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Security Concern with my Windows 7 Box at Work
This question may be weird and misworded but I'm not a Windows expert by any means so feel free to correct me. The group I'm in recently got new computers at work. They gave me a new computer and hooked up my old computer to the network for a week so I could take my time transferring necessary file…
tmux status bar messages last only about a second: can I extend this?
I've searched through the man pages several times for a way to set the length of time that status bar messages (what you see if you enter at a tmux command prompt) are visible, but there seems to be nothing. Does anyone know a way I can make them stay long enough to be read. Particularly annoying a…
How can I switch tabs in Notepad++ via Ctrl+PgUp/Down?
How can I run through the tabs in Notepad++ easily? I would like to use Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn like in Firefox.
How to open a big file in Notepad++?
I tried opening a file of 800MB size in Notepad++. But i don't why Notepad++ showed only 269117242 chars 271450112 bytes . Neither it showed any alert message that it is unable to open such a big file. Then i used wordpad to open the same file, it worked like charm. But why Notepad++ can't open 800…
remove first line in bash
Do you have a method to quickly remove the first line of a file in bash shell ? I mean using sed or stuff like that.
How important is having 64-bit programs on 64-bit OS?
I recently upgraded to 64-bit OS(Windows 7) from my old 32-bit version. I noticed that while several applications are available in 64-bit(e.g. DC client, Tortoise SVN, Graphics driver), many are still 32-bit applications (e.g. firefox, adobe reader). So, how important is it to have 64-bit applicati…
What's the best way to get ants out of laptop keyboards?
What's the best way to gets ants out of a laptop?
Can I do basic maths in Bash?
I was wondering, is it possible to do simple maths in bash? I'm thinking something like, =25-5 would print out 20 or something. Can this be done easily? Thank you
Is there a list of available boot-args for darwin / OS X
In OS X you can set boot parameters with Where the options I know about -v (verbose) -x (safe mode) and arch=x86_64 (boot into 64 bit kernel on 64 bit capable machines). Are there any others? There doesn't seem to be any documentation.
How to search for one of two similar strings in Vim?
In Vim, if I want do a search that matches "planA" or "planB", I know that I can do this: This works because the regex allows for either A or B as its set of characters. But how can I specify one of two complete strings? For example, "planetAwesome" or "planetTerrible"? This will match both of thes…
Prevent Postgresql from running at startup
At some point in the past, I had installed posgresql and I can't get rid of it: I'd like to stop it from starting up every time I boot, since shows it keeps my disk occupied. I've already tried adding in , but the processes keep spawing. Also I've tried something I found on another post, with no lu…
How long does badblocks take on a 1TB drive?
I'm running badblocks (or rather "e2fsck -c") on a 1TB drive and if the progress indicator is any indication (no pun intended), it's going to take almost forever to complete. Right now it says which would mean the thing would take 17 weeks or so to complete, which seems rather excessive in my book.…
In Windows' Run command line, how to open "My computer"?
if I do run (Winkey + R) and type "C:\", explorer shows up in "C:\". I'd like to know how to do the same for the My Computer folder in Windows Vista / 7.
Pomodoro timer for linux
Is there good Pomodoro desktop timer for Linux without a lot of dependencies. I know about pomodairo, but it's made with Adobe Air, which I don't want on my Linux (even if it exists for Linux).
Disabling mouse acceleration in Mac OS X
I've been looking for a solution to the unusable mouse problem in Mac OS X for ages. I've tried a gazillion programs and fiddled with every setting there is or there can be added. So far, I haven't found a way to get linear mouse response in Mac OS X. At this point I'm seriously considering install…
How to expand * on Bash command line
I understand that if you type it is actually expanded to when the current directly has files , and . I was wondering if there is a way to expand this before I hit enter. Similar to how Ctrl+X works, or tab complete works. So to make myself clear in a similar way to: I thought I'd seen this before b…
sshfs device is busy
I mounted a remote file system using sshfs (version 2.8.4) but unmounting it fails Any ideas as to what might be causing this error and how one might fix it?
What does the process 'Locum' do?
I am seeing a process titled, 'Locum' show up in my OS X process list. Does anyone know the details of what this process does?
Can I turn off zoom-and-scroll behaviour of Adobe Reader's hand with down arrow pointer?
This happens only on some PDF opened in Adobe Reader: when the mouse hand cursor is on a page, a down arrow appears in the middle of the hand, and when I click, it zooms in and scrolls one screen down. Can this be turned off? It's very annoying, I don't want it to change my zoom setting, and I don'…
What's 24 in "192.168.15.0/24"?
What's the meaning of in the following command?