor?
Someone recommended me that I should use to learn the basics of . But I have no idea how to use it. Is it an application? A website? This is the only link that was given during the discussion here and I can't find a link to anything. Any suggestions?
Unable to use pbcopy while in tmux session
Running tmux 1.4 installed from ports on snow-leopard I am unable to use the built in OSX command. Outside of : But inside of : I've scoured the man page but can't find any options that might relate to this behavior. I also can't understand why would mess with shell redirection. Anybody have any clues?
How do I move around and otherwise rearrange splits in vim?
So far, I've figured out swapping splits laterally via , and that's pretty much it. How do I move a split anywhere in a viewport that contains multiple vertical and horizontal splits? How do I create a horizontal split that, say, spans the entire top half of the screen after I have already opened a few vertical splits? (Currently, when I create a new horizontal split in an already-vertically-split viewport, I get a horizontal split in one of the columns.) Perhaps most vim users prefer tabs over splits, but I really like the latter because I work on a 30" monitor! :-)
Windows pagefile size with large RAM and SSD
I just upgraded my Windows 7 machine from 12GB to 24GB RAM - both for running more VMs and for future proofing. My C drive is an SSD with 129GB formatted size. I was surprised to find out that the SSD only has 68GB free (most of my files are on to ). Researching I found 24GB of my precious SSD are taken up by the virtual memory pagefile in the root. Do I need such large amounts of virtual memory when I have 24GB or RAM? I bought this size of memory so I'd not have to go to disk.
How to show output on terminal and save to a file at the same time?
I am using: to save the results of "command" to the file "log", but I'd like to also get the result on the terminal, is this possible? I am using ubuntu 10.04 lts.
How to preserve file attributes when one copies files in Windows?
On Linux, we can simply do: How to do that in Windows? Can it be done in Windows Explorer? Any GUI tool suggestions? It would be the best if I can keep the NTFS permissions and creation/modification/access time. At a minimum, I need to preserve the modification date for the files and the directories. Windows Explorer's copy does not preserve the modification date for directories.
How to save a rotated Adobe PDF file
I received an Adobe PDF scan of a document that displays upside-down. I rotated it inside Adobe Acrobat and chose Save As to make a new document, however, the rotation is not saved and when I open the new document, it is upside-down again. How can I correct this upside-down document as a new PDF file?
File I can't take ownership of
I downloaded a file from the internet (I can link to it here, but in the interests of not annoying other users, I won't post the link), and I can't delete the file with the message: You need permission to perform this action You require permission from the computer's administrator to make changes to this file Trouble is, I am the administrator and UAC is completely off. If I go into the Properties/Security tab, I get the message You do not have permission to view or edit this object's permission settings Clicking "Advanced"/Owner, it says: Current owner: Unable to display current owner. If i try to change the owner, I get the same message: Unable to set new owner on file Access is denied.
Getting Mac OS X applications to close after last window closed
I know it's just a pet peeve, but I hate it that Mac OS X's Preview.app stays open when it has no windows open. Is there any way to make it close when its last window is closed? Since I don't see any option inside Preview to make that happen, I imagine that the answer might be applicable to other programs that have similar … idiosyncrasies. I realize that this is not outside the OS's interface guidelines. That is, I recognize that this isn't a bug that will be fixed. I'm wondering if there is some way to automatically close selected GUI applications that have no windows open.
How do I delete a 'locked' file?
On Windows XP, when I try and delete a specific file it says: Cannot delete blah.blah: Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use. How can I go around this warning and delete it anyway?
scp'ing using key file as a parameter, How can I do that if possible?
Is the aforementioned script incorrect? Am I not doing it correctly? I went to the directory and saw that the remote server is in the file. But, when I do ordinary scp without any file as parameter, it is still asking for password How can I include the key file in my command?
tmux copy mode - select text block
I'm using tmux with vi keys, and copy/paste works fine as long as you're selecting one line of text, or if you have only one window. When I want to select a block of text (multiple lines, but not full width), then I run into trouble. If I have multiple vim windows opened, then it would select text from all of them, and what I need is to select text only from one window. That is, just like a visual select in vim. Is this possible to do?
Disable the "You've gone full screen" notification in Chrome
Every time I switch into Full Screen (F11) in chrome it says "You've gone full screen. Exit Full Screen (F11)". Can I disable this from showing up? I know how to exit full screen.
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?
Where are man pages stored in Ubuntu?
I hope my question isn't too trivial, but I've never actually needed to know this before. In which directory can I find the files of the man pages, i.e. the read-only text file opened when you type ? I assume different distros may keep them in slightly different places, so if it makes any difference I run Ubuntu 10.04.
how to cd into a thumb drive from terminal ( Mac OSX )
How do i change into the directory of my thumbdrive? I've been poking around and see that this command, "diskutil list", lists all my local disks. That produces this.. now i see that my thumbdrive is showing up in /dev/disk3 but i can't get to it. I can cd into /dev but thats as far as i can get. "cd /dev/disk3/THUMBDRIVE" tells me "-bash: cd: /dev/disk3/THUMBDRIVE: Not a directory" any help would be great.
Comparing two strings in Excel?
I need to compare two strings in excel and determine if they are equal, the strings are in adjacent cells. For example, given: the formula on the third column should give me: Any help appreciated, Ted
Matching only the first occurrence in a line with Regex
I am completely new to regex and I would greatly appreciate any help. The task is simple. I have a CSV file with records that read like this: I would like to replace the first comma with a space and leave the rest of the commas intact, for every line. Is there a regex expression that will only match the first comma? I tried this: . This matches the comma, however, it also matches the entire length of the string preceding the comma, so if I try to replace this with a space all of the numbers are deleted as well.
How to convert a 1 page PDF to a 2 page per sheet PDF?
I would like to print a PDF so that on the front of the first page are the first two pages, on the back the 3rd and 4th and so on. Because my printer using Linux fails to support manual duplex printing I'd thought, maybe I could edit the pdf in a according way. But how?