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Chrome keyboard shortcut to "close other tabs"?
In Chrome we can close all the tabs in a window while keeping a selected one open. Is there a keyboard shortcut to "close other tabs"?
How can I set the fan speed to 100% on a laptop?
I recently purchased a HP Pavilion dv7-4031. When it's cool, it works smoothly and efficiently. However when CPU and GPU temperatures reach 60c and above, the PC starts freezing up and stuttering. I can hear that the fan speeds steadily increase all the way up to 70-80c. This is what pisses me off:…
Best way to copy millions of files between 2 servers
I have roughly around 5 million small (5-30k) files in a single directory that I would like to copy to another machine on the same gigabit network. I tried using rsync, but it would slow down to a crawl after a few hours of running, I assume due to the fact that rsync has to check the source & dest…
How to block all traffic but one IP in Windows Firewall?
I'm trying to use Windows 7 firewall to block all outgoing and incoming traffic, from all IP's and for all protocals, except for UDP to and from one particular IP address. The reason why is because I am using a VPN over UDP, and so no other traffic is necessary so I'd like to shut it all down. My c…
How do you make Windows 7 fully case-sensitive with respect to the filesystem?
I want to make Windows 7 case-sensitive when it reads/writes anything on the hard drive (the C drive, or any other NTFS drive). I found a video via google that says to change the registry key to a value of 1 (source). I also found a Windows support item that says something about modifying the regis…
No option to hibernate/shutdown in GNOME 3?
I have installed Fedora 15 Alpha with GNOME 3. Everything is working fine. However, I can't see any option to hibernate or shutdown. In the top panel when I click my user name, I only have one option and that is to suspend. Normally I like to hibernate or shutdown. And I can't see any option of wha…
How to diagnose slow booting or logon in Windows?
When I start my PC, it boots into Windows (Windows 7 32-bit) quite happily, I login and the main Windows screen appears. At that point, however, the system is extremely unresponsive for up to 5 minutes - if I click on Firefox to start it, nothing appears to happen for a long time, etc, etc. The mou…
Why is Windows' default IP address 169.xx.xx.xx?
My Windows system got an IP address the other day, and I fixed the issue, but why did Microsoft chose this address as the default? Why not or ? Did one guy at Microsoft say Hey, pick a number 1 to 255....who just said 169?! OK, we're going with that for our Windows default IP address.
Prevent Microsoft Word from wrapping tables across columns and pages
When writing technical documents, it is often required for tables to not wrap across columns and page breaks, so that all data from a given table are displayed in one place. In LaTeX, there is a setting to prevent tables from wrapping unless they are simply too long to do otherwise. Is there any si…
How do I resolve the error "The local device name is already in use."?
I try to map a network resource to my local device. I receive the following error: The local device name is already in use. I have the problem to find which purpose the device is used for. I try a command net use and do not see it in the list, therefore, it is not mapped to a network resource. Does…
Enable mouse for scrolling only in Vim in iTerm (MacOSX)
I'd like to use the mouse in Vim only for scrolling (not to enable other Vim modes or otherwise interact with Vim). Using seems to be an all or nothing operation, can this be altered? Alternatively can iTerm be made to only pass through scroll events and never click/drag events? Long Explanation: I…
Can I permanently prevent Java security updates from installing Yahoo Toolbar?
Each time I get a Java security update, I have to remember to untick the box to install the yahoo toolbar browser plugin that they've decided, for some mad reason, is an important security feature of Java. Is there a way to get it to remember my choice, or to get the security updates without it? Or…
Continue a "ctrl-z"-ed job in background
Is it possible to continue a stopped background job in background? I have a process running, I used ctrl-z to stop it and return to bash. If I want to continue it, there's command available but that brings the job back to front. Is it possible to keep it in background but running, like it would hav…
adobe acrobat reader - how to save your place?
I'm trying to read an ebook in adobe acrobat reader and I want to save the position I'm at between computer reboots / closing reader. How can I save the page I'm at, or even better auto save? Is there a better program out there that I can use? Is it possible to set my own bookmarks with Acrobat Rea…
Flow chart software for Linux?
Been using Visio at work to do flowcharts, and I'm liking how easy it is to do overall, notably creating and linking shapes. I'm trying to find something for Linux that works the same way, or at least is as easy to use. In a sense, something that flows as easily, where I don't have to put in extra …
How NOT to print sheet name and page number in OpenOffice.org Calc?
When I print a spreadsheet in OpenOffice.org Calc (latest version), it keeps adding the name of my current sheet to the top, and a page number to the bottom of my print out. How do I turn this off? P.S. I am running it on Mac OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard.
Extract/save a mail attachment using bash
Using normal tools (ie, built-ins or commonly-available command-line tools), is it possible, and how to extract/save attachments on emails? For example, say I have a nightly report which arrives via email but is a zip archive of several log files. I want to save all those zips into a backup directo…
Where Linux places the messages of boot?
I want to find place to where Linux writes all boot messages. You know: I searched with in /var/log/, but found nothing. I have CentOS 5.5. For example at boot time I had: "Determining IP information for eth0... failed; no link present. Check cable?" I don't care about error specificaly, but I can'…
Can I add a shortcut to replace a path in Linux?
For example, I always go to this path: /user/something/somefolders/somewhere but I don't want to type cd /user/something/somefolders/somewhere in the terminal all the time, can I have some short hand to do so? for example, can I do something like cd commandPlace to replace the path?
How to view history of Yum commands (update, install, remove)?
I'm seeing some errors in my apache logs and they may (or may not) be related to some packages that I recently installed/removed using Yum. Is there a way to view the history of Yum packages that have been updated/installed/removed ? I could use the "history" command from unix, but some installatio…