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How do I prevent applications from stealing focus when they startup on Mac OS X?
Here is a example use case: Open Firefox Put the cursor somewhere where you can type Open something else (eclipse is my current example..) Start typing in Firefox until eclipse steals focus and interrupts what you were typing How do I prevent applications from stealing focus and interrupting my typ…
How to display Unix time in the timestamp format?
I'm looking for a way to display my time in Debian Linux as a timestamp, e.g. I can't find any options to do that with the command. Any ideas?
How can I forward a gpg key via ssh-agent?
I can use the ssh configuration file to enable the forwarding of ssh keys added to ssh-agent. How can I do the same with gpg keys?
Make IrfanView ignore text files or other file types?
I just installed IrfanView and while viewing images, I notice IrfanView iterates text files as well as image files. How do I make it NOT include text files (or other kinds of files) in its iteration?
How to show "only number" in picture cross-reference in Word 2007 document?
I have many pictures in a document and I reference them very often in text. I don't want to lose the order so I am using Insert -> Cross-reference. This opens the cross-reference dialog where I can set Reference type to Picture. For "Insert reference to", there are 5 choices: What I need is a refer…
What is Apache Synapse?
My website keeps getting hit by odd requests with the following user-agent string: Using our friendly tool Google I was able to determine this is the hallmark calling-card of our friendly neighborhood Apache Synapse. A 'Lightweight ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)'. Now, based on this information I was…
7zip: how to extract to std output?
I have 7z 4.65 and am trying to extract a single file to standard output. The 7z command-line help says is the command-line parameter to extract to standard output, but when I try this: how can I fix this? There doesn't seem to be a command line param to suppress the normal 7z stdout messages. (edi…
What is the default PATH environment variable setting on fresh install of Windows 7
A user of ours cleared their path, thanks to some directions on the internet. What is the default path, I am a developer so I have tons of extra stuff in mine, what should my user get on a plain jane one?
How do I turn off the click sound when closing a tab in Chrome?
Every time I close a tab in Chrome, it makes a click sound. How do I turn off that sound? I reported that issue back in Oct 2010. The problem doesn't appear on all clients and the reason is still unclear. Common attempts at solving the issue include simply turning off the sound in Windows. But I wo…
How to I add command line arguments (parameters) for pinned applications on Windows 7?
On Windows 7 i'm no longer able to change the command line arguments for "pinned" taskbar launcher. How can we workaround this problem in order to be able to start applications with parameters on Windows 7 (from taskbar).
How to switch the KeyboardLayout for all Application at once
I'm using Kubuntu at work for quite a while now and been using multiple keyboard layouts , German, English, Romanian. When I switch the layout on Kubuntu it changes globaly. Is there an option for that on Windows 7 ? currently the layout changes in a per-application way, which might be considered a…
Vim: show line feeds & carriage-return
How can I display line feeds and/or carriage-return characters in vi/vim? I know that shows all the whitespace characters (?), it also replaces tabs \t etc (but that's not what I want). Basically I just want to display certain characters like \r (on Debian this seems to be the default, however on G…
Restoring open software after a restart event in windows
I find that at the end of a long day, I sometimes have a large number of programs running. All which I will need to use tomorrow. Normally, this isn't an issue, I can simply lock the machine and come back tomorrow. My problem arrises when windows update launches in the middle of the night and force…
Disable Windows 7's "Open File - Security Warning" dialog for exe on network drive?
I have a mapped network drive, on which I store some programs, one of which I've put in my startup folder. Unfortunately, this program "does not have a valid digital signature", which means that every time I reboot, I get a security dialog, asking me whether to run it. I would prefer not to have to…
On Windows 7, is there a command prompt line that can start cmd as an administrator?
On Linux, we can use to run a shell as the superuser. On Windows 7, we can use Start menu -> (in search box, type) cmd -> Right click on search result and choose Run as Administrator to run a command prompt as an administrator. Is there also a command prompt line that is like Linux's or so as to st…
SSH with authorized_keys to an Ubuntu system with encrypted homedir?
I recently set up a new server with Ubuntu karmic 9.10, and when I created my home directory I chose to make it encrypted. Now, after loading my authorized_keys file into ~/.ssh, it isn't recognized because my home directory isn't decrypted until after I log in. Is there a way to make SSH keys work…
Is there an equalizer for windows that works regardles of audio/video player
I'm tired of having to tweak the audio on every media application I have installed. Is there an app that will sit between any media application and my sound-card so that I can set audio levels and equalizer settings once and for all?
How do I get the Windows 7 taskbar with the Start Menu to display on dual monitors?
I am looking for an application with features as follows:- It will give me a dual monitor set up with a Windows 7 taskbar with Aero peek and the Start Menu on each monitor. The taskbar should display only the applications running on that monitor and the start menu should start applications on the s…
How do I save an image PDF file as an image?
I have a PDF that contains a scan image of a document. I want to save the contents of this PDF as an image so that I can then run it through an OCR program that only accepts .jpg, .png, and .gif type files. How do I save/convert this PDF to one of those image formats? EDIT: One way I've found to do…
Quickly Empty Trash in Mac OS X
Emptying the trash in OS X can be a long process, especially If you have lots of items (like me). This is after 5 minutes: Is there a way to quickly empty the trash, or make the process a whole lot quicker?