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Extract images in PDF without affecting the resolution?
My problem is I am tasked to extract images from a 640-paged PDF file. Majority of which are charts and tables with texts. Doing a simple copy and paste makes the image lose its resolution and the texts becomes blurry and sometimes unreadable. Do you know of a better way to extract images from a PD…
How can I detect the model of my graphics card?
I know of many ways to get a rough idea of my graphics card model. Here are two examples (instructions for Windows 7): Method 1 1) Click start 2) Type dxdiag and press enter 3) Go to the Display tab and check the Name property. Method 2 1) Click start 2) Right click on Computer and select Propertie…
How do I left or right align text in Google Chrome 6 address bar?
I was typing into Google Chrome's address bar and I think I hit some keys by accident that right aligned the text in the bar. This is very annoying! What might I have pressed? How can I change this back?
How do I fork a process that doesn't die when shell exits?
If I run emacs from the shell: and then kill that shell, emacs dies. How can I run a command so that it will not die when the shell dies? I found references to nohup, but that does not seem to help: still kills emacs when shell dies.
Keyboard Shortcut for Chrome's Developer Tools on Mac?
Is it possible to create a keyboard shortcut to open Developer Tools on on Google Chrome on a Mac? Ctrl-Shift-J does it on Linux and Windows.
Homebrew vs Fink vs Macports?
I am using Fink to install Unix apps on my mac, I just came across Homebrew and saw some good reviews about Homebrew. So, my question is: What package manager do you guys use for Mac? I use Fink currently, so will the shift from Fink to Homebrew be really worth it? If 2. is true, then why?
How to alias a hostname on Mac OSX
In a nutshell, I would like to be able to open a browser and open but it actually loads I am using Mac OSX 10.5, and not afraid to get my hands dirty with the terminal :) I use Apache as my local server.
Where does power consumption go in a computer?
Today we had a weird discussion over lunch: What exactly causes power consumption in a computer, particularly in the CPU? (ETA: For obvious reasons I don't need an explanation why a hard drive, display or fans consume power – the effect there is pretty obvious.) Figures you usually see indicate tha…
Automatically start VNC server on startup
I installed the Ubuntu desktop on a Ubuntu 9.10 VPS server and am able to connect to the server using TightVNC. However, the VNC server on this VPS can only be started by logging in through SSH and typing the following command: If I run this command on startup or as a schedule task, it won't start.…
How do I know which /dev/ttyS* is my serial port?
I have a laptop which has only one serial port. I went into: directory, and I found: How do I know which of those "ttyS" refers to my serial port?
what does the @ symbol mean in ls -l directory listing?
Possible Duplicate: ls -la symbolics… what does that last symbol mean? When I run ls -l on my mac I see two .yml files: same owner, same permissions but one has a @ at the end of the permisions. The one with the @ shows up in my editor, the one without does not. So there must be some significance. …
How to add a new line with the same indentation
Then I press Enter in Insert mode, a new line is created, but the cursor is placed at the beginning of the line. How do I create a new line with the same indentation as the current one?
Can a site detect if I use AdBlock in Firefox?
I recently visited (an official) website in search for an episode of a TV-show. The site popped an information dialog stating that I had to disable AdBlock to see the content. Is this at all possible or is it just an educated guess? Does Firefox advertise what addons I have installed? If so: how an…
Version control for binary files?
Is there a good version control system for binary files? I would like to be able to use VC with things like photos and Word documents. I know some existing systems such as Subversion and Git support binary files, but I've read that they have lots of quirks and performance problems, so I'd rather us…
What is VL build?
I was about to download a copy of Windows 7 from my MSDN account when I noticed that some links have VL Build as part of the description. Something like this: Windows 7 Professional, VL Build (x86) - DVD (English) As I was typing this question I realized that it might be an abbreviation for (Volume…
Remove Desktop entry from Alt+Tab list
Is it possible to remove the entry for the desktop from Windows 7's Alt+Tab list? So far I have found a post telling me to add an entry to the registry: However, this reverts the Alt+Tab menu back to the Windows XP style where you don't get window previews. I just want to remove the desktop entry f…
Setting $HOME in PowerShell
How do I change my default home directory to "C:\Users\khornsby" for every time I open powershell? I am running Windows 7. Below is info about the state of my environment.
rsync file permissions on windows
I have an rsync service that syncs files from remote machine to a machine that drops them on a network drive. I need the copied files to take on the native permissions of the destination folder. The sync process runs fine, but after it is finished, I cannot access some of the folders -- Permission …
What is the interrupt key for Linux command "less"
When you do shift-f with less, you can see the file update in real time, and you get the "Waiting for data...(interrupt to abort)" message. The updating works fine, but what is the interrupt? nothing seems to work (Ctrl-C, Esc, Ctrl-I etc). I always have to kill the terminal which is a pain.
Excel displays ### for long text - what's wrong?
We've got an excel sheet with a pretty long text in one cell. Instead of line breaks (as set in the cell format), we get a long line of s. We can go back and forth by deleting and adding chars at the end of the text. We've played around with cell formatting etc. but no success. What can we do?