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List of all available man pages
How to generate a list of all available man pages on a system?
How safe is it to run CHKDSK on an SSD?
I recently saw Windows 7 pop up a warning or two that I should run chkdsk on my laptop. My laptop came with an SSD and I'm not sure if there are any negative implications to running chkdsk on such a drive. Are there any potential issues with reporting "bad sectors" on the drive? I would imagine tha…
How do you customize Excel 2010 keyboard shortcuts?
How do you customize Excel 2010 keyboard shortcuts? This article from microsoft.com provides instructions for "Microsoft Office 2010" but seems only apply to Word, not Excel. http://www.microsoft.com/athome/organization/compshortcuts.aspx In Microsoft Office 2010: Click the File tab to open Backsta…
Where can I get Chromium binaries?
I want to have Chromium on my Windows machine, but I find only instructions how to make it from sources on official site. Are there any official pre-built binaries?
Make Chrome always open PDFs itself
I'm looking for a way to make Google Chrome always open PDFs with its internal viewer when I click a link, as opposed to downloading it to the default location. It works with most URLs, but some servers set a special header to force the file to be downloaded ( , e.g. http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en…
How to find the MAC address of a remote computer?
I know the IP address of a host on my own LAN. Using that, how can I find its MAC address (without having to physically access it)?
How to set an icon for a file type on Mac?
How to set an icon for some file types thought the whole system? For example, I have text files that ends with .scala extension and I want to associate an icon for that files through the whole system and for any newly created file of this extension. Thanks.
Cannot start service W3SVC on computer '.'
I just installed IIS7, but whenever I want to start it, the following error occurs: What's wrong with it ? I have Windows 7 64-bit build 7600 and have installed .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and .NET Framework 4 before installing IIS7.
Merging windows of Google Chrome
Say I have two windows of Google Chrome, each with multiple tabs. Is there a way to merge the two windows (other than manually dragging the tabs one at a time from one window to the other)?
grub: boot from ISO
How can I boot into an ISO file in GRUB? The ISO file is on a reiserfs partition and GRUB can access it (already tested that).
How to make 7-Zip faster
I normally use WinRAR over 7-Zip simply because it's faster and only a little less efficient with compression. I did a few tests on different file types and sizes comparing the 7-Zip and WinRAR default settings on their normal compression and their best compression, and in a lot of cases WinRAR was…
Throttle network bandwidth per application in Mac OS X
I notice that iTunes seems to suck up all my bandwidth and doesn’t play nice with other applications that use the web when it's downloading. In fact, it doesn't even give itself enough bandwidth when browsing the iTunes Store while downloading large or many files (podcasts, TV shows, large apps, et…
Using custom fonts without administrator rights?
I know you can put custom fonts in say and applications will be able to find and use them. However this is only possible when you have administrator access to the machine, which is rarely the case in shared environments. Is there a general way to use custom fonts from some other location suitable f…
Where is a database shape in Visio?
I am trying to document an architecture in Visio, and I can't find a shape for a database. I see servers, clients, etc. - but no database.
What are my X client options for MS Windows?
I need to connect to a headless X Windows server (running on Ubuntu) from my MS Windows 7 computer over a 100 Mbit network. I could use VNC (or any other remote viewer) but the 3D graphics performance would be lousy I imagine. I used to have it hooked up to a monitor, but that's broken now and I ca…
Tool to annotate pictures (screenshots) for documentation purposes?
Long time ago, I saw someone use a software (on Windows) that was specifically created to annotate pictures. It made it simple to add arrows, boxes, circles in "outstanding" colors to the image. Unfortunatly, I don't remember what program that was. Now, I have to document a GUI and I'd like to use …
How do I restart Linux (Ubuntu) from the command-line?
Because of my problem with mouse-clicks being ignored in Ubuntu, I want to restart from the command-line. (I have an open Terminal, and the keyboard is not ignored.) How do I restart a computer running Linux (or more specifically Ubuntu) from the command-line?
What is the difference between Recommended and Suggested packages (Ubuntu)
On Ubuntu when you install a package, there can be dependencies, recommendations and suggestions. For example: virtualbox-ose has adduser as dependency, libgl1 as recommendation and libpulse0 as suggestion. What is the difference between recommendations and suggestions? Recommendations are standard…
Find all files on server with 777 permissions
I'm looking for a Linux command to go through all the directories on my server and find all files with 777 permission. The output would be a list of all those files with full path.
How can I make wget rename downloaded files to not include the query string?
I'm downloading a site with wget and a lot of the links have queries attached to them, so when I do this: I end up with a lot of files like this: What I'd like to end up with is: This is all taking place in ubuntu linux and I've got wget 1.10.2. I know I can do this after I get everything via a scr…