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How do I force single (only) channel audio in youtube/flash videos to play in both (left/right) channels?
Occasionally, I find Youtube videos that have only one audio channel (only left or only right); example video (left channel only). This is quite annoying, especially with headphones on, as I hear sound in one ear, and no sound in the other. So, I want to be able to easily force dual mono (Left+Left…
Simulate manipulation of the etc/hosts file in Google Chrome
How can I set up Chrome to reference hostname lookups locally and not from the standard etc/hosts file? When debugging a website, it's sometimes useful to set up entries in C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts that replace certain domains with localhost, thus allowing me to test out on-the-fly ver…
Is it possible to dual boot two OS's at the same time?
Is it possible to dual boot two OS's at the same time? For example: I'm currently dual booting Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows 7. Ubuntu is running on a single 500gb HDD, Windows 7 is running on 1TB RAID 1 mirror. To switch between the two OS's, a reboot is required. Is it possible to switch between the t…
Howto pipe: cp | tar | gzip without creating intermediary files?
Can anyone tell me if it's possible to pipe | this without having to create a physical file anywhere between A and B.tar.gz? This is what I'm trying to do: File A Rename A to B Tar B.tar gzip -9 B.tar.gz So for example:
How can I toggle Full Screen mode in Remote Desktop without a Break key?
My small laptop has a small keyboard, which lacks a Pause/Break key. Ctrl-Alt-Break toggles Full Screen mode in Windows Remote Desktop. Without a Break key, how can I enter Full Screen mode? I know I can exit fullscreen mode with the mouse. Maximizing the window doesn't help. This matters more on s…
How do I search for a word or a phrase in the Linux 'man' command and cycle through the found solutions?
When looking for a certain word or phrase in the man page of Linux command, one can type '/' followed by the word or phrase to search for it. What I'd like to be able to do is to search for the next occurrence of the word or phrase without having to type it out again. Kinda like when you use ctrl+f…
Can Linux mount a normal Time Machine sparse bundle disk image directory?
I am looking to see if Linux can mount and read the files natively stored on a Time Capsule over a network share. Like this question, I am looking for something that replicates at least read-only function of hdiutil to attach and then mount a sparse bundle disk images. The SMB mount is easy since t…
Tmux and ZSH custom prompt : bug with window name
I have customized my ZSH prompt with oh-my-zsh to make it more readable and add information about git if I'm in a repository. Example : (in a git repository) It works well but I have some bugs with and the window name. It still display non sense value and I cannot disable it with (it just do not wo…
Is there a directory history for bash?
Is there something like bash's reverse-search-history (Ctrl-R), but for only directories? I have some deep folder hierarchies that I want to jump to, so I'd like to use something like reverse-search-history, but it only looks for folder names and gives me absolute paths. Essentially, it would give …
In bash, how can I rename a file without repeating the path?
Possible Duplicate: Reuse text on a bash command If I want to rename a file a few directories deep, how can I avoid repeating the path? For example: I'm wondering if there's a way to make this: Where would be some way of saying "in the same directory."
Maximize window in tmux
tmux shows screen like this: Window has non-maximum width, attempt to copy text from it leads to "|···" getting in text. How to fix it and get the tmux window full width?
Referring twice to the same footnote in Word
How do you refer to the same footnote twice on Microsoft Office Word 2007 or 2010?
"sudo: port: command not found" after installing MacPorts on Snow leopard
I have attempted to install MacPorts in order to upgrade my Rails version so that I can work my way through Agile Web Development with Rails, PragProg (4th, 2011). I have followed the directions in the book, as well as on the MacPorts web site, to perform the install from disk image. It appeared to…
Chrome cookies folder in Windows 7
Where does Google Chrome store its cookies when running on Windows 7?
How to set password on already existing winrar archive and encrypt it also?
Not when creating new archive, but on existing archive. I would also like to know how to do that in other archiver.
How do you change default delimiter in the Text Import in Excel?
I want to import a CSV file to Excel. The CSV file has comma separated data (go figure), but the delimiter in the Text Import Wizard is set to "Tab" by default. How can I change the default to "Comma" instead?
Why is VNC on Windows so slow?
In a test, I could stream a full HD movie across our network from my friend's computer, no problem. It's as fast as I could want. But VNC is painfully slow. We've tried Real VNC and Tight VNC, I've played around with the settings, but nothing seems to make a difference; it's just so slow. Does anyo…
Vim - select/yank/delete content between brackets including brackets
In vim, is it possible to select content between the brackets inclusive of the brackets similar to But I want to include the brackets.
Possible to "ping" url:port? (OS X-GeekTool)
I'm trying to use GeekTool (Mac pref pane... basically just embeds output of a shell command/script on the desktop... http://lifehacker.com/#!244026/geek-to-live--monitor-your-mac-and-more-with-geektool) to monitor a a remote machines/server, and I'm having some trouble determining how best to chec…
Multiple Skype clients on Mac OS X?
How can I run multiple Skype clients on Mac OS X?